The Awakened Cannon Fodder Beauty [Quick Transmigration] 78

Chapter 78: The Vicious Supporting Female Character in a Romance Novel (31)

◎”What kind of feelings can I have for my ex-boyfriend’s aunt?”◎

When Mrs. Jiang and Father Zhou walked over, they happened to hear Zhou Xinying’s words clearly.

The two of them had different expressions. Father Zhou was surprised and gratified, while Mrs. Jiang was full of doubt.

Even if the facts proved that Zhou Xinying had not lied to her before, Mrs. Jiang still did not believe that she had deliberately reminded her out of kindness. She was more willing to believe that Zhou Xinying wanted to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight.

Could it be that she had deliberately said such a thing because she had heard that she and Zhou Xiang were coming?

No matter what Mrs. Jiang was thinking in her heart, she did not show it on her face. Instead, she still smiled gently. “Mengyu is back. Xinying can also be at ease.”

Zhou Xinying really did not know that Father Zhou and Mrs. Jiang had come. When the two of them appeared at the door, her heart was still startled.

She observed Mrs. Jiang’s reaction. Seeing that there was no displeasure in her eyes, she secretly let out a sigh of relief.

They probably hadn’t heard what she had said.

Zhou Xinying was not really afraid of Mrs. Jiang, but she knew that Jiang Mengyu was still quite obedient to her. What if Mrs. Jiang interfered? It would be even more impossible for her and Jiang Mengyu.

In this family, the one who really posed a threat to her was Jiang Mengyu, not Mrs. Jiang.

After hearing Mrs. Jiang’s words, Father Zhou also nodded and said to Zhou Xinying, “You should not be so impulsive in the future.”

Although he did not know why Zhou Xinying was so concerned about Jiang Mengyu, this did not prevent Father Zhou from feeling happy.

[Ding! Mission target Zhou Xiang’s favorability +2. Current total favorability: 263.]

Jiang Mengyu turned to look at Father Zhou. Seeing that his eyes were full of satisfaction, she glanced at Zhou Xinying. After Zhou Xinying noticed her gaze, she winked at her impassively.

Jiang Mengyu’s heart was calm.

Father Zhou probably didn’t think that Zhou Xinying would have such thoughts about her, right?

The undercurrent between Jiang Mengyu and Zhou Xinying did not attract Father Zhou’s attention. On the contrary, it was Mrs. Jiang who felt that something was wrong, but she did not think in that direction.

Jiang Mengyu’s previous room was right next to Zhou Xinying’s. She pushed the door open, and a draft drilled in from the open window, blowing her long hair, and the curtains also swayed.

Zhou Xinying followed behind her. “Aunt Wang just cleaned it yesterday.”

Jiang Mengyu did not speak. She walked in, her gaze sweeping around, as if she were sizing up the things in the room.

Zhou Xinying only knew that she had lost her memory, but she was not clear how much Jiang Mengyu had forgotten. However, she still remembered her, so she should not be unfamiliar with this room, right?

Thinking back to the past, she had been very jealous of Jiang Mengyu, jealous that she had many things that she did not have.

Zhou Xinying’s gaze swept over the row of trophies on the shelf. She looked at Jiang Mengyu’s side profile and suddenly felt that perhaps she had indeed been prejudiced against her before.

Although Jiang Mengyu was very bad, it was undeniable that she had indeed been very outstanding since she was a child. She was the kind of child that parents would talk about, the child of other people’s families.

Before, besides resentment and jealousy, she had also had a hint of envy and admiration in her heart.

So although she looked down on Jiang Mengyu, she had been constantly following in her footsteps, trying to snatch everything that Jiang Mengyu cared about.

[Ding! Mission target Zhou Xinying’s favorability +2. Current total favorability: 265.]

Jiang Mengyu listened to the system’s broadcast in her mind. She did not turn her head, but lowered her head and picked up a book from the table.

“The Origin of Art?” Zhou Xinying leaned over. “So you like this kind of book.”

Speaking of which, it was quite funny. Although Zhou Xinying and Jiang Mengyu had lived under the same roof for so many years, she was not particularly familiar with her.

No, it should be said that before, she had thought that she knew Jiang Mengyu very well, but in the end, she had found that what she had seen was only a small part.

She had thought that Jiang Mengyu was greedy for vanity, stupid and vicious, and had even tried to play her in the palm of her hand.

