That little girl was in the group too, but she was the only one who had not brought a parent. Her arm was being tightly held by the boy called He Yang, and she hung her small head in grievance.
He Yang’s other hand was holding a woman. She looked very sharp and mean, and what she said was just as nasty: “A cripple and a blind person still dare to bully my son!”
The young one was the one leading the charge, and the old one was leading the charge too. After she finished speaking, everyone else also voiced their opinions. One sentence after another came pouring out, most of them accusing her of bullying children.
The woman raised her brows and said, “You really think my son is young, so you can bully him however you want? I’m telling you, if you don’t compensate us with at least ten thousand yuan today, don’t even think about settling this.”
She did not lack this money, but where did they get the nerve to demand money from her.
Yin Man looked at these troublemakers with amusement. Every one of them looked fierce and menacing, as if they wanted to tear her whole body apart, crush her, and chew her to pieces. It was not as if she had killed their entire families! Their children had smashed her window, her wife, and she had only broken one football. She had not even asked for compensation.
How had it suddenly become that this group of people was standing on the moral high ground?
And they looked down on disabled people too, were they mentally ill?
Did they think she would…
Yin Man paused. She suddenly thought of something, something very important.
Actually, if the original plot had followed its course, Yin Youxia would not have wanted to die so early, because Yin Youxia was not completely a bad person. Right after the broken engagement, Yin Youxia had given Liu Siyin a large sum of compensation, and at first Liu Siyin had been arranged by Yin Youxia to settle into a new house. It was only when Yin Youxia and Mei Xuying went to visit Liu Siyin that they discovered she had died.
Then if it had followed the original plot, if Yin Youxia arranged for Liu Siyin to settle down, she should also have arranged for Liu Siyin to live by her mother’s side, that is, in this neighborhood.
Then did these fierce neighbors in front of her also play a part in forcing Liu Siyin to her death? She made this assumption, and suddenly realized everything Liu Siyin might have experienced after moving here alone.
Her death had never been due to her own fragility, but because she had been step by step forced into a desperate situation. The people in front of her might all be murderers.
“Cough, cough, cough.” She was choked by her own imagination until her chest felt blocked. Aunt He hurried over and said, “Young miss, how should we handle this?”
“Cigarette.” She pressed her voice down and forcefully squeezed out one word.
Aunt He took out a cigarette and handed it to her. Before it was even lit, Yin Man stopped. She herself did not have a smoking addiction, she did not even know how to smoke, but in this suffocating mood she had actually subconsciously asked for a cigarette. That was a craving belonging to the original body.
She did not let Aunt He light the cigarette for her. Those people were firmly blocked outside by Aunt Zhang’s body. When they tried to push Aunt Zhang with their hands, she did not budge at all. When they kicked at her, they were first kicked in the calf by Aunt Zhang. Gradually, some people also realized something was off.
“I wondered why they were so arrogant, so they’ve trained.” Aunt Zhang and Aunt He were definitely both trained. They had both been specially trained by the original body’s mother to look after her daily life, able to fight, able to treat injuries and illness, and able to drive. If it were not for their age, they would have been enough to turn little girls’ heads.
Yin Man pinched that cigarette, then tore the cigarette paper to shreds, silently staring at those people. Liu Siyin’s beauty seemed completely out of place in this messy, noisy place. She gradually began to dislike this place. Too noisy, too chaotic, and it might also be the place where Liu Siyin had died.
She was like a pale little flower, once helplessly withered in this patch of soil eroded by malice.
“Too noisy, make them shut up.” By her side there had never only been Aunt Zhang and Aunt He. When the bodyguards in black clothes and black pants, tall and imposing, appeared, those people finally fell silent. In the crowd, she looked at that girl’s helpless and fragile appearance, as if she were seeing another Liu Siyin. She signaled to Aunt He, and Aunt He went over and carried the girl inside.
After the girl came in, Aunt Zhang and Aunt He went out, and the door was shut as well. Only then did Yin Man nod in satisfaction. A boss had to handle everything, after all, the salary was not paid for nothing. She believed in their abilities.
Yin Man tossed that cigarette into the trash can. The noise outside was very loud. The girl nervously rubbed at her clothes. “Sister, I didn’t want to come. It was He Yang, He Yang who insisted that I come.”
She could tell. Otherwise she would not have had Aunt He carry her inside.
“I know.” She was really very small, but her voice sounded somewhat mature. Thinking of the sour jealousy Liu Siyin had endured, she glanced at Liu Siyin. Liu Siyin, listening to the girl’s voice, had an expression that was very interesting.
Yin Man simply took her hand and placed it on the little girl’s face. “Feel her. She really is a child.”
The short height made her age plain to see.
Liu Siyin’s face successfully turned red.
At this moment, the girl was different from how she had been in the afternoon. She now had a pair of glasses on, and everything before her was much clearer. She also dared to look at people more, as if she had gained confidence, and she talked a little more too. She looked at Yin Man, then at Liu Siyin, and suddenly froze. “Sister, is this your younger sister? She’s so pretty.”
Younger sister.
Yin Man thought of Yin Youxia, that little younger sister who hated her to death.
She pinched the girl’s cheek. “Thank you for the compliment, but she isn’t my younger sister. She’s my girlfriend. My younger sister is an ugly little monster, nowhere near as pretty as her.”
She did not know if Yin Youxia would jump up in anger if she heard her say that.
“Sister is lying. Sister is so pretty, so sister’s younger sister must also be very pretty.”
