After a heavy downpour last night, the sky was gray and gloomy, as if covered by a shadow.
The air was filled with damp cold air, mixed with a biting chill, giving people an indescribable feeling of loneliness and coldness.
A heavy rain soaked the entire courtyard into a mess.
The various rare flowers and plants placed in the corners of the yard were also destroyed and ravaged by last night's heavy rain.
Withered, dilapidated, and lying in a corner of the yard.
It is particularly pitiful.
Under the eaves, Xiao Zhu was wrapped in a thick cotton jacket, his little face slightly red from the cold wind, and he was walking towards the door of the room with a bowl of hot ginger soup.
After taking just two steps, I ran into a figure head-on.
"Your Highness?"
Lin Jiangnian appeared under the eaves at some point. He looked at Xiao Zhu, then at what Xiao Zhu was holding in his hand. "What is this?"
Xiao Zhu explained: "Sister Zhiyuan just woke up. I'm going to bring her some ginger soup!"
"Give it to me."
Lin Jiangnian nodded, took the ginger soup from Xiaozhu, and then thought of something: "Oh, Xiaozhu, go help His Highness with something!"
Xiao Zhu looked excited: "What's the matter?"
Lin Jiangnian glanced at the room not far away, leaned over to Xiaozhu's ear and whispered something.
After Xiao Zhu finished listening, a look of surprise appeared on her rosy little face: "Your Highness, you..."
"Go quickly."
"Okay, okay..."
Xiao Zhu then nodded obediently, turned around and tiptoed towards the next courtyard.
After watching Xiao Zhu leave, Lin Jiangnian turned around and went to the next room with the ginger soup.
Knocked on the door.
"Zhiyuan, are you awake?"
Not hearing any response from the room, Lin Jiangnian gently pushed the door open.
The door opened and he walked in with ginger soup.
The sky was gloomy and the room was a little dim.
When Lin Jiangnian walked into the room, he saw Zhiyuan, who had stood up and changed into a plain white thick long dress, sitting quietly at the table, reading a book with her head down.
The cool temperament vaguely blends in with the atmosphere in the room.
"woke up?"
Lin Jiangnian carefully placed the ginger soup on the table, came over to her, and chuckled, "It's cold, and you must be hungry, right? Have some soup to warm yourself up first."
Zhiyuan ignored him and continued to read the book in her hands with her head down, not even looking up at him.
Seeing this, Lin Jiangnian stepped behind Zhiyuan, bent slightly and moved closer, chuckling softly, "What are you looking at? So engrossed?"
As if she sensed Lin Jiangnian approaching, Zhiyuan frowned slightly, her face cold, and she glanced back at him.
Lin Jiangnian seemed unaware of it. He reached out from behind and hugged Zhiyuan's slender waist, which was so thin that it could be held in one hand, and held her in his arms.
He rested his chin on her shoulder and tilted his head slightly, smelling the girl's fragrant scent and her exquisite, flawless face without a single blemish.
It looks deserted, but in fact... it is indeed deserted.
Hugging the girl's delicate body, I could feel her slightly tense body and some subtle resistance.
Lin Jiangnian understood what she meant and kissed the girl's smooth and delicate face. Then he chuckled and said, "Are you still angry with me?"
When she was suddenly kissed, a hint of shame and anger flashed in Zhiyuan's eyes.
However, perhaps because he had experienced this many times before, although he felt a little embarrassed and annoyed, he did not have a very strong reaction.
She struggled a little, but when it was futile, she gave up. With a cold expression, she didn't look at him or speak.
Such a slightly cold and stubborn look seemed inexplicably cute in Lin Jiangnian's eyes.
He couldn't help laughing, and couldn't help but move closer and kiss her.
This time, Zhiyuan finally reacted. She turned her head slightly and glared at him with a little anger.
And you still say you're not angry?
This is obviously a case of being angry, and the little emotion is written all over his face.
Lin Jiangnian sat down next to Zhiyuan and hugged her to sit on him.
Noticing Lin Jiangnian's movements, Zhiyuan's expression finally changed slightly, with a hint of shame and anger. She twisted her body and tried to struggle down.
"Hiss... Don't move, it might go off..."
Hearing this, Zhiyuan froze in place, not daring to move.
A blush crept up from the crystal clear earlobe between her hair, and soon half of her face was red.
She stared at Lin Jiangnian with wide eyes, feeling both ashamed and angry.
There was also a bit of indescribable anger in his expression, which made him look a little pitiful.
"I'm just kidding!"
Seeing Zhiyuan's expression, Lin Jiangnian quickly spoke softly, hugged the girl's soft and slender waist, held her fair hand, and squeezed it tightly.
