"Your Highness, what are you doing?"
Chu Yun ran up to King Xiao, pouting with some resentment and complaint, and asked.
Even though Chu Yan is no longer Prince Xiao's wife, why is Prince Xiao still jealous?
As a woman, she could clearly see through Xiao Wang's attitude. A sense of crisis began to creep into her heart. Could it be that Xiao Wang had fallen in love with Chu Yan?
What should she do then?
King Xiao then came to his senses and realized that Chu Yan and the others had already gone far away, with only Chu Yan standing beside him, looking at him with a somewhat resentful expression, her face covered in a pig's head.
"What happened today?"
King Xiao asked impatiently.
Having been married to Chu Yan for so many years, he knew that given Chu Yan's personality, she would not go crazy for no reason; Chu Yun must have done something intolerable again.
He was already keeping a low profile, but Chu Yun was still causing him trouble. For a moment, he felt a growing dislike for Chu Yun.
"Your Highness, it was Chu Yan who hit me. I only said a few words to her, and she beat me up like this. Your Highness, you must do justice for me!"
Chu Yun began to lodge accusations.
Why are you talking to her so nicely?
"Your Highness, you---"
Chu Yun originally thought that Prince Xiao would care about her with concern, but unexpectedly he coldly rebuked her.
"Your Highness, how could you treat me like this? Have you fallen for Chu Yan and regretted it? Didn't you see she's with another man now? She's cheated on you!"
Chu Yun started speaking without thinking.
"Shut your mouth!"
King Xiao was even more annoyed by these words, especially seeing Chu Yun's ugly face.
Even though they had a good relationship in the past, seeing her disfigured face recently, and now seeing her with a face that looks like a pig's head, all those beautiful memories of the past slowly faded away.
What remains deeply etched in his mind now are Chu Yun's ugly appearance.
Chu Yun was stunned by the shout. She looked at Xiao Wang's angry face in disbelief, and even her tears choked back. She never thought that Xiao Wang would scold her because of Chu Yan.
"Guards, go and give this king..."
After pondering for a moment, King Xiao summoned his attendant with a dark look in his eyes.
*
Two days later.
Chu Yan returned to the Chu residence to visit her parents and brother, and she was planning to slowly reveal Che Yi's situation to them.
"Young Miss, why are you back?"
Just as Chu Yan stepped into the Chu family mansion and hadn't gone far, she ran into her childhood wet nurse.
She looked at me with a pale face and a hint of worry on her cheeks.
"What's wrong? Are Father and the others not letting me return to the manor?"
Chu Yan frowned and asked, thinking that her parents were still angry with her.
The wet nurse glanced at her awkwardly and said cautiously, "Miss, haven't you heard the rumors outside? Your sister-in-law is complaining to the master and madam about this. If you go there now, you'll be walking into a trap."
"What rumor? I haven't heard of it."
Chu Yan's heart skipped a beat, a bad feeling creeping over her.
"There are rumors circulating outside that you are unfaithful and that you want to divorce Prince Xiao because you... have another man outside."
The wet nurse said, somewhat reluctantly.
She actually put it nicely; the rumors outside weren't nearly as subtle as she described. People outside directly called their mistress promiscuous, saying she was fickle and promiscuous—the ugliest things they could say.
"They're talking nonsense! No, I have to go and explain to my parents that this isn't how it is!"
Upon hearing this, Chu Yan's face immediately darkened.
She could almost guess that it must have been Xiao Wang who did it.
She had a conflict with Chu Yun just two days ago, and now such rumors are spreading. They want to ruin themselves and the Chu family!
She couldn't let them succeed!
So, Chu Yan took off running towards the hall.
“Mother, you can’t spoil Yan’er just because she’s the only legitimate daughter. Look at her now, everyone’s talking about her like this. How are the other women in my Chu family supposed to find husbands in the future?”
Before Chu Yan even entered the hall, she heard her sister-in-law's accusatory words.
Anger surged within her, and as she strode into the hall, she argued righteously, "Mother, what's being said outside is all false. It's all because Prince Xiao is deliberately seeking revenge and has people slandering my daughter!"
"Yan'er!"
When Chu's mother saw Chu Yan, she called out to her.
When Sister-in-law Chu saw Chu Yan coming over, she immediately vented her anger on her.
She pointed at Chu Yan without any politeness and said, "It's all over the place now. The reason you've been away from home these days is because you've found a man outside and are having a good time with him every day."
You two were caught shopping together by Prince Xiao and his men. Now the reputation of our Chu family is ruined because of you. You've come at the right time; quickly go to Prince Xiao's residence and apologize to him, beg him to speak up for you and clear up the rumors, and quickly put an end to the gossip!"
"Why should I? My divorce from Prince Xiao was because he wronged me first. He was caught in bed with another man by my brother and his family. Have you all forgotten that?"
"King Xiao caught me shopping with another man. By then, I had already divorced him. What's wrong with that? Can't I find a good man and remarry after the divorce?"
Chu Yan retorted to her sister-in-law with a straight face.
Sister-in-law Chu was so angry that her face turned ashen. "Mother, look, she admitted it. It was Prince Xiao who caught her fooling around with another man. She still doesn't know she's wrong. Aren't you going to do anything about her?"
"Alright, stop arguing, Yan'er, tell me what's going on?"
Because of what happened before, Chu's mother doesn't completely trust her sister-in-law anymore.
She yelled at Sister-in-law Chu, then looked at Chu Yan with a serious expression.
Chu Yan finally calmed down and sat down to tell her parents in detail about the conflict that had occurred with Chu Yunxiao that day.
"This Prince Xiao is truly going too far!"
After hearing Chu Yan's words, Chu's father couldn't help but slam his teacup down on the table, splashing tea everywhere, which showed his anger.
"I never imagined that Prince Xiao would be such a treacherous villain. But now the rumors are against us, what should we do?"
Chu's mother also sighed, but she was more worried about how to deal with this rumor.
After all, their family is not of low social standing now, and such bad rumors will definitely have a negative impact on them if they spread.
Especially if this gets back to the Emperor and he mistakenly believes that the Chu family has cheated on the royal family, that would be a serious crime!
"Now......"
Chu Yan irritably rubbed her sleeves. She was angry, but she really didn't know what to do.
"Look at you, you don't know what to do again. No matter what, I think the only thing we can do now is to have Prince Xiao come forward to refute the rumors, since this concerns the two of you."
Seeing Chu Yan at a loss, Sister-in-law Chu secretly felt smug.
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