Chapter 4

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Jiang Ci bought a bottle of mineral water from the vending machine in the hospital building. After returning to the car, she took a few sips and took the medicine prescribed by the doctor.

Lu Xingxue: “How do you feel now?”

Jiang Ci: “It hurts a little bit, like the fishbone is still stuck there.”

Lu Xingxue: “You stabbed it, but it will recover soon”

Jiang Ci: “Yeah.”

The car drove out of the hospital, and the two of them had nothing to talk about. During the silent drive, Jiang Ci received a picture message from Huo Zhenzhen. Before she had time to click on it, Huo Zhenzhen’s phone immediately jumped out.

“Ah-Ci, look at the photo I sent you, is it Tong Zhenni?”

Tong Zhenni is Jiang Ci’s stepsister, and is four years younger than Jiang Ci.

Jiang Ci hid the call interface and clicked on WeChat.

Huo Zhenzhen: “I was playing in a bar and saw her alone. She drank a lot and was hugged and touched by strangers.”

The light in the photo is dim, and the woman wearing suspenders and hot pants has the hem of the suspender rolled up. She sat halfway on a man’s lap with her head tilted. Jiang Ci zoomed in on her facial features, and her profile was very similar to Tong Zhenni.

Jiang Ci looked for a few seconds: “Zhen Zhen, send me a location.”

Huo Zhenzhen understood immediately: “Are you going to come here?…All right, if you care about this, I’ll stop her until you get here.”

The location was sent over quickly. Jiang Ci said to Lu Xingxue: “Tong Zhenni is in the bar, and she drinks a lot. I will check it out now. It is getting late. If it’s too inconvenient, just find a place to let me out first. I will go by myself.”

Lu Xingxue stretched out her hand: “Give me the location.”

Jiang Ci gave her the phone, and Lu Xingxue glanced at her: “It’s not far.”

They drove to the bar.

When Jiang Ci arrived, Tong Zhenni was already halfway out of the bar door, with her head in the arms of the young man, pointing at Huo Zhenzhen indiscriminately and cursing: “You’re so nosy, how old are you?”

“Taking a kind heart for a donkey’s liver and lungs.” Huo Zhenzhen rolled his eyes and said, she just didn’t let the man take Tong Zhenni away.

The man had a lollipop, and he was not in a hurry, watching the two people push with interest.

[T/N: Huo Zhenzhen is saying that she (TZ) thinks her goodwill is malice]

“Zhenzhen.” Jiang Ci walked over quickly and greeted Huo Zhenzhen first.

Huo Zhenzhen raised her chin in response, and took two steps back to make way for Jiang Ci.

Tong Zhenni was not too drunk. She recognized Jiang Ci’s voice, struggling to get out of the man’s arms, stood upright, stared wide, looked around in confusion, finally locked onto Jiang Ci’s position and sneered: “Jiang Ci, are you a dog? Do you come after smelling trouble?”

She scolded again: “Pretending to be a good person, disgusting!”

Jiang Ci ignored her and only said to the young man: “Go.”

The man half put Tong Zhenni’s shoulders, grinning: “This is not good, I don’t know who you are, how can I let her go with you?”

Huo Zhenzhen: “Listen to this, you have picked up people and picked up experience, right?”

Tong Zhenni shook the man’s hand and squeezed Jiang Ci’s arm: “I’ll tell you, I’ll tell you who she is—she is a shameless big bitch. A little bitch. She and her shameless mother, they angered my mother to death!”

Huo Zhen blocked Jiang Ci, grabbed Tong Zhenni’s hand, and said, “Tong Zhenni, please keep your mouth clean! A Ci is four years older than you! When she was born, your mother didn’t know where she was—”

Jiang Ci patted Huo Zhenzhen on the shoulder: “She’s drunk, forget it.”

Huo Zhenzhen pushed Tong Zhenni away: “I’m really angry, go home to your dad!”

Tong Zhenni’s feet were unstable. As soon as Huo Zhenzhen pushed her, she fell backward and rammed the young man’s arms again. The man embraced her waist, deliberately drawing out his words: “Oh…this is kind of tortuous? Then I can’t give her to you, I don’t know what you will do to her.”

