I Conquered the Villain Boss Chapter 50
Translated by Digitalian (ko-fi)
Chapter 50: You Are His Enemy’s Daughter
The moment Jiang Ran saw the man's appearance, memories poured into her mind uncontrollably.
"Ranran~ come here~ take a look at the birthday gift I bought for you~ You've always wanted a teddy bear. Isn't it cute?"
"It’s not cute. It's so ugly."
"Boohoo! How could you trample on my kind intentions? I’m so hurt..."
"Brother, I won't tell Grandpa about you dating early. Can you stop being so disgusting?"
"Erm, girl, why did you expose me? You're really not cute at all~"
……
"Ranran~"
"Shen Yang! Don't call me in such a disgusting tone!"
"Alright. Jiang Ran, why are you hiding here and crying secretly? Who bullied you? Tell me. I’ll beat him so hard that even his mom can’t recognize him!”
……
“Ranran~ Come here, come here. Do you think this cake looks pretty? I baked it for you myself. Happy birthday~”
“It’s so ugly... Brother, please spare the kitchen and me. I don’t want to continue to help you taste the food. I’ll die!”
“That’s exaggerating.”
“And don’t think that I don’t know. Your new girlfriend’s birthday is in two days –– you’re using me as a guinea pig. I’m going to tell Grandpa that you’re dating early!"
"Please don’t! My good sister! Sister Ranran! Let me off. I won't dare to do it again next time! I mean it. I swear! I can give you all my pocket money!"
"Humph."
……
Amidst the chaos, Shen Yang caught a glimpse of the man standing motionless in the crowd.
When Gu Yunqing and Su Qin came back earlier, he already knew that Si Xu, that big devil, was also coming back. Shen Yang sighed inwardly. What bad luck. Why did he encounter this plague god as soon as he went on an inspection round?
Look at that look in his eyes. It was just a woman. Did Si Xu have to hold a grudge for so long? If he knew Yu Huang was so unreliable, he wouldn't have agreed to help him... Half a year had passed since the incident, and the Shen family was now in power. Si Xu also had a new woman by his side... Huh?
Shen Yang blinked and stared at Jiang Ran for a while. An expression of disbelief slowly appeared on his face. "Ran... Ranran?"
Was it Ranran? Was the pretty girl standing next to Si Xu his Ranran?
After the disaster broke out, people from Team Z searched the entire Shenmu City but found no trace of her... Why would she be with Si Xu?
"Ranran? Is it really you?" Shen Yang rushed up to Jiang Ran with a whoosh, and with tears in his eyes, stretched out his hand to pinch her face. "Ranran~ you're not dead! That’s great!"
Because of the influx of memories, Jiang Ran had been a little slow to react. However, she did not hesitate to throw him to the ground with a skillful shoulder throw the moment the man stretched out his fingers.
"Shen Yang! Don't touch my face!"
"Ouch!" The man fell hard on the ground, groaning and unable to get up for a long time.
Si Xu lowered the hand that he raised.
He stared at Jiang Ran and didn't move for a long time.
Jiang Ran was Shen Yang's sister... The Shen family only had one daughter, Shen Yao, in the same generation as Shen Yang. Shen Yao worked in his laboratory.
Did Shen Yang have any other sisters?
Oh... there was another possibility.
Si Xu's hands hanging by his side slowly clenched into fists.
Shen Lang had a daughter, Shen Muxin, who was married to Jiang Yize, a professor of genetic engineering at Shenmu University –– if Jiang Ranran was Shen Muxin's daughter, she would also be Shen Yang's sister.
Jiang Ran, Jiang Yize.
Jiang Ran... was the daughter of Jiang Yize and Shen Muxin?
Jiang Ran was Jiang Yize’s daughter.
Realizing this fact, Si Xu calmly took two steps back, avoiding Jiang Ran's extended hand.
"Si Xu?" Failing to grab Si Xu, Jiang Ran looked at him subconsciously, just in time to look into his emotionless, charming eyes, "Si Xu, I..."
