Chapter 31, Jiang Ran, Good Morning
It was a sunny afternoon, and because it had just rained, the air that hit me was filled with the smell of moist grass and soil.
A man carrying a bunch of snacks stopped at the door of the villa, put down the bag of snacks, leaned over and opened his hands.
The little girl ran towards him and threw herself into his arms like a bird just out of a cage.
The young man stood up holding the little girl and kissed her on the cheek.
Not far away, a beautiful woman was looking at them with a gentle smile.
It’s really... beautiful.
Those childhood memories belong to Jiang Ranran’s childhood memories.
Jiang Ran knew that what she was seeing now were the father and mother in Jiang Ranran's memory.
She quietly stared at the happy scene before her until it froze in a moment like a faded old photo and slowly disappeared.
Yes, only that period of time when I was young and ignorant was happy.
Later on, the image that Jiang Ranran remembered most was the sky and the pale ceiling that she saw from the narrow window of the hospital.
She was lying on the bed with various transparent tubes inserted into her body. Although she didn't know what was going on, she knew that she was about to die.
The man squatted beside the bed, holding her hand. He lowered his head deeply, resting his forehead on her small hand, and squeezed out a painful sob from his throat.
"You actually used that kind of medicine on your daughter! Jiang Yize, she's your biological daughter!" The woman's suppressed sobs echoed in the ward, sad and desperate. "I always thought Ranran was just sick, I never doubted you... How could you, how could you use your own daughter for experiments!"
"Mumu, listen to me, I'm doing this for Ranran's own good. I won't hurt her. I won't..." The man's voice was filled with an uncontrollable struggle and pain. "If that thing is really used to change the world, the only thing I can do is let Ranran live. I can only do this, Mumu, Ranran is our daughter. How could I possibly hurt her... I must protect her and let her live."
"But she's going to die! My daughter, my Ranran is going to die!" The woman threw herself into her lover's arms, crying bitterly, "You're going to kill her!"
"She won't die." The young man said firmly, "Ranran won't die. As long as the fever goes away, she'll be fine. Trust me, she'll be fine."
She opened her eyes drowsily, and in her blurry vision she saw her parents quarreling.
That was Jiang Ranran’s last impression of her parents.
Later, her illness was cured, and she could finally run and laugh as much as before, and finally shout "Mom and Dad" loudly, but her parents never appeared again.
The servant arranged by the Shen family to take care of her told her that when she was sick, her father had an accident during an experiment and unfortunately died. After receiving the news, her mother committed suicide.
"Why did Mom commit suicide?" She stood in front of her parents' tombstone, holding a carnation, and asked the housekeeper who came with her, "Why didn't she let Ranran go?"
"Because..." The old housekeeper touched her head lovingly and explained gently, "The eldest lady loves Professor Jiang too much."
"Love?" The young child didn't quite understand what the housekeeper meant.
"Yes, because I love her so much. If she were the only one in this world, I wouldn't be able to survive."
"Oh, because mom loved dad, so she died with dad." She thought, it turns out that loving someone means being able to die with him after he dies.
Then, Jiang Ranran went to Shenmu University to study and met Xie Chengzhi.
The boy smiled with vigor, and although there was always a group of girls following him, he never got close to any of them - he was gentle but distant, like an orchid growing in the valley, elegant and cold, unaffected by the world.
She thought she was not worthy of such an outstanding boy, but when he began to pursue her, she quickly got lost in his sweet words and lost her direction.
I regret it, I regret it so much. I shouldn't have fallen in love with him, shouldn't have trusted him, shouldn't have watched him and Luo Rui together and did nothing, shouldn't have...
Someone please save me. I don’t want to go on like this. Even if I go crazy or die, I don’t want to go on like this.
Someone come and save me.
Tears slid from the corners of the girl's eyes into her temples. After Si Xu changed the towel covering her forehead, he ran his fingers across the corners of her eyes and wiped away the tears.
“Help…”
He heard her mumbling in her sleep, choking, struggling, and helplessly calling for help.
“Save me…”
After a moment of silence, he held her hand with one hand, leaned over and gently stroked the top of her hair, and whispered softly in her ear: "I will save you, Jiang Ran, don't be afraid, I'm here."
She didn't know whether she heard his voice in her sleep, but she just reflexively held his hand tightly.
He was about to get up when he heard her murmur something.
"Si Xu...thank you..."
The young man paused in his movement to get up, frowned and looked at the girl sleeping on the bed, as if thinking about something.
Thank you?
Why should she thank him? Why did she always seem to say this? Although he really didn't like rude people, he always felt irritated when he heard her say this.
When she wakes up, I must tell her not to say thank you to him again, as it makes him unhappy.
…
Two days later, Jiang Ran woke up to the rustling of falling snow. She slowly opened her eyes, her gradually focused gaze sweeping across the room before settling on the young man beside her.
"Si Xu." She opened her mouth and found that her voice was completely hoarse. Fortunately, he noticed her action immediately.
Si Xu put away the medicine bottle in his hand, and his gaze fell on her with a gentle yet inquiring look.
