The Awakened Cannon Fodder Beauty [Quick Transmigration] 76

Chapter 76: The Vicious Supporting Female Character in a Romance Novel (29)

◎”Are you so eager to leave me?”◎

Gu Lanqiu’s pupils contracted.

The sentence Jiang Mengyu had said was too familiar. It was clearly what she had said to her before, but what she had said back then was not “stupid,” but “gold-digging.”

Did Jiang Mengyu really not remember?

If she had really forgotten everything about their past, why would she say such a similar sentence?

Gu Lanqiu’s breathing unconsciously became heavier. The suffocation made her head feel dizzy, and her vision seemed to have double images.

“Jiang Mengyu, is it fun?” Gu Lanqiu asked in a hoarse voice.

Jiang Mengyu did not have a single bit of panic from having her lie exposed. She just looked at Gu Lanqiu with a slight frown. “CEO Gu, I don’t understand what you mean.”

“The sentence you said…” Gu Lanqiu’s gaze was like a snow-covered blade, sweeping back and forth across Jiang Mengyu’s face, cold with a wet moisture.

“Are you blaming me?”

Was she blaming her for her previous cold attitude, so she was deliberately retaliating against her?

“You’ve misunderstood,” Jiang Mengyu’s tone was calm. “When I was in a relationship with Xu Zeyan, you did not target me.”

“I have no need to blame you.”

Her every word was a respectful address. In Gu Lanqiu’s ears, it was extremely sharp and piercing.

Gu Lanqiu was as if she had lost all her strength, her voice extremely soft and low. “You know that’s not what I meant.”

“I don’t know,” Jiang Mengyu turned to look out the window. “I only know that the moment I opened my eyes, I found that I was already here.”

“As for the things you said…”

Jiang Mengyu’s voice paused for two seconds. “What did I forget?”

“And our relationship, what does that mean?”

The suspicion in Jiang Mengyu’s eyes was too obvious. Gu Lanqiu knew that she actually did not believe what she had said. It was just that now, she was the only one in front of her, so she could only choose to ask her.

Gu Lanqiu had never been looked at by Jiang Mengyu with such a gaze before. Even before Jiang Mengyu was reborn, the way she had looked at her was cautious with a hint of flattery.

But now, besides probing, her eyes were filled with an endless coldness.

Gu Lanqiu was so cold she shivered. Her lips had completely lost their color, and her face no longer had its previous pride and calmness, only a lost soul.

Why had things become like this?

She had just wanted to make Jiang Mengyu forget those unpleasant things.

Could it be that she had really done something wrong?

In her mind, the “older sister” that Jiang Mengyu had called out when she was in pain and struggling once again appeared. At that time, a bad premonition had already appeared in Gu Lanqiu’s heart.

It was just that Markel had said that the hypnosis could not be stopped, and Gu Lanqiu also had a hint of a fluke in her heart.

In the end, heaven did not favor her.

The nightmare in Gu Lanqiu’s heart had completely become a reality.

She did not know how to react for a moment and could only stare at Jiang Mengyu with her red-rimmed eyes, hoping to see a hint of a lie on her face.

Gu Lanqiu thought, even if Jiang Mengyu were to tell her now that what she had said just now was all a lie to deceive her, she could forgive her.

The room fell into a silence for a moment.

Gu Lanqiu did not realize how fragile and pitiful her gaze was. Jiang Mengyu could even see a hint of a pleading expression on her face.

She was praying that she was just lying to her.

Such an expression, Jiang Mengyu had only seen on her own face before.

She was unmoved. “CEO Gu, why aren’t you speaking?”

Speak what?

Gu Lanqiu could not stand the coldness in Jiang Mengyu’s gaze, but she stubbornly refused to look away.

Her heart was filled with a mixture of confusion and panic.

Jiang Mengyu had forgotten everything. Would she fall in love with her again?

“Just now…” Gu Lanqiu’s throat seemed to be blocked by something. A sentence was paused several times before it was finished.

“I’ve already said it.”

The moment Gu Lanqiu’s voice fell, she saw Jiang Mengyu lower her head—she was repeatedly checking her hands.

That hand was slender and strong, the fingertips fair and delicate, not looking as if it had been abused.

As if confirming that she had really not been harmed, Jiang Mengyu finally raised her head again, but she quickly clutched her chest. “Why… does my heart hurt so much?”

Gu Lanqiu had had intimate contact with her many times. The scar on Jiang Mengyu’s chest had been caressed by her countless times. She knew better than anyone else where that wound was.

The position where Jiang Mengyu’s fingers had landed at this moment was clearly a little lower than the wound.

In a daze, Gu Lanqiu had an illusion.

