Lian Lizhi asked, "Are you still going to invite Chief Xie? We didn't properly thank them when Xiao Xingran was born. Last time we said we would, but he was too injured to get out of bed. Oh, the robe we said we'd make for him is finished. Could you give it to him while you're at it?"

Li Ruo shoveled rice into her mouth, her face expressionless. "Alright, since sister-in-law wants to invite me, then I'll reluctantly do so."

Lian Lizhi smiled slightly, "Oh, my cousin has one too."

She also made one for Qing Ge, but he will never be able to wear it. It can only be put in his cenotaph later.

That night, Li Ruo experienced insomnia for the first time since coming into this world.

It's all Xie Muniao's fault.

I got up in the middle of the night to steam some lobster and did two hundred push-ups, finishing fifty in total.

Suddenly, I heard some noise from my sister-in-law's room.

At first, I thought he was getting up to feed Xiaoxingran, but soon I heard sobbing.

She knocked on the door. "Sister-in-law, what's wrong?"

After a short while, Lianlizhi opened the door. "It's nothing."

Li Ruo laughed: "You still say it's nothing? Your eyes are so red! Did that little pervert Li Xingran bite you?"

Li Xingran, her eyes darting around: ...

"No," Lian Lizhi said. "When I saw Xie Xiao confessing to you today and mentioning Xing Ran's full moon, I missed your older brother."

"Oh." I almost forgot, my sister-in-law is deeply in love with my brother.

Li Ruo then discovered that she had set up memorial tablets in her room, which belonged to her elder brother and father.

"I'll go get some incense." Li Ruo turned and went to the storeroom.

Upon seeing the incense sticks, Lian Lizhi was somewhat surprised, "Why didn't I find them before?"

Li Ruo: Of course, I just exchanged it from my space, it cost me fifty points.

"Oh, it's at the very bottom. There's so much stuff there, it's normal that you didn't see it."

“We won’t even be able to buy incense sticks anymore.” Lian Lizhi quickly extinguished two sticks and smiled slightly. “One stick will be enough. Father and Brother Qing won’t blame us.”

They both bowed.

Li Ruo said, "My elder brother would be very pleased to see that we are safe and sound, and that Xingran is growing up healthy and chubby."

"Hmm." Lian Lizhi said, tears welling up again. "Do you think Brother Qing might have already been reincarnated and forgotten me? He hasn't appeared in my dreams even once."

"Uh... Buddhist scriptures say that it is difficult to obtain a human body again, so I guess I won't be able to be reborn so soon."

Lianlizhi: "That means he married a wife in the underworld, found a new love, and doesn't want me anymore."

Li Ruo: ... "Then when the flood recedes, my sister-in-law will marry someone even better and cuckold him."

If Li Qing were still alive: Would I have a sister like you?

Lian Lizhi chuckled, "That won't do. I only love him. It doesn't matter if he marries someone else, as long as he's happy."

Li Ruo: Are you sure we're not talking about ghosts? It sounds like we're talking about living people.

"Sister-in-law, she has passed away. You must move on."

"No, I won't. If I could get over this, I might marry Young Master Liu." Lian Lizhi's gaze was firm, then she smiled again. "Don't worry about me. I like thinking about your older brother; I'm afraid I'll forget him if I don't. Go to sleep."

Li Ruo thought her sister-in-law would be good at digging for wild vegetables.

Why is there such a deep and devoted love in this world, making people willing to follow each other to the death without hesitation? I'm quite... envious.

So, should she... give it a try?