"Misunderstanding?" Shen Weiwan immediately answered, and walked out from behind the rockery, holding a clean handkerchief in her hand, "Cousin, how can this be a misunderstanding? Master Li fell to the ground while holding you, and even your clothes were messed up. If this gets out, how can you get married in the future?"
She paused, feigning worry as she looked at Li Xiu. "And Mr. Li, the rumors about you being a homosexual had just died down, but why are you bringing it up with my cousin again? Could it be that... your previous crush on the guard commander was fake, and your love for my cousin is real? But my cousin is a woman after all. Your tastes change so quickly!"
The word "broken sleeve" was like a slap in the face, slapping Li Xiu hard. He had already been criticized for the rumor of "broken sleeve", and now being mentioned in public by Shen Weiwan, he was even more ashamed and angry. He suddenly spit out a mouthful of blood and almost fainted.
"Chen Weiwan! You...you will not die well!" Li Xiu roared and fled from the garden on crutches, crawling and rolling. He looked so miserable, as if he was being chased by a ghost.
Shen Ruorou looked at his back, then at the contemptuous eyes of the people around her. She felt dizzy and her eyes went dark. She actually fainted.
"Cousin!" Shen Weiwan exclaimed, but stood still and said to the servant next to her, "Why don't you help the second young lady back to her room quickly? Don't let her get sunburned here."
Miss Wang was so shocked by the farce in front of her that she couldn't speak. Until Shen Ruorou was carried away, she pulled Shen Weiwan, her eyes full of curiosity: "Sister Weiwan, what is going on? Mr. Li... is he really a gay?"
Shen Weiwan sighed, revealing an "embarrassed" expression: "Miss Wang, I don't know either. I just heard from the servants the other day that Master Li always stared at the guards outside the mansion, and even asked someone to send a handkerchief... As for my cousin..." She deliberately lowered her voice, "Maybe she was deceived by him."
These words, half true and half false, successfully sowed the seeds of doubt in Miss Wang's mind. By the time Miss Wang said goodbye and left, she had already imagined a big drama in her mind: "The scumbag failed to deceive her into marriage, then deceived her cousin, and also had a hidden homosexual habit."
"Miss, your trick of 'killing with a borrowed knife' is truly amazing!" Chun Tao supported Shen Weiwan as they walked back, her shoulders shaking with laughter. "Look at how much blood Li Xiu is gushing out, it's like he's free! The second young lady is even worse off, she fainted from fright!"
Chen Weiwan raised her eyebrows and rubbed off a bit of grass debris on the hem of her skirt with her fingertips: "This is just the beginning. The real 'social death' is to make them not even have the energy to refute." She paused and looked in the direction of the waterside pavilion - the seventh prince Xiao Yu was standing in the corridor, playing with a jade pendant in his hand, his eyes fell on her with a smile.
For some reason, being stared at by those eyes made Shen Weiwan feel a little uneasy. She bowed as a greeting and left quickly.
Xiao Yu looked at her back, his smile widening. The guard beside him whispered, "Your Highness, do you need a subordinate..."
"No need," Xiao Yu interrupted him, his eyes following Shen Weiwan as she disappeared behind the moon-shaped door. "This girl's 'drama' is much more interesting than the palace's acrobatics." He paused, his fingertips stroking the patterns on the jade pendant. "What do you think she will do next?"
The guard remained silent. He really couldn't guess what the general's daughter was thinking - she was obviously a pampered girl, but she chose to use such "evil tricks" to play with the sons of noble families and noble ladies in the palm of her hands, and no one could find any fault with her.
At this moment, Shen Weiwan was sitting in her own courtyard, listening to Chuntao reporting the "new developments" outside.
"Miss, you didn't see it. Li Xiu was caught by the neighbors when he returned home, and they immediately closed the door!" Chuntao said vividly. "And the second young lady, after waking up, she kept crying. Madam Liu beat all the servants in the courtyard, saying they were spreading gossip!"
Chen Weiwan picked up the teacup, took a sip of the slightly cold tea, her eyes cold: "Crying? Beating up the servants? What were you doing before?" She put down the teacup, her fingertips tapping a brisk rhythm on the edge of the table, "Tell the people outside, just say...Mr. Li is pestering my cousin because she looks like his 'favorite guard commander', and that he has been wanting to 'gay with' for a long time, so he is using my cousin as a shield."
"Pfft..." Chuntao almost spit out her tea, "Miss, you're... too mean, aren't you?"
"Humiliating?" Shen Weiwan sneered, "Compared to what they did to me in my past life, this is nothing." She thought of the chaotic beatings in the snow, and her own death filled with hatred. A cold light flashed in her eyes, "Li Xiu, Shen Ruorou, Liu Shi... I will take back everything you owe me, one by one, with interest."
The sunlight shone through the window lattice onto her, but it couldn't dispel the coldness in her eyes. In this life, she not only wanted to survive, but also to make all her enemies feel what it meant to live a life worse than death.
At that moment, in the Li Mansion, Li Zheng was looking in the mirror, his pale face as white as paper, and suddenly smashed the bronze mirror to the ground. In the mirror, the insults of "broken sleeve", "scumbag", and "cripple" seemed to still echo in his ears, and every word was like a needle piercing his heart.
"Chen Weiwan!" He roared, his voice full of resentment, "I will not let you go! Never!"
Unfortunately, before he could finish his harsh words, a servant's panicked cry came from outside the door: "Master! This is bad! Someone is writing about your...your 'glorious deeds' on the wall!"
Li Xiu stumbled to the door and saw a few large, crooked characters in red paint scribbled on the white wall outside his courtyard: "Li Xiu is a homosexual, only loves guards, cheats for money and sex, and is condemned by everyone!"
The onlookers pointed and laughed like a tide. Li Xiu's vision went dark, and he completely fainted.
This time, he really had no face to stay in the capital any longer. And the instigator of all this, Shen Weiwan, was sitting leisurely under the grape trellis, listening to Chuntao reading the latest "street gossip", with a happy smile on her lips.
Social death scene? This is just the beginning.
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