The System was furious reading this: [ Ningning, let me delete her comment. ]
“No need,” Jiang Ning didn’t think much of it. “She’s not wrong. I really don’t know how to write fiction, so everything I write is real.”
The System fell silent for a moment, looking at Jiang Ning’s exquisite, indifferent profile: [ Okay, I’ll listen to you. ]
Fine, I won’t delete it.
But it still had to find a way to make sure Jiang Ning didn’t see that comment.
It was petty like that. Ningning might not care, but it cared super much!
But how to do it?
Thinking about it, the System created an alt account for itself and posted some subtle, flattering praise in Jiang Ning’s comment section.
In a hotel.
Jiang Yu had seen the novel Jiang Shu sent earlier, but because she was busy negotiating copyrights, she didn’t have time to look at it during the day. It wasn’t until night that she finally clicked it open.
She didn’t take Jiang Ning’s writing a novel seriously, thinking Jiang Ning was just trying to copy her. But no matter how Jiang Ning imitated her, it would just be a clumsy, laughable mimicry.
Still, it was irritating. There were so many things she could do, so why did she have to copy her and write novels?
What kind of novel could a high school dropout write?
Jiang Shu was right; Jiang Ning was just humiliating herself.
It was hard to imagine that such a stupid person had actually been switched at birth with her.
Jiang Yu casually clicked in to see what kind of trash she had written. However, not long after, she stormed out of the book in a rage.
This country bumpkin, Jiang Ning, actually dared to insinuate about her in the book!
Saying she was not only a Fake Heiress but also deliberately framed the Real Heiress!
Did she think changing the gender would stop Jiang Yu from realizing she was the target?
We’re both old foxes in the writing game; don’t think I can’t tell!
Jiang Yu was trembling with anger. She had grown up spoiled, and her writing career had been smooth sailing—her first book exploded in popularity, earning her the title of “Violet Star.”
Even after the switch was discovered and she learned she wasn’t the Jiang family’s daughter, she didn’t think Jiang Ning could affect her much.
She knew Father Jiang and Mother Jiang wouldn’t abandon her. They didn’t like Jiang Ning and only brought her back out of guilt.
Plus, with her secret manipulations, they had even started to dislike Jiang Ning, ensuring her own status in the Jiang family remained secure.
But when did that cowardly, timid country bumpkin get the guts to insinuate about her in a novel?
Jiang Yu felt sick to her stomach.
Moreover, looking at the stats, there were already several hundred clicks and over a hundred favorites.
This meant at least a hundred people had finished reading the ten thousand words Jiang Ning wrote.
Just thinking about this made Jiang Yu uncomfortable all over.
How could a new book have so many readers?
Countless new books were added to the Sky Dream Literature Network every day.
It was extremely difficult for a book without a reader base to stand out.
Jiang Yu scrolled through the comment section and discovered that this was actually related to her.
Jiang Ning was “leeching off her heat”—she had become Jiang Ning’s stepping stone!
Jiang Yu felt blood rushing to her head. When she clicked into the user profile of the reader who was being called her “leg hair” in the comments, her vision went black.
That Carp Crossing the River wasn’t really her reader at all. He had only favorited her book; he hadn’t even bought it!
Jiang Yu almost vomited blood.
If she didn’t know Jiang Ning lacked the brains, she would have thought Jiang Ning and Carp Crossing the River were colluding to act out a play for sympathy.
Idiot!
Jiang Yu cursed Carp Crossing the River fiercely in her heart.
Jiang Ning carried two cups of milk tea home and ran right into Jiang Shu, who was about to go out.
The Guayi energy on Jiang Shu was already very thick. It occasionally transformed into half a human face, extending a long tongue to lick the oblivious Jiang Shu.
The System laughed secretly: [ Ningning, he’s going to die soon. ]
The System already disliked humans because they had killed Jiang Ning time and again.
Now, seeing this annoying guy Jiang Shu entangled by a Guayi, its mood was even more delightful.
Jiang Ning glanced at Jiang Shu indifferently, her dark pupils devoid of any emotion.
