I Conquered the Villain Boss Chapter 37
Translated by Digitalian (ko-fi)
Chapter 37: Make Her Disappear Completely
After finally coaxing Si Xu to change out of his wet coat, Jiang Ran put her hands on his shoulders and asked him to sit on the bed.
The girl looked serious and stared at him condescendingly. Si Xu looked back in confusion, not understanding the meaning in her eyes.
However...
It somehow felt chilling and disquieting.
"Si Xu."
"..." He blinked to show that he was listening.
"What's the relationship between Wei Yage and you?" Wei Yage was the main supporting female character in the original novel. Jiang Ran had to first find out how important that woman was to Si Xu.
If she ended up being taught a lesson by Si Xu after she taught Wei Yage a lesson, then it wouldn’t be worth the effort.
"Wei Yage?" Si Xu asked doubtfully as he had no deep impression of that woman, "Why must she have a relationship with me?"
Well, since Si Xu asked that, it meant she didn't matter to him. In his opinion, she was no one important.
Jiang Ran automatically understood Si Xu's words and smiled unwittingly. "It's best that you don’t have a relationship with her... I was just asking."
"Jiang Ran." The girl's mood today was erratic and different from usual. Si Xu hesitated, "Are you... on your period?"
Period? Why did he suddenly ask such a question? Jiang Ran shook her head honestly. "No."
Si Xu, "Oh."
Gu Yunqing said that girls would have bad tempers when they were on their period, and as boyfriends, they must show the girls more care and indulgence – Yes, on the way back from the city area, Gu Yunqing kept telling him about how to take care of his girlfriend.
Si Xu remembered something, took Jiang Ran's hand, pulled her to sit on his lap. "I have no prior experience in this aspect. After Gu Yunqing reminded me today, I went to the supermarket to gather a lot of sanitary napkins that haven't expired yet."
Jiang Ran, whose cheeks were slightly flushed by the young man's sudden intimacy, heard the muttering in her ear. "...???"
Experience in this aspect? Was he referring to the experience in taking care of girls who were on their period? Wait, he went to the supermarket to gather sanitary napkins in front of Gu Yunqing?
"I don't know what brand you like to use, so I took a bunch of various brands – they should be enough for you." Si Xu was still on the topic. "I'll take them out for you later. Tell me which brand you like, and I’ll get more next time I gather them.”
Discussing this topic openly would make the person involved feel a little embarrassed, but when Jiang Ran listened to his serious tone, her embarrassment faded away subconsciously. In the end, she didn’t know whether she should feel resigned or touched.
"Oh, Gu Yunqing also said that girls should not drink cold water or catch a cold when they are on their period – when is your period? I’ll prepare hand warmers for you..."
"Si Xu." Jiang Ran interrupted the young man's question. She hooked her arms around his neck and kissed him on the cheek. "Thank y... I like you."
Remembering that he didn't like hearing her say thank you, Jiang Ran corrected herself at the last minute.
The soft lips left a fleeting touch on Si Xu’s cheek, but the fragrance lingered for a long time. Si Xu's mesmerizing eyes widened slightly. After thinking for a while, he asked, "In addition to hand warmers, do you want brown sugar water?" Gu Yunqing seemed to say that brown sugar water was also important.
Jiang Ran laughed and said, "Okay."
Si Xu squinted at her, his clear light brown eyes full of expectation.
Jiang Ran, "..." What did he mean by this? Why was he looking at her like this... She felt very panicked.
Seeing that she didn't respond, Si Xu was dissatisfied and raised his face slightly. "Jiang Ran?"
Was he... asking for a kiss? Thinking of what he just said and her response, Jiang Ran suddenly understood. When he said he would prepare hand warmers, she gave him a kiss of gratitude. Thus, he mentioned brown sugar water...
While she was hesitating, Si Xu looked at her persistently, like a puppy begging for a bone.
To confirm her suspicion, Jiang Ran nodded and kissed him on the cheek.
Si Xu was satisfied and continued to ask, "How about red dates?"
Jiang Ran was sure that he was asking for kisses.
After figuring it out, the corners of Jiang Ran’s mouth twitched as she suppressed a smile, and nodded as a response. Then before Si Xu spoke, she cupped his face in her palms and kissed his slightly parted lips.
……
After seeing off his badass friend, Gu Yunqing looked at the three ashen-faced people who remained in the corridor, and a sarcastic arc formed on his lips.
He had long known that Luo Rui was no pushover, but now it seemed that this woman was not as smart as he thought.
Not only was she not as smart as he thought, she was also presumptuous and full of herself.
Holding Su Qin’s hand as they walked up the stairs, Gu Yunqing paused for a moment when he passed by the three of them.
With the intention of hoping that they wouldn’t cause trouble during the next few days of their journey, Gu Yunqing said, "Luo Rui, Jiang Ran has been with Si Xu for so many days already. There shouldn’t be any conflicts or disagreements between you and her – why must you keep causing her trouble?"
The biggest conflict between Luo Rui and Jiang Ran was Xie Chengzhi.
But now that Jiang Ran showed no interest in Xie Chengzhi, shouldn’t Luo Rui turn her attention from Jiang Ran to elsewhere?
"Only a fool would be single-minded to the point of recklessness... Luo Rui, I thought you were a smart person."
After Gu Yunqing finished talking, he took Su Qin back to their room.
……
In the corridor, Luo Rui took a deep breath and focused on her friend first.
"Zhouzhou, are you okay?"
After Luo Rui squeezed Zhou Jian’s hand, Zhou Jian broke away from the fear of the spiritual pressure. She wiped the cold sweat from her forehead and stammered, "Yes, I’m okay..."
