Chapter Nineteen: She's alright
I got home. I closed the door.
Looking at the unconscious Jiang Mi, Jiang's mother said with concern, "Honey, don't scare your mother! Wake up!"
"She's fine. She'll be alright after a good night's sleep." Huo Ran removed his hand from Jiang Mi's wrist and said, seeing the worried look on Jiang's mother's face.
But there was a strange look in his eyes.
The power that Jiang Mi unleashed when she recklessly tried to kill the constable was already comparable to the power unleashed by a top-tier martial arts master using internal energy.
However, her power seemed to lack guidance, erupting purely from anger, making it extremely easy to lose control.
What intrigued him was how Jiang Mi obtained this power, and her sweet potato.
Two days ago, the Emperor sent a letter informing him of a piece of news: there are no sweet potatoes in the entire Daqing Kingdom, and not even in neighboring countries.
If edible sweet potatoes meet the standards for being safe to eat, they should be promoted nationwide to strengthen the country.
Thinking of this, his gaze toward Jiang Mi became more inquisitive and curious.
"Are you sure?" Jiang's mother looked at Huo Ran. At this moment, she completely regarded Huo Ran as her lifeline. As for asking the village's barefoot doctor to treat her honey, that was a dead end. Now, the villagers wished they could kill Jiang Mi.
"It's nothing." Huo Ran glanced at Jiang Mi: "As long as you get enough rest, you'll be fine."
“But before, how could my Honey…” Thinking of the scene where Honey suddenly killed someone to save her, Jiang’s mother felt a pang of tenderness in her heart. But then, thinking of the villagers’ attitude towards them, Jiang’s mother couldn’t help but curse: “These bastards, they seem so close to each other on weekdays, but now that Honey is sick, if someone stirs things up a bit, they’d like to treat our family like evil spirits and tie us up and burn us down.”
At this point, Jiang Mu gritted her teeth, making a grinding sound.
"Mother, please don't be angry. It's not worth ruining your health over those people." Jiang Yan comforted her mother, then looked at Huo Ran: "Does Honey really just need to rest? Does she not need any medicine? If so, please bring it over as soon as possible, and we'll get it."
The other sisters-in-law nodded in agreement: "Yes, no matter how much it costs, you must save that person."
Huo Ran looked at the sincere expressions of the Jiang family members, and a strange light appeared in his eyes.
What they yearn for seems so commonplace in the homes of these ordinary people.
In their previous interactions, he could tell that Jiang Mi's three sisters-in-law actually harbored some resentment towards the Jiang family for doting on their younger sister-in-law, Jiang Mi. However, now that Jiang Mi was in trouble, the concern in their eyes was genuine.
"It's alright," Huo Ran said again. "She should wake up soon."
As if to confirm his words, as soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Mi suddenly sat up in bed, clutching her forehead, and exclaimed, "Don't hurt my mother!"
"Honey, Mommy's alright!" Jiang's mother rushed over, pushed Huo Ran aside, and hugged Jiang Mi.
Jiang's mother patted Jiang Mi's back with a slight sob in her voice.
Jiang Mi's emotions calmed down, and she realized her current environment. She remembered that she seemed to have seen Huo Ran before she lost consciousness.
His gaze swept over his family members before finally settling on Huo Ran: "Thank you."
If he hadn't appeared in time to stop her this time, things would probably have been unimaginable.
Yes.
At that moment, she remembered everything that happened before she lost consciousness, including the scene where she was controlled by her emotions and suddenly attacked the constable.
Huo Ran smiled at her: "You're welcome."
Jiang's mother noticed this and shifted her body again, blocking Huo Ran's view. Huo Ran looked at Jiang's mother's strong back, which completely blocked Jiang Mi's view, and he fell silent again.
Over the course of their time together, he sensed that Jiang's mother seemed to have some issues with him.
While they were each lost in their own thoughts, Jiang Mi questioned the system in her mind:
"System, aren't you going to explain to me why I became a different person after you rewarded me with power?"
If Huo Ran hadn't helped her this time, would she have killed the head constable and then attacked others? What if she had lost control and hurt her family?
That's what she can't accept.
[This system has informed the host that there will be side effects after gaining immense strength.]
As the system spoke, it visualized the previous reward template in Jiang Mi's mind again, and then slowly enlarged the extremely small text until Jiang Mi could see it.
Upon seeing this line of small reminder words in her mind, Jiang Mi nearly bit her teeth to pieces.
This system is truly awful!
Putting aside the fact that her mother was about to be harmed by outsiders at the time, and she didn't have time to read these reminders, even under normal circumstances, if you don't magnify them a bit, it's easy to overlook these misleading little words.
This system is completely messing with her.
"you!"
[In fact, this immense strength did help the host overcome the difficulty. The reason the host lost control was because she couldn't control her temper. As a good woman, one should always pay attention to one's manners; how could she let a small matter cause her to lose her composure? Given the host's loss of control, 100 rewarded "woman points" are deducted. Current "woman points": -850]
"Wait!" Jiang Mi called out to the system: "No! I remember it was -800 before. Don't lie to me."
She had always felt that something was off about this system, so she memorized these values. After receiving the system's reward this time, she was completely certain that this damn system was really going to screw her over.
System: Women in ancient times are getting harder and harder to fool!
[Host's current female value: -800]
Jiang Mi was satisfied.
As for the 100 woman points that the system had promised to reward her, she didn't care because the system had given her the power to save her mother in time.
But next time, she will definitely be careful not to fall for this damn system's tricks.
As Jiang Mi was struggling against the system, her mother waved her hand in front of her eyes.
Her daughter was staring intently in Huo Ran's direction, seemingly lost in thought, which worried her greatly.
Could it be that my daughter has really fallen for Huo Ran?
Thinking back to the several times Huo Ran had appeared and saved Jiang Mi from danger, wouldn't it be easy for people to fall for him if this were in a storybook?
Jiang's mother's heart skipped a beat when she thought of this.
That won't do! Her daughter can't be infatuated with Huo Ran's good looks.
Even if there is infatuation, it should be Huo Ran who is infatuated with his sweetheart, not the other way around.
Ah! No, that's not right!
She herself almost went astray.
Her daughter absolutely cannot be with a man who looks like a rich young master; it will only bring her endless suffering.
When these people love you, you are their precious treasure; when they don't love you, you are nothing but weeds, and you might even be wasted away by those in their backyard until you die, with no one to pity you.
"Honey!" Seeing that Jiang Mi hadn't come to her senses yet, Jiang's mother gently nudged her, bringing her back to her senses.
"Mother, what's wrong?" Jiang Mi looked at her mother in confusion.
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