Chapter 1056: The Grand Villa (1)
After Ruan Jiaojiao and the others boarded the train, Duan Qianyang didn’t rush to leave. He waited until the train started to confirm that the old Duan patriarch wouldn’t stir up trouble, and only then did he leave.
The old Duan patriarch had arrived with grandeur, but his departure was nothing short of humiliating.
The father and son exchanged a few words in the car, and by the time they returned to the Duan Family, the old Duan patriarch stepped out of the car with a gloomy expression and fell seriously ill that same night... He was bedridden for months without recovering...
Meanwhile, on the train, Ruan Jiaojiao was deeply shaken by the fright she experienced and came down with a high fever that night. There was no antipyretic medicine on board, which left the Ruan Family in a panicked state. Ruanlin’s mouth developed a blister from worry, but fortunately, during a stop at a midway station, Ruan Jianguo managed to purchase fever medicine.
However, Ruan Jiaojiao’s fever was triggered by shock, so even with medicine, her condition didn’t improve much. She remained feverish throughout the journey, never completely recovering. At her worst, she was groggy and barely lucid at all.
This illness caused her to completely forget about the anonymous letters.
With her condition so severe, Xiu Xi and Shu Jiao had no room to think about anything else, and thus the two letters were left forgotten. Even by the time they reached Changling, they hadn’t recalled them.
Ruan Jiaojiao’s illness, which began on the train, persisted even after returning to Xiahe Village. It took nearly a full week before she started to recover slightly.
Throughout this time, the cold and intense aura surrounding Xiu Xi never dissipated.
By the time Ruan Jiaojiao fully recovered, school had already started. It was only then that she remembered the letters, but sending them from Xiahe Village would make tracing their source too easy. In the end, the two letters were destroyed and never mailed.
On her first day back at school, Ruan Jiaojiao received Xiu Xi’s belated New Year gift.
