It really could.
After Yin Man gave an affirmative answer, Liu Siyin really agreed to Yin Man.
Since Yin Man had decided to give Liu Siyin hope, she stayed with Liu Siyin in the hospital the whole time, even specially hired several caregivers, and then waited for Yin Youxia to formally bring up the broken engagement, after which she would go to the Liu family to propose marriage.
The original host had previously humiliated Liu Siyin’s background, and Yin Man wanted to give Liu Siyin some dignity, but Yin Youxia still had not made a move. In the past two days, Yin Man’s body had been quietly changing, especially after the pain first appeared, the pain grew more and more frequent.
Right now it was just like that. Her chest felt congested, breathing was difficult, and the pain in her joints spread little by little from the bones. It hurt so much that she curled into a ball, gasping in big mouthfuls, yet still could not relieve the pain.
Yin Man’s eyes were red and swollen, and she was almost on the verge of collapse when she suddenly heard a sound from her bones. More data appeared in her mind, data that was completely unfamiliar to her, all of it the original host’s memories.
Ah—
Yin Man was driven by the huge blunt pain into screaming out loud. Yin Man clenched her teeth, and more and more felt that her current state was like a fusion after transmigration, the memories she possessed were growing more and more, but the light before her eyes was growing darker and darker, until she fell into a coma.
On the seventh day after crossing into the novel, Yin Man fell into a coma.
Yin Man remained unconscious for a week before waking up, and when she opened her eyes, she saw Yin Zhe.
Yin Zhe sat by the hospital bed, his face pale, the deep black in his eyes slowly filling with heartache. “Manman, you finally woke up.”
It seemed the pain tormenting her had finally eased.
Yin Man let out a long breath. “Brother, how long did I sleep?”
“A week.” A week, Yin Man had not expected this sleep to be so long. This hospital room was not familiar, and there was no sign of Liu Siyin. She wanted to speak, but could not control the itchiness in her throat, and lightly coughed twice. Yin Zhe was even more heartbroken, and he could not help saying, “It was all because Liu Siyin passed her illness on to you. You got sick, and she got better instead.”
Yin Man suppressed that itchiness and asked, “Where is Liu Siyin?”
“Discharged, and picked up by the Liu family.” Yin Zhe said sarcastically, “Liu Mei has already put out a price in the circle, posting it under Yin Youxia’s fiancée title, and the price is not low.”
“What, what!” Yin Man did not understand for a moment. Yin Zhe said, “I also didn’t expect Yin Youxia’s heart to be this cruel. Liu Siyin saved her, which is why she went blind, but look at her. Not only does she want to break the engagement, she also says Liu Siyin had an affair, that you were carrying on with each other. If she won’t take up the Liu family’s marriage arrangement anymore, I can understand what she’s thinking. It’s nothing more than being afraid the Liu family would stuff her with a second Liu Siyin. The company has had a lot of cooperation with the Liu family over the past few years. She’s afraid I’ll agree to the Liu family.”
“She’s also learned a bit of tactics, but she shouldn’t have dragged you into it. I’ve already locked her up, but the price outside has been raised quite high. Everyone wants to try this woman who’s been circling between the two young ladies of our Yin family.”
“…” Yin Youxia not only broke the engagement, she also completely ruined Liu Siyin’s reputation.
She could roughly understand Yin Youxia’s meaning. By ruining Liu Siyin’s reputation, Liu Siyin would not need to go into a marriage alliance, and by saying that she and Liu Siyin had an affair, Yin Youxia could also wash her own hands completely.
She did not think Yin Youxia had the guts to do this to her. It looked more like… She suddenly thought of Mei Xuying, and it was hard to say, maybe Mei Xuying was the one who had instigated her.
She had actually thought about Liu Siyin’s ending, but had she ever thought that the Liu family would send Liu Siyin to become a public courtesan, and even auction her off in the circle.
“Brother, take me to the Liu family.” Yin Zhe was stunned for a moment. “Manman, you won’t really have something going on with Liu Siyin, will you?”
