"I... I'm leaving first!" Li Xiu didn't care about the "affectionate" drama anymore. He turned around with his crutch and wanted to slip away. However, in his haste, he twisted his leg and almost fell flat on his face.
"Mr. Li, walk slowly!" Shen Weiwan called out thoughtfully behind him, "Be careful when you walk next time, and don't break your other leg! Otherwise, it will be difficult for you to get married in the future!"
Li Xiu stumbled out of the garden, not even daring to turn his head. In the nearby pavilion, Seventh Prince Xiao Yu paused, holding his daughter's hand, a barely perceptible smile playing on his lips. The old minister across from him continued to lecture on state affairs, unaware that the usually idle prince's gaze had already settled on the legitimate daughter in the garden, who was grinning like a thieving cat.
"Miss, you're really good at making excuses!" Chun Tao saw Li Xiu running away and came up to him, laughing so hard she couldn't stop. "What about the groom brother? What about face blindness that can't recognize a lame man? How did you come up with that?"
Shen Weiwan patted the mud on her hands and raised her eyebrows: “When talking to this kind of person, you have to use the ‘reason’ that he can understand. Look at his furious look, isn’t it more exciting than yesterday?”
She paused, her eyes cold. "But this Li Xiu is also strange. He knows I'm not easy to mess with, but he still comes up to me again and again. Does he really think I'm still the fool who can be manipulated by others?"
Chun Tao thought for a moment. "Could it be... Liu's doing this behind the scenes? She suffered a loss yesterday, so maybe she wants Li Xiu to test your abilities, or even ruin your reputation?"
"That makes sense." Shen Weiwan nodded, picked up a branch from the ground and played with it in her hand, "Liu is the best at using a knife to kill someone. Li Xiu wants to get close to the general's mansion, and she wants to get rid of me, the legitimate daughter. The two of them hit it off immediately."
She suddenly sneered, "What a pity! This 'knife' is a bit blunt. It cut itself and made it bleed before it even hit me."
As she was speaking, Shen Ruorou walked in with two maids. Seeing Shen Weiwan, she pretended to be surprised: "Oh, sister is here? I just saw Master Li running out in a panic, his face was not very good. Did you have any conflict?"
Shen Weiwan raised her eyes and saw the calculation that flashed across Shen Ruoruo's eyes. Her heart was as clear as a mirror. She immediately put on an aggrieved expression and walked in front of Shen Ruoruo: "Cousin, you are finally here! I don't know what happened just now. Mr. Li suddenly came to me and said something like "sincerely". He also insisted on giving me something. If I didn't take it, he would block me and not let me go!"
She felt more and more aggrieved as she spoke, her eyes reddening. "I told him that physical contact between men and women shouldn't happen, but he wouldn't listen. He said he 'knew I was being wronged in the mansion' and asked me to go with him... Cousin, do you think he's mentally ill? I'm scared to death!"
The smile on Shen Ruorou's face froze - this was completely different from what she expected! She thought Shen Weiwan would have a big quarrel with Li Xiu, and she just came over to "mediate" and confirm Shen Weiwan's reputation as a person who didn't know the rules. Unexpectedly, Shen Weiwan turned the tables and made herself the victim!
"Sister, don't be afraid," Shen Ruorou pretended to be calm and patted Shen Weiwan's shoulder, "Mr. Li may be... too worried about you. He also means well."
"Good intentions?" Shen Weiwan raised her head suddenly, her eyes full of "fear", "Cousin, don't speak for him! He just said that he knows you very well and asked me to find you if I have anything! He also said... he also said that the handkerchief you lost last time was with him, and you gave it to him specially!"
"You're talking nonsense!" Shen Ruorou's face suddenly changed, and she subconsciously covered her mouth, "When did I ever give him a handkerchief!"
"Really?" Shen Weiwan blinked, looking "innocent", "But the embroidery on his cuffs is exactly the same as your handkerchief. And he also said that he sent you candied fruit the other day, and asked the maid in my room to send it... Cousin, if you didn't receive it, you have to ask him if he sent it to the wrong person?"
These words were like thunder from a clear sky, making Shen Ruorou dizzy. She had never expected that Shen Weiwan would pin these "false" things on her! Li Xiu gave her a handkerchief? Gave her candied fruit? If this got out, would her reputation be ruined?
"Chen Weiwan! You...you are slandering me!" Shen Ruoruo was so angry that she was shaking all over, and her hands were shaking as she pointed at Shen Weiwan. "Do you dislike me and deliberately make up stories about me and Mr. Li?"
"Arrangement?" Shen Weiwan took a step back, a "hurt" expression on her face, "Cousin, how could I arrange you? I just told you what Mr. Li said. If he didn't say it, you can go and confront him. Why are you angry with me?"
She paused, then suddenly realized, "Oh! Could it be... what Master Li said is true? Cousin, do you really have some... unspeakable secret with him?"
"Shut up!" Shen Ruorou could no longer maintain her gentle appearance and screamed, "Chen Weiwan! Stop slandering me here! I think you are jealous that I am more popular than you, and you are deliberately stirring up trouble here!"
"I'm jealous of you?" Shen Weiwan seemed to have heard a joke, "Cousin, you're joking. Although my brain is not very good, I also know that being pointed at and accused of having an affair with a cripple is not a popular thing."
As soon as she finished speaking, the servants cleaning around her couldn't help but lower their heads, their shoulders shrugging. Shen Ruorou finally realized that her loss of composure had been seen by so many people, and her face flushed red from her ears to her neck.
"You...what are you all looking at!" Shen Ruoruo angrily scolded the servants, but it only brought back more suppressed laughter.
Shen Weiwan looked at her embarrassed appearance and felt very happy. She deliberately sighed, her voice neither loud nor soft: "Cousin, don't be angry. I know you may have been misunderstood by Mr. Li. After all, he is..."
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