Gu Ning's face changed a little, but not because of Mu Ke. She knew Mu Ke cared about her.
Thus Gu Ning asked him back for fun, "Do I look like I'm in a bad condition?"
Um.
Mu Ke was struck dumb. Gu Ning was absolutely fine and well. She seemed like nothing had happened at all. Or, she wouldn't have been able to knock down two grown-ups.
"That's great, and now you know what kind of a person he is. So…" Mu Ke intended to tell Gu Ning to give up any illusion on Qin Zheng, but he thought it wasn't his business after all.
"It'll never happen again. I've already given up on Qin Zheng." Gu Ning knew exactly what was on Mu Ke's mind. She didn't care at all.
"Great to hear that," Mu Ke felt relieved.
Mu Ke wasn't in love with Gu Ning actually. He just hated to see an innocent girl be bullied.
"It's late now. I have to go home," Gu Ning said.
"Sure, bye-bye," Mu Ke replied.
Since Gu Ning had made a lot of money today, so she took a taxi to go home.
Gu Ning wanted to buy a smartphone at first, but it was too late for that. She didn't want Gu Man to be worried, so she got home directly.
Indeed, Gu Man called her once when she was halfway, while it took Gu Ning another 20 minutes to be home.
The taxi line was shorter and faster than a bus, so Gu Ning had spent only 40 minutes on her way home.
A half less time than the bus.
When Gu Ning had arrived at her home, it was almost six pm. Gu Man had already prepared the dinner.
Gu Qing's family were here today too. They came to visit Gu Ning because she had just left the hospital.
Gu Ning's uncle named Jiang Xu, and her cousin called Jiang Xinyue.
"Ningning's home."
The minute Gu Ning walked in, Jiang Xu and Gu Qing welcomed her.
"Aunt, uncle and Xinyue, nice to meet you all," Gu Ning greeted them.
"Sister, nice to meet you too," Jiang Xinyue greeted Gu Ning. She was a shy girl.
Jiang Xinyue was 15 years old now. She was a third grade student in middle school, and a quiet girl of few words. Luckily, she wasn't as self-abased as the old Gu Ning. She was academic and had lots of friends.
Among the young generation in the Gu family, Jiang Xinyue only liked Gu Ning. For the rest, she had seen them through.
Jiang Xu was two years Gu Qing's senior, 45 years old, but looked older than his real age. He worked as a truck driver in a construction site. It was a labor work.
Jiang Xu earned thousands of yuan every month. With Gu Qing's salary, they lived a better life than Gu Ning and her mother.
However, the family of Gu Qing still lived on a tight budget. They were not able to buy a house, but lived in a rental one.
Though City F was a third-tier city, the house price wasn't low, especially in the downtown.
Even in the suburb, it cost at least hundreds of thousand yuan to buy a house for the whole family to live.
Jiang Xu's parents had passed away for a long time, so he didn't need to support his parents, but it was still very hard for him to save enough money because of expenditure on renting and tuition.
So it was a sky-high price for them.
As long as they had food to eat, clothes to wear, and their child could go to school, they felt happy.
Although the family of Gu Qing lived on a tight budget, they would help Gu Ning and Gu Man whenever they could.
When Gu Ning had been in hospital, the rest of the Gu family had ignored. Even when Gu Man had called them to borrow money, they all had rejected.
Only Gu Qing and Jiang Xu had visited Gu Ning. Moreover, they had given Gu Man all of their savings to help Gu Ning with the surgery.
Fortunately, Gu Ning had recovered at the end.
Gu Ning didn't want to tell Gu Man that she had earn a lot of money. She wanted to wait till she could afford a house.
And she surely would never forget the family of Gu Qing. She would also help them to live a good life when she became rich in the future.
Thinking of that, Gu Ning opened her mouth suddenly, "Mom, aunt, and uncle. I promise I'll let you live a good life when I become successful in the future."
Everyone was surprised by Gu Ning.
No matter if it was going to be true or not, they felt happy that Gu Ning cared about them.
And Gu Ning had just grown up, her future was still unpredictable.
"Great. We'll wait till the day come. Ningning, we believe you can be successful."
"Exactly, we all believe you."
Gu Qing and Jiang Xu was moved, and encouraged Gu Ning at the same time.
Gu Man then found out Gu Ning had changed. She was more outgoing now than before.
Because they really loved each other as family, they had a good time that day.
Lying on the bed before falling asleep, Gu Ning took out her notebooks to read.
Though Gu Ning was a good student in her previous incarnation, but not excellent enough. It was harder for Gu Ning in this incarnation to get into college. So, Gu Ning had to spend more time and energy on studying.
She opened her notebooks, reading them ten lines at one sight. The content had all deeply borne in her mind.
The Jade Eyes was really extraordinary.
…
The second day was Monday.
Gu Man had already call Gu Ning's head teacher for a few days leave due to her accident. Though Gu Ning was fine now, Gu Man still wanted her to stay at home.
But Gu Ning believed otherwise, she wanted to go the school.
Gu Man agreed at the end.
Gu Ning had encountered Shao Feifei yesterday. She didn't want her head teacher to know that she had recovered but wasn't willing to attend the classes.
Gu Ning didn't care about the difficulties. She just didn't want to get into any more trouble.
