The Kitty Became a Cutie and Was Pampered in the 80s
Chapter 343: A Pair of Poison-Treated Eyes (4)_1

Chapter 343: Chapter 343: A Pair of Poison-Treated Eyes (4)_1

"Jiaojiao? Jiaojiao?" The Ruanlin Family matriarch gently shook the small body in her arms.

Ruan Jiaojiao then came back to her senses, looked up, met the worried gaze of the Ruanlin Family matriarch, bit her small lip, shook her head, and forced a smile, saying, "Nanny, I’m fine, I’m just tired."

"Tired, huh? Then sleep, Nanny will hold you," the Ruanlin Family matriarch soothed as she stroked her back, speaking in a comforting tone, but her eyebrows remained furrowed.

Minding the chills during such hot weather, she didn’t consider it merely a coincidence.

She was somewhat anxious. After Ruan Jiaojiao’s peace charm had been damaged last time, she had been worried for a while, and even asked around for any temples or Taoist temples, wanting to seek another peace charm for her, but she hadn’t heard of any particularly efficacious one.

Fortunately, during this time, she had been safe and sound, with no mishaps.

But now, watching her tremble in cold during broad daylight, she began to worry again. Of course, she also hoped it was just her own over-concern, and that there really was nothing wrong.

Although Xiu Xi, sitting to the side, said nothing, his brows were also tightly knit. She hadn’t been right since they started eating; there must have been something that happened, and yet she chose not to speak, likely related to the Ruan Family.

On the way back, amid the jostling of the carriage, Ruan Jiaojiao, held by the Ruanlin Family matriarch, unknowingly drifted into a deep sleep.

Only this time, the nightmare that had plagued her for so long struck once more.

She didn’t know where she was, she kept running in a vast expanse of white snow, her whole body numb from the cold. She heard someone calling her, calling her Jiaojiao, telling her to hurry back, but no matter how much she ran, she couldn’t find the exit to this snowfield.

She was both tired and cold, and eventually collapsed onto the snow, the ice and snow seeping into her clothes and penetrating her body, cold, bone-chillingly cold!

She felt she was about to freeze to death...

Just as she was so cold that she was about to lose consciousness, a person suddenly appeared before her. She struggled to lift her head to look, but try as she might, she couldn’t open her eyes, and when she did, she could only see a little, and that little... was a pair of pitch-black eyes... as if laced with poison...

Meanwhile, in reality, during such a sweltering August heat, where everyone felt hot and sticky all over, Ruan Jiaojiao trembled in the Ruanlin Family matriarch’s arms, her lips a mix of pale and cyan.

Everyone was startled. Before they could even react, Xiu Xi quickly grabbed Ruan Jiaojiao’s small hand and bit down hard at the position near her palm.

Ruan Jiaojiao let out a whimper of pain.

And opened her eyes.

"My darling, do you feel unwell anywhere?" the Ruanlin Family matriarch asked anxiously, truly frightened.

Ruan Jiaojiao, pale-faced in her arms, shook her head. The pain in her hand was almost imperceptible to her; the image of those pitch-black eyes loomed before her, and even the mere thought of them made her feel a chill through her body, a chill down to her very bones.

"Nanny, I’m cold," she trembled in the Ruanlin Family matriarch’s embrace.

The Ruanlin Family matriarch’s heart, oh, it felt as if it were being roasted on a fire.

She held her tightly, full of concern.

Without the peace charm, and with Qian Xiabai’s prediction that she had two more tribulations to face, how would she get through them?

Equally anxious was Xiu Xi, with his eyelids drooping, no one knew what he was thinking.

Ruan Hao and Ruan Jie had no idea what was happening, thinking maybe Ruan Jiaojiao had caught a chill or fever, concern from the entire family focused on her all the way home.

Fortunately, by the time they got home, Ruan Jiaojiao had mostly returned to normal.