Wang Yun's eyes shifted between Song Lili and Song Xiangqiao.
She finally figured it out—they were family, both daughters of Vice Mayor Song. They were putting on an act for her, it was Song Xiangqiao who told Song Lili that she had swapped out the birthday gift with dirt and deadwood, and then the two of them collaborated to switch her gift again, causing her to embarrass herself in front of the Old President at the birthday feast!
It was all for their father, Song Jiayu!
Before coming, her father and mother had instructed her at home to be extremely cautious, not to treat this feast merely as a place for fun and games. It was a political arena, clothed in whatever garb, where politics, business, economics, power, and status never stopped battling.
Yet she hadn't taken it seriously.
At seventeen, still at an age fond of play and being an only child, it wasn't easy for someone like Wang Yun to understand such complexities.
