Reborn with a Cell Phone 2007

Gao Mandong washed her face with cold water in the bathroom and patted her still red and hot face. She still felt like she was walking on cotton. She took a long breath, looked at herself in the mirror, and pulled her short hair that she had just cut last night: "He likes me. He actually really likes me."

Gao Mandong's heart seemed to be boiling and about to overflow. If... if there really was an if, could she get rid of her mother and live a normal life in a normal family?

Xu Jinhuan leaned against the door frame, took out a few tissues and handed them to her: "Your hair is all wet, wipe it quickly."

Gao Mandong took the tissue from her hand, and sighed in his heart, even the tissue was thick and soft, and would not tear even when wet.

It’s great to be born in a wealthy and loving family.

Xu Jin laughed helplessly: "What are you going to do next? Have a premature love affair with him?"

"What nonsense are you talking about?"

"Tsk, you sound so delicate when you talk." Xu Jinhuan teased, "Alas, when a girl grows up, she can't be kept."

"Stop talking. I don't know what to do." Gao Mandong covered his face.

Xu Jinhuan said slowly: "Be careful, he has a way out but you don't. At our age, it's really not suitable for us to talk about love. Without the ability to take responsibility, the flowers that bloom early will surely wither early."

Xu Jinhuan said one thing wrong. Gao Mandong not only had no way out in this matter, she had never had any way out.

She always walked on a steel wire rope over a cliff thousands of feet high, and she could fall with any step.

No one would stand behind her.

Gao Mandong regained his composure, walked out of the bathroom, and pretended nothing had happened as he mingled with Zhou Hui and the others.

Xu Jinhuan was still reading the Complete Collection of Chinese Patterns. Seeing her serious reading, her grandmother said with a smile, "It's amazing that you actually like reading this."

"Very interesting." Xu Jin laughed happily, "Each pattern has a unique meaning."

"It would be better if this book was in color. Black and white rubbings always lack flavor when reading them."

Xu Jinhuan's mother Haiyun collects patterned fabrics, including traditional Yunnan tie-dyed fabrics. Xu Jinhuan was influenced a lot by her and started chatting with his grandmother about the patterns of traditional ethnic costumes from all over the country.

Dinner was ready soon. Grandpa knocked on Ji Shumiao's door and softened his voice to coax her, "Miaomiao, come out for dinner, or do you want to eat in your room?"

Ji Shumiao opened the door and came out. Her previously complicated and beautiful braids were loosened, and her hair was braided into a loose side braid with a hair rope decorated with golden lilies tied at the end. The short hair on both sides of her cheeks was fixed with a lace headband.

Long hair is very numb. If you sleep with it loose it will weigh it down and get tangled, so you have to braid it when you sleep.

Grandma: "Our Miaomiao can now braid such beautiful pigtails. She is really capable."

Ji Shumiao tilted her head to look at her knotted pigtails and suspected that even if she farted, her grandmother would praise her for her loud fart.

There were home-cooked fried rice cakes and tomato rice cake soup on the table. After grandpa gave a few words of advice, everyone started eating.

Qin Yun passed the two dishes with rice cakes in front of the two girls and greeted them warmly, "Try the fried rice cakes and rice cake soup."

Xu Jinhuan and Gao Mandong tasted it and both said it was delicious.

Gao Mandong said attentively: "The food Auntie cooks is so delicious. Ji Shulang is so lucky to be able to eat it every day. If I could eat the food Auntie cooks every day, I don't know how lively and cheerful I would be."

Qin Yun smiled and said, "If you like it, come often and Auntie will make it for you."

Ji Shumiao lost his appetite instantly and poked the chicken wing in the bowl with his chopsticks.

Gao Mandong was still there, jumping back and forth between sweet talk and flattery, praising Qin Yun's good cooking skills from the delicious food, praising Qin Yun's good taste from the ornaments on the shoe cabinet to the green plants on the balcony...

Xu Jinhuan gently touched her feet under the table, lowered his head and reminded her in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "You've praised me too much."

Gao Mandong finally stopped smiling, his smile seemed forced and awkward. Qin Yun also awkwardly said a few words of comfort.

There was half a bowl of sea cucumber and millet porridge in front of Ji Shumiao. Grandma coaxed her to drink it with sweet words. Even though Ji Shumiao had no appetite, she picked up the spoon and drank it in small sips.

Grandpa picked up some food for her and said, "You have to eat a full dinner. Don't sneak out with your brother to eat barbecue again. The food outside is not clean. If you want to eat, grandpa will make it for you."

Ji Shulang couldn't help but complain: "What do you mean by 'follow me'? She's the one who goes out to eat every time."

Grandpa didn't think twice: "It must be you who instigated it."

"Oh, yes, yes, your granddaughter is your biological daughter. I gave her to you as a gift when you topped up your phone bill." Ji Shulang gave up.

Ji Shumiao narrowed his eyes and stuck out his tongue at him, looking like a mean villain who had succeeded.

Grandma: "I didn't have time to visit your mother and sister today. How are they?"

Ji Shumiao replied: "Everything is fine. Tongtong is so worry-free and can eat and sleep well."

"That's good." Grandma was very happy and planned to make a few skirts for Qin Rong to wear after she finished her confinement.

Ji Shumiao finished the food in her bowl and said she was full. Grandma wanted to persuade her again, but Qin Yun said, "Just let Miaomiao do it. I'll make it for her if she's hungry tonight."

Ji Shumiao took out his precious folding fan and sat cross-legged on the swing chair on the balcony to look at the clothing company's business plan.

