Chapter 160: Everyone Can Be The Protagonist
The shop owner heard that he still wanted to preserve the memory card and felt somewhat troubled: “This will cost extra money.”
Xie Jingyan left a phone number for the shop owner: “Money is not an issue. What’s important is the stuff inside. It’s very important to me. Send me a backup.”
The shop owner nodded: “Alright, come pick it up in about half a month. I can extract the data for you ahead of time.”
Xie Jingyan thanked him and left the place.
It wasn’t that he was overthinking it, but why did Su Wanyuan happen to appear at the artificial lake.
He even suspected that she had eavesdropped on their conversation.
To put his mind at ease, Xie Jingyan had to know if Su Wanyuan had any leverage on him.
Xie Jingyan was a person who hated being passive.
But in front of Jiang Ning, he had always been passive, unable to advance or retreat.
He didn’t even know what Jiang Ning was hesitating about.
She was like a fog, making it hard for him to see clearly.
Xie Jingyan headed back to school all the way.
At the school entrance, he ran into Xin Yang.
“Xie Jingyan, what about that mobile phone? Where did you take it?” He reached out his hand, asking Xie Jingyan for the phone.
Xie Jingyan turned to look at him: “Wasn’t it you who told Jiang Ning you wanted to take it for repair? I didn’t see you at noon, so I thought you had other things to do and took it to the phone store for repair first.”
Xin Yang: “???”
He looked at Xie Jingyan with a strange expression: “Since when have you been such a good person?”
He wasn’t very familiar with Xie Jingyan either.
He knew him only because of Jiang Ning.
That ancestor insisted on beating Xie Jingyan to death, and no one could persuade her otherwise.
Now it was better; with Gu Lanli out of the picture, their relationship had miraculously eased.
At least in these past few months, he hadn’t seen Jiang Ning target Xie Jingyan again.
Hearing this, Xie Jingyan replied indifferently: “I’ve always been a good person. I’m an honest person.”
Xin Yang: “…”
“Alright, since you took it for repair, I won’t worry about it.”
Xin Yang finished speaking and prepared to leave.
Xie Jingyan called out to him: “Wait.”
Xin Yang turned back in confusion. What else?
Xie Jingyan pulled out his mobile phone from his pocket and opened the payment QR code: “Settle the repair fee for the phone. I fronted fifteen hundred.”
Xin Yang: “…”
He also took out his mobile phone and scanned Xie Jingyan’s QR code for two thousand: “The extra five hundred is for your errand fee.”
If it were someone with a bit more pride, they might feel insulted by Xin Yang, a rich guy, throwing money at them.
But Xie Jingyan rarely showed a smile: “Thank you, boss.”
Then he briskly walked away.
Xin Yang: “…”
Xie Jingyan returned to the classroom.
Jiang Ning was already lying on the desk taking a nap.
He didn’t disturb her but quietly sat by her side.
Xie Jingyan felt that this year’s autumn seemed especially beautiful.
In the first class of the afternoon, Jiang Ning finally woke up.
As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw Xie Jingyan studying seriously. His side profile was as beautiful as a painting, very pleasing to the eye.
Xie Jingyan noticed her gaze and turned to ask: “What’s wrong?”
Jiang Ning rubbed her eyes: “Nothing. Xie Jingyan, let’s go eat beef noodles after school this afternoon?”
Xie Jingyan’s lips curved into a faint smile: “Okay.”
…
At this time, by the artificial lake.
Su Wanyuan looked at the calm lake water, anxious and helpless.
Her facial expression kept changing.
She originally didn’t want to approach Huo Chengxuan but planned to use the recording to first make Jiang Ning and Xie Jingyan turn against each other.
But now, it seemed like even heaven was telling her that cooperating with someone like Huo Chengxuan was the only way to overthrow Jiang Ning.
Su Wanyuan felt extremely conflicted, but she finally made up her mind and found Xin Yang.
Hearing her request, Xin Yang was a bit stunned: “You don’t want that mobile phone anymore? You want a new mobile phone? Didn’t you say there were precious memories inside?”
Su Wanyuan showed a sad expression: “It held many memories, but since it’s already broken, let it sink into the lake forever. After all, memories can be created again.”
Xin Yang: “…”
He didn’t have the nerve to say that he had fished out the phone.
So he cleared his throat, irritatedly rubbing his brow: “Alright, I’ll compensate you with a new mobile phone tomorrow.”
He had suffered heavy losses in just one day!
Although this bit of money meant nothing to him, he still felt somewhat depressed.
So what about that repaired broken mobile phone of Su Wanyuan’s?
Whatever, he wouldn’t worry about it. He’d just consider it money lost to ward off disaster.
After school in the afternoon, Xie Jingyan brought Jiang Ning to the noodle shop near his home.
Last time Xie Jingyan treated; this time, Jiang Ning insisted on treating no matter what.
She even added a fried egg for both of them.
Jiang Ning slurped the noodles, eyes narrowed: “Even if I eat it countless times, I love this shop’s beef noodles the most. In the future, I want to come eat a bowl every day.”
Hearing this, Xie Jingyan was somewhat skeptical: “No matter how good something is, you’ll get tired of it if you eat too much.”
Jiang Ning retorted: “I definitely won’t. I just hope this shop stays open here forever, so no matter where I come back from, the first thing I’ll do is come here for a steaming hot bowl of beef noodles.”
Xie Jingyan just took it as childish talk.
He had been eating here for over a year and was indeed a bit tired of it.
“If you love it, eat more.” He picked the beef from his bowl into Jiang Ning’s: “Eat up.”
Jiang Ning silently slurped her noodles, sighing inwardly.
A non-sarcastic Xie Jingyan was truly too perfect.
It was hard to imagine that the person who used to infuriate her to death now automatically picked beef into her bowl.
Little Honey’s tone was gloomy: [Host, you’re the most successful player among all. What a hundred people couldn’t accomplish, you’ve done by directly winning him over.]
Jiang Ning: “…”
Little Honey suddenly speaking made Jiang Ning even less daring to say much.
She quietly glanced at Xie Jingyan and couldn’t help but say in her mind: ‘Actually, the male lead is quite pitiful too, constantly harmed by a hundred people, and he has to keep repeating the plot… Wait, no! Little Honey, if those previous hundred people all followed the trajectory and got killed by the male lead after the family went bankrupt, why has this storyline repeated 101 times?’
Little Honey sighed: [Because in the end, the male lead still didn’t end up with the female lead, causing this storyline to keep refreshing. After too many times, the world consciousness’s control over this world has weakened. If the world consciousness disappears, this world won’t have any more script storylines, and everyone can be the protagonist.]
Jiang Ning was puzzled: ‘Isn’t that good? Why plan others’ destinies? Everyone can be the protagonist of their own world.’
Little Honey: [Without rules, nothing can be accomplished. As one of the characters in this world, you’d naturally think that way, but the world consciousness that’s managed parallel worlds for so long won’t possibly give up power.]
Little Honey continued: [Host, and you’re just a player. Being with the male lead will absolutely not end well for you. My suggestion is to follow the storyline, earn one hundred million, and then die and leave.]
Jiang Ning’s swallowing slowed down.
She replied in her mind: ‘But I haven’t ended up with the male lead either…’
Little Honey snorted coldly: [You can fool me, but can you fool your own heart?]
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