“That day weren’t you still saying you wanted to take her from Yin Youxia and get her back? How come now you’re letting her go back to the Liu family, and even letting those people openly bid for her, I haven’t even played with her!” She muttered under her breath, and Yin Zhe heard every word. He completely forgot that at the time it was Yin Man herself who had denied it, and hurriedly said, “Not yet. It’s just that Liu Mei has already spread the word. This marriage hasn’t been formally broken off yet, so no one has the guts.”
“Wen Si didn’t agree to Yin Youxia’s broken engagement. Wen Si feels that even if they are going to break off the engagement, they should wait until Liu Siyin’s condition improves, so it won’t seem like Yin Youxia is too heartless.”
Hearing these words, Yin Man finally let out a breath of relief. It was all because of her uncontrollable body, collapsing at such a bad time. With Liu Siyin’s current condition, she did not know whether she would think too much and seek death.
Would she feel that she had broken her promise?
The window was opened, and Liu Siyin was pulled to the window. She could not see, and could only hear the shrill sound of rain. The wind blades cut at her face until it stung. It was raining, and there was also a strong wind.
Liu Siyin could no longer hold back those tears. They rolled down her cheeks. She took a deep breath, tugged at the corners of her lips, the fatigue in her heart deepening another layer. Then she said faintly, “Aunt, if my face is ruined, I’ll be worth even less.”
Liu Mei’s eyelids moved slightly, but she still dragged her away from the window and forcefully flung her onto the bed. She was the current head of the Liu family, and also the younger sister of Liu Siyin’s biological father, but she had never had much concept of family affection toward these illegitimate daughters.
Only Liu Siyin, she had carefully raised her.
She was simply too beautiful, so Liu Mei pinned her hopes on her. For so many years, she had been raised according to the standards of a madam from a wealthy family, and Liu Siyin learned very quickly, but she was useless when it came to using it. She did not have the slightest skill in manipulating people.
The target from the very beginning was the Yin family. The Yin family could be considered noble even among wealthy families, and they had business cooperation, so she hoped to build some connection with the Yin family to make the cooperation go more smoothly, and Liu Siyin was a very good choice. The Yin family, inside and out, all liked beauty.
It was just that those two lunatics from the Yin family both looked down on Liu Siyin’s background. If only she had known earlier, she should have changed Liu Siyin’s background. Even if it were only putting on a show on the surface, it would be better than having the illegitimate daughter label run all over the circle.
Yin Youxia was not a good choice, but she could still count as a choice.
But this fool actually injured her eyes in order to save Yin Youxia. It was her who had misjudged. Yin Youxia was actually also a ruthless person. Not only did she want to break the engagement, she also ruined Liu Siyin’s reputation. If Yin Man really could have had something going on with her, then why hadn’t she done it earlier? She knew very well how proud Miss Yin was. How could she possibly touch a woman she looked down on like that?
Only Liu Siyin said that Yin Man would marry her.
Liu Mei did not know whether that was true or false, but if she could choose, she would definitely hope it was true. During these past few days of open bidding in the circle, she had also realized that Liu Siyin could no longer marry into any good family. A woman who had been broken off from an engagement and was unchaste, no matter how beautiful, it was useless, not to mention that she was blind.
Most of the calls were from people wanting Liu Siyin to be their mistress. She understood those people’s filthy thoughts. She did not mind that, but after having raised her for so many years, Liu Siyin being so worthless made her uncomfortable.
Yin Man had better really want to marry her. Yin Man was much more useful than Yin Youxia.
Behind her was also the Mei family. Who did not know that Mei Wuhen was a sister-complex maniac, and after his younger sister died, he doted on his niece? Yin Man’s lawlessness was also partly because of that.
Liu Mei was still not fully reassured, and asked again, “Did Yin Man really say she would marry you?”
Right now Liu Siyin was like a broken rag doll, left to be handled and discarded by others. She had just been pushed by Liu Mei and fallen onto the bed, and now she was lying there on the bed, the white sheets soaked by tears. Even so, she still said firmly, “Sister Man won’t lie to me.”
