Chapter 499: Resting at the Manor
In the dim flickering candlelight and dull air in the room, the man felt like a wind coming from a land of ice and snow. He had a cold look in his eyes and an intimidating aura. He sat there quietly, staring at Liu Anhui with a cold gaze.
"Where did you go?"
Chu Chengli asked again.
Liu Anhui looked at his gloomy eyes, and felt a chill in her heart. She couldn't help but shudder, and forced a gentle smile on the corner of her lips: "I went back to the Liu family, and I didn't expect it to rain so heavily when I came back."
However, as soon as she finished speaking, she saw a cluster of flames suddenly burst out from Chu Chengli's black eyes, which were as cold as a pond. It seemed as if a pair of invisible hands in the air had pinched Liu Anhui's neck, causing her breathing to suddenly stop.
Just when she was feeling uneasy, Chu Chengli stood up and walked towards her.
Snap——
A loud and crisp slap sounded particularly abrupt in the quiet room.
"ah!"
Liu Anhui was caught off guard by the blow and fell to the ground. She felt a burning pain on her cheek and was completely stunned. She looked at Chu Chengli in astonishment and grievance.
"Bitch, isn't this prince good enough to you? You're actually having an affair with a stranger in the middle of the night."
Chu Chengli cursed with gritted teeth.
Hearing this, Liu Anhui ignored the pain on her face and looked at Chu Chengli in shock and anxiety, and explained excitedly: "I didn't do that. Is there anyone who is spreading rumors in front of Your Highness to make Your Highness misunderstand me? The world can witness my love for Your Highness. Your Highness must not listen to others' words."
Who is sowing discord?
Could it be the Second Imperial Concubine?
Bitch!
“Heh.” Chu Chengli sneered, with a raging rage in his eyes: “Misunderstanding, I saw it with my own eyes, how could it be a misunderstanding.”
"What?" Liu Anhui stared at Chu Chengli blankly, forgetting to react for a moment.
Seen it with your own eyes?
Could it be...
Liu Anhui thought of something and her beautiful eyes suddenly widened.
Chu Chengli's face was full of sinisterness, and he spoke word by word: "Heyun Teahouse, Xiao Muheng——"
These few short words, like a thunderbolt, struck Liu Anhui's mind hard, making the blood color on her face fade away, leaving only a pale face. The huge panic almost overwhelmed her, and her dark pupils were full of horror.
How did Your Highness know this?
Heyun Teahouse is just an ordinary teahouse, and most of the people who go there are from poor families. It is absolutely impossible for someone of Your Highness' noble status to set foot there.
Why was he there?
Liu Anhui's mind was in a mess, but she didn't bother to ask these questions at the moment. She suddenly knelt down and crawled a few steps, hugged Chu Chengli's thigh and cried, "Your Highness, things are not as you see. Xiao Muheng and I are innocent and have no relationship. He asked me out just because he had something important to say. Your Highness, you have to believe me."
Chu Chengli kicked Liu Anhui away with a dark face.
"Get out of here and don't dirty my feet."
Liu Anhui felt a huge pain in her chest. She gritted her teeth and endured it. Tears fell like beads from a broken string. She couldn't stop crying: "If your highness doesn't believe me, you can find Xiao Muheng to confront us. We are really innocent. He only came to me..."
Before she could finish her words, she was interrupted by Chu Chengli in a stern voice: "Enough, no matter what the reason is, it is not a reason for you to meet with him privately. My concubine does not need a dirty woman like you."
"Your Highness!"
Liu Anhui listened to his cold and humiliating words and let out a shrill roar.
Chu Chengli was so angry that veins bulged on his forehead. He didn't even look at Liu Anhui and left in a huff.
Liu Anhui sat on the ground with a deathly pale face. There was a heating in the room, but it couldn't warm up the biting cold in her body.
When Zhong Xiang heard the report from the maid, she hurried over and saw the distraught Liu Anhui.
"Master, what's wrong with you?"
When Liu Anhui heard Zhong Xiang's voice, she came back to her senses from her trance, like a drowning person who suddenly saw the only floating wood. She grabbed Zhong Xiang's hand and anxiously ordered: "Quick, go back to the Liu family and ask your father for help."
Zhong Xiang nodded: "I will go right away, but what happened to the master?"
"His Highness saw me meeting Xiao Muheng at Heyun Teahouse today. He mistakenly thought that I had an affair with Xiao Muheng, but he refused to listen to any explanation from me..." Liu Anhui said hurriedly.
Zhong Xiang was shocked when she heard this: "Master, don't worry, I will go back immediately. His Highness is just angry for a moment. He will listen to your explanation when he calms down."
Liu Anhui nodded absentmindedly.
However, as soon as Zhong Xiang left the yard and before she reached the gate, she was caught by the guards who suddenly rushed out. Without giving her any chance to resist, they tied her up, gagged her, and took her away.
As Liu Anhui's trusted maid, Chu Chengli would never spare her life so that she would have the opportunity to spread the news that Liu Anhui was having an affair.
Liu Anhui was waiting for Zhong Xiang to return to the Liu family for help, but unexpectedly, before dawn, several old women broke into the house.
Liu Anhui was sleeping on the bed in a daze because she had been crying all night. Suddenly, she heard the door being kicked open and woke up with a start.
Looking at the aggressive woman in front of her, Liu Anhui said angrily:
"What are you doing?"
The leading maid looked at Liu Anhui expressionlessly: "His Highness ordered that Concubine Liu go to the manor to recuperate due to a sudden illness."
Liu Anhui was shocked: "What nonsense are you talking about?"
The old woman said no more to her. She waved her hand, and the people behind her walked towards Liu Anhui and grabbed her rudely.
Liu Anhui struggled angrily: "Let me go, I want to see His Highness, I am the emperor's canonized concubine, you have no right to touch me, I want to see His Highness..."
"Shut his mouth and take him away," the old woman ordered.
Liu Anhui: "Mmmmm..."
She stared at the old woman in horror, her heart sinking.
No matter how he struggled, he couldn't get any advantage against the burly old woman.
Where is Zhongxiang?
Why hasn't my father come yet?
She suddenly contracted a serious illness today and I'm afraid she will die in a few days.
His Highness didn't even give her a chance to explain.
No, she couldn't be sent away like this.
She and her aunt had been humble and submissive in the mansion for so many years, trying to please her mother and Liu Anyao, just to have a good future. After Liu Anyao's innocence was ruined and her value was gone, her father took a fancy to her and made her the second prince's concubine. She couldn't lose this wealth and glory.
"Mmmmm!"
Liu Anhui struggled violently, but could not escape the clutches of the old women. She could only collapse and let them drag her out of the Second Prince's Mansion, then throw her roughly into the carriage and drive away.
Although it was still dark, servants were already working in the mansion. They saw with their own eyes Liu Anhui being taken away in a miserable state by the old woman. They were horrified and tensed up even more.
I don’t know what mistake Concubine Liu made that made the Second Prince send her away without caring about Prime Minister Liu’s face.
It is said that she is suffering from a serious illness, but every servant knows clearly what is done in the mansion. How could Concubine Liu, who was fine yesterday, be suffering from a serious illness overnight?
It is clearly just an explanation that His Highness is making up for himself.
Otherwise, if the concubine who was included in the royal jade disc was sent away, the imperial envoys would seize on this matter and impeach her to death.
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