Chapter 61 Chapter 61 Crisis: Ye Liang Arrives!
Chapter 61 Crisis: Ye Liang Arrives!
At the community entrance, even Su Tao hadn't expected to run into Ye Liang there.
He was dressed in a suit, clearly just off work.
Upon seeing Su Tao, his dissatisfaction was plainly written on his face. "Why didn't you listen to me?"
Su Tao shrank back, quickly taking out her phone to check her chat history with Ye Liang.
It turned out that over the past three days, Ye Liang had been sending messages intermittently. Chi Xiaocheng had perfunctorily responded to the unimportant ones.
Many repeated questions had been fobbed off by Chi Xiaocheng with the excuse of "being sick and needing care."
And this morning, Ye Liang had sent her a message in a commanding tone.
He demanded that she come to his company to see him.
At that time, Su Tao was still in her room, and of course, Chi Xiaocheng had refused as usual.
The consequence seemed to be that this fellow had been enraged.
Ye Liang strode forward, his voice deep as muffled thunder. "What are you looking at your phone for? Why didn't you listen to me?"
Su Tao pursed her lips, then looked directly at Ye Liang, repeating the lie Chi Xiaocheng had fabricated. "Didn't I tell you? Xiaocheng is sick, and I'm taking care of her."
"Just because of that, you wouldn't come to my company?" Ye Liang reached out to grab Su Tao's shoulder.
Unexpectedly, Su Tao actively took a step back, dodging him.
The domineering Ye Liang raised his head, looking even more displeased. That hand moved again, powerfully seizing towards her.
"Smack!"
This time, Su Tao smacked it away without hesitation.
Ye Liang said in a deep voice, "What do you mean by this?"
"What do you mean by this!" Su Tao retorted, facing Ye Liang's tall and robust frame, yet not backing down in the slightest.
Ye Liang took a step forward. "Say that again?"
"So what if I say it!" A glimmer of tears welled in Su Tao's eyes, as if venting the pressure she had endured these past few days. She shouted directly, "What do you mean, 'just because of this'? What's wrong with me taking care of Xiaocheng when she's sick?!"
"She has hands and feet; does she need you to take care of her?"
"You have hands and feet, so why do I have to go to your company and be your maid!"
Su Tao stubbornly held her head high. "Yes, you think Xiaocheng got in your way, and she also left a bad impression on you. You don't like her, but can you please not only consider my feelings for her from your own perspective?"
"You summon me when you need me, dismiss me when you don't. You told me to make up for it by being your maid for three days, and I agreed. I took time to learn how to be a maid, to prepare necessary things, to ask for leave, to humbly negotiate shift changes with my part-time colleagues and boss!"
"Oh, you were free for those three days, so you expected me to go just because you told me to? Did you ever consider me?"
"I had everything arranged, and when I went to your company to find you, you just left someone to say you were busy and made me keep waiting?"
"You didn't even send me a message on WeChat in advance to explain!"
Su Tao held up her phone, then wiped the tears from the corner of her eyes with the back of her hand. "Someone like you, what right do you have to criticize Xiaocheng? And I'm not your subordinate, don't order me around like you do your servants!"
The more Su Tao thought about it, the angrier she became, letting out all her past grievances against Ye Liang.
Ye Liang frowned, one hand clenched tightly. He knew that what Su Tao said was actually all true.
But his pride and the ingrained habit of a person in power for so many years made him unable to tolerate anyone defying him like this.
He retorted in a deep voice, "How many times have I told you? I have plenty of money. Even at school, the principal wouldn't dare touch you if I said a word. I can give you both time and money!"
"What are you still striving for?"
"Working hard at part-time jobs, studying diligently, facing those so-called friends who have no future and only know how to coast along – aren't you striving for a better future?"
"Everything you want, I can give you!"
Ye Liang didn't get to utter that last sentence; it caught in his throat.
Because he saw Su Tao looking at him with tears and disappointment. "You keep saying you like me, yet you don't even know what I want."
Ye Liang felt as if struck by lightning, standing frozen as he tentatively extended his hand.
"Smack!"
"You're not even as good as Xiaocheng!"
Su Tao slapped his hand away and walked out of the community entrance without looking back.
In her mind, Chi Xiaocheng's obedient smile appeared.
Three days.
For the first two days, she had experienced confusion, oppression, and fear, even Chi Xiaocheng's various coercions.
But in the final moments of today, she felt happiness, warmth, and peace.
A pat on the head, a hug, a conversation – the brief tenderness felt like a return to the time in her childhood when they relied on each other.
Simple and endearing.
This was precisely what she had always yearned for.
Both claimed to like her, but compared to Xiaocheng, he was far inferior.
Without comparison, there is no harm.
This was true for Su Tao, and also for Ye Liang.
He stood there blankly, his mind filled with Su Tao's parting words.
—You're not even as good as Xiaocheng.
He also remembered the argument at that banquet, with the thunderstorm raging outside.
—To me, Xiaocheng is more important than you!
Chi Xiaocheng! Chi Xiaocheng!
It's Chi Xiaocheng again!
As if sensing someone's gaze, Ye Liang suddenly looked up at the fifth floor directly ahead.
On the balcony, Chi Xiaocheng's small figure stood there.
Her hands were clasped behind her back, and the corners of her lips curved up.
As if mocking his plight.
"This fellow..."
Ye Liang's eyes darkened, and he walked straight towards Chi Xiaocheng's direction.
Old Man Zhang, who was cracking sunflower seeds in the security booth, couldn't help but sigh, "It's good to be young."
But unlike the old man's tranquility, seeing Ye Liang walk towards her, Chi Xiaocheng wasn't panicking yet, but the System was.
[Host, what should we do? Ye Liang is coming directly. He's the male lead who currently poses the greatest threat to us. Should we just lock the door and keep him outside?]
Chi Xiaocheng put the knife in her hand back into the System space, her eyes calm. "We'll have to face Ye Liang sooner or later. There's no escaping it."
[Then should we quickly spend all our emotion points? Draw a skill for self-preservation first!]
"Don't rush." While Ye Liang hadn't come up yet, Chi Xiaocheng lowered her head, thinking, and asked, "Sys, what do you think would happen if I were to kill Ye Liang?"
[You probably couldn't do it. This is a male lead; the world's will would definitely interfere. And he's walking straight over; if anything happened, we, the villainous cannon fodder, would be utterly finished.]
[Self-preservation, try not to provoke him, that's the best approach.]
"That's true!"
Killing someone, or something like that, that's too far-fetched.
[So, Host, want to draw a prize first?]
"What's there to be afraid of?" Chi Xiaocheng wasn't flustered at all. "Later, if Ye Liang gets physical, you just say something to anger me and make me snap. My combat power will multiply tenfold, and I'll directly beat him into submission!"
[...]
*Host, if I angered you and you snapped, are you sure I wouldn't be the first one you knife?*
"Alright, Sys, don't worry, I probably have a plan in mind."
Chi Xiaocheng calmly turned around, looking towards the door.
And it was at this moment that the door was struck with a "thud."
Ye Liang had arrived!
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