The Heartthrob Protagonist Just Wants To Monopolize Me Chapter 126

“In the early hours of January 2nd, an emergency occurred at Central Ring Road in Funan County …… The hotel where the accident occurred opened the year before, with a total of 60 rooms in the hotel …… The people trapped… …The specifics are being further verified …… After the accident, the county fire brigade deployed 13 vehicles and 67 people to the scene, as well as the nearby fire rescue personnel……”

When Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning came downstairs, Grandma Ji was already sitting in the living room watching TV.  She saw the two coming down and immediately took the remote and turned the TV off.

Ji Mingxia originally wanted to go over and cozy up to his grandmother, but as a result, he saw the TV screen go black and the news turned off before he could even sit down.

“Aren’t you still watching the news?” Ji Mingxia asked casually.

“Let’s eat.” Grandma Ji said as she got up.

Ji Mingxia didn’t think much of it and followed Yu Ning and Grandma Ji to have breakfast together, then the two of them accompanied Grandma Ji out.

He was already prepared to take Yu Ning to the farm, and as they walked, Ji Mingxia introduced Yu Ning to the various topographical conditions of Banana Leaf Village. When they passed a certain vegetable patch, Ji Mingxia even introduced the fruits of his summer labour to Yu Ning.

Unexpectedly, Grandma Ji took the two of them around the village instead of heading to the farm.

Banana Leaf village covered a small area and had a small population, so the villagers were both neighbours and relatives.

Although Ji Mingxia’s relationship with Grandma Ji had improved, and he had interacted more with the villagers last summer, the events of the past few years had not been forgotten.

Having lost both parents and being raised by his grandmother, Ji Mingxia was understanding and filial at first, but on falling in love, his relationship with his grandmother dropped to a freezing point.

Banana Leaf village was so small that the whole village knew when something was going on.

The fact that Ji Mingxia liked the same sex and had upset Grandma Ji had long been spread around.

Because of this, Grandma Ji’s deliberate act of driving Ji Mingxia away in order to protect him from Zhou Tao and his mother was never suspicious.

With Zhou Tao’s departure, the shadow hanging over Banana Leaf Village was lifted, and Ji Mingxia and Grandma Ji released their old grudge, which everyone was naturally happy to see.

However, they never expected that six months later, Ji Mingxia would return again, not only on his own but with a boyfriend in tow.

What was even more unbelievable was Grandma Ji’s attitude. Not only did she bless them, but she even took the two to meet the relatives and introduced them.

The villagers were simple, they were shocked in their hearts and their expressions naturally couldn’t hide their emotions as they looked at Yu Ning and Ji Mingxia in amazement.

Ji Mingxia was standing behind Grandma Ji and naturally felt everyone’s emotions. He too was confused and he looked at Grandma Ji in a daze.

Everyone’s faces were strange because of the sudden shock, and Grandma Ji, whose face was calm, looked particularly out of place.

She was the oldest person in Banana Leaf Village, so she was one of the most respected in the village.

She was as calm as someone her age would be so the villagers thought it was normal and did not behave erratically before her.

So, with Grandma Ji in charge, the visit ended in an extremely odd and calm manner.

Banana Leaf village was small, so even if Grandma Ji was slow, she had met most of the relatives before the morning hours were over, and then took Yu Ning and Ji Mingxia home to prepare lunch.

Normally, it would have been Ji Mingxia and Grandma Ji who would have been busy in the kitchen.

However, because Yu Ning was there, the two were suddenly useless, and they simply worked together to help Yu Ning.

At this moment, Grandma Ji was picking vegetables while Ji Mingxia was washing them. He kept looking at Grandma Ji as he did so, wanting to say something.

Grandma Ji held back for a while, but finally couldn’t hold back and turned to him, “If you have something to say, say it quickly.”

Ji Mingxia was deliberating on how to speak when he received his grandmother’s encouragement, so he said, “Grandma, don’t we have to work in the fields in the morning?”

