Jiang Lai looked at Si Yina and Shen Ruxue before her, instinctively wanting to pull Si Yina away. She hadn’t expected Si Yina to rush over so quickly.
All along the way to the beach, Jiang Lai had been paying close attention to any movement behind her, specifically to avoid Si Yina finding her so soon and disturbing her hard-won peace and quiet.
Just as Si Yina opened her mouth to say something, Jiang Lai directly grabbed her wrist, trying to pull her back.
One had to realize that the Shen Ruxue in front of her was her daughter’s classmate. In case Si Yina had an episode and let Shen Ruxue see something she shouldn’t, she would definitely tell her daughter. If that happened, how would Jiang Lai manage her own image?
However, there was no way Si Yina would leave so easily. It was so late, yet this young woman had appeared on the beach, appearing right before Jiang Lai’s eyes at just the right time.
Although she didn’t know what the connection was, Si Yina still wanted to confirm a few things just to prevent any accidents.
Si Yina felt the force of Jiang Lai pulling on her wrist. Thinking about how Jiang Lai had resisted her on the phone, she accidentally used a bit too much strength. Jiang Lai only felt a massive force send her reeling backward.
Jiang Lai was still wearing the slippers she had come out of her room in and failed to find her footing for a moment. She stumbled and fell directly onto the beach. Fortunately, the sand was soft; even though Jiang Lai fell heavily, landing on her knees didn’t hurt much. If it had been a normal floor, she would have certainly scraped them until they bled. It was a small blessing in the midst of misfortune.
Si Yina was already in a bad mood. Seeing Jiang Lai fall on the beach because of her, she didn’t even bother to help. Instead, Shen Ruxue, seeing Jiang Lai’s aggrieved appearance, hurriedly bent down.
Although Shen Ruxue didn’t have much of a favorable impression of Jiang Lai, during the time her daughter was hospitalized, this woman in front of her had been incredibly attentive to her daughter—even more so than she, the mother, had been.
Furthermore, her younger sister liked her very much. With all these factors combined, even if she didn’t like her in her heart, the way Shen Ruxue acted was a case of loving the house and its crow; she wouldn’t just let someone else bully her.
Shen Ruxue thought about what happened during the day. Based on her sister’s frantic attitude today, if she were even slightly unkind to her, her sister’s mood would surely sour.
Shen Ruxue didn’t know what had happened between Jiang Lai and her sister to make the two of them separate, but ever since arriving on this island, her sister had been searching constantly, not even taking the time to eat or drink.
Chi Yingyu had practically placed her whole heart on Jiang Lai. If she lost her own brother-in-law, she wouldn’t even have any desire to keep living. Every extra minute and second spent searching now meant the possibility of seeing Jiang Lai earlier. Even if she was all alone, she would turn the entire resort island upside down from the inside out.
Seeing how her sister disregarded even her own body, Shen Ruxue had finally forced her to eat this evening.
At the dining table, Shen Ruxue looked at her sister, whose eyes were bloodshot from not resting well the night before, and added a little something to aid sleep into the food on the table.
While finding someone was very important, at least in Shen Ruxue’s view, the most important thing right now was not the search, but finding a way to make her sister rest well first.
Being a little earlier or later wouldn’t put her sister’s girlfriend’s life in danger—this wasn’t some kind of kidnapping—but if her sister kept searching like this, her body would truly collapse.
Shen Ruxue let her sister fall asleep, but she took her sister’s place, stopping and starting as she walked through the areas of the resort island that hadn’t been searched yet. It could be considered trying her luck so she would have something to tell her sister when she woke up.
As it turned out, her luck was that good. Just by trying her luck at the beach, she had found Jiang Lai. It felt as if something was guiding the two of them to meet in the dark.
Shen Ruxue gently supported Jiang Lai with both hands, intending to pull her up and take her to find her sister.
But just as the two of them drew close, Shen Ruxue used the bright white moonlight to see the clear bite marks on Jiang Lai’s neck and slightly exposed collarbone. Although they weren’t hickeys, they were far more malicious than hickeys.
Such obvious bite marks were definitely not something her sister would do. Even if she hadn’t spent time with her sister in a while, she believed her sister was absolutely not such a malicious person.
Since it wasn’t her sister, then who on earth had left them on Jiang Lai?
Shen Ruxue hesitated at this moment. She wondered if finding Jiang Lai now was actually the right thing to do. Had she stumbled into a situation she shouldn’t have seen?
While they weren’t hickeys, the act of leaving bite marks was also very ambiguous, or rather, a highly possessive display.
If she were to leave bite marks on someone, the only choice in Shen Ruxue’s heart was her husband, Jiang Lai.
This was an affair… her younger sister had been given a Green Hat…
When facing her family, Shen Ruxue’s doting and favoritism could be described as nearly unconditional and without a bottom line. Perhaps it hadn’t been that strong initially, but after years of accumulation, Shen Ruxue was now someone who protected her own to the extreme.
Jiang Lai also doted on her family, but that was all within reasonable bounds. If her family did something wrong, she would also show a strict side, just as she had behaved when facing her daughter before.
Shen Ruxue’s mood turned sour. Her gaze never left that obvious mark on Jiang Lai’s neck, to the point that her hands, which had originally been gently supporting Jiang Lai, used more and more force, even hurting Jiang Lai.
Jiang Lai didn’t dare make a sound because she only wanted to hide those shameful marks on her neck right now. She absolutely could not let her unclean side be displayed before her daughter’s classmate.
Jiang Lai hurriedly retreated, trying her best to straighten her clothes with her hands. Unfortunately, the clothes she had worn out from the room didn’t fit snugly and could only be held tight by hand.
“About this, I can explain…”
Jiang Lai could clearly feel Shen Ruxue’s gaze shifting from concern and a hint of gentleness at the beginning, slowly transforming into vigilance and even revealing a trace of disgust. All of this was because she had seen those filthy, unclean marks on her body.
Jiang Lai originally wanted to say something to save her image, but Si Yina wouldn’t allow such a thing to happen at all. She grabbed Jiang Lai’s waist; the current situation was exactly to her liking.