An Angelic B*tch's Climb Up the Social Ladder - Chapter 23

Chap 23- Jiang Ting Takes Initiative & Mistress

Marriott hotel staff dormitory building.

When Zhinan returned from the lectures at the National University of China, it was already seven o’clock in the evening, and the moonlight paved the way along the colorful night scene.

The two roommates who had worked the morning shift had also come back. After seeing her pushing the door and entering, the sounds of their laughter had mostly disappeared.

Zhinan didn’t care, since the night Tang Ziyu came to the hotel, these people and she could no longer maintain even common courtesy.

They were obviously jealous, but they erected a moral model behind her back to criticize her.

If you are really capable, you guys will try your best to climb up, Zhinan is speechless, what’s the point of being angry with me.

She sat on a stool to organize the books, but the mess of her things on the table made her frown.

She woke up slightly later in the morning, and she was about to miss the nine o’clock financial introduction, so in a hurry, she had left the used skincare products on the table without locking them in the cabinet.

But I remember it wasn’t this messy.

She picked it up and noticed a large chunk of missing content in a big bottle. The opening of the bottle seemed as if it had been licked by a mouse, very disgusting.

Zhi Nan glanced back, perhaps her eyes were a bit fierce, for the eyes of the girl who collided with her gaze shrank briefly, and then glared back in an attempt to pretend to be composed.

“Why are you looking at me?” She sneered, “You’re sick.”
This is the thief shouting ‘catch the thief’? Zhi Nan suddenly felt bored to the core. (Meaningless)

She felt very tired of such scheming conflict over trivial matters, and she can’t wait to leave this place. Human beings are the most easily influenced animals, and she isn’t an exception.

afternoon, in MinDa’s social psychology class, Lin Zhinan was visibly shocked by the movie that was played.

The movie is about a female college student who was abducted and sold into the mountains.

For a year, she escaped frantically.

Three years later, she is trying to adapt.  

Ten years later, she was reporting the girls who were also trafficked into the mountains but wanted to escape secretly.

Every scene gave Zhinan goosebumps, she was creeped out as if she saw her own future.

— Once a Frog adapts to the warm water, then its death would inevitably be here. If she couldn’t jump out, it would mean being left behind for eternity.

She must not be the one left behind!

Jiang Ting, are you really unresponsive after all these days?

Perhaps it was anxiety, Zhinan’s nails were digging into the table.

She clearly saw the des*re in his eyes that night, pure black and filled with aggression, if she stayed at that time, she would be a mistress.

But what Zhinan wants isn’t merely that, a sug dad will not take their mistress seriously, let alone pay attention to her dreams. Corroding her with money is enough, nevertheless, even talk about her development or guiding her.

What she wants is Jiang Ting’s care.

Zhinan thought that she had perfectly used this move of ‘retreating in order to advance’, but as a week passed, her overflowing confidence had completely turned into smoke.

In her anxiousness and helplessness, a phone call rescued her.

She picked it up and saw that it was a capital area’s unfamiliar number, but the long line of consecutive numbers seemed to be a sign of some kind of indication.

Her heartbeat accelerated rapidly, and she got up and walked quickly into the bathroom, locking the door.

She waited several seconds before picking up, “ …Hello.”

“It’s me.” A deep, mellow tone travelled out from the phone’s receiver, it was as if beads were rubbing against Zhinan’s ear.
Jiang Ting lowered the car window, his dark eyes swept across the stories of lit and unlit windows of the building, and landed on a corner of the second floor.

“Come down! I’m downstairs, outside your dormitory. ”

The breathing on the other end of the phone suddenly hastened,
“How… Do you know my phone number?”

Jiang Ting didn’t answer and only repeated his words again.

“I… I’m not in the dormitory. ” She stuttered, “I’m at work… it’s busy today, you should leave first.”

This girl doesn’t even know how to make up a lie.

He laughed silently, but his tone was as usual, “Or should I go to your hotel to find you? ”

” No… you—”

“Come down. ” He interrupted her mid-sentence, then hung up after speaking.

*****

The light and shadow passed through the countless sycamore leaves, and dotted spots on the Porsche parked on the street in Chaoyang District.

Wang Xun had gotten out of the car and was waiting on the sidewalk. The car’s backseat where the two sat was filled with silence.

Jiang Ting leaned on the seat’s backrest, fingers against his lips, his eyes appeared to be looking out the window but also seeming to be in a trance.

The silhouette in the corner of his eye was shrunk in the other corner, no different from a hedgehog that’s throwing a temper.

