Chapter 13 What do you want to do? "Little girl, what do you want to eat?" ...
"Little girl, what would you like to eat?"
"Give me a tray of xiaolongbao and a bowl of tofu pudding."
"Okay, sit wherever you want."
This is a breakfast shop located in the southwest near the school. The shop is not big, but it is exceptionally clean and tidy. The man in front of her has a kind and simple face. After greeting her, he went into the kitchen.
Not long after, a thin and beautiful girl came out with a tray of food. When she saw Lin Xicai, her face changed.
Lin Xicai smiled and said, "It smells so good." This was certainly not a chance encounter, she came here specifically to find her.
Perhaps only she can tell her those things that can only be seen clearly after the fog is cleared.
Lin Xicai had a vague suspicion in her heart, but she wasn't entirely sure. After a pause, she tentatively said, "Thank you for yesterday."
The person opposite suddenly looked embarrassed.
After a moment of silence, he said, "You, if you have the conditions, you can consider transferring schools. It won't be good to be targeted by him..."
It is true.
This was not an illusion, she really wanted to help her.
She had been dropping hints since their first meeting.
Lin Xicai looked at the cold and beautiful face and remembered the girl who followed Li Ci silently when they first met.
It was not until this time that Lin Xicai realized why the girl suddenly tugged at the man's sleeve when Li Ci looked at her when they first met at the corner, and what kind of emotions were hidden in her eyes that seemed to be covered by mist.
It is a kind of sorrow that is a desperate intertwined mixture of fear and numbness, and it is a kind of weak kindness that hopes others will not cause trouble when one has nowhere to escape.
Lin Xicai paused, "You didn't choose to be with him voluntarily, did you?"
Both of their voices dropped simultaneously. Xu Tian looked through the small window at the busy figure in the kitchen and said hesitantly, "I don't know. It doesn't matter. He'll always find a way to make me volunteer."
Lin Xicai recalled their intimate behavior and asked, "Do you like him?"
"You like it, don't you?" Xu Tian smiled. "Otherwise I'd feel pathetic."
Lin Xicai looked at her expression with complicated eyes, "But you don't look happy."
"Really?" Xu Tian was stunned for a moment, then seemed to understand something. "Even you can see it. No wonder he hasn't called it over yet."
"Finish?"
"You can think of this as a game."
"What kind of game?"
"A game that would excite him."
Born in such a family, he could easily get what ordinary people pursued.
Li Ci's emotional threshold is higher than that of ordinary people, so high that the ways ordinary people can get happiness are far from satisfying his needs, so he is keen on dragging people to play games with him.
He likes to see cold girls fall in love, watch them fall step by step and lose themselves, and he likes to see girls who fall in love being abandoned, watch them give up their self-esteem and beg for mercy.
So he will pursue passionately, using both soft and hard tactics, and after making sure he has a heart in his hands, he will throw it on the ground, smashing it and crushing it.
He is obsessed with destroying everything that looks beautiful. This process is like the blooming and withering of flowers, the greening and rotting of leaves. There is an irreversible beauty, broken and fascinating.
——The reason why you are broken and obsessed is because it is others who are broken and yourself who is obsessed.
"He is such a person. But no one believes him. Because from a distance, they can only see his bright appearance, a good family background, elegant manners, and perfect politeness."
Xu Tian's gaze fell on Lin Xicai, with an ambiguous meaning. "I'm not surprised that he would come to you. Because the first time I saw you, I felt the almost uncontrollable malice... and excitement in this person's blood."
"Why?" Lin Xicai thought of Li Ci's question from the equipment room, which was full of accusatory tone, and couldn't help but ask why.
Xu Tian shook his head. "I don't know. I don't know why he's hostile to you. This person is too complicated. Every time I think I understand him, he becomes even more unpredictable. Maybe I don't understand him at all."
Lin Xicai looked at Xu Tian. The two girls looked at each other through the hot mist, with different emotions.
Li Ci is an evil person born in this world.
It was not until his evil began to permeate into her life that this suspended and absurd world became truly real to her.
Until this moment, Lin Xicai was finally forced to realize that she had no way of putting herself in a superior position and being a bystander who stayed out of the matter.
Even if they were paper people as she said, as long as she was still in this world, she was the same as them.
If these paper figures can kill each other, they can also destroy her.