"Are you Jiang Yize's daughter?" Despite being sure of that, the man seemed unwilling to accept it and asked word by word, "Is that so? Jiang Ran?"
Being in Jiang Ranran's body, it was destined that Jiang Ran couldn’t cut off blood ties with the Shen family. Jiang Ran bit her lip and nodded almost imperceptibly. "Yes."
Si Xu, "..."
He stared at Jiang Ran quietly for a long time, then suddenly twitched the corner of his mouth. "You're quite something, Jiang Ran."
— She was quite something. During the journey, she said nothing nor explained anything. After learning about his relationship with the Shen family, she chose to remain silent.
— Great, how great. The girl in front of him turned out to be so smart.
— He had underestimated her.
When he thought about her relationship with Jiang Yize, at a certain moment, he had an urge to break her neck.
Before murderous intent replaced his rationality, he turned around and left without hesitation, passing by her as if she were just a stranger.
In just the blink of an eye, the young man's figure disappeared into the crowd.
Jiang Ran was stunned. She couldn't make the explanation she had prepared. She could only stand there with her mouth open –– wait! That guy just ran away! She could explain it! Things were not what he thought!
"Ranran~" On the ground, Shen Yang stretched out a hand with difficulty, shaking it tremblingly. "Help me up~"
"..." It was all because of this jerk! If he hadn't harmed Pei Wan'er, Si Xu wouldn’t have disliked the Shen family so much! The more she thought about it, the angrier she became. Jiang Ran stepped on the man's exquisite face, crossed over him and chased after Si Xu.
"Ouch!" Shen Yang screamed after being stepped on, and rubbed the tip of his injured nose. "Wretched girl! If I’m disfigured, you’ll get it from me!"
The team members who had watched enough of the show stepped forward to help their captain up.
"Captain, that girl just now was..."
"That's my sister!" Ignoring the shoe print on his face, Shen Yang glared at his subordinates. "Hurry, arrange for someone to follow her! Didn’t you see that my sister is just an ordinary person? If she gets bullied, I’ll beat you to death!"
"Yes, yes, yes!"
"Also, don't harbor any thoughts toward my Ranran! Otherwise, I'll cut off your third leg! Do you get it?!"
"Yes, we got it. We got it!"
……
After running all the way, Jiang Ran ended up getting lost.
She didn't catch up with Si Xu, and she didn't know where she was now.
She sighed, somewhat discouraged. Jiang Ran found some steps and sat down, pounding her legs and glancing at the corner of the building.
"Did Shen Yang arrange for you to follow me?" Jiang Ran looked at the sky filled with dark clouds. "Do you know where Professor Si lives?"
The superhuman in the corner who thought he was perfectly hidden, "... I know."
"Please take me there, thank you."
……
Because he was an important high-ranking official, the base arranged a single apartment unit for Si Xu. It was on the third floor with a large balcony and plenty of sunshine.
Standing downstairs, one could see the lights in the apartment through the balcony.
Jiang Ran thanked the superhuman who led the way again. "Thank you. Please go back and explain the situation to Shen Yang so that he doesn't have to worry about me."
"..." Just go back like this? Captain Shen would really break his legs!
……
Running upstairs without stopping, Jiang Ran stopped at the door of the apartment, took a deep breath, and was about to knock on the door when she heard an unfamiliar woman's voice coming from the entrance hall.
"Seventh Brother, I'm glad that you came back safely –– I’ve put the things on the table. You take the time to check them. I'll go back now."
"Yeah."
"By the way, Seventh Brother, I heard Yunqing say that you met a girl when you were outside this time. Why didn't I see her..."
"I’ve cast her aside."
"You’ve cast her aside?" The woman smiled and said in a nonchalant tone, "If she's not suitable, it would be better to break up sooner."
"Yeah."
"If there's nothing else, I'll leave now... Seventh Brother, have a good rest. I'll come back tomorrow to report on the situation in the base recently."
