Li Du spoke carelessly, revealing that Shen Chen's grandfather was Shen Wan, a housekeeper at the Ye Mansion, and that Shen Chen served as Ye Zhi's attendant student there.
So, he was just a household servant after all.
This realization also allowed Liu Qingxi to distinguish boundaries more clearly in the future, avoiding conversations with just anyone, which would lower her own status, since her father was a Third Grade official—respectable, though not prominent.
Ye Zhi seemed a bit flustered; the suggestion had been hers, yet the person just left, making the female lead lose face, so she came up with a clumsy excuse for Shen Chen.
"Forget what he just said about being in a hurry; he probably couldn't wait and went to take care of business. Qingxi, you know men, always concerned about pride and won't speak of things, so don't mind."
To make her words more convincing, she emphasized it again.