Her firmness looked extremely ridiculous to Liu Mei. That was Yin Man, how many people had Yin Man not lied to?
She was notorious in the circle as a great villain.
She remembered that before, Miss Li had merely looked twice at Yin Man’s crippled leg, and that day Yin Man had even praised Miss Li’s legs for being really beautiful. The next day, Miss Li had both legs broken and been dumped at her family’s doorstep.
“Liu Siyin, I painstakingly taught you for seven years. Why are you still this naive?” Liu Mei said with apparent earnestness. She had indeed spent time raising Liu Siyin, but Liu Siyin’s intelligence had not been used in the areas she wanted to see. For example, this car accident. If it were her, she would definitely have pretended not to see it, letting that car hit Yin Youxia. Then whether Yin Youxia was crippled or blind would not matter. The more crippled and the more blind she was, the less likely she would be to bring up broken engagement again.
Even if she died, she could still enter the Yin family through the name of widowhood. In the end, she had made herself blind, and that made her worthless.
She suddenly stopped holding out hope for Yin Man regarding Liu Siyin, and Liu Mei said casually, “What kind of person is Yin Man? She’s much scarier than me. You can believe her words too? Young Master Wang from Qiu Yu wants you to be his mistress, you can consider it. Young Master Wang’s background is no worse than Yin Man’s, and his temper is even better than Yin Man’s.”
Most importantly, the price Young Master Wang offered was very tempting. The few plots of land in Jiao Nan would be enough for the Liu family to eat for a long time.
Since she was the head of the family, she should think for the Liu family.
Liu Siyin’s body trembled, and her weak lips opened and closed slightly. “Sister Man is very good.”
It had already been said, Liu Siyin was too naive.
How could someone like Yin Man be considered good? She was the real scum. It was just that seeing her so firmly believing in Yin Man, she could not help suspecting whether she really had something going on with Yin Man. If there really was something going on, then Yin Man, that female lunatic, had no playthings she had not gotten tired of. She absolutely could not be touched.
She had heard that Yin Youxia had once touched one of her dolls, and Yin Man had hung her up and beaten her until she was hospitalized.
That was still Yin Man’s younger sister.
Liu Mei was many years older than Yin Man, but she still had some fear of Yin Man. That kind of madwoman did not care whether there was cooperation or not, did not care about human relations or social niceties. She only wanted to be happy, acting as she pleased, with vicious methods.
Liu Mei did not want to experience being tormented by a female lunatic. But since there really was something going on, why had Yin Man shown no movement after bidding openly for so long?
Could it be Liu Siyin was lying to her?
Wait two more days. If there was still no movement in two days, she would agree to Young Master Wang and formally break off the Yin family marriage.
Liu Siyin’s eyes were blind, but her heart was clear. She knew Liu Mei very well. Liu Mei would not give her too much time. She did not raise useless people, and those who could not create profit were, in Liu Mei’s eyes, all useless.
Yin Man had disappeared, but she still believed Yin Man would come to marry her. She could only believe in Yin Man. She had no other way to go. Yin Man was her only hope. If she did not come, Liu Siyin’s hand slowly reached the drawer. In the drawer lay a pair of scissors. She had prepared them long ago. She had long had a premonition that Yin Youxia would break the engagement with her, and from the very beginning she had never thought of looking for someone else.
She knew very clearly that once she was broken off from an engagement, she would be even less valuable.
If it had not been for Yin Man deliberately disgusting Yin Youxia back then, her background would never have been enough to secure such a good marriage, much less now.
When she was little, she had seen many things, how those people bullied her blind mother. After seeing too much, fear naturally took root. She was very afraid of the dark, and she had forcibly held on for many days.
She was looking forward, looking forward to that pair of warm hands coming to pull her.
Yin Man was the scum in everyone’s mouths, but for so many years, only Yin Man had given her a little warmth. Liu Siyin touched the scissors, and she murmured softly, “If you don’t come to take me away…”
Author’s note:
Thank you to the little angels who voted for me with monthly tickets or fed me nutrient solution during 2022-04-07 14:33:24 to 2022-04-08 17:25:35.
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