The Eldest Daughter is Delicate and Pretty, How Can She Be a Malicious Supporting Character - Chapter 56

Chapter 56: Blushing

No one dared to believe that the one having an affair with an outsider was Pei Lingyi. But if it wasn’t Pei Lingyi, why would Zhang Zhishu react like this?

Li Miaozhu hid behind Xiao Huaijin, glancing at the expressions of the crowd. Most people were half-believing, half-doubting, and only a few showed malicious intent in their eyes.

She bit her lip, her eyes flashing with unwillingness. It seemed that even with such obvious evidence, Pei Lingyi could still make many people believe in her.

Tonight, she would make her reputation, which she had built for so long, crumble, and make her lose her reputation completely, so that she would never be able to stand in the entire capital again.

The woman’s malicious gaze was well-hidden, but even so, someone noticed it. Shen Xun’s eyes were round and cute, like a cat’s. His skin was whiter and more delicate than some young ladies’. At this moment, he was smiling, looking innocent and harmless.

However, after seeing Li Miaozhu’s malicious expression, his smile deepened.
So, it was like that? With just a quick thought, he understood the whole story. This was really interesting.
After Xue Yiran left, Li Miaozhu appeared.

But… was it really Pei Lingyi inside? Shen Xun didn’t know the famous Miss Pei, and they had no intersection before. But he couldn’t help thinking of the scene where the girl was smelling flowers gently.
He always felt that… things weren’t that simple.

Xiao Huaijin looked at Zhang Zhishu, who seemed to have lost his heart.
He was puzzled.
Could the woman inside really be the one he admired?

He had heard of Zhang Zhishu’s famous “Beauty Poem” which had made a sensation in the capital. The person described in the poem was self-evident, but now that person was lying on his bed with an unknown situation.

This man was dying for another woman, which was really unworthy of a gentleman. Xiao Huaijin’s dislike for him grew stronger, and his voice became colder.
“Second Master Zhang, as a scholar, integrity is the most important. Your behavior now is disappointing.”

Zhang Zhishu was immersed in regret, muttering to himself, “Why… didn’t I follow her? Why?” His friend looked disappointed. Tonight’s matter was just Li Miaozhu’s one-man show.
Now that the identity of the person inside was unknown, why was he so desperate and offending the crown prince?

Li Miaozhu hid behind Xiao Huaijin, hearing his words, her eyes brightened.
He… was he scolding Zhang Zhishu just now because of me?
Indeed… Brother Huaijin still cares about me in his heart.

Li Miaozhu was clearly delighted by Xiao Huaijin’s words just now, and now she couldn’t wait to push open the palace door and show Pei Lingyi’s embarrassing appearance to the man.

“Sorry, Your Highness, Zishu might have had a bit too much to drink tonight, so he acted like that. He didn’t mean to offend you, please don’t take it to heart,” his friend said, trying to apologize to Xiao Huaijin on Zhang Zhishu’s behalf.

Li Miaozhu couldn’t wait any longer, wanting to rush forward and let everyone see the good show tonight.
So, she said to the man in front of her with gleaming eyes, “Brother Huaijin, I happened to overhear that there’s something indecent happening in the Changing Clothes Hall tonight.”

“The person doing such a thing is actually a noble daughter from a well-known family in the capital. I didn’t want to let this kind of scandal be buried, so I asked people to call you to take charge of the situation.”

“After all, the identity of the person in the hall is not something we can handle.” Li Miaozhu spoke sincerely, and combined with Zhang Zhishu’s loss of composure earlier, it was like writing the identity of the person in the hall in black and white.

At that moment, almost everyone wanted to know if the person in the hall was really Pei Lingyi. Changle saw the situation and naturally wanted to argue with her.
“What do you mean? Don’t think I don’t know who you’re talking about, Li Miaozhu. Who gave you the courage to slander others like this?”

“Haha… If you’re so sure, why don’t you go take a look at who’s inside?” The two of them wouldn’t give in to each other, and the gunpowder-filled words were making even Xiao Huaijin a bit headache-prone.

The man slightly pressed his temples, listening to the two women’s argument. Just then, the servant who had gone to investigate returned. The servant whispered something in Xiao Huaijin’s ear, and the man’s eyes widened slightly before he looked at the red-clothed woman beside him with a complex expression.

“Miaozhu, you’ve been a bit reckless today,” the man said in a low tone, without much anger, but it still made Li Miaozhu’s heart tremble.

She looked up, incredulous, at the man in front of her. “Brother Huaijin, you already know everything? Are you still going to protect that woman now that something like this has happened?”

The woman who had been arguing with Changle just moments before now burst into tears at Xiao Huaijin’s single sentence of disappointment. Changle saw Xiao Huaijin’s reaction and felt no worry at all. This Li Miaozhu had been talking big just now, and now that her lie had been exposed, she still had the nerve to cry.

Changle wouldn’t indulge her and rushed to push open the hall door. Xiao Huaijin had to take care of the crying Li Miaozhu and couldn’t stop Changle in time.

The locked hall door had already been pried open. When Li Miaozhu said there was something indecent happening inside, Xiao Huaijin had instructed his men to investigate the situation inside.

Changle’s noble status meant no one dared to stop her. As soon as she pushed open the door, she saw two figures, one in black and one in white, entwined together in a passionate embrace.

“Ah!!!” Changle was startled and quickly covered her eyes.
When had she…when had she ever seen such a brazen scene?

“You…you two, since you’ve already investigated the situation inside, why didn’t you separate them? How could you let me see such a scene?”

“Oh dear miss, it’s not that we didn’t want to stop you, but you insisted on coming to see for yourself. We didn’t dare to stop you.”

Unfortunately, the young servant didn’t dare say this out loud and could only kneel down and reply to Changle, “Your Highness, the situation between the two was really intense. We tried to intervene, but we couldn’t pull them apart.”

Changle slightly opened her fingers, peeking through the narrow slit, and glared at the young servant beside her, scolding, “How dare you make excuses! I’ll have the Crown Prince brother beat you with a board right away!”

The young servant: Helplessly compromised (^_^)?

Due to Changle’s scream, the gathered crowd became extremely curious, and they all rushed forward to see what was happening inside.

In just a moment, except for those who were accustomed to the world of wind and moon, many young ladies and masters from noble families had never seen such a scene. One by one, they blushed with shame, while those who were more experienced looked on with great interest.

Among them, a few dandies who had been to brothels sneered at Li Miaozhu, saying, “Miss Li, so the good show you mentioned is just your household maid and the carriage driver, huh?”