After Transmigrating, I Married the Male Lead’s Sister (GL) - Chapter 50
A sharp shard cut through the skin, leaving a gash that oozed bl00d, dripping steadily onto the floor.
“Damn it!”
Hou Kai was kicked away by Qin Yaohua. He helped Qin Zhan up, and Qin Zhan casually touched his face, his hand covered in bl00d.
“Qin Zhan!” Gu Linxi rushed over, “You—”
Li Suimei broke free from Qin Qing and ran over. She was startled by Qin Zhan’s appearance, her eyes filled with tears as she asked, “Are you, are you okay?”
His face was pale from the pain, yet he still shook his head.
Gu Linxi gritted her teeth and took a tissue to wipe the bl00d off Qin Zhan’s face.
Qin Qing contacted a doctor while Hou’s mother collapsed to the ground, wailing. She was no longer worried about Hou Kai, but was terrified at the sight of Qin Zhan’s cut face.
“Huaizhan! Huaizhan! Xiao Kai didn’t mean it…”
Hou’s mother and Hou Kai were pinned to the ground by the bodyguards. Li Suimei looked guilty and pulled Qin Zhan, apologizing incoherently, tears welling up in her eyes.
“I’m sorry, it’s all my fault…”
Qin Zhan covered his injured left cheek and stared at Li Suimei blankly.
“Qin Zhan…” Li Suimei’s heart was filled with turmoil. In the original book, Qin Zhan had risked himself to protect the original character, which had moved the vicious original character. It was from this moment that the original character had become more determined to get engaged to Qin Zhan. “Why…”
“Meimei,” Qin Zhan suddenly said softly, “Let’s end it here.”
Li Suimei was stunned, and tears welled up in her eyes, falling onto the back of her hand as she wiped the bl00d off Qin Zhan’s face. Qin Zhan gently wiped away the tears and said softly, “I’m fine.”
Gu Linxi stood aside, the tissue she had been holding was unknowingly taken away by Li Suimei, her fingers empty as she stood in the Qin family like an outsider.
“Why are you being so tough? What if you get scarred?” Suddenly, Gu Linxi stepped forward with tears in her eyes, her palm gently patting Qin Zhan’s chest. Qin Zhan pressed Gu Linxi’s hand against her chest.
The two of them were as intimate as a couple.
Li Suimei suddenly erupted, reaching out to pull Gu Linxi away, “Gu Linxi!”
“What are you acting so chummy in front of me for?” Li Suimei said.
Gu Linxi’s face turned pale, and she struggled a bit, “I was just too anxious…”
“The doctor is here.” Qin Qing walked over, suddenly interrupting their argument.
Li Suimei glared at Gu Linxi and pressed Qin Zhan to sit down on the sofa. Gu Linxi followed and wanted to bandage Qin Zhan herself, but Li Suimei slapped her hand away, “You? Do you want Qin Zhan to be disfigured?”
Gu Linxi hung her head and could only retreat pitifully.
Li Suimei gnashed her teeth. In terms of playing the weak and vulnerable, she was still no match for the female lead in the book. Gu Linxi naturally had a paler complexion and her appearance wasn’t as bright as Li Suimei’s. Her eyes were also not as bright as Li Suimei’s, and in some ways, she had an advantage over Li Suimei.
Wiping away the tears from the corner of her eyes, Li Suimei said, “Stay away from me, this is all because of you!”
Qin Zhan frowned, “Meimei.”
“Am I wrong?”
Gu Linxi retorted, “Qin Zhan was injured because of you!”
Li Suimei’s face flushed with anger, “Gu Linxi!”
On the side, Qin Yaohua frowned and scolded in a low voice, “Stop arguing.”
Qin Qing raised her phone, “I’ve already called the police.”
Hou’s mother panicked, “Xiao Kai didn’t mean it, it was Qin Zhan who started it!”
Qin Qing lowered her eyelids, her sunken eyes filled with cold light, “The police will determine who the victim is and what happened.”
Hou’s mother pursed her lips, looked at the dejected Hou Kai, and then at Qin Zhan.
Qin Qing held her phone and flipped it up and down, “Mrs. Hou, just say what you want to say.”
Hou’s mother pointed at Gu Linxi beside Qin Zhan, “It’s her! The culprit is Gu Linxi!”
“Without her! We wouldn’t have been able to enter Qin Bay!”
Li Suimei snorted coldly.
Gu Linxi breathed rapidly, and Li Suimei smiled, “Gu Linxi, it turns out this was all your plan!”
“I didn’t…”
“Meimei!” Qin Zhan defended Gu Linxi, “It’s not Linxi’s fault, I asked her to come.”
“You gave her access, so why did Hou’s family come over?”
Qin Zhan: “….. It was just a coincidence.”
Li Suimei was disappointed, “You always don’t trust me.”
