"Hmm, can you tell those four men for me that I've moved back to Blue Estate, and consider the contract void?"
Lan Jin flashed the maids a smile with her lips curled up, wickedly enchanting and bewitching, instantly making everyone's faces blush and hearts race, even more reluctant to let her go now.
Especially Xiao Yueyue, whose eyes were getting redder by the second, soon bursting into tears.
Lan Jin: "..."
Why does she feel like she's the one who's led them on and then abandoned them?
"What's wrong?"
Lan Jin had always been unsettled by seeing cute and pretty girls cry, immediately put down her luggage and asked anxiously.
Could it be that some outsider... had bullied them?
"Miss Lan Jin, I used to badmouth you behind your back, calling you a love-crazed ugly freak and saying you weren't good enough for the young masters. I apologize, please don't move away, okay?"
"Yes, Miss Lan Jin, we were wrong. You can boss us around as much as you like in the future, we'll do whatever you ask, just please don't move out."
"..."
Lan Jin's mind was a bit dazed. In her memory, these maids couldn't stand her and couldn't wait for her to leave, so why were they crying and begging her to stay?
"Didn't you all hate me before?" Lan Jin voiced her inner confusion.
The maids shook their heads frantically, almost in unison, "You're a fairy, we don't hate you anymore."
Lan Jin: "..."
So it's all about looks after all!
This damn, superficial era!
But no matter what, Lan Jin still resolutely decided to move out, breaking the hearts of all the maids.
*
Carrying her suitcase, Lan Jin returned to Blue Estate late to find the villa brightly lit.
As soon as she stepped through the gates, she heard a stern rebuke coming from the living room.
"You little rascal! Get your ass over here!"
Only Lan Jin's father, Lan Yanhao (known in the underworld as Brother Hao), could have such a full, powerful voice.
Lan Jin paused, thinking he was calling her, but she soon realized it wasn't her.
"Dad, it's late, I'm going to bed."
A young man with a bruised and swollen face, looking like he'd been in a fight and not a light one, had hoped to sneak back unnoticed in the dark but got caught red-handed by his own father.
"Who the fuck gave you permission to go to your room? Get your ass over here and kneel down! You worthless punk, all you know is how to fight. Do you think I feed you and provide for you and send you to school just to turn you into a deadbeat?"
Lan Yichen refused to accept this, retorting weakly, "You should save those words for Lan Xiaojin. She's even more useless than I am, and her grades aren't as good as mine."
He paused, then added with a bit more force and evident pride, "Besides, didn't I learn that from you? Everyone knows you were the school bully back in the day. So I just wanted to be a school bully too. How awesome would that be?"
Lan Yanhao was directly amused and let out a snort, "School bully? With that wimpy look of yours? I could take on ten guys at once when I was young, you have no idea how majestic I was.
And then there's you, not even half as handsome as I was, getting beaten into a pig's head. Don't you dare claim to be my son Lan Yanhao when you're outside, it's embarrassing!"
Lan Yichen: "..."
Lan Jin, just entering from the door: "..."
"All right, Yanhao, cut him some slack. The kid's been hurt, let him go to his room. I'll have Madame Liu help him apply some medicine to reduce the swelling. Otherwise, how will he go to school tomorrow?"
Stepmother Shen Rong spoke up in good time, pulling on Lan Yanhao's arm, with the manner of a virtuous wife and dedicated mother, gently persuading him with a soft voice.