Rebirth Of The Villainess: Young Master Lu's Wicked Wife

Chapter 158 - Borrowing Someone Else’s Blade (2)

With Su Xiaofei and Lu Qingfeng's departure, it was only natural that the onlookers would turn their attention towards Ye Mingyu. They decided to mock the young lady in Su Xiaofei's place. Countless criticisms about her flooded in and they shot her looks of contempt and ridicule, just as Su Xiaofei had pointed out earlier.

Some arrogant young miss came to her and used her shoulder to knock the stunned Ye Mingyu to the floor. Women understood each other better than men. How could they not see that Ye Mingyu was a two-faced woman?

"What are you doing standing there looking so stupid?" The young woman sneered. She was looking at Ye Mingyu as though she was looking at an insignificant bug on the ground.

Just earlier, she was talking to this same young woman. She had said some bad things about Su Xiaofei with a sympathetic expression for Ye Mingyu. However, now, she was staring at Ye Mingyu with unconcealed disgust in her eyes.

Some onlookers seemed to be talking about her, but Ye Mingyu couldn't hear anything after Su Xiaofei had left her in the spotlight. Only the sounds of their ridiculing laughter reached her ears. Everyone was looking at her with indifference, mockery and ridicule.

The resentment in Ye Mingyu's heart grew. All of this was because of Su Xiaofei. She wouldn't have experienced this if it was not for that shameless woman!

The surrounding faces overlapped and some became unclear. She suddenly felt dizzy and was suffocating as she stayed frozen where Su Xiaofei had left her. Ye Mingyu was utterly embarrassed now. She bit her lip and hurried off.

She had not expected that Su Xiaofei would be so ruthless to mock her like this. Ye Mingyu only then realized that she wasn't qualified to go head-to-head with Su Xiaofei just yet, and that she had underestimated her all this time.

Suddenly, she recalled all the grievances she experienced in her previous life. It was all because of Su Xiaofei. If it wasn't for Su Xiaofei and Yun Qingrong, her father would've never abandoned her and her mother. While Su Xiaofei was living in a big house, dressed in the most trendy and comfortable clothes, eating anything she liked, Ye Mingyu could only afford to wear hand-me-down clothes from others and eat bland food or instant noodles.

What right did Su Xiaofei have to enjoy the lavish life she should have, but she, Ye Mingyu, had to scramble for the crumbs? Why was she destined to live in Su Xiaofei's shadow?

Ye Mingyu heard some gossip while she was leaving. She lowered her head to avoid their scornful gazes, but their sharp words were enough to stab her heart.

"This white lily deserves to be exposed like this. Did she really think her tears could fool just anyone? Where did she get the guts to face us?"

"I used to think that Su Xiaofei was an eyesore and a foolish woman. Who would have thought that she had a temperament like this."

"I hated Ye Mingyu's pitiful, white lily character from the very start. Did you notice that although she didn't come from a wealthy family, her things are expensive? She used her charm on every man she met to make them pity her. Doesn't she have any idea how disgusting her actions are?"

Ye Mingyu hugged herself tightly, feeling as if someone had poured icy water on her head. Otherwise, why else would she feel so cold and end up trembling from it?

Her eyes were stung with tears as she rushed to leave the banquet hall to retreat. She realized that she had underestimated Su Xiaofei, and she was ruthlessly defeated by her with every move she made.

With her blurred vision, she left the banquet hall and walked alone into a desolate corridor. The tears she had previously been suppressing now flowed without restraint. Her hair was now disheveled and her appearance sloppy.

Cai Lin finally found her like this. He wasn't able to witness what transpired in the banquet hall earlier because Feng Yumeng had pulled him away and confronted him for offending the Feng family.

Ye Mingyu looked at him with bloodshot eyes. Cai Lin didn't need to be told that she was bullied yet again by Su Xiaofei.

"Cai Lin…" Her voice was full of grievances, worrying him.

'Where were you when I needed you?' She sneered in her heart. However, she was unwilling to drop her act. Cai Lin still had some use for her.

He walked towards her and hugged her, feeling a bit guilty for leaving her on her own earlier. He shouldn't have left her side.

"Don't worry. I'm here now. Let me take you home." There was no need for them to stay here any longer. Otherwise, Ye Mingyu would lose face the more people look at her.

"Cai Lin, I'm sorry. I truly didn't know that you and Xue'er were together. Because of me, you are being criticized for breaking your engagement with her. Had I known that you were together, I shouldn't have gotten involved with you."

Cai Lin felt uncomfortable because he disliked talking about his family matters with her. He also resented Su Xiaofei for making Ye Mingyu cry like this. She and Ye Mingyu were both born of the same father. Why couldn't Su Xiaofei treat her elder sister a bit better?

"Yu'er, how could you say such things? Feng Xue'er and I were only together because of an agreement our parents had set when we were younger. I only see her as a younger sister. How could you take the blame like this?"

The more Ye Mingyu acted pitiful like this, the more Cai Lin would want to protect her from anyone, especially Su Xiaofei.. However, what he didn't know was that Ye Mingyu would bring him so much trouble that when he finally realized his mistake, it would be too late, as not only his own future would be compromised but the family he was proud of wouldn't be spared either.