Rekindled Hearts: The Tycoon’s Reluctant Love
Chapter 338 - Chapter 338 Chapter 337 Proving Innocence

Chapter 338: Chapter 337: Proving Innocence Chapter 338: Chapter 337: Proving Innocence As soon as the butler finished speaking, Old Master Nangong slammed the coffee table angrily.

“Ming Yao, do you have anything to say?”

Ming Yao glanced at the sapphire necklace in the butler’s hand, “Even if it was found in my room, that doesn’t necessarily mean I stole it.”

Apparently never having seen someone dirty and still arguing, Old Master Nangong’s face immediately turned ashen.

Ning Shu said to Old Master Nangong, “Dad, what’s the point of keeping someone like this in the General’s Residence? Today she stole Xiao Xuan’s necklace worth millions; who knows if tomorrow she won’t steal all of the General’s Residence’s heirlooms?”

Nangong Xuan wiped the tears on her face, “Grandfather, it’s either her or me in this house, not both!”

Ming Yao raised an eyebrow, leisurely took out her cell phone.

“I have a video here, after everyone watches it, you’ll know if I was the thief.”

Ming Yao played the video.

In the footage, she left her room, and shortly after, a furtive figure sneaked in.

The figure, seeing nobody in the room, put a sapphire necklace into the drawer of the bedside table.

Upon leaving, the figure glanced in the direction of a surveillance camera.

That charming peach-like little face was revealed.

Seeing the video, the color drained from everyone’s face.

Especially Nangong Xuan’s.

Her eyes widened, and blood coursed backward through her veins.

How could this be?

She had made sure all the surveillance footage was deleted!

Ming Yao turned off the video, then pulled out two photos.

Looking at Old Master Nangong with a clear gaze, she said, “You brought me here, and then installed cameras in my bedroom and bathroom, isn’t that an invasion of privacy?”

Upon hearing this, both Nangong Xuan and Ning Shu’s faces changed drastically.

The cameras they had installed in Ming Yao’s room were only pinhole-sized, very concealed.

If they captured Ming Yao’s private moments, they would have the upper hand and control over her in the future.

They didn’t expect to be discovered by her in less than a day!

The most critical point was that Nangong Xuan had been caught on camera quietly placing the sapphire necklace.

It was like lifting a rock only to drop it on one’s own foot!

“Mom, Xiao Xuan, how could you do such a thing?” Nangong Jing couldn’t believe that his mother and sister would install cameras in someone else’s room.

Nangong Heng clicked his tongue, “Auntie, Xiao Xuan, what you did was wrong!”

Seeing her own older brother and third brother accusing her, this time Nangong Xuan truly felt aggrieved and tears fell.

“I, I just hate her. Her mother was a flirtatious and indiscreet woman, why should she be allowed to live in our house?”

Old Master Nangong did not expect that the sapphire necklace had been placed in Ming Yao’s room by Nangong Xuan; his old face lost some dignity.

“Enough, I’ll have the cameras in your room removed immediately. We will never allow such a thing to happen again in this house. Let’s leave it at that!” Old Master Nangong obviously favored Nangong Xuan.

With a barely perceptible sneer on her lips, Ming Yao said nothing and turned to go upstairs.

Watching Ming Yao’s departing figure, Nangong Heng looked at her and then at Nangong Xuan, who was being protected in Ning Shu’s arms. His eyes showed a hint of disappointment.

“Xiao Xuan, you did something wrong, and you don’t even say sorry; that’s a bit too much,” Nangong Heng said before putting his hands in his pockets and heading upstairs.

That night, the matter of Nangong Xuan wrongfully accusing Ming Yao of stealing the necklace spread among the servants of the General’s Residence.

Ming Yao gained a wave of sympathy.

This also made it convenient for her to inquire about the past within the Nan family.

One of the older servants had been working at the General’s Residence for nearly thirty years.

During a chat with Ming Yao, the topic of her mother’s past inadvertently came up.

The old servant told her that her mother and Nangong Xiao had truly loved each other, and had it not been for Nangong Xiao’s accident, her mother would certainly have married into the General’s Residence.

From the old servant’s words, Ming Yao learned that her mother’s tragedy happened after Nangong Xiao’s accident.

Her mother was talented in many ways, and Nangong Xiao loved opera. In the villa’s Nan Garden, he especially built a stage for performances. When her mother came to the Nangong Family, she would perform on this stage just for Nangong Xiao.

The old servant said that since the incident with Nangong Xiao, that area had been sealed off.

Ming Yao took advantage of the stillness of the night and quietly went to the stage.

Behind the stage were several rooms, which Ming Yao opened one by one.

One of them was a dressing room, filled with various operatic costumes.

But those costumes had all been cut and damaged.

Ming Yao found a jade bead under one of the boxes.

She picked up the jade bead and examined it.

It was the kind of bead strung into a bracelet, likely dropped into the box when someone was cutting the costumes and the bracelet came apart.

A vivid image suddenly surfaced in Ming Yao’s mind.

Ning Shu wore a bracelet made of such small jade beads around her wrist.

Could her mother’s death be related to Ning Shu?

Ming Yao lowered her eyes thoughtfully, an idea forming in her mind.

That night, Ning Shu got up to use the bathroom.

The bathroom in her room just happened to face the direction of the stage.

When she finished, she glanced outside.

At that glance, she was so frightened she nearly lost her soul.

A figure dressed in an operatic costume stood on the stage, brandishing a flower spear.

The color drained from Ning Shu’s face.

She closed her eyes and then opened them again, looking forward to see that there was nothing on the stage.

Seeming to think of something, she hurriedly walked outside.

She knocked on Ming Yao’s door, and after a while, Ming Yao opened it.

Ming Yao looked at Ning Shu with sleepy eyes, “Great Aunt, is there something you need?”

Ning Shu bit her lip, “It’s nothing.”

Ming Yao couldn’t possibly have rushed back from the stage in such a short time, so could it be the ghost of Ming Ying on the stage?

At this thought, Ning Shu’s legs nearly gave out from fear.

She couldn’t sleep for the rest of the night.

She quietly took some spirit money and headed in the direction of the stage.

“Every debt has a debtor, every grievance its claimant, your death has nothing to do with me, don’t come after me!”

Just as Ning Shu finished speaking, suddenly a gust of wind blew and scattered all the spirit money.

“Really, it has nothing to do with you?”

Ning Shu turned her head and saw a pale woman dressed in an operatic costume standing not far away. She screamed in terror.

“Ming, Ming Ying, you’ve returned?”

“Ning Shu, you made my death so miserable…”

“No, it wasn’t me. At most, I hired a few men to patronize your brothel business, I didn’t kill you!”

Initially, Ning Shu found out that Nangong Wei was interested in Ming Ying and even secretly went to redeem her from the brothel. She was so furious that she sent a few men to see Ming Ying.

Ming Ying indeed suffered abuse, but she was not killed by those men, so it wasn’t her fault!

“You still won’t tell the truth. It seems you think your life is too long…”

The pale woman in the operatic costume lunged at Ning Shu.

“Ahh, I’ll tell you, the day before you died, I indeed thought about hurting you, but when I got to the brothel, you were talking to Uncle Hua. I couldn’t find the opportunity and just left. Who knew you would die the next day!”

“It must have been Uncle Hua. Uncle Hua was Nangong Xiao’s most loyal servant. He wanted to send you to the Underworld to reunite with Nangong Xiao, so he killed you!”