Tong Zhenni raised her head in his arms: “What is your name?”

The man rolled the lollipop with his tongue and laughed: “Romeo.”

“Okay, you are my man from now on.” Tong Zhenni squinted Jiang Ci provocatively: “I’m going with my man, do you have any comments?”

Huo Zhenzhen cursed: “Tong Zhenni, you are crazy!”

Lu Xingxue, who had been silent for a while, stepped forward and inserted a black-edged business card into the collar of “Romeo” shirt.

“Send her back, Songling Road No. 3, I will pay you. Of course, you can also choose not to send her, but if she does not arrive home in half an hour,” Lu Xingxue pointed to the surveillance electronic eye above the crowd, unhurriedly. “As long as you don’t mind being searched by the police all over the city.”

“Romeo” lazily took out the business card, scanned it briefly, glanced at Lu Xingxue, smiled and put the business card into his pants pocket.

Huo Zhenzhen leaned in Jiang Ci’s ear, and a thousand words combined into one: “Fuck…”

Tong Zhenni noticed something was wrong and writhed in Romeo’s arms: “Listen, I! Will! Not! Go! Back! Home!”

Romeo rubbed the back of Tong Zhenni’s head: “Be good.”

Lu Xingxue turned to look at Jiang Ci, and her eyes fell on her arm pinched by Tong Zhenni: “Let’s go.”

Huo Zhenzhen followed them, and said as she walked: “I knew Tong Zhenni would not appreciate it. Ah-Ci, you are too soft-hearted and care too much about her kind of mess.”

Jiang Ci asked back: “Then why are you telling me?”

Huo Zhen was speechless.

Family conflict is another matter. If something really happens to Tong Zhenni tonight, which will lead to bad consequences, she was afraid that both of them will be distressed, and watching coldly is no different from being the accomplice of the perpetrator.

Huo Zhenzhen sighed: “Forget it, let’s be a good person.”

The three of them walked back and forth, remembering the restaurant recommended to Jiang Ci last time, Huo Zhenzhen asked: “The restaurant I mentioned, did you eat it later? Is the taste not bad?”

Jiang Ci: “…It’s really not bad.”

Huo Zhenzhen: “I found another family restaurant yesterday. The fish is so fresh, when can we meet up?”

Jiang Ci: “I don’t want to eat fish recently.”

Lu Xingxue heard this and let out a chuckle of unknown meaning.

Jiang Ci: )

When the two got home, Jiang Ci saw that the time was almost the same and called Jiang Lin.

“Mom, what are you doing?” She asked Jiang Lin.

Jiang Lin: “I have stewed the heat-relief soup and are drinking with your dad. Something?”

Jiang Ci: “It’s nothing, but… I suddenly want to chat with you.”

“Yeah,” Jiang Lin made a fuss: “This is surprising, you don’t always like to talk to me, the sun came out from the west today?-Didn’t you cause any trouble?”

Jiang Ci: “……”

Jiang Ci whispered: “I am not Tong Junhao.”

Tong Junhao is her own brother. After Tong Zhenni’s mother died of cancer, Jiang Lin married into Tong’s family and gave birth to him the following year.

“Oh, you mentioned him, my head hurts again”, Jiang Lin’s voice was full of helplessness, “He ran away from the nanny at home again two days ago!”

“Okay, how old is Hao Hao? Which boy is not naughty? It’s not a big deal, we will get a new babysitter.”

Jiang Ci heard the voice of her father Tong Tingkai over the phone.

Jiang Lin really stopped mentioning this, and instead asked Lu Xingxue: “Has Lu Xingxue come back from a business trip?”

There were two soft taps from the door, Lu Xingxue walked in, holding the potion and cotton swab in her hand.

Jiang Ci: “She’s back, she came back yesterday.”

Lu Xingxue went straight to Jiang Ci, sat down, and pointed to Jiang Ci’s arm.

Jiang Ci followed her gaze, only to find that Tong Zhenni’s nails had cut several places on her arm.

No wonder there was a tingling sensation.

