Villain Boss Chapter 141
Translated by Digitalian (ko-fi)
Chapter 241 Twisted Feelings
That poor woman spent her whole life chasing after Jiang Yize, but from beginning to end, until Jiang Yize's death, she never had the courage to tell him her feelings.
As Jiang Yize's assistant, he met Si Nian several times with Jiang Yize.
An outsider's perspective was often clearer. At their first meeting, he noticed the unspoken emotions swirling in the woman's gaze as she looked at his boss.
At that time, Jiang Yize was already married and had a child. Jiang Ranran would chase after others to beat them up... The couple was loving and the family was happy, so that woman had no chance.
At that time, he was still naive. Out of sympathy, he had subtly reminded her after they became more familiar.
"Si Nian likes my father?" Jiang Ran's lips twitched, unsure how to evaluate the woman whose love was unrequited.
She could imagine the twisted hatred the woman harbored when she chose to betray.
"How terrifying." After a pause, Jiang Ran gave a two-word evaluation.
It was more than just terrifying.
After learning that Jiang Yize had a girlfriend, she hid her feelings and called Shen Muxin her sister, just so she could stay by Jiang Yize's side without being suspected.
She disguised herself so well that neither Jiang Yize nor Shen Muxin noticed.
But when jealousy became distorted to a certain degree, the woman also went mad.
Hearing this, Jiang Ran clicked her tongue. "I don't sympathize with her at all."
When Jiang Yize was single, she didn't dare to express her love. After Jiang Yize got married, she couldn't give up her love and in the end, she even caused his death because of her own selfish desires. What was there to sympathize with in such a coward?
Tu Su said calmly, "She doesn't deserve anyone's sympathy."
Jiang Ran asked curiously, "How did you know about these things, Mr. Tu Su?"
Although he was Jiang Yize's assistant, even Jiang Yize hadn’t yet detected this emotional entanglement. Would Si Nian tell Mr. Tu Su about her actions?
That was impossible.
Tu Su closed his eyes, and the explosion and firelight that had been etched into his memory appeared before him.
"I went to the lab on the day of the explosion."
Jiang Ran was taken aback. "Mr. Tu Su, you went to the lab?!"
“Your father was going to give me some very important materials that day—information he had been compiling for a long time about the virus and vaccine,” Tu Su said in a hoarse voice. “The explosion happened after I left the lab.”
There was no need to describe in detail what happened next.
He took the materials with him and began his life in exile.
The assassins sent by the Shen family and the pursuit by Si Nian's trusted aides left him restless and troubled.
“I met Si Nian when I was on the run. She told me about what she had done.”
He hid for two years before being found by Si Nian.
She subjected him to all sorts of humiliation in an attempt to force him to reveal the whereabouts of the materials.
"Later, it was the Huo family who saved me."
It was likely that the period after leaving Xiling wasn’t a pleasant memory for him.
His explanation was simple, and Jiang Ran didn't press for details.
"The materials that my father gave you..."
Tu Su tapped the file bag with his finger. "It's all in here."
Jiang Ran picked up the file bag on the table and opened it directly in front of the man—to confirm one of her guesses.
Sure enough, the materials contained detailed records of each experimental subject, but very few records actually involved the virus and vaccine.
Jiang Ran pursed her lips and put down the materials. "Mr. Tu Su, you know my father..."
He made use of Mr. Tu Su—the value of these materials was simply not worth those people's obsession for so many years.
“I know.” Tu Su smiled indifferently, showing no anger or hatred. “Before I got the materials, Professor Jiang asked me if I was willing, and I agreed.”
He took these things away to distract Shen Lang, in order to protect the more important information that absolutely couldn’t fall into the hands of the Shen family.
"At that time, we only thought the enemy was Shen Lang. We never expected that there was also Si Nian."
Fortunately, she was also misled by Jiang Yize, believing that the important information was in his hands.
Jiang Ran felt a wave of fear. "Fortunately, after my father passed away, my mother didn't listen to him and go to find Si Nian."
Jiang Yize didn’t know until his death that the person who betrayed him was his most trusted friend.
"By the way, Mr. Tu Su, I have another question."
"What?"
Jiang Ran touched her shoulder-length hair and tentatively asked, "I don't remember many things from my childhood, but I do remember that I was hospitalized for a period of time."
Tu Su's eyes flickered. "Mm."
“I haven’t awakened any superpowers.” Jiang Ran still felt regretful when she talked about it. “However, I can be immune to superpowers. I don’t know if it’s all of them, but the superpowers I’ve encountered so far can be nullified.”
Tu Su frowned. "You mean you can nullify other people's superpowers?"
Jiang Ran nodded.
Tu Su fell into deep thought.
Why would this happen? Based on the final experimental results, she shouldn't have experienced any mutations after being exposed to the virus.
The ability to nullify... Could it be that the vaccine mutated again in her body?
“I’ve never encountered a situation like yours before—out of all the experimental subjects in the lab back then, none of them were in the same situation as you.” Tu Su said, as Jiang Ran stared at him intently. “If you want to know the answer, you can come with me to the research laboratory.”
By obtaining her blood sample, they might be able to detect any existing problems.
“Si Xu had already examined me when I was at Xiling laboratory.”
"What’s the result?"
“Nothing unusual,” Jiang Ran said. “That blood sample was left in Xiling laboratory. It should have been destroyed in the explosion.”
"... Is that so?"
He had paid close attention to the situation in Xiling while he was with the Huo family, so he naturally knew Si Xu's identity.
"What's going on between you..." He suddenly changed the subject, "... and Si Xu?"
"Huh?" Jiang Ran thought she had misheard and repeated, "What's going on?"
“You surely know Si Xu’s identity better than I do—his relationship with your father…”
"Speaking of this, had my father ever told you about Si Xu’s background?"
Huo Zhisang said that Jiang Yize sent Si Xu to Xiling laboratory, and she put all the blame on Jiang Yize, but she didn’t believe that Jiang Yize would do such a thing.
"Are Si Xu and Si Nian related? Is his mother really the eldest daughter of the Huo family who married into the Pei family?"
Tu Su didn’t expect Jiang Ran to already know so much, so Tu Su didn’t hide anything from her.
"Si Xu's mother is Huo Zhisang, and his father is Si Nian's older brother."
"Si Xu is Si Nian's nephew?" Jiang Ran was dumbfounded.
She guessed the two might be related by blood, but she didn't expect them to be such close relatives.
"As for your father and Si Xu..." Tu Su sighed, "Professor Jiang told me that the only two wrong things he ever did in his life were accepting Shen Lang's invitation to participate in the research at Xiling laboratory and sending his old friend's child into the laboratory."
Was it really Jiang Yize who sent Si Xu to the laboratory? Jiang Ran found it hard to believe. "Why would my father do that?"
The laboratory had no shortage of willing participants, so Jiang Yize had absolutely no need to send his friend's child in.
