Chapter 161 - To Find Out Who Wrote The Love Poem And The Secret Relationship Behind It (2/2)

“Emperor, that poem is not written by first young miss Mo but my elder brother.” An angry voice came from behind.

In the crowd, Sima Heyan came to the front and knelt down gently before Queen. She responded to Queen’s words obediently. All the ladies and misses were shocked at her words and started to discuss over it. The meaning behind the sentence shocked them all.

It’s such a shame to steal other people’s poem. But it’s worse for an unmarried girl to go into a man’s study. Although Mo Manor and Sima Manor had a close relations.h.i.+p, she couldn’t go to Sima Lingyun’s study in private. After thinking over it carefully, it was this improper relations.h.i.+p that was even worse.

Besides, it happened to Mo Xuemin who had a good fame, which made them astonished!

“Is that true?” Queen’s face suddenly darkened and proud filled her eyes. Such a thing happened when Imperial Concubine Su was about to award Mo Xuemin. She must be more than embarra.s.sed. She glanced at her and found her facial expression turned terrible and anger filled her face. She felt much more relieved and interested.

“All that I said was true.” Sima Heyan replied with certainty.

“Queen, that’s not true. I stay at home every day and haven’t even been to Duke’s manor. So how could I steal His Excellency Sima’s poem? If you don’t believe me, you can send someone to ask if I went to Duke’s manor!” After feeling rattled, she calmed down, lifted her head hurriedly and said with watery eyes innocently.

She had a gentle appearance and she acted like she had been framed, which made her quite believable and more sympathetic than Sima Heyan who was so angry. Almost everyone believed her after her words. The d.u.c.h.ess was ill, and the misses always accompanied her, so they had no chance to organize a party. It was known to all that almost everybody there had never been to Duke’s manor. Mo Xuemin also didn’t have a chance to go into Duke’s manor.

Seeing that everyone looked at Mo Xuemin sympathetically, Sima Heyan got anxious and explained, “That poem is actually written by my big brother. There is collection of poems and this poem is on it. If you don’t believe me, you can ask someone to look into it.” Sima Heyan knew that poem was from her hand and it couldn’t be wrong.

“Miss Sima, I don’t know how I’ve offended you to make you frame me like that. That poem was written by me just now and it couldn’t be your big brother’s. Your big brother is on the island right in front, and you can send someone to ask him directly.” Mo Xuemin had tears in her eyes and bit her lips. Besides, she looked at Sima Heyan with her beautiful eyes with innocence and anger.

Mo Xuemin was hurry-scurry! In the crowd, Mo Xuetong stepped back and lowered her eyes to hide her disdain.

Sima Heyan was so imprudent, but she didn’t believe Sima Lingyun would be the same. She didn’t expect that such a change would happen to her before her frame against Mo Xuetong. She was just being happy for that she might be married to King Chu’s Manor when such a horrible accusation fell on her. It made her want to tear Sima Heyan apart.

She couldn’t imagine Sima Heyan could be so stupid. She and Sima Lingyun would be both ashamed! She hadn’t expected she would be in such a dilemma because of this stupid Sima Heyan.

If it is believed to be true, she would not be able to get married! Even a normal family would not be willing to marry a girl who had improper relations.h.i.+p with others.

To ask her big brother? Sima Heyan didn’t think it was a good idea. Because she knew clearly that it was written by herself. Though it was in Sima Lingyun’s collection of poems, but her big brother might have not read it, not to mention remember it. So the best way was to find the collection of poems from her big brother’s study. But she couldn’t deny Mo Xuemin’s proposal. If it was written by Sima Lingyun, he couldn’t have forgotten it.

“Someone go and get Sima Lingyun here.” Queen ordered. The truth was quite a confusion, and both sides seemed reasonable. So she just asked Sima Lingyun here to ask about the truth.

After a while, Sima Lingyun was taken here with several servants. Several ladies with sharps eyes found the servants were not those servants who had just went out. And there were three of them who went their separate ways. It was clear that the three dukes got the message and sent someone for more information.

“Sima Lingyun, is it written by you?” After Sima Lingyun’s greetings, Queen’s maid took the letter to Sima Lingyun and Queen asked.

It was such a big accident that people on the right island had already knew. Sima Lingyun didn’t expect that his own blood younger sister would be against Mo Xuemin and was very worried. There must be someone wrong between them, but he didn’t know who it was. Queen’s maid came to him when he didn’t know what to do.

He didn’t dare to admit it was his letter. The three dukes were just joking over the poem and most of them chose the poem for fun. They just wanted to see who wrote the poem, or else there wouldn’t be so many crosses on the letter. Sima Lingyun was one of them. He still remembered himself making fun of it, “I wonder who this miss is to have written such a love letter. She must have someone in mind to miss.”

Besides, if he admitted the poem was written by him, his relations.h.i.+p with Mo Xuemin would be exposed, which would definitely disgrace his reputation. Especially when he was trying to get the position of the duke, he would lose the position completely if his reputation got disgraced, which he would never be willing to see.

But if he didn’t admit, it would be his younger sister trying to frame Mo Xuemin, which would definitely ruin her future.

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