Chapter 180 - Feeling Ashamed, They Returned to Duke (2/2)
While this rumor was obviously untrue, it was widely spread. Mo Huawen, who was politically sensitive, felt strange about it.
Mo Huawen avoided Mo Xuemin’s pitiful eyes. “Inside!”
He turned around and went directly into the study without waiting for her. He had spent so much time and energy on her, thinking she was the best of all his daughters. Now, Mo Huawen was sure that Mo Xuemin had gone out to meet Sima Lingyun in order to deal with Mo Xuetong.
She wanted to frame her own younger sister and make her marry Sima Lingyun, who was a useless duke’s son! It wasn’t as simple as it seemed. Duke Zhenguo’s manor which had no real power wanted to have Tong’er. In the past, he didn’t stop Sima Lingyun from visiting at times for the sake of the Duke.
But he didn’t expect Sima Lingyun to stoop to framing Tong’er with Mo Xuemin. Tong’er would never marry a man like him!
Moreover, there was Auntie Fang’s affair…
“Dad!” Mo Xuemin’s voice came from behind.
“Get yourself changed and then come to my study,” Mo Huawen said, not turning around.
He was so disappointed. She looked gentle and generous from the outside, but she was just as evil and stupid as her ugly concubine. She wanted to be in control of Tong’er’s life forever. Wanting Tong’er to get a bad marriage was unkind, but this was simply evil!
This was even more resentful than using Auntie Fang’s unborn child to frame Tong’er. Now, thinking about everything Auntie Fang did, he realized Mo Xuemin might be behind it. Auntie Fang wasn’t smart enough to come up with this plan on her own.
Mo Huawen used to feel bad that Mo Xuemin had such a terrible concubine, but now he realized that he had been wrong. Auntie Fang had simply failed while attempting to enact Mo Xuemin’s schemes. As a mother, she would never tell the fault of her own child, so Mo Xuemin still lived next to him as a gentle first miss in Mo Manor.
But things weren’t so simple. In the palace, Yu Mingyong’s later words saved Mo Xuemin from losing her dignity. Yu Mingyong was the younger brother of Consort Yu, who was the emperor’s most beloved consort. Mo Huawen knew well about his arrogance and it must have taken a powerful person to make a him change his story.
Then Mo Xuemin and Sima Lingyun’s secret dating was revealed, but somehow the story was changed to rape. It seemed to be protecting Mo Manor from losing its dignity, but in fact, Mo Manor was hurt the most. If it was only Mo Xuemin and Sima Lingyun’s secret dating and no one did anything to the carriage, the carriage wouldn’t have crashed into the tree without any reason, and they wouldn’t have exposed themselves.
He had to admit the person who set this all up was very powerful!
But it was clearly not the same person who made Yu Mingyong change his evidence, or he wouldn’t have made the story that Sima Lingyun wanted to rape Mo Xuemin, which was clearly different from the story that they already had improper relations. It’s rea.s.suring that Mo Huawen didn’t feel much hostility from the second person who schemed everything outside the palace, which could be seen from the talk that Mo Xuemin fought against Sima Lingyun.
Though Mo Xuemin’s reputation was ruined, the fame of the daughters in Mo Manor wasn’t! It was much better to be an unlucky girl who fought for her chast.i.ty and failed than an unmarried miss who had had improper relations with a man.
It was obviously a scheme. But if Mo Xuemin didn’t go out, such a thing couldn’t have happened!
The nanny at the back door confessed that it was first miss’s maid Mo Xiu who bribed her to open the back door. They just said first miss wanted to eat Rose Pastry on New Year’s Eve.
Mo Xuemin almost confessed to having improper relations with others. If the truth got out, it would be more unbearable than it was now. Maybe even Feng’er and Tong’er’s marriage would be affected.
Mo Huawen sat in the study, clenching his fists while taking deep breaths, trying to calm down.
This daughter was no good!
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