Quick Transmigration: Saving The Crazy Villainess

Chapter 264: Selena Tang (13)

Tang Jingyi stood up and welcomed her with wide arms, attempting to hug her. "I'm glad you're back in the country now! Cousin!"

Side-stepping to dodge him, the woman sported an expression of disgust.

Jiang Li did not see her face back then but from where he was he heard her say, "Stop, Tang Jingyi. I'll be brief. Although it pains me and disgusts me to see your face, it's good that I can pass auntie's message to you. Go home and stop embarrassing our family. You have three days. If you fail, your father warned through her that he will find you himself, break your legs, and disown you."

'Oh, savage,' thought the eavesdropper.

Faced with the woman's sarcastic but cold face, Tang Jingyi did not erase his smile. Perhaps, in his heart, he was already expecting the woman's words. He calmly retracted his hands and put them down by his side. He was still beaming as he nodded half-heartedly. "Alright. By the way, since we're already here, would you like to join me here?"

"Join you for lunch?" Looking at the half-eaten dishes opposite her cousin's, she coldly said, "I can see that there's already some food before yours. It seems you're already with someone else. I don't plan to intrude. Unless your dinner partner is already gone? But then, are you going to offer me the leftover?"

Tang Jingyi's face briefly contorted before his smile turned stiff. He laughed awkwardly after, "Cousin, for that last part, you're still full of humor."

'How the hell did she think of that? Is she purposely embarrassing me?' 

"I don't need you to tell me the obvious. I'm leaving." 

Giving no heed to what he was feeling, she emotionlessly glanced at this cousin of hers for a second before turning around. The plan was to leave right away and not entangle with the runaway son of her uncle.

However, the plan couldn't be realized. Who would have thought that a man would suddenly appear behind her? Somebody not her assistant, and with a glass of wine in his hand?

This spelled trouble!

"Oh!" The woman's ice-cold expression broke when her body collided with somebody else.

Splashes of water or something liquid echoed a moment after. Due to the collision, she lost balance and her back made contact with the edge of the table.

"Miss!"

"Cousin!"

When her eyes involuntarily looked back, she saw that if she continued this way, she would fall onto the table and her back and perhaps, her face and hair would smash on the dishes atop it!

'Oh no!'

'Damn idiot with no eyes!'

In anger, the cold woman cursed in her heart. She closed her eyes, her mind already picturing the disastrous scene. It was so infuriating that she vowed to make the life of the person who caused this hard. All of people, he could victimize with his idiocy, why her?

Jiang Li, who didn't know what ran in the woman's mind, extended his free hand and pulled her up by the waist. Panic could be seen from his face for a while. He didn't want any real mishaps to happen to her.

He ignored the sticky feeling around his chest due to the spilled wine. Yet when he pulled her up, and even when he purposely caused the collision, he made sure her dress or any part of her would be stained by the wine.

Yup, he ran into her on purpose. Because what else could allow him to be as close as possible to her and at the same time leave a lasting impression than a clich scenario like this?

But no matter his goals, her meeting harm and disaster was not part of it. 

"Are you okay, Miss?" he asked with concern.

The girl opened her eyes and stared blankly at him before examining her condition. For a brief while, relief crossed her face. However, the frost that was originally in it returned.

Her cold eyes were affixed on him when she steadied her gait and said, "Release me."

'May I not?' His mind answered subconsciously.

'Do you know hard it is to find you?'

'And how come you did not look enthralled by my face for even a while whilst this up close?' He grumbled the last one after remembering that most female characters on TV would react like that in situations. 

While he had some complaints in mind, he couldn't violate his character setting and thus albeit reluctant within, he showed a polite smile and then did as she said.  

In front of them, separated by the round table was Tang Jingyi, who then spoke to him, "Mr. Jiang! You're back."

Jiang Li smiled at him and said, "Sorry, I took long. I received a call from a collab partner."

The explanation was nothing but an excuse. The man just now was planning to make the agent wait indefinitely there for somebody not returning. Only, the appearance of the mystery woman made him change his mind and go back.

Yeah, without discerning how close and related these two were, how could he be impolite to a future cousin-in-law?

The shameless man's reply earned a nod from Tang Jingyi. "I see. It's okay."

The latter then joined the assistant in asking if the girl was alright. Jiang Li found the woman glaring coldly at him, making him cough awkwardly.

"Miss?" he asked, making his act of looking down to the wet and stained part of his clothes as natural as possible.

"Shouldn't you apologize, sir?" It was the assistant who said that.

"What?" He sounded bewildered.

Jiang Li blinked in confusion and exchanged glances with the agent who looked nervously at them. After a couple of moments, he moved his gaze back to the girl and saw that she was staring the same at him.

"Sir, I'm waiting." After a minute-long staring contest, the woman said.

Jiang Li played innocent. "I admit I have some fault in the matter. However, isn't the bigger fault with you, miss? I didn't know you would suddenly turn around. On my part, I was simply returning to my seat."

The temperature in the room seemingly lowered when the woman's gaze darkened. Selena almost scowled. The man was simply insinuating it was her fault? That she was the stupid one?

Hah, that wouldn't sit well with her.

"How would I know you would also suddenly bump into from behind? Huh?" Coldly and full of thorns, she 'reasoned' out. Her voice and tone especially sounded low.

She quickly added after making a face as if she suddenly grasped something, "So is it that you don't have eyes? And you expect me to have a pair on my back so I'll know an idiot like you will run into me?"

"..." The one called an idiot was speechless.

A moment later, she crossed her arm and looked up at him condescendingly, "Come on. Throw at me your next excuse."