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Once the base makeup has adhered well, pick up the slightly rough powder compact and use the powder puff to press on a thin layer of setting powder little by little.

The stiff eyebrow pencil seemed to come alive in her hand, drawing two thin and curved willow-leaf eyebrows following Qiao Mingzhu's original brow bone.

Finally, she used her fingertip to dab a little red lipstick, using it as rouge, and gently patted it onto Qiao Mingzhu's eyelids and cheeks, blending it out...

Qiao Mingzhu kept her eyes closed the whole time, not daring to even breathe, her heart pounding.

That brat! We'd better not do anything to her! Otherwise, when we go out later, in front of all our relatives and friends, she'll definitely have a good cry and spread the word about this little bitch's wicked thoughts!

Qiao Xinxin drew very slowly, but her technique was surprisingly skillful.

A full hour passed.

"Alright!" Qiao Xinxin stopped what she was doing, cupped Qiao Mingzhu's face in her hands, looked her over from left to right, took a half step back, and said with a smile, "Look, what do you think?"

Qiao Mingzhu suddenly opened her eyes.

When she saw the familiar yet unfamiliar figure in the mirror, she froze instantly.

This……

Is that her?!

The woman in the mirror no longer resembled the swollen and miserable woman she had just been.

Her face was as white as snow, and her features were exquisite.

The light pink blush on her cheeks was applied just right, not at all vulgar, but instead made her look delicate and charming!

Those rosy, full lips exuded an alluring charm!

She looks like a fashionable female celebrity who stepped out of a magazine!

"This...this is me?" Qiao Mingzhu reached out in disbelief and touched her reflection in the mirror through the air.

Not only her makeup, but even her originally casually loose hair was cleverly styled by Qiao Xinxin, with two wisps of hair deliberately left at her temples and two red plastic beaded flowers inserted on the side.

This outfit made her face look even smaller and more delicate!

Qin Fangfang, who had been standing to the side, quickly came over to take a look. When she saw it, her mouth dropped open and her eyes almost popped out!

"Oh my goodness!" Qin Fangfang exclaimed, slapping her thigh in delight. "Mingzhu, you look absolutely stunning today! I almost didn't recognize you!"

She excitedly grabbed Qiao Xinxin's arm, "I never expected you to be so amazing, Xinxin! You managed to make Mingzhu look so beautiful with just these few pieces of junk!"

Qiao Xinxin smiled sweetly, humbly stepped back, and gave Qin Fangfang the best viewing position: "Mom, please take another look. Is there anything else that needs to be changed? I'll add some more."

Qin Fangfang looked at it from left to right, beaming with delight, extremely satisfied: "No need to change it! It's drawn so well!"

"Squeak—"

Just then, the door was pushed open from the outside.

Qiao Lijun, wearing a brand-new polyester shirt with a large red flower pinned to his chest, knocked on the door and came in: "How are your preparations going? The guests downstairs are all..."

He was only halfway through his sentence when his voice abruptly stopped, as if someone had grabbed his throat.

His eyes were glued to Qiao Mingzhu, who was sitting in front of the dressing table, and he stared at her intently!

Gudong.

Qiao Lijun swallowed hard, his Adam's apple bobbing.

"Mingzhu..." His voice suddenly went hoarse, yet it carried an barely suppressed heat, "You...you look so beautiful today..."

Stared at by his naked gaze, Qiao Mingzhu lowered her head, her cheeks slightly flushed, revealing an extremely alluring shyness.

But she was even more wary than before!

What happened?

Qiao Xinxin actually just did her makeup seriously! She didn't sabotage her at all! She even made her look ten times more beautiful than usual!

What on earth is that brat up to?!

"Mingzhu, you look so beautiful today." Qiao Lijun couldn't help but step forward, his gaze adoring, as if he wanted to meld her into his eyes. "Who dressed you up so beautifully? You look like a fairy descended from heaven!"

Qiao Mingzhu gave him a shy smile, but bit her lip and did not answer.

