Chapter 63: Then I’ll Pretend Older Sister Is Dead From Now On—that Way I Won’t Have To Greet You, Right?
Su Wanyuan saw Jiang Yan spacing out and couldn’t help but reach out to touch his hand.
“A Yan.”
Jiang Yan looked up, his face pale and sickly but delicately handsome.
She leaned down and gently hugged him.
“Don’t be sad. In the future, I’ll stay with you. Your family doesn’t love you, but I can. You’re my best friend.”
Jiang Yan closed his eyes: “Okay.”
“Wanyuan, you go out. I want to be alone for a while.”
Su Wanyuan looked at the porridge he had barely touched. The youth’s figure was slender, nothing like a child raised in a wealthy family.
She walked out of the hospital room.
Only then did Jiang Yan curl up.
He remembered that rainy night.
Jiang Ning shared half her umbrella with him.
She sheltered him from the wind and rain for a moment.
She said, Jiang Yan, I hope you live well.
He thought Jiang Ning had a little family affection for him. He was her younger brother; even if she didn’t like him, she wouldn’t want his life.
But he was tied up, beaten by that strange youth, his mind foggy, and in a semi-comatose state, he faintly heard their phone conversation.
They called Jiang Ning.
Jiang Ning said to handle it however they wanted.
He was abandoned.
Even when he was hospitalized, no one from home came to visit him.
From that moment on, Jiang Yan no longer expected family affection.
……
Jiang Family Villa.
Jiang Ning had been burning up repeatedly all day.
The wound got infected, and the family doctor came to give her an injection again.
Every day she was groggy, wanting to do something, but her muddled mind couldn’t think of it.
Until three days later.
Jiang Ning finally started to recover. Her left hand still couldn’t move, but she could go to school.
After being away for several days, Jiang Ning was about to go moldy staying at home.
And the Competitive Mathematics preliminary results were out.
Jiang Ning’s rank was stuck at tenth.
Xie Jingyan was in third.
Su Wanyuan was a bit further back, 19th place.
All three advanced to the finals.
The entire Ninth Middle School, besides them three, had three more in the citywide top hundred.
Jiang Ning was not satisfied with this result.
Once she did something, she had to do it the best.
It was also related to her not touching high school knowledge for a long time.
Plus being injured, she hadn’t studied mathematics for a while.
So on Monday, no matter how Madam Jiang persuaded Jiang Ning to rest more, she refused.
It was already late September, with only about ten days until the finals.
After the National Day holiday, they would go to the Capital City for the competition.
If she didn’t do practice problems now, no matter how smart she was, she would stumble.
Jiang Ning was aiming for the top three in this competition.
Madam Jiang couldn’t win the argument, so she let her go, repeatedly instructing her not to move her left hand.
Meanwhile, she went to the company. She and Father Jiang had only argued for those two days and had made up afterward.
As for Jiang Yan, Jiang Ning had asked Father Jiang.
Father Jiang said he was already better and going to school normally. Since Jiang Yan was better, Jiang Ning didn’t pay much more attention to him.
As for what happened at Zero Degree that day, how could Father Jiang not investigate.
His own son kidnapped from his other house—how could he not be angry.
But tracing upward, Father Jiang knew this was not something they could provoke.
Though angry, he still swallowed this silent loss.
They all tacitly kept it from Madam Jiang, not letting her know.
Jiang Ning stood at the Ninth Middle School entrance.
The scrolling banner above had changed to [Not studying? The wall for others’ kabedon in the future will be built by you.]
Jiang Ning looked at the slogan and fell into thought.
So what, what’s wrong with building walls? Wall-builders can still poach corners, so that kabedon couple better watch out.
While she was dazed, someone accidentally bumped her shoulder.
Jiang Ning staggered forward a step by inertia.
“Sorry…”
Jiang Ning turned her head and met Su Wanyuan’s gaze exactly.
Her “sorry” stuck in her throat, and she turned her head away, not looking at Jiang Ning.
Waving and smiling at the back: “A Yan, hurry up.”
“Help me carry the schoolbag, okay? I’m a bit tired.”
Su Wanyuan directly handed the schoolbag to Jiang Yan.
Jiang Yan naturally took it.
The way he looked at Su Wanyuan was straightforward and gentle.
As if he had broken through the barrier in his heart, putting his like out in the open, just waiting by Su Wanyuan’s side.
Su Wanyuan struck up a conversation with Jiang Ning: “I heard you were sick for several days. Is your body better?”
Jiang Ning looked at her strangely. Were she and Su Wanyuan that close? To ask her like this.
“What’s it got to do with you?”
“As a schoolmate, I’m just worried about you. After all, you’re A Yan’s older sister.”
Jiang Yan’s gaze was indifferent as he walked straight past Jiang Ning: “Don’t talk nonsense. I have no older sister.”
Su Wanyuan reproachfully scolded him: “A Yan, you can’t be like this. No matter what, she has blood ties with you. You should greet her.”
“Then if I pretend my older sister is dead from now on, can I not greet her?”
“You… Sigh, really no way to deal with you.”
The two walked away talking to themselves.
Jiang Ning’s gaze tightly fixed on Jiang Yan’s back view.
Little Honey exploded with anger: [Fuck, I thought the vicious female supporting character was bad enough, but turns out the ungrateful wolf is even more detestable. Pisses me off! How can he say that about you? You risked half your life to rescue him!]
Little Honey spoke up for Jiang Ning.
Little Honey: [Host, rush up right now and tell him you’re the one who rescued him!]
Jiang Ning was very calm: 『If I tell him I rescued him, then what? Reconcile with him? Is that possible? He’s been persecuted by the original owner since childhood; these harms can’t be erased by one incident. Look at them like this—doesn’t it look like what you said, that I collapsed the plot and this world rounded it back?』
『As the devoted third male lead, from beginning to end, he can only love the female lead, no second thoughts.』
Little Honey was speechless: [……That’s true.]
Jiang Ning lowered her eyelashes: 『I originally planned to just rescue him, throw him in the hospital, as long as he doesn’t die. No plan to act out deep sibling affection with him. Him hating me doesn’t affect me earning one hundred million.』
Little Honey: [……]
Damn, it really wronged her.
Who says this host is a waste? This host is too awesome.
Jiang Ning saw them step through the gate.
She rushed straight up: “Jiang Yan, stop!”
Jiang Yan turned his head, and the next instant his left cheek went numb, head tilting with a crisp slap sound.
Their commotion was too big, attracting attention from many passing students.
Su Wanyuan was so shocked she stepped back.
Jiang Ning shook her right hand, smiling at Jiang Yan: “Your older sister isn’t dead yet. My hand hurts from hitting. Next time you dare say in front of outsiders that I died, I’ll beat you every time I hear it. Got it.”
Su Wanyuan reacted, nervously looking at Jiang Yan, furious: “How can you hit someone?”
Jiang Ning looked at her leisurely: “On what basis are you asking me? What’s wrong with me disciplining my disobedient younger brother? Or do you want to take this slap for him?”
Su Wanyuan knew Jiang Ning was capable of that.
“You’re bullying too much!” Su Wanyuan gritted her teeth.
Clenching her fists in hatred.
Jiang Ning instead chuckled lightly: “Su Wanyuan, do you like my younger brother?”
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