Chapter 459 Chapter 457 The "Truth" In Her Eyes
Chapter 457 The "Truth" In Her Eyes
Su Tao couldn't detect any hint of pretense from Chi Xiaocheng. Indeed, she didn't even know if Chi Xiaocheng was acting at all.
But she knew that *she* was acting right now.
Most of the acting skills she learned from that master of acting were primarily related to facial expressions. At this moment, her self-management of expressions seemed exceedingly natural.
A fond smile still graced her lips.
Then she took Chi Xiaocheng's small hand.
Immediately after, as always, through the warmth of their intertwined hands, she conveyed her profound affection.
Considering they were about to have lunch soon, breakfast had been a simple, quick meal, and then the two began to chat and stroll, passing one shop after another.
When they passed by Moonlight Café, Su Tao even paused.
Sharp-eyed, she noticed a familiar girl looking after the shop inside the café.
Qian Qing was looking after the shop!
An idea sparked in Su Tao's mind, and she quickly left Chi Xiaocheng, "Xiaocheng, wait for me here for a moment."
With that, without waiting for Chi Xiaocheng to react, she entered the café.
First, she glanced outside to confirm Chi Xiaocheng was indeed waiting, then looked at Qian Qing, who was sitting at the counter, seemingly nodding off from having stayed up late.
Upon seeing Su Tao, Qian Qing pursed her lips. "Here comes another troublesome person. If you're here for coffee, please come in. If you have something to talk to me about, then next time I'll charge you double for coffee."
Su Tao ignored Qian Qing's teasing. She was afraid that if Chi Xiaocheng came in, she wouldn't have a chance to ask. She quickly said, "Sister Qian Qing, I heard you agreed to be Dongfang Yang's fake girlfriend?"
Qian Qing's mouth twitched at her words, and her face immediately flushed.
She hastily turned her head away. "Who agreed to be his fake girlfriend? I don't even like him."
Su Tao's pupils constricted at this.
Qian Qing didn't say she'd be Dongfang Yang's fake girlfriend!
Which meant, what Xiaocheng said this morning was a lie!
It was a perfunctory lie, meant to deceive her!
Su Tao took a deep breath, then revealed a faint smile. "Alright, I understand. Thank you, Sister Qian Qing."
She turned to leave.
She didn't notice, however, the shyness that still lingered on Qian Qing's face.
Any normal person might have realized Qian Qing was simply embarrassed, which was why she hadn't admitted such a blunt statement.
But Su Tao, she was naturally obtuse.
When Su Tao walked out of the café, Chi Xiaocheng also acutely sensed a subtle shift in the girl's demeanor and couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong?"
Su Tao pursed her lips and smiled. "Nothing, it's just..."
She paused. "...it's just something came up suddenly. Xiaocheng, I'm sorry, I might not be able to accompany you shopping. I need to go."
Her heart ached a little now.
Her acting skills were still not refined enough.
She was very afraid she wouldn't be able to hold herself together right now.
To be deceived by her favorite Xiaocheng, something like that...
Su Tao felt a knot in her chest, a suffocating, heavy feeling.
"I'm sorry."
After saying this, Su Tao turned and hurried away.
This left Chi Xiaocheng a bit perplexed. "System, Su Tao rarely gets this anxious, does she? It's more like she's afraid of losing her composure? Is it really that serious?"
"Uh... this System doesn't know."
"You've been talking less and less lately."
"Waaah..."
However...
Tao Tao's condition just now was indeed a bit off.
Chi Xiaocheng walked into the café and asked, "Sister Qian Qing, what did Tao Tao talk to you about just now?"
Qian Qing's mouth twitched.
She just left and now you're here, huh?
Yesterday, she shouldn't have trusted Chi Xiaocheng's nonsense and tried to help Dongfang Yang; all those troubles kept her from sleeping well last night.
Qian Qing snorted. "Didn't say anything! And I'm not serving you today, now scram!"
Chi Xiaocheng flashed a mischievous smile. "Oh, Sister Qian Qing, you're really something. You clearly like Dongfang Yang so much, yet you pretend not to care. So tsundere, aren't you?"
(Made by fellow reader Bai Ling)
"Hahahaha!"
After saying that, Chi Xiaocheng didn't even wait for Qian Qing to react and immediately ran out of the café.
She turned, looking again in the direction Su Tao had just left.
After catching her breath, she fell into thought.
There were two possibilities for Tao Tao's sudden behavior.
One, when she went in just now, she asked Qian Qing something, and Qian Qing told her something that made her extremely anxious and concerned, causing her to leave so abnormally.
Two, after entering the café, she might have received a message on her phone from someone.
Before, Chi Xiaocheng could have immediately gone home and used her hacking skills to investigate the matter.
But Tao Tao's phone, she heard, was accidentally crushed by her.
After getting a new phone, Chi Xiaocheng hadn't had time to implant a Trojan horse.
"No, there's another possibility."
The World Will!
Chi Xiaocheng suddenly realized, what if the World Will had influenced Tao Tao just now?
"System, did you detect anything just now?"
"Sorry, Host. All the energy I accumulated before has been stored in you. Many times, I can only focus on you alone. As for the female lead Su Tao, I didn't sense anything strange."
Chi Xiaocheng rubbed her chin.
"Still, I can't sit idly by."
She needed a reinforcement who wouldn't be interfered with by the World Will, who was smart, and who she could trust one hundred percent.
...
Meanwhile, after they parted ways, Su Tao went alone to a secluded bubble tea shop in a quiet corner of the campus.
She wanted a quiet place, and vaguely thought of this expensive bubble tea shop that hardly anyone patronized.
She needed to calmly think about what to do next.
As soon as Su Tao sat down, a young waitress approached her. "Hello, what would you like to drink?"
Su Tao looked up. The person was a small, round-faced girl, about the same height as Chi Xiaocheng, dressed in a waitress uniform.
A menu was handed to her.
Su Tao took the menu and instantly paused.
All the bubble teas here had the words "Overlord" in their names.
She wanted to order a Mango Pomelo Sago.
Overlord Mango Pomelo Sago – Medium/25 yuan.
No wonder this bubble tea shop had so little business.
Then Su Tao looked around and found that even lemon water cost over 15 yuan.
She was speechless for a moment, remembering that she still owed Xiaowei two thousand yuan. She looked at the waitress. "Uh... do you have plain water?"
The waitress smiled kindly. "That's free. Would you like ice with it?"
"Yes, please. Thank you."
Without anyone familiar around, Su Tao no longer needed to maintain her act. Emotions like heartache, confusion, and bewilderment were almost written on her face.
Because of this, when her iced water arrived, the waitress looked at her with concern and asked, "Miss... student, your complexion looks very poor. Are you alright?"
"I'm sorry, I'm just feeling a bit down."
The waitress sat opposite Su Tao. "If you need someone to talk to, I can listen. After all, hardly anyone comes to this shop, and we don't know each other."
Su Tao looked up at the girl. Her gaze followed the lanyard around her neck to the name on her work ID badge – Su Meimei.
Su Tao looked up. "You really don't know me?"
She felt that there were few people at school who didn't know her.
Su Meimei shook her head. "I'm an exchange student. I only arrived at the school half a month ago."
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