Chapter 163: That’s Not Xiao Lan
Jiang Yilan dropped her phone in shock and let go.
The phone fell to the floor with a “clatter.”
Jiang Yilan cried bitterly on the hospital bed.
Xiao Xu picked up the phone from the floor and looked at her trembling body, her eyes filled with sadness.
He Lewei also lowered his head and sighed.
Jiang Yuan returned to the hospital room and saw this scene, her slender eyebrows furrowed tightly.
She opened her mouth, wanting to speak several times, but didn’t know how to comfort Jiang Yilan.
They hadn’t experienced her pain, nor did they have the right to advise her.
Listening to Jiang Yilan’s suppressed, painful cries, Jiang Yuan and Xiao Xu’s eyes reddened again, and they tried hard to hold back their tears by tilting their heads up.
After an unknown amount of time, the hospital room gradually quieted down.
Jiang Yilan’s crying stopped.
Jiang Yuan wasn’t sure if she had fallen asleep, but neither of them made a sound to bother her.
The three of them tiptoed out of the hospital room and sat on the resting chairs in the corridor.
In the afternoon, Jiang Yuan received a phone call from Fu Xiaoxiao.
She greeted Xiao Xu and quickly walked towards the safety exit.
After walking up two floors, she saw Fu Xiaoxiao holding Qiuqiu, “Yuan Yuan!”
“Xiaoxiao, thank you for your trouble, coming all this way.” Jiang Yuan took Qiuqiu from her arms.
She had called in the morning, and Fu Xiaoxiao had immediately booked a flight and flown over with Qiuqiu.
“You don’t have to be so polite to me!” Fu Xiaoxiao pretended to be angry, “Who are we to each other?”
“Baby, I was wrong, I won’t dare to do it again.” Jiang Yuan’s taut nerves relaxed slightly.
“Then I’ll forgive you this time.” Fu Xiaoxiao smiled and linked her arm, “Let’s go, let’s go see Qiuqiu’s beloved Xiao Lan.”
Jiang Yuan lowered her eyes and looked at Qiuqiu in her arms, feeling its excited emotions at that moment.
“Yuan Yuan?” Fu Xiaoxiao called again when she saw Jiang Yuan hadn’t moved, “Aren’t you going?”
Qiuqiu also couldn’t hold back and meowed, “Yuan Yuan, hurry and take me to find Xiao Lan! I miss her so much!”
Jiang Yuan pressed her lips together and hesitated for a few seconds before saying, “Qiuqiu, you might need to be psychologically prepared.”
“What is it?” Qiuqiu tilted its fluffy head, its bright cat pupils looking at her, “I’ve been prepared for a long time!”
Jiang Yuan sighed softly.
Fu Xiaoxiao suddenly realized something, frowned, and asked, “Yuan Yuan, what’s wrong? Is Xiao Lan not doing well…”
Jiang Yuan: “To be precise, it’s very bad.”
“What happened to Xiao Lan?” Qiuqiu also frowned and meowed uneasily, “How could it be very bad?”
People passed by the stairs from time to time, so Jiang Yuan found a corner and recounted the torment Jiang Yilan had suffered after her disappearance.
“I don’t believe it!” Qiuqiu shook its little head desperately.
Tears welled up in Fu Xiaoxiao’s eyes, and she choked out, “I don’t believe it either.”
Jiang Yuan secretly felt fortunate that she hadn’t let Qiuqiu see Jiang Yilan directly.
If she saw Qiuqiu’s reaction now, she would be even more distressed.
“You must have found the wrong person!” Qiuqiu couldn’t believe that the owner who used to smile would become like what Jiang Yuan described, “That’s not Xiao Lan! Xiao Lan is a girl who smiles a lot, she always said that girls who smile a lot have good luck!”
“Sorry, Qiuqiu.” Jiang Yuan looked at Qiuqiu’s breakdown, raised her hand to comfort it, and stroked its fur, “That is indeed Xiao Lan. If you don’t want to see her, I’ll find a suitable excuse to tell her.”
