bestfiction Chapter 67 The Mad Couple
Chapter 67 The Mad Couple
They sat facing each other in the spacious tea room. Xiao Jiangdu was beside his mother, holding an ugly-cute big-eyed doll that she had grabbed, and listening to... the National High School English Listening Test.
His elderly father told him to memorize these sentences before taking them down.
Xiao Jiangdu held the doll with a cold, expressionless face.
Jiang Ci glanced at his son leisurely, making sure he couldn't hear him, before sipping his tea with peace of mind.
The exquisite purple clay teapot emits wisps of white steam, filling the air with the aroma of tea and bringing a sense of tranquility.
"I feel like something's not right?"
Shen Xi stroked her chin, looking thoughtfully at the man slowly sipping his tea, recalling the situation at the hospital that day.
Shen Xi accepted the teacup with both hands, offering a somewhat excited suggestion.
"Why don't you use your good looks to get to know the female lead? I think she's quite interested in you. Maybe you'll actually get something out of it. I'll play along with you and act as the villainous female supporting character, constantly causing trouble and breaking up the couple."
Jiang Ci blinked, stood up expressionlessly, bent down and took back the teacup that had been handed to him. His movements were fluid and steady, and not a drop of tea was spilled. Even the saucer was spotless.
Before Shen Xi could react, the teacup was in the man's hand. She clicked her tongue in amazement. What a stingy man!
"It's simple."
Jiang Ci lowered his eyes, drank Shen Xi's cup of tea, and then spoke softly.
"How simple?"
Shen Xi's interest was piqued, and she listened attentively with great interest.
Jiang Ci put the tea lid back on, his face remaining calm and expressionless, though an almost imperceptible air of menace emanated from him.
He slowly took a sip of tea, his eyes indifferent, and said...
"Kill her."
He said it casually, as if he were simply discussing what to eat with his lover.
A wisp of steam rose from the teapot's spout, gradually blurring the man's composed and profound face.
Shen Xi felt a suffocating sense of oppression wash over her at that moment, and she truly felt that Jiang Ci really wanted to kill the female lead!
But at that moment, she actually thought about it seriously. Jiang Ci, as the male lead, could recover even if he cut his wrist. So, did the female lead also have a similar cheat ability?
Or... what about something else?
"You can't kill her." Shen Xi analyzed the situation very calmly and regretfully informed him of the result.
"You, as the male lead, were able to recover from serious injuries, let alone this female-oriented novel, where everything is designed to serve the female lead."
Jiang Ci had already guessed it. He crossed his legs, propped his chin on his hand, and leisurely glanced at Shen Xi. Although his eyes were smiling, his expression was indifferent.
"Since I am immortal, if one day she uses these dirty tricks on you, I will personally take action."
He smiled calmly at Shen Xi.
“Shen Xi, I’m not some morally upright philanthropist. If one day the law can’t restrain her, I will take action myself. So what if the methods are dirty? I don’t care. When that happens, the matter will be resolved, won’t it?”
Jiang Ci was born into a top-tier family in the capital. He grew up in luxury and received an aristocratic education. His arrogance and aloofness were innate, and even his casual actions carried a sense of superiority that ordinary people could never replicate in their entire lives.
In his eyes, there is only the distinction between caring and not caring.
He is no longer the Jiang Ci he was when he was a child.
Shen Xi squinted, thinking to herself,
Am I the villainous supporting character, or are you?
"Actually, things aren't that serious yet. I mainly want to meet with her and find out if she's really as weak and vulnerable as I encountered in the hospital, or if there's something else going on."
Shen Xi shared her thoughts.
Jiang Ci's eyes showed disapproval, and he lightly tapped the table with his long, thin fingers.
“Xixi, you can’t outsmart her. She’s very cunning. She can pretend to be weak in front of me to put on a facade, but her ruthlessness and scheming are ingrained in her bones. You are kind-hearted, so she can take advantage of your kindness without you even realizing it to achieve her goals, and then she'll slip away like a mantis shedding its shell.”
You can't outmaneuver her because you don't possess pure evil.
He handed the phone to Shen Xi, nodding to let her see it. This was all the information he had instructed Jiang Po to investigate since he learned that Bai Linlin was the female lead.
Shen Xi, not understanding why, took it.
She watched for a while, then immediately sat up straight and rolled over.
After staring at it for a while, she was somewhat incredulous.
Is this really a heroine from an old-fashioned novel?
Jiang Po's investigation revealed that Bai Linlin's behavior had become unusually strange since attending the Jiang family banquet. Although she was still Lu Chuan's girlfriend, she often attended various banquets as the female companion of other scions of prominent families. One CEO even divorced his childhood sweetheart wife because he was infatuated with her, and his wife, unable to accept the reality, jumped to her death.
However, Bai Linlin disappeared from public view during this incident.
But that's not the most shocking part; here's a photo taken by the newspaper.
The title is quite ironic.
Lu Chuan and his girlfriend attended the funeral and memorial service.
Bai Linlin, like everyone else, was dressed in black. She had a white flower in her hair, and with her head bowed and her eyes red, she looked at the woman in the black and white photograph, as if she were truly mourning her.
However, Shen Xi inexplicably felt that the woman's tearful eyes in the photo looked more like she was smiling, a triumphant smile.
She suddenly felt a chill run down her spine.
Shen Xi looked at Jiang Ci with a blank expression, handed the phone back to him, and asked seriously, "Do you think she's really crying?"
Jiang Ci didn't even glance at her, leaning back lazily in his chair and scoffing, "Why is she crying? Is she a friend of her parents? That's why she's crying."
"She wasn't crying, she was laughing. It was the victor standing high on the podium watching the losers below mocking her. Her attendance at the memorial service was nothing more than flaunting her victory."
Jiang Ci's tone was filled with disgust and revulsion.
Shen Xi remained silent; the female lead's persona had crumbled.
Neither the male nor female protagonists in this world are normal people.
The plot twists are inexplicable, yet they seem to be guiding her.
Do you have any banquets to attend recently?
Shen Xi thought for a while, then looked at the man opposite her and asked.
Jiang Ci blinked and nodded, "Yes, how about I invite you to be my date?"
Shen Xi agreed immediately. Since the female lead likes attending banquets so much, then let's go!
She wanted to see what kind of monster this woman was.
……
Bai Linlin was leisurely applying makeup in her luxurious and spacious villa. Her soft, gentle eyes looked at herself in the mirror, and she nodded in satisfaction.
Her phone beeped, and she put down her eyebrow pencil, glanced at it casually, and suddenly her face darkened as she overturned the cosmetics on the table.
Expensive cosmetics shattered and fell to the ground with a clatter.
Bai Linlin's eyes were gloomy and frightening.
"How could this be? Wasn't Su Su dead?"
Suddenly, an unfamiliar male voice came from inside.
"Sheng Shen's storyline has collapsed. Warning! Warning! The storyline has changed."