Motherf...
Jiang Yunli, who had spent twenty years pretending to be a refined, innocent lady, nearly swore.
Feeling wronged, Jiang Yunli could only go off to greet the dog guarding the courtyard.
But Shen Yunzhi, who had finished putting away her luggage, came downstairs just then.
She saw Jiang Yunli petting the dog.
With a faint, ambiguous smile, Shen Yunzhi suddenly made a baffling remark: "People really are well sealed. Everyone walks around carrying shit, but they don't smell like it. To dogs, humans are ice cream machines."
Jiang Yunli: "..."
[By the time my brain processed that, it was already too late.]
[When you touch his abs, you're only two centimeters from his shit.]
[But Shang Yang's seal didn't seem all that good.]
[I'm literally begging you.]
[Get in line to beg.]
Jiang Yunli's gallant protector, Ji Nanxian, stepped up to defend her again.
"Shen Yunzhi, what's that supposed to mean?"
Shen Yunzhi said, "Exactly what I said. Can't you understand human speech? Are those organs on either side of your brain pimples? Why don't you squeeze them with your shoulders?"
Ji Nanxian: "..."
Young Master Ji was flying into a rage over his lady once again.
"Shen Yunzhi! I haven't settled the score with you over what happened at the birthday party. Don't go running to the nightclub again, crying and knocking on private room doors until midnight, begging me to forgive you! We're out in public. Have you no shame?"
The moment Ji Nanxian said that,
everyone watching the drama pricked up their ears.
Even An Zhizhi, who had been about to return to her room, stopped in the second-floor hallway.
The fans and haters of every camp, who had been tearing each other apart in the live comments, stopped too.
Drama-watching mode!
Activated!
In the original novel, Shen Yunzhi had done plenty of things as a lovesick doormat.
Countless examples came readily to mind.
Seeing Shen Yunzhi remain silent, Jiang Yunli curled her lips in a barely perceptible smile.
Being the fake heiress had always been a thorn in her side.
She hadn't wanted to hook up with Ji Nanxian either.
But without Ji Nanxian, the Jiang Family would already have sent her back to her biological parents in the countryside.
She had enjoyed twenty years of wealth and privilege. Back in the countryside, she would even have to collect eggs from chicken coops.
How could Jiang Yunli possibly bear that kind of drop in circumstances?
The Ji Family elders feared that if they arranged a marriage with Jiang Yunli, the fake heiress, her biological parents would come making trouble after she had a child. That was why they insisted on a marriage with Shen Yunzhi, the Biological Daughter.
That rural couple were no good, greedy for money.
Once Jiang Yunli married Ji Nanxian, they might well stir up trouble for their own gain.
Fortunately, Shen Yunzhi, the Biological Daughter, had no sense at all. Her village-bred outlook also made the Jiang Family couple dislike her intensely.
Waiting for Shen Yunzhi to embarrass herself, Jiang Yunli made a very gentle attempt to stop her.
"Little sister, Nan Xian is just angry right now. Don't take it to heart..."
Jiang Yunli's haters couldn't stand it anymore.
[I can't take this. I can't take this.]
[How can she hold on to Shen Yunzhi's fiancé and say that?]
[Shen Yunzhi's gone quiet. I knew her IQ would drop to zero the second she faced Ji Nanxian.]
[One homewrecker and one doormat. These Jiang sisters are really something.]
Jiang Yunli's fans joined the battle too.
[Yunli said one sentence. How does that make her a manipulative fake?]
[Some people dislike Yunli so much they'd find fault with her breathing.]
[If Yunli stays quiet, you'll say she stirred things up and didn't even try to stop Ji Nanxian. If she speaks, you call her fake. I'm exhausted. The entertainment industry really isn't for normal people.]
But Shen Yunzhi's reaction was nothing like anyone had imagined.
She ignored Jiang Yunli and instead looked straight at Ji Nanxian, asking him:
"So you knew I came looking for you because you bought Jiang Yunli a ring at Dior?"
Dior had marketed those rings very successfully over the past few years.
Because buying a ring required an ID card, a man could only buy one for one woman, once.
How was that any different from buying a wedding ring?
When Shen Yunzhi read the original novel, she had always wondered about that.
The original Shen Yunzhi had learned about it from Jiang Yunli's friends and been mocked and ridiculed by a whole group of people. After finding out that Ji Nanxian was partying at a nightclub, she had knocked on the private room doors one by one, unsure whether he was even there.
She could have read the book until it fell apart and still never found the author addressing that point.
Now that Ji Nanxian had said this,
Shen Yunzhi finally knew.
They were streaming live.
Realizing he had said the wrong thing, Ji Nanxian choked up.
He was just about to say something to patch things up when Shen Yunzhi fired off a string of questions:
"So you watched me, a girl, come crying to a nightclub and knock on doors until midnight?"
"Even the security guards came to persuade me to leave. They said the nightclub wasn't safe and told me to go home. So you were right outside the private room, listening to me cry as I searched for you?"
"Even a stranger would worry about my safety, and you were supposedly my fiancé."
When Shen Yunzhi finished, even several staff members present couldn't help shooting Ji Nanxian repeated looks as though he were an animal.
That really wasn't something a decent human being would do.
If anyone with bad intentions had tricked Shen Yunzhi into a private room,
her reputation would have been ruined.
However much Ji Nanxian disliked Shen Yunzhi, he was still a young master from a distinguished family, with a good upbringing and education.
How could he do something like that?
Even if he hadn't wanted to explain, he could at least have sent someone to drive Shen Yunzhi home.
But he simply hadn't.
He had stayed in the private room, drinking and indulging in pleasure,
listening to Shen Yunzhi cry as she searched for him.
[Holy shit... Shen Yunzhi, stop. My heart hurts for you.]
[Being this much of a doormat deserves a place in doormat history...]
[Stop chasing him, girl. Seriously, stop. If you stop chasing Ji Nanxian, I'll even forgive you for flaunting your wealth.]
[Come on. She's doing it willingly, and now you're feeling sorry for her?]
[I think she enjoys it.]
Ji Nanxian's expression soured under Shen Yunzhi's questioning.
What he was best at was treating Shen Yunzhi with malice while she carefully tried to please him.
He had known Shen Yunzhi for almost five years now.
Shen Yunzhi had always been cautious around him, doing everything she could to please him and stay in his good graces.
No matter how he treated her or how angry Shen Yunzhi got, once she cooled down a few days later, she would eagerly come running back.
Hearing Shen Yunzhi question him like this out of nowhere, he inexplicably began to feel guilty toward her.
For a moment, he didn't know how to answer.
Jiang Yunli was also caught off guard by Shen Yunzhi's sudden show of backbone.
It took her a long while to react, and she tried to smooth things over again.
"That's not what happened. Actually, that day..."
Shen Yunzhi interrupted Jiang Yunli. "Are you going to say you were in the private room that day too?"
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