Strike Back, Proud Goddess!

Chapter 177: A Phone Call

Translator: Henyee Editor: Henyee

Seeing the people in her ward, Tang Xi suddenly realized how naïve she had been, trying to keep what happened to her from her parents. Under Xiao Jing and Xiao Sa’s angry stare, Tang Xi quickly raised her hand and apologized, “I was wrong. I was wrong, but I didn’t know I was so fragile!”

Yang Jingxian looked at Tang Xi helplessly. In the end, she didn’t scold her but said softly, “I’ll call your head teacher and ask for a week’s leave...”

Tang Xi blinked. It seemed that this was the only choice. It was impossible for her to go to class after undergoing an operation.

Xiao Sa stood at the head of the bed and looked at Tang Xi with a gloating smile over his lips, saying, “Well, Sister, I’m afraid you’ll lose the bet if you keep being absent from school, won’t you? Then are you going to buy me a limited edition roadster?”

Tang Xi was speechless. He was literally gloating!

Tang Xi smiled at Xiao Sa and spoke through gritted teeth. “Sa, don’t worry. I’ll make you buy me a limited edition roadster!”

With that, she looked down at her body and sighed. Extreme joy begot sorrow, though she wasn’t extremely joyful but extremely angry! How unfair!

...

In the special designer’s office of the design department of Qiao’s International Group.

Qin Xinying continued to call Xiao Jinning, but couldn’t get through to the latter. She called once again before throwing the phone aside, frowning. What had happened to Xiao Jinning? Why was she always unavailable at the critical moment? Damn it!

On her side, Tang Xi was lying in bed and reading the latest real-time news with her cellphone. She hadn’t read any reports about the Xiao Family. This had to be because of Xiao Yan’s good PR, or else what had happened in the Xiao Family yesterday would have made good headlines for the major newspapers.

The Xiao Family was not only a powerful family in City A, but also the boss of Sheng Da Entertainment which had many stars, so whether it be business channels or entertainment channels, they all liked reporting the news about the Xiao Family. In particular, it was recently reported that Xiao Jinning wasn’t the Xiao Family’s daughter and even did terrible things to the Xiao Family, which was why all of the media paid close attention to the Xiao Family. Anything happening in the Xiao Family would make headlines in the major media.

Tang Xi read the real-time news for a while and then logged on to her microblog. As soon as she did so, someone sent a message to her via WeChat. Tang Xi logged out of her microblog and read the message; the editing of the TV commercial shot yesterday had been half-done and He Wanning sent it to her to let her see the effects.

Tang Xi sent He Wanning an OK emoji and He Wanning quickly replied, “Is your biological mother OK? Have you solved the problem?”

Tang Xi pursed her lips as she held her cellphone and tapped away on its screen. “It’s no big deal. I’ve nearly solved it. I’ll invite you to have a drink in ‘Romantic Night’ after I solve it.”

Tang Xi opened the video He Wanning sent and was immediately attracted by herself. In the video, she looked gorgeous despite wearing a silver half mask. In that mask, she looked so mysterious. Her hair was permed and looked puffy. She was like a fairy descended from heaven. In that flower fairy dress, she looked unearthly and stunningly beautiful. She gathered up her dress, her snow-white little feet exposed, and walked towards the hot spring step by step... then the video came to an abrupt end.

Tang Xi was stunned by the video. She thought that if she shot a TV commercial, she couldn’t act as naturally as professional stars, yet the little video that lasted just a few seconds had completely changed her view on herself.

It took Tang Xi quite a while to type several words in reply to He Wanning. “Congratulations, you’ve created a perfect flower fairy.”

Tang Xi had seldom praised people before—she wouldn’t praise anyone easily, especially when it came to work—but she was deeply impressed by He Wanning’s keen sense. Although she knew she was beautiful, she wouldn’t have known that she had such potential without He Wanning’s ingenious design.

On his side, He Wanning didn’t reply for quite a while. By the time he had replied to Tang Xi, she had gotten a call from a stranger. Tang Xi raised her eyebrows and picked up the phone. “Hello, Xiao Rou speaking.”

Chief Lan heard Tang Xi’s voice and immediately replied, “Miss Xiao, hello, I am Lan Zhentian. We met at the police station yesterday.”

Tang Xi raises her eyebrows. “Hello, Chief Lan. What can I do for you? Is there any new development in the case?”

Chief Lan answered, “We’ve applied for a warrant to arrest Lin Jiao. Besides that, I’d like to tell you something. Xiao Jinning’s cellphone kept ringing today. We checked her cellphone and found that the calls were made by a person named Qin Xinying. How do you think the cellphone should be dealt with?”

Tang Xi was stunned. Xinying? How did she get connected to Xiao Jinning?

Tang Xi pursed her lips and didn’t speak. Chief Lan went on, “I’m afraid that this lady called Qin Xinying might have a part in the intentional injury committed by Xiao Jinning, so I’d like to ask you how to deal with Xiao Jinning’s cellphone.”

Had a part... Tang Xi’s heart jerked sharply and she held the phone more tightly. Xinying had a part in it? How could this be... Although Xinying liked Qiao Liang, she had merely tried to separate her and Qiao Liang... and sowed discord between them...

But now she was Tang Xi, not Xiao Rou... So would Xinying hurt a stranger to get Qiao Liang?

This was possible...

“Chief Lan, I seem to have heard of Qin Xinying. Well, could you give me Xiao Jinning’s cellphone?” According to the regulation, they couldn’t give her the cellphone.

Chief Lan agreed without any hesitation. “Sure, I’ll have someone send it to you.”

Tang Xi thanked him before hanging up and throwing the phone aside.

To be honest, when she saw Qin Xinying in Qiao Liang’s company, she had suddenly realized that all the misunderstandings between her and Qiao Liang might have been caused by Qin Xinying. Therefore, she was very angry and quarreled with her, and even played lovey-dovey with Qiao Liang in front of her...

However, she didn’t expect for that to anger Xinying and even lead to her cooperating with Xiao Jinning to persecute her.

When Qiao Liang came to her ward again, Tang Xi was sitting on the bed, staring ahead blankly. He frowned and went up to her, asking, “What’s wrong?”

Tang Xi smiled at Qiao Liang and replied with a question of her own. “Ah Liang, how do you think of Xinying?”