After Transmigrating as the Villain’s Cannon Fodder Fake Sister - Chapter 17

The foot Jiang Cen had stepped inside with silently withdrew.

After receiving such high praise from Old Master Jiang, Gu Ruanruan was not embarrassed at all. Instead, she looked at Jiang Cen with some anticipation.

The little girl’s eyes were bright and clear, filled with undisguised, lighthearted joy. Her big watery eyes looked as if they had been soaked in sweet mountain spring water, damp and shining.

Gu Ruanruan was also rather excited right now. After all, this was the first time in her life that she had gotten such grand makeup and hairstyling done, worn an evening dress, and attended an upper-class banquet!

She was a little expectant. After all, who wouldn’t want to see what an upper-class evening banquet was really like?

There would definitely be many beautiful older sisters and younger sisters, and lots of delicious food too! That was how novels always wrote it!

Under Gu Ruanruan’s enthusiastic gaze, a very brief flash of amazement flickered through Jiang Cen’s eyes, appearing and disappearing in an instant.

She nodded, her voice carrying a trace of cool mockery. “Not bad. Radiating wealth and nobility.”

Then she glanced at the plump Fugui’er, who was squinting comfortably on Old Master Jiang’s lap while enjoying the fur-rubbing service, and added, “Just like your good grandchild. Very wealthy-family temperament.”

Gu Ruanruan: “……” Why did that not sound like a compliment?

Ah, hateful! She would not be struck down! She was not as fat as Nicholas Fugui’er.

Jiang Cen turned and went upstairs, saying lightly, “I’ll go change.”

She had just rushed back from the company, and her whole body carried the aura of a cold, elite businesswoman.

As expected of a domineering president whose time was calculated by the second, she did everything extremely quickly. Less than twenty minutes later, Jiang Cen had changed her clothes and touched up her makeup.

Gu Ruanruan and Old Master Jiang were rubbing Fugui’er’s little cat head. When they saw Jiang Cen come downstairs, their eyes instantly lit up like 250-watt searchlights!

After seeing Jiang Cen’s usual serious style of shirts and black trousers for so long, it was almost easy to forget that she was only twenty-six years old.

Jiang Cen’s evening dress was a little black dress. It looked simple and plain at first glance, but every detail showed its quality. The slightly dull black, when worn on her, made her look noble and elegant. Paired with her indifferent expression, she appeared even colder, more reserved, steady, and graceful.

She had both the restrained yet profound dignity of a president who controlled a company and stood alone, as well as the exquisite beauty of a young woman in her twenties.

She seemed to possess a magical power. No matter when or where, as long as she stood there, she could easily become the focus of the crowd.

Old Master Jiang was never stingy with his praise. “Eldest looks good too. This outfit matches your sister’s so well. The girls of our Jiang family are the prettiest in Ningcheng!”

Gu Ruanruan followed along and giggled. “Grandpa is right! Sister is the prettiest!”

Jiang Cen was speechless.

She beckoned, signaling to Gu Ruanruan. “Let’s go.”

Gu Ruanruan smiled and said goodbye to Old Master Jiang. “Grandpa, we’ll go first. Don’t feed our Fugui’er too much food. She’s too fat!”

Old Master Jiang held Fugui’er and waved. “I know what I’m doing. Hurry and go. Eldest, take good care of your sister. She’s young and doesn’t understand anything. Don’t let anyone bully her.”

The old man had also heard some unpleasant rumors about Gu Ruanruan. This was a good opportunity for Eldest to give those people a warning.

“I know.”

The Jiang family driver had been waiting outside early. Seeing the two of them come out, he attentively opened the car door for them.

Today, they were taking a sapphire-blue private car. Its streamlined body was polished enough to reflect people like a mirror. Even Gu Ruanruan, who did not understand cars, could feel how expensive this car was.

Not showy, but not too low-key either.

Inside the private car, the space was not large. The two sat very close together. Perhaps because the temperature inside the car was too high, Gu Ruanruan felt her face grow a little warm.

She quietly muttered to Jiang Cen, “Sister, can we open the window?” She wanted to feel the wind! It was so stuffy in the car!

“No.” Jiang Cen refused mercilessly.

The wind outside was strong, and both of them were wearing cool evening dresses. If they were blown by the wind all the way, it would be easy to catch a cold.

Fine. Gu Ruanruan could only look outside longingly through the car window.

The sky had darkened. Outside, colorful neon lights flashed in the night, and Jiang Cen’s cold, gorgeous face faintly appeared on the car window from time to time.

