The Awakened Cannon Fodder Beauty [Quick Transmigration] 88

Chapter 88: The Vicious Supporting Female Character in a Romance Novel (41)

◎”This is your private matter. I have no right to interfere.”◎

Jiang Mengyu and Gu Lanqiu walked out of the bathroom one after the other.

Water was still dripping from the ends of her hair, wetting a small patch of her towel.

Gu Lanqiu saw all of this.

Before Jiang Mengyu could speak, she took the initiative to pick up the hairdryer, wanting to blow-dry her hair.

This was a job that Jiang Mengyu had done before, but now it was the other way around.

However, Jiang Mengyu did not appreciate it.

“I’ll do it myself.”

Gu Lanqiu blocked her hand. She looked at Jiang Mengyu’s pale side profile and said in a low voice, “I just want to blow-dry your hair for you.”

After a pause, Gu Lanqiu added, “Besides, just now, we’ve already done more intimate things.”

This reason successfully made Jiang Mengyu give up her resistance.

She lowered her eyes and no longer looked at Gu Lanqiu, as if she had tacitly agreed to her actions.

Gu Lanqiu tentatively reached out to her. Seeing that the person in front of her did not stop her, she finally let out a sigh of relief in her heart.

A gentle, warm breeze blew on Jiang Mengyu’s hair. She sat quietly, letting Gu Lanqiu play with her long hair.

Gu Lanqiu observed Jiang Mengyu’s reaction through the mirror. The person in front of her had her eyelids lowered, and Gu Lanqiu could not see the emotion in her eyes clearly, but she could see that her expression was not very resistant.

Her quietness gave Gu Lanqiu an illusion, as if they had never been separated, and now it was just a casual afternoon.

After her hair was blown dry, they might have a tender kiss, and then each do their own thing.

Just like the past month.

Gu Lanqiu was in a daze.

Clearly, only a few days had passed, but she felt as if several years had passed.

Those loving, warm scenes seemed to be memories from a previous life.

Gu Lanqiu couldn’t help but reach out and pinch Jiang Mengyu’s earlobe. The soft touch under her thumb made her heart feel a little more at ease.

This was also an action that the former Jiang Mengyu had loved to do.

Gu Lanqiu did not realize that her body was already full of the shadow of the former Jiang Mengyu.

After her hair was blown dry, Gu Lanqiu put down the comb. “I’ll go and get lunch.”

After she finished speaking, she hesitated for a moment, her gaze moving from Jiang Mengyu’s face to her wrist.

Jiang Mengyu curled her lip slightly. “Are you going to lock me back up?”

Like leashing an disobedient pet.

Seeing her cold face, and the mockery that seemed to be in her clear, dark eyes, Gu Lanqiu’s fingertips flinched. In the end, she still said softly, “You wait for me here.”

She unfastened the chain on her wrist, but it was not her own, but Jiang Mengyu’s.

The thin golden chain immediately slid down from Jiang Mengyu’s wrist and fell heavily on Gu Lanqiu’s hand, full of an indescribable meaning.

Jiang Mengyu’s gaze paused slightly.

She looked up at Gu Lanqiu, but she did not expect that Gu Lanqiu was also looking at her.

The moment their eyes met, Gu Lanqiu seemed to have seen something in Jiang Mengyu’s eyes. Unfortunately, before she could see clearly, Jiang Mengyu had already returned to calm.

She did not speak, and Gu Lanqiu did not expect to get a response from her.

She turned and walked toward the bed, unbuttoning her clothes as she walked. The sound of the bell rang continuously.

Gu Lanqiu did not care if there was anything on her wrist. She changed her clothes with her back to Jiang Mengyu. A few faint finger marks were still faintly visible on her slender waist, which was enough to imagine how intense the battle had been just now.

By the time she had changed her clothes and turned around, Gu Lanqiu saw that Jiang Mengyu was still sitting at the dressing table, but her head was tilted, as if she were observing the scene outside the window.

She did not look at Gu Lanqiu, as if she did not exist.

Gu Lanqiu wanted to say something, but in the end, she swallowed her words.

The room door opened and then closed. By the time Jiang Mengyu turned her head again, Gu Lanqiu’s figure was no longer in sight.

When Gu Lanqiu returned, Jiang Mengyu was no longer at the dressing table.

Just as she pushed open the room door, she saw Jiang Mengyu standing by the bed with her back to her, as if she were holding something.

Gu Lanqiu looked closely and found that she was holding the storybook.

Hearing the sound, Jiang Mengyu turned to look at her, and then put the book back on the bedside table.

Her expression did not change, as if she were not very interested in this.

However, Gu Lanqiu’s heart suddenly calmed down a lot. Jiang Mengyu’s action showed that her previous guess was correct. Jiang Mengyu did indeed want to find her lost part of her memory.

She closed the door behind her and did not ask what Jiang Mengyu was doing. “I had someone cook some congee.”

There was no sound from behind her. Only after Gu Lanqiu had placed the bowls and chopsticks one by one did she hear Jiang Mengyu walk over.

