Why is it shedding its skin in Chapter 80?

With a "splash," a basin of water was splashed directly onto Huo Yunzhan's face, as well as the face of "Huo Yunting" standing not far behind him!

Huo Yunzhan froze, his face turning extremely ugly. He glared angrily at Wanqing, who was still holding the basin of water, and was so angry that he almost ground his teeth to powder: "Wanqing! What are you doing?"

Wanqing wasn't about to back down either. She simply tilted her head slightly, her little face flushed with anger: "What would I do? Of course, I'd splash you!"

"You keep saying you're here to apologize, but look at your attitude! Is this the attitude of an apology? Your chins are held higher than anyone else's, and your apologies are barely audible. Do you really think you're wrong?"

"You've gone too far!"

“My young lady respects you as her elder brother and sister-in-law, and as her mother-in-law, so even though she suffers all kinds of grievances in the Huo family, she dares not resist in the slightest!”

"The despicable things you did before deserve to be beaten, scolded, or even killed! My young lady only asked you to apologize, and you were unwilling! You are utterly shameless!"

“My mistress is kind-hearted and doesn’t want to argue with you, but I’m different. I’m just a maid, and my indenture is in my mistress’s hands. It has nothing to do with you. I’ll do what my mistress doesn’t dare to do, and I’ll scold what my mistress doesn’t dare to scold!”

Huo Yunzhan was soaking wet, with water still dripping from his hair.

Seeing Wanqing's appearance, he was so angry that he trembled uncontrollably. He turned to Shen Qingci and said, "Qingci, are you just going to tolerate your maid being so arrogant and domineering? This is insubordination! Guards! Give her twenty lashes and then sell her off!"

Shen Qingci narrowed her eyes, her gaze dark and unfathomable, but it was fixed on what was behind Huo Yunzhan...

"Qingci! I'm talking to you!" Huo Yunzhan became increasingly dissatisfied!

What happened?

Didn't Shen Qingci love him?

When he talks to her, where does she look?

"General Huo, you should turn around and look at the Marquis behind you."

What?

Who are you looking at?

Huo Yunzhan was momentarily stunned. Before he could turn around, he heard the whispers in the alley: "Heavens! Look at the Marquis of Yongning's face! What happened to his face?"

"Did it shed its skin? Is Marquis Yongning a snake? How can it shed its skin?"

"You guys are so ignorant! I've read those martial arts novels before, and this is called the art of disguise! What he's wearing is a human skin mask!"

"Why is he wearing a human skin mask? After he shed his skin, his face looked like..."

"He's not Marquis Yongning at all!"

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Huo Yunzhan's eyes widened, and he hurriedly turned around. He saw that the fake Marquis Yongning standing behind him had his human skin mask cracked and peeled off bit by bit, revealing a face completely different from Huo Yunting's under the mask!

Huo Yunzhan felt numb all over. What... what... what's going on?

How could this human skin mask be like this?

Wouldn't so many people have seen it?

Shen Qingci suddenly raised her voice from behind: "You're not Huo Yunzhan at all! You're Marquis Yongning, Huo Yunting, aren't you?"

“As I have said before, my husband, General Huo Yunzhan, who is in charge of the Western Expedition, is dead.”

“I personally examined the remains, and the remains in that coffin are indeed my husband.”

As she spoke, her voice began to tremble uncontrollably: "Nearly three months have passed, and I had gradually come to accept the fact that my husband had passed away, but then you suddenly appeared."

"I did have my doubts, after all, everyone in the capital knows what happened on the roof of the Zhuangyuan Tower before."

"But you tell me that you are Huo Yunzhan, and you try every means to prove it."

"I only believed you after I learned that Huo Yunting had neither disappeared nor faked his death."

"But who knew that all of this was actually a scam orchestrated by your Huo family against me!"

Tears streamed down her face as she took two steps back, her eyes filled with pain and despair: "Why are you doing this to me? What did I do wrong? Why are you bullying me like this?"

“I ask myself, since I married into the Yongning Marquis’s mansion and married Huo Yunzhan, I have respected my mother-in-law, valued my husband, and been extremely kind and benevolent to everyone in the mansion.”

"I became pregnant six months after marrying my husband, and I am working hard to have children for the Marquis's family."

“When my husband was still alive, you treated me fairly well, so I often told others that I was lucky to have married into such a good family. But who would have thought that once my husband was gone, you would completely reveal your true colors?”

"You made me despair, then gave me hope again, gave me hope, and then made me despair again!"

"Don't I have a heart? You hurt me so wantonly, have you ever thought about me? Have you ever thought about whether I am your daughter-in-law or your brother's wife?"

She closed her eyes, and as if all her strength had been drained, she slumped onto the threshold.

"And what is your purpose in doing this? Did you go to such lengths just to lure me back to the Yongning Marquis's residence?"

"After you tricked me into going back, what did you plan to do?"

"Is it to let Marquis Yongning use my husband's name to be intimate with me, and then take me as his wife, making me the heir to both families?"

"Are you going to lure me back and imprison me, then tie me up or drug me and send me to the palace? Or will you send me to someone else?"

She almost choked up and cried out, "I've already said that I'm completely severing ties with your Marquis's mansion and have no further relationship with you! Why do you still lie to me, humiliate me, and bully me like this?!"

"How dare you? How dare you do this?"

The onlookers kept pointing and whispering, and Huo Yunzhan's expression changed repeatedly, his face turning ashen as he remained silent.

Shen Qingci suddenly stood up and stumbled as she tried to run outside: "Oh right, you said that when you were here, Huo Yunting went to the palace to apologize to His Majesty."

"He is not Huo Yunting at all, yet he falsely claims to be Huo Yunting. This is a crime of deceiving the emperor!"

"I want to sue! I want to sue right up to His Majesty!"

Huo Yunzhan's expression finally changed completely. He hurriedly grabbed Shen Qingci's hand and flung her back.

Shen Qingci immediately used the momentum to pretend to fall heavily to the ground.

"Miss!" Wanqing threw down the basin of water she was holding and rushed over. "Miss, are you alright?"

Wanqing helped Shen Qingci sit up, glaring at Huo Yunzhan through gritted teeth: "Lord Marquis! What are you doing? In front of so many people, you're actually trying to attack Miss just because she exposed you?"

Huo Yunzhan looked down at his hand. He clearly... hadn't used any force.

He just tugged at her.

The whispers and pointing around them grew louder.

Huo Yunzhan felt a little irritated: "I didn't, don't talk nonsense!"

"This is just a family matter. Let's go inside and close the door before we talk!"

Shen Qingci was about to retort when she heard a mocking voice from the crowd...