After a Contractual Marriage, Little Taotie Went Viral!-Chapter 284 - 278: Pei Yan’s Double Standards On Display!
"As for the knife handle, that’s where your cleverness shines! You deliberately left it in your room to pretend that you were being framed, to confuse us into thinking you were unjustly accused, because you’re not part of the Prince Mansion, and you had no reason to kill Old Prince." Wang Sirui mused quickly.
"That’s just absurd! You say I killed Old Prince, but I have absolutely no motive to kill him! And why would I frame myself by placing the knife handle in my room? To make you suspect me? Isn’t that contradictory? Wouldn’t it be better to just get rid of it entirely? It wouldn’t be found, and I wouldn’t bring suspicion upon myself as the murderer!"
"As for the sleeping drug you mentioned earlier, I explained that I came to the mansion to deal with Seventh Aunt because Prince liked Seventh Aunt, and I was very jealous. I didn’t want Seventh Aunt to have Prince’s child before I even got married! If Prince had an heir before I entered, it would greatly threaten my position after marriage. Any normal woman would understand my thinking, right?" Yang Leqi explained seriously.
"Oh, you really are the murderer, it’s just that you didn’t have time to deal with the knife handle yet." Wang Sirui said, stroking his chin.
Yang Leqi: "..."
She felt like all her explanations were in vain.
"Leqi’s explanation is plausible too, so did you use the sleeping drug or not? Where did it go?" Pei Yan asked.
"No... because after I arrived, I found that Prince and Seventh Aunt had little contact, and there was nothing untoward between them, so I dissolved the sleeping drug in water and poured it into a flower pot. The paper wrapping the drug was burned, that’s the remnants you found earlier." Yang Leqi confessed honestly.
Pei Yan nodded, "Got it."
Then Pei Yan shared the clues they had found during their search.
He also handed out boards and markers prepared by the production team, saying, "Now, write the names of suspects on this."
Almost immediately after receiving the boards, everyone quickly wrote down a name.
"Show your boards."
Chen Yao, sitting first, immediately turned his board around, revealing the words: Prince’s fiancée.
He held the board up and explained, "I think what Wang Sirui said makes sense. The least likely person is actually the most likely. We might have missed an important clue, but that doesn’t change my suspicion that you are the murderer."
"Why not Prince, but me? Prince is even less likely to kill Old Prince!" Yang Leqi retorted.
Chen Yao paused in thought, "Probably because, although Prince likes Seventh Aunt, it hasn’t reached the point where he urgently needs to kill Old Prince to marry her. After all, they’ve coexisted peacefully for so many years; perhaps they were waiting for Old Prince’s natural death."
After saying this, Chen Yao added with a sigh, "Ah - a tragic and beautiful love story~"
Yang Leqi: "..."
Wang Sirui beamed with a bright smile, "Looks like I’m not the only one who thinks Yang Leqi is the murderer!!"
He turned his board over, revealing the same words: Prince’s fiancée.
He straightforwardly explained, "What Brother Yao just said is exactly what I wanted to say, and another thing is, my keen sense tells me it’s Yang Leqi!"
Yang Leqi: "..."
Yang Leqi rolled her eyes irritably, "You’re clearly letting personal grievances influence your vote!! Voting without reason!!"
Wang Sirui shook his head and wagged his right index finger, "That’s not the case. I still have my principles."
Yang Leqi raised her beautiful eyes: She didn’t believe a word of it!!
At this time, the director flipped his board, which read: The Housekeeper.
"I think the housekeeper’s motive is more urgent. If he doesn’t kill Old Prince, Old Prince will kill him. It’s a do-or-die situation. For the sake of Third Miss, her mother, and himself, the housekeeper would definitely kill Old Prince," the director said.
"I’m not the murderer... I hadn’t even had the chance to kill him, and Old Prince was already dead!!" Chen Yao said in exasperation.
Qin Hao turned his board, which also read: The Housekeeper.
"My reason is the same as the director’s. The housekeeper has been with Old Prince for so many years, and he knows that even if he died, Old Prince wouldn’t spare Third Miss and her family, which is why he prepared those things for them. He even wrote his last words, which shows he was prepared to be discovered and killed."
Chen Yao sighed helplessly, "I really didn’t kill Old Prince! I’m truly wronged!!"
"There’s nothing we can do; we’ve already voted."
Yang Leqi said as she took hers out, which also read: The Housekeeper.
She kept a straight face and said earnestly, "They’ve all said the reasons, I have nothing to add."
"This is such an injustice!! I really am not the murderer!!" Chen Yao had protested so much that he felt too exhausted to argue anymore.
Now only Qin Yun and Pei Yan hadn’t shown theirs.
"Shall we do it together?" Pei Yan asked.
"Okay." Qin Yun nodded.
They both turned their boards over simultaneously, and both unexpectedly wrote: Prince’s fiancée.
They exchanged glances, seeing a tacit understanding smile in each other’s eyes.
The live chat exploded when viewers saw this eye contact between the two; fans of their "coupling" were ecstatic!
[Say no more, I’m digging this pit (relationship) after that glance between them!!]
[Nothing anyone says matters!! I’m stuck in this pit and want them to marry right there!]
[This is so sweet I could die!!]
[This is the brother from before "image", and the brother now! "image", the comparison couldn’t be more stark!!]
[Watching the brother’s double standard live!!]
Once was a promotional picture with a past female co-star of Pei Yan, with space between them where another person could stand!
Comparing that to now with Qin Yun, lending a hand to change batteries, their synchronized glance, sticking close...
Put the two pictures together, and the contrast is eye-opening!!
Any previous actress who worked with Pei Yan would probably be furious seeing this!
Because of these two pictures, Pei Yan and Qin Yun shot up on trending searches, bringing with them the actresses Pei Yan once worked with.
#PeiYanQinYun#, #PeiYanDoubleStandard!#, #SympathyForWeiLing# quickly trended as top searches.
And seeing what both of them wrote, Yang Leqi’s eyes widened in disbelief, "Why?!"
She thought she was playing it brilliantly!!
"Perhaps it’s a sharp intuition?" Qin Yun contemplated aloud.
Yang Leqi: "..."
There was a rift in their friendship!!
Not even a kiss and hug would patch it up!!
