Chapter – 50
The “Dead” Lin Ruirui
Upon hearing her words and seeing the worry on her face, Jiang Su simply turned away, ignoring her. Jiang Cheng, standing beside them, immediately frowned at his attitude.
“Jiang Su! Xuexi is worried about you, what’s with that attitude?”
“Don’t butt into my attitude.”
Jiang Su had already regained his usual composure and retorted firmly to Jiang Cheng. However, he still had no intention of responding to Lu Xuexi. Although he had always thought of her like an older sister, the incident at the school building still left a knot in his heart. Even knowing it was a normal human reaction, he couldn’t accept being abandoned. Especially being betrayed by someone he trusted.
Seeing Jiang Su’s attitude, a flicker of something passed through Lu Xuexi’s eyes, but she soon lowered her gaze and said quietly, “Xiao Su, today is entirely my fault. If I hadn’t insisted on taking you, you wouldn’t have gone through this… Let me apologize as your older sister.”
Her words were sincere. Yet, her slightly pale complexion only invited more sympathy, making Jiang Cheng beside her feel even more heartache. “Xuexi, you don’t need to apologize! You’re the one injured now, it’s that brat who should apologize!”
“Brother Jiang Cheng, don’t say that. The responsibility for this is mine. Xiao Su tried so hard to protect me.”
“Protect you? If he really intended to protect you, how come you’re hospitalized and he’s perfectly fine?” Jiang Han beside them also chimed in sarcastically. “Sister Xuexi, you always blame yourself too much. He’s not a child anymore, don’t always indulge him. Even if he got hurt today, it would be his own fault.”
Hearing the two of them start to blame him again, Jiang Su felt a wave of nausea-inducing anger and finally couldn’t hold back. “You guys only know how to blame me, why don’t you ask what she did?! I said from the start I didn’t want to go! I didn’t want to meet some boring online friend or play some ridiculous survival game, she was the one who dragged me there! And now you’re saying it’s my fault?!
When danger came, I shielded her first! But what did she do?! She shook off my hand and ran away by herself!”
He thought telling the truth would make them understand. ButāJiang Han and Jiang Cheng still looked at him with accusing eyes. “Xuexi would never do that! Jiang Su, stop lying!”
“She took you out for your own good, and now you’re holding a grudge? Repaying kindness with enmity!”
Lu Xuexi suddenly covered her face and sobbed. “Brother Jiang Han, Brother Jiang Cheng, please stop… Xiao Su is right, it’s all my fault. I dragged him into that danger and couldn’t even protect him…”
Hearing this, the two consoled her even more while continuing to scold Jiang Su.
Jiang Su was panting with anger. He had explained clearly, why wouldn’t anyone listen?! And the way Lu Xuexi put itāsounded like she admitted it, yet didn’t; denied it, yet didn’t. In the end, it still sounded like he was the one at fault!
At that moment, he finally understood.
āThe feeling Jiang Xuxu had when she was being blamed by them.
The more he looked at Jiang Han and Jiang Cheng, the more they seemed like nothing but a pair of fools.
Just as his irritation was mounting, Jiang Xuxu, who had been silent beside him all along, spoke as if she hadn’t heard any of the conversation. “Since you’re awake, I’m going back.”
With that, she glanced at Jiang Su and asked, “What about you?”
Jiang Su was stunned for a second, then immediately nodded. “I’m going too! Sis, I’ll go back with you!”
After throwing a grand glare at Lu Xuexi and the others in the hospital room, Jiang Su turned and, his demeanor completely changed from before, cheerfully followed Xuxu, disappearing in an instant.
Better to go back and rest with his sister than keep arguing with those fools.
The three left in the hospital roomāespecially Jiang Han and Jiang Chengālooked at each other. They weren’t finished lecturing yet, how could they just leave?
Lu Xuexi lowered her gaze further, a cold light and impatience hidden deep within her eyes.
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Another incident occurred at the abandoned school building. Although no one died, the police had also begun to investigate in earnest. Online, the abandoned school building’s ghost stories were once again causing a huge stir, even dredging up past incidents that had happened there.
In the hospital, Guan Ruirui, who had returned from the brink of death, trembled upon seeing the news and slammed the iPad in her hand onto the floor. This time, she had no energy left to put on a brave face, crying and shouting, “Even Jiang Xuxu is fine! As long as she can help me! She doesn’t even have to come here, I’ll go to her! As long as she can appease that Lin Ruirui, that’s enough!”
“I can’t take it anymore! Lin Ruirui came to me as a ghost! She wants to kill me…!”
Meanwhile, Jiang Xuxu, whom Guan Ruirui was desperately seeking, was standing in front of an old apartment building. The walls and doors were covered in old posters, with peeling marks everywhere. Noisy sounds occasionally drifted out from inside. Xuxu climbed the building, which had no elevator, step by step up to the sixth floor.
She arrived at a room on the sixth floor. Relying on the aura she sensed in her hand, she knocked on the door. After a while, footsteps finally sounded from inside, and the door opened.
Standing there was a haggard middle-aged woman. Her face was gaunt as she stared at Xuxu in front of her, confusion evident. “Miss… who are you looking for?”
Xuxu looked directly at the woman and quietly spoke. “I came to see Lin Ruirui.”
The middle-aged woman’s eyes flickered for a moment, and she immediately tried to close the door. “…She’s dead!”
But Xuxu merely placed her hand lightly, and the door didn’t budge, completely overpowering the woman’s strength. “I know she’s here here.”
After a brief pause, Xuxu said, “I came to help.”
The woman’s expression changed, a bloodshot red appearing in her eyes. Her voice trembled, carrying a hint of anger. “You… who are you? Sent by the Qin family?”
Xuxu shook her head. “My surname is Jiang. You can call me Xuxu.”
The middle-aged woman stared at her for a moment, then lowered her eyes in apparent pain and hesitation, before finally stepping aside quietly and saying, “…Come in.”
A narrow room. The living room had no sofa, just a single bed placed there. The woman didn’t offer a place to sit, silently walking deeper into the room and knocking on the only bedroom door. Without waiting for a reply, she opened it.
Following her gaze, Xuxu finally saw inside the room. A tidy small room, and sitting on the bedāa girl with long, loose hair, empty eyes, unmoving like a doll.
āIt was Lin Ruirui, the one Guan Ruirui said was “already dead.”
Xuxu was certain.
As expected, her prediction had been correct.