It’s good that the business is on the right track now. She doesn’t have to write by hand anymore, and she finally has a large number of talented people under her.

After the others finished their dinner, they were served fruit. Ji Shumiao also got a fruit bowl, which was filled with her favorite fruits. Xie Cuilan also put some chopped nuts and sugar-free yogurt in it for her.

"Thank you, Sister Cui Lan~" Ji Shumiao thanked her in a coquettish voice.

"You're welcome. Eat quickly." Xie Cuilan rubbed her head before leaving.

Ji Shumiao was eating a bowl of fruit when he heard footsteps behind him: "I want a tissue~"

Turning around and realizing that the person coming was Gao Mandong, Ji Shumiao's face immediately fell. He looked away from her face and looked at the project plan in his hand.

Gao Mandong, who was treated coldly, still gave her a tissue, but threw it on her head.

"Why are you so arrogant?" Gao Mandong stared down at her, his eyes full of suppressed jealousy. "You are just a poor relative who lives here temporarily. Even your parents don't want you because they have a sister. How dare you act like a tyrant just because they like you? It's not enough to bully your classmates at school, you also bully Shulang at home. How dare you?"

Ji Shumiao was so angry that he laughed, and threw the tissue in her face: "Pacific policeman, you don't think that what you imagined is the truth, do you? Even if it is, who do you think you are? Are you here to uphold justice? You really take yourself seriously."

After Ji Shumiao finished speaking, he covered his face and burst into tears. Gao Mandong felt his scalp tingling and he subconsciously took a step back.

"What's wrong? What's wrong?" Grandma came running over following the sound, and the others gathered around too.

Ji Shumiao cried even louder, feeling so aggrieved that she called for her grandma and threw herself into her arms, but in fact there was not a single tear on her face.

"This sister scolded me for being a poor beggar and told me to get out." Ji Shumiao said with sobs, his acting skills were as bad as they could be.

Gao Mandong hurriedly explained: "I didn't! I..."

Ji Shumiao interrupted her spell with a howl: "I don't want to live here anymore, I want to go home——"

I'm going back downstairs--

Ji Shumiao lay in her grandma's arms, opened her eyes and blinked at Gao Mandong.

"She's just faking it!"

Gao Mandong pointed at her and said loudly. She turned to look at everyone's expressions and reactions, but saw Qin Yun with a gloomy face, saying: "It is not the turn of outsiders to interfere in our family affairs. Gao, I think our family can no longer welcome you as a guest."

Gao Mandong felt as if she had fallen into an icy cave. She didn't understand why this had happened. She opened her mouth, but no sound came out.

The numb, stiff, and sweaty hand was held. Xu Jinhuan stood beside her, humbly and politely: "I think there must be some misunderstanding, but sister Ji Shumiao is in a bad mood, and it is not the right time to reason. We will take our leave first and come to apologize another day. Thank you for your hospitality today."

After Xu Jinhuan finished speaking, he bowed slightly and pulled Gao Mandong's hand. Gao Mandong then reacted and, maintaining the most basic decency, said goodbye to them with a trembling voice.

Zhou Hui and Luo Yixuan also said goodbye and went home. Ji Shumiao sniffed, sat up straight and looked at Ji Shulang.

Grandma, Grandpa, and Qin Yun also looked at him. Ji Shulang felt a chill down his spine as he was threatened by the four people's gazes. "What...what happened?"

Qin Yun pointed at the door and asked in a deep voice: "Do you like that kind of troublemaker? If you dare to marry such a person in the future, you get out of here!"

"Who?" Ji Shulang realized belatedly, "You mean Gao Mandong? Who likes her?"

Grandma: "Didn't you say you liked the one with short hair?"

"Yes, Xu Jinhuan has short hair." Ji Shulang was speechless, "Gao Mandong has a ponytail, how could you misunderstand?"

How could he notice that Gao Mandong changed his hairstyle, just like he wouldn't notice whether Zhou Hui was wearing jeans or sweatpants today.

As soon as he finished speaking, Ji Shumiao punched him in the abdomen. Ji Shulang bent over like a shrimp in pain. Just when he was about to find someone to take charge of the matter, he was struck by a bolt from the blue.

"You deserve it! You deserve to be beaten!" Grandma's eyes looked as if she wanted to skin him alive.

Even the grandmother who was always loving and doting said so. Others looked at him as if they wanted to peel off his skin. Qin Yun was eager to make a move and looked around, obviously looking for something that would suit his needs.

Grandpa held Ji Shumiao's hand and rubbed it with concern: "Your brother has thick skin, strong bones and hard bones. Did he hurt our good boy's hand?"

"No~" Ji Shumiao said in a pinched voice, then turned to Ji Shulang and said fiercely: "Ji Shulang, you are doing evil."

Qin Yun was so angry that his blood pressure rose: "I'll beat you up when your dad comes back!"

"Why?!" Ji Shulang still didn't understand.

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Gao Mandong left the Ji family in a daze and was dragged forward by Xu Jinhuan. When they reached the bus stop, he finally came to his senses: "She was pretending. She was just pretending to cry."

Xu Jinhuan said helplessly: "I know, of course I know, everyone can see that she is pretending and deliberately making things difficult for you, but they are her family, they stand by her side unconditionally."

Those who are loved are always fearless. All they need to know is that Ji Shumiao doesn't like her.

Gao Mandong suddenly realized and was instantly overwhelmed by fear: "Then...what should we do now?"

Will Ji Shulang no longer like her?