But she really had no appetite and only put down her spoon after a few bites.

Gu Lanqiu could see that she was not in high spirits. Perhaps it was because the person she was eating with was her, which was why she was not interested.

The congee in her mouth suddenly lost its taste, so Gu Lanqiu also put down her bowl.

“Do you want to paint?” she asked softly.

Jiang Mengyu did not even look up. “I don’t want to.”

She seemed to have lost interest in everything. Gu Lanqiu did not know what to do to make her a little happier.

Perhaps what Jiang Mengyu really wanted was for her to let her go, but Gu Lanqiu could not do it.

Her gaze lingered on Jiang Mengyu’s face. After a long while, she said in a low voice again, “I didn’t throw away the kitten. It’s still being raised. Do you want to see it?”

Jiang Mengyu lifted her eyelids. “I said, that’s your cat. You can do whatever you want with it. It has nothing to do with me.”

Her words were heartless, but she did not refuse Gu Lanqiu’s proposal.

So Gu Lanqiu stood up. “I’ll be right back.”

She returned in a short while.

Jiang Mengyu first heard Gu Lanqiu’s footsteps, and then a tender meow came to her ear.

Last time in the car, Gu Lanqiu would still ask if she wanted the kitten. This time, she did not say a word and directly placed the kitten on Jiang Mengyu’s lap.

Zhou Xinying’s silly dog had been able to win Jiang Mengyu’s favor through pestering. Gu Lanqiu believed that this kitten, which had been personally chosen by Jiang Mengyu, would only capture her heart faster.

The kitten might have smelled a familiar scent. It was meowing while stepping on Jiang Mengyu’s body.

Jiang Mengyu indeed did not push it away.

She looked down at the calico cat on her lap. It was really too small, and it had almost no weight when it stepped on her.

However, its belly was full, and its fur was soft and smooth. Gu Lanqiu had raised it very well.

Jiang Mengyu stared at the kitten for a long time. Just as Gu Lanqiu thought that she would not speak again, she suddenly asked, “What was its name before?”

Gu Lanqiu’s breathing hitched. “What its name was before is not important.”

“From now on, its name is Jin Xue.”

That was the name that Jiang Mengyu had casually mentioned last time they had met.

Hearing this, Jiang Mengyu finally placed her gaze on Gu Lanqiu for a short while.

“Are you sure?”

Gu Lanqiu knew that she was not just asking about the cat’s name.

She nodded very lightly. “Mmm.”

Only then did Jiang Mengyu reach out and stroke the kitten’s head. The kitten raised its head and purred.

Gu Lanqiu pressed her lips together tightly and looked at this scene, her heart for some reason feeling extremely sour.

But Jiang Mengyu did not stroke it for long before she moved her fingers away. She picked up the kitten on her lap and stood up to walk toward the bed.

Gu Lanqiu was stunned for a moment. “Are you tired?”

Jiang Mengyu did not speak. She lifted the covers and lay down under Gu Lanqiu’s gaze, and also conveniently placed the kitten next to her head.

This feeling of being ignored by the person she liked made Gu Lanqiu feel as if she had a lump in her throat. Her chest felt as if it were blocked by cotton soaked in salt water, so bitter that the tip of her tongue was numb.

Jiang Mengyu was more patient with the cat than with her.

The sofa was quiet. From Jiang Mengyu’s angle, she could only see Gu Lanqiu’s back. She was motionless, like a silent sculpture.

Perhaps she had been hurt badly.

Jiang Mengyu rubbed the kitten’s hand and slowly stopped. A moment later, she closed her eyes.

After losing her vision, her hearing became even more acute.

After an unknown amount of time, Jiang Mengyu finally heard a rush of footsteps getting closer and closer.

Accompanied by the sound of a bell, the bed beside her suddenly sank. Someone came up from behind and hugged Jiang Mengyu’s body with their arms.

The familiar perfume filled her breath. Jiang Mengyu slightly opened her eyes. Just as she was about to speak, Gu Lanqiu’s voice suddenly sounded in her ear.

“I’m sorry.”

This was not the first time she had apologized to Jiang Mengyu.

Compared to the last time, Gu Lanqiu’s tone at this moment was even lower and hoarser.

Jiang Mengyu did not move. She maintained the posture of having her back to Gu Lanqiu, her voice drifting into her ear.

“Gu Lanqiu, are you regretting it?”

The person behind her did not answer immediately. Jiang Mengyu only felt Gu Lanqiu’s forehead press against the back of her neck. After a long while, she finally heard a very low and muffled voice answer, “Mmm.”

If she had not chosen to hypnotize Jiang Mengyu, they might still have had conflicts, but it would definitely not have reached this resolute point.

But it was only after she had completely lost it that Gu Lanqiu belatedly realized that what she had once possessed might have been much more than she had thought.

“I shouldn’t have hypnotized you on my own.”

Gu Lanqiu was like a drowning person grabbing the last piece of driftwood, holding Jiang Mengyu tightly. Her eye sockets unconsciously turned red again, and the tears that she had just barely suppressed welled up again.

