A major crisis! An earth-shattering crisis!
Pinned beneath Su Mengyao, Jiang Cheng couldn’t see Lin Shuangxue’s expression. Through the gap in Su Mengyao’s skirt hem, she could only see a pair of straight long legs standing at the doorway.
For the sake of that so-called sense of privacy and immersion, Jiang Cheng had designed this room to be very dim. It had a natural sneaky feeling. Now, with Lin Shuangxue barging in, it really felt like getting caught red-handed while sneaking a bite.
But she wasn’t sneaking a bite!
She was about to die!
Jiang Cheng felt suffocated with resentment. Fortunately, Su Mengyao was also caught off guard; she subconsciously lessened the pressure on Jiang Cheng.
“Lin Shuangxue, this has nothing to do with you!”
Finally getting a chance to catch her breath, Jiang Cheng heard Su Mengyao’s trembling voice, trying hard to sound composed.
For a girl with social anxiety, being stared at by so many people with such strange gazes must be extremely uncomfortable, right? Not finding a crack in the ground to crawl into while even openly defying Lin Shuangxue was already out of absolute love for White Snow.
But White Snow, whom you’re protecting, is being tortured beneath you right now!
Pat, pat, pat.
Lin Shuangxue’s footsteps struck the wooden floor, stirring up heavy sounds that filled the entire room. The killing intent within them made Jiang Cheng shiver.
Please no!
Soon, Lin Shuangxue stopped abruptly in front of the sofa. Jiang Cheng turned her head to look at her. The bright light from the lounge streamed through the doorway onto Jiang Cheng’s face. Having been in the dark for too long, she had to squint to endure the overly harsh brightness.
The light also fell on Lin Shuangxue, even spreading toward her face, but stopped at her chest.
Lin Shuangxue’s entire face was shrouded in darkness. Jiang Cheng couldn’t see it clearly at all, but her heart clenched, and for no reason she had a terrible premonition.
“Um… Lin… Little Shuangxue, please, let me explain…”
Jiang Cheng squeezed out a smile full of cracks onto her face, trying to awaken Lin Shuangxue’s conscience.
But just like a husband who’s been cheated on won’t forgive his unfaithful wife, Lin Shuangxue wouldn’t forgive someone who was with another woman behind her back.
Jiang Cheng only felt a blur before her eyes. Her collar was suddenly grabbed. She barely managed to yelp before everything spun. By the time she came to her senses, she had already been pulled out from under Su Mengyao and dragged to Lin Shuangxue’s chest.
Instinctively lifting her head, Jiang Cheng finally saw Lin Shuangxue’s expressionless face—Jiang Cheng knew that meant she was angry to a certain extreme.
“Lin Shuangxue!”
Su Mengyao also stood up abruptly.
Great. Now she was really caught in the middle.
Hearing the girl’s feigned composure, Lin Shuangxue finally shifted her gaze and glanced at her.
“I know you. You’re that newcomer from the Su family.”
Her tone was bland, like the calm before a storm.
“What, is the Su family trying to start a war with the Lin family now?”
“Little Shuangxue, calm down first! It’s not what you think!”
“I don’t represent the Su family. I just want to ask Classmate Jiang Cheng a question…”
In this confrontation, Su Mengyao had already fallen completely into a disadvantage, but she still bit her lip and didn’t back down.
“Then now, I’ll give you the answer…”
Lin Shuangxue slightly narrowed her long, narrow eyes.
“Jiang Cheng’s answer is no. It will be the same today, and it will be the same tomorrow.”
“Hey hey hey! Little Shuangxue, you don’t even know what she’s talking about!”
“Lin Shuangxue, don’t be so domineering. I’m not trying to take Jiang Cheng from you at all!”
Su Mengyao ground her teeth.
“So what?”
Lin Shuangxue sneered.
“I don’t care at all.”
“Listen to people! Can’t you two just listen to me say one thing… Wah!”
Jiang Cheng tried to explain further, but no one listened to her. In fact, Lin Shuangxue yanked her by the collar, and the unsuspecting girl stumbled, being dragged toward the door.
