Chapter 11 - My Tongue Is Still A Tongue (1/2)

From deep within his 'memories', a particular scene seemingly wanted to surface and present itself to him. However, because he was still adapting to this body and identity, this piece couldn't come out.

He frowned. He was oddly getting this feeling that this information would be useful or good for him.

'Just what is that piece of information?'

'Jiang Xinyi... Jiang Xinyi... I'm sure because she didn't really appear in the main plot so she's an extra or cannon fodder too. So why is her name familiar to me? I don't think it's because she's 'my' cousin. My family eventually cut ties with the second household due to Second Uncle's deeds.'

He sunk into deep silence and contemplation.

'Maybe mentioned by one of the leads?'

'For what though?'

'This system whatever does a terrible job for not fully synchronizing the set of memories with mine earlier...' he annoyingly thought when his reminiscing did not show him anything useful.

”You're not close to that cousin of yours. But she's quite pitiful. She just went through a lot so try to get along with her later, okay?” Mother Jiang suddenly told him, knocking him out of his thoughts.

His ears seemed to perk up at the clues she gave him. Curious, he asked, ”What happened to her?”

The short-statured lady shook her head,

”Your Second Aunt said she just broke up with her boyfriend. She's deeply in love with this man and is even willing to run away from your Second Uncle's family in order to be with him. Sadly, this happened. Now, they're no longer together because the love the man has for her is not as deep. To be honest, I don't think their affection with each other is even true love because if it's true, no amount or degree of misunderstandings and disagreements could tear them apart.”

Jiang Li showed a bored expression, not liking that the issue he thought was important was actually just a stupid love affair. To humor his mother, he half-heartedly replied, ”Oh, then who's the damn bastard?”