At some point, a servant carrying a food box stood beside Bai Zheng. Bai Zheng took the food box and opened the lid. A faint fragrance of osmanthus drifted out from it.
Bai Di was startled. This was the famous crystal osmanthus cake from Xingxiang Workshop in Ning City!
Bai Zheng sneered. Even if she didn't care about her reputation at all, she wouldn't allow herself to be slandered for no reason. Fortunately, she had asked that benefactor in advance to buy the osmanthus cake for her, though it had cost her a full three thousand taels...
"I'm sure everyone is familiar with the osmanthus cake from Xingxiang Workshop in Ning City. If Second Sister doesn't remember, it doesn't matter. There are plenty of young ladies from official families in Yongding who like the cakes from Xingxiang Workshop. There must be someone who can testify for me."
Everyone suddenly understood, and the looks in their eyes when they looked at Bai Zheng no longer held the pity from before. Miss Bai San was still an innocent young lady of the boudoir.
"Lord Chu, I'd like to ask you something." Bai Zheng put down the food box and her eyes turned cold. "You said you thought I was captured by villains. Did you come out to look for me?"
Chu Feng was taken aback for a moment and then said, "I naturally sent people to look for you."
Bai Zheng sneered. "Sent people? So Lord Chu didn't come to look for me in person?"
"Why should I go in person? I sent people!"
Bai Zheng laughed instead of getting angry. "Lord Chu, your fiancée was captured by villains, but you didn't seem to be worried at all? If it were any kind - hearted man here, even if he didn't have feelings for his fiancée, he would be eager to go out and look for her instead of just slandering her innocence."
Everyone looked at each other, and the looks in their eyes when they looked at Chu Feng became more and more contemptuous.
Indeed, when Lord Chu came to the Bai Mansion to break off the engagement, he didn't seem to care about Miss Bai's life or death at all. Instead, he kept shouting that Miss Bai had lost her innocence, without feeling the slightest bit of shame.
If it were them, how could they do such a thing?
Seeing everyone's looks, Chu Feng felt guilty and became even more angry. "Isn't it because you're talentless, virtueless, and shameless in the first place! For me to worry about you, you have to be worthy of it!"
"Lord Chu really interprets his own cold - bloodedness and ruthlessness very well."
The words that came out between Bai Zheng's teeth were like the falling snowflakes, cold and piercing.
"Zheng'er, you've suffered grievances. Don't blame Lord Chu... Second Sister knows that when you say these things, it's actually because you can't let go of Lord Chu." Bai Di said as she looked at Chu Feng. "Lord Chu, don't break off the engagement today. I think Zheng'er still has feelings for you..."
Hearing these words, Bai Zheng almost spat out a mouthful of blood. Bai Di was really extremely cunning. A well - founded condemnation became a case of love turning to hatred in her mouth.
Sure enough, there was a layer of contempt in Chu Feng's eyes, and his face was full of disgust when he looked at Bai Zheng. "You've said so much. It's just that you don't want me to break off the engagement. Fine, I won't break it off then."
Bai Zheng looked at the embarrassed look on Chu Feng's face as if he had eaten something disgusting when he said this, and couldn't help bursting into laughter. "Hahaha... Ha... Hahaha..."
Bai Di said with a worried look on her face, "Zheng'er, what's wrong with you? Lord Chu has already promised not to break off the engagement."
"Lord Chu, who on earth gave you this extraordinary confidence?" Bai Zheng finally stopped laughing and looked at Chu Feng.
Extraordinary confidence?
Everyone present looked at each other and then burst into laughter.
Bai Zheng narrowed her eyes. After the laughter of the crowd dissipated in the snow, she said word by word, "You, Chu Feng, break the engagement at will and bully others by relying on your power. As a gentleman, you don't behave yourself and have improper interactions with others. As a husband - to - be, you're heartless and turn your back on others easily."
Everyone was stunned and didn't notice that she had walked up to Bai Di at some point. She snatched the jadeite intertwined - branch hairpin from Bai Di's hand. At the same time, she quickly took out a pink silk handkerchief from her sleeve. On it was a picture of mandarin ducks playing in the water, which the former Bai Zheng had embroidered clumsily but carefully for half a month.
Chu Feng squinted his eyes, and his heart suddenly ached. He subconsciously reached out his hand to stop her. His throat was dry and he wanted to shout out the words "Don't", but in the end, he was still not as fast as Bai Zheng.
Bai Zheng took the hairpin and stabbed the handkerchief hard, making a hole in it. Then she grabbed the torn hole and ripped the handkerchief in two.
"From now on, the relationship between me, Bai Zheng, and you, Chu Feng, is just like this handkerchief!"
The swirling snow slowly covered the handkerchief that was thrown on the ground like a piece of trash. Bai Zheng turned around and stepped on the picture of mandarin ducks playing in the water without any care. She tugged at her fiery - red fur coat and walked slowly into the gate.
Everyone was shocked by her suddenly rising cold and imposing aura, and there was a moment of silence.
Chu Feng stared blankly at the picture of mandarin ducks playing in the water on the ground. He seemed to vaguely see a young girl's face in front of him.
She shyly buried her head and softly called him "Brother Chu Feng".
She excitedly brought him the food she had made with her own hands and begged him to take a bite.
She protected the jadeite intertwined - branch hairpin like her life, and the blushing face when she handed him the silk handkerchief with mandarin ducks on it.
But now, all of these were gone.
The slender and straight back of the young girl was like a wisp of cloud until it disappeared from sight.