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Chapter 238
Chapter 238: This is Not Real
Feng Wu blinked. She looked at the girl who was staring back resentfully.
Who was this person? She tilted her head to one side. Master said not to bother with nonsensical people. She should just ignore them.
Feng Wu looked at the girl who was posturing aggressively one more time before turning around and leaving without a word.
“You! Come back here! Give back the magic core!” The girl chased after Feng Wu, and soon both disappeared out of sight.
Ou Meng sighed silently. Peronally, he would have slapped the girl. Stupid people like that, the only way to feel better was to beat some sense into them.
After resting a bit more, Ou Meng slid out of his hiding spot and headed down a different road.
Yi Lin was relieved to have successfully snuck back into her room, however she got a huge scare when her mother opened the door.
“Mom! What are you doing?! You didn’t let the servants notify me you were coming! That really surprised me!” Yi Lin voiced her dissatisfaction.
Jiao dismissed Yi Lin’s personal maid and the other servants in Yi Lin’s quarters. Alone with her daughter she said, “Let’s chat. Where did you go?”
“Where did I go? I walked around outside for a bit of course.” Yi Lin’s gaze drifted away from her mother, not daring to look at the older woman in the eyes.
She wasn’t one to admit defeat, even as a small child. She was afraid of Grandfather Feng and Uncle Feng,[notes]but the one she was most afraid of was her mother.
Everyone thought her mother was willful and savage, a brainless ditz, but the Yi siblings knew better. They knew their mother wasn’t a simple woman. Her reputation was only that way because of Grandfather Feng and Uncle Feng.
“Go out for a while? When did you and Qui Shui become so friendly?” Her mother asked casually.
“What Qui Shiu? Mom I don’t know what you’re talking about.” Yi Lin played stupid. Knowing her mother’s temper, she knew her mother would be unhappy with her.
“You don’t know what I’m talking about?” Her mother chuckled lightly. “Lin’er, I’m your mother. How can I not know what your personality is like? I know you secretly like Qui Bai and that’s why you’re trying to get closer to Qui Shiu. You hope to one day be the madam of the Qui house. Mother knows your intentions.”
There were things Jiao hadn’t intended to talk about, but Yi Lin had already crossed certain lines. She was afraid Qui Shiu would ruin Yi Lin’s future if she didn’t put an end to it.
Hearing her mother expressing her plans so bluntly was too much for Yi Lin. She couldn’t help but deny everything. “Mom, don’t listen to random gossip. How could I ever think that way?!”
“Ha?!” Jiao slapped the table hard. “You don’t think I know all the things you did to get close to Qui Bai? You worked really hard. You even dared move against your own kin."
Yi Lin’s face paled in fright. She didn’t expect her mother to know what she had done.
“Mom! How’d you know this?!”
“Girl, you’ve been restless ever since Feng Wu returned. Then you go off and meet someone mysteriously? I was afraid you’d do something foolish so I sent someone to investigate. It was a good thing I checked. I found out some incredible things. You’re really brave! Dare work with Qui Shui to scheme against your own cousin!”
Jiao slammed her hand against the table again. Her chest heaved up and down in anger.
Yi Lin knew she couldn’t hide it anymore so she confessed. “OK I admit it. I teamed up with Qui Shui[notes] on Daughters’ day and tricked her into eating pearl powder with fulong flower tea. But nothing happened!
I don’t know why it worked out that way! Everyone knows eating pearl powder with fulong tea will give you really strong hallucinations. But nothing happened to her, so our efforts were in vain!”
The plan was to use the festival as a cover to scheme against Feng Wu. Shui was responsible for the snacks while she was responsible for bringing Feng Wu. Everything went as planned. Feng Wu didn’t just nibble on the snacks, she positively pigged out. But despite eating so much, she wasn’t affected at all. josei
They’d planned everything. Feng Wu would embarrass herself in front of the queen and all the other noble children while under the hallucinogenic effects of the powder and tea. It was the best day to do it because of the special guest from the Ancient Silver Moon kingdom.
Yi Lin didn’t like Feng Wu, but she had never thought to kill her. She had done it because Shui promised to invite her to the house if things went well. The invitation would give Yi Lin a chance to connect with Bai.
Everything went as planned, but the expected end result didn’t happen.
Neither Yi Lin nor Shui knew Feng Wu was Xiao Chun’s[notes]master. Xiao Chun was an embodiment of purity, so the effects of the tea and powder were instantly nullified. So no matter how much Feng Wu ate, it was impossible for her to be poisoned, because Xiao Chun would have nullified the effects.
“Did you forget to use your brain? You really believe that Qui Shui girl said? She was only using you to deal with Feng Wu. I swear if Feng Wu had been caught in your schemes, the king and queen would have investigated. And in the end, the person they'd find wouldn't be Qui Shui.”
Jiao hated how this daughter didn’t live up to expectations. She poked Yi Lin on the forehead. She didn’t understand how she gave birth to such a dull-witted child. To actually be used as someone else’s pawn . . .
Yi Lin couldn’t believe it. “No, Shui said she took cared of the evidence. No one would have been able to connect it to us.” It wasn’t just that she couldn’t believe it, but that she didn’t want to believe it. She didn’t want to believe she’d been such an easy to outwit fool.
People were like this. They only believed what they wanted to believe.