Jingxia Rose

Chapter 24: It's Now 30 Points
Ruan Zheng's studio has issued a statement about this matter, and it even trended on social media a couple of days ago.

However, Ji Xian rarely uses his phone after returning home and hasn't been on Weibo, so he didn't know that Ruan Zheng's discharge from the hospital yesterday had been photographed and made it to the trending topics.

However, the studio has not revealed who was behind it, and people online are speculating.

Upon entering, Aunt Zhao greeted us with a smile. After exchanging a few pleasantries since we hadn't seen each other for several days, she went back to the kitchen to serve the dishes.

Ji Xian was starving, so she didn't rush to wash up. She just washed her hands in the kitchen and sat down to eat with Wen Qi.

I felt much more at ease after eating a few mouthfuls of rice; otherwise, I always felt lightheaded, as if my feet weren't touching the ground, and I felt very uneasy.

Wen Qi picked up an empty bowl and ladled out a bowl of fish soup for her. The soup was milky white, with no seasonings, but it smelled very fresh.

Ji Xian took it and then asked who had tampered with the wire.

Wen Qi said a name, "Huang Yuying."

The name sounds familiar.

She sipped her fish soup, pondering for a moment, when suddenly a round, cheerful face flashed into her mind, her eyes filled with astonishment and surprise. "It's her?"

Huang Yuying is a member of Ruan Zheng's personal dance troupe and currently serves as its captain.

The reason I remembered her was that when we went backstage at the theater that day, Ruan Zheng specifically introduced her to them, saying that she was exceptionally talented and ambitious.

Ji Xian also had a good impression of her. He thought that although the girl was not particularly stunning or beautiful, she was very pleasant to look at and had regular and delicate features.

I never imagined she would do something like this.

The wire was over three meters high, which wasn't too high, but the consequences of falling from there were clear to any child, let alone a dancer.

Therefore, it is true that you can't see into someone's heart; you can know a person's face but not their heart.

Ji Xuan still couldn't understand, and finally couldn't suppress her curiosity and asked, "Why did she do that?"

"Jealousy, hatred."

Wen Qi uttered two words casually, though he himself hadn't quite grasped the seemingly absurd reason.

“Two months ago, at the Saina International Dance Competition, she was eliminated because she noticed a mistake and only scored 3 points. If she had scored one more point, Huang Yuying’s score would have been just enough to qualify for the finals.”

Ji Xian suddenly realized.

Because of Ruan Zheng's fairness, she did not cover up Huang Yuying's mistakes just because Huang Yuying was from her own studio, and therefore gave her the appropriate score.

However, Huang Yuying felt that Ruan Zheng was deliberately suppressing her, wanting to live in her shadow forever and be her dance partner forever. She also felt that Ruan Zheng was afraid that she would overshadow her.

Ruan Zheng's subsequent corrections and opinions were seen by Ruan Zheng as a form of showing off.

Therefore, this kind of thing cannot be explained in detail.

Once a person's heart goes astray, countless crossroads await her in life.

But she deliberately left the most correct path in the most inconspicuous corner.

By ruining someone else's future, you also ruin your own.

Not cost-effective.

His heart can be killed.

Huang Yuying was arrested the afternoon before Ruan Zheng's studio issued a statement, and she will eventually be formally charged by the prosecution with 'intentional injury'.

Imprisonment is unavoidable.

After hearing this, Ji Xian felt sorry for Ruan Zheng. She had just gotten divorced and then fractured her leg, with a 90% chance that she would never be able to dance again, especially since it happened on her birthday. Now, she had been betrayed by the person she trusted most and who had helped her grow up.

Such a heavy blow—without a strong heart, how could one withstand it?

Moreover, she asked people not to reveal who did it at this time because she was afraid that Huang Yuying and her family would be cyberbullied.

"How is Sister Ruan Zheng?" Wen Qi shook his head. "She seemed better last week, but her mood has returned to what it was before these past two days."

"Then I'll go see her after work tomorrow."

"Ah."

Wen Qi glanced at her a few times, and seeing that her soup bowl was empty, he silently picked it up and filled it with another small portion.

Ji Xian picked it up and drank it.

Having shed all her fatigue, Ji Xuan slept soundly tonight.

Wen Qi was the same. Ever since he took her to the team building meeting point that day, he had been suffering from insomnia for the next few nights and didn't sleep well. Even after he went to Minghai and then returned to Beijing, his sleep quality was still very poor.

I often go to bed late, wake up early, and have light sleep, so I can't fall back asleep.

But tonight, holding Ji Xian, he slept exceptionally well without even realizing it, only feeling that he had been too tired in the past few days.

The next morning, Ji Xuan and Wen Qi went to the company after breakfast, just like they always do.

During the few days she was away, not much was left undone, but it made the people in the president's office realize Ji Xuan's importance.

Because there are fewer people, they have to follow up on many things themselves and also share Ji Xian's share.

In particular, President Wen's complexion has been rather poor these past few days, which has made the atmosphere in the entire president's office somewhat oppressive and gloomy. Even Cui Min wished she could magnify her eyes 120 times, because she absolutely could not make a mistake.

So when they finally saw this morning that Wen Qi wasn't alone, but had someone they had been longing for by his side, they almost cried tears of joy.

But because Wen Qi was there, they could only force themselves to nod and say, "Good morning, Mr. Wen."

Wen Qi nodded in response and walked straight to his office.

Ji Xuan then returned to his workstation.

Half an hour later, Ye Xueyan came over with a cup of late summer rose coffee, along with a takeout order.

Ye Xueyan casually tore it off and threw it into the trash can. She glanced at the office door, where even the glass blinds were drawn, and then hugged Ji Xuan with confidence, whispering, "You're finally back. If you hadn't come back, everyone in the office would have suffocated, and you would have just been collecting our corpses."

Ji Xuan chuckled helplessly, giving her a sideways glance. "What nonsense are you spouting so early in the morning? Don't you think it's unlucky? What's wrong? Did something happen?"

"It's nothing..."

Ye Xueyan sighed and recounted the atmosphere in the office and Wen Qi's mood over the past few days.

Ji Xian felt quite conflicted after hearing this.

He was in a bad mood and looked pale, probably because of Ruan Zheng.

The small patch of sunshine that remained in my heart has now turned into a dark cloud.

Shi Wan is right.

She had always been concerned about his relationship with Ruan Zheng.

It wasn't their past relationship, which lasted less than three months, that mattered; it was Wen Qi's deep affection for Ruan Zheng.

Over the years, he has never moved Ruan Zheng out of his heart even a little bit.

The score sheet, which already had 40 points, was then severely reduced to 30 points.

"I noticed that Mr. Wen looks better now that you've come today."

Ji Xian chuckled lightly, unconcerned, but didn't take it seriously.

She took a sip of coffee. The coffee was strong, accompanied by the fragrance of roses. It tasted sweet with little bitterness and was quite refreshing.

As Ye Xueyan was about to leave, she suddenly remembered and said, "Oh, right, Qin Luoxi, the third young lady of the Qin family, came to the company yesterday morning. It seems she wanted to join the company and work in our president's office."

(End of this chapter)