Mu Beiyin narrowed her eyes. It was obvious that Madam Lu wasn't being kind out of goodwill.
But since the Lu family was clearly scheming against her, if she did nothing, wouldn't that just make her an easy target in their eyes?
So, Mu Beiyin put on an innocent smile. "Sure."
A trace of contempt flashed in Madam Lu's eyes—this Mu Beiyin really was hopelessly stupid.
She led Mu Beiyin to the second-floor dressing room. "Beiyin, feel free to choose any dress here. Once you've picked one and changed, you can go get your makeup done."
Mu Beiyin glanced over the gowns and tilted her head. "Only these few? But I don't like any of them. Maybe I'll just pass."
As she spoke, she made a move to leave.
Madam Lu's heart skipped a beat, and she quickly pulled her back. "Beiyin! How can you just leave?!"
Realizing she had overreacted, she softened her tone. "We have many more dresses. Tell me what you like, and I'll have someone bring them to you."
Mu Beiyin casually listed a few luxury designer brands.
Madam Lu's expression contorted with growing pain, but she still forced herself to agree. "Alright, just wait here. Don't go anywhere."
Soon, a butler-like figure arrived with several high-end dresses.
Madam Lu gritted her teeth. "Beiyin, each of these dresses costs over a million yuan. They should be good enough for you, right?"
Mu Beiyin raised an eyebrow. "Oh, this will do. Madam Lu, I'll get changed now. You can go."
Madam Lu's heart ached like her organs were being torn apart. She took a deep breath and glared fiercely at Mu Beiyin.
Luckily, this woman was about to be ruined anyway! A few wasted dresses wouldn't matter.
After Madam Lu left, Mu Beiyin closed the dressing room door and carefully inspected each gown.
Surprisingly, none of the tags had been removed, and there were no signs of tampering.
No... Madam Lu clearly had a trap. If it wasn't the dresses, then the problem must lie in the room itself.
Suddenly, Mu Beiyin looked up at the ceiling.
If the dresses were clean, then the room was the issue.
She guessed there had to be a hidden camera. If she changed here, it would definitely be recorded.
She moved to a corner and, with a few precise motions, quickly removed a pinhole camera.
Thinking for a moment, she called Bai Ji. "Assistant Bai, could you bring me another gown and find an unused lounge for me?"
…
Ten minutes later, Mu Beiyin had changed into the new gown in the lounge. Holding the removed camera in her hand, she headed off to settle accounts with Madam Lu.
She pushed open the makeup room door—just in time to see Lu Xixue adding something into a bottle of foundation.
Lu Xixue was stunned—she hadn't expected Mu Beiyin to arrive so quickly.
Mu Beiyin narrowed her eyes. "Miss Lu, what did you just add to that foundation?"
Lu Xixue was flustered. "I didn't touch it! You're mistaken!"
Mu Beiyin raised an eyebrow and casually turned on the voice recorder on her phone.
"Let me guess... you added a corrosive agent to the foundation to ruin my face, didn't you?"
Lu Xixue panicked at how accurately Mu Beiyin had guessed. She immediately shouted, "You're lying! Mu Beiyin, how dare you slander me!"
Indeed, she had added a corrosive substance to the foundation. It could cause disfigurement. After all, Mu Beiyin had stolen her Brother Shiqing!
Letting her get disfigured was already merciful!
But she could never admit it. As long as she denied it, what could Mu Beiyin do?
Mu Beiyin understood Lu Xixue's thinking and suddenly chuckled.
"Miss Lu, it doesn't matter if you admit it or not. I already found the hidden camera in the dressing room. If I release the footage, not just you, but the entire Lu family will be implicated. So, whether or not you added something to the foundation... it doesn't matter anymore."
"Your and your mother's scheme failed—disappointed?"
The camera was found… and she was threatening to expose it?!
Lu Xixue's face paled with shock. She screamed without thinking, "Impossible! That camera was hidden too well. You're bluffing!"
Mu Beiyin smiled triumphantly. "Oh? So you admit the camera was yours?"
