"Enough with the nonsense, either die or get out."

The two people outside the door became anxious when they saw that Lin Qingyan was still unmoved by their words.

"Mom, she doesn't know what's good for her, let's ignore her." Lin Sisi said to Fang Huilan.

Anyway, she didn't know what Fang Huilan and Yang Yuanting's plans were, so it shouldn't concern her. She didn't care about that and was just trying to curry favor with Lin Qingyan.

Fang Huilan couldn't persuade Lin Qingyan with her kind words, so she had to change her tactics.

She slammed her hand on the door and yelled inside, "Lin Qingyan, a stepmother is still a mother. Your mother died when you were so young, and I raised you. You won't open the door for me, you won't even let me in. You're unfilial. Open the door and let me in, let's talk this out. Do you want me to bring your neighbors over and let the whole compound know you're unfilial?"

Lin Qingyan snorted coldly, "You can call these neighbors over if you want. I'll let them all know how you, my stepmother, abused me back then, so your precious daughter Lin Sisi can also benefit from your reputation and get praised by the neighbors."

Lin Sisi was terrified when she heard this.

If Lin Qingyan were to reveal what happened at home, and others knew that she and her mother had abused her, it would definitely have a negative impact on her.

Now all the neighbors like Lin Qingyan. She'll be drowned in their spittle. How can she stay here then?

She tugged at Fang Huilan, "Mom, he won't let us in. Let's go home."

Lin Qingyan was completely unresponsive, and Fang Huilan had no other options.

“Then let’s go home.” She turned around and pretended to sob a few times. “I’ve raised this daughter for nothing. I know how hard it is to be a stepmother. No matter how good I am to her, she won’t appreciate it.”

A voice suddenly came from inside the door: "Fang Huilan, I've been your family's nanny for over ten years, serving your whole family. You treat me like a servant. Have you ever been good to me?"

When Fang Huilan heard that Lin Qingyan was really going to bring up the past, she thought it was better to leave quietly than to have Lin Qingyan expose all the things she had done in the past.

She and Lin Sisi slunk away. She sighed repeatedly on the way. Lin Qingyan was becoming more and more difficult to deal with. She had failed to complete the task that Yang Yuanting had entrusted to her. She was still far from achieving that big goal. When would she and Yang Yuanting finally get married?

Unable to hear the mother and daughter's voices, Lin Qingyan returned to the house.

If it weren't for the fact that this was a military compound and she was worried about the negative impact, she would have definitely given that mother and daughter a good beating.

These past few days, Lu Zhengting has been away from home, so she goes into the space every day and rests there at night.

The grains in her space had already ripened several times, and the good harvests were piled up in the warehouse. It would be a waste to leave these grains in the space unused, so she wanted to find an opportunity to get rid of them while Lu Zhengting was away.

Since arriving here, she had never inquired about the black market. When she had free time, she would go to the city to check the address of the black market and transfer the food out of her spatial storage.

There was still some wild boar meat left in the space, so she made it into cured meat, which would be ready for Lu Zhengting to eat when he returned. She also used strawberries, hawthorns, and pears from the space—three out-of-season fruits—to make canned fruit.

I wandered around the space for a while, then sat on the swing under the grape trellis, eating grapes as I swung.

She doesn't plan to tell Lu Zhengting about the space yet. Maybe one day she will tell him this secret. If he can go into the space with her, they can play together in the space and swing together under the grape trellis.

Lin Qingyan didn't think the secret of her space had to be kept absolutely secret. At least she could tell someone she trusted and was close to, and share her space with them.

After all, she lived with him almost every day. If she kept it a secret from him and guarded against him, she would rarely have the opportunity to use the space, and then the space would have little meaning.

Now that she has chosen him and become his partner, she is not afraid that he will betray her.

If there really was betrayal, what could he do to himself? He said that if he revealed that he had a private space, people wouldn't do anything to him; instead, they would probably say he was crazy.

This is just speculation.

She trusted Lu Zhengting as much as she trusted herself, and when the time was right, she would tell him the secret of the space.

When Fang Huilan and Lin Sisi returned home, Gu Mingzhou saw that their bags were still bulging as before, and that they looked disheveled and dejected. He guessed that Lin Qingyan had not accepted their gifts and had kicked them out.

Hmph, Lin Qingyan doesn't just hate himself, she hates this mother and daughter too.

He suddenly felt a sense of balance.

He walked over and asked, "Did she kick you out?"

Fang Huilan and Lin Sisi both looked extremely grim. Lin Sisi said, "If I had known, my mother and I wouldn't have gone. She's completely ungrateful and wouldn't even let us in the door."

Gu Mingzhou sneered, "If she let you in, she wouldn't be Lin Qingyan."

This is precisely one aspect that attracts him to Lin Qingyan.

She has clear likes and dislikes, is neither arrogant nor humble, and never hesitates to be firm when necessary. She does not easily forgive those who have hurt her. She is principled and has a strong personality, making her far better than the two-faced Lin Sisi.

But it was precisely because of Lin Qingyan's personality that he was never able to get close to her.

He felt that at most he hadn't taken good care of her before, and he hadn't done anything to hurt her, so she probably wouldn't ignore him forever.

By the way, Lu Zhengting is away from home these days, which is a great opportunity. Lin Qingyan stays at home alone every day, so he should go over there, show her more care, and try to win her back as soon as possible.