When they reached the entrance of the treatment room, Lin Shuangxue suddenly stopped in her tracks and turned around.
“Jiang Cheng is my maid.”
She said each word deliberately.
“She is my possession. If you want to have her in the future, come and fight me for her yourself.”
Then she pulled Jiang Cheng and left without looking back.
Leaving behind a crowd of onlookers sitting upright, pretending not to have heard, and the girl in the treatment room whose expression shifted between dark and bright.
“Little Shuangxue, slow down!”
Dragged along, Jiang Cheng’s steps were chaotic. It was extremely hard to both maintain balance and keep up with Lin Shuangxue.
After all, Lin Shuangxue was a tall, long-legged elder sister type, nearly 1.8 meters in height, with legs over a meter long. Jiang Cheng was just a short girl not even 1.6 meters tall, barely reaching Lin Shuangxue’s shoulders.
But Lin Shuangxue paid no attention; she had no intention of stopping.
The strange gazes around made Jiang Cheng a bit embarrassed, but what bothered her most was the anger radiating from Lin Shuangxue—she could feel it from her increasingly fast steps.
“Little Shuangxue, I know I was wrong. Can you just…”
Jiang Cheng wanted to talk her way out, but it was hard to speak clearly while unsteady, and by now she was practically jogging.
Then, her foot slipped, angering her left leg, which tripped her right leg for no reason.
“Ah!”
Caught off guard, Jiang Cheng fell straight toward the ground.
Watching the floor come closer, the girl closed her eyes in fear, bracing for the inevitable back-first landing.
Lin Shuangxue reacted quickly, her other hand immediately catching Jiang Cheng’s chest, preventing the miserable ending.
But Jiang Cheng still twisted her ankle a little. Though not serious, the unprepared girl still had a few tears welling up in the corners of her eyes.
“Ah… it hurts!”
She yelped in pain.
“Are you okay?”
Her tone finally had a ripple, still mostly cold, but with a deliberate feel to it.
Jiang Cheng, however, sensed that hint of guilt—or perhaps a desire to apologize.
Normally, at a time like this, Jiang Cheng should pretend nothing happened, forgive her, and score some好感度.
But inexplicably, a wave of grievance surged in her heart. Her nose tingled, her vision blurred, and unwelcome tears spilled from the corners of her eyes.
Lin Shuangxue was truly panicked now.
“Jiang Cheng, you…”
“Lin Shuangxue!”
Jiang Cheng interrupted her loudly.
“Is it fun to bully me? I’m your possession, am I? When did I ever become yours? Just because of that eight million, did you buy me as a slave?!”
“I didn’t…”
Lin Shuangxue was at a loss for the first time.
“That’s not what I meant at all!”
“Then what did you mean?!”
“I…”
“I’m telling you, Lin Shuangxue! I’ve had enough!”
Jiang Cheng slapped her hand away.
“I treated you as my best friend, my best bestie. I took you seriously! Every day you wanted me to sleep with you, I did! You wanted me to wash your clothes and stockings, I washed them all clean for you! Isn’t that enough?!”
The girl’s outburst was truly shocking. Passersby cast strange looks, first at the white-haired girl crying her heart out, then at the pale, tall girl, wearing ambiguous smiles.
Many even took out their phones to record videos.
Lin Shuangxue noticed but couldn’t care less. Her mind was completely occupied by the girl with the tear-streaked face in front of her.
What should she say now?
Say sorry? Would that be too perfunctory… Say I know I was wrong, I’ll change from now on? Would that be too fake…
Give Jiang Cheng a few hundred thousand more, or just waive the eight million debt?
Then she’d be gone for good…
While Lin Shuangxue was still hesitating, Jiang Cheng had already cried until she had no strength left to shout.
She slowly crouched down, hugging her legs and burying her face in her knees.
Her voice gradually faded, turning into physiological sobs.
“Why…”
She hiccuped intermittently, murmuring,
“Why does everyone bully me…”
“I just… wanted to be friends with Little Shuangxue…”
The voice was very soft, almost inaudible.
But falling on Lin Shuangxue’s ears, it stirred up a storm.