"I don't want to sit here."
Jiang Cuo spoke in a cold, indifferent voice, and Su Qianqian immediately responded.
“Okay, if someone is in Jiang Jiang’s way, then we won’t sit here. I’ll call the housekeeper right now and have him bring over a deluxe lunch. As for Lu Rong, we were high school classmates after all, so let’s have lunch together.”
Su Qianqian didn't dare let Lu Rong take sides too obviously, lest those people target Lu Rong, but she also didn't want Lu Rong to stay there and suffer.
Jiang Cuo was a little annoyed and pouted slightly.
Su Qianqian immediately whispered an explanation from the side, "After all, right now, our personas are that I'm your little lapdog pursuing you. If you just agree to go over there, wouldn't people misunderstand and think that you've lowered yourself and said yes to me?"
Adding deer antler would just mean you're still aloof and haven't been won over by me.
Jiang Cuo didn't actually care what Su Qianqian's explanation was; he only cared about Su Qianqian's attitude.
Su Qianqian knew she was unhappy, so giving her a reason showed that she cared about her.
Su Qianqian breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the number above Jiang Cuo's head turn green again to 100, and wiped the cold sweat from her forehead.
The girl named Fang Yuanyuan kept her eyes fixed on Su Qianqian and Jiang Cuo, her head lowered to hide the resentment in her eyes.
[Waste System: Host's life is too good to be true, even this little waste is envious.]
After Su Qianqian finished giving instructions to the housekeeper, the housekeeper arranged for the nearest company to provide services.
Su Qianqian rolled her eyes, silently retorting to the useless system, 'That's all money my sister earned through hard work, okay? It's called 'no pain, no gain,' what right do you have to be envious?'
[Waste System: A friendly reminder to the host that you are about to face a major plot bottleneck. There is a chance that you will receive additional plot details. The direction of the plot will be forcibly arranged by the system from now on. Please don't worry too much.]
Su Qianqian didn't show much emotional fluctuation, clearly having become accustomed to the system's unpredictable actions.
The food arrived quickly, exquisite, and served by four maids dressed in cute maid outfits.
This contrasted sharply with the group of girls who had just been making rude remarks and were now squatting on the ground grilling food.
Hua Kongque clenched her fingers around her palm. Although she was very unwilling, she had to admit that she really envied Jiang Cuo.
She is so much more outstanding than Jiang Cuo, so why isn't she the one who receives this kind of treatment?
She deserves the best in the world.
After they had eaten and drunk their fill, Su Qianqian received a request from the system to take Jiang Cuo for a stroll in the neighborhood.
The main reason was that the scenery was too familiar; it was the same scenery she had seen when she climbed the mountain during her senior year of high school. She even remembered where Jiang Cuo was when Fang Jingjing pushed him.
"Jiang Jiang, doesn't this place seem a little familiar?"
Su Qianqian gripped Jiang Cuo's wrist, a hint of expectation in her eyes.
Jiang Cuo shook her head, a hint of confusion in her phoenix eyes. "I've never been to this place before, so why does it feel familiar?"
Su Qianqian raised her hand and tidied up a few stray hairs on Jiang Cuo's forehead.
Jiang Cuo is truly beautiful, like a piece of jade that needs no processing. Even when she stands still, she is pleasing to the eye and perfectly natural.
Unfortunately, Jiang Cuo doesn't remember. Even such obvious scenes that could overlap in her memory are not remembered because Jiang Cuo is just a string of code in the system world.
Su Qianqian felt a sudden sense of loss. No matter how rich Jiang Cuo's character was, it was all fake, just a setting.
Su Qianqian forced a smile to suppress these troubling thoughts.
"nothing."
Suddenly, Su Qianqian felt that the surrounding environment was eerily quiet.
I got goosebumps all over my body, as if something bad was about to happen, and my hair stood on end.
She wanted to turn around because she had a gut feeling there was danger behind her, but the system froze her in place, and she couldn't even turn around; her whole body was stiff.
