Chapter 21: Chapter 21 Known the Whole Picture, Take Immediate Action! Chapter 21: Chapter 21 Known the Whole Picture, Take Immediate Action! Lu Qingyan turned off her phone screen. As for Jiang Nanshu’s messages, she had sent him three, but he hadn’t replied to a single one, leaving her to her own devices.
“If only it were that simple,” said Lu Qingyan with one hand in her pocket, staring into the thick night. “Got woken up by her and can’t fall back asleep. Wanna go out for a drink?” she said to Yang Jiashu.
Yang Jiashu followed with a smile, “Sure, I live to serve. Shall we go? Same place as usual?”
…
Jiang Nanshu tip-toed back to the dormitory where the lights were already out.
Aside from her and Chen Qian, there were two other roommates in the dorm. Jiang Nanshu didn’t deign to know their names and never spoke to them, carrying herself with all the airs of an heiress.
Caught between turning on the lights or not, she felt a rare pang of conscience and decided, alright, I’ll just use my phone’s flashlight.
Tripping over a stool, Jiang Nanshu felt her way to her bed.
The next second, the lights came on.
“Chen Qian… you…”
The cute girl in pajamas got startled upon seeing Jiang Nanshu, immediately stuttering, “You, when did you get back?”
This was the first time Jiang Nanshu had come back to the dorm to sleep since the start of school.
Jiang Nanshu internally sighed at how scared the kid was.
Smiling, she amiably explained, “Chen Qian got injured and will be staying in the hospital for a while.”
“Okay, okay,” the girl replied dryly, then hurriedly climbed into bed, “I’m going to sleep now, goodnight.”
“Mhm, goodnight,” Jiang Nanshu responded absentmindedly.
The girl peeked out from under her blanket at Jiang Nanshu’s silhouette and suddenly felt like Jiang Nanshu seemed different.
Then she almost slapped herself. How could she think the bully had become less wicked? Something must be wrong with her head.
Jiang Nanshu quickly took a shower and lay in bed, with Lu Qingyan not replying to her.
She would send a cheesy goodnight sticker every day, never missing a beat.
Closing her eyes, she comfortably drifted off to sleep.
The next morning.
Jiang Nanshu climbed out of her bed.
Apart from the cute girl, there was another tall figure with a cold expression.
Upon seeing Jiang Nanshu, her eyebrows knit together unconsciously.
Turning her head, as if even seeing Jiang Nanshu polluted her eyes, she walked to the door shouting, “Xu Xi, let’s go. What are you waiting for?”
Xu Xi replied, “Wanwan, I’m coming.”
Hesitating for a moment, she approached Jiang Nanshu and mustered the courage to lay her phone in front of her, stammering, “I, I mean… don’t feel bad, I just…”
Jiang Nanshu glanced at the screen.
Well, another piece of gossip about her on the campus forum.
[Jing University’s number one affectionate fool turns laughingstock, as the Young Master gets plastered for his secret love and has an encounter with a beauty.]
Even paparazzi photos were posted.
Lu Qingyan was having drinks when she bumped into Su Ran.
Jiang Nanshu: “…”
Brilliant.
Lu Qingyan was really determined to cuckold her as if he were vying to join the party.
Jiang Nanshu knew this plot as well. In the original book, after the male lead broke off the engagement, he happened to see the female lead being intimate with another man while walking, and while he was outwardly composed, he went off to secretly drown his sorrows.
Encountering the female lead being asked to drink with another producer, he rescued her, and their feelings heated up.
This plot couldn’t have been triggered by the intimate photos she sent him yesterday causing him to be heartbroken, could it?
It counted as indirectly following the plot, after all.
Jiang Nanshu cracked a slight smile, “Thank you, Xixi. I’m okay.”
Up close to Jiang Nanshu’s beauty, Xixi’s cheeks flushed, and her speech stuttered even more, “No, no, no problem. You, you’re welcome. I’m glad you’re not upset. I’m leaving; I have to go to class.”
