Chapter 348: Chapter 348: Be Good, Just Endure It for a Moment and It Will Pass
Jiang Nanshu peered at the bottom of her glass.
Why were there still tiny particles undissolved?
Any observant person could see that something was added, who would drink that?
Jiang Nanshu crouched and searched for chopsticks in the banquet hall, hoping to stir the drink.
After a long while, she only found knives and forks, not a single chopstick.
She casually grabbed a fork and furiously stirred the red wine.
“Nannan, what are you sneakily doing here?” This sudden voice startled Jiang Nanshu.
She turned around to see Jiang Yunchuan in a white suit, eyeing her curiously.
Jiang Nanshu: “…”
With a calm and graceful face, she removed the fork from the wine, “Just washing a fork, no big deal.”
Jiang Yunchuan: “…”
It was his first time seeing someone wash a fork with red wine.
After washing, Jiang Nanshu, heartachingly, poured out the tampered wine.
Taking the fork, now redolent of wine, she began to eat a cake.
“Brother Yan seems to be looking for you, do you want to go over?”
“I’ll head over after I finish my cake, Fifth Brother, go enjoy yourself,” Jiang Nanshu replied.
Jiang Yunchuan, suspecting nothing, left the area.
Jiang Nanshu placed the cake down and then picked up a fresh glass of red wine.
This time, she smartened up and moved to a more secluded spot, grabbing another fork on the way; unfortunately, she couldn’t capture the image of her setting up the harm.
Worried Jiang Yunchuan might interrupt her again, Jiang Nanshu groped her way to the ground floor storage room, which was somewhat dark, and she couldn’t find the switch. Squatting behind a storage cabinet and using the light creeping through the door slit, she began her deed.
Just as she was pouring the sleeping pills in, the storage room’s door was opened from the outside.
Jiang Nanshu stopped in her tracks, fortunately hidden in her secluded corner, the newcomer couldn’t see her without a careful look.
“Brother Ci Qiu, is the medicine ready?”
“Yes, you can go straight to the room upstairs later.”
“Thank you, Brother Ci Qiu.”
Jiang Nanshu: ? ? ?
The conversation between the two was hurried and brief.
They left quickly.
Jiang Nanshu pondered over the wine in her hand.
It was understandable for her, the villainess, to plot harm, but it was her first time seeing the heroine drug the hero.
Just as she hesitated whether to proceed with her plan,
The door, slightly ajar, opened again.
“Mom, is the medicine ready?”
“Xixi, just head upstairs peacefully, I have arranged everything, ensuring Lu Qingyan won’t escape from the palm of your hand!”
“Thank you, Mom, I love you.”
“My sweet daughter.”
Jiang Nanshu, hiding in the dark: “…”
So today, three groups intended to drug Lu Qingyan.
Her glass now seemed somewhat comical…
Jiang Nanshu stayed in the storage room for roughly ten minutes and poured out the red wine again.
Why bother? Others had beaten her to it.
Walking into the banquet hall, Lu Qingyan, who should have been mingling with guests, was nowhere to be seen.
Jiang Nanshu sat for about half an hour, her heart felt tightly clenched; she didn’t understand what was wrong, but she felt terrible.
After a while, she stood up, enough time had passed; regardless of Su Ran’s reliability, the deed might have been accomplished by now.
Jiang Nanshu, lifting her dress with one hand, headed upstairs.
The first floor was the banquet hall; the second floor had rooms for guests to rest.
There were scarcely any people there.
Only the crisp sound of her high heels on the tile floor echoed.
Jiang Nanshu looked through room by room until she reached one at the far end.
She placed her hand on the doorknob, hearing the sound of something heavy falling inside, before she turned it open.
Unexpectedly, there was only Lu Qingyan inside. His face was flushed, and he had collapsed on the floor, his neatly arranged suit pulled into disarray.
Seeing someone enter, he forced himself to stay conscious, looking up at Jiang Nanshu’s almond-shaped eyes, his own eyes lighting up as he struggled to lift himself up, failing several times.
