Chen Danqing nodded, "Yes, it's something we spread ourselves. But it's not entirely true. My brother is really ugly by worldly standards now."
We released this news to discourage those in Beijing who wanted to curry favor with our family from even thinking about us.
After all, this is no longer the era when people arranged marriages and sold their daughters.
Who knew that the Li family would be so shameless? They knew my brother was ugly, yet they still tried every means to curry favor with us.” Chen Danqing said this with a face full of sarcasm.
Xiao Ruanruan finally understood. No wonder Chen Danqing was at Li Wanjun's birthday party, even though she didn't seem to know anyone at the banquet.
"Moreover..." Chen Danqing paused for a moment before continuing, "In other people's eyes, my brother is not only ugly but also stupid."
For the first time, Xiao Ruanruan saw something akin to sadness and regret on Chen Danqing's proud and aloof face.
Although she guessed that Chen Danqing's brother's current state might be related to her, and that Chen Danqing's desire to build a time machine was likely for her brother's sake, Xiao Ruanruan remained silent and listened quietly to what Chen Danqing had to say.
"When I was three years old and my brother was ten, a fire broke out in my house. My parents died in the fire. My brother was terrified when he saw my parents being burned alive, and he also suffered extensive burns."
After surviving, his mind and appearance could never be restored.
Chen Danqing spoke calmly, almost without any emotion, as if she were telling someone else's story.
However, Xiao Ruanruan could sense the distress and pain in her heart, just like when she found out the fate of the Su family before she transmigrated.
The pain was absolutely excruciating.
Moreover, that kind of pain will not lessen with the passage of time; it will only slowly settle down, settling in the most hidden and tender corner of the heart, and then transforming into one's life goals and motivation.
When Xiao Ruanruan first learned about Chen Danqing, she also took the opportunity to investigate the Chen family. The once large Chen family now only had Chen Danqing, her brother, and her grandfather as the true owners.
The Chen family has always been very low-key, so low-key that most people probably don't even know that they are one of the top wealthy families in Beijing.
Only families like the Li family, who are obsessed with marrying their daughters into wealthy families, would have designs on the Chen family.
However, Xiao Ruanruan also discovered during her investigation of the Chen family that, as Old Master Chen gets older and Chen Danqing is a girl, some of the Chen family's collateral relatives are starting to get restless.
Of course, at that time, she hadn't found out that Chen Danqing's brother was mentally challenged. She was still thinking that even if Chen Danqing's parents were gone, Chen Danqing still had a brother, so how could the Chen family's assets possibly go to those collateral branches?
Now that Chen Danqing has said that, she understands.
So those people were just taking advantage of Old Master Chen's old age, Chen Jie's mental disability, and Chen Danqing's young age, and wanted to seize the family fortune!
However, if the goal is simply to protect her family's assets, Chen Danqing could learn from her brother Gu Chen.
However, it was clear that Chen Danqing's mind was not on protecting the family property, and it was very likely that even Old Master Chen's mind was no longer on those assets.
Little Ruanruan looked at Chen Danqing earnestly with her big, dark eyes and asked, "If you could travel back in time, what would you do? Stop that fire?"
She could indeed help Chen Danqing travel through time. Although she couldn't guarantee exactly which point in time they would travel to, the more she changed, the more unforeseen events would occur if she tried to alter the fate of others in the same way she did.
Chen Danqing glanced at her, "You don't need to worry about that. Anyway, you lost to me, so you just have to help me!"
Little Softie: ……
Can't we still be friends?!
They keep bringing up her losses. She's a genius girl, doesn't she have any pride?
Little Ruanruan waved her fair and tender little hand, "Fine, fine, I don't care about you. It's not like anyone cares about you!"
Chen Danqing stood up. "It doesn't matter whether you care about me or not. Just mind your own business. Before you get the time machine working for me, don't cause any more trouble and make yourself stupid. I'm leaving."
As Chen Danqing spoke, she pinched the two little tufts of hair tied on Xiao Ruanruan's head.
Little Softie: ……
It's one thing for her brothers to ruffle her hair and pinch her little tufts of hair, but they even pinched Chen Danqing's hair!
When Xiao Ruan Ruan came out of the warm pavilion and returned to the villa, she was a little depressed. She took a small mirror and looked at her little face again and again.
She would pout her face every now and then.
Su Xiaowu and Su Xixi, who were curled up on the sofa playing Tetris by themselves, challenging Chen Danqing for the highest score, finally noticed that Xiao Ruanruan was acting strangely.
When Su Xixi thought about how Xiao Ruanruan was still ice skating with Gu Chen when she came in, but now she looked at herself in the mirror with an unhappy expression. Her first reaction was, "Xiao Ruanruan, what's wrong? Did that vixen Gu Chen dislike you? If he dares to dislike you, I'll go and beat him up for you!"
Su Xiaowu immediately tugged at Su Qianqian, "Qianqian, don't talk nonsense. My brother won't look down on Xiaoruanruan."
Little Ruanruan turned her little face to her older sister and brother and asked very seriously, "Big brother, big sister, do you think I look like a steamed bun?"
Su Xixi & Su Xiaowu: ? ? ? ?
Before they could figure out why Xiao Ruanruan would ask such a strange question, or how to answer it, Da Huang, who was playing in the yard, suddenly came running in, panting, and licked Xiao Ruanruan on the face.
Little Softie: ……
Little Ruanruan's face became even more dejected. "I really do look like a steamed bun, that's why everyone wants to pinch me."
Although Su Xixi didn't know what was wrong with Xiao Ruanruan, she played the role of a caring older sister perfectly. She put her arm around Xiao Ruanruan's shoulder, pulled her to her side, and comforted her, "Xiao Ruanruan, it's okay. Even if you didn't look like a steamed bun, it wouldn't matter. You're plump and fair-skinned, pretty and delicious, isn't that great!"
Su Xiaowu quickly grabbed a wet wipe and wiped Xiao Ruanruan's face while saying, "Yes, yes, even if Xiao Ruanruan is a steamed bun, she's still the cutest steamed bun."
Little Ruanruan glanced at the young man and said thank you, but she wasn't comforted.
So, during lunch that day, while everyone was there, Xiao Ruanruan announced an important decision: from now on, no one is allowed to pinch her cheeks or her pigtails anymore.
Seeing Xiao Ruanruan's serious expression, everyone naturally nodded and readily agreed.
But after agreeing, and with the three grandfathers taking the lead in pinching the little girl's cheeks, everyone had completely forgotten about it.
Anyway, whenever I pass by Xiaoruanruan, I either rub her soft little face or pinch the two cute little buns on her head.
They completely disregarded what Xiao Ruanruan had told them—that there was a twenty-eight-year-old soul inside her small body.
For a moment, Xiao Ruanruan felt helpless about life.
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