novelraw Chapter 2426 - 5: Mu Huarong Tells Her She’s Ugly
Chapter 2426 - 5: Mu Huarong Tells Her She’s Ugly
Later, she started studying poisons, and gradually rumors spread throughout the Capital City that she was an ugly woman, which once made her self-conscious, thinking she truly was ugly.
So she stopped going out, suppressing the longing in her heart, and in the past two years, she even stopped asking about that person.
It wasn’t until her face was disfigured that she realized she wasn’t as ugly as she imagined. Clearly, she and her sister looked so much alike.
With such outstanding parents, how could she possibly turn out to be so unattractive?
Exactly from when did she start feeling inferior?
It seemed to begin when Mu Huarong told her that people outside were saying she was an ugly woman.
"Miss, if we’re returning to the Capital City without going back to the Mu Family, then where are we going?"
"The Capital City is so vast, are you afraid there’s no place to stay?"
"True, anyway, following Miss, anywhere is fine."
Capital City
Ye Haoyang could never get past it in his heart. He still couldn’t accept that Hua’en would become so indifferent. To him, even if he didn’t intervene himself, it was possible to ask someone to call a doctor.
Moreover, given the status of the Mu Family, there should be no fear of saving people causing any trouble.
He felt very gloomy. The person he was supposed to spend his life with was such a person, and he had chosen her himself. It was hard for someone who had always stood up for justice to not feel gloomy.
But due to the relations between the two families, he couldn’t propose breaking off the engagement.
The deeply buried anger had no outlet, so he brought it to the court.
"Emperor, regarding the matter of General Ye embezzling military funds, I have new evidence to present."
In just a few short years, several positions had been replaced in the court.
"Oh, new evidence?" Baili Yan looked at the person below, the speaker was the new Assistant Minister of the Ministry of War, the cousin of the Third Prince. His surname was Yu.
"Yes, Your Majesty." Saying so, he presented the evidence.
The Emperor received a copy, and so did the ministers. After reviewing, the Imperial Brother-in-law Situ, brother of the Empress, stood up and said, "Emperor, the Ye Family has been valued and employed first by the late emperor and now by Your Majesty for many years. The four father and son of the Ye Family have each been awarded titles. Yet they are still unsatisfied, wanting real power after gaining fame, and money after gaining power. It is simply greed. Such malicious deeds must be punished severely; otherwise, it will not placate the military nor appease civilian grievances."
Baili Yan looked at the people below, sighed. The new round of struggle had begun even while he was still alive.
At this time, all pointed towards Ye Haoyang, but it was all about him wanting to send Ye Haoyang south, while the others also wanted to send their people south to control the southern military power.
"Ye Haoyang, do you have anything to say?"
"Yes, of course, I do." Ye Haoyang stepped out from the side, grabbed the evidence from a minister’s hand, glanced at it, and threw it on the ground, "Assistant Minister Yu, if you really want to impeach me, could you make the evidence a bit more convincing?"
"General Ye, what do you mean by this? Clearly, it’s your own misconduct, how is it this official trying to impeach you?"
Ye Haoyang shot him a glance, "In some year, the military funds decreased by five thousand taels in March, and three thousand taels in some month, this is your so-called evidence? Military funds go through numerous hands from the court to Shandong, how could it be my embezzlement? If I were you, I would write, in some year, Ye Haoyang embezzled military funds of three thousand taels and spent it on wining and dining at a brothel... you cannot even fabricate fake evidence, why are you trying to impeach me?"
"Pfft..."
"..."
Unbeknownst to him, someone started laughing out loud.