Wufu had no idea that her two maidservants had secretly thought of a hundred vicious schemes to make Madam Wang pay, and she only mentioned in her letter that she couldn’t take on the role as her Official and asked for forgiveness. Her excuse was impeccable, saying that her mother was coming to Changan, and she had to go welcome her in person, which might cause her to be late, so she asked Madam Wang to find someone else. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

After sealing the letter with wax, Wufu handed it to Jadeite: "You deliver it personally, just say I’m going to meet my mother, and we’ll head to the pier tomorrow to wait."

Jadeite took it and said, "Miss, are you really not going to do it? Actually, being the Commandery Princess’s Official could be beneficial to your reputation, it’s all about face."

"If that face is obtained by harming others and trampling on their reputation, then I’d rather not have it. Your Miss doesn’t care for such things!" Wufu said with a smile.

Jadeite awkwardly smiled.

"Deliver the letter and get ready, we’ll be gone for a few days starting tomorrow." Wufu squinted her eyes and said, "Wu Lihong is back. Since he knows I’m in Changan now, he might come looking for me using my address." Her mother would definitely give the address to him.

"Do you not want to see him?"

Wufu snorted coldly, "I’m afraid I might lose control and kill him!"

Right now, she really didn’t want any contact with him, lest she really couldn’t restrain herself and would stretch out her hand and destroy him.

While Jadeite and Mo Lan thought, if you kill him, so be it, they would handle any consequences.

"Go deliver the letter," Wufu instructed Jadeite, and then told Mo Lan, "Prepare two cans of tea, accompany me to visit my mentor."

"Yes."

They all went their separate ways.

Old Mr. Meng hadn’t expected Wufu to come so quickly, and receiving two fine cans of tea made him smile widely, but seeing Wufu’s thoughtful expression, he concealed his smile.

"You little girl, you never come to the Three Treasures Hall without reason. Go ahead, what’s brought you here?" Old Mr. Meng asked.

Wufu didn’t have much to say, she just wanted to see Old Mr. Meng’s perspective on how prestigious families viewed a woman’s reputation, and if it was as Madam Wang had described.

Old Mr. Meng snorted coldly after listening: "A woman’s reputation is indeed important, and prestigious families take this much more seriously compared to the Jianghu families. But not every family is like this; blaming women for missteps is just a sign of personal incompetence and rigidity. In fact, reputation depends on the individual—if a person can bring more benefits to the family than their reputation, then even if their reputation is tarnished, it doesn’t matter!"

Wufu laughed and said, "You, from a scholarly family, speak so realistically, is that really good?"

Old Mr. Meng rolled his eyes and said, "What I say is the truth. Take, for example, Empress Zhang from the Former Dynasty. She was captured and made the wife of a bandit leader at a young age but still became Empress later on. That infamy was immense, wasn’t it? But did the Zhang family expel her or drown her? Instead, they revered her because Empress Zhang gained them the title of Duke. As for reputation? Haha!"

"Are you saying, Master, that as long as I bring enough benefit to the Wu Family, they can’t ignore me, even if I am a girl with a bad reputation?" Wufu asked.

"Exactly." Old Mr. Meng looked at her and said, "No need to say anything else. Just say that you are my student, I believe Wu Lihong won’t abandon you as his daughter. I can still provide a couple of places for studies in the Meng family."

The implication being, why worry, with him, the mentor, supporting her from behind!