After the True Heiress Travels Back
Chapter 457: I Am Willing to Take the Blame for You

Chapter 457: Chapter 457: I Am Willing to Take the Blame for You

"She did it on purpose. She hit someone intentionally."

As soon as these words were spoken, the reporters on site boiled over once again.

This was like an official stamp of confirmation!

Now, the way everyone looked at Shi Yaoguang had an added hint of inquiry.

Shi Yaoguang thought about it; if she had to summarize the looks she was getting...

They were probably the same looks one gives to a murderer.

Hmm, how interesting.

Shi Yaoguang found it amusing internally, but her face revealed no emotion.

Instead, she turned to Shi Yiqing, her crimson lips parting slightly, "I never thought the day would come when you would defend me."

Shi Yiqing’s eyes widened, those wet orbs filled with intense excitement as she spoke, "Sister, are you willing to make up with me?"

"I know I wronged you before; it was wrong of me to harbor evil thoughts and want to harm you! Whatever you say to scold me would be deserved. The one who took over your nest was me. I shouldn’t have been so petty-minded. Sister, all I am asking for now is your forgiveness; I want nothing else!"

Shi Yaoguang narrowed her eyes as if pondering.

Shi Yiqing continued, "As long as you are willing to forgive me, sister, I’m willing to... take the blame for you!"

"Really?" Shi Yaoguang asked with interest.

Shi Yiqing replied, "Of course it’s true! As long as we sisters can reconcile, I’m willing to do whatever you ask."

Shi Yaoguang let out a "hmm" and drew out the sound, "Are you sure, willing to do whatever I ask?"

Shi Yiqing’s tone was full of conviction, "I am willing!"

"Alright then," Shi Yaoguang said, "right now, I do actually have one question I’d like to ask you."

Shi Yiqing met her gaze, questioning, "What question?"

Shi Yaoguang placed her hand on her stomach and pressed gently, then asked, "Back at the filming site, you intentionally sabotaged the stunts harness to harm me, you don’t deny it, do you?"

Without giving her a chance to defend herself, she continued, "Anyway, there’s evidence, and nobody would believe you even if you did deny it. I think you wouldn’t be that foolish."

Shi Yiqing’s expression stiffened, then she said, "Sister, you must be joking; how could I deny it?"

She struggled to force a smile, "Indeed, I was the one who did those things, I was wrong. I know you won’t easily forgive me, sister. I just hope I can try hard enough for you to stop holding it against me."

Listening to her smoothly delivered speech, Shi Yaoguang appeared persuaded, nodding in agreement.

Shi Yiqing breathed a sigh of relief.

This reaction was good.

It should...

Blow over.

Just as she was thinking this, she heard Shi Yaoguang say, "Didn’t you say you’d do anything I ask? I have one question I want to know, are you willing to answer me?"

Shi Yiqing: "I am willing!"

Her tone as she spoke was especially tender.

It unabashedly spoke of the sentiment you’d find in wedding vows at the ceremony.

Shi Yaoguang was very pleased, "It’s good that you are willing. Now that you are so willing, my dear sister, I can rest easy."

Upon hearing this, she was somewhat confused.

What exactly was Shi Yaoguang relieved about?

"Before we started shooting, I told you I was pregnant."

Shi Yaoguang’s words were like a drop of water into a raging kettle of oil.

Immediately, whispers spread among the crowd present.

Shi Yiqing’s face turned rigid.

She had no idea what Shi Yaoguang wanted to say.

But one glaring point lay before them.

Shi Yaoguang had a purpose!

Although the nature of her purpose was unknown, it was clear that it was far from innocent.

Shi Yiqing felt a bad premonition rising within her as she heard Shi Yaoguang say, "Did you sabotage Weiya because I was pregnant, wanting to kill my child?"

Shi Yiqing’s face, still stiff, once again became the center of everyone’s attention.

Everyone was very curious about this question.

Shi Yiqing dallied for quite a while but couldn’t provide a clear answer.

Shi Yaoguang immediately showed a look of disappointment, "So when my little sister said she was willing to listen to me, she was deceiving me."

"If I had known that this is what my little sister thought, I would not have bothered to ask this question at all. I was merely curious."

As she spoke, she sighed softly, "Actually, I was never pregnant."

Shi Yiqing had known this all along, and now hearing her say it, she felt a hate-filled gnashing of teeth inside.

Knowing that Shi Yaoguang wasn’t pregnant, what was she blindly fussing about?

But now, she could say nothing.

She couldn’t even defend herself.

The more she said, the more mistakes she could make, so she could only try her best to get Shi Yaoguang to skip over this topic.

However, Shi Yaoguang seemed determined to cling to this issue, sighing mournfully as she continued.

"My sister, you have always said that you want to reconcile with me, yet am I not of the same mind?"

"That time when I said I was pregnant, it was merely a temporary expedient, after all... our family’s Third Master is not in good health, and it wasn’t possible for me to have a child anytime soon. I said that to make you feel less bitter towards me after hearing I was pregnant."

"I never expected that you would misunderstand."

Shi Yaoguang paused deliberately here, leaving her words hanging.

This made everyone even more curious.

Immediately someone jeeringly asked, "Miss Shi, please continue, what did she misunderstand?"

Shi Yaoguang exhaled slowly, sighing, "Perhaps my little sister thought that the child belonged to my former fiancé?"

Upon hearing this, the crowd remembered the gossip from a while ago.

It was because Shi Yaoguang was late to her own engagement party that her fiancé ended up with someone else.

Now...

Was she still dwelling on that incident?

But Shi Yaoguang shook her head, her beautiful eyebrows tightly knitted, "I never had the chance to explain before, but now that my little sister is here, I might as well say a few more words."

"Although I was engaged to Quan Sicheng, nothing happened between us. I might have been left to fend for myself since young, but I am still conservative when it comes to matters of the heart; I would never cross the line no matter what."

"To tell you the truth, when I learned that you were forced by him, I really wanted to disregard everything and break off the engagement."

"What kind of man forces himself on a girl? But... you were infatuated with him, so I couldn’t bring myself to break a loving pair apart."

Shi Yaoguang showed the utter helplessness of a big sister in full display.

Looking at Shi Yiqing, her gaze seemed to bear a hint of disappointment as if to say she hadn’t turned out quite as expected, "Anyway, now that we are in front of everyone, I want to explain solemnly to you that there was never anything inappropriate between me and Quan Sicheng. I hope you can rest assured in the future and not always think that there might be something between him and me."

Shi Yiqing’s facade was nearly at its breaking point.

Seeing Shi Yaoguang’s expression of seeming goodwill, for the first time she began to regret why she had played out the charade of deep sisterly love with Shi Yaoguang.

She should have torn her facade with Shi Yaoguang, showing her own might!

Instead of here, sparring with words!

But whether she regretted it or not, Shi Yaoguang took the opportunity to bring up the matter between Shi Yiqing and Quan Sicheng again.

Though it was rehashing old news, it was enough to give people something to mull over.

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