Mao Qui nestled more into his body when it felt his unstable emotions. "you're loosing control" it reminded him mentally. Jiang Rong nodded and controlled his emotions to be stable, his face was cold and indifference which made Pang Shao baffled looking at him striding down the staircase. Jiang Rong looked at him with indifference but he was in a tug of war with his demons, holding himself from walking to Pang Shao and riping out his heart.
He gave Pang Shao a somewhat confused look, because if he remembered correctly then in the previous life he didn't meet Pang Shao on this day. Was it because he choose to ignore the call so there was a slight change in the timeline? Jiang Rong asked himself, but he wasn't sure. He tried to recall the events of the previous life, although he couldn't recall much but he could still recall some things.
In the previous life Pang Shao called to ask for quite a sum of yuan from him to go sight seeing with his cousin Ning Zhixia. Ning Zhixia was Jiang Rong's cousin who belonged to the stepmother's maternal side, she was a very close friend of Pang Shao. Jiang Rong didn't even know how long they've knew themselves and whether it was before he met Pang Shao or after, but thinking of it now carefully he couldn't help but think maybe Pang Shao's approach to him was a set up. Because it was Pang Shao who took the initiative in their relationship, Jiang Rong scolded internally for being an idiot without eyes.
Ever since he lost his biological mother and his father brought home a stepmother and a Stepbrother who was a year younger than him. They've been after the inheritance left to him by his mother. After so many years they've continuously shown hatred and hostility towards him but he had never taken any action against them simplying valuing family above all. He had taken care of all the family's needs including giving up opportunities to his Stepbrother Jiang Cheng, but now that he was thinking about everything rationally be began to have lots of doubts.
But now he couldn't care less about anything, all those doubts turn meaningless and in about a month's time nothing would matter more except survival. 'hehe, for their survival let's leave it to fate to decide' his dark thoughts sounded in his heart. He didn't have to waste time on any of them taking revenge, in the last life they all depended on him to take them to country A survivor base and along the way meeting survivers and forming a team with both ability users and non ability users, Jiang Rong was their stronghold.
Now he'll see how they survive in the apocalypse, settling his not so beating heart at ease he glanced at Pang Shao lightly before walking to take a seat in the couch. Seeing his strange behavior Pang Shao and the butler were shocked, and hard looks of bewilderment seeing Mao Qui nestled in his arm. They didn't know when Jiang Rong brought a fox home and also whenever Pang Shao visited, Jiang Rong would be trying everything in his power to flatter him. Jiang Rong criticised himself feeling astonished and shameful of his past self.
He felt himself disgusted. "brother Rong didn't you see me?..." Pang Shao asked confused. Pang Shao was met with silence as Jiang Rong sized him up from head to toe wondering what did he liked about Jiang Rong that he chased him for years. But Jiang Rong couldn't get his answer, he couldn't tell at all what he liked about Pang Shao. He said to himself that he hated weak people but Pang Shao was a very delicate person, and there was nothing good to like about him except that he was truly beautiful. But now that he was comparing Pang Shao to Ye Xuan, Ye Xuan was far better than Pang Shao.
Jiang Rong shook his head and sighed, Pang Shao was getting impatient and nervous seeing him acting more strange. "Pang Shao, I'm breaking up with you. From now on i have nothing to do with you." Jiang Rong stated bluntly not wanting to beat around the bush or drag this long, he didn't have the time to waste on Pang Shao. Pang Shao's eyes widened in horror hearing his words.
"what?! Brother Rong what do you mean, how can you break up with me?!" Pang Shao shouted angrily. "it's as i said. Now get out of here, if you know what's best for you, you'd stay far away as possible from me." Jiang Rong advised coldly, but Pang Shao wasn't one to be treated this way. He was so pissed and irritated, to him Jiang Rong was nothing more than a bank. So how could he stand Jiang Rong to break up with him as he wills, Pang Shao wasn't convinced.
He took deep breaths to hide his disordered expression as he smiled hypocritically and walked towards Jiang Rong who was looking at his every move like a predator tailing it's prey. But Pang Shao was unaware of Jiang Rong's dangerous eyes and aura as he started to asked flirtatious and coquettish. Jiang Rong felted like barfing looking disgusted. "Brother Rong did i do something wrong to make you angry?.... brother Rong you can't just say to break all of a sudden, what should I do with my heart ache now?!" Pang Shao complained with hypocritic tears at the corners of his eyes.
He sat on the couch closer to Jiang Rong almost leaning on him, the evil spirits in Jiang Rong started rising up like black smoke without warning. He was starting to get impatient with Pang Shao and the thought of ending Pang Shao right there got strong, the room became chilly and the air felt stagnant and hard to breathe. But Pang Shao wasn't aware of it very much as he was busy trying to sell points of pity and loving partner, he felt chill down his spine but ignored it.
