"Malicious at heart."
Xiao Yunsheng softly murmured these four words. In his mind appeared the stubborn yet sorrowful expression Jiang Yue had worn before she was locked away. His fists slowly tightened beneath his sleeves, and he continued in a measured tone, "Perhaps the one who is malicious at heart is not the maid you speak of, but Fu Rong? Whether it was the fire, or the Marquis arriving outside the manor at just such an opportune moment—to speak without concealment, had it not been for tonight's upheaval, my original intention was to annul the marriage and separate."
"Absurd! Utterly absurd!"
Chapter 72