"Lin Qingwan, come out here!"
"It's Young Master!" Mu Xue frowned subconsciously.
Lin Qingwan hurriedly got up.
Jiang Zhenlin, who is a year and a half younger than her, is her younger brother.
As Lin Qingwan felt a surge of trepidation upon approaching her hometown, she wondered what to call him—her younger brother or Ah Lin.
Mu Xue had already opened the door. In her haste, she pulled a bamboo-woven dragonfly from her sleeve. "My little brother will like it, won't he?"
The sun was shining brightly outside, and the boy's upright and slender figure caught Lin Qingwan's eye. His outfit, with gold thread trim, made him look dashing and very handsome.
Lin Qingwan's joy was written all over her face, but Jiang Zhenlin was furious when he saw her come out. He stepped forward and kicked her in the stomach, demanding, "What did you say to her?"
"She's so sensitive to the cold, and she still hasn't woken up!"
"We've already brought you back, what else are you dissatisfied with! What has she done to you that you want to force her to jump into the lake?"
Jiang Zhenlin was skilled in martial arts. His kick, delivered with anger, landed squarely on Lin Qingwan's soft abdomen. Lin Qingwan broke out in a cold sweat instantly, and even her breathing was forced to stop for a few seconds.
Lin Qingwan never expected to be looking up at her blood brother from this angle. "What...what did you say?"
Seeing this, Jiang Zhenlin was about to kick her again, "Still pretending! I'll tell you today, even if she's not my parents' biological daughter, she's still my sister!"
"Don't think you can bully her just because you're of the Jiang family bloodline!"
Seeing that another kick was about to come down, Mu Xue knelt down and hugged Jiang Zhenlin's leg, "Young Master, please calm down! Miss Qingwan hadn't even entered the house yet when she jumped into the lake."
Jiang Zhenlin was taken aback. "What?"
Nobody told him this.
As soon as he returned, he heard that Lin Qingwan had gone back to the mansion and that his elder sister had jumped into the lake. Enraged, he went to confront Lin Qingwan.
Lin Qingwan then came to her senses, swallowed the metallic taste in her throat, and coughed twice.
Jiang Zhenlin heard the cough and abruptly put his foot down, only to find that the person on the ground was curled up in pain, with his hair plastered to his face, making it impossible to see his features.
This posture... it has no backbone of the Jiang family at all, it looks like a stinking beggar.
Upon reflection, the slight guilt that had arisen earlier vanished instantly.
Mu Xue added, "Young Master, this has nothing to do with Miss Qingwan."
Jiang Zhenlin frowned. "Even if she didn't say anything, my sister jumped into the lake because of her. How can it not have anything to do with her!"
When Lin Qingwan was kicked to the ground, the bamboo dragonfly in her hand fell to the ground, and now it was being crushed by Jiang Zhenlin. The pain in her abdomen couldn't compare to the tearing sensation spreading from her heart.
She was truly envious of how they kept calling her "elder sister."
"Cough cough." Lin Qingwan coughed again, which made her abdomen ache even more.
Mu Xue held her and noticed that her body was trembling. "Miss, this servant will go and call the physician."
Jiang Zhenlin sneered. He hadn't exerted any force at all, so how could it hurt? She must be pretending to be pitiful to get her parents to love her more! Such crude and vulgar methods from the mountains.
"The family physicians are with my sister! If she still hasn't woken up..."
Jiang Zhenlin's threatening words came to an abrupt halt because of the blood dripping from Lin Qingwan's lips.
One drop, two drops...
Plop, plop.
Several blood-red patterns appeared on the floor tiles in front of Lin Qingwan, a shocking sight.
Mu Xue gasped, "You're bleeding!"
Lin Qingwan pulled Mu Xue along, saying, "We need to treat Miss Jiang first."
"I'm fine."
Mu Xue's nose felt sore.
Jiang Zhenlin breathed a sigh of relief, knowing she was faking it.
"I didn't use any force at all. Just stay put and your parents won't mistreat you."
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