Chapter 125 Finally, they stopped pretending?
Chapter 125 Finally, he stopped pretending?
Upon hearing Shen Tang's words, Su Yufu could no longer maintain her smile, and even her eyes turned cold.
Seeing her like this, Shen Tang sneered, "Finally stopped pretending?"
Su Yufu believed that she had no flaws, and that apart from her parents, only the eldest princess knew that she liked her cousin.
She also knew that the Princess had always looked down on Shen Tang and would never tell her that she liked Meng Huaiyan.
How could she have known about something so secretive?
For some reason, a strange feeling suddenly welled up in Su Yufu's heart, as if she had been stripped naked in front of Shen Tang, with nowhere to hide.
This feeling made her feel panicked and somewhat terrified.
Suppressing her surprise, Su Yufu asked, "How did you know about this?"
"Whether I know or not is not important. What's important is that you don't try to take advantage of me." Shen Tang looked at her coldly: "It's your business if you like Meng Huaiyan. I can't interfere with you, and I'm not interested."
"Miss Su is a smart woman, and she should be able to tell that I dislike you. I hope Miss Su will stop pretending to be nice in front of me in the future."
Shen Tang pinched her chin and said coldly, "Your face, your voice, everything about you disgusts me!"
Su Yufu was the youngest daughter in her family. She grew up pampered by her father, brothers, and mother. Born into a prestigious family, she was beautiful, had a good personality, and was impeccable in terms of etiquette, manners, and talent.
Everyone around her flattered and treated her with utmost courtesy; she had never been treated so humiliatingly in her entire life.
Shen Tang is nothing more than a lowly commoner from a small town. I don't know what kind of seductive tricks she used to win over her cousin's heart. Now she is even taking advantage of her cousin's power to climb over her!
Su Yufu was so angry that she trembled all over and couldn't help but slap her hand across Chen Tang's face.
Shen Tang was already on guard against her, and grabbed Su Yufu's wrist in one swift motion, then shoved her back hard.
Su Yufu was pushed hard to the ground by her force. She quickly used her hands to support herself on the ground so that she wouldn't fall to the ground in a disheveled state.
A piercing pain shot through her palm. She looked up and saw several cuts on her palm from the fine sand on the ground, with traces of blood spreading across it, a rather shocking sight.
Her maid exclaimed in surprise and rushed forward to help her up, but she waved her hand away and slowly got up on her own.
Su Yufu's face was gloomy, and her gentle and virtuous demeanor from before was nowhere to be seen.
"Shen Tang, I will remember this humiliation, and I will not let you get away with it!"
Shen Tang curled her lips into a smile, showing no fear of her threat: "Then I'll wait and see if Miss Su will let me off the hook."
Su Yufu gave her a fierce look, then turned and left without hesitation.
Ayun had noticed their commotion long ago. Seeing that Su Yufu had left, she quickly led Manman over, her face full of worry.
"Princess Consort, why provoke her? What if she really retaliates?"
As Shen Tang watched Su Yufu's departing figure, he explained to A Yun.
"I'm waiting for her retaliation. Rather than playing along with her, I'd better break off the mask and take the initiative."
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Since the day she broke off relations with Su Yufu in the garden, Shen Tang had not seen her for the next two weeks.
She was so quiet, as if she no longer existed in the Duke's mansion.
That day, Shen Tang took A Yun out of the mansion, bought some jewelry and cosmetics, and picked out a few toys for Manman. It was noon by then.
Shen Tang didn't want to go back yet, so she took A Yun to a restaurant that was doing well for a meal.
After Shen Tang finished ordering, he was about to pick up a cup of tea from the table when You Lan, who had been hiding in the shadows, suddenly appeared.
"Princess Consort, someone has been following us all the way. This tea must be tested before we can drink it."
Shen Tang's heart tightened suddenly, then a smile appeared on her lips. It seemed that Su Yufu was finally ready to make a move against her.
She placed the teacup on the table, Youlan picked it up and smelled it, then took out a silver needle to examine it. Seeing that there was nothing wrong, she nodded to Shen Tang.
Seeing this, Shen Tang picked up her teacup again and started drinking.
The restaurant served the food quite quickly; it only took a short while for the dishes to arrive.
Youlan took a silver needle and tried it on the nearest dish. The needle didn't react. Youlan then picked up the dish and smelled it carefully before saying to Shen Tang.
"Princess Consort, there's a sleeping potion in the food."
Shen Tang nodded: "You may leave now. You will act according to the situation later."
"yes."
Shen Tang and A Yun exchanged a glance, then used their chopsticks to flip through each dish, pretending they had already eaten, before slumping onto the table with their hands clasped together.
With a gentle flick of Shen Tang's hand, the bowls and chopsticks on the table fell to the ground and shattered with a "bang".
The two men dressed as servants who were guarding outside the door exchanged a silent glance upon hearing the commotion.
One of them knocked gently on the door and whispered to the person inside, "Madam, is something wrong?"
The man waited for a long time without hearing a response from inside the house before pushing open the door. He saw Shen Tang and the other person lying unconscious on the table, and a triumphant smile appeared on his lips.
Without further hesitation, the man quickly took out a sack and rope and tied Shen Tang up tightly before hoisting her onto his shoulder.
Another person pointed at A-Yun: "What should we do with this person?"
"The master said he only wants this person, and doesn't need to worry about the others. Let's go."
"yes."
The two men carried Shen Tang through the window to the backyard, quickly led her to the prepared carriage, and then hurried towards the dilapidated temple in the east of the city.
Su Yufu rushed over as soon as she received the news. When she saw that they had finally arrived, she said anxiously, "Why were you so slow?!"
"Boss, the distance between the west and the east is so far, it will take a lot of time."
The man looked at the person in front of him, who was dressed in a cloak and wrapped up tightly, and said with a fawning smile, "Boss, I've brought you the person you wanted. As for the rest..."
Su Yufu frowned and gave a wink to the maid behind her.
The maid took out a purse from her bosom and handed it to him.
The man opened it, checked its weight, and after confirming that there was no problem, said happily, "Thank you, boss, thank you, boss."
"Get lost."
Yes, yes, yes.
Seeing that the two had walked away, Su Yufu took off the hood of her cloak and looked at Shen Tang, who was lying unconscious on the ground, and let out a series of cold laughs.
The maid scooped up a ladle of water and splashed it hard at Chen Tang. Chen Tang shivered from the cold and slowly opened her eyes. When she saw Su Yufu, she exclaimed in fear.
"It's you? What do you want?!"
Shen Tang's frightened expression greatly pleased Su Yufu, who drew her dagger and slapped Shen Tang's cheek.
"I told you I wouldn't let you go, you haven't forgotten, have you?"
Su Yufu chuckled twice and said gloomily, "It's okay if Sister Chen forgot, I've remembered it for you!"
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