Looking at Hong Lingâs confident demeanor, Hong Ping was stunned for a moment, then immediately believed her.
Because she had known since childhood that their parents favored this younger sister, and no matter how difficult it was, they would eventually compromise if she wanted something.
But she didnât expect that within one evening, Mrs. Hong would actually compromise, especially on such a matter.
Although her face and lips were still touched up with rouge, it couldnât hide her somewhat pale complexion and lip color. She looked at Hong Ling, who was standing with her hands behind her back in her meticulously arranged new room, strolling around as if nothing had happened, and felt a chill all over.
She didnât know what position her parents and this blood-related younger sister had placed her in, for them to do such a thing on her wedding day.
Meanwhile, outside.
Ruan Chi had just finished dealing with a senior and turned around to see Shu Jiao standing on one side talking to Du Qing, then walked over.
He pushed his glasses up, looking worried, and said, "Aunt, when you see Jiaojiao later, check if she hurt her knee. We were too rushed at the hotel just now and didnât get a chance to check. Iâm a bit concerned."
"How could Jiaojiao hurt her knee for no reason?" Du Qing asked in confusion upon hearing this, glancing around the new room. Seeing Ruan Jiaojiao eating beside the Ruanlin Family, she hurried over, bent down to check her knee, and asked with a deeply concerned look, "Jiaojiao, what happened? Does your knee hurt? Let Aunt take a look."
Ruan Jiaojiao was nestled at the side of the Ruanlin Family, eating a small cake. She had gotten up early in the morning and hadnât had time to eat anything, so she was starving.
Seeing Du Qing coming up to check her knee, she was a bit puzzled.
"Whatâs going on?" The Ruanlin Family also bent down, anxiously turning her around: "Are you hurt?"
With a touch of cream still on the corner of her mouth, Ruan Jiaojiao shook her head and looked from one to the other, utterly confused. She wasnât hurt at all.
At this moment, Ruan Chi and Shu Jiao also came over. Shu Jiaoâs gaze swept around Ruan Jiaojiaoâs entire body, confirming there were no injuries, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Ruan Chiâs gaze fell on Ruan Jiaojiaoâs knee, looked at it for about four or five seconds, then breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Itâs good that there are no injuries."
"What exactly happened? Speak clearly!" the Ruanlin Family demanded with a frown.
Ruan Chi touched his nose with his index finger with some annoyance, and finally, perhaps because he was being closely watched by many elders, he explained quietly, "Itâs nothing really, just back at the hotel..."
As a lawyer, Ruan Chi was well-versed in the art of storytelling, so not only did he narrate what happened at the hotel with ease, he also successfully left the worst impression of Hong Ling in the minds of the elders, all while feigning an understanding expression, saying, "Perhaps my sister-in-lawâs little sister is still young and not familiar with things like this, it probably wasnât intentional."
Ruan Jiaojiao didnât know if Hong Ling did it on purpose, but she was sure Ruan Chi definitely did!
She glanced at the elders, whose expressions were all not very good, couldnât help but secretly give Ruan Chi a thumbs up behind their backs, and then pretended to be particularly innocent as she said, "Grandma, Mom, Aunt, itâs alright, I wasnât hurt, I was just a bit startled at the time. Iâm sure Sister Ling didnât mean it."