Chapter 21 Chapter 21

However, perhaps because she had been lying there for too long, and it took her too long to get up all of a sudden, she inevitably felt a little dizzy. She staggered out, but after a few steps, she tripped over a stone and fell to the ground.

His palm scraped across the rough ground, cutting his skin and instantly oozing blood. Jiang Jingchun frowned, ignoring the pain, and wanted to run again after getting up.

However, his arm was grabbed by someone.

Gu Huaisheng didn't expect her to run away. He took advantage of the moment she fell to the ground and strode to her side. However, he didn't expect that she actually got up and wanted to run away.

He grabbed her arm and said in a deep voice, "Why are you running?"

Jiang Jingchun didn't want to answer him and tried to break free from his hand, but he was too strong and couldn't do it.

But this look was even more irritating to Gu Huaisheng. He seemed angry and laughed from his throat. Then he said coldly, "Why, after I let go of your hand, are you going to seek death again?"

He never liked to say these weird things to others, and apart from the word "shameless" in the previous sentence, he never said anything harsh to Jiang Jingchun.

But today's questioning was clearly a bit angry, and the tone was unconsciously a bit aggressive.

The river is so fast.

He saw her lying on the side of the bridge and was afraid that she was really going to fall off.

Jiang Jingchun frowned when she heard Gu Huaisheng's words. She didn't expect him to think of that. Would he jump into the river and commit suicide? Why should she die?

She is just not her mother's biological daughter, and not the eldest daughter of the Jiang family.

But why did she die?

She said to Gu Huaisheng: "You think too much. I don't want to die."

She was just feeling uncomfortable and wanted to come out to breathe, but in his eyes, she was trying to commit suicide.

Her voice was so cold and sharp that Gu Huaisheng didn't even react for a moment.

She was indeed stronger than he thought.

She said she was not a child, but he never believed her, so he thought she would cry and make a fuss. She said she did not want to commit suicide, but he himself thought she wanted to commit suicide when he saw that scene.

Now it looked like she really just wanted to come out and take a breath.

Neither of them mentioned what happened in the teahouse last time, but from Jiang Jingchun's attitude, Gu Huaisheng could see clearly that she probably didn't like him anymore.

Her first reaction when she saw him was to run away.

Everyone has self-esteem. She threw herself body and soul into him, but in the end she got those words in return. It was impossible not to be angry.

She had decided to give up on him, but he had such a dream, in which... he had some thoughts.

Did it start at that time or when did it start?

While Gu Huaisheng was distracted and not paying attention, Jiang Jingchun waved his hand away. Gu Huaisheng was thrown into the air before he reacted.

Jiang Jingchun walked back to the Jiang family, but Gu Huaisheng's appearance pulled her back to reality. She couldn't go anywhere. This was the farthest place she could run. In the end, she still had to go back to the place where she was born and raised for more than ten years.

I fell down, my clothes were dirty and my palms were broken.

She patted her dirty clothes, feeling resentful.

It’s all Gu Huaisheng’s fault. If he hadn’t suddenly appeared, she wouldn’t have fallen.

She lowered her head, straightened her clothes and combed her messy hair. On the way back, Gu Huaisheng followed her all the time, perhaps because he was afraid that she would go and commit suicide again.

His footsteps were clearly not heavy, but Jiang Jingchun felt inexplicably upset when she heard them, and she suddenly turned around.

Seeing her stop, Gu Huaisheng also paused.

Then Jiang Jingchun said to him with resentment, "It's all your fault. If you hadn't come, I wouldn't have fallen. Now you've made me so angry. Are you relieved? Didn't you push me away first? Why are you following me now? I was young and ignorant before, right? I won't follow you shamelessly anymore. You don't have to worry about me doing something stupid because of what happened last time. My death outside has nothing to do with you."

She spoke so long and her eyes turned red.

It must be because my palm was broken and it hurts so much.

It is better not to talk about these painful things. Once they are mentioned, how can they not make people feel sad?

She recklessly poured out all her frustration of the past two days on the person who hurt her the most, and she didn't care whether he was angry or not.

Gu Huaisheng listened for a long time without interrupting her. He looked into her eyes without a trace of anger. After a moment of silence, he opened his thin lips and asked her, "Are you feeling better?"

Will she feel better if she lets out all the unhappiness?

If things are kept in one's heart, it is easy to get into trouble, so he doesn't mind if she scolds him a few more times.

Jiang Jingchun didn't expect Gu Huaisheng to answer like this.

Oh, yes. He must have regarded her as a child throwing a tantrum again. Her behavior, in his eyes, was nothing but irrelevant. And why would he be angry about something that had nothing to do with itching? He spoke in an elder's tone to condone her.

Jiang Jingchun didn't understand. It was like this before, but after that incident, how could he still act like that as if it was his due?

She suddenly felt exhausted. What was the point of scolding him?

He remained unmoved even when scolded.

She let out a sigh of relief, and finally looked at Gu Huaisheng and said, "I'm not your cousin anymore, and I have nothing to do with you. You don't have to bother with me anymore."

Having said that, she ran away without looking back.

This time, there was no more Gu Huaisheng's voice behind me.

*

When they returned, the banquet had already ended. Jiang Jingchun did not go back to the back garden, but went directly to the room on the south side of Chongming Hall.

But unexpectedly, he ran into Jiang Runchu and Jiang Jinghui in the corridor.

Jiang Runchu frowned when he saw her. He said in a bad tone, "Where have you been again? Why can't you just be at peace on a day like today?"

Today was Jiang Jinghui's ancestral recognition banquet, and she was running around doing something.

Jiang Jingchun couldn't get angry anymore after hearing what Jiang Runchu said. She smiled nonchalantly and said, "I was sitting there peacefully, but Lou Yanyan came to bother me. If I didn't leave, she would pester me."

