"No rejection, I'll accept it. I'm originally very poor, I was just pretending to be polite earlier." Xu Qinghuan's eyes were also slightly warm.
Lin Xiaolan was amused by her, with teardrops trembling on her eyelashes.
Lin Xiaolan wasn't the most beautiful girl, but her features were delicate, and her eyes were lively. The only drawback was that she was a bit dark, her skin rough, which made her very self-conscious.
In the novel, she later married Du Jiakang, the second son of the Du family in Yan City, but the latter had an old lover, his foster sister, Wu Kexin. Due to social norms, the two could only meet secretly.
This troubled Lin Xiaolan, as for many years after marriage, Du Jiakang didn't touch her.
Lin Xiaolan always thought it was because she looked ugly, both dark and rough, and after an incident with her sister-in-law, followed by changes in her natal family, Lin Xiaolan developed severe depression and jumped to her death.
"Open your mouth!" Xu Qinghuan pinched a Beauty Pill in her hand, which she made according to the formula in the medical book from her space, using only herbs from the space and spirit water.
Lin Xiaolan didn't even ask what Xu Qinghuan was going to give her to eat, obediently opened her mouth wide, and a pill was flicked into it; she didn't even taste it before it melted, flowing down her throat.
"What is it?" Lin Xiaolan only found it slightly sweet and bitter. She wasn't sick, so why take medicine?
"Poison!" Xu Qinghuan teased.
"Well, you dare give me poison, tell me, admit it, you're just jealous of my beauty and talents, aren't you, aren't you?" Saying this, she started tickling Xu Qinghuan, and the two were frolicking in the small grove by the roadside at the hospital entrance.
"Sis!"
Xu Qinghuan straightened up and looked towards the voice. It was Xu Manman, with bandages on her head, a pale little face, delicate like a small white flower in a storm, easily able to evoke the protective instincts of men.
Lin Xiaolan glanced at Xu Qinghuan, Huanhuan was different from Xu Manman, she was gorgeous and radiant like the sun in the sky, and men's protective instincts were a desecration to her.
Really, I don't know what kind of man is fit to stand by Xu Qinghuan, but it surely shouldn't be someone like Jiang Chengxu.
Thus, when Huanhuan wanted to break off the engagement, Lin Xiaolan fully supported her.
Sure enough, Jiang Chengxu was right next to Xu Manman.
The two walked towards Xu Qinghuan, Lin Xiaolan suddenly jumped out and blocked them, "What are you trying to do?"
Xu Manman's gaze passed over Lin Xiaolan's head and looked at Xu Qinghuan behind her, "Sis, don't misunderstand, Brother Chengxu is just here to accompany me to change my bandages."
Xu Qinghuan smiled and shook her head, "I didn't misunderstand!"
Anyway, they were about to break off the engagement soon.
Lin Xiaolan cursed, "Really shameless, so brazen, Jiang Chengxu, you're really a low-quality man, engaged to the sister while flirting with the younger one. The Qing Dynasty has been gone for over a hundred years, do you still want to stage a restoration? You better believe I'll report you!"
Jiang Chengxu's face went pale, "Lin Xiaolan, if you can't speak nicely, then shut up. When have I ever flirted with Manman? Wasn't Manman clear on this? I'm just accompanying her to change bandages."
Lin Xiaolan cursed, "Ha, change bandages, what, has she become disabled, without a hand or foot, unable to move, or is there no one at home, and you have to accompany her to change bandages.
As far as I know, she has three brothers and a sister, right? Two are working, but isn't there one idle one? That's her own brother who doesn't care, while you, a future brother-in-law, are rushing to help. If you say you don't have any ulterior motives, who would believe it!"
She pulled Xu Qinghuan, "Huanhuan, three-legged toads are hard to find, but look, there are plenty of two-legged men everywhere, leave this scumbag to those who want him, we don't!"
Xu Qinghuan was having a headache, but Lin Xiaolan was always this hot-tempered. Today, something must have poked her sensitive nerve, and her loud shouting had drawn all the passing people to watch the commotion at the hospital entrance.
Lin Xiaolan was stimulated by Xu Qinghuan's decision to go to the countryside; how hard life is there doesn't need to be said, facing the earth, back to the sky, how could Huanhuan endure such hardships.
Xu Manman was truly delighted, she wanted to push further, pulling Xu Qinghuan's sleeve, crying, "Sis, is it because of me that you misunderstood Brother Chengxu? I am completely innocent with Brother Chengxu, don't misunderstand, please? I'll beg you, Brother Chengxu is sincerely fond of you!"
Xu Qinghuan frowned and hadn't said anything yet when Lin Xiaolan kicked Xu Manman aside, "Shameless! Never seen something so shameless, doing shady things with your brother-in-law while claiming innocence. Are all men in this world dead, that you must flirt with your own brother-in-law?
Bah, if not for Huanhuan, I'd report you two adulterers and have you paraded in the streets!"
More and more people were watching the show, Jiang Chengxu had never been so embarrassed, his face turning dark, "Qinghuan, Manman said we're just about revolutionary friendship, why don't you believe it?
Her forehead is badly injured, and you've never cared. Instead, you suspect her relationship with me, is that how you being a sister?"
Xu Qinghuan laughed angrily, "Jiang Chengxu, whatever relationship you have with someone, whether clean or not, what does it have to do with me? Don't you understand human language? I'm breaking off with you; from today, even if you sleep around, it has nothing to do with me!
Also, regarding the wound on her forehead, shouldn't you consult with the doctor? Hurry up and go change the bandage; if it's healed after waiting any longer, what then?"
"Pfft!" Someone laughed out loud.
Xu Manman closed her eyes to feign dizziness, falling into Jiang Chengxu's arms. Lin Xiaolan quickly stepped forward and tore away the bandage on Xu Manman's forehead, revealing a shallow scar, barely a graze that had bled a bit but had healed in two days, just as Xu Qinghuan said.
Xu Manman hurriedly covered her forehead with her hand and woke up, angrily saying, "Lin Xiaolan, don't think that just because you're my sister's friend, I don't dare do anything to you!"
"Do what? You dare do something to me?" Lin Xiaolan sneered, "Shameless!"
Xu Manman turned to Jiang Chengxu crying, "Brother Chengxu, boo-hoo-hoo, I didn't expect my sister to misunderstand us so much!"
Jiang Chengxu hadn't expected Xu Qinghuan to bring up breaking off again; he thought she was just saying it last time casually, not seriously, so why now did he feel a little irritated seeing her casually mention it again.
"Qinghuan, I can overlook you mentioning breaking off again today, but only this once, don't be so reckless next time. Marriage isn't child's play, such words shouldn't be tossed around lightly."
Someone nearby agreed, "Yeah, engagements and break-offs aren't child's play, nor a big deal, taking care of sisters, why fuss over things?"
In the eyes of outsiders, Xu Qinghuan seemed unreasonable, wasn't it just her fiancé taking her sister to the hospital once?