readsfreenovel Chapter 182: The King Wants to Protect His Faults?
Chapter 182: The King Wants to Protect His Faults?
"Mu Lanfeng, what exactly do you want to do?" Mu Baiying deliberately lowered her voice and asked while trying to keep calm.
Mu Lanfeng raised the corner of her mouth, revealing a faint smile, "Big sister, I am not interested in who the biological father of your child is. You are about to become a mother now, you should do more good deeds for the child in your belly! If you do too many bad things, be careful that retribution falls on your child! Your child is a child, but aren’t other people’s children children?"
After hearing this, Mu Baiying's eyes unconsciously dropped, her expression somewhat unnatural, and she replied: "I don't know what you are talking about!"
"What I said should be clear in your mind like a mirror, elder sister! Do you think fourth sister can come up with such a brilliant trick? You really overestimate her." Mu Lanfeng said with disdain.
Mu Baiying's face darkened, and her eyes revealed anger. "What does that idiot Mu Hongliao did have to do with me?"
She raised her voice, a hint of edge to it.
"Mu Lanfeng, please stop making groundless accusations and slandering me! Mu Hongliao has always been reckless and simple-minded, and I have never participated in her unwise actions. I am Princess Cheng, and I have my own life. You can't impose unfounded charges on me based on some groundless speculations."
"Hmph!" Mu Lanfeng snorted coldly, looking at Mu Baiying's evasive eyes, and slowly said: "Big sister, why are you so panicked? Why are you so eager to explain? Do you have something to hide? It really makes me doubt it! Are you guilty and so panicked and eager to excuse yourself?"
Mu Baiying's expression instantly became even uglier. She bit her lip and pretended to be calm and said, "I'm not panicking, and there's no need to explain anything. You have no evidence, and you're questioning me based on your imagination. It's really ridiculous!"
"No evidence?" Mu Lanfeng smiled, slowly took out a bag of white powder, handed it to Mu Baiying, and asked with a questioning look in his eyes, "Excuse me, big sister, do you know what this thing is?"
When Mu Baiying's eyes fell on the bag of white powder, her face turned pale instantly, a trace of panic flashed in her eyes, and she subconsciously took a step back.
She forced herself to remain calm and tried to make her voice sound calm: "What is this? How would I know?"
Mu Lanfeng looked at Mu Baiying and asked, "Big sister, don't you really know what this is? Then why are you so afraid of this thing?"
Mu Baiying’s face became paler and paler, her lips trembled slightly, she was unable to speak for a long time, her eyes wandered around, as if looking for an exit to escape.
After a long time, she finally managed to squeeze out a sentence: "I don't know what you are talking about. I am not afraid of this thing!"
Mu Lanfeng showed a mocking smile, "My eyesight is not very good, did I see it wrong?"
Mu Baiying bit her lower lip and clenched her hands into fists.
"Mu Lanfeng, don't push me too far!" Mu Baiying finally couldn't help but burst out, "Even if I know what this thing is, so what? What does it have to do with you? I am the Princess Cheng, what can you do to me?"
Mu Lanfeng's eyes instantly became as cold as ice. He stared at Mu Baiying closely and said word by word: "Even if the emperor breaks the law, he is punished the same as the common people. You are just a concubine of the king. What are you? Don't think you can do whatever you want with this status!"
Mu Baiying's face turned pale, her body trembled slightly, and her eyes were full of anger.
"Mu Lanfeng, how dare you humiliate me like this! Although I am only a concubine, I am also King Cheng's woman. Aren't you afraid that King Cheng will blame you?" Mu Baiying said with all her might.
Mu Lanfeng sneered, "King Cheng? If King Cheng knew what you did, I'm afraid he wouldn't dare to protect you!"
Mu Baiying gritted her teeth and was silent for a moment. Suddenly, her eyes turned fierce. "Mu Lanfeng, what do you think you can do to me? Even if I did something, King Cheng would protect me. If you dare to spread this matter, I will make sure you will suffer the consequences."
Mu Lanfeng was not afraid at all, and said sternly: "Big sister, since you have married into the Cheng Palace, you should follow your own path, and I will follow my own path. We should not interfere with each other! But you insisted on returning to the Mu Mansion to cause so many troubles, and even attacked a baby who was still in swaddling clothes. What is your intention? That is an innocent little life, and you are about to become a mother. How can you bear to do that?"