"You…" Lu Xixue realized she had been tricked—she'd just indirectly confessed.
Furious and humiliated, she screamed, "Shut up, Mu Beiyin! So what if I did it? I wish your changing footage gets leaked! What good is removing the camera—it was online! Your undressing video is already everywhere!"
Mu Beiyin's face turned icy. "Online?"
Lu Xixue laughed hysterically. "You're already in that gown. That means you changed in front of the camera. Who knows how many perverts are watching you right now—"
Mu Beiyin sneered. Good thing she'd had the foresight to change in a separate lounge.
She wore the gown on purpose—to provoke Lu Xixue into spilling the truth.
Just then, the door to the makeup room slammed shut.
Lu Xixue screamed, "Hold her down!"
Mu Beiyin dodged a makeup artist's hand and smirked. "Miss Lu, you're not even pretending anymore?"
Lu Xixue shouted shamelessly, "It's all out in the open anyway! I'll tell you the truth—I did add something! Today, whether you use it or not, you're using it! Let's see who wants you after your face is ruined! Brother Shiqing is mine!"
Mu Beiyin's eyes turned cold. So the Lu family's "clearing up" of the engagement was fake—Lu Xixue never gave up on marrying Huo Shiqing.
She calmly looked at the foundation bottle and suddenly laughed. "Want to ruin my face?"
The next second, she smashed the foundation bottle, lunged forward, and smeared it toward Lu Xixue's face at lightning speed.
"Ah!" Lu Xixue screamed in terror and fell to the ground, shrieking, "She's trying to kill me!"
If that stuff touched her face, she'd be disfigured—she didn't want that!
Upstairs, her shriek rang out. Madam Lu and Lu Ming rushed over in a panic.
"Xixue, what happened?!"
They saw Lu Xixue backing away in a panic, pale and terrified.
While Mu Beiyin stood tall, her expression cold and menacing.
Seeing her parents, Lu Xixue burst into tears and shouted, "Dad, Mom! Mu Beiyin is trying to kill me! She's ruthless!"
Madam Lu didn't hesitate to curse, "Mu Beiyin! How can you be so vicious? You're trying to kill my daughter at our Lu family banquet—are you even human?! Even if you're jealous of how close my daughter is to Shiqing, you can't go this far!"
Mu Beiyin stared at the mother-daughter duo flipping the truth and almost applauded them.
She sneered. "Madam Lu, you and I both know the truth. Don't play the victim."
Madam Lu snapped, "You're the one playing victim! What did my daughter do to deserve this?! Shiqing, you say something!"
Everyone turned to see Huo Shiqing standing silently, eyes fixed coldly on Madam Lu.
Lu Ming, sensing something off, tried to defuse the situation. "Alright, Xixue, tell us what happened."
Lu Xixue bit her lip, crying dramatically. "Mom and I saw that Miss Mu hadn't changed into her dress or done her makeup, so we asked a makeup artist to help her. But she barged in, yelling and saying she wanted to kill me!"
"Sob… Even if she's engaged to Brother Shiqing, she shouldn't treat me like this! Is it my fault I grew up with him?"
Madam Lu cried as well. "Miss Mu is so jealous it's terrifying!"
Lu Ming knew his daughter's personality and figured the truth wasn't so simple. But still—this was his daughter. He couldn't let Mu Beiyin trample over her.
"Miss Mu, if something is yours, no one can take it. If it's not, no matter what you do, you won't get it. You don't have to make trouble for Xixue just because of Shiqing."
Mu Beiyin smiled. This family was truly amusing. "President Lu, before blaming me, perhaps take a look at this."
She pointed at the shattered bottle of foundation and spoke calmly.
"Madam Lu invited me to get my makeup done. But the moment I walked in, I saw Miss Lu adding something to the foundation."
Madam Lu's eyelid twitched, and she quickly tried to deny it. "That's nonsense—"
Before she could finish, Huo Shiqing's cold gaze swept toward her.
That seemingly calm look carried a murderous chill—and Madam Lu fell silent, terrified.