While Su Yuanyuan was in a daze, Wei Linlang had already briefly told Mo Shi about the deeds of the second young lady of the Pingyang Marquis Mansion in her previous life.
After hearing this, Mo Shi was stunned for a good while before reacting.
"Just looking at Su Qingyu, one can tell that the poor girl must have fallen into her trap. It's a pity that the entire Pingyang Marquis Mansion was blindfolded, allowing that child to leave in such a way. It's really pitiful."
Su Yuanyuan was startled and suddenly raised her head to look at Mo Shi.
Mo Shi smiled and stroked her cheek, saying, "Yuanbao thinks so too, right?"
"It's a pity. Her name sounds so similar to our Yuanbao. If she were still alive, the two of you could have sworn sisterhood. Right, Yuanbao?"
Su Yuanyuan hugged Mo Shi tightly. She endured for a long time before finally managing not to cry out.
What on earth had she done to deserve such a mother in this life!
If there had been someone on her side in her previous life, how could she have ended up in such a miserable situation?
At this moment, Su Yuanyuan secretly made up her mind that in the future, she would filially serve her parents in this life, both for the original body and for herself.
Compared to Su Yuanyuan's strong reaction, Mo Shi didn't take the words she had just casually said to heart. She then turned to talk to Wei Linlang about other topics. However, neither the mother - in - law nor the daughter - in - law even spared a glance at Su Qingyu on the stage.
Just then, a melodious zither tune, like the clinking of fine jade, rang in their ears.
Su Yuanyuan wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and looked at Su Qingyu in the middle of the main hall. It turned out that she had tuned the zither and was now playing for the queen with her ten fingers dancing nimbly.
The tune Su Qingyu was playing was truly ethereal and dreamy, giving one the feeling of being in a fairyland, as if fairies were dancing around.
Presumably, this was the inspiration from the dream of fairies descending to the mortal world that Su Qingyu had mentioned.
But as Su Yuanyuan listened, she suddenly felt something was wrong.
Didn't this tune sound exactly like the piece called "Refining the Rosy Clouds" that she had composed in her previous life?!
Thinking she had misheard, Su Yuanyuan listened intently for a while and confirmed that what Su Qingyu was playing was indeed the tune she had composed in her previous life but had never made public!
Su Yuanyuan's expression remained unchanged, but her hand clenched into a fist under the cover of her sleeve.
Su Qingyu actually stole her musical score and claimed it as her own creation. Moreover, she even dared to show off in front of the queen! She was truly shameless to the extreme!
Su Yuanyuan remembered that Su Qingyu first made a name for herself in Shengjing at the first banquet she attended after being brought back to the marquis mansion.
At that time, many noble ladies in Shengjing were looking forward to seeing the Pingyang Marquis Mansion make a fool of themselves. Who would have thought that Su Qingyu would amaze everyone with a performance of "High Mountains and Flowing Waters", severely embarrassing those who were waiting to laugh at the marquis mansion.
But later, Su Yuanyuan discovered that Su Qingyu could actually only play this one tune, "High Mountains and Flowing Waters".
She told her elder brother about this discovery, but was scolded by him. He said that as the legitimate second daughter of the marquis mansion, she should teach her legitimate elder sister more tunes to make her more outstanding, instead of laughing at her elder sister behind her back.
Although Su Yuanyuan was a bit unhappy in her heart, she still followed her elder brother's instructions and became her elder sister's music teacher.
But she never expected that this would be the beginning of her suffering.
Although Su Qingyu behaved extremely amiably in front of others, in front of Su Yuanyuan, she showed a different side. She not only refused to listen to Su Yuanyuan's teachings but also tried every means to be lazy. Sometimes she would complain that Su Yuanyuan's tone was too harsh, sometimes that she didn't explain clearly, and sometimes that her fingers hurt from practicing too much. It was really annoying.
She told her elder brother about this, but was scolded again. Her elder brother said that she should be more patient with her elder sister and not always act like a spoiled young lady in front of her elder sister, rubbing salt into her elder sister's wounds. After all, her elder sister had suffered a great deal during the years she was living outside, and as family members, they should make up for it.
She felt extremely wronged. Clearly, it was Su Qingyu who was uncooperative. How could it become her fault instead?
Later, she learned that every time Su Qingyu finished her music lessons, she would secretly complain to her elder brother, making her elder brother think that Su Yuanyuan had been making things difficult for her during the lessons.
Su Yuanyuan was never one to tolerate such things. She argued with her elder brother, but her elder brother always believed that she was in the wrong and didn't even listen to her explanations.
What disgusted her even more was that while Su Qingyu was two - faced in front of her, she would close the door and practice hard in her own room. Every day, the melodious zither tunes could be heard coming from her room. As a result, the people in the marquis mansion felt even more sympathetic towards Su Qingyu, and their looks towards Su Yuanyuan gradually became strange. That was how her reputation as a "vicious girl" was gradually established.
In fact, Su Yuanyuan didn't even bother to compete with Su Qingyu.
She was the direct disciple of Master Shanyin, the imperial musician of the Great Chu Kingdom. The tune she composed at the age of ten was used by the royal family as the music for the sacrifice to heaven. In her eyes, Su Qingyu's meager zither skills were not even worth mentioning.
But she never expected that just half a year after her death, Su Qingyu would so brazenly take over her musical score. Did she really think that just because she was dead, no one would know that the tune was stolen?
Humph, Su Qingyu must not know that "Refining the Rosy Clouds" was not the final version. There were several sections in the middle of the tune with incomplete rhythms, and the ending was also not well - rounded. She had planned to continue revising the entire tune during her leisure time, but then many things happened in Shengjing, and the matter of revising the tune was delayed.
Although these problems were not significant, if there was someone who understood music present, they would surely be able to detect them.
Su Yuanyuan carefully searched among the seats opposite and, as expected, found the figure she was looking for.
She had just been thinking about how to ruin Su Qingyu's music performance, and unexpectedly, the opportunity was right in front of her.
Prince Xuan, Xiao Zijian, was also extremely proficient in music and was very obsessed with it.
Moreover, he was impulsive and stubborn. Once he heard that there were parts in the tune that could be revised, he would definitely raise questions on the spot and would not hesitate to speak his mind even in front of Master Shanyin.
She wondered if, with Su Qingyu's talent, she could answer the questions of this music - obsessed Prince Xuan.
Su Yuanyuan still had a cute and innocent look on her face, but her round almond eyes were bright and full of vitality, looking nothing like a silly girl. She didn't know that her performance was completely captured by another pair of light - amber eyes.
The tune, like celestial music, echoed throughout the main hall. Everyone was listening spellbound. But when it came to a certain part, Su Qingyu suddenly played an abrupt note with her fingers, but she didn't notice anything wrong and continued playing.
Su Yuanyuan clearly saw Prince Xuan frown, obviously having noticed the problem. She sat up a little straighter and couldn't help but look forward to what would happen next.
Su Qingyu, Su Qingyu, this time you're really asking for humiliation!