Chapter 110 - Feng Tianlan Starts Her Counterattack (1/2)

“Mother…” Feng Xiupei called out to her with a frown. She had learned not to say everything she wanted to in one shot. She always left her sentences unfinished so that others could fill in the blanks with whatever they thought. That way, even if something happened, she could insist that she hadn’t been the one to say something wrong, and the blame would fall on others.

But Xu Jiayi didn’t get her hint and looked at her with great pain on her face. “Pei’er, you are also my daughter, so my heart aches for you. Stop trying to take the rap for her. The governor will surely get to the bottom of this, and then I will step in to help.”

Feng Xiupei was nearly driven mad by what Xu Jiayi had said. Thankfully, she’d also left the last sentence open to interpretation.

Doctor Su was annoyed by just looking at them, so he mockingly remarked, “My Lord has not yet made a judgment about who the murderer is, but since the trial began, all of you have been saying that you would take the fall for Feng Tianlan. On the surface, you look like a good mother and sister, but, actually, aren’t you secretly instigating others to say that Feng Tianlan killed this man?”

“What Doctor Su says seems to make sense.”

“So, they’re the type that is good at sweet-talking but suddenly stabs you in the back?”

“That’s not possible, right? Second Miss has such an excellent character, why would she need to frame a good-for-nothing like Feng Tianlan?”

“But it’s also true that there are many clues that point to Feng Tianlan as the killer. Even though she says she’s going to take the fall, the clues are pretty obvious.”

“From the beginning of the trial, they were the only ones who kept talking. On the contrary, Feng Tianlan has barely uttered a word. She looks calm and confident. If she had really killed someone, she would have run in a panic by now, right? After all, if a person in training kills a commoner, the penalty is death.”

“Feng Tianlan is just an outstanding actress; she’s even acting now. She’s jealous of Second Miss’s talent and fame, so she wants to frame her in public.”

“Exactly! Feng Tianlan was known as a good-for-nothing for ten years, but then she managed to destroy Feng Xiuyu’s cinnabar field during that battle. That’s a scary level of acting—she’s obviously scheming, so I’m not going to believe a single word she says.”