The first class was at 6:50 am. It took Gu Ning around 20 minutes to get to her school by bus. Normally, Gu Ning would get up at six o'clock in the morning.
Gu Man went to work at half past eight, because the factory wasn't far away. It took Gu Man half an hour on her way to work, so she left home at 7:40 am.
Thus, to let Gu Man have more sleep, Gu Ning never eat breakfast at home, but would have all her three meals at her school. She only went back home when the last class had been finished.
Gu Ning had a weekly allowance of one hundred yuan. It wasn't much, but for Gu Ning it was a lot.
When Gu Ning left her home, Gu Man gave her one hundred yuan.
Though Gu Ning had a lot of money now, she didn't want anyone to know that. She took the money from Gu Man as usual.
Gu Ning didn't take the bus, but ran to her school.
Because Gu Ning wasn't in good health, she needed to exercise. Gu Ning decided she would run to her school from now on, except on rainy days.
The No.3 High School of City F was a normal high school.
There were five high schools in City F. Only the No.1 High School was excellent, and the rest were all common.
Gu Ning had run for half an hour when she arrived at her school.
Gu Ning was weak indeed. Half an hour of running made her exhausted.
Gu Ning wanted to be strong, but she also knew it will take time to achieve her goal. So, she didn't want to push herself too hard. She wanted to accomplish it step by step.
Gu Ning had left her home earlier, so it was still 20 minutes before the first class. She decided to have her breakfast first.
She went to buy her breakfast, and finished on her way back.
"Gu Ning?"
The second Gu Ning walked into the teaching building, a male voice called her with uncertainty.
Gu Ning frowned tightly, because she knew who this familiar voice was. It was Qin Zheng.
She looked over. It was Qin Zheng indeed.
Qin Zheng was around 5'11'' tall in a white T-shirt and jeans. He was a very handsome athletic boy, and popular among the girls.
But what he had done to Gu Ning was so shameless.
"What?" Gu Ning stayed emotionless, like the boy was merely a stranger to her.
Actually it was the truth. Though she had all the memories of Gu Ning, she was Tang Aining after all. Except Gu Man and the family of Gu Qing, the rest were all strangers to Gu Ning.
Even those relatives in the Gu Family, she wouldn't care about them.
Qin Zheng was the cause why Gu Ning had died, but Gu Ning had been reborn now. She had no intention to take revenge on him.
If they wouldn't find her any trouble, she would let it go, but if they would, Gu Ning would fight back.
Seeing Gu Ning, Qin Zheng was greatly surprised. Hadn't she been caught by a car accident? Why she looked so good now?
Due to his astonishment, Qin Zheng didn't realize Gu Ning's attitude towards him had changed. He asked, "Are, are you alright?"
Though Qin Zheng didn't like Gu Ning, he felt guilty about her accident.
"And then?" Gu Ning asked back.
"What?" Qin Zheng didn't understand, "What do you mean?"
Gu Ning snorted with laughter. She looked at Qin Zheng like he was an idiot, "Qin Zheng, are you blind? Can't you see that I'm standing here right before your eyes? I'm fine! Leave me alone!"
"You…"
Qin Zheng was displeased at once, because he had been humiliated. However, he was more surprised by Gu Ning's change. She was so brave and straightforward now, which was totally different from the old self-abased quiet Gu Ning.
Was this because of the car accident? She had changed a lot.
Yes, the soul had been exchanged, and the personality had changed as well.
"What?" Gu Ning said calmly, like she hadn't shouted at him at all.
"Bravo!" a loud female voice sounded. "Those shameless people build their happiness on others' suffering, and they're even proud of that."
The girl was in a school uniform with long straight hair. She had very beautiful features with big round eyes, thick lips, and looked cute.
But her behavior was so different from her appearance. She swaggered over in abrasive manners.
It was 10 minutes away from the first class. There were many students walking inside. The girl's words attracted much attention.
Qin Zheng was well-known in their high school for his good looks, excellent performance and rich family.
But, all those were in others' eyes. Only his closest friends knew what he was really liked.
If he was a real good boy, he wouldn't have chased Gu Xiaoxiao on a condition of hurting another innocent girl.
However, the onlookers all stood on Qin Zheng's side. They didn't believe that what had happened between Qin Zheng and Gu Ning was immoral. They thought it was interesting instead.
Only Mu Ke had warned Gu Ning.
And no one else, except them, knew the truth about what had happened. Qin Zheng hadn't allowed Gu Ning to tell others, because it had been a game from the beginning to the end.
If anyone else knew Qin Zheng had a girlfriend like Gu Ning, who was poor, self-abased and bad at studying, he would be humiliated.
"Chu Peihan, you…"
Qin Zheng was annoyed while the crowd was confused.
He wanted to argue back, but had no idea how to.
He knew in his heart that he had done something bad.
On the other side, Gu Ning frowned a little when she heard the name "Chu Peihan". She knew the girl was famous in school.
But the girl wasn't famous for anything good. She was always late for classes, involved in fights and so forth. She had received countless warnings.
Normally, she would have been expelled, but she was so good at studying and always be the top 40.
Moreover, she was from a powerful family, so she wasn't afraid of being expelled at all.
"Gee, don't be mad so easily. I didn't call your name after all." Chu Peihan laughed at Qin Zheng.
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