After Transmigrating as the Villain’s Cannon Fodder Fake Sister - Chapter 24

What else? Jiang Cen asked her speechlessly with her eyes.

If she did not change here, where did she want to change?

Of course Gu Ruanruan knew she could not keep wrapping herself in a half-wet bath towel. That was not a solution. She was not far from catching a cold like this.

Besides, in her current terrible situation, there really was no better option than changing clothes here directly.

But changing into Jiang Cen’s pajamas in Jiang Cen’s bedroom… For some reason, something seemed a little wrong somewhere. She just felt that… there was an indescribable kind of weirdness???

Before she could figure it out, Jiang Cen used the remote to close the bedroom curtains. Instantly, the whole bedroom was enveloped in a hazy pale-yellow glow.

Jiang Cen put down the remote and walked out. Clearly, she was going out to avoid her and give her time to change.

Before leaving, she left one sentence behind. “Hurry and put it on.”

The time left for her was not much!

Gu Ruanruan hurriedly untied the bath towel around herself and changed into the bathrobe Jiang Cen had given her as quickly as possible.

As expected of a serious villain who could button a shirt all the way up to heaven, this bathrobe was a very proper three-piece set. It was not just a single outer robe; inside, there was also a slip dress, and underneath, there was a pair of matching long pants that could wrap a person up tightly from head to toe.

It was undoubtedly Jiang Cen’s strict and proper style.

It had to be said that silk pajamas were very skin-friendly. They felt very comfortable against the body.

It was just that this set of clothes was a little too big.

After Gu Ruanruan put it on, the bathrobe wrapped her whole body up tightly, making her look like a naughty child at home who had secretly put on an adult’s clothes.

There was also a faint scent of wood leaves on the bathrobe. Jiang Cen had probably worn it before.

After changing into the pajamas, Gu Ruanruan suddenly figured out what exactly the problem was.

Because at this moment, one line kept echoing in her mind for a long time: “Why are you wearing Pinru’s clothes!”

Gu Ruanruan: “……” Help, it had already started looping!

She had just finished laboriously tying the bathrobe when Jiang Cen knocked on the door from outside. “Are you done changing?”

Gu Ruanruan dragged her old, weak, sick, and disabled body over to open the door for Jiang Cen.

Behind the door appeared a small, peach-like pink-white face. Gu Ruanruan used her most obedient and refined voice of the night to say, “Sister, I’m done changing.”

Jiang Cen looked Gu Ruanruan up and down.

Her clothes were indeed still too big for Ruanruan.

The little girl’s eyes were clear all the way to the bottom. Her delicate little chin brushed against the collar from time to time as she lowered and raised her head. When she lifted her hand, the wide sleeve of the bathrobe slowly slid down along her skin, revealing a fair, tender wrist.

The deep blue pajamas set off Gu Ruanruan’s fair skin, making her look even more delicate. The close-fitting silk fabric fully revealed the little girl’s body lines.

Under the hazy, unclear light of the bedroom, the little girl looked like a watery greenhouse flower raised in pampered luxury.

Jiang Cen’s pupils were deep as a black pool. Her gaze, which had settled on Gu Ruanruan, shifted away.

In the quiet atmosphere, Gu Ruanruan suddenly covered her mouth and sneezed loudly.

“Achoo!”

She subconsciously scratched her back, feeling that it was starting to hurt and itch a little again.

Jiang Cen suddenly remembered something and asked, “Does the wound on your back hurt?”

Gu Ruanruan honestly nodded.

When the two of them fell into the bathtub, her back had already gotten wet. Although she had wiped the water off her back while bathing just now, the ointment had also been washed away. At this moment, it really had started hurting and itching again.

Jiang Cen told her to lie on the bed, then stuffed a pillow under Gu Ruanruan’s head. Gu Ruanruan obediently went along with it like Fugui’er, resting her chin on it.

The knot of the outer bathrobe was untied, and Jiang Cen pushed the robe up to the back of her neck.

She lifted the slip dress and tore off the gauze to take a look. The ointment was already gone. The edges of the wound had turned a little pale, with a faint pink spreading around it.

Sure enough, because of Gu Ruanruan’s magical series of outrageous operations, she had successfully reopened the wound that had already begun to heal and tighten.

While bathing, Gu Ruanruan had indeed been very careful not to let it touch water, but since it had been soaked before that, the wound had inevitably changed.