“Which work can you do in the middle of winter?” Grandma Ji said.

“But yesterday, you said that you wanted us to help in the fields… today,” muttered Ji Mingxia.

Grandma Ji held up the vegetables in her hand, “Aren’t these picked from the fields?”

Ji Mingxia looked at the greens and was speechless for a long time, then he couldn’t help but smile at Grandma Ji, “Grandma, did you find that it was particularly cold today, so you couldn’t bear to let us go to the fields and freeze?”

“No.” Grandma Ji said stiffly.

“Then are you …… agreeing to me and Yu Ning being together?” Ji Mingxia added.

“No.” Grandma Ji said.

Ji Mingxia heard her replies and naturally understood that Grandma Ji’s was being a tsundere and laughed happily.

Grandma Ji looked at the giggling Ji Mingxia, and then at Yu Ning, who was still busy in the kitchen, and couldn’t resist saying, “Tell me in advance the next time you bring him back. It’s the first meeting but you didn’t even give some time to do some psychological preparations.”

Ji Mingxia hurriedly said, “I know, I know, I will definitely tell you in advance next time!”

“Next time you come back, come home openly and honestly, don’t sneak around. It’s your own home, what’s there to hide?” Grandma Ji added.

“Okay, okay, we will come back openly and honestly next time!” Ji Mingxia said.

Grandma Ji was silent for a while and then said slowly, “Now that we’ve met everyone, and the villagers have greeted him, bring him during the winter holidays if he has no relatives and no place he wants to go. We can celebrate the New Year together.”

“Huh?” Ji Mingxia was stunned, not expecting the topic to jump to winter holidays all of a sudden.

As soon as Grandma Ji saw his expression, she glared at Ji Mingxia: “What, you’re not going to bring him back for New Year’s and let him spend it alone at school?”

“No no no …… I just ……” Ji Mingxia stumbled over his words. “Grandma, you know about Yu Ning’s situation? “

Grandma Ji snorted, “Well, I found out from watching the news this morning.”

Because Yu Ning’s affairs were festering on the internet, Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning tried not to go online for the past two days to avoid being affected by public opinion.

He was prepared for this to be reported, but he didn’t expect Grandma Ji to end up seeing this.

After understanding this, Ji Mingxia also figured out why Grandma Ji had suddenly changed her mind and brought Yu Ning to meet the relatives.

Not only was she accepting Yu Ning, but she was also doing justice to Yu Ning’s name.

He brought Yu Ning home, while Grandma Ji showed Yu Ning with her actions that this would be his home from now on.

His grandmother was not good with words and did not like to express her emotions in a cheesy way, but it did not matter, Ji Mingxia had always been superb at reading signals.

Thinking of this, Ji Mingxia couldn’t help hugging Grandma Ji happily and said, “I told Yu Ning that my family is his family, so I brought him back. Thank you Grandma for being willing to accept him as well, I will definitely bring him back during the New Year holiday.”

Ji Mingxia said, then patted his chest and assured her.

Grandma Ji looked at his silly look and snorted, not saying another word.

The amount of food for the three of them was not large. After washing the dishes, Ji Mingxia wiped his hands and was about to turn on the TV to see what the news had to say about Yu Ning when Grandma Ji snatched the remote control.

Ji Mingxia turned his head and looked at Grandma Ji in astonishment.

Grandma Ji put the remote control into the drawer so that Ji Mingxia couldn’t get it and said, “Prepare for dinner, what do you want on TV.”

“I just want to watch the news.” Ji Mingxia said.

“There’s nothing to watch.” Grandma Ji rarely controlled Ji Mingxia that strongly but she persisted. “Let’s go.”

When it came to the news, Ji Mingxia didn’t find them indispensable. He did not take it seriously and followed her back to the kitchen.

The New Year’s Day holiday at the university was a total of three days.

But because of Yu Ning’s special situation, the school gave him and Ji Mingxia a few more days off, so that they could come back to school after things had calmed down.

