Yin Nanbai and Wen Si went with her, and they were driven there by Yin Youxia. Yin Youxia did not like Liu Siyin, and she would not even let her sit in the front passenger seat. Liu Siyin and Yin Man sat together in the back seat, and a faint fragrance drifted into her nose, the scent from Liu Siyin’s body, a sweet and delicate floral fragrance like blossoms.
Her eyes were rippling with faint waves of water, crystal clear. What beautiful eyes, she had not gone blind yet at this time.
Thinking of such lovely eyes going blind, it was still rather a pity, and she could not help saying, “If there’s nothing to do, cross the road less.”
“Huh?” That sentence came out of nowhere and completely baffled Liu Siyin.
How was she supposed to explain it to Liu Siyin? In the future, she might have a car accident while crossing the road with Yin Youxia, then push Yin Youxia away, become blind because of the accident, be dumped by Yin Youxia, and finally choose to commit suicide.
It was already tragic enough, and because she went blind, it became even more tragic.
Actually, she felt a great deal of sympathy for Liu Siyin as a character. Although she did not have many lines in the story, she was filled with every kind of tragic color. She had no right to choose her own birth, was humiliated again and again as an illegitimate daughter, her father treated her as a tool, the only mother who cared for her died early, her fiancée abandoned her after she went blind, and a blind person was abandoned by the family, passing away in less than half a month.
Liu Siyin was only twenty-one when she died.
It was not that she was overflowing with sympathy. Yin Man often sighed over a character’s tragedy, as if everyone existed merely as a tool to bring together the protagonists’ romance, but setting aside their role in advancing the plot, were they not living, breathing people too.
People who could hurt, could feel pain, could die.
Yin Man did not know how to speak, so she simply looked out the window. The traffic light flashed before her eyes, and she suddenly said, “Pay attention to safety.”
Liu Siyin did not understand, and only thought that this unruly eldest miss Yin was very strange.
Her contact with Yin Man was not much.
As for the Yin family, she had more contact with Yin Youxia, her fiancée. However, she had heard a lot about Yin Man. Even the brothers and sisters in the family were very afraid of Yin Man. They often said that dealing with Yin Man meant one wrong word could cost you half your life. It was even easier to deal with Yin Zhe, that cunning fox, than with her. Yin Zhe only wanted money, not lives.
As the eldest miss of the Yin family, Yin Man had enough power, far more power than Yin Youxia, because behind her still stood the Mei family.
For the Liu family, the Yin family was a good branch to climb. For the Yin family, the Liu family was a useful helper. They needed a marriage to tie them together. As for whether they loved each other after marriage, that was completely unimportant.
In a family like this, only power, status, and tactics carried enough weight to give someone the right to choose, and she did not have such a right. She was the illegitimate daughter of the third young master of the Liu family. She had only been found by the Liu family when she was fourteen, trained until she was eighteen, and then sent to the Yin family. From the very beginning, she had been a tool for marriage alliance. The Liu family hoped that, with her decent looks, she could make Yin Zhe and Yin Man accept her, because behind them there was still the Mei family.
But Yin Zhe and Yin Man were both people with immense say, whether because of their families or their own abilities, and they had not chosen her. Yin Zhe did not want her, so she was pushed to Yin Man. Yin Man did not want her either, so only then was she pushed to Yin Youxia.
Like a ball, kicked back and forth by them.
Yin Youxia also did not like her, she knew that, but if she could not marry into the Yin family, what kind of fate would await her? She knew very well.
The Liu family was indeed nothing much among the high-born and wealthy, but the Liu family was extremely skilled at using resources. Other families rejected illegitimate daughters and sons from entering the family, but the Liu family was used to raising tools for marriage alliances. Being sent to the Yin family was already her best destination, already the best ending this face had brought her. She even had a cousin, and that cousin was now the shared mistress of the Zhang siblings.
She was already twenty-one. When Yin Youxia turned twenty next year, they would get married.
Just as Yin Youxia did not like her, she also did not like Yin Youxia, but her preferences were not that important.
