"You ungrateful little wretch! If Miss hadn't saved you and given you food back then, you'd have starved, frozen, or died of illness in some trash heap on some street corner by now. And now you're actually repaying her kindness with evil and harming her instead? Are you even human?"
Nanny Wu had thought this little girl was merely vain and eager for glory. She had never imagined that she could go so far as to commit such an evil deed—and that her first victim would be her own benefactor.
Su Qiao saw everything but did not show it. She groped her way forward a couple of steps. "Nanny Wu, what happened?"
"Miss, this wretched girl drugged the tea she brought you. It should be a Muting Potion, something that would make anyone who drank it unable to speak ever again."
Nanny Wu quickly helped her sit farther away, then gave the stunned makeup artist standing nearby a meaningful look, telling her to hurry and call Sister Jin over.
"What?" Su Qiao looked shocked.
Nanny Wu quickly comforted her. "Miss, don't be afraid. Sit here for a while. I'll escort this girl outside."
Afraid that Yingzi might hurt Su Qiao again, she called over a costume assistant. The two of them each took one of Yingzi's arms and dragged her outside.
"Come with me to see Sister Jin. I'll have everyone take a good look at how you, you ungrateful wretch, harmed someone."
Host, aren't we going to follow them and watch the show?
Su Qiao had not wanted to go, but after thinking it over, she felt that she ought to show up at a time like this.
So she rose, groped around, and slowly followed them out with one hand against the wall.
However, she had barely gone