Even After My Death
Chapter 243 - 163 Jiang Ning, You’re on Fire!

Chapter 243: Chapter 163 Jiang Ning, You’re on Fire!

Jiang Ning, holding her own luggage and the bag handed to her by Qi Chen, returned to her home, which she hadn’t seen for nearly half a month.

Before opening the door, Jiang Ning glanced at the tightly closed stainless steel door of the neighboring apartment.

She wondered how Qin Taoran was doing?

She didn’t know whom the house had been awarded to after her divorce from Ruan Jiahua.

If Ruan Jiahua was living next door, Jiang Ning would need to consider finding a new place to live.

Using the fingerprint lock, Jiang Ning pushed the door open and entered.

The quiet interior remained as she had left it. Jiang Ning stood in the entryway to change her shoes, turning on the humidifier and the ventilation system.

Once she changed into a set of loose, comfortable home clothes, she organized her luggage, removed all the dust covers from the sofa and home appliances, and took a wet towel from the bathroom to wipe clean the few dusty spots.

Before she went back to the Huo Family, Jiang Ning had lived alone for many years.

She handled these simple household tasks with ease.

After tidying up everything, Jiang Ning sat on the clean sofa and opened the bag Qi Chen had given her, only to find two insulated buckets and two boxes of washed fruit inside, including cherries, strawberries, and sliced kiwifruit and honeydew.

One insulated bucket was pink and the other blue, meticulously packed into an insulated bag. Unscrewing the lids, the enticing scent of food immediately wafted out.

One bucket contained rice with vegetables, and the other was filled with a rich chicken soup, both still steaming.

Jiang Ning looked slightly stunned. For the first time in her life, someone was delivering boxed meals to her.

Even the old man who had taught her martial arts when she was wandering and left all his inheritance to her only ever presented her with a stern face and an unfathomable bad temper.

Jiang Ning turned on her phone and sure enough, she had received a message from Ji Shuang.

Ji Shuang: Jiang Jiang, has Qi Chen picked you up? I actually wanted Qi Chen to bring you straight over so we could invite you for a meal, but considering you and Xingzhou have been recording the show and you’ve traveled a long way back, you probably would prefer to rest at home. So I just made some simple food for you. How does it taste? To your liking?

Jiang Ning typed a reply: Thank you, Auntie Ji, I’m home now, and I’ve received your food. It’s fragrant and delicious.

Ji Shuang was sitting on the sofa, luxuriously applying a facial mask when her phone chimed. She immediately picked up her phone and replied: Glad you like it, we’ll have you over for a meal someday.

Jiang Ning put down her phone, picked up her utensils, and slowly sipped the soup.

Previously not feeling hungry, the aroma of the food now made her a bit peckish.

After eating, she washed the utensils in the kitchen. With nothing particular to do, Jiang Ning lay on the sofa playing with her phone when she noticed two new activity alerts for her bank card balance.

Both deposits came from the same account—the production team of "Survive for 30 Days."

Not only had the production team transferred the contracted amount, but they also sent an extra sum of money.

At the same time, Jiang Ning’s phone rang with an incoming call alert.

As she answered the call, Shen Zha’s laughing voice immediately came through: "Jiang Ning, you’ve received the money, right?"

"Not only received it, but there was an extra amount," Jiang Ning responded with a puzzled expression, "Was there a mistake?"

"Not at all!" Shen Zha laughed: "That’s your reward. Without you, our livestream wouldn’t have been such a hit. But it’s mutual, our channel exploded, earning us a lot of traffic and advertising revenue. You also managed to clear your name and gain a large following through the show. It’s a win-win situation, congratulations!"

Jiang Ning: "???"

What was Shen Zha talking about?

Her reputation had been restored?

And she had her own fans?

Hadn’t these netizens seen the footage of her hitting someone?

If emotions had a physical form, Jiang Ning would definitely be full of question marks right now.

Shen Zha was genuinely happy; the program’s live broadcast data had come out, and in just half a month, viewership and traffic volume had reached over a hundred million!

There was no need to mention topic heat—over this half month, it had shot straight to the top of the charts.

He didn’t mind Jiang Ning’s silence, his voice booming, "Right, do you have a talent agency now? Those people can’t get in touch with you, so they’re reaching out to me instead. There are also some advertisers who want you for commercials but can’t contact you, so they’ve called me."

"No talent agency, not taking offers for now," Jiang Ning hadn’t yet snapped out of the realization that she had "cleansed" her image.

When Shen Zha heard Jiang Ning’s words and sensed no excitement or happiness in her tone, he couldn’t help asking, "You don’t want to enter the entertainment industry?"

Jiang Ning: "Mhm."

Jiang Ning asked Shen Zha to decline the olive branches from those talent agencies.

She couldn’t exactly say she repelled the entertainment industry, nor could she say she liked it.

After ending the call, Jiang Ning opened Mengbo.

Her unread messages were already plentiful, but now they were ridiculously numerous.

The page kept refreshing for quite a while before it stopped.

In the unread messages section, there was still the glaring 999+.

Direct messages and comments too, the numbers were off the charts.

Jiang Ning instantly noticed how this differed from before.

Previously, the private messages she received were mostly vicious and indecent curses.

But now, the screen was filled with cute, encouraging content.

Moreover, her private message inbox kept growing. While Jiang Ning scrolled up and down through her messages, different netizens continued to send her messages filled with encouragement and expressions of love.

Some netizens even treated Jiang Ning as a confidant, sharing their own experiences of being bullied or facing injustice.

Clearly, after learning about Jiang Ning’s tumultuous life, everyone had come to view Jiang Ning as some sort of positive energy and a pillar of support.

Jiang Ning clicked on her Mengbo homepage. She seldom posted on Mengbo, and there were only a few updates on her page. Previously, Huo Miao’s fans had left tens of thousands of mean comments, but now the latest update had soared to over four hundred thousand comments.

Her fans had also increased from just over a hundred thousand to over two million six hundred thousand, and the number was still rapidly rising, showing just how much popularity the program’s immersive live broadcast had brought Jiang Ning.

This was a result that Jiang Ning herself had not anticipated.

She scrolled back to the homepage, originally intending to search for the program’s name, but caught sight of the pushed Mengbo hot search list and, with a click, she went into it.

While Jiang Ning was navigating through Mengbo’s world of information, on the other side, Qi Chen was driving his ’Bitter Gourd Brother’ home.

Qi Chen parked the car in the garage, turned his head, and was met with his younger brother’s resentful gaze.

Qi Chen laughed, "You’re such a big guy; did you really think you could sneak out of the car without us noticing?"

Qi Xingzhou averted his gaze, hung his head in silence, pretending not to understand what Qi Chen was saying.

The moment he left Jiang Ning, he turned back into a stubborn little clamshell.

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ps: Sorry, after being reminded by reader babies, I realized there was a plot point I missed writing about; the female lead’s fighting skills and other abilities were actually taught by an old man she met while wandering. Moreover, after the old man passed away, he left his inheritance to her. I’ve added this new content in Chapter 20. 2023.11.29