Chapter 80

Su Lizhen chased after her daughter for five rounds but still couldn’t catch up. She was panting heavily.

“Look at the bloodstain on your shoulder! You haven’t even done anything yet! And you still say you weren’t fighting? How many times have I told you, don’t fight! Don’t fight! You’re a girl—can’t you make it easier for me to stop worrying?”

Li Yuechan looked down and, sure enough, noticed a small bloodstain on her shoulder. Because she was wearing a red plaid shirt, it wasn’t very noticeable, and she hadn’t realized it herself.

“Mom, your eyes are so sharp! This… this is mine. You see, someone was just being a good Samaritan, and some blood splattered on me while I was being careful.”

As soon as Li Yuechan said this, she regretted it.

Su Lizhen raised the rolling pin, pointing at her daughter: “What on earth were you doing? Blood doesn’t just splatter on you like that!”

Li Yuechan nervously laughed and said, “No, no, it’s nothing. I was just passing by, really. Just happened to pass by, that’s all!”

She really was just passing by. She wasn’t lying.

Su Lizhen was still confused when she heard loud knocking at the door.

She opened the door to find two unfamiliar middle-aged people standing outside.

The woman, tearfully and sniffling, spoke: “Sister-in-law, our Tongtong really didn’t mean to hurt anyone. Could you ask your daughter to talk to that boy from the Cheng family and have her write a letter of understanding? The child is only 16. He was just messing around, trying to scare people. Who knew it would end up hurting someone?”

The Jiang couple had no choice but to inquire. When they found out that the person their son had hurt was actually the son of the Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, and on top of that, a pilot, they were completely terrified.

They had gone to the hospital to see the person they hurt, but it was difficult to even meet them. When they finally met, they found out the Cheng boy had been injured while protecting the Li family’s daughter.

The Cheng family was out of their league, and they had no other choice but to come to the Li family, hoping for a little luck.

Su Lizhen turned to look at her daughter and raised the rolling pin again, shouting, “Li Yuechan, you stop right there!”

Li Yuechan saw her mother was truly furious this time and immediately took off, dashing out the door.

The couple at the door was knocked off balance by Li Yuechan’s sudden exit.

Su Lizhen was about to chase after her when the couple stopped her.

“Little sister, please, please!” they begged.

Su Lizhen was so angry her chest was rising and falling as she shouted, “Don’t beg me! Did you see that? It’s that little troublemaker. Go beg her instead!”

The couple looked at the empty courtyard, seeing .

Li Yuechan took a quick stroll outside, and after thinking her mom’s anger should have cooled down, she planned to head home.

Seeing the two “door gods” standing at her front door, she sighed internally. Let them wait all they wanted. They could wait until the end of time.

She circled around and climbed in through the window.

Su Lizhen stayed alert, and when she heard some noise coming from her daughter’s room, she let out a sigh of relief. She pretended not to notice and told the couple waiting outside to continue waiting.

If someone was still committing such violent acts and dared to show up at her door—what were they thinking?

As for the two people waiting outside, they stayed until the moon was high in the sky, but still, no one returned.

She could only drag her exhausted body back home.

Just as they left, Li Jianguo returned home, pushing his bicycle with a tired expression.

Wang Lan had been causing a ruckus, still insisting on divorcing him. If she looked at herself in the mirror, she would see how unreasonable she was. If he knew she was pregnant, he would have kicked her out long ago.

Meanwhile, Han Jinzhu had been receiving treatment in a provincial hospital for several days, but the child’s condition had shown little improvement.

He told Wang Chunxia to stay at the hospital, and he was returning home first. After all, it wouldn’t be good for the house in Luoan to be empty for too long, and who knew, as soon as he got off the train, he had been grabbed by someone.

The next day, in the hospital ward.

“Brother, who brought these apples? They’re so delicious, even better than the ones Dad brought last time!”

“If you have nothing to do, go back home,” he said.

“What do you mean nothing? Mom specially asked me to come see you.”

“With you here, I can’t even sleep.”

“Hmph, so you think I’m annoying?”

Cheng Huai’an glanced at his younger sister, his look almost saying, “Did you just realize that?”

Cheng Jingwen sulkily sat by the window, biting into the apple and ignoring him.

At that moment, Li Yuechan walked into the room.

As soon as Cheng Jingwen saw her, her eyes widened in disbelief: “Why is it you?”

When Li Yuechan walked in, she immediately heard the sound of the two arguing. The moment she heard it, she remembered—this was the young lady who had fought with her for meat at the state-owned restaurant last time.

She rolled her eyes at her, ignored her, and placed the lunchbox on the table. “Cheng Huai’an, it’s time to eat.”

Cheng Huai’an stood up calmly from his chair, walked over to the table, opened the lunchbox, and naturally started eating.

Cheng Jingwen was stunned, her eyes almost popping out of her head as she pointed at him, stammering, “You… you… you…”

Li Yuechan rolled her eyes again and said irritably, “If you point at me again, I’ll break your finger!”

Cheng Jingwen gasped in surprise, her hand instinctively pulling back as though shocked by electricity. “You… how do you know my brother?”

“Oh, he’s your brother!”

Li Yuechan looked the two of them up and down, muttering, “I swear, you two really don’t look alike.”

Cheng Jingwen, who hated hearing others say she looked like her brother, immediately retorted, “Who says that? We look the same everywhere!”

Li Yuechan didn’t care and casually responded, “Oh, some people just like to deceive themselves. I can’t help that.”

Cheng Huai’an struggled to suppress his laughter. This was the first time he had seen his sister looking so flustered.

Cheng Jingwen stomped her foot in frustration, “You still haven’t answered me! How do you know my brother?”