Ling Mo completely ignored Su Yu's venomous gaze and suddenly lifted a lock of hair that Su Yu was using to cover her injured ear.

Upon seeing the injured ear tightly wrapped in gauze beneath her hair, Ling Mo suddenly raised the pitch of her voice, a hint of regret in her tone:

"I completely forgot that Auntie's ear was bitten not long ago and it hasn't healed yet! It seems she won't be able to wear those jade earrings, what a pity."

As soon as these words were spoken, a murmur of discussion suddenly arose at the banquet.

Not long ago, a video of Su Yu hiring thugs to storm into Xie Xiaoai's apartment and beat her up had already spread.

The news that Xie Xiaoai had bitten her ear quickly spread.

However, Ouyang Bin's public relations efforts were extremely swift. The very next day, he brought in video forensics experts who claimed that the protagonist in the video was not Su Yu herself, but rather that the video creator had used AI face-swapping technology to replace the perpetrator in the video with Su Yu's appearance.

Although the public did not buy the video forensics experts' claims, the matter gradually faded away as major online platforms removed it from the trending topics list.

At this moment, after Ling Mo's reminder, everyone immediately understood.

Thinking of Su Yu's crazy appearance when she stabbed someone with a knife in the video, the female guests in the room felt a chill down their spines and dared not get close to her again.

"That's just hearsay! My ear wasn't bitten at all. I just slipped and fell, and hurt it."

Su Yu's chest heaved violently; she was so angry she almost vomited blood.

"Slipped?"

Ling Mo frowned, his sharp gaze falling once more on Su Yu's protruding belly, and said unhurriedly:

"Auntie almost lost her ear in the fall, but the baby in her womb is safe and sound. This time it's really thanks to the protection of the Ling family ancestors."

Upon hearing Ling Mo's words, everyone turned their heads away, suppressing their laughter, and secretly began to whisper among themselves.

"This Miss Ling is quite amusing! She actually managed to make Su Yu so angry."

"That's right! Su Yu has really met his match this time."

"However, Su Yu is really not someone to mess with. The way she stabbed someone with a knife in the video was absolutely terrifying."

"I actually think she's quite pitiful. If Ling Yunlong hadn't cheated on her first, why would she have gone to hurt someone in such a fit of rage?"

"Sigh~ She was a mistress who rose to power, and now her man has been stolen by another mistress. She deserves what she got."

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