It had to be said that Doctor Su’s medicine was very effective. In just two short days, there had already been a noticeable improvement.

Unfortunately, the good times did not last long…

Jiang Cen could only pick up her phone and call Doctor Su.

After all that trouble, it was already late at night. It was almost ten-thirty, and the person on the other end had clearly already fallen asleep.

Doctor Su was woken by her employer’s call. She opened her eyes, fished up her phone, and said coldly, “President Jiang, workers need rest too. Night shifts cost fifty percent extra.”

Jiang Cen was too lazy to deal with her morning temper and went straight to the point. “The wound on Gu Ruanruan’s back got wet and worsened.”

Doctor Su said, “Then there’s no need for a house call. Consultation fee adds thirty percent.”

Jiang Cen directly opened WeChat and transferred money to her.

“Received.” Su Shuiqing received more than three times the usual night house-call fee, and her voice rose slightly. Clearly, her mood was very good.

Overtime could not make someone with waking-up anger feel happy.

But extra money could.

Driven by money, Su Shuiqing picked up her doctor’s benevolence and instantly entered work mode. She put on her silver-rimmed glasses and sat by the computer, pulling out Gu Ruanruan’s case file. She carefully asked about the current condition of Gu Ruanruan’s wound and recorded the situation.

After Jiang Cen answered in detail, she dropped one sentence. “Get here within twenty minutes.”

Su Shuiqing: “……”

“I transferred the money to you.”

Su Shuiqing pushed up her glasses. “Understood.”

Not long after, the benevolent Doctor Su arrived at the old residence and knocked on Jiang Cen’s bedroom door right at the last second of the twenty-minute mark.

With Jiang Cen’s earlier explanation over the phone, her tools and medicine were very fully prepared. The medical kit contained all kinds of preventive medicine.

She put on white gloves and examined Gu Ruanruan’s wound with the calm gaze of someone buying pork at a vegetable market.

The feeling of cold rubber gloves touching the wound was naturally different from Jiang Cen gently applying medicine. Gu Ruanruan hissed twice in pain.

This doctor always carried an inhumanly powerful aura. Once the white coat was on and the glasses were worn, she seemed to disown all six relatives. Gu Ruanruan was always unusually quiet in front of Doctor Su.

Thanks to herself, although Gu Ruanruan’s wound had been serious before, it had not been difficult to handle, because Doctor Su had great confidence in her own medicine.

However, no matter how skilled a doctor was, they still feared patients with no will to survive…

After the examination, Su Shuiqing threw the gloves into the medical waste bin, changed into a new pair of rubber gloves, and took out medicine to clean Gu Ruanruan’s wound.

It was clearly only a matter of two extra steps, but this time, Jiang Cen had asked Su Shuiqing to handle Gu Ruanruan’s wound.

Su Shuiqing applying medicine and Jiang Cen applying medicine were two complete extremes.

One was purely businesslike, and the other was careful and cautious.

Su Shuiqing was cold and merciless. Jiang Cen was gentle and considerate.

Gu Ruanruan held back tears. Only after experiencing Doctor Su’s awfulness did she know how good Sister was!

Wuwuwuwu, she never wanted Doctor Su to apply medicine for her again!!! Jiang Cen was still the best!!!

Thinking carefully about it, Jiang Cen really treated her very, very well.

Every time Jiang Cen roasted her, her mouth was ruthless, but in actual action, she was always caring about her.

These tiny details were hidden in the little bits and pieces of daily life. If one only thought about what Jiang Cen said and did not look at what she did, one would never fully realize it.

As long as one got along with her sincerely, even a villain had human warmth! She was just sharp-mouthed but soft-hearted!

After applying medicine to Gu Ruanruan and wrapping her in gauze, Su Shuiqing packed up her medical kit.

Seeing Gu Ruanruan squirming on the bed like a cicada chrysalis, she rarely opened her noble mouth and said one sentence to Gu Ruanruan. “Miss Gu, if there’s a next time, I’ll bring yellow chrysanthemums directly to visit you at the cemetery.”

Her tone was cool, and her expression was cool.

Of course, it was not actually that serious. She was only annoyed that the special ointment she and her mentor had carefully prepared had been mercilessly ruined like this.

Every medicine they developed had cost them countless efforts.

Moreover, she hated disobedient patients who did not cherish medicine and loved courting death the most.

