Turning Antagonist to Protagonist: He is Both Soft and Fierce-Chapter 231 - 226: Curtain Call

She was taken aback, giving Mrs. Song a chance. Mrs. Song suddenly pushed her, and Lin Qiao, already at the riverbank, was sent tumbling into the river.

However, she reacted quickly, grabbing onto Mrs. Song’s clothes, and the two of them fell into the river with a splash, creating a huge wave.

In the panic of being in the water, Mrs. Song struggled endlessly, "Help...help..."

The crowd stepped back in shock.

Song Tingfan hurriedly got up and dove into the river water.

At the same time, in the water, Lin Qiao pulled at Mrs. Song’s head to prevent her from struggling upwards.

Of course, she knew how to swim; otherwise, she wouldn’t have jumped into the river. She wasn’t foolish enough to perish with Mrs. Song. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Suddenly, someone wrapped an arm around her waist. She turned to look, but couldn’t see clearly who it was; the next moment, she was pulled out of the river.

She instinctively tilted her head and fainted, not at all concerned that Mrs. Song might die. With so many people here, she wouldn’t die.

At most, she’d swallow a few mouthfuls of river water.

The young man carried the wet young woman ashore, not waiting to catch his breath, he clumsily pinched her philtrum.

With a heavy pinch, Lin Qiao: "..."

She almost cried out in pain but managed to hold it in. After a little while, she coughed, spat out the water in her mouth, then slowly opened her eyes, weakly calling, "Uncle~" and fainted again.

Seeing his sister-in-law could still make a sound, Song Tingfan knew she was alive, immediately burst into joyful tears, then picked her up and rushed back home.

At this moment, Mrs. Song had already been rescued. She didn’t faint, and after spitting out the water in her mouth, sat there dumbfounded.

Clearly frightened by the ordeal.

...

Song’s second family

Song Tingfan carried Lin Qiao back into the house, then rummaged through the wardrobe for clothes. Seeing his wet sister-in-law struggle a little, he quickly closed the door.

Lin Qiao, lying on the bed, hadn’t had time to react when she felt her waistbelt loosen, followed by a chill on her shoulder. She suddenly opened her eyes wide, "What are you doing..."

Before she could finish speaking, she restrained herself, her voice turning a bit weak, "Uncle..."

Song Tingfan, worrying about her, was completely unaware that his current actions were improper.

He held back tears, speaking incoherently, "Sister-in-law, you’re awake."

"It’s good that you’re awake."

"I promise, I won’t let anyone bully you again."

"Sister-in-law, don’t leave me, you’re all I have left, if you go, what do I do..."

Lin Qiao saw the clothes in his hand, realizing he intended to help her change. She reached out to touch his head, "I’m fine, cough, cough, don’t cry."

The youth obediently let her touch him, feeling wronged and scared, "Sister-in-law, you scared me to death."

"I’m sorry, I didn’t think I’d come back, I won’t do it again."

Lin Qiao, all wet, felt sticky and uncomfortable. She took the clothes from his hand and said, "Uncle, help me boil some water."

Seeing his worried look, she raised her hand to promise, "I won’t do it again, never again."

"Pinky promise." Song Tingfan extended his little finger.

Lin Qiao glanced at him, extended her finger to link with his, "Pinky promise, hang it for a hundred years without changing, if I change, I’ll be a puppy."

Only then did Song Tingfan stand up to open the door, just about to leave when an anxious voice sounded, "Daughter!"

Soon, Li Guifen hurriedly rushed into the room, perhaps in her haste, tripped over the threshold with a thud but didn’t care about the pain, quickly got up again, "Daughter..."

Seeing her daughter drenched, all the reproaches in her mouth couldn’t be expressed, suddenly raising her hand to slap herself twice before standing there and crying.

Her actions left Lin Qiao stunned for quite a while, unsure if the river water choked her or something else, her throat felt unusually uncomfortable.

She got out of bed, stood beside Li Guifen, water droplets from her body falling on the floor, soon forming blossoming water patterns, overlapping, wetting a large area.

"I’m sorry..."

She was just focused on giving Mrs. Song a lesson but forgot about the feelings of Song Tingfan and the others. She knew her jump into the river was an act, but they didn’t, they only knew she wanted to jump into the river and die.

If it were before, she would’ve only taken the opportunity to act, to win their sympathy by being the weak one. However, now, she clearly didn’t want to.

Consider it a quit performance.

...

Song An received the news half an hour later, it was Zhou Ping who sent someone up the mountain to call him.

Upon hearing what happened, the anger was evident on Song An’s face. Without time to go home to drop things off, he headed straight to Song’s second house.

The place was crowded with people from the Lin Family, afraid Lin Qiao might get upset again and seek death.

Meanwhile, Lin Qiao was asleep inside the house. Initially, she didn’t intend to sleep, but Li Guifen stayed by her bedside, not letting her do anything, soon she fell asleep.

Lin Han stood at the door for a while, gesturing to Li Guifen to ask if their daughter was asleep.

Li Guifen nodded, glanced at Song Tingfan beside her, made a gesture, and quietly left.

Lin Han followed her to the kitchen entrance, "Is our daughter sleeping soundly?"

"Fairly soundly."

Li Guifen glanced toward the main hall, lowered her voice a little, sighed, "I don’t want our daughter to stay with the Song Family anymore."

At this rate, our daughter’s life might be at risk.

Hearing this, Lin Han sighed, his face no less troubled than hers, "Seeing our daughter drenched, I almost had the heart to take her home."

"But seeing Tingfan and Aunt Song so worried, I held back from saying anything."

If they take their daughter home, what would happen to Song’s second family, the two old and the one young, how would they live?

Li Guifen naturally knew this in her heart, but people are partial, at this moment she only wanted her daughter to be safe, she remained silent for a while, "Go talk to Tingfan, Tingfan is a good child, talk to him nicely and he’ll definitely agree."

Previously, there was Song San selling their daughter, now there’s Mrs. Song wanting to marry her off; as a mother, how could she rest assured letting her daughter stay here.

Lucky once or twice, but if misfortune strikes one day, if the daughter goes, she fears she wouldn’t want to live either.

"Sigh, how can I say it, you saw it too, ever since the incident, Tingfan has been by her bedside, if I tell him we want to take her back, this kid will surely be upset."

"Then what about the daughter? I can’t stand it anymore." Li Guifen couldn’t help but shed tears again.

Seeing this, Lin Han felt distressed, "Sigh, I’ll talk to Tingfan, but don’t make it too obvious, Tingfan and the others have been good to her, this isn’t their fault."

"I know, I know, that’s why I let Tingfan marry her, Tingfan is a good child, Song’s second family is good."

Finishing this, Li Guifen saw Song An and Song Hao coming over, if not for their usual kindness to her daughter, she would’ve caused a scene today.

Lin Han shared the same sentiment.

But the two didn’t show their previous enthusiasm towards Song An and his son, if they had reined in Mrs. Song, she wouldn’t have dared to stir trouble at Song’s second house.

Ultimately, some indulgence was involved.