This bizarre world!
Xin Yu coldly watched her stepsister. She was indeed capable; she had even gotten a stranger to stand up for her!
"Not let me?" Xin Yu scoffed. "Then are you planning to make me call 110? Or call a psychiatrist?"
"Sister, why are you… always so stubborn?!" Xin Ran approached Xin Yu tremblingly, her voice increasingly aggrieved. "You clearly did wrong, why won't you listen to reason?"
Xin Ran secretly rolled her eyes. With so many people around today, it would be a waste not to give her a little hardship like usual!
Especially in front of that handsome guy.
"You want me to apologize, is that it?" Xin Yu stared at her. "Fine."
Xin Ran smiled smugly to herself. She knew Xin Yu was such a spineless coward! "Apologize to me first."
"Why should I apologize to you?" Xin Ran couldn't help but shriek, her voice sharp and piercing.
Xin Yu, naturally expecting her not to apologize, raised an eyebrow and smiled contemptuously, "Someone pushed me just now, not you? Was it a female ghost?!"
"What nonsense are you spouting!" Xin Ran was terrified of ghosts and spirits, and her body trembled involuntarily, causing the middle-aged man to feel a pang of heartache, as if protecting his own heart, and he supported Xin Ran.
"I'm not spouting nonsense!" Xin Yu pouted slightly, "If you hadn't provoked me first, with my frail body, would I dare bump into your plump and round body!"
Pfft.
Someone among the onlookers burst out laughing.
"You know, it's true."
"Exactly, exactly! Judging by that, the two girls must have quite a difference in strength."
Xin Ran's face flushed instantly. Her build resembled her mother's, with a larger frame, so despite weighing about the same as Xin Yu, she didn't look like a tall, slender woman at all.
However, she was, after all, a young lady of the Xin family, and no one dared to expose this weakness in public!
That damned Xin Yu!
She really was born of a slut!
If it weren't for maintaining her image, she would have pounced on her!
With a quick glance, Xin Ran concealed her fierceness and gently nudged the middle-aged man beside her. "Brother, don't worry about me. My sister is always like this; she'll always find a way to cause trouble, even if she's unreasonable."
That "brother" melted the middle-aged man's heart.
He immediately stepped in front of Xin Ran, his voice sharp, "You woman, your mouth is truly vicious! You say you wouldn't dare bump into her? Nobody believes that! I saw it clearly just now; you were trying to use your frail body to ambush that gentleman!"
All eyes turned to Qiu Zhi, who stood lazily to the side.
"Sir, to be fair, didn't this woman kick you just now?"
Xin Yu looked at the middle-aged man speechlessly. What did this have to do with him?
Yet Qiu Zhi actually said, fairly and impartially, that she kicked him!
"Yes." As he spoke, Qiu Zhi turned to look at his calf, "Look, your clothes are all dirty."
Damn it!
Xin Yu's eyes nearly popped out of her head!
Did the sun rise in the west today? How could she have encountered such a stupid and petty man!
Compared to the furious Xin Yu, the middle-aged man was amused. He turned to continue his lecture, but then a soft voice came from behind.
"I just don't understand, my girlfriend and I were just joking around, why are you all meddling!" Qiu Zhi walked up to Xin Yu and put his arm around her shoulder. "Haven't you heard of flirting?!"
Xin Yu silently glanced at the stunned middle-aged man and the onlookers.
"My god, there's definitely something wrong with this guy. Is he jealous of that young couple?"
"Go get him checked out in the ninth-floor neurology department."
Xin Yu was still angry, but she didn't struggle. She rolled her eyes at Xin Ran, whose face was turning red and then pale.
She'd brought this whole thing to the hospital herself!
Xin Ran lowered her head slightly, a dark, crimson glint in her eyes. She cursed inwardly: A bunch of opportunists!
But how could Xin Yu and that handsome doctor be a couple?!
What a rare and precious plant planted in Xin Yu's barren land! "Sister, how could you two-timing me! How can you do this to your brother-in-law!" Xin Ran exclaimed, looking up. The crowd, which had been dispersing, stared at Xin Yu with shining eyes once more.
"Are you crazy?!" Xin Yu was exasperated with her stepsister. Five years ago, when she first met her, she hadn't stopped causing trouble.
She'd finally left the Xin family, and now she was back again!
"Handsome guy, don't fall for it." Xin Ran took a step towards Qiu Zhi, her beautiful, watery eyes flashing, trying to seduce him. "My...my sister recently had a fight with my brother-in-law, but she shouldn't have lied to you."
"Wow, it's true! Look, she's wearing a ring."
"These young girls these days are really something! Two at a time, I wonder if they can handle it!"
"Hehe..."
"Shut up!" Xin Yu finally snapped, yelling at the people around her. Even if she did, what business was it of theirs? "Who are they to comment!"
After yelling, Xin Yu turned to leave, but Qiu Zhi subtly pulled her back.
"You said she was married?" Qiu Zhi looked at Xin Ran, then stared intently at Xin Yu.
Xin Ran thought she had a chance and nodded repeatedly, "Yes, my brother-in-law was someone my sister pursued!"
"Oh?"
"Believe me! How could I harm you!" Xin Ran raised her head, "I would never harm my sister or brother-in-law!"
Wouldn't harm her?