Looking at the girl's embarrassed expression, Lin Jiang said in a young voice: "I'm here to apologize to you!"
The kite seemed slightly stunned and stared at him.
Still no words.
"I know, you must be angry with me... Angry about why I brought her back to the Jiang Mansion..."
"You must be feeling uncomfortable, I..."
"I don't."
Before Lin Jiangnian could finish his words, he was suddenly interrupted by Zhiyuan.
She spoke calmly, glanced at Lin Jiangnian, and concealed the shame and anger in her eyes.
Not angry?
Lin Jiangnian looked her up and down, staring at Zhiyuan's face, which was white with a rosy glow and as beautiful and pure as a peach blossom, as if trying to see whether her words were true or not.
How could she look like she wasn't angry?
Soon, Lin Jiangnian thought of something: "Not angry, but unhappy?"
Zhiyuan looked away, expressionless.
No sound.
That’s the default!
It is true.
"she……"
Lin Jiangnian was thinking about how to talk to Zhiyuan.
The current situation in front of him really gave him a headache. Zhiyuan and Liu Su did not get along and there was a conflict between them.
The source of this contradiction is also very complex and difficult to resolve.
Lin Jiangnian was caught in the middle and it was indeed difficult to deal with.
It’s so difficult to treat everyone equally!
Just as Lin Jiangnian was feeling emotional, Zhiyuan slowly shifted her gaze to Lin Jiangnian.
"What are you going to do?"
She suddenly spoke.
"Um?"
Lin Jiangnian was a little slow to react: "What?"
"How do you plan to arrange it?"
Zhiyuan stared into his eyes and asked casually.
How to arrange?
Lin Jiangnian was unsure of Zhiyuan's intentions for a moment, so he asked tentatively, "What do you think should be done?"
Zhiyuan didn't say anything, just looked at him quietly.
The calm eyes made Lin Jiangnian feel more and more guilty.
"cough……"
"I'd like to hear your opinion."
Lin Jiangnian held her hand and said softly, "No matter what, I respect your opinion..."
Zhiyuan was silent for a while, then she looked away and stopped looking at Lin Jiangnian.
"I have no idea."
She spoke calmly.
Not only was Lin Jiangnian undecided, she herself hadn't made up her mind either. She wasn't sure what was going on in her mind, only that it felt complicated and a bit confusing.
After a while, she looked at Lin Jiangnian again and suddenly said, "Do you want to keep her?"
this……
Lin Jiangnian didn't seem to expect Zhiyuan to suddenly ask such a question. He hesitated briefly: "She might not be willing..."
Given Liu Su's personality, it would be difficult to keep her here.
"What about you?"
Zhiyuan asked again.
Lin Jiangnian: “…”
The kite's aggressiveness seemed to have suddenly increased a lot.
Facing Zhiyuan's burning questioning, Lin Jiangnian hesitated for a moment, but finally spoke his mind: "Well... If you are willing, I naturally hope that I can..."
Zhiyuan's face remained expressionless: "What if I don't want to?"
Lin Jiangnian hugged her tighter, feeling the girl's soft and delicate body, and the fragrant body fragrance that filled the air.
He sighed softly: "If you don't want to, I will of course respect your idea."
"No matter what, I don't want you two to have any estrangement because of me, and I don't want you to have any unpleasantness..."
"After all, no matter what, she is the only relative in this world who is related to you by blood."
Lin Jiangnian spoke very sincerely.
But when he thought about it carefully, he found that his remarks were somewhat... shameless?
After Zhiyuan finished listening, her face still didn't show much emotion.
She is not like an ordinary woman. Even when encountering such things, she remains silent most of the time and does not show any emotion.
She didn't lose her mind, on the contrary, she remained calm.
It was just that her occasional calmness would be dominated by her emotions. After all, she was still a person with feelings, unlike the eldest princess in the palace.
Zhiyuan remained silent, perhaps touched by Lin Jiangnian's last words. Something seemed to be brewing in those bright eyes.
This time, she was silent for a long time.
When Zhiyuan raised her eyes again, her tone was more determined, and she looked at Lin Jiangnian: "I want to talk to her."
Lin Jiangnian looked at her, somewhat surprised.
But at the same time, he became a little worried: "You..."
Zhiyuan's beautiful eyes were calm: "I won't bother with her."
"What you just said is indeed correct. After all, no matter what, she..."
There was a gleam in Zhiyuan's beautiful eyes. She looked out the window quietly and spoke softly.
"She's my sister after all!"
“…”
Outside the hospital.
