The Awakened Cannon Fodder Beauty [Quick Transmigration] 49p2

Chapter 49 p2: The Vicious Supporting Female Character in a Romance Novel (2)

Secretary Zhao was still waiting for Gu Lanqiu at the door of the hospital room.

Seeing that Gu Lanqiu had come out, he took two steps forward and whispered in her ear, “Young Master Xu is downstairs.”

Gu Lanqiu replied casually, “How is he?”

“Two of his ribs are cracked, and the back of his head is swollen. The rest are just some scrapes.”

When Secretary Zhao said this, his tone was filled with unconcealable surprise. Who would have thought that these injuries were actually caused by Jiang Mengyu?

She clearly looked so thin and weak, and her hands, which were used to holding a paintbrush, were so delicate that they could not withstand a single blow. And Xu Zeyan, even if he was lax in his training, was still a man of over 1.8 meters.

But the surveillance footage showed that Jiang Mengyu had kicked Xu Zeyan several meters away with just one kick. The casual expression on her face when she stepped on his face was so strange that even Secretary Zhao was a little afraid to recognize her.

Gu Lanqiu had also seen the video. If it had been before, perhaps she would have been as surprised as Secretary Zhao. But after personally seeing how Jiang Mengyu had driven her car into someone last night, Gu Lanqiu was not surprised at all.

She turned and went downstairs.

Xu Zeyan looked much more miserable than Jiang Mengyu. His head was also wrapped in a thick bandage, and the two dark circles under his eyes were particularly obvious. His whole person looked exceptionally haggard.

Hearing the sound from the door, Xu Zeyan said impatiently, “Didn’t I say not to bother me?”

He looked up and saw that the person who had come in was actually Gu Lanqiu. His face immediately changed.

“Aunt, why are you here?” Xu Zeyan smiled a little sheepishly.

Gu Lanqiu curled her lip and said directly, “Don’t think of touching Jiang Mengyu.”

This sentence contained a lot of information.

Xu Zeyan immediately understood that Gu Lanqiu already knew who had caused his injuries.

“Why?” he gritted his teeth. “Aunt, I was beaten like this by that woman Jiang Mengyu, and you’re still protecting her!”

Gu Lanqiu didn’t even show a single word of concern for him. The moment she opened her mouth, she was defending Jiang Mengyu.

Xu Zeyan was indignant in his heart, but more than that, he was surprised and puzzled.

Gu Lanqiu had not been very fond of Jiang Mengyu before, and she had never interfered in their private affairs. Why was she not allowing him to retaliate against Jiang Mengyu this time?

“Didn’t you bring this on yourself?” Gu Lanqiu’s expression was cold. “How are things with you and Zhou Xinying?”

Xu Zeyan immediately closed his mouth and did not speak.

But the next second, Gu Lanqiu heard a familiar voice sound in her ear.

[Aunt is protecting Jiang Mengyu just because of this?]

[Clearly, she was the one who was jealous and dared to hit someone!]

[Speaking of which, I don’t know how Xinying is doing. I saw her limping yesterday. Was the sprain very serious?]

Zhou Xinying had sprained her ankle?

Gu Lanqiu had gotten the information she wanted.

She had no time to discuss his love-hate relationship with two women with Xu Zeyan anymore. She interrupted his wild thoughts, “Jiang Mengyu has done me a favor. I don’t care what’s going on with you and Zhou Xinying, but she must be fine, understand?”

Her tone was a little more of a warning.

Xu Zeyan was stunned for a moment. “What did she do?”

What did she mean by “she has done me a favor”?

He still didn’t know that Gu Lanqiu had almost had a car accident.

Gu Lanqiu did not explain, nor did she pay attention to Xu Zeyan’s questioning. She turned and left the hospital room, saying to Secretary Zhao, “Go and check on Zhou Xinying’s recent situation.”

She wanted to confirm if the voices she had heard in her mind were her own auditory hallucinations, or if they were real, someone else’s thoughts?

Secretary Zhao quickly found out the information Gu Lanqiu wanted.

Only after seeing that the information showed that Zhou Xinying had indeed sprained her ankle did a ripple finally appear in Gu Lanqiu’s eyes.

She had not known about this matter in advance. Even if she had auditory hallucinations, it was impossible for her to guess so accurately.

So was it really that she had heard someone else’s thoughts?

Gu Lanqiu had lived for more than thirty years, and this was the first time she had encountered such a thing.

What was this, mind reading?

She thought for a moment. Everything seemed to have started with Jiang Mengyu’s strangeness.

The sudden car accident, Jiang Mengyu’s foresight, and the things she had thought in her heart…

Could her ability to hear others’ thoughts have something to do with Jiang Mengyu?

…

Gu Lanqiu suppressed the news of Jiang Mengyu’s accident.

The other party was after her. It was hard to say if they had a backup plan.

However, although she did not publicize it, she soon personally visited Father Zhou and Mrs. Jiang.

Mrs. Jiang was Jiang Mengyu’s biological mother in this world.

When Mrs. Jiang heard that Jiang Mengyu had had a car accident, her eyes rolled back and she almost fainted. Fortunately, Father Zhou caught her.

“Thank you, Miss Jiang, for your help last night,” Gu Lanqiu pushed the contract forward. “A small token of my gratitude, it’s nothing.”

Father Zhou took it and saw that this gift was not small. It was a project he had been fighting for.

He closed the folder. “CEO Gu, you’re too kind. Mengyu is Zeyan’s fiancée, and you are Zeyan’s aunt. It’s only right that she helped you.”

Hearing this, a hint of deep meaning appeared in Gu Lanqiu’s expression. It seemed that Father Zhou still didn’t know that Jiang Mengyu wanted to break off the engagement.

Father Zhou did not notice her gaze. He then asked, “But I don’t know where Mengyu is now?”

