Qin Zhao was the first to lose his patience.
"Damn it, I told you that little punk was no good! And you actually moved in with him! Is your head filled with shit?" Qin Zhao was so angry that he was cursing with every sentence.
Even facing his sister whose face had turned pale from being yelled at, he showed no signs of stopping.
"Tell me honestly, since you're living together, has he taken advantage of you?" Qin Zhao furiously demanded.
Everyone's expressions became a bit awkward. Even though they knew about the cohabitation before, neither Qin's Mom nor Qin Yan had asked many questions.
Although as a brother he shouldn't pry into private matters, just thinking about that garbage of a man touching his sister made him want to vomit up even the New Year's Eve dinner from ten years ago.
Hearing this, Qin Rong was too ashamed to lift her head, but she still firmly replied, "Even though we're living together, we have separate rooms. His love for me is genuine, and he said he won't do anything to me before marriage. He just wants to spend more time with me. He really is a good person!"
She was an adult, so even if something happened with her boyfriend, it wouldn't be a problem.
Many of her classmates were already... Compared to them, she felt that Brother Cheng Yue truly cherished her, which was rare and precious.
But Qin Rong's answer stunned everyone else.
Although this answer should have been reassuring, everyone knew what normal men were thinking when they asked to live together.
So Qin Zhao's first reaction was that Qin Rong was lying.
But a second later, they heard Ji Fei's thoughts coming from afar.
[It's actually true? How strange.]
The expressions on everyone's faces were almost identical: This is unbelievable!
That punk who tried to grope a girl's thigh in public was now playing the pure love game after tricking her into living together?
Ji Fei was just as confused as everyone else and couldn't help but search for gossip to see the details.
[It doesn't make sense. Young people are in their prime, yet living together and doing nothing? Could he be impotent? Let me see...]
Everyone's expressions became subtle.
Qin Rong's face turned bright red from this interruption.
It definitely wasn't that. There was one time when Brother Cheng Yue hugged her, and she felt... but they were interrupted by Cheng Miao. Otherwise, they might have...
While Ji Fei couldn't find out if the man was impotent or not, she did discover something else.
[Oh my God!]
Everyone's hearts skipped a beat at this exclamation, and they held their breath to eavesdrop.
Qin Rong, who wasn't too familiar with Ji Fei's situation, also became a bit panicked. Remembering her second sister-in-law's attitude earlier, Qin Rong had always been quite suspicious. If her second sister-in-law really knew everything, how could she dislike someone as good as Brother Cheng Yue?
Just as she was thinking this, she heard Ji Fei say in an almost unbelievable tone: [No way, has Qin Rong been blinded by love, or does she have mud in her eyes?]
Qin Rong was stunned by this insult.
[Cheng Yue said: I'm good enough to you. Look at other girlfriends, they move in together, do laundry, cook, take care of their boyfriends, and give all their money to their boyfriends to manage. That's what good women do. But you're my baby, I don't mind that you haven't grown up and don't understand things.]
[So, feeling inadequate, Qin Rong moved in with him!]
[Cheng Yue said: When I asked you to hand-wash my jersey, you couldn't even do that right. Which girl doesn't know how to do laundry? I didn't even get angry at you or look down on you. From now on, I'll take care of washing the jerseys myself. Where else could you find a boyfriend who spoils you like this?]
[So, Qin Rong apologized and felt it was very sweet. She thinks she's being pampered by her boyfriend.]
[Yuck~ My eyes! I can't bear to look anymore. My values have been polluted. My intelligence is being ground into the dirt.]
Not just Ji Fei, but everyone else's faces were changing colors like traffic lights, their burning gazes fixed on Qin Rong.
This was no longer the way one looks at a family member, but how one looks at some strange new species.
Qin Rong was stunned. Those couple conversations that had initially only made her feel sweet, for some reason, after hearing Ji Fei's sarcastic imitation, a wave of shame washed over her.
Qin Rong felt like something wasn't right, but more than that, she felt wronged on behalf of her boyfriend who was being humiliated.
Her voice trembling, she tried to say something, "He..."
"You love-addled fool!" Qin Zhao couldn't hold back anymore and pointed directly at Qin Rong's nose as he scolded.
"I'm not!" Qin Rong became agitated.
"Oh yes, yes, yes, 'love-addled' is a term for people who actually have love between them. Clearly, he doesn't love you at all, so you're just purely brain-dead," Qin Zhao said mercilessly. "When Mom had a difficult labor giving birth to you, did she leave your brain behind in the womb?"
Qin Rong was no match for Qin Zhao's combativeness. Her charge for love collapsed halfway, and she could only emphasize with teary eyes, "It's not like that. He loves me. What about you all? Do you have any successful examples in love? You have no right to lecture me on this."
To prove that she was right, Qin Rong had started attacking her three siblings.
Hearing this, the three siblings had various expressions. The parents couldn't bear to listen anymore and were about to speak.
[She has a point. We really don't have the right.]
The rest of the Qin family: Hey, hey, hey, whose side are you on?
Qin Rong suddenly felt more confident.
[Come to think of it, it seems the whole family has a naturally naive personality. They're either being deceived (Qin Yan, Qin Xian, Qin Zhao) or on the way to being deceived (Qin Rong). Could it be hereditary? I wonder if Qin's Father and Qin's Mom when they were young...]
Qin's Father and Qin's Mom suddenly shuddered.
This topic was not appropriate to continue.
Qin's Mom coughed and said, "Since we can't reason with you, Rong-er, you'll stay at home for a while."
Qin Rong was immediately incredulous, "You're going to lock me up?! I'm an adult, you can't..."
"Would you rather we watch you continue to live with that terrible man? Unless you're no longer my child." This time, Qin's Mom played her trump card.
Even if she had become rebellious due to her love-addled state, her fundamental nature hadn't changed.
Qin Rong cried in disappointment and heartbreak, but she didn't dare say anything more.
Qin's Father said coldly, "Alright, let's not discuss the rest for now. Fill out the application form and send it tonight."
"I don't want to," Qin Rong suddenly said.
"Say that again?" Qin's Father's tone grew colder.
"I don't want to go abroad," Qin Rong seemed to be resisting other things more strongly because of her earlier compromise with her mother. "I've already thrown away the application form."
Qin's Father took a sharp breath. "You, you..."
Qin Zhao couldn't hold back again, "Did that little punk perform eye removal surgery on you or brain polishing surgery?"
Qin Rong bit her lip and refused to respond.
Qin Xian suddenly spoke up, "Fine."
Ji Fei, who was hesitating whether to tell everyone where the crumpled paper was, was interrupted by this.
Everyone looked at Qin Xian, who had finally spoken.
Qin Rong said in disbelief, "Second brother, you're willing to understand me?"
"No, I'm just respecting your choice for your own future," Qin Xian said seriously. "Whether you want to cherish it or waste it, as long as you've thought it through, this is your choice. Don't blame your family later for not warning you."
Qin Rong's heart skipped a beat, as if something was slipping away, making her want to grasp it for a moment.
Except for Qin Rong who was still a bit dazed, the rest of the Qin family seemed to understand what Qin Xian meant.
People always have to pay a price for their youthful foolishness.
Because of the Qin family's existence, this price might not be too painful, but it would still leave Qin Rong with a lasting lesson.
Qin Rong was confined for three days before someone finally came looking for her.