Qin Qing: “Call the butler.”
The butler came over, holding a tablet and opened the surveillance footage of Qin Bay’s perimeter. In the surveillance footage, two cars arrived at Qin Bay one after the other, with no interaction between them.
Hou Kai suddenly laughed, “What’s wrong? Want to know if I have anything else with this woman…”
Hou Kai was kicked hard in the abdomen by the bodyguard, and he lost his voice in pain.
Li Suimei said, “Just because it’s not on the surveillance footage doesn’t mean there isn’t any other contact.”
“Hou Kai has been out for several days and hasn’t been to the Qin family, so how come Gu Linxi came as soon as she arrived? The two cars arrived at Qin Bay one after the other!”
Li Suimei grabbed Gu Linxi’s phone, “Open your messages!”
Qin Zhan: “Meimei, don’t twist the facts!”
Li Suimei: “I’m twisting the facts? Qin Zhan, you trust Gu Linxi so much? Are you willing to be controlled by Gu Linxi every move you make?”
Qin Zhan lowered his eyes. At this moment, a maid came downstairs carrying a stack of envelopes. She placed the envelopes beside Qin Zhan and said to Li Suimei, “These were found in Miss Li’s trash can when the maid was cleaning the room.”
Qin Zhan said to Li Suimei, “The maid found this in your room when she was cleaning.”
“I…”
Gu Linxi: “You’ve been spying on me and Qin Zhan?”
Li Suimei was caught off guard and was speechless. Qin Qing leaned forward and glanced around. The room was silent, especially Gu Linxi, who looked calm and composed, as if waiting for Li Suimei to admit her guilt.
“It wasn’t me,” Li Suimei gritted her teeth.
Qin Qing walked over and took the envelope Qin Zhan was holding. She tried to open it. For the sake of concealment, the private investigator’s information was usually wrapped in an additional layer. Qin Qing took out another complete plastic-sealed document from the envelope.
Li Suimei chuckled bitterly, “I did have someone investigate Gu Linxi, but I’ve never opened any of these files.”
Qin Zhan was slightly surprised and quickly checked all the remaining envelopes. None of them had been opened!
Qin Qing glanced at Li Suimei sideways. If it wasn’t Li Suimei who had planted the evidence, then who? Although she had people following Qin Zhan, she hadn’t looked at any of the photos.
Hou Kai suddenly laughed, “Qin Zhan, Qin Zhan, I really want to ask you! What does it feel like to be deceived by two women?”
Gu Linxi’s face immediately turned ugly, “Qin Zhan, listen to my explanation!”
As the atmosphere stiffened, the door to the entrance hall was pushed open, and Ji Wenjing and Li Enhua walked in one after the other without even taking off their shoes.
“Meimei!”
Li Suimei’s nose turned sour, and she turned around and threw herself into Ji Wenjing’s arms. She seemed to have found a backbone instantly.
Li Enhua ruffled Li Suimei’s hair and, looking at the messy living room and injured Qin Zhan, understood the situation. After learning what had happened, Li Enhua sighed and said with red eyes, “Yaohua.”
Qin Yaohua felt ashamed, “Enhua.”
Li Enhua, “With things turning out like this, our Li family is also responsible. Meimei rejected the marriage, and the scandal between Huaizhan and Miss Gu is well-known…”
Ji Wenjing was dissatisfied, “Li Enhua!”
Qin Yaohua, “I just hope that both families can forget about the past.”
Li Enhua frowned, “I only have one condition…”
Qin Zhan frowned, “Uncle, I…”
“No matter how poor the Li family is, our precious daughter is held in the palm of our hands, and she should not be trampled on by an outsider of unknown origin.”
Li Enhua pressed down on Qin Zhan’s shoulder and patted him hard, “I only ask that we bring forward the wedding date.”
When Li Ensheng was speaking, his gaze was fixed on Gu Linxi.
Hearing this, Li Suimei, who was leaning against Ji Wenjing’s body, instantly relaxed.
“Okay,” Qin Yaohua agreed readily.
Qin Qing looked away and smiled, tilting her head up. There was a glint of starlight in her eyes.
“Let’s set it for December,” Li Suimei said.
Outside, the sound of a siren blared. Hou Kai was taken away by the police, and everyone else in the house had to give a statement.
After a long night of commotion, Mrs. Hou’s tears had almost dried up before she left the police station.
Li Suimei came out, followed by the sobbing Mrs. Hou. Qin Qing was smoking outside, looking at Li Suimei with her arms crossed.
“Come here,” Qin Qing said.
Li Suimei reluctantly walked over. Qin Qing asked, “Did you hire someone to take those photos?”
Li Suimei nodded. She had been questioned inside and it wouldn’t hurt to tell Qin Qing, “…I didn’t look at them, I just threw them in the trash.”
