Transmigration: Lady Chi Woos The Ice cold Professor Jun
Chapter 386: Call off the engagement.

Chapter 386: Call off the engagement.

Her mother appeared to be very anxious when she asked her that question.

"Mother, did someone try to call off the engagement?" Chi Lian asked in a more stern voice.

She looked around, lifted what remained of the covers in search of her phone. If Muyang was the one who wanted to cancel the engagement then she would force him to talk to her face to face.

"Why are you assuming that Muyang is the one who wants the engagement cancelled?" T4 finally showed and he asked her.

"Because only his opinion matters when it comes to his marriage. We both know that so stop idling around and help me locate my phone." she said quite loudly to T4 in her mind.

While she was flipping the bed, Lili who was sitting at the edge fell off and landed on her butt.

"Aww, take it easy." she said.

"I am looking for my phone." Chi Lian responded. "Has any of you seen it?"

"You left it downstairs." her mother replied.

Chi Lian left them in her room and she dashed downstairs to find her phone. It was on the dining table where she, Lili, Rize and Jian Yu had shared some snacks while giggling like thieves.

She also realized that while they may not have been flat out drunk, it was possible that they ended the night on a tipsy note.

She managed to get her phone and she realized that she had ten missed calls from Bear but only two from Muyang.

He had also sent her a text in the wee hours of the morning asking if she was okay and saying that she should not worry and that he was going to handle things.

The tight feeling of nervousness in her lower abdomen let go and she breathed aloud in relief.

When she turned around to go back upstairs and handle the issue her own way, she realized that majority of her family members were gathered in the living room with worried expressions.

With the lack of excitement she assumed that they were worried about her engagement. They looked sad, as if they were at a funeral and she chose to make light of the situation.

"Who died?" she asked playfully.

Her grandmother madam An looked at her with disapproval in her eyes. "Chi-Chi, this is not the time to make jokes. Your engagement is on the edge of falling apart. We are all here to try and find a way of salvaging your image and your engagement before it’s too late. Do not take what is happening lightly."

Chi Lian softened her voice and she said, "Sorry."

"Why did you choose last night of all nights to go out drinking foolishly? What kind of friends are you making that this was their idea of a fun night out?" Grandpa Wang barked his questions at her sternly.

His stern loud voice shocked and it made her uncomfortable. Perhaps it was because she had never been scolded so openly and loudly by a beloved family member before.

"Grandfather....sister doesn’t like being shouted at. You are going to make her cry." Chi Wei inserted himself into the situation to defend Chi Lian.

"I was not drunk." she replied softly. "Before accusing me of public drunkenness at least ask for my side of the story. You are my family, shouldn’t you hear from me first before believing trashy tabloids?"

The fact that all of them had gathered under a common false assumption was causing her pain and anguish. They may not be saying it but she could see the disappointed looks on some of their faces.

"Dear, nobody here is accusing you of anything, we are just worried." Madam An softened her voice as she spoke to Chi Lian.

"It’s my engagement grandmother, if anybody needs to worry it should be me. This news is false and slanderous and anybody who knows me should know that it’s a lie.

I trust in Muyang fully and I know that he will not cancel our engagement for anything in the world. Even if he does, it’s not the end of the world.

I Chi Lian will not die just because a man has decided that he does not want to marry me anymore."

She was angry and defensive. Being shouted at in public always had this way of making her feel humiliated, small and insignificant. It always brought tears to her eyes.

It had been one of her weaknesses in her first days of training as a soldier however she managed to over come it. For some reason right now however, tears were flowing from her eyes.

She wiped the tears away and she turned around to walk away only to bump into a familiar chest. It was none other than Muyang whose presence she did not notice.

She tried to go around him but he held her back by the hand and he stopped her. Then he proceeded to wipe her tears away as he said,

"I am happy to now that you have so much faith in me. However those last words that you just said, I for one never want to hear them again. I am not ever going to leave you."

He hugged her and patted her back in front of everyone.

As he did that, he said to everyone, "Chi-Chi was not drunk, someone has been fanning the flames and using the pictures to cover up another scandal.

That beauty company Miflame is the one behind it all. When more questions about the actress endorsing their products increased, so did the number of people accusing the company of misrepresenting their skin whitening cream. In order to cover up the issue, they used Chi-Chi to blow up the scandal and create a diversion."

"I knew someone was behind it." Chi Rui said. "Rize was with Chi-Chi but only Chi-Chi has been crucified. It was obvious that whoever was behind it was afraid of touching the princess. Lili and Yifei were not famous to be used and Jian Yu is in a disguise so they did not know she was there. Only Chi-Chi could be used."

They all relaxed now that Muyang was personally vindicating Chi Lian however knowing that she was innocent and proving it were two different things.

"How do we prove all this and clear her name before the banquet tonight?" Grandpa Wang asked.