Yin Man pressed her lips together, her dark pupils looking somewhat cold and desolate. The sky outside the window was overcast, and the torrential rain blurred everything from view.
It had still been a bright, sunny day in the morning, but by afternoon heavy rain had started pouring down. Yin Man’s mood was gloomy, her body ached, and she was still surrounded by pain. More and more memories that did not belong to her were surfacing, and she gradually could no longer tell who she really was.
The Yin family’s eldest daughter, Yin Man?
Or the ordinary office worker, Yin Man?
When she first came here, she had always worried that she would slip up, but after staying on, she discovered she had been overthinking it. The original owner’s will was stronger than she had imagined, and the way she got along with everyone seemed as though it had been arranged in advance. Even if there were deviations, they would be corrected back into place.
This included her family, and it also included her temperament.
The stab at Wang Gu was simply not something Yin Man could have done. That was the original owner’s bodily instinct.
Would she one day be swallowed by this body? Yin Man could not even think of an answer.
Yin Youxia appeared in the hospital room with a cup of hot water. After some hesitation, she still said it out loud, “I think you have more human warmth than before.”
Human warmth, then she was Yin Man.
The Yin Man who had transmigrated into the book, not the cruel Yin Man.
Huff.
As if she had figured it out, Yin Man’s gaze softened. She sat quietly in the wheelchair and sent Yin Youxia away. In the spacious hospital room, only she and the unconscious Liu Siyin remained.
No matter who she was, at least right now she possessed goodwill, and Liu Siyin was her goodwill.
A cannon fodder’s fate was far too miserable, so she decided to give cannon fodder a different kind of comfort, for example, protecting her.
When Yin Zhe came over after settling the marriage with Liu Mei, his expression was still unsettled. He asked, “The marriage is considered settled, but you really want to marry her?”
Yin Zhe had always been a doting sister maniac. He would help Yin Man get whatever she wanted, including Liu Siyin, but that did not mean he understood. He admitted that Liu Siyin was very pretty, but a woman was not something that could simply be called unusual just because she was pretty. After having met Liu Siyin a few times, his conclusion was that she was a beautiful but boring wooden beauty. No matter how good-looking, she still had no charm.
He had carefully thought about Yin Man’s lifelong happiness. Even if she liked women and wanted a beautiful woman, the one she should marry ought to be a woman who understood charm and gentleness. To Yin Zhe, Liu Siyin, a faceless, legless illegitimate daughter, was not worthy of Yin Man.
“I quite like her,” Yin Man said. Yin Zhe had deep features and black eyes, and he slightly lowered his eyelashes. When he heard the word “like,” a mocking smile appeared at the corners of his lips, carrying a chilling coldness and contemptuous emotion. “Because of her face?”
Yin Man could tell that Yin Zhe did not like Liu Siyin as a sister-in-law. In the original novel, the kind of woman Yin Zhe should like was gentle and charming, like Mei Xuying. Why Mei Xuying? Because in the book, both men and women liked Mei Xuying, including that Wang Gu who had gone to harass Liu Siyin.
She did not know whether her arrival had caused a butterfly effect, making Liu Siyin somehow become the target of Wang Gu’s thoughts and suffer this disaster.
Her fingers gripping the wheelchair armrest turned white.
“I just think that I’m partly responsible for this matter too.”
Words like that made Yin Zhe frown involuntarily. “Overly sympathetic?”
What Yin Man lacked most was sympathy. Yin Zhe could not figure it out, until he saw Yin Man gently shake her head. “Not really.”
“Brother, don’t you think I’m actually even more pitiful? I don’t even have the right to stand up. I seem to see myself in her. If I didn’t have you, if I wasn’t the Yin family’s eldest daughter, if no one cared about me and no one paid attention to me, would I be even more miserable than her?”
When she was especially clear-headed, she probably understood that this was not her life, and she understood even more clearly that the former her and Liu Siyin had a few similarities. No one cared, and everything had to be endured alone in silence.
If she had lost her sight in her previous life, she might also have lost the will to live.
Perhaps she would even have been less eager for life than Liu Siyin.
After a while, Yin Zhe said indifferently, “Whoever dares to bully you, I’ll kill them.”
Yin Man’s vision gradually blurred. She said, “No one dares to bully me.”
Because now she had family background and an older brother.
There was only the matter of her bullying others.
Yin Zhe did not delve further into Liu Siyin’s matter. He said, “Wang Gu was also sent to the hospital, the same one.”
Liu Mei did not seem like someone who would be that stupid, to send Wang Gu here as well. Yin Zhe said, “Wang Gu’s fiancée works at this hospital.”
Yin Man just gave an oh. Actually, it made no difference to her. Wang Gu definitely would not dare touch Liu Siyin again.
Yin Zhe studied Liu Siyin very carefully. “She really is very rare-looking.”
So in Yin Zhe’s eyes, an absolute beauty was just a rare animal. Yin Man mentally tallied up Yin Zhe’s casual hookups. Men and women alike were all handsome, but none of them were especially stunning.
The original owner had once even questioned Yin Zhe’s taste, and Yin Zhe had only said flatly, “If they’re too good-looking, I might not bear to throw them away.”
Yin Zhe would never stop for love. In a world full of scum men, Yin Zhe was also one of the scum men, always searching for new prey and discarding old prey. Novelty was the foundation that sustained his feelings.
Compared like that, Yin Man seemed somewhat vulgar.
To be honest, if Liu Siyin were not this beautiful, she really might not have behaved like this.
She might still save her, but she would not marry her.
