The two policewomen hesitated again before nodding, "Alright, we'll stand outside, by the glass window. Miss Jiang, if you need anything, call us. We'll be right in."
Jiang Ruolan nodded her head. The two policewomen opened the door and walked out. Before they left, they deliberately turned to stare at the bed, apparently warning Jiang Bingqing not to try to do anything.
The ward immediately became quiet, so quiet that one could almost hear the sound of a pin drop.
Jiang Ruolan quietly looked at the door and before she could turn around, Jiang Bingqing's weak voice was heard from behind.
"Jiang Ruolan! You….What are you doing here?!"
Jiang Ruolan turned around abruptly, looking at the pale face of Jiang Bingqing. "What? You're really still unhappy with me, right? You still don't want to see me live happily. What are you going to do after this, Jiang Bingqing?"
Jiang Bingqing sniggered. She coughed several times as she lifted her bandaged wrist and pointed at her. "If I had a knife in my hand now, even if I had to use all my strength, I would kill you! I would kill you even if I died!"
Jiang Ruolan didn't say anything. She took an apple and fruit knife from the fruit basket and sat in the chair next to the bed, gently peeling the fruit in her hand.
"Right now, the knife is in my hand. If you have the ability, then take it yourself." As she spoke, she tossed the neatly peeled fruit skin into the trash can next to her.
"You!" Jiang Bingqing huffed in anger as she clutched the blanket tightly with both hands. She glared at her with hatred, "Jiang Ruolan, don't be too arrogant too early! I, Jiang Bingqing, will not die this time! As long as I am willing to perform well in prison, with my relationship with the Jiang Family, it will not be a problem to change my sentence to only seven or eight years! Even if Xian Zihao would use any trick to detain me any longer, if I perform well, the sentence still will be reduced! Don't worry. As soon as I get out, you will still get your retribution sooner or later! I will make your life more miserable! Make you live a life worse than death!"
The fruit knife in Jiang Ruolan's hand stopped for a moment before she lifted her head and looked at the pale face of Jiang Bingqing with an indifferent expression.
Seeing that Jiang Ruolan didn't say anything, Jiang Bingqing immediately laughed out loud. "What's wrong? You got scared?"
Jiang Ruolan pursed her lip and smiled, but her smile didn't reach her eyes. Instead, she gently cut an apple in her hand and placed it on Jiang Bingqing's mouth.
Jiang Bingqing turned her face away in disgust. "Take it away! Are you trying to kill me this way? Are you going to kill me with this knife? Let me tell you, I, Jiang Bingqing, won't let you go! Even if I die, no one can stop me. Jiang Ruolan, you can forget any idea you have in your mind!"
"Bingqing, since when do you hate me so much?" Jiang Ruolan took the slice of apple from the knife and calmly ate it.
Jiang Bingqing's expression changed as she suddenly turned and stared at her.
"I have been wondering about all of this." Jiang Ruolan sighed softly. "Don't get me wrong, I certainly don't have a trace of sympathy for you, but I also don't feel it's all great. Starting from the age of four, when I entered the Jiang Family, I remember that in the first year, you were still stupidly chasing after Yijun and me, following us around. But a year later, you suddenly started avoiding us and gradually, using all sorts of childish but clever tricks to deal with Yijun and me."
"For years, I still haven't found the answer. At that time, you were only three years old, you were a year younger than me. You always called me elder sister. Since you were young, you have been pampered by Jiang Guanyu and Zhan Lian. You're just a naughty and possessive girl, but deep down, you're not that bad yet. And when I was seventeen, that's when you started getting worse, using any sort of trick to destroy my reputation."
Jiang Ruolan's eyebrows slowly furrowed as if she didn't want to think about it. However, after many years, she finally got a chance to have a good talk with Jiang Bingqing.
"Jiang Bingqing, can you tell me since when you really hated me? And for what reason? We've come this far, there's no need for you to hide it, don't you think?"
Jiang Bingqing coldly turned her face away. However, there was a faint unnatural expression on her face.
"You are very annoying, to begin with. What other reason do you need? Heh, Jiang Ruolan, don't consider yourself so important. You're just a freak that people don't like."
Her voice was not loud, but every word was filled with hatred.
"Is it because you don't want to say it or because you don't dare say it?" Jiang Ruolan smiled as she placed the fruit in her hand to the side, further away from the bed.
"What don't I dare to say?" Jiang Bingqing looked at her coldly. "Jiang Ruolan, I told you, don't be arrogant! Don't think too highly of yourself!"
"Do I think too highly of myself, or do you and Zhan Lian think too much of me? In the beginning, since I entered the Jiang Family, you didn't understand anything, but it was your mother who treated Yijun and me as thorns in her side! Did she teach you to treat me like this, or did you, yourself, hear something and start rejecting me?"
Jiang Ruolan suddenly looked up. "Or is it because you are afraid of me?"
"Hehe! What a joke! Why should I be afraid of you? Who do you think you are?" Jiang Bingqing scoffed, but she didn't look at Jiang Ruolan. Instead, she just stared at the ceiling.
"Since you don't want to say it, then I will." Jiang Ruolan looked at her indifferently. "Jiang Bingqing, there are some things that are inevitable. Just like Zhan Lian. The great mother that you are always proud of, she is the real Xiao San. She is the culprit who destroys other people's families. She's the dirty woman who used her power and money to seize a marriage from another woman."
Jiang Bingqing's gaze trembled as she suddenly turned and looked at her. "Shut up!"
"And you, you must have heard them arguing about this when you were over four years old. You always thought that you were the legitimate daughter of Jiang Guanyu and the young lady from the Jiang Family, and always thought that your mother, including the Zhan Family, are all very powerful people, that's why you have never been afraid of everything. When you heard the so-called truth, it gave a great blow to your heart. Since then, you bullied me just to prove that you are higher and smarter than me."
Jiang Bingqing frowned slightly as she stared at Jiang Ruolan with a look of disbelief in her eyes.
"You don't have to be curious about how I actually know all this. Jiang Family Residence is not a big house. I also heard about Jiang Guanyu and Zhan Lian's fight that day. There are also some things that I already knew myself. Even though we were all too ignorant at the time, I was already a year older than you and experienced more than you. I naturally know this in my heart."
