Chapter 2185: Verbal Truth (6)

Chapter 2185: Chapter 2185: Verbal Truth (6)

Chuzheng entered dripping wet, and when Fei Youping saw her, she seemed to have found the source of her unease.

What if someone had conspired with that madman Fei Jiang?

And this person...

"Stop!"

Chuzheng inexplicably fell into an artificial lake on her way back, and she hadn’t even realized what was happening before she was already in the water.

She figured that this was probably the price for using her words of power.

Since it was just having someone send dinner, nothing major, it only resulted in her falling into the water.

If it had been something significant, it probably wouldn’t have been as simple as falling into water.

Chuzheng, thoroughly soaked and uncomfortable, planned to go back to her room to change her clothes. She didn’t intend to deal with Fei Youping, and went directly upstairs, but was stopped by Fei Youping.

Fei Youping took on the posture of the fourth Miss Fei, her tone full of interrogation: "What did Fei Jiang say to you?"

"Why should I tell you?" Chuzheng’s tone was indifferent.

"You..." Fei Youping hadn’t expected Chuzheng to speak to her like this: "This is my house! What kind of attitude is that?"

"Why don’t you just kick me out then?" Chuzheng said fearlessly, "I don’t mind."

"..."

Fei Youping frowned as she sized up the girl in front of her.

The first time she had seen her, she thought she was a timid, indecisive, and inarticulate girl.

And indeed, that’s how she had acted since then.

But now, the feeling this girl gave her was completely different.

That calm and detached coldness, that noble elegance in every movement, was worlds apart from before.

What happened?

Suppressing the doubts in her heart, Fei Youping said, "Aren’t you going to give me an explanation for what happened today?"

"What explanation should I give you?" Who framed me! Have some decency! How dare you ask me for an explanation! "If you want an explanation, shouldn’t you and Fei Jinxue give me one?"

Fei Youping furrowed her brows into a Sichuan character: "Jin Xue wouldn’t possibly do such a thing. This whole thing was your doing, wasn’t it?"

"Ms. Fei, I hope you have evidence to back up what you’re saying, otherwise this is slander, and it’s illegal." Chuzheng calmly reminded Fei Youping.

Fei Youping: "..."

She didn’t have any evidence.

She just found the matter with Fei Jiang to be odd—as if there was some conspiracy between her and Fei Jiang, how else could Fei Jiang have caught Jin Xue’s mistake so perfectly?

Chuzheng’s calm and collected demeanor left Fei Youping at a loss, so all she could do was watch as Chuzheng went upstairs.

-

Chuzheng didn’t see Fei Jinxue the next day; apparently, Fei Youping had sent her overnight to stay with Old Master Fei.

They said it was to accompany Old Master Fei, but in truth, it was just to temporarily avoid Fei Jiang.

Mo Xiangqiu wanted to discipline Chuzheng the next day, but carrying her things, Chuzheng just left the house and didn’t return until evening, leaving Mo Xiangqiu with no opportunity to act.

In the days that followed, Chuzheng left early and returned late, barely crossing paths with Mo Xiangqiu and Fei Youping.

But the two of them noticed something odd about this adopted daughter.

She wasn’t at all like the previous Mo Chuzheng.

The key was that she didn’t try to hide it, she wasn’t afraid of being found out by anyone.

"This adopted daughter of yours used to pretend quite well." Fei Youping now saw Chuzheng as a thorn in her side.

Mo Xiangqiu frowned: "I really don’t know why she suddenly changed like this."

"Seems she truly has attached herself to that lunatic Fei Jiang," Fei Youping sneered.

"...They didn’t know each other before." Mo Xiangqiu found it unlikely.

Who is Fei Jiang?

How could he be associated with an adopted daughter?

Moreover, during these days, although Chuzheng left early and returned late, she hadn’t had any contact with anyone from Fei Jiang’s side. There was no sign of movement from Fei Jiang either—no way could these two be connected.

"Jinxue’s situation itself is strange; if she hadn’t conspired with Fei Jiang, how else could it have happened this way?" Fei Youping was convinced of this conclusion.

Fei Youping continued: "Jinxue said she had already placed the item on her; why else would it have ended up in her room?" This is the evidence.

Mo Xiangqiu wasn’t upset that Fei Jinxue framed his adopted daughter; instead, he frowned and said, "Fei Jiang is very meticulous, but this... "

Was exposed too quickly.

Not like something Fei Jiang would do.

Unable to come to any conclusions, Mo Xiangqiu asked, "Jinxue won’t have any issues staying with the Old Master, right?"

Fei Youping was quite confident on this point: "No, after some time, we’ll bring Jinxue back."

Regarding Old Master, Fei Jiang would temporarily leave him alone, so it’s safe over there.

Even though Fei Jinxue wasn’t staying in the villa, it was inevitable she’d run into Chuzheng at school.

What happened in the Fei family was not known to outsiders, so Fei Jinxue was still the sought-after Miss Fei.

Whereas Chuzheng’s position as an adopted daughter was awkward, and Fei Jinxue didn’t need to do much beyond spreading some rumors through those around her to make things difficult for her at school.

Chuzheng was bound to hear some gossip.

Like now—

Chuzheng sat in a bathroom stall listening to the chattering of some girls outside.

"I heard even her adopted mother doesn’t want her. Just how annoying must she be to be unwanted by her own foster mom, even after all these years without a hint of affection?"

"Since she transferred, she’s been all gloomy, like someone owes her money. Every time I see her, I feel uneasy."

"An adopted kid daring to compare herself to Fei Jinxue, it’s overestimating herself."

"It’s also because her family is wealthy; otherwise, who would want to raise a little Oil Bottle."

"Her family was barely ordinary before; now that she’s part of the Fei family, she’s like Phoenix ascending the branch."

"What Phoenix, a pheasant remains a pheasant; how could she become Phoenix."

"Fei Jinxue hates her a lot, right?"

"Of course, when Fei Jinxue talks about her, she’s never happy. Why don’t we find a way to mess with her?"

Showing goodwill towards Fei Jinxue would be beneficial to them, so they all agreed on the idea.

Just as their discussion reached a fever pitch, Chuzheng pushed the door open forcefully, freezing the conversation in an eerie silence.

Chuzheng calmly approached the sink, observing the girls on the other side through the mirror.

Her eyes were purely black, looking at them with a calmness that caused none of the girls to dare move.

After washing her hands, Chuzheng grabbed some tissues and slowly dried them.

She crumpled the tissue into a ball and threw it lightly into the trash, her voice following it sharply, "Have you decided how to mess with me?"

Her voice was pleasant, like clear mountain spring water, crisp and melodious.

But to these girls, it wasn’t pleasant at all, as if tinged with the chill of first snow.

"..."

Seeing their lack of response, Chuzheng kindly suggested, "Why don’t you continue discussing?"

"..."

It was class time; how could they have known Chuzheng wasn’t in class but lurking in the restroom...

Presumably, she heard everything they had said.

Some girls tried nudging each other, but no one dared to speak.

Facing Chuzheng’s gaze, a baseless fear arose, their minds insisting there was nothing to fear, yet no one dared to open their mouth.