Chapter 294

Chapter 294: Is This How You Treat Your Lifesaving Benefactor?

The racecourse had a massive grandstand. At a glance, the whole field seemed endless, so wide that the far side disappeared into the distance.

Because the course needed open space for the horses to run, the stands did not wrap around all four sides. Instead, there was a single high platform on one side.

The platform held more than a thousand chairs set in terraced rows from high to low, staggered just right so every row could see the field.

Even so, seats farther back could not see clearly. That could not be helped.

When Yu Zhi Yi’s group arrived, many people were already seated. Seeing the two Jiang Clan young masters surrounding a girl they did not know, the crowd’s faces filled with curiosity.

Although Jiang Yu Chuan had thrown a welcome banquet for Yu Zhi Yi, it had been rushed, so not many people came that night.

By normal rules, they should have waited for a good chance and sent out invitations widely. That would have looked grand and proper.

Soon there would be the Earthly Ranking conference on Mount Ming, where heroes from everywhere would gather. That would be a perfect chance.

But Jiang Yu Chuan did not want his daughter to feel slighted or to be treated like an unimportant guest, so he hurried to hold a recognition banquet first.

As for the Earthly Ranking conference, they could introduce her in style again later. No rule said they could not.

Most who attended that earlier banquet were local powers from Tian’an Commandery. That meant many people at today’s Grand Horse Racing Meet had never met Yu Zhi Yi.

So when they saw the two Jiang Clan young masters circling a stranger while Miss Chen Xin Yue, who had grown up in the Martial Alliance, trailed behind alone, confusion spread through the stands.

Chen Xin Yue had lived in the Martial World for years. The big names might not value her much, but many from the younger generation were close to her.

People of the Martial World did not fuss about small rules. They cared about family and power, yes, but they also had hot blood and acted on impulse.

A few teens saw Chen Xin Yue being left out and immediately stood up for her.

A girl in red stepped in front of Yu Zhi Yi. Her nose bridge was fine and straight, her eyes bright, full of bold energy that hated injustice.

She crossed her arms and lifted her chin to glance over Yu Zhi Yi, then looked at the Jiang brothers with blame in her voice: “Jiang Liu Bin, Jiang Liu Yun, are you two stupid? You ignore your own family but treat some stranger like a treasure? Does Alliance Leader Jiang and Second Master Jiang know you are bullying your own?”

Jiang Liu Yun was displeased at once and snapped back, his hands flying to his hips: “What stranger? Han Lian Qiao, if you do not know the facts, do not talk nonsense.”

At some point, Chen Xin Yue had come up and caught Han Lian Qiao by the arm, whispering, “Lian Qiao, stop. I am fine.”

She lowered her voice: “My status is what it is. However they treat me, it does not matter to me.”

She said she was fine, that it did not matter, but her eyes were wet with tears.

No one who saw her like this would think she was truly fine.

Han Lian Qiao grew even angrier: “Can you have a little backbone?”

She glared at Chen Xin Yue as if hating iron for not becoming steel and said, “You grew up in the Martial Alliance. You do not carry the Jiang surname, but your mother is the old alliance leader’s adopted daughter. And also, look here.”

She turned to Jiang Liu Yun and pressed on: “Miss Chen cared for your honored mother for so many years. Even if there is no great achievement, there is hard work. Is this how you treat your benefactor?”