Chapter 37: Are You Sad Too?
Jiang Ning sat under the cool shade.
Next to her was Xie Jingyan’s school uniform.
He didn’t have any strange smell on him, just a faint soap fragrance.
It actually smelled pretty good.
What Jiang Ning didn’t expect was that Xie Jingyan actually played basketball.
Before long, quite a few people gathered around the edge of the court.
Xie Jingyan became popular at Ninth Middle School just by virtue of his face.
It was perfectly normal for little girls to have crushes on him.
But ever since he came to Ninth Middle School, he had been targeted by Jiang Ning, this bad woman, so even if they had thoughts about him, they didn’t dare get too close, afraid of getting hurt.
Su Wanyuan stopped at the edge of the court.
Her gaze landed on Xie Jingyan at first glance.
It had been a long time since she had seen Xie Jingyan running freely on the court, sweating while showing a long-lost smile.
When Xie Jingyan smiled, Su Wanyuan felt like her whole sky brightened up.
She wanted Xie Jingyan to stay this happy forever.
The heart that had wanted to give up reignited with hope; she couldn’t easily say she was giving up.
The incident back then had caused huge harm to Xie Jingyan.
Because of her indirect negligence, Xie Jingyan’s parents died.
Su Wanyuan looked around and saw Jiang Ning sitting on a flower bed not far away, her head nodding little by little.
Next to her was Xie Jingyan’s school uniform.
She suppressed the jealousy in her heart and turned to run to the convenience store to buy water.
Jiang Ning was really sleepy.
The sun was blazing; if not for a nap now, when?
It was cool here, with a breeze blowing.
Jiang Ning simply used Xie Jingyan’s school uniform as a pillow, lay down on the one-person-wide white tiles, covered her face with her book, and fell peacefully asleep.
The match on the court ended.
Xie Jingyan wiped the sweat from his forehead.
It had been over two years since he last played basketball.
Fortunately, his skills hadn’t regressed much; at least he tied with Jiang Yan.
He lifted his white T-shirt to wipe sweat and shook his sweat-soaked black hair.
A pair of clean white canvas shoes came into view.
Looking up, Su Wanyuan was holding a bottle of water in her hands, offering it to him: “A Yan, drink water.”
She was just like she used to be.
After he won a basketball game, she would be the first to run over and hand him water.
The wind passed through the treetops, carrying away the past that they could never return to.
Xie Jingyan went around her and headed toward Jiang Ning.
Without leaving a single word.
Su Wanyuan’s face paled again.
Turning her head, she saw Xie Jingyan gently push Jiang Ning and remove the book covering her face.
He held the book in one hand, hooked the school uniform over his shoulder with the other, while Jiang Ning followed behind him with a face full of resentment, head drooping.
The guy handsome, the girl beautiful, forming a scenic view by themselves; this scene looked very pleasing.
Su Wanyuan’s tears, which she had held back for so long, finally fell.
[Ding, plot point +5, plot progress 50%.]
Jiang Ning: “…”
She quickly looked around and noticed Su Wanyuan’s presence.
Talk about perfect timing.
It let her farm another wave.
But the resentment from being forcibly woken up was too great for her to feel happy.
Su Wanyuan pursed her lips, extending a fair hand in front of her with a tissue on it.
Jiang Yan’s voice was very soft: “Don’t cry.”
Su Wanyuan’s gaze shifted to Jiang Yan’s face.
The youth’s handsome face was flushed from the sun, his chest rising and falling slightly as he panted.
Seeing Jiang Yan, she couldn’t help but think of Jiang Ning.
Then she recalled the conversation between the siblings that day and speculated about their relationship.
At this thought, she actually felt a bit disgusted.
Toward Jiang Ning.
Su Wanyuan took the tissue and wiped away her tears.
She asked: “Are you sad too?”
Jiang Yan was slightly stunned, but Su Wanyuan stared tightly into his eyes.
He wasn’t sure which aspect Su Wanyuan was referring to.
But this was the first time Su Wanyuan had looked at him so seriously.
