Li Ying found it amusing; this family's thought process was always so unique and unconventional.
Before Li Ying could answer, Lu Qingzhu had already walked over.
"Grandma Ye, Aunt Tang, I am Lu Qingzhu, Li Ying's junior brother."
Grandma Ye and Tang Qiao were stunned. They never expected that Li Ying's junior brother was actually Lu Qingzhu, the medical genius from the Lu family.
"Junior Brother?" Ye Zhonghong was skeptical. "Who would believe that?"
Lu Qingzhu glanced at Ye Zhonghong indifferently: "Whether you believe it or not is irrelevant. I believe that Grandma Ye and Aunt Tang are sensible people."
Grandma Ye didn't know what to say, her face flushed, and she sighed.
Tang Qiao smiled and said, "Jingchi has been too busy lately and hasn't had time to come home. Your grandma and I were planning to call you home for dinner, but we didn't expect to run into you here."
Li Ying smiled faintly: "Grandma, Mom, now that I've moved out of the Ye family, there's no need for me to go back."
Grandma Ye's face darkened further; she was now blaming the Ye family.
"Yingying, Grandma knows you've been wronged, and Grandma will give you an explanation!"
“Grandma, I’m not wronged. It was a marriage of convenience between your grandson and me. There’s no love between us. I will divorce him in a year. From now on, Ye Jiaqiao and I will go our separate ways. But there’s one thing!” Li Ying looked at Ye Zhonghong: “If you run into her again and she speaks so recklessly, don’t blame me for being ruthless.”
Ye Zhonghong was frightened by the coldness in Li Ying's eyes and felt a little scared.
"Zhong Hong, apologize to your sister-in-law!" Tang Qiao ordered.
Ye Zhonghong was unconvinced, but still, as if possessed, she said, "I'm sorry!"
Li Ying's expression was cold: "Not every 'I'm sorry' can be met with an 'It's okay.' I've tolerated you only because of your third brother. Grandma, Mom, it's getting late, I should go back."
After Li Ying finished speaking, she turned and left.
Lu Qingzhu smiled coldly: "I used to think the Ye family was a kind and discerning family. Now it seems that's not the case at all!"
"This must be a misunderstanding," Tang Qiao said.
"What kind of misunderstanding could make you allow Ye Zhonghong to seriously injure my junior sister like this?" Lu Qingzhu was the most protective of his own. Li Ying didn't mention the Ye family's affairs, so he didn't ask, but the Ye family's attitude today made him realize how hard his junior sister had worked.
A family like that isn't even worthy of carrying the shoes of their junior sister!
"It's my fault for not educating my daughter properly, letting her speak without thinking. Please forgive me, Mr. Lu!" Tang Qiao apologized on behalf of her daughter.
Lu Qingzhu scoffed: "So the Ye family also likes to bully others and change their allegiance to the wind! Let me remind you, after Li Ying leaves the Ye family, please keep your distance from her when you see her!"
After Lu Qingzhu finished speaking, she turned around and strode away.
Ye Zhonghong clenched her fists, resentfully saying, "What's so good about Li Ying that she can win Lu Qingzhu's favor?"
"Zhong Hong!" Tang Qiao trembled with anger. "Go back and reflect on your actions!"
Tang Qiao was filled with remorse. Zhong Hong had been kept at home by the eldest son to prevent her from causing trouble. It was only because she, as the mother, couldn't bear it that she secretly released Zhong Hong to accompany her grandmother to see the flowers. She never expected that Zhong Hong would actually cause trouble, offending not only Li Ying but also Lu Qingzhu.
The Lu family—no one in the circle doesn't know what kind of family they are.
"Tang Qiao, let's not bother looking at these flowers, let's go home."
"good."
Chunxue led Dangdang back. When she heard that they were going home, she didn't say anything, but just obediently followed.
Lu Qingzhu escorted Li Ying back to the courtyard house.
"Li Ying, Master told us to protect you and not let you suffer any injustice. Why do you endure everything and not tell your junior brother?"
Li Ying smiled brightly: "Junior brother, I've never been the type to suffer injustice. If I really did suffer injustice, it must have been my own choice."
When she was head over heels in love and eloped to the countryside with Lu Xingzhou, it was her own choice. Apart from that, she would not allow herself to suffer any injustice.
She didn't care about the Ye family, so those things weren't considered grievances at all.
"Go back and get some rest. I'll back you up if you ever need anything."
Li Ying laughed: "Junior brother, I'm not that weak. Alright, you should go back now!"
Lu Qingzhu left, and Li Ying entered the courtyard.
Aunt Yang has arrived and is picking vegetables at the kitchen door.
There was a small portion of truffles in the shopping basket beside me.
"Miss Ying." Aunt Yang stood up and greeted her with a smile.
"Ye Jingchi is here?"
"Battalion Commander Ye came and brought some truffles and then left. It seems he injured his wrist and bled a lot," Aunt Yang added.
"I understand, thank you, Auntie."
Li Ying went to the pharmacy to organize the herbs that Zhou Qi had brought.
Seeing some hemostatic medicine, Li Ying remembered what Aunt Yang had said, so she took some herbs and went out.
Outside the military base, Li Ying waited quietly. She didn't know why she had come; perhaps it was out of gratitude for the little things Ye Jingchi had done.
But she absolutely did not believe that she liked Ye Jingchi.
"Yingying!"
Ye Jingchi strode over, water droplets still dripping from his hair, running down his cheeks and wetting his clothes.
He just took a shower!
"Aunt Yang told me you went back to the courtyard to deliver some things and injured the back of your hand. Here's some medicine to stop the bleeding. Take it." Li Ying handed the herbal medicine she had prepared to Ye Jingchi.
Ye Jingchi didn't take the herbs, his gaze fixed on Li Ying: "I don't know how to use these either, can you help me bandage this?"
Li Ying looked up at Ye Jingchi and said, "I... I don't have time."
"The military parade is in a few days. If my hand doesn't heal, I might be disqualified," Ye Jingchi said with some regret.
Li Ying opened her mouth, but it seemed heartless to just leave like that, so she nodded and followed Ye Jingchi back to his dormitory.
"Don't go to the mountains to pick truffles unless you have to. I'm tired of them," Li Ying advised.
"Okay, then tell me what you want to eat, and I'll make it whenever I have time."
"I'll ask Zhou Qi to make whatever I want to eat. Ye Jingchi, you should focus all your energy on your career."
Ye Jingchi withdrew his hand, and the newly applied bandage came undone again.
“In your heart, I am not even as good as Zhou Qi.”
"Ye Jingchi, thank you for everything you've done for me. I'm very grateful. But gratitude isn't love. What you're doing will only add to my burden and won't change the outcome," Li Ying said earnestly.
Ye Jingchi knew that her heart, which had been wounded, was difficult to fall in love with.
"Is it that you can't change it, or do you simply not want to change this outcome?" Ye Jingchi asked, staring into Li Ying's eyes.
Li Ying pondered for a moment, then shook her head: "Ye Jingchi, to be honest, I don't like any of the people in your Ye family except for you."
Ye Jingchi held Li Ying's hand: "You're just here to live your life with me. It's enough that you like me. Why do you have to like them?"
Li Ying was surprised.
Ye Jingchi blamed himself: "I know that when you first bought the courtyard house, I stopped you and you had a problem with me. Later I found out that you were not happy in the Ye family, so I didn't stop you from buying the courtyard house. I agreed to you moving out of the Ye family because you would be happier living in the courtyard house than living in the Ye family."
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