“Nannan, Nannan… I’ve been drugged, I don’t know by whom. Please help me,” he said, his voice gasping for breath, looking very uncomfortable, his exposed skin reddened from the drug.
After speaking, noticing Jiang Nanshu hadn’t moved.
He looked up and met Jiang Nanshu’s indifferent gaze.
“Nannan?”
Affected by the drugs, the corners of his eyes reddened as he stared blankly at her.
At that moment, the Jiang Nanshu in front of him felt strange, and his heart slowly sank.
“You just need to take me to the hospital, I don’t need you to do anything else.”
Seemingly reaching his limit, his panting grew heavier, as he reached out desperately clinging to Jiang Nanshu’s skirt as if finding some semblance of security through his action.
Jiang Nanshu slowly squatted down, reaching out to touch his burning face.
Lu Qingyan, like a wanderer desperate for water, clung tightly to the coolness of Jiang Nanshu’s body, which eased his discomfort momentarily.
But it wasn’t enough, he wanted more.
She stopped where it was deemed enough, Jiang Nanshu pulled her hand away from his.
Her voice clear and sharp: “Be good, just endure a little longer and it’ll pass.”
Lu Qingyan looked at her with red-rimmed eyes, and for a moment, he seemed to understand.
This was a trap set by Jiang Nanshu, and he was the bait trapped in a cage, waiting to be devoured.
The physical discomfort was nothing compared to the heartbreak.
“Why…”
What answered him was Jiang Nanshu’s merciless figure turning around and leaving.
Warm tears flowed from his eyes, dripping onto the back of his hand.
Jiang Nanshu left the room without looking back, heading towards the balcony where only the cold air could sober her up.
On the way, she encountered a hurriedly moving Su Ran.
Su Ran was visibly nervous upon seeing her, but as Jiang Nanshu walked away straight, she hurriedly ran towards the last room.
Jiang Nanshu paused for a few seconds before rushing back.
“Ah!”
She had just reached the door when she heard Su Ran scream abruptly.
On the ground, Lu Qingyan had cut his wrist with a shattered glass bottle and had already passed out.
Su Ran looked at Jiang Nanshu panickily: “It wasn’t me…”
Jiang Nanshu instinctively knocked out Su Ran, leaving her outside.
She looked back at Lu Qingyan once more before turning away.
The crowd on the second floor was in chaos.
“Quick, save him, call an ambulance.”
The chaos continued for over ten minutes, the piercing sound from the ambulance echoed outside.
Jiang Nanshu hid in the shadows and saw Lu Qingyan being carried away unconscious.
“That was close! Who mentioned just now that there was someone injured on the second floor?”
“I don’t know, where is that girl…”
The crowd’s voices were noisy, and Jiang Yunchuan finally found Jiang Nanshu and pulled her outside: “Let’s go home first, Brother Yan’s birthday party is too chaotic. Grandpa Lu is furious, it’s terrifying, Brother Yan attempted suicide.”
Jiang Yunchuan continued gravely: “I don’t know who would dare to drug him, we still don’t know his condition, let’s head home first.”
Jiang Nanshu’s eyes narrowed slightly: “Okay.”
Jiang Yunchuan then went to inquire about Lu Qingyan’s condition.
But the Lu Family was tightly sealed about the incident, no one knew if Lu Qingyan was alive or dead.
Da Shachun: [Host, do you want to check the Disgust Value ahead of time?]
Jiang Nanshu was lying on the bed: “Let’s wait a bit longer.”
[Ah? What were you doing going back there? The male lead probably hates you to death now, what else are you waiting for?]
Jiang Nanshu closed her eyes, all she could envision were Lu Qingyan’s desperate eyes.
It reminded her of herself in the past when she faced Zhou Yanxu’s death, just as desperate and helpless.
Her heart was completely unmoved, these emotions, she just needed to get used to them, this was how she had made it through.
Jiang Nanshu’s red lips slightly parted: “Let’s wait until the dust settles.”