Lin Jiangnian thought about what Zhiyuan had just said, and always felt that she seemed to have something else to say?
But he couldn't figure it out for a moment, but he breathed a sigh of relief.
If nothing else, Zhiyuan rarely lied. Since she said she wouldn't argue with Liu Su, it was probably true.
As for Liu Su, Lin Jiangnian was not sure!
So far, he still doesn't know what Liu Su is thinking.
She always holds a hostility towards Zhiyuan. It is a question whether the two sisters can sit down and have a good talk calmly.
I don’t know how my aunt and Liu Su are talking. I just asked Xiaozhu to eavesdrop, but why hasn’t he come back yet?
Lin Jiangnian returned to the yard while thinking.
Not long after he came back, he ran into Jiang Yuxiang who had been waiting under the eaves for a long time.
"Aunt?"
Lin Jiangnian looked up and saw Jiang Yuxiang standing under the eaves, with her arms folded across her chest, looking down at him with a condescending air.
Lin Jiangnian glanced at the courtyard next door behind her and asked, "Are you done talking?"
Jiang Yuxiang crossed her arms and said coldly, "Come here!"
Lin Jiangnian didn't understand why, but he felt that his aunt had some bad intentions. He took a step back and said cautiously, "Aunt, we can talk it over... What's wrong?"
"I'm talking to you right now...come here first!"
"I won't go over there. Aunt, just tell me directly."
“…”
"I just heard Liu Su say that you always bully her?!"
Hearing this, Lin Jiangnian was stunned: "When did I bully her?"
"Liu Su told me this herself, how could it be false?"
Jiang Yuxiang said angrily, "You're really getting more and more successful. You specialize in bullying girls, right?"
It was obvious that Liu Su had said something to her aunt again.
Isn't this clearly slander?
"Aunt, do you believe this?"
Lin Jiangnian sighed.
"What else?"
Jiang Yuxiang sneered: "Don't think I don't know that you like to bully Zhiyuan on weekdays?"
"Liu Su is a girl, without any support, wandering around outside. Isn't she going to be bullied by you?"
"Auntie, did you get it wrong?"
Lin Jiangnian couldn't help but say, "She's not just some girl. She's the Saint of the Celestial God Cult. She has a noble status and unfathomable martial arts skills... Auntie, do you think I can bully her with my limited martial arts skills?"
Jiang Yuxiang's expression froze...it seemed to make some sense?
"Is she good at martial arts?" Jiang Yuxiang couldn't help but ask.
"Much better than me!"
"Can't you tell?"
Jiang Yuxiang looked suspicious. She had just been talking to that little Liu Su. That girl was so weak and cold, a bit like a kite. How could she look so powerful?
Isn't she clearly a weak and frail woman?
"Aunt, of course you can't tell... She's hiding it so well. She's the one who bullies me all the time..."
Lin Jiangnian sighed.
Liu Su bit back and turned against Tiangang!
"Hmph, no matter what, I'm still a girl. How can I bully you? But you, I'm afraid you've caused her a lot of injustice, right?" Jiang Yuxiang glared.
Lin Jiangnian: “…”
Why do I feel that the people in the Jiang family are a bit unreasonable and like to go against their will?
Lin Jiangnian suddenly understood Jiang Shaoan's feelings a little.
Seeing that Lin Jiangnian was silent, Jiang Yuxiang also restrained her expression slightly. She glanced at Lin Jiangnian and sighed: "What are you going to do next?"
"Um?"
"What are you going to do with the two of them?"
"I haven't decided yet..."
"Haven't you made up your mind yet?"
Hearing this, Jiang Yuxiang glared at him and said angrily: "Why didn't you think about the consequences when you provoked that girl before? Don't tell me you want to let Liu Su down?"
"Of course not!" Lin Jiangnian shook his head.
"I don't think you'd dare!"
Jiang Yuxiang glared at him and warned him, "If you dare to abandon me, I'll break your legs!"
Lin Jiangnian wondered, "Is this the kind of person I am in my aunt's eyes?"
"Anyway, I'll warn you first!"
Jiang Yuxiang snorted, "I really like this girl Liu Su. She's pretty and polite... Anyway, I've accepted her as my nephew's wife. If you dare treat her badly, I won't forgive you!"
Lin Jiangnian asked, "What about the kite?"
"The kite is naturally me..."
Jiang Yuxiang spoke subconsciously, and then suddenly seemed to think of something. She raised her eyes and stared at Lin Jiangnian, asking suspiciously, "Wait, have you been planning this for a long time?"
"Um?"
"You little brat... do you want to get both sisters?!"
"Am I right?!"
“…”
