Looking at the warm clothes on the table, Li Ying felt a warmth in her heart, so she put them away in the closet.
It was early winter, and she could manage, but she appreciated the sentiment.
I opened the door, and a cold draft rushed into my neck, giving me a chill.
In the courtyard, Jing Yingyan had a blanket covering his legs with a book on it. He was gazing at the courtyard, seemingly lost in thought.
What are you thinking about?
Li Ying took a few steps closer.
Jing Yingyan withdrew his gaze, turned to look at Li Ying, and after a long while, smiled softly: "It's nothing."
Li Ying looked up at the courtyard; the sky was a clear blue, another sunny day.
"Let's go back to your room, I'll give you acupuncture."
"No need, your second senior brother has already treated me." After saying that, Jing Yingyan looked up and examined Li Ying's face: "You must not have been sleeping well lately, you have dark circles under your eyes."
Li Ying rubbed her eyes and sighed, "If my junior brother's wrist can't be healed, I won't be able to put my mind at ease. Fortunately, we found some herbs."
"Did Ye Jingchi accompany you to southern Yunnan?"
Li Ying gently shook her head: "He just happened to be on a mission and went to southern Yunnan."
After speaking, Li Ying realized that she seemed to be explaining something, but what did she need to explain to Jing Yingyan?
"Young Master Jing, wouldn't you say that you become like those you associate with? You've become much more down-to-earth since you've been with us."
Jing Yingyan's face darkened: "If you collapse from exhaustion, who will give me acupuncture?"
Li Ying smiled, knowing that Young Master Jing was just being stubborn.
Looking up and seeing Ye Jingchi standing at the gate, Li Ying paused for a moment before walking up to him.
"Ye Jingchi, you just got back to the army, why are you running away again?"
He had been there for a while, and seeing Jing Yingyan and Li Ying chatting happily, he didn't disturb them. It wasn't until Li Ying saw him that he spoke up: "I just wanted to see you, so I came to check on you."
"I'm fine, but I didn't sleep very well last night. Thank you for sending me the clothes."
Clothes?
Ye Jingchi was surprised. He looked past Li Ying at Jing Yingyan, who was sitting in a wheelchair, and roughly understood that those clothes must have been prepared by Jing Yingyan.
Ye Jingchi smiled bitterly. As a husband, he was far inferior to Jing Yingyan. This man appeared cold and ruthless, but was actually very thoughtful.
If Li Ying were to go with him, she might be happier than if she stayed with him.
"Are you going to the Lu family?"
Li Ying nodded: "I'll be going to the Lu family's house these next few days."
"I send you."
Li Ying did not refuse and got into the car.
Just as Ye Jingchi was about to start the car, a disheveled woman carrying a dying child rushed to the front of the car.
"Li Ying, please, save my child!"
Li Ying looked closely and realized that the woman holding the child was Rong Ning. The child in her arms had a flushed face, an open mouth, and was barely breathing.
"Rong Ning, your child is sick, go to the hospital, what are you doing here looking for me?"
Rong Ning broke down in tears: "My child has a strange illness. The hospital has examined him and said that only a peerless acupuncture technique can cure him. Li Ying, please, please save my child! If you're willing to save my child, I'll give Lu Xingzhou back to you! From now on, I'll never appear in your lives again. Please!"
Li Ying found it amusing: "Rong Ning, you're ridiculous! Do you think I would still care about a scumbag like Lu Xingzhou and want to 'recycle' him again?"
Rong Ning was stunned, and after a long while, she finally spoke: "Lu Xingzhou is the one who wronged you. I shouldn't have seduced him and ruined your marriage. But the child is innocent. Please save my child! Please save him!"
Ye Jingchi coldly said, "Rong Ning, you had someone break Lu Qingzhu's hand, and you still want Li Ying to treat your son's illness? You're dreaming!"
Upon hearing this, Li Ying clenched her fists, her eyes coldly fixed on Rong Ning.
“Rong Ning, I don’t know the peerless acupuncture technique. The only one who knows it is my junior brother Lu Qingzhu, but unfortunately his wrist is crippled and he can’t hold the needles.”
Rong Ning plopped down on the ground, shaking her head violently: "Impossible! You're also Master Qian's apprentice, you should also know the peerless acupuncture technique!"
“My master teaches according to our individual aptitudes, instructing us in traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture based on our interests. As for the peerless acupuncture techniques, only my junior brother can learn them; none of us can. So you've come to the wrong person!”
Li Ying felt no sympathy for Rong Ning. If only she had known this would happen, she wouldn't have ended up like this. If she hadn't sabotaged Rong Ning and hired someone to ruin her, she wouldn't be in this predicament today.
Rong Ning hugged her son tightly and cried her heart out.
Even so, Li Ying could not sympathize with Rong Ning; the cycle of cause and effect spares no one.
"Let's go."
Rong Ning watched helplessly as her son died, unable to save him; this could be considered a form of punishment.
Ye Jingchi started the car.
The car stopped in front of the Lu family's house. After Ye Jingchi saw Li Ying inside, he waited in the living room. The vine on his arm was spreading and throbbing. Ye Jingchi endured it and buttoned up his sleeves even tighter.
"Ye Jingchi?"
A crisp sound broke the silence of the living room. A girl in a princess dress ran up to Ye Jingchi, dropped the suitcase she was carrying, and looked at Ye Jingchi with a grin.
"You are..." Ye Jingchi couldn't recall who the girl in front of him was for a moment.
"Hey, Ye Jingchi, you're really not being fair! You don't even recognize me? I'm Qingwan!"
Lu Qingwan almost wrote her name out.
Lu Qingwan?
Ye Jingchi still had no recollection of it.
"I don't think I remember."
Lu Qingwan was somewhat disappointed and reached out to grab Ye Jingchi's wrist, but Ye Jingchi instinctively dodged away.
"Qingwan, what are you doing?"
Mrs. Lu, who followed her into the living room, scolded her daughter with a stern face: "You really have no manners."
Lu Qingwan felt wronged and clung to her mother's arm, saying, "Mom, when I was little, I used to follow Ye Jingchi around like a puppy. He was so good to me back then. When I went abroad, he even saw me off. How come he doesn't recognize me when I come back?"
Ye Jingchi frowned slightly and stared at Lu Qingwan for a while, as if he remembered her.
"Perhaps it's been too long, and I forgot. I'm sorry, Qingwan." Ye Jingchi apologized.
Upon hearing Ye Jingchi's apology, Lu Qingwan's face lit up with a smile: "It's okay, Brother Jingchi, I'm not angry at all. Did you know I would be back today, so you waited for me at my house?"
Ye Jingchi smiled and said, "No."
Lu Qingwan's face immediately fell. Is it so hard to say something nice to coax her?
"Jingchi came with Li Ying, right?" Mrs. Lu asked with a smile.
"Um."
Lu Qingwan immediately became alert: "Who is Li Ying?"
Mrs. Lu glanced at her daughter: "Li Ying is your brother's junior sister and also Commander Ye's lover."
What?
Lu Qingwan was devastated, looking at Ye Jingchi with teary eyes: "Brother Jingchi, you promised that you would marry me when I returned from studying abroad, but why did you marry someone else?"
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