Chapter 397: All Mistakes
“Fine.” Lin Qingxiu snorted coldly, “If you want to look, then let’s look.”
She didn’t believe that this matter could have any kind of twist.
Lin Qingxiu flipped to the next page of the diary.
The handwriting exposed before her eyes.
[Today, Sister Three and I had a car accident. Sister Three lost a lot of blood and fell into a coma. The driver died, the window was broken, and I crawled out. I wanted to save Sister Three, but I couldn’t drag her out through the window. I had no choice but to go outside for help.]
Upon reading this, Lin Qingxiu’s gaze trembled violently.
He wasn’t running away; he was going to find people?
But even so, his actions still looked like fleeing, and she also got into the accident because she took him shopping for clothes, which led to her being paralyzed for a year.
So it wasn’t wrong for her to blame Brother Lin Xuan all these years!
Clutching her phone tightly, Lin Qingxiu continued reading.
[However, everyone was afraid the car would catch fire, and no one dared to help. I could only slowly drag Sister Three out. Three seconds after I pulled her out, the car exploded in flames. Luckily, nothing happened to Sister Three, or else I wouldn’t have been able to forgive myself for the rest of my life.]
At this point, Lin Qingxiu’s eyes widened in shock.
Could it be that Lin Xuan saved her?
How could that be?
What on earth happened?
Lin Qingxiu hurriedly read on.
[Later, an ambulance took Sister Three away, and I could finally relax. I begged Mom to take me to the hospital to see Sister Three, but she seemed to grow more and more repulsed by me. Every time she saw me, her emotions were extremely agitated, so I had to hide and not see her.]
[Sister Three became paralyzed. I didn’t know what to do, so I dressed up as a frog to cheer her up and encourage her.]
When she read this,
Lin Qingxiu’s fingers began to shake.
Was the little frog that accompanied her through that painful year actually Lin Xuan?
Driven by curiosity, Lin Qingxiu kept flipping through the pages.
[Sister Three laughed! Looks like my frog impersonation worked.]
[Sister Three seems to feel great pain in her legs and refuses to stand up and walk. But how can she get better without practicing walking? I need to think of ways to make Sister Three train.]
Recalling her time in the hospital, Lin Qingxiu remembered that the little frog often told jokes and encouraged her.
It was because of him that she endured the pain and underwent rehabilitation training until her legs could move normally again.
At the time, she also wanted to see what the little frog looked like, but he always held onto his frog costume tightly, so she never saw his face.
After she recovered, the little frog suddenly disappeared from her world.
Now thinking about it, the frog’s voice did sound very much like Lin Xuan when he was younger. She had noticed the resemblance before, but the thought quickly passed since Lin Xuan, who abandoned her and only cared about saving himself, couldn’t possibly come every day to accompany her.
But… Lin Xuan said he was the one who saved her.
“No, this can’t be possible. It couldn’t have been him.”
“He didn’t save me from the car, and the person playing the frog couldn’t have been him either. It must be fake!”
Lin Qingxiu began rummaging through drawers, searching for something. In the highest part of the wardrobe, where dust had long settled, she found an album.
Carefully examining the photographs inside, she finally found the only family portrait with Lin Xuan.
She took the photo out of the album and rushed toward the hospital.
Her former attending doctor had mentioned seeing the person behind the frog costume, and she intended to ask if that frog was Lin Xuan.
This way, she could verify whether Lin Xuan’s diary entries were lies.
Lin Qingwan and Lin Qingyan followed worriedly.
Lin Li watched the three sisters leave, clenching his fists tightly.
Indeed, they and Lin Xuan were truly a family. Just a diary was enough to make them feel guilty and want to bring Lin Xuan back, allowing him to continue as the young master of the Lin family.
As for him, Lin Li, he was just an outsider.
“Hmph—” Lin Li sneered.
Good thing he never considered them his real family!
To avoid the day when they might abandon him and drive him out of the Lin family, he must seize control of Starlight Group.
Meanwhile,
Lin Qingxiu arrived at the hospital and found her former attending physician.
“Doctor Lin.”
Lin Qingxiu grabbed the doctor’s hand, “Did you see the frog without its costume?”
“Yes,” the doctor nodded.
He remembered the frog vividly, who came to see Lin Qingxiu every day after school, rain or shine, and always showed up on weekends too.
“Doctor, please confirm if it’s him.” Lin Qingxiu asked anxiously.
“It’s him, Happy New Year!!!” The doctor nodded.
“Doctor, are you sure?” Lin Qingxiu asked again.
“Definitely.”
The doctor answered firmly, “I remember that kid clearly. He’s your younger brother, right? Your attitude towards him was harsh, yet he willingly dressed up as a frog to cheer you up, so I remember him well.”
After receiving the doctor’s confirmation, Lin Qingxiu’s complexion turned pale.
It was true, it really was him.
Images of what she had done to Lin Xuan flashed through Lin Qingxiu’s mind.
Perhaps Lin Xuan, feeling guilty for abandoning her in a life-and-death situation, chose to dress up as a frog to make her happy to ease his own conscience.
Holding the documents, Lin Qingxiu ran to the traffic management bureau and found the traffic officer who handled her car accident case.
“Tell me, who was the person who dragged me out of the car?” Lin Qingxiu asked nervously.
“Miss Lin, don’t you know? It was your younger brother who was in the same car with you,” the traffic officer replied in surprise.
“It really was him.”
Lin Qingxiu stumbled slightly.
The traffic officer explained, “There happened to be surveillance at that location. We checked the footage, and it was him who smashed the car window on your side and slowly dragged you out by your hand. Not long after you left the car, it exploded.”
“We were amazed that such a young child could accomplish that level of strength.”
“Wrong, everything was wrong,” Lin Qingxiu muttered to herself.
At the time, she only saw Lin Xuan leaving without looking back and then fell unconscious, completely unaware that Lin Xuan had appeared later to save her.
And that frog, she had no idea it was him.
“Big Sister, I misunderstood him.” Lin Qingxiu’s eyes reddened as she looked at Lin Qingwan.
“All of us made the same mistake.”
Lin Qingwan patted her shoulder, “From now on, we can start treating him well and compensate him.”
“Yeah,” Lin Qingxiu burst into tears.
On the way back, she picked up the diary and continued reading, tears streaming down her face continuously.
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In the blink of an eye, it was the day of Lin Li’s wedding.
Butler Wang stood in the living room wearing a suit, ready to go watch the farce with Lin Xuan.
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Bosses, I have work and writing deadlines, my typing speed is slow, and I’m exhausted.
I couldn’t keep up with the six-thousand-word updates for a month anymore, so I’ll return to four-thousand-word updates.
Thank you, Full View of Mountains and Rivers Empty Longing Far Away, Falling Flowers for ten update coupons.
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