Gu Lanqiu was not a fragile person, but whenever she faced Jiang Mengyu, her emotions would become exceptionally sensitive, and she would be worried about gains and losses because of a slight reaction from her.

“I shouldn’t have suspected you and argued with you.”

Gu Lanqiu murmured, “And… I didn’t tell you in time that I love you too.”

Because of her stubbornness and jealousy, perhaps until the last second before she was hypnotized, Jiang Mengyu had still thought that Gu Lanqiu did not love her.

Jiang Mengyu listened to Gu Lanqiu’s whisper without a word.

A dull silence filled the space between the two of them. Gu Lanqiu’s voice became lower and lower. Memories, accompanied by regret, rushed at her. She was as if she were on the edge of a cliff. If she took another step forward, she would be shattered to pieces.

The colder the person in front of her was, the more Gu Lanqiu missed the Jiang Mengyu who had loved her in her memory.

They had once been truly in love.

[Ding! Mission target Gu Lanqiu’s favorability +5. Current total favorability: 289.]

Finally!!!

031 let out a earth-shattering scream in Jiang Mengyu’s mind.

It had thought that Gu Lanqiu’s side would definitely fail. Who would have thought that even though the Host’s reaction was so cold, her favorability could still rise.

However, along with the rise in favorability, there was also the plot corruption value.

A few days ago, when the Host was at the Zhou family, the plot corruption value had already decreased a little. But with the Host being kidnapped by Gu Lanqiu, it had changed back to 80.

But it didn’t matter. Anyway, now they were only 11 favorability points away from completing the mission in this world.

031 was full of motivation.

[Go for it, Host!]

Jiang Mengyu was not affected by its emotions.

The closer it was to the final moment, the harder it was to obtain favorability. She still needed an opportunity to make Gu Lanqiu completely let down her guard.

From that day on, Jiang Mengyu was officially confined to the villa on the mountainside by Gu Lanqiu.

She could not leave the room. The golden chain had become an unspeakable symbol between her and Gu Lanqiu.

Because besides the first day, every day after that, Gu Lanqiu would only lock Jiang Mengyu’s wrist with it when they were being intimate.

The unique sound of the bell seemed to have become a certain hint, and the originally crisp sound also seemed to have a hint of an ambiguous and fiery meaning.

Gu Lanqiu had done it. In the shortest amount of time, she had made Jiang Mengyu become familiar with her, so familiar that she was clear about every sensitive spot on her body.

A large amount of lustful entanglement had made Jiang Mengyu no longer resistant to Gu Lanqiu’s approach. Even now, when Gu Lanqiu held her and touched her face, she was calm and unwavering, as if she had no feeling.

Even when they were in bed, when Gu Lanqiu kissed her, she had no reaction.

Clearly, the first few times, Jiang Mengyu would have dodged.

Gu Lanqiu was pleased with her change, but there was one thing that still bothered her—Jiang Mengyu was still unwilling to kiss her.

She could let Gu Lanqiu leave love bites all over her body, but she was uniquely unwilling to let her kiss her lips, not even a light touch.

This made Gu Lanqiu anxious and uneasy.

Because she knew what this meant.

She had only gotten close to Jiang Mengyu’s body, but she had not really gotten close to her heart.

Another indulgent entanglement.

The water vapor blurred the image in the mirror. Gu Lanqiu’s legs were trembling, and she leaned against the sink to calm her heartbeat.

Jiang Mengyu tidied her wet long hair. She began to wash her body in front of Gu Lanqiu. Halfway through, Gu Lanqiu’s hand reached over, her fingertips lingering on Jiang Mengyu’s waist.

Jiang Mengyu glanced down but did not bother with her.

She had already become completely desensitized to this level of contact.

Gu Lanqiu did not want to do anything else either. “I might have to go out tomorrow.”

There was a contract that she had to personally sign.

Jiang Mengyu closed her eyes, letting the splashing water wash away the foam on her body. Only after she had turned off the shower and opened her eyes did she find that Gu Lanqiu was still looking at her, as if waiting for her answer.

Jiang Mengyu picked up the towel next to Gu Lanqiu’s head and casually wiped her hair. She parted her thin lips, and her voice was even more hazy from being soaked in the water vapor. “This is your private matter. I have no right to interfere.”

Gu Lanqiu’s long lashes trembled. She had clearly guessed what Jiang Mengyu would say, but she was still not willing to give up, trying to get a single bit of a response from her.

Even if Jiang Mengyu just asked where she was going, it would be enough to make Gu Lanqiu feel satisfied.

But she did not ask anything, an appearance of not caring at all.

She did not care what Gu Lanqiu was doing, or who she was seeing, as if whether Gu Lanqiu existed or not had no great impact on her.

Gu Lanqiu had thought that the softening of Jiang Mengyu’s attitude during this period of time was a sign that she was slowly accepting her.

It turned out that she had been overthinking it.

She was in a daze, her heart filled with a deep disappointment.

“By the way,” Jiang Mengyu seemed to have remembered something. “Don’t forget our agreement.”

“A month’s time.”

“It’s almost half over.”