Chapter 118 Chapter 118 Twisted Love
Chapter 118 Twisted Love
Tears unknowingly slid down her cheeks.
At this moment, Chi Xiaocheng even felt a lack of oxygen in her brain, and the pain in her chest came in waves.
Her doubts were answered.
No wonder she had been avoiding her.
No wonder she was unwilling to accept her confession.
No wonder the more well-behaved she became these past few days, the further away the other person drifted.
So it wasn't love she felt for me.
It was just that she thought I was cured, so there was no need to look after me anymore.
Indeed, ever since that lucid dream, everything had become strange.
How could she have forgotten? From beginning to end, she had been pretending to like her, using it as an excuse to treat her unhealthy obsession...
And from the very beginning, she herself had wanted to exploit her protagonist's halo, feigning unhealthy obsession to protect herself.
“And in the process, I actually dared to fall in love with her, huh…”
Chi Xiaocheng lifted her head, tears streaming past the corners of her self-mocking lips.
Another humble sacrifice had come to naught.
What she cared about was that marriage contract!
“She even has a fiancé…”
Chi Xiaocheng gritted her teeth, uttering those few words with great difficulty.
The call hadn't ended yet. Si Chen swallowed, asking from the other end, “Chi Xiaocheng, are you alright?”
“Alright?” Chi Xiaocheng replied coldly, “Of course, I’m perfectly fine.”
Si Chen: “It’s good that you haven’t lost your mind.”
Dark Chi Xiaocheng leaned against Chi Xiaocheng, softly saying, “How about letting Si Chen explain the whole story?”
Chi Xiaocheng opened her mouth and repeated the question.
Si Chen said, “This happened a few days ago. Su Tao even kept it from me. If I hadn’t been investigating her father’s affairs today, I really wouldn’t have known about this.”
“About three days ago, someone named Xiao Ming approached Su Tao with half a jade pendant. That half pendant happened to be the only token Su Tao had always carried with her.”
“At the same time, Xiao Ming also brought news of Su Tao’s father being abroad. Besides the evidence of this jade pendant, he could also provide many details about Su Tao’s childhood mystery, making his claims highly credible.”
“In addition to that, there was that marriage contract.”
“I’m not clear on how the engagement was set, but what’s certain is that almost all of these details are true.”
Si Chen’s voice was cold. “We absolutely cannot let that Xiao fellow solidify his status as Su Tao’s fiancé, nor can we let him marry Su Tao, otherwise all our plans will collapse!”
For the past half-month, Si Chen had been very displeased with Chi Xiaocheng’s actions.
The originally rational, pathological, and ruthless Chi Xiaocheng seemed to have vanished.
She had inexplicably become love-struck, making no moves at all for half a month.
If she couldn’t control Su Tao, how could she later leverage her War God father’s influence?
Now that this Xiao fellow had appeared, Si Chen, as a scion of a prominent family, knew all too well the value of marriage contracts established by the older generation.
A hint of impatience entered Si Chen’s voice. “Chi Xiaocheng, I advise you to act quickly. Dongfang Yang seems to be taking Su Tao to meet that fiancé right now.”
The three words, "fiancé," were mentioned again.
Chi Xiaocheng’s scarlet eyes abruptly transformed.
They became vertical, cat-like pupils, emitting faint red light, fierce and terrifying.
She hung up on Si Chen.
Chi Xiaocheng slowly clenched her fists and rose from the sofa.
Dark Chi Xiaocheng curled her lips into a smile. “What do you say, want to accept my proposal?”
“Possess Taotao, right?”
“Exactly.” Dark Chi Xiaocheng brushed a strand of her hair back. “Just like what you did at the beginning: possess her, make her focus all her thoughts on you.”
Chi Xiaocheng lowered her head and fell silent for a moment. “But if I do that, will she fall in love with me?”
Dark Chi Xiaocheng said, “If she had no affection for you, she would only feel dread and fear. Don’t you know, people only cherish what they’ve lost?”
“This half-month of sweetness and obedience has been enough to stir feelings in her for you. Otherwise, on the bridge, even if she rejected you, she wouldn’t have spoken that way, right?”
Chi Xiaocheng whispered softly, a semblance of rationality seeming to return to her eyes. “So, she was pretending to like me before, and it’s only now that she might feel a tiny bit of affection for me.”
“Yes.” Dark Chi Xiaocheng’s voice echoed in her ear. “But it’s just a tiny bit, not enough.”
“She’s already going to meet her fiancé. What... what will you do now?”
Chi Xiaocheng closed her eyes and sighed softly. “Hey, my other self.”
“Hmm?”
Chi Xiaocheng looked at the window, the glass reflecting her desolate and miserable appearance.
“You always say I’m a mask called ‘normal person’. If that’s the case, then occupy my consciousness.”
“What?” Dark Chi Xiaocheng showed a look of shock.
Chi Xiaocheng smiled bitterly, her hand trembling. “You’re more ruthless than me, and your possessiveness is stronger. Only by replacing me can you better bind Taotao, right?”
“I... I’m afraid I can’t bring myself to be ruthless.”
A hint of confusion appeared in Chi Xiaocheng’s eyes.
In her despair, her heart felt as though it were already dying.
Dark Chi Xiaocheng sighed, then floated up lightly on her tiptoes.
She came up behind Chi Xiaocheng, her two arms circling her neck, gently embracing her from behind.
Her face nestled against Chi Xiaocheng’s shoulder, her voice no longer bewitching, but infinitely gentle.
“It’s normal for you to feel fear, unease, and hesitation to act.”
“And you’re not wrong either; you just want someone to truly love you.”
“That dream separated you and me.”
“Allowing you to see yourself more clearly.”
“But it also stripped away your courage, your possessiveness, your twisted love.”
“You want me to disperse your consciousness and occupy this body.”
“How could I possibly do that?”
“We are both masks.”
“What we jointly guard is that heart, which yearns for love yet is so easily broken.”
Whether it’s acting or unhealthy obsession.
Just like you at the traffic light in your previous life.
Just like you during that summer vacation, collapsing because Ye Liang snatched Su Tao away.
That courage of yours, it’s with me.
“So, in order to no longer be hurt, for the one you love, to change that absurd ending, and to be with Taotao forever.”
“Go forth and confront, and accept that twisted love.”
“I will always be by your side to give you courage.”
Dark Chi Xiaocheng gently closed her eyes, leaned her lips close to Chi Xiaocheng’s ear, and whispered softly.
“Goodnight.”
The dream should end.
Chi Xiaocheng sat dazedly on the sofa, an exceptionally crystalline tear sliding down her cheek.
Her previous unease gradually faded, replaced by a feeling as though her soul had been filled.
Her goal had remained unchanged from beginning to end.
To possess her, to use her protagonist’s halo to change her own cannon fodder fate, and to change Su Tao’s tragic end of suicide.
Only now, unlike at the beginning, there was an added layer of liking and love.
Chi Xiaocheng slowly took out her phone, a strange, extreme clarity in her crazed, vertical pupils. “You’re right, people only cherish what they’ve lost.”
“If I continue to follow the plot set by the will of the world, if I follow the original story’s path, I will surely get hurt.”
“For this, Taotao, you can only be with me, and together we will change this ending…”
You cannot go to your fiancé; you can only come to me.
You are mine!!!
She sent a message to Su Tao: “Taotao, when are you coming back?”
Just like that night on the rooftop.
Chi Xiaocheng picked up a fruit knife from the table, her gaze pausing for a moment on the substitute straw doll in her system space.
Immediately after, she rolled up her sleeve.
“If too much orange juice flows out, it will hurt a lot, won’t it?”
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