"I am back," Luo Qingling returned home with a smile on her face. She was excited to see her sister, who must be waiting for her like a good little one. However, as soon as she pushed the door open, she was greeted by Luo Huian’s Ghoul-like face that was devoid of even a drop of blood.
Her poor sister was hanging upside down in the middle of the living hall and her eyes were shaking. They were literally shaking as she silently urged Luo Qingling to hurry.
Luo Qingling felt the hair on her scalp tighten as she hurried inside the penthouse and cut off the spider web cocoon which was wrapped around Luo Huian.
"What do you think you are doing, Shiliu? I asked you to take care of my sister! Not to bully her!" Luo Qingling princess carried her sister and hugged her tightly in her arms. With her arms tightly wrapped around Luo Huian’s body, she scolded Bai Shiliu.
Fortunately, she returned home on time or else her sister would have been hanged to death! That too upside down!
"An An, are you alright? Is your head feeling okay? Do you want to lie down and take a rest?"
Bai Shiliu was stunned when she received Luo Qingling’s scolding. But she was even more stunned when she saw her guild leader coaxing and comforting Luo Huian who was an adult and a married one at that like she was a child!
’It seems like I underestimated Huian’s importance in Qingling’s heart,’ Bai Shiliu earlier believed that Luo Qingling was only taking care of Luo Huian as she was the only one who had the powers to deal with the Glooms and Hollows.
While at the same time saving the humans from an unjust death which was impossible in the past.
However, given how Luo Qingling was coddling Luo Huian—— this was a sister con in making alright.
She did not even ask her what wrong Luo Huian committed and ended up scolding her at once!
"Guild leader——" Bai Shiliu began but before she could even say her part, Luo Huian who was known to hold a grudge immediately chimed in,
"Sister it is a good thing that you came back on time. If not you would have seen my corpse and nothing else, I might not even be able to call you sister anymore," Luo Huian knew how to act pitiful as she had done the same every time when her father scolded her and she had to sue in front of her daddy.
With a pitiful expression, she pointed at Bai Shiliu and said to Luo Qingling, "I just teased Miss Bai a little and she turned me into this, even if I said something wrong, she could have used her words to hurt me. Why did she have to —— oh my head, it hurts so much."
Xiao Bai and Xiao Hei: "…" She is wasting her talent. She should have become an actor instead of a baker.
Why didn’t Old Madam Luo give acting skills to Luo Huian?
Old Madam Luo: "…" She is such a menace already without them, you want me to improve her skills even more? Do you want me to become the woman who lost her country in one night?
Bai Shiliu, who had not expected Luo Huian to sue first, was stunned. What was this? Wasn’t Luo Huian too prideful to take Luo Qingling’s protection? Why was she acting all weak like a damsel?
This was something unexpected and even Luo Qingling who had not seen her sister act so vulnerable before was stunned.
But more than stunned, she was angry. What did Bai Shiliu do to make Luo Huian show such an expression?
"Shiliu!" Luo Qingling growled as she turned her head to the side and glared at the woman with eyes burning with rage. "What did you do to my baby sister!?"
Luo Huian who was in Luo Qingling’s arms was quite pleased with the way this big sister was scolding Bai Shiliu. It was a good thing too, at least now she knew that Luo Qingling was not pretending and was genuinely caring towards her——
’Huian, don’t worry. I will forever be by your side, haven’t I promised you that? So don’t cry…I will be back soon.’
The words and the blurred face of that person flashed in Luo Huian’s eyes and she gritted her teeth.
No. She could not trust someone blindly. Just because someone was nice to her, it did not mean that they would be nice to her all the time. There was a good chance that they were lying to her.
"I did not do anything!" Bai Shiliu wanted to put forth her side but Luo Qingling did not want to listen to anything.
"Then who tied my sister in the spider web?"
"T...That was done by me."
"And who hung her upside down?"
"I...I did it."
"Who covered her mouth and almost her nose as well?"
"I…I did it as well——"
"Then," Luo Qingling’s voice dipped as she curled her lips in a threatening smile as she said, "How dare you say that you did nothing wrong!?"
"Do you mean to tell me that An An asked you to tie her up in a spider web and hang her upside down from the roof with her mouth covered such that she could not even cry out for help?" Luo Qingling settled Luo Huian on the couch and tucked her neatly in the blanket.
After that, she picked up the slipper that was on the floor and turned to look at Bai Shiliu.
"Is that what happened?" She asked with a light drawl and Bai Shiliu stiffened.
She held her hands in front of her and said to Luo Qingling, "I know that I was in the wrong but don’t be fooled by that woman. She is not as simple——ouch! Guild leader!?"
"Shiliu, you are really good!" Luo Qingling was so angry that she laughed. "You are really really good!"
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