Gu Ruanruan’s mouth could not stay idle. She turned her head and began sharing her feelings with Jiang Cen. “Sister, I’m a little nervous.”

Jiang Cen raised her brows. Hadn’t she liked these occasions very much before? Jiang Cen had heard that she had even secretly run out to attend several times on her own.

However, Jiang Cen did not expose Gu Ruanruan. She only instructed lightly, “Don’t run around later.”

“Mm, mm, mm. I’ll listen to Sister!” Gu Ruanruan raised her hand and promised.

Jiang Cen took out a small velvet box from somewhere and handed it to Gu Ruanruan.

Gu Ruanruan opened it. Inside lay an exquisite and beautiful ruby bracelet, matching the evening dress she was wearing now very well.

“Put it on yourself.” After giving it to her, Jiang Cen ignored Gu Ruanruan.

The light inside the car was dim. Gu Ruanruan fiddled with it for a long time but could not put it on.

Gu Ruanruan pushed her luck and said sweetly, “I can’t see. Sister, help me put it on.”

The girl leaned closer and stretched her jade-white arm horizontally in front of Jiang Cen’s eyes. Her dark, moist eyes stared fixedly at Jiang Cen, carrying a bright smile.

Being watched like this, Jiang Cen had no choice. With a light twist of her fingers, she fastened the thin chain around Gu Ruanruan’s wrist.

During the process, she inevitably touched a little bit of Gu Ruanruan’s skin. The little girl’s body temperature was very high, like a small furnace. Even just the skin of her arm was scorching hot.

Jiang Cen rubbed her fingertips.

“Sister, your hands are so cold.” Gu Ruanruan had been chilled by Jiang Cen’s fingertips.

Jiang Cen herself was cold, so why were her hands so cold too?

Was she made of ice?

Without thinking, she placed both her hands over Jiang Cen’s cool hands, wanting to warm them.

Cold and heat overlapped. The chill on Jiang Cen’s hands was quickly covered by Gu Ruanruan’s warmth.

The little girl cupped her palms, her tender little hands completely wrapping around the back of Jiang Cen’s hand. The place where their palms touched was especially warm.

She even lowered her head and seriously breathed on them twice.

The warm airflow brushed over Jiang Cen’s skin like feathers. Jiang Cen’s mind went blank for an instant. She pulled her hands out at the fastest speed and carried Gu Ruanruan’s paws back to their original place, her voice cold. “Gu Ruanruan, in public, pay attention to your boundaries.”

Gu Ruanruan was very confused. How was this public? Weren’t they in their own car?

Oh, fine. There was also the driver. Although it did not count as “public,” there was indeed one extra person.

Then if there were no driver and it was not a public place, could she not pay attention to boundaries?

Of course, she only thought this in her heart. Jiang Cen was clearly not in a good mood right now.

She could only smooth her fur. “Thank you for the bracelet, Sister~ I like it so much! Tonight, I absolutely won’t run around. Wherever Sister is, I’ll be there! I’m your personal bodyguard!!!”

Jiang Cen: “……” That was truly unnecessary.

About an hour later, they arrived at their destination. Many people had already arrived one after another, so they were considered late.

The banquet venue was a luxurious, dazzling villa. The scene was full of fragrant clothes, elegant hair, luxury cars, and mingling glasses. Countless famous figures had gathered here.

Jiang Cen brought Gu Ruanruan out of the car.

When the two walked into the banquet hall, the noisy hall suddenly fell silent for a few seconds.

The surrounding conversations tacitly turned into whispers. Almost everyone’s gaze spun around Gu Ruanruan, and then they subtly and reservedly glanced at Jiang Cen.

Jiang Cen had long since become used to this kind of situation. Very few people dared to look directly at her for long, so she remained as unmoving as a mountain, maintaining her coldness.

Sure enough, those people did not dare stare at Jiang Cen, and their gazes immediately turned back to Gu Ruanruan.

Gu Ruanruan had never experienced such a grand scene before.

Being watched by the famous and noble figures of nearly an entire city gave her the illusion that every step she took was on a red carpet.

Pretend not to see them? But these gazes were really too strong. She did not have Jiang Cen’s composure.

Gu Ruanruan straightened her chest and imitated the facial expression Jiang Xia’an wore on TV when going onstage to receive awards, raising a “friendly yet polite” smile.

Her steps were solemn and graceful. As she walked, she continuously nodded in greeting to the guests on both sides of the path, her gaze gentle and her face full of… gratitude???

