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Chapter 113 Slap in the Face! What Exactly Did the Yu Family Miss Out On?

Upon hearing this, Yu Ruoqi turned her head sharply and stared at Jiang Li with wide eyes.

Madam Yu, pale-faced and utterly disoriented, murmured, "...How could this be?"

How could Jiang Li possibly embroider such a piece?
She clearly stopped learning a long time ago!

Rong Xiu tapped the lower right corner of the embroidery with her finger. "You forgot to sign the embroidery just because I wasn't watching you once?"

Jiang raised an eyebrow.

Her habit was to sign her embroidery work in the embroidery style, like Fengxiao's logo.

She just happened to need some money at the time, and she wasn't in Beicheng. The only thing missing from the embroidery was her signature, but she didn't care and just asked Xu Chuang to find a way to sell it.

Rong Xiu's familiar attitude immediately shocked the group.

Feng Hong glanced at Jiang Li at the door, then at Rong Xiu, and tentatively asked, "Master Rong, is Jiang Li here today to submit his work as well?"

The embroidery class was the only class Rong Xiu openly accepted.

Perhaps she also took on other students.

Rong Xiu said in a cold tone: "No, she's here to give feedback. She has unique insights and can pinpoint everyone's shortcomings in a very direct way, and then give some enlightening methods for improvement. Several students here have reached a bottleneck and need some guidance."

Many embroidery designers in Fengxiao know Jiang Li.

It was because of the graduation projects held every three years that Jiang Li would be relentlessly pestered by Rong Xiu to come to the Rong residence to see them.

The others were shocked upon hearing this.

Yu Rong looked at Jiang Li in disbelief.

He had never known that Jiang Li and Master Rong knew each other, and that their relationship was so close...

"But I never imagined that someone would be so vain as to try to fool me with someone else's work!" Rong Xiu's face was icy cold: "Under my Rong Xiu's tutelage, we will never tolerate any fraudulent practices!"

She turned to the housekeeper and instructed, "Contact the Academic Affairs Office of Beicheng University and expel Yu Ruoqi from the embroidery training program."

"Yes." Butler Rong took out his phone.

Yung-hsiu has always been tolerant of younger generations learning embroidery, because the path of inheriting intangible cultural heritage is very arduous.

If the Xia culture wants to be recognized and respected, and return to the top of the world, there is still a long way to go, and it depends on young people.

So even after discovering that Yu Ruoqi had done such a thing, she didn't want to expose her, but only gave her a subtle warning.

Unexpectedly, she remained unrepentant.

Then she doesn't need to be polite.

Yu Ruoqi panicked completely, her hands trembling as she gripped Rong Xiu's arm tightly, her eyes red and swollen: "Teacher, I know I was wrong, please give me another chance..."

Rong Xiu pushed Yu Ruoqi's hand away without any politeness.

The others watched the scene like it was a show.

From being showered with praise to everyone witnessing Yu Ruoqi's disgraceful deeds.

The mocking gazes made Yu Rong and his wife feel utterly ashamed.

Yu Rong gave Yu Ruoqi a cold look, but now was not the time to reprimand her.

He said with a stern face, "Master Rong, it is my fault for not disciplining my daughter well, but considering that this is the first time she has made a mistake, could you please give her another chance? Even if it means delaying her graduation, please do not expel her from the program."

Rong Xiu said coldly, "I gave her a chance."

"Teacher, I really know I was wrong..." Yu Ruoqi's face was covered in tears.

She cannot be expelled. Beicheng University always posts the names of expelled students on its official website, along with the reasons given.

That would completely ruin her!

Feng Yi scoffed, "Now you're scared? You were so confident earlier, claiming Jiang Li's work as your own, and when you were accepting others' praise, why didn't you blush?"

Yu Ruoqi: "You!"

"What?" Feng Yi retorted without any politeness, "When everyone was speaking up for you and even questioning Master Rong's judgment, why didn't you admit your mistake?"

Yu Ruoqi glared at Feng Yi with hatred.

"She's been badmouthing Jiang Li behind her back, hasn't she? Now she's using Jiang Li's embroidery, which she looks down on, to try and deceive the world and steal fame. How dare she stay in the Rong family?" A woman's voice rang out from the crowd, carrying a mocking laugh.

The sound wasn't loud, but it was loud enough for everyone to hear clearly.

Yu Ruoqi's gaze shifted.

He was surrounded by several condemning and disdainful mocking glances.

It felt like needles pricking her.

Her lips trembled violently, and she ran out crying in embarrassment.

