Transmigration: The Little Chef Calls The Shots-Chapter 1453 - 272、What to do (14)

Le Yao saw that the Third Prince was not the same person she had been spending time with these days, and it greatly shocked her. She staggered as if escaping outward, feeling herself a joke, a fool, who believed whatever others told her. Tales of Tao Hua, Aunts, concubines—all of it was fake, deceitful.

With Le Yao in such a state, Lin Wei was, of course, unable to remain at ease. She looked up at Ruochu on the second floor and then quickly followed Le Yao out.

Ruochu shook her head and sighed, also descending the stairs. This fool, she truly had been deceived.

"Sister Chen, are you, are you alright?"

When Lin Wei caught up, Le Yao had already hidden herself in a corner, squatting with her shoulders tightly hugged and her face buried in her arms, looking just like a frightened ostrich.

Lin Wei’s heart ached, her pearlies tightly clenched on her own lip, somewhat regretting that she had to reveal the truth in such a manner.

She slowly squatted, her hand gently touching Le Yao’s arm, disclosing everything, "Sister Chen, I’m sorry, what happened today was actually arranged by me and big sister. I was afraid someone else would deceive you and feared you wouldn’t believe my words. Thus, I thought it best for you to see the Third Prince with your own eyes. Sister Chen, you..."

"What do you have to be sorry about?" Le Yao’s muffled voice emerged from her arms, and although her face was unseen, the choking in her voice was evident, expressing deep sadness and pain.

"Right, Weiwei has nothing to apologize to you about, if anyone should be saying sorry, it should be you."

Ruochu’s somewhat cold voice suddenly rang above their heads, Lin Wei hurriedly looked up trying to stop him, but Ruochu did not intend to withdraw his words.

He had long warned this foolish woman to be discerning and keep her eyes open, yet she foolishly gave away her heart. Had they realized this a few days later, would she have also given away her body?

The more Ruochu thought about it, the more suffocated he felt. How could the Chen family have such a foolish woman? And Lady Jiang, who usually dealt with him competently, why did she also act foolishly when it really mattered?

"Right, you’re right, I am to blame for what happened, the person who really should apologize is me, I shouldn’t have told my mother about you and Weiwei’s matter, nor should I have indulged her wild guesses. I—I am not a good sister, nor am I a good friend. I deserve everything that has happened to me, it’s my own fault!"

Le Yao became more agitated as she spoke, her small face streaked with tears, making her complexion even paler.

Seeing Le Yao like this, Lin Wei couldn’t bear it, quickly using her own handkerchief to wipe Le Yao’s tears, repeatedly saying "It’s alright, it’s alright."

Ruochu pursed his lips and ultimately refrained from adding salt to her wounds at that moment.

He glanced at the people walking back and forth on the street and suddenly said, "I always feel there’s more to this matter. It’s noisy here with too many people, let’s get in the carriage first."

Le Yao, deeply pained and stricken, hardly cared for any mysteries, but seeing so many people glancing over, she also felt embarrassed, so she followed Lin Wei onto the carriage.

At that time, Dong Tian was quite crowded at meal time, so the carriage moved forward and came to a rather quiet small restaurant.

The three of them went upstairs to the elegant room, where no one was in the mood to eat, and Chen Ruochu only ordered a pot of tea.

He glanced at Chen Leyao who still seemed a bit out of sorts and frowned as he poured a cup of tea for her. Although they were not born from the same mother, strangely, upon knowing that Chen Leyao had been deceived emotionally by those petty individuals, he did not feel as much schadenfreude as he imagined, but rather felt quite upset and wanted to immediately catch that deceitful matchmaker and that despicable man and beat them up.

Of course, it was not only these two people. He always felt that with the abilities of just these two, it would have been impossible to execute everything so perfectly.

For example, how did Lady Jiang know of Tao Hua, was she really the most capable matchmaker in the Capital city? Also, Lin Wei, who was Lin Yuan’s younger biological sister, undeniably recognized the Third Prince since Lin Yuan was the sworn sister of the Third Prince. Furthermore, Chen Leyao had studied embroidery with Lin Wei at the Red Smoke Pavilion, could it be that someone also knew that their relationship had deteriorated irreversibly?

Throughout, Lin Wei was softly consoling Chen Leyao by her side. Although Chen Leyao was shocked and saddened, fortunately, she had not fallen too deeply in love, and after crying for a while, she felt much better.

Once Chen Leyao’s emotions had stabilized, Chen Ruochu asked her to recount the events of these past few days in detail, not overlooking even the tiniest detail.

"Weiwei, maybe we can talk about this another day!" Lin Wei looked at Chen Leyao with some concern. She had just calmed down, and wouldn’t asking her now just make her unnecessarily sad again?

"Weiwei, I’m okay," Chen Leyao strained a smile and shook her head at Lin Wei, "I also want to know what those people really want to do."

After her sorrow and grief, Chen Leyao felt more hatred.

Although recalling the incident was painful, she still tried her best to recount every single detail.

The more Chen Ruochu listened, the deeper his frowning became, "They let you enter the palace first before making you a concubine, huh? What a cunning plan they’ve concocted!"

Chen Leyao also sneered coldly, now even more grateful that she hadn’t let love blind her judgment and agree to Tao Hua’s proposition. However, she felt guilty upon realizing that she had been concerned about the ’Third Prince’ might despise her for this incident, making her feel sick to her stomach.

Lin Wei was also furious, "Those bastards, how despicable! The Third Prince would never do such a thing! I heard from my elder sister that the Third Prince is especially ethical; he doesn’t even keep concubines, let alone serving maids."

Consort Shu was a daughter of the Xia family, and although she herself was an Imperial Concubine, she followed Xia family’s noble tradition in raising her children. Though she couldn’t make Zhao Hongde remain faithful to just one woman, she wouldn’t allow her son to commit reckless actions before officially entitling a Main Consort.

Hearing Lin Wei say this, Chen Leyao felt even more ashamed. Yes, she had heard Lin Wei mention many things about the Third Prince before, so why did she still blindly believe Tao Hua?

"Let’s not talk about that for now; what’s most important is how we handle this matter," Chen Ruochu’s fingertips were rubbing back and forth on the edge of the cup, his brow so tightly furrowed it seemed he could crush a fly.

Lin Wei immediately exclaimed angrily, "How to handle it? Of course, we must capture that love and money swindling matchmaker! And that fake prince too, impersonating a prince is a crime punishable by death!"