Chapter 246: Human Or Ghost
Jiang Ning naturally knew this was just Xie Jingyan comforting her with words. She lowered her eyes, still a bit sad, her tone melancholic: “I dreamed of Grandmother smiling and waving at me. She told me to be happy, then she disappeared. No matter how I tried to grab her, I couldn’t hold her. I wanted to ask why for so many years she wouldn’t enter my dreams to see me, but today I dreamed of her…”
After Jiang Ning finished speaking, she felt a weight on her shoulder and was slightly stunned.
Xie Jingyan leaned on her shoulder, his eyes tightly closed.
Jiang Ning’s breathing hitched until she felt his warm breathing, and her suspended heart suddenly dropped.
For a moment, she actually thought Xie Jingyan was dead.
Fortunately, it was just her illusion.
He had just fallen asleep.
Jiang Ning was somewhat speechless but still supported his head to lay him on the bed, muttering: “Is my talking that hypnotic? You can even fall asleep like this.”
She struggled to remove his clothes and shoes, and even with all that handling, he didn’t wake up.
Jiang Ning pulled the quilt over him and covered him.
He must be tired from those few times, right?
She heard that after men turn 25, the rest of their life is 60 or 70; she didn’t know if it was true.
Jiang Ning prepared to see what goodies Xie Jingyan had brought her. She was especially hungry now, feeling like her appetite was good enough to eat a whole elephant.
Just as she got out of bed, the mobile phone on the table vibrated once.
Jiang Ning opened it and nearly dropped her jaw in shock.
Her bank card really had a deposit of one trillion!
She couldn’t help rubbing her eyes and carefully counted it again.
It really was one trillion!
Sleeping with Xie Jingyan had completed her mission.
Joyful emotions surged from her toes to her scalp, making it tingle.
She clutched her stomach.
So her stomach cancer was cured too?
She held back her joy and decided to go to the hospital tomorrow for a checkup.
Due to her happiness, Jiang Ning swept clean everything Xie Jingyan had brought.
After sleeping, some of the fatigue in her body disappeared.
But there was still some pain between her legs.
She simply didn’t bother digesting and sat back on the bed, turning on the television nearby.
Until she felt sleepy again.
Then she slipped under the quilt and snuggled closer to Xie Jingyan’s side.
Jiang Ning looked at Xie Jingyan’s peaceful sleeping face, tilted her head slightly to kiss the corner of his lips, then contentedly hugged him: “Good night.”
The next day.
Jiang Ning woke up again at nine in the morning.
Xie Jingyan had already gotten up and was working at the table nearby.
Glasses perched on his nose bridge, a laptop in front of him, looking like he was handling official business.
Hearing Jiang Ning wake up, he turned his head to meet her sleepy eyes and chuckled lightly: “Awake? Breakfast will be here soon. Get up and wash up quickly.”
“By the way, there’s ointment in the bedside cabinet. Should I apply it for you, or do you do it yourself?”
Jiang Ning turned her head, looking at the brand-new ointment, her face heating up: “I’ll do it myself.”
She reached for the ointment and shrank back under the quilt, making the quilt rustle.
Xie Jingyan couldn’t help laughing, then turned back to continue his work.
After Jiang Ning finished, she put on her clothes, washed up, and came out. Standing by the table, she said: “Xie Jingyan, I’m going to the hospital later to check my stomach cancer.”
Xie Jingyan’s typing hands paused. He took off his glasses and closed the laptop: “I’ll go with you.”
Jiang Ning hesitated, then decided to be honest: “Actually… I came to this world because my system Little Honey told me that as long as I sleep with you, my cancer would be cured.”
Xie Jingyan’s gaze turned to her.
Afraid he would misunderstand, Jiang Ning hurriedly explained: “I didn’t sleep with you because of this illness. I, I’m not that casual.”
Xie Jingyan smiled: “I know.”
“Ah?” Jiang Ning blinked: “You know?”
Xie Jingyan nodded, stood up, and took Jiang Ning’s hand: “I know you like me.”
He smiled very gently, those beautiful eyes seemingly filled with starlight.
Jiang Ning suddenly smiled too: “Good that you know.”
This time, Xie Jingyan was the one stunned.
His throat bobbed, the strength in his hand tightening involuntarily. Even though his voice was steady, it still trembled slightly: “What did you say?”
Jiang Ning’s smile was brilliant as she gripped Xie Jingyan’s hand back: “I said, I like you, I like Xie Jingyan. I want to be with you for life. Did you hear that clearly?”
Her eyes instantly welled up with sourness.
Xie Jingyan blinked, feeling a bit of wetness.
He led Jiang Ning outward, the smile on his lips uncontrollably growing bigger: “I heard clearly.”
This was the first time he heard Jiang Ning express her liking for him so clearly.
He was really so happy.
Xie Jingyan drove to Jingya Hospital.
He took Jiang Ning directly through the hospital’s convenient passage to the director doctor for that condition.
Soon, someone took Jiang Ning for the checkup.
Xie Jingyan was worried and followed along, accompanying her from blood draw to CT scan and gastroscopy.
When Jiang Ning entered the examination room, he waited outside.
A hand patted his shoulder.
Xie Jingyan turned back and saw no one.
His other shoulder was patted.
Turning again, he saw the person half-squatting behind him, smiling brightly.
His expression softened: “Xiao He, why are you here?”
Xie He wore a white coat, her eyes similar to Xie Jingyan’s curved into crescents with laughter, her fair pretty face beaming: “I’m an intern doctor here. Where else would I be if not the hospital? By the way, who was that girl you were following just now? So mysterious.”
Xie He glanced at the examination room and found the girl blocked by the equipment, unable to see her.
She suddenly realized, widening her eyes: “Oh! Are you dating someone?”
Xie Jingyan: “…”
He glanced faintly at his sister: “Mm.”
Xie He was stunned, then a bit angry: “And here I thought you were the capital city’s most devoted brother, keeping Sister Ning’s ID photo on your bedside cabinet and unwilling to tear it down. I touch it and get scolded by you. And this is it! Hmph, I really thought you’d stay unmarried for life for Sister Ning!”
Xie Jingyan: “…”
He said expressionlessly: “I’m at the age. Time to get married.”
Xie He puffed her cheeks: “I don’t want this sister-in-law! In my heart, only Sister Ning counts as my sister-in-law. Even if she’s dead, she’s still my sister-in-law!”
Xie Jingyan looked at her speechlessly.
A laughing voice came from behind: “Which photo of mine did he put on the bedside cabinet? Can I see it?”
Xie He jumped in fright.
She quickly turned and saw the examination room door behind her already open.
Jiang Ning was smiling at her.
Xie He retreated two steps in fright, nearly stepping on Xie Jingyan.
After steadying herself beside Xie Jingyan, she looked at Jiang Ning’s face and incredulously rubbed her eyes.
After a while, she stammered to Xie Jingyan: “Is she human or ghost?”
Xie Jingyan sneered: “Whether she’s human or ghost, didn’t you insist on recognizing her as your sister-in-law?”
Xie He: “…”
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