Mu Baiying looked at Mu Lanfeng coldly and warned, "Mu Lanfeng, you'd better not meddle in other people's business. I tell you that it is not your turn to point fingers at what this princess wants to do. Even so, so what?"
"Big sister is really arrogant! But I'm afraid I'll disappoint you. I just like to meddle in such trivial matters, haha!" Mu Lanfeng raised the corner of her mouth with a slightly sarcastic smile.
"you……"
"Hmph! I'd like to see who the Fifth Miss is going to disappoint?" King Cheng Li Shanglu appeared quietly at some point.
He walked with the gait of a dragon and a tiger, with an imposing manner, his stern face seemed as if it had been cut by a knife or an axe, and there was an elusive smile in his eyes.
Mu Baiying's face showed obvious surprise and her heart was full of confusion. She had no idea when Li Shanglu came here.
There was a flash of panic in her eyes, and she wondered in her heart whether he had heard the conversation she had just had with Mu Lanfeng!
Li Shanglu walked over slowly. He was wearing a dark sable robe with snow-white fox fur trimmed at the collar and cuffs. Around his waist was a dark red belt embroidered with a dragon pattern and decorated with warm jade.
Seeing Li Shanglu, Mu Baiying's eyes instantly turned red. She trembled slightly and said in a very pitiful tone: "Your Highness, why are you here? I...I feel so wronged."
Her voice was tearful and her eyes were full of resentment and helplessness, as if she had suffered a great injustice and urgently needed King Cheng's protection.
When King Cheng Li Shanglu saw Mu Baiying like this, his heart suddenly tightened.
He was most afraid of her being like this. Her weak and helpless look seemed to be able to break his heart in an instant.
He quickly stepped forward, stretched out his hand and gently supported Mu Baiying, his tone full of pity: "Ying'er, what's wrong? Don't cry, no one can bully you as long as I'm here." His eyes were as gentle as water, staring at Mu Baiying closely.
Mu Baiying leaned into King Cheng's arms and sobbed, "Your Highness, Fifth Sister...she accused me without any reason. I am really wronged."
Her voice trembled and tears rolled down like beads from a broken string.
Li Shanglu gently patted Mu Baiying's back and comforted her: "Ying'er, don't be afraid, I will make the decision for you."
There was a gleam of sharpness in his eyes, and he turned to look at Mu Lanfeng beside him, his eyes full of questioning.
Li Shanglu narrowed his eyes, and there seemed to be frost in his eyes. He looked at Mu Lanfeng coldly, "Fifth Miss, you are really bold. You don't even show courtesy to me when you see me. Could it be that the Fourth Master has spoiled you too much and you have forgotten even the most basic rules?"
Mu Lanfeng's heart couldn't help but tighten slightly, but his face remained as calm as a lake.
She slowly bent her knees, bowed gracefully, and said calmly, "I, Mu Lanfeng, greet His Royal Highness King Cheng!"
"You're quite sensible. Get up!" Li Shanglu really didn't expect Mu Lanfeng to lower his head like this.
There was a hint of surprise in his eyes, and he secretly wondered what the woman was thinking.
He is so arrogant and domineering on weekdays, but at this moment he is so flexible and adaptable, which makes people a little unpredictable!
"Why is Fifth Miss making things so difficult for my beloved concubine? She is your elder sister after all!" Li Shanglu looked cold and majestic, and his words carried an unquestionable momentum.
The moment Mu Lanfeng heard Li Shanglu say the word "elder sister", she almost couldn't help laughing out loud.
Mu Baiying?
What kind of eldest sister is she?
In Mu Lanfeng's heart, Mu Baiying has never fulfilled her responsibilities as an elder sister. Instead, she has been scheming and framing others everywhere. How can such a person deserve the title of "elder sister"?
The corners of Mu Lanfeng's mouth rose slightly, revealing a mocking smile, and his contempt for Mu Baiying increased even more.
"It's all my fault as an elder sister. I failed to teach my younger sister well. I hope Your Highness will not blame my younger sister." Mu Baiying's eyes were red and she spoke in a crying voice. She seemed to be sincerely pleading for Mu Lanfeng, but in fact, she was insincere.
She lowered her head slightly, looking pitiful, as if she had suffered a great injustice, but she forced herself to think about others.
But the calculation that flashed across her eyes betrayed her true intentions.