"I, I didn't mean to..."
"You, you bumped into it yourself. This has nothing to do with me." Lihua retreated in fear. She hadn't expected Feng Ran to get hurt.
Now, she was truly scared, her previous assertiveness completely gone.
Lihua glanced at Qinghuan, who was standing by, grabbed Qinghuan's hand, and stammered, "Qinghuan, what should we do? What on earth should we do?"
"I really didn't mean to."
"Lihua, if Aunt Sheng finds out about this, you'll be in big trouble," Qinghuan said coldly.
Hearing this, Lihua's face grew even more dismayed.
Qinghuan turned to leave, wanting to escape this troublesome place.
Feng Ran was injured, and the commotion had been so great that Aunt Sheng would surely come. She had to leave quickly and not get entangled.
Qinghuan forcefully pulled her hand away from Lihua's tight grip and said coldly, "Lihua, you should tell Aunt Sheng this explanation."
"Tell Aunt Sheng?"
"Yes."
"Will Aunt Sheng believe it?" Lihua asked fearfully.
Qinghuan replied coldly, "You should ask Aunt Sheng, not me. I am not Aunt Sheng, how would I know?"
Listening to Qinghuan's cold words, Lihua burst into laughter. Suddenly, she seemed to remember something.
She grabbed Qinghuan's hand, refusing to let go no matter how much Qinghuan struggled, and said loudly, "Qinghuan, you want to stay out of this, don't you? I'm telling you, it's impossible."
"If you hadn't stirred this up, it wouldn't have happened."
"Don't even think about staying out of it," Lihua said fiercely.
The two struggled.
"Are you saying this isn't enough of a mess?" Huang Qianqian's icy voice cut through the air. She looked at the two arguing and immediately said, "Is this the time for arguing? The time to think about how to prevent Aunt Sheng from knowing about this."
"The most important thing you should be doing is clearing yourselves of suspicion before Aunt Sheng arrives."
Huang Qianqian said coldly. She had been watching from the side. She had initially thought Lihua would push Feng Ran down and kill her. She hadn't expected Feng Ran to only be injured, and Lihua to be so terrified.
What a waste.
She, who had been about to leave, had walked over upon hearing their argument.
After all, these two fools, as foolish as they were, were useful to her.
They were pawns against Feng Ran.
There were some things she couldn't do herself.
Upon seeing Huang Qianqian, Qinghuan and Lihua immediately fell silent, saying no more.
"Huang Qianqian, you can't tell anyone about what happened today, otherwise..." Lihua pleaded.
She didn't understand why Huang Qianqian had suddenly appeared. It was as if all the bad luck in the world was happening to her.
Huang Qianqian glanced at Qinghuan and sneered, "Qinghuan, next time you use someone, hide your tracks better. It's only because Lihua is 'kind' that she fell for it."
"If you two don't say anything, Feng Ran won't either."
"So, what are you two arguing about here?"
"Do you want everyone in Chun Manyuan to know about this by arguing so loudly?"
With that, Huang Qianqian walked over to Feng Ran, squatted down, helped her up, and left directly.
However, as she helped Feng Ran up, her eyes were filled with calculation, disgust, and disdain.
If it weren't for her plan, why would Huang Qianqian do such a thing?
In this world, the person she hated the most was Feng Ran.
"Feng Ran, actually, this matter..." Huang Qianqian intended to feign kindness.
"Huang Qianqian, stop pretending. You've been watching from the beginning."
"You only came out to buy them off."
"Naturally, you helped me up to look like a good person, expecting me to thank you, right?"
"Huang Qianqian, I don't care what you want to do," Feng Ran said, pushing Huang Qianqian away and speaking coldly. "You can scheme against anyone, but don't you dare plot against me."
"If you want to get Ling Chi Yuan's attention, you should focus on him, not on me," Feng Ran said calmly, her inner thoughts unreadable.
After speaking, Feng Ran walked away directly.
Huang Qianqian watched Feng Ran's retreating figure, her face already contorted with rage. She clenched her fists, wishing she could confront Feng Ran, but ultimately gave up.
Feng Ran, even in such a state, remained so arrogant. She wanted to see how long she could maintain that arrogance.
...
Inside the room.
Feng Ran looked at herself in the mirror, carefully treating her wounds.
Naturally, the young lady of the Feng family wouldn't have known how to do this before. But later, she learned everything.
Looking at herself in the mirror, she saw a hideous scar on her profile. Even she found it disgusting. How could others not be scared?
After bandaging the wound on her forehead, she clutched her chest. A sharp pain surged through her, as if countless ants were crawling under her skin. The pain was so intense that she could only writhe on the bed.
She curled into a ball, biting her lip tightly, enduring the agony.
She dared not make a sound.
Heavens, it seemed all the suffering in the world was being heaped upon her.
"Creak." The door to the side room was pushed open.
Feng Ran blinked in surprise and followed the light. Upon seeing the person who entered, a wry smile tugged at the corner of her lips.
Huang Qianqian was truly persistent.
She gave a self-deprecating laugh. Today, she had made Huang Qianqian look bad. Huang Qianqian would surely come to trouble her.
Actually, she wasn't surprised that Huang Qianqian had come to find her. She just hadn't expected it to be at this moment.
Enduring the pain, she struggled to her feet and leaned against the side of the bed, her face deathly pale.
Huang Qianqian entered and a smile spread across her face as she saw Feng Ran writhing on the bed.
But when she saw Feng Ran get up, she was filled with resentment.
Why hadn't she just writhed to death?
"Huang Qianqian, why have you come to see me?"
"There's nothing left to say between us."
Feng Ran thought for a moment and said hoarsely, "I won't tell Aunt Sheng about what happened today. You can rest assured."
She looked up, meeting Huang Qianqian's resentful gaze, and suddenly smiled.
Huang Qianqian wouldn't be here just to hear her say these things.
Leaning against the bed, Feng Ran's lips curled into a mocking smile. "Speak, what do you want?"
She let out a sneer. Hadn't Huang Qianqian always been like this?
She ignored Huang Qianqian. At this moment, her whole body trembled uncontrollably; she was freezing. The poison in her body had begun to act up.
She pulled the quilt over herself, but it was still cold.
At this moment, she desperately wished Huang Qianqian would leave so she could rest.
"Feng Ran, tell me, what method did you use to bewitch Ling Chi Yuan?" Huang Qianqian screamed hysterically.