Chapter 251: Chapter 251: Turns Out Human Emotions Can Be Diverse
Jiang Nanshu hung up the phone.
Nearly two months had passed.
She actually felt like she had lived beyond the twenty-three years she spent in her original world.
So, she had been in this world for nearly two months now.
There were still four months left until the deadline she had set for herself.
She looked at the friends around her, the relatives who had chosen her, and her lover, whose face was cold and seemed to be brooding.
She once thought that life could only offer endless pain and, even with a safe haven, she felt like a thief stealing happiness, always afraid of being abandoned without hesitation.
Just like Zhou Yanxu.
He had saved her but also brought her endless suffering.
However, the cuts in her heart seemed to be healing and weren’t as gloomy as before.
Jiang Nanshu was reminded of the little nurse who cried buckets reading a book, the week before she escaped from the psychiatric hospital.
The weather was still nice.
The little nurse came for her rounds, holding her melodramatic novel, sitting in her room to read.
Whenever she reached a sad part, she would wipe her tears and sob, “Wuwuwu, the little sister is so cute. Nannan, be my little sister. Then in the whole hospital, I’ll look after you. You can strut anywhere you want, except outside.”
Back then, Jiang Nanshu was looking at the golden leaves outside the window, her face reflected on the glass, pale and frail.
Her gaze didn’t move as she refused with her mouth, “No, I don’t want a family.”
She didn’t want anyone.
Being alone was fine.
She could protect herself.
“How heartless!” blurted out the little nurse, unable to restrain herself.
After a while, she began to ramble, “Humans have emotions and desires. When you are better and discharged, remember to make more friends, be friendlier, and then find someone who loves you.”
“Just don’t find someone you love, it will hurt so much that it will be the death of you. Just like the male and female leads in the book. Wuwuwu, why must they torture the female lead, what heavenly law did they violate? My heart aches for them.”
The little nurse’s voice didn’t stop.
I didn’t know which page she was on.
Her voice began to choke up again.
“I want a little sister, Nannan, if you miss this village, there won’t be a shop like this again.”
“Why?” Jiang Nanshu finally turned to look at her.
The little nurse’s world was simple, cycling between home and the hospital daily.
She also loved melodramatic romance novels, always crying a flood as if a family member had died.
And she liked to meddle, especially disliking when people fought in the psychiatric hospital; whenever that happened, she would sternly talk about the importance of morality and the rule of law, baffling those patients.
Every time, Jiang Nanshu would just watch the excitement, even finding it a bit funny.
It was inevitable for a bunch of psychiatric patients to end up fighting when put together.
Perhaps because of her youth and beauty,
The little nurse was especially kind to her, taking care of her as if she were her little sister.
Hearing Jiang Nanshu, the little nurse wiped her tears and muttered, “Why all the questions? I just want someone obedient who will listen to me, so I can take good care of you.”
Jiang Nanshu smiled, her voice hoarse, “I hardly want that.”
In fact, she knew.
I heard the young nurse’s only sister passed away, so she started working here.
She could have gone to a better hospital, but she chose the most hopeless mental hospital instead.
This was the opposite of Jiang Nanshu’s way of thinking.
She always aimed for higher places, never settling for a mere spot of land.
“Nannan, where to next? Are we going back to school?” Xu Xi’s voice rang out, interrupting Jiang Nanshu’s chaotic thoughts.
Jiang Nanshu shook her head, “It’s still early. I took the afternoon off to attend Ji Ze’s parent-teacher conference, and two hours were wasted on arguments, so annoying.”
The whole parent-teacher conference was thrown off track, leaving the school teachers disinterested in continuing.
Yan Yidan got on the motorcycle, cradling a helmet in one hand, “Shall we go for a ride to clear your head?”
Jiang Nanshu: “…”
She didn’t know what Yan Yidan was thinking.
It was one thing to go after Lu Qingyan,
But being so nice to her, wasn’t it a bit too intimate!
Jiang Nanshu raised an eyebrow, “I thought you were a gentle and graceful lady, but I didn’t expect you to also ride motorcycles? You’re full of surprises.”
Yan Yidan smiled at this, “The motorcycle is borrowed, but I can ride, and I’m quite good at it. If you’re willing to get to know me more, I’ll give you many more surprises.”
Jiang Nanshu: “???”
She stared at Yan Yidan, dumbfounded.
In a panic, she looked at the others, except for Lu Qingyan, who was sporting a stern face. They seem to agree, nodding their heads.
Only by understanding each other can a couple have a lasting relationship; moreover, when there are six of them, they need to spend several times the effort to understand one another—a truly long and arduous journey.
“You… You like Lu Qingyan, don’t you? If anyone should be getting to know you, it should be him. We’re rivals in love. What kind of situation is this if I start understanding you!” Jiang Nanshu blurted out Yan Yidan’s initial intentions.
Better to prevent the whole group from getting derailed.
After all, her original intent was to break up her and Lu Qingyan to get with Lu Qingyan herself, torturing everyone with this bad idea.
She got sidetracked without even agreeing to it.
At those words, Yan Yidan’s smile faded, and her expression became serious. She looked at Jiang Nanshu and sighed, “How could I be so selfish as to only like one person? That wouldn’t be fair to all of you.”
Jiang Nanshu: “…”
You could at least be a bit fair.
You joined them in the name of a fair competition, only now to have simultaneously taken a fancy to five people at once; truly, you are too greedy!
Lu Qingyan watched her perform emotionlessly.
Yan Yidan continued her earnest rambling, her eyes tender, “It was only after being with you all that I realized, feelings can be diverse, and my life is now complete—thank you, my loves.”
Simple-minded Xu Xi was moved to tears, “Wah wah wah, I love you so much, Sister Yan. I’ll treat you well in the future!”
The melancholic Yang Jiashu looked up at the sky and exclaimed, “After being ignored for twenty-one years, I finally have a bunch of people to date. I’m also complete, and we’ll stay together forever!”
And Jiang Yunchuan glanced at Xu Xi, then at the moved Yang Jiashu,
He said uncertainly, “If I date you guys, I shouldn’t have to worry about being deceived emotionally or cheated out of the company, right?”
The more he spoke, the more certain he became, “Then I can also experience the true atmosphere of dating, which gives me full security. Let’s get it straight, if the United Nations breaks up, we can’t!”
Lu Qingyan: “…”
He suspected this group was deliberately trying to annoy him.
Yan Yidan nodded in satisfaction and turned to Jiang Nanshu, “Anything else you want to say?”
Jiang Nanshu: “No…”
“Good, trust is essential between lovers.” Yan Yidan, seeing everyone was present, revealed their first romantic mission as a group: “Let’s go camping on the mountain on Saturday. It’ll be perfect to watch the sunrise the next day.”