Jiang Shu was already in a bad mood, and being looked at like that made the hair on his back stand up.
When did Jiang Ning’s eyes become so terrifying?
Like she’s looking at a dead person.
Ever since coming out of the hospital, Jiang Ning had become weird.
He snapped angrily, “What are you looking at?”
Jiang Ning withdrew her gaze and said in a tone without any fluctuation, “Looking at how you’re about to die.”
Jiang Shu looked at her expressionless face, and his heart skipped a beat.
She said it as if it were true.
His adrenaline spiked, his face flushed red, and he shouted, “I’m perfectly fine! Even if you die, I won’t die!”
His shouting startled several maids in the house, who looked at him in surprise.
What the hell? Saying things like that with that expression—she’s deliberately playing ghost tricks. Truly scheming.
Jiang Ning gave a noncommittal “Mhm,” not taking his words to heart at all.
She didn’t look at him again and went upstairs carrying her milk tea, completely indifferent to what he was going to do next, as if she had just made a casual remark.
Jiang Shu stood frozen, a panic he couldn’t suppress rising in his heart.
He didn’t really want to go drag racing anymore. But if he didn’t go, it would look like he was afraid of Jiang Ning.
Finally, he gritted his teeth, glared at the servants watching him, and left with his keys.
He would absolutely not let Jiang Ning laugh at him.
The winding mountain road was in the suburbs of Ning City. Because of an incident a while ago, the roads there had been blocked off, but one could still enter with connections.
Jiang Shu naturally fell within the scope of “having connections.”
In their “brothers” group chat, someone’s father was in charge of managing the mountain road.
They agreed to sneak a pass and meet at the intersection.
His friend patted him on the shoulder. The spectral Guayi energy emanating from his friend was visible to no one but the supernatural; it was much thicker than what was on Jiang Shu, almost obscuring the person’s original features.
He grinned at Jiang Shu. “Let’s go.”
Jiang Shu didn’t look up, so he didn’t see the corner of his friend’s mouth split almost to the back of his ear.
Two people tainted by Guayi energy walked away, arms around each other’s shoulders.
In the evening, Jiang Shu wasn’t home.
The members of the Jiang family each had things on their minds, so no one spoke. They finished dinner hastily.
Not long after, Mother Jiang knocked on Jiang Ning’s door and said, “Something happened to Xiao Shu.”
System: [ That happened fast. ]
Mother Jiang could barely hide her tears. She choked out, “You probably don’t know anything yet. Zhicheng’s father just called me and said Xiao Shu and a few other kids stole his pass and went to the winding mountain road.”
“A new Urban Legend has been born on the winding mountain road, and now Xiao Shu and the others are all inside.”
The more she spoke, the harder she cried.
By the end, she was clearly about to pass out from sobbing.
As a wealthy housewife, she didn’t know exactly how dangerous Urban Legends were, but she had heard that almost no one who entered ever came back.
How could such a thing… appear in the suburbs?
This is the suburbs! Even if it’s not the city center, it’s close. The land is worth its weight in gold.
By logic, it shouldn’t be invaded by Urban Legends. The Jiang family even has several villas there.
As Mother Jiang cried, she suddenly realized Jiang Ning’s reaction was different from what she expected.
She hesitated. “Ningning, you…”
Forget it. Ningning and Xiao Shu don’t have a good relationship. It’s inevitable that she’s a bit cold at a time like this.
She tried to compose herself. “Come downstairs with me to take a look.”
Jiang Ning nodded and said, “I’ll go down in a bit.”
After I finish updating today’s chapter.
Mother Jiang got angry now. “He is your brother. Now that something has happened to him, can’t you put aside the past for a moment?”
In Mother Jiang’s view, siblings shouldn’t hold grudges overnight. Jiang Ning was clearly still angry.
Jiang Ning looked at her quietly and didn’t explain. “Okay.”
Jiang Ning listened, but Mother Jiang didn’t feel any happier. She felt defeated.
“Then come down quickly.”