Her thoughts were interrupted by the ring of a phone.
She pointed at Yin Man’s phone. “Sister Man, your phone is ringing.”
Yin Man lowered her head and glanced at the phone carelessly tossed on her lap. The caller ID showed “brother”, Yin Zhe was looking for her.
Yin Man touched the phone and answered the call. “Hello, brother.”
“Manman, I heard you went to eat with the third and the others?”
For the original owner, she only had Yin Zhe as an older brother, and for Yin Zhe, he also only had Yin Man as a younger sister. As for Yin Youxia and the others, Yin Zhe did not even bother to call their names.
In her previous life, Yin Man had been an orphan, raised by her grandmother without father or mother. By the time she was sixteen, her grandmother had passed away, and she had lived for ten years relying only on a tiny bit of strength. This was the first time she had truly felt family again, unfamiliar and somewhat longing.
She did not know what tone to use to speak to Yin Zhe, so after a pause she replied, “Mm, we’re on the road, we haven’t arrived yet.”
Yin Zhe was greatly shocked. “You really went?”
He would not think that what had reached his ears could still be fake, would he?
Yin Man’s hand gripping the phone tightened slightly. “It’s just a meal, it’s not a big deal.”
If someone else went to eat with Yin Nanbai, even if he himself went to eat, it would not matter much, but that was Yin Man. Yin Zhe tapped the office desk, concealing his irritation at the moment. He knew Yin Man’s temper too well. The calmer Yin Man was, the more likely she was to make trouble.
He was not worried that Yin Man would make things difficult for them, but Yin Man’s legs. Yin Man had not even gone out with anyone yet, and he had heard that she had gone out directly with Yin Youxia and Liu Siyin. Then at the meal, wouldn’t it be all Wen Si’s people, all on the same side? If Yin Man made trouble, they might end up making her suffer grievances.
The more Yin Zhe thought about it, the more uneasy he became. He only had this one younger sister. Their mother had left only this sister for him when she passed away.
He would rather spoil Yin Man to the heavens than see her suffer even the slightest grievance.
“Stay there and wait for me, I’ll be there right away. You’re not allowed to make trouble before I arrive.” Hearing Yin Zhe’s instructions, Yin Man’s nose tip turned faintly sour, tears outside her emotional control.
Yin Man’s fingertips rose to the corner of her eye, and the moist sensation made her heart tremble. As more and more guilt and unease rose up, Yin Man suppressed the discomfort in her heart. “It’s just a meal, brother, don’t make such a fuss.”
“Really just eating?” Yin Zhe did not quite believe her. Before he could ask further, he heard the secretary’s voice. Yin Man told him to go deal with work, and then hung up the phone.
She definitely would not make trouble. She was not the original Yin Man.
The original owner felt that Wen Si had taken away her family, had taken away her mother’s life, but Wen Si only entered the family two years after her mother passed away. There was no overlapping timeline, and even Yin Youxia was conceived only after Wen Si had entered the family.
Yin Man leaned back against the seat. When Yin Zhe called again, she did not answer, but she still kept holding up the phone. Just now she had been on the phone, and Liu Siyin did not dare look over, afraid that Yin Man would think she was eavesdropping on their conversation. At this moment, glancing over, she happened to see the ferocious scar on that wrist, and was instantly stunned. “Sister Man, your wrist.”
Yin Man lowered her head and looked in the direction Liu Siyin pointed. On that wrist were ferocious scars, like marks left by a knife. Yin Man calmly pulled down the sleeve on her arm. The original owner had a tendency to self-harm and had repeatedly done things to hurt herself. Her madness had never been aimed only at others.
The original owner was a lunatic, but she was not.
Yin Man said, “It’s nothing.”
Though she said it was nothing, her hand uncontrollably touched Liu Siyin’s chin, very flirtatiously. “You care about me?” The smooth and tender touch, as soft and warm as sheep-fat jade, made Yin Man’s heart flutter, and she ran into that delicate, frightened gaze.
Yin Man let go. She had some difficulty controlling the body’s instinctive impulses, such as teasing beauties, such as a moment of cruelty, such as provoking Yin Youxia into displeasure.