"It was you two who framed my cousin for pushing you off a cliff, causing her college entrance exam results to be invalidated and her to miss out on university."
"You even have criminal records, yet you're standing here perfectly fine. Just because you have power and influence, does that mean you can rewrite an ordinary person's life at will? Do you know how miserable she is now? She could have had a bright future; she should be the one standing here smiling. It's all because of the two of you that you ruined her life. Go down there, and when you get to hell, remember the sins you committed, and regret them then."
Su Qianqian wanted to turn around but couldn't move. However, she could tell that the girl screaming so desperately was Fang Yuanyuan, the head of the basketball team.
It turns out that Fang Yuanyuan is Fang Jingjing's cousin.
With a final, broken roar, Fang Yuanyuan used all her strength to push Su Qianqian down.
Su Qianqian couldn't dodge even if she wanted to, and only caught a glimpse out of the corner of her eye. The moment she lost her balance, Jiang Cuo caught her, placed his hand on the back of her head, and the two of them tumbled down, losing their balance.
In the original book, Jiang Cuo was such a cold-blooded and ruthless person, yet he would protect her? And even so carefully protect her head.
Was this also arranged by the system? Or did Jiang mistakenly become an out-of-character (OOC) character from the original book?
The pain is real.
The two tumbled down the cliff together, bumping and bruising themselves against sharp stones and thick trees.
Surprisingly, Su Qianqian didn't feel much pain; she was held tightly in Jiang Cuo's arms.
In her daze, Su Qianqian heard Jiang Cuo gasp in pain, but the hand on the back of her head remained firmly in her grasp.
After that, Su Qianqian lost consciousness and could no longer perceive her own body.
Amidst the bizarre and fantastical world, Su Qianqian opened her eyes again, thinking she had returned to her original world.
Because she was wearing her own clothes from the original world, she appeared in the bustling street, but everyone ignored her.
Suddenly, a phantom image appeared in front of them, and the surrounding scenery all froze.
A cloud of white mist suddenly appeared before my eyes, as if a shattered spacetime had been reassembled, connecting two unrelated parallel worlds. A woman slowly emerged from the mist, with a slender waist, long legs, a pale, bloodless face, and long, jet-black hair. Strangely, however, this woman had two fluffy fox ears on her head, and a huge, fluffy, reddish-brown tail followed behind her. Her eyes were alluringly upturned.
The woman's eyes gleamed with excitement at seeing Su Qianqian, along with an air of arrogant superiority, her tail swaying slightly.
Su Qianqian felt that this face was somewhat familiar, but she tried hard to see it clearly, but it was too blurry. She just felt that she had seen it somewhere before.
Is this a dream? Only in dreams can you not see the face of the person in the dream.
Like a fox spirit in disguise, she swayed her tall figure, elegant and haughty, as she approached Su Qianqian step by step.
A cool breath brushed against Su Qianqian's face. Long, slender fingers touched Su Qianqian's chin, then gently lifted her face, and her bright red lips parted slightly.
It was a distant and pleasant sound, with an ethereal and dreamlike quality, looking down from above with a familiar sense of confidence.
"Su Qianqian, you will fall in love with me, life after life, through countless reincarnations."
A note from the author:
Su Qianqian: Is there really such a good thing?
Fox: Confused.
Thank you to all the little angels who voted for me or watered my plants with nutrient solution between 23:50:05 on May 1, 2022 and 12:43:58 on May 2, 2022!
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Chapter Fifty
Su Qianqian was chilled by the fox-like woman's breath, and she instantly opened her eyes, regained her senses, and looked at the scene around her.
Tangled branches, damp cliff bottom.
Su Qianqian glanced at the sky, where it was just beginning to lighten.
[Useless System: Host, it's early morning in the system world.]
Su Qianqian slapped herself to wake herself up, which meant she had been unconscious for almost 20 hours.
Su Qianqian looked around and saw Jiang Cuo huddled next to her.
Jiang Cuo's ankle was injured and was haphazardly bandaged with a few strips of cloth; blood was already seeping out.
