“Ji Mingxia, why are you here?” The student turned his head and was startled when he saw that it was Ji Mingxia talking to him. “Didn’t you go back to school with Yu Ning?”
It was widely acknowledged that Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning were close, so Ji Mingxia catching them gossiping about Yu Ni was no different from being caught by Yu Ning.
The students who were chatting together were so embarrassed that they didn’t want to look at Ji Mingxia.
Ji Mingxia didn’t even care about these trivial matters as he asked, “What’s going on with Yu Ning’s family?”
“You don’t know ah …… well, his family came looking for him at school last night.” That student looked at Ji Mingxia and answered cautiously.
“Last night?” Ji Mingxia’s eyes widened.
“That’s right.” Another student spoke up on seeing that Ji Mingxia had no intention of reprimanding them. “It was said that they arrived in the middle of the night and went straight to the school to look for him. The school leader received them so people didn’t know about this at first. However they ran to Yu Ning’s dormitory this morning, saying that they wanted to wait for Yu Ning to return, and wouldn’t leave until they saw him.”
Ji Mingxia was shocked, “So they’re all at the dormitory now, waiting for Yu Ning?”
“That’s what the students at school said, we don’t know exactly, why don’t you search the internet yourself. People wouldn’t say much in front of Yu Ning but with Weibo and such, the news should already be out.” The student said.
Ji Mingxia nodded, “Okay, thank you guys.”
After saying that, he hurriedly turned around and rushed back to the parking lot.
The school bus had already left, and Yu Ning was already on his way back.
Ji Mingxia hurriedly took out his mobile phone and called Yu Ning, but the phone was switched off on the other end.
Ji Mingxia frowned and hung up the phone. Just as he was about to search the internet for relevant news, he found that he had received quite a number of messages a few minutes ago.
The first thing that popped up was a text message from Yu Ning, wishing Ji Mingxia a safe journey and telling him to inform him when he arrived.
The text message was sent five minutes ago, so Yu Ning had sent it as soon as he got onto the bus, and then switched his phone off.
When Ji Mingxia looked at the other messages, they were all from high school classmates, all asking about Yu Ning’s family.
It seemed that the matter had already begun to ferment.
If people on his side were already asking questions, one could imagine how Yu Ning, the person in question and a well-known figure, was being bombarded with messages.
At first, Ji Mingxia wanted to call Luo Zixuan Lin Xie to ask about the situation but decided not to ask for the time being.
At that moment, the car that Ji Mingxia had booked before arrived. After getting into the car, Ji Mingxia spoke to the driver, “I’m not going to the airport, can we go to H University instead?”
“H University?” The driver was shocked and reminded him, “It’s more than a three hours’ journey from here to H University. It’s very expensive.”
“So can I change the destination?” Ji Mingxia asked.
“Yes, of course you can.” The driver said, turning around and driving towards H University.
He was with classmates and had Yu Ning by his side when he came on this side, so although the journey was long, it wasn’t boring. He didn’t expect to be in such a mood when going back today.
Ji Mingxia was anxious from the way the driver was driving and he started urging him: “Driver, can’t you drive faster?”
“There’s a traffic jam ahead, we can’t go any faster. The journey is more than three hours away, so there’s no rush.” The driver said comfortingly.
Ji Mingxia had no choice but to nod. He then canceled his ticket, called his grandmother and told her that he would not be coming back for the time being. Then he searched the internet.
Although discussions were already there on the internet, not many students were in school due to the holidays, and there was not much accurate information from the student union at the moment, so the news posted online was very scattered at the moment.
Most people were as dumbfounded by the news as Ji Mingxia was, and could not imagine how Yu Ning, an orphan, could suddenly have a family out of the blue.
Not only did he have a father and a mother, but he even had a terminally ill brother?
This sounded as absurd as a TV drama, and many netizens wondered if it was a scammer coming to the door, or a fabricated rumour.
