Beside the column in front of the palace, the patriarch of the Derwent family stood there to greet David and his party. It was the middle-aged gentleman with an elegant mustache, Mr. Edward, whom Gu Hanhan had seen downstairs of the medical school. . [Full text reading] But Senior Sister Jasmine was not with him today, so Gu Hanhan lost the only person with whom he could talk about old times. Gu Hanhan guessed that senior Jasmine must have failed to show up at the banquet due to health reasons.
David's attitude towards this gentleman was obviously much more serious and formal than that towards his hapless subordinates. He stopped and briefly exchanged greetings with Edward de Winter, but did not shake hands with him in accordance with the social etiquette of the superpower world.
Of course, Mr. Edward was also very self-aware and did not reach out. He just bowed slightly, let David in, and said extremely politely: "Welcome, your Excellency will come in person."
"You're welcome," David nodded lightly, "You should come to Miss Jasmine's birthday party."
Gu Hanhan blinked and murmured in his mind: Wasn't it the Derwent scholarship award banquet? Wasn't it the Derwent family's autumn banquet? When did it become Senior Jasmine's birthday party again? What the hell, a party is so weird! Anthony refused to come. I wonder if there was any reason why he was there...
Well, too many acquaintances? Who is his acquaintance—Senior Jasmine? You have no idea which of this guy's words are true and which are false! David's five-good young man is also very dishonest. He has never said that he knows senior Jasmine before, but today he suddenly mentioned her and she seems to be quite familiar with her! Is it possible that Sister Moli has treated him? Helena is like this, Senior Jasmine is like this, how many not-so-good secrets do you, a good young man, have to be discovered...
"You don't have to accompany me, Lord Derwent, please go ahead and do your business." David said to Edward Derwent, who seemed to intend to accompany him all the time.
Mr. Edward did not insist. He said softly "I'm sorry" and left and returned to the pillar at the door. In any case, he was the host of today's banquet. In addition to David Duran, there are several distinguished guests who have not arrived. He needs to greet them personally at the door. It is really a lack of skills, but it is just a gesture that he has to make.
The Grand Ballroom of Edmund Manor is a huge circular palace. This banquet hall is huge enough to accommodate all the guests who have been queuing for at least an hour above the manor. The tall circular columns surrounding the palace cleverly divide the interior space so that it does not look too empty. The guests in gorgeous clothes were walking back and forth between the pillars holding wine glasses and talking to each other with all kinds of false words, making the atmosphere of the banquet very warm.
A hot spring of living water was introduced from outside the palace and gathered in the center to form a steaming, meander-shaped soup pool. Various fragrant flower petals floated on the water surface of the soup pool. The stunningly beautiful mermaid swims around in the soup pool with her upper body naked, sometimes jumping out of the water. Many guests gathered around the soup pool. They were standing or sitting. Many of them poured wine in gold cups at the jumping mermaids, or threw beautiful-colored fruit particles to play with them.
Above the palace is a sky-like dome. On one side of the palace, there is a wide spiral staircase that leads to the depths of the palace, but there are almost no guests walking on the spiral staircase. There are only noble guards wearing retro uniforms embroidered with gold threads, standing opposite each other on both sides of the staircase.
This was the first pure aristocratic banquet that Gu Hanhan attended, so she looked around with her eyes, wanting to gain more knowledge and study whether the aristocrats of the Lighthouse Star were the same as the bastard aristocrats in the three-dimensional movie. But what Gu Hanhan could never understand from the three-dimensional movie was that the most important feature of the aristocratic banquet was seeing in all directions and hearing in all directions. Before she could see the reason, David was already surrounded by aristocratic guests who had heard the news. Of course, because Gu Hanhan and David are currently in the posture of Siamese twins, she is naturally surrounded.
From Gu Hanhan's point of view, the group of aristocratic guests were like flies swooping on some intermediate product of the cycle. They come to talk to each other for various reasons. It is full of tricks and exquisitely designed, which can make all the angel Cinderellas wandering outside the Acropolis area to hang out their rich husbands and commit suicide in shame.
They spoke elegantly and used an endless stream of social rhetoric. Once translated into words that normal people could understand, it was all flattery that would make an unscrupulous girl like Gu Hanhan, who had no skin, no face and no sense of moral integrity, cringe. Gu Hanhan sincerely admired the good young man who could listen to so many flattery words without showing any emotion. Anyway, she, a good girl, couldn't listen even if she was shy.
Gu Hanhan had not yet found a chance to ask the maid sister for a gauze to cover her face, so standing next to David Duran felt uncomfortable all over, and her intestines were filled with regret. In short, she wanted to run away immediately, but she If not, run away immediately.
Gu Hanhan looked around and noticed that a cross-shaped platform had been erected in the palace opposite the end of the spiral staircase. There was a red carpet on stage and off stage, as well as lights and cameras. It seemed to be a place prepared for the scholarship award ceremony. So I quickly pulled David's arm and whispered to him: "Then you get busy first. I'm going to play by myself. Find your classmates and join them. They should be here already. It's almost time for the awards."
