The lady immediately retracted her hand, looking innocently at Zhu Yue: "Big brother, I didn't."
Sui Yan stepped back warily: "Sister Zhu Yue, they keep wanting to pinch my face."
Zhu Yue rubbed Sui Yan's face as she spoke: "We'll ignore them, we won't play with them."
Sui Yan's face was full of annoyance: "...Alright."
This sister, could you put your hand down before saying that?
Being "bullied" like this every day, Sui Yan was gradually getting used to it.
Around 5 pm, she slowly made her way to the lounge to find Ti Zi.
And Zhu Yue stood behind her, looking at the little girl's limping figure, feeling an extra pang of heartache and distress.
At a turn, Sui Yan caught sight of Lu Yunling and...Qi Linhan ahead of her.
They stood together, as if Lu Yunling was leaning against Qi Linhan.
Sui Yan pursed her lips and took a detour to avoid them.
But when she left the lounge with Ti Zi, they still saw Lu Yunling who had been waiting at the entrance since early on.
Before Sui Yan could react, Lu Yunling had already walked towards her.
"Miss Sui? What happened to you? Did your leg break?" she said with a strange tone.
Sui Yan was now about the same height as Lu Yunling, and she said coldly: "Good dogs don't block the road."
Lu Yunling sneered: "Don't be like that, I'm just saying hi to you."
Seeing that Sui Yan still had no reaction, Lu Yunling lowered her voice and leaned closer: "You don't know...your brother Linhan said he feels disgusted just looking at you."
Sui Yan quirked her lips: "You don't think I'd believe your nonsense, do you?"
Lu Yunling gritted her teeth, her features slightly distorted: "Whether you believe it or not, I'll be with him soon."
Sui Yan tilted her head and finally smiled a little: "Oh, congratulations."
At the moment, Sui Yan really didn't think too much of it, but Lu Yunling felt that she was cursing her.
Lu Yunling looked at Sui Yan with malice in her eyes: "You probably don't know, do you? Your family has cut ties with your grandparents, all because your grandparents often come to see you. See, you're a disaster."
Sui Yan seemed nonchalant: "Then why are you staying so close to me? Not afraid of death?"
Lu Yunling gave a cold laugh: "Who wants to be this close to you?"
She flung her hand and turned to leave, while Sui Yan stood there, slowly releasing the grip she had been holding tightly on Ti Zi since earlier.
Ti Zi didn't go after Lu Yunling to bite her, its gaze gloomy, looking like a high and mighty wolf king.
"Let's go." Sui Yan's cold and slightly dejected voice sounded from above, and Ti Zi lowered its gaze and followed Sui Yan away.
The girl and the wolf remained silent until they returned home, when Ti Zi heard Sui Yan speak again.
"Ti Zi, am I terrible?"
Ti Zi snuggled up to Sui Yan, as if trying its best to make her feel warm.
But no matter what it did, Sui Yan felt her heart growing colder and colder.
She thought she could slowly come out of it, slowly accept more and more people's kindness. But no, whenever something bad happened because of her, she would immediately revert to her former self.
They huddled in the corner for a long time, until Sui Yan finally rose slowly. She pursed her lips and smiled: "Let's not talk about this anymore, Brother Bai Heng and the others will be back for a few days soon."
Ti Zi raised its paw restlessly and touched Sui Yan, but she showed no reaction. She mechanically tidied up some things in the kitchen and living room, then prepared to go to bed.
But bad things always seem to happen at the same time. Just as Sui Yan returned to her room, her phone suddenly received a call from an unknown number.
She answered the phone, and unexpectedly heard Sui Yu's voice on the other end: "Ah Yan?"
Sui Yan was stunned for a long while before reacting, responding in a low voice: "Brother."
Sui Yu breathed a sigh of relief: "I took a long time to find your number."
Sui Yan was silent for a moment before asking: "What's wrong?"
Sui Yu frowned: "Ah Yan, did you know Grandpa and Grandma had an argument with Dad and the others?"
Sui Yan felt her throat go dry, her voice becoming a bit hoarse: "I...didn't know."
Sui Yu sighed: "I heard it was related to you, you should tell Dad to apologize to Grandpa and Grandma."
Sui Yan's breathing was light: "Brother, you go talk to them yourself."
Sui Yu didn't want to deal with the family matters, as he didn't feel much belonging to that family: "It's no use if I say it, they argued because of you. Ah Yan, if Aunt Ye has been good to you, then you should persuade them."
Sui Yan didn't speak for a long time, feeling like the voice in her ear was getting farther and farther away...it made her feel a bit dazed.
Sui Yu said a lot of meaningless words on the phone, and when he finished, he felt he had gone a bit too far. He pinched the bridge of his nose: "Never mind, let's not get involved with them."
He hung up, while Sui Yan remained in the posture of holding the phone.
Her mind was in a haze, these all too real events making her heart grow half cold.
Sui Yan didn't know how she fell asleep, she only knew that when she woke up, she saw Bai Heng and the military doctor by her bedside, looking anxious.
"Ah Yan, you've finally woken up," the doctor breathed a sigh of relief, and couldn't help but reach out to touch Sui Yan's forehead.
Sui Yan was helped into a sitting position, but she just sat there dazed: "...Brother, what happened to me?"
Bai Heng showed Sui Yan the thermometer: "When we came back, we saw Ti Zi waiting at the door, insisting on dragging us to your room. And when we came in, we found you had a high fever."
Sui Yan quirked her lips: "Maybe I've been too busy lately, my immune system dropped. I suddenly got a fever for no apparent reason."
Bai Heng didn't expose Sui Yan's lie, only deciding to investigate what had happened later.
Sui Yan livened up: "Brother, how long are you staying this time?"
Bai Heng sighed: "We'll have to leave shortly, we were supposed to go straight to our mission, but we came to check on you first since we were worried."
Sui Yan nodded absentmindedly, then belatedly realized: "Brother, I've prepared a lot of things for you all that will definitely be useful when you go on your mission."
She quickly climbed off the bed and dragged out an exquisite little box from the wardrobe.
The military doctor had a vague guess about what it was and looked shocked: "Ah Yan, don't tell me that box is filled with medicines you made?"
Sui Yan nodded seriously: "Yes, and each medicine has a label on it, so you can read the instructions before using them."
Bai Heng felt both touched and helpless: "Ah Yan, you little one! Don't do this again next time, it must have been so tiring! You should rest more!"
Sui Yan shook her head lightly: "I'm not tired, brother, these are all for you."
