Chapter 179: When Will You Come Back?
“Jiang Ning! Jiang Ning!”
Xie Jingyan’s calls continued.
He endured the burning flames, moved the stones on the floor, and searched for her in the crevices.
Jiang Ning stood blankly behind him, staring dazedly at her own hands.
She reached out to touch Xie Jingyan’s arm, but found that her hand passed straight through his body, unable to touch him.
What was wrong with her…
Had she died?
“Little Honey, Little Honey, are you still there? Little Honey…”
However, no matter how Jiang Ning called, there was no trace of Little Honey.
“Jiang Ning… Jiang Ning!”
Xie Jingyan lifted a stone and found “Jiang Ning” underneath.
He shook “Jiang Ning”‘s battered body, somewhat collapsed as he held her and ran outside: “Hold on, I’ll take you to the hospital… Jiang Ning, it’s okay, you’re rescued, don’t sleep, okay?”
Jiang Ning watched this scene, her semitransparent body rushing quickly toward her physical body, standing in front of the two. Xie Jingyan bumped into her, passing through her body. Jiang Ning turned her head and saw Xie Jingyan covering her with clothes, head down as he rushed out of the sea of fire.
Jiang Ning stood in place, stunned for a long time.
What was wrong with her?
She was clearly still alive.
The next instant, a cold mechanical voice sounded by her ear: [Plot Point +5, total progress 90%.]
……
At the end of December, Jin Cheng had a heavy snowfall.
Thick layers of snowflakes covered the floor, and footprints crunched “creak creak” on them.
Ninth Middle School, Class 1.
Xie Jingyan entered from outside, braving the wind and snow.
He stood at the entrance, shook the snow-covered umbrella, and patted his schoolbag.
Then he sat down at his seat.
Jiang Ning’s desk was very clean, with a heart-shaped doodle drawn on it using her red correction pen. It didn’t look particularly nice, but it was enough to prove it was her masterpiece from a bored moment, because the red heart had been deepened by her pen.
Xie Jingyan looked at it for a moment, then took out a tissue and wiped the desk spotless.
The person in the front seat turned around and asked: “Did Jiang Ning really drop out?”
Xie Jingyan’s fingers paused, he raised his eyes to look at the front seat, and said flatly: “She didn’t drop out.”
“Ah?” The classmate in the front seat was very puzzled: “Then she hasn’t come to school for over a month, did something happen to her?”
Xie Jingyan didn’t reply, because someone in the know had already told him: “Didn’t you hear? A month ago, the fire in the unfinished building—it was said to be because she was kidnapped, the kidnapper ripped up the ticket, blew up the whole building, Jiang Ning was very unlucky and got caught in the explosion, she’s still in the hospital in the Capital City receiving treatment and hasn’t awakened, and no one knows if she can survive…”
The classmate in the front seat really hadn’t heard, because the matter was kept very secret, but those who wanted to investigate could still find out.
The front seat classmate suddenly realized, somewhat sighing as he touched his nose: “She’s really too unlucky… feels like the situation isn’t good.”
Xie Jingyan suddenly gripped the tissue tightly: “She didn’t die, she’ll awaken soon.”
Some people, indifferent to the matter, guffawed: “Hah, anyway, this has nothing to do with us, the Jiang Family is rich, even if Jiang Ning becomes a vegetable for life they can afford it, even if she dies it doesn’t matter, maybe she did too many bad things before and is now facing retribution.”
“Hahaha, you might be right.”
Some treated this as a joke, others burst into laughter.
Xie Jingyan stood up and rushed over, scuffling with the person.
He pinned the person down, punching him in the face one after another: “Say that again, you bastard? What gives you the right to talk about her like that? Do you know why she was kidnapped? Why she was targeted for revenge? It’s because she caught the murderer who killed three high school students, the murderer’s younger brother bore a grudge and took revenge on her, because of her, things are peaceful around here, you all dare to continue evening study sessions, so what qualification do you have to fabricate stories about her?”
Xie Jingyan’s eyes turned red, his knuckles bleeding.
The whole class rushed forward to pull him off: “Stop hitting! Xie Jingyan stop it, are you crazy, why are you hitting someone?”
Even Jiang Ning, who had watched the commotion for a while, chimed in: “Stop it Xie Jingyan, I’m not even angry, why are you?”
But as expected, her voice got no response.
Jiang Ning sat on the desk, somewhat depressed.
Ever since the last explosion, her soul seemed to have popped out of “Jiang Ning”‘s body.
No matter how hard she tried to go back, it was futile.
Strangely, that body had no soul but still had the heartbeat and breathing of a normal person. The only defect now was that the body was still in a coma, not awakened.
Jiang Ning had tried countless times, but after the body was sent to the Capital City for treatment, she gave up following it and instead drifted by Xie Jingyan’s side.
Every day she went to and from school with him, watched him eat day after day, do practice problems, eat again, do more problems, sleep only four hours at the end, studying relentlessly without regard for his life—Jiang Ning was amazed.
With that study efficiency, even Jiang Ning at her peak wouldn’t dare compete with him, afraid of sudden death.
She still sat in her seat as usual, listening attentively to class, occasionally zoning out, sleeping when sleepy.
Sometimes when she opened her eyes, she saw Xie Jingyan looking toward her direction. Jiang Ning waved at him in surprise: “Can you see me?”
Xie Jingyan’s gaze wasn’t focused, Jiang Ning felt a bit disappointed, because Xie Jingyan was looking at the withered wutong tree outside the window.
“What’s so good about the tree?” Jiang Ning asked, walking to his other side, following his line of sight, puzzled: “There’s nothing there either, study hard quickly.”
Seeing he ignored her, Jiang Ning irritably sat on his desk: “My kitten has gotten skinny from hunger without my care lately, sigh, so annoying, can’t someone take care of my kitten?”
“When can I go back? Little Honey! Little Honey! Where are you? What’s wrong with me?”
Jiang Ning was going crazy.
Was she annihilated or not annihilated?
The problem was, the strangest thing was that her plot points were still increasing.
Now plot progress was 90%, just 10% short of completing the mission.
But she didn’t understand.
Exactly where were these plot points coming from…
Jiang Ning suddenly remembered the original book plot.
Because she had dealt with that murderer early, later the murderer’s younger brother appeared to make up for that defect.
In the original book, both the female lead and her, this vicious female supporting character, were kidnapped by the murderer. In the end, the protagonist group had to choose whether to save the female lead or her, this vicious female supporting character. The result was obvious—they saved the female lead, and she, this vicious female supporting character, was rescued by the police.
So was it because she took the plot line of the female lead being kidnapped that she completed the plot point?
What about Su Wanyuan then?
She didn’t have to go through it anymore?
Jiang Ning felt a sense of helplessness like working for others without getting any benefits.
“Jiang Ning.”
“Huh?!”
Suddenly hearing Xie Jingyan call her name, Jiang Ning reflexively responded.
She saw Xie Jingyan take out a peace talisman of a different style from his schoolbag, and he softly asked: “When will you come back?”
