When An Ancient Chinese Romance Novel Heroine Transmigrated Into A Lesbian Novel - Chapter 16

Housekeeper Chen returned that afternoon, and with him around, no one in the old house dared to cause trouble, and Jiang Jiang spent a very peaceful night.

She got up early the next morning, and Housekeeper Chen was a little puzzled when he saw her.

“Xiao Xiao, why don’t you sleep a little longer?”

“I want to go to the nursing home to see Grandma,” Jiang Jiang said, already sitting at the dining table.

Housekeeper Chen didn’t know what he was imagining, and looked at her with great affection, “The old lady will definitely be very happy to see you.”

He looked at Jiang Jiang happily, “You don’t have to worry about what happened yesterday, the old lady and Miss will stand up for you.”

Jiang Jiang nodded, “Sister Xu’an has already told me.”

Housekeeper Chen probably thought that Jiang Jiang and Ji Xu’an had a lot of private contact, and the corners of his mouth almost reached the back of his ears.

Jiang Jiang didn’t explain, and while slowly drinking seafood porridge, she listened to Housekeeper Chen arranging the servants in an orderly manner. It wasn’t until Housekeeper Chen finished his work and returned that Jiang Jiang opened her mouth seemingly inadvertently:

“Uncle Chen, when will Xiao Yuan be able to come back?”

Housekeeper Chen didn’t think much about it, “Second Miss’s leg wasn’t injured to the bone, but just to be on the safe side, she decided to stay in the hospital for another day of observation, and she’ll be discharged tomorrow.”

Jiang Jiang oh-ed, and she looked worried, “Xiao Yuan is alone in the hospital, won’t she be uncomfortable?”

“Second Miss has someone to accompany her, a friend will visit her,” Housekeeper Chen said.

Jiang Jiang blinked, her eyes pure and clear, as if she was simply curious about the word, “Xiao Yuan’s friend? Is it a good friend from her school days?”

Housekeeper Chen smiled, revealing Ji Heyuan’s shortcomings in a very low voice, “Second Miss feels ashamed and refuses to let her classmates know. This friend is someone she met during her graduation trip, and I heard she’s a celebrity.”

A name flashed through Jiang Jiang’s mind—Zheng Zhouzhou.

It seemed that she guessed correctly, Ji Heyuan was injured, and Zheng Zhouzhou would indeed visit her.

Thinking this in her heart, Jiang Jiang didn’t show it on her face at all. She just followed Housekeeper Chen’s words and sighed, “Xiao Yuan must have a very good relationship with this friend.”

“That’s right,” Housekeeper Chen also nodded.

Second Miss felt ashamed and didn’t even want to tell her good classmates, but she was willing to let this friend visit her, so the relationship was evident.

Jiang Jiang had found out the information she wanted, and a shallow smile couldn’t help but appear on her face. This smile fell into Housekeeper Chen’s eyes, and it all became Jiang Jiang’s concern for Ji Heyuan.

Alas, Second Miss’s attitude towards Xiao Xiao was so bad, but Xiao Xiao was still willing to care about her without holding a grudge.

Xiao Xiao was indeed a kind and gentle good child.

In contrast, Second Miss was too ignorant.

Jiang Jiang didn’t know that Housekeeper Chen’s goodwill towards her had increased by another point. After eating, she went to the nursing home and chatted with old lady Ji for more than an hour, making the person’s smile never stop.

From beginning to end, Jiang Jiang didn’t say anything bad about Ji Heyuan, but instead explained for her. Although old lady Ji didn’t express anything, her gaze towards Jiang Jiang was even more gentle and kind.

After saying goodbye to the old lady, when she walked out of the nursing home gate, the driver was still waiting for her in the car. Jiang Jiang sat in the back seat and said in a low voice, “Please take me to see Xiao Yuan.”

So the car drove to the hospital gate again.

Jiang Jiang didn’t tell anyone that she was planning to come to the hospital. Relying on that innocent little face, Jiang Jiang smoothly asked for Ji Heyuan’s ward.

There were two bodyguards guarding the door. They recognized Jiang Jiang and didn’t even ask a question, letting her in very readily

Ji Heyuan’s ward was a luxurious VIP room. The entrance had a partition design, with decorations and potted plants on the wooden display stand, the height of which was just enough to block Jiang Jiang’s entire body.

Jiang Jiang’s footsteps were very light, her breathing almost inaudible, and her whole person was hidden behind the display stand.

The two people in the ward were probably chatting too intently and didn’t even glance in this direction, so they didn’t even notice that there was an extra person in the room.

Looking through the gaps in the potted plants, Jiang Jiang could see Ji Heyuan’s face, and another person was sitting with their back to the door. Jiang Jiang couldn’t see her face, but just looking at her back, she matched this person with Zheng Zhouzhou from her dream.

It really was her.

Jiang Jiang silently breathed out and quietly looked at the two people in the ward, her gaze particularly cold.

Ji Heyuan was completely unaware and was still chatting excitedly with Zheng Zhouzhou.

Zheng Zhouzhou was a few years older than Ji Heyuan, and her scheming methods were even more sophisticated. With just a few words, she coaxed Ji Heyuan into saying everything.

As they chatted, they somehow suddenly started talking about Ji Xu’an.

“Xiao Yuan, I didn’t expect it. President Ji would actually accept such an absurd thing,” Zheng Zhouzhou complained in a joking tone. “She doesn’t seem like someone who would be fooled by such a clumsy lie.”

Speaking of this, Ji Heyuan became angry.

“Who knows, my sister might really be out of her mind.”

