NOVGO.NET Chapter 736: 313 Going with the Flow
Chapter 736: Chapter 313 Going with the Flow
The tranquil hill behind was a perfect retreat in the cool autumn breeze.
Lady Wan’s kneeling only added a threefold desolation.
The words she uttered were even more shocking.
If another were in Su Mo’s place, it wouldn’t just be a surprised look on their face, but also utter confusion in their heart.
Lady Wan, as the wife of the Great Hall Master of Wusheng Hall and the sole heiress of the Western Border Marquis Family, surely needed no saving from others.
Yet Su Mo only found it amusing.
Indeed, Lady Wan lived up to her name, taking the stage herself was the grand play indeed.
But no matter what he felt inside, Su Mo’s expression did not diminish by a fraction. He quickly stepped forward to offer help from a distance:
“Lady Wan, please rise quickly, what… what is this?
“Such a grand gesture, I am unworthy to accept.”
It seemed he was also mindful of the propriety between men and women, thus he didn’t lend a hand. There was certainly an anxious look on his face, but he let Lady Wan kneel nevertheless.
Lady Wan seemed not to notice anything amiss but felt that her kneeling had indeed put Su Mo in a difficult spot.
A sense of smug satisfaction flickered in her heart, yet her face showed an even deeper sorrow:
“If Su, the Chief of the Escort, does not save me, my life… may be lost in an instant.”
“Lady, be careful with your words!”
Li Zhongming could not bear to listen any longer and quickly interjected: “You are the wife of our Wusheng Hall’s Great Hall Master, who dares to disrespect you?”
“Who dares?”
Lady Wan’s face showed even more hatred upon hearing this:
“Who else but Wan Yutang?”
“Ah!?”
Li Zhongming’s face turned pale:
“This… this is impossible. You have been married into Wusheng Hall for years, always deeply in love with the Great Hall Master, how could such a fallacious statement arise now?”
“Deeply in love from the beginning…”
Lady Wan’s eyes seemed to flicker with remembrance at these words. After a long pause, she glanced at everyone present, and then let out a soft sigh:
“Today, Hall Master Li sent people to find me in the back garden, claiming that an assassin said the Great Hall Master had ordered to kill Ding Wugong and frame Ren Xiongfei.
“Only because… there is… an affair between Ren Xiongfei and me.
“Ha ha ha…”
She began to laugh out loud, but as she laughed, tears started flowing:
“It’s simply… bullshit!!
“Please allow me to report, Su, since I married into Wusheng Hall, Wan Yutang has ignored me.
“In name, we are husband and wife, yet in the span of a year, we… we haven’t even consummated the marriage.”
“Ah…”
Su Mo was taken aback, feeling that her words could be true.
He had overheard the conversation between Lady Wan and the real Wan Yutang last night, knowing the true Wan Yutang was indifferent to Lady Wan.
Then the impostor Wan Yutang arrived, and was immediately exposed by Lady Wan.
If according to what Lady Wan said today, there was only the name of a marriage between them in the past year, and nothing more.
Such matters, naturally, are not for outsiders to discuss.
The impostor Wan Yutang, not knowing this, upon arrival…
If indeed this was true, then naturally Lady Wan would see through it in a glance.
Almost certainly, the fraudulent Wan Yutang would have been shocked.
Not only did he covet the position of the Great Hall Master of Wusheng Hall but also gained a wife for nothing.
It’s just unfortunate that this lady is not an easy mark.
Otherwise, that night, surely a corpse would have been carried out from the bedroom.
While Su Mo was lost in these thoughts, the surrounding Hall Masters were shocked into disbelief by the news.
The first to speak was Deng Fengbai:
“How… how could this be?
“Lady, in the presence of Lord Su, you must not make unfounded statements!”
“Can a proper lady like myself speak carelessly about such matters? Or do you think… I truly have no shame?”
Lady Wan abruptly lifted her head, her eyes brimming with a mixture of grievance, pain, and anger. She then stood up abruptly from the ground:
“Now that things have come to this, since he accuses me of being involved with Ren Xiongfei, I’m no longer afraid of losing face.
“Fortunately, Lord Su is here today, and I will speak of everything in my heart, all that I know, to ask for his discernment.”
Su Mo immediately nodded:
“Lady, just speak freely. While it is difficult for an honest official to settle domestic disputes, justice lies within people’s hearts.
“If Master Wan truly is at fault, we would surely not tolerate him.”
Li Zhongming felt that Su Mo’s words were somewhat awkward, no matter how he listened.
But at the moment he couldn’t quite place the source of this awkwardness.
“With those words from Lord Su, I am relieved…”
Lady Wan let out a light sigh of relief:
“This matter is a long story, but it needs to start from a long time ago.
“To be honest, when I was younger, I was no ordinary woman.
“My family in the Western Border was quite reputable.
“Hence, while in the boudoir, I once remarked that I wished only to marry the Hall Master of Wusheng Hall.
“This was simply because I truly admired the renown of Wusheng Hall, and its Great Hall Master would certainly be an extraordinary person.
“To marry such a hero would be a life well-spent.
“But little did I know, that wish would eventually bring disaster.
“At that time, the Old Hall Master of Wusheng Hall had just retired, and Wan Yutang, as his son, was the natural successor.
“But because of my words, the Old Hall Master decreed that if he wanted to be the master of Wusheng Hall, he must marry me!
“This incident… I’m sure everyone here knows about it.”
Li Zhongming and the others nodded immediately. This past event might not be familiar to the younger generation, but the present company, all Hall Masters and Vice Hall Masters, had either experienced it or heard of it.