The Awakened Cannon Fodder Beauty [Quick Transmigration] 53p2

Chapter 53 p2: The Vicious Supporting Female Character in a Romance Novel (6)

Thinking of the discrepancy between Chu Muyao’s true personality and the description of her in the original novel in the previous world, Jiang Mengyu thought that it was most likely that there was a problem with the female lead.

Zhou Xinying’s performance at this moment happened to confirm her guess.

Seeing that she was not speaking, Zhou Xinying continued to ask, “Do you really not want to marry Xu Zeyan anymore?”

Jiang Mengyu’s eyes lowered slightly. “That golden locket is in the drawer of the second-floor bedroom. You can go and get it yourself if you want.”

Zhou Xinying’s fingers tightened. “You know…”

Did she know that she had actually known long ago who the real owner of that golden locket was?

Zhou Xinying had always thought that she was the oriole, but she had not expected that she was also the prey that was being targeted. Jiang Mengyu was the hunter with the gun.

Jiang Mengyu’s past foolish actions were automatically given a deeper meaning in Zhou Xinying’s eyes. Could it be that she was also just acting?

“Why?” she was a little unwilling.

Why did she not continue to pretend?

“It’s boring,” Jiang Mengyu turned to look out the window. A gray sparrow was hopping on a branch. “Besides this, I now have something I care about more.”

“What is it?” Zhou Xinying asked.

“Is it related to Gu Lanqiu?”

At the mention of Gu Lanqiu, Jiang Mengyu’s expression finally had a subtle change.

“Don’t have any ideas about her.”

Zhou Xinying was first stunned, then a hint of surprise appeared on her face. “How can I have any ideas about Gu Lanqiu?”

So she even knew that she had been deliberately competing with her for Xu Zeyan before.

Jiang Mengyu did not explain. She just repeated in a deep and cold tone, “Anything else, I can give it to you.”

“But Gu Lanqiu, no.”

[Ding! Mission target Gu Lanqiu’s favorability +2. Current total favorability: 139.]

From the corner of her eye, she saw a figure flash by the door. Jiang Mengyu lowered her eyes and said nothing.

Hearing these words, Zhou Xinying always felt that something was strange.

What did Jiang Mengyu mean by this?

The person in front of her was no longer looking at her. Her gaze had fallen somewhere unknown. From Zhou Xinying’s perspective, Jiang Mengyu’s long lashes were slightly lowered, and the outline of her side profile was exquisite and smooth. The small mole at the corner of her eye was the finishing touch.

Her face was indeed flawless.

But Zhou Xinying was a little unable to remember. Did Jiang Mengyu have a mole on her face before?

The sense of strangeness that this person gave her was too strong. Zhou Xinying looked at her suspiciously for a long while, then suddenly said out of the blue, “You are not Jiang Mengyu.”

“Who are you?”

031 was almost scared silly in Jiang Mengyu’s mind.

It was one thing for the female lead to be completely different from the description in the original novel, but why was she so sharp?

She was the first person to discover that the Host was not the original person.

It was also the Host’s fault. She didn’t even bother to pretend.

031 even felt that the Host had deliberately let Zhou Xinying notice that something was wrong.

Hearing this, Jiang Mengyu turned her gaze back to Zhou Xinying, her face unchanged. “Have you also been infected by Xu Zeyan?”

“Or is it that you still prefer the feeling of being suppressed by me to the point where you can only hide in a corner and cry, and you don’t even dare to cry too loudly?”

She admitted that she had been doing it on purpose before.

Even though Zhou Xinying had long been used to it, at this moment, hearing these words, a wave of anger still inevitably welled up in her heart. “I don’t understand.”

She took a deep breath. “You already have everything. Dad also likes you more. Why do you still have to target me?”

Jiang Mengyu’s tone was very casual. “Why are you discussing why with a bad person?”

Did a villain need a reason to do bad things?

“I thought you had grown up.”

Jiang Mengyu relaxed and leaned against the head of the bed. Her face was still sickly, and her body looked weak, but the words that came out of her mouth were as sharp as a knife. “But in the end, you’re still as naive as you were when you were a child.”

Zhou Xinying forcefully pinched her palm, her lips pressed together tightly as she said nothing.

Jiang Mengyu slowly added, “Just like the dog you raised.”

Zhou Xinying’s breath hitched. She suddenly looked up at Jiang Mengyu. “What did you say?”

Jiang Mengyu looked at her with a calm gaze. “Isn’t it?”

“Dirty, so thin it’s like a skeleton, wagging its tail at anyone it sees.”

“I thought you would be brave for it once, but in the end, you’re still the same useless trash in my impression, only daring to hide it and secretly take a look.”

