48 ChunHuas Visit 2 (1/2)

Hongyue put on a dismayed expression before she attempted to cling on to ChunHua again. ChunHua struck her hard across the face. Hongyue's eyes flashed. Even if she was willing to play in character, she wasn't willing to be treated like this. She sneered before she fixed on a distressed look. Her hands clutched her injured cheek and tears whelmed up.

”T-then why did you come here?” Hongyue stammered.

ChunHua hmphed loudly, trying to cover up her earlier coward-like display. She leaned in and seized hold of Hongyue's hair, ”You despicable spawn! What did you do to father?! Why would he want to help you when he never did?”

Hongyue struggled to yank her hair back, ”I-I didn't do anything. Father always adored me. What are you saying?”

ChunHua let go with a grim smile on her face, ”Always? You must be stupid to believe that. Oh, wait you are,” She threw back her head and giggled loudly in Hongyue's face.

Hongyue stood up unhappily, ”Second Sister is the stupid one. If father didn't love me, would he kill all these servants who bullied me just because I said so?”

ChunHua stopped, she had overheard about this from gossiping maids, but she hadn't taken it to heart. All she knew was that her father had killed a lot of people including the fourth concubine. For what reason? ChunHua did not know all that clearly. Her father never said anything, but some of the servants that witnessed the killing claimed it was because Hongyue asked him to. Now glimpsing around, ChunHua knew the general wasn't the type to randomly murder people so there could be some truth in Hongyue's words. However, the general also never indulged Hongyue like this before.

”You...” ChunHua trailed off; she couldn't repute Hongyue's words.

Hongyue rubbed her teary eyes in annoyance. She wasn't actually crying; instead, she was drawing out the moisture from the air to fall upon her cheeks as if they were tears. Hongyue had never once produced a single teardrop in her time here within the manor. All of it was acting. Even though it was effortless, it was getting tiresome to spend her energy on this lowly idiot.

This second sister of hers was really wasting her time. Hongyue's eyes gleamed before she asked quietly, ”Are you here to see Fourth Madam?”

ChunHua slapped Hongyue again in anger, ”You are not allowed to speak of her! You were the one who killed her!”

Ah~ How annoying.

Hongyue felt her cheeks burn in pain. Initially, she was going to play nicely, but her mood was already poor with the third prince leaving without providing her with the information she needed. Now that she was yelled at along with being slapped twice, Hongyue was irritated.

”Not true. YOU killed her!” Hongyue retorted.

ChunHua stood dumbfounded from her words before she gained her voice again, ”Nonsense! You were the reason why she died!”

Hongyue walked past her and paused in front of the body of the fourth madam. Hongyue gently patted the hair of the dead concubine before she turned to ChunHua.