In the end, the one who was really stupid was herself. On the contrary, it was Jiang Mengyu who had been coldly watching her make a fool of herself.

The person beside her was silent and cold. Her eyelids were slightly lowered, and she was staring at the book in her hand, her thoughts unknown.

Half of Jiang Mengyu’s face was bathed in the sunlight, and the small mole at the corner of her eye was so bright it was almost transparent.

Zhou Xinying was in a daze for a moment.

Actually, she was a little unable to remember what the previous Jiang Mengyu was like.

The face in her memory seemed to have become a lot more blurry. On the contrary, the appearance of the person in front of her was clear and profound.

Zhou Xinying suddenly remembered that when she had seen Jiang Mengyu in the hospital before, she had even suspected that she was not the original person.

It was really because Jiang Mengyu was too different from before.

If the current her was still like before, Zhou Xinying thought, she might not be interested in her.

At this moment, Zhou Xinying suddenly really wanted to know, why had Jiang Mengyu liked Gu Lanqiu before?

She knew that the current Jiang Mengyu might not remember, and she should not mention Gu Lanqiu in front of her again, but Zhou Xinying still couldn’t help but ask:

“Do you really have no feelings for Gu Lanqiu anymore?”

Hearing these words, Jiang Mengyu finally deigned to place her gaze on Zhou Xinying for a moment. She casually threw the book in her hand aside. “What kind of feelings should I have for my ex-boyfriend’s aunt?”

Although she knew that Jiang Mengyu had forgotten what had happened before, when she heard these words, Zhou Xinying still couldn’t help but be dumbfounded.

Jiang Mengyu had actually used such a word to describe Gu Lanqiu.

I wonder what Gu Lanqiu would think if she heard these words.

However, who told her to deserve it?

Zhou Xinying thought without any emotion in her heart.

Jiang Mengyu had lost her memory at North Garden. This matter was not unrelated to Gu Lanqiu. It was probably her who had done something to Jiang Mengyu that had stimulated her to the point of completely losing her memory.

Gu Lanqiu had snatched Jiang Mengyu away, but she had definitely not expected that she would also have today, right?

“If Gu Lanqiu comes to find you again?” Zhou Xinying asked again.

This was what she was most worried about.

Father Zhou did not object to Jiang Mengyu being with Gu Lanqiu, and was even happy to see it happen. If Gu Lanqiu was willing to lower herself to win back Jiang Mengyu, would she really not be moved?

Jiang Mengyu did not say whether she would or not. She just looked at Zhou Xinying with a frown. “This doesn’t seem to have anything to do with you.”

Zhou Xinying: “Of course it does.”

However, she also knew that Jiang Mengyu would not answer her, so she simply did not ask anymore.

“There’s sun outside today.”

Zhou Xinying changed the subject. “But the weather forecast said that it might rain tonight.”

She was just making small talk. Jiang Mengyu did not bother with her at all.

She turned and walked out. Zhou Xinying was stunned for a moment. She saw that Jiang Mengyu had casually thrown the book she had just been reading on the table.

Did she not like to read this kind of book anymore?

“Where are you going?” Zhou Xinying followed.

Jiang Mengyu’s steps paused. “Don’t follow me.”

Zhou Xinying’s face was unchanged. “This is also my home.”

“In my own home, there shouldn’t be a place I can’t go, right?”

She had finally had a chance to be alone with Jiang Mengyu. Even if Jiang Mengyu disliked her, Zhou Xinying still wanted to be a little closer to her.

“Do you still remember the time I had a low blood sugar attack?”

Seeing that Jiang Mengyu was not speaking, Zhou Xinying said again, “You helped me.”

Jiang Mengyu still did not speak, but just walked straight downstairs. Zhou Xinying raised an eyebrow, thinking that she was not interested in this topic.

“Then do you still remember that little dog?”

Jiang Mengyu’s brows moved slightly.

Seeing that she finally had a reaction, Zhou Xinying was finally relieved.

“You also raised it for a period of time.”

She asked Jiang Mengyu, “How about I bring it back here?”

She just wanted to have a little more to talk about with Jiang Mengyu.

The current Jiang Mengyu was indifferent to everything. Even the books she used to like were casually thrown aside. Zhou Xinying could not see what she was interested in.

“As you wish,” after Jiang Mengyu had thrown out this sentence, she turned a corner and went to the back garden.

So she wanted to sunbathe.