"Are you bored?" David immediately left an old superpower noble and responded to Gu Hanhan, "Go and play. I'll call you later." Then he told the deputy attendant beside him: " You stay with Miss Gu."
"You don't need to call me, um, I don't do group dances, so I don't need anyone to accompany you. In fact, once you enter the door, you, a temporary worker, will have completed your historical mission and can be laid off with honor." Gu Hanhan muttered and complained. And then just walked away. The deputy chief of chamberlain obliged, and immediately ran away with him.
The old aristocrat who was courting David was stunned on the spot, and the other aristocratic friends wandering nearby also stared blankly - where did this girl come from, so awesome, or rather stupid!
At this moment, the heads of aristocratic superpower families, powerful princes, high-level superpowers, big brokers who sell everything in the universe - all the noble people who were lucky enough to witness the scene just now had the same idea.
As early as when Gu Hanhan was observing and despising them, they were actually observing and despising Gu Hanhan. The woman who can be grandly brought to the banquet by a person of David Duran's status is either his mother, his wife, his healer, or his mistress. Female family relatives such as sisters, aunts or female guards are absolutely impossible, because it is impossible for his subordinates to hold his arm.
As we all know, David Duran's mother died many years ago, and now the grass growing on her grave is as tall as a person. As for talking about wife - talking about "wife" with a person who is destined to be a bachelor for the rest of his life and has no chance to get married in this life is the same as pointing at a monk and scolding a bald donkey, or discussing the nature of sexual intercourse in bed with an impotence patient. It's close, and the possibility of being beaten on the spot is extremely high. So there is no need to mention this about my wife. Everyone knows the healer, Princess Helena.
Then the identity of this woman is very clear. She is the mistress of David Duran, and she is a mistress with a very disgraceful background - of course, at least at the moment, she is not supposed to be but very favored, but doting this kind of mistress It really has nothing to do with origin. This girl can smell the smell of untouchability from twenty kilometers away.
However, now that the girl ran away, she was looking at the moon in the mist and flowers in the water. The function of the mistress is quite simple and clear. In short, it can be used as a vase at banquets and as an inflatable doll at banquets. In your spare time, you can develop some additional functions, such as pet breeding or emotional trash cans. There may be many domineering and arrogant mistresses, but which one have you ever seen who dared to leave his employer at a banquet and run off to have fun on his own? Either he is crazy and wants to commit career suicide, or he has something to rely on.
So who is this girl? Who do you rely on? Is she another illegitimate daughter of Lord Mochi who has not yet been exposed, or is she a bitch accidentally left behind by Lord Maximilian when he was a boy? Of course, the latter possibility is unlikely. She is really Maximilian's illegitimate daughter, so she wouldn't dare to bring her out to show off. If the Earth Goddess, who wanted to give birth to a baby for Maximilian, knew this, would she really be crazy?
Just when all kinds of unreliable speculations were being thrown out and were about to fly all over the sky, David Duran decisively gave everyone an answer, effectively curbing the fermentation of rumors.
"Miss Gu Hanhan, she is my girlfriend."
With a "clang", the old nobleman's chin did not fall from his mouth, and all the noble buddies present who heard this sentence were dumbfounded. There was silence for a moment - what did we hear?
The job title of girlfriend is essentially different from that of mistress. Let's put it this way, in the world of advanced superpowers, a girlfriend is roughly equal to a fiancée, and a fiancée is infinitely equal to a wife.
Wait, aren't there rumors that David Duran and Helena will hold an engagement ceremony this winter? And wasn’t his public girlfriend always Helena? At this moment, a low-class girl popped out of nowhere and claimed to be her girlfriend - or David Duran himself claimed it!
I, xxxxx, which one is the rumor?
David Duran didn't care about the reaction of the aristocratic "crowd", and obviously had no intention of being responsible for spreading rumors. He just gently reminded the old aristocratic gentleman: "Your Majesty Faru, what did you just say? ?”
"Oh, I mentioned, speaking of..." the old nobleman stammered in reply, "speaking of the fact that there are several planets in the star field where my family is located that have a pleasant climate, making it a good place for honeymoon."
"Really, that's great. I'll ask you to take the time to come to the manor to talk about it in detail in the future. If your girlfriend is very interested, I might ask you to be a guide." David said.
This sentence once again pushed the atmosphere into a silent climax. The old noble suddenly became excited and shouted like a chicken blood: "It is a great honor, please come."
The broad masses of nobles were also excited, and their enthusiasm for spreading rumors increased. Rumors are something like the conservation of quality. To quell one rumor is bound to be at the expense of another rumor. In this way, Gu Hanhan became the confirmed girlfriend and fiancée of the five good young people according to rumors. Then this rumor quickly spread from a small circle to the entire banquet at the speed that a rumor should, and then spread from the banquet to the entire upper class society of the Lighthouse Star. The sad thing is that the earth girl who is the rumored female pig's trotters still knows nothing about it, and she can't refute the rumors.
