"Yeah! Yeah!" Yuan Xueshan nodded vigorously, feeling extremely dissatisfied with Jiang Nanfei's audacious visit to her house. She occasionally elbowed her husband by her side. "Say something!"
"What should I say?" Huo Linong's response nearly infuriated Yuan Xueshan. Her husband was such a fool; she couldn't count on him to support her in battling against her mother-in-law.
"Granny, I'm your granddaughter! How can you side with an outsider like Jiang Nanfei when she's been scheming against me?" Huo Jinlan cried, her tears flowing like pearls from a broken necklace.
Jiang Nanfei chuckled as she watched her, recalling how Huo Jinlan, her so-called 'good friend' from her past life, used to support her defiance against fate. "Grannny, thank you for your kindness. I'll stay here tonight and return home tomorrow."
Watching Huo Jinlan's misery brought her joy.
"Good, good..." Zhou Yongxian was delighted, leading Jiang Nanfei upstairs to show her Huo Beijiang's room, leaving Yuan Xueshan and Huo Jinlan behind, fuming with rage.
Having been a married couple for over a decade in her previous life, Jiang Nanfei had never really examined Huo Beijiang's room. After their forced marriage, Huo Beijiang returned to his work and they began a long period of separate lives that lasted until their divorce.
After Granny Huo had left, Jiang Nanfei stood in the clean, tidy room, suddenly feeling shy. She stood there dazedly for a while, unsure where to put her hands.
She thought about how strangely she had been acting since her reincarnation. The past version of her would never have stayed overnight at the Huo family's house.
"Forget it!" she sighed softly, picking up the clothes Zhou Yongxian had prepared for her.
Huo Beijiang's room had its own bathroom. After washing up, she lay on his grand bed, unable to sleep, staring at the ceiling and reminiscing about the events of her past and present lives.
As exhaustion took over, she slowly closed her eyes. Forget it! Having reincarnated, she shouldn't dwell on the past. She would become a new Jiang Nanfei.
The future was promising!
As for Huo Beijiang, if they were destined to be entangled for life, then she...
Jiang Nanfei subconsciously clutched her chest, where a throbbing pain was emanating. It was a feeling she had never experienced in the past. It seemed that as long as she thought of him, the pain would intensify.
*******
In the middle of the night, a truck was hurtling down the road at an extreme speed, as if it were a speedster driven off-road.
This was the true skill of Chen Qi.
The tall and upright man was reclining lazily in the passenger seat, his long legs brazenly spread out in front of him. His handsome face, with sharp eyes half-closed, cast a small shadow on the bridge of his nose from his curled lashes.
"Nice going, Chen Qi," he chuckled, "Without a pretty girl in the car, you're intentionally keeping me awake, aren't you?"
"Hehehe...Boss, I wouldn't dare!" Chen Qi focused on driving while wearing an appeasing smile. "Can you let bygones be bygones? I just let someone sit in your passenger seat. That poor girl..."
The thought made Chen Qi shudder. His captain was too ruthless. It was common knowledge among the Snow Eagle Action Team that the passenger seat of this truck, the driver's seat of the 2979 Jeep, and the pilot's seat of the 133 helicopter were all the captain's personal spots.
Although his name wasn't written on them, it was more terrifying than if they had been. Anyone who dared to occupy these spots courted death.
"Boss, I was wrong. I won't dare to do it again in the future."