Rebirth of an Idle Noblewoman

In the bar, Jiang Yirui was sitting at the counter. He drank glass after glass, all of them colorful cocktails made by the bartender.

The dim light reflected on his pale skin, making his fingers look longer than more slender. His head was lowered slightly, and his side profile was as elegant as jade with a cold aura exuding from his body.

“How many girls have already gone up to him to strike up a conversation?” Wang Qiming and the group of them had not gone into the box, but decided to sit down at a table near a corner where they could see Jiang Yirui from.

Tang An took a sip from his corn juice, and couldn’t help but think about it when Wang Qiming mentioned it. “Probably about ten, I can’t remember, there’s just too many.”

“Thirteen.” Jiji glanced at Jiang Yirui, taking a sip of its own wine. “If you add this one, then it’s a total of fourteen.”

“Tch, it’s only been half an hour since we sat down, and so many people have gone up to him. They really dare to go even with the pressure that he’s exuding.” Tang An took another sip of corn juice. “But our Egg only has eyes for one person.”

“But, why did he suddenly want to drink?” Tang An slid his finger around the top of his glass. “Doesn’t his own house have a bar counter?”

“I’m not sure. You were with him the entire day, Jiji, what happened to him?” Wang Qiming turned his piercing gaze to Jiji.

Jiji ate a piece of watermelon as it replied, “Heartbreak.”

“Heartbreak? He had such a thing? Tang An almost choked on his drink.

“I’ve never seen anyone who comes to the bar and drinks corn juice,” Jiji replied instead, looking at Tang An with contempt clear in its eyes.

Tang An shot him a deadpan look. “I’ve never seen a robot that can eat and drink. Just wait, I’ll be sure to send you into a research lab one day!”

“I can’t help but ask for that too, it’s sad that I can’t change my body.” Jiji’s eyes lit up when it heard this, its eyes sparkling like stars in the sky!

Tang An: “…” It was his loss.

“Wait a minute.” Wang Qiming suddenly made a pause gesture with his hands. “It can’t be that the person our Young Master Rui likes, is that girl, Beini, right?!”

He pulled out his phone, sending the files in it to Tang An to see. “Look at this girl, although she looks pure and beautiful, her reputation is seriously bad. This is something one of my good friends specifically told me in confidence. Has Young Master Rui’s taste gotten so bad?”

“No, no.” Tang An waved his hand. “I had the same thought as you before this, but then I realized today and it wasn’t.”

“How do you know?” Wang Qiming asked as he poured himself a glass of wine.

“I guessed it.” Tang An smiled. “I think the person that Egg likes looks like Yang Beini.”

“Pft!” Wang Qiming spat out the wine that he had just taken a sip from. “Do you think this is a haunted movie?!”

Tang An merely smiled in response, not saying anything else. His eyes were narrowed slightly, as though seriously pondering the possibility of what was just said.

Jiji took a big gulp of wine, before looking at Tang An silently.

“Speaking of which.” Tang An said, a bright smile on his face. “Egg seems to be getting along really well with Yearning in the online game?”

“Enough, let’s not guess anymore.” Wang Qiming put away his phone. “I always thought that Young Master Rui has a story behind him.”

“Let’s go, Jiji.” Jiang Yirui stood up. He had drunk countless glasses of wine tonight, but his eyes remained as clear as ever.

The bartender had watched and was well aware how many glasses this young man had drunk, but seeing him able to stand without staggering, and how clear his eyes were, he started to doubt whether or not the drinks he made were not strong enough, and were just water!

***

In the girls’ dormitory in A University, Xiao Yichen had just returned today after she had taken leave. She saw Tan Yongsi with her hand bandaged up the moment she stepped into the room. “Sisi, what happened? Who beat you?”

“Pui!” Ye Xuan almost spat out the water that she had been drinking. “You need to read more books, big sis. Do you know what this is? These are burn marks! Burn! Marks!”

“Okay, burns. I get it.” Xiao Yichen nodded her head. “What did you do to get such serious burns!”

“I just got careless, I’m fine.” Tan Yongsi waved her hand at them, assuring them that she was indeed fine.

