Chapter 45: Xie Jingyan, Carry Me On Your Back
Xie Jingyan is 185 cm tall, standing out like a crane among chickens among his peers.
Jiang Ning is exactly 165 cm.
That’s considered tall among girls.
She’s half a head taller than Sui Tang.
So she also stands in the back, lining up with Xie Jingyan.
Playing up the “annoying clingy person setting where you can’t shake me off no matter where you go.”
But today’s Xie Jingyan is very strange.
He checks his mobile phone every few moments.
Jiang Ning looks at him puzzled: “What are you always looking at that broken mobile phone for? Come take my lunchbox, it’s so heavy.”
Xie Jingyan puts away his mobile phone and understands that Jiang Ning, this young lady, is having a temper tantrum.
He takes the lunchbox she hands over and glances at her: “If I don’t look at my mobile phone, what should I look at? You?”
Jiang Ning is stunned for three seconds, then flies into a rage: “Oh, you actually dare to curse at people.”
Xie Jingyan: “…”
He tries to explain: “What I said is ‘ma’.”
Jiang Ning is angry: “Yeah, you said look at your mom.”
“If you’re hard of hearing, go to the hospital to get it checked.”
He stops communicating with Jiang Ning.
Jiang Ning pouts: “You cursed at me and won’t admit it. Looks like I haven’t dealt with you in a while, and you’ve gotten cocky.”
“Ning Ning, I can have my brother find someone to beat him up again.”
Chen Shuyan’s fawning voice comes from behind Jiang Ning.
Jiang Ning turns around; behind her is Grade 3 Class 2.
And Chen Shuyan is actually in the first row! Right behind Jiang Ning.
She had overheard the conversation between her and Xie Jingyan just now.
That’s not a big deal.
But Jiang Ning notices her nose seems a bit crooked.
“What’s wrong with your nose?” she inquires.
Chen Shuyan’s plastic surgery face stiffens.
She’s furious inside.
This is all her doing.
If that day she had gone along with her words, helped her brother snatch the money back, or just thrown some money at them, instead of saying she wouldn’t use them anymore.
Her brother thought she had offended Jiang Ning, causing this money tree to run away, so he vented all his anger on her.
He beat her up badly.
Her face, which she had just fixed not long ago, got crooked from the beating.
She adjusted for two days before daring to come before Jiang Ning.
She didn’t expect her to notice.
Chen Shuyan plays the victim at the right moment, wiping the corner of her eye with her hand: “Ning Ning, you know my family situation. My family favors sons over daughters. My dad beats people when he’s drunk. My mom is in the mahjong parlor every day. My brother only sees me as a tool to marry off for bride price. My brother hit my face, Ning Ning, what should I do?”
Jiang Ning listens and clicks her tongue.
“Call the police, what else? Report the place where your mom gambles, and the police will come swoop them all up in the next second. Send your dad and brother to the detention center for a visit if they beat people, see if they dare next time.”
Chen Shuyan: “…”
That’s not the answer she wants.
“Ning Ning…”
Jiang Ning sighs: “You can’t expect me to take you in, right? What if your parents call the police later and say I’m a human trafficker.” She pats Chen Shuyan’s shoulder: “I really sympathize with your situation. If there’s something, let’s go to Uncle Hat, okay? The country will protect you.”
She directly crushes Chen Shuyan’s idea of moving into her house.
The original book has this segment.
The original host felt sorry for her good best friend Chen Shuyan’s situation and hated families that favor sons over daughters, so she took her in. Later, not only did the Chen Family extort her, but to help her good friend, the original host gave houses and cars, raising a nest of vampires.
And Chen Shuyan squandered the original host’s money even more.
In the end, she stole confidential information from the Jiang Corporation and gave it to Gu Lanli.
Under the push of multiple forces.
Even though Jiang Corporation was impregnable, cracks appeared, eventually leading to bankruptcy.
Jiang Ning doesn’t want to live such a miserable life in the future and directly cuts losses in time.
Chen Shuyan nearly grinds her teeth to pieces.
