Chapter 310 - 1118: The Green Tea Female Supporting Character in a Period Drama (5)
Chapter 310: Chapter 1118: The Green Tea Female Supporting Character in a Period Drama (5)
A pang of sorrow shot through her as she thought of her parents in the city. In her past life, she had been unfilial. Her willfulness had destroyed her family’s happiness, and she had no idea how her parents had spent their final years.
Chi Yun’er quickly found a pen and paper. She carefully spread the sheet on the low table, filled the pen with ink, and meticulously wrote the opening, reining in her desperate longing to go home.
Following her old habit of only reporting good news to her family and never the bad, she chewed on the end of her pen, frowning. ’How can I express my desire to return to the city in a natural way?’
Suddenly, someone outside the window gave a low cough. A shiver ran through Chi Yun’er, and she snapped her head up to look.
The afternoon sun was too scorching to look at directly. The man stood with his back to the light, his form seeming to gather all the world’s shadows. Only his eyes remained, deep and bright, glowing with a dangerous light like those of a vicious wolf in the forest.
Even without seeing his face clearly, Chi Yun’er was certain she had never met a man with such a powerful and frigid aura in her past life.
Chi Yun’er clutched the fountain pen tightly, hiding it behind her back. Her lips were pressed into a thin line, her face full of vigilance.
’Could it be that because of my rebirth, I woke up earlier than in my past life, and that’s why things have changed?’
’Does that mean that as long as I can temporarily fool Jiang Zishi and the Bian family and execute a meticulous, secret plan, I can completely change my destiny?’
Seeing her tense expression, the man coughed lightly and took a large step back, revealing his face.
Chi Yun’er couldn’t help but gasp. The man was tall and sturdily built, with strong, handsome features. Even from this distance, she could feel an intensely aggressive virility radiating from him.
He didn’t have Jiang Zishi’s gentle, refined, gentlemanly appearance. A scar on his chin, combined with eyes like chips of ice and a short buzz cut, made him look like a villain straight out of prison.
Even though his looks were not just on par with but leagues ahead of Jiang Zishi’s, his thuggish air made people overlook his striking features.
"Comrade, excuse me," he said. His voice was as cold and sharp as his presence, abruptly dispelling the summer heat and plunging Chi Yun’er into the dead of winter.
"Does Jiang Zishi live here?"
Chi Yun’er nodded. ’Anyone connected to Jiang Zishi could be an opening for my revenge. Or they could become a tool he uses against me!’
The saying ’know your enemy and know yourself, and you will never be defeated’ came to mind. After a moment’s hesitation, she steeled herself and mustered her courage to ask:
"He does. May I ask who you are to him?"
The man glanced at her, his brow furrowing slightly. "I’m his older brother, Jiang Yihua."
"The eldest Jiang brother?" Chi Yun’er froze, her eyes widening as she stared at him.
She had lived an entire lifetime. Many memories that seemed recent were, for her, from over twenty years ago.
She had seen the eldest Jiang brother before.
The Jiang Family wasn’t particularly large, but their three children were good-looking and excelled in their studies. This was especially true for the man before her, who was a living legend spoken of with reverence by those a few years younger than him.
Jiang Yihua was three years older than Jiang Zishi and a full five years older than her, putting them in completely different age groups. But that hadn’t stopped her from growing up hearing the legends about him.
Back in elementary school, Jiang Yihua was still living in the General Hospital’s family compound, but somehow, he got accepted into Kyoto First Middle School. After that, he went to live with his maternal grandfather and rarely returned.
But then, the Capital City wasn’t small, yet it wasn’t that big either. Among the locals, who all had extensive networks, certain special people and events always became enduring topics of conversation.
And Jiang Yihua was one of those special people—the "perfect child" that everyone’s parents compared them to.
He was an excellent student. After middle school, he entered the Capital City’s number one high school with the title of top scorer in the municipal joint exams.
Even when the national college entrance exams were canceled, he was still recruited by a professor from Imperial University right after graduating high school.
She’d heard he had a childhood sweetheart. They were said to be passionately in love, so much so that to spare his girlfriend the hardship of being sent to the countryside, he had decisively given away his job and packed his own bags to go support a farm’s development.
She found it hard to imagine that the man before her was such a devoted romantic.
Because of this legendary aura, and the fact that they were, in a way, old acquaintances, Chi Yun’er’s fear subsided considerably.
Still, he was Jiang Zishi’s brother. ’You can know a person’s face, but not their heart.’ Hearing the rumors about him, Chi Yun’er figured he was probably the type to be fiercely protective of his family.
So, Chi Yun’er remained vigilant. Masking her wariness with a bright, affectionate smile, she said, "Brother Hua, I’m Chi Yun’er, Vice President Chi’s daughter. I wonder if you still remember me?"