As Yu Huan spoke, a tear rolled down her cheek.
Instantly, this statement garnered sympathy from a small group of people, since unrequited love is the common emotional experience for most.
Cheng Xiaocheng clapped her hands and said contemptuously, "You really know how to twist the truth and make sophistry. If you were just secretly admiring someone, no one would say anything to you. But your so-called secret admiration is terrifying; it's like stealing someone's family member's love!"
"This time you stole a kiss, next time will you secretly offer yourself? After all, what kind of cases can't you handle in the Ministry of Justice? Maybe one day you'll be investigating a case in a brothel, and you'll happen to touch something you shouldn't, and the only antidote will be found through sexual intercourse. Wouldn't that make perfect sense?"
[Oh my god! Oh my god! This Miss Cheng is so knowledgeable and worldly-wise, is she my half-sister?! Tell me quickly, is she younger than me, is she my long-lost sister?]
No! She's older than you; even if she's been living away from home, she's still your older sister.
[Really! My long-lost sister! I love you so much!]
[...My lord, when did you mishear this?]
Fang Ruotang ignored her and stared at Cheng Xiaocheng with admiration in her bright eyes. She liked Cheng Xiaocheng's love for watching the drama unfold. To the person involved, it might seem like she had no sense of propriety and was annoying, but Fang Ruotang liked it! After all, she was the same kind of person herself.
This is called "birds of a feather flock together".
"No matter what, I never intended to bother you, let alone try to take it from you, whether you believe it or not!" Yu Huan said confidently.
She didn't think she was wrong. Liking someone is a very personal thing, and she didn't have any bad intentions, so what could she have done wrong?
"Tsk tsk tsk! I didn't even want to compete with you, ugh! It's just because you knew you couldn't win. You dare say you didn't secretly seduce me."
Fang Ruotang felt physically uncomfortable upon hearing Yu Huan's words.
She replied in an extremely sarcastic tone, then suddenly realized and said, "I know, you're the 'man-woman' that Little Mirror was talking about. On the surface, you associate with men like brothers, but in reality, you're always stepping on other women to make yourself stand out."
"Did she say something like, 'If it were Miss Lu, she definitely wouldn't be able to endure this kind of hardship' while she was doing this?"
Fang Ruotang asked Chi Jingyun with confidence.
At this point, Chi Jingyun was truly contemplating murder; it was an utterly undeserved disaster.
"...So every time you make fun of yourself for being like a man, you add 'Weiwei can't do it,' is that what you mean?"
It would have been better if Chi Jingyun hadn't brought this up, because the moment he did, Yu Huan's defenses crumbled.
She just wanted Chi Jingyun to know that they were kindred spirits with common ideals and goals, not that she wanted to be ridiculed as a tomboy every time she spoke.
"Miss Yu, you're something else! You're making fun of me, aren't you! Fine, I was blind to have seen such a vicious person! I mistook you for a colleague. In the future, Miss Yu, please have some self-respect and stay away from me. Just looking at you makes me sick." Chi Jingyun admitted that he was acting out of spite.
But why shouldn't he take his anger out on others?
To be narcissistic, Yu Huan wasn't the only one who admired him; there were also many young men from prominent families who appreciated Lu Jinwei, but none of them were as crazy as Yu Huan.
They deliberately and meticulously interfered in their lives.
He didn't even dare to imagine what would happen to him if things really developed as Miss Cheng had said—a walking corpse, but still breathing.
He's probably going crazy, and the two of them will die together.
Yu Huan stared intently at Chi Jingyun, not missing his disgust, and also panicking at his firm stance of severing ties. Before this, she had actually thought that Chi Jingyun liked her.
After all, she and Chi Jingyun shared the same goals and ideals, while Lu Jinwei was just an arrogant young lady who was afraid of dead people and dared not stand up for the dead. She simply did not understand Chi Jingyun.
But she was different.
"That's hilarious! You didn't actually think Chi Jingyun liked you before, did you? Let me tell you, in the original timeline, it really was just as Miss Cheng guessed, but what happened? He hurt himself! He'd rather hurt himself than touch you!"
Fang Ruotang didn't say that Chi Jingyun had preserved his innocence, but what good was it? The two of them were locked in a room, and Yu Huan had stripped naked. In the end, he could only take responsibility for marrying her!
It was right that he didn't harm Lu Jinwei with his broken body, but why did he ruin her happiness? In the end, she died in despair, and then he set himself on fire.
It's like sweetness mixed with shit, making people extremely uncomfortable.
"Why are you so meddlesome! You're always meddling in other people's business, aren't you tired? Don't you have a heart condition? Aren't you sick? Can't you take care of yourself?"
Yu Huan's sudden outburst at Fang Ruotang was something no one had expected.
The entire scene fell silent.
Fang Ruotang narrowed her eyes, stood up straight without even swaying, and lightly raised her arm, slapping him across the face.
She may look delicate now, but in reality, a single slap could turn Yu Huan's face to the side, causing it to quickly swell and turn red.
Back then, Princess Anning, who came from a higher social class than her, called her a short-lived ghost. She lay down straight and insisted that she was about to be angered to death by her.
In the end, didn't Princess Anning beg her not to die?
Now that she's become a top-tier national advisor, how could she possibly put up with this?
"How dare you! Who do you think you are to criticize my teacher? What my teacher wants to do and doesn't want to do is none of your business."
In Fang Ruotang's eyes, Yu Huan was the villainous female supporting character in her storybook. However, she never liked to make things difficult for women because her older sister had said that life was already hard for women, so they should not make things difficult for each other, but should help and support each other.
Therefore, after reading the sweet but tinged-with-criticism childhood sweetheart literature, she only set her sights on Chi Jingyun. He didn't allow Yu Huan to cross the line, so there was no tragedy.
But Yu Huan was so eager that she didn't bother to clean up and just let it go.
"Guards, slap him!" Fang Ruotang looked down at Yu Huan with an air of superiority, much like a god who looked down on everyone else.
Yu Huan also snapped out of her daze. She was afraid but too proud to beg for mercy, so she looked straight at Fang Ruotang, but she couldn't hide her hatred.
Ye Wuxia had Huan tied up ten times before she was dragged away, and she whispered words of comfort to Fang Ruotang.
"Don't be angry anymore. I can hear the sound of gongs and drums. General Lü's bridal sedan chair should be arriving at the door soon. Shall we go and take a look?"
Fang Ruotang muttered, "Yu Huan is a cunning homewrecker, and she won't let me say anything! Does that mean she's right just because I don't speak up?"
"It's her fault. I'll get revenge for you. Let's go see Prince Shen now. It's the first time a man has ever been carried in a bridal sedan chair! Aren't you curious?"
Ye Wuxia didn't want Fang Ruotang to get sick over other people's affairs; Yu Huan wasn't worth it.
He took her away; he had plenty of ways to break her iron teeth.
"Huh? Will Prince Shen ride in a bridal sedan chair? Will he wear a bridal veil? Come on, let's hurry to the door and take a look." Fang Ruotang's mood came and went like the wind.
Forget about Yu Huan, she grabbed Ye Wuxia and rushed forward, determined to be the first to see what a grand wedding for a male bride looked like.
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