She had originally thought there would be a system to help her, but when she encountered problems, she couldn't even find its shadow. In this strange world, there was no one behind her.
After that day, Lin Xicai started going to and from school with Fu Xuefan again in order not to be left alone. Fu Xuefan naturally ridiculed her, saying that he thought she was so strong-willed, but after just a few days she couldn't keep up the pretense.
Fortunately, although the eldest daughter would laugh at her every day, she never kicked her out of the car.
Because I was always with Fu Xuefan going to and from school, my life was quite peaceful for many days.
Thinking that life would remain peaceful, Lin Xicai began to calm herself down and study, almost putting the matter aside. Then, one beautiful weekend, while she was playing with her dog on the lawn, Li Ci appeared behind her again, flanked by three or two respectful servants and a proud Fu Xuefan.
"Yes, your friend is here to see you." Fu Xuefan looked at Lin Xicai, emphasizing the word "friend", with a face full of sarcasm and disdain as if to say "When did you get involved with him again?"
Li Ci ignored her and just looked at Fu Xuefan with a graceful smile, "Is this golden retriever yours?"
"It's mine," Fu Xuefan replied, lowering his head and fiddling with the dog's ears. "But Sara seems to be closer to Zhong Fei, a traitor."
"Sara, is that its name?" Li Ci asked.
"Hmm," Fu Xuefan stroked the dog's head, then looked down to see muddy water on its legs from somewhere. He frowned and looked at Lin Xicai and said, "How did it get there? It's so dirty! Wash it quickly."
As he spoke, he waved to an uncle who was watering the lawn with a hose not far away, "Uncle Wang, turn down the water. Let Zhong Fei give Sara a bath."
"Oh, yes, miss..."
The uncle came over with a smile and handed over the water pipe. However, the over-enthusiastic golden retriever jumped up and down and bumped into him. The water pipe tilted and the water wet half of Li Ci's arm.
Fu Xuefan called out, "What's going on?"
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." The uncle was also shocked and apologized repeatedly.
Li Ci, on the other hand, acted nonchalant, simply brushing off his wet sleeves and smiling politely, "It's okay. It's a nice day today, it'll dry in a moment."
The uncle was a little embarrassed, lowering his head and apologizing repeatedly. Fu Xuefan frowned beside him. Her father had no idea Li Ci would suddenly visit, and he wasn't home, but he had specifically instructed her to entertain him well. Fu Xuefan was afraid that her father would come back and vent his anger on her, so she suppressed her anger and offered, "I'll find you a coat."
Li Ci did not refuse: "That would be troublesome."
After Fu Xuefan left, Li Ci smiled at the other people standing nearby and said, "You guys go and get busy. Don't worry about me."
The uncle stood there without moving. Li Ci nodded soothingly and said softly, "It's okay."
Lin Xicai held the water pipe in one hand and used the other to soothe the hyperactive golden retriever. She watched all this but couldn't help but smile coldly in her heart. What a good pretender.
After everyone left, only Li Ci, her, and a smiling golden retriever were left on the lawn.
Li Ci walked over a few steps and squatted down beside her, but he seemed to be disgusted with the wet dog and never touched it.
There is no one here, do you still want to keep pretending? Lin Xicai suddenly became impatient, "What on earth do you want to do?"
"It's so boring. I always have to find something to entertain myself." Li Ci had no expression on his face. He just looked at her with a strange focus. "Since you care so much about your beloved deskmate, why don't you play with me instead of him? Let's see if he cares about you."
"If you're still worried about that call to the police, you can check whether it was me. With your means, you can definitely find out..."
"It doesn't matter anymore," Li Ci seemed to smile at her innocence, "because you are much more interesting than I imagined."
"Do you want to beat me up?" Lin Xicai said suddenly.
"Um?"
"I don't have time to play this kind of game with you. You can beat me up, and I won't fight back. After that, we'll go our separate ways. Whatever you do has nothing to do with me."
The sunlight shone on that pure and lively face, and her fair skin shone like a priceless jade. Li Ci was silent for a moment, then suddenly raised his hand and touched her face with the back of his hand, rejecting her suggestion. "This face is not suitable for fists, but for kissing. Do you want to give it a try?"
