About the relatives of the vicious supporting character Ruan Jiaojiao, the details were glossed over, so she couldn’t remember if Liao Zhaoji and her second uncle had really divorced, but she did remember that the second uncle of Ruan Family’s legs weren’t crippled.
She wondered if it was because of her arrival that the plot had been altered, leading to a butterfly effect?
And this young brother, would Liao Zhaoji’s actions today bring him psychological trauma?
When Liao Zhaoji was hitting him, her expression was so ferocious that she didn’t look like a mother at all, but rather like she was facing her nemesis. Watching from a distance, it seemed frightening and painful—how much more so for Ruan Jie, the person involved?
She thought, was it her arrival that brought about this chain reaction of the butterfly effect?
It was her arrival that led to the uncle’s disability now.
It was her arrival that made Liao Zhaoji so greedy. Because of her greed, she forced the uncle to go hunting in the mountains... If the uncle hadn’t gone hunting, his legs wouldn’t have been crippled, he wouldn’t have divorced Liao Zhaoji, and Ruan Chi wouldn’t have ended up suffering as well.
Ruan Jiaojiao felt more and more certain of it.
Her eyes soured, and tears fell, unstoppable.
"I’m sorry..." she said sorrowfully to Ruan Chi, the tears dropping down, feeling deeply apologetic.
"I’m sorry, I’m sorry, brother, it’s all my fault, I’m sorry..." Ruan Jiaojiao cried harder and harder, gradually becoming inconsolable as her emotions started to break down.
"My little darling, what are you crying for, please stop crying." The moment Ruanlin Family’s matriarch turned around with medicine in hand and saw her beloved daughter crying breathlessly, her heart clenched in pain, and she quickly embraced her in her arms.
"Were you scared, dear? Don’t be afraid, grandma is here, grandma is here." She thought her daughter was frightened by her own fight with Liao Zhaoji and felt deeply regretful.
Her little Jiaojiao was like a delicate porcelain doll; how could she not have held back? She shouldn’t have lost her temper in front of her.
"Grandma, it’s all Jiaojiao’s fault, I’m sorry..." Ruan Jiaojiao sobbed breathlessly.
When she first arrived in this world, she hadn’t felt much, considering they treated her well and she had taken over the original body, her only thought was to protect them. Even if she did have this thought, she didn’t do anything substantial, at most she wanted to prevent the female lead and the minor antagonist from interacting, believing that was trying hard enough.
But now, after more than a month, she had felt the Ruan Family’s affection and cherished treatment in this home, and for the first time, a sense of guilt emerged.
She had occupied the original owner’s body, enjoyed the love that belonged to the original, and had even caused the Ruan Family’s home to be in turmoil...
"This has nothing to do with you!" Ruanlin Family’s matriarch wiped her tears with a heart full of distress.
Ruan Jiaojiao bit her lip and cried, tears falling one by one, loathing herself.
"Don’t cry, brother doesn’t hurt." Ruan Chi held her small hand, comforting her gently.
Ruan Jiaojiao still cried bitterly, unable to stop, and was held in the arms of Ruanlin Family’s matriarch and patted on the back until she calmed down after several minutes. Meanwhile, Ruan Chi could only apply medicine to his own face, and by the time he finished, Ruan Jiaojiao had also calmed down. However, having cried so severely, she felt rather listless.
Ruanlin Family’s matriarch, heart aching, held her before making lunch, reluctant to let go until it was no longer possible to delay. Only then did she put her down to prepare the lunch.
Fortunately, there were two other daughters-in-law to help with the cooking.