Time Travel: Brothel Maid

Chapter 194 Argument

Seeing that the Eighth Prince looked as if he was going to "try a case" here, Wu Zinian very perceptively ordered someone to bring in a throne.

After Zhao Yunrong sat down, Wu Qingqing immediately knelt down below.

But after the girl knelt on the ground, she only said hesitantly, "Greetings, Your Highness," and then said nothing more. She still covered her face with her sleeves and cried, looking extremely aggrieved.

But no words can compare to this silence, which makes people feel more heartbroken and more believable.

Tang Jingchen gnashed his teeth in hatred when he saw this. His chest ached. He whispered to the person beside him, "Wait for me."

Then he walked to Zhao Yunrong and knelt down, neither servile nor arrogant, and bowed, "Your Majesty."

Zhao Yunrong nodded and said calmly, "What exactly happened? You two should tell us the story one by one."

Wu Qingqing stopped crying after hearing this, but she still looked ashamed. Her pitiful eyes were filled with tears. She said in a trembling voice, "Your Majesty, please understand. I am too ashamed to see anyone again. I am too ashamed to say anything else. I have violated my chastity and done such a shameful thing. I am willing to die. Please grant my wish, Your Majesty!"

After saying this, he leaned forward and bowed deeply. His long black hair fell to the ground as his head moved, making him look even weaker and more pitiful.

Tang Jingchen looked coldly at Wu Qingqing's hypocritical behavior. His hands hanging by his sides were clenched tightly, and the veins on the back of his hands were bulging.

"Since Miss Wu is too shy to speak up, let's listen to what Tang Jingchen has to say first." Zhao Yunrong raised his hand and signaled the maid waiting beside him to help Wu Qingqing, who was bowing deeply, up.

Tang Jingchen looked up at Xiao Guo'er who was still standing there blankly, and spoke slowly, but his tone was very firm, "Reporting to the prince, I have never done anything to let Miss Wu down. Since I followed the prince to live in Lord Wu's house, I have never crossed the line with Miss Wu, and I have never even met with her in private, let alone do something worse than an animal..."

When Tang Jingchen was halfway through his speech, Wu Qingqing's crying suddenly became shrill, as if she was heartbroken because he actually denied it.

The maid who was holding Wu Qingqing was immediately indignant, "How can Mr. Tang talk nonsense with such a red mouth? My young lady has often made snacks, soup bowls and other food for you these days. How can you say that you have never met in private?"

Tang Jingchen's eyebrows were twisted into a knot. "Miss Wu has cooked for me and Xiao Guo'er, but not for me alone! Every time I met with Miss Wu, Xiao Guo'er and I met together, not in private!"

The little maid didn't know the inside story. She only knew that her mistress used to send food to the Eighth Prince, but she changed to sending food to Young Master Tang these past two days. Because the mistress didn't let her go with her every time, she didn't know whether it was for Young Master Tang alone or for both Young Master Tang and Young Master Xiao Guo'er. She didn't know how to refute it, "You..."

At this time, Wu Qingqing seemed unable to endure the man's slander any longer. Looking at the man's face full of determination and anger, she stopped crying and finally spoke to defend herself.

"Mr. Tang has made such a clean move, but you have made up your mind that I have no evidence to defend myself? Regardless of what happened before, I only delivered the soup bowl to you tonight, and Mr. Xiao Guoer was not present at the time. How can you deny this?" After saying this, she looked at the Eighth Prince on the seat again, "If you don't believe what I said, you can ask Mr. Xiao Guoer whether he received the soup bowl from me tonight?"

Zhao Yunrong looked at Xiao Guo'er who was standing not far away with a look of dejection on her face, but did not call her forward to confront him.

Tang Jingchen never expected Wu Qingqing to say this. He gradually felt a deep and irrefutable sense of powerlessness, as if all these things were linked together and were a trap set up specifically for him...

The gentle and warm gentleman who was usually modest and kind disappeared, and only the irritable and angry man shouted fiercely, "Miss Wu! This is not what you said when you knocked on my door tonight! You said you made two servings, and you had already sent one bowl of soup to Xiao Guoer, and then you sent the other one to me. After you left, I ate your bowl of soup and passed out. When I woke up again, Miss Wu had come back for some reason and appeared on the bed in my room, and now she is acting like this! I really don’t know how I have offended Miss Wu, and Miss Wu is willing to destroy her own reputation to frame me!"

When Wu Qingqing heard this, she seemed to be unable to tolerate the man's words and actions that were throwing dirty water on her. Tears welled up in her eyes like a dam bursting, and her voice was full of sadness and despair, "You...how can you be so confused! It was you who said that I was chaste and gentle, and that you liked the food I cooked, and wanted to marry me. Your sweet words are still ringing in my ears, why are you so ungrateful now! You said that you lost consciousness after eating my bowl of soup, which means that I drugged you?"

Wu Qingqing became increasingly agitated as she spoke, her voice shrill, "You have been so treacherous and said such terrible things about me. I will never be able to rest in peace even if I die!"

After saying this, Wu Qingqing bit her lips hard, almost making them bleed, then kowtowed to the Eighth Prince, her forehead hitting the ground with a crisp sound. "I beg Your Majesty to summon the doctor to check whether there is anything added to the soup I made, and clear my name!" After saying this, she leaned forward and kowtowed again.

Tang Jingchen's heart sank to the bottom when he saw Wu Qingqing's confident expression. He felt that there was something wrong with the soup bowl, and he also wanted to ask the doctor to check it, but Wu Qingqing brought it up before him, so unscrupulously, which meant that she must have made all the preparations...

At this time, the Eighth Prince finally spoke, "Shen Jing, go find a doctor yourself."

Shen Jing did not accept the order immediately as usual. Instead, he glanced at Tang Jingchen and Xiao Guoer one by one before looking at the Eighth Prince with a worried look. He hesitated for a moment and finally said nothing in the face of the Eighth Prince's firm eyes and left.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

The next step was to wait for the doctor to arrive, and the courtyard fell into silence again.

Tang Jingchen knelt on the ground, but his eyes were fixed on Xiao Guoer who was standing blankly at the door of his room. His angry heart was filled with heartache because of her sad eyes.

Xiao Guoer also stared at Tang Jingchen with her eyes wide open. The image of blood-red kept appearing in her mind. She felt a dull pain in her heart and body, which made her confused and she didn't know how to relieve the pain.