Mo Junyang lowered his eyes, he didn't say that he should sleep on s.h.i.+ Qingxue's bed. He only led her to the bed and said softly, “You shall sleep!”

He didn't mention what he would do at all.

s.h.i.+ Qingxue was speechless. How could she fall asleep in this way?

Mo Junyang was so stubborn that if he really decided on something, s.h.i.+ Qingxue couldn't stop him either. She could only lay in the bed obediently.

She closed her eyes, and after a while, she opened her eyes again. She turned her face towards Mo Junyang and whispered, “Mo Junyang, I'm really fine…”

After a short pause, her voice was lower and hardly audible, “Don't be afraid. I won't die.”

Mo Junyang shuddered, he looked up at s.h.i.+ Qingxue, and met her calm gaze.

This shock was indescribable, and after the shock, Mo Junyang felt unprecedentedly peaceful in mind. He subconsciously raised the corners of his mouth, which made his cold expression gentle.

s.h.i.+ Qingxue also smiled, and exhaustion hit her. So she slowly closed her eyes and fell asleep.

The next day, when s.h.i.+ Qingxue woke up, Mo Junyang was no longer there. Before she went to greet the Empress Dowager, a subordinate came to report that the Empress Dowager temporarily decided to go back to the palace.

Unprecedented high efficiency!

Xia Mang couldn't help but praise, “His Excellency is really capable. He actually persuaded the Empress Dowager so quickly!”

s.h.i.+ Qingxue glanced at Xia Mang and asked in doubt, “How did you know that it was him? Wasn't it possible that Her Majesty wanted to go back?”

“It must be His Excellency!” Xia Mang was so sure, she took what happened yesterday as an example, “Just like yesterday. His Excellency did things neatly and without faults!”

Speaking of this, s.h.i.+ Qingxue was also curious, “How was the man's body dealt with at last yesterday?”

Although she wasn't sure whether Mo Junyang had killed the person at once, she was sure that he definitely didn't see today's sun!

Xia Mang shrugged and said casually, “That kind of rubbish, even if he was minced and fed to a dog, the dog wouldn't eat him. You can rest a.s.sured. His Excellency won't allow that jerk to affect your reputation.”

The fact had proved that one couldn't be so sure about a thing.

s.h.i.+ Qingxue returned to the house of the s.h.i.+ Family and lived peacefully for several days, and even Mo Junyang didn't come to find her. But she didn't know when the rumor was spread in the capital city that the little daughter of Duke s.h.i.+ was l.u.s.t and had done excessive things with a man in the saint place of Buddhism to ruin its peace.

The reason why the rumor was the rumor was that it didn't require any evidence and that it could quickly sweep the entire circle, leaving the victim no chance to refute.

Even if the party had never done anything, there would have always been someone keeping asking about it.

In a straightforward way, or in a devious way. s.h.i.+ Qingxue was so bothered by those questions.

s.h.i.+ Qingxue just sent a group of people, when Dong Hui came and asked anxiously, “Qingxue, what happened to you in the Peace Temple? What are those rumors that are spread outside?”

s.h.i.+ Qingxue was completely annoyed. She sighed helplessly, “Nothing. Those are just nonsenses spread by others. They are not true. Don't believe them!”

Dong Hui still looked anxious, and was more worried, “Are they all fake? How can it be spread like this? Could it be that you didn't notice and did something that misled others and was seen? Or…”

“Mother! What are you talking about?” s.h.i.+ Qingxue opened up her eyes and couldn't believe it was what Dong Hui could say!

Dong Hui knew that she said the wrong words, and looked a little embarra.s.sed. But she still criticized seriously, “Qingxue, I know that you don't care about these since you were young. But the reputation of a woman is so important that you can't ignore it.”

It was hard for s.h.i.+ Qingxue to refute Dong Hui's good will. So she suppressed her dissatisfaction, but her tone still showed that she was unconcerned, “It doesn't matter. If that person really loves me, he definitely won't care about my reputation.”

Seeing that Dong Hui was about to criticize her, she continued to say, “If he doesn't love me for who I am, then the fame of our family will support me, so my reputation won't be that vital.”

Dong Hui's eyes were wide open, and she looked at s.h.i.+ Qingxue in disbelief. Her mouth opened but she couldn't say a single refutation.

Thinking about it, it seemed that s.h.i.+ Qingxue was right. She had the ident.i.ty of the second daughter of Duke s.h.i.+. There were a lot of people who wanted to marry her. s.h.i.+ Qingxue didn't worry about it!

Dong Hui shook her head to forget this inappropriate idea. She looked serious and snorted, “Don't tell me this nonsense. Haven't you thought about it that if the one you love knows about your bad reputation and don't want to marry you, what will you do?”

s.h.i.+ Qingxue smiled a little coldly, and thought that it wouldn't matter if she didn't get that kind of person!

He could abandon her once because of her reputation, then he might abandon her for a second time because of some other trivial matters.

But she couldn't tell Dong Hui straightforwardly, so she had to be roundabout, “Mom, don't you know what kind of person I am? I am clear. I'll be fine if other people hurt my heart and say those bad words about me. But do you even choose not to believe your own daughter but those rumors outside?”

Dong Hui quickly waved her hands and denied, “Of course I don't believe that you have done those ugly things. But…”

“A clean hand wants no was.h.i.+ng. Things I haven't done, no matter how others tell them, can't be true.” s.h.i.+ Qingxue stopped this topic in a tough tone, and wouldn't like to talk about it.

