Qiao Xiuli wiped away her tears. "Weren't you coming up to pay respects to my father? Now that you've finished, you can leave."
The younger brother pointed to the name on the tombstone and said, "Since you're already married, why did you make my brother marry you?"
Qiao Xiuli gave her younger brother a cold look: "What? You've already slandered my father, and now you're slandering me too? How ridiculous."
The older sister crossed her arms and looked at Qiao Xiuli, saying, "You should look at the name on the tombstone first before you say whether we've slandered you or not."
"Fine, I'll look. This tombstone is..." Qiao Xiuli was about to say that she had personally commissioned the carving of the tombstone, so how could she not know what was carved on it? But before she could finish speaking, Qiao Xiuli froze.
The younger brother looked at Qiao Xiuli and said, "Can you still say that we're slandering you?"
"I... he had his name engraved on it himself."
Sister: "Really?"
Qiao Xiuli: "Of course. If you don't believe me, I'll call him right now and ask him."
Sister: "Okay."
Brother: "How can you explain something like this over the phone? I think you should call him over."
As Qiao Xiuli dialed the phone, she said, "He's very busy. He doesn't have time to come."
Sister: "That's not necessarily true. I think he cares about you quite a bit."
Younger brother: "You don't mean you don't want him to come, do you?"
Qiao Xiuli did not speak.
A moment later, the call connected. A man's voice came through the phone: "Xiuli, have you changed your mind? Xiuli, you won't be happy marrying him."
The cemetery was quiet. So, the older sister and younger brother heard what the man said.
The older sister and younger brother nodded at Qiao Xiuli, meaning the man was right.
Qiao Xiuli took the phone and walked a little further away. "I'm at my dad's grave now."
Upon hearing this, the other person immediately asked, "You saw it?"
Qiao Xiuli hummed in agreement. "Why did you carve your name next to mine? And then you gave yourself the title of son-in-law."
"Because I want everyone around you to know that I love you."
Qiao Xiuli felt a touch of emotion upon hearing this. "How could you carve your name on it without my permission?"
“I know you won’t agree now. That’s why I didn’t ask you. But I know you will agree sooner or later. Xiuli, in this world, besides your parents, no one loves you more than me. Xiuli, you can’t marry him just because your father wants you to. Xiu…”
Before the other person could finish speaking, Qiao Xiuli said, "You're putting me in a very passive position."
“I don’t want you to marry someone else. So… I know what I did was wrong, Xiuli, I will treat you even better from now on. Xiu…”
"I understand. That's all for now. I'm hanging up." After hanging up the phone, Qiao Xiuli looked at her older sister and younger brother: "Do you believe me now?"
The younger brother looked at Qiao Xiuli and said, "He carved his name on it without your permission, why don't you scold him?"
“I…” Qiao Xiuli’s eyes flickered. “That’s my business.”
The older sister raised an eyebrow. "You like him too, right?"
Qiao Xiuli did not speak.
The older sister could tell from Qiao Xiuli's expression that Qiao Xiuli also liked him. "Does your father know you like him?"
Qiao Xiuli: "I don't know."
Sister: "Does your father know that he likes you?"
Qiao Xiuli nodded.
The older sister looked at Qiao Xiuli's father's tombstone. "Did your father not like him?"
"Um."
"Why?"
"No reason?" Qiao Xiuli glanced at her sister and brother. "You can leave now, right? My father doesn't welcome you."
Sister: "We can't leave yet."
Qiao Xiuli's brows furrowed immediately. "What else do you want?"
Sister: "I need to explain to your father why we won't let my brother marry you?"
"You!" Qiao Xiuli's temper flared up instantly. "You've gone too far!"
Qiao Xiuli looked at her father's tombstone and said, "Dad, take a good look. See who they really are? Dad, you really shouldn't have... you really shouldn't have taken a bullet for him for me. Dad, look at what kind of people they are. If I had really married into their family, I would have been bullied to death by them."
The younger brother looked at the tombstone and said, "Uncle Qiao, although we don't want my brother to marry your daughter, we will definitely help her if she encounters any difficulties in the future."
The older sister continued, “Uncle Qiao, I don’t know why you don’t like that person. But judging from the fact that he took the initiative to carve his name next to your daughter’s, he must love your daughter very much. Uncle Qiao, my brother is a good person. But my brother probably doesn’t love your daughter like this person does. Uncle Qiao, if someone loves another person, they might even be willing to give their heart to that person. But if someone doesn’t love another person, no matter how outstanding that person is, they can’t be good to that person, let alone offer their heart to them. Uncle Qiao, as the saying goes, priceless treasures are easy to find, but a true lover is hard to come by. There are many outstanding men in the world, but perhaps only the person who carved his name on your tombstone is willing to offer his heart to your daughter.”
Qiao Xiuli sneered: "Why are you saying these things to my father? He can't hear you anyway."
Sister: "That's not necessarily true. Sister Qiao, what I just said was for both your father and you."
Qiao Xiuli looked at her sister and said, "No matter how much you say, it can't hide the fact that you are ungrateful."
The older sister frowned. "Why can't you let go of your obsession?"
Qiao Xiuli pursed her lips. "Of course you want me to let it go. If I let it go, no one will remember that your brother's life was exchanged for my father's."
The older sister sighed inwardly. "Did you used to often go against your father?"
Qiao Xiuli's expression froze instantly.
My sister rubbed her forehead. "You regret it now, don't you?"
Qiao Xiuli turned her face to the side.
Sister: "You wish to care for your parents, but they are no longer here. You want to listen to your father now, but he has already sacrificed himself. So, you are determined to fulfill his last wish. Sister Qiao, am I right?"
Qiao Xiuli, her eyes red, shouted, "No. Leave. I don't want to see you."
Brother: "It seems my sister was right."
Qiao Xiuli shouted, "No. You all leave. My father..."
Before Qiao Xiuli could finish speaking, a man came running up from the foot of the mountain, panting. "Xiuli, what's wrong? Did they bully you?"
Qiao Xiuli pursed her lips. "Why are you here?"
"I've come to talk to you." The man looked at the older sister and younger brother. "Who are you? Did you bully Xiuli just now?"
The older sister and younger brother were both surprised when they saw the man.
The younger brother pointed to the name on the tombstone: "Is that your name?"
The older sister looked at Qiao Xiuli and said, "If others find out that you rejected him, you might get rotten eggs thrown at you when you go out."
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