Chapter 12 - Chest

Chapter 12-ChestTranslator-zyzy Editor-Aru

The male receptionist’s expression turned funky for a split second, this time she could hear Jiang Ren’s voice. He then told Meng Ting: “Student, the lift broke down, you’ll have to walk up the stairs.”

Meng Ting nodded, at least she’s able to go up. She thanked both of them and walked towards the direction the male receptionist pointed at.

As Meng Ting disappeared from their sight, the female receptionist with a weird expression said: “But the lift is working.” 

“Boss Ren’s orders.”

“What does he want to do?”

“How would I know, just don’t ask about his stuff, are you tired of living? I’ve heard that Boss Ren……” the male receptionist pointed towards his heart, “has a mental illness, can’t control his emotions. Who knows why he got kicked out of the Jiang family.”

The female receptionist thought of the pretty young lady from just now: “She’s quite pretty, even prettier than my idol. After a few more years, she’ll be even more stunning.”

The male receptionist was slightly worried for her.

Of all the persons to provoke, she chose Jiang Ren.

AnHai Courtyard’s stairways were for emergency purposes, usually, no one would use it. So the whole stairway was very quiet.

The green “Safety Exit” four big words with arrows guiding the way, the stairway was dimly lit.

Meng Ting could only hear her own footsteps, she also brought along a backpack and followed the railings upstairs.

At the cornering of the third floor, she accidentally bumped into a solid chest.

Meng Ting startled: “Ah ya!”

Whoever who saw something under this dimly lit greenish surrounding would have been startled, she pressed on her forehead and backed up a few steps. Sᴇaʀᴄh the ɴovᴇlꜰirᴇ.nᴇt website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of nøvels early and in the highest quality.

She saw Jiang Ren’s silhouette as she looked up.

Under the dim light, he looked slightly dumbfounded and placed his hand on the place she just bumped into.

The young man’s chest was solid hard, her forehead felt slightly dizzy from the collision.

Her voice was sweet, that quivering “Ah ya” was of a higher pitch, it was like a broken whisper. For a moment, he couldn’t figure out what had bumped into him.

Meng Ting’s face went pale, her limbs became limp.

She couldn’t clearly see Jiang Ren’s expression, but she knew that she bumped into him just now. Jiang Ren is domineeringly unreasonable, she quickly apologized: “Sorry, did I hurt you?”

Jiang Ren smiled slightly: “Yes.”

Meng Ting didn’t know what to do. To her, this was a total disaster, who would’ve thought that Jiang Ren wouldn’t be at the party, but he’s here in a dim stairway.

Outside AnHai Courtyard’s clear windows, the sea breeze softly blew.

Meng Ting leaned against the cold wall, slightly flustered.

“I didn’t do it on purpose.” She was naive, but she wasn’t stupid, how could something serious happen to someone after that kind of collusion? Her vision was still blurred, she knew that he was picking on her, and couldn’t help but say, “You scared me too.”

Jiang Ren almost couldn’t resist his laughter.

His back was facing the light, so he could clearly see her. She was still wearing Seven High’s school uniform, the school badge on the right chest area. Her airy bangs looked graceful under the light, and her glasses that people couldn’t help but stare at looked slightly more graceful too.

Obviously, she was scared of him but tried her best to stay calm.

“Why, you’re not taking responsibility after banging into me, student, does Seven High teach you to act this way?”

Meng Ting looked up at him, her tone slightly fighting back: “Seven High said, to apologize. But also to learn the art of forgiving.”

Jiang Ren couldn’t resist this time, and laughed: “I’m illiterate, I don’t get your ways, you know?”

Meng Ting knows that he’s unreasonable.

The night was quiet, across the sea, lights to guide the people on the sea could be seen, looking out from AnHai Courtyard, there were thousands of shining stars. She abruptly remembered that this teen in front of her would murder someone a few years later.

His killing method was extremely brutal.

Meng Ting knows he’s dangerous, that she shouldn’t be near him, and even more important to not piss him off.

She bent down, and seriously bowed: “I’m sorry.”

His smile disappeared.

Under the weak light, she couldn’t clearly see his eyes, but she was unintentionally reminded of the Jiang Ren that crazily chased her bus for 3km in the past.

Like a stubborn wolf cub.

She was always afraid of his maniac craziness.

Meng Ting said: “I didn’t do it on purpose, how about…… you hit me back.”

She hesitantly stretched out her fair hands. 

Her slim pretty fingers, her fingertips carried a hint of cherry hue. It wasn’t clear under the weak light, but she was the brightest spot in the whole stairway, her personality was just way too soft.

He felt a sudden surge of adrenaline in him, after looking at the small hands for a while, tsk: “Sure, don’t shout in pain.”

She seriously nodded her head.

Jiang Ren’s hands that were in his pockets shivered.

Looking at the delicate hands in front of him, her fingers pearly white and long, he’s never seen someone’s hands that delicately beautiful. Even his mother, that was always boastful and particular, didn’t have such delicate hands.

The second before he touched her hands, he abruptly came back to his senses.

Jiang Ren annoyingly retracted his hand and looked for the lighter in his pocket. He threw the lighter in her palm: “Come help me light my cigarette, then I’ll forget about this.”

