Chapter 146: Let’s Not Pretend To Be Innocent, Alright?

The servants instantly pounced over. They grabbed Qiao Xi’s wrist and left red marks on it.

Seeing that Qiao Xi was being subdued, Madam Gu could not help but be delighted. “Drag her to Shen Ying’s room for me and get her to apologize!”

Even though she was overwhelmed, Qiao Xi’s body remained straight. She glanced indifferently at Madam Gu. When no one noticed, a silver needle as thin as a strand of hair gently penetrated Madam Gu’s wrist.

Madam Gu felt that her wrist was a little itchy, but she did not mind it too much. She glanced at the people in the room smugly. “Whoever dares to tell Gu Zheng what happened today will die.”

Qiao Xi sneered and was escorted to Shen Ying’s room by a servant.

It was really a bargain for her to be able to use the concealed weapon her teacher had given her for the first time.

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In Shen Ying’s room.

When Madam Wang saw Qiao Xi arrive, she sneered. “And here I was thinking how stubborn you were. Didn’t you still obediently come over to apologize in the end?”

Qiao Xi smiled as she looked at her and nodded. “Yes, I’m here.”

How could she drug them if she did not come?

Madam Wang felt that something was wrong. She touched her wrist and it seemed to hurt a little. She suspected that Qiao Xi was up to something, but seeing that Qiao Xi was a meter away from her, she felt that she was being paranoid.

Shen Ying heard the commotion outside and asked weakly, “Aunt, what’s going on?”

Madam Wang smiled proudly and said, “Qiao Xi has come to apologize to you.”

“Huh?” Shen Ying was surprised. “Why is Miss Qiao here? Didn’t I say that she doesn’t need to apologize?”

Qiao Xi: “…”

‘Gu Zheng isn’t here, so let’s not pretend to be innocent, alright?’

Madam Wang pushed Qiao Xi to Shen Ying and told Shen Ying to do as she pleased before leaving the room.

Shen Ying changed her gentle demeanor. “Miss Qiao, I really didn’t expect you to come and apologize to me. I thought that because you have someone backing you, you wouldn’t lower your head to anyone.”

Qiao Xi leaned leisurely on the chair. “What? You’re not going to pretend to be innocent anymore?”

Shen Ying’s eyes were filled with unwillingness. “Look at your behavior! You don’t even have a proper demeanor. No wonder you grew up in the countryside. You don’t have any manners at all. Brother Gu Zheng’s wife has to be an elegant eldest daughter of an aristocratic family like me. How is a boorish woman like you worthy of standing beside him?!”

She had long investigated Qiao Xi and knew everything about her. “Look, you’re clearly the Qiao family’s eldest daughter, yet you’re not acknowledged by your family. It doesn’t matter if your reputation is good or bad at all. What right does a woman who was abandoned by her family have to snatch Brother Gu Zheng from me?!”

Qiao Xi looked at her for a while.

It had to be said that although Shen Ying was beautiful, jealousy made her look completely different. What kind of magic did Gu Zheng have that made these women go crazy and vicious for him?

Shen Ying gritted her teeth. “Qiao Xi, I’m talking to you. Can’t you hear me?!”

Qiao Xi said indifferently, “Miss Shen, do you know what your current actions represent?”

Shen Ying frowned. “What are you trying to say?”

“From a moral standpoint, you’re the third party who is interfering in someone else’s marriage. I don’t know what Madam Gu told you, nor do I know why Madam Gu is so enthusiastic about sending women to Gu Zheng’s side. First, it was Meng Wan, then it was you… I’m guessing that it’s because Madam Gu is also a mistress, so she likes to find mistresses for her son?”

Shen Ying was so angry that her entire body was trembling. “Qiao Xi! Madam Gu is doing this for my own good! Moreover, so what if the two of you are married? I have the right to pursue true love. If Brother Gu Zheng abandons you and gets together with me, it’s because I have the ability. On that same note, you would be abandoned because you had no ability to keep a man!”

Qiao Xi smiled. Her ears were itchy from listening to these words. It was true that all the mistresses in the world liked to use true love to justify their actions, but could true love exempt everything?

“Qiao Xi, what do you have to compete with me? I’m the only heir of the Shen family. If Brother Gu Zheng marries me, it’s equivalent to marrying the entire Shen family, but what about you? You’re just a country bumpkin. If Brother Gu Zheng is with you, what else can he get besides being mocked by the outside world?”

Shen Ying’s words caused Qiao Xi to completely lose the mood to talk to her. She could not speak to such an unreasonable person.

Her fingers moved slightly, and the silver needle pierced into Shen Ying’s body in an invisible area. Qiao Xi put away the silver needles and intended to leave. The reason she came here was to take revenge. These people were all treating her as a pushover… She was really unhappy about that.

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