Not following the expected path? Reborn and unexpectedly married to a demon.

Seeing that everyone was laughing at her, Chu Yinmei and her friends were also confused.

She roared, "What are you all laughing at?"

"This isn't a pipa score at all, not even a score. It's just that my pet birds got ink on their feet, and I thought it was funny, so I stomped on the paper with ink on their feet."

Boss Ye explained the reason.

Wang Youshi laughed until his stomach hurt, showing Chu Yinmei no respect whatsoever.

Chu Yinmei, enraged and embarrassed, loudly stopped him.

"Don't laugh. What's so great about knowing how to play the pipa? I just can't. The pipa is such a lowly instrument; even the servants in my household don't touch it."

The waiter, unable to bear hearing her curse Yinshan any longer, raised an eyebrow in disgust and launched into a tirade, saying things the boss couldn't say:

"Just now, didn't you say that you had a maid in your house who played better than Prince Yinshan? Your words don't make sense, I think you're just lying and bragging."

Chu Yinmei shouted loudly, his insults lacking any logic, cursing anyone he could.

"With a waiter treating customers like this, it's clear how bad Qinglou is. And what kind of good person could this lousy Hidden Mountain Young Master be?"

Mu Jintang and the other two couldn't help but frown.

Chu Luo raised an eyebrow at the waiter, who then glanced at the owner, who nodded slightly in acknowledgment.

The waiter said, "At our Qinglou Restaurant, we naturally treat our guests with the best tea and wine, and with courtesy. But if someone tries to eat and drink for free and cause trouble, they are not a guest. They are like jackals and tigers."

After the waiter finished speaking, he stared intently at Chu Yinmei and his companion.

"Yinmei, is he implying that you didn't pay and were aggressive, like a jackal or a tiger?"

Chu Yinmei's friend tugged at Chu Yinmei's sleeve.

Looking at the two of them, Chu Luo couldn't help but sneer. Why did they always have to seek some kind of attention?

Chu Yinmei felt that Yinshan's eyes were somewhat similar to Chu Luo's, and she was furious, so she continued to throw a tantrum:

"You lowly, poor musician, and you lowly servant who pours tea and water, what right do you have to laugh at me? You love to laugh so much, believe me or not, I'll buy you and send you to Yuejun Tower to sell your laughter and songs."

Chu Luo didn't let Chu Yinmei continue, and spoke a fair word:

"We are all born of parents. Who has more eyes or more hands than anyone else? We earn our living through our own abilities. Who is more inferior than anyone else?"

Seeing Yinshan's rebuttal, Chu Yinmei, who looked down on him from the bottom of his heart, said:

"You, a person who lives by playing the pipa to please others, have no family background, no fame, no money, yet you are more aloof and arrogant than a beggar on the street. Your life is as worthless as grass, and can be bought and sold with a little silver. You are worse than livestock. How can you not be lowly?"

Wang Youshi hadn't seen someone so arrogant in a long time, or rather, he hadn't seen someone so naively stupid in a long time.

He was also somewhat unhappy that his second brother had called this person up, as his second brother was somewhat desperate and grasping at straws.

"What arrogance! I wonder if you're of noble birth or incredibly wealthy. You think you can buy the services of the Hidden Mountain Young Master, whom I couldn't even afford to hire with three or five grand banquet halls, with a mere penny?"

Chu Yinmei revealed her identity, "I am the eldest daughter of the Chu family in the south of the city. My family owns nearly half of the grain shops in Jiangzhou. If you mess with me, you'll lose your jobs."

Upon hearing this, Wang Youshi rolled his eyes instantly, thinking it was a waste of his eyes and time.

"With just a few beehives and fly legs, how dare they act so arrogantly in front of us? I thought they were something special."

Wang Youshi didn't want this person to get in his way anymore, but he also didn't want to let her go easily.

So he beckoned to his attendant, "Go to the place she mentioned and fetch her father. I want to see if he's as arrogant as he is in front of me."

His attendant had barely gone downstairs when Chu Songyuan arrived at Qinglou, accompanied by several merchants from Jiangzhou.

They were originally discussing business nearby, but upon hearing that Master Wang Youshi was at Qinglou, they all wanted to curry favor with him.

So he rushed to Qinglou and, by sheer chance, actually met Wang Youshi. But before he could even finish celebrating, he ran into trouble.

Upon seeing Chu Songyuan, Chu Yinmei assumed her father had come to support her and immediately went to complain:

"Dad, these guys don't respect me. You have to teach them a lesson."

When Chu Songyuan saw the names of the people Chu Yinmei mentioned who had offended her, he immediately broke out in a cold sweat.

He knew Chu Yinmei's personality well and just hoped that she hadn't made any serious mistakes before.

Chu Songyuan ignored her completely and immediately bowed and scraped, begging Wang Youshi for forgiveness.

