Xiao Yunrou has been following Mu Yuying's every move since she appeared. She found that although Mu Yuying hid well, she still discovered her subtle glare at Xiao Yunya.

When did Xiao Yunya and Mu Yuying become enemies? How come she didn't know?

Looking at Mu Yuying's expression, Xiao Yunrou was sure that what happened today must be related to Mu Yuying. She looked at Mu Yuying coldly as she trembled and lowered her head to defend herself.

"I don't know either. I was just watching the show when Miss Xiao's maid came in and said her mistress was not feeling well and wanted me to accompany her."

Xiao Yunya was stunned when he heard this and sneered.

"Miss Mu and I are just casual acquaintances. The second wife of the Duke of Ning's Mansion is my eldest sister's sister-in-law. If I really want to find someone, I should find the second wife who is familiar with the Duke's Mansion. Why would I find Miss Mu who I don't have a personal relationship with? What's more, after I left the garden, I didn't ask anyone to notify Miss Mu. Instead, I asked the nanny beside the second wife to lead the way for me. The nanny can testify to that."

Mu Yuying knew that her words were full of mistakes, but she could only say so. After the banquet, all the ladies and daughters came to the garden to listen to the opera. Everyone was a witness, watching her sitting there, and she had no way to refute it.

"Maybe someone was plotting this. I followed the maid and was knocked unconscious by the pond. I didn't know what happened afterwards. When I woke up, I was like this."

Mu Yuying's eyes were slightly red, and the tears in her eyes stubbornly refused to fall, and just rolled around in her eye sockets. At this moment, her lips were trembling slightly, and it was obvious that she had suffered a great injustice. It was really heartbreaking to see Mu Yuying, who had always been so proud, become like this. Lady Yueguogong felt extremely distressed.

"Madam Ningguo, shouldn't you give my daughter an explanation?"

The look that Lady of the Duke of Yue shot at Lady of the Duke of Ning was as sharp as the flash of swords and was extremely frightening. Lady of the Duke of Ning was a person who had seen many storms and waves, so she sneered indifferently.

"What do you want to be told? I can call all the servants in the Duke's Mansion over so that Miss Mu can recognize them. Madam Yue, rest assured, I will call them all and not keep any of them."

After hearing the contemptuous words from Lady Ning, Mu Yuying and Lady Yue almost bit their lips. Mu Yuying didn't dare to admit it, and Lady Yue didn't dare to admit it either. But her innocent daughter had become like this, and if she left the Ning Mansion like this, her reputation would be ruined.

"Humph, is it possible that when you held a banquet at the Ningguo Mansion, you didn't even have anyone guarding the gate to the backyard, allowing a man from outside to enter and ruin my daughter's innocence?"

Li Jue's face turned even paler when he heard this. Looking at the people's eyes that were watching the show, he knew that if he couldn't resolve the situation today, all his years of hard study would be in vain, and he would never be able to enter the officialdom again in this life.

"It is my fault. I shouldn't have drunk so much at the banquet and offended Miss Mu. If the wife of the Duke of Yue is willing, I am willing to marry Miss Mu."

Li Jue took the responsibility on himself, but his eyes were full of reluctance as he lowered his head. Although Lady Yue looked down on Li Jue, a man without family background, she felt better after hearing these words. Moreover, now that so many people have seen it, Mu Yuying's innocence has been ruined, and no one of equal status will marry her. Although Li Jue has no background, he may have some ability if he passed the imperial examination this year.

"Mother, I don't..." When Mu Yuying saw that Li Jue was going to marry her, her face showed some reluctance and confusion.

"Ying'er..." Lady Yue interrupted Mu Yuying's refusal and said angrily:

"I am sorry for disturbing you at the Ningguo Mansion today. I will take Ying'er back now."

The wife of the Duke of Yue left, but the other ladies, after watching the whole show, had a lot of complicated thoughts in their minds and asked Su and Xiao Yunya about their well-being.

"Second Miss Xiao has always been a role model for the noble ladies in our capital, but Madam Xiao should quickly arrange a marriage for the second miss. With her talent and beauty, she is one of the best anywhere. We must not let that person ruin her."

"We all know that Miss Xiao Er was wrongly accused, but we can't just let such vicious rumors spread. I don't know who is the black-hearted person who slandered her like this. We have to investigate it thoroughly to prevent those unseemly rumors from coming out one day and ruining a good girl's family."

Su nodded. She would definitely investigate it, and she would investigate it thoroughly. She would never let it go if her daughter was slandered. Su and Xiao Yunrou looked at each other, and they knew what was going on. From the performance just now, they already knew who was going to deal with Xiao Yunya.

Xiao Yunrou originally wanted to take action against the Prince's biggest backer, the Duke of Yue's Mansion, but there were still many years before the Prince was deposed. Without the Zhong family in this life, the Prince might not be deposed and would have ascended the throne to become the emperor. But she didn't want things to go as planned. When the Prince came to the Marquis' Mansion with his troops, she committed suicide tragically. She couldn't bear the pain alone!

Xiao Yunrou comforted Xiao Yunya with a cold face, watched Su take Xiao Yunya to the carriage, and then returned to her own carriage.

