Ren Dong exclaimed "Oh dear!" and apologized while saying to Song Huai, who was standing beside her, "My young lady is too weak to save me. It's up to you, young master, this time."
After he finished speaking, everyone looked at Song Huai.
Under the spotlight, Song Huai thought, "..." He really wanted to escape.
Save her, it wouldn't be right not to marry her.
If we don't rescue them, their true purpose for rushing into the water will be exposed again.
Just as Song Huai was caught in a dilemma, unable to advance or retreat, he suddenly heard someone next to him say, "Hey! Miss Xie, don't you know how to swim?"
Upon hearing this, Song Huai immediately looked towards the lake and indeed saw Xie Qing paddling hard.
Under the threat of death, she didn't have time to think things through and relied entirely on instinct to save herself, unaware that she had inadvertently revealed something.
As she sat on the shore, panting heavily, Shen Qiyin slowly squatted down in front of her and said in a low voice, "Miss Xie is truly a woman of great hidden talent."
She froze on the spot, feeling as if she had fallen into an ice cellar!
Thinking of a certain possibility, she suddenly looked up at Shen Qiyin, her eyes filled with resentment that she could hardly conceal.
It's her!
She deliberately pushed herself into the water!
Xie Qing still didn't understand how Shen Qiyin knew she could swim. Even her uncle and aunt didn't know this.
But she didn't know that Shen Qiyin also didn't know.
She was simply giving in return.
If Xie Qing could swim, then driven by her survival instinct, she might have revealed that skill.
But if she can't swim...
She was unlucky to drown.
Shen Qiyin would never have any pity for such a person.
Because when someone intends to harm others, they should be prepared to be harmed themselves.
Ignoring Xie Qing, Shen Qiyin turned and left.
Ruan Xinghu's maid, Shiyue, led her to change her clothes, explaining, "These are the clothes of our Crown Princess, never worn before, so please feel free to wear them, Miss."
Shen Qiyin nodded slightly: "Thank you."
Shiyue then personally helped her dry her hair.
I thought she would leave after she finished packing, but to my surprise, she went to see Feng Ruoying.
The latter had already woken up and was being fed ginger soup spoonful by spoonful by a maid. Several of her close female friends were surrounding her, showing concern and care for her.
When Shen Xiyin went in, she happened to hear them mentioning her.
"Ruoying, I remember you and Shen Qiyin didn't get along, right? Why would she risk her life to save you?"
"...How would I know!"
She thought she was going to die, so she couldn't think about anything else.
Moreover, if they hadn't told her, she wouldn't have known that the person who came to save her was actually Shen Qiyin!
What's she after?
At this moment, another person said, "No matter what, she saved your life. I think she's much better now than your pretentious cousin."
The moment Xie Qing was mentioned, the group had a lot to say.
"Ruoying, you don't know, but your cousin can actually swim!"
Feng Ruoying was indeed shocked: "My cousin can swim?!"
How could she not know?
"Oh, you didn't know?"
"When you first fell into the water, she acted so anxious, even wanting to jump in and save you. But her maid stopped her, saying she couldn't swim. Bah! The two of them put on an act, how hypocritical!"
"That's right! When she fell into the water herself, she was swimming around like a duck, kicking her legs like a frolicking duck."
"Also, the third young master of the Marquis of Jianning's mansion wanted to go into the water to save you, but he was stopped by the maidservant next to Shen Qiyin."
"It seems he's truly devoted to you..."
Upon hearing this, Feng Ruoying was stunned, and the color drained from her face in an instant.
The girls assumed she had fallen into the water and didn't think much of it. They were about to ask, "By the way, Ruoying, how did you fall into the lake? Did you slip?"
"I……"
Feng Ruoying had just uttered the word "I" when Shen Qiyin walked in from outside.
The others also stopped talking at the same time.
Shen Qiyin said nothing, but walked to the bedside and took Feng Ruoying's pulse by herself. Then she wrote a prescription and handed it to her maid, saying, "Get the medicine according to the prescription, one dose a day, and take it on time, otherwise you may develop a cough."
The young maid was quite responsive, calling him "Divine Doctor" repeatedly and expressing her deepest gratitude to Shen Qiyin.
Feng Ruoying turned her face away, looking extremely arrogant: "Don't think that just because you saved me, I won't dislike you anymore."
She regretted it as soon as she said it.
Shouldn't this get me scolded?
Unexpectedly, Shen Qiyin remained silent this time.
She suddenly reached out her hand to Feng Ruoying, startling the latter, who wondered why she wasn't being verbally abused this time but instead resorting to physical violence.
"I'm sorry." Shen Qiyin opened her palm, revealing a white jade hairpin broken in two.
"Oh!" She sat up abruptly, but glancing at the other people around her, she quickly composed herself and feigned confusion, saying, "Oh... how did such a nice hairpin break? What a pity."
Upon hearing this, the others immediately exclaimed in surprise, "Ruoying, this hairpin really was a gift from you to Miss Chen?"
Shen Qiyin: "She borrowed it..."
Feng Ruoying: "No!"
As she spoke, she winked at Shen Qiyin: "Why are you apologizing to me when your own things are broken? It's not mine."
Shen Qiyin couldn't quite describe how she felt.
She simply said, "I'm sorry, and... thank you."
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