Anyway, Ji Mingxia’s grades were fine, and his attendance record was excellent, not to mention Yu Ning, who was above average. A few more days off will not affect their studies, as long as the two can go back in time for exams.

There were few people in Banana Leaf Village, and there were no entertainment facilities. The villagers went to work at sunrise and rested at sunset. Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning spent their days with Grandma Ji in peace and quiet, even playing with their mobile phones less. In a blink of an eye, three days had passed.

It was not until the fourth day when Ji Mingxia began to check for tickets to return to school when the news feed popped up on his phone, telling the news of the hotel accident.

Ji Mingxia originally wanted to just quit like he always did, until he saw the word GOJ.

It felt a bit familiar, but he couldn’t remember where he had heard it before ……

Ji Mingxia was pondering, when Yu Ning finished washing the fruit and sat down beside him. He thought for a moment and said to Ji Mingxia, “Mingxia, do you ever feel that Grandma Ji is hiding something from us?”

Ji Mingxia’s attention was instantly drawn to Yu Ning’s words, he raised his head to look at Yu Ning and asked in confusion, “Is there? I don’t feel it, what is she hiding from us?”

Yu Ning wanted to say something but stopped.

In his opinion, there were too many suspicious clues ……

Not to mention the words she said on the first day they met.

It could be said that Ji Mingxia wasn’t paying attention. The initial conversation he had with her could be described as a chicken-and-duck conversation.

Yu Ning’s gaze unconsciously fell on Ji Mingxia’s mobile phone screen.

Upon seeing the striking word GOJ on the screen, Yu Ning frowned slightly.

“Maybe I’m overthinking it.” Yu Ning whispered.

Ji Mingxia looked at him blankly, completely confused as to what was happening.

After Yu Ning’s interruption, Ji Mingxia lost interest in the news on his phone, and when he looked down again, he didn’t bother to think about why the words felt familiar, and just continued swiping.

It wasn’t until dinner time that he saw Grandma Ji again.

Perhaps because of Yu Ning’s hint, it made Ji Mingxia pay a lot of attention to Grandma Ji and he quickly noticed that Grandma Ji was indeed acting odd compared to her usual ways.

Grandma Ji was an elderly person who did not play with mobile phones or computers, and what she liked most was to watch television and listen to the radio.

However, when Ji Mingxia thought back, the number of times she had watched TV during his trip back was minimal.

In fact, he hadn’t seen the TV remote ever since she put it in the drawer that day.

Thinking of this, Ji Mingxia was just about to ask Grandma Ji about it, when she took the lead and spoke up.

“Mingxia, tomorrow you and Yu Ning can make a trip to the county.” Grandma Ji said, “Ke Chengxuan …… might not make it.”

Ji Mingxia was stunned, “Ke …… Ke Chengxuan?”

‘Who was that?’

The name sounded a bit familiar, but it shouldn’t be within Ji Mingxia’s range of recognition.

“There was an accident at the hotel he was staying at, and no one has been rescued until now. Although the one surnamed Ke might not be a good person…… it would be best if he survived. But in case he dies, send him off and that will be the end to it.” Grandma Ji said.

Ji Mingxia’s eyes widened.

He remembered who Ke Chengxuan was, wasn’t he the star those girls he met the other day idolized.

But the question was …… surnamed Ke…Ke Chengxuan?

This person couldn’t be …… the original Ji Mingxia’s ex-boyfriend, the official CP he was supposed to have a happy ending with, right?!

Thinking of this, Ji Mingxia sucked in a cold breath and reflexively turned his head, looking at Yu Ning in disbelief and apprehension.

Grandma Ji saw Ji Mingxia’s expression and she was also shocked.

She looked at Yu Ning and then at Ji Mingxia, and said seriously, “Ji Mingxia, don’t tell me you hid this from Yu Ning and had never mentioned it to him!”

Ji Mingxia: “……”

He was wronged! He only just found out the connection, he didn’t have what to say even if he wanted to!!!