Peach Blossom Glade, Peach Blossom Manor.
On one side were Zhu Yushan and Li Hanyu; on the other were Tu Yujiao and the sisters Tu Yuya and Tu Yuqing.
Lu Zheng, Shen Ying, Liu Qingyan, and Si Lingxi sat in the seats of honor at the head.
The three courts' joint trial... cough cough... began tearing... cough cough... began explaining the misunderstanding.
As the sole victim, Zhu Yushan spoke first. "Yesterday afternoon, I was invited to Wenhua Tower to discuss literature and debate the classics. I dined with the others, but Brother Liu Licheng did not come. After we parted ways, I happened to pass by his home, so I went to check on him."
Zhu Yushan said, "But the moment I arrived at his house, I saw that this... this Miss Tu had bewitched his mind. Right at his front door, in public, he was doing indecent things out of thin air. I thought he had encountered some evil entity, so I... I directly made a move..."
Everyone nodded, then turned to look at Tu Yujiao.
Tu Yujiao gave a haughty snort and said coldly, "I was freely wandering around Yizhou Prefecture when that scholar surnamed Liu came to provoke me. I ignored him, but he kept pestering me, spouting vulgar nonsense about taking me to see goldfish.
"Pah! I've lived for nearly a hundred years—would I not know what he meant? So I followed him home, then muddled his mind and made him think he was rolling in the clouds and rain with me. In truth, he was making a fool of himself at his own doorstep."
Everyone nodded. They now roughly understood what had happened.
Tu Yujiao continued, "Then this scholar surnamed Zhu appeared and attacked me without a word. Hmph, with such meager cultivation, he wanted