Chapter 49 - Who on Earth Was the Owner of the Dress? (1/2)

Hearing an accident had happened in the back garden, the Princess of Nan’an couldn’t keep sitting there anymore. She immediately went to the garden with some servants. As soon as Wei Fengyao steadied herself, she fiercely glared at the maid, who was standing on her side trembling all over.

Under her mistress’s glare, the maid became so frightened that she didn’t even dare to raise her head. She had never expected that things would turn out so differently. Who would have thought that the person who fell into water in the end was not the Sixth Miss Wei, the intended victim of the plot, but the Second Miss Wei, the conspirator? And most importantly, what happened to the Second Miss Wei’s dress?

This… this was completely different from the original plan of her mistress!

“Third Lady, what’s wrong with the mansion of Marquis Hua Yang? It’s fine that her dress is the same as my favorite dress I’m wearing. But why did she add extra dye to her copy to make it look completely different? What was her intension?” The Fourth Princess, Wen Cailuan, pointed with a stern face at the dress that was still dripping with water and asked in a threatening manner.

“Well…” Lady Zhang felt she was being wronged. She was really ignorant of the whole situation, so she had to turn to Wei Fengyao for help. “Your Ladyship, you see…”

“Sixth Younger Sister, it was you. You’re the one who framed me up. This is your dress. You deliberately set me up because you wanted to hurt me. It must be so.” Wei Yan had recovered by now. She was sitting in bed and clutching a quilt with a blank face. At this moment, her gaze landed on Wei Yuewu beside her and she suddenly shouted madly.

“Sixth Younger Sister, what happened?” Wei Fengyao’s face sank as she turned to Wei Yuewu.

Wei Yuewu glanced at Wei Yan with calm but confused eyes. She shook her head and said, “Your Ladyship, I don’t know what Second Elder Sister meant by that.”

“You… It must be you. No one hates me so much except you. It must be you who set me up. Wei Yuewu, you… you…” Wei Yan was so incensed by what happened today that she almost lost her mind. She was about to curse Wei Yuewu without considering the presence of other people. However, Nanny Xu, who was beside her, sensed the impending impropriety and immediately pulled the sleeve of her mistress to stop Wei Yan from continuing her words.

“Second Elder Sister, what you said is very strange. If you never did anything that hurt me, why would you say that I hated you the most? For what do I hate you? I just arrived in the capital. What have you done that makes me hate you so much?” Wei Yuewu frowned and asked calmly.

“You…” Wei Yan was unable to answer. With so many people here, she could never ever confess that it was because she wanted to marry Mo Huating and had plotted to assassinate Wei Yuewu that Wei Yuewu hated her so much and wanted to hurt her. Now the only excuse she could think of was the dress. It originally belonged to Wei Yuewu. If it wasn’t for Wei Yuewu, she would in no way change her dress on the very day of the banquet.

Consequently, she could avoid making the Fourth Princess so angry with her. Wei Yan still felt dizzy. She couldn’t figure out what had happened. Nevertheless, she was very clear of one thing: Wei Yuewu was the reason why all this had occurred.

“It was you. This is your dress. You made me get it.” Wei Yan couldn’t say why. She could only stare fiercely at Wei Yuewu and insisted that she was set up by Wei Yuewu.

In such a case, as long as she insisted that Wei Yuewu was the plotter behind the scenes, Wei Yuewu wouldn’t be able to clear herself up.

“Sixth Younger Sister, why did you hurt Second Younger Sister? Even if the two of you are slightly at odds, it’s just because of some trivialities in the boudoir. Besides, you have just come to the capital. What bitter feuds are there between you and Second Younger Sister that made you do such a thing to her?” After hearing what Wei Yan said, Wei Fengyao immediately followed, looking at Wei Yuewu with a very sad expression.

Since things had turned out so differently from their plan, it would be best to blame Wei Yuewu for everything.

Therefore, the two sisters worked together to slander Wei Yuewu, feeling sure that Wei Yuewu could not prove her innocence.

Seeing that the two sisters echoed each other and took their own words as a matter of fact, Wei Yuewu sneered in her heart. However, she didn’t show her thoughts on her face. She said coldly, “Your Ladyship, why are you so sure that Second Elder Sister is telling the truth?”

“Second Younger Sister has always had a good reputation. It was impossible for her to make a false charge against others.” Wei Fengyao said in a serious and self-righteous manner.

‘”Second Elder Sister has always had a good reputation, so whatever she said is right! And I, who had just come to the capital, have already had the reputation of being plain-looking and untalented, so everything I said is wrong. Your Ladyship, is this what you meant?” Wei Yuewu said softly with a smile, but the bottom of her eyes was filled with chilling coldness.

Hearing Wei Yuewu’s sharp question, Wei Fengyao had a feeling that bad things were going to occur.

The face of the Princess of Nan’an darkened. She turned her gaze to Wei Fengyao and a trace of suspicion flashed through her eyes.

Wei Fengyao saw that her mother-in-law grew suspicious of her and realized she was in a precarious situation. Nevertheless, she was not Wei Yan. She calmed down and said with a somewhat embarrassed expression, “Second Younger Sister, Sixth Younger Sister, I’m not sure what exactly happened. It’s best for you two to discuss it after you go back to your mansion. You’re sisters after all, and there’s no dispute you can’t settle between each other. There’s no need to make such an awkward scene in the presence of other people.”

Those words sounded fair, as if she wanted to prevent the family’s scandal from being made public. However, with Wei Yan’s previous accusation against Wei Yuewu, if Wei Yuewu didn’t make the case clear in front of the other guests, she would not be able to clear herself of the accusation of framing up her sister.

“Your Ladyship, since Second Elder Sister insists that I framed her up, she should tell everyone what I did to frame her up.” Wei Yuewu faintly smiled and pointed at the dress on the side.

“That is your dress. It’s yours. It was you who was supposed to wear it, but you made me wear it.” Wei Yan turned her eyes to where Wei Yuewu’s finger was pointing and shouted those words immediately. She didn’t want Wei Fengyao to smooth things over either, because what she had said and done before had almost become evidence that she had framed up Wei Yuewu and provoked the Fourth Princess.

If she failed to make Wei Yuewu a scapegoat, she would have no face to see outsiders in the future.

“Second Elder Sister, you said this dress was mine?” Wei Yuewu did not panic, and her gaze also fell on the dress that had been thrown aside and was almost frozen. A trace of mockery silently flashed through her eyes.