Dressed as a concubine instead of a concubine

"What did you say?"

Meng Xiyue raised her head slowly, with a layer of frost in her eyes, which made Yin Wumei's heart tremble.

She said unconvincedly, "Why are you looking at me like that? It was her fault in the first place."

"She and Mr. Li have an affair, and the news has spread all over the capital. If it weren't for her, would Mr. Li, a great scholar, have fought with others and ended up in jail?"

"Mr. Li? Li Zhi?"

Meng Xiyue frowned. She knew there had always been rumors between the two of them, but they were both decent people and didn't care about them.

"It's Mr. Li Zhi. A great scholar of his generation was implicated by her and his reputation was ruined. How can she still live in this world with dignity?"

Yin Wumei said lightly.

"If it weren't for the fact that she was once my sister-in-law, I wouldn't have come to see her off."

"She doesn't need you to send her off." Meng Xiyue's eyes were red, "Get lost."

"Ms. Meng, Mei Ran has no relatives or friends in the capital, and only our Yin family pities her."

Yin Wumei frowned and said with some grievance.

"Although she is a person of no moral integrity, I am willing to talk to my father and ask him to allow her to be buried next to my brother. This will also help to restore her reputation."

Yin Wumei looked down on Mei Ran in her heart, a woman who did not take good care of her husband and children, but spent all her time thinking about opening a school and recruiting disciples.

He totally deserved to end up like this.

She was not worthy of entering the Yin family's cemetery, but because the prince valued her, Yin Wumei wanted to curry favor with the prince in this way.

But she forgot that Prince Qi valued Mei Ran because Meng Xiyue valued her, otherwise he wouldn't even know who Mei Ran was.

Meng Xiyue clenched her fists, her whole body was shaking, and she spoke through gritted teeth.

"Entering your Yin family's cemetery would be an insult to her reputation. She is Mei Ran, she is just herself, she doesn't need to enter any family's cemetery."

Her eyes were fixed tightly, "Even if she is a ghost, she is still herself. She came here innocently, and I want her to leave innocently."

"You are not needed here, go away."

"You..." Yin Wumei really wanted to curse, but the rules she had followed since childhood to university made her endure it.

She looked at Prince Qi with tears in her eyes, "Prince, I have good intentions..."

"Okay, you go back."

Xie Junyi said with some impatience.

"Yes."

She lowered her eyebrows, seeming to be extremely aggrieved, but no one noticed the faint smile at the corner of her mouth, and the mocking look in her eyes when she looked at Mei Ran's body.

"Yue'er, I will send someone to investigate Mei Ran's matter and clear her name."

"My Lord, I want to be alone for a while."

Meng Xiyue walked to Mei Ran's body. She wanted to stay with her for a while longer.

Xie Junyi was silent for a moment, then replied, "Okay, I'll wait for you outside."

As soon as Xie Junyi left, Qianxiang came in and handed her a letter, "This is the letter that Miss Mei left for Miss. It was just delivered to Prince Qi's Mansion."

Meng Xiyue slowly raised her head and looked at the letter with her name on it.

The last thing she did before hanging herself was to write a letter to herself, but why couldn't she see herself?

If they met, perhaps she wouldn't be so depressed.

She opened the letter, which detailed her experiences in the past few days and the reasons why she wanted to commit suicide.

It turned out that since the college examination, two of the five students in Mei Ran Academy had become successful candidates.

Coupled with the paintings that Master Mo Ran had done before, this made Mei Ran Academy completely visible to everyone.

Many people want to send their children to Mei Ran Academy, which is a good thing. Her dream is finally coming true step by step.

But unexpectedly, this was just the beginning of her nightmare.

The reputation of Mei Ran Academy has damaged the interests of other colleges. There are only so many students. If they enter Mei Ran Academy, the number of students in other academies will naturally decrease.

This is nothing wrong. New schools are opened in the capital every day. As long as the teacher is good, there will be no shortage of students.

But Mei Ran is a woman, and in the eyes of those pedantic scholars, her behavior is morally corrupt.

Mei Ran was a woman who had been divorced, but she actually opened an academy. How could they, as scholars, put their faces aside?

Therefore, not long after, rumors about Mei Ran and Li Zhi spread again in the capital.

And it is getting worse and worse, and the words and sentences used are even more unpleasant.

If it were an ordinary woman, she would have been unable to bear it long ago.

But Mei Ran never cared about these things. She behaved uprightly and even though rumors were spreading, she still turned a deaf ear to what was happening outside.

After all, these rumors have been around since she was divorced.

Because of the rumors, many students who wanted to come to Mei Ran Academy chose to go to other academies.

It doesn't matter. When all her students are admitted to high school, they will beg to come to the academy.

She has never been one to be defeated so easily.

But later, a few women suddenly appeared and began to ruin her reputation with even worse behavior.

They said she was a vixen who seduced their husbands, but she didn't even know who their husbands were.

But it doesn't matter what the truth of the matter is.

People inherently think that since Mei Ran is a woman with a bad reputation, it is normal for her to seduce other men.

A divorced woman like her is not a good person.

If anyone sends his child to Mei Ran Academy, no matter how good his academic performance is, if his character is bad, the government will not accept him.

Upon hearing that it would affect their children's future, several students originally enrolled in Mei Ran Academy were also taken away by their families.

In the end, only Wang Ruixuan was left.

This was not the most fatal thing. As her reputation was ruined, many men began to harass her.

No matter how she tried to drive them away, the men seemed to be under instructions and kept pestering her.

He comes over every day and says some harsh and explicit words.

Once, Li Zhi happened to see her and had an argument with someone to protect her.

I don't know how the fight ended up happening, and the man even reported the incident to the authorities. The beating wasn't severe, and he was released after just one day.

However, someone in the court reported this matter to Li Zhi, saying that he had an unclear relationship with Mei Ran and that this corrupted the character of scholars and made him unfit to be a teacher.

Somehow the emperor believed the slander and locked Li Zhi up, making him repent in prison.

He will be released when he submits a confession of guilt and repentance.

But how could Li Zhi repent for such a fictitious thing?

To Mei Ran, Li Zhi is both a teacher and a friend. It doesn't matter how she is slandered.

But Li Zhi is a real man. How could such a stigma befall him? Moreover, prison is hard. How could Li Zhi, at his age, survive?

After Mei Ran filed a lawsuit everywhere without any success, she finally chose to embark on this path of no return.

Everything started with her, and with her departure, everything will disappear.