I Conquered the Villain Boss Chapter 114
Translated by Digitalian (ko-fi)
Edited by Azure
Chapter 114: Who Should I Hate
Was he that obvious? Chu Yuan smiled bitterly and did not answer Jiang Ran's question immediately.
He didn't know how to answer.
Did something bad happen between them? Not really. It was just that she refused to communicate with him, and he also didn't want to accept the truth he imagined.
"We... are having a cold war." Chu Yuan thought of an apt description for their situation. "Maybe we don't know how to communicate with each other, so..."
"Huh?" Jiang Ran felt that she couldn't understand. "Why are you having a cold war? Both of you are adults. Why can't you communicate properly?"
Chu Yuan shook his head and smiled sadly. "Things aren’t as simple as you think... Sister Ranran, if you’re free, you can go to my house to accompany her."
Everyone had their own difficulties, and so did Chu Yuan.
Faced with the man's hesitation, Jiang Ran did not probe, but nodded and replied, "I happen to be free today."
When they finally parted, Chu Yuan smiled gratefully. "Thank you, Sister Ranran."
……
"Knock, knock." The sleeping girl holding the diary woke up slowly when she heard someone knocking on the door.
The only one who would knock on the door at this time was Chu Yuan.
He finally realized something was wrong and came to confront her.
The girl put down her notebook and got up to open the door.
"Ta-dum! Fresh cantaloupe!" At the door, Jiang Ran held the cut fruit in front of her and raised her voice, "My first gift after starting work! Are you surprised?"
"Jiang Ran?" Infected by her cheerful mood, the girl's voice had a hint of vitality. "Why are you here?"
"I heard from Sister Yaoyao that you’ve recovered your memory. I came back from work and came to see you on the way." Putting the key in the girl’s hand, Jiang Ran said, "I met Captain Chu on the way back. He gave me the key to the front door, so I came in without saying hello."
The girl said "oh" and stepped aside to let Jiang Ran in.
After entering the room, Jiang Ran sat on the chair opposite the girl, opened the package, and handed the cut fruit to her. "This is a reward from my workplace. Try it. It's the first cantaloupe cultivated in our base's simulated natural ecological planting test site."
Knowing how precious the fruit was, the girl carefully picked up a piece and ate it.
After she chewed it slowly and swallowed it, Jiang Ran blinked and asked, "How does it taste?"
"Well, it's not very sweet."
"Haha, maybe there’s not enough sunshine and the temperature difference between day and night is too large? We will make adjustments again." Jiang Ran smiled. "Originally, they said that the first grown fruit should be sent to the Shen family who’s in charge of the base. I insisted on rewarding the staff, and then I cut it into many pieces, and everyone tasted it together. I brought the remaining out –– you’re the first person outside our experimental base to taste it."
After hearing her simple description, the girl laughed. "They just let you divide it up as you wished?"
"No." Jiang Ran said with justification, "I argued with our person in charge for a long time –– in the end he didn't win the argument, so I divided the cantaloupe up."
Worried that she would get into trouble, the girl asked, "Did Professor Si ask you to work?"
"I don't have much to do in the base. I can't always be lazy and rely on him to support me." Jiang Ran clenched her fists. "Girls have to rely on themselves. We should support ourselves!"
"Does Professor Si know about what happened today?"
"Oh, there were guests at the base, and he was asked by the Shen family to receive the guests, so he probably didn't know." Jiang Ran raised her clenched fist in front of her and made a gesture of rooting for herself. "I’ll never trouble others with problems that I can solve myself. This is my principle."
The girl looked at Jiang Ran quietly, and the sadness in her eyes faded. Filled with smiles, she said, "Ranran, you remind me of my sister –– you’re very similar to her."
Jiang Ran also looked at her, feeling that the girl's smile was different from before, or that she had become a little different overall. "Qi Yuan, did Captain Chu do something outrageous to you? Why do I feel that you’ve become years older?"
Years older? The girl's eyelids twitched. This girl was really frank.
"Have I become older?" The girl wasn’t angry, but agreed instead. "Maybe I’m really old."
She had died once, so she didn’t care about whether she was old or not.
"Qi Yuan." Confirming that the girl who recovered her memory was different from before, Jiang Ran said, "Haven’t you always looked forward to remembering the past? I thought that no matter what the past was like, you’d be ready to face it calmly."
The girl smiled sadly. "I thought I was ready to face it calmly." But the truth proved that she wasn’t as strong as she thought, or rather, the past in her memory was more difficult for her to accept than she could have imagined.
"Qi Yuan, Sister Yaoyao said that you lost your memory because someone hypnotized you and deliberately altered your memory." Jiang Ran said, "Were your parents behind it?"
She was a daughter of the Qi family. Without the consent of the elders of the Qi family, who would dare to take it upon themselves to alter her memory?
The girl lowered her eyes and did not answer.
Silence was equivalent to acquiescence.
Jiang Ran asked, "Why?"
"It was to avoid some bad things." The girl's eyes were a little distracted, and she murmured, "I always felt that they didn't love me, but only loved my sister. Later, I felt that they might not even love my sister, but..."
"What?"
"But after the disaster, I realized that they might also love me, but they just used the wrong way."
"Were they by your side when the disaster happened?"
"Yes." Thinking of the first week, the girl's expression was bleak. "Ranran, my parents died tragically... In order to grab some food from a superhuman, my father was beaten to death by them, and my mother... starved to death in order to leave food for me."
All the good and bad memories of the past flooded into her mind, and the girl's eyes turned misty. "It wasn’t until that time that I realized that perhaps they also loved me, more than I thought."
She said in a choked tone, "I don't even know who to hate."
Shoulld she hate her parents? They had died to protect her.
"Four years ago, my sister and I were in a car accident. My sister died in the accident, and I was the only one who survived.
"At that time, everyone outside knew that Qi Yao, one of the twins of the Qi family, was engaged to Chu Yuan, the eldest junior master of the Chu family, and the younger sister Qi Yuan was about to be engaged to the second junior master of the Chu family.
"Since only one of the twins survived, and Chu Yuan had lost all his value, my father chose to keep the second option.
"He found a powerful psychologist to hypnotize the eldest daughter who woke up, making her forget everything in the past, and then announced to the public that the child who died in the car accident was the older sister of the twins."
From then on, according to the descriptions of her parents and relatives, the older sister followed her parents' expectations and lived like her younger sister.
Jiang Ran had figured out everything at this point.
Even though she had long known that the girl was hiding a secret, she still found it hard to believe when she heard it now.
"So, actually you’re..."
Out of caution, she did not say the name eventually.
"Ranran, who do you think I should hate?" The girl forced a smile that was uglier than crying. "I thought that the person who only cared about interests died to protect me. In the whole story, I was the only one who survived... In fact, it might have been a good thing if I had died in that car accident a long time ago."
