Su Mansion, in the study.
“Bang!”
A piece of fine Duan inkstone was smashed hard on the ground, and black ink splashed on the ground, forming a hideous black ink mark.
Some of it splashed onto the hems of the clothes of Su Jingming and Su Muyan, the brother and sister.
Su Muyan was so frightened that she retracted her feet, lowered her head, and dared not say a word.
Su Cheng's face turned pale, "Waste, all waste!"
"You've messed up both chances. How dare you come back?"
Su Jingming hurriedly pulled Su Muyan to her knees, bowed her head and said respectfully: "My son is incompetent, please punish me, father!"
Su Muyan's face turned pale, and she lowered her eyes to look at the dirty ink stains on the hem of her apricot-yellow skirt. Her clenched hands trembled slightly, and her fingers pinched into her palms, but she didn't feel any pain at all.
"Mu Yan." The angry father suddenly slowed down his tone, and Su Muyan's heart and body trembled slightly.
She quickly pressed her fair, smooth forehead against the cold ground and said in a trembling voice, "Father, it's my fault. I'm willing to accept the punishment."
Su Cheng's tone was softer than before, but it still couldn't hide the cold selfishness in his words.
"What happened between you and Zhao Ju? Was it an accident? Or did you already have an affair?"
Su Jingming hurriedly said: "Father, there is another hidden story behind this matter, it is not..."
"Shut up!" Su Cheng took two steps forward, raised his foot and kicked Su Jingming on the shoulder, and shouted, "You have nothing to do here, get out!"
Su Jingming staggered to his feet, his eyes filled with hidden worry and anger, but he also knew that in the Su family, he, the eldest son who grew up away from home, was just a title.
If he made any mistake, his half-brother would take advantage of the situation and add insult to injury.
Suppressing the worry in his heart, Su Jingming forced himself to leave the study step by step.
Mr. Su no longer looked at him, but stared down at Su Muyan: "Speak."
"Yes, it was Zhao Ju..." Su Muyan watched her brother leave the study room from the corner of her eye, not forgetting to close the door, and closed her eyes in despair, "Zhao Ju forced my daughter."
Su Cheng's eyes narrowed, and he asked in a deep voice, "Did Zhao Ju promise you anything?"
Su Muyan didn't understand what her father meant for a moment. Her father had warned her not to associate with Zhao Ju before, so what did he mean by asking this question now?
She replied in a trembling voice: "Zhao Ju promised to marry me."
"Since you have lost your virginity to him, it is only right that you marry him."
Su Cheng's casual words made Su Muyan feel like she was falling into an ice cellar.
She looked up in disbelief, her eyes filled with panic and shock. "Father, I don't want to marry him! He forced me to do it!"
"Force?" Su Cheng sneered, his eyes full of disgust and questioning.
"You failed twice. Was it because of your incompetence or something else? Now you are a broken woman, who else do you want to marry? If Zhao Ju had not been willing to marry you, I would have ordered you to be hanged with a white silk as a token of your chastity!"
Her father's ruthless words were like sharp blades piercing her already festering heart. Although Su Muyan knew that she was only calculating and exploiting her father, she was still a person who could be trusted by others.
But after hearing such derogatory words, I still felt so sad that I cried out loud.
My father was right. She was a fallen woman. She was now filthy and had lost her purity. Who else could she marry except my cousin?
Is it true that he was hanged to death as my father said?
Outside the house, Su Jingming stared deeply at the closed door, his mind filled with countless thoughts.
But in the end, he didn't dare to do anything and could only stand there like a tree stump, motionless.
Until the door of the study opened, Su Muyan, wearing an apricot-yellow long skirt with a large ink stain on the hem and a pale face, walked out of the room.
Su Jingming's eyes were glued to her, never moving away for a moment. He also clearly saw that his sister only glanced at him when she went out, but quickly looked away, as if she didn't see him.
Or perhaps... she just disdained to look at him.
Su Jingming's Adam's apple moved slightly, with countless words stuck in his mouth but he didn't know how to start.
His eyes were fixed on Su Muyan's slender back, and he followed closely behind her.
After leaving Su Cheng's main courtyard, walking through the front yard, we came to the corridor outside Su Muyan's side courtyard.
Su Jingming looked around and didn't see anyone else, so he stepped forward and grabbed Su Muyan, calling out softly, "Muyan."
Su Muyan looked up at him, her voice choked and trembling: "Brother, let's go back to Subei together?"
Su Jingming looked at his sister with tears in her eyes, looking at him aggrieved and helpless, her face full of expectation.
He was startled.
Feelings of guilt suddenly surged into my heart.
Su Muyan continued, her voice as ethereal as a feather floating on the lake: "Just like before, we'll stay in northern Jiangsu. We can go horseback riding, fly kites... we can do whatever we want."
Her voice became softer and softer, like a light feather blown away by the wind.
But the pleading in his eyes became more intense.
Su Jingming's Adam's apple rolled, and he spoke with difficulty: "No, if we leave now, our father will not let us go."
Another rejection. Su Muyan suddenly became excited and raised her voice unconsciously: "Then I'll go by myself! Instead of marrying that scoundrel Zhao Ju, I'd rather go back to northern Jiangsu..."
Su Jingming hurriedly covered her lips.
Watching her jade-white cheeks instantly turn a bright crimson, as if she had been smeared with the most suitable rouge for her.
The touch under his palm was delicate and hot, and Su Jingming's eyes darkened.
He leaned close to her ear and said in a low voice, "You can't leave. Father's spies are everywhere in the mansion. If he finds out that you are going against his will, I'm afraid you will lose even the last bit of your freedom."
Seeing the light in his sister's eyes gradually extinguished, Su Jingming couldn't bear to let go of her hand.
Su Muyan pulled the corner of her lip and smiled sadly: "Brother, you are reluctant to give up the identity of the eldest son of the Su family, right? Back then, you said you would protect me and let me be the happiest girl, but what about now?"
She took two steps back, and her rosy lips uttered words that pierced her heart like a knife.
"Brother, for your status as the eldest son of the Su family, are you going to sacrifice your sister?"
"I..." Su Jingming's lips were tight, and many words were stuck in his throat. He wanted to explain and wanted his sister's forgiveness.
At this time, Lin Qi came running over in a hurry.
"Young Master, the master wants you to go to the front hall to entertain guests." After saying that, he leaned over to Su Jingming and whispered a few words.
Su Jingming's expression suddenly changed, and he hurriedly warned her, "Mu Yan, go back to the yard first and don't go anywhere."
Su Muyan saw his sudden change in expression and felt nervous: "Brother, what happened? Is it related to me?"
Su Jingming did not answer, but only warned in a deep voice: "Be obedient and stay in your own yard."
After saying that, he turned around and left in a hurry.
Su Muyan stared blankly at her brother's back as he left. She felt that since coming to the capital, the relationship between her and her brother had become like this distance, gradually drifting apart.
Did the brother who once loved her and held her in his hands end up ignoring his sister for the sake of power?
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