Rebirth: Daily Face Slaps - Chapter 63

Lin Mengting thought she would enjoy a peaceful life for a long time. However, she underestimated the shameless persistence of the Qin siblings, Qin Mei and Qin Dong.

Or rather, it was their relentless obsession that wouldn’t stop until they got what they wanted.

Thus, Lin Mengting soon received an unexpected phone call.

“Hello, may I speak to Lin Mengting?”

It was the voice of a middle-aged man with a slight official tone. Although he spoke Mandarin, there was a faint regional accent that made Lin Mengting instinctively reply in the same accent. Many thoughts flashed through her mind, but she showed no sign of them on her face.

“Hello, this is she. May I ask who is calling?”

“Mengting? Tingting? Is it really you?” The man exclaimed before the phone was snatched by someone else. The next moment, a woman’s urgent voice came through the line. “Tingting, this is Auntie Qin.”

“Auntie, hello.” Lin Mengting frowned slightly, sensing a bad premonition.

Sure enough, the next thing Mrs Qin said was, “Tingting, I heard my son did something wrong and made you unhappy. Auntie is here to apologize to you. You’re a big-hearted person, please don’t hold it against him. Auntie knows you’ve always been a considerate, filial, and sensible child. You will surely understand my good intentions.”

Mrs. Qin didn’t really want to make this call. After all, she was the elder; how could she bow down to a young girl like Lin Mengting?

Lin Mengting hadn’t even been married into the family yet, and she was already so temperamental. Wouldn’t she be impossible to deal with if she did marry in? What nonsense!

In Mrs. Qin’s eyes, it was all indulgence!

But Qin Dong was making a scene, crying and shouting, refusing to give up on Lin Mengting. He kept saying that Lin Mengting was a modern “career woman” who would manage both work and home perfectly if he married her.

Nonsense! Wasn’t she just a pretty face?

If Qin Dong hadn’t promised that once he married Lin Mengting, he would train her to obey him completely, and if Lin Mengting hadn’t been sending money and gifts back recently, showing she was doing better than Qin Mei, Mother Qin wouldn’t have lowered herself to make this call.

“Does Miss Qin and Mr. Qin know about this call?” Lin Mengting didn’t answer Mother Qin directly but tossed the question back.

“Tingting, what are you saying? You know your sister Mei and brother Dong’s temperaments. If they knew about this, they would be furious.”

Mrs. Qin, being a community leader for women, was not only quick with her words but also very clever. Without much thought, she could come up with several reasons.

“Actually, I know this call puts you in a difficult position. It’s just that they say parental love for their children is the greatest. I can’t help them much in their studies or work, so I worry more about their daily lives. Since your brother Dong impulsively did something wrong and wronged you, he has felt very guilty. He wanted to invite you to dinner to apologize, but you refused.”

She didn’t mention that during this period, Qin Mei had called Lin Mengting, boasting about how lucky Lin Mengting was to have someone as devoted as Qin Dong and trying to push Qin Dong’s sincerity onto her, only to be sternly rejected by Lin Mengting.

One had to admire Mother Qin for her years of experience; she could make white sound black and excelled at blurring the truth.

“Your brother Dong hasn’t been able to eat or sleep well lately. He’s become so thin. He’s so troubled that he can’t sleep at night, has no energy during the day, and has made several mistakes at work, getting scolded by his boss many times. If this continues, it won’t be good! Auntie knows you are a kind-hearted girl and won’t bear to see your brother Dong like this.”

The tactic of playing the pity card was used well.

However, Lin Mengting wasn’t buying it.

“Auntie, my parents always taught me that matters between children should not involve the elders. Once elders intervene, it changes everything.”

“Tingting, do you mean you still refuse to forgive your brother Dong? He is indeed a bit impatient, but young people have such flaws. As long as he recognizes his mistakes and corrects them, won’t that be fine? Today, I called not for anything else but to hope you would forgive your brother Dong for the sake of me and your uncle. You don’t know, when your sister Mei said your brother Dong hasn’t eaten for several days, I cried.”

At this point, Mrs. Qin seemed to recall a sorrowful scene, choking up, “I wanted to call you about this for a long time. But your sister Mei and brother Dong wouldn’t let me. But I can’t take it anymore. I’m really worried that if I don’t make this call, soon I will hear that your brother Dong has been taken to the hospital.”

…

Looking at the time, Lin Mengting really didn’t want to continue arguing with Mrs. Qin about this.

How could one expect good parents to raise siblings as shameless as Qin Mei and Qin Dong?

So, while Mrs. Qin thought she was about to resort to a full array of emotional tactics, she heard Lin Mengting calmly ask, “So, Auntie, what do you want me to do?”

“If it’s to forgive Mr. Qin, please tell him I forgive him. Does that work for you?”

This didn’t sound quite right!

This doubt flashed through Mrs. Qin ‘s mind but was soon drowned out by her excitement and joy.

“Tingting, you really forgive your brother Dong? That’s great! I knew you were a sensible and understanding girl! I’ll call your brother Dong right away to tell him the good news!”

…

After hanging up the phone, Lin Mengting chuckled and went back to her work.

To Lin Mengting, the Qin siblings were now just like strangers she might accidentally bump into on the street. If they stepped on her foot and said sorry, she would say it was okay.

Ultimately, it was the common tendency to be stricter with loved ones and more tolerant of strangers.