The Comeback of the Cannon-Fodder Supporting Actress

After Anning and Xi Jingchen parted ways, she called Xiao Yuan, and then Xiao Yuan took her to sell a piece of jade she brought along.

What Anning sold was a piece of glass species imperial green jadeite, and this jadeite was not small. The jewelry company bought it intending to make it their store’s treasure.

Just this one piece of jade, she sold for over two hundred million.

After selling the jade, Anning took out the pink diamond she brought and asked the head of the jewelry company, ”Can you see if this can be made into a piece of jewelry suitable for a girl in her twenties to wear?”

The pink diamond Anning took out was of exceptionally high quality, and it was a rare pink diamond with a large size, which even tempted the head of the jewelry company.

”This, it certainly can be. Do you have any more diamonds of such quality?”

Anning smiled, ”Not at the moment, but who knows in the future.”

She signed a contract and handed the pink diamond to the head: ”Make sure it’s crafted beautifully, as I want to give this as a gift to my granddaughter-in-law.”

The head felt a bit envious hearing this. He wished he had a daughter to be the granddaughter-in-law to this Old Madam, imagining how much exquisite jewelry there would be.

Unfortunately, he had no daughter.

”Certainly, certainly,” the head responded with a smiling face.

The Old Madam was unbelievably wealthy, and she had top-quality jade and jewelry, so forming a good relationship was essential.

While Anning was selling jade, Xi Jingchen was also selling jade.

At Suhai University, there were quite a few students from affluent families. In Xi Jingchen’s class, there was a classmate whose relatives were in the jewelry business.

Xi Jingchen contacted this classmate, who then helped sell the jade.

His piece of jade wasn’t as good as Anning’s and wasn’t large either, but still sold for more than ten million.

With this money, buying a house was no problem, and there was plenty left to buy Xia Man a car.

With the money settled, Xi Jingchen called Anning, then went on his own to pay the remaining balance and handled the property title.

Having the house in hand, Xi Jingchen was especially happy.

He originally planned to work hard for a few years after graduation to buy a house in Su Hai, thinking of buying a two-bedroom apartment first to settle down the home, with the idea of buying a bigger house later.

But in his junior year in college, he bought the house, and it was not just any purchase but buying a large four-bedroom house directly. Even though Xi Jingchen was considered rational and calm, he couldn’t help but feel thrilled.

In the following days, Anning told Xi Jingchen she’d be busy with something and asked him to arrange the new house himself, while she kept meeting with Xiao Yuan.

Anning originally planned to buy a house herself.

Since she wanted to live in Suhai permanently, naturally she needed a house of her own, but Xiao Yuan wouldn’t let her buy one. With so many properties under Xiao Yuan’s name, he took Anning to see several houses and, according to her preference, gifted her a small villa in an old community built years ago.

Even though it was built many years ago, because of its early construction, the location was excellent; houses here couldn’t be bought even with a lot of money now.

Anning certainly accepted the house Xiao Yuan gave her. After the transfer procedures were done by Xiao Yuan, Anning took the time to arrange the house, clearing out items she didn’t like and replacing them with her preferred ones. She also checked out of the hotel and moved into the house.

With her own house, Anning began shopping extravagantly.

She bought many clothes and used some jade jewelry to buy materials to make many pieces of jewelry for herself.

Of course, the most important thing was that Anning and Xiao Yuan were always purchasing medicinal herbs.

The two of them searched for several days and finally gathered enough herbs to make medicine. They took the herbs back to Anning’s place and spent a day making pills together, eventually crafting a few Revitalizing Pills.

Of course, these Revitalizing Pills were not as effective as those from the Cultivation World.

The Revitalizing Pills in the Cultivation World could rejuvenate someone, making them youthful again and clearing away old ailments from the body.

Anning and Xiao Yuan could certainly do it, but due to the current conditions, they could only make a simplified version of the Revitalizing Pills, which definitely didn’t have such a terrifying effect. However, it could make the two look a bit younger and improve their physical fitness.

After making the pills, they dared not consume a whole pill at once. They divided the pills for consumption, and the first time, they took a quarter of a pill each.

Primarily because the medicinal power was too strong, even with Anning and Xiao Yuan’s constitution, taking a whole pill at once would have been fatal.

Even after taking just a quarter, a few days after consuming the Revitalizing Pill, Anning and Xiao Yuan started to experience changes.

They both looked younger, their complexion improved a lot, and most notably, their white hair was gradually turning black.

This could actually be explained easily. After all, in today’s society, many people dye their hair. When all their white hair turns black, they could just say it’s from dyeing.

Looking a bit younger isn’t overly noticeable either. Nobody in their sixties would suddenly look like they’re in their twenties, so it shouldn’t attract much attention.

Therefore, Anning and Xiao Yuan carefree ignored it.

However, Xia Man was observant. Accompanying Anning for a shopping trip on Sunday, she asked, ”Grandma, you look much younger these days.”

Anning smiled, hooking her arm through Xia Man’s: ”One looks better when good things happen. Back when I was at home, worrying about Jingchen all alone with no company, I was definitely aging from worry. Now that I’m in Suhai, seeing Jingchen regularly and witnessing his romantic relationship, plus having such a sweet child like you, I feel happy, and with a change in clothes, I naturally look younger.”

That’s true, Xia Man nodded with a smile: ”Then I’ll keep visiting often, so you stay even younger.”

Anning agreed, then pulled Xia Man into a decent-looking store nearby: ”Manman, the clothes here suit you, go try on a few.”

Xia Man quickly said, ”No need, no need, I have enough clothes.”

”Try them on, try them on, a young girl can never have enough clothes.” Anning picked a few outfits and gently nudged Xia Man to try them on.

Xia Man had no choice but to go to the fitting room to change.

When she came out, Anning’s eyes lit up.

After all, Xia Man, a young girl in her twenties, was already in her prime, and the clothes Anning picked suited her perfectly, enhancing her appearance greatly.

Even the shop assistant who helped Xia Man with the clothes couldn’t help but smile, ”Auntie has such good taste, these clothes are absolutely beautiful.”

Looking at her reflection in the mirror, Xia Man also thought it looked good.

But she really didn’t want Anning to buy her more clothes. These days, Anning had bought her quite a few clothes. Whenever they met, there was always shopping involved, making Xia Man feel uneasy.

”Well, let’s buy them,” Xia Man took out her phone to pay, only for the shop assistant to say with a smile, ”Auntie has already paid for you.”

She even whispered to Xia Man, ”Is this your future mother-in-law? She’s so good to you.”

Xia Man smiled softly, ”That’s my boyfriend’s grandma.”

The shop assistant was shocked, ”She looks so young, and yet the grandma treats you so well. You’re really lucky.”

Xia Man and Anning continued shopping for a while before finding a place to eat when they got tired.

Anning had Xia Man order, and after they placed their order, Anning said to Xia Man, ”Speaking of looking better when good things happen, there’s another layer to it.”

Xia Man was a bit surprised, then asked, ”Grandma, do you have more good news?”

Anning nodded, ”Good news, very happy news indeed. Let me tell you, I ran into my first love here in Suhai, and we’ve been seeing each other frequently. His wife passed away years ago, and Jingchen’s grandpa passed away when Jingchen’s dad was young. I’ve been alone all these years, enduring hardships. Now I’ve met someone suitable, and we...I want to take another step forward.”