After living in Huaihua Village for two months, I met someone. Jiang Rong looked up, the cold wind ruffling her dark hair and making her skin appear even whiter and more delicate than porcelain. "Or rather, I met someone who changed my destiny."
022 asked curiously: [Who? Shao Yunqi?]
Jiang Rong simply smiled and said, "He took me away from there. In the following years, I traveled to many places. I had originally planned to never set foot in Yancheng again."
【Then why did you choose to come back? 】
[Because...] Jiang Rong pursed her lips and said with a smile: [Because I had a quarrel with someone, I decided to fulfill a friend's last wish and go to the First Military Academy to live out my days.]
Entering the First Military Academy can also avoid the surveillance of those crazy people to the greatest extent, which is the best solution for Jiang Rong.
[A friend's last wish...] 022 Thinking of the desolate and dilapidated cemetery, Jiang Rong's expression was different from his usual lonely and cold one, and his voice was a little softer: [Is it A Ling?]
[Yes.] Jiang Rong nodded. [We grew up together. Compared to Jiang Panyu, she's more like my sister, but...]
She twitched the corner of her lip. "But I'm not a good sister. When I got into trouble as a kid, she was the one who took the punishment for me."
Jiang Rong has been alive for nineteen years and believes that he owes nothing to anyone.
Except for Aling, the girl who closed her eyes forever at the age of fourteen to save her.
[I'm sorry, Teacher Jiang.] 022 said: [I'm sorry for reminding you of sad things.]
Jiang Rong still looked relaxed. [What? Don't you want to know about my past?]
[If they are all bad things, then I hope you don't think about them anymore, and I don't need to know.] 022 said seriously, [You are always like this, your heart is obviously hurting, but you can still smile.]
[Really?] Jiang Rong laughed casually, [I don’t even know.]
[Okay, let's not talk about this anymore.] Jiang Rong raised his hand to hail a taxi, saying, "I'm going home to sleep. I have things to do tomorrow morning."
022 was stunned by the speed of her change of mood. After a while, he said: [What are you going to do tomorrow?]
Jiang Rong: [As the saying goes, good people should be good to the end, and they should be good to the end. I must seize this opportunity and give my good mother another surprise.]
022: […It’s a shock, right?]
It was already late when they returned to Bailu Manor. Jiang Rong felt so painful about the taxi fare that he decided to extort the money back from someone he picked at random tomorrow.
Although there were many servants in Bailu Manor, it was always very quiet, so Jiang Rong didn't think anything was wrong. When he entered the living room and wanted to drink some water, he found that there was someone upstairs.
Shang Shaoheng was wearing a loose round-neck home suit and standing by the railing, looking down at her.
Jiang Rong hadn't seen Shang Shaoheng for a long time. Although they both lived here, the Egret Manor was too big and it was difficult for them to meet. Meeting tonight was really a surprise.
Jiang Rong looked up at him and found that at this angle and under this lighting, Shang Shaoheng's almost sharp indifference faded a lot, and instead showed a lazy softness.
"Shang..." Jiang Rong was about to call him Master Shang, but suddenly remembered that Shang Shaoheng didn't really like her calling him that, so she changed her words and said, "It's so late, why haven't you slept yet?"
Shang Shaoheng put his arm on the railing, "So you also know it's late now."
Jiang Rong hesitated and said, "I remember there's no access control at Bailu Manor, right?"
"Now I have it." Shang Shaoheng said, "From now on, lock the door at 10 o'clock in the evening."
Jiang Rong: “…”
This bastard is definitely targeting her!
Shang Shaoheng came down from upstairs and suddenly stopped when he passed by her. He bent down and sniffed her neck. Jiang Rong immediately took a step back: "...What are you doing?"
"The smell of perfume and cigarettes mixed together is terrible." Shang Shaoheng asked coldly: "Where did you go to fool around?"
Jiang Rong then grabbed his clothes and smelled them, and there was indeed a smell.
With so many people in the casino, it was inevitable that she would be contaminated by the smell. She herself found it unpleasant and said, "I'm going to take a shower."
"etc."
"Anything else?"
Shang Shaoheng looked her over and said, "I vaguely remember that I brought Miss Jiang back to pay off my debt, not to treat her like an ancestor with delicious food and drinks?"
Jiang Rong: “…”
I was so comfortable that I forgot about it.
Shang Shaoheng sat down on the sofa and looked up at Jiang Rong's face: "I'm hungry, go cook a bowl of noodles."
This request was not excessive. Jiang Rong nodded and just took two steps into the kitchen when Shang Shaoheng suddenly said, "No mushrooms allowed."
Jiang Rong: "Pfft."
It seems that the pot of mushroom soup left a psychological shadow on Mr. Shang.
There are three kitchens in Bailu Manor. The one that is commonly used is very large, comparable to the kitchen of a big hotel. Jiang Rong opened the refrigerator and looked at the ingredients inside. He planned to cook the simplest tomato and egg noodles. He just took out two eggs and turned around to see Shang Shaoheng leaning against the sliding door with a slender figure and a lazy look on his face.
"?" Jiang Rong said, "Don't worry, I won't cook mushrooms for you."
Shang Shaoheng raised his eyebrows: "How credible do you think your words are?"
Jiang Rong thought about it and sighed: "Okay."
She skillfully began to beat eggs and cook noodles. Shang Shaoheng kept looking at her: "Very skilled, do you often cook for yourself?"
Jiang Rong's answer was flawless: "Didn't I tell you before? My mom hates me. If I don't cook for myself, I'll starve to death."
Shang Shaoheng said, "I asked mushroom experts, and they said that locals develop resistance to some poisonous mushrooms. They won't get poisoned if they eat them, but outsiders will."
Jiang Rong paused.
"If I remember correctly, Huaihua Village doesn't produce many mushrooms?"
"It's true that mushrooms don't grow much." Jiang Rong said, "Maybe I have a special physique?"
"That's an explanation." Shang Shaoheng had reached Jiang Rong's back without her noticing. He placed his hands on Jiang Rong's shoulders and whispered in her ear, "How do you explain why the young master of the Iris Casino lavished money and gave the entire casino away?"
Jiang Rong's fingers gripping the chopsticks tightened slightly: "...Are you spying on me?"
"It's just some rumors that reached me." Shang Shaoheng sneered: "Why would I monitor you?"
Jiang Rong breathed a sigh of relief without leaving a trace.
If Shang Shaoheng sent someone to monitor her, she would leave Bailu Manor without hesitation.
"Didn't I cover myself up tightly?" Jiang Rong was puzzled. "How did you recognize me?"
"Nie Xi is there." Shang Shaoheng said calmly, "Because you still have the video of him wearing women's clothing, he said that even if he turned into ash, he would still recognize you."
Jiang Rong: “…”
Jiang Rong was speechless: "He really believes it? Where did I get the video? He looks so ugly in women's clothes, doesn't he know it himself?"
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