Rebirth: A Cinderella's Counterattack

Luo Qianqian squinted her eyes and smiled warmly, ”Yes, I’m even luckier.” Lucky to start over, lucky to meet friends, and very lucky to have found Grandpa’s home, leading to a much better life than in my previous one.

”Tsk tsk, I’ll take you out for ice cream,” said Qin Nuan, squinting her smiling eyes, and sighed lightly, ”After all, I still need to please my little sister-in-law.”

”Haha, then you have to treat me well, otherwise I’ll tell Luo Yanran that you’re dissatisfied with his usual behavior, saying he has no masculinity at all,” Luo Qianqian’s face revealed a sly smile, ”Then I’ll look forward to him becoming very manly and overpowering you.”

”Do you have nothing better to do?” Qin Nuan’s face was speechless. Who else’s little sister-in-law acted like they had nothing better to do after a full meal, eager to see their sister-in-law lose face?

”You’ve caught onto me,” Luo Qianqian said, holding back a laugh, without saying much.

The two happily bought two cones and didn’t take a cab, leisurely strolling down the street.

”Sometimes I wonder what kind of benefits could make our dorm mates so calculating,” Qin Nuan mused coldly and with distance after finishing her cone, her face filled with dejection. She didn’t want to suspect her roommates she had lived with for a year.

”Enough benefits,” Luo Qianqian said, lips curled, without any oddity. When someone wanted to hurt her in the past and tried to bribe her aunt, her aunt didn’t agree because of their blood relation; in front of certain things, benefits are nonsense. With such feelings, one’s whole life wouldn’t be a loss.

But in the face of sufficient benefits, some deeply trusted bonds can be shattered in an instant.

They both understood this, yet both preferred to remain ignorant.

”What would you do in such a situation?” Qin Nuan didn’t pursue what constituted sufficient benefits but instead turned to ask Luo Qianqian.

Luo Qianqian paused, but immediately continued walking, ”I’m not lacking in benefits, I fear threats.”

If it involved family or friends, she feared she might do something drastic, since family and friends mattered much more to her than classmates from a dorm.

”Tsk tsk, so if someone kidnapped Luo Yanran and asked you to kill me, you’d do it?” Qin Nuan asked with a displeased face.

Luo Qianqian rolled her eyes, ”Firstly, you’re a friend, he’s family; there’s no difference between you. Secondly, if something like that happened, he’d save himself without my help, and he wouldn’t let me harm you. You should know more clearly than me, and trust more in your relationship with each other; and finally, why would it be up to me to act? The kidnappers would be more likely to find Second Uncle and Second Aunt, right?”

”I was saying ’if’...” Qin Nuan was speechless. Does she have to analyze everything like this?

”If it’s ’if’ they were kidnapped? I don’t know ’if’,” Luo Qianqian stuck out her tongue, her eyes revealing a deeper meaning, ”If someone kidnaps him to force someone else to target you, without a doubt that person has a grudge against you, and at that time, instead of killing you, we should be investigating your enemies.”

”...Why do I feel so inclined not to deal with you?” Qin Nuan shivered, as if someone really bore a grudge against her.

”I want to deal with you, I treasure you the most,” Luo Qianqian said as she stuffed the last of the waffle cone into her mouth and linked arms with Qin Nuan, ”Such things won’t happen, if you and he fall into the water he will save you, if you and Second Aunt fall in, Second Aunt will save you. After all, Second Aunt didn’t learn to swim for nothing.”

”What if you and I fall into the water?” Qin Nuan pouted, then immediately added, ”Hey, no need for him, I can save you.”

Qin Nuan knew very well that if she and Luo Qianqian fell into the water, even if Luo Yanran was closer to her and further from Luo Qianqian, he would at most give her something to float with and go save Luo Qianqian.

Just like her own brother, sisters are important, and she understands these brothers’ feelings.

Especially for the Luo Family, who waited a long time to have a younger sister.

”Nuannuan.” Luo Qianqian suddenly stopped in her tracks, ”Cao Yingying did what she did for her brother’s medical expenses, why didn’t anyone know about it before? Why didn’t she reveal it herself? If it was known earlier that she was in such a situation, couldn’t she apply for financial aid from the school?”

”Last semester, she was always working part-time, and it was only this semester, after you moved into the dorm, that she started to dress up. Are you saying she approached you initially just for money?” Qin Nuan raised her eyebrows, her face full of disbelief, ”How could she possibly know what your family is like?”

”Then how did that person know?” The person referred to was, of course, the man from her past life, and the mistress.

”They have someone behind them... Are you suggesting someone told her about your situation and that’s why she set her sights on you?” Qin Nuan was about to deny it but then grasped the implication in Luo Qianqian’s words, her eyebrows slightly furrowed, ”That shouldn’t be.”

”Before she set her sights on me, Cong Rong didn’t even know my actual situation,” Luo Qianqian said with furrowed brows, shaking her head.

”Unless someone had their eye on you long before,” Qin Nuan realized the severity of the issue, ”Fang Rou reported to school before you did, could it be...”

”But she doesn’t harbor any ill will towards me, right?” Luo Qianqian didn’t quite understand.

”Why not just call and ask directly?” Qin Nuan immediately took out her cell phone, dialed the number, and not long after, the call was answered.

After exchanging a few words and getting an answer, Qin Nuan’s face turned somewhat pale as she ended the call.

”What happened?” Luo Qianqian asked with a frown, feeling like the news wasn’t going to be good.

”She received an anonymous letter before your military training but after the opening ceremony, explaining your situation and saying getting close to you is like accessing a vault of money...” Qin Nuan frowned, conveying the gist of the conversation before saying, ”Didn’t it all start for you around the time of the opening ceremony too...”

Luo Qianqian nodded, her brows knit in concern, wondering how many seemingly coincidental but intentional things were happening around her?

”She mentioned something else too.” Qin Nuan took a deep breath, ”A male voice once called the dorm looking for Xiu Ran, saying she should take the time to return his call.”

”Xiu Ran?” Luo Qianqian shook her head, ”Her call records are clean.”

All the incoming and outgoing numbers were within the school’s number segments, and there were no outsiders. The most she had contacted anyone was three times, and that wasn’t even as often as Qin Nuan called in a single day.

”But that person didn’t leave a name, instead he said ’Tell her to call back, and she’ll understand’.” Qin Nuan frowned, ”Now, there’s no reason for Cao Yingying to lie to us.”

Of course, Luo Qianqian knew that.

”Also, some guy also called Zhang Yun asking her to buy some oil, but she didn’t hear clearly,” Qin Nuan continued.

”...It couldn’t possibly be that they were all talking about olive oil or fish oil from the deep sea, could it?” Luo Qianqian said somewhat incredulously, wondering why her roommates’ phone calls were all so strange.

And it just so happened that only these two people’s calls were received by Cao Yingying?

”Cong Rong usually takes the calls, and the ones looking for me are very limited, after all, to outsiders, I already have a boyfriend. There are also calls for you, which I’ve taken, but they’re always asking if you have time to go to some gathering, and I’ve always said you’re not here,” Qin Nuan explained.