Chapter 258: Chapter 258: If I give you ten billion, but everyone hates you, would you accept it?
Jiang Yunchuan grumbled, “Who knows what she’s thinking.”
After venting, he focused on eating his meal.
Jiang Nanshu pressed her lips together and stopped dwelling on that issue.
Looking around, she asked, “Is Yan Yidan not here today? She didn’t come?”
Xu Xi took a piece of rib and with puffed cheeks said, “Sister Yan was called home by her family, so she went back to eat.”
Jiang Nanshu wasn’t really worried about her. Being similarly used as a tool to advance the male and female leads’ romance in the book, the author had not devoted as much ink to her as to this malevolent supporting female character.
Calling her back was merely to inquire about her progress with the Lu Family Crown Prince, after all, Lu Mother really liked her.
That entire afternoon, Jiang Nanshu listened attentively to the lectures.
Xu Xi was writing vigorously beside her.
Muttering, “I wonder if I can become a successful host. This job pays well, right? Seems like you get to meet a lot of impressive people.”
Jiang Nanshu glanced at her and smiled, “As long as you persist, it shouldn’t be hard.”
Xu Xi pouted, “Alright, I’ll keep at it. What about you, Jiangjiang? What is your dream job?”
A dream?
Jiang Nanshu’s mind was a mess.
She wanted too much.
So heaven thought she was greedy and gave her nothing.
She better choose something simple and attainable.
Jiang Nanshu slightly curved her lips, “To sleep in a pile of money, die in a pile of money, and then be buried in a pile of money.”
Xu Xi was shocked.
After a long while, she gave Jiang Nanshu a thumbs-up, “You’re really fixated on money. You don’t look like someone short of money; why do you need it so much?”
“Who would complain about having too much? If you were given one billion to complete a very easy task, would you take it?”
Xu Xi swallowed hard.
Stunned by the astronomical figure.
Her voice dropped a lot, “Cough, how easy? I’d consider it.”
“Make everyone hate you, is that simple?”
Xu Xi’s eyes widened in shock.
“That’s too easy! If that task were given to me, I’d do anything to get that one billion, and if I had one billion… who would bother becoming a host; I’d just lie back and idle away.”
The more Xu Xi talked, the more excited she became.
Following Jiang Nanshu’s hypothetical scenario, she felt like she had reached the peak of her life.
Yeah.
Making everyone hate her, such a simple task.
But currently, Jiang Nanshu felt that cruel fate just didn’t want her to succeed.
Some hypotheses, once formed, would keep growing in her mind until the day she found the answer.
She took out her phone and found Lu Qingyan’s chat window: “Where are you? I miss you.”
Lu Qingyan: “Port City.”
Lu Qingyan: “On a business trip, returning Saturday.”
Two more days.
Jiang Nanshu extended a finger, touching the name ‘Lu Qingyan’ at the top.
Jiang Nanshu: “I’ll wait for you, love you~”
Her gaze was cold as she changed ‘Lu Qingyan’ to ‘Lover’.
When she looked up, she felt a concealed gaze.
Jiang Nanshu sharply captured Chen Qian’s eyes, and when their eyes met, Chen Qian scrambled flusteredly away.
She was beaten to such an extent that she would need money to sustain her life for the second half of her life.
And Chu Muxi must have given her quite a sum of money for her to return to school from the hospital.
Next was Chu Muxi’s turn.
Jiang Nanshu raised a smile, and flashed a friendly smile at Chen Qian.
But Chen Qian didn’t feel it was friendly at all, she just felt that Jiang Nanshu was certainly up to no good again.
Her face turned white with fear.
She also somewhat regretted taking on this task from Chu Muxi.
She didn’t want to end up not killing Jiang Nanshu but instead putting herself in jeopardy again.
Her whole body was in pain now, and just the thought of Jiang Nanshu reflexively hurt.
She barely made it until the end of school and felt that she needed to take leave and visit a psychologist again, because just seeing Jiang Nanshu made her feel sick.
But before she could even move,
someone else was already pressing on her wheelchair.
When she looked up and saw Jiang Nanshu’s familiar face, with a gentle shallow smile, it appeared to Chen Qian like the Grim Reaper himself, chilling her to the bone.
Her teeth chattered, and she felt helplessly shrunk in her wheelchair.
Jiang Nanshu reached out, touched her face, and smiled with curved almond eyes, “Are you really that afraid of me?”
Chen Qian shivered violently, the spot where Jiang Nanshu touched her sprouted goosebumps, and she was nearly scared to tears.
“There are a lot of people in the classroom now, I-I haven’t provoked you, let me go.”
Jiang Nanshu clicked her tongue lightly and smoothed Chen Qian’s back, “But we are good friends, Qianqian, why are you so wary of me? It makes me a bit sad.”
Seeing Jiang Nanshu being so nice to Chen Qian, Xu Xi felt a bit jealous, “Jiangjiang, just let her be if she ignores you. Humph, if it weren’t for Jiangjiang calling the police and getting your dad arrested, you’d still be getting beaten.”
Chen Qian’s eyes welled up with tears.
Bullshit!
It was clearly Jiang Nanshu’s scheme… making Mr. Chen beat her up like this.
But she dared not say it.
Jiang Nanshu sighed lightly, “It’s okay, Xixi, Qianqian is also my good friend, she has received such a big psychological trauma, I haven’t seen her for a long time, I want to take her for a chat, you go back to the dorm first.”
“Oh,” Xu Xi pouted, clearly begrudging.
Then Jiang Nanshu pushed Chen Qian away.
In everyone’s eyes, Jiang Nanshu was the devoted friend who never left her disabled friend.
Chen Qian was pale-faced, without even the courage to call for help.
The rain that had been falling all day stopped.
Jiang Nanshu pushed her to a secluded path.
In a melancholic tone, “What did Chu Muxi make you do this time?”
By the time Chen Qian snapped back to reality, they had reached a desolate corner of the school, not far from a dilapidated building surrounded by warning tape, scheduled for repairs after the New Year, a place rarely trodden by anyone.
Chen Qian, panicked, clung to her wheelchair and shakily stood up, managed a few stumbling steps forward before falling into the dirty mud.
“Help! Someone, help!”
Jiang Nanshu squinted at her and smiled, “Oh, you can still walk. I thought your dad broke your legs. He’s actually quite fine, he was merciful to you.”
Hearing the footsteps behind her, Chen Qian, with eyes red, knelt down and kowtowed to Jiang Nanshu: “I beg you, let me go this time. I promise I will never come before you again, I will leave this school, I will handle my withdrawal. Nanshu, for the sake of our past friendship, let me go.”
Chen Qian thought that back at school, under the public eye, Jiang Nanshu wouldn’t lay a hand on her, she just needed to monitor Jiang Nanshu’s every move and report back to Chu Muxi, this task was easy and well-paid, why not do it.
But she underestimated the psychological shadow Jiang Nanshu had cast on her.
So much so that every sight of her was like Mr. Chen’s overwhelming scolding.
“I didn’t do anything to you, why are you so nervous?” Jiang Nanshu walked up to her side but didn’t help her up.
Her gaze fell on her limping leg, her lips curling into a malicious smile, “Qianqian, where should I break your bones for you?”