Chapter 187: The Jiang Ning You Love Isn’t From This World
Xie Jingyan turned around, and “Jiang Ning” was standing right behind him, looking at him with a mocking expression.
Dressed in a snow-white outfit, wearing a mink beret hat, she looked noble and elegant.
Xie Jingyan curled his lip, his tone laced with sarcasm: “Can Young Lady Jiang cover the sky with one hand and control my Gaokao too?”
“Jiang Ning” was very pleased with Xie Jingyan’s form of address. She curved her eyebrows and smiled: “How will you know without trying?”
Xie Jingyan’s eyes were dazzled by her smile.
It was like… his Jiang Ning.
He pursed his lips, lowering his gaze: “Then go ahead and try.”
He didn’t want to pay her any more attention.
In contrast, “Jiang Ning” raised her brows, a fierce glint flashing in her eyes. She grabbed Xie Jingyan, pushed him against the bulletin board, tugged his collar to force him to lower his head, and her lips curved into a provocative and smug smile: “I remember the way you used to look at me, like a wolf cub cornered and desperate to bite a piece of meat off the hunter. In just a few short months, that person has trained you so well?”
Xie Jingyan looked up in shock, staring at “Jiang Ning”, his voice trembling lightly: “What did you say? That person? Do you know her?”
“Jiang Ning” grinned, reaching out to pat Xie Jingyan’s face hard until his fair cheek was bright red, and still seeing no resistance from him, she finally withdrew her hand contentedly: “Of course I know. You should be able to feel it too—I’m completely different from the Jiang Ning you knew, because I’ve come back.”
Xie Jingyan lowered his head to look at her, his voice very soft: “What about her then?”
“Jiang Ning” disdainfully curled her lip: “She’s naturally dead, of course. Who cares where she is?”
She looked at the sunlit sky, as if recalling something, and sneered: “Still thinking about her? Do you know what kind of world this is? Do you know where she came from? Do you know her purpose? Do you know what kind of person she really was? And yet you like her.”
Xie Jingyan concealed the shock in his eyes, rendered speechless by “Jiang Ning”‘s words.
What did it mean she came from somewhere?
What did it mean what kind of world this was?
And she even had a purpose?
Xie Jingyan had only thought that the later Jiang Ning was very mysterious, as if she knew everything, completely different from the original her.
Even Jiang Ning, who had been calmly watching from the side, could no longer stay calm.
She looked at “Jiang Ning” in disbelief.
Wasn’t she just a program created by the World Consciousness, one that could only follow fixed thinking patterns?
Why did she know so much?
Jiang Ning wanted to cover her mouth.
However, “Jiang Ning” spoke as if seeking revenge, word by word: “The Jiang Ning you love isn’t from this world. She came from another world, took over my body, and even brought a System with her. Oh, do you know what that System does? It’s all for harming you. As long as she kills your sister, causes setbacks in your life, she can earn one hundred million, then pat her butt and leave, abandoning this chaotic place. Do you think she truly likes you with her true heart? That child, raised in a pile of poor people, would give up anything for money.”
Jiang Ning lunged at her, wanting to cover her mouth and stop her from saying more.
However, she passed right through them again, standing behind “Jiang Ning”, watching Xie Jingyan’s face grow paler inch by inch.
Jiang Ning lowered her head, her eyelashes trembling.
It wasn’t because of anger, nor fear, but guilt.
Because everything “Jiang Ning” said was true.
She was someone who could become very selfish for money.
She had indeed thought that once the mission was complete, even if she missed Xie Jingyan in her heart, she wouldn’t stay here.
Xie Jingyan looked up, staring straight at “Jiang Ning”: “I don’t believe it…”
“Jiang Ning” disdainfully curled her lip: “Believe it or not, I don’t care. Oh, by the way, I’ve seen her System—it’s a yellow small light orb.”
A yellow small light orb…
If what “Jiang Ning” said before, Xie Jingyan didn’t believe.
But when she mentioned the yellow small light orb…
It instantly reminded Xie Jingyan of the small light orb he saw that day in the hospital room—it was also yellow.
He even recalled even earlier, on the way back from Xiao Ge Town, he seemed to have seen a yellow small orb circling around Jiang Ning.
He thought it was a hallucination, but after “Jiang Ning” described it, Xie Jingyan felt it was real.
“Jiang Ning” continued: “Last time’s medical dispute incident wasn’t entirely her doing, but she was half responsible, because only if your sister died would you hate her, and she could collect your hatred to complete her mission, take her one hundred million and leave. She’s not some good person either. Out of guilt in her heart, she ended up saving your sister by mistake. If she had known from the start that the little girl she helped was your sister Xie He, she never would have spent that money. Her online relationship with you was also because she didn’t know you were Xie Jingyan at the time, and you, you fool, took it seriously, idiot.”
Her tone was mocking, and seeing Xie Jingyan’s face grow whiter, she smiled contentedly.
Hah, bitch. Doesn’t she like disrupting other people’s lives?
Doesn’t she like playing the saintly mother and stealing the spotlight?
Likes using my body to seduce men?
Once Xie Jingyan learned this truth, the person he cherished would turn into an enemy.
Haha, thinking about it really feels satisfying.
Seeing Xie Jingyan lost and despondent, “Jiang Ning” had achieved her goal: “So, you little fool, don’t be so naive. Her willingness to accept you was only out of pity. When you confessed, wagging your tail and begging, it was like pleading for her mercy. You should be grateful I’ve come back, or else when she pats her butt and leaves, you’d still be a clueless fool in the dark.”
After “Jiang Ning” finished speaking, she strode away.
Xie Jingyan stood in place for a very long time.
Even until the class bell rang, he didn’t move.
Instead, he turned to look at Jiang Ning in the red-backed ID photo, his voice hoarse as he asked: “Is everything she said true? You don’t have a second personality; you’re just another different soul. You approached me with a mission and ill intentions. Your help was only out of pity and guilt, not true heart wanting Xie He to live. You didn’t truly accept me; I was just a game for you to play in your idle time, right?”
Jiang Ning stood beside him, rendered speechless by the question.
She suddenly felt grateful that she couldn’t be seen.
It seemed she didn’t have to answer Xie Jingyan’s sharp and real questions.
Xie Jingyan stared at her photo for a long time, finally reaching out to tear her ID photo down and crumple it tightly in his hand.
Leaving a sticky mark on the bulletin board, he walked away without a word.
Jiang Ning turned her head, looking at the pinned spot where only Xie Jingyan was left alone, and sighed softly: “Do you hate me that much? You even tore down my photo and threw it in the trash can.”
Jiang Ning felt that her connection to this world was truly over.
She no longer had the face to stay by Xie Jingyan’s side.
So Jiang Ning left Ninth Middle School and went to another place to hide.
Heartbroken Old Xie.
