Push Me Away When I Come, Don't Hold Me Back When I Leave - Chapter 51

Chapter 51: The Karmic Flower of Past Life

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“Little princess, being kept by you is impossible, and besides, I’m not interested in you. You should go find someone else to play your little games with.” Xia Ruoming waggled her finger gently, although she knew that Jiang Ruhua wasn’t actually what she appeared to be on the surface. However, having been reborn, she maintained a pride that refused to be inferior to others, so she had no intention of yielding to Jiang Ruhua.

“But I’m interested in you!” Jiang Ruhua puffed up her cheeks, crossing her arms and staring at Xia Ruoming. That imperious tone was really irritating, as if Xia Ruoming should naturally yield to her.

Xia Ruoming knew that Jiang Ruhua wouldn’t easily give up on things she had set her eyes on, and she would definitely come back later. It would be better to resolve this now.

“Little princess, do you really want to keep me that badly?” She blinked, asking Jiang Ruhua.

“Oh? Have you changed your mind? If you become my mistress, you can say what you want right now.”

“No… since you want me so much, how about we make a bet, little princess?” Xia Ruoming interlaced her fingers, her expression somewhat playful.

“Hmm? What kind of bet? Is the stake you?” Jiang Ruhua seemed to have become interested as well, listening to Xia Ruoming seriously.

“Um… senior, could you step aside for a moment?” Xia Ruoming bowed slightly to Jiang Huaiyun, speaking with slight apology.

“No problem.” Jiang Huaiyun stood up directly to leave, then turned back to say to Xia Ruoming: “Ruhua has been spoiled, if there’s any rudeness, please be understanding, junior.”

“Ruhua, I’ll wait for you in the car outside. Come back quickly after you finish talking.”

After speaking, Jiang Huaiyun walked straight to the entrance, leaving Xia Ruoming and Jiang Ruhua alone.

“Tell me, what do you want to bet?” Jiang Ruhua maintained her arrogant attitude.

Looking at Jiang Ruhua who still acted like a princess, Xia Ruoming fell into reminiscence.

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2016 — On Sichuan University campus

“Xia Ruoming! Be my mistress!” A haggard-looking Xia Ruoming was walking on campus when suddenly someone patted her shoulder and said something strange. Xia Ruoming turned around to see a girl about 1.7 meters tall staring intently at her.

Compared to her somewhat immature eighteen-year-old self, the twenty-year-old Jiang Ruhua was already strikingly beautiful. Apart from being somewhat flat-chested, her perfect figure was indeed the capital for her arrogance. Even Xia Ruoming, who only had eyes for Xu Fengwu at the time, let her gaze linger for half a moment, but only half a moment. Afterwards, Xia Ruoming didn’t even bother to answer Jiang Ruhua, simply turning away to leave.

“Hey! Xia Ruoming, even though you’re from the Literature Department, how can you be so rude!” As the eldest daughter of the Jiang family, Jiang Ruhua had never been ignored like this before. With just a crook of her finger, even celebrities would be willing to give themselves to her.

Compared to being taken advantage of by some old men, who wouldn’t want to be with the young and wealthy eldest daughter of the Jiang family? Moreover, Jiang Ruhua’s future was boundlessly promising.

But she had never done such things. Jiang Ruhua, who appeared to be an overbearing heiress on the surface, was actually a pure-hearted girl. Only the future Xia Ruoming would know this fact.

“Manners?” Xia Ruoming gave a cold laugh at the person behind her, “Speaking of which, someone who directly shouts about wanting others to be her mistress in public doesn’t have any manners to speak of, so why should I need to be polite to such a person?”

Jiang Ruhua had been watching Xia Ruoming at school for a year. Though she was a quiet and elegant girl, she dyed her hair an untimely ice-blue color. Her haggard face held an undisguisable charm. Though she liked women, she had never spared Jiang Ruhua a second glance when passing by. She always received more attention than Jiang Ruhua herself — all of this made Jiang Ruhua feel extremely displeased.

“Great heiress of the Jiang family, if this is all you can do, you’d better go home and play with your dolls. You’re not even fully grown up, yet you want to keep an older sister? You’ve got some nerve.” Although they had never interacted before, Xia Ruoming still knew who was talking to her. For someone who wasn’t exactly a good person and wasn’t worth getting deeply involved with, Xia Ruoming’s tone was always unkind.

Jiang Ruhua was born into a noble family and was deeply loved by her family. Whether it was the Jiang family’s patriarch, her parents, or her brother Jiang Huaiyun, they all indulged her immensely. Although Jiang Ruhua had no interest in inheriting the family business, everyone in the Jiang family had promised her that whatever she needed from the Jiang family would be hers, no matter what it was.

Hearing that mocking tone only strengthened Jiang Ruhua’s determination to win her over.

“Hey! Xia Ruoming! Don’t you like that woman called Xu Fengwu?” Jiang Ruhua shouted behind her.

“Oh? What’s that got to do with you?” Xia Ruoming finally looked directly at Jiang Ruhua for the first time, asking somewhat lazily.

“Be my mistress, I can give you countless money. That way, no matter what, you can be worthy of the woman in your heart. As for whether you want to continue pursuing her, that’s not my business, just don’t be with any men while you’re my mistress.” Jiang Ruhua tried hard to act like those mature adults, but this statement didn’t seem to earn any goodwill from Xia Ruoming.

“Hahaha… I say, your personality really is like a little princess.”

“Little princess, do you think money can buy everything in this world? Even if I’m not worthy of the person I like, what does that have to do with you, little princess? If you want to buy my body, come back when your mind is more mature.” Xia Ruoming, whose heart had been full of dark clouds, was completely amused by these words. She laughed out loud in public, not caring about her image at all.

As she laughed, she even went to ruffle Jiang Ruhua’s hair, making Jiang Ruhua’s face turn completely red with anger.

And it was precisely because of seeing Jiang Ruhua’s flushed face that Xia Ruoming laughed even more unrestrainedly. How could there be such an amusing person in the world who would come to keep her as a mistress with such an immature mindset?

Afterwards, Xia Ruoming didn’t forget to hook Jiang Ruhua’s chin with her finger, taunting her one more time.

That year’s Xia Ruoming was fearless. She didn’t care if Jiang Ruhua was the Jiang family’s daughter. Apart from Xu Fengwu, she didn’t care about anyone. And she also believed that this matter would end there, that Jiang Ruhua wouldn’t come to bother her again. From then on, their stories should have no more intersections.

Jiang Ruhua hid the shadows in her eyes and left indignantly. After that incident, Jiang Ruhua really never sought out Xia Ruoming again.

But Jiang Ruhua never forgot that day’s events. She swore that one day she would conquer Xia Ruoming, make this hateful person become her woman, make her regret what she had done today.

That year’s Jiang Ruhua engraved this shameful scene in her heart. Even when she closed her eyes to sleep, she would always recall Xia Ruoming’s somewhat unrestrained smile.

For some unknown reason, even though she had never been treated this way before, even though this was such a hateful person, she still left a deep impression in her heart.