Jiang Yan felt a bit panicked inside, wondering if his feelings had been discovered.
“Would you?” Su Wanyuan asked again.
Jiang Yan thought Su Wanyuan was asking if he would be sad seeing her gaze on someone else.
He really would be sad.
That’s why he played basketball here every day.
Just so that when she passed by, his figure could linger in her eyes for two more seconds.
He nodded hesitantly: “Yes.”
Su Wanyuan’s eyes widened in shock: “You, you two… you and Jiang Ning… since you’d be sad about her getting close to other guys, why don’t you stop it? It’s really too disgusting.”
Jiang Yan was a bit puzzled, but Su Wanyuan’s look made him realize in an instant.
His first reaction was anger.
“What are you thinking? Jiang Ning is my sister! Biological sister.”
After saying that, his emotions inside became complicated.
It was as if he was meeting Su Wanyuan for the first time.
He felt like the filter he had for her in his heart had cracked.
No normal person would think that about him and Jiang Ning, right?
He couldn’t face Su Wanyuan right now and just walked away.
Su Wanyuan finally came back to her senses.
“Jiang Yan, A Yan!”
But Jiang Yan didn’t even turn his head.
Su Wanyuan then realized she had said the wrong thing.
She annoyedly patted her head.
She didn’t even know what she was doing.
Whenever she encountered Jiang Ning, she always made mistakes.
…
After school in the afternoon, Xie Jingyan quit his family education job.
For the first time, he started attending training class.
During breaks, he would pull Jiang Ning to explain mathematics.
Jiang Ning: “…”
Weren’t this buddy playing basketball for so long at noon, not tired at all?
Jiang Ning didn’t want to listen at all.
Instead, she felt Xie Jingyan’s voice was sleep-inducing, and listening made her drowsy, so she directly lay down to sleep again.
Xie Jingyan wasn’t affected and continued explaining.
By the time Jiang Ning woke up, it was already six in the afternoon.
The entire classroom was so quiet that only the “swish swish” of pen tips on paper remained.
Sunset dusk.
The sky was filled with orange fire clouds.
The sun’s afterglow bathed the classroom corridor in orange-yellow.
The ginkgo leaves outside the window, touched by the dusk’s grace, looked especially beautiful as if dressed in new clothes.
Jiang Ning turned her head; only Xie Jingyan was beside her, seriously doing problems.
The afterglow fell on him; looking at him against the light, Jiang Ning felt it somewhat unreal.
“Awake?”
He looked up, his dark eyes meeting Jiang Ning’s doe eyes.
“Then let’s continue studying.”
Jiang Ning: “…”
Great, one second to bring her back to reality.
Tutoring was just a pretext anyway.
She was really too lazy; now hearing this stuff just made her want to sleep.
Jiang Ning rubbed her forehead, holding her belly: “No studying today, I want to go home for dinner.”
Xie Jingyan neatly packed up the textbooks: “Okay.”
At the school entrance, Jiang Ning remembered she had forgotten about Jiang Yan.
After school, if she didn’t go home, he wasn’t allowed to go home either.
Seeing Jiang Yan standing by the roadside, Jiang Ning felt a bit awkward: “I didn’t do it on purpose, I went to study, got too absorbed and forgot the time.”
Jiang Yan’s gaze lingered on her mouth corner, then he turned away expressionlessly: “Wipe the drool from your mouth corner when saying that.”
Jiang Ning: “…”
Damn!
Then she quietly reached up to wipe the drool.
She instructed listlessly: “From now on, I’ll always study at school, you don’t need to wait for me, just take the driver’s car home, I’ll tell Mom, she won’t scold you.”
Jiang Yan continued reading: “Oh.”
Jiang Ning: “…”
The two fell silent.
They went all the way back to the villa district.
Once home, Jiang Ning got the news.
Due to the medical dispute incident, Sui Family and Jiang Family stocks plummeted.
Helplessly, Sui Family could only sell off their hospital shares and exit hospital management.
While Sui Qingshan didn’t have to be implicated, he still resigned.
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