Luo Rui took out a handkerchief from her pocket and handed it to her. She said softly, "Zhouzhou, don't worry about what happened today. Go back and have a good rest."
"...Yeah."
"Also, don't cause trouble for Ranran in the future." Luo Rui sighed. "Ranran's temper has changed a lot after being with Professor Si. Maybe... maybe she isn’t as easy to communicate with as before. That Professor Si seems like a tough nut to crack. We need his help now, so don't make him unhappy."
"I understand." Zhou Jian was already intimidated by Si Xu's spiritual pressure. She wouldn’t dare to go and cause trouble for Jiang Ran. At least, she didn’t have the mood to do that anytime soon.
After sending Zhou Jian back to her room, Luo Rui leaned against the wall and sighed deeply.
"Ruirui." Xie Chengzhi was waiting on the spot. When he saw the girl's weary expression, he felt infinite pity and tenderness in his heart.
Walking over to wrap his arms around his lover's shoulders, Xie Chengzhi whispered, "I’ve been useless and caused you to be aggrieved."
It was Jiang Ranran who pushed Zhou Jian, but because that man was too powerful, not only did they fail to support their peer, they were also forced to submit to those who bullied them.
"I've been useless... I'm sorry."
As a boyfriend, protector, and companion, Xie Chengzhi felt ashamed at this moment.
"Chengzhi, don't say that." Sensing her boyfriend's dejection, Luo Rui hugged her lover, patted him gently on the back, and said gently, "Zhouzhou had been impulsive today. We had all been impulsive. We had made mistakes too. We’ve learned from our mistakes. It’s fine as long as we don’t repeat our mistakes in the future.”
In this situation, Ruirui was still reflecting on herself — his Ruirui was really kind and self-disciplined.
"Ruirui, it's my problem." Hugging Luo Rui tightly, Xie Cheng placed his chin on her shoulder and said firmly, "I’ll train hard and keep getting stronger – I’ll become so strong that no one dares to bully you."
"..." Luo Rui didn't expect today's incident to have aroused Xie Chengzhi's long-dormant competitive spirit. Luo Rui nodded vigorously and encouraged her boyfriend, "I know you can do it, Chengzhi. You’re my support!"
……
After Xie Chengzhi fell asleep, Luo Rui sat alone in front of the window, staring at the falling snow outside the window in a daze.
Gu Yunqing was right. There was no irreconcilable conflict between her and Jiang Ranran. There was no need for her to compete with Jiang Ranran, and there was no need to go out of her way to cause trouble for Jiang Ranran.
Jiang Ranran was with Si Xu, and she was favored by him.
Si Xu doted on Jiang Ranran, and provoking Jiang Ranran was tantamount to provoking Si Xu. With the current strength of their team, they were no match for Si Xu at all.
Taking all the circumstances into consideration, any rational person would know that they should not continue to cause trouble for Jiang Ranran. However...
However, Luo Rui simply refused to take it lying down.
Before the apocalypse, Jiang Ranran was the faculty belle, and the daughter of a wealthy family. She was escorted to and from the school by drivers and bodyguards in neat suits, and wooed by an outstanding guy like Xie Chengzhi... Luo Rui knew that she could not compete with her, so even though she was in love with Xie Chengzhi, she could only watch from afar, protecting her last bit of pride. She didn't even dare to let Xie Chengzhi know that an admirer like her existed.
She thought she would live like this for the rest of her life, but unexpectedly, the apocalypse suddenly struck.
During the apocalypse, status, wealth, and power that once existed had become useless, and only strength mattered.
She could finally be free from the constraints of family and money, hold her head high and openly express her love.
As for the former little princess? She didn't awaken any superpowers, and had become the most inconspicuous grain of sand in troubled times – she was despised, mocked, and treated as a plaything by the strong.
She got everything Jiang Ranran had before.
Whether it was Xie Chengzhi's love, the admiration of the people around her, or her status that was beyond ordinary people – she knew that she had Jiang Ranran under her feet.
Whenever she saw the once-proud woman huddled in a corner and shivering, apart from occasional sympathy, she felt elated and pleased.
If Jiang Ranran had known her place, she wouldn't mind giving her a little love and bringing her along in their escape.
However, Jiang Ranran was still in love with Xie Chengzhi. She had tried to hit on Xie Chengzhi several times when she wasn't paying attention.
She took Jiang Ranran in with good intentions, but she seduced her boyfriend! Even though Xie Chengzhi had explained that their conversation was just an exchange between ordinary teammates, her instincts told her that things were by no means that simple.
Jiang Ranran still hoped to snatch Xie Chengzhi back.
It was bad enough that an ordinary person like Jiang Ranran, an ordinary person who relied on her charity to survive, didn’t appreciate her kindness, but she even provoked her time and again – of course she couldn’t stand it.
Luo Rui's eyelids twitched violently, and she took a deep breath to calm herself down.
Jiang Ranran might seem to be devoted to Si Xu now, but that could be just a pretense.
With Si Xu’s unfettered temper, no one knew how long he would continue to pamper Jiang Ranran.
When Si Xu got tired of Jiang Ranran, she would become an outcast again. When that happened, Jiang Ranran would definitely come back to find Xie Chengzhi because she would have no other choice – with the way Xie Chengzhi was, he would definitely not have the heart to reject his former girlfriend when she sought his help.
Therefore, before that happened, she must break all the good impressions Xie Chengzhi had of Jiang Ranran, crush the last remaining goodwill and warmth in his heart, and make him completely disgusted with Jiang Ranran.
If that couldn't be done, then she would only feel at ease by making Jiang Ranran disappear from this world.