He pressed on his temples— couldn’t help but feel a headache.

This past week has been a really busy one, especially the past two days. The acquisition case required repeated pushing over and redoing. It wasn’t until Wang Xun said that Riffett’s manager called and told him that the things he(JT) had dropped have been sent to the company, had Jiang Ting remembered that night. Following was the girl’s weak and tearful eyes, and her shivering sens*tive body, which trembled in his hands with a touch, blossoming…

He pulled out of his thoughts and turned to look at the ostrich next to him.

Feeling his line of sight, she shrunk again.

Jiang Ting found it funny and asked, “Is there nothing you want to say about that night? ”

These words immediately made the hedgehog abandon her shell and explode, even the night light could not hide the blush that suddenly gushed up
on her face.

She turned her head, meeting his gaze, and quickly avoided it.
“At that time… Were you drunk? ” She whispered, “You’re like that because of incoherence?”

This is to find a reason to excuse my behaviour, and then continue to hide in the tortoiseshell pretending nothing happened?

Jiang Ting didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, he wanted to break her illusion, but caught a glimpse of her fingers tangled together in nervousness her fingernails had paled.

He stopped for two seconds, the words were on the tip of his tongue but he didn’t continue. He played along, “Mm, I was drunk that night.

“And did something untimely. ”

Only when these words had been spouted did she realise how intimate they sounded. Her face had burned up, the redness spreading along her neck and to her ears as if blooming peach blossoms.

Jiang Ting paused for two seconds, feeling the temperature in the car rising higher.

“Then don’t do this anymore in the future. “Zhinan looked up at him, his eyes seemed to be filled with a bowl of clear water, like waves of water— shining brightly.
“I’m scared and don’t like it…”
“I have been here for three months and except for the friends I made in class and roommates, I barely know anyone. ”

The tip of her nose was slightly red, and her voice was a little choked, “You’ve given the most help and advice to me… I am really grateful… and even treat you as…”

She couldn’t word it, but miraculously, Jiang Ting understood the emotional dependence as if a little chick— regarded the first strong person she met after leaving the forest, as the object of admiration and goal that she’s striving towards. Chitchatting in his ears about her ideals of the world.

He didn’t speak for a few seconds.

“Don’t do this in the future, okay? ” She stared at him with eager eyes, as if waiting for a promise.

Jiang Ting watched her for a long while, his thoughts inexplicably returned to that night.

Where she cried so hard under him. Her begs for mercy were soft and thin and very much fuel to his fire.

No, even more than that night. Now, her eyes are filled with trust, full of gleaming waves that were very s*ductive.

A little deer that’s unknowing of the sinister and darkness in the world, actually showing her naivety to the hunter.

With no clue that she would have nowhere to escape if she were to be caught with just any trap.

In the night, a faint yellow light shone in slantly from the window of the car.

There were only pupils which had constricted inadvertently, and the darkness was completely concealed.

After a long silence.

He gave an “Mm” sound, but his facial expression was one of composure, “You can call me if you need anything. ”

*****

The last promise made Zhinan almost unable to hold back the curvature of the corner of her mouth. She forcefully held it back and stammered in reply to Jiang Ting in the car, before opening the car’s door and walking to the dormitory.

Walking along the corridor and up the stairs, the sound-activated lights dimmed and flickered, but it couldn’t hide the excitement in her eyes. The des*re she deliberately suppressed and buried, rejoiced with her in this quiet moment of the night.

With Jiang Ting now, from a mistress that could be easily attained, to a woman he had to suppress his d*sire for— She took a small step closer to his heart.

The road ahead is still long, but the deliberately dirtied skincare and mutual dislike of roommates can no longer affect her mood. Zhinan hummed softly under her breath.

Then her phone rang, it’s from Han Xing.
—— Inviting her to attend her birthday party on friday.

Where would Zhinan even find the guts to go? She can’t help but hide right now, but her several excuses were bounced back by Han Xing’s voice that was about to cry, saying that she hadn’t regarded her as a friend at all.

She had a headache. After repeatedly confirming that only schoolmates would be there, had she agreed.

The party was on Friday night, she would just go over and sit for a short while. It’s unlikely she’d meet Jiang Ting, but even if she did, he had known that she had been going to YU for class, and it would not be surprising that she knew Han Xing.

Zhinan’s heart calmed.

At that time, she had no idea that this party would be an unexpected change and even an easy path to Jiang Ting.

T/N: ABC will be taking a semi-hiatus, I’ll post chapter updates sporadically. Apologies for any inconvenience caused. Wishing you guys a great week ahead