Chapter 222: Yuwen Hanlei
Mo Qianxue wasn’t afraid but didn’t want to ask for troubles. She had believed that in this party, at least in terms of making poems, there wouldn’t be much for her to take part in.
She wasn’t a person who enjoyed making a splash of herself with her wit.
At the Peach-Blossom party held by Princess Yuhe, she had already had enough attention, so she thought at this party, nobody would be so stupid as to compete with her on making poems, which would be mere asking for humiliation.
Even at the last party, the high profile hadn’t been prepared! It was Princess Yuhe who had pushed her to that.
By Princess Yuhe’s repeated setting up of traps, even the most mild-tempered person would have been irritated, let alone her, so things had turned out that way.
To her surprise, there were always one or two people who hated you and picked faults on you for no reason.
“I heard that Mo Qianxue, lady of the Founder Mansion is proficient and talented at all genres of poems and songs. I’m wondering if we’ll have the honor of inviting her to make one?”
Mo Qianxue, having avoided all the others, was having a great chat with Susu, when on a sudden came this fragile female voice. Mo Qianxue was a little surprised, yet her face showing nothing, and turned to look at the speaker.
She heard it clearly. Although the person said in a soft meek voice, the shouting irony and despise in it was discernable as long as she wasn’t a fool.
When she could discern it, of course the others could also.
On this request, everyone at the banquet at once stopped talking and brought their eyes over.
Some looked at Mo Qianxue with inquiring eyes, and others looked at the speaker with curiosity, and still others took up their teacups, ready to enjoy the upcoming drama.
Mo Qianxue looked over and saw a girl standing beside the peony flowers in front of her.
She wore a long brocade dress in a relatively austere style with patterns of branches, in an artistic layout, embroidered with dark brown threads and blooming plum blossoms with pink threads, which expanded from the hem all the way up to the waist, the outline of which was given to distinction by a broad purple belt in a graceful and showy way.
Then she looked up at her face. There were thin and long bangs cut out neatly, narrow brows elaborately painted that made her skin fairer, the charming and slightly slanting eyes against the pinkish skin and the rosy lips.
Mo Qianxue was stunned…
To be frank, she had never seen such an attractive woman before. She was prettier than Susu, than Lan Ruomeng, and even than Jian Qingyou!
However, by further examination, she found notwithstanding her beauty, there lacked a character in the woman.
But who was she? Why was she being hostile only to her?
There were also gasps of exclamation, as though they had just spotted this heavenly beautiful woman.
The woman was instantly more complacent hearing the praises for her beauty!
Even though she still bore those gentle eyes, Mo Qianxue wasn’t blind and certainly saw the conceit and complacency in her eyes.
She shook her head in secrecy. What a waste of Heaven’s blessing for the beautiful face to have such a lame brain!
Then, without stirring, she looked at the woman indifferently and said in a light note, “Sorry, but I’m afraid you’ll not be given the honor!”
Compared with the woman’s pretentious fragility, what Mo Qianxue displayed was elegant dignity.
The woman was gorgeous, but Mo Qianxue wasn’t a paid actor who must do as she commanded.
The woman wasn’t entitled to that!
Her reply threw the whole banquet into a clamor!
The whole Tianqi knew that Mo Qianxue, lady of the Founder Mansion was bold and daring so that she had the pluck to kill, was able to eloquently defend herself in the court, and talented.
If these weren’t amazing enough, then there was her identity as the future madam-to-be of the first super family—the Ning family. For a time, there was glory all over her!
She did have a reason to be arrogant, but they hadn’t expected her to bring it to this extent!
The female guests were gloating. They had already been madly jealous of this gorgeous woman who made her appearance all of a sudden!
At this moment, they only wished that she could start a fight against Mo Qianxue and the latter could tear up the foxy face for justice so that the woman wouldn’t dare to make waves anymore!
Of course, it would be best that Mo Qianxue was at last sentenced to death by the Emperor! That would be a more satisfying ending!
After the destruction of the gorgeous woman and the death of a powerful one, certainly the good would fall to the rest of them!
Some even dreamed that after Mo Qianxue’s death, the position of the madam of the super family would be theirs. What an ecstasy that would be!
While the women thought in this way, the young lords did in another!
Men weren’t as gossipy as women. Mo Qianxue hadn’t held the wedding yet, and they only vaguely heard she had been called Miss. Mo. How was it possible that the men could associate her, dressed in a plain low-keyed style, with the fiancé of Master Ning Shaoqing?
Besides, even though the Emperor had given his consent, the Ning family hadn’t presented an official engagement letter yet, so few men knew it, especially those dandies who didn’t care about political affairs.
Therefore, the lords who had no idea of Mo Qianxue’s identity, spoke, “Miss. Mo, don’t you think you’ve said something outrageously rude?”
Some dandies who were fascinated by the woman’s beauty added, “Right! The lady just invited you to make a poem, something that is very flattering, but how unappreciative you are!”
There were still some clueless men added, “How could such a woman be entitled to be here? It’s a sheer insult to the pure land! Insult!”
The flock of priggish stupid young scholars had long been captured by the woman after seeing her face! Of course now they all followed her lead!
How could they tolerate Mo Qianxue’s unappreciative act of bluntly refusing their goddess?
Therefore, for an instant, the whole party was in an uproar of nothing but the men’s criticism against Mo Qianxue.
Mo Qianxue didn’t care in the least.
She would have long died if she had cared about what everyone said!
Junzhu Susu glanced around and secretly gave Mo Qianxue a thumbs up.
Brave and imposing for not having been moved at all!
Mo Qianxue smiled back at Susu and didn’t say anything.
She always knew the propriety of things, and the reason why she had hurt the woman’s face was only because she was too self-conceited. In this case, Mo Qianxue had no reason to swallow the anger, because now her demeanor not only represented herself but also Ning Shaoqing.
All lay load on the willing horse!
She didn’t aim to climb to the top of the tree or maintain an arrogant bearing, but there were things that must be measured to a proper extent!
Coping with such a woman, she had already treated her with courtesy by only hurting her vanity.
Yuwen Hanlei’s original plan was to make a fool of Mo Qianxue!
According to the news she had obtained, Mo Qianxue was weak in nature. Even if she had done several shocking things after her returning to the capital city, Yuwen Hanlei didn’t take them a bit seriously.
She believed that these monstrous things had just been conducted by the people around her.
And more likely, it was brother Shaoqing who had arranged everything for her from behind.
She just couldn’t be persuaded that an originally weak woman should turn into a totally different person when she showed up again after a period of disappearance from the public sight.
The people here were all supporting her, and this made Yuwen Hanlei more than smug!
Brother Shaoqing must have been bewitched by this whore who was just lucky to run into the chance of saving him so that he had requested in the court to marry her.
She must let the whore have a taste of humiliation and discourage her to quit!
She would let her know that she wasn’t qualified to be the madam of the Ning family.
She would let her know that only she, Yuwen Hanlei, was the woman that suited most to stand shoulder by shoulder with brother Shaoqing!