Jiang Mengyu did not seem to be saying that the scar on her chest hurt, but more like her heart hurt.

Had she not completely forgotten?

Even if some memories had disappeared, her feelings for her still remained in her body.

Gu Lanqiu’s breathing became a little more rapid. She looked at Jiang Mengyu deeply and said word by word, “Because this place has been injured before.”

“Injured?” Jiang Mengyu’s fingertips fumbled on her chest. Through a thin layer of clothing, she seemed to have touched something that shouldn’t be there.

Like the mark of a wound scabbing over.

“How was I injured?”

Her eyes were clear and serious, as if she had really forgotten.

Professor Markel had said to try not to mention those forgotten things in front of Jiang Mengyu, but at this moment, Gu Lanqiu could no longer care.

“You stabbed yourself with a knife,” her tone was heavy.

An image seemed to flash in her mind.

Jiang Mengyu’s brows had not relaxed. She stared at Gu Lanqiu for a few seconds, her voice with a hint of uncertainty. “Me?”

Jiang Mengyu seemed not to believe that she would do such a thing.

But what she did not believe was not that she did not dare, but…

“CEO Gu,” Jiang Mengyu restrained her expression. “Although I do feel that there is no meaning in living.”

“But in this world, there is probably no one who can make me really willing to die.”

So what on earth had happened that would make her choose to stab herself with a knife?

Hearing this sentence, the emotion in Gu Lanqiu’s heart became even more suppressed and dull.

So was Jiang Mengyu’s true personality actually like this?

She would not easily give up her life for an unimportant person.

But at that time in the hospital, if it weren’t for the nurse’s timely discovery, that knife would have really pierced into Jiang Mengyu’s heart.

She had really had the determination to die at that time.

Her love for that person had made her willing to give up her own life.

And this love, a part of it had originally belonged to her.

It was she who had personally given it up.

Gu Lanqiu gripped the covers in her hand, her body uncontrollably trembling. “So…”

“You don’t believe me?”

“No,” Jiang Mengyu’s tone changed.

“The wound on my body doesn’t look new.”

After all, it had already scabbed over.

“But I really can’t find the part of my memory related to it.”

So Gu Lanqiu had not completely lied to her. Perhaps something she did not know had indeed happened.

Seeing that Gu Lanqiu was not speaking, Jiang Mengyu glanced at her wet, red eyes and said with a pointed meaning, “In my impression, you don’t seem to be such a sentimental person.”

She said it tactfully, but Gu Lanqiu suddenly thought of what Jiang Mengyu had said just now, that she did not like stupid women who only cried.

Was that sentence really about Zhou Xinying?

Gu Lanqiu averted her eyes, every word said with great difficulty. “You wouldn’t believe me even if I told you.”

“Yes,” Jiang Mengyu did not hide it. “After all, you are Xu Zeyan’s aunt.”

“And I just beat him up.”

Who knew if Gu Lanqiu would deliberately make up a lie to deceive her because she wanted to get revenge for Xu Zeyan?

Gu Lanqiu had always thought that the words Jiang Mengyu had said in the last second were already cruel enough. The next second, she could say even more hurtful words.

In the current Jiang Mengyu’s heart, was she this kind of person who did not distinguish between right and wrong?

Before, when they had no feelings for each other, she had not deliberately protected Xu Zeyan because Jiang Mengyu had injured someone.

The one she had been biased toward from the very beginning was clearly Jiang Mengyu.

“Jiang Mengyu!” Gu Lanqiu interrupted her. She did not want to listen anymore.

Every sentence Jiang Mengyu said was like slowly cutting Gu Lanqiu’s heart with a blunt knife.

She had never felt before that a few faint words could have such a great destructive power. Now, she had tasted it all at Jiang Mengyu’s hands.

A bitter taste spread in her mouth. The moisture in Gu Lanqiu’s eyes was even more broken.

Jiang Mengyu’s tone was too sharp. Even the exceptionally familiar jasmine scent that Gu Lanqiu had been with day and night seemed to have a strong aggressiveness.

This scent made it difficult for Gu Lanqiu to breathe, and a burning sensation seemed to have appeared in her lungs.

It took Gu Lanqiu a long while to barely calm her breathing. “I won’t do anything to you because of Xu Zeyan.”

The hidden meaning in this sentence was too heavy, so heavy that it was difficult for Jiang Mengyu to ignore.

“Why?” Jiang Mengyu asked softly.

Gu Lanqiu’s long lashes trembled heavily.

Because between these two people, she cared more about, and valued more, Jiang Mengyu’s mood.

Gu Lanqiu had always thought that after the hypnosis was over, she would be able to say “I like you” to Jiang Mengyu without any scruples. But now, looking at the strangeness in Jiang Mengyu’s eyes, she was even more unable to say it.

