After Being Blackened All Over the Internet, I Ruled the Military Variety Shows
Chapter 540 - 530: Shattered Image

Chapter 540: Chapter 530: Shattered Image

Before Xu Ling’an had a chance to speak, Lin Minchen politely bowed in Jiang Lingxi’s direction again and turned to run over.

Xu Ling’an: "..."

It seems the class president is really afraid of my sister!

"An’an, what help?"

Speaking of this, Xu Ling’an couldn’t help but laugh and cry, "Our department has some aid quotas for financially disadvantaged students to reduce tuition and supplement living expenses, and I don’t know how our class president thought I needed this. I wasn’t even aware of it, yet he put my name down."

Even without recognizing the family connection, she hadn’t planned on applying for that spot.

With the awards she received from her college entrance exam scores, the earnings from acting cameos, and the tuition waiver and subsidies Hua University gave her initially, she certainly wasn’t going to take up a spot meant for a poor student.

"Our class president is usually quite responsible, but he’s a bit presumptuous. This time, he also thought he was doing me good."

Seeing the troubled look on the girl’s face, Jiang Lingxi reached out to pat her on the back of the head and analyzed, "He considers himself strong and views you as weak, so he feels the strong self can pity the weak you. You don’t need to feel burdened by this; it’s more likely they’re trying to impress themselves. Once you become strong, he naturally won’t have this thought."

As for Lin Minchen’s slight hidden feelings when looking at An’an, Jiang Lingxi chose to ignore it completely.

Even if that young man is indeed outstanding in worldly terms, she still doesn’t fancy him.

Her own sister should find the best and most suitable partner if she’s looking.

By the time they finished the Cantonese evening tea buffet Xu Ling’an mentioned, it was already close to ten o’clock.

Jiang Lingxi dropped her off at the rear gate of Hua University, watched Xu Ling’an carrying the night snacks she packed for her dorm mates into the school gates, and then turned around to look back.

She waved and then got into the taxi waiting by the road.

Even though the reunion was brief, knowing that the other is doing well is enough!

"An’an is back!"

"We were just about to call you, thinking that at this hour you might have decided to stay with your sister for the night."

"Oh wow, it smells so good, I think I can smell freshly baked pineapple buns!"

Xu Ling’an put the packed meal box on the table, "My sister brought back some night snacks, want some?"

"Yes, yes, yes!"

"I declare, An’an’s sister is now my sister too."

"Sister is so considerate!"

The few who had already gone to bed sprang up quickly and gathered around at lightning speed.

"Did you eat at that Cantonese buffet?"

"No wonder you stayed so long, every time I go I never want to leave until the last second."

"Shrimp dumpling, let me have a shrimp dumpling."

"Do you mind if I cut the pineapple bun with a fruit knife?"

"This is too much food, that place is expensive if you order separately, sister is generous, and An’an worked hard bringing it all the way back!"

Xu Ling’an poured herself a glass of water, sat aside watching her dorm mates eat with relish while calling sister happily, and smilingly took a sip of water.

For once, she thought with interest, she wondered if these guys would still be calling ’sister’ so enthusiastically when they actually meet her in the future.

*

The lights in the entrance hall came on.

Jiang Lingxi pulled the phone out of her coat pocket, casually hung her coat on the nearby coat rack, and was about to send a message to Shen Yunqing and Xu Ling’an to let them know she was safe when a voice call came in first.

She glanced at the contact and immediately answered the call.

Lu Zhengzheng’s cheerful and slightly excited voice came through the phone, "Xixi, are you not asleep yet?"

"No, I just got home after having dinner with An’an."

"Oh, tomorrow morning, Yaoyao and I will be coming over to your place, do you want us to bring breakfast?"

"Yes, please. Steamed buns and soy milk will do."

"Okay, then Xixi, you rest early, we’ll see you tomorrow."

"See you tomorrow."

After hanging up the phone, Jiang Lingxi quickly sent the unsent messages, placed the phone on the charger, grabbed her pajamas, and went into the bathroom.

After finishing her shower, just as her phone was fully charged, she lay on the bed with her phone, first checked Xu Ling’an’s reply, and then video-called Shen Yunqing.

Once connected, she saw a background of bookshelves.

"Are you in the library? Not resting yet? How come one painting is taking so long?"

"I was thinking that creating one aged piece takes a certain amount of time, as would doing several more pieces, so I painted two extra pieces."

"Which additional two pieces did you paint?"

The phone screen shifted, and Jiang Lingxi saw three works displayed on the desk.

One was naturally "Bibo Wanxiang," and the other two were "Thousand Mountains Forest Movement" and "Countless Mansions."

If she remembered correctly, she had mentioned the latter two in "Inheritance."

"What made you think of painting these two pieces?"

"Your Majesty had mentioned before," Shen Yunqing gestured to "Thousand Mountains Forest Movement," "this is the beginning," then pointed at "Countless Mansions," "this is the end. When preparing to start, these two pieces came to mind and represent the beginning and the end."

Jiang Lingxi slowly moved her gaze from the two paintings to Shen Yunqing’s fingers, still stained with a few drops of paint, "’Thousand Mountains Forest Movement’ is understandable, but ’Countless Mansions’... how did you remember the capital’s image so clearly?"

The renovation drawings of the capital were ultimately reviewed by her; even she didn’t dare to claim she remembered them so vividly.

Wait, "You wouldn’t happen to still have the blueprints of the Dayin Capital, would you?"

A light laugh came through the phone, and the screen image changed again, this time to several yellowing drawings preserved with transparent special tools.

There were even circles drawn with a vermilion brush and annotated with modification notes in her handwriting.

"Nothing escapes Your Majesty’s eyes."

Jiang Lingxi: "... You actually kept them, you..."

Shen Yunqing rarely interrupted her, "It can’t be explained quickly, come over personally when Your Majesty is free to take a look."

Jiang Lingxi pondered the phrase ’it can’t be explained quickly,’ paused for a moment, and then replied with an agreement.

She was curious to see just how many things he had collected that she wasn’t aware of!

"Don’t work too late, get some sleep."

Shen Yunqing softly agreed, taking the phone out of the study, "I’m about to rest."

Jiang Lingxi woke up early in the morning to find her phone tucked under her chin.

Quickly recalling how she, while speaking with Shen Yunqing the previous night, had dozed off, she checked the phone to see a call duration of nearly an hour.

This was the first time she fell asleep while talking, and thinking about how Shen Yunqing would have seen her fall asleep with her phone on screen made her feel a bit embarrassed.

Simultaneously, Lu Zhengzheng and Fang Yao stood one after the other outside the entrance door.

"Xixi usually wakes up around this time, though she’s not used to setting alarms, so sometimes she wakes early, sometimes late, but if we’re meeting, this time is perfect."

Lu Zhengzheng shared her insights while entering the door code, with Fang Yao nodding while holding the packed breakfast.

The two tiptoed into the house.

"It seems like Xixi isn’t up yet, I’ll go to the kitchen to get the dishes ready for breakfast, you go to the bedroom to wake Xixi up."

Fang Yao nodded, and followed Lu Zhengzheng’s pointing into the master bedroom doorway.

Taking a deep breath, she raised her hand to knock on the door, and the lightly closed door opened with just that knock.

Jiang Lingxi was just rolling over in bed, looking to ease her mood when she heard the knock and turned her head, only to meet Fang Yao’s wide, shocked eyes.

And she realized what she had just done.

It seemed she could hear the sound of her image shattering again.

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