From the entrance to the hall, a short stretch of road had somehow been turned by Gu Ruanruan into the style of a female celebrity fan meeting.

She was only missing a sentence at the end: Thank you, everyone, for your attention. I will continue to work hard!

The guests present were rather speechless.

As soon as the two entered, several people had already walked toward Jiang Cen holding champagne.

Gu Ruanruan’s gaze, meanwhile, had already stuck itself to the little cakes in the food area and could not come down.

Jiang Cen turned back and instructed Gu Ruanruan, “Go over there yourself and… eat something. I’ll come find you later. Don’t wander around.”

“Okay, okay, okay!” Gu Ruanruan nodded and agreed.

She quickly walked toward the exquisite little desserts in the food area, taking quite a few and placing them on her plate. Then she found a relatively quiet place where she bothered no one and ate.

The little desserts were pretty and tasted first-rate! Gu Ruanruan thought that she would pick some up for Jiang Cen later too, so Jiang Cen could fill her stomach a little.

Just as she was happily eating, several gossiping female voices came from behind her.

Gu Ruanruan immediately pricked up her ears and joined in listening to the gossip!

She knew it. Banquets like this had the most gossip! A sacred land for melon-eating!

“Did the sun rise from the west today? The Jiang family actually brought out that adopted daughter who can’t be shown in the light?”

“Some people are just shameless. They don’t know their own weight and don’t even look in the mirror to see what kind of demon or monster they are.”

Someone sneered. “Just because the Jiang family adopted her, does a pheasant really think she’s a phoenix? That way she walked in just now really made me laugh to death.”

Gu Ruanruan was a little stunned. These people couldn’t be talking about her, right!!!

Aside from Nicholas Fugui’er, the only one adopted by the Jiang family was her, wasn’t it…

Grandpa Jiang probably did not have the hobby of casually adopting other girls, right?

“She still dares to attend? Wasn’t it embarrassing enough when President Su rejected her in public last time?”

“What do you mean last time? Wasn’t she rejected by President Su three times?”

“What! Three times???” Someone was shocked.

Gu Ruanruan was also shocked!!!

Was the original body this wild!!! She was hooking up with Jiang Cen on one side while hooking up with someone else on the other! Was she… a master of time management?

What other “surprises” did she not know about! Could someone give her some key information?

At this moment, Gu Ruanruan urgently wanted to eat… her own melon.

Someone in the know immediately revealed, “I know! It was three times. I was there for all of them, hahahaha. It was so exciting! Last time, she was rejected in public at the Su family banquet. The other two times were once at a bar and once at a private club. You didn’t see that scene. Tsk, amazing!”

Hearing the reminiscing tone of that person, Gu Ruanruan even felt a little regret that she had not been there in person.

“Pfft, what kind of person is Su Qingmo? A little pheasant like her dares to covet her?”

Wait… Su, Su Qingmo? Had she heard that somewhere before? It sounded very familiar!

“Exactly. Su Qingmo is the legitimate heir of the Su family. Forget that she’s the Jiang family’s adopted daughter—even if she were the Jiang family’s biological daughter, President Su probably wouldn’t spare her a second glance, right?”

Someone said meaningfully, “That’s not necessarily true. If that person from the Jiang family valued her, President Su might be willing to give her a glance.”

“Throwing herself at her like that definitely won’t work. President Su doesn’t like people who have no self-awareness and deliver themselves to her doorstep. Tsk.”

Damn! She remembered now. Wasn’t Su Qingmo the lover the original owner had hooked up with in the book, the one who colluded with her from inside and outside to try to swallow the Jiang family whole?

A member of Jiang Cen’s enemy list.

It had to be said, Jiang Cen’s authority in Ningcheng ran very deep. Even when discussing her, everyone did not dare call her by name directly.

“What do you think that person from the Jiang family”—someone quietly gestured with her chin toward Jiang Cen, who was standing in the center of the hall being flattered by several potbellied bosses—“brought the little pheasant out for today? She never brought her out before.”

Hey! Had they already openly given her a nickname? How rude!

A woman holding champagne shrugged casually. “Who knows? Public execution?”

Holy crap. Gu Ruanruan was suddenly reminded of a serious matter.

Jiang Cen did not know about her mess with this President Su, right???

If this President Su was also at this banquet, then wouldn’t this really be a public! execution!

Oh, she could not imagine it!!!

Upper-class society was so, so damn dangerous. Gu Ruanruan immediately panicked and began looking around for a place where she could hide.

Suddenly, someone gently patted her back.