The Eldest Lady always wants to have a double O Relationship with her old enemy - Chapter 19

“I remember you were on the high school track team, and the injury on your leg was caused by a fight for a field with Jiang Lan and her friends,” Ye Tao said after her verbal spat with Jiang Lan, continuing the conversation with Fang Xing.

Jiang Lan, her mouth full of oil, said indistinctly, “As expected of our gossip queen, she knows everything.”

Ye Tao was speechless and couldn’t be bothered to respond.

“At that time, the whole school was talking about Shen and Tang’s relationship. I thought no one would care about our little dispute,” Fang Xing said with a faint smile, her eyes glancing at Shen Jianxi and Tang Yanzhao, who had remained silent all along.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Lan was the first to react, slapping the table. “What are you talking about! I’m a campus celebrity, too. How could my incident be completely overshadowed by Xi Xi’s?”

The warm yellow light overhead shone into Fang Xing’s eyes, making them look like a warm galaxy. Her eyes were filled with a smile. “My apologies, I misspoke.”

“Tsk.” Jiang Lan rolled her eyes at her and tilted her head back to drink a mouthful of beer.

“So, you were at the hospital late that night because of her?” Shen Jianxi recalled the time when Tang Yanzhao accompanied her to get a rabies shot after being bitten by a kitten and they happened to run into Jiang Lan.

“Hmm?” Ye Tao looked at Jiang Lan suspiciously. “What’s going on? You two have secrets I don’t know about?”

Jiang Lan tutted. “What secret? We just happened to run into each other. At that time, Fang Xing was recuperating in the hospital with a fracture. Even though it had nothing to do with me, I was a party to the incident, so I went to see her out of a sense of goodwill.”

“Yes, Jiang Lan is a very good person,” Fang Xing agreed.

Her words seemed fine, but they made Shen Jianxi frown involuntarily. “Then how did you two get together again now?”

“It’s all because of her,” Jiang Lan said impatiently.

Fang Xing didn’t seem annoyed by Jiang Lan’s attitude at all. “It’s my fault. I’ve been in the hospital for so long that I feel uncomfortable. I heard she was going out for barbecue tonight, so I asked her to take me out for some fresh air.”

Just as Shen Jianxi was about to continue, her hand was gently nudged. She turned around to look at Tang Yanzhao, who pointed at a small hill of shelled crayfish on a plate in front of her.

Instantly, Shen Jianxi’s thoughts were completely pulled back. She looked at the crayfish with surprised, wide eyes. “You peeled all these yourself!”

“I saw you were having a hard time,” Tang Yanzhao explained briefly.

Shen Jianxi’s heart softened. She wanted to immediately lean in and give her expressionless face a deep kiss, but the timing wasn’t right. She could only coyly rub her head on Tang Yanzhao’s shoulder, whining and pouting. “Zhaozhao, you’re so good to me.”

Tang Yanzhao cleared her throat, a hint of awkwardness in her eyes. “Eat.”

Shen Jianxi put on her gloves, picked up a crayfish, and held it to Tang Yanzhao’s mouth. “Say ‘ahh’.”

“You eat it,” Tang Yanzhao refused. Shen Jianxi never feared her rejections and persistently chased after her lips.

Left with no choice, Tang Yanzhao opened her mouth and took the crayfish.

Shen Jianxi’s fingertips lightly brushed against her lips, seemingly by accident. Then, she picked up a shrimp and put it in her own mouth, deliberately letting her fingers linger on her lips for a couple of seconds. In this moment, Shen Jianxi was like a cat that had stolen some fish.

“Ewww~” Jiang Lan saw their interaction and let out a sound of disgust.

Ye Tao kicked her under the table, warning her, “Don’t ‘eww’ anything. Stay out of their business.”

The proud little peacock Shen Jianxi confidently raised her chin at her. “Shut up.”

“Waaah, you two don’t love me anymore,” Jiang Lan complained melodramatically.

“Stop it. Don’t act. That doesn’t suit you. It’s ugly. You think you’re Xi Xi? Her pouting gives me goosebumps,” Ye Tao said, rubbing her arm with a disgusted look on her face.

Jiang Lan stopped her act, wiggled her nose at them, and raised her beer bottle. “Come on, let’s have a toast.”

The others raised their juice cups and clinked them with her, a clear sound in the noisy night market.

Jiang Lan burped. “Why are you all such good girls, just drinking juice? What’s the fun in that?”

Shen Jianxi looked at the orange juice in her hand, and an idea began to form in her mind.

Suddenly, two girls laughing and playing behind them walked past and accidentally bumped into Shen Jianxi’s back. The orange juice in her hand spilled on her, and even her sleeve was stained.

“Sorry, sorry, we didn’t mean to,” a girl with long, curly brown hair quickly turned around to apologize.

Tang Yanzhao expertly pulled out two paper towels and took Shen Jianxi’s hand to help her clean up the juice on her clothes.

Shen Jianxi’s temper was about to flare up, but Tang Yanzhao’s action instantly calmed her down. She tilted her head up with a displeased look. “It’s fine.”

The two girls were clearly very apologetic about the accident and apologized several more times before finally leaving.

As they left, the curly-haired girl glared at her friend and kicked her on the shin, though it was clear she didn’t do it with much force.

“It’s all your fault,” the curly-haired girl scolded. “You just had to look. If that young lady wasn’t so nice, with her expensive clothes, we wouldn’t have been able to leave.”

The short-haired girl hugged her shoulders and buried her head in her shoulder, rubbing her face affectionately. “Sorry, baby, my bad. Who knew it would be the first strawberry, I just got so excited I couldn’t help it.”

“Hmph!” The curly-haired girl shook her off and strode forward.

The short-haired girl quickly trotted after her, and the sound of their voices faded away in the noisy night.

Shen Jianxi’s attention returned to Tang Yanzhao, who had already cleaned up the remaining juice on her. Although it was impossible to completely remove the stain, it looked much better than before.

My heart is melting!

The more Shen Jianxi got to know Tang Yanzhao, the clearer the guilt, heartache, and regret she had felt since her rebirth became, and her love for her also grew clearer. Similarly, she regretted her previous life even more.

Why didn’t she discover how precious Tang Yanzhao was in her last life?

“Because in your last life, you were at each other’s throats. Just one look at her would make sparks fly in your eyes, so how could you have noticed any of this?” Little Ten said, casually twisting the knife.

“Was I really that bad?” Shen Jianxi weakly defended herself.

“Well, yes. After all, in your last life, you were basically the one who was malicious towards her, and she just put up with it.”

“…”

Shen Jianxi’s eyes darkened. She picked up the glass in front of her and drank the entire thing in one gulp. The sweet and sour juice in her mouth was mixed with a somewhat bitter and stimulating taste. She looked at the bubbling orange liquid suspiciously and scraped her tongue with her teeth.

Suddenly, she heard a muffled laugh from the side. Shen Jianxi followed the sound and saw Jiang Lan pretending to look down, but no matter how she tried to hide it, she couldn’t hide the smile on her lips.

“Jiang Lan!” Shen Jianxi called out her name, one word at a time.

Jiang Lan cleared her throat and subtly moved away. “A change of pace might open up a new world for you. Don’t be so against it. Besides, the taste isn’t that bad, is it? I specially picked the one with the best flavor.”

Shen Jianxi tightened her grip on the glass and was surprisingly unable to retort.

Maybe… she was right?

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