Su Qianqian touched Jiang Cuo's forehead; it was burning hot.
She was held safely in Jiang Cuo's arms.
"Jiang Cuo, wake up..."
Su Qianqian gently nudged Jiang Cuo's shoulder.
Jiang Cuo had a high fever due to her injury and cold. Her whole body was burning hot and her face was flushed. Perhaps because the person next to her was Su Qianqian, she was completely unprepared even in her unconscious state. She felt Su Qianqian push her shoulder, but she just frowned and murmured a few words, "Stop messing around, I'm tired, let me sleep for a while."
Su Qianqian pressed her forehead against Jiang Cuo's forehead, and the heat startled her. Good heavens, he was definitely delirious with fever now, and was even talking nonsense.
'Useless system, adjust my physical skills to their optimal state, and I want to know why I was unconscious after falling off the cliff, but Jiang Cuo wasn't? And what exactly happened during the time I was unconscious?'
Su Qianqian sat up and rubbed her head. She seemed to remember dreaming about something while she was unconscious, but she forgot most of it after waking up. In the dream, a woman said something to her, but she couldn't remember what she said.
[Waste System: Okay, host. Please wait three minutes. The system is adjusting your body's functions. After three minutes, your body will return to its optimal health state.]
Su Qianqian closed her eyes and slowly felt her body gradually warming up. The cold was dispelled, and she regained her strength. The hunger in her stomach gradually disappeared, the pain in her body slowly lessened, and the fatigue was completely gone.
'I never expected this kind of cheat could be used! Why didn't you say so sooner? Since I can be adjusted, then Jiang Cuo's leg wound and high fever should be eliminated too, right?'
[Useless System: Sorry, host, this little piece of trash doesn't have that kind of permission. It's playing a recording of what happened while you were unconscious.]
Su Qianqian placed the rudimentary system page in front of her, which displayed the scenes that had occurred after she fell into a coma.
She had already lost consciousness when she and Jiang Cuo rolled down the cliff together.
Su Qianqian watched as the two rolled for several minutes before being stopped by a rock. Jiang Cuo's lower back landed on that rock, causing him to wince in pain. After they stopped, Jiang Cuo's first instinct wasn't to check his own wounds, but to look at the woman in his arms for injury. Seeing that she was unharmed and still breathing, only unconscious, he felt relieved. He then cautiously observed their surroundings.
Ignoring his injured ankle, Jiang Cuo first placed her in a safe place, then groped around trying to find an exit. However, seeing that it was getting dark, he gave up and dragged his injured ankle back.
Then, with great effort, he carried her on his back, searched for the safe cave they had just found, put her inside, found some water, took off his clothes and covered her with them, and casually tore off a few strips of cloth to bandage the wound on his ankle.
Su Qianqian saw that Jiang Cuo had tried to start a fire but failed. She could only hold her and warm her with her own body heat while waiting for her to wake up. Later, because she had exhausted too much energy and had not eaten, she developed a fever and fell into a deep sleep due to her injury and the cold.
Su Qianqian looked at Jiang Cuo on the system screen, who was usually impeccably dressed from head to toe.
During high school, even students from impoverished backgrounds strive to be perfect. However, in the picture, Jiang Cuo has disheveled hair, numerous small scratches from tree branches, and even two marks on her face.
His clothes were torn, and he was a mess, but he stubbornly cared about her safety as she fell into a deep sleep. Even when he lost consciousness due to a cold and fever, he knew to hold her tightly and transfer his body heat to her.
Su Qianqian's eyes flickered slightly, and a pang of sadness welled up in her heart.
A question suddenly popped into her mind, one she wanted to ask the useless system.
'Was this pre-programmed? Being forced to fall off the cliff was a system-mandated requirement, so were Jiang Cuo's subsequent actions also pre-programmed by the system? They were all emotionless, forced upon him.'
[Useless System: Sorry, host, this question is beyond the scope of the system's ability to answer. The useless system doesn't understand what the host is asking.]