Yin Youxia was not bad, after all, she was the female lead, and she still had some advantage in looks. But compared with Liu Siyin, there was no way she could compare. To be precise, no one could compare with Liu Siyin, including the gentle and graceful Mei Xuying, and the cool, jade-like Jiang Yan.
It was also hard to find anyone prettier than Liu Siyin.
If Yin Youxia were a face-obsessed person, she might have long since ended up paired with Liu Siyin.
She was thinking randomly, while Liu Siyin was in a very good mood as she said to the girl, “And thank you too, little sister, for praising my girlfriend as pretty.”
She called her her girlfriend, and Yin Man could not hold back her laughter. She remembered the last time Liu Siyin had praised her skin. Liu Siyin’s learning ability was really good, copying right after seeing it.
She should also learn her devotion, her infatuation, her emotional purity.
Liu Siyin smiled at the girl, and the girl stared blankly, then grabbed Yin Man’s arm with some excitement. “Sister, your girlfriend is way too pretty!”
Liu Siyin could not see, and almost instinctively assumed the girl was praising Yin Man. She sounded a little disappointed. “What a pity that sister can’t see.”
“Sister, you can’t see either.” In order to comfort Liu Siyin, the girl pointed at Liu Siyin, then, thinking that she could not see, looked at Yin Man and pointed at Liu Siyin’s hand. Yin Man thought this little girl was very strange. She could naturally grab her arm, but when she wanted to hold Liu Siyin’s hand she had to ask her. Could it be that Liu Siyin was too beautiful, and she was embarrassed?
It was not as if she were bragging about her own goods, but her little girlfriend really was breathtakingly beautiful.
Seeing Yin Man nod, the little girl then took Liu Siyin’s hand and touched the frame of her glasses. “If I take off my glasses, I can hardly see anything at all either.” There was no such thing as comforting someone, but Liu Siyin, feeling some empathy, said, “Yours can still be treated, don’t give up hope.”
Yin Man pointed at her glasses. “Why weren’t you wearing them this afternoon?”
“He Yang said I didn’t look good in glasses. If I wore glasses, he wouldn’t play with me anymore.”
He Yang, that was the boy who was the most domineering and overbearing. Yin Man did not like him. His parents also did not look like good people. The girl not wearing glasses was still very dangerous, and her impression of him worsened even further.
“You really want to play with He Yang?”
“My dad said He Yang is the school director’s son, and I have to build a good relationship with him.” There really were never any shortage of parents eager to curry favor with the powerful wherever one went. Just the son of a school director could be this arrogant. If his position were any higher, would he not be tearing the roof off the house?
“Ah!” The scream from outside startled Yin Man. She seemed to be the one arrogant enough to tear the roof off the house.
She raised her hand, covering her embarrassment. “Then your dad just lets you be bullied by them?”
“It doesn’t count as bullying.” The girl’s voice itself had a cloudlike quality, light and soft, but her tone was very firm, and full of strength. “My dad is working very hard to support the family all by himself.”
She lowered her head slightly, with a bit of unspoken struggle.
She probably did not like He Yang, but she still had to go and curry favor with He Yang, just like how in the past, for the sake of living, she had been sick to death of her boss yet still had to curry favor with her boss. But that was the grievance of adults, something children should not have.
If she were her parent, she definitely would not bear it.
“Where is your mom?” The girl almost instinctively looked toward Liu Siyin’s eyes, those empty and lifeless eyes. “Mom can’t see, and her body is not good either, so she can’t go out to work.”
“Your mom can’t see too?” Liu Siyin’s emotions suddenly became agitated. The girl nodded. “Mm.”
She said, “I also have an older sister, but I’ve never seen my sister, only a photo. She looks especially beautiful, just like sister, but her eyes are very bright, like, like neon lights, very pretty.”
Probably because her own eyes had a problem, and her mother was blind, so when she mentioned her older sister’s eyes, her whole face was filled with longing.
Liu Siyin’s fingers were even trembling. “What’s your name?”
“Jiang Sisi.”
Liu Siyin repeated the name once, then gripped the girl’s hand with visible excitement. “Your name is so nice.”
Yin Man felt that Liu Siyin’s emotions were not quite right, as if she were suppressing and enduring something. She worriedly patted Liu Siyin’s hand. “What’s wrong?”
“No, nothing.” She refused to say, and Yin Man did not dare ask further in front of the little girl. The noise outside gradually quieted down, and only then did the little girl say, “Sister, can you forgive them?”
She had not pleaded for them just now. Only after the noise outside had grown smaller did she plead. Yin Man looked at her. “Do they often curse at your mom?”
Just like how they cursed at Liu Siyin. They had heard so many ugly things on the very first day they moved in. This girl and her mother had lived here for who knew how long, and who knew how many uglier things they had heard.
The girl did not deny it. “They’re jealous that my mom is prettier than them!”
Yin Man curved her lips into a smile. It really was like that. The girl also did not like the people outside. She allowed the little girl to have her own thoughts, and even very indulgently pinched the little girl’s cheek. “Jiang Sisi, if they bully you again, remember to come and tell me.”
She had often been bullied before too, because she was an orphan, and nobody protected her.
Similar to the girl, and yet not quite the same.
But they got along very well.
The girl was very happy. “Sister, you and your girlfriend are both beautiful and kind great people!”
She had been here for so long, and this was still the first time someone had called her a great person. Just look at how sharp this child’s eye was, unlike Yin Youxia and the others who only knew how to curse her as a scum and a freak!
The girl happily ran out and disappeared from Yin Man’s sight. After she left, Liu Siyin’s emotions finally collapsed little by little. “How could this be.”
She muttered to herself. Yin Man heard her and hurriedly asked, “What’s wrong?”