It was they who wanted to invite the Lou family over. Now that Lou Yanyan is here, how could she not cause trouble for her?

There was no one to take care of her, and she couldn't fight with Lou Yanyan again, so what could she do? Besides running away, what else could she do?

She clearly didn't cause any trouble, so why did he blame her?

Jiang Runchu choked when she was told to say that, but she quickly said, "You are so sweet-talking, your hair and clothes are in such a mess, and you still say you are safe."

Jiang Jingchun had just been running back and forth and had fallen down, so his work looked a little sloppy.

In Jiang Runchu's eyes, this was evidence that she was out making trouble again.

Jiang Jingchun was too lazy to continue talking to Jiang Runchu, but heard Jiang Jinghui on the side say: "Brother, don't talk about your sister like that. She is not without sense of propriety."

She spoke up for her, but this did not make Jiang Runchu less angry. Instead, he said, "She has a sense of propriety? Do you know what she has done in the past..."

Jiang Runchu wanted to say something else, but was interrupted by someone walking out of the corridor.

The one who came was Shuliang.

When everyone saw him appear, they were puzzled. What was the servant beside Gu Huaisheng doing here? Moreover, Shuliang was here, but why was Gu Huaisheng nowhere to be seen? Just now, when the banquet was halfway through, Gu Huaisheng suddenly left, and no one knew what he was doing.

Shu Liang bowed to the three people, then walked up to Jiang Jingchun and handed her a box of ointment. He said, "The master said that you broke your hand, so I brought you some ointment."

Jiang Runchu would be a fool if he couldn't guess it now.

It seems that Gu Huaisheng's sudden departure today had something to do with Jiang Jingchun.

Fell? Jiang Runchu looked at her and saw some scratches on her clothes at the knees.

Jiang Runchu was speechless for a moment, and then he heard Jiang Jingchun say to Shuliang: "I don't want it, I have one myself."

Didn't she tell her not to have anything to do with him? Why was he being so annoying?

Haha, he is the best man in the world. Even after she scolded him like that, he still gave her ointment.

After Jiang Jingchun finished speaking, he no longer looked at the two men and went back to his room, leaving the other three men there.

Jiang Runchu even suspected that he had heard it wrong. Was she rejecting Gu Huaisheng?

In the past, she always looked up to him with eager eyes, but what happened now? He gave her ointment and she reacted like this.

Something must have happened between them that they were unaware of, otherwise, how could Jiang Jingchun suddenly become a different person?

*

That night, around three o'clock in the morning, everyone in the Jiang family had already gone to bed. In the entire Jiang Mansion, there was no sound of human voice except for the low humming of cicadas.

Jiang Jinghui, who had been lying on the bed to rest, suddenly closed her eyes and then stood up.

She put on her shoes, put on her outer coat, and walked outside. She found that the maid had fallen asleep. Then, she walked to the window and knocked lightly on the windowsill. In a blink of an eye, a dark figure appeared in front of the window. Jiang Jinghui leaned aside and the man in black climbed in through the window.

Jiang Jinghui asked, "No one found out, right?"

The man in black laughed in a low voice. "I'm in charge, what are you afraid of? I even put a fragrance on the maid next to you, which made her even more dizzy."

The two of them walked to the table and sat down. Jiang Jinghui said, "Let's meet outside next time. It's too dangerous to meet at Jiang's house."

"Okay, it really took a lot of effort to come here." After saying this, he was silent for a moment, and then asked, "Have you been okay these days? Have they noticed anything wrong?"

Jiang Jinghui laughed and said sarcastically, "They are all fools. What can they see?"

Hearing her say this, he did not ask any more questions and just said, "It is better to be careful."

"Okay, got it."

"I saw you and Gu Huaisheng walking very close today." said the man in black.

After talking about him, who would have thought that Jiang Jinghui actually laughed darkly, and the sound was like the low moan of a poisonous snake in the dark night, "What's wrong? Everything she has should have been mine, right? Since she took everything from me, I must make sure she has nothing. No matter what she likes, I will not let her get what she wants."

She shouldn't have anything.

Even the people she likes.

This time, after hearing her words, the man in black was silent for a long time. He reminded her, "Don't act on impulse. Gu Huaisheng is a person... it's better not to provoke him."

Jiang Jinghui didn't know whether she took his words to heart or not, she just said calmly: "I know, have you taken care of that family? Don't let anyone find out anything wrong later."

"Don't worry, the adults have already made arrangements. Whoever reveals the secret will be killed."

The two of them were silent for a while, and finally the man in black said to her, "Okay, that's it. If you have anything to do next time, let's meet at the teahouse."

Jiang Jinghui nodded, and then the man in black got up and left, climbing out the window.

After the man in black left, Jiang Jinghui was slow to return to bed. She got up and walked to the window, but there was no trace of him.

She looked up at the dark curtain. In the deep night, the moon was hanging in the sky like a round disk.

It’s not that she didn’t see Jiang Jingchun running away today.

Can't you bear this? A sneer appeared on her lips. It's not enough. She has lived a good life for so many years. Now she has only been back for two days. Can't she bear it?

Is it useless to be so fragile?

Jiang Jinghui had expected her to be useless. After all, her mother had raised her so lovingly, so what use could she be?

However, she thought that when she was taken home that day, she would not be able to bear it when Jiang Nan asked her to give up the room. She could only hold on for two days before she could not bear it anymore, and she still praised her for being able to handle things.

But it was beyond her expectation that Gu Huaisheng chased after her. According to their intelligence, Jiang Jingchun was pestering and beating Gu Huaisheng, but Gu Huaisheng remained unmoved.

Looking at it today, it seems a little different.