Zhou Xinying stared at Jiang Mengyu’s eyes. After a long while, she said in a hoarse voice, “The person who fed the biscuit was you?”

She had named the little dog with yellow fur “Biscuit.”

“If it weren’t for me, it would have starved to death long ago.”

Jiang Mengyu said faintly, “The dog you carefully raised, you thought it was something that belonged only to you.”

“But I just casually threw it two bones, and it kept wagging its tail at me.”

“Zhou Xinying, do you still think you have the ability to compete with me now?”

What Zhou Xinying had gotten was just something she didn’t want, something she had given to her as charity.

Zhou Xinying had never felt so powerless before. She knew that Jiang Mengyu was vicious, stupid, and not a good person.

When she was a child, she had hated and resented her. Later, as she slowly grew up, this hatred had turned into an indifferent observation of Jiang Mengyu’s foolishness.

Zhou Xinying had always felt that Jiang Mengyu was very ridiculous. She clearly longed for wealth and honor more than anyone else, but she had to pretend to be a pure and noble person who was detached from the world.

But now Jiang Mengyu was telling her that all of this was fake, that it was all an act by Jiang Mengyu. Now that Jiang Mengyu didn’t want to play with her anymore, she had directly kicked over the stage.

On what grounds?!

Zhou Xinying’s breathing became rapid. “I don’t believe it!”

“Are you trying to lie to me again?”

Jiang Mengyu coughed with a suppressed voice, her voice muffled. “I’m tired.”

“You should go.”

She didn’t even deign to explain any further to Zhou Xinying.

What Zhou Xinying hated most was this attitude of hers, as if no matter what she did, it was insignificant in Jiang Mengyu’s eyes.

The reason why she had endured the impatience and dealt with Xu Zeyan was not just to wait for a certain day in the future to personally expose all the truth and completely crush Jiang Mengyu into the mud?

Zhou Xinying just wanted to prove that she was no longer the useless trash from her childhood who could only be bullied by Jiang Mengyu.

Why did Jiang Mengyu have to break her fantasy and deprive her of her hope again?

Looking at Jiang Mengyu’s half-closed eyes and pale lips, Zhou Xinying only felt that the woman in front of her was like a demon with a beautiful skin, her bones vicious and cold.

[Ding! Mission target Zhou Xinying’s favorability -10. Current total favorability: 129.]

Zhou Xinying suddenly stood up and gritted her teeth. “I won’t let it go just like that.”

Jiang Mengyu didn’t want to play anymore?

That would depend on whether she agreed or not!

On what grounds did she say it was over when she said it was over?

She picked up her bag and strode out, her back exuding an air of anger.

The sound of high heels gradually faded away. Jiang Mengyu raised her eyelids again to look at Zhou Xinying’s departing figure, and the sound of 031’s wails echoed in her ears.

[Host, after the male lead, are you planning to completely offend the female lead to death?]

There were only four mission targets in total. If the favorability of two of them was very low, even if she maxed out the other two, she still wouldn’t be able to complete the mission.

031 couldn’t figure out what the Host was trying to do.

And the things the Host had said, if 031 hadn’t read the original novel, it would have really believed it.

It had never seen anyone who could talk more nonsense than Jiang Mengyu!

The Host was especially good at making up some half-true and half-false lies based on existing information, which made people unable to figure it out.

Jiang Mengyu ignored it, letting 031 go crazy in her mind.

The hospital room door was quiet, without a single sound, but Jiang Mengyu knew that there was someone outside the door.

It was Gu Lanqiu who had come.

Gu Lanqiu was indeed outside the door.

In fact, she had arrived not long after Zhou Xinying had gone in. It wasn’t that Gu Lanqiu had deliberately come to eavesdrop, but that she had just come out of Xu Zeyan’s hospital room and was thinking of coming up to see Jiang Mengyu.

Xu Zeyan had been stimulated and was like he had lost his soul. He couldn’t stand any sound, especially the thumping sound. The moment he heard it, he would be scared.

Gu Lanqiu had felt that it was boring after a while. If she had the time to watch Xu Zeyan go crazy, she might as well go and watch Jiang Mengyu paint.

Speaking of which, Gu Lanqiu found that when she was with Jiang Mengyu, she seemed to be able to calm down particularly easily.

She didn’t know where the faint jasmine scent on Jiang Mengyu’s body came from. Gu Lanqiu just had to smell it for a while, and even the fatigue from work was relieved a lot.

She had just reached the door when she heard the sound of an argument from inside. Gu Lanqiu stopped the bodyguard who wanted to knock on the door and stood at the door, listening quietly for a while.

Only after all the sounds had gradually disappeared did the hospital room door be pulled open from the inside. She met Zhou Xinying’s gaze. Gu Lanqiu did not feel a single bit of embarrassment from being caught eavesdropping.