"Okay."
……
Jiang Ran's hand that was about to knock on the door froze in mid-air. Someone from the inside pulled the door open.
The woman stood at the door, looking at Jiang Ran in surprise. She had a cold and arrogant expression on her exquisitely dolled-up face. "Who are you? Did you come to the wrong place?"
Jiang Ran put down her hand and stared at the woman in front of her coldly. "What does my identity have to do with you? I'm not looking for you." Jiang Ran walked around her and wanted to enter the apartment.
"Wait." The woman raised her hand to block the door and lowered her voice, "Are you Jiang Ranran?"
Did she know who she was? Listening to her tone and her form of address just now, Jiang Ran also guessed her identity. "Wei Yage, this is the first time we meet. I’m Jiang Ran."
"Do you know me?" The woman raised her eyebrows and sneered. "It seems that the Shen family has high hopes for you –– you went to such great lengths to get close to Seventh Brother, and to investigate all the people around him..."
"It seems that you feel a sense of crisis." When Jiang Ran met her love rival, she got all defensive. "You found out everything about my background when I hadn't even returned to the base."
"A sense of crisis?" Wei Yage didn't deny it, but her eyes were sympathetic. "Yes, but fortunately, there’s no need to worry now."
Without waiting for Jiang Ran's reply, Wei Yage glanced into the room. After making sure that Si Xu in the study was not disturbed, she grabbed Jiang Ran's wrist and pulled her out of the entrance hall.
"Do you want to know why Si Xu cast you aside? If you want to know, follow me and don't disturb him."
Jiang Ran was silent for a moment, released her grip on the door, and followed Wei Yage downstairs.
……
The man in the room was holding a book that he hadn’t been able to focus his mind on. Hearing the familiar footsteps going away, he couldn't hold back his anger and slammed the book on the table.
……
When they got downstairs, Wei Yage let go of Jiang Ran’s wrist. She took out a handkerchief and wiped her hands carefully, as if she had just touched something dirty.
Turning a blind eye to her obvious provocation, Jiang Ran yawned. "If you have anything to say to sow discord, just say it –– after that, I have to go up and find Si Xu."
"You still want to go up and find him?" Wei Yage sighed. " Jiang Ranran, it seems that you don’t know what Brother Seventh is thinking at all.”
“I know.” Jiang Ran shrugged her shoulder. “So, you see, I’m going up to coax him. I know you’ve never experienced it. When that guy loses his temper, he needs to be coaxed."
Was this woman showing off in front of her? Wei Yage looked at Jiang Ran. She had to admit that Jiang Ranran inherited the good looks of the Shen family, and she could seduce many men with just her looks.
Unfortunately, it was precisely because she was a member of the Shen family, or more precisely, because she was Jiang Yize's daughter, that Wei Yage did not need to feel any sense of crisis.
"Jiang Ranran, do you know who Si Xu is?"
Wei Yage wasn’t a brainless idiot like Zhou Jian. As the main supporting female character in the novel, she was smart throughout the whole novel. Every word she said and everything she did had their own purposes. At this moment, she suddenly changed the topic. Jiang Ran was vigilant and did not respond.
"Have you heard of the Huo family of Beichen?"
"..." Sorry, she really hadn't heard of them.
"Si Xu is the eldest son of Huo Zhisang, the eldest daughter of the Huo family."
From what Wei Yage meant, the Huo family seemed to be very powerful. Jiang Ran said, "Since he is from the Huo family, why is he in the laboratory?"
"It’s because he’s an illegitimate child." Wei Yage put her hands on her hips and said lazily, "Huo Zhisang was already engaged to the young master of the Pei family at the time, but she became pregnant out of wedlock. The Huo family would not allow such a scandal to happen to their daughter, so Huo Zhisang could only secretly give birth to the child and ask her friend to take the child away."
Staring at the silent Jiang Ran, Wei Yage smiled faintly. "That friend was your father, Jiang Yize."