Three seconds later, he raised the corners of his mouth, his peach blossom eyes seemed to be filled with stars, clear and gentle: "Jiang Ran, good morning."
Jiang Ran, good morning.
There were no words that moved her heart more than this greeting.
Her dark eyes sparkled with tears. She smiled slightly, raised her hand, and said coquettishly, "Si Xu, hug me."
The smile in the young man's eyes became even gentler.
He wrapped her in the quilt, leaned over, picked her up and placed her on his lap: "What else do you want?"
Shaking her head, Jiang Ran pulled herself out from under the quilt, put her arms around his neck, and leaned on his shoulder: "Si Xu, so what you said is true. There really are people who are bitten by zombies and are fine... I thought you made up a story to comfort me."
Hearing her mumbling, Si Xu said seriously: "I never lie."
This was his first time telling her that—but didn't Gu Yunqing always say that white lies were forgivable? If that was the case, there was no need for him to explain it to her.
"Yeah." Unexpectedly, she could actually survive this ordeal. Jiang Ran tightened her arm around the young man's neck, her heart filled with gratitude and satisfaction. "Si Xu, thank you for coming to see me."
"..." It was the same sentence again. Si Xu frowned, stroking the back of her neck with his fingers, and snorted softly, "Jiang Ran, don't say thank you to me again in the future - whatever I do is always my own will, and it has nothing to do with you."
Jiang Ran: "..." Feeling his slightly cool fingers covering her neck, Jiang Ran was like a cat with its neck pinched, not daring to move.
She discovered that if she did anything to make Si Xu unhappy, he would touch the back of her neck like he was doing now - it felt like he would break her neck in the next second.
Jiang Ran, who had long been accustomed to getting along with him, immediately responded: "I won't say it next time."
He replied immediately: "Yeah."
Jiang Ran: “…”
With some small thoughts in mind, she asked tentatively: "But you said you don't like rude people. I want to thank you in the future. What should I say?"
"..." Why are you still entangled in this problem? However, her question is not unreasonable. No, why should I be entangled in this kind of problem like her? It's really...
"Si Xu, I like you." Several thoughts flashed through his mind, and the girl lying on his shoulder spoke seriously and said something.
"Hmm?" The young man looked at her sideways, his eyes full of confusion.
The heat on her cheeks seemed even hotter than when she had a fever, but Jiang Ran did not dodge. She looked straight into his light-colored eyes and said slowly and clearly: "Si Xu, I like you."
Like? She said she liked him. Someone had said this before, and later Gu Yunqing had specifically explained to him the affection behind it.
Si Xu understood: "Jiang Ran, are you confessing to me?"
Jiang Ran: "..." Why are you still asking back? Why can you ask me so calmly? You...
She bumped into Si Xu's shoulder, feeling embarrassed to continue staring at him, and replied vaguely: "Well, I guess so."
Si Xu replied immediately: "Okay."
"ah?"
"Okay." The man repeated and continued, "You like me, right?"
"Huh?" What kind of reply is this?
"Jiang Ran." Pinching the girl's chin and forcing her to look up at him, Si Xu responded with equal seriousness, "I like you like this."
Like this? What? Do you like him? He said he likes her very much, and he likes her very much?
Jiang Ran chuckled, and then continued to laugh silently under Si Xu's puzzled gaze.
How could you respond to a confession like that? This guy is really... stupid.
"Jiang Ran?"
"……Um?"
"Why are you laughing?"
"Nothing... No, it's just... I think you're cute... Si, Si Xu? Wait, what are you doing?"
The man's voice was filled with anger and embarrassment: "Now that you're awake, change your clothes and let's go back."
"I, I can change it myself!" Jiang Ran felt that she had become a little arrogant recently and actually dared to yell at him.
"Your arm can't move. Let me help you." However, no matter how loud she yelled, he wouldn't listen.
"Si Xu! Change your clothes, you you you...don't touch me...ah!"
In the end, Jiang Ran's protest was ineffective, and the young man pressed her down on the bed and made her change into a new set of winter clothes...
…
When Su Qin and the team arrived at the temporary base, it was already the third day since Jiang Ran disappeared.
The girl briefly discussed the situation with Gu Yunqing and then led the team to enter the city.
"Seventh Brother is sensible and will not leave Wuzhong City. We will follow his instructions and collect supplies first."
Having no objection to his girlfriend's decision, Gu Yunqing instructed Song Rong to divide the work among the people and then go into the city together.
"Brother Song, wait a minute, I have something to ask you." Su Qin stopped Song Rong who was about to leave, glanced at Gu Yunqing, and whispered, "How did that girl named Jiang Ran fall into the water?"
Isn't it strange? How could she have fallen into the river when there were no zombies, no mutants, and no one was attacking her?
It’s been half a year since the end of the world. How could there still be such careless fools?
The heroine has special abilities, but they haven't been revealed yet.
It's not a psychic system, nor does it control zombies.
What is it? You can guess.
(End of this chapter)
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