If only one person's lips were injured, any excuse would do to gloss it over, but when two people were injured at the same time, and in such a sensitive area, anyone with experience could tell what had really happened besides naive children.
Mo Yan, touching her swollen and broken lips, simply had no face to return to the teahouse. Thereupon, she decisively let Xiao Ruiyuan go back alone, and made him tell the others that she was feeling unwell, while she headed directly back to the Scholar Mansion. She planned to stay in the Space for a while that evening until her wound healed before coming out again.