"Sister-in-law, is Sister Yunya okay?" Ye asked as soon as Xiao Yunrou got on the carriage, and Shen looked at her thoughtfully.

"It's okay, I just feel a little bad after suffering such an unexpected disaster. I will be fine in two days." Xiao Yunrou said with a faint smile.

Shen nodded, and thinking back to the scene just now, she couldn't help but sneer. "A good banquet turned out like this, and my mother-in-law is so angry. Now it's time to check those servants in the backyard."

This statement was agreed by the two sisters-in-law. Without the help of the servants, how could Li Jue enter the backyard? Could he have robbed it? But Li Jue didn't know any martial arts at all, so he could only walk in by himself. Especially Xiao Yunrou discovered that Li Jue treated Xiao Yunya differently, and he must have wanted to plot against Xiao Yunya from the beginning.

Xiao Yunrou leaned on the carriage. Shen and Ye saw Xiao Yunrou frowning and thought she was worried about Xiao Yunya. It was rare that they didn't disturb her. They were a little tired after staying in the Ningguo Mansion for so long. The carriage was quiet and the sound of the wheels of the carriage could be heard clearly. Xiao Yunrou turned the bracelet on her wrist habitually. In order to keep Mu Yuying, the wife of the Duke of Yue would definitely let her marry Li Jue, but Mu Yuying was always arrogant, so how could she be willing to marry Li Jue? Mu Yuying wanted to plot against Xiao Yunya, and she would not tolerate it. She would never let Mu Yuying get married with the pomp of a daughter of the Duke's Mansion.

At the Mansion of Duke Yue, as soon as the wife of Duke Yue and Mu Yuying returned to the yard, Mu Yuying was greeted with a loud slap from her mother.

"Mother!" Mu Yuying was already feeling very aggrieved today, and this slap made her tears fall.

Lady of the Duke of Yue looked at her daughter's pretty face and thought of how those ladies today, although they said nothing on the surface, the contempt and ridicule in their eyes made her even angrier. She hated her daughter for wanting to harm others but ending up destroying herself.

"If you want to harm someone, then don't do it. If you do it, you want her to have no way to escape. But you, not only do you want the person you are dealing with to be safe and sound, but you also get yourself into trouble. You get nothing in return. I'm talking about you! How could I give birth to such a stupid daughter like you!"

The wife of the Duke of Yue looked at Mu Yuying with great hatred. Mu Yuying also knew that she could not hide the truth from her mother, and that the wife of the Duke of Yue would have to deal with the aftermath of the matter.

"My daughter had planned it well at first. She just wanted to go over and see how despicable Xiao Yunya was. But I don't know how it turned out like this."

The wife of the Duke of Yue had a cold expression on her face and her eyes were gloomy.

"No matter what hatred you have with Xiao Yunya, you have to endure it. Go to the family temple to reflect on yourself for a few days, and come out after Li Jue comes to propose marriage."

Mu Yuying didn't want to marry Li Jue at all. With tears in her eyes, she looked up at Lady Yue. "Mother, I don't want to marry him."

Although the wife of the Duke of Yue doted on her daughter, the coldness in her eyes at this moment made Mu Yuying stand there in a daze.

"Not marrying? If you say you won't marry, then don't marry. Why didn't you think clearly about the consequences at the beginning? If you don't marry him, you can only tie your hair and become a nun. Two of the top three candidates in this year's imperial examination are from the Su family. Li Jue is talented, otherwise he wouldn't have been chosen as the fourth. If the man today wasn't Li Jue and was of some use to the Duke's Mansion, you wouldn't have been able to marry him even if you wanted to!"

Mu Yuying was so frightened by the words of the wife of the Duke of Yue that she didn't know how she got back to her room. The wife of the Duke of Yue sighed slightly as she looked at her daughter's trembling back. She was not trying to scare Mu Yuying. Having been married to the Duke of Yue for so many years, she knew very well that in the eyes of the ambitious man, the role of his children was just for marriage, especially that his daughters were almost like chess pieces. She used to love Mu Yuying because she was the legitimate daughter of the Duke's mansion and was more useful than a concubine's daughter. If she was no longer useful, she would be a useless chess piece and could only be cruelly abandoned.

However, Mu Yuying was her biological daughter, and she would not let her daughter live a miserable life in the future, so she had to let her marry him. Even if Li Jue's family background was not good, so what? With the Duke's Mansion, he could only hold her daughter in his arms for the rest of his life, and the Duke's Mansion provided him with convenience, which was a win-win situation.

But, Xiao Yunya! A hint of sternness appeared in the eyes of the wife of the Duke of Yue. She was waiting for Mu Yuying's matter to be settled. She would never let the person who harmed her daughter live freely!

Xiao Yunrou expected the wife of the Duke of Yue to marry Mu Yuying. She just didn't expect the wedding date to be set so quickly. The wedding invitations were sent to her in just two days, and the date was a month later. Xiao Yunrou tapped the wedding invitations on the table from time to time, thinking that the date was set, but how to proceed was another matter.

As for Xiao Yunya, it wasn't that she didn't care whether Mu Yuying and Li Jue got married or not, but she hated the people who plotted against her. So she started to conspire with the people in the dark, which Xiao Yunrou would not know.