Pampered by My Ex's Cousin-Chapter 123 - 125: Forced to Cohabit (Sixty-Eight)
As she spoke, she lifted her foot and headed towards the door, her steps hasty and clearly emotional.
This little temper... is getting more and more irritable.
Ji Chicheng knitted his brows, and as Ji Anning approached, he suddenly moved in front of her, blocking her way.
Caught off guard, Ji Anning bumped into his chest, the familiar scent enveloping her, causing her heart to palpitate and the butterflies in her stomach to become even more chaotic.
She hated this feeling, hated that she couldn’t even control her own heart.
Ji Anning pushed Ji Chicheng away with one hand, forcing him to take a couple of steps back, which she did as well.
"I am your niece-in-law, can you stay away from me?"
Can you not stay in my heart.
She was reminding herself, warning herself, that there was a distance between them that could never be crossed. She knew she shouldn’t, so she should have immediately turned around every time she saw him and stayed far away.
So, this emotion, it was something she was venting on herself.
If given the chance to be close, she would fall further and further, already so vulnerable. All she wanted was to preserve this sliver of dignity in front of him, so at the very least, when she met him in the future, she could still hold her head high and look at him straightforwardly.
Not daring to look at Ji Chicheng’s face, she dashed toward the door, opened it, and left.
With a ’bang’.
Ji Chicheng’s tall frame shuddered slightly, and he looked towards the door with a dazed gaze as bitterness spread across his lips.
I am your niece-in-law, can you stay away from me...
Is it disgust?
So she despises me in her heart, but Ji Anning, I can’t do it anymore, I can’t stay away from you.
Even if it is wrong, even if it’s a road to ruin, he can’t stop.
...
After that day, Ji Anning hadn’t seen Ji Chicheng for several days, and Ji Chicheng hadn’t come home either.
Yang Danning, who had become very jealous last time, went on a trip to Europe, so now she was alone at the school.
Without Yang Danning around, sometimes she couldn’t even bother to go for lunch. 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺
Today, at noon, she only ate a packet of biscuits and drank a box of milk, and at this moment, her stomach was growling with hunger.
She touched her stomach, anxiously looking in the direction the bus was coming from when suddenly her phone rang in her bag. She took it out and glanced at the caller ID.
"Hello Sister Hong."
It was Sister Hong, who often introduced her to stand-in actor jobs, calling her probably meant there was work for her.
She hadn’t taken any acting work for quite a while, and the money she had earned over three years had been given to Ji Chicheng last time, so it was time for her to earn money again.
"Tomorrow night?"
"That’s great, I’ll be there on time."
As expected, Sister Hong called her to say there was a stand-in role for a mistress being beaten up; since it was at night, the compensation was double that of daytime roles.
It was also during her free time after evening self-study, so without hesitation, she agreed immediately.
After the call, the bus she was waiting for arrived, she put away her phone, boarded the bus, and swiped her card.
At this hour, the bus was still not very crowded. The few times she had fallen asleep and had been weirdly caught by the "demon", she didn’t dare to sit at the back anymore, so she took a seat reserved for the elderly, the disabled, the ill, and the pregnant, afraid she might doze off again, and she downloaded some games to play on the way.
Playing games kept her from feeling sleepy, and she had been safely making it home for several days in a row.
The living room light was on, and the TV was still running, Ji Anning switched her shoes while looking towards the sofa.
(There will probably be cohabitation in tomorrow’s update, hahaha, did you all forget about the tickets, comments, and five stars in these few days? Let’s get hyped...)