Ah! She was actually mocking her!!!

Beauty Gu Ruanruan was angry.

She had not expected that this proper-looking, thick-browed, big-eyed person would speak so unpleasantly! Too much!

Doctor Su was not as good as Jiang Cen. Gu Ruanruan pouted and refused to show weakness, counterattacking, “Then when you come next time, I’ll prepare fruit offerings to worship you.”

Hmph! You think you’re the only one who can be sarcastic?

Su Shuiqing turned her head. Through her silver-rimmed glasses, a “kind” gleam flashed through her eyes.

“Heh.” She let out a soft cold laugh.

The atmosphere between the two was strange and bizarre. Right then, Jiang Cen pushed the door open and walked in.

“How is she?” Jiang Cen glanced at Gu Ruanruan.

Su Shuiqing lifted her eyelids and looked at Jiang Cen, who appeared slightly nervous, then said mockingly, “She won’t die.”

Jiang Cen frowned.

She stepped forward and helped Gu Ruanruan smooth down the slip straps and bathrobe outer layer that were piled at the back of her neck, tidying Gu Ruanruan’s clothes for her.

Helping patients arrange their clothing was not within the work scope of Doctor Su, a worker who calculated every penny strictly and clearly.

A few minutes later, the very professional Doctor Su sent a long medical instruction document to Jiang Cen’s phone.

This time, the wound was slightly inflamed and showed minor signs of worsening, but it had been discovered in time and handled quickly. Not only was it nothing major, it had not even required her to make a house call.

Su Shuiqing prescribed some medicine for Gu Ruanruan.

To prevent Gu Ruanruan from courting death again, she directly and bluntly wrote down every precaution that could lead to danger and ordered her to strictly follow them.

Among them, the most painful for Gu Ruanruan was—

She had to avoid certain foods.

She had to temporarily say goodbye to her favorite foods. Her diet had to become mainly light.

After Doctor Su left, Gu Ruanruan shot upright like a nearly withered sprout receiving the nourishment of rain.

The sky was clear, the rain had stopped, and she felt she could do it again!

Her gaze fixed on the reddened patch of collarbone that she had bumped with the back of her head. Her voice was cheerful. “Sister, wait for me!”

Gu Ruanruan pattered away in her slippers like a gust of wind.

The little girl always recovered her vitality very quickly, completely different from her wilted appearance just now.

No matter what happened, Gu Ruanruan always had a magical ability to recover instantly.

In less than two minutes, Gu Ruanruan ran back holding a bottle of safflower oil.

“Sister, this part is red.” She pointed at Jiang Cen’s collarbone.

She remembered that the first time she had arrived, she had also accidentally touched Jiang Cen’s collarbone…

Gu Ruanruan did not even dare recall that scene.

“Sister, let me apply medicine for you.” Gu Ruanruan blinked and said to Jiang Cen with incomparable sincerity.

After all, the collarbone was a fragile area. Last time, Jiang Cen’s collarbone had stayed red for several days.

Jiang Cen’s gaze landed on Gu Ruanruan’s slender, pale fingers holding the safflower oil.

After a while, Jiang Cen looked away and said lightly, “No need. It’s fine. Go sleep.”

Gu Ruanruan took a step forward and unexpectedly insisted, “No. Sister got bumped just now because of me. I have to take responsibility for Sister!”

Jiang Cen: “……” She was starting to say all kinds of nonsense again.

The little girl stood before her, more than half a head shorter. She raised her snow-white neck, focused and serious in her insistence, with the clear meaning that she would not give up unless Jiang Cen applied medicine.

Jiang Cen was helpless and could only say, “I can apply medicine myself. It’s very late. Go back.”

After a whole night of fuss, it was already past midnight.

Since Jiang Cen had promised her she would apply the medicine herself, Gu Ruanruan no longer insisted. She stuffed the medicine into Jiang Cen’s palm.

“Then I’m leaving. Sister, don’t forget to apply the medicine!” Gu Ruanruan clung to the edge of the door and did not forget to remind her again.

Jiang Cen: “……I know.”

After Gu Ruanruan left, Jiang Cen pulled open her collar. Her collarbone was indeed red. This time, she did not leave it alone like last time.

She poured the safflower oil into her palm, warmed the oil with her palms just as she had done before applying medicine to Gu Ruanruan, then rubbed it onto her collarbone.

