Chapter 9: Reborn After All
Suddenly, everyone's criticism was directed at Chu Yangyang, but she straightened her back, calmed down, and looked calm.
"Father, what are you talking about? I don't know. I didn't do anything."
"Nonsense!" Xiao Renyu, who had been crying, suddenly spoke up, raising his eyes and looking directly at Chu Yangyang.
At this moment, Chu Yangyang saw overwhelming hatred in Xiao Renyu's eyes.
Her heart sank.
Chu Renyu began to recount her experience. "After the afternoon prayers and sacrifices this afternoon, I happened to see the princess and Miaoyun walking along the road. Unexpectedly, Miaoyun dropped something, and I quickly picked it up. It was a long knot. I wanted to catch up with them and return it, but they were walking so fast that I disappeared in the blink of an eye. I went to their bedroom, but was stopped by guards at the door. They said the princess wasn't seeing anyone and wouldn't accept anything."
She continued, "I thought perhaps this prayer knot was something the princess would need to offer her wife that evening. I was afraid it would delay her, so when the time came, I brought it to the main hall. But when I arrived, the princess was nowhere to be seen. Master Huiyuan was there, too, so I assumed the knot was something the princess would need for her sacrifice, so I kindly burned it for her."
At this point, Chu Renyu's voice suddenly trembled, and he choked up and couldn't speak for a moment. "I didn't expect... Master Huiyuan would suddenly pounce on me, violently stripping off my clothes, and even trying to do something to me... I couldn't resist him at all. Woo woo."
At this point, Chu Renyu was already crying.
Chu Yangyang's mind was buzzing.
"It's the princess. All this is the princess's conspiracy!" Chu Renyu stretched out his arm and pointed directly at Chu Yangyang.
"The princess knew I was following her, so she deliberately had Miaoyun throw away the long knot as bait, stayed indoors, and refused to accept anything, all in order to lure me to the main hall that night. Then she had Master Huiyuan do it to me... and then she called all these people to watch me make a fool of myself. Now Master Huiyuan committed suicide out of fear of punishment, and his words are unfounded. How do you want me to live with myself from now on?!"
"It's all your fault, Chu Yangyang! You hate my closeness to Lord Luo, you're jealous of me, and you want to destroy me! And those hypocritical words about wanting to be my sister are all fake."
Xiao Renyu became more and more excited as he spoke, and his eyes were full of murderous intent when he looked at Chu Yangyang.
Now, by some strange coincidence, or according to the powerful plot of the original book, Xiao Renyu was reborn.
The fat monk Huiguang, who had been listening the entire time, immediately stood up and spoke up for the injustice. "My senior brother Huiyuan would never do such a thing. He committed suicide out of guilt, but he was not a lustful person at all. He must have been framed!"
The young monk at the back also stood up and said, "Brother Huiyuan has always been conscientious in his duties, respecting Buddha and loving Taoism. He would never do anything that would bring disgrace to Buddhism."
The other monks nodded in agreement, expressing their firm belief in Master Huiyuan's character.
A distant relative from the Prime Minister's Mansion said, "Who knows if the monks at Guoqing Temple are truly beasts in human form? Now that Master Huiyuan has committed suicide out of fear of punishment, doesn't that explain everything?"
"You must have framed him!" Huiguang was not convinced and wanted to stand up and argue.
But he was stopped by Master Pu Du, "Hui Guang, be careful with your words."
"Master, they..."
Master Pu Du shook his head, signaling him not to panic.
Aunt Jin stood in front and said meaningfully, "Guoqing Temple is the Great Yue State Temple. I believe that the masters of your temple are all of high moral character and compassionate. Perhaps Master Huiyuan was really framed..."
Hearing this, Xiao Renyu pointed his finger at Chu Yangyang again, "It was the princess who harmed us! She planned all this."
Everyone looked at Chu Yangyang. Given her previously ruined reputation, it was indeed possible for her to do such an outrageous and ridiculous thing.
Chu Shiyuan was completely disappointed with her. "Yangyang, kneel down in front of the Buddha."
"I'm not wrong, why should I kneel?"
Chu Yangyang took a deep breath, calmed herself, and said, "Sister Renyu, you found something I threw away. I never asked you to go to the Great Hall, and I never knew Master Huiyuan. How could I have framed you?"
"Furthermore, if you don't follow through on any of the inferences you mentioned, I'll lose control of you. I won't do such a stupid and risky plan."
After hearing this, everyone realized the problem.
Xiao Renyu has always insisted that Chu Yangyang harmed her, but there is no evidence to prove this.
Chu Shiyuan has been brainwashed by the people around him, and coupled with Chu Yangyang's usual mischievous behavior, he has a preconceived notion and also tacitly assumes that all this was done by her.
At this time, Chu Shiyuan regained some of his rationality and asked, "Miss Xiao, what evidence do you have to prove that the princess framed you?"
Xiao Renyu opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say.
She couldn't say that after I was reborn, I knew that Chu Yangyang was an extremely bad person, and that all the suffering she encountered came from Chu Yangyang.
The shame of today was that Xiao Renyu discovered that she could not even prove anything conclusively against her.
Chu Yangyang glanced at Chu Xinyao, the culprit. She looked unwilling, but still had an expression of enjoying the show.
Chu Yangyang thought to herself that Pan Changjie had been burned to ashes long ago, so the evidence was also burned and could not point to Chu Xinyao at all. This was also what she was proud of at the moment.
If this matter were to be exposed and proved to be Chu Xinyao's doing, it would also confirm the Prime Minister's Mansion's serious crime of disrespecting gods and humiliating Buddha.
Later on, this would cause the emperor to dislike the Prime Minister's Office and accelerate its demise.
It’s not okay to reveal the truth, and it’s even worse to admit to something you didn’t do.
Then there is only one way.
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