Chapter 33 - Lets See Who Was Better in Acting (1/2)

Chapter 33 Let’s See Who Was Better in Acting

Mo Huating was indeed an excellent speaker.

He spoke of the bloody case that involved adultery merely as a blunder in which he accidentally lost his way, which absolved him of all his responsibility. In the meantime, he also admitted his mistake. This tactic indeed helped him win people’s sympathy.

“You are too polite, Marquis Jing Yuan. I really don’t dare to accept your courtesy. Yuewu was almost assassinated on the way to the capital. It’s said that those killers had set up the trap in advance, and they waited in ambush for her to arrive. Since she was just a new comer to the capital, I really can’t figure out whom she had offended. Why did that person hate her so much as to kill her? The person had actually calculated her route to the capital and ordered people to wait there, just to kill a weak girl like her.”

Lady Tu remarked as she eyed Mo Huating with a cold smile.

The effect of Lady Tu’s words was such that she totally denied what Mo Huating had said earlier. Mo Huating simply couldn’t answer the innuendo in her words!

He was a marquis after all, and had a position in the Palace. Mo Huating never thought that Lady Tu would be so disrespectful to him that every word she said was refuting him. He looked at Wei Yuewu, who watched him with cold and beautiful eyes. He became inexplicably upset.

The accident of the carriage crash had been made widely known. He had already heard about the stunning Sixth Miss Wei. He didn’t believe the rumor when he first heard about it. But as he thought about Wei Yuewu’s appearance, he didn’t have a clear memory. He only remembered a face that was full of powder and radiated with a ghostly air. Only her eyes were impressive.

Was this person in front of him really Wei Yuewu?

Mo Huating turned his gaze to Wei Yuewu. Although her face was covered by a veil with her bangs combed backward, her beautiful eyes looked extremely bewitching. In the depths of her eyes, there was a combination of a touch of coquetry and traces of coldness. The pair of eyes alone were enough to make people wonder how amazingly beautiful the girl behind the veil must be.

Inexplicably, he felt uncomfortable in his heart!

“Please, please go in first and talk.” With a dry laugh, Mo Huating stopped performing at the gate. He took two steps backward and gestured by reaching out his hand to invite the guests in.

After the group followed Mo Huating into the mansion, passers-by who remained near the gate began to whisper to one another: the ladies and the young lady from the Mansion of Marquis Hua Yang seemed not to be on a goodwill visit; besides, who knew what they meant by saying the Second Young Lady’s maid pointed the way for the Marquis?

Among them were some who witnessed the carriage accident that day. They soon started to describe the incident vividly. The explanation, together with the conversation at the gate, immediately made many people wonder: could it be that the Second Young Lady took a fancy to Marquis Jing Yuan and wanted to marry him, so that the Second Lady designed one scheme after another to murder this Sixth Miss Wei who had just arrived at the capital?

This assumption appeared more and more likely when they thought about it, and various opinions were hotly communicated among people outside the mansion…

Lady Li was still unaware that her good reputation, which she had taken so many years’ efforts to build, completely disappeared due to yesterday’s accident and today’s discourse at the gate of Mo Huating’s mansion.

Mo Huating ordered his servants to deliver fruits and other refreshments as soon as he entered the mansion’s parlor.

Following her maid, Chen Nianshan also walked out to greet the Madam Dowager.

The Madam Dowager looked at this young lady who had a good reputation outside. She involuntarily showed a big smile on her face to the young lady who appeared pretty with a delicate figure. The Madam Dowager politely gestured to help her get up and said, “Miss Chen, you’re too polite.”

For the time being, they hadn’t started talk on the matter of breaking off the engagement. Therefore, the two mansions seemed to be getting along well.

Chen Nianshan sat down on Wei Yuewu’s left. She saw Mo Huating was exchanging polite words with the Madam Dowager and Lady Tu. She extended her hand to gently grabbed Wei Yuewu by the hand. Tilting her head, she said in a low voice, “Sixth Young Lady, isn’t it? You are indeed a beautiful, goddess-like young lady. Although my cousin has never seen you, he is really devoted to you.”

Looking at the cousin who was as charming and gentle as a white flower in front of her, Wei Yuewu sighed inwardly. This cousin was obviously not someone who was contented with her lot. Otherwise, as an unmarried woman, she should in any case choose to avoid suspicion, rather than appear in public to receive guests as if she were the mistress of the mansion of Marquis Jing Yuan.

However, Wei Yuewu kept her thought to herself without showing it on her face. With a smile in her beautiful glass-like eyes, she politely nodded at Chen Nianshan, but did not say anything.

“Sixth Young Lady, how about going out for a walk? There are elders here. It’ll not be convenient for us to chat with each other.” Seeing Wei Yuewu only smile at her, Chen Nianshan grew even more warm-hearted. She pulled Wei Yuewu’s sleeve as a signal to follow her.

Wei Yuewu felt it improper to reject her polite invitation.

“Madam Dowager, Lady Tu, Sixth Miss Wei and I feel like old friends at the first meeting. Can we go out for a stroll?” Chen Nianshan said smilingly to the Madam Dowager and Lady Tu.

“Of course you can!” The Madam Dowager nodded with a smile. It was better that she was the one who proposed to break off the engagement. After all, this matter involved Wei Yan’s reputation. The Madam Dowager was still having some selfish motives.

Seeing the Madam Dowager agreed, Lady Tu couldn’t say anything opposite.