The next second after these words were uttered, Li Ci was slapped on the chest and was pushed to sit on the lawn. Lin Xicai had already stood up, and the disgusting feeling deep in his soul was transmitted to another pair of eyes through his eyes.
Li Ci supported himself on the ground with his palms, looking up at every expression on her face. In the sunlight, he smiled triumphantly and arrogantly.
The Fu siblings stood on the steps and took in the whole scene - they naturally didn't know what they were talking about, all they saw was a couple fighting.
"Brother, look at her!" Fu Xuefan said angrily, "No wonder she hasn't been bothering you lately. It turns out she's found another partner."
Fu Yanxiu looked at the person not far away, threw his coat to Fu Xuefan, and said calmly: "What kind of person is she? You already know it a long time ago."
Because Li Ci's visit was under the pretext of visiting a friend, and Lin Xicai was that "friend", so even if she was just a decoration on the table, she had to be there.
Half a month later, Lin Xicai sat at the Fu family's table again.
Fu Changmin had returned early to entertain this distinguished guest. During the meal, everyone, including Fu Changmin, treated Li Ci with great courtesy. Even the servants praised him for his elegant and polite behavior.
Fu Changmin did not, or rather did not dare to, treat him as a child just because of his age. The two of them talked about many business matters during the meal. What surprised Lin Xicai was that when talking about these things, Li Ci could almost talk about them effortlessly, as if he had been influenced by them in his bones.
If you ignore his twisted and evil nature, he really looks like a qualified successor.
Li Ci politely said goodbye to everyone before leaving. When he stood in front of her, he leaned forward slightly, revealing a natural intimacy. Then she heard him say in a low voice: "Do you think the Fu family will help you? Don't be silly."
Lin Xicai didn't say anything and didn't react in any other way.
Because she knew what he said was true.
She couldn't understand everything they talked about at the dinner table, but she got a general idea. The Fu family's industry and business were highly dependent on the Li family. For the Li family, if they kicked the Fu family out, there would immediately be a hundred Zhang families, Wang families, and Zhao families to take their place. But for the Fu family, after being kicked out by the Li family, there would be no Fu family anymore.
She was just the daughter of a servant in their family. Even if she had some feelings for him, could she expect others to sacrifice their fortunes to go against Li Ci for her?
Lin Xicai suffered from insomnia and was obviously not in the right state of mind in class the next day.
During the third period, when the Chinese teacher was lecturing on science and technology, I felt particularly sleepy. My mind was in a state of confusion, as if reality and fantasy were both present. My eyelids felt as if they weighed a thousand pounds. My body, which had been sitting upright, gradually slumped, and my head began to droop...
Xie Shi stared at the slightly haggard face, lost in thought, his expression strange and focused.
At the bus stop on a rainy night, she lied to him calmly, telling him that she had called the police to save him.
He sneered, having little doubt that this person would use this fake favor to ask him to help her.
He even had the rare and childish ability to play out various scenarios, thinking about how he would expose her and despise her if she really came to him...
But from the beginning till now, he had been watching this drama, watching her being pushed into a corner little by little, having her hopes extinguished. Every time he thought she would come to find him, she did not show up.
He was eager to find out what she knew and thought, but he found that among those dense voices, there was not a single word about him.
This person never tried to use him as a retreat.
Lin Xicai's body was shaking, and at a certain moment, it seemed as if it had finally reached a critical point, and her head suddenly fell forward... Then, before she fell on the cold, hard table, a palm suddenly came across and supported her chin.
She seemed to be very tired and didn't wake up even after this.
He lowered his hand viciously, bit by bit, and her chin and her breath pressed against his palm with complete trust, rubbing against his skin, moving downwards with his movements, like some small animal seeking safety, with greedy obedience and panic.
Even as the back of his hand rested on the table, her face was still pressed against his palm, sleeping as if no one was around. She even shifted her position ever so slightly.
The wet lips unconsciously brushed against his skin, warm and soft, making his scalp tingle.
Xie Shi's expression changed and he suddenly pulled his hand back.
Lin Xicai's chin hit the table heavily with his sudden and rough movement.
After taking this pill, the person finally woke up.
His eyes were a little confused, but more of annoyance.
Lin Xicai looked to the side with a hint of accusation, but Xie Shi didn't look at her. He snorted and turned his face away.
Lin Xicai:?
It must be a mental... illness.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com