"Ruoqi!" Madam Yu, fearing something might happen to her, immediately chased after her. Yu Rong's face was ashen. Seeing Rong Xiu's resolute attitude, he turned his gaze to Jiang Li and pleaded, "Lili, please plead with Master Rong for Ruoqi. If she is expelled from the list, her reputation will be completely ruined."

Jiang Li smiled, her fox-like eyes frivolous and indifferent.

She spoke slowly and deliberately: "Mr. Yu, we're not acquainted, are we?"

Yu Rong frowned: "Lili..."

Rong Xiu was too lazy to deal with them and directly called to Butler Rong, "Please ask Mr. Yu to leave."

Yu Rong was practically kicked out.

He had never felt so humiliated before; he pursed his lips and walked out.

Rong Xiu seemed unaffected and waved to Jiang Li at the door: "Come and look at the other nine works with me."

Jiang Li lifted her foot slowly and deliberately.

Feng Yi hesitated before asking, "Master Rong, is Jiang Li your disciple?"

Rong Xiu had always had a good impression of Feng Yi, and replied, "No."

Feng Yi had witnessed the top-notch quality of that painting, "Dark Forest in the Rainy Night," and asked curiously, "Jiang Li is so talented, why don't you take her on as a student?"

Rong Xiu glanced at her: "Why should I try to persuade you? Try to persuade her." As she spoke, she lifted Jiang Li's chin.

Everyone: "..."

So... Master Rong wanted to take Jiang Li as his disciple, but Jiang Li refused?!
If this gets out, even the heads of the four major families wouldn't believe it...

Then, recalling the things they had said about Jiang Li earlier, she felt so guilty that she dared not look at Jiang Li, and her face burned with embarrassment.

Upon hearing these words, Yu Rong, who had just reached the door, felt as if he had been struck on the head with a stick, and stood frozen in place.

Several middle-aged executives standing at the door were talking in hushed tones.

"The Yu family knew absolutely nothing about the relationship between Master Rong and Jiang Li?"

"If they had known, why would they have chosen Chu Yan over Jiang Li?"

"But isn't there also Old Master Yu in the middle? Can Jiang Li and the Yu family really sever ties completely?" The late Old Master Jiang and Old Master Yu were true sworn brothers with a very deep friendship.

"Should we still go to the engagement banquet of the eldest son of the Yu family?"

"Heh." A meaningful sneer: "Jiang Li's temper is so bad, he's not even polite to reporters, he's so outspoken and aggressive online, he doesn't take the Yu family seriously at all."

Master Rong's attitude clearly indicated that he wanted Jiang Li to inherit his mantle, but Jiang Li was unwilling.

Master Rong is still begging him.

Thinking of this, the speaker was terrified.

Even in Zhongzhou, there was no one whom Rong Xiu, the "Queen of Suzhou Embroidery," would chase after to take on as a disciple.

"This is probably the closest the Yu family has ever come to a truly powerful family in Beicheng. This is a huge joke."

"It's because the Yu family is so hungry they'll eat anything. They'd rather lick fish eyes than accept pearls. They deserve it."

"Exactly. The way Mr. Yu and his wife tried so hard to distance themselves from the fact that Grandpa Yu wanted to recognize Jiang Li as his goddaughter is a joke now. They probably want to slap themselves a few times."

"Don't be so definitive. What if Jiang Li reconciles with the Yu family out of respect for Old Master Yu?"

While others were unaware of the relationship between Jiang Li and the old man, Yu Rong knew it all.

Back when Jiang Li let Chu Yan go.

The old man once said that the relationship between the Jiang family and the Yu family had come to a complete end.

Jiang Li got involved with Qin Yexiao, and he could assume that the other party was just playing around with Jiang Li.

Master Rong is different.

In Beicheng, Master Rong is someone that many families cannot even dream of reaching, and even the four great families have to show him some respect.

Master Rong was passionate about embroidery and dedicated his life to preserving the traditional culture of embroidery. He was extremely difficult to approach and was cold to everyone.

Jiang Li, however, became the only special case.

Master Rong's attitude towards Jiang Li was so kind, just like an elder to a beloved junior.

Such an attitude is something the Qin family absolutely cannot interfere with.

This only shows that Jiang Li and Master Rong have known each other for a long time.

Yu Rong dared not think any further, his mind filled with the thought of Jiang Li and Yu Xuanchen's engagement.

Finally realizing what he had missed, his face turned ashen, and his legs mechanically began to move forward.

He could almost imagine that in the future, the Yu family would become a laughing stock in Beicheng.

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