“Come to think of it, Sisi.” Xiao Yichen took a bite of an apple as they continued to chat. “Who did you learn feng shui from?”

Tang Yongsi squinted at the question. “You may not believe me, but I learned it myself.”

“You don’t have a master? I just wanted to ask who it was!” Xiao Yichen took a vicious bite of her apple as she said that.

“You learned it yourself, that’s amazing! Amazing!” Ye Xuan finally understood why Tan Yongsi would go on this path of being someone who engages in superstitious activities.

Tang Yongsi merely smiled. Xiao Yichen and Ye Xuan probably thought that she meant that she had brought back books and studied them on her own. However, she hadn’t meant it that way. From the time she was young, her mind automatically broadcasted memories and knowledge of a feng shui master, and she learned from it especially well. It was as though she had learned it once, a long time ago.

She obviously didn’t elaborate on this, instead climbing onto her bed to think on what had happened today. Why did her head suddenly hurt? And there was that surge of unknown energy.

Tan Yongsi fell asleep thinking about these matters.

Come the next morning, Tan Yongsi found that she could already move her hand freely.

This was some godly effect, right?!

Even though she had seen many strange things in her life, she still felt surprised at this. She turned the bottle of ointment upside down to see the bottom. It wasn’t a bottle that was available on general markets, and the surface of it was completely white. Only a small word ‘Gu’ was written at the bottom of it

“Gu?” Tan Yongsi muttered the word under her breath.

Today was a Sunday, and there were no classes for the three to attend. Ye Xuan wanted to head to the store to buy a hard disk for her computer, while Xiao Yichen wanted to go shopping for clothes. Tan Yongsi didn’t really have anything to buy, but she was dragged out forcefully by the other two.

It was drizzling outside, and due to the coldness that was setting in, Tan Yongsi grabbed a jacket.

Ye Xuan was wearing a skirt, and she was looking at Tan Yongsi in disgust when she saw her wearing a jacket.

But when she walked on the streets, she understood and regretted her decision. She rubbed her arms, trying to warm herself up. “It’s so cold!”

Tan Yongsi glanced at her, then silently took off her jacket and threw it at Ye Xuan. She had worn a long sleeve top with jeans, and it was still warmer compared to Ye Xuan, who was wearing a skirt. Taking off the jacket didn’t make much of a difference to Tan Yongsi.

Ye Xuan put on the jacket excitedly. “Sisi, I love you so much!”

“Of course, who would love you if the great me didn’t?” Tan Yongsi said, her voice calm and flat.

Ye Xuan: “Just pretend I never said that then.”

“There’s a milk tea shop opposite here, what flavor do you want, Sisi?” Ye Xuan looked around, catching sight of the said shop.

“The same as yours.” Tan Yongsi pressed her temples, her head aching suddenly. What was going on?

Ye Xuan didn’t notice Tan Yongsi’s dilemma, and left towards the shop.

Tan Yongsi felt like her head was going to explode at any moment. It was the same as yesterday, and she slowly knelt down to the ground, pressing hard against her temple, but it wasn’t helping at all!

There was a constant roar ringing in her ears!

At the same moment, the harsh, shrieking sound of brakes echoed out!

Tan Yongsi tried her best to open her eyes. It felt like something had broken through her memory into her brain, and the blurry image of the world gradually cleared up.

Jiang Yirui was also around the area, not far away from the street that she was on. He was driving leisurely, and suddenly snapped his head up. “This aura…”

There was a traffic jam in front of him, and Jiang Yirui opened the door, getting down from the car. He rushed forward in the rain, looking for the location of that familiar energy!

The aura didn’t disappear suddenly as it did last time, and when he finally looked in the direction of it, he could only see Tan Yongsi, who was standing in a daze in the middle of the road.

Jiang Yirui stood in the rain, ignoring how the water was pouring down. The people around the area were walking in a hurried pace, screams and depressing cries around. He stood in the middle in the road like this, looking up towards the skies, ignoring the horns of the drivers.

“That… Isn’t that Tan Yongsi? And Chen Chen!” Jiji had followed Jiang Yirui down the car and chased after him. As soon as it reached the middle of the road, it saw a pool of blood on the side of the road.

