Chapter 37: Chapter 37 Mu Tingting’s Ruined Reputation (1)
Editor: Henyee Translations
“Young Master Li, considering you are a junior, I won’t quibble with you. But please show some respect. My daughter, Mu Qing’s daughter, of course, has a proper background. If it weren’t for Ting’er’s father saving the old lady all those years ago, she wouldn’t have survived. Besides, Ting’er has a gentle and kind-hearted nature; who in Feng City doesn’t praise her? As for why I don’t like Mu Ruyue, I have my reasons. She has a ruthless temperament and even bullies a kind girl like Ting’er. How could she ever deserve my affection?”
Mu Qing spoke with righteousness and a commanding tone, making Mu Ruyue seem like an utterly unforgivable villain, while Mu Tingting appeared to be a long-suffering, delicate flower.
To match Mu Qing’s words, Mu Tingting pretended to wipe away a few tears, looking all the more pitiable and frail.
Ye Tianfeng suddenly slammed the table, veins bulging on his forehead, nearly rushing down to teach Mu Ruyue and Li Lu a lesson for making Mu Tingting cry, but Tian Yuan stopped him with a glance.
“Feng’er, calm down. Don’t worry, nothing will happen. You are a judge, you can’t act recklessly.”
These words calmed Ye Tianfeng down. He looked anxiously at Mu Tingting, and when his gaze swept over Mu Ruyue, it was filled with hatred and anger.
Even if this woman was no longer a worthless person, she couldn’t compare to Ting’er.
At this moment, no one saw Mu Ruyue secretly take out an emerald green elixir. She used her Qi to dissolve the elixir, turning it into a transparent vapor, and quietly directed it into Mu Tingting’s mouth and nose.
After Mu Qing’s speech, the unknowing crowd really believed his words and began to criticize Mu Ruyue for her vicious heart. They believed that a gentle girl like Mu Tingting should be protected; how could anyone be cruel enough to bully her?
They said someone like Mu Ruyue was not fit to be human, that even beasts were kinder than her.
As the crowd voiced their harsh words, suddenly, Mu Tingting, who had been weeping like a pear blossom bathed in rain, twisted her features in hatred and glared at Mu Ruyue.
“Mu Ruyue, why don’t you just die? In what way am I, Mu Tingting, inferior to you? Just because you’re the legitimate daughter of the Mu Family, you get to be engaged to the Princely Heir? Let me tell you, the Princely Heir is mine; no one can take him from me! Why should a woman share her husband with other women? He belongs to me alone! Hahaha, Mu Ruyue, you should just die already! Trash like you doesn’t deserve to live! Only I, only I am the best!”
“And you, Zhang Yaxin, actually, I intended to kill you during the competition earlier. Who told your sister to covet the Princely Heir as well? I wanted to kill you but had to put on a smiling face instead. Do you know how much that tormented me? Your sister is so stupid, and you’re no better, with your low strength and ugly face. Who would marry someone like you in the future? But I’m the kindest person, how could I really kill you? Look at me, how kind I am! Hahaha!”
Mu Tingting laughed madly, her malicious eyes sweeping across everyone present.
Everyone was stunned. No one had expected the always gentle and kind Mu Tingting to say such things. Could this be her true nature?
“So this is the weak and often persecuted girl the Mu Family Master spoke of, tsk tsk,” Ji Ru Ya shook her head with a smile. “Truly gentle and kind-hearted, so much that she wants the lives of some innocent people. Now I really doubt the Mu Family Master’s words. But there’s truth in the saying, ‘like father, like daughter.’ Maybe she really is an illegitimate daughter of some brothel woman.”