freenovelworld Chapter 208 Everything Has a Cause and Effect
Chapter 208 Everything Has a Cause and Effect
Everything was almost exactly as she remembered. Someone broke down the door and then found her and the man lying on the ground.
"Oh my god, what happened?" Ye Weilan pushed through the crowd and rushed in: "Someone come quick! Get my sister a set of clothes! Report to the authorities! Someone has ruined my sister's reputation!"
Ye Qing'an sneered, her voice as if she were afraid others wouldn't hear her.
"Sister, sister!" Ye Weilan rushed forward and threw herself on Ye Qing'an, crying out, "Sister, wake up! Sister..."
But the man woke up first. When he saw the scene before him, he was stunned for a moment: "Who are you people?"
Ye Weilan looked at the man and sneered, "You dare ask who we are? I'd like to ask you who you are! Who are you? Why are you with my sister? Was it you? Did you ruin my sister's reputation?"
"Guards! Seize this villain!"
The man remembered what had happened; he was clearly knocked unconscious as soon as he entered the room, so how could this be...?
The man turned and glanced at Ye Qing'an, who was still unconscious. Ye Qing'an's clothes were disheveled, and there were mottled marks on her exposed chest and neck, which showed that something had happened last night.
The man suppressed his surprise and quickly came up with an idea: "What bad guy? Don't talk nonsense. Qing'an and I are in love. She invited me here for a secret meeting. I am not a bad guy and I have never forced her."
"Nonsense!" Ye Weilan rebuked.
“I’m not talking nonsense.” The man took out a sachet and an embroidered handkerchief from his sleeve: “These were all given to me by Qing’an. Several months ago, we met by chance on the street and fell in love at first sight.”
“Qing’an is the eldest daughter of the Ye family. It’s inconvenient for us to meet, so we can only catch a quick glimpse when she occasionally leaves the manor. I heard that the second daughter of the Ye family invited her to this temple to pray for blessings, so she sent me a message and asked me to meet her in the dining hall…”
Ye Weilan reached out and took the sachet and embroidered handkerchief, her face full of astonishment, her hands trembling: "This...this really is an embroidered handkerchief and sachet made by my sister, how could this be..."
The man waved his hand: "I've already said it, Qing'an and I are in love, and she's the one who asked me to meet her here."
"Even so, you can't do this... According to the proper conduct of a gentleman, shouldn't you have gone through the proper betrothal and wedding ceremony to marry my sister openly and honestly?"
Ye Qing'an chuckled. Their back-and-forth was quite well coordinated.
"I originally intended to formally propose marriage in person, but I simply love Qing'an too much, and I couldn't control myself last night."
Just as the two were putting on a show for the onlookers outside, Ye Qing'an suddenly woke up.
Ye Weilan quickly noticed that Ye Qing'an had woken up and rushed forward, exclaiming, "Sister! You're finally awake!"
Ye Qing'an looked completely bewildered: "Where am I? What's going on?"
She was in great pain all over her body, and her voice was very hoarse.
“Sister, why did you come to this dining hall last night? Do you know this man? Last night, he… he… he violated your reputation. He said that he and you were in love and that you invited him to meet here.”
Ye Qing'an looked completely bewildered. She looked down at herself and noticed her disheveled clothes and mottled marks.
"How...how could this happen?" Ye Qing'an was trembling all over. "I don't even know him..."
"Qing'an." The man rushed over immediately: "Qing'an, why are you like this? Why are you suddenly turning your back on me? You were the one who asked me to meet you here last night. Look, I still have the token of love you gave me before."
Ye Qing'an was agitated, her gaze falling on the sachet and handkerchief. She suddenly raised her voice, "You're talking nonsense! These sachet and handkerchief are clearly the things I lost before..."
Outside the door came the voices of onlookers discussing: "Tsk, is this the young lady of the Ye family? My God, how can she be so shameless? How dare she do such a filthy thing in this pure Buddhist temple? Doesn't she care about offending the Buddha's eyes?"
"Isn't the eldest daughter of the Ye family a good-for-nothing? But, although she's a good-for-nothing, she's quite pretty."
"She is indeed quite pretty, but she's a bit of a flirt at heart, even going to places like this..."
"Yes, he even made a private engagement to someone. He's already been caught, and there's plenty of evidence, but he still doesn't dare to admit it."
"After all, she is the eldest daughter of the Ye family. If this gets out, her reputation will be ruined."
"Didn't you hear? That man wants to marry her. Who is that man? I don't think I've seen him before... He doesn't seem like one of those young masters from the city's aristocratic families..."
The three people in the dining hall had already heard the whispers of the common people. Seeing that her goal had been achieved, Ye Weilan, fearing that letting them hear any longer would allow Ye Qing'an to cover up the truth, quickly ordered the servants, "Get everyone out of here..."
The servants quickly responded, closed the door to the dining hall, and chased everyone out.
Ye Weilan comforted Ye Qing'an in a low voice: "Sister, don't panic. I have already sent someone to invite Father and Mother over. No matter what happened, Father and Mother will definitely stand up for you."
"Guards, take this man away and keep him under guard."
The servants took the man away, and Ye Weilan quickly helped Ye Qing'an up: "Sister, let's go back to the room and wait. Can you still walk?"
The scene suddenly stopped, and Ye Qing'an's spirit walked out of his body, his gaze falling on the person standing in front of him.
What is your inner demon?
Ye Qing'an's face was filled with panic: "How could this happen? Once a woman loses her innocence, she has nothing left. I clearly did nothing wrong, it was clearly not my fault, so why did I end up like this?"
Ye Qing'an opened her mouth, about to say that all of this was because of Ye Weilan's scheming, and that if she wanted to prevent this from happening, she should just kill Ye Weilan.
Recalling the reason for her previous failure in the Realm of Inner Demons, Ye Qing'an fell silent, tilting her head as she thought for a moment: "It seems this temple is an ominous place for you. You should have decisively refused Ye Weilan's suggestion to come here to pray for blessings..."
Ye Qing'an murmured, "Reject her?"
"Yes, if we hadn't come here, none of this would have happened."
But just as Ye Qing'an finished speaking, another gust of wind swept in, followed by a faint voice echoing from the void—the same one from before…
"Everything has a cause and effect. Without addressing the cause, the effect will not change. Even if we don't come to this temple or enter this dining hall, it's just that the event has happened in a different place, nothing more."
"And..." The voice suddenly turned cold and sharp: "Insulting the sacred Buddhist site, return!"