Chapter 1033 From today on, I will no longer like you!
At this moment, Xiao Huaijing, who had been silent all the time, finally couldn't bear it anymore.
He walked forward with a serious face, stood in front of Ye Hanlong, and said to Liao Qiaohe: "Junior Sister Liao, please watch your words!"
"Junior Sister Ye's elixirs were all made by her own ability. How can you slander her like this? Her talent and aptitude are also real. You can't slander her."
"I slandered her?" Liao Qiaohe sneered, her voice filled with endless sarcasm and despair.
"Brother Xiao, you would rather trust a stranger you've only known for a few years than me, the one you grew up with?
"I didn't put the drug in that cup of tea! Someone deliberately framed me, why don't you understand?"
Her voice was choked with sobs, her chest heaving violently, and a few strands of her carefully combed hair were scattered.
A complex look flashed across Xiao Huaijing's eyes, but was quickly covered up by indifference.
He looked directly at Liao Qiaohe and said coldly, "You were the only one who touched that cup of tea that day."
Liao Qiaohe seemed to be hit by these words and her body trembled violently.
"That's because someone knows that I will bring you tea!" Liao Qiaohe almost shouted.
"I admit that I like you, but no matter how despicable I am, I will never use such despicable means!"
Tears finally burst out and rolled down her cheeks which were red with anger.
For a moment, there was dead silence all around; even the sound of the wind seemed to have stopped.
Only Liao Qiaohe's sobbing sound echoed in the silence, sounding particularly desolate.
There was something strange in Ye Hanlong's eyes, and a feeling of uneasiness seemed to surge in her heart.
She pulled Xiao Huaijing's sleeve nervously and whispered, "Brother Xiao, how about we..."
When Liao Qiaohe saw this scene, her heart was broken.
She widened her eyes and looked at the interaction between Ye Hanlong and Xiao Huaijing in disbelief, and the anger in her heart was instantly ignited.
She suddenly pulled off the jade pendant Xiao Jinghuai had given her from her waist and threw it hard on the ground.
With a crisp "pop" sound, the jade pendant shattered into several pieces.
The jade pendant shattered with a crisp sound, and Xiao Huaijing's pupils shrank suddenly.
"Good! Very good!" Liao Qiaohe's voice was hoarse and resolute, and tears blurred her vision.
"Brother Xiao, did you see this? This is the jade pendant you gave me. Now that it's broken, it means that we are no longer friends. From today on, I will no longer like you, and I will no longer pester you."
"As for the matter of putting the Hehuan powder in your tea, I will investigate it thoroughly. Once I find the evidence, I will clear my name."
Her words attracted the attention of many people around her, and people began to whisper.
They all wondered if Liao Qiaohe was really innocent? Did she really not put the acacia drug in Xiao Huaijing's cup of tea?
If it wasn’t Liao Qiaohe, then who was it?
Xiao Huaijing looked at the broken pieces of the jade pendant on the ground. It was the warm jade he obtained when he was thirteen years old during an adventure in Liuxia Mountains. He had personally carved the word "Qiao" on the inner wall.
At this moment, the broken jade reflected the light of a cold pond, causing his pupils to shrink suddenly. The fingers in his sleeves curled up unconsciously, and his nails almost dug into his palms.
"Junior Sister Liao!" He spoke subconsciously, but stopped suddenly when he saw Liao Qiaohe's red eyes.
Those eyes that were once filled with admiration and attachment to him, now only had the dead silence of ash, and a barely perceptible hint of mockery - as if laughing at his inability to judge people.
Seeing this, Ye Hanlong clenched Xiao Huaijing's sleeves with her fingertips, leaving deep wrinkles on the silk fabric.
She lowered her eyelashes, which trembled violently, but her eyes secretly glanced at Xiao Huaijing's tense jawline.
The uneasiness in her heart grew stronger, as if a vine was growing wildly, strangling her and making it hard for her to breathe.
Three months ago, the scene of putting drugs in Liao Qiaohe's tea while she wasn't paying attention flashed through her mind.
"Ye Hanlong, are you satisfied?" Liao Qiaohe's voice suddenly rose, with a sorrowful tone like crying blood.
She stared at Ye Hanlong's almond-shaped eyes that pretended to be innocent, as if she wanted to gouge two bloody holes in the person in front of her.
"Since the day you entered the sect six years ago, you have been pretending to be weak and pitiful everywhere! Senior Brother Xiao was completely bewitched by you, but I have seen through you a long time ago!"
Ye Hanlong trembled all over when she looked at him, and subconsciously hid behind Xiao Huaijing: "Senior Sister Liao, you... don't spit blood at me..."
"Slandering me?" Liao Qiaohe laughed miserably, tears mixed with angry blush leaving two streaks on her cheeks.
"Four years ago, who was it in the Spiritual Plant Garden that deliberately trampled on the ''Dew Condensation Grass'' that I had cultivated for three years? I just happened to be passing by, and you framed me, causing me to be punished to face the wall for a month."
"Two years ago, who was it that pretended to be injured by me in the martial arts arena and asked the law enforcement elder to punish me? I was whipped more than ten times and it took me three months to recover."
"Three months ago, I don't know who drugged the tea I gave to Senior Brother Xiao when I wasn't paying attention, but I suspect it was you because I saw you quietly leaving at that time, and you still framed me!"
With every word she spoke, she took a step forward. Her spiritual energy surged uncontrollably, and green spiritual patterns were faintly visible on her cuffs.
Xiao Huaijing frowned and stood in front of Ye Hanlong: "Junior Sister Liao, that's enough! The evidence is irrefutable, how long are you going to keep quibbling?"
His tone was cold, but he didn't notice Ye Hanlong's hand hidden behind him, quietly making hand gestures to prepare for defense.
"Evidence?" Liao Qiaohe suddenly pulled open her sleeves, revealing a hideous scar on her wrist. "This scar was left when I blocked the claws of the demon cultivator for you three years ago! What do you mean evidence?"
She pointed at the broken jade on the ground and said, "This jade pendant has been with me for twelve years, and now it's broken, just like my heart! Xiao Huaijing, check your conscience, do you really believe that I would do such a despicable thing?"
Xiao Huaijing looked at the scar and his pupils suddenly contracted.
The image of the girl who risked her life to protect him in his memory overlapped with the crazy woman in front of him, and for the first time, his heart began to waver.
But he quickly suppressed his strange feeling and said in a cold voice: "I, Xiao, have never forgotten the kindness you showed me in the past. But it was you who gave me the medicine, that's a fact."
"What a fact!" Liao Qiaohe turned around abruptly, her hair scattered messily on her shoulders, "Ye Hanlong, just wait for me!"
She glared at Ye Hanlong fiercely, turned around and left the rest area, leaving behind a group of astonished onlookers.
The crowd hurriedly made way for her, and no one dared to stop the furious Liao Qiaohe.
Xiao Huaijing looked at Liao Qiaohe's sad back as she left, and the knuckles of his fingers holding the hilt of the sword turned white.
He remembered how Liao Qiaohe always followed him and called him "Brother Xiao" when they were young, how she broke her leg while trying to find alchemy materials for him but smiled and said "it doesn't hurt", and how the stars twinkled in her eyes when she received the jade pendant...
These images pierced his heart like needles, causing him to doubt for the first time the "facts" he firmly believed in.