Lu Xingxue unscrewed the bottle cap of the potion. At the same time, Jiang Lin on the phone said, “Ah-Ci, get along well with people. It stands to reason that if you have been married for so long, there are some things that don’t need to be said, but don’t I think you seem salty…”

Jiang Ci listened distractedly, but her mind was on Lu Xingxue’s fingers. White and slender, her fingertips pink, and her hands were pampered.

The cotton swab was soaked in the syrup, and it hurt a bit. Jiang Ci shrank back, Lu Xingxue immediately raised her head and asked her with her lips pursed: “Does it hurt?”

Jiang Ci also pursed her lips: “It doesn’t hurt.”

However, Jiang Ci couldn’t decieve anyone. Lu Xingxue knew that she was lying, so she leaned a little closer and blew into the wound.

Lu Xingxue’s eyelashes trembled slightly, the tip of her nose was small, the bridge of his nose was straight, and her body exuded a faint perfume smell.

Jiang Ci: “……”

Jiang Lin did not hear Jiang Ci’s reply, and urged: “Ah-Ci? Are you listening?”

Jiang Ci whispered: “…I’m listening, I, we went to eat some food, not long after we got home.”

Lu Xingxue’s lips curled slightly.

Jiang Lin said, gratified: “This is good, more contact can deepen understanding, not all feelings are so cultivated——”

Before he finished speaking, there was a loud knock on the door from the earpiece, and then Tong Tingkai’s roar: “Tong Zhenni! Look what the hell you look like!”

Jiang Lin lowered her voice: “Ah-Ci, I’ll hang up first, and I’ll talk later.”

Jiang Ci put down the phone and said to Lu Xingxue: “Tong Zhenni is home.”

Lu Xingxue: “Ok.”

The two were a bit close together, Jiang Ci sat aside quietly, and reached to grab the cotton swab in Lu Xingxue’s hand: “…I’ll do it myself.”

Lu Xingxue stopped applying the medicine and gave her the cotton swab.

Jiang Ci thought of the card that Lu Xingxue gave Romeo: “If that person contacts you for money, you tell me the amount and I will transfer it to you.”

Lu Xingxue nodded.

The night outside the house gets darker, and Jiang Ci applies the medicine.

Lu Xingxue got up smoothly: “Then I’ll go back to the room first. Take care when you take a shower.”

Jiang Ci: “Ok.”

Lu Xingxue: “Good night.”

Jiang Ci: “Good night.”

After Lu Xingxue walked out of the room, Jiang Ci leaned forward again holding the cotton swab and said, “Lu Xingxue, thank you today.”

“Then would you like to consider asking me for a meal again?” Lu Xingxue turned back and asked gracefully by the door.

Jiang Ci couldn’t hold her head up. Why didn’t she notice that Lu Xingxue’s ears were so good?

Jiang Ci smiled: “No problem.”

Before going to sleep, Jiang Ci received another call from Jiang Lin. Jiang Lin said mysteriously: “Your dad was so angry with Tong Zhenni. She came back so drunk and talked back to your dad. The dress and skirt she was wearing, oh, high blood pressure and high blood pressure.”

Jiang Ci pretended not to know, and did not express any opinions. But even if she didn’t speak, the flames of war quickly ignited her: “So I’ll tell you the ugly thing first, you should be careful! You are married people, so it’s okay to go out for a drink at least to a degree!”

These words reminded Jiang Ci: “Mom…in the future you have something to tell me directly, don’t baby me, don’t let Lu Xingxue do this and that.”

Jiang Lin: “What did I ask her to do behind your back?”

Jiang Ci: “On that day, Huo Zhenzhen and I were in the bar, and you asked her to pick me up, do you know—”

“What did I do wrong? Didn’t I do it for your good? I’m still anxious for you, don’t you want you and Lu Xingxue to cultivate a relationship? …Ai, you damn girl , you don’t know the blessing you have. If it weren’t for your grandfather and the Lu family’s agreement, and I don’t have that blessing, I would marry Lu Xingxue myself!”

Jiang Ci: “……”

Let’s go, she her throat is still sore, so she won’t bother to reason with her.

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I realized I wrote the exact same introduction as for chapter 3 without realizing, haha.

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