Chapter 100: Time Can’t Go Backwards
Little Honey: [If your progress wasn’t at eighty, and we weren’t so close to victory, I would definitely annihilate you and change to a new host!]
Jiang Ning shook her head and sighed: “The next one definitely won’t be as good to you as I am, Little Honey, you’re my good friend!”
Little Honey: […]
Hate it~
[Hmph, host, I warn you, don’t meddle in Jiang Yan’s life or death.]
Jiang Ning started changing into pajamas and went to the bathroom to take a shower. Hearing this, she lazily replied: “Got it, I’m not that idle.”
Hearing Jiang Ning’s guarantee, Little Honey went offline.
It was already eleven when Jiang Ning came out after showering.
While drying her hair, she held her mobile phone and messaged Top Grade: [Baby, are you still studying?]
The other side quickly sent a photo of him reading a book.
Chunfen: [One more hour of chemistry.]
Lingling You Nan: [So diligent, I’m going to blow dry my hair, just took a shower.]
Chunfen: [Okay.]
Only then did Jiang Ning toss her mobile phone aside to blow dry her hair.
Xie Jingyan sat at the desk, suddenly opened his mobile phone and flipped through the album. He remembered there was a photo of Jiang Ning on his phone.
Her expression was sulky, her dewy doe-like eyes glaring at him, looking unhappy.
Xie Jingyan couldn’t help but chuckle lightly. Pretty cute.
Noticing his pleasant mood, Xie Jingyan quickly restrained himself.
He shook his head, telling himself not to get attached.
All this contact with Jiang Ning lately was just to make her like him. Didn’t she like to play with others’ feelings? What expression would she make when she was the one played with?
Xie Jingyan told himself he was just putting himself into the game.
Only by contacting Jiang Ning could he gain the Jiang Family’s trust.
Then the huge family could collapse from the internal.
He could get the remaining five hundred thousand reward, cure his sister, and not get involved in the wealthy family’s affairs.
His fingertip paused on that photo, wanting to delete it.
But he couldn’t bring himself to do it.
In the end, he simply created a new album and locked the photo inside.
Out of sight, out of mind.
The rain that had stopped for a night started falling again.
It would cool down tomorrow.
“Knock knock.”
While lost in thought, the living room door was knocked on.
“Is anyone home?”
Xie Jingyan came back to his senses, took a dagger from the drawer, and walked to the entrance: “Who is it?”
“I’m Old Man Wang from next door. Just now, there was a little girl at your entrance who looked quite pitiful, carrying luggage and squatting at your door. When she saw me, she ran downstairs. I’m here to ask if she’s someone you know.”
Only then did Xie Jingyan open the door.
The old man outside had gray hair. He pointed to the stairwell, indicating the person was downstairs, then walked away with his hands behind his back.
The corridor light was broken, very dim.
Xie Jingyan went downstairs and saw the person Old Man Wang mentioned at the second floor.
She was soaking wet, hair still dripping water, carrying a schoolbag, dragging a suitcase, standing helplessly at the stair corner, looking at Xie Jingyan cautiously.
Xie Jingyan’s gaze lingered on Su Wanyuan for a moment, then he quickly turned and walked away.
Seeing him leave without asking a word, Su Wanyuan hurriedly followed with her luggage: “A Yan, A Yan, don’t abandon me, I’m scared.”
Xie Jingyan ignored her. As he entered the house and closed the door, a hand reached in, and the door heavily smashed onto her fingers.
“Ah!”
She cried out in pain but wouldn’t let go, her gaze tearful, biting her lip pitifully.
“Get out!”
Su Wanyuan shook her head, pushed the door open forcefully, and barged in: “I, I have nowhere to go, A Yan.”
Xie Jingyan’s brows sharpened, tone cold: “Don’t call my name.”
Su Wanyuan wiped her tears forcefully: “If you don’t care about me, it’s so cold outside at night, I’ll catch a cold.”
“Heh, did I invite you? If you won’t stay at the Gu Family, what are you doing coming to my slum?”
Su Wanyuan’s lips parted slightly, looking at Xie Jingyan’s distant cold face, her expression somewhat dazed.
Clearly…
Clearly he wasn’t like this before…
He couldn’t bear to see her suffer.
If Xie Aunt and Xie Uncle hadn’t died.
Even if she hadn’t seen Xie Jingyan for years, he wouldn’t have become like this.
“Gu Lanli withdrew my financial aid, the Gu Family kicked me out, I have nowhere to go… Please don’t drive me away.”
Xie Jingyan almost suspected he misheard.
What logic is this.
Kicked out herself, and now wants him to take her in?
He’s not like Jiang Ning, picking up any trash and bringing it home.
“You want to live with me?” Xie Jingyan asked.
Su Wanyuan pursed her lips: “I just want to make do for one night, tomorrow I’ll find a house.”
“Make do? The people around here are all old folks, what will they say about me tomorrow? Don’t I care about my reputation?” he continued asking.
Su Wanyuan hurriedly denied: “I have no other intentions…”
Xie Jingyan interrupted her: “You having none doesn’t mean others don’t. Living with me, in what capacity?”
Su Wanyuan was speechless.
She just wanted to ease her relationship with Xie Jingyan.
She was too jealous.
Jiang Ning could get so close to him without any scruples.
She couldn’t help but smile bitterly: “What if it was Jiang Ning? If she begged you like this, would you be willing to live with her?”
Xie Jingyan looked at her with icy eyes. Su Wanyuan showed no fear, stubbornly seeking an answer.
He suddenly laughed emotionlessly: “Yes, if it was her, I might be willing.”
Su Wanyuan’s face paled, voice trembling: “Even after how Jiang Ning treated you before? Even after she insulted you so much, don’t you have any self-respect? Do you know what she did to Xie He? She tried to kill your sister, you can forgive that, but you can’t forgive me… Is this fair?”
Her tears fell rapidly.
“Fair?” Xie Jingyan looked at her coldly: “There’s no such thing as fair in this world. What you did is even more despicable than her. If I forgive you, can my parents come back?”
Su Wanyuan’s lips gradually lost color.
“I, I really didn’t know… If…”
Xie Jingyan interrupted her, brow furrowing impatiently: “There’s no ‘if’ in this world, just like time can’t go back, what’s lost can’t return. The harm you brought me is irreversible pain. I don’t want to see you again.”
Of course Xie Jingyan hadn’t forgotten his past with Su Wanyuan.
The little girl with pigtails, following behind him step by step, calling “A Yan brother.”
That warm and happy childhood time could never return.
He could no longer play house like when they were kids, willingly acting as Su Wanyuan’s groom and protecting her.
Those feelings had long been burned beyond recognition in the big fire that year when he was fifteen.
What burned to death wasn’t just his parents, but also him at fifteen.
Leaving him devoured by flames, burned to ashes, the world left in desolation.
Xie Jingyan closed the door, shutting Su Wanyuan out.
Shutting out her sobbing as well.
Xie Jingyan sat wearily on the sofa.
His mind recalled when Su Wanyuan’s parents died in accidents one after another at eleven.
His mother led Su Wanyuan into the house, smiling and saying to him: “Xiao Yan, Wanyuan has no family left. From now on, we’ll be her loved ones. You’re a boy, you have to protect her always.”
Typo noted.