Mao Qui jumped off Jiang Rong's lap and landed on the tiled floor not wanting to be affected by Jiang Rong's bloodlust. "...b...brother....Rong.....what....b....." choking sounds was heard from Pang Shao as Jiang Rong held him by the neck and started to strangle him hard when he tried to grab hold of Jiang Rong. Jiang Rong felt goosebumps all over and his bloodlust became more, he took action at once without knowing until he heard Pang Shao's choked tears and hard breaths. Jiang Rong tightened his hand around Pang Shao's neck and stood up from the couch with him and he raised him up with one hand as if holding a weightless book.
Pang Shao saw despair at the moment thinking Jiang Rong was going to kill him, his heart beat faster and his whole body went limp as his breath got shallow. He felt Jiang Rong's body reeked of danger and he felt Jiang Rong's hatred towards him, he knew then that Jiang Rong wouldn't hesitate to finish him off right then at the moment. Jiang Rong sneered in disgust seeing him looking pathetic and vulnerable with tears and snorts all over his face, he threw Pang Shao to the ground very hard cause Pang Shao to hiss in pain from the impact.
"just a minute no more, scram before i send you off see to Lord Yama myself. Don't ever appear in front of me ever again if you know what's best for you." Jiang Rong spat out gritting his teeth. Pang Shao didn't need to be told twice at all, he would want nothing more than to get the hell out of the villa and never see Jiang Rong ever again. He scrambled on his feet with difficulty and quickly walked away from Jiang Rong to the entrance "you'll regret this, bastard!" he said fiercely at the entrance before running out of the house.
Jiang Rong snorted seeing Pang Shao's coward self and threatening, he found it really funny. He turned to the butler who was standing there with shaky legs all the time pretending to never exit and sneered "call out all the workers here" he instructed. The butler nodded and quickly went to do what he asked. "why didn't you go through with it?" Mao Qui suddenly asked when they were the only ones left. It could've prevented Jiang Rong from strangling Pang Shao but it chose not to, coupled with what he saw through the pendant in Jiang Rong's previous life and seeing Pang Shao now, Mao Qui didn't have a good impression of Pang Shao.
So it wondered why Jiang Rong didn't just get rid of him and let him go. Jiang Rong just snorted from it's question "death is a simple punishment to him, let him suffer in the apocalypse rather. That is the despair i want all of them to face, the despair of not having me around to protect them in the apocalypse, that's a proper punishment and another reason is i don't want to stain my hands with his filthy blood." Jiang Rong said lightly, it didn't matter to Mao Qui who died or not as long as it wasn't it's master. Jiang Rong took out his phone and made a call to a real estate company, to make purchases of the things he wanted to buy he needed a quite a lot sum of money.
And after checking his balance he had about 20 million funds available in his account. He had about 5 villas currently uninhabited excluding the one he's currently living in and the one he had given his dad and Pang Shao, Jiang Rong decided to sell all five villas since in about a month's time they'll be useless. "hello, this is Jiang Rong speaking. I'd like to put my villas on sale." he got straight to the point when the call went through. "Mr. Jiang!" he heard s high pitched voice of a lady on the other side, he frowned and pull away the phone from his ear.
Because of his heightened senses the high pitched voice was extremely loud to him. "I'm sorry Mr. Jiang, is it alright to discuss about it personally? How about i come over to Mr. Jiang's company?" the woman suggested. Jiang Rong didn't find anything wrong with it so he agreed. "I'm at home at the moment so I'll have to bother..." "Mei Xing" she said her name. "okay then I'll have to bother Miss Mei to drop by my villa, will that be alright with you?" he asked her. "Yes! Yes! It'll definitely be alright" she answered enthusiastically and excited, Jiang Rong frowned at her behavior from the other side but he shrugged it off.
He hanged up the call and sent his address to her before putting away the phone. He turned his attention to Mao Qui who was curled up like a ball on the couch "can things be planted in the space?" he asked and Mao Qui raised it's head up slightly "yes, anything can be planted. And the things planted in the space are far better than the things out here" it said as it summoned a peach from the space to Jiang Rong. Jiang Rong looked at it confused not knowing why it was giving him a peach, he had noticed that he didn't have to eat and he never felt hungry since waking up. He had smelt the aromas of foods around and even the food served for him now on the dining table, but he didn't feel the need to eat and they smelled unpalatable.
He knew then that he could no longer eat human food, so he chose not to bother with it. But the reason why he had to hoard food now even though he could no longer eat was for Ye Xuan, even if he couldn't eat he could not wrong Ye Xuan, Ye Xuan should have the best so he would stock up everything eatable for Ye Xuan and necessary for living.
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