Dong Hui had to shut her mouth in dismay. After thinking for a while, she again whispered, “If you really didn't do those things, we couldn't leave those rumors spread. This is not only…”

“Okay, I know. I will handle it.”

s.h.i.+ Qingxue responded impatiently. She looked away and didn't talk to Dong Hui any more.

It was not that she didn't treasure those good wills, but those matters that she couldn't explain clearly for so many times really annoyed her. Moreover, she was never a patient person.

In the past, if others questioned her about such a fake thing, let alone explain it, she wouldn't say a word to the other party!

Dong Hui sighed and left.

The more s.h.i.+ Qingxue thought about it, the angrier she got.

When the rumors were spread, Qingxue instantly knew who the initiator was.

But Mo Junyang had said that he would deal with it, so s.h.i.+ Qingxue decided not to mind it. She didn't want to care about it! Anyway, Mo Junyang wouldn't make her suffer a loss.

But she didn't expect that this thing would get bigger and bigger, and even Dong Hui started to doubt her. She could imagine what others thought about her.

s.h.i.+ Qingxue indeed didn't care about her reputation, but it didn't mean that she was willing to be arbitrarily slandered.

“Sixth Lady, should I send a letter to His Excellency to make him handle this matter?” Xia Mang saw that s.h.i.+ Qingxue was unhappy and advised in a low voice.

s.h.i.+ Qingxue pouted her mouth and said unwillingly, “This matter is spread all over the city. Do you think that he doesn't know it? Either he has no way to handle this, or he is dealing with it. We don't have to bother him with this kind of thing.”

Xia Mang raised her eyebrows in surprise. She stared at s.h.i.+ Qingxue and didn't speak for a long time.

Perhaps s.h.i.+ Qingxue didn't notice that her words didn't only show her understanding of Mo Junyang, but contained her trust and dependence.

Xia Mang had never seen that s.h.i.+ Qingxue could trust in anyone to such an extent before, not even Mo Junhao.

Although Mo Junyang was strong and powerful, the trust was too strange.

Xia Mang almost thought that an outsider pretended to be her master when she didn't notice. Of course, this was impossible.

s.h.i.+ Qingxue didn't know the strange thoughts in Xia Mang's mind. When she mentioned Mo Junyang, her mood suddenly lightened up, and she couldn't help smiling, “You can rest a.s.sured! Mo Junyang is full of tricks and he is unwilling to suffer losses. He won't sit around and wait for failures. Maybe he has already begun to make plans!”

Xia Mang frowned, reminding her in a small voice, “His Excellency is the n.o.ble eldest son rewarded by the Emperor. How could you call him by his name?”

s.h.i.+ Qingxue paused, she just realized that she said the wrong words. She scratched her head annoyingly and said embarra.s.singly, “I am used to it.”

She didn't know that Mo Junyang was reborn before, so she still pretended to call his respectful appellation. At present, all the secrets were revealed, so she didn't even bother to pretend while mentioning Mo Junyang.

“Sixth Lady, do you like King Rui's eldest son?” Xia Mang suddenly asked.

s.h.i.+ Qingxue was choked by these words, coughing fiercely. She looked at Xia Mang in disbelief and yelled, “Xia Mang, what are you talking about?”

Xia Mang's eyes were bright, and she said frankly, “If you don't like him, how will you allow him to be so close to you?”

s.h.i.+ Qingxue sighed helplessly, “Isn't that what he wants?”

In fact, she planned to keep a long distance with Mo Junyang before. As long as she kept her distance with him, his love would be eroded by time and distance. Besides, she didn't think that Mo Junyang, who had been King Rui's eldest son rewarded, would love her so much, who was just such a little girl.

But Mo Junyang's stubbornness was horrible, not to mention that this stubborn Mo Junyang was still the former one, which meant that his affection for her was not a momentary love, but an obsession acc.u.mulated for a long period.

This made her more difficult!

Xia Mang looked at s.h.i.+ Qingxue, who was in a dilemma, and pointed out, “If you don't like him, how will you allow him to be so close to you?”

In the past, how unsympathetic s.h.i.+ Qingxue was to her admirers, Xia Mang witnessed it all. She wouldn't even give them a chance, so how could she give the other party the opportunity to entangle with her?

s.h.i.+ Qingxue was stunned, staring at Xia Mang in surprise for a moment. Then she suddenly thought how she got along with Mo Junyang these days.

There were too many matters having crossed the boundary!

s.h.i.+ Qingxue's eyes dimmed, and after a long time, she whispered, “I get it.”

Xia Mang didn't know what s.h.i.+ Qingxue was referring to, but Qingxue didn't give her the opportunity to ask. Then she said, “Okay. You send someone to the house of s.h.i.+ Baojin later to check what she is up to lately.”

As for this, Xia Mang knew it before she went there to ask, so she quickly replied, “It is said that Third Lady often goes out recently, and has close contact with the lady in the Family of the Minister of Ministry of Revenue.”

“Huh? The s.h.i.+ Family and the Minister of Ministry of Revenue haven't had much contact with each other. Isn't Third Uncle always in the party of the Fourth Prince? Why does she get connected with the person in the party of the Third Prince?” s.h.i.+ Qingxue frowned. Could it be that s.h.i.+ Baojin became so capable that she could win officials for Mo Junhao?

Xia Mang sneered contemptuously and said concisely, “The second son in the Family of the Minister of Ministry of Revenue is still unmarried.”