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Chapter 67 Luckily You Were Not Born Here
Qin Yan's expression of discomfort did not diminish at all.

"Legs..." Qin Yan's gaze fell on her legs, and her eyes darkened as if she remembered something.

"It's nothing, it's just that the rain triggered my rheumatism. I'll be fine once the rain stops," Qin Yan said casually.

Rheumatism?

Although Song Zhining had some guesses in her mind, she did not expect that it was actually rheumatism.

Shouldn't rheumatism be a disease that affects the elderly?

How come Qin Yan, a girl about the same age as her, also has rheumatism, and in both legs at that?

Song Zhining's grandfather has rheumatism in his legs, a chronic condition from the past, and it hurts whenever it rains.

Sometimes the pain is so bad that I can toss and turn all night and can't sleep.

I wonder if that gene-modifying fluid can cure Grandpa's rheumatism.

Song Zhi Ning looked around and saw a washbasin and a towel, so she took them out. She remembered that when her rheumatism flared up, a hot compress would help.

She could see that Qin Yan looked really uncomfortable and in a lot of pain.

Song Zhi Ning poured a glass of hot water into a cup, then poured the rest into a basin, wet a towel, carried it to the bedside, and pulled up a chair to sit down.

"Let me apply a hot towel to your face; that will make you feel better."

Qin Yan was slightly surprised by Song Zhi Ning's actions. She hadn't expected Song Zhi Ning to go to such lengths for a stranger she had only met today and who didn't even have a good impression of her.

If it were a man, Qin Yan probably wouldn't find it strange.

After all, her face is there.

But now she is a girl about the same age as me, and also very beautiful.

When Qin Yan first met Song Zhi Ning at the orphanage gate, she was immediately struck by her beauty. It was simply because Song Zhi Ning was very beautiful, a different kind of beauty from her own.

If she was the kind of glamorous beauty, then this girl was the kind of pure, ethereal, and clean beauty that one would not dare to defile.

"Luckily you weren't born here." As if remembering something, Qin Yan murmured softly.

Um? What's the meaning?
"Let me give you a hot compress," Song Zhi Ning asked again.

After Qin Yan nodded, Song Zhi Ning went over and lifted up her ankle-length skirt a little.

But the next second, it paused slightly.

Qin Yan's legs were very thin, but not to the point of being skin and bones. Her skin was fair, but...

He has tattoos on both legs.

The moment Song Zhi Ning saw the tattoo, she knew that the red mark she had glimpsed on Qin Yan's ankle when they first met at the orphanage was not an illusion.

On both of Qin Yan's legs, there is a bewitching blooming flower tattooed. The flower stems start at her ankles and meander upwards, blooming fiery red and bewitching on her thighs.

"Do you know what kind of flower this is?" Qin Yan asked Song Zhi Ning, seemingly with a hint of teasing.

Song Zhining nodded. "It's Manjusaka."

The red spider lily, it is said, is a flower that grows on both sides of the road to the underworld, a flower of death.

"You know what I mean, right? Isn't it pretty?"

"Does it hurt?"

Qin Yan was waiting for Song Zhi Ning to praise the flower's beauty, but unexpectedly, she asked, "Does it hurt?"

Qin Yan was instantly stunned.

In an instant, Qin Yan seemed to lose all thought and speech, and froze, staring at Song Zhi Ning for a long, long time.

Then a bitter smile appeared on his lips. "You're the first person to ask me if it hurts."

Does it hurt?

"It doesn't hurt," Qin Yan answered cheerfully. Recalling the feeling when she got her tattoo, Qin Yan wondered, does getting a tattoo hurt?

It actually hurt. She didn't choose to have anesthesia, so it hurt when they were getting the tattoo done. It hurt so much that she almost rolled around in pain.

But Qin Yan still held back.

Because she felt that compared to that, this little bit of pain was nothing.

and……

The red spider lily is indeed very beautiful, and she also liked the meaning behind the saying.

She felt that this flower suited her best.

Only something this beautiful can cover up the ugliness.

Applying a hot towel to my legs helped to relieve some of the pain from rheumatism.

The painkillers seem to be working; my stomach and legs don't seem to hurt as much anymore.

Perhaps due to exhaustion, Qin Yan fell asleep on the bed without realizing it.

After Song Zhining had wrung out a towel for what seemed like the umpteenth time and applied it to Qin Yan's legs as a warm compress, she turned around and saw Qin Yan's sleeping face.

Without the fierce and aggressive demeanor of when awake, even her eyebrows and eyes seemed to soften, making her appear very serene and beautiful.

The water in the basin had cooled down, and the rain outside seemed to have lessened.

On her phone, Su Yue sent a WeChat message asking where she was.

Song Zhi Ning took out a sticky note and a pen from her bag, wrote a line of text, and stuck it in a conspicuous place on the table.

He glanced at the sleeping Qin Yan one last time and gently closed the door.

"Don't come here again."

Before closing the door, Song Zhining seemed to hear Qin Yan whisper a soft murmur.

But when he looked over, he saw that Qin Yan was still fast asleep.

Did you hear it wrong?
Song Zhining was slightly puzzled, but she still closed the door and left.
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The rain stopped shortly after Song Zhining and Su Yue met.

Song Zhi Ning got into Su Yue's car and was driven back to Sunshine Garden Community.

She didn't know if it was because she had seen Qin Yan at the orphanage, but she had been seeing Qin Yan's videos frequently lately, whereas she would never have seen Qin Yan's videos on her phone before.

There are recent news stories and old news stories.

For example, after paparazzi revealed the tattoo on Qin Yan's leg, netizens criticized Qin Yan a lot.

I think that a female celebrity, a public figure, should not get such a large tattoo, even if you like her. What if her fans who idolize her try to imitate her?
News of Qin Yan going to Xingxing Orphanage also broke out.

Paparazzi and netizens criticized her for putting on a show because they discovered that Qin Yan hadn't donated anything at all—not even a single piece of supplies, let alone money.

Song Zhining then specifically searched for the name Qin Yan.

A quick search reveals a deluge of news about her, and almost all of it is negative.

There are also many photos of Qin Yan arm in arm with different men, news of Qin Yan bullying her colleagues, and videos of Qin Yan going to the hospital, it's unclear whether she's there for a gynecological exam or an abortion.

What made Qin Yan suffer the most from being deceived and insulted was that the article described her attending a large group party. The comments section was filled with abuse directed at Qin Yan, with many calling her a whore who had been ridden by a thousand men and slept with by ten thousand men. Some even offered to pay her for a night.

The more Song Zhining looked, the deeper her brows furrowed.

The images of seeing Qin Yan three times today involuntarily came to mind.

After a long while, she finally put her phone away.

Two days passed in the blink of an eye. After waking up, Song Zhining remembered the email she had sent to the National Agricultural Research Base.

"Would they want to buy it?"

(End of this chapter)