Chapter 158 - Cry for Candies (1/2)

Shi Junhe was stunned and then shook his head to deny. “No way! At that time, my cousin admitted without hesitation that the sachet was hers. Hui couldn’t have framed her.”

Mo Shujun snorted and seemed to laugh at Shi Junhe’s foolishness, saying leisurely, “Of course she had to say that it was hers. Otherwise, if others knew that she was an unmarried woman but secretly brought a sachet which was thrown away by a man, how would she have the face to live on?

But later the sachet was checked and there was musk in it. It was too late for her to deny…”

While speaking, she suddenly gave Shi Junhe a weird smile and then added in low spirits, “Junhe, didn’t you think that sachet looked familiar then?”

Shi Junhe’s face stiffened and he tried to argue after quite a while. “No way! I promised Hui that I would never have a concubine, and she loves our children so much. How could she have framed somebody else to hurt others and herself…”

He refused to believe it. Moreover, it had happened many years ago, and the truth couldn’t be found. Now it was Mo Shujun’s one-sided statement. Nobody knew the fact.

“Do you think that so many years have passed and my oral expressions can’t be taken as evidence? And I wronged Dong?”

Mo Shujun accurately guessed what Shi Junhe was thinking about. He didn’t answer. His silent resistance made her laugh again, but she mocked at herself. “My son brought up by me actually believes an outsider but doubts his mother. How pathetic!”

“No, Mother. I didn’t mean that,” Shi Junhe hurriedly explained. His dark-skinned face blushed with shame.

Mo Shujun raised her hand and interrupted him. Her dignified face looked serious, and she stated firmly yet coldly, “You don’t believe me, but you might believe your father, right? He was open and aboveboard all his life and never told a lie.

He knew it, but considering Dong Hui’s dignity and the baby in her womb, he had a talk with her and then kept it secret. In order to protect your relationship with your wife, we didn’t tell you.”

Shi Junhe was shocked, and his unswerving heart was swayed.

He knew that Mo Shujun loved Shi Lei so much. She might tell a lie for anything else, but she never said anything false when she talked about Shi Lei.

“If you don’t believe me, you can ask Dong. If she still has consciences, she wouldn’t ruin your father’s fame!” Mo Shujun spoke frankly but with some inducing intention in her words.

Would Dong Hui defame Shi Lei if she denied?

However, Shi Junhe was too powerless to think about the hidden meaning in Mo Shujun’s words. He was in panic and staggered out of the Shou’an Hall, even forgetting to say goodbye.

Dong Hui was sitting on the bedside and talking with Mammy Zheng about nourishing the fetus and relieving uneasiness of mind. Seeing Shi Junhe quickly walk into the room, she smiled at him. “Junhe, you…”

When she just started to speak, she found that Shi Junhe looked solemn and was about to lose his temper. She was nervous and had a bad feeling, so she changed the subject and showed her concern about him. “Who made you angry?”

Shi Junhe wore a long face and waved his hand to tell the servants to go out. Then he stood in front of Dong Hui and gazed at her. “Hui, I ask you. What happened about the sachet which almost made you have a miscarriage?”

“I… I don’t know what you are talking about.” Dong Hui negated it subconsciously, but her smile froze on her face in an instant, and fear flashed in her eyes. She quickly lowered her head to hide it, but Shi Junhe noticed that.

Shi Junhe felt a bucket of ice water being poured from his head to toe, and even his heart was cold.

He looked at Dong Hui with his eyes opened wide, feeling doubtful and heartbroken. In the end, he still wanted to give her another chance and asked, “Mother told me that Father had covered up for you. Is that true?”

“No…” Dong Hui still didn’t want to admit it, but under Shi Junhe’s sad eyes, she couldn’t say anything.

The answer was completely bared.

Shi Junhe stopped cheating himself and asked in pain, “Why? That is the musk. It can kill an unborn baby at any time. Didn’t you know that?”

Dong Hui lowered her head and clenched her fists, whispering in a sobbing voice, “I knew, but under the circumstances, I had no choice.”

“You had no choice?”

Shi Junhe felt it laughable. “I promised you I wouldn’t marry anybody but you. Even if there was something wrong, you could tell me. Would I have a concubine regardless of your feelings? Why did you hurt others and yourself?”

Since he said that, Dong Hui didn’t hide anything from him anymore. She wiped the tears on her cheeks and raised her head, saying coldly, “Right, you wouldn’t ignore my feelings, but what about Princess Royal? If she insisted on telling you to have a concubine, wouldn’t you give in?”

Shi Junhe didn’t agree with Dong Hui and felt more confused. “At that time, you once advised me to sleep with a maid, so I didn’t think you would care about it. Why did you resist Mother’s plan so much?”

Dong Hui sneered and seemed to laugh at Shi Junhe who was naïve.

“A maid who can sleep with you is just a servant. After I gave birth to the baby, nobody would say anything even if I beat her up or kill her, but a concubine has a status. No matter how unwilling I am, I have to share you with her and let her spend several nights with you every month. Otherwise, others would say that I am jealous. They are totally different.”

Shi Junhe was petrified. He had never thought about this matter, nor did he expect that Dong Hui would think in this way.

Maybe Dong Hui had a grievance of her own, but…

“As you said, you could frame somebody innocent and even put your own daughter’s life in danger?” Shi Junhe’s voice was deep and hoarse. It appeared that he suffered terribly but he couldn’t tell anybody.

Dong Hui was sorrowful, but she refused to admit that she was wrong. If she didn’t do that, she couldn’t win her loved man’s heart, and she might even lose her position as Duke Shi’s wife.

A woman involved in the fight for her husband’s love would never stay out of rivalry in public or secret. Who could remain aloof? Even if Shi Junhe would blame her for being cruel, she could say nothing but just worried that Mo Shujun told him to have a concubine.