She settles for the next best thing: “Then can you lend me some money? My nose got crooked from the beating, no money for minor fixes.”
Mentioning money touches Jiang Ning’s reverse scale even more.
She herself is reluctant to spend money on minor tweaks, let alone spend on others.
So Jiang Ning looks troubled: “Sorry, Yan Yan, I’ve spent all my money. Last week I bought a 300,000 LV limited edition bag, and I still need to spend money to support some servants. I’m short on money too now, think of another method.”
Afraid Chen Shuyan will keep bothering her.
She pulls Xie Jingyan to swap positions with the three people in front, blocking Chen Shuyan’s line of sight, and only then does she breathe a sigh of relief.
The team sets off.
Like a long dragon.
At first, Jiang Ning is very curious, looking around.
After walking a distance, she feels her calves aching terribly.
But the main group doesn’t stop, so Jiang Ning can only grit her teeth and keep up.
When they reach two-thirds of the way, Jiang Ning is hot like a dog, sweat pouring down.
Even wearing a sun hat, her face is flushed red.
Her doe-like eyes look toward Xie Jingyan, who is still calm and composed.
“Xie Jingyan, carry me on your back.”
Xie Jingyan turns his head to look at her, his beautiful peach blossom eyes showing unclear emotion: “There are so many people here, how do you want everyone to view our relationship?”
Eh!
He refused, he’s annoyed!
Jiang Ning says arrogantly: “I don’t care, I can’t walk anymore, you must carry me.”
She fully unleashes her young lady temper.
Standing still and not allowing Xie Jingyan to move either.
Causing the team behind to be forced to stop.
He takes a deep breath, suppressing his irritation.
He squats down expressionlessly in front of her: “Get on.”
Under everyone’s gaze, Jiang Ning directly climbs onto Xie Jingyan’s back.
She holds up an umbrella: “I’ll hold an umbrella for you, that’s considerate enough, right?”
Xie Jingyan says without emotion: “Then should I sing ‘A Grateful Heart’ for you?”
Jiang Ning: “…”
[Ding, plot point +5, plot progress 55%.]
On Xie Jingyan’s back, the area she can see widens, and she quickly looks back.
Su Wanyuan is in the crowd behind, her gaze always looking in her direction.
Jiang Ning thinks this book has no wife-chasing crematorium, only Su Wanyuan’s husband-chasing crematorium.
Luckily, the remaining road isn’t far.
Xie Jingyan carries her for twenty minutes and arrives at the destination.
The person who was still calm and composed is now sweating profusely from the heat.
Jiang Ning guiltily looks away; she’s not that heavy, right.
Next is starting to climb the mountain.
Jiang Ning doesn’t boss Xie Jingyan around anymore, afraid of tiring him to death.
They reach the mountain top at 11:30.
Each class’s homeroom teacher leads the class to rest in place.
Jiang Ning can finally eat her spicy crispy duck.
The dishes in her lunchbox are exquisite.
Xie Jingyan’s lunch box is much simpler.
He eats big mouthfuls.
Sunlight filters through the trees, casting speckled patterns on the ground.
Gu Lanli and Su Wanyuan walk over.
Jiang Ning reflexively picks a piece of spicy crispy duck from her lunchbox and gives it to Xie Jingyan, looking heartbroken: “Carrying me for so long must be tiring, eat more to replenish yourself.”
Xie Jingyan lifts his eyes to glance at her.
He realizes Gu Lanli is nearby and she’s using him as a shield again.
He can’t help but scoff coldly.
Then he unceremoniously eats this piece of spicy crispy duck, not giving Jiang Ning a chance to take it back.
He extends his lunchbox in front of Jiang Ning: “More.”
Jiang Ning: “…”
She directly warns him with her eyes: don’t go overboard, buddy, it’s just acting.
Xie Jingyan stretches his hand straight out, as if he won’t retract it if she doesn’t give.
Jiang Ning smiles through gritted teeth and picks several pieces for him: “Eat, eat more! Carry me down the mountain later.”
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