After getting herself together, Jiang Nanshu also went to class.
She was thinking to herself that it was perfect, she had to arrange the drunken episode for today!
If he can run into Bai Yueguang, then she can run into her little puppy dog.
All day long, Jiang Nanshu seemed distracted, which once again attracted mockery.
After school in the afternoon, she grabbed her bag and bolted for the school gate.
She hadn’t managed to find trouble with Su Ran yesterday, but today she had to make it happen. Su Ran had provoked her to her face, and she couldn’t stay silent without betraying her role as the villainess.
Her angry demeanor was captured by someone scheming, who tried their best to forward it to Lu Qingyan, probably hoping to see how Jiang Nanshu would be humiliated this time.
Outside, Jiang Nanshu’s anger vanished in an instant; she stood in front of the cotton candy stall, lifting her delicate face towards the rainbow-colored one high up, and took out five yuan, “Boss, I’ll take that one.”
“Alright, alright,” the stall owner swiftly handed over the wrapped cotton candy, “Hold it carefully, young lady. Here’s a wet wipe for you if your hands get dirty.”
Jiang Nanshu smiled with a bend in her eyes, “Thank you, uncle.”
Eating her cotton candy, she headed in the direction of Mingde Middle School.
When she passed the mouth of an alley, she heard the sound of beating and cursing.
“You think you’re so tough? Your foster sister is as cheap as a dog; I wanted you to stand up for her, you country bumpkin. I’ll stomp you to death.”
“Ah ah ah, Ji Ze, fucking let go of me!”
When she heard the name Ji Ze, Jiang Nanshu stopped in her tracks.
The alley wasn’t long; at the far end, a group of fifteen or sixteen-year-old boys were gathered around the wall, while Ji Ze awkwardly lay on the ground, biting the leg of the leading thug like a wolf pup, his body dirty and bruised, eyes bloodshot.
Jiang Nanshu blinked, continuing to eat her cotton candy without stopping, then turned and walked in.
Perhaps they were too absorbed in their fight to notice Jiang Nanshu, standing not far away with a look of amusement.
Ji Ze spat out, still refusing to submit at this point; he sneered, “What I said is true, you’re a coward who bullies the weak and fears the strong, you’re not even enough for my sister to fight alone.”
The leading thug seemed to hear a joke, “Your sister? She has abandoned you. And yet you praise her? If I were you, I’d give up on that troublesome foster sister, selfish and hypocritical, a good-for-nothing ingrate. She’ll be kicked out of the Jiang Family sooner or later, and you’re sticking up for her, you beast.”
Ji Ze’s eyes were bloodshot as he repeated, “I’m telling the truth; one of you isn’t enough for her to fight.”
Jiang Nanshu shook her head on the side, at this point, why doesn’t this idiot know how to surrender? If nobody came by, he could be beaten to death in this alley without anyone knowing.
The leading thug laughed loudly as if he’d heard a joke, “Your foster sister? I could take ten of her by myself.”
Jiang Nanshu was shocked, what?
He could only handle one, and he wanted to fight ten?
Without understanding the full story, withhold judgement; upon knowing it, take immediate action!
Jiang Nanshu charged in, swung her shoulder around, and delivered a big slap in the face.
He was plastered against the wall beside him.
The group of high school students who had been laughing stopped abruptly and looked on in horror at Jiang Nanshu, cotton candy in hand and tears welling up, her palms red from the slap.
The leading thug had a busted forehead, eying Jiang Nanshu with a vicious stare, “Who the fuck are you?”
Jiang Nanshu shook off her hand, pulled Ji Ze up, stuffed the cotton candy into his hand, stood in front of him, full of righteousness, “Please call me the Avatar of Justice, and I am also the subject of the boastful claim you made of fighting ten like me—I’m Ji Ze’s foster sister.”