“It would be nice if it were rumors …” Ji Mingxia whispered as he looked at the news online.
Otherwise, how much pain was Yu Ning in at the moment.
After several hours of driving plus traffic, it was almost two o’clock when Ji Mingxia returned to school.
Because of the holiday, the campus looked more deserted than usual, but there were still a number of students who stayed in school.
When they saw Ji Mingxia, the expressions of those who recognized him immediately became a little subtle.
If Ji Mingxia who was Yu Ning’s friend had such an expression, one could imagine how Yu Ning felt.
As it was human nature to gossip, Ji Mingxia could only pretend that he did not see them and went straight to the boys’ dormitory.
As soon as he walked to the stairs, he saw a crowd of people in front of him and could faintly hear Lin Xiao and Luo Zixuan’s voices as they deliberately spoke in a whisper.
“We don’t know, they’re talking inside, we can’t go in and disturb them.”
“Don’t eavesdrop, respect Yu Ning’s privacy and ask when it’s over.”
“I don’t have any inside information, we just came back from the suburbs, we don’t know as much as you guys do.”
When Ji Mingxia walked up, he saw Lin Cheng and Luo Zixuan guarding the dormitory and trying to keep the gossiping students away so that they don’t disturb Yu Ning.
When they looked up and saw Ji Mingxia, both of them were startled: “Mingxia, you’re back, huh?”
Luo Zixuan was quicker to react, “You heard about what happened online too?”
Ji Mingxia nodded and walked up to them.
With Ji Mingxia back, Lin Cheng and Luo Zixuan naturally wouldn’t stop him and immediately gave way to let him in.
Ji Mingxia stood in front of the door, but did not rush in. He pricked up his ears and listened carefully, wanting to judge the situation before entering, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble for Yu Ning.
The door to the school dormitory had good sound insulation but Ji Mingxia’s ears were more sensitive than an ordinary person’s and when he listened carefully, he immediately heard a man’s voice speaking inside, seemingly advising Yu Ning: “Yu Ning, you grew up as an orphan, with no family and no home, no matter what, he is your real brother… …”
As Ji Mingxia listened and was stunned.
Because the voice was surprisingly very familiar. If he heard it right, it was none other than Ye Chen speaking!
Since meeting Ding Jialin that day, Ji Mingxia had never seen Ye Chen again, and originally thought that the two would never cross paths again. Unexpectedly, they would meet again at such a time.
Why was Ye Chen here, and what did he have to do with this matter?
Ji Mingxia was astonished, and in that instant, Ding Jialin’s face suddenly flashed in his mind. The face was extremely similar to Yu Ning’s, but extraordinarily ugly and hideous.
Because Ding Jialin’s appearance was so horrific, and he was another villain that was full of evil, Ji Mingxia resisted associating him with Yu Ning.
Ji Mingxia instinctively felt that it was just a coincidence that he looked similar to Yu Ning.
But now, he was forced to face up to this matter.
The Ding and Ye families were friends, Ding Jialin and Ye Chen were the same age, and they were both older than Yu Ning…
Ding Jialin has been cursed and doesn’t have many days to live ……
Today, Yu Ning’s real parents appeared, and so did Ye Chen, asking Yu Ning to save his biological brother…
Could it be that the mysterious and strange Uncle Ding and Aunt Ding were Yu Ning’s real parents, and that Ding Jialin, who was neither ghost nor human, was Yu Ning’s brother?
From what they were saying, they actually wanted Yu Ning to save the cursed Ding Jialin?
At this moment, Ye Chen’s voice once again came from inside the dormitory: “You wouldn’t be able to bear it if you saw how much pain Ding Jialin was in. Yu Ning, why don’t you help out if you have the ability to save him? You are family, blood is thicker than water…”
Ji Mingxia was still in shock, but as he listened, he felt a surge of anger rise from the bottom of his heart, almost instantly overwhelming his sanity.
