Chapter 140: Find a Scapegoat

Noble Lady Wei's words were earnest and tinged with guilt. If Mingshu truly had no idea that all this was done by her own hand, she might actually have been moved.

She watched Noble Lady Wei quietly for a while until the other party felt a tingling on her scalp, and the guilty expression on her face started to falter. Only then did she speak leisurely:

"It's not that I don't trust you. But Noble Lady Wei, this time I nearly lost the Empress Dowager's favor because of that Jade Guanyin of yours. If it weren't for Consort Shu who intervened halfway and switched it out from what I had, the person who would have made a fool of herself in front of so many people in the great hall yesterday would have been me!"