I Conquered the Villain Boss Chapter 73
Translated by Digitalian (ko-fi)
Chapter 73: Belonged To Me Alone
Jiang Ran didn’t expect to see Zhou Jian here. Zhou Jian’s hair was disheveled and she looked dirty as if she had rolled in the mud. Jiang Ran paused slightly and did not step forward immediately.
The girl squatted in front of the pastry stall, holding a dirty steamed bun in her hand and stuffing it into her mouth.
"Zhou Jian..." Jiang Ran frowned as she murmured the woman's name.
Unlike the original plot, Zhou Jian didn’t die, but went crazy instead.
She became crazy. Being abandoned by Luo Rui's team and living in the slum area was no different from being dead.
People around were still cursing, and some people stepped forward to kick the woman away. But every time she was kicked away, she would crawl back to where she was squatting.
"This woman..." Si Xu glanced at her and then looked away without interest. He didn't say the rest of his sentence after his eyes met the girl's lamenting gaze.
Jiang Ran gripped the corner of Si Xu's sleeve and tugged at it gently. She asked in a hesitant tone, "Si Xu, do you have any points?"
"Well, yes."
"Can you lend me some?" She had just arrived at the base, and had never been on any mission or participated in any work, so naturally she didn’t have any points.
"Okay." Si Xu nudged his chin, but did not stop her decision. "Just do whatever you want to do."
With his permission, Jiang Ran went to the pastry stall and bought ten large buns, then asked the boss to settle the payment with Si Xu. She carried the packed buns and walked up to the woman.
When someone stepped out, the cursing young men and women shut their mouths, eager to watch the show.
Ignoring the looks and remarks of the people around her, Jiang Ran placed the packed buns in front of the woman and whispered, "Zhou Jian, these are for you."
The woman looked at her, and smiled in a silly way. She opened the bag and grabbed one bun. She stuffed the bun into her mouth and chewed it hard.
"When you recover in the future, just live your life well in the base." Regardless of whether the woman could understand it or not, Jiang Ran said, "After all, it hadn’t been easy to reach the base alive."
The girl spoke in a low voice. While she was speaking, Zhou Jian had already swallowed two buns.
She stuffed the remaining buns into her outerwear and smiled foolishly at Jiang Ran again.
Tired of waiting, Si Xu called out the girl's name and reminded her, "Let's go."
Jiang Ran stood up and walked to Si Xu's side. She took one last look at the dirty woman on the ground and followed Si Xu out of the center of commotion.
……
After taking Jiang Ran back to the fruit stall, Si Xu asked her, "Is there anything you want to buy?"
"Aren’t the fruits here available in your space?"
"Yes." Si Xu said, "But Gu Yunqing said shopping is a woman’s greatest pleasure —Jiang Ran, you can buy whatever you want. I have points.”
Jiang Ran, "..." What a spendthrift!
"Haha." After listening to the conversation between the two, the stall owner laughed. "Since your boyfriend said so, Miss, choose some fruits you like."
Jiang Ran didn’t reject Si Xu's kindness. She picked two apples and one watermelon, and let the stall owner total the bill.
"It costs 480 points in total."
Oh, so a watermelon cost 280 points. In the future, as the number of fruits decreased, the price would definitely increase.
The penniless Jiang Ran lamented the expensiveness of fruits and secretly considered whether she should find a job to earn some points in case of emergencies.
She couldn’t possibly ask Si Xu for points every time she bought something or saw a doctor in the future, right?
Si Xu took the packed fruits from the stall owner. He continued shopping with Jiang Ran but was blocked by someone.
"Handsome guy." The girl standing in front of the two of them was the girl who punched and kicked Zhou Jian just now. She was blocking Si Xu's way with a bright smile on her pretty face. "Which superhuman team are you from?"
Jiang Ran, "..." What was she trying to do speaking with such a soft voice? Was she seducing Si Xu? Didn't she see a beautiful woman like her standing next to Si Xu? Who gave her the courage to seduce Si Xu?
Not bothering to look at the woman, Si Xu held Jiang Ran's hand tightly and prepared to walk past her.
When he moved, the woman moved too, blocking his way.
"Handsome guy, it seems to me that you’re also a superhuman. Do you want to consider joining our superhuman team?"
Her cooing voice caused goosebumps all over Jiang Ran's body.
"Handsome guy, join our superhuman team. There are many beautiful women in our superhuman team."
As the woman chattered in front of them, Jiang Ran suddenly said, "Si Xu."
"Huh?"
"Come here."
After he got closer, she grabbed his collar and asked him to lean over. Then she raised her head and kissed him.
The chattering girl finally shut up.
Jiang Ran let go of Si Xu, and licked her lips. She looked at the stiff-faced girl opposite them and raised her eyebrows. "He belongs to me alone, and won't join any superhuman team, okay?"
The girl bit her lip and muttered unwillingly, "How dare... an ordinary person like you say that?" Her eyes wandered, still looking at Si Xu. "Handsome guy..."
With a smile in his eyes, Si Xu replied absently, "She said I belong to her alone. Didn't you hear that?"
After being rejected mercilessly by Si Xu, the woman who hit on him finally gave up and turned back angrily to find her teammates.
They didn’t know what she said, but the people waiting at the side suddenly looked at them with hostile gazes.
Ignoring what those people were thinking, Si Xu continued shopping with Jiang Ran.
