Su Yuxin smirked for a single second before she started to radiate a pitiful grieving expression. Tears rolled down her face as she looked at the emperor straight in his eyes. Her teary doe eyes looked miserable.
"Your majesty, you know how much I loved his highness crown prince, Mu Yi to the point I was ready to marry him despite my grandfather's unwillingness. Even your majesty was happy and blessed our engagement through imperial edict. But it seems his highness crown prince, Mu Yi wasn't happy with it. He started hanging out with my sister Xue Xian. He even stated he would only marry her despite her status being a commoner . My sister Xue Xian, was picked up by me on the streets because she looked so pitiful and was raised in a general mansion like my sister rather than a servant. But today his highness loved her despite her lowly commoner background. I don't want to be a villain between the two of them despite my prior engagement with his highness crown prince. So, for my dear sister I am willing to sacrifice this engagement. That way she could marry his highness crown prince."
Su Yuxin said all of it while keeping a pitiful expression. She sniffed softly while wiping her years once in a while. Her image looked genuinely pitiful and vulnerable at that moment.. A woman who was so in love that she was willing to sacrifice her happiness for the happiness of the one she loved.
Everyone was deeply affected by her words. They felt her genuine love for his highness, the crown prince,Mu Yi. Seeing her cry pitifully made them realize how hurt and heart broken she felt due to Xue Xian and his highness crown prince, Mu Yi. Her pitiful state evoked sympathy inside everyone towards her. Some people in the crowd who also had unrequited feelings before couldn't help but sigh at the scene.They also felt that Xue Xian was a bitch, a wrecker who is ungrateful and bites the hand that feeds her and other insults echoed through the crowd. The people started giving her a nasty glare while some snorted. The image that Xue Xian carefully created was crumbling down at that moment. People's opinion about her was changing rapidly as the time went by. The same people who used to revere and praise her constantly were now judging her and bad mouthing her in the public.
Xue Xian bites her lips. Her eyes teared up but she couldn't cry because it would seem like she was just doing it for attention. So, she held back. She glared at Su Yuxin who was on the ground with her teary red eyes. She knew that Su Yuxin was deliberately acting pitiful and trying to tarnish the reputation that she worked so hard to build. She wanted to go up to her and strangle her right there and then. She was regretting the decision of not being able to kill her that day.
'Those stupid maids. I paid them so much yet they failed to kill this weak pathetic slut. If she had died that day none of this would be happening right now.' Xue Xian thought to herself angrily.
Su Yuxin, who was still pitifully sobbing, smirked under the handkerchief she was holding to wipe her tears.
She used her words to manipulate the crowd, reminding them she was a lovestruck fool who was hurt by her lover and sister who was just a commoner she picked up on streets. She reminded everyone that Xue Xian is just a commoner whom she had shown sympathy by taking her in as her sister.
Her words made everyone believe Xue Xian was just an ungrateful wench who likes to act pitiful to win affection. She successfully made the crowd change their original thoughts and made them be on her side with the pitiful sob acting.
Even the emperor was dissatisfied with it. He couldn't help but frown while looking at Xue Xian. He shook his head in disappointment. In this situation, he would side with Su Yuxin too. Hr couldn't understand what Mu Yi saw in Xue Xian when he could see that Su Yuxin was a far better choice than her. Xue Xian could feel the emperor gaze at her. She looked down trying to be calm but her heart was panicking. She just wished to disappear at the moment.
Witnessing the silence, the crown prince Mu Yi grew impatient.
"Father, just grant her wish. You know I don't like her. Xue Xian is my only sweetheart. I would never love a trash woman like Su Yuxin. It's good she had a little brain to realize she isn't good enough for me, the crown prince of the kingdom."
Mu Yi said grumpily with an arrogant attitude. Hr couldn't even read the atmosphere of the room.
People were all disgusted by his actions.They couldn't help being disappointed about the fact Mu Yi is the crown prince of their kingdom. They felt Mu Yi when crowned as emperor might lead their kingdom into its downfall by his own hands. They disliked both Xue Xian and Mu Yi at the moment. They couldn't show disgust towards Mu Yi as he was the crown prince so they directed their disgust towards Xue Xian.
The surrounding people started whispering to each other. Although there was polygamy in the kingdom, females didn't like sharing their lover. And they hated Mistresses like Xue Xian who went after other men. Who knows, a woman like that may go after their husband someday. Xue Xian had no shame stealing her sister's fiancé yet acting so noble about it. She was indeed a woman with thick skin who thought the world revolved around her.