The Gu Family naturally did not like this news. They had already received it two days ago, and in these past two days, they were merely secretly trying to digest it and make themselves accept it.
Gu Baijiang sighed. This was not what he had anticipated. He was supposed to return to the capital with honor, but now his face was ruined, and his career was destroyed.
What concerned him the most was that their identity had not been restored.
Because even if his face was ruined, he was still a former top-ranked scholar; now, he was merely a commoner.
"Father, should we pack up and go back?" Gu Kaiping also sensed the old man's inner resentment, but had to brace himself to ask.
"Go back? How can we go back?" Gu Baijiang said, "Going back would just make us someone else's joke."
His whole life was about face, and he didn't want to return so disgracefully.
As for what the Third Prince was up to, anyway, until he was satisfied, he definitely wouldn't hand over what he had.
