"Ah! They're biting each other!"
"Liu Yiwei bit Ma Yizhen's neck!"
"They've been pulled apart, they've been pulled apart! The constables separated them. Ma Yizhen is bleeding so much!"
Xue Baochai shook her head helplessly and withdrew her gaze from Jia Baoyu, Shi Xiangyun, and Xue Baoqin, who were sprawled at the doorway, shouting excitedly.
Those three clearly could not be stopped. Fortunately, there were no outsiders in the tea room, so there was no fear of being ridiculed.
Still, the twists and turns of this case had indeed been unexpected. Even Xue Baochai, who had not paid much attention to it before, could not help secretly wondering whether there would be further reversals.
As she pondered this, her gaze happened to fall upon Tanchun. Xue Baochai's eyes suddenly narrowed. Third Miss sat alone in a corner, and while everyone else strained to listen, she wore an unusually lonely and uneasy expression.
Alas~
After all, Jia Zheng and Aunt Zhao were about to return to the capital. When that happened, she would inevitably be caught in another difficult position.
It had truly been hard on her to force herself to smile these past few days.
Xue Baochai's heart filled with pity, yet she knew that what Tanchun truly needed was not anyone's pity. In fact, she was more accustomed to hiding everything deep within herself, then wrapping herself in a hard, thorny shell.
And what Tanchun truly needed was something Xue Baochai could not provide.
Perhaps...
Only by marrying as soon as possible could she escape this awkward predicament.
"Sister Bao, Sister Bao!"
Just as her thoughts wandered, someone suddenly called to her from beside her and gave Xue Baochai a light shove. She turned around blankly, only to discover that Shi Xiangyun and Xue Baoqin had already returned to