After she touched Liu Siyin, the atmosphere in the car became strangely awkward. Liu Siyin bit her lip tightly, humiliation and embarrassment mingling together.
Yin Youxia looked back through the rearview mirror, the hand gripping the steering wheel turning white from force. Although she did not care about Liu Siyin and did not like Liu Siyin, Liu Siyin was still her fiancée in name.
Yin Man curled her lips. “Can’t be touched?”
What exactly was she saying!
Yin Man resisted the urge to bite off the tip of her tongue. She had better keep her mouth shut.
The atmosphere in the car became even stranger. She and the original owner were two completely different people. She was always saying such things against her own nature, and Yin Man felt a little resistant.
At last, they managed to get out of the car. The parking spot was separated from Youchuan by a road. Yin Youxia pushed her to walk in front, and Liu Siyin followed half a step behind. From the moment Yin Man got out of the car, her eyelid had been twitching nonstop.
In her ears were the sound of car horns and the chatter of pedestrians. She subconsciously raised her head to look at the traffic light across the street, and it was already red.
“Be careful!” She was suddenly shoved away. The wheelchair crossed the road sideways, the wheels rolling as it charged straight toward the other side of the road. Yin Man could already imagine the miserable sight of falling out of the wheelchair, and then the wheelchair was stopped by a kind passerby. Yin Man lowered her voice and said, “Thank you.”
The woman holding her wheelchair was slightly startled. “When did you start saying thank you too?”
She looked up and saw a strange woman’s face. The woman clearly knew her, but Yin Man did not know her. The endless stream of girls and women who passed through the original owner’s world was countless, and she had no impression of this one at all.
Yin Man came back to her senses, and her gaze had already fallen to the middle of the road. There, a woman had fallen, bright red blood gushing out, and Yin Youxia was standing on the other side.
Twenty-one years old, car accident, blindness. Everything connected in her mind.
In the original novel, it was exactly this family dinner, a family dinner in Youchuan. Wen Si had invited Liu Siyin over. When she and Yin Youxia were crossing the road, an accident happened, and it was also here that Yin Youxia met Mei Xuying, who had returned from studying abroad. She helped the shaken Yin Youxia call an ambulance and accompanied her to the hospital.
It was just that in the original book, this car accident did not involve Yin Man. Her appearance did not delay the plot’s progress. Liu Siyin still had the car accident, only it changed from pushing Yin Youxia away to pushing both her and Yin Youxia away. She saved both of them.
She had not changed Liu Siyin’s tragedy, so naturally she would not change Mei Xuying’s appearance.
She heard the woman holding her wheelchair making an emergency call. The sounds of crying and clamor echoed in her ears, making the woman’s voice very faint. She vaguely guessed the woman’s identity, but had no心思 to pay attention.
She was not very far from the scene, but the crowd blocked her view.
Yin Man’s legs exerted a little force. She struggled to move closer to the crowd, but she could not manage to stand up from the wheelchair. She had forgotten, she was disabled now.
She placed her hand on the woman’s. “Push me over.”
She was pushed to the middle of the road, and she could see that face clearly. At this moment, Liu Siyin looked just like a rag doll, covered in blood, miserable and tragic… In the original description, Liu Siyin was not injured this badly, there was not this much blood.
Had her arrival advanced Liu Siyin’s death?
Her guilt toward Liu Siyin made her scratch open her palm.
A low voice echoed by her ear, “Yin Man, when did you learn to care about people?”
Author’s note:
Supplementary little skit
Mei Xuying: My arrogant cousin sister actually said thank you to me?
Yin Youxia: My vicious older sister actually teased my fiancée?
Liu Siyin: I actually got cared about by the big villain?
Yin Zhe: My younger sister, who everyone loves and flowers bloom for when they see her, actually wants to go eat with the third party?
Yin Youxia: Brother, you can call me Xiaoyou.
Yin Zhe: That’s not our dog’s name.
Yin Youxia: …I’m really, really speechless.
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