As for the answer to this question, Jiang Mengyu no longer cared.

Gu Lanqiu closed her eyes. “Didn’t you want to know what the wound on your chest was for?”

She suddenly stood up. “Mrs. Jiang wants to see you.”

Jiang Mengyu did not believe her words. Mrs. Jiang’s words, she should believe them, right?

Hearing these words, Jiang Mengyu let out a light breath. She moved her arm, then lifted the covers and got out of bed. After tidying her clothes, she said to Gu Lanqiu, “CEO Gu, the truth of the matter, I will go and verify it with others myself.”

“I won’t disturb you anymore.”

After she finished speaking, Jiang Mengyu wanted to leave.

How could Gu Lanqiu let her go at this time?

She subconsciously wanted to reach out and stop Jiang Mengyu, but she was quickly dodged by her.

The person in front of her pursed her lips, a hint of impatience flashing in her eyes. “I’m sorry, CEO Gu. I don’t like others to touch me.”

The hand that Gu Lanqiu had raised froze in mid-air.

She didn’t like others to touch her?

Then when they had hugged and kissed before, and had done more intimate things, why hadn’t Jiang Mengyu said so?

She had left countless love bites on her body, and the darkest ones had not even completely faded until now.

That was the best proof that the two of them had once been intimate.

But now Jiang Mengyu had lightly classified her as an outsider.

Gu Lanqiu could not say a word.

After a long while, she finally lowered her arm helplessly.

“You can’t leave.”

“Why?” Jiang Mengyu knitted her brows.

“I don’t think I have a reason to stay, right?”

There was no one here that she was attached to, nor was there anything that could make her stay.

The scene in front of her was somewhat familiar.

Last night in the art studio, Jiang Mengyu had also made the same request.

In the end, she had changed her mind because of Gu Lanqiu’s words.

But now, Gu Lanqiu did not know what to say to make Jiang Mengyu willingly stay again.

Seeing that Gu Lanqiu was pursing her lips and not speaking, Jiang Mengyu curled her lip. “Restricting a citizen’s freedom of movement is against the law. I don’t think I need to remind you of this, right?”

“CEO Gu?”

This “CEO Gu” carried a hint of mockery.

The calmness that Gu Lanqiu had been painstakingly maintaining finally completely collapsed and broke.

“Are you so eager to leave me?”

So eager that even staying for one more second was as unbearable as wanting her life?

“Jiang Mengyu, you were the one who said…”

It was Jiang Mengyu who had said that she loved her and wanted to be by her side, even if it was just a try.

She had forcefully, and without allowing Gu Lanqiu to refuse, entered her life, making her change her bottom line for her step by step.

Now that Gu Lanqiu had finally completely gotten used to her existence, she had just patted her butt and wanted to leave so lightly.

“What did I say?” Jiang Mengyu retorted.

She reminded Gu Lanqiu, “Even if I have really said something to you before.”

“But I don’t remember it now.”

Forgetting was Jiang Mengyu’s best excuse.

Gu Lanqiu could not refute. All her grievances and unwillingness were blocked back by this sentence of Jiang Mengyu’s.

She had brought it on herself.

No one had forced her.

Jiang Mengyu averted her gaze. Her voice was very soft, but it accurately entered Gu Lanqiu’s ears.

“Gu Lanqiu, don’t force me to hate you.”

Gu Lanqiu did not stop her again.

She seemed to have been hurt badly by this sentence of Jiang Mengyu’s. Even after she had walked a certain distance, Jiang Mengyu had still been able to see Gu Lanqiu standing in place, as if she had lost her soul, her figure lonely and desolate.

The sunlight from outside the window shone in, but it stopped two steps away from Gu Lanqiu. Gu Lanqiu was standing in the shadow, her whole person as if she had been completely swallowed by the abyss.

Jiang Mengyu withdrew her gaze and did not look back again.

After she had woken up, she had only seen Gu Lanqiu. The others still did not know that she had woken up.

Just as Aunt Zhang was about to go upstairs to call Gu Lanqiu, she saw Jiang Mengyu walking toward her. Her expression stiffened slightly. “Miss Jiang, you’re awake.”

Mrs. Jiang had come and was in the living room, being entertained by Secretary Zhao.

Although Gu Lanqiu had not said it explicitly, Aunt Zhang had still keenly sensed her thoughts. She seemed not to want Miss Jiang to see her own mother.

It was just that Mrs. Jiang had been unwilling to leave, crying and making a fuss. Secretary Zhao had no choice but to instruct Aunt Zhang to go and ask for Gu Lanqiu’s opinion.

