Accident

Accident

Yu Xu's kiss landed on my face.

Sparsely, he kissed me all the way down to my lips, but only lingered around them. He just extended his tongue when he saw me biting my lip, and suddenly didn't dare to continue. Instead, he just kissed my chin.

He is completely different from Jiang Mingzhuo.

Yu Xu is very respectful of me and considerate of my feelings. He will stop whenever he senses that I am even slightly unhappy.

If it were Jiang Mingzhuo, he would have already grabbed my chin, invaded my mouth, and robbed me of all my breath.

Why am I thinking about him again?

Suddenly, a chill ran down my spine, and I felt as if I had been pulled out of the affair.

I don't think this is a good sign.

Right, I can't start overthinking things just because I only bumped into him once.

So many years have passed. Jiang Mingzhuo forgot about me the moment the game redesigned the female protagonist and devoted himself to pleasing Lin Zhi'en. Today was just an accident. What am I doing, being so presumptuous?

"Xiao Fu? Did I hurt you?" Yu Xu asked, hugging my waist tightly and burying his face in my neck when he saw how nervous I was.

I shook my head, and even had a strange thought.

While doing this with my boyfriend, I was still thinking about other men? I took the initiative, seeking his lips, pressing them intimately together, gently extending my tongue, and coaxing Yu Xu into entanglement with me.

...

Even after three years, I still get nervous easily. It was almost 2 a.m., and I was extremely tired. The tension in my mind was still high. I tried hard to forget Jiang Mingzhuo, and slowly, I drifted off to sleep.

In my dream, Jiang Mingzhuo was more innocent and cuter than when I met him today.

From the time I became aware of my existence, he and his brother have always been by my side. There's no room for anyone else in my life except Jiang Mingzhuo and Jiang Zhao. I even planned to spend my whole life with these two men.

Initially, I didn't think there was anything wrong with it. I just felt that my life should revolve around the two brothers, and I should accept any request they made unconditionally, until one day I seemed to suddenly awaken to the truth.

This world is a game.

I am the female protagonist in the game, while the two brothers are the male protagonists. It seems that in the game's setting, I am destined to be with them.

Over time, a feeling of panic gradually spread through my heart.

Because I don't like either Jiang Mingzhuo or Jiang Zhao, but I still have to do very intimate things with them under the control of the game.

I began to realize how terrifying it is for a woman to be inseparable from two men at all times.

For example, who should I marry?

Whose child is it if it's born?

Despite my courage to try to get to know and approach others, strangely enough, within a few days, those people would inexplicably leave or completely disappear from my life.

I had no close friends, and no classmates dared to approach me. Even my pet cat was hit and killed by a car. From sixteen to eighteen, my world was so barren that it consisted only of Jiang Mingzhuo and his brother Jiang Zhao.

Until that day, Lim Ji-eun appeared.

She entered my world and attracted the full attention of Jiang Mingzhuo and Jiang Zhao.

My presence became increasingly faint, and several times the two brothers even forgot my name and thought I was a guest staying at the villa.

Instead of feeling bad about being ignored, I felt a long-lost sense of freedom. So, while everyone was preparing for Lin Zhi'en's birthday, I quietly ran away.

Not many people noticed, perhaps because of Lin Zhi'en's arrival, no one cared about my situation anymore.

Slowly opening her eyes, she found herself resting her head on Yu Xu's arm. He was fast asleep, his face handsome and refined.

I couldn't resist reaching out and touching it, and he mumbled, "It tickles..."

It felt so real. I smiled, felt a little relieved, got up, and pushed open the bedroom door.

The living room was completely dark, except for the floor lamp near the sofa, whose very faint light barely outlined the furniture.

Yu Xu knew I often woke up in the middle of the night to drink water, so he specially prepared a thermos and put it on the cabinet, so that no matter when I got up, there would always be warm water. I lowered my head, held the thermos, and took a few steps forward. In front of me, I thought I saw someone sitting there.

I tensed up instantly, like an animal whose tail had been stepped on.

The other person was sitting on my sofa. I couldn't see his eyes clearly, but I knew he was staring at me.

