Li Ying's heart was suddenly touched, so he used Jiang Nuannuan's matter to get her to move out of the Ye family and into the courtyard house.
“Yingying, I’m not someone who blindly obeys my parents, otherwise I wouldn’t have disobeyed my family’s arrangements and agreed to a marriage of convenience with you.”
"Ye Jingchi..." Li Ying's heart started beating faster for no reason. She pressed her hand to her chest, deliberately suppressing the racing heartbeat.
Ye Jingchi held Li Ying's hand tightly: "Yingying, I admit that I didn't have many feelings for you at first, but after we spent time together, I found that I felt very at ease when you slept next to me."
"Later I kissed you, and it was from that moment that I realized my feelings. I like you, I like you a lot."
Li Ying stood up awkwardly: "Ye Jingchi, you might need to calm down."
"Yingying!"
Ye Jingchi hugged Li Ying tightly from behind: "I will give you a satisfactory result regarding Jiang Nuannuan's matter, and this result will absolutely not hurt you."
Li Ying tried to pry Ye Jingchi's hand open, but found that the back of his hand was bleeding again, so she stopped struggling.
"Ye Jingchi, let go of me, I'll bandage your wound."
Ye Jingchi released Li Ying and obediently sat down.
Li Ying carefully bandaged the wound on Ye Jingchi's hand.
"Ye Jingchi, can you give me some time?"
She really isn't willing to fall for anyone right now.
"Okay, I'll give you time. I'll wait until you agree to give me your heart and let me cherish it."
Li Ying looked up, their eyes met, and an indescribable affection spread between them.
On the first day after the Mid-Autumn Festival, Li Ying went to the Jing family's house.
There was another person sitting in the living room, Academician Cao.
Upon seeing Li Ying, Academician Cao was shocked and stood up: "Li Ying, what brings you here?"
"I'm here to treat Young Master Jing's leg."
What?
Jing Yingyan, with his terrible temper, actually agreed to let Li Ying treat his leg.
As expected, Li Ying is no simple woman.
"I never expected Comrade Li Ying to be so capable!"
Li Ying smiled calmly, her gaze falling on an exquisite gift box on the table. She was very familiar with this box.
"Is Academician Cao here to see Young Master Jing?"
"Yes, I obtained a thousand-year-old ginseng, which I specially brought to Young Master Jing." The obsequiousness on Academician Cao's face was enough to make one want to vomit.
Mrs. Jing came out of the room with a smile on her face, but it was a fake smile: "Academician Cao, Ying Yan said that he doesn't need any ginseng, so you should take it back."
"Mrs. Jing, Mr. Jing is just being polite with me. My thousand-year-old ginseng has excellent nourishing properties. Giving it to Mr. Jing is the best use of it; otherwise, it would be a waste." Academician Cao smiled, his eyes narrowing into slits.
Li Ying originally didn't want to meddle in other people's business, but Academician Cao opened the exquisite box unexpectedly.
"If you don't believe me, you can ask Comrade Li Ying."
Li Ying glanced at the contents of the box and smiled faintly: "Academician Cao, you've probably been fooled!"
Academician Cao was taken aback for a moment, then asked with displeasure, "What do you mean?"
"What I mean is that this ginseng is less than a thousand years old; it's fake."
What?
Academician Cao looked at the ginseng in his hand. This was a gift from Lu Xingzhou. How could it be fake?
"Li Ying, what nonsense are you spouting?"
Li Ying, with a calm expression, reached out and took the ginseng from the box.
“True ginseng has a long, thin rhizome, a main root with longitudinal wrinkles, a pale yellow color, and sparse, long, and resilient fibrous roots. But yours is just someone else soaking and drying ginseng that is less than a thousand years old and passing it off as something else.”
Academician Cao snatched the ginseng from Li Ying's hand and examined it closely. He couldn't tell whether the ginseng was real or fake at all, but he was also very angry as Li Ying spoke so convincingly about it.
Lu Xingzhou actually tricked him with a fake ginseng!
He even made an exception and allowed Rong Ning to join the research group because of this ginseng, but he never expected that the two of them would conspire to deceive him!
That's outrageous!
"Academician Cao, you're too honest. You've been deceived without even realizing it," Li Ying added, giving him face.
Academician Cao's expression changed from gloomy to cheerful: "This ginseng was indeed a gift from someone, I never expected it to be fake! It's all thanks to Comrade Li Ying's discerning eye, otherwise I would have been fooled! Mrs. Jing, I'm so sorry! I'll come to apologize another day!"
Academician Cao packed up the box and slunk away.
Mrs. Jing was very grateful: "Thank goodness you recognized that it was fake, otherwise I really wouldn't know how to refuse him."
Why should Aunt Jing be afraid of someone like that?
"As the saying goes, it's better to offend a gentleman than a petty person. This person is good at flattering and knows many people. If you offend him, he might make things difficult for you at any time, and you can't guard against it."
The Jing family disdains to bother with such a person; who knows how treacherous he might be!
Li Ying understood these principles and carried the medical kit into Jing Yingyan's bedroom.
Jing Yingyan was making toys out of sheet metal and assembling them very carefully.
"Young Master Jing, Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!"
Jing Yingyan glanced at Li Ying: "Are you happy?"
Li Ying shrugged: "It's alright."
Jing Yingyan glanced at Li Ying, his gaze lingering deliberately on her lower abdomen for a moment.
"I heard you own a courtyard house."
"Um."
Li Ying opened the first-aid kit.
“It’s too much trouble for you to keep running around like this. Why don’t I move to your courtyard house?” Jing Yingyan turned to look at Li Ying, his deep eyes revealing no emotion.
Li Ying thought that Jing Yingyan's leg wouldn't heal in a day or two, and that her belly was getting bigger and bigger as the pregnancy progressed, making it very difficult for her to move around.
Is he showing concern for her?
"If Young Master Jing agrees, I have no objection."
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