He had wanted to listen outside and judge the situation before going in, but when he heard these words, Ji Mingxia instantly felt that there was no need to listen anymore.
He almost vomited blood just listening to a few sentences so he couldn’t imagine Yu Ning’s mood.
As a matter of urgency, it was better to go in and help Yu Ning first!
Thinking of this, Ji Mingxia immediately took out his keys and, with a “click”, directly pulled the dormitory door open.
Ji Mingxia barged and everyone in the dormitory turned their heads to look at him.
On seeing Ji Mingxia, Ye Chen, who was advising Yu Ning, was stunned: “Mingxia, why are you here?”
And Yu Ning, who was originally standing detached and expressionless, changed slightly when he saw Ji Mingxia. He came straight up to Ji Mingxia and asked in a low voice, “You didn’t take the flight home?”
Ji Mingxia looked at Yu Ning’s body carefully and after confirming that Yu Ning was unharmed, and that his expression was even calm, Ji Mingxia breathed a little sigh of relief.
Then he became even more furious.
Anyone else would have fainted after encountering such a thing, only Yu Ning who had a good temper would stand quietly and listen to their nonsense.
However, this did not mean that Yu Ning should be a target for bullying!
In the past, Ji Mingxia did not understand him and was afraid of death, so he chose to stay away, not daring to get involved in Yu Ning’s life.
But it was different now. With him around, Ji Mingxia would never allow anyone to bully Yu Ning under his nose!
Thinking of this, Ji Mingxia gritted his teeth and desperately tried to calm himself down.
With the so-called biological parents on one side and countless students lingering around outside the door, Ji Mingxia would not allow himself to lose control of his emotions at such a time.
He controlled his facial expression, then took the initiative to reach out and hold Yu Ning’s hand, saying softly to him, “I called my grandma when the plane was about to take off. She was not happy that I was coming home alone, and asked me to bring you back with me.”
Yu Ning looked at the hand Ji Mingxia was holding and a rare dumbfounded expression appeared on his face, “Grandma?”
“Yeah.” Ji Mingxia smiled at Yu Ning, “The New Year’s holiday is suitable for family reunions, we are so close and are like family. My Grandma and I will miss you, so can you come back home with me for the holiday?”
As Ji Mingxia’s words fell, not only was there silence inside the dormitory, there was even silence outside the door.
Many of the students who were eavesdropping were wide-eyed and looked at each other with gossip flashing all over their faces.
This ……wasn’t this no different from an official announcement, right?!
Ji Mingxia completely ignored the people in the dormitory, and directly took out his phone as he said to Yu Ning, “It’s two o’clock, let’s book a five o’clock flight so we can be home for dinner—“
“Mingxia ……” Someone on the side spoke out and interrupted Ji Mingxia’s words.
Ji Mingxia had expected that the other party would speak up and would not let them go so easily. He immediately lifted his head and looked at Ye Chen coldly. “Mr. Ye, what a coincidence to meet here, are Mr. Ye and Aunt Ye recovering well?”
Ye Chen saw that Ji Mingxia looked ice-cold and made a point of mentioning his parents. Even someone with social experience like him could not help but blush at this moment.
Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning had saved his family’s life, but today, he had come with others to ask Yu Ning to save them.
Ye Chen had long been prepared to be blamed, but when Ji Mingxia looked at him coldly, he still lowered his head with discomfort. “They are fine. When they heard about the Ding family, they specifically asked me to bring them to the school ……”
Seeing that Ji Mingxia was not paying attention to him, he said to Ji Mingxia, “Mingxia, these two are Uncle Ding and Aunt Ding, they are also Yu Ning’s biological parents.”
Ji Mingxia’s gaze fell on the middle-aged couple sitting at the side.
Found family is much better anyway 😾
Go mingxia put them in their right place. “Blood is thicker than water”? Bleh
Thank you for the translations
No thoughts, just angry