Chapter 180: Jiang Ning Awakens
Jiang Ning: “……”
She let out a heavy sigh and sat bored beside him.
Looking at the silver-clad world outside.
She murmured lowly: “It’s snowing again.”
In the afternoon, Old Li came to the class to announce matters about next week’s New Year’s Eve Gala.
Old Li arranged for Xie Jingyan to be the host, partnering with him were Su Wanyuan and two students from Class Two.
Xie Jingyan refused directly upon hearing Su Wanyuan’s name.
“Teacher, I won’t participate in this New Year’s Eve Gala.”
Old Li was slightly stunned: “Why? You’ve hosted the programs in previous years. Why not this time?”
Xie Jingyan shook his head: “I want to focus on studying and don’t want to participate in these things. They’ll distract me.”
Hearing it was because of studying, Old Li respected his decision and selected someone else as host.
Since Jiang Ning wasn’t there, Xie Jingyan didn’t leave the school gate again after school in the afternoon.
Instead, he waited until the evening study session ended before taking the last bus back to his rented rental room.
The Jiang Family had basically all gone to the Capital City, leaving that villa empty.
Jiang Ning felt somewhat homeless and could only follow Xie Jingyan.
Even knowing Xie Jingyan couldn’t see her, she still moved close to him and asked: “Can you help me take care of Meat Bun? All the servants at home are on holiday.”
The streetlight shone on Xie Jingyan, casting his shadow very long. He left a trail of footprints in the snow.
Jiang Ning stepped in his footprints, following behind him.
“Xie Jingyan, help me take care of the cat, help me take care of the cat, help me take care of the cat!”
She muttered on and on, swaying back and forth in front of Xie Jingyan, feeling him pass through her soul body again and again, standing tirelessly in front of him.
Until under a streetlight, Xie Jingyan stopped.
He lowered his head to look at his shadow. Jiang Ning tilted her body and also looked down at his face: “What are you thinking? Keep walking.”
He turned back the way he came, and Jiang Ning followed closely behind. Seeing him enter the beef noodle restaurant.
He sat down and ordered a bowl of plain noodles.
Jiang Ning sat across from him: “Tsk tsk, without me, how did you end up so poorly off that you can’t even afford meat.”
Xie Jingyan ate with his head down. Amid the steaming mist, he looked up and vaguely saw Jiang Ning in the unclear fog.
When he came back to his senses, he realized it was a hallucination.
Jiang Ning was still in the Capital City receiving treatment. That explosion actually didn’t cause much harm to her body, but it might have injured her brain, causing her to remain unawakened.
Even the doctor thought it was a miracle.
Being pinned under the wall, Jiang Ning’s body showed no signs of fracture. This situation was truly thanks to her ancestors burning high incense.
He finished the noodles; it was already past ten.
Then he slowly walked home.
Jiang Ning followed him. Xie Jingyan closed the door with his front hand, and Jiang Ning passed right through with her back hand.
She thought being a ghost was quite convenient—no need to knock.
It was just that she still couldn’t get used to Xie Jingyan’s habit of starting to undress as soon as he entered the room.
She hurriedly covered her eyes: “Can you have some decency? Undressing right as you come in.”
Xie Jingyan’s back was wrapped full of gauze, with the color of black ointment seeping through.
Jiang Ning sat on the sofa, watching him change the dressing.
There was a large burn on his back, the injury spreading to his waist. After applying ointment, it had already scabbed over.
Only then did Jiang Ning pace to his side and start nagging: “That was such a big fire—why did you rush in? There were firefighters; it wasn’t your turn to risk your life to save me, right? Now you’re injured, and it’s been a month without healing.”
The rental room was so quiet that only the sound of Xie Jingyan changing his own dressing could be heard.
After putting on clothes, he went to the bathroom to wash up. Today, instead of studying, he lay down directly on the bed to sleep.
The room was very dark. Jiang Ning couldn’t feel the cold. She sat on the floor in front of Xie Jingyan’s bed.
Leaning against the bed edge, looking outside the window—the sky wasn’t dark, still somewhat bright.
Jiang Ning had stayed at Xie Jingyan’s for half a month.
Every day, she just sat like this until dawn.
She even felt somewhat confused about what this situation meant now.
Sitting until midnight, she would climb onto Xie Jingyan’s bed, lie on it, and fall asleep in a daze.
The next day.
Jiang Ning was woken by a phone ringtone.
Xie Jingyan reached for the mobile phone, which displayed “President Jiang calling.”
Xie Jingyan sat up abruptly and hurriedly answered: “Hello, Uncle Jiang, is it Jiang Ning? Something wrong?”
Father Jiang’s voice came through the receiver: “No! Ning Ning has awakened. Thank you for rushing into the unfinished building in time to save her, so I’m the first to let you know she’s safe.”
Hearing this, Xie Jingyan showed a relieved smile: “That’s good, that’s good……”
The call ended.
Xie Jingyan saw it was still early, and plus it was the weekend. He had originally planned with Jiang Ning to go to the Capital City in December to see Xie He.
But he hadn’t expected this accident, so Xie Jingyan decided to go today while it was still early.
Jiang Ning, who had heard the whole thing, stood stunned in place.
She looked somewhat dazedly at Xie Jingyan, who was busy getting up.
Since the “Jiang Ning” in the Capital City hospital had awakened, then what about her? What to do……
She was still here……
After Xie Jingyan left, Jiang Ning suddenly hurried to catch up. She had to go see what exactly was going on.
Xie Jingyan bought a ticket for the nearest high-speed rail to the Capital City.
Two hours later, Xie Jingyan oriented himself and ran toward Jingya Hospital.
……
At this time, Jingya Hospital.
“Jiang Ning” awoke, looking at her hands with a joyful expression. She was back.
That bitch had occupied her body for so long and finally rolled away.
In just a few short months, she had messed up her life completely. Her eyes were full of malice.
The hospital room door was pushed open.
Jiang Yan saw “Jiang Ning” already able to sit up and hurriedly handed her the hot water he had specially fetched: “Older Sister, you must be very thirsty after just awakening, right? Here, drink some water.”
Ever since Jiang Ning’s accident, Jiang Yan felt like the restraints on him had disappeared.
He could speak normally and no longer had those strange dreams, like Jiang Ning being trapped in the fire scene, or her dying miserably in the future.
How could that be……
Jiang Ning was alive and well now.
The next second, the warm water splashed in his face.
The glass cup smashed heavily on his forehead, breaking the skin at his temple, blood flowing down profusely.
Jiang Yan came back to his senses, his shock outweighing the pain on his forehead.
Father Jiang and Madam Jiang heard the sound of breaking glass and hurried in from the entrance.
Bright red blood dripped from Jiang Yan’s chin onto the floor drop by drop.
Madam Jiang’s facial expression changed, and she hurriedly went forward to check Jiang Yan’s injury: “Xiao Yan, are you okay? What happened here out of nowhere?”
Jiang Yan looked somewhat dazedly at Jiang Ning, who eyed him with full disgust, his lips moving: “I don’t know.”
Father Jiang frowned in confusion at “Jiang Ning,” who had only been awake for less than three hours, and asked gravely: “Ning Ning, what’s going on? Why harm your younger brother?”
Maybe just one chapter today…… Might take a day off at the beginning of the month.