I began to doubt that this was my own hallucination, until he slowly smiled, a smile that was both sarcastic and meaningful.

I reached out and touched my chest; my heart was pounding. I wasn't sure if I was dreaming, but I was terrified. I dashed back to the bedroom and nestled back into Yu Xu's arms, where I drifted off to sleep again.

Soon, it was dawn.

Yu Xu woke me up. I slowly opened my eyes and felt his hand on my forehead. "Are you feeling unwell?"

I shook my head and hesitated as I looked towards the bedroom. The living room was empty; it was as if the people from last night had never existed. I then hesitated as I looked towards the apartment across the street. The black curtains were still drawn tightly, and there was nothing unusual about it.

"If you're feeling unwell, shall we skip the morning's activities?" Yu Xu was very considerate. He helped me get out of bed, brought me some honey water, and pointed to my hair. "You don't look too well."

"I'm fine. Besides, haven't you always wanted to build a snowman?" I gestured.

Yu Xu was taken aback, and his eyes curved into a smile.

Our apartment was in the West End, a place full of life. There were coffee shops on both sides of the street, and the snowplows that worked at night had stopped. A lot of snow on the road had been cleared away, and many young parents were leading their children to build snowmen in the park.

Yu Xu took a broom and swept out a thick layer of snow. I squatted down and gathered the snow, piling it into balls with my hands. In no time, three snowballs were finished. Yu Xu stacked them up. I was putting a carrot nose on the snowman when I saw Yu Xu taking pictures of me.

He and I have very different personalities. He is outgoing, lively, and enthusiastic. He has to seriously record everything that happens in his life and then post it on his Instagram.

I couldn't help but laugh.

Yu Xu and I took photos with the snowman, one on the left and one on the right.

Not long after he sent it, he picked up his phone again.

I went up to him and asked him what was wrong.

Yu Xu was quite surprised, saying that someone commented on his Instagram, praising our snowman as very cute.

Many people were building snowmen today, and there were even more photos of them on Instagram. I didn't pay much attention to it; maybe someone just happened to see it.

Yu Xu handed me his phone. On the photo's comment page, there was a completely black profile picture, and the nickname was just a string of letters.

"Your girlfriend is very beautiful," the man commented again.

Almost a second later, he left another message.

Are you two getting married?

Yu Xu smiled broadly and replied with a firm "YES!" He even added several emojis as a bonus.

He handed me his phone, saying, "I also think my photos are beautiful."

I glanced at it.

I was wearing a short jacket and fluffy earmuffs, my black curly hair was casually tied into a side ponytail with a hair tie, and my face had a faint blush.

Unlike my boring and dull personality, my appearance is quite deceptive; I look sweet and charming, with hooks in my eyes.

“It’s very beautiful.” I nodded and took Yu Xu’s phone.

I clicked on the profile picture of the person who left the comment, only to find that their Instagram account was completely blank; it was just an account that didn't follow anyone.

Suddenly, I felt a chill run down my spine.

I am not a particularly quick-witted person. On the contrary, I am often described by my teachers and classmates as slow and sluggish in everything I do. While everyone else has almost finished their final assignments, my paintings are still lying around in the studio, and I am not in a hurry at all.

Ever since Jiang Mingzhuo reappeared, I've been constantly suspicious and my heart is pounding.

...A new message appeared on Yu Xu's phone.

It was the same person again, who replied in Yu Xu's tone.

Congratulations! I hope you have a successful wedding!

Then came the firework emoji, followed by several kissing yellow faces. It seemed like he was just a passerby who only commented when he occasionally saw Yu Xu's photos.

I can't keep having these doubts; it's completely disrupting my normal life.

Thinking about it carefully, given Jiang Mingzhuo's personality, he wouldn't be bothered to do these things. He could just show up and take me back. He has clearly forgotten about me long ago, while I have been deluding myself and taking things too seriously.

Ordinary people should have the awareness of ordinary people, I told myself again.

I smiled, handed the phone back to Yu Xuqian, and politely thanked the person.