“Miss Jiang is still in the hospital. The doctor has instructed her to rest.”

Mrs. Jiang quickly asked for the specific address. After getting Gu Lanqiu’s answer, she immediately stood up, wanting to go and see Jiang Mengyu.

Father Zhou comforted her in a low voice, while having the maid quickly pack up and prepare. Mrs. Jiang’s health was not very good, so she had to be careful when she went out.

Gu Lanqiu looked at the two of them’s affectionate appearance and suddenly thought of the look in Jiang Mengyu’s eyes when she had left the hospital, the reluctance and disappointment in them so obvious.

She followed Father Zhou and Mrs. Jiang out of the villa. After Mrs. Jiang had gotten into the car first, Gu Lanqiu suddenly asked as if unintentionally, “CEO Zhou, I heard that the second young lady Zhou sprained her ankle a few days ago. Is she okay?”

Father Zhou looked at her in surprise. Although he did not understand her meaning, he still replied politely, “She should be fine. Thank you for your concern, CEO Gu.”

Should be?

Gu Lanqiu understood. Father Zhou did not know about this matter at all. The anxiety he had shown when he had heard that Jiang Mengyu had had an accident, and his indifference to Zhou Xinying at this moment, formed a sharp contrast.

No wonder Jiang Mengyu wanted to fight and snatch.

But if you said that Father Zhou was completely biased toward Jiang Mengyu, he had still arranged for Zhou Xinying to be by Xu Zeyan’s side. As a father, did he not know what his daughter’s feelings were for Xu Zeyan?

Gu Lanqiu let out a very soft, cold laugh, then also got into the car.

…

Jiang Mengyu slept again. When she woke up, Mrs. Jiang and her group had just arrived at the hospital.

The moment Mrs. Jiang saw Jiang Mengyu, tears streamed down her face. “Mengyu, my poor daughter.”

Jiang Mengyu quietly watched her performance.

In the original novel, the stepsister was a vicious supporting female character, and her mother was not much better. This mother and daughter pair had stirred up trouble in the Zhou family, suppressing Zhou Xinying, the child of the original wife, to the point where she had no place to stand.

Mrs. Jiang cried very sadly, but she did not look pathetic at all. On the contrary, it made Father Zhou feel very sorry for her. “Didn’t you also hear the doctor say just now that Mengyu is not seriously injured? Don’t worry.”

“How can I not worry?” Mrs. Jiang wiped her tears. “This is my daughter. Of course I feel sorry for her.”

As she spoke, her gaze swept around the hospital room, her tone tinged with a hint of complaint and probing. “Mengyu is injured. How come that child Zeyan didn’t even come to see her?”

The moment these words came out, Jiang Mengyu immediately glanced at Gu Lanqiu and happened to meet her deep, dark eyes. Her expression was full of deep meaning, as if she were also waiting to see how Jiang Mengyu would explain.

Complaining about someone in front of their aunt, Father Zhou glanced at Gu Lanqiu. “Maybe he has something to do.”

Mrs. Jiang opened her mouth, about to retort, when she suddenly heard Jiang Mengyu say softly, “He can’t come.”

Mrs. Jiang was stunned for a moment. Looking at her daughter’s silent and calm appearance, she finally belatedly realized that something was wrong. “What do you mean?”

Jiang Mengyu: “He probably has a broken rib and is also busy recovering.”

Her words were directed at Mrs. Jiang, but her eyes were always on Gu Lanqiu.

Gu Lanqiu thought, so Jiang Mengyu also knew that she had not been light-handed.

Mrs. Jiang: “What?”

She hadn’t expected it to be like this. “How could he have a broken rib?”

Jiang Mengyu’s reaction was flat. “I hit him.”

Mrs. Jiang: ???

She suspected that she had misheard. She subconsciously turned to look at Gu Lanqiu’s reaction, but saw that Gu Lanqiu’s face was calm, clearly having known about this matter long ago.

Was it really Jiang Mengyu who had hit him?!

Mrs. Jiang was not calm. “Mengyu, did Zeyan make you angry? Even so, you shouldn’t have…”

“I want to break off the engagement with him,” Jiang Mengyu interrupted her.

Mrs. Jiang almost really fainted. “Break off the engagement?!”

Father Zhou also had a look of surprise. “Mengyu, why do you suddenly want to break off the engagement?”

Jiang Mengyu averted her face and refused to answer.

But Gu Lanqiu heard her thoughts constantly coming out.

[Lanqiu lost her legs after the car accident.]

[That scumbag Xu Zeyan, he actually took the opportunity to seize power and even imprisoned Lanqiu.]

[I will not let such a thing happen again.]

Xu Zeyan imprisoned her?

Gu Lanqiu agreed with the first half of what Jiang Mengyu had said. If it weren’t for Jiang Mengyu’s timely appearance last night, it would have been a question of whether she could have survived the car accident. Losing her legs was already a relatively good result.

But did Xu Zeyan have the guts to imprison her?

In the end, Mrs. Jiang did not get a reason from Jiang Mengyu. She temporarily left under Father Zhou’s persuasion. Only Gu Lanqiu and Jiang Mengyu were left in the hospital room.

Gu Lanqiu sat down on the small sofa. “Miss Jiang, let’s talk again.”

Jiang Mengyu pursed her lips. “What do you want to say?”

“Let’s talk about your foresight, and, ‘starting over again,’ what does that mean?”

Hearing this, Jiang Mengyu’s body clearly tensed up, and a look of shock and panic appeared on her face.

But Gu Lanqiu did not explain any further. She just looked at her with a composed expression, waiting for her answer.

After an unknown amount of time, Jiang Mengyu finally took a deep breath.

“If I said that I was actually reborn, would you think I’m crazy?”