Push Me Away When I Come, Don't Hold Me Back When I Leave - Chapter 161

Chapter 161: The Mystery Resurfaces

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“What’s wrong with you today, little princess? Why so urgent?” Xia Ruoming asked while following Jiang Ruhua. She had never seen Jiang Ruhua this “agitated” before, Jiang Ruhua had never been this impetuous.

“Don’t you know what you did?” Jiang Ruhua stopped and glared at Xia Ruoming, then immediately continued pulling her forward, as if afraid someone would catch up from behind.

“What did I do?” Xia Ruoming was completely confused. She truly didn’t know how she had offended the little princess again, and in her previous life, the little princess hadn’t acted like this when angry either.

Actually, it wasn’t Xia Ruoming’s fault for not understanding Jiang Ruhua’s thoughts. In her previous life, Xia Ruoming only truly understood the little princess after she turned 22. She had thought that was the epitome of human tsundere behavior, but she couldn’t have imagined that the young little princess was even more tsundere, with an even quicker temper.

“I told you to stay away from that crazy woman Ye Han, why didn’t you listen to me?” Jiang Ruhua became even more angry hearing Xia Ruoming’s question, and replied irritably.

At this moment, Xia Ruoming’s face clearly showed two words: speechless.

She and the little princess weren’t lovers, and in her previous life, the little princess didn’t like her either. Could she really be angry just because Ye Han hugged her? What did that have to do with you?

“Look, little princess, we’re all adults now, we should have our own judgment,” Xia Ruoming said rather helplessly, as if coaxing a child. “If we judge from your perspective, there would hardly be any sane women in the world, right?”

In terms of her previous life, Jiang Ruhua’s words were indeed a bit “unreasonable”…

“You…”

Before Jiang Ruhua could finish speaking, she was interrupted by Xia Ruoming again.

“Besides, little princess, my interactions with my sister seem to have nothing to do with you, right? Or is little princess now reaching so far as to interfere with my family matters? If that’s the case, I suggest you give up, because that’s what I hate the most.”

“Sister?” After hearing Xia Ruoming’s words, Jiang Ruhua had the same reaction as Xia Ruoming earlier, completely confused.

“Yes, Ye Han is my sister. If little princess found me just to spend the day badmouthing my sister, then I’ll have to excuse myself and bid farewell.” After saying this, Xia Ruoming directly shook off Jiang Ruhua’s hand and walked straight toward the classroom.

It wasn’t that Xia Ruoming was really angry, but rather that she was afraid. The recent events were simply too strange, completely different from her previous life. But there was one thing Xia Ruoming firmly believed, even if it meant getting involved with Xu Fengwu, she must never get romantically involved with Jiang Ruhua again.

Getting close to Jiang Ruhua would inevitably lead to a fall. It wasn’t just because of the little princess’s nature, but more importantly because of the little princess’s family background. She and the little princess were clearly from different social classes. After her relationship with Jiang Ruhua was exposed, Jiang Wenjun never gave her a good look, and Jiang Zhennan needn’t be mentioned. If the actual power holders in the Jiang family didn’t approve of Jiang Ruhua’s view on love, then whether the little princess liked her or not had become irrelevant.

Except for Jiang Huaiyun, no one in the Jiang family would agree to Jiang Ruhua keeping a mistress.

Xia Ruoming was quite realistic at that time, having passed the age of dreaming. When she learned that Jiang Ruhua was looking for her, she had guessed that perhaps Jiang Ruhua did have some feelings for her beyond the physical, and she went into hiding precisely so Jiang Ruhua could let go of the past.

There was no possibility between them anymore.

In this new life, Jiang Huaiyun still had the same personality, and Jiang Ruhua still had her little tempers. Could she expect the Jiang family to suddenly change their nature, or expect Jiang Ruhua to give up everything she was supposed to have and elope with her?

Just thinking about it logically, Xia Ruoming knew what choice was best. Getting involved with Xu Fengwu would at most mean suffering the same setback as in her previous life, with her current academic achievements, it would just mean taking a few more years to achieve a good life. But getting involved with Jiang Ruhua, did she want to meet the same end again? Coming with nothing and leaving with nothing? Although that was because of her pride, returning everything Jiang Ruhua had given her, the undeniable fact was that she ended up living worse than before she met Jiang Ruhua.

Even if she was now successful, Jiang Zhennan could ruin her life in a matter of minutes.

Actually, Xia Ruoming had been afraid of Jiang Ruhua since her reincarnation, partly due to psychological trauma. This trauma wasn’t entirely about being abandoned by Jiang Ruhua.

She had never forgotten one thing: the street below her rented house was clearly a one-way street, and no cars would pass through such a place at midnight, but that day a car just happened to come, just happened to deliberately or unknowingly drive the wrong way down this one-way street, just happened to speed only on this broken road, just happened to have a drunk driver who wanted to take a detour, and just happened to pass by at the time she was returning home.

In the flashbacks before her reincarnation, she had learned about some things that happened after her death through auditory hallucinations, and naturally understood these “coincidences.”

Xia Ruoming had asked herself countless times: Xia Ruoming, don’t you think all of this is too coincidental? Is this really just chance?

But she dared not think further, nor could she. Firstly, she had already reincarnated, so dwelling on these things didn’t mean much, how could she find evidence of the future in the past? Secondly, if someone really had hired someone to kill her in a hit-and-run, and that driver was protected, then among those who were at odds with her, only one person had both the ability and would do such a thing.

Jiang Zhennan.

Even though her relationship with Jiang Ruhua had been exposed by the Jiang family’s private investigators within the family, only the Jiang family knew about it. How could some unknown gossip reporter immediately expose the story of Jiang Ruhua and her former mistress right after her death? Jiang Huaiyun had always protected her sister’s relationships, and although Jiang Wenjun didn’t like her, he cared about his daughter’s reputation. The remaining Jiang brothers didn’t care much about this matter either.

She had already forgotten about this, after all, in this life she couldn’t possibly have any relationship with Jiang Ruhua. But Jiang Ruhua met her again at the wrong time and place, causing her to recall this fishbone stuck in her throat.

Xia Ruoming would never forget a phrase An Jinrou often said in her previous life: “Fate is merciless, fate is just.”

If fate was truly that merciless and just, then after her reincarnation, there was only one thing she could do when facing Jiang Ruhua.

Keep her distance.