Chapter 424: Crying is not pretty
Xiang Hualan suppressed the pain in her heart, wiped away the tears on her face, and lowered her voice to ask: "Can you take me out?"
Su Ying glanced at the people below, then looked at the window behind her and nodded.
At this time, the outside of this room was already full of people. After Su Ying brought Xiang Hualan out, she straightened her clothes and said, "Thank you for your help, young lady. Please wait here for a moment, I will be back soon." After that, Xiang Hualan went to the second floor.
Everyone in the teahouse was attracted by the bustle on the second floor.
"What's going on up there? Why are there so many people around? What happened?"
"The eldest daughter of General Changsheng's mansion, Xiang Hualan, was caught having an affair with someone by the Crown Prince."
"The eldest daughter of the Xiang family has always been arrogant and barbaric. I didn't expect her to be so shameless. She is obviously engaged to the eldest prince, but she still did such a thing. I'm afraid this matter can't be resolved peacefully."
Su Ying was listening to what these people were saying, and in the next moment she saw Xiang Hualan walking up the wooden ladder and coming in front of those people.
“What is this doing?”
As soon as Xiang Hualan opened her mouth, everyone looked at her. They were staring at her in shock as if they had seen a ghost.
The people in the room heard the noise outside and came out. They were surprised to see Xiang Hualan standing outside the door safe and sound.
The eldest prince of Jin, Xie Rui, had a dark look in his eyes, and the exquisite woman, Xiang Shule, also had a look of disbelief on her face.
"Why are the eldest prince and my sister here?" Xiang Hualan looked at the two of them, suppressing the pain in her heart. If her hands had not been clenched tightly in her sleeves, with her fingernails pinching her palms red, she would have stepped forward to question her most trusted sister and the man she loved, asking why they wanted to frame her!
"Big sister, you, you were in the room with the Sixth Prince... When did you run out? Don't be afraid, I know you definitely didn't want to do this. The eldest prince is here, you explain it to him and the misunderstanding will be cleared up." It would have been better if Xiang Shule didn't say anything, but as soon as she opened her mouth, she led everyone who were confused into a ditch again.
Xiang Hualan had a sullen face, but her eyes still fell on the eldest prince with a hint of imperceptible hope, "Your Highness, do you also think that Hualan is such a shameless person?"
Something flashed through Xie Rui's eyes, and he looked unhappy. "You know better than me, don't you? You told me that you couldn't come to the teahouse today, but it turns out you've already made an appointment with someone else. Xiang Hualan, I really trusted you wrongly. How can a fickle woman like you be a royal consort?"
During the argument, a slender figure walked out of the house.
His robe was loose, his hair was casually draped over his shoulders, his eyebrows looked lazy and unruly, he glanced at the eldest prince with a smile, "Brother, please don't wrongly accuse me. I don't like Xiang Hualan, the daughter of a vulgar warrior. Tomorrow I will go to the palace to ask my father for permission to cancel the engagement."
"This Sixth Prince is really not worthy of being on the stage. How dare a bastard like him despise the General's Mansion? However, I think he and the eldest daughter of the Xiang family are a perfect match. One is vulgar and the other is dissolute and frivolous. They are really a match made in heaven."
"You want to die? How dare you say that? Be careful that Miss Xiang hears you and cuts off your tongue. Everyone in Duocheng knows that she is cruel. She has beaten countless maids to death."
After hearing this, the man shut up in fear.
Su Ying dragged a chair over and ate some melon seeds out of boredom, calculating when Xiang Hualan would finish.
"Okay." Xiang Hualan said with red eyes, and the eldest prince thought he had heard it wrong.
"What did you say?"
Xiang Hualan said with a tense face, "I agree to cancel the engagement, but it's not you, the eldest prince, who should go. It's me. I will go to the palace tomorrow morning to ask the emperor for permission to cancel the engagement. It's me, Xiang Hualan, who doesn't want you anymore! As for what happened today, it's completely groundless. I don't know why you're so excited that you came here to catch the Sixth Prince having an affair. I don't know when your relationship with the Sixth Prince became so good? So good that you're jealous of him to the point of disregarding the face of the General's Mansion!"
Xiang Shule's face turned pale. She didn't want to have anything to do with an illegitimate child!
"I don't have a sister. My younger sister is with the eldest prince..."
"Having the Sixth Prince is not enough, you also want to seduce the First Prince? But it's not your fault, after all, your father was born to a concubine, how can his daughter be presentable?"
Xiang Shule's face became even uglier. Her identity had always been a pain point in her heart.
The eldest prince's face darkened when he saw his beloved being humiliated. "Xiang Hualan, don't make random accusations. Le'er has a pure heart and is definitely not the kind of person you say he is."
Xiang Hualan sneered, "She knows better than anyone else." After saying that, Xiang Hualan did not give Xiang Shule a chance to speak and turned to look at everyone and said, "Everyone can see clearly that I was slandered just after entering the teahouse. If this matter is brought to the authorities, I would like everyone present to bear witness for me, so as to avoid having my reputation tarnished for nothing."
The woman's reputation is more important than anything else. Just now, Xiang Shule was yelling that he wanted to go in and catch Xiang Hualan raping her, but she was not even in the house. Of course, the dirty water could not be poured on Xiang Hualan.
After Xiang Hualan finished speaking, she turned around and walked down from the second floor. When she passed by Su Ying, she nodded slightly, and Su Ying threw away the melon seed shells and followed her out of the teahouse.
"Miss, are you okay?"
As soon as she arrived outside the teahouse, a young maid in green clothes came over anxiously. Xiang Hualan raised her hand and slapped her in the face, "You slut, you dared to team up with outsiders to frame me. Drag her back and I will deal with her personally later."
The guards waiting by the car stepped forward without saying a word, covered the maid's mouth and dragged her away. The maid didn't even have time to wail.
Xiang Hualan stepped onto the low stool and climbed onto the carriage. She turned around and held out her hand to Su Ying, "Come on board, young lady."
Su Ying didn't hold her hand, but stepped directly on the low stool and got into the car.
Xiang Hualan withdrew her hand somewhat awkwardly. The moment the curtain fell, her straight back instantly bent down and she completely lost her previous domineering aura. She shrank into the carriage like a wounded little wild cat.
"I'm sorry to make a fool of myself, young lady. My father died in the battlefield when I was three years old. The emperor, grateful for my father's loyalty, posthumously conferred the title of General Ever-Victorious on him and arranged a marriage between me and the eldest prince. When I was five years old, my mother passed away because she missed me too much. I was the only one left in the mansion." Xiang Hualan spoke softly, her voice a little hoarse. It seemed as if she was talking to Su Ying, or mumbling to herself.
"My step-grandmother and my uncle's family treated me very well. I always regarded them as my own family. However, I never expected that one day my sister would bring my fiancé to catch me having an affair. I lost consciousness after drinking the tea handed to me by Xiang Shule... It was her who teamed up with my fiancé to harm me!"
Xiang Hualan raised her head suddenly, her face full of tears.
Su Ying felt that she didn't look good when she was crying.
(End of this chapter)
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