Chapter 495 Chapter 493 Xiao Cheng, Xiao Cheng! What'S So Good About Her!
Chapter 493 Xiao Cheng, Xiao Cheng! What'S So Good About Her!
Time flowed slowly, and the banquet quickly reached its halfway point.
From a lounge by the side door of the banquet hall, a small figure with tea-brown hair, dressed in a white skirt, swiftly slipped out of the door and ran off with the tall, 1.9-meter-tall man wearing glasses.
With her head bowed, her expression was unclear, but her hurried running posture revealed that she was flustered and extremely anxious.
Not only that, but the message seemed to have reached others as well. A woman in a white suit with a high ponytail also quickly made her way to the side door.
She wore a baseball cap unsuitable for her current attire and slipped into an SUV.
Once the group had converged, Si Chen drove them, rapidly speeding away from the banquet venue.
Just as the man had predicted, the moment the car started, the hidden sentries observing nearby immediately made their move.
A seemingly idle loafer suddenly approached a street vendor setting up shop not far from the side entrance.
“Hey, boss, two skewers of candied hawthorn, just the sticks, no hawthorn.”
“Coming right up!”
The vendor responded, and after the secret signal was given, his eyes immediately sharpened. While tinkering with something, he leaned close to the loafer and whispered, “Did you confirm their identities?”
The loafer had just been sitting on a step near the side door, playing on his phone, extremely close to the SUV.
He lowered his voice and said, “It was too dark, I couldn’t see their faces, but the clothing features match. One in a white dress, one in a white suit, and Si Chen – they all got into the SUV together.”
The vendor gave a cold chuckle. “The Maid Chief truly has uncanny foresight. Contact Special Envoy Qiu and tell the brothers to act immediately!”
The loafer was momentarily stunned. “Special Envoy Qiu? Weren’t we supposed to liaison with Boss Shanqing?”
“Higher-ups just informed us. This operation is now led by Special Envoy Qiu. Boss Shanqing has other assignments. Just contact them quickly, don’t let them get away!”
“Alright!” The man nodded and, without another word, resumed his slouching gait.
“Wait a moment!”
As he took a step, the vendor grabbed his arm again.
“What is it?”
“You haven’t paid for your candied hawthorn.”
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One small move can set off a chain reaction; that’s precisely what happened.
Within less than 30 seconds of these two parting ways, vehicles began to depart from various parts of the villa estate, and even from the villa’s underground parking garage, two cars left.
The true target, Chi Xiaocheng, had already changed into an inconspicuous everyday outfit. She stood in a second-floor lounge, watching the continuous stream of departing vehicles from the window.
She sighed helplessly in her heart. “The real show is about to begin. I hope Ning Ning won’t run into trouble.”
Little Black was beside her, reminding her, “There’s no time for melancholy. She won’t get into trouble. Go find Su Tao and Dongfang Yang first. I still think your so-called life carries too much risk.”
“I trust you,” Chi Xiaocheng patted her skirt. “I trust Taotao too.”
So, among those you trust, you don’t include yourself?
Little Black fell silent.
On ordinary days, she was already a person of few words, her activity level even less than that of the system.
But today, this taciturn colleague was also much more subdued than usual.
As Si Chen departed, the hidden sentries began to shift positions. Chi Xiaocheng also left the lounge, checking the message Dongfang Yang had sent to her phone, and started walking towards the banquet’s rear hall.
Dongfang Yang had arranged another car for her departure, and after she found him, she would also have to face Su Tao, with whom she had just argued.
Chi Xiaocheng didn’t even know that the current Su Tao had already been controlled by the World Will.
Her mind bound, like a homeless phantom, she wandered aimlessly around the banquet hall and then walked into the beautiful interior of the estate.
Like a master, surveying her own territory.
This was not her territory.
Yet it was, ‘His’ territory.
“The night sky is like ink, yet it cannot obscure the brilliant lights. Such scenes are truly beautiful!”
The voice emerged from Su Tao’s mouth, but it was like a machine, devoid of any emotion, yet the exclamation in the words was discernible.
A strange sense of disjointedness and disharmony emanated from her.
In fact, it was not Su Tao speaking, but the World Will.
The maiden, like a radiant moonbeam, was now firmly locked deep within her heart.
She had no room left to struggle, for mortals could not shake ‘gods’.
The World Will strolled through the estate’s night scenery, reveling in every maid’s bowing greeting as they passed, and continued to speak, “My Taotao, why do you still wish to leave? How good it is to be as you are now. Rest peacefully in that warm ocean, free from worries.”
“And I will bring Chi Xiaocheng to your side, let Chi Xiaocheng merge with you, let Chi Xiaocheng accompany you forever—isn’t that what you desire?”
In its question, posed as if victory were already assured, the World Will’s tone still carried a trace of displeasure.
If not for the character’s weight dropping to 50%, Its control over Su Tao would have been simpler, and the girl would never have resisted its god-like existence.
How could it be like this now, where one voice after another surged from the depths of her heart?
“Where am I? Why is it so dark around me? I can’t see anything.”
“Can I truly be with Xiaocheng forever? Is everything you’re saying true?”
“You’re right. I want Xiaocheng to stay with me forever.”
“But where is Xiaocheng? Xiaocheng isn’t here at all! It’s pitch black here, there’s nothing!”
Previously, it was the World Will’s voice that resonated from deep within her heart, influencing Su Tao herself and guiding her thoughts.
Now, It had imprisoned Su Tao’s soul deep within the heart. The roles of the two began to reverse.
Su Tao couldn’t control her own body and could only incessantly question the one operating her body.
The World Will helplessly soothed, “Don’t worry, I’ll let your Xiaocheng see you. Tonight. Once I return with her, back to our familiar little home, then you two can… Sss—!”
Before the World Will could finish speaking, it clutched its head in a headache.
Su Tao’s voice from deep within her heart grew louder: “Where is Xiaocheng? Where is Xiaocheng? Where is Xiaocheng? Where is Xiaocheng? Where is Xiaocheng? Where is Xiaocheng? Where is Xiaocheng…”
This ceaseless, obsessive chatter also ignited a furious anger in the World Will. “Enough! You are merely my puppet, a pawn! How dare you even resist me? You don’t know what’s good for you!”
However, her response was an even more insistent string of words: “Where is Xiaocheng! Where is Xiaocheng! Tell me, where is Xiaocheng!”
“Xiaocheng! Xiaocheng! You’re still muttering about her. What’s so good about her, anyway?!”
“Ye Liang, Chu Lingfeng—those are the ones who should have been your true matches, Su Tao!”
“If it weren’t for this fellow, who should have died long ago, awakening her self-awareness, how could my things have been stolen?! The one who spoiled my entire endeavor, I’ll let her reunite with you in a moment!”
Amidst the scolding, a quarrel from the other end was also playing out here.
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