She truly wanted to march over and slap her across the face, but thinking about it—this was, after all, a royal banquet—she couldn't afford to lose her composure.
Alice swallowed her anger and instead covered her mouth, letting out a mocking laugh. "Is this Miss Qu? I thought the daughter of Dihao would be so cultured and refined, but it turns out she's so uncouth. A girl, spewing words like 'dog' and 'filthy mouth'—what a lack of upbringing!"
"Say that one more time, and see what happens! Believe it or not, I'll tear your mouth apart!" Qu Qingwei was furious. Having grown up without a father, what she hated most was anyone implying she was uneducated!
"Oh, so what? Are you actually going to hit me? Do you even know whose territory this is you're standing on?" Alice refused to back down, firing back immediately.
The tension escalated, and the two were about to break into a full-on fight when a sharp voice suddenly rang out from not far away.