Liu Siyin slept for a very long time, and only woke up at night. Actually, there was not much difference for her, because no matter what time it was, everything before her eyes was darkness. Fear of the dark made her, the moment her consciousness woke, able only to feel fear. “Man, Sister Man.”
She was calling out tentatively. Before she lost consciousness, it seemed she had heard Yin Man coming to pick her up.
“You’re awake.” Yin Man’s voice sounded beside her ear. Being too close made Liu Siyin freeze on the spot. She could even feel the heat by her ear, and when she reached out to feel around, she touched Yin Man’s soft arm. If her senses were correct, they seemed to be lying together.
So close, so hot.
Liu Siyin’s ears instantly turned red. Her fair, small ears were covered in blush, and Yin Man’s lips curved with a trace of amusement. She really did not look like the rare treasure Liu Mei had carefully trained into an object of seduction. Her face was a little too thin-skinned.
Yin Man reached out and pinched her ear. The scorching warmth revealed Liu Siyin’s shyness, and Yin Man asked, “Scared?”
Actually, she had only wanted to stay in the hospital to keep her company, but since she had trouble moving and her body was not in good condition, Yin Zhe simply threw her onto the hospital bed too, to recuperate alongside Liu Siyin. Speaking of which, it was still because her legs were not good.
The two of them really were, one disabled and one blind, and they could count as a pair of weak wives.
Yin Man’s gaze was gentle. Although Liu Siyin could not see it, she could feel that hand lightly brushing over her ear. Liu Siyin murmured softly, “Sister Man, thank you.”
“Thank me for what, for saving you, or for sleeping with you?”
After hearing that, a trace of embarrassment染ed Liu Siyin’s jade-white little face, like tender petals unfolding before her eyes, giving off waves of fragrance.
“B-both.” These few words slipped out of her lips like a mosquito’s hum, soft and warm, making anyone who heard them feel their heart soften.
She was really so obedient.
The first time she saw her, she had already thought she was very obedient, and after getting along with her, she felt even more that she was well-behaved and gentle. Yin Man pinched her cheek, and lowered her gentle voice. “What’s there to be polite about? Next time, don’t do anything foolish. If that scissors had gone into the wrong place, you would have lost your life.”
“Okay, I definitely won’t think of doing anything rash again in the future.” Liu Siyin’s face lifted into a smile.
Looking down, she saw the shy smile at the corner of her soft lips. A strand of black hair fell into the curve of her neck, reflecting against that snow-white skin, and she could not help but reach out and lightly brush over her shoulder. Only after a moment did she realize the action was too intimate, and she awkwardly withdrew her hand. “Your skin is pretty good.”
Liu Siyin leaned slightly forward, moving closer to her. “Then Sister Man, touch it.”
She clenched her teeth, looking as if she were ready to let Yin Man do whatever she wanted.
Yin Man froze. “You’re like this with Yin Youxia too?”
The moment she finished asking, she regretted it. Yin Youxia simply looked down on Liu Siyin completely. Let alone lying on the same bed with her, even getting close to her would make Yin Youxia feel disgusted and avoid her as if she were something filthy. So Liu Siyin could not possibly act like this toward Yin Youxia. She had no idea what was wrong with her, asking such a blunt question.
As expected, Liu Siyin’s eyes turned red. She lowered her head. “I didn’t.”
“Really.” Her faint voice, full of grievance, was trying to prove her innocence to Yin Man. Yin Man felt a little moved. She pinched Liu Siyin’s chin. “I know.”
Unfortunately, Liu Siyin could not see it, and missed the gentleness in Yin Man’s eyes.
Yin Man held Liu Siyin and lay there for a while. Then a caregiver came over and lifted her from the bed into the wheelchair. That way was still too inconvenient. Yin Man had always had live-in caregivers, several of them rotating shifts, all for the sake of taking care of her legs. The original owner had long since gotten used to this kind of life, but Yin Man was not very used to it. Even getting out of bed required someone to carry her. She could roughly understand the reason Yin Man had collapsed. Having to rely on another person for everything in life would definitely be painful.
If only her legs could walk.
The muscles in her legs tightened slightly, and then, it was actually—
Yin Man turned to look out the window, slightly narrowing her eyes. Her long fingers tightened around the wheelchair armrest. Her leg had just moved.
Before she could even confirm whether that was an illusion, intense pain suddenly shot from her knee and spread throughout her entire body. Yin Man broke into beads of sweat from the pain, which dripped down one by one. The caregiver saw it and asked, “Miss Yin, what’s wrong?”
The movement startled Liu Siyin. She groped for Yin Man. “Sister Man, what’s wrong?”
She reached out little by little, trying to find Yin Man, and in a moment of carelessness, she fell to the floor with a thud.
“Liu Siyin!” Yin Man was startled and hurriedly tried to help Liu Siyin up, but with a slight exertion she also fell to the floor herself. At this, the caregiver panicked and hurried over to help, but Yin Man forced herself toward Liu Siyin. “Does it hurt?”
Liu Siyin finally grasped that pair of hands, warm ones.
“Sister Man, what’s wrong with you?” It was probably the body’s rejection response. It hurt terribly, in fits and starts, wave after wave, and sooner or later it would hurt her to death.
Just as Yin Man thought this, she realized that she was no longer in pain.
It seemed that the pain stopped the moment she held Liu Siyin’s hand.
Could it be that Liu Siyin really was medicine, her medicine?
Author’s note:
Thank you to the little angels who voted for me or irrigated me with nutrient solution during 2022-04-10 22:53:01~2022-04-12 20:00:13.
Thank you to the little angel who irrigated with nutrient solution, Idle Cloud and Wild Crane, 2 bottles;
Thank you all very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!