Chu Yueli’s exquisite and beautiful face remained calm, yet her fingers, hidden within her sleeves, were clenched tightly.
The two people before her appeared kind, but they possessed hearts as poisonous as snakes behind their Buddha-like smiles. A few light, casual words of gossip were enough to destroy a young woman’s entire life. Had it been a more fragile girl, she might well have returned home and hanged herself. These people truly knew how to kill without drawing blood.
"Ali, I know that with Jin'er staying with that wild woman, you are feeling uncomfortable, which is why you have been acting so willful, causing General Chu to lose his war merits in vain and bringing about that imperial decree to annul the engagement."
Chapter 27