Yu Xu is a rather carefree person. He didn't take it seriously at all. When there were snowballs that the children couldn't lift, Yu Xu even helped them build a snowman and gave the children the extra decorations we brought.

After we finished doing all that, we went home for lunch. In the afternoon, Yu Xu took me to school, and before he left, he patted my head.

"I checked the weather forecast, it won't snow tonight. Be careful on the road, and send me a message when you get home."

I gestured to him, saying, "Come back soon."

"It's just a class reunion, it'll be quick," Yu Xu scratched his head. "His dad works for the government, maybe he can get me an internship."

He drove away.

When I was working part-time in the evening, the store manager asked me a question.

In a few days, someone will go to Jiang Mingzhuo's house to take his measurements for a custom-made watch. I'll see if I'd like to go with him and return the watch to him.

I felt it was bad luck and immediately shook my head in refusal.

Afterwards, Lu Qixi and I took the ingredients home and made a special feast of roasted beef ribs. However, time passed slowly, and the clock had already ticked from 10 to 11 o'clock. Lu Qixi had even fallen asleep in the next room, but Yu Xu still hadn't returned.

I called Yu Xu three or four times, but no one answered.

After a while, when I called back, the phone was switched off.

I started to get scared.

Long ago, when I began to awaken to the concept of "liking," I liked a boy.

In terms of appearance and family background, he was no match for Jiang Mingzhuo and Jiang Zhao, but he was very gentle, loved playing the piano, and had long, beautiful fingers.

Those beautiful hands would help me remove the fallen leaves from my head and then rub my head.

I really enjoyed being with him; there was no sense of pressure. But we had only met a few times when I heard that he had offended the captain of the baseball team and had been beaten up. When I went to the hospital to see him, his beautiful hands were covered in blood and gore.

My heart skipped a beat, and I felt uneasy. I had no choice but to find the contact information of Yu Xu's friends at school and send them one by one, word by word, asking them questions.

The person on the other end said, "We met after class. Yu Xu said he was changing clothes to go to a party, and then he left in a hurry."

I breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that maybe Yu Xu's phone had run out of battery and turned off. It had been very cold these past few days, and the phone battery wouldn't last long... I sent him a message telling him to be careful and to call me back when he saw it, and then I lay on the sofa in the living room and waited.

The room was very quiet; the only sound was the mechanical ticking of the clock on the wall.

...

A sudden ringing broke the silence of the night.

I got up groggily, blinked a few times, and then realized that the phone at home was ringing. I quickly ran over and answered the phone.

“…!” I instinctively wanted to call Yu Xu’s name, but I couldn’t make a sound, and tears streamed down my face.

"Hello, are you Yu Xu's girlfriend? I'm a police officer from the Imperial State Police Department." A cold voice came through the receiver.

I subconsciously looked up; it was already 2:30 a.m. I couldn't speak. After receiving this call, I was even more anxious, wondering if something had happened to Yu Xu.

Without thinking of anything else, I rushed to the room and shook Lu Qixi awake. Seeing me gesturing anxiously, she answered the phone.

I don't know what was said on the other end, but Lu Qixi was first surprised, then her brows furrowed tightly, and finally she gripped the receiver with a solemn expression. She looked at me from time to time, her expression becoming even more serious.

I couldn't breathe and dared not speak; countless bad thoughts flashed through my mind.

The call finally ended, and I quickly grabbed Lu Qixi's arm. "What happened? Was Yu Xu hit by a car?"

“Jiang Fu, calm down and listen to me.” Lu Qixi took a deep breath and pressed down on my shoulder. “Yu Xu took illegal drugs and his mind isn’t clear. He got into a car accident near the Empire State Building and hit someone…”

I felt a little lost; my fingers were trembling.

"So, how much bail do I need to prepare tomorrow to get him out of jail?"

“This isn’t about bail, Jiang Fu. Do you know who Yu Xu hit? The heir to YK Communications, the one who came to our store to buy clothes yesterday…!”

My eyes widened. Lu Qixi added, "Moreover, the police said he was seriously injured and was still being treated in the emergency room of the hospital... I think Yu Xu may be charged with second-degree murder."

I collapsed to the ground instantly.