Chapter 10: Happy? Bought With Your Life
Jiang Ning said expressionlessly: “Is that okay? It’s from leftover rice, and… who are you calling trash? Compared to me, you’re the most useless one.”
Little Honey: [???]
Jiang Ning: “How many hosts have you bound and you still haven’t completed this book’s plot line.”
Little Honey indignantly: [There are reasons for this! The previous hosts I bound all fell for the male lead despite not knowing any better, turning from bullying him to helping him, so they got annihilated.]
Jiang Ning: “…”
She recalled Xie Jingyan’s face, so beautiful it enraged both gods and men.
She scorned inwardly: a disaster of a beauty.
She had to stay away.
She wanted both one hundred million and her life.
As soon as Jiang Ning arrived at the infirmary, she ran into Xie Jingyan who was also coming out of the infirmary.
He had gauze on his forehead and a Band-Aid on his cheek.
Dressed in his school uniform, he looked clean and aloof overall.
Just standing there, he formed a scenic view all on his own.
He also spotted Jiang Ning, his pitch-black eyes shifting to her injured foot before expressionlessly looking away.
But Jiang Ning felt heat rising straight up.
Soon her delicate face flushed bright red.
Not from anger, but from embarrassment.
It made her toes curl involuntarily.
It was really embarrassing.
She even inexplicably sensed Xie Jingyan’s subtle mockery toward her.
So she tightened her grip on Jiang Yan’s arm, glaring at him fiercely with her eyes: “What are you looking at? Keep looking and I’ll dig out your eyes, believe it or not.”
A gentle breeze stirred Xie Jingyan’s black hair, warm sunlight bathing his body and casting a beautiful glow around him. His peach blossom eyes were somewhat cold and somber, the tear mole under his right eye vivid and lifelike, softening his indifference. Being looked at like that by him made him seem affectionate, drawing people unwittingly into it.
He really was a scourge!
Jiang Ning grew even more vigilant inwardly, vowing not to get involved with Xie Jingyan.
A man like this was better left to the female lead; the female supporting character was not blessed to enjoy him.
His back was straight, the corners of his mouth curving into a very subtle smile, cold and distant: “Dig out my eyes? Then come try it.”
Jiang Ning choked; she wouldn’t dare!
Just trash talk.
Little Honey: [Host, you can start the mission now. Completing this will add five plot progress points.]
Jiang Ning took a deep breath; humiliate the male lead with money, huh?
She sneered coldly, her expression spoiled and arrogant, glaring viciously at Xie Jingyan: “It’s all your fault that my Lan Li Gege doesn’t want me anymore. I won’t let any of you have it easy.”
She got down from Jiang Yan’s back.
Jiang Yan’s brows furrowed slightly, seeing Jiang Ning back to her annoying self.
Sure enough, it’s easy to change mountains and rivers but hard to change one’s nature; she was just not directing her malice at him for the time being.
Jiang Yan watched coldly from the side.
She pulled out a stack of cash from her bag, roughly two thousand by eye, and threw it right at Xie Jingyan’s face. Red bills fluttered down scatteredly.
She sensed Xie Jingyan’s emotions growing even colder.
Jiang Ning swallowed, her attitude still arrogant: “Poor ghost, you must be short on money, right? This money is my reward to you.”
Xie Jingyan looked at the money on the ground; some people were born with everything they needed.
But Jiang Ning didn’t know that to earn medical expenses for his sister, he hadn’t slept properly for days and nights.
What he earned after so much hardship might just be this handful she scattered.
The young lady looking down from above was merely using throwing money as one step in humiliating him.
He stepped on the money and turned to leave.
Little Honey: [Aah, host! No plot point added, the male lead’s hatred toward you isn’t enough yet. Think of a method quickly.]
Wasn’t this humiliating enough?
Jiang Ning was a bit annoyed, but there was no method; she could only call out again: “Stop!”
Xie Jingyan didn’t stop.
Jiang Ning gritted her teeth: “If you dare take one more step, your loved ones in the hospital will just wait to die!”
Sure enough, Xie Jingyan stopped.
Besides his grandmother and sister, he had nothing else.
He turned around, his gaze fierce and cold. Jiang Ning couldn’t describe what kind of look it was, but she felt like she was in an ice cave.
In front of her was a starving wolf lurking, ready to snap her neck at any moment.
“Hic.”
Jiang Ning was scared stiff in place, involuntarily starting to hiccup.
She was a bit dazed; these sudden hiccups really ruined the atmosphere.
Jiang Ning spaced out: “Little Honey, with just one glare from him, I think I saw my great-grandma…”
Little Honey: [..]
Say she’s cowardly, but she completed the mission pretty well.
Say she’s brave, but one look from the male lead scared her into hiccupping.
It held its forehead.
[Don’t be afraid; he can’t make waves in the early stage.]
Jiang Ning was in tears inwardly; she figured she didn’t even have an early stage, constantly getting slapped in the face by the male and female leads and various male supporting characters, going offline by the mid-stage.
Wuwuwu, so scary.
She pointed at the money on the ground, her voice dry: “Pick it up.”
Xie Jingyan stood there for a long time.
Finally, he silently bent down to pick up the money.
Jiang Ning let out a sigh of relief.
This scene would surely be etched in the male lead’s memory for life.
Little Honey also breathed a sigh of relief, its voice excited: [Thank goodness, plot progress at 10%, host, keep up the effort.]
Happy? Exchanged with her life.
Jiang Ning didn’t smile.
While Xie Jingyan was picking up the money, she looked toward Jiang Yan beside her, her gaze falling on his pocket: “Have you been eating the candy I gave you?”
Jiang Yan turned to leave: “Isn’t there two months left?”
Jiang Ning leaned against the wall, seeing Jiang Yan’s back view thin and frail.
It was actually just two months until Jiang Yan went offline.
In the end, to save his beloved female lead, he died of hypothermia on the mountain.
The female lead didn’t know his good intentions, so his death left no traces in her heart.
In this book, he was a tragic character.
Jiang Ning couldn’t help calling out to his back: “Eat more; that candy specially cures love brain.”
Jiang Yan turned his head to look at her: “So that’s why you love eating it so much?”
Jiang Ning choked, uncharacteristically not retorting.
A stack of money was suddenly held in front of her.
But Jiang Ning’s gaze fell on Xie Jingyan’s slender, beautiful finger bones.
Her doe eyes widened round.
Holy crap!
Such a pretty hand, on par with that top grade one she added in her mobile phone.
“Enough?” His voice was low and slightly husky.
A voice line that tingled the ears.
Jiang Ning forced herself to look away.
She mentally categorized Xie Jingyan under “approach = death.”
Thinking that way, his hand wasn’t that appealing anymore.
She took the money and quickly stuffed it into her own bag.
She had originally planned to quietly pick it up herself after Xie Jingyan left.
Now it was good; saved one step.
Jiang Ning limped into the infirmary: “You can’t go yet; you have to carry me back to the classroom. My foot is like this, and you’re mostly responsible.”
Seeing Xie Jingyan unmoved.
Jiang Ning cleared her throat: “Your family…”
His thick brows shot up, peach blossom eyes sharpening; Jiang Ning, scared this time, became directly immune to his cold stares.
In the end, he still followed her in.
So when Gu Lanli forcibly brought Su Wanyuan to the infirmary, what he saw was Jiang Ning lying on Xie Jingyan’s back, hands on his shoulders, bossily ordering Xie Jingyan around.
Su Wanyuan’s eyes instantly reddened.
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