A girl wearing a black coat was lying in the pool of blood, on her side. Only half her face could be seen, the other parts of her drenched in the red liquid.

Tan Yongsi was kneeling beside the girl, her face completely blank, as though she wasn’t really looking at the person on the ground in front of her. There were no tears on her face.

Jiang Yirui snapped out of his own daze immediately. He looked at Tan Yongsi, who was still in a stunned state, and he pulled out his phone and called the hospital directly.

A few minutes later, an ambulance arrived in a rush. Jiang Yirui directed Ye Xuan to be carried away, taking control of the situation the entire time.

Tan Yongsi followed the stretcher into the ambulance listlessly, still in the same dazed state.

Ye Xuan was wheeled into the emergency room, while Tan Yongsi leaned against the wall outside, the same eerily blank look on her face.

Xiao Yichen was worried and fretting about Ye Xuan’s condition, almost in tears. When she saw Tan Yongsi in this state, she was shocked. “Sisi, what’s wrong?”

Why did she have such an expression on her face?

Tan Yongsi looked at Xiao Yichen when she heard her voice, her eyes hollow. “Yichen, it’s because of me. Ye Xuan got into an accident because of me.”

“Sisi! What are you talking about?! What has this got to do with you?!” Xiao Yichen held Tan Yongsi by the shoulder, looking straight into her haunted eyes.

Tan Yongsi didn’t say anything further, her gaze on the door of the emergency room. The door opened right at this moment, and a group of doctors in white coats walking out. The one who was in the lead took off his mask and shook his head. “The patient has a row of broken ribs, and three of them have pierced her lungs. It’s impossible to save that particular lung now. Her skull has also cracked, and not only has it injured the nerves of the brain, there’s also a lot of blood that has seeped into it. Even if we force a surgery now, it will just drag out the patient’s misery.”

Tan Yongsi’s body shook violently, her hands reaching out to the collar of the doctor’s coat. “Save her! No matter what it takes, you have to save her! I’ll give you whatever it is that she’s lacking now! As long as you just save her!”

“Miss, please calm down. If we’re able to save her, then we won’t give up even for a moment! However, are you sure you want the patient to die in pain?” The doctor placed both hands on Tan Yongsi’s shoulders, saying each word slowly so that she was able to process it.

“If we can get Dean Zhu to come, how much higher would the success rate of this operation be?” Jiang Yirui pried the doctor’s hand off the girl, his dark eyes piercing.

“The patient’s lifeforce is almost gone, even if the gods themselves came down, there isn’t anything we can do,” The doctor replied, giving Jiang Yirui a surprised look. “Even if Dean Zhu were to come, it’s impossible to get rid of the blood in her head, forget about the punctured lungs.”

Zhu Yuan had already been acknowledged as the top doctor in the entire world, the one who could snatch someone back from the jaws of death. If he couldn’t do it, then there really was nothing anyone could do.

Tan Yongsi and Xiao Yichen were both stunned speechless. How were they to accept this sudden news?!

“Actually, that may not be true.” An elderly doctor took off his glasses, a thoughtful look in his eyes. “There was an example of a pair of legs being saved back then in N City, one that was far beyond saving. If we can find the main surgeon who performed that operation, we could possibly save this girl.”

“Old Yang, we’re not living in some science fiction universe right now. Even the adhesive cells that the medical laboratory has developed can’t repair her punctured lungs, you know that.” The other doctor said, glancing at the elderly doctor. “It’s a cruel thing to give the patient’s family hope, just for it to be crushed!”

“Do you have information about the surgeon?” Tan Yongsi looked at the old doctor with pleading eyes.

Old Yang thought for a moment, then turned to Jiang Yirui. “Dean Zhu was also present during the operation that year, you can try asking him.”

Jiang Yirui glanced at Tan Yongsi, then pulled out his phone, giving Zhu Yuan a call.

“And here I thought something had happened. Ruptured lungs and intracranial hemorrhage? Fatty Egg Jiang, although I don’t have any ways to repair damaged organs, those are not a problem in Beauty Gu’s hands. Why are you looking for me instead of her?” Zhu Yuan sighed. “You better hurry up and find your Beauty Gu.”