Ling Jingshu entered Ling Jingyan’s boudoir.

This boudoir was not big, but it was quite delicately tidied. Next to the hollow-carved wooden bed was a cabinet for storing clothes, which was much larger than an ordinary cabinet. The dressing mirror was filled with bright silk flowers and exquisite hairpins.

Ling Jingyan sat in front of the dressing mirror, pursed her lips, and looked gloomy.

Ling Jingshu walked to Ling Jingyan and whispered: “Yān tángjiě, I’m here.”

Ling Jingyan didn’t look at Ling Jingshu but turned around and ordered: “You all, please step aside, no one is allowed to come in without my order.”

The maids responded and all retreated.

Before Bai Yulin retreated, she glanced at Ling Jingshu worriedly. Looking at this posture, Miss Eight was very angry this time! The lady needs to be careful.

Ling Jingshu smiled reassuringly at Bai Yu. Don’t worry, I can handle it.

After the door closed, only Ling Jingshu and Ling Jingyan were left in the room.

Ling Jingyan seemed to be deliberately competing, neither looking back nor saying a word.

Ling Jingshu was not in a hurry and just stood behind Ling Jingyan, waiting for Ling Jingyan to open her mouth first.

…Facts have proven that Ling Jingyan was obviously not as calm as Ling Jingshu. After a while, she broke the silence angrily: “Why didn’t you say a word?”

Ling Jingshu pretended to smile helplessly: “Yān tángjiě, you obviously called me here specifically because you wanted to talk to me. You have been refusing to open your mouth. How could I know what you were going to say?”

As soon as she opened the conversation, Ling Jingyan stopped being stunned. She turned around angrily and glared at Ling Jingshu: “You are so smart, how could you not guess? You don’t know why I asked you to come here?”

Of course, she could guess it.

It was just because King Yan looked at her differently.

However, Ling Jingyan didn’t know what to say, so Ling Jingshu didn’t say anything beyond that, deliberately pretending to be dumbfounded: “Yān tángjiě, please stop talking in circles with me. If you have anything to say, just say it. There is no one else here, it’s just the two of us. No matter what I say, only the two of us know. I promise not to reveal a word to others. Even if Ah Xiao asks, I won’t tell.”

… But, how could she say it?

Ling Jingyan stared at Ling Jingshu’s innocent pretty face, feeling angry and aggrieved at the same time: “You clearly know what I want to say, but you just pretend to be stupid…you bully me!”

She held back tears for a long time. At this moment, it was like the floodgates were opened and water flowed out.

Ling Jingyan wiped her tears with her sleeves, but before she could wipe them away, more tears came out. Looking at the embarrassment makes people feel pitiful, and she repeated a few words over and over in her mouth.

“You bullied me…”

When she cried before, she was timid and delicate. Ling Jingyan, on the other hand, was wailing and crying profusely, without any image, and looked like water was flooding the golden mountain.

Ling Jingshu sighed softly and coaxed: “Yes, yes, it’s all my fault. I bullied you. Or, how about you beat me to vent your anger?”

Ling Jingyan continued to cry: “I fell in love with King Yan a few months ago. I went to Dingxiang Tower today because I was looking forward to meeting him there. I didn’t expect to see him, but he couldn’t remember who I was at all, and he treated you very differently. He paid attention to you and even sent someone to give you his personal post…”

“The most hateful thing is that you refused to ask for it. Why didn’t he remember me? Why didn’t he look at me more? Why didn’t he send me his post? I…”

“It’s all your fault. If it weren’t for you, how could King Yan not even look at me…”

“You bully me. I hate you, I don’t like you anymore…”

Ling Jingyan said intermittently while crying. She accidentally choked on her own saliva. Her face suddenly turned red and she violently started coughing.

The tears on her face were not dry, and there was more snot on her face. Not to mention how embarrassed she was.

One hand brought the silk handkerchief to her eyes.

Ling Jingyan took the silk handkerchief, wiped the tears and snot as if to vent her anger, and blew her nose vigorously. She crumpled the silk handkerchief into a ball angrily and stuffed it back: “I don’t want you to be so kind, I’ll give it back to you!”

Ling Jingshu: “…”

Such a grown-up person still got angry and lost her temper randomly, like a child who is just a few years old!

Ling Jingshu felt angry and funny at the same time. She put the silk handkerchief on the dressing mirror without changing her expression. She went up and patted Ling Jingyan’s back gently: “You have cried for so long and scolded me for so long, so you should feel better now!”

Yes, she had cried and scolded.

She was so unreasonable. But Ling Jingshu didn’t say a word! If she didn’t appreciate it anymore, she really didn’t know what to do.

Ling Jingyan bit her lip and didn’t say anything for a long time. Then she reluctantly opened her mouth and said: “Ah Shu, I know you are not to blame for what happened today. I just felt unhappy, so I lost my temper at you. I am sorry!”

…

Ling Jingyan did have a short temper and occasionally lost her temper, but she was kind-hearted. People couldn’t get angry at her.

Ling Jingshu smiled slightly, moved a stool over, and sat down at Ling Jingyan’s side, and said gently: “We are direct cousins, with the blood of the Ling family flowing in our bodies, even the broken bones are still connected! How could I be angry with you?”

“Now that we’ve said it, don’t hide it from me. What’s going on between you and King Yan?”

Ling Jingyan was outspoken and couldn’t hide her words at all. She had been hiding this secret in her heart for the past few months, and it was actually very hard to hold it in. Now that Ling Jingshu knew it, she didn’t have to hide it anymore.

Ling Jingyan said in a low voice: “Last year during the twelfth lunar month, I was bored at home and pestered my elder brother to take me out to relax. My eldest brother took me to Nanshi and then to Dingxiang Tower for lunch. On the third floor, I met a few drunken dandies. Relying on their drunkenness, they teased me wantonly.”

“The eldest brother was very angry, but he was only one person, but there were three or four of them.”

“Probably the noise was so loud that it disturbed the distinguished guests in the Tingzhu Pavilion. The distinguished guest felt unhappy, so he ordered someone to open the door and drive away the drunken dandies.”

“Of course, my eldest brother and I would like to express our gratitude to the distinguished guest…”

What followed was very clear without further explanation.

That distinguished guest was, of course, King Yan, who went to Dingxiang Tower for dinner incognito.

The act of a hero saving a beauty was something that easily gave rise to fantasies and fond feelings in young girls. Moreover, King Yan was the kind of handsome and charming young man who exuded a wild and alluring aura.

From that day on, the figure of King Yan was firmly imprinted in the young heart of Ling Jingyan.

“Ah Shu,” Ling Jingyan’s eyes were filled with water again, and she choked and said, “I have never liked someone so much in all my life. I thought about him every day, secretly inquired about all the information about him, and tried my best just to see him. But I didn’t expect… I didn’t expect that he wouldn’t remember me at all…”

(To be continued.)