Chapter 168 - Who Is the One Conducting the Affair (2/2)
However, Sima Lingyun could never imagine that the situation would change! He had wanted to keep a low profile but had become the focus of attention. Furthermore, everyone was looking at him disdainfully and with ridicule in their gazes. This feeling made him feel cold all over his body and he felt confused and helpless as well.
“Your Excellency, did you forget? You have a note as evidence, too. If you really planned to meet a beautiful girl at dusk, you have to be able to leave the palace. It is the New Year, and I really would not dare to do something like this in the palace! I have underestimated Brother Sima. We are actually the same sort of people. I admire you!”
Li Youmo’s exaggerated laughter could be heard. His statement had made it sound as if Sima Lingyun and Mo Xuetong’s secret relations.h.i.+p were a fact. Mo Xuemin had mistaken him for Sima Lingyun, but it was too late for her to leave when she realized that, which was why she fabricated this dispute.
Furthermore, he had even appeared to be letting them off, smiling and admitting defeat. He was totally treating Sima Lingyun as a person who was like him. Being so shameless in the palace was not something an ordinary person could do.
“So you’re the rascal who did it. I don’t care which beauty you are with, but how could you let me take the blame?” Yu Mingyong understood what was happening and immediately grabbed Sima Lingyun with a roar. He punched him without a second thought. Yu Mingyong did not care about Sima Lingyun, who came from a fallen family.
He would not treat Sima Lingyun as carefully as he did with Li Youmo!
“Brother Mingyong, we are in the palace. Even though there’s a scoundrel amongst us, we cannot do something like this in the palace. I thought the two of us were the largest rascals, but I didn’t expect Sir Sima to be even more of a sc.u.mbag than us. It is such a shame that the two of us have such a reputation, so we have to take the blame for others.” He sighed. “It is true that your reputation will get you into trouble.” Li Youmo fanned himself as he spoke, looking really sympathetic to Yu Mingyong.
It was as if he had also suffered a major grievance and became Yu Mingyong’s buddy in just mere moments.
Everyone watching felt chilled and got goose b.u.mps. This man really had a glib tongue! He had made a playboy look so good, as if he were a good person who had been framed by a sc.u.mbag. Look at how he was behaving! Did he even look like that?!
However, while some did not agree, others seemed convinced.
Yu Mingyong had never gotten along with Li Youmo. When he heard Li Youmo defending him, he suddenly felt that Li Youmo truly understood him. He felt emotional. He did not expect that the person who understood him the most would be his nemesis, Li Youmo. His feelings towards Li Youmo immediately took a turn for the better.
He felt that Li Youmo was not an entirely detestable person, but rather intelligent and wise.
He pushed Sima Lingyun away and approached Li Youmo. He put his hands together seriously and thanked him. “Many thanks, Brother Li, for speaking up for me. Those two were the ones who were meeting up secretly and implicated me. Only you know that I am a good person. Oh, being in love is a good thing, but why did they have to be so shameless? It is an embarra.s.sment to the polite society.” He even recited a few phrases of a poem, looking like a dignified gentleman who could not bear to see people behaving shamelessly.
Yu Mingyong had become a gentleman who was defending justice. This made everyone watching feel s.h.i.+vers down their spine and they shuddered in the cold winter day. There were all kinds of people in the world!
“So First Miss Mo really has something going on with His Excellency Sima. It seems that she really got the wrong person and intentionally created such a scene.”
“The Duke’s Manor’s young lady even let First Miss Mo copy His Excellency’s poem at the banquet earlier. I thought it was impossible and His Excellency also said that it was not true. But it seems like it was the truth. The two are having a secret affair, so is there anything that His Excellency cannot agree to give her? It is just a poem after all.”
“You all don’t know about it. But I heard that the girl His Excellency carried out of the fire at the Mo’s was First Miss Mo and not Fourth Miss Mo.”
“It can’t be! How can they do that?”
“Of course, look at her. She might have framed Fourth Miss then. Look, didn’t she try to drag Third Miss down too earlier!”
“Weren’t there rumors long ago…? You really can’t tell. She usually looks so delicate, gentle and gracious. So it is all fake. She’s really vicious to frame all her sisters and besmirched their reputations. She’s the last one with a good name in her family. Lord Mo can’t dote on her too much.”
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Life was like that. Now that the matter had blown up, everyone would think about it. And the more they talked about it, the more they felt that they were right!
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