After Switching Bodies, the Mad Overbearing CEO Takes Over the Entertainment Industry-Chapter 193 - 192: Doll

Sister Quan Ke was unfazed by this scene, her arms crossed as she clicked her tongue, "Your second brother really is a hypocrite, treating girls so differently. He’s mean as hell to me, but dotes on the new sister. Doesn’t he realize how old he is? Still thinking about an old cow eating young grass."

Ji Tian: "..."

Was it really okay to complain about him like that in front of his sister?

They stood at a distance and didn’t attract attention, sparking Ji Tian’s curiosity: "Sister Quan Ke, how exactly did you and my brother become sworn enemies? He still doesn’t like you to this day."

Mentioning this made her head hurt, the memory was somewhat distant. She and Ji Qilin grew up together, put in the same class from the moment they were sensible, but somehow she managed to have the worst social relations with everyone.

So, feeling a bit guilty, she touched her nose, "It’s nothing much. When he was fourteen, I called him a ’sissy’ and he’s held a grudge ever since. Back then I was quite stubborn too, and so one thing led to another, we just couldn’t see eye to eye and we always had to squabble whenever we met."

The more Quan Ke thought about it, the worse she felt, "Do you think your brother is sick or something? I just said he was a boy who carried a pink doll to and from school like a ’sissy’, treasured it so much that he wouldn’t let anyone touch it. Later, I just wanted to have a look and we ended up struggling over it on the bridge, and then it fell into the water and disappeared."

"A doll?" Ji Tian was confused, carefully recalling the past. Her childhood memory was a bit vague and she wasn’t sure whether she had seen a doll or not.

"What did it look like? I don’t think I’ve ever seen it."

"It was after you got caught in the rain, running a high fever and passing out for three days and nights. When you came to, he often had a pink doll in his hands. Don’t you remember? He carried it every day."

Ji Tian felt a bit embarrassed, precisely because her memory of that time was so vague. She shook her head, "I’ve forgotten... after I fell into the water the last time, I forgot a lot of things. My memories from childhood are very vague."

Quan Ke was understanding, having heard that Ji Tian had hit her head when she was rescued, her heart even stopped, and it was only with great effort that she was brought back to life at the hospital. No wonder Ji Lingyun had the artificial lake filled in; he probably didn’t want to go through such an experience again.

She sighed, looking at Ji Qilin’s retreating figure, helplessly shaking her head, "After the doll fell into the water, he almost jumped in after it. It was the first time I saw him cry." She chuckled lightly, "He was crying and saying his sister wasn’t coming back. But you were safe at home at the time. I almost thought he was insane; he was really scary. Fortunately, I held on to him with all my might, or he might have jumped and gone to see your great-grandma too."

"And it’s since that time that he’s had no time for me, being gentle and courteous to others, but cold to me alone, that hypocrite!"

Quan Ke was so angry she gritted her teeth. Ji Tian hadn’t expected such an incident between them. Suddenly, a brief memory before she was seven flashed through her mind.

Back then, she did have a doll, which she later gave to Ji Qilin, saying in childlike innocence, "Second brother, take good care of it, okay? This is a little sister. Don’t lose it."

Ji Tian pursed her lips and explained to Quan Ke, "Sister Quan Ke, I just remembered, that doll was a gift from me to my second brother..."

Quan Ke had a sudden realization, feeling somewhat embarrassed. She had thought Ji Qilin liked dolls when he was younger. After she lost his doll, she had one custom-made to look just like it as compensation, but he didn’t appreciate it at all.

If it was a gift from Ji Tian, then everything made sense. After all, a gift from one’s own sister is certainly irreplaceable.

"Sorry... I didn’t know, and he never told me. Afterwards, because of this incident, he and I grew apart... Even when we met, we only quarreled. Sigh, it’s only through arguing that I could even talk to him. He’s so petty and holds grudges."

So, in the eyes of others, the two of them were enemies with incompatible personalities, known to everyone that they were sure to bicker whenever they met, neither bearing the other any goodwill.

Ji Tian looked at Ji Qilin’s back, her heart pounding fiercely.

Actually, in the world she lived in before she was transported into the book, she had been an orphan since birth. As a child, she was always bullied by the bigger kids, unable to fight back. Each act of resistance led to a more severe beating, until one day, she found herself near a trash heap not far from the Orphanage.

That was after she had hit back at the Orphanage’s domineering tyrant, fearing retaliation, she crawled out through a dog hole.

At that time, she must have been only seven years old. After running away, she hid in the trash heap, searching through piles of rotting and stinking trash for uncontaminated food. In the end, instead of finding food, she found a doll.

It was so dirty that its colors were indiscernible.

Back then, she felt that she and the doll were alike, both abandoned, both equally pitiable.

In the trash heap, she met a very gentle boy.

He said she should have been born into wealth, not in a trash heap.

Ji Tian recalled this, and her temples throbbed. Looking back now, she had forgotten what the boy looked like, but strangely, he reminded her of her second brother.

The next instant, she cast aside this absurd thought from her mind. How could that be possible? They were from two different worlds, and Ji Qilin from the book could never exist in her previous world.

"Ji Qilin, your sister is looking for you," Quan Ke spoke up, calling out to Ji Qilin on behalf of Ji Tian.

Ji Qilin paused, then turned his head and saw Ji Tian, a flash of surprise on his face, which warm smile soon replaced: "Tiantian, what brings you here?"

He immediately put down the anti-cancer agent in his hand, took off his gloves, and walked toward Ji Tian.

"Brother Qilin, are you going to continue with the experiment?" Shen Zhiyi called out to stop him.

This was the most critical part of the research for the anti-cancer agent’s success. If interrupted, they would have to start over.

"Let’s not do it for now, I need to be with my sister," he said, and without looking back, he headed in Ji Tian’s direction.

As if worried about transferring germs from his hands to Ji Tian, he went to a sink and washed them, even though he had worn gloves. He still felt the agent was unclean.

Seeing Ji Tian standing obediently and demurely in her spot, he checked the time; it was already five in the afternoon. In just over an hour, it would be time for dinner. He smiled at Ji Tian, "The laboratory isn’t clean, how about I take you out for dinner? Shall we go? You can order your favorite roasted chicken."

His tone was so much like that used with a child, it was as if she wasn’t seventeen but rather a seven-year-old kid.

Ji Tian couldn’t help but burst into laughter: "Roast chicken can be eaten anytime. I mainly came to see you. You haven’t been home for several days, so long I was starting to think you forgot about me, your sister."

Ji Qilin was amused by her: "How could that happen? I could forget anyone but not you. After all, you were raised by big brother and me; it nearly wore me out back then."

Recalling the past, he spoke in an easygoing, cheerful tone.

Ji Tian felt a twinge of discomfort in her heart. Her memory of this body’s history was really fuzzy, so vague that if she didn’t make a concerted effort to remember, she couldn’t recall it at all.

If Ji Qilin found out that the person inside this body had long since changed into someone else, would he still be so good to her?