Xin Yu rolled her eyes, "The sky is about to fall from the sky because of your words!"
"Sister!" Xin Ran's beautiful eyes widened slightly, "How can you be so stubborn! Tell me, everything you own, wasn't it bought for you with money your brother-in-law worked hard to earn!"
Xin Yu subconsciously looked at herself; indeed, everything was bought for her by Mu Yichuan!
Damn…
Could Xin Ran have been hired by Mu Yichuan? Just like how he inexplicably brought Zhang Wan from Nanshi?!
"Handsome guy, don't be fooled! My sister definitely didn't tell you any of this, right?"
"She definitely didn't." Qiu Zhi changed the subject. "She did tell you?"
"Of course!"
Seeing Xin Ran's confident statement, Qiu Zhi reached out and tapped Xin Yu's head. "Silly girl, making money isn't hard work at all!"
...!
Xin Ran looked at Qiu Zhi incredulously. Could he and Xin Yu really be lovers?!
Or was this man the legendary "Mr. Nine"?!
Thinking this, Xin Ran quickly ran away.
"My god, so there really is something wrong with that girl. She doesn't even recognize her own brother-in-law!"
The onlookers couldn't help but start gossiping again.
"Come on, let's go eat." Qiu Zhi pulled Xin Yu aside. "Wait for me outside. I'll go get the car."
Wait for him? What if Xin Ran comes back again!
Xin Yu walked forward without looking back, then suddenly stopped, looking up in frustration. She had come to the hospital to ask about Mu Yi'ai's condition!
And now everything was in such a mess.
A car horn sounded behind her. Without thinking, Xin Yu got into the passenger seat.
"Don't tell Mu Yichuan about today!" Xin Yu sighed, leaning back in her seat.
"What can't I tell you?" A cold, deep voice made Xin Yu belatedly realize the tense atmosphere in the car.
And Mu Yichuan was sitting in the back!
"You…" Xin Yu glared at Qiu Zhi in the driver's seat. That jerk!
Would it kill him to remind her?!
"Come here."
Xin Yu reluctantly stepped into the back seat, the cold, oppressive atmosphere making her tremble inexplicably. "Mr. Jiu."
Mu Yichuan took her small hand. Just a moment ago he was calling her by her name, and now he'd changed completely! "I really want to know, what did A-Zhi say you did behind my back?"
Xin Yu's cherry lips trembled, inwardly cursing Qiu Zhi, but her tone and expression remained obsequious, "Wasn't it that I came to the hospital behind your back to ask about Mu Yi'ai's condition!"
Qiu Zhi's charming eyes glanced at Xin Yu in the rearview mirror, and he said nonchalantly, "You don't seem to have asked about Mu Yi'ai since you saw me."
"This, this is because... I reflected on myself, and it's better to ask Mr. Jiu." Xin Yu winked at Qiu Zhi through the mirror, "I almost forgot, I have an appointment with Grandma tomorrow."
The little interaction between the two displeased Mu Yichuan. He leaned close to Xin Yu's ear, "Just ignoring your husband like this?"
Faced with his dark face, Xin Yu paused. She hadn't!
"I absolutely didn't!" She wanted to raise her hand and swear!
"Ninth Brother, the little girl deserves a reward today." Qiu Zhi didn't know why he wasn't watching the drama, and just said this out of boredom.
"Oh?" "What exactly do you want!"
Mu Yichuan and Xin Yu spoke at the same time, and she knew she couldn't avoid the reward.
Qiu Zhi's peach blossom eyes darted around, "She told her sister that she felt sorry for Ninth Brother, saying you work very hard to earn money."
Mu Yichuan raised an eyebrow at Xin Yu; this didn't seem like her style!
"So obedient?"
"..." Xin Yu lowered her eyes and brows, unwilling to accept a reward without merit; she truly hadn't said that!
"What reward do you want?"
"No, thank you." She dared not accept it!
"I thought you would want a reward to understand Mu Yi'ai's situation."
Xin Yu tilted her head to look at Mu Yichuan, somewhat shocked; he was actually being so kind as to remind her!
"Really? I can have this reward?"
His eyes flashed, and he reached out and pinched her little nose.
Although it didn't hurt, Xin Yu rubbed her nose and said to Qiu Zhi, "Dr. Qiu, what do you think?"
A dark glint flashed in his peach blossom eyes, and he spoke softly, "Her amnesia is caused by a combination of medication and external stimuli; the recovery rate is less than 10%."
"How could this be!" Xin Yu blinked, her mind racing as she recalled the events of that night. Mu Yi'ai had been lying by the kitchen, and hadn't inhaled much smoke.
"Also, she was hit hard on the head," Qiu Zhi raised an eyebrow, "How did Mu Yi'ai fall down the stairs that day?"
Xin Yu remembered the blood that had run down the wall, right below the painting of the phoenix holding an iris.
Looking down at the ring on her ring finger, Xin Yu suddenly felt a hazy vision in her mind, as if it were about to emerge through a thick fog!
"I want to see farther..."
Xin Yu was startled by her phone ringing and quickly answered, "Hello! Who is this!"
"Xin Yu, it's me!"
...! The voice on the other end of the phone was deep and hoarse—the one Xin Yu both loved and hated in her life—her father!
Click!
Xin Yu hung up immediately.