The Heiress Acts Mischievously, But Her Family Can Read Her Mind - Chapter 417 - 416
Chapter 417: Chapter 416
Jiang Nanshu’s attention shifted from Snow Rose to the source of the noise in an instant.
The villa was large, but the noise was so faint that it was barely audible in the silence.
In a moment, Jiang Nanshu knew exactly where it was coming from. She had studied the entire house when she lived here before; there was a basement below, normally used for storing assorted items.
Jiang Nanshu headed straight there. Unlike Half Mountain Villa, the basement here could be opened with a password. She tried the original password once, Lu Qingyan’s birthday, but it was incorrect.
She then tried her own birthday, also wrong. She entered several, nearly triggering a lockout, when Jiang Nanshu suddenly remembered the Mid-Autumn banquet—the day Lu Qingyan had confessed his feelings and they had become a couple.
0925.
The basement door opened.
A pungent smell wafted out.
Jiang Nanshu immediately spotted Chu Muxi crawling on the ground, her hair disheveled, her expression indiscernible in the darkness. Jiang Nanshu turned on the light beside her, and the room instantly brightened.
Chu Muxi, not used to the light, raised her hand to shield her eyes, while her chains clinked from her movement.
Once she adjusted, she looked at Jiang Nanshu.
Wearing her dazzling attire, Jiang Nanshu seemed to be from a different world compared to her,
making her look especially pitiable.
Slowly her eyes reddened, tears fell: “You came, you finally came, Jiang Nanshu, you finally came…sob.”
Jiang Nanshu watched her calmly: “Chu Muxi…”
She had barely called out this name when the Chu Muxi in front of her started yelling like a madwoman, clawing at her hair: “I’m not Chu Muxi, my name is Tao Tao, I am the Time Traveler Tao Tao, I want to go back, let me go back, system, take me home, I don’t want to experience this anymore…”
Jiang Nanshu looked at the “madwoman” before her. Her spirit had shattered; her pallor was ghostly from years without sunlight, her hair a messy tangle, a foul stench coming off her.
“Chu…” Jiang Nanshu paused, then corrected herself, “Tao Tao.”
Hearing someone call her by name, Tao Tao both cried and laughed, thinking she was finally going to be rescued.
She had been trapped here for five long years.
“He’s a Demon, a madman, I shouldn’t have liked him, I regret it…”
Jiang Nanshu frowned at her, sensing something was seriously wrong with the person called Tao Tao.
She approached to inspect, asking, “Does your mother know you’ve disappeared?”
Tao Tao immediately thought of Chu Xin. She hadn’t failed to seek help, but was Chu Xin any match for Lu Qingyan?
The entire Chu Family couldn’t stand up to Lu Qingyan.
“What good would it do if she knew? What could she possibly do? She’s useless, haha, if it were the Jiang Family, maybe they could rescue me, but Chu Muxi’s family ties are too weak to give me any thrill.” Tao Tao slowly sat up, looking at Jiang Nanshu with pleading eyes: “Can you let me out? I just want to leave, I won’t do anything, I won’t say anything, I swear.”
Jiang Nanshu observed her quietly, Tao Tao’s eyes sincere, clearly tortured to madness.
Jiang Nanshu’s gaze fell on her wrist fetters, which were crusted with blood from her forceful tugging.
“I don’t have the key; I can’t unlock it,” Jiang Nanshu admitted truthfully.
She knew Tao Tao’s location, but to free her, she needed a key for the chains—would Lu Qingyan agree?
Jiang Nanshu pursed her lips, feeling somewhat uncertain.
“Please, I beg you, save me, I can’t stand it here anymore.” Tao Tao banged her head desperately against Jiang Nanshu: “Please, please, please…”
Blood began to flow out onto the floor quickly, yet she didn’t stop.
Jiang Nanshu grabbed her: “Have you lost your will to live?”
If Tao Tao died before being rescued, wouldn’t Lu Qingyan be burdened with a death on his hands?
“What difference is there between now and being dead? I truly wish he had killed me. But Lu Qingyan blames me for taking over your body, causing you to miss him for so long, he’s angry that you didn’t recognize him first, instead, you met others, hahaha, you know Zhou Yanxu, right? If it weren’t for his protection in that other world, you would’ve died a long time ago.”
Jiang Nanshu neither confirmed nor denied Tao Tao’s claims; without Zhou Yanxu, Jiang Nanshu wouldn’t have grown up.
But…
How did Tao Tao know about Zhou Yanxu?
“You must be curious how I know Zhou Yanxu, right? Hahaha, Jiang Nanshu, you’re so lucky, really too lucky.” Tao Tao laughed and cried, appearing manic: “Do you know who Zhou Yanxu is? Do you know what he sacrificed to keep you alive? How can you be at peace loving other men, he is truly ridiculous.”
Tao Tao pointed at Jiang Nanshu and laughed.
Jiang Nanshu frowned.
Her survival was related to Zhou Yanxu?
But he left when she was just fifteen years old.
Jiang Nanshu’s hand at her side clenched: “How do you know Zhou Yanxu? Do you know him?”
“I didn’t originally, but I saw his photo, so I know. He’s someone every Time Traveler recognizes, he was in your world, adopting the name Zhou Yanxu, accompanying you for seven full years. He’s quite laughable.”
Tao Tao wouldn’t say more, carefully watching Jiang Nanshu’s expressions, trying to find some emotion, but she was destined to be disappointed.
If it had been before, Zhou Yanxu might indeed have unsettled Jiang Nanshu’s heart, but once she was resolved, there would be no change.
There might be regrets, but she already had someone who loved her very much, a tangible, intense affection right beside her.
She couldn’t let her heart waver—it would be unfair to Lu Qingyan.
She replied indifferently: “I’ve already completed what I had to. He made his choices, and I’ve made mine. Besides… I love Lu Qingyan. No matter what Zhou Yanxu has done for me, that will never change. I will always be by Lu Qingyan’s side.”
Hearing Jiang Nan’s response, Tao Tao shook her head with some disappointment, her gaze shifting past Jiang Nanshu, and she suddenly laughed: “What a pity.”
“Nannan.”
Lu Qingyan’s voice surprisingly rang out.
Jiang Nanshu turned around to see Lu Qingyan at the basement entrance, quietly watching her.
“Why are you here?”
Upon hearing her question,
Lu Qingyan’s lips curled into a smile, his gaze chillingly fixed on Tao Tao: “Because, there’s a sensor here. As soon as someone enters, I know. Nannan, what are you doing here? It’s filthy.”
Jiang Nanshu was relieved that she hadn’t been provoked by Tao Tao’s ranting. If Lu Qingyan had heard, her efforts over the past few days would have been wasted.
Jiang Nanshu glanced at Tao Tao, but Lu Qingyan pulled her into his arms: “Don’t look at her, it’ll dirty your eyes.”
“Lu Qingyan…” Jiang Nanshu called his name.
She looked up into his eyes: “Today, the police stopped me.”
Source: Webnovel.com, updated by novlove.com