"Master, please forgive my daughter. She is young and often talks nonsense. Please don't take it to heart."

Wang Youshi was still angry and his words were anything but polite:

"Your daughter said she'd take away my job if I offended her, and she said it with such conviction, how can that be considered nonsense? I think it's because we've been feeding her too much food, and she's gotten herself into this mess."

This was a bolt from the blue for Chu Songyuan. He trembled all over and hurriedly continued to beg for mercy.

"Please forgive me, Master Shi. You are a magnanimous man and do not hold a grudge against me. It is my fault for not raising my daughter properly. Please do not take your anger out on the Chu family business."

Wang Youshi saw that his attitude was acceptable, but when he saw Chu Yinmei staring at Yinshan with a sinister look, his temper flared up again.

"My son, the Hidden Mountain Young Master, whom I, Wang Youshi, value highly, has been repeatedly and inhumanly insulted by this good-for-nothing of yours. This is intolerable!"

His two older brothers and his wife all told him to be calm and polite, but that didn't mean he didn't have a temper.

Chu Songyuan looked at Chu Yinmei, who was still winking and making faces at him, and wished he could dig a hole and hide her away. "She's always been a good-for-nothing, incredibly stupid."

Hearing her father say this, Chu Yinmei felt both wronged and angry. "Father, how am I stupid? Playing the pipa is considered lowly. What's wrong with that? Didn't you say that at home too?"

Everyone stared at the pig, speechless.

If it weren't for his two older brothers being there, Wang Youshi would have wanted to kill someone.

"It seems that if the upper beam is crooked, the lower beam will be crooked too. What's wrong with playing the pipa? Does playing the pipa make one inferior and someone to be trampled on at will? Does everyone have to be as ignorant, ugly, and fierce as her?"

Chu Songyuan realized that he had also been implicated by her, and immediately began to think about how to cover it up.

"It's all because we have a spoiled, unruly illegitimate daughter in the family who insists on playing the pipa despite her parents' objections, which is why we feel..."

Chu Songyuan knew that this Hidden Mountain Young Master played the pipa. If he didn't calm down, Wang Youshi probably wouldn't let him off the hook. If he explained the reason, they should be able to understand.

Chu Luo was amazed by her father's attempt to shift the blame.

She's always taking the blame when she's around, and she's always taking the blame when she's not. In their minds, she's probably just a burden, someone they can just shift the blame to wherever they need her.

"Your wicked son said you have a maid who plays the pipa exceptionally well, and you even mentioned a concubine's daughter. It's quite a feat for your concubine's daughter to be a maid."

Wang Youshi once again expressed his displeasure, saying that he couldn't stand the sight of this father and daughter today.

The merchants who had come with Chu Songyuan to get to know Wang Youshi were all silent at this moment, fearing that they would get into trouble.

They only knew of Chu Songyuan's second daughter before, and calculated that the second young lady should have reached the age of marriage by now.

They were just waiting for the eldest daughter to be married before they could arrange a marriage. They wondered who the bride would be. It turned out that the second young lady of the Chu family was not even as good as a maid.

They never expected that Miss Chu would be like this, not only shrewish and difficult to deal with, but also unreasonable.

If she rashly offered to help at this moment, she would be caught in the crossfire, as she is not good with numbers.

That would be a disaster.

"You're the real idiot! What can you do besides seducing people and selling your smiles while playing the pipa? What kind of good person could you be? That little slut isn't innocent at all!"

Chu Yinmei couldn't see the situation clearly. She had been enduring the insults earlier, but now she didn't care who the other person was and immediately became unhappy.

"To shut up"

"Snapped"

Chu Songyuan slapped Chu Yinmei across the face.

Wang Youshi slammed the cup in his hand to the ground and said angrily, "What, did the pipa player dig up your Chu family's ancestral graves? You all look down on pipa players that much?"

After saying this, Wang Youshi became solemn and started talking about another person.

"Do you know that our founding general of the Great Zheng Dynasty was particularly fond of playing the pipa? His pipa music played a significant role on the battlefield. How dare you look down on someone who plays the pipa?"

After speaking of that general, Wang Youshi looked at Chu Yinmei in front of him and felt utterly disgusted.

It felt somewhat tainted to talk about these past events in front of her.

"Have someone throw her out, then reappear within fifty meters of Qinglou and break her legs."

Hearing this, Chu Yinmei became somewhat frightened; she couldn't let herself be thrown out.

With so many people watching, if she were thrown out, her reputation would be truly ruined, and no family would dare to hire her.

But her father won't help her at all; she has to save face on her own today.

"Ah, ah, ah! Someone come quick! Help! These men are bullying me, a weak woman!"

Chu Yinmei deliberately shouted and yelled wildly, trying to attract attention.

These people who are famous and wealthy care most about their reputation, and they can't afford to make it any worse, otherwise they might be able to turn the tide.