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Old Master Jiang had asked for two days’ leave for Gu Ruanruan. The next day, after learning that Gu Ruanruan’s wound had gotten wet and become slightly inflamed, Old Master Jiang, who doted on children unconditionally, wanted to extend her leave, but Gu Ruanruan forcefully stopped him.

Being injured at home meant she could not play with anything. It was so boring!!!

Now it was even more frustrating. Auntie Jiang and the others all treated her like a severely ill patient, strictly following Su Shuiqing’s medical instructions, and would not give her anything to eat.

With her two greatest interests—eating and playing—completely extinguished, Gu Ruanruan nearly became so bored at home that she wanted to go pluck the leaves off the two big trees at the entrance of the villa.

“Ding-ling-ling.”

The doorbell outside the old residence rang.

Gu Ruanruan, who had collapsed on the sofa and was about to melt into jelly, had just wanted to go when Auntie Jiang stopped her.

“Little Miss, don’t move! I’ll do it!”

Auntie Jiang rushed forward in one swift step, afraid Gu Ruanruan would melt if she moved.

Gu Ruanruan: “……”

After a while, Auntie Jiang turned around and asked with some hesitation, “Little Miss, they say they’re your classmates.”

Gu Ruanruan sat up in shock from her dying illness!

She bounced up from the sofa, put her big head close to the screen, and focused. It was Shen Wenlan, Song Jing, and Song Shuyu coming to see her.

“Hurry, hurry, hurry! Let them in!!! They’re my classmates!” she said excitedly.

“Okay.” Auntie Jiang pressed the open-door button.

The layers of checkpoints around the villa immediately opened, and the group walked in without obstruction.

This was Song Jing and Song Shuyu’s first time coming to Gu Ruanruan’s home. Both of them expressed surprise at Gu Ruanruan’s glittering new identity as the “Jiang family’s third daughter.”

Song Jing had always seriously believed that Gu Ruanruan was a top student. When he encountered her at the banquet last time, he had only thought that Gu Ruanruan might have some impressive cousin or something who had brought her along to broaden her horizons…

As for Song Shuyu, she had forgotten Gu Ruanruan’s real name and only remembered that she was called Lin Pinru…

The two had come together with Shen Wenlan. Shen Wenlan was representing the Shen family to express their apologies to Gu Ruanruan.

Originally, Eldest Sister Shen should have come, but something suddenly happened in the Shen family, and Eldest Sister Shen truly had no time to split her attention. She could only have Shen Wenlan come on her behalf.

Shen Wenlan had brought many things. They were all supplements and daily necessities carefully prepared by Eldest Sister Shen. The Shen family driver moved them in batch after batch.

Gu Ruanruan and the other two were so shocked their mouths could fit an egg as they watched Shen Wenlan direct the driver to move things.

The straightforward Song Jing was the first to react. “Are you planning to move out of the Shen family and live at her house?”

The four Shen sisters did not have a good relationship. Because the family situation was complicated, only Eldest Sister Shen and Shen Wenlan were sisters from the same mother. The second and third daughters of the Shen family were both illegitimate daughters.

It was said that Shen Wenlan also had two illegitimate younger brothers living outside who had not yet been recognized…

The Shen family was a mess. This was already an open secret in upper-class circles. Song Jing occasionally heard his parents eating melon about the Shen family too.

Song Shuyu fiercely slapped this clueless idiot on the back.

Shen Wenlan ignored Song Jing and calmly said to Gu Ruanruan, “My sister said that the poor hospitality that day caused you to be injured, and she is very sorry. These are a few apology gifts for you.”

Gu Ruanruan pointed at the things piled across the entire coffee table. Unable to understand the Shen sisters’ definition of quantity, she asked with trembling hands, “This… is a few?”

“Please be sure to accept her sincerity. Recently, something happened at home, so she cannot personally come visit. Once she has time, she will definitely come herself.”

Gu Ruanruan was left stunned by the official Shen Wenlan. “It’s not really anything major… There’s really no need for all this…”

No one could have predicted something like the chandelier falling. Jiang Cen also had no intention of blaming the Shen family for it.

After the banquet that day, Shen Wenlan and Eldest Sister Shen had investigated the beginning and end of the incident. The chandelier had actually been replaced not long ago, and the possibility of it falling was very small.

