Chapter 71
Chapter 71: Who Knows Who’s Out of Whose League
“My brother only avoided his Death Tribulation because of her reminder. He still got into a car accident, but it was only some scrapes and a broken leg. He kept his life, and that was already the best outcome in a bad situation.”
When Madam Xie and the others heard this, their interest was hooked. They looked at Ye Meng Zhen with encouraging eyes, hoping she would keep talking.
Ye Meng Zhen took a deep breath. She hid the part about her brother getting drunk and crashing the car because he had accidentally found out Li Qian Xi was treating him like a backup. She only gave them a simple version of what had happened from start to finish.
After listening, Ms. Qiu became even more sure of what she had already guessed. She sighed and said: “If you’ll let me be blunt, although Master Du and that Miss Du haven’t known each other for very long, and their relationship is still a bit special, I can tell with my own eyes that their feelings are good. They are close in daily life, and with the Du family helping from the side, their relationship will only grow better and deeper in the future. If the Li family really gets tied to that Miss Du, who knows which side will be marrying up later on.”
Madam Xie was not stupid. How could she not hear that Ms. Qiu was hinting at her?
These days, almost every businessperson believes in this kind of thing a little. If Du An Rao really has this kind of ability, people will only come looking for her more and more in the future.
And Du Yu Xi, as the sister she herself has accepted, really might not think much of the Li family’s small patch of land.
Because of Du Yu Xi’s face, Madam Xie had already liked her from the first moment. Now she took another deep breath and felt more and more that this thing about Du Yu Xi being a good sister and a real daughter might really be true.
After sending Ms. Qiu and the others away, Madam Xie suddenly remembered that her own son was also one of the people helped by Du An Rao.
She turned to look at him right away and asked: “What did that Master Du say to you just now? Why did you two have a conflict before?”
As soon as she asked, she also thought of what they had been talking about earlier. Her face changed a little: “Is it related to Qian Xi?”
Xie Jing Yao had already decided to tell Madam Xie the truth. Now that she brought it up herself, he did not hide it anymore: “Yes, it has to do with her.”
Xie Jing Yao repeated the things Du An Rao had said that day. When Madam Xie finished listening, she staggered and almost fell.
Xie Jing Yao rushed to support her and tried to lead her inside to rest, but Madam Xie stopped him.
“All of this is true?”
“She really is very close with a lot of men, and she often says vague things that cause misunderstandings.”
“That still doesn’t prove she’s dating several men at once.”
“But she already has a boyfriend.”
“She has a boyfriend?” Madam Xie was hit hard. “She has a boyfriend and still…”
Madam Xie had wanted to say that if Li Qian Xi had a boyfriend, why did she still keep coming over to their house and keep saying those words that made people misunderstand? But then she remembered what Xie Jing Yao had just said, and her face turned bright red.
Xie Jing Yao was afraid she would get so angry that something would happen to her, but he also felt that short pain was better than long pain. If she could find out Li Qian Xi’s true face sooner, then she could harden her heart and stop the loss in time.
“Besides this boyfriend, she has been unclear and ambiguous with lots of other men. I ran into one before. She told me he was only chasing and pestering her from one side. But when I looked into it, I found out she accepted every gift he sent and never clearly turned him down. I guess he was just like you. He saw her actions and thought she really liked him.”
Madam Xie trembled with anger. Before this, even if she had started to suspect that she had picked the wrong best friend’s daughter, all she did was quietly feel some natural liking toward Du Yu Xi.
She could not bear to blame or push away this girl she had loved for so many years, so she did not treat Li Qian Xi harshly.
But now that she knew this girl’s true nature, Madam Xie only hated herself for being blind all these years, fooled by her for so long, and almost finding a living ancestor to marry into her own family.
“Is this why you suddenly became so cold to her recently?”
“Yes.”
“Why didn’t you tell me?”
Xie Jing Yao did not answer, but Madam Xie had already guessed.
Of course. If she had not seen Du Yu Xi, who looked so much like an old friend, and if she had not heard Ms. Qiu and the others talk so much about Du An Rao’s strange abilities, how would she be willing to believe that the person she had favored for so many years was actually like this behind her back?
Thinking of Du Yu Xi, Madam Xie’s heart, which had just taken a heavy hit, calmed down a little. She looked at Xie Jing Yao with some “hate iron for not becoming steel” in her eyes.
“You saw your Auntie Su when you were little. Why didn’t you recognize Yu Xi that day? You even got into a fight with her. I really don’t know what to say about you.”
Xie Jing Yao felt very wronged. He really had met Su Ying Rong when he was little, but when she passed away he was still young, just old enough to start remembering things. He only vaguely remembered that she was a very cheerful, always-smiling auntie. Most importantly…
“All these years you never allowed Auntie Su’s photos to be placed somewhere obvious in the house. I haven’t seen her face in more than ten years. How could I recognize her at a glance?”
Madam Xie was choked speechless. Their family lived close to the Li family. When Li Qian Xi grew older, she liked to come over to their home to play.
Madam Xie had been worried that if she saw photos of Su Ying Rong in the Xie home, she would feel sad when reminded of the past. So she told them to gather all the photos and put them away in her own room. Sometimes, when she missed the old days, she would take them out and look at them alone. She never thought this choice would cause such a big mix-up more than ten years later.
“Luckily you reacted fast just now. If not, the very first time you met you would have fought with her. Then she would have a terrible first impression of you.”
An alarm bell rang in Xie Jing Yao’s heart: “Mom, you’re not trying to play matchmaker again, are you?”
Madam Xie gave him a sideways look. After what happened with Li Qian Xi, she also felt like a person bitten by a snake, now scared of ropes for ten years. She really did not want to bother with the love lives of these juniors anymore.
“Of course not. I just think, if she really is your Auntie Su’s real daughter, you should help me take extra care of her in the future.”
Xie Jing Yao let out a breath of relief, but also felt a bit of a headache.
He thought of how that brother from the Du family had just guarded his sister like he was guarding against a thief and thought to himself that they might not need his care at all.
Because of Du Yu Xi’s appearance at the Li family’s banquet, the effect was obvious right away.
The next day when she woke up, the world in Du An Rao’s eyes had completely changed. Whenever she met someone’s gaze for more than three seconds, she could see that person’s basic recent situation.
Overall, white meant their life was calm and ordinary. Blue meant things were going smoothly. Yellow meant their body or mind was a little unwell. Gold meant an unexpected happy event. Purple meant help from a benefactor. As for green, there was no need to explain.
Pink meant the Red Luan Star was moving, which meant romance. If it was a true fated match, the pink was a light, soft color. If it was not, the pink usually had other colors mixed around the edges.
The other colors were not so bad. The one to watch out for was when red mixed into the edge of the pink, because red meant a Blood Calamity, and the deeper the red, the worse it was. When pink mixed with red, it usually meant a Peach Blossom Calamity or even a Peach Blossom Curse, just like with Ye Zhi Huan and Qiu Ji Chen.
Besides this, every now and then, Du An Rao could see some people’s Marriage Line and Career Line.
But overall, there were very few of those, only one or two here and there. Du An Rao guessed it might be because she had not built up enough accumulated merit yet.
Also, most of the time, she could only see a Marriage Line when both people who were tied together by it were standing in front of her.
For example, the two people standing in front of her right now.