Quick Transmigration: The Mad Beauty Refuses to Be the Scapegoat!-Chapter 463 - 20: The Cannon Fodder Stepsister Doesn’t Want to Die
The life of the science class follows a routine.
Jiang Lai still sits at her desk studying diligently until dawn every day without fail, her self-discipline is frightening.
During the day on Saturdays and Sundays, she takes her exam papers to the hospital to work on.
Mao Fang’s first surgery has been completed, most of the tumor has been removed, but this kind of thing cannot be fully excised, and such efforts can only extend Mao Fang’s life somewhat.
The woman has completely lost her former plumpness, and due to chemotherapy, her hair has been shaved off, her emaciated body sways in the oversized hospital gown, like a skinny bamboo pole.
Most of the time she sleeps, and Jiang Lai quietly lies beside her, working on practice problems, waiting to chat with Mao Fang once she wakes up.
Even though everyone knows this disease cannot be cured, the length of survival depends entirely on the financial stability in later stages, Jiang Lai still hopes Mao Fang can remain hopeful, at least not completely despair like other cancer patients.
Therefore, Jiang Lai continuously expresses her panic, though it is feigned, but this gesture is very effective for Mao Fang.
Regarding death, what scares Mao Fang even more is the future of her daughter.
After her death, Jiang Lai is still young, without father or mother, with Jiang Ci who has always despised her, and biased Jiang Zhen Sheng.
She does not hold hope for anyone, Mao Fang knows the only person truly kind to Jiang Lai in this world is herself.
Thus, her desire for survival is strong, she cooperates with all treatments, and smiles at Jiang Lai when she visits, at this moment, the woman becomes selfish, she knows if she gives up on treatment, Jiang Zhen Sheng would not leave money for Jiang Lai, rather than this, it would be better to accept treatment openly, as long as she lives one more day, she can watch Jiang Lai gradually grow.
As long as she can persist until Jiang Lai goes to university.
With this concern, Jiang Lai is no longer worried about her falling into depression from time to time.
The treatment costs certainly cannot entirely rely on Jiang Zhen Sheng, his company engages in clothing, with two large factories under his command earning at least a million in net annual profit, yet under Jiang Ci’s covert operations, his financial chain is about to break.
But this is still over a year away.
Jiang Lai would definitely not stand idly by while Jiang Zhen Sheng goes bankrupt, so everything still has to start from Jiang Ci’s side.
After a bath at night, Jiang Lai sits down in her nightgown, staring absentmindedly at the dark room outside the door.
As usual, Jiang Ci habitually opens the video, but does not see Jiang Lai getting into study mode as usual, she appears somewhat repressed today, sitting by the bed with her long hair not yet dry, her eyes which have always been bright are now bleak.
In the screen, Jiang Lai appears slim and small, white and pretty like a porcelain doll, but this porcelain doll has always been resilient, never showed such an expression of helplessness and hesitation as now.
Amid fluttering long lashes, Jiang Ci notices her eyes reddened with tears.
In the lonely home, she silently wipes away her tears.
Jiang Ci furrows his brow.
He almost forgot Jiang Lai has a mother with cancer, for whether on the sports field or stage, or in the competition field he excels at, Jiang Lai has always displayed a daring courage sweeping away all obstacles.
This gives him a sense of freshness and desire to compete.
Over time, he himself forgot the original meaning of this surveillance.
Jiang Ci thought Jiang Lai would cry for a long time, he was about to turn away, but upon lifting his head, saw her already wiped her tears, sitting by the desk, and pulled out a book of math competition highlights.
She seems pushed forward by an invisible force, unable to stop.
This kind of Jiang Lai reminds Jiang Ci of himself from a few years ago.
But there is a slight difference because back then he was not as strong as Jiang Lai.
He was dispirited for quite some time before crawling out of the mire, but Jiang Lai doesn’t even leave herself time to cry.
Tonight, instead of secretly comparing progress speed with Jiang Lai as before, Jiang Ci quietly opened the trading website he created, watched Jiang Zhen Sheng negotiating business with him unknowingly, and for a while, Jiang Ci hesitated with a frown.
He is cautious and knows Jiang Zhen Sheng well enough, and as an old-fashioned traditional businessman, Jiang Zhen Sheng naturally has a sharp eye, but the trap Jiang Ci specifically set for him was too profound, now he is completely ensnared, at this moment Jiang Ci only needs to order a large batch of goods like before, Jiang Zhen Sheng will undoubtedly invest in production without hesitation.
At this critical moment, if the payment for this batch of goods is not received, Jiang Zhen Sheng’s lifetime efforts would be in vain, and naturally, there would be no money for Mao Fang’s continued treatment.
Now Jiang Family is already on the brink of collapse, maintaining the past glory in front of outsiders laboriously, only Jiang Ci knows they are waiting to be smashed to pieces at the edge of a cliff.
In the deep night, Jiang Ci rubs the keyboard in his hand, looking at the message from Jiang Zhen Sheng, finally he made a call.
"Transfer the payment for the last batch of goods to Zhen Sheng Company, and the time for the next batch preorder is yet to be determined, wait for my update."
Several millions transferred over, Jiang Family’s life this wave should be easier.
Jiang Lai doesn’t feel as pressured anymore, would she continue her relentless efforts like now?
Jiang Ci is very curious, since Jiang Family doesn’t have anything to interest him anymore, even if destroyed, he wouldn’t have any emotional fluctuation, since that’s the case why not change the play style, now Jiang Lai is far more interesting than before.
Jiang Ci likes this feeling, the extreme tug-of-war of pushing her into the abyss time and again yet giving her some hope, adding a new emotion called "anticipation" to his long-withered heart.
Afterwards, Jiang Zhen Sheng’s smile indeed increased, while Mao Fang was also sent to a hospital for further stabilization treatment of her pancreatic tumor.
The midterm exams for the second year of high school are coming.
The weather at the end of October has become much cooler, all students wearing an extra layer over their school uniforms.
This year’s autumn school uniforms have changed styles, each student needs to pay thirteen thousand eight hundred for the autumn uniforms, a total of three sets, each in slightly different color and style, crafted carefully and tailored according to students’ physiques.
On the day of payment, Jiang Lai had just received a large red envelope from the parents she brought along as a student representative.
Just enough to pay for the uniform fee.
On the weekend after the midterm exams, Jiang Lai regularly goes to the twins’ home for tutoring.
The two boys were much more well-behaved compared to their first meeting, courteously addressing her as young teacher.
Because their math scores have soared, every time Jiang Lai visits, the parents generously prepare imported fruit neatly cut and placed on the table in front of her, never interrupting during the tutoring, and after completing it would call a good car for her convenient travel.
Of course, these treatments are all due to the brothers’ recently released midterm grades, first-year middle school math, one scoring one hundred and nine, the other one hundred and thirteen, significantly boosting their rank in the grades.