Zhou Xinying followed behind Jiang Mengyu, keeping a distance of two steps from her.

The back garden of the Zhou family was specially managed by a servant. It was decorated quite elegantly and beautifully, and most of the flowers planted in it were liked by Mrs. Jiang.

Zhou Xinying only glanced at it twice and was not interested. She placed all her attention on Jiang Mengyu.

Jiang Mengyu raised her hand and caressed a very beautiful rose that was in full bloom. The soft petals were slightly cool, and a hint of moisture was stained on her fingertips.

Zhou Xinying: “Do you like roses?”

She had originally thought that this time, Jiang Mengyu would still ignore her, but who knew that this person would suddenly put down her hand, her tone flat. “I don’t like them.”

Zhou Xinying: “Then what do you like?”

Jiang Mengyu did not answer immediately. She seemed to be thinking about something. Zhou Xinying could not see through her thoughts. For a moment, she always felt that Jiang Mengyu’s eyes seemed to carry a kind of clarity that could see through everything.

“Jasmine, I guess,” Jiang Mengyu replied casually.

There seemed to be no jasmine in the Zhou family’s garden.

Zhou Xinying was stunned for a moment. “Why?”

Jiang Mengyu: “I don’t know.”

Her expression was calm and composed, not like she was joking. “It just suddenly came to mind.”

How could someone’s favorite thing be something that suddenly came to mind?

This was not a real liking at all.

Just as Zhou Xinying was about to tease her, another possibility suddenly came to her mind.

The smile on her face slowly faded.

Under what circumstances would a person suddenly think of something?

It might be because they had heard of it before, or even seen it with their own eyes.

Perhaps the one who liked jasmine was not Jiang Mengyu, but someone else.

“Jasmine doesn’t bloom for long. It blooms quickly, and it also withers quickly,” Zhou Xinying said in a low voice.

Her tone carried a hint of an inexplicable deep meaning, as if she were talking about a flower, and also as if she were alluding to something else.

But Jiang Mengyu did not answer anymore.

Zhou Xinying also fell silent. She knew that she was not qualified to be jealous of Gu Lanqiu, but just by looking at Jiang Mengyu, Zhou Xinying’s mind couldn’t help but recall the scene of her and Gu Lanqiu getting along.

When would Jiang Mengyu be willing to give her some of the patience she had for Gu Lanqiu, even if it was just a little?

The garden finally quieted down. Only the warm sunlight shone on her body, and a couple of chirps of insects occasionally sounded. The warm wind lifted Jiang Mengyu’s long hair. She leaned against the lounge chair and slowly closed her eyes.

However, the person on the other end of the listening device could not calm down for a long time.

Gu Lanqiu did not know how long she had been sitting in the study.

Ever since Jiang Mengyu had left, she had been sitting here, listening to Jiang Mengyu’s conversation with others without moving.

The curtains in the study were half-drawn, and the sunlight could not shine in. The entire study was cold and dim. Gu Lanqiu was sitting in a place that was out of the light, and her whole body seemed to have stiffened into a sculpture.

Her face was unprecedentedly gray and stagnant.

The study was exceptionally quiet, without a single sound, and even her breathing was almost inaudible.

It wasn’t until Zhou Xinying had appeared that the originally quiet environment was suddenly broken.

“Thud!”

An incomparably crisp sound of impact echoed in the study. It was Gu Lanqiu who, in a state of gaffe, had uncontrollably knocked over the coffee cup by her hand.

The already cold coffee splashed on her pants. The cold fabric was pressed against her calf, and a bone-chilling coldness spread throughout her body, but Gu Lanqiu was completely unaware.

Her eyes were dry and astringent, and her chest felt as if it were blocked by cotton, so choked that she couldn’t even breathe.

Zhou! Xin! Ying!

She really had such thoughts about Jiang Mengyu!

Zhou Xinying’s thought was definitely not a one-day or two-day thing.

Gu Lanqiu thought of the last time Jiang Mengyu had told her that the condition Zhou Xinying had proposed was to have her apologize to her. But later, when she had asked Zhou Xinying, her expression had been a little astonished.

Perhaps at that time, Zhou Xinying had already said such a thing to Jiang Mengyu.

Jiang Mengyu had deliberately hidden it from her.

Jiang Mengyu…

What on earth was she thinking?

If it weren’t for the subsequent events.

Was she planning to hide it from her all along?