Aunt Zhang hadn’t expected that before she had found Gu Lanqiu, she would have met Jiang Mengyu first.

What should she do?

What if Miss Jiang asked? How should she answer?

“Where is my mom?” Jiang Mengyu asked directly.

Although Aunt Zhang felt that the way she looked at her was a little strange, as if she didn’t know her, she didn’t have time to think too much about it.

“She’s in the living room downstairs.”

How would Miss Jiang know that Mrs. Jiang had come? It must have been CEO Gu who had told her.

In that case, CEO Gu should have agreed to let Miss Jiang see Mrs. Jiang.

Aunt Zhang was relieved.

Jiang Mengyu walked past her and went downstairs.

The feeling of strangeness in Aunt Zhang’s heart became even stronger. Although Miss Jiang was not particularly enthusiastic usually, she would not be as cold as she was now.

Had she had a fight with CEO Gu again?

Aunt Zhang subconsciously looked upstairs.

Speaking of which, why hadn’t CEO Gu come down?

The moment Jiang Mengyu’s figure appeared at the top of the stairs, she was discovered by the sharp-eyed Mrs. Jiang. On the contrary, Secretary Zhao and Professor Markel, who had their backs to her, did not notice at the first moment.

“Mengyu!” Mrs. Jiang quickly stood up and walked toward her.

Secretary Zhao was startled. He also quickly stood up and looked back, and sure enough, he saw Jiang Mengyu.

His gaze passed over Jiang Mengyu and looked behind her, but he found that the stairs were empty, without Gu Lanqiu’s figure.

Where was CEO Gu?

Secretary Zhao also had the same thought as Aunt Zhang. How could Gu Lanqiu let Jiang Mengyu come down alone?

“Mom,” Jiang Mengyu let Mrs. Jiang hold her hand. She gave her a reassuring look, then turned to look at Secretary Zhao.

“We won’t disturb you any longer.”

“Wait!” Secretary Zhao quickly called out to her, his speech rapid. “Miss Jiang, where is CEO Gu?”

Jiang Mengyu’s expression was faint. “Gu Lanqiu is a normal person with the ability to act.”

“Where she is going is probably not something I can control.”

She wasn’t calling her “CEO Gu” at this moment.

Hearing these words, not only was Secretary Zhao stunned, but even Mrs. Jiang showed a look of astonishment.

“Mengyu, you…”

Mrs. Jiang couldn’t come back to her senses for a long time. “Did you have a fight with Gu Lanqiu?”

Besides this, Mrs. Jiang couldn’t think of any other reason that would make Jiang Mengyu say such a thing.

Hadn’t she been so in love with Gu Lanqyu before that she couldn’t be without her?

She had even defended her in front of her.

“I guess so,” Jiang Mengyu replied casually.

Mrs. Jiang had come today, actually just to see Jiang Mengyu, and to test Gu Lanqiu’s attitude toward her.

She had thought that it was Gu Lanqiu who had bullied Jiang Mengyu. How come now, the situation seemed to be a little different from what she had thought?

Seeing that Jiang Mengyu really wanted to leave, Mrs. Jiang hesitated for a moment and said tentatively, “Then you can go home with me and stay at ease. When you’re in a better mood, you can consider whether to come back or not.”

“Go back where?” Jiang Mengyu asked.

Her words made the others present stunned.

Wasn’t Jiang Mengyu planning to come back?!

Mrs. Jiang held her hand tightly. “You…”

Being hit by this news, Mrs. Jiang was a little dizzy. She didn’t even care that Secretary Zhao was still present.

She lowered her voice and asked in a small voice, “Did you break up with Gu Lanqiu?”

Hearing these words, Jiang Mengyu’s expression paused for a moment.

“The relationship between me and Gu Lanqiu doesn’t seem to need the two words ‘break up’, right?”

Mrs. Jiang: “…Huh?”

She said blankly, “Weren’t you two in a relationship before?”

Jiang Mengyu’s expression finally changed.

“Gu Lanqiu is Xu Zeyan’s aunt. How could I be in a relationship with her?”

Mrs. Jiang: “Then you said before that you loved her, didn’t care about her identity, and didn’t care if there was a result.”

Jiang Mengyu’s face was unchanged. “I don’t remember.”

“Did I say that?”

Before Mrs. Jiang could speak, Jiang Mengyu asked again:

“Did Gu Lanqiu say so?”

Mrs. Jiang was immediately stumped.

Jiang Mengyu saw something from her reaction.

There was no surprise on her face. Then she turned to look at Secretary Zhao. “Secretary Zhao, what do you say?”

“Did Gu Lanqiu admit that she and I were in a relationship?”