Chapter 900 - 894: Wearing the Wrong Clothes
Auntie Li, who was by Gu Youyou’s side, showed an anxious face, then whispered to her, "That is Her Highness the Princess."
Gu Youyou had met the Princess once before, but the Princess had not noticed her, so she pretended not to know that the woman before her was the Princess, feigning great surprise.
She nodded gently and thanked Auntie Li for the warning, grateful for her reminder.
Jin Fengzhao stood before Gu Youyou, lofty and proud, her face filled with anger.
Yet Gu Youyou didn’t know where she had offended this ’Princess.’ If her memory served her correctly, this was their first encounter, and there had been no previous feud.
"Your Highness the Princess," Gu Youyou greeted her with proper etiquette, bending her knees slightly.
Feng Zhao’s eyes brimmed with hostility as she said sternly, "You see the Princess and you do not kneel?"
Gu Youyou was stunned for a moment, and Auntie Li hurriedly pulled her to kneel.
But Gu Youyou, as if unaware, merely bent her knees in a normal respectful bow, and said with reverence, "Your Highness, the Empress Dowager once granted this commoner permission not to kneel before anyone in the palace except for the Empress Dowager, the Empress, and His Majesty the Emperor."
"A commoner?" Feng Zhao looked utterly astonished.
She had thought the woman before her was a lady from some Minister’s family, only to learn she was a ’commoner.’