Chapter 219: Alleged

"Mr. Long it seems like your wife is not feeling well." Shen Qui said. "Are you sure, she is well enough to attend events like this?"

"Q, I think Xiaoxuan is not sick but only emotional." Jessica chimed in. Of course, she wouldn't let Shen Qui help Lyca out. "Xi here… allegedly poisoned their grandfather. I think I would understand the sudden emotion that Xiaoxuan had upon seeing her, right? After all, it was a premeditated murder."

Xiaoxuan held her breath when she heard Jessica's words. Who would have thought that the woman would act like this in front of everyone? She immediately regretted letting Jessica know about Lyca. Xiaoxuan's eyes started to tear up when she felt Long Yi's hands tightened on her waist. He was pinching it! As if he was telling her to fix this.

Xiaoxuan's face darkened. Why would Long Yi want her to fix this situation when this was all Lyca's fault? This is an event for investors and businessmen! Why was she even here? But most importantly, why would Long Yi want her to clear up the misunderstanding? Does he still like Lyca? Frowning, Xiaoxuan immediately jumped to a conclusion. She couldn't help the irritation slowly turned into anger. She could feel it boil inside her, like hot lava just waiting for her to let it all go. 

"It's alright, Xiaoxuan. It's alright to be emotional about all this." Jessica's voice echoed near her ears. "If something like that would happen to me, I would definitely — "

"Jessica… why don't you accompany Xiaoxuan outside for a while? I think she needed to breathe." Mayor Dongfang immediately decided to try to cool down the current situation. He, too, was not expecting Shen Qui to come here with Lyca. After all, he was aware that Shen Qui and Lyca was trying to hide from the Long Family.

He thought Lyca wouldn't be brave enough to come here. He even thought that Shen Qui would hesitate to come here because of Long Yi's presence! Who would have thought that the two would fearlessly come and seemed to plan everything ahead of time! This immediately made the Mayor a bit panicked. He had been using the Long Family to try and scare Shen Qui.

Now that the Long Family knew where Shen Qui was, it means he already lost his advantage. How could he continued Jessica act like this without the advantage that he thought he had?

"But father!" Jessica pouted. "An alleged murder is something that we should be concern about, isn't it? I couldn't help but wonder if… " She looked at Shen Qui, wondering if the latter knew about Lyca's actions. 

"Jessica… enough! Let's not make this event an awkward one. We are here to help, not to create a scene about murders who haven't even proven yet." The mayor said when he felt Santa Rivers gaze towards him. Right now, everyone seemed to favor Santa more than him. And he wasn't just talking about business. He was talking about ordinary citizens.

For some reason, the man found a way to make them believe that he was better than the mayor. Or at least that's what the people living in the slums said. Santa had been helping out the poor and is showing up at every charity event while the mayor was busy with his personal affairs.

Right now, the Mayor doesn't know the real intention behind Santa's actions. There is a possibility that Santa is planning to run for Mayor in the next election. If that is the case, then he wouldn't want Santa to use this event to make him look bad.

What would the people say, if Santa would start telling them about his daughter's behavior?

"Father but— "

"Jessica…. Please… Mrs. Long is not feeling well. You should accompany her outside." The Mayor faked a smile that looked more like an angry scowl than a smile.

"Father! How could you do that? We all know that Mr. Q is— "

"Miss Jessica… please don't forget that this is still their personal matters. I mean… an alleged poisoning is not as worse as the alleged murder that your father committed, right? Or the alleged addiction that you had? Or the alleged— "

"What do you mean?" Jessica frowned. "What alleged addiction are you talking about?" She interrupted him before she looked at Lyca. Did this woman tell Shen Qui about things about her? However, instead of answering her, Shen Qui ignored her and took a sip of his champagne instead. Seeing Shen Qui's nonchalant expression only made Jessica more concerned about Shen Qui's opinions towards her. 

"What do you mean? Can you please explain your words to me?"

Santa chuckled when he heard Jessica's words. "She's right, Q. You should explain those words to Miss Jessica. After all, she had a spotless reputation. She is like an angel in Kong City."

"Hm?" Shen Qui looked at Santa. "Didn't you see it? It's all over the Internet."

Everyone who heard Shen Qui's words instantly opened their phones to check social media. Even Huang Xiaoxuan, who was still emotional couldn't help but feel curious about it. Of course, she was also thankful that the attention was now on Jessica. She knew that she made a mistake earlier, she actually looked like an uneducated and emotional woman!

How could she talk about personal family problems in front of everyone here? How could she do it when Long Yi was trying to make himself look good in front of these investors to help with the Long Company? She heaved a sigh of relief as she looked at her phone and made her presence as little as possible.

Whatever Jessica's problem with Lyca is does not concern Xiaoxuan in any way. She actually thought that Jessica would be one of those women she could easily manipulate and fool. Well… she was right. The woman was actually a real fool.

But not the kind of fool that would give her an advantage at all.