Chapter 351: Chapter 188: The Next Game (Second Update)
Lord Marquis Gu slammed his palm on the table: “Man and evidence present, what else do you have to say?”
The handwriting was unquestionably that of Lady Ling.
Lady Ling herself was dumbfounded.
For a moment, she doubted if she had lost her memory!
Could it be that she had really written these?
Of course, this adulterous man did not exist. To make the whole story more plausible, the old priest concocted a sorrowful letter of parting between them.
The letter generally said – I’ve had enough of this secret life, I can no longer bear seeing you return to your other man. Farewell, my beloved. Do not come looking for me, I will be in a place where nobody knows, living my remaining life with our memories! These letters are proof of my existence in your world, I hope to leave them with you, take care.
Indeed, even the question of why Lady Ling had the love letters she wrote in her hand was answered.
If it weren’t for Lady Ling’s love letters, it would only be the adulterer’s one-sided account, and Lady Ling could deny them outright.
It was only due to her intimate letters in response that the scandalous tale gained depth and persuasiveness.
Lord Marquis Gu: No wonder the adulterer cannot be found, he must have already left Capital City!
Lord Marquis Gu was fuming. He was not only furious that Lady Ling cuckolded him, but he was also furious that the adulterer’s writing was significantly better than his own!
He just couldn’t come up with such flowery and sentimental phrases!
…He’ll have to take notes, to write to his wife in the future!
Lord Marquis Gu was definitely angered by Lady Ling cheating on him, but that he still found humor shows how unimportant she was to him. This was purely an issue of a man’s pride.
On the contrary, Old Lady Gu, who was by the side, was even more furious.
Lady Ling was truly shameless, the man in her house not good enough? She had to go out and seek pleasure!
Which rogue out there could compare to her son?
She trembled with rage, pointing at Lady Ling’s nose: “I thought you were decent, I treated you like my own child, anything you needed, you had, although you were merely a concubine, you lived more lavishly than the main wife! And this is how you repay Lord Marquis?”
Lady Ling thought, indeed, I lived more lavishly than the main wife, but isn’t it because I took the Sterility Soup? If I also had a son to compete with Gu Changqing’s brothers for the extent of the Marquis Residence, would the old lady still cherish me this much?
She didn’t say these words out loud.
Even if she did, Old Lady Gu would not feel ashamed, but she would think that Lady Ling had no sense of shame, that she was ungrateful. After all, it was she who wanted to join the Marquis Residence, and she voluntarily took the Sterility Medicine. She would insist that nothing was more important than the Marquis Residence and her sister’s child.
Was she just talking nonsense?
In reality, Lady Ling never said these words, but Old Lady Gu only wanted to believe what she chose to understand. She insisted on interpreting Lady Ling’s silence as voluntary acceptance.
When she took the Sterility Medicine, Lady Ling looked at Old Lady Gu with her tear-filled eyes, full of grievances.
She didn’t refuse because she couldn’t refuse, not because she was willing to accept.
However, Old Lady Gu chose to distort it into voluntary acceptance.
Old Lady Gu could tolerate Lady Ling framing the Yao Family, but she could not tolerate Lady Ling betraying her son.
Lady Ling said sadly, “Don’t you know what kind of person I am? How could I do something to hurt the Marquis?”
The evidence was irrefutable, but Old Lady Gu refused to listen!
The disgrace Lady Ling threw on the Yao Family years ago now came back to her tenfold.
Lady Ling’s fingernails dug into her own flesh, “Fine, you say I’m pregnant, let’s see if I can deliver a child in ten months!”
But, did she really have ten months left to prove the authenticity of her pregnancy?
Lord Marquis Gu then opened the second box, which held two account books.
The first was the residence’s account book, clearly not a public account but Lady Ling’s private account.
It recorded Lady Ling embezzling as much as 200,000 taels of silver from the Marquis Residence!
To put it into perspective, Lord Marquis Gu’s annual income was only a few hundred taels, even if he neither ate nor drank, it would take him 500 years to amass this amount of money.
Part of the money was given to her own brothers back home for them to make ends meet.
Compared to the impoverished Yao Family, Lady Ling’s two brothers who were separated from the family were living a lavish life. Lady Ling would casually give them thousands of taels.
It was only then that Old Lady Gu found the Yao Family to be much more reliable than this woman surnamed Ling. At least, the Yao Family would not use the Marquis Residence’s hard-earned money to support their own family.