—I didn’t need to see them to know how far they’d gone, Li Suimei thought to herself.
The Hou family came to pick up Mrs. Hou. As they watched the car drive away, Qin Qing threw away her cigarette, “Did you deliberately throw away the photos?”
Li Suimei was speechless.
Qin Qing patted Li Suimei’s head, “Be honest.”
Li Suimei chuckled nervously, “I just wanted to know who Qin Zhan was with.”
Qin Qing replied, “You don’t maintain a relationship like that. If you don’t like someone, continuing to cling to them isn’t going to change that.”
Li Suimei tilted her head, sensing a strange look in Qin Qing’s eyes, so she just smiled.
“What’s going on between you and Hou Kai?”
Li Suimei hesitated, “…He’s been chasing me for years, but I’ve never agreed.
Qin Qing sneered.
Li Suimei argued, “It’s one-sided. I’ve never been with him.”
Qin Qing smiled, “I know.”
Gu Linxi and Qin Zhan came out. Qin Zhan said in a hoarse voice, “Sister, this has nothing to do with Linxi.”
Li Suimei smiled wryly and said to Gu Linxi, “Qin Zhan is so protective of you, and you made him get hurt.”
Qin Zhan’s eyes were complex, “Meimei, I’m sorry… Linxi, you, give me some time to think about this.”
Gu Linxi met Hou Kai because no other company was willing to hire her, and only Hou Kai was willing to offer her a good position, on the condition that she meet someone from the Qin family.
Hou’s mother only goal was to plead for her son. And because Gu Linxi and Qin Zhan were from different social classes and faced a lot of criticism, she decided to help the Hou family after some thought.
Li Suimei pressed her thumb against the corner of her mouth and smiled, “If and when Qin Zhan and I get married, I’ll invite you to the wedding.”
Qin Zhan didn’t deny it. The girl who had held an umbrella for him in the rain had gradually been consumed by money and fame, and he was confused.
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“Did you see the news? According to the weather bureau, winter will come a little later this year.”
“Oh, you’re talking about that. I thought you were gossiping about the Qin and Li families.”
“You mean that girl who was about to marry into a wealthy family but was cheated on by her future husband?”
A few people pushed and shoved each other, excitedly discussing the gossip about the wealthy families.
“Honestly, if I married into such a wealthy family, I wouldn’t care how many women my husband kept on the side.”
“…You wish!”
“But will there be any good days at the end of the year? The timing is awkward, with the New Year coming up and National Day just passed…”
“How can we understand the thoughts of the rich?”
The group sighed and quickly changed the topic.
Two meters away, a slender figure, also taking shelter from the rain, stood under the eaves of a shopping mall. Dressed in a thin skirt and wearing a mask, she held a sketchbook in her arms, standing alone.
After standing for a while, the person next to her left in a taxi. Li Suimei smiled absentmindedly and hummed a song softly, “Oh, winter’s first snow, please come quickly…”
In September, the rainy season arrived, and the rain poured down heavily at night.
The sultry weather made people restless. The power went out in Qin Bay, and suddenly, the whole world was plunged into darkness.
Li Suimei stared at the dark ceiling for a while. It was too stuffy and humid, and the sticky sweat made her feel uneasy. Li Suimei had to get up and open the window to let in some air.
The moment she opened the window, the wind and rain rushed in!
Li Suimei was knocked off balance by the swirling curtains and barely managed to stand up straight. She quickly closed the window again.
The rain was too heavy, and the area under the window was instantly soaked, even the front of her clothes were damp and dark.
Li Suimei sighed, put on her wet clothes, and threw herself heavily onto the soft bed. She drifted off to sleep.
She didn’t know how long she had slept, but time seemed to pass slowly. Her dreams were chaotic, one moment replaying Gu Linxi’s smug expression when her scheme was exposed, and the next moment she was being abandoned by Qin Zhan at the engagement ceremony in the dead of winter.
The wind outside, which was blocked by the window, seemed to be right beside her ears. Li Suimei felt like she had fallen asleep.
After a while, there was a knock on the door. Li Suimei was jolted awake from her dream.
“Knock knock!”
Li Suimei was alert, “Who is it?”
“It’s me.”
Li Suimei got out of bed barefoot and opened the door. Qin Qing was standing at the door in a slip dress, her long hair casually draped over her shoulders. She was holding a candle and shone it on Li Suimei’s face.
“The power is out, are you scared?”
Li Suimei: “…….”
She thought seriously about whether the original character was afraid of the dark.
“No…”
Suddenly, a bolt of lightning struck! The next moment, thunder roared, and Li Suimei involuntarily shrank back, her words caught in her throat.
Qin Qing pursed her lips. The candlelight illuminated her face, and the warm yellow light complemented her features.
“Achoo!” Li Suimei calmed down and sneezed softly.
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Let’s speed up the plot… Good night~