Not to mention, since it was an important occasion like hosting a banquet, three days earlier, every corner of the house had been carefully checked. The chandelier had been very sturdy. It was not a problem caused by aging or missing parts at all.

The least likely possibility was disrepair, because the Shen family regularly had people inspect these things. Therefore, this matter was still an unsolved mystery, and Eldest Sister Shen blamed herself very much.

“My sister said that once the investigation is clear, she will give you an explanation.” Shen Wenlan transmitted her sister’s meaning seriously and precisely.

Gu Ruanruan waved her hand indifferently. “Forget it. It’s already over. You don’t need to keep it in your hearts. I know that no one wanted that kind of accident to happen.”

She instead comforted Shen Wenlan. “Don’t blame yourselves either. Look, I’m perfectly fine and alive now, aren’t I? My sister said your family already helped me bandage and examine my injuries that day. I don’t blame your family. Let’s just let it pass.”

Seeming not to have expected Gu Ruanruan to be this easy to talk to, Shen Wenlan looked at her with slight surprise.

When encountering this kind of situation, people willing to lightly let it go like this were truly few and far between. If others grabbed hold of such leverage, they would wish they could tear a layer of skin off the already riddled Shen family.

She really had not expected Gu Ruanruan to genuinely be willing to let it pass so easily.

After conveying her sister’s meaning, Shen Wenlan sat in the living room and played the role of an ice sculpture.

Song Jing was a social butterfly who would never feel awkward under any circumstances. He curiously asked Gu Ruanruan many questions, and Gu Ruanruan answered them one by one.

Finally, he remembered something that could not be more important!

Song Jing slapped the table. “Oh right, Boss, our joint performance is the day after tomorrow! Can you still go onstage?”

Gu Ruanruan: !!!

She had forgotten there was still such a thing!!!

Song Jing and Shen Wenlan had submitted the program and performers. Following the central idea of letting the senior year group embarrass themselves for everyone’s entertainment, the school did not check the results of their coordination. It only collected the program list so they could prepare the host’s introduction for their stage performance.

“I can, I can!” Gu Ruanruan hurriedly raised her hand to express her determination. “I’ll go back to school tomorrow!”

“Okay!” In any case, the three of them had coordinated pretty well. As long as Boss could go onstage, there would be no problem. They did not have the anxiety of lacking time at all.

The two people lacking a sense of shame were full of a casual attitude toward their performance, letting it develop freely, ignoring everything, and going onstage to mess around blindly.

Song Shuyu solemnly touched her chin. Knowing that any program Song Jing participated in was most likely unreliable, she had long since prepared an emergency plan for Pinru, the only face of Class Thirteen.

“It’s fine, Pinru! Don’t worry! I’ve already contacted the president of your fan club and formed a cheerleading squad for our program group! Super impressive! When the time comes, the whole venue will belong to us!”

Perhaps because she had played with Song Jing for too long, Class Monitor Song Shuyu, who had previously always maintained her solemn authority, had also gradually developed a strange thought process.

Knowing that Gu Ruanruan would perform the suona, she feared the performance would crash and burn, so overnight, she and the fan club president formed a cheerleading squad, attempting to overpower the other performance groups with momentum.

If the program flopped, the fans would make up for it!

Song Shuyu steadily patted Gu Ruanruan’s shoulder. “Pinru, we’ve even prepared slogans! When the time comes, just wait for us to give you a huge surprise!!!”

Gu Ruanruan’s scalp began to go numb. “……” Help!

Who knew where the news had leaked from, but recently, a small group of people at school had been spreading that their program would not work and were waiting to see them make fools of themselves.

Song Shuyu would absolutely not allow such a thing to happen!

Hearing their unreliable discussion, Shen Wenlan felt like she could no longer breathe.

She felt slightly suffocated.

In a corner where no one noticed, Shen Wenlan silently took a mask out of her pocket and put it on, covering most of her face.

When Song Jing turned around and noticed Shen Wenlan’s new look, he scratched his head and asked in confusion, “Why did you put on a mask?”

Shen Wenlan’s voice carried the calmness of someone ready to die. “Preparing in advance.”

After hearing the grand blueprint Song Shuyu described, and then thinking about their program, Shen Wenlan decided this mask might as well become semi-permanent…

Every night before she dreamed, she would devoutly pray one sentence in her heart—

She hoped that next time, the lottery would never draw Class Thirteen again.