Lan Zhi was full of questions, not understanding why Jiang Qingcheng would say such a thing out of the blue.
On second thought, he realized that in his "previous life", he was not very nice to Jiang Qingcheng, so Jiang Qingcheng mostly took advantage of him. Now that Lan Zhi showed such affection, Jiang Qingcheng's attitude towards her would naturally be different.
In reality, everyone is easily deceived by those around them, and the reason isn't necessarily stupidity, but trust. Looking at it from another perspective, Lan Zhi gradually opened up to Yuan Zhan after she had a child. The most important reason was the child. Because she loved her own child, she gradually came to accept the child's father...
"Sister, I'm going out. You can eat the fish yourself." Jiang Qingcheng said.
"Do you want me to go with you?"
"No need." Jiang Qingcheng had a sweet smile on her face. She said, "I want to go study medicine. It may take a long time for me to come back. You don't need to accompany me. Just leave me a fish."
"Okay." Lan Zhi smiled and nodded, then...
Then, as soon as Jiang Qingcheng left, Lan Zhi used invisibility to follow her.
But Jiang Qingcheng left the Lan Mansion and was stopped by a charming and handsome man before she took a few steps.
Jiang Qingcheng's eyes flashed with surprise, and then he asked in confusion: "You are..."
Shangguan Jianxing smiled and said, "I am your long-lost brother."
Lan Zhi: ???
Why is this guy here?
Moreover, he is actually Jiang Qingcheng's brother?
"Why do I remember that I don't have a brother..." Jiang Qingcheng's expression was still a little confused, but for some reason, looking at Shangguan Jianxing's pair of sparkling and elegant peach blossom eyes, she couldn't help but want to follow him, thinking that he would not lie.
Shangguan Jianxing had followed Lan Zhi here before because he wanted to see with his own eyes the situation of the ferocious beast and see whether Lan Zhi had fed it human flesh. But what surprised him was that there was a formation in the Lan Mansion, which blocked him outside the Lan Mansion.
Shangguan Jianxing was very surprised. He walked around the Lan Mansion but couldn't find a way to break the formation. At this moment, he saw Jiang Qingcheng coming out, so he used a spell similar to "bewitching" to bring Jiang Qingcheng over, intending to ask her for some information.
"How many people are there in the Lan family?"
Jiang Qingcheng's eyes were still bright and lively, and she didn't look like she was hypnotized. However, she looked at Shangguan Jianxing with a friendly expression and replied, "Including the missing eldest young master, there are five people in the Lan Mansion."
These five people did not include herself, because she felt that she was not a member of the Lan family, and was just staying here temporarily, and would have to leave sooner or later.
"Only five people? I'm asking including the maids and servants." The reason why Shangguan Jianxing asked so many details was that he wanted to know if anyone in the mansion was missing. If they were "missing", they might have been eaten by ferocious beasts.
Unexpectedly, Jiang Qingcheng said, "There are no servants in the Lan Mansion. There is only one housekeeper, three young masters, and one young lady."
"Such a small group?" Shangguan Jianxing was stunned, then asked, "Then who are you?"
Jiang Qingcheng replied: "I am their cousin."
After a pause, she continued, "You are my biological brother, so you are also related to the Lan family."
Shangguan Jianxing asked again: "How is your relationship with Lan Zhi?"
Jiang Qingcheng's face showed a smug look. She said, "Lan Zhi loves me like her own sister, but I don't have much feelings for her. It's just better than my feelings for outsiders...Brother, why are you asking her? I am your biological sister. You should care about me more."
"Well, yes...if I am your brother, can I live in the Lan family?" Shangguan Jianxing asked.
"Of course you can! The Lan family has so many empty houses. You're my brother, who would dare not let you live there?"
Hearing this, Lan Zhi couldn't help but wonder if Shangguan Jianxing was Jiang Qingcheng's brother. If she said yes, it didn't seem like it. If she said no, Jiang Qingcheng looked at her brother with a look of dependence...
Shangguan Jianxing said, "But I can't get into the Lan Mansion. I'm blocked by the formation."
Jiang Qingcheng said: "This is easy, I'll go back and ask them!"
"Wait." Shangguan Jianxing stopped her.
Jiang Qingcheng asked in confusion: "What's wrong?"
Shangguan Jianxing didn't say anything. Instead, he took out a mask as thin as a cicada's wing and put it on his face. He also took out a bronze mirror and pinched his own features while looking at Jiang Qingcheng's face. As he did so, he said, "I have to look a bit like you, so we can be like brother and sister, right?"
"That's right..." Jiang Qingcheng nodded as if it was a matter of course, and then said, "No, I remember I was an only child... Where did my brother come from..."
Jiang Qingcheng shook her head violently again. She looked a little confused, as if her memory and cognition were being altered and reshaped bit by bit. Her eyes became clear again, and she said, "You are my brother. We are blood relatives. Our blood is thicker than water. Our parents passed away, leaving only the two of us to depend on each other..."
Shangguan Jianxing sculpted his facial features, which bore a 60% resemblance to Jiang Qingcheng, though his facial features were more resolute, making it clear he was a man. He put away the bronze mirror, patted Jiang Qingcheng on the head, and said with a smile, "This is the first time I've used this kind of magic to tamper with someone's memory, and it seems to be quite successful."
Jiang Qingcheng lowered her head obediently and let him pat her. There was a hint of curiosity on her face. "Brother, what are you talking about? What about changing memory..."
"Nothing, what's your name?"
"Brother, are you kidding me? We grew up together, how could you not know that my name is Jiang Qingcheng?" Her tone was filled with a bit of coquettish blame, and then she realized that she didn't know her brother's name either?
Her head ached, as if something was wrong, but before she could investigate further, she heard her brother say:
"Your name is Qingcheng, and my name is Jianxing."
"Yeah! Brother Jian Xing, do you know that I'm poisoned..."
Shangguan Jianxing followed her words and said, "What kind of poison? Whoever bullies my sister, I will find you an antidote."
"It must be Yuan Zhan. He's going too far. He wanted to pursue Lan Zhi, and I promised to help him, but he still resorted to such tactics..." Jiang Qingcheng trusted her "brother" so much that she betrayed Yuan Zhan without a second thought. She added, "Yuan Zhan also wanted to kill the three young masters of the Lan family..."
Shangguan Jianxing had no interest in this kind of thing. He only cared about the ferocious beasts. But after hearing this, he couldn't help but ask, "Why?"
Jiang Qingcheng said, "I don't understand either. He wanted to marry Lan Zhi, but he wanted to kill Lan Zhi's three brothers... In order to prevent Lan Zhi from hating him, the murder method had to be concealed. Lan Zhi couldn't find out that he was the one who killed her."
Shangguan Jianxing frowned and said with disgust: "This man is so vicious."
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