“Yuan Yuan, you don’t need to apologize, this is not your fault.” Fu Xiaoxiao looked at Jiang Yuan worriedly.
Qiuqiu was silent for a long time before meowing softly, “I want to see her. No matter what Xiao Lan becomes, she is my master!”
It’s just that it’s really sad.
If the beautiful Xiao Lan saw herself like that, would she cry?
The hospital room was quiet.
Jiang Yilan lay on the bed, her right eye staring blankly out the glass window.
She suddenly felt it was all meaningless.
Jiang Yilan climbed off the bed with difficulty, supported herself by the wall, and walked to the window.
Rather than struggling to survive like this, it would be better to die a quick death…
Jiang Yilan placed one foot on the stool, and suddenly a cat’s meow came from behind her.
Her body froze abruptly.
“Meow~~” Qiuqiu meowed and ran to her side.
Xiao Lan, I miss you so much!
Qiuqiu stopped at Jiang Yilan’s feet, rubbing against her pant leg with its fluffy head, “Meow~~”
Jiang Yilan slowly looked down at it, and her right eye instantly filled with shimmering tears.
“Qiuqiu…” she murmured.
Seeing the little one’s fur was shiny and its body chubby, Jiang Yilan’s lips slowly curved upwards.
Qiuqiu tilted its small head and looked into her eyes.
Although Jiang Yuan had already described Xiao Lan’s current appearance, she was still shocked when she saw it with her own eyes.
Qiuqiu widened its cat pupils, its fluffy face contorted, its mood very bad, very angry.
Those bad guys! They harmed Xiao Lan like this!
“Meow meow meow…” Qiuqiu cried with a wuwuwu sound.
Jiang Yilan didn’t understand; she only heard Qiuqiu meowing, seeming unhappy.
She took her foot off the stool, sat on the stool with one hand supporting the window, reached out, and stroked Qiuqiu’s head, “Qiuqiu, do you still recognize me?”
“Meow meow meow!” Qiuqiu nodded forcefully and leaped onto Jiang Yilan’s lap.
Xiao Lan has lost weight…
Jiang Yilan looked at it, her expression becoming gentle, and she stroked it intermittently with her right hand, “Have I become ugly? Are you scared?”
Qiuqiu shook its head like a rattle, nuzzling affectionately in her arms, “Meow meow meow~~”
Not ugly at all, Xiao Lan is the most beautiful!
Not scared at all, I like Xiao Lan no matter what she looks like!
Seeing that Qiuqiu was still clinging to her, Jiang Yilan gently sighed in relief.
Jiang Yuan knocked on the door, walked to Jiang Yilan’s side, her gaze gentle and smiling, “Xiao Lan, do you need me to translate for you?”
“Yes, I want to know what Qiuqiu is saying.” Jiang Yilan found it very magical that someone could understand what small animals were saying.
Jiang Yuan nodded and said softly, “Didn’t you just ask Qiuqiu if it was scared?”
“Yes.” Jiang Yilan asked nervously, “Will it scare it?”
Jiang Yuan chuckled and said, “Of course not, Qiuqiu is very loyal. It says that no matter what you look like, it likes you.”
The smile on Jiang Yilan’s lips deepened immediately, “Qiuqiu is so good to me.”
“It is indeed very good to you.” Jiang Yuan nodded in agreement, “It’s been looking for you. It’s also thanks to Qiuqiu that we were able to rescue you this time. If it hadn’t asked me to help find people, we might not have caught those scums until now.”
“Thank you, Qiuqiu.” Jiang Yilan looked at the kitten in her arms and thanked it seriously.
Qiuqiu’s arrival improved Jiang Yilan’s low and world-weary mood.
She finally had the courage to recall that darkest period.
Li He’an used the same tactics he used against He Yingying, using the excuse of meeting parents to trick Jiang Yilan into that remote village…
Every day after that was like living in hell.
She escaped twice; the first time she was taken back to that man’s house, and the second time she was sent to the watchtower, living a life worse than death.
