When a Blade of Grass Wants to Become Immortal

Chapter 171: Chapter 167: Good-for-nothing x Innocent Little Overlord 6

”You should head back first. I’m going to prepare for the next competition.”

Ji Xiaosong didn’t want Jiang Yao to follow her in. After all, she had snuck out today, and the Ji Family had no idea.

As for the tracker, she had used a Barrier to block its signal, so no one from the outside could contact her.

In the past, whenever she was locked in confinement, the Ji Family wouldn’t care if she lived or died.

So even though she had escaped today, the Ji Family would never imagine she could actually get away.

”Alright, then. Prepare well. I’ll come pick you up tomorrow to record the song.”

Jiang Yao rolled down the car window and instructed her carefully, ”Protect your voice. I don’t want the promising new talent I just signed to be ruined so easily.”

”Don’t worry. Once I’m hidden, no one can hurt me.”

Ji Xiaosong promised with absolute certainty.

As soon as Jiang Yao left, Ji Xiaosong found a deserted corner and slipped back into the confinement room.

Sure enough, the Ji Family hadn’t discovered her absence yet. There was no activity at the door.

She released her Divine Sense and saw Ji Fu drooling as doctors bustled around them.

Everyone wore an expression like they’d seen a ghost. No one could have imagined that Chairman Ji would get beaten up so badly in his own home.

Meanwhile, Assistant Li stood to the side, her face etched with anxiety.

”Chairman, Madam, there was a very important contract signing today. It had to be postponed because of your... special circumstances, and the other party is already very displeased. If you can’t sign on time tomorrow, they might switch to another company.”

”Let them switch then! I can’t even fucking crawl right now, how am I supposed to go sign anything?”

Ji Fu drooled, his face flushed red with anger.

”The economy hasn’t been great these past couple of years, especially for a foreign trade business like the Ji family’s. The financial crisis is spreading, and we can’t escape it. If this continues, we might even go bankrupt. Our liquid capital is running low, the banks are tightening lending, and it’s getting really tough for businesses.”

Assistant Li urged earnestly.

Did she not know the two of them were injured? Of course she did.

But if they didn’t show up soon, one deal after another would fall through, and her own lofty position and high-paying job would be gone.

She was usually one of Ji Fu’s favorites, and they had ”exercised” in bed a few times. She really couldn’t bear to lose the life she had now.

Li Liping was more seriously injured than Ji Fu. She wanted to curse someone out, but she was in too much pain to even muster the strength, so she could only glare viciously at Assistant Li.

”How about this, Chairman? Tomorrow, I’ll get a wheelchair. You can sit in it, and as long as you make an appearance, everything will be fine. After all, you can still talk. We’ve already handled the preliminary negotiations. As long as you’re there in person, the contract will definitely be signed.”

”No! I’m still drooling, and I look half-dead. If the partners see me like this, they’ll think my health is failing and be even less willing to work with me.”

”Then we’ll have to use some strong medicine!”

Assistant Li looked at the doctor and asked seriously, ”Doctor, the Chairman has to go out tomorrow. He can’t just lie here like this. If there’s some kind of potent drug, just tell us.”

The doctor looked troubled. ”It’s not that such a potent drug doesn’t exist, it’s just that the side effects are severe...”

Before the doctor could finish, Ji Fu cut him off.

”Use it. The side effects will wear off eventually.”

The doctor glanced at the others, then slowly nodded in agreement.

”After taking this potent drug, your male hormone levels will be suppressed for at least three months. Chairman Ji, is that acceptable?”

Before Ji Fu could speak, Assistant Li jumped in, ”No problem. Hurry up and give him the medicine.”

Urged on by Assistant Li, the doctor reluctantly injected Ji Fu with the potent drug.

Under the drug’s effects, Ji Fu gradually seemed to regain some energy, but his face grew even paler.

”Chairman Ji, get a good night’s sleep. I’ll come back tomorrow morning to give you another shot. It should be enough to keep you full of energy for the entire day.”

The doctor gave a few more instructions before the butler led him to a guest room on the first floor to wait.

The Ji family’s business was huge, so it was perfectly normal for them to keep a doctor on retainer.

In a situation like this, the team of doctors and nurses would most likely have to stay until Ji Fu and the others had fully recovered.

Ji Xiaosong then checked on Ji Yao. Several doctors and nurses were waiting by her side as well.

’Seeing them all in pain made Ji Xiaosong happy.’

The confinement room had no surveillance cameras, which made it convenient for her to enter her space and get a good night’s sleep.

After eating her fill and sleeping soundly, Ji Xiaosong woke up and stood before a full-length mirror, examining the body of her current life.

’It was a beautiful body, but the scars and its frail constitution made her frown.’

’Now that she was going to be a star, she couldn’t afford to look so unkempt.’

So she filled the bathtub with Spiritual Spring Water and took a comfortable soak in the Spiritual Spring. All the scars on her body vanished, and her skin became as smooth as fine jade, looking so delicate it might break from a single touch.

Fortunately, the scars left by the original owner weren’t in very conspicuous places. Now that she had removed them, it wouldn’t draw too much attention.

She then looked at her heavy bangs. On the spot, Ji Xiaosong styled her hair with her own hands, pulling it back to reveal her entire face.

’With a face like this, she would be considered one of the top beauties, even in today’s entertainment industry.’

After examining herself from head to toe a few more times and confirming there was nothing else to change, Ji Xiaosong left the space wearing a red dress.

The Ji Family probably still wouldn’t have the energy to bother her today. In the past, her confinement always lasted at least three days.

During those three days, the Ji Family would let her starve, as long as she didn’t die.

So as long as she came back early tonight, the Ji Family would never find out.

Just as she was about to use a Spell to leave the Ji residence, Rongrong suddenly spoke up, ”Song, you’d better change out of that dress. The original owner would never wear red. Wait until you’ve slowly changed your public persona, then you can wear these bright colors.”

Ji Xiaosong recalled the original owner’s preferences and sighed.

”Sigh... fine. I don’t know what the original owner was thinking. A perfectly fine young woman in her early twenties, yet she only ever wore black, white, and gray, and wouldn’t touch any other color.”

”Have you forgotten? When Ji Yao first came to the Ji family as a child, she saw the princess dress the original owner was wearing and thought it was too beautiful. She threw a huge tantrum and demanded that the original owner not be allowed to wear anything other than black, white, or gray. That’s why the Ji Family forced her to dress that way for all these years.”

The memory was from a long time ago. Ji Xiaosong had to think hard for a moment before she could recall it.

”Fine. I still need to find a chance to change my image as soon as possible. Otherwise, living like this every day is going to suffocate me.”