The Heiress Acts Mischievously, But Her Family Can Read Her Mind novel Chapter 175

Chapter 175: Chapter 175: Almost Thought I Was Going to be Assassinated

The lights went out in the basement, and Shang Xu huddled by the door, trembling and whining, "Scared, Xuxu scared, obedient, I’m obedient."

Jiang Nanshu sighed softly, then pulled out her phone from her bag—it had only five percent battery left and no signal bars; the floor had a signal blocker.

Then, she turned on the flashlight and walked over to Shang Xu to pick him up.

Feeling the warmth of a person, Shang Xu whimpered and buried himself in Jiang Nanshu’s arms, his small body shaking continuously.

She had only been at school for a week; how could Shang Xu’s temperament have changed so much?

She sat with Shang Xu on the small bed and asked him, "Is this the room where you study?"

Shang Xu shook his head, punctuated by a sobbing hiccup, "No, no... hic, mine, mine is next door."

"You sit here for now," Jiang Nanshu stood up.

In the next second, Shang Xu clutched her hand, his voice plaintive with baby talk, "Sister Nanshu, don’t leave."

"I won’t leave; I’ll just look around. If the lights don’t come back on, we might end up locked in here and starve." She was just teasing him.

If she didn’t return home for one night, surely her two brothers would symbolically come look for her?

She was a bit curious about this basement room.

So she walked to the desk, which was covered with a thin layer of dust, clearly untouched for a while.

Using her phone flashlight, Jiang Nanshu flipped through the books on the desk.

Shang Xu stopped crying; his eyes followed Jiang Nanshu’s every move, terrified that she would disappear the next second.

She pulled out an economics book, and before she could open it, a middle school math exam paper floated to the ground.

Jiang Nanshu had to put the book down and pick up the paper. When her eyes touched the neatly written three characters at the top, she froze slightly and whispered, "Lu, Qing, Yan?"

Her gaze shifted back to the desk, where it seemed a notebook was wedged under the leg of the desk.

Jiang Nanshu moved closer, swiped the dusty cover of the notebook, the table slumped to one side, but she paid no mind.

The original book hadn’t mentioned anything about Lu Qingyan’s childhood. It started with Su Ran returning to the country, with the original owner being jilted as the starting point of the plot, depicting the male lead as having normal values, very responsible, temperate, cool on the outside but sunny in nature.

Otherwise, considering the extreme measures the original owner took to chase him, he could endure it for three years before calling off the engagement—she wouldn’t have been able to endure it for even a second.

The biggest plot twist in the book also happened after the entire Jiang Family was written off. Later, because he learned the true reason why the female lead went abroad, he fell into madness and darkness from unrequited love, right?

Jiang Nanshu thought about it, picturing a madman in the darkness, twisted and dark, paired with Lu Qingyan’s ethereally cool face, his peach blossom eyes shimmering...

Sorry, she had veered off, dreaming of a uniform seduction cosplay scenario from a fanfic.

She shook her head, casting aside those improper thoughts.

Her slender fingertips flipped open the first page of the grubby notebook.

It was filled with complex formulas, but the handwriting was faint and childlike, likely written when he was much younger. Towards the middle, the pages turned blank, so Jiang Nanshu flipped a few more pages.

The dim light shone on the childish handwriting.

The next second, her phone died, and darkness enveloped them again.

Luckily, Shang Xu calmed his emotions, sitting on the small bed swinging his legs.

"Sister Nanshu, what are you looking at? It’s so dark. Can you come sit next to me, please? I’m scared." Shang Xu’s baby voice sounded.

Jiang Nanshu heard him start to hold back tears again.