Chapter 2013: Chapter 2013: Two Sisters Take a Fancy to Two Brothers (Part 8)
Looking at Hong Ling’s confident demeanor, Hong Ping was stunned for a moment, then immediately believed her.
Because she had known since childhood that their parents favored this younger sister, and no matter how difficult it was, they would eventually compromise if she wanted something.
But she didn’t expect that within one evening, Mrs. Hong would actually compromise, especially on such a matter.
Although her face and lips were still touched up with rouge, it couldn’t hide her somewhat pale complexion and lip color. She looked at Hong Ling, who was standing with her hands behind her back in her meticulously arranged new room, strolling around as if nothing had happened, and felt a chill all over.
She didn’t know what position her parents and this blood-related younger sister had placed her in, for them to do such a thing on her wedding day.
Meanwhile, outside.
Ruan Chi had just finished dealing with a senior and turned around to see Shu Jiao standing on one side talking to Du Qing, then walked over.
He pushed his glasses up, looking worried, and said, "Aunt, when you see Jiaojiao later, check if she hurt her knee. We were too rushed at the hotel just now and didn’t get a chance to check. I’m a bit concerned."
"How could Jiaojiao hurt her knee for no reason?" Du Qing asked in confusion upon hearing this, glancing around the new room. Seeing Ruan Jiaojiao eating beside the Ruanlin Family, she hurried over, bent down to check her knee, and asked with a deeply concerned look, "Jiaojiao, what happened? Does your knee hurt? Let Aunt take a look."
Ruan Jiaojiao was nestled at the side of the Ruanlin Family, eating a small cake. She had gotten up early in the morning and hadn’t had time to eat anything, so she was starving.
Seeing Du Qing coming up to check her knee, she was a bit puzzled.
"What’s going on?" The Ruanlin Family also bent down, anxiously turning her around: "Are you hurt?"
With a touch of cream still on the corner of her mouth, Ruan Jiaojiao shook her head and looked from one to the other, utterly confused. She wasn’t hurt at all.
At this moment, Ruan Chi and Shu Jiao also came over. Shu Jiao’s gaze swept around Ruan Jiaojiao’s entire body, confirming there were no injuries, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Ruan Chi’s gaze fell on Ruan Jiaojiao’s knee, looked at it for about four or five seconds, then breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It’s good that there are no injuries."
"What exactly happened? Speak clearly!" the Ruanlin Family demanded with a frown.
Ruan Chi touched his nose with his index finger with some annoyance, and finally, perhaps because he was being closely watched by many elders, he explained quietly, "It’s nothing really, just back at the hotel..."
As a lawyer, Ruan Chi was well-versed in the art of storytelling, so not only did he narrate what happened at the hotel with ease, he also successfully left the worst impression of Hong Ling in the minds of the elders, all while feigning an understanding expression, saying, "Perhaps my sister-in-law’s little sister is still young and not familiar with things like this, it probably wasn’t intentional."
Ruan Jiaojiao didn’t know if Hong Ling did it on purpose, but she was sure Ruan Chi definitely did!
She glanced at the elders, whose expressions were all not very good, couldn’t help but secretly give Ruan Chi a thumbs up behind their backs, and then pretended to be particularly innocent as she said, "Grandma, Mom, Aunt, it’s alright, I wasn’t hurt, I was just a bit startled at the time. I’m sure Sister Ling didn’t mean it."
