Ran Ran said with reason: "I know you probably don't agree with my point of view, but I do have reasonable reasons."As she spoke, she looked towards Dingjun Mountain, "Suppose Xiaonu leaves the Terror Cave alive with us, have you thought about the consequences?"
Ding Junshan frowned, "What are the consequences? The matter between her and An Yao will be taken over by the bureau."
"If she had informed the bureau of her situation earlier, she wouldn't be in such a passive situation now."
Ran Ran raised an eyebrow, "You said it so easily. If it were you, would you dare to take risks with your family? What Xiao Nu did was just human nature."
Yangguang was confused when he heard this. "You are not the bad boy... Are you trying to protect Xiaonu or take revenge on her... I don't understand..."
Ran Ran said helplessly: "I am neither defending her nor taking revenge on her. I am just explaining the reasonable reasons, but he doesn't want to listen to me."
The "he" in this sentence did not mention anyone by name, but anyone could tell who it was.
Ding Junshan looked gloomy. "No matter what reason you give, I will just treat it as a child's nonsense."
"No one deserves to die." He said, looking steadily into Ranran's eyes.
Shen Dinghai hesitated to speak, and finally stood beside Ran Ran to make his position clear.
Ran Ran curled up the corners of his lips, his smile somewhat sarcastic, "The fact is, when the five of us leave the Terror Cave alive, Xiao Nu's brother is at risk of dying."
Dingjunshan wanted to argue, but Ranran quickly said, "You don't have to refute me on this point."
"I didn't say that Xiaonu's brother would definitely die. We didn't know how closely Dark Yao was monitoring our team. I just said there was a risk."
"But if this risk falls on anyone's family, who would be willing to bear it? At least Xiaonu can't bear it, otherwise she wouldn't have thought of killing me."
Upon hearing this, Xiaonu sobbed. She seemed to have a lot to say, but she couldn't say anything. She just acquiesced that she was an incompetent sinner.
Ran Ran seemed to be oblivious to Xiao Nu's emotions and continued, "If Xiao Nu doesn't die, who is willing to take her place and become the one who should die?"
Her eyes slowly swept across Dingjun Mountain and then across the sunlight.
"Would you like that?"
There was silence in the room.
Ran Ran slowed down and said, "And you seem to have forgotten something very important."
"You haven't considered the opinion of the Laughing Girl yet."
She picked up a knife from the table in the room, the sharp blade was flashing coldly.
The cold light reflected the tears on Xiaonu's eyelashes, and also reflected Ranran's calm eyes.
"Is she willing to die to eliminate the risk to her brother?"
All the sounds seemed to disappear in an instant, and the laughing girl's crying also stopped abruptly.
After a long silence, she staggered towards Ranran, reached out and grabbed Ranran's shoulders, as if putting all the weight of her body on Ranran's shoulders.
"I am willing."
Everyone saw this sound coming out of her dry lips.
Sunshine was the first to speak, his brows furrowed in disapproval, "Are you crazy?"
"Your brother is not in any real danger right now, we are just discussing it!"
The smiling girl's eyes dimmed. Hearing this, she turned to look at the sunlight and said, "We are solving my brother's problem now."
"The bad boy came up with a solution, and I agree with that solution."
She murmured softly as if her soul had been taken away from her.
Yangguang cursed inwardly, "What a stupid solution! There is no one in this world worth your death!"
"No one and nothing is worth it!"
Ranran rolled his eyes, took Xiaonu's heavy hand off his shoulder, and just held her hand.
"I agree with this statement." She looked at the smiling girl who regarded her as her life-saving straw, "Your thinking is strangely twisted." Ranran's words left everyone present confused again.
The good-tempered Yangguang also frowned, "What do you want? Why did you change your attitude in a moment?"
"My attitude hasn't changed." Ran Ran said calmly: "From the beginning to the end, I have only had one attitude - to solve the problem."
"I think the Laughing Girl's mind is twisted, but that doesn't stop me from helping her carry out this plan."
“The two are not opposites.”
Yangguang was very frantic, "What does that mean?!"
"What I mean is..." Ran Ran looked at Xiao Nu with cold eyes, "I don't doubt that there are people in this world who are willing to sacrifice their lives for love."
"But you were willing to sacrifice your life just because you heard that your brother's life was in danger..."
"That's weird."
Ran Ran stared at Xiao Nu carefully, as if he was curious about her. "You have gone against the human instinct to survive, did you know that?"
"Why on earth is your brother so important to you?"
Xiaonu's whole body was shaking, and it took her a while to calm down. She raised her head and forced a smile at Ranran that was uglier than crying.
"My mother said that I should do anything for my brother."
The scene fell into dead silence again. After a while, Shen Dinghai met Ranran's gaze with an expression that said "as expected".
As an only child, Yangguang could not understand this kind of thinking. After he realized what was going on, he quickly expressed his doubts.
"There is no such thing as a right. Even parents raising their children and children raising their parents is not a right. There is nothing you have to do for him, let alone give up your life for him!"
Ranran suddenly recalled that when she first met Xiaonu, Shen Dinghai had questioned the name Xiaonu.
"Why is she called Laughing Girl?"
"You want me to smile more now..."
Ran Ran also didn't understand. Even though Xiao Nu didn't reveal many details in her words, it was enough for them to see that her mother was a biased person who favored boys over girls.
Why does Xiaonu have this attitude towards such a mother?
Not only did she listen to her mother, she also took every word of her mother to heart, as if it was a brand on her heart.
Although both are daughters living in a patriarchal family, Xiaonu and Wu Pannan are very different from each other.
Wu Pannan was only thinking about revenge, and even thought about asking Shen Dinghai to help her.
Ranran was full of doubts and whispered these words to Shen Dinghai.
Shen Dinghai couldn't figure it out at first. After thinking for a long time, he seemed to suddenly realize something and leaned over to Ranran and whispered.
"Because Xiaonu's mother loves her very much."
Ran Ran frowned, "If you love her, would you tell her that she should do anything for her brother?"
Shen Dinghai shook his head. "This love has its limits, but it is only like this in Xiaonu's own eyes."
"The Laughing Girl must have felt that her mother loved her very much, because only when people feel kindness can they return it, no matter what it looks like in the eyes of a sober person."
Ranran's frown deepened.
Shen Dinghai continued: "Compared with Xiaonu and Wu Pannan, the biggest misfortune is that she can't see clearly at all."
"Wu Pannan saw clearly, so she was able to resolutely take revenge on her biological parents, but Xiaonu did not."
"She was also in an unequal environment, but the kindness her mother showed to her hooked her and made her unable to give up on her mother forever."
Shen Dinghai said, his eyes shifted to Xiaonu calmly, "I think she has realized that her mother loves her brother more than she loves her."
"She just didn't want to wake up, and was sinking into despair." (End of this chapter)