……
Wei Yage didn’t expect to meet Si Xu in a place like this.
In her memory, Si Xu's life was extremely monotonous –– conference room, laboratory building, apartment... these were the only three places he went to every day.
She remembered that Chu Yuan invited them to meet up several times, but Si Xu refused on the grounds of work.
Wei Yage looked at the couple not far away, and the smile at the corner of her mouth slowly disappeared.
Seventh Brother, were you accompanying Jiang Ranran to the market? Just like how a man would go shopping with his girlfriend before the apocalypse.
That morning, she heard the girls in the team gather together to talk about how Professor Si held a girl's hand and walked in the snow yesterday afternoon.
She listened to those envious voices as if hearing a joke, and she endured it for a long time without laughing out loud.
How could it be? How could a man like Seventh Brother have the patience to go out with a woman to kill time?
How was that possible...
At this moment, the truth before her was like a slap in the face, making her a little confused.
"Seventh Brother." Before she realized it, she had already called out to the man.
When those light brown eyes looked over, she had adjusted her mentality. She put on a decent smile, and walked toward them.
She couldn’t let them go on like this. She needed to give that woman a warning so that she wouldn't get carried away.
"What a coincidence, Seventh Brother –– are you here to buy something?"
……
Seeing Wei Yage again, Jiang Ran's attitude was even more indifferent than before –– she was just a pitiful woman whose love wasn’t reciprocated. If the man Wei Yage coveted wasn’t her man, she might still express some sympathy for her.
The woman only had Si Xu in her eyes. Although she was standing next to Si Xu, Wei Yage seemed not to see her.
Was she deluding herself? Or was it a deliberate provocation?
No matter what Wei Yage thought, Jiang Ran had no intention of letting the woman have her way.
"That's right." Taking one step faster than Si Xu, Jiang Ran held the arm of the person beside her and replied with a smile, "Si Xu came with me to buy things –– what a coincidence, Captain Wei."
She spoke, but Wei Yage still didn't spare her any look.
She nodded and said calmly, "What a coincidence."
She continued to look at Si Xu and said warmly, "Seventh Brother, have you heard the news about the Shen family this morning?"
Jiang Ran was stunned. The news about the Shen family? Wei Yage specifically mentioned it in front of Si Xu. Was it to remind him, or to warn her?
Si Xu was in a good mood because the girl was holding on to his arm tightly. His tone was not as cold as usual when he spoke. "You mean Hu Bing?"
"Yes." Wei Yage nodded. "He’s dead."
"I know."
"Hu Bing was a close confidant of Old Mr. Shen. I heard that Old Mr. Shen was very angry and ordered Shen Yang to find Hu Bing’s murderer." At this point, Wei Yage finally looked at Jiang Ran, hinting at something. "I heard from the Shen family that the last person who was with Hu Bing last night was the young lady of the Shen family... right, Jiang Ranran?"
"Yes," Jiang Ran answered matter-of-factly. "He tried to take liberties with me, so I beat him up badly. Sigh, it's a pity that Captain Wei wasn’t there and didn't see my heroic act~"
Wei Yage pursed her lips and said to Si Xu, "Seventh Brother, now that Hu Bing is dead, I'm afraid the Shen family will suspect you..."
The girl was adorable when she proudly flaunted how she beat the guy up... Si Xu, who didn't take Wei Yage's words to heart at all, looked at Jiang Ran and replied nonchalantly, "I killed him."
Wei Yage was stunned. "Seventh Brother?"
"Yes." Si Xu repeated to affirm his answer, "I killed him, and the Shen family knows it well."
Wei Yage showed an anxious expression and said helplessly, "Seventh Brother, now is not the time to fall out with the Shen family. You can't do that for a woman..."
"He merely killed a shameless guy who tried to take liberties with the young lady of the Shen family." Jiang Ran knew what Wei Yage was going to say without even listening. She interjected with a sneer, "Grandpa and my eldest cousin love me the most. Hu Bing had evil intentions. So be it that he was killed. A hidden danger has been eliminated for the Shen family, which is a good thing –– why did you make it sound like it’s our fault, Captain Wei?"
She was quibbling.
The corners of Wei Yage's mouth twitched slightly. She tried to stay rational and control her anger.
"Captain Wei, if you’re worried about Si Xu, I can go and tell my eldest cousin in person." Jiang Ran continued to be self-justified. "My eldest cousin will only praise me for doing a good job."
She was haughty because she was favored by Si Xu.
For the first time, Wei Yage had the urge to roll her eyes at someone. She forced herself to ignore Jiang Ran and just looked at Si Xu. "Seventh Brother, it's better to be cautious in this kind of situation in the future..."
"No need." Si Xu touched her the girl’s fluffy hair and replied casually without looking at the person opposite them. "The Shen family doesn't dare do anything to me."
Just leave them be. He would be happy if Shen Lang could be driven up the wall.
Was he already so indulgent of the woman by his side? Wei Yage twitched her lips and said in a harsh voice, "Since Seventh Brother said so, I don't have to worry about anything –– Seventh Brother, carry on with whatever you’re doing. I'm going back."
Jiang Ran waved her hand. "Goodbye, Captain Wei." She hurriedly held Si Xu’s hand and turned around to leave.
Wei Yage, who was waiting for Si Xu to say goodbye, stared at the two people's backs. After a while, the corners of her lips turned down coldly.
Perhaps she should really consider the Shen family's proposal.