She didn't want Qiao Lijun to know that her stunning appearance was the work of that bitch Qiao Xinxin!

Unexpectedly, Qin Fangfang, trying to smooth things over, stepped in to explain, "This makeup was done by Xin Xin! How come we never noticed before? Xin Xin has such great skills! Look how beautifully she made your sister... no, Mingzhu! But, it's also because Mingzhu is naturally beautiful!"

Upon hearing this, Qiao Lijun turned around abruptly and looked at Qiao Xinxin, who was standing behind Mingzhu with her head bowed and eyes lowered, with some surprise.

She actually did this makeup?

She actually has this skill? And... after such a heated argument last night, she's still willing to help Mingzhu without holding a grudge?!

Looking at the quiet Qiao Xinxin in front of him, Qiao Lijun suddenly felt a sense of disorientation.

For the first time, he felt that this biological sister, whom he had taken in halfway through life, didn't seem as annoying as before.

She's been back at the Qiao family for so long, and today she's finally done something decent.

Qiao Lijun looked her over carefully and suddenly realized that Qiao Xinxin was actually quite pleasing to the eye. Her eyebrows and features even bore a resemblance to his and his mother Qin Fangfang!

An unprecedented and subtle sense of blood ties suddenly welled up in Qiao Lijun's heart.

The disgust in his eyes had faded considerably, and his tone was unusually gentle: "Thank you, Xin Xin. I'm so grateful to you today."

"Brother, what are you saying? We're all family. You're welcome, it was just a small favor."

Qiao Xinxin gave him a sweet smile while deftly tidying up the cosmetics on the table, acting like a sensible and good younger sister.

But the moment she lowered her head, a cold smile curled at the corner of Qiao Xinxin's lips.

She was practically bursting with laughter inside!

These two idiots are overthinking things! Do they really think she's showing mercy?

Of course, she wouldn't paint Qiao Mingzhu ugly! Not only could she not paint her ugly, she had to paint her beautiful!

She couldn't wait for this scumbag and bitch to get married! To lock them together tightly! To prevent these two scoundrels from harming innocent people again!

The more beautifully she painted Qiao Mingzhu, the more Qiao Lijun would be moved, the more he would like her, and the more obsessed he would become!

Let these two shameless and selfish people continue their great "love" under the strange looks of the whole world and the contempt and scorn of all their relatives in the compound, while covering their ears!

11:00 AM.

The wedding banquet in the Qiao family courtyard officially began.

According to the customs of this area in the 1980s, around 11 a.m. on the wedding day, the bride's relatives and friends should gather together for the "bride's departure feast"; in the afternoon, the bride is taken away.

But today...

The bride and groom are both under the same roof.

The woman's home is the man's home!

This absurd wedding banquet, destined to become the laughingstock of the entire compound, finally began amidst an awkward and eerie atmosphere.

At 11 a.m., the sun was blazing, but the atmosphere in the Qiao family courtyard was chillingly cold.

The expressions on the faces of relatives and friends were all incredibly interesting.

Shock, astonishment, disdain, amusement... all sorts of strange expressions intertwined, like a spilled palette of colors.

"This...this congratulatory notice posted on the gate is correct, isn't it? Qiao Lijun and Qiao Mingzhu?"

"My goodness, aren't these two siblings?! Even if they're not related by blood, they've been calling each other brother and sister under the same roof for twenty years! How did they suddenly become husband and wife?"

"Shh! Keep your voice down! Didn't you see Old Joe's face is as black as the bottom of a pot?"

In the center of the courtyard, Qiao Shouguo, dressed in a gray Zhongshan suit, looked unusually hunched over today, despite his usually straight back.

He stood there greeting guests, his smile stiff as if it were covered with a layer of cheap paste, looking utterly unsightly.

In the past, Qiao Shouguo was the most prestigious and influential boss among all the relatives in this compound!

Everyone who sees him must greet him politely as "President Qiao".

But today, he felt like he had been stripped naked and paraded through the streets!

Those relatives who used to fawn over him now looked at him with undisguised mockery and contempt.