Chapter 289 You Don’t Have Any Evidence, but I Do
“Childe Wang’s jade pendant?” With her face changing, a Miss involuntarily exclaimed.
Everyone else was stunned, looking at Qin Wanru with astonishment followed by sarcasm in their eyes. Qin Wanru had grown into a teenage girl with such a brilliant appearance, which had aroused others’ jealousy. At this moment, they undisguisedly showed their contempt!
“Miss Wang, are you sure this is your brother’s jade pendant?” Under the gaze of everyone, Qin Wanru leisurely wiped her palm with a handkerchief, as if to wipe the stain from her white and tender hand!
“My, my brother is Wang Shengxue. There, there is a character ‘Xue’ in his name!” Wang Yishu stuttered, but still nerved herself to say.
“So I don’t understand why do you show me your brother’s jade pendant and then say that it belongs to me. Do I know your brother?” Qin Wanru smiled slightly and said calmly.
This jade was smashed by Qin Wanru. She intended to catch Wang Yishu off guard by doing that. No matter what Wang Yishu had planned to do, smashing the jade pendant was definitely not part of it.
“I, I don’t know, but this jade pendant really belongs to my brother. Many people in my aunt’s mansion know that. We can ask my aunt Madam of Duke Xing to identify it!” Wang Yishu bit her lip and seemed to be forced to say that.
Ask Madam of Duke Xing to identify it. Since Wang Yishu could say that, she was naturally confident. Those, who still had some doubts about it, also looked towards Qin Wanru at this moment.
Since Wang Yishu really suggested they could ask someone as noble as Madam of Duke Xing to identify it, her words must be true!
Was there something behind the smashed jade pendant? Many Young Madams secretly guessed. Could it be possible that Wang Yishu asked to have a look at this jade pendant after noticing it might belong to her brother, but Qin Wanru was flustered and accidentally dropped and smashed it?
At the thought of this, they considered it seemingly made sense.
They looked at Qin Wanru with even more sarcasm in their eyes!
“Miss Wang, we meet each other for the first time today, right? I’m wondering what I did has offended you so that you frame me up with your brother’s jade pendant?” Qin Wanru seemingly did not sense Wang Yishu’s brutal tone and said with indifferent eyes. Without the slightest panic, she actually looked increasingly calm.
“I, I meet you for the first time today indeed. I don’t know you know my brother!” Wang Yishu said with fear, seemingly too frightened to come to her senses.
“Miss Wang, do you insist this jade pendant belongs to me?” Qin Wanru asked lightly.
“It, it was originally brought out by you. I think it looks like my brother’s jade pendant…” Wang Yishu replied very quickly. Neither of them mentioned Qi Rongzhi at this time. Qi Rongzhi was just an excuse for giving the jade pendant to Qin Wanru. Although it was not a perfect deployment, Wang Yishu considered she had taken control of the situation.
She looked terrified with a trace of complacency across her eyes.
She said to Qin Wanru in a very low voice, so at most the two maids around them could hear their conversation. However, Qin Wanru’s maid obviously couldn’t testify for Qin Wanru.
“You think it looks like your brother’s jade pendant. Maybe it is?” Qin Wanru looked at Wang Yishu with a faint smile.
Qin Wanru had to take the jade pendant since it was given to Qi Rongzhi. After that, Wi Yishu could make others discover Qin Wanru had the jade pendant in somewhere else, and then stand out to claim it belonged to Wang Shengxue and even make someone else, who knew about this, say that. In this way, there would be sufficient evidence.
At the moment, Qin Wanru smashed the jade pendant before the follow-ups were deployed. Only Wang Yishu insisted the jade pendant belonged to Qin Wanru.
Looking back and forth with her rippling watery eyes, Qin Wanru had figured out Wang Yishu’s plan. Madam of Duke Xing was worried about her survival and set another trap.
Madam of Duke Xing intended to kill her. After failing to do that, she intended to damage her reputation. If she had such an accident in the palace, even with her father as the backing, she could at most be a co-wife or even a concubine of Childe Wang this time.
Others would consider she played some trick to be engaged to Childe Wang. When Ning Xueqing appeared, she would become a vicious and mean lady who separated a couple of lovers, and then her engagement with Childe Wang would be broken off…
Her life would probably be ruined from here.
How vicious was Madam of Duke Xing to ruin all she got step by step, trample on all she got step by step and finally nail her to the stained land!
“It originally belongs to my brother!” Wang Yishu was startled by Qin Wanru’s smile, but she soon came to her senses, cursed herself for her weakness and hurriedly shouted.
“I say you brought the jade pendant here to frame me up. You say this jade pendant was dropped from my hand. I’m wondering what evidence you have?” Qin Wanru squinted at Wang Yishu and said.
Her question made Wang Yishu stutter slightly. But Wang Yishu immediately asked her back loudly, “Second Miss Qin, you say this jade pendant is brought by me. Do you have any evidence?”
Although she could not prove this jade pendant was dropped from Qin Wanru, Qin Wanru also had no evidence to prove she gave this jade pendant to her.
