The Reborn Legitimate Daughter is Frivolous - Chapter 5
Hearing these words, Shui Xinting wanted to step forward and speak, but when she remembered the scene just now, she held herself back abruptly.
Anyway, this matter was already a foregone conclusion. Yueshang was timid and cowardly even if she defended herself, it would only be with a few words, and her mind was simple.
Dr. Li had long been bribed by her, and his whole family was in her hands, so why would he dare to be disobedient?
“Then tell me, how were you wronged?”
Murong Jie frowned. He wanted to say that he truly didn’t believe Yueshang did it.
He still understood what kind of temperament Yueshang had, but now that all the evidence pointed to her, he couldn’t help her even if he wanted to.
But as the saying goes, “You can know a person’s face, but not their heart.” There is no fixed truth in anything.
Now that Yueshang was being wronged from all sides, she didn’t care about anything else. Looking at Dr. Li, she asked sternly, “Why do you want to wrong me? I have no grievances or grudges against you! Who told you to frame me!?”
Since Yueshang had given birth to Murong Yao, her status had finally improved a little. She believed she could rely on her daughter to live a prosperous and wealthy life in the future. How could she be framed to death so easily?
In order to survive, people can become more courageous. Usually submissive, she was powerful today.
Seeing Yueshang like this, Dr. Li argued, “Girl, why don’t you admit it? It was clearly you who sent a maid to bribe me, telling me to say that the general’s wife died of illness. You promised me benefits. I was suspicious at first, but the maid said that although you are only a maid in the general’s quarters, it would be inappropriate for you to meet a man like me privately, so I believed it. But why won’t you admit it now?”
“You! You’re talking nonsense! I didn’t!”
“Girl, you can’t put all the blame on me now that things have been exposed! If I had known that taking your money at the start would bring about such trouble, I would never have agreed to it!”
Dr. Li spoke impassionedly and sincerely. If it hadn’t been for Murong Qing’s life experiences, he might have been deceived by the scene before him.
Yueshang was just a slave how could she possibly fight against Shui Xinting?
Shui Xinting was the daughter of the Shangshu Mansion. Although she was a concubine, she had surely experienced many open and secret struggles in the household.
“No! It’s not like that!” Yueshang, seeing Dr. Li continually pushing the blame onto her, panicked — but even in desperation, people can sometimes show a bit of cleverness.
Her eyes lit up suddenly, and she said aloud, “Maid! You said I sent a maid to contact you — then where is this maid? Let her come out and testify!”
Murong Qing nodded secretly. Yueshang was not too stupid; she knew to look for flaws in Dr. Li’s story.
However, if one failed to cover such small loopholes, it was unlike Shui Xinting.
Sure enough, just after Yueshang said this, a guard came to report, “General, a woman was found in the lake in the garden.”
“Bring her up!”
The woman was quickly brought up, but she was already lifeless.
When Dr. Li saw the woman, he immediately exclaimed, “It’s her! It’s her! She’s the one who contacted me!”
Before Yueshang could speak, Murong Jie asked in a deep voice, “Are you sure? Did you see clearly?”
“General, this isn’t the first or second time I’ve met with this woman. Of course I recognize her. The general is mighty — I wouldn’t dare deceive you!”
“No! I don’t know her at all!” Yueshang cried and crawled to Murong Jie’s feet. “General, this slave truly doesn’t know her! He’s framing me! Why are you doing this to me?”
Yueshang cried again and again, but none of those present pitied her — even Murong Yao simply hid aside and watched quietly.
Shui Xinting’s methods were indeed clever, causing Yueshang to fall into the trap defenselessly.
It was truly a smart move to use such an insignificant and naive woman as a scapegoat.
Although Yueshang’s supposed bribery of Dr. Li wasn’t enough to prove she murdered Yun Wan, if the woman’s death was blamed on her, it would be an entirely different matter.
And pushing the woman into the water to drown was something only a simple-minded person like Yueshang would do, anyone else would know that once the body surfaced the next day, everyone would see it.
Thus, even if Murong Jie still had doubts earlier, most of them had already faded by now.
Even if Yueshang hadn’t poisoned Yun Wan, what she had done was already enough to deserve death.
Such a person could not remain in the General’s Mansion — especially since she had once tried to conceal the fact that Yun Wan’s death was not natural, but due to poisoning.
At this point, Murong Jie was furious. Looking down at the woman crying breathlessly yet still shouting injustice, he felt only disgust but still asked, “Was Wan’er killed by you?”
“No! This slave didn’t! How could a slave poison her mistress, General…?”
Murong Jie kicked Yueshang in the chest. She was thrown to the ground, rolling over onto her back. Already crying uncontrollably, she coughed violently after being struck in a vital spot.
But no one pitied her.
Falling to the ground, she reached toward Murong Yao and struggled to get up. “Third Miss, you have to believe me!”
She knew she had been framed. Now that even Murong Jie didn’t believe her, her last hope was completely shattered. She didn’t ask for anything else — she just wanted Murong Yao to believe her, so that even if she died, she could rest a little easier.
Murong Yao saw Yueshang like this and wanted to distance herself. A trace of disgust and impatience flashed in her eyes, but she said righteously, “It’s not that I don’t believe you, but all the evidence points to you. Although you are my biological mother, I can’t ignore right and wrong! If you can produce evidence, I will definitely intercede for you with Father.”
What a mockery of right and wrong, just a white-eyed wolf who, for the sake of glory and wealth, would abandon her own mother’s life!
Anyone with a shred of conscience wouldn’t stand by while their biological mother fell into such misery.
She had seen the look in Murong Yao’s eyes earlier, and she truly pitied Yueshang.
“Yao’er…” Yueshang was utterly heartbroken. Even her own daughter didn’t believe her.
She tried to grab the hem of Murong Yao’s clothes, but Shui Xinting quickly pulled Murong Yao behind her and scolded, “Bold woman! It was already bad enough that you referred to yourself as ‘I’ before the Third Miss, but now you even dare to call her by her boudoir name? What kind of heart do you have? Come! Drag her down at once!”