Meng Ting dazedly looked at the black lighter in her palm.

“Come here, do you want me to bring you over?”

His temper is just the worst.

Meng Ting guessed that Jiang Ren came out to smoke. She thought of her skirt and approached him.

He was 27cm taller than her.

That year, she was 160cm, she wasn’t short, but Jiang Ren was really tall. He never filtered what he said to people, with his flowing silver hair, everyone always thought of him as a gangster. He wasn’t nice to deal with, bad temper, with a flawed personality.

Jiang Ren couldn’t cover his annoyance, so he took out a cigarette from his pocket and placed it between his lips.

The window on the third floor was open, the refreshing breeze blew inside.

Her bangs softly moved.

She raised her hands and tiptoed to get closer to him.

The moment the flame ignited, he could smell the girl’s scent that blew over. Her unique sweet scent.

Her moves looked unfamiliar, slightly clumsy.

One glance and it’s obvious she hasn’t done this before, but she’s unbelievably obedient.

He looked down, her hands lightly shivered, it took a while for her to light the cigarette.

Meng Ting sighed in relief after lighting it, placed the lighter in his palm, and ran past him to get upstairs.

After quite some time, he squished the cigarette with his fingers, breathing heavily. 

The cigarette had only burned halfway, but he was in such a daze that he forgot to even breath, he didn’t even have one blow.

Don’t let him see her again.

Never again.

Or not……

~

Meng Ting relaxed only when she got upstairs.

The fifth floor of AnHai Courtyard was in total chaos. Through the vast amount of people, Meng Ting could instantly find Shu Lan.

The worst part is, Shu Lan was getting ready to dance.

She was wearing Meng Ting’s skirt.

The skirt didn’t really fit her well, puberty didn’t go all too well for her, her chest couldn’t bring up her outfit. But it didn’t destroy the skirt’s beauty. That year, there wasn’t any girls outfit that was as delicate as hers. Traditional refreshing kind of beauty, the feathers along the skirt would move along as she walked. The bottom was long, quite a few girls couldn’t resist but take a few more looks.

Shu Lan was secretly delighted. 

The arrogant girls in LiCai, couldn’t help but ask her where she got the dress from.

Shu Lan’s tone raised: “You can’t get this anywhere, it’s a tailor-made skirt, the only one in the world.”

No matter how much the girl liked it, her expression instantly changed: “Hmph, who cares.” A few more boys also looked towards Shu Lan.

Shu Lan radiated with delight, this bunch of people were all rich kids. Usually, they wouldn’t even look at her at all, but tonight with her dress, she was confident and proud of herself.

The girls that asked about her dress came back after a while, a glass of wine in her hands, sarcastically: “I heard you can dance, show us what you can do since we’re having so much fun today.” 

Shu Lan didn’t know how to dance.

Her only knowledge of dancing, was the pain when her dance teacher forcefully pushed her legs down for her to practice her stretchability

But He Jun Ming overheard their conversation, put down the mic and looked over, he also looked interested: “Yes, you’re Shu, Shu Lan right, pretty, could we have a dance.”

The bunch of boys immediately whistled and clapped in support: “Dance!”

Shu Lan was put in a difficult spot.

He Jun Ming was also rash, and picked slow music: “Let’s dance.”

Shu Lan eyes twitched, flustered, her heart raced very fast.

He Han pressed on the remote control and said: “Is the music not suitable? Or do you want a more dynamic rhythm?” 

That night, she got what she always wanted, which is everyone’s eyes on her, but they were looking forward to watching her dance.

Shu Lan really couldn’t dance. She wasn’t Meng Ting, who knew everything. She didn’t know everything. She didn’t know all these, if she did dance, everyone would see past her right away. 

She looked at the luxurious cake that was as tall as a full-grown man.

What if…… she accidentally dirtied her outfit, then no one would ask her to dance anymore right? 

Even if it was quite a pity for the dress, she couldn’t embarrass herself like that. Even so, the skirt could still be worn after washing.

Shu Lan pulled on her skirt, bent her knees and bowed.

A few more steps back and she’ll hit the big cake.

No matter how good-tempered Meng Ting is, seeing as she was almost going to bump into the cake, she got really angry. 

That was something her mother left for her! 

Meng Ting with her crispy voice: “Shu Lan!”

Shu Lan startled, looked back and saw Meng Ting that was still wearing her school uniform standing at the entrance. At first, she was so confused, she thought when Meng Ting said that she’ll come to get back her stuff was merely just to scare her. She never thought Meng Ting would really come. 

How did she get up here?

AnHai Courtyard wouldn’t just let anyone walk in here? 

Meng Ting didn’t notice that everyone’s gaze was on her.

She didn’t feel a sense of inferiority, even if she did wear shabby clothes amongst the glamorous crowd.

She walked to Shu Lan, it was like she turned into the 14-year-old Meng Ting.

Extremely delicate, but proudly confident: “Change out of the dress and give it to me, now.”

She didn’t look at Shu Alan’s expression and turned around to look at He Jun Ming. 

“Student He, I’m sorry. The medal from yesterday, do you mind giving it back to me?”