“Miss Zhou.”

“CEO Gu,” Zhou Xinying nodded politely.

Gu Lanqiu’s gaze swept over Zhou Xinying’s face. Her ears were quiet, without a single sound.

Was it that Zhou Xinying had no distracting thoughts in her heart?

Or was it that she couldn’t hear Zhou Xinying’s thoughts at all?

Ever since she had obtained the ability to read minds, this was the first time Gu Lanqiu had encountered a situation where she could not hear others’ thoughts. A hint of deep thought appeared in her eyes.

Zhou Xinying just felt that her gaze was very strange, as if it were a condescending scan, full of probing and sizing up.

She shivered and subconsciously avoided Gu Lanqiu’s gaze. “CEO Gu, I’ll go first.”

“Mmm,” Gu Lanqiu did not make things difficult for her.

Zhou Xinying passed by her. After walking a few steps, she looked back and saw that Gu Lanqiu’s figure was gone. In its place, the hospital room door was pulled open a crack.

Gu Lanqiu seemed to be very concerned about Jiang Mengyu.

What was their relationship?

…

Gu Lanqiu did not mention that she had run into Zhou Xinying at the door.

Jiang Mengyu also did not tell her what she had said to Zhou Xinying. The two of them maintained a tacit understanding.

The afternoon sun was just right. The nurse opened the window. She took the water bottle and went out to get water, leaving the space for the two of them.

The warm wind brought a floral scent. Gu Lanqiu suddenly thought of the scent on Jiang Mengyu’s body. Her thoughts moved.

“Are you wearing perfume?”

Jiang Mengyu was bending down to get a book from the cabinet. Hearing this, she paused. “What?”

Gu Lanqiu did not think too much. “It’s like the scent of jasmine.”

Jiang Mengyu raised her wrist and sniffed lightly. The scent was very faint. Even she might not be able to detect it.

Could Gu Lanqiu smell it?

Jiang Mengyu gave her a deep look.

For a moment, Gu Lanqiu felt that she seemed to be looking at another person through her.

She frowned. “What are you thinking?”

Jiang Mengyu withdrew her thoughts. “In my previous life, you also said the same thing.”

Gu Lanqiu suppressed the fleeting strangeness in her heart.

She didn’t mind if Jiang Mengyu treated her as someone else. Anyway, this game was only for a month.

“So what is the scent?” Gu Lanqiu asked again.

“Perhaps it’s my pheromones,” Jiang Mengyu replied casually.

Pheromones?

What was that?

Gu Lanqiu just thought that Jiang Mengyu was being perfunctory.

She was unwilling to say, so Gu Lanqiu did not force her. It was just that her heart suddenly felt tasteless, and the only bit of patience she had was gone. So Gu Lanqiu directly stood up and said, “I still have something to do at the company. I’ll go first.”

She did not give Jiang Mengyu a chance to ask her to stay. She left as she said.

Jiang Mengyu watched as her figure disappeared at the door.

After this separation, Gu Lanqiu did not come to see Jiang Mengyu for a full few days.

The nurse did not know what had happened between the two of them. She just felt that Jiang Mengyu was clearly more and more absent-minded, and even her favorite painting could not lift her spirits.

Miss Jiang’s gaze would always unconsciously fall on the door. Whenever there was a slight movement, her dark eyes would light up, as if they were full of anticipation.

But the person who came was not Gu Lanqiu.

In just a few short days, Jiang Mengyu seemed to have become a little more haggard. She became more and more silent.

The nurse felt a little pity in her heart. When she was reporting Jiang Mengyu’s situation to Gu Lanqiu, she couldn’t help but say a few more good words for her.

[Miss Jiang seems to miss you very much.]

But Gu Lanqiu did not reply.

She also rarely responded to Jiang Mengyu. Jiang Mengyu had only seen from Secretary Zhao’s Moments that Gu Lanqiu had gone on a business trip.

There were many people in the photo, but Gu Lanqiu was still firmly in the C position.

She was wearing a snow-white shirt, her sleeves rolled up a section, revealing a section of her fair wrist. Her long, wavy hair fell naturally, her neatness tinged with a mature charm.

Jiang Mengyu switched back to the chat interface and sent a message to Gu Lanqiu: [Lanqiu.]

[So you went on a business trip?]

[I didn’t even know.]

Her tone was tinged with an imperceptible grievance.

The message was sent, but she had not received a reply from Gu Lanqiu.

It wasn’t until late at night that Jiang Mengyu’s phone suddenly buzzed twice.

It was a message from Gu Lanqiu.

[Gu Lanqiu: Miss Jiang, I think our relationship is not that close yet, to the point where I need to report to you.]

[What do you think?]