"I think it's a coincidence. If I hadn't met someone so treacherous, I wouldn't know how embarrassing it would be today." Wanruo lowered her eyes, looking very sad. "I'm from a humble background and not worthy of you. If my reputation is ruined, I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to enter the mansion in the future."
He looked at her pale little face filled with fear and sadness, and his hard heart softened a little. He raised his hand and rubbed her hair.
Seeing his expression ease a little, she felt her heart drop. She gently tugged at his sleeve and said, "Go home soon. It's getting dark. You should rest after a tiring day."
He originally wanted to ask her to go to Songhe Garden to recuperate, but he thought that she would probably be afraid of this and that and would not want to go, and that she was more timid than anyone else, so he didn't say anything in the end.
"Then go to sleep." He finally got up and left.
Wanruo finally relaxed, a layer of cold sweat breaking out on her back.
She couldn't sleep in the second half of the night and tossed and turned all night. When she woke up in the morning, there were some dark circles under her eyes, and Su Yue had to apply a lot of powder to cover them up.
"Girl, Xiao Jizi is back!" Ding Dong shouted.
Wanruo smiled, put down the comb, and stood up to greet him: "Ajin, you're back?"
Xu Shujin came in carrying a large bookcase: "Sister."
Wanruo took his box and led him into the house: "I thought you would be back from your day off today, so I asked Suyue to go out early and buy your favorite snacks."
Xu Shujin spotted the snacks on the table and grinned happily, "They're lactose dumplings!"
He sat down on the stool, picked up the spoon and started eating.
Wanruo touched his head and said, "Why are you thinner than last time? Did you eat well at the clan school?"
Xu Shujin stuffed a dumpling into his mouth, his cheeks puffed up, and nodded: "I eat a lot."
Wan Ruo couldn't help laughing: "Then why are you still like a greedy little cat?"
"There are no lactose dumplings in the clan school, so my sister bought some, so she naturally ate more."
She snorted softly, "You've already learned to be smooth-talking at such a young age."
Xu Shujin smiled and ate from the bowl.
She saw that his cuffs were torn, frowned slightly, and reached out to touch them: "Why are the cuffs torn like this..."
Xu Shujin suddenly dropped the spoon in pain and dodged the hand.
Wanruo was stunned for a moment, she lifted up his sleeve and saw many bruises on his arm.
Wanruo's expression changed instantly: "What's going on?!"
Xu Shujin said sheepishly, "I accidentally fell. I've already applied medicine."
"How could you fall like this? Jin, did someone bully you?!"
Xu Shujin lowered his head: "No..."
"Why don't you tell me the truth? Who bullied you?" Wanruo looked at the scars, her eyes red with anger.
Xu Shujin quickly grabbed her hand: "Sister, don't be angry..."
"Yes, I was beaten by other students. They all listened to Master Rui and said that my last name wasn't Xie, and I wasn't a member of the Xie clan, so I shouldn't be studying there."
Wanruo was so angry that her chest ached. He was not the only outsider in the Xie clan school. People who had relations with the Xie family would also send their children to study in the Xie clan school. Why did they only bully Ajin?
It's nothing but bullying him because he has no father or mother!
"You were bullied in the clan school, how could you hide it from me?" Wanruo looked at the bruises on his body, feeling so distressed that tears were about to fall.
"I don't want to make you worry." Ajin said in a low voice.
He also didn't want to cause trouble for her. He knew that it was not easy for them to live in the Xie family, and it was not easy for his elder sister either. He had to be more sensible and not make things difficult for his elder sister.
"Sister, I don't feel any pain anymore. I have some ointment that you prepared with me. I put it on the wound and it stopped hurting the next day."
Wanruo prescribed medicine for Xu Shujin for injuries and sprains, fearing that the boy might be naughty and need the medicine if he fell or got hurt, but she never expected that the medicine would be used in these places.
Wanruo blamed herself: "It's all my fault for not discovering it earlier."
Every time Ajin said that he was doing well and was very happy in the clan school, she believed him and never asked any more questions.
She held him in her arms, her eyes darkening: "Don't be afraid, we will leave here soon."
Xu Shujin asked in surprise: "Can we leave?"
"I'll make the arrangements."
Wanruo took out the ointment and applied it to him carefully.
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