It was really... Shen Mingzhu and Xie Lang frowned and subconsciously prepared an excuse to leave. However, they never expected that the next move of Miss Zhou would be even more unexpected.
"Slut!"
Miss Zhou rushed forward and slapped Xie Fangfei hard before she could react.
"Slap ————"
After the hard slap, Xie Fangfei's right cheek immediately swelled up high. She covered her face in disbelief and looked at Miss Zhou. She saw the woman in front of her sneer and say, "There are plenty of women who want to slander my cousin. Now it seems that this Third Miss Xie is one of the most outstanding among them."
"You!"
Rage welled up in Xie Fangfei's eyes, and she wanted to step forward to fight back.
Seeing this, Liu Minmin stepped forward at Shen Mingzhu's signal, firmly grabbed Xie Fangfei and said, "Cousin! Are you okay?"
As she said this, she looked up with tears in her eyes and said, "Miss, you hurt someone without distinguishing right from wrong. Where is your etiquette?"
Liu Minmin was delicate and looked like a gentle and graceful young lady. Now that she looked so pitiful, it seemed even more real.
Miss Zhou was immediately enraged and reached out to slap Liu Minmin.
"Stop."
A cold voice came. Miss Zhou immediately turned around when she heard it. There were also tears in her eyes, and she cried and complained, "Cousin!"
Zhou Chengyu walked over. His face was expressionless, and all his usual gentleness had disappeared, replaced by ice. Looking at Miss Zhou, he said coldly, "What a disgrace!"
"Cousin!" Miss Zhou was immediately dissatisfied, but she forced back the vicious look on her face just now. With tears streaming down her face, she said to Zhou Chengyu, "This woman slandered you and said out of the blue that you had defiled her innocence."
Zhou Chengyu frowned and turned to look at Xie Fangfei.
"How... How is that possible?" Xie Fangfei's face turned deathly pale the moment she saw Zhou Chengyu appear. She slumped softly to the ground. Even Liu Minmin squatted down and looked at her with a worried face.
Why was Zhou Chengyu here? In order to cause less trouble during the final accusation, she had clearly had someone drug Zhou Chengyu more and asked the servant to watch him.
Why was he here! If this was really Zhou Chengyu, then who was the man just now?
Xie Fangfei fell into despair. Her face turned completely white, and her palms were sweating. She gritted her teeth and trembled. She looked up at Zhou Chengyu with hope in her eyes, but the moment she saw the person clearly, she couldn't control herself and her vision went black.
"Cousin! Cousin!" Liu Minmin quickly called out and supported Xie Fangfei. Her face was deathly pale.
Mrs. Liu first breathed a sigh of relief, then said harshly, "What's going on?"
Seeing this, Xie Lang also leaned over to Shen Mingzhu and asked, "What's this all about?"
Shen Mingzhu glanced at him and then continued, "It's naturally a lively show. How could Zhou Chengyu fall for such a trick? The man in the room took Zhou Chengyu's personal jade pendant. He originally intended to return it, but then..."
"Took it?" Xie Lang caught the vague part in Shen Mingzhu's words and immediately laughed. He continued, "Did Zhou Chengyu give it to him, or did he deliberately pick it up by accident?"
【Humph, a scheming old man】
Shen Mingzhu: "..."
Li Xiyu beside them chuckled and asked Shen Mingzhu, "When does Your Highness plan to make an appearance?"
Hearing this, Shen Mingzhu hooked her lips and said, "Soon."
In front of the rockery, Mrs. Liu frowned, and there was a hint of a smile in her eyes.
Although the Xie Mansion rose and fell together, after fighting with Xie Fangfei's concubine for so many years, seeing Xie Fangfei in such great trouble now, she was naturally still happy.
"This..." Mrs. Liu didn't intend to gloss over it. Looking coldly at Xie Fangfei's personal maid, she said, "What's going on?"
The personal maid was already out of breath from these changes. Hearing this, she directly collapsed on the ground and said, "Mad... Madam, that man is now being held in the room by the young lady. That..."
"Bring the man here." Mrs. Liu said to everyone, "I'm sorry. Family scandals should not be made public. Everyone should go back first. The Xie Mansion will..."
Before she could finish, Miss Zhou quickly said coldly, "What? Madam Xie is planning to cover up this matter like this? Then what about this matter of slandering my cousin?"
Mrs. Liu froze. She didn't expect Miss Zhou to be so persistent. So she subconsciously looked at Zhou Chengyu.
"Stop." Zhou Chengyu didn't look at Mrs. Liu. He said to his cousin, "This is just a misunderstanding. There's no need to dwell on it anymore."
"Cousin!"
Miss Zhou stamped her feet anxiously, but she still shut up under Zhou Chengyu's cold gaze. She looked at Mrs. Liu unwillingly, her eyes full of resentment.
Seeing that Mrs. Liu was about to secretly drag her son away, Miss Zhou said coldly, "Then... what is Madam trying to do by secretly dragging that man away?"
Xie Yun was already in extreme discomfort at this moment. There was a cloth covering his face. His head, which was already drowsy from drinking, was now in a complete mess.
Everyone followed the sound and saw Xie Yun, who could no longer control himself, pull the cloth off his face with one hand. He vomited all over the place with a "wow".
"Xie Yun!"
Naturally, someone in the crowd could recognize him.
Mrs. Liu's face suddenly turned pale. She deliberately pretended to be calm and said, "Yun'er is at his uncle's house at the moment. The person in front of us just looks like Yun'er."
"Really?" Catching the panic deliberately shown on Liu Minmin's face, Miss Zhou became even more complacent. She said to Mrs. Liu, "Then why is Madam so panicked? If it's really not Young Master Xie, then just teach him a lesson here. Why are you still being so secretive?"
Mrs. Liu's face became even more gloomy. She glared at Miss Zhou fiercely and said, "There are more important things at the moment. Let's put aside the matter of the servant for now."
Miss Zhou was not willing to give up, but she saw that the ladies around were starting to show displeasure. Anyone with a discerning eye knew what was going on. Presumably, Xie Yun had completely lost face this time, so she gave up the idea of continuing to tear Mrs. Liu's face.
Mrs. Liu hated the person in front of her so much that her teeth itched. So she said to the servant, "Hurry up! Bring that bastard here!"
After a while, a man was carried over. Mrs. Liu took a look, and her face became more and more ugly. Finally, she even bit her lower lip so hard that a cut appeared on her lip.
Liu Minmin also pretended to be surprised, her face full of panic.
Xie Fangfei's face turned completely white. She collapsed on the ground like a puddle of mud, with no hope left in her eyes.
"Who is this?"
"Judging from the looks of these people from the Xie family, they seem to know him?"
"I've never seen him before. Which family does he belong to?"
Listening to these whispers, Mrs. Liu was completely flustered. She subconsciously looked at Xie Fangfei and saw that her eyes were full of hatred.
"This is a family matter. Why don't you all..."
Mrs. Liu forced a smile on her face. She didn't expect that just after resolving her own crisis, a new crisis came the next second.
But Xie Fangfei didn't allow it. She gritted her teeth and said harshly, "Is Mother trying to force me to death?"