Reborn As Lucky Star-Chapter 166 - : Village Gossip

Chapter 166 -166: Village Gossip

The Yu Family had a straightforward and brutal approach, summed up in five words.

Strike first to gain the advantage.

Soon, the village was abuzz with many rumors targeting Yue Jiannan.

That day, as Yue Jiannan was on his way to the fishpond, he noticed that people’s gazes towards him were all off.

“I really didn’t see this coming, Yue Lao San turns out to be this kind of person.”

“I was wondering why he went to the city every day, thinking he was so lovestruck, but I never expected…”

Yue Jiannan frowned, though he didn’t know exactly what people were whispering about, he keenly sensed their strange glances were all aimed at him.

Finally, at noon, a close acquaintance specifically came to the fishpond to find him.

Looking all sneaky, “Tsk tsk, Jiannan, take me with you next time you go to the city.”

Yue Jiannan put down his book, turned his head, and said, “Wei Lao Er, if you want to go to the city, just go by yourself, why do you have to make me take you? Don’t have legs?”

Wei Lao Er chuckled, “I do have legs, but can’t find the way, unlike you who goes often and knows the place like the back of your hand.”

Yue Jiannan slapped him on the back, “Stop beating around the bush, and talk straight.”

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Wei Lao Er lowered his voice, “People in the village say they saw you go to the city’s hair-washing salon?”

As he spoke, he made a lewd gesture, clearly indicating this so-called hair-washing salon was no decent place.

Yue Jiannan was furious, “Bullshit, where did you hear that? It’s all nonsense.”

Wei Lao Er pouted, “Everyone’s saying it, you go to the city so often, clearly not to see Yu Yaxian, but to do that stuff.”

Yue Jiannan realized something was wrong, “Everyone’s saying so?”

“Yeah, if it were false, why hasn’t Yu Yaxian come out to refute it?”

Wei Lao Er got a bit angry too; he had a good relationship with Yue Jiannan, and was upset that he was pretending to be unaware.

If he was really going to see the Yu girl each time, she would have come out to clarify as soon as she heard the news.

That morning, a gossipy sister-in-law intentionally pried a few words at the Yu family’s home, and Yu Yaxian immediately had tears in her eyes, still obstinately saying that Yue Jiannan shouldn’t be that kind of person.

This very attempt to cover up made people all the more convinced of the gossip’s truth.

Yue Jiannan, who had been calm the day before, was now genuinely angry.

Did the Yu Family have to be so vile? Did being a man mean he didn’t care about his reputation?

If Yu Yaxian had respectfully called off the engagement, he would have actually respected her.

Now, dumping this slander on his head, what was this about?

Despite his young age, Yue Jiannan couldn’t hold back his anger and made a trip to the Yu Family.

There he didn’t get to see Yu Yaxian,

Yu’s mother and father received him, and only served him a cup of cold tea, saying Yu Yaxian was not at home.

They also skilfully used familiar Tai Chi skills to usher Yue Jiannan back without mentioning the rumors.

Yue Jiannan returned with his anger unabated.

No sooner had he left than Yu Yaxian emerged from the inner room, her face covered in tears as she walked around the yard.

A keen-eyed neighbor noticed that Yu Yaxian’s face was flushed, seemingly marked with a handprint.

Her arm also bore bruises.

Seeing the neighborly auntie looking curiously at her, Yu Yaxian immediately covered half her face, managing a forced smile and responded briefly.

She kept reiterating, every time Yue Jiannan went to the city, it was to see her, and he had never done anything wrong.

The neighborly auntie nodded significantly and with abundant sympathy.

Within a couple of days, the news that Yue Jiannan had done misdeeds in the city had been exposed, and he had beaten his fiancée demanding she insincerely clear his name spread throughout the village.

The young women of the village were infuriated upon hearing this, wishing they could stab Yue Jiannan with their stares.

Even the men felt Yue Jiannan was indeed despicable, worrying that the good girl from the Yu Family would end up in a terrible marriage.

The same Yue Jiannan who had been praised as a good man half a month earlier, quickly became a despised rat in the gutter, everyone after him.

The villagers unanimously believed that a girl from a distinguished family like Yu Yaxian marrying into the Yue Family was already marrying beneath her, and now she was being subjected to such inhuman treatment.

Any parent of the Yu Family who cared for their daughter would have ended the engagement with the Yue Family much earlier!