It happened all of a sudden. Unexpectedly Qin Wanru suddenly dropped and smashed the jade pendant into pieces. Otherwise, she could make someone bump into Qin Wanru and make everyone see the jade pendant was dropped from Qin Wanru. In this way, Qin Wanru wouldn’t be able to clarify the fact even if she had ten thousand mouths!
Her aunt said Qin Wanru was from a quite wealthy family. If Qin Wanru married her brother, it would certainly be helpful to her family business and her brother’s official career. This was also the most important reason for Wang Yishu to do this.
The Wang family was neither powerful nor influential. Although they relied on Duke Xing’s Mansion, they didn’t have their own power. Many aristocratic families in the capital knew about the Wang family’s background, which made it difficult for Wang Yishu to find a good match. Those whom she liked looked down upon her, while she looked down on those who liked her. She couldn’t reach the high or accept the low, so she hadn’t found a suitable match.
Her aunt had analyzed it for her. If her brother married Qin Wanru, her brother would certainly rise with the support of the Qin’s Mansion and the background of Duke Yong’s Mansion. The rise of her brother would naturally promote the entire Wang family and her status. At that time, she could marry anyone she liked.
Now the Qin’s Mansion could be considered the family of a newly appointed official with real power. Besides, the First Miss Qin was going to marry into a decent mansion despite her bad reputation. Wang Yishu considered it negligible.
With this thought, she insisted the jade pendant belonged to Qin Wanru.
Qin Wanru was exactly waiting for these words from her. She glanced at Wang Yishu and said, “Miss Wang, I have evidence!”
In the moment, not only Wang Yishu was shocked, but everyone around them was dumbfounded. Qin Wanru actually had the evidence. Looking at Qin Wanru’s calm face and then at Wang Yishu’s panic-stricken eyes, all of them were confused.
“Nonsense. How can you have the evidence?” Wang Yishu shouted.
“I do have the evidence. I just want to ask why you intend to frame me up. We meet each other for the first time today. When Madam of Duke Xing sent someone to our mansion last time, she asked me to take care of you in the palace. Why do you intend to frame me up at our first meeting?”
Qin Wanru looked at Wang Yishu and asked with burning eyes.
It was almost impossible for a Miss to frame someone else up at their first meeting. A Miss living in the back yard was naturally able to frame someone up. Even if she hadn’t experienced it, she must have seen it. However, with no grievances between them, it was impossible for her to frame Qin Wanru up. Moreover, they were in the palace where a mistake could lead to the everlasting perdition.
No one would do this kind of thing that was harmful to both of them!
Thinking over what Qin Wanru meant, everyone suddenly thought of Madam of Duke Xing. Could it be possible that there were some grievances between Madam of Duke Xing and the Qin’s Mansion? Otherwise, Wang Yishu wouldn’t frame anyone up for no reason.
“I don’t know what you mean by saying that. I really didn’t frame you up. This jade was held in your hand. I just saw it and asked about it, but you immediately smashed the jade pendant. If it weren’t for the character on it, I still didn’t recognize this jade pendant belongs to my brother!”
Looking at Qin Wanru’s calm eyes, Wang Yishu was a little flustered. She slightly shifted her gaze to dodge Qin Wanru’s burning eyes, and pretended to smile calmly.
“If I can prove this jade pendant belongs to you, can you tell the fact of framing me up?” Qin Wanru asked and raised her small face with a smile, leaving no time for Wang Yishu.
She had always been gorgeous. Although she was still young, the grace and charm in her soul made others unable to ignore her.
At this moment, she gracefully glared at Wang Yishu, who was a few years older than her. She, who was cool and prudent, looked more convincing than Wang Yishu, who was dodging her eyes. Her impressive demeanor of a Miss from an aristocratic family made everyone consider the Second Miss Qin more convincing.
“Could she be framed up intentionally?” Seeing the situation, someone started to whisper.
“It… looks like that!” Someone else echoed.
“Why does Wang Yishu intend to frame up the Miss from the Qin’s Mansion? They had nothing to do with each other, right?” Another person doubted about it.
“Probably because of Duke Xing’s Mansion…” The Miss stopped here. The Young Madams who had answered and asked were shocked. They hurriedly covered their mouths with a handkerchief and stopped talking.
No one could talk about Duke Xing’s Mansion casually. However, speaking of this, they naturally figured out the answer was Madam of Duke Xing. Even though no one dared to go any further, they were wondering whether the Second Miss Qin had done something offensive to Madam of Duke Xing so that she was framed up today.
Everyone unconsciously believed in Qin Wanru’s words. Even though she had not yet presented the evidence, her calm look and unperturbed tone had been recognized by everyone!
“Second Miss Qin, show me the evidence, otherwise I will accuse you of framing me up!” On hearing the discussion among the people around her, Wang Yishu was really panic-stricken and bluffed loudly.
Qin Wanru knelt down, picked up a fragment of the jade pendant, swayed it in front of everyone and raised her red lips. “Here is the evidence!”