She Lives without Regret in This Life

Chapter 461: Chapter 473: Liu Yilan Discharged from Hospital

Lu Xiaoshuang was the Captain, and she brought in the fruit everyone had chipped in to buy and the envelope Yang Wenying had asked to be delivered.

No one knew exactly how much money was in it, but nobody was curious either. After all, what was that bit of money compared to the tragedy of Liu Yilan’s disfigurement?

”You all must be Yilan’s friends, right?” Mrs. Liu was a woman gentle as water, tidying up the room in the ward. Seeing everyone come in, she courteously invited everyone to sit down.

”Don’t just stand there like a fool!” Liu Yilan, her expression indifferent, gave nothing away. Her eyes, cold as orchids, swept around and the corners of her mouth, hidden under the mask, curled into a sarcastic arc.

”Where’s Qin Cuifen? Why didn’t she come?”

At the mention of Qin Cuifen, everyone let go of their reservations and began to speak freely, one after the other.

”Yilan, that shameless hussy, Liu Yilan, has already been fired,” someone said.

Pretending to be unaware, Liu Yilan raised an eyebrow and asked, ”What happened? Aren’t we all friends? How can you use such nasty words to describe your own friend?”

The thing Lu Xiaoshuang hated the most was the low character of people like Qin Cuifen, she said with deep loathing, ”Stop speaking well of her. It’s not because she hurt you that we’re deliberately saying unsavory things about her in front of you. Everything that’s being said is the truth, and it has already spread throughout the General Union. Who doesn’t know about it now?”

”Exactly, that’s right!”

The others echoed in agreement.

Lu Dabao, always one to speak his mind, pushed through the others to the front and told Liu Yilan, ”I’ll tell you, Qin Cuifen went to the dance hall at night and got involved with a man in an affair!”

The ward was full of young girls, who all blushed upon hearing this.

Some, who were particularly bashful, had already rushed out, embarrassed.

Liu Yilan covertly winked at Chen Huaying and Sheng Ning. They had already been there, and Sheng Ning had recounted the situation at the scene. She knew everything, she had brought it up deliberately.

To say that Liu Yilan didn’t harbor hatred would be a lie. She was no saint; Qin Cuifen had ruined her face, which was as good as killing her, wasn’t it?

”Eh?” Lu Dabao smacked his own head in sudden realization, ”I heard it was Director Su who found out, and she was caught red-handed, can you imagine what it looked like?”

The others were nearly defeated by Lu Dabao.

What an idiot, way too idiotic!

Chen Huaying quickly covered Lu Dabao’s mouth, ”Sorry, she’s not thinking straight today, pretend you didn’t hear that.” The cheeky girl must have a death wish to speak so casually of Su Huili’s scandal.

Didn’t everyone in the room look petrified?

Sheng Ning also thought about Su Hai’s reaction when he burst into the scene, and couldn’t help but smile mischievously.

”Qin Cuifen usually seemed so poised, everyone was fooled by her,” someone remarked.

”Exactly! I even spoke poorly of Sheng Ning because of her,” another added.

”Right! Sheng Ning, don’t hold it against us! We were also deceived by her. She spread nasty rumors about you everywhere, making us all believe them,” a third chimed in.

Sheng Ning smiled carelessly, and without mincing words, said, ”Actually, some of what was said wasn’t just rumors, I really was a bit of a mess back then. Luckily, I met so many good friends who helped me see my faults. I got the chance to turn over a new leaf.”

Sheng Ning’s words were filled with self-satisfaction, not only explaining her past shortcomings but also giving everyone an out, changing many people’s real perception of her.

Liu Yilan watched all of this, nodding in approval. But deep in her eyes laid endless sorrow and desolation, she and Sheng Ning could have strived side by side.

But she had completely lost that chance, Sheng Ning was sure to go far and soar higher in the future.

Their paths would diverge more and more until they became strangers.

Suddenly, she lost interest in continuing the conversation.