Zheng Zhouzhou smiled, seemingly just mentioning it casually, “You said before that President Ji only loves work, and I thought she wouldn’t take a fancy to anyone.”

Ji Heyuan snorted coldly, “It must be Grandma forcing her, otherwise my sister wouldn’t compromise.”

Zheng Zhouzhou’s voice lowered, and if Jiang Jiang’s senses weren’t far beyond ordinary people, she probably wouldn’t have been able to hear her murmur.

“Yes, she just compromised like that…”

Jiang Jiang suddenly felt that something was wrong. In that instant, a bold guess suddenly came to her mind.

In fact, this matter wasn’t difficult to understand. Any woman with a certain ambition, compared to a young and reckless rich lady who relied entirely on her older sister’s care, would of course be more tempted to marry the mature and stable head of the family who held great power and become the mistress of the house.

It is very normal for Zheng Zhouzhou to have such an idea.

What Jiang Jiang was thinking about was whether Zheng Zhouzhou had the same plan in the story in her dream.

Did she finally choose to marry Ji Heyuan really because she loved Ji Heyuan? Or was it because she couldn’t get Ji Xu’an’s love, so she could only settle for second best?

Or was it that Ji Xu’an in the story was too unattainable, so Zheng Zhouzhou didn’t dare to have such thoughts, but now, because of my existence, Zheng Zhouzhou felt that she could do it too?

Jiang Jiang narrowed her eyes, her gaze falling on Zheng Zhouzhou’s back.

The plot of the story was indeed not absolute. With the addition of herself as a variable, everything was different.

Jiang Jiang thought that she had to be even more cautious than before. Marrying Ji Xu’an didn’t mean absolute safety, after all, she couldn’t guess what kind of choice Zheng Zhouzhou would make.

However, as the saying goes, there are only a thousand days to be a thief, but there are no thousand days to guard against a thief.

Jiang Jiang liked this world very much and didn’t want to end up with a short-lived fate, so… she had no choice but to let this Miss Zheng take the first step.

At this moment, Zheng Zhouzhou, who was absentmindedly perfunctorily dealing with Ji Heyuan, suddenly felt a tightness in her heart, as if she had been targeted by a predator lurking in the darkness.

She subconsciously turned her head to look behind her. The wooden display stand was empty, with nothing there. The hospital ward was quiet, with only the leaves of the potted plants swaying gently in the wind.

It must have been an illusion.

…

That night, Ji Xu’an still didn’t return to the old house.

Jiang Jiang didn’t seem to care, not only not taking the initiative to contact Ji Xu’an, but not even asking a question.

She was still the same as before, staying in her room most of the time, only coming downstairs for meals.

The next morning, Jiang Jiang went to the nursing home to accompany old lady Ji as usual. When she was about to leave, she was stopped by old lady Ji.

“Xiao Yuan is being discharged from the hospital today. Xu’an will bring her over for a meal later. Jiang Jiang, you stay and join us.”

So Jiang Jiang sat back down, “Okay.”

Before long, they heard a series of footsteps outside the door. Jiang Jiang looked up and saw that the person walking in the front was Ji Xu’an, whom she hadn’t seen in two days.

Ji Xu’an wasn’t surprised to see her there, and her expression didn’t change at all. She nodded slightly to Jiang Jiang as a greeting.

Ji Heyuan’s reaction was much more direct. She curled her lips, “Why are you here too?”

Ji Xu’an glanced at her sideways, and Ji Heyuan seemed to have been pinched in her vitals, and immediately wilted.

She didn’t want to, but as soon as she saw Xie Xiao, she wanted to retort at her. It was an instinctive reaction!

Jiang Jiang didn’t care. She didn’t even look at Ji Heyuan, but raised her neck and stared at Ji Xu’an with her round, bright almond eyes, calling out softly, “Sister Xu’an.”

After that, she paused for at least a few seconds before calling out “Xiao Yuan” again in a much more bland tone than before.

The contrast between the two was too obvious, even a fool like Ji Heyuan could hear it, let alone Ji Xu’an.

Ji Xu’an’s expression didn’t change. She hummed in response and then calmly sat down on the sofa next to her.

Ji Heyuan, however, shivered. She rubbed the goosebumps on her arms hard and shook her head, imitating Jiang Jiang’s tone, speaking in a strange and sarcastic way, “Sis~ter~ Xu~an~”

Jiang Jiang was teased by her until her cheeks turned red in an instant. She shyly and timidly raised her eyes to steal a glance at Ji Xu’an, and then quickly lowered her eyelashes.

Old lady Ji watched this scene with interest. Seeing that Ji Heyuan was still going to continue complaining without understanding the situation, she immediately coughed deeply to signal her to stop while she was ahead.

Ji Heyuan hummed twice. If she couldn’t say it now, she would laugh at Xie Xiao fiercely behind her grandmother and sister’s backs later.

Ji Heyuan also sat down next to Ji Xu’an, but she was too restless. After not being quiet for a while, she wanted to find fault with Jiang Jiang again.

“Xie Xiao,” Ji Heyuan crossed her legs, “I heard you went to the hospital to see me yesterday? Then why didn’t you come in?”

As soon as these words came out, everyone’s eyes gathered on Jiang Jiang, even Ji Xu’an was no exception.

Those black eyes were as dark and unfathomable as a deep pool, and when her gaze fell on Jiang Jiang, it seemed to carry endless meaning.

Jiang Jiang’s heart tightened, and she began to feel nervous again after a long time, and even her palms broke out in a cold sweat.

She always felt that Ji Xu’an seemed to have seen something.