Chapter 264 - Trouble Caused By a Beautys Portrait (2/2)

Looking at the way his beautiful consort cried, Emperor Zongwen finally felt soft-hearted for her and sent for Yu Mingyong into the palace.

At this time, Yu Mingyong didn’t dare to conceal anything anymore. He told everything from Mo Xuemin’s sending a beauty’s portrait to him to an old woman’s visiting him to plan together. The old woman told her to poison Third Miss Mo’s reputation. He told all of these from the beginning to the end. Moreover, he also told the final part where someone knocked him out for no reason. He told them all in detail and didn’t dare to hide anything.

Somebody fetched the portrait from his house and presented it before Emperor Zongwen along with his confession.

Anyway, it was Mo Manor’s family affairs. Therefore, Emperor Zongwen pushed all this to Mo Huawen.

When Mo Huawen saw this, his face was livid with rage. He directly went into Mo Xuemin’s yard.

Inside her room, looking at the new clothes before her, she couldn’t help but raise her lips in a long-lost elegant smile.

This was her chance, even her one last chance. With her talent and looks, she could easily find a husband better than Sima Lingyun. Before, because she had set her heart on You Yuecheng, she missed many suitors from the aristocracy. Though incomparable to You Yuecheng, they were much better than Sima Lingyun.

If something really happened and someone from the palace saw it, then the man could never get rid of her.

While she was pondering on the idea in a good mood, the yard door was pushed open. Mo Huawen stormed inside and before the gatekeeping nanny reported, he lifted the curtains into the room.

Mo Xuemin was startled for a moment. “Father.” Then, she stood up, as elegantly as usual. If not for the smugness that she failed to completely seal at the moment, Mo Huawen almost thought he was seeing his past graceful and beautiful first daughter.

Mo Huawen stonily looked at her and averted his gaze from her coy face to the glamorous dress aside. “You don’t have to prepare clothes because you don’t need to attend the royal banquet.”

As if struck by lightning, Mo Xuemin couldn’t keep her poised manner at all. She was shocked all over her face. “Why, father, why?”

Mo Huawen didn’t want to say anything. Staring coldly at her, he was about to turn around to leave. Suddenly, he found there was nothing he wanted to say to her. “There’s no why. You just can’t attend the banquet.”

Was this pretentious girl before his eyes really his daughter?

“Father, is this because of that wretched woman, Mo Xuetong? Is it for her again? Because she broke her leg and couldn’t go, so all of us don’t need to go? Why, ever since she entered the manor, all you see is her. Except her, am I not your daughter? And isn’t elder brother not your son? How can you abandon all of us for that wretched woman?”

“You treat Auntie Fang and elder brother like this, now, you even treat me this way. For her, you’ll marry me to the underdog, Sima Lingyun. You drove Auntie Fang away and ignored elder brother. Now, you even want to take away my only chance. You must care so much for her as to treat your daughter, me, like dirt.”

Seeing Mo Huawen cut off her only hope with the snap of a finger, Mo Xuemin immediately broke down.

She suddenly jerked her head up, threw away her previous elegance, and snarled with bloodshot eyes. She looked so vicious that she seemed to be able to tear Mo Xuetong apart if she were present.

She should say something so disobedient.

Mo Huawen was raged and flung his hand in the air to slap her face.

“Slap!” A crisp sound rang in the air. Mo Xuemin was startled. Covering her face, she looked at Mo Huawen in disbelief. Rage and hatred darting out from her eyes seemed to be able to set him on fire.

Like a flow of lava, the acc.u.mulated hate rushed out. She grabbed the brocade by her side. Her sharp nails cut into the smooth surface of the silk and she scratched the cloth. Her eyes were so fierce that she looked like she could swallow a person alive.

She said word by word. “You hit me for that wretched woman! I curse her. She will end up more miserable than my mother. People will hate her and disdain her. Her stomach will be torn open and she’ll die in a fire without a complete body.”

She laughed madly. Strands of hair fell from her forehead and scattered on her face. She arrogantly and viciously looked at Mo Huawen. She wasn’t the adorable and delicate young miss anymore.

This was her last chance. However, Mo Xuetong ruined it. How could she not go mad and out of control?

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Looking at Mo Xuemin who was as hideous as a monster, and hearing her shrill laughter, Mo Huawen felt an ache in the chest, and his vision got blurry.

When did his daughter who always made him proud become so vicious!

“Who did this? If you and Auntie Fang hadn’t framed Tong’er again and again, you wouldn’t end up here today. Now, you should blame it all on others. Well, very good… you don’t have to hate anyone anymore because I’ll marry you into Duke Zhenguo’s manor as soon as possible.” Mo Huawen was livid with rage and the blue veins on his forehead bulged. He kicked the door open and stormed outside the yard.

Furiously, he ordered the servants to lock up the gate. Without his order, Mo Xuemin couldn’t go out or have any visitors.

“No, I don’t want to marry Sima Lingyun, I don’t want to. Father, I don’t want to marry into the declining Duke Zhenguo’s manor. I’m your daughter who always makes you proud…” Behind him, Mo Xuemin’s shrill howling, along with the sounds of the wind, chilled people’s blood in the middle of the night…

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