Yun Que'er looked as if she was about to laugh but held it back, which made Li Lan shrink back uncontrollably in fear.
"What on earth do you want to do!" Li Lan seemed on the verge of a breakdown.
Yun Que'er put away the smile on her face and cleared her throat.
"I won't take revenge on you, but I also want to tell you that no matter what happens, I will fight to the end to get justice for my father."
Li Lan jumped at the words. Despite the hot weather, she was shivering in fear.
"He's a criminal. Are you still going to defend him?"
"First of all, my father is not a criminal. Secondly, I won't, and I'm not mean enough to defend him with lies."
Yun Que'er straightened her face and stared seriously at Li Lan.
"Even a murderer, even if the evidence is conclusive, has the chance to defend themselves. If it was your father who was taken away today, you'd understand what I mean."
Li Lan kept shrinking back. "Nonsense! My father would never do such a thing. Stop making excuses for yourself."
As she spoke, Li Lan's eyes suddenly welled up with tears.
She covered her face. "I don't want to talk to you now. Please don't bother me, okay? Do you know how ashamed I am because of this? You're a girl too. If you have a shred of conscience, stop disturbing me."
Yun Que'er tilted her head and looked at Li Lan. Suddenly, she seemed to figure something out.
"Why do you think this is something to be ashamed of? Since you think you're the victim, you should feel aggrieved and resentful, not ashamed."
Li Lan looked at Yun Que'er in surprise. "Don't you even understand this?"
She went into a daze. After a while, she stammered, "I see. No wonder you're trying to clear your father's name. It turns out that no one has ever told you."
Yun Que'er looked at Li Lan indifferently.
"I don't understand what you're talking about."
She thought for a while. "Did someone tell you that it's shameful for a girl to go through this kind of thing and that it's all the girl's fault?"
Li Lan looked at Yun Que'er timidly and said nothing. But judging from her panicked expression, she seemed to have admitted it.
Yun Que'er suddenly laughed. "You..."
She sighed. Feeling her legs ache from standing, she simply sat down next to Li Lan.
Li Lan looked at Yun Que'er fearfully, as if she was going to strangle her.
"What are you doing?"
"I just want to tell you that if someone really told you that, you'd better stay away from her. Otherwise, when lightning strikes her, it might affect you too."
Li Lan was completely confused. "Do you think what she said is wrong?"
"Of course." Yun Que'er looked into Li Lan's eyes. "In this world, as long as someone hasn't killed the other person's whole family, all victims shouldn't be treated as if they're guilty. Moreover, you're not an unforgivable person, and you did nothing wrong in this matter. Why do you think there's something wrong with you?"
Li Lan blinked blankly, half - understanding.
Yun Que'er gave Li Lan a simpler example. "If you're walking on the road in a skirt and accidentally trip, would you blame the skirt for tripping you?"
Li Lan shook her head. "Of course not. I'd blame the bad road."
Seeing that Li Lan was quite perceptive, Yun Que'er continued,
"That's right. You can only blame someone or something when there's a definite cause - and - effect relationship. Otherwise, you can't in any situation. And it's no longer the feudal society. We're all living in a new era. Should we still be so conservative and inherit those feudal dregs?"
Li Lan thought for a long time and didn't say a word, but it seemed that she had taken it in.
Yun Que'er sneered. "No matter who told you that, they must have had bad intentions. If you keep listening to that person, your future will really be ruined. One day when you suddenly wake up, you'll regret it, but it will be too late to change."
After saying that, Yun Que'er stood up.
"I advise you to think it over carefully. Don't ruin yourself."
Li Lan shivered suddenly. With anger in her eyes, she mumbled without much confidence,
"Are you trying to brainwash me? Do you think you can clear your father's name this way?"
"Sorry, I've never thought that way." Yun Que'er smiled faintly. "Moreover, what I just told you was just to help you see things more clearly. Whether you change because of my words or not won't affect my father."
Li Lan suddenly fell silent.
She looked at Yun Que'er and felt more and more like she was looking at a flower in the fog. She simply couldn't figure this person out.
Shouldn't she hate herself?
Shouldn't she be sworn enemies with herself?
Why did Yun Que'er seem to really be thinking about her?
"Maybe something unpleasant happened to you after yesterday." Yun Que'er said. "But maybe things aren't as you imagined. Maybe the outside world doesn't really have any malice towards you. Maybe you misinterpreted it because of what that person said. And even if they did it on purpose, why do you have to listen to them? Shouldn't people stick to their own ideas?"
After Yun Que'er had said everything she wanted to say, she turned around and walked back to her seat.
Li Lan still sat there silently, seemingly digesting what Yun Que'er had said.
On the other side, Yun Que'er took several big gulps of water.
She had just spouted so many great truths that her mouth was now dry. She hoped that Li Lan could understand.
Ji Chengxuan helped Yun Que'er put away the water cup. "What you said just now was really great, but you really didn't have to. She framed your father. Does she still want to stay out of it?"
Yun Que'er shook her head. "If I hadn't talked to her, I would definitely have thought that she was one of the participants. But now my opinion has changed."
Li Lan's fear wasn't fake, nor was her humiliation.
Moreover, judging from what Li Lan said, it seemed that her family also had some opinions about her. But Li Lan also said that someone had told her that a girl should cherish her reputation.
If so, Li Lan should have known the consequences of this kind of thing.
In that case, no matter how much money she was given, she wouldn't have colluded with others to do such a dangerous thing to frame Yun Motan.
If her sadness wasn't faked, then she was really innocent.
So who was the person who had told her so much about reputation and made Li Lan so miserable?
Yun Que'er turned her head and looked at Shen Qingqing's empty seat.
Yun Motan said that at that time, because Li Lan was bumped by Shen Qingqing and almost fell, he had gone to help her.
Shen Qingqing was very suspicious. And it seemed to be an impromptu act. It definitely wasn't pre - meditated for a long time. Then it must be that something had blocked her interests.
Yun Motan was about to go to another place soon. It was said that if this matter was handled well, Yun Motan could also get a lot of benefits.
Shen Qingqing had no interests related to Yun Motan. Then it must be...