"I'm fine." Ji Xiangchen shook his head expressionlessly. He had better call the family doctor over later to check his brain.
Then tomorrow, he would make that fucking traffic-chasing celebrity pay!
After dinner, Fang Ning returned to her room.
Ji Xiangcheng, however, summoned the butler. "Uncle Li, please call Doctor Zhou over."
Butler Li had watched Ji Xiangchen grow up, so he asked with great concern, "Second Young Master, what's wrong? Are you feeling unwell somewhere, or are you hurt?"
Ji Xiangchen remained expressionless. "I think I might have knocked my brain out of order."
Butler Li: "..."
Looks like he really did knock his brain out of order. Who with a sound brain would say that about himself? My poor young master.
The family doctor was at the old residence, looking after Old Madam Ji. Those words frightened Butler Li so badly that he summoned the family doctor that very night.
Because Butler Li had sounded so grave, the family doctor rushed over. But after examining Ji Xiangchen every which way, the doctor reached a conclusion: there was nothing wrong with his brain.
"There's really nothing wrong with my brain?"
Ji Xiangchen was a little skeptical. After pondering for a moment, he said, "Then is there some illness that suddenly lets you hear other people's thoughts?"
The family doctor looked at Ji Xiangchen. "Their thoughts?"
Ji Xiangchen nodded and continued, "Yes, the kind where you've just complimented someone, then hear them insulting you."
After hearing those two remarks, the doctor reached another conclusion: there was indeed nothing wrong with his brain. He might have been possessed and gone mad.
Ji Xiangchen sank into thought. Something felt off to him. He had definitely heard Fang Ning both insulting and praising him that evening.
After sending the doctor away, Ji Xiangchen returned to his room alone to think it over, and soon accepted that he possessed this mind-reading superpower.
One thing, however, made Ji Xiangchen very angry.
What gave Fang Ning the right to say even a dog wouldn't eat his diet meals?!
What gave her the right?!
That night, Ji Xiangchen jolted upright in bed, that one sentence playing over and over in his head.
[Even a dog wouldn't eat it.]
[Even a dog wouldn't eat it.]
He had eaten it, so didn't that make him worse than a dog? ...
No, was she sick in the head?! What gave her the right to insult him?!
The next day, Fang Ning got up, washed her face, and sat down in front of the vanity mirror when she received a call.
The caller ID read Mumu. For a moment, Fang Ning could not remember who this person was. With such an affectionate name, she was presumably someone very close to the original owner of her body.
"Little Ning, are you free? D just released a gorgeous new bag. Let's go buy it together."
Fang Ning said nothing, instead asking the system about this person.
[System, who's this?]
System: [Ye Mumu, the original owner's good friend, and also a villainess who treated her as a gullible sucker.] [Ye Mumu was the original owner's fake bestie.] [Where there's one genius, there's another equally brilliant fool. If the original owner was one, then Ye Mumu was the other. They met in high school. She was from an insignificant, penniless branch of the wealthy Ye Family. After becoming good friends with the original owner, she kept milking her for money.] [She wasn't good-looking or ambitious. Knowing she had no hope of marrying into a wealthy family, she began manipulating the original owner.]
At this point in the system's account, Fang Ning remembered her too. Ye Mumu was the original owner's close friend. With no hope of marrying rich herself, she had talked the original owner into marrying into a wealthy family and becoming a rich wife. Even the original owner's falling for Ji Xiangnian and fighting the three Ji siblings over the family fortune had been Ye Mumu's doing.
Naturally, her goal was for the original owner to get the fortune so she could keep milking her endlessly.
[She didn't just talk her bestie into marrying rich and fighting the female lead and her two siblings over the family fortune. She also sweet-talked the female lead: besties stay together for life and share their money.] [She brainwashed the original owner: her money was hers, and the original owner's money was also hers.] [She always treated the original owner as a permanent meal ticket.] [So she spent, spent, spent the original owner's money, shopped till she dropped, went to clubs, and hired male models. The original owner toiled without complaint while the Ji Family took turns tormenting her until she croaked and ascended to heaven, while Ye Mumu lived like a goddess on her money.] [Not only that, she even took out insurance on the original owner. After the original owner died, she had the time of her life on the insurance payout.] [So you need to watch out for men, but fake besties need watching too.]
Taking out insurance on her bestie.
Fang Ning: [...That's seriously mind-blowing, okay?]
Fuck, Ye Mumu really took shamelessness to a whole new level! She didn't earn her own money, just milked her bestie. Milking her bestie was one thing, but she had actually taken out insurance on her too.
Absolutely shameless. Disgusting!
The year's most outrageous scammer. A fake bestie who shared your money when you had it and spent your death benefit when you didn't.
One word: incredible. Two words: truly incredible! Three words: just bloody incredible!
Now her money was hers, and the original owner's money was also hers. So if Ye Mumu was after the original owner's money, didn't that mean she was after her money?
The thought left Fang Ning feeling awful.
Coming after her life was one thing, but she actually dared to come after her money.
Damn her!
The corners of Fang Ning's mouth curled upward as she admired her pretty manicure, playing both roles herself. Her gaze was calm and cold, but her tone was warm. "Sure, when? Three days from now? That works..."
"Okay."
After hanging up, Fang Ning slowly revealed a lovely smile.
System: [Host, what are you going to do?]
[Go put that villainess in her place, of course. She's already taken out insurance on me. Am I supposed to treasure her? Keep her around for the New Year?]
System: [????]
Wasn't something off here? She was a villainess, but so were you. Put the villainess in her place?