Chapter 14: Taking Charge For many days to come, she could always...
For many days afterwards, she would always see Li Ci at school.
He was like a ghost, floating in her life, enjoying the malicious manipulation of her emotions. Her anger, her disgust, her fear, all became his playthings.
Other people in the school were not particularly surprised by Li Ci's appearance. They just lamented that Li Ci came to see his girlfriend more and more frequently. Every time he came, he would cause a commotion. The naive little girls would build tall buildings in the school forum, enviously discussing his and Xu Tian's dreamy love.
This went on for a while, but perhaps it wasn't enough. One day after school, Lin Xicai returned home and found her mother was not there. After asking other aunts, she learned that Uncle Wang had been accidentally hit by someone on the road and broke his leg, so her mother went to the hospital to visit him.
Lin Xicai originally thought it was an accident, but when she went to the hospital to visit the next day, the perpetrator was also there. When she saw Li Ci standing behind the perpetrator, she understood everything.
Two people walked out of the ward. Lin Xicai turned around and looked at him: "Is it you?"
Li Ci smiled and said, "The person who caused the accident is my friend. I'm very sorry."
Lin Xicai suddenly felt a little tired. "Just because I accidentally spilled some water on you?"
The disgusting smile on Li Ci's face faded, and he leaned forward slightly: "Isn't this enough?"
"But you said you were fine."
"I know," Li Ci ruffled her hair and explained to her gently, "If something happened, he wouldn't just lie here."
The dense malice was conveyed into her ears in the gentlest voice.
Lin Xicai's body was a little stiff, not sure if it was because she was too angry or too shocked.
Lin Xicai opened her mouth and said, "Didn't Sara get angry with you? You're so magnanimous to a dog, why would you be so magnanimous to a human being..."
Li Ci frowned and looked at her strangely. "The dog is at least the Fu family's dog, but who is that person?"
Lin Xicai shut up. She would never understand him.
She couldn't understand his thinking and all the motivations behind his actions.
This person is like an unpruned sapling, growing up recklessly, carrying the most primitive and undisciplined evil in his bones.
Lin Xicai looked at this person and suddenly thought of Xie Shi. Xie Shi had a solitary and aloof personality. Although he was given an antisocial personality tendency, at least for now, this tendency was not obvious. She knew that as long as she didn't provoke him, he wouldn't take the initiative to make trouble.
But this person is different. Once he sets his eyes on you, he will strangle you like a poisonous snake and force you to walk towards him step by step.
"Can you tell me why?"
Lin Xicai looked at him steadily, "I want to hear the real reason. Why? Why me?"
"Because your eyes are different from everyone else's here," Li Ci leaned over, examining her eyes almost intently, as if admiring a pair of intricately crafted glass in a museum. "Has anyone ever told me that even when you're smiling, your eyes carry an inherent sense of perfunctoriness and contempt? I hate your eyes, and I hate them even more for belonging to a servant's daughter."
Lin Xicai had no expression. The light in the corridor and the shadow cast by Li Ci on her cut her face into two sides, one side was glowing, and the other side was hidden in the dark, revealing a contradictory beauty.
Like an ignorant fairy who is slowly awakening.
She looked at him intently, then smiled at him, a rare moment. "Are you sure you want to do this?"
Li Ci was stunned for a moment, then the corners of his lips curled up slightly, and his tone was filled with some deliberate intimacy, "Tomorrow afternoon's physical education class, in the waste equipment room."
Lin Xicai nodded, and after a while, she replied calmly, "Okay."
…
"What are you doing so late?"
After dinner, Lin Xicai sat in the garden for a while, then went back to her room, changed into sportswear, and went out. Seeing her, Zhong Ping couldn't help but ask, "Why are you running at this time?"
Lin Xicai walked out, a little absent-minded, "I can't sleep, so I went out to burn some energy."
"It's cold at night, wear more clothes," Zhong Ping kept chattering, "It's nearby, don't go too far."
Lin Xicai responded a few times, zipped up her clothes, and walked out the door.
The Fu family's villa was not far from the Xuling River. Lin Xicai had no plan to run far, but she ended up running to the river.
The moon was high in the sky, the river shimmered, and on the shore lay some golden and red fallen leaves. The autumn wind blew, and the scenery was truly beautiful. However, Lin Xicai was in no mood to appreciate it.
Lin Xicai ran around the Xuling River for a while, and her body was sweating. The tip of her nose was blown a little red by the autumn wind. She slowed down her pace and planned to catch her breath before walking back, but when she looked up, she was attracted by a figure.
The figure stopped by the river. She was wearing a thin navy blue coat, with long hair draped over her shoulders, a little messy in the wind. Her head was lowered, as if in a daze, but her face could not be seen clearly.
The figure was tall and thin, giving off a shaky feeling, as if it would fall into the river if the wind blew.
Lin Xicai stared at her for a while, then walked over. "What are you doing here?"
Xu Tian seemed to be frightened by her, with a slightly stressed look and a pale face.
Lin Xicai looked at her frightened expression and her voice softened unconsciously. "What a coincidence! I thought I was the only one running around at this hour."
Xu Tian pursed her lips, staring at the calm river surface, and answered somewhat irrelevantly: "The temperature difference between day and night is very large now. The water in the Xuling River should be quite cold at night."
Lin Xicai stared at her face, frowned slightly, paused and said: "What happened?"
Xu Tian stared at her for a while, as if trying to judge whether this person was trustworthy. After a moment's silence, she said calmly, "It's my birthday this Saturday, and he asked if I wanted to spend it at the hotel."
Li Ci used a question, but they all knew that this was not a multiple-choice question.
His purpose of going to the hotel to celebrate his birthday was almost obvious, and what it meant was self-evident.
"Saturday..."
Lin Xicai murmured the date, "There are still three days left. Maybe there will be a turning point."
Xu Tian twitched the corners of his lips, calmly, numbly, and desperately, "What other hope will there be?"
"Maybe there is." Lin Xicai looked at her, her eyes burning with strange certainty. "Xu Lingjiang won't run away. What's wrong with you waiting for three more days?"
Wait three days?
What are you waiting for?
It's waiting for a god to descend from the sky.
Or wait for a miracle.
Xu Tian didn't think the girl's confidence was well-founded, but she still expressed gratitude for her comfort.
Lin Xicai sat down on a flat rock by the river, took out a few pieces of toilet paper from her sportswear pocket, spread them on the rock, patted the spot, and looked at Xu Tian: "Sit with me for a while."
Xu Tian then sat over.
The two men sat side by side facing the Xuling River, neither of them speaking.
They were not familiar with each other, but surprisingly, the silence did not seem awkward.
During this time, Lin Xicai asked her about some things, and she responded one by one. Occasionally, she looked up and found that the moon was unexpectedly beautiful today. It was round, bright, and perfect to the point of being inappropriate.
After staying like this for a while, a food delivery vehicle suddenly drove over and stopped beside them.
Xu Tian was slightly surprised when she saw Lin Xicai had already taken the box from the delivery man. Inside was an exquisite four-inch birthday cake. The cake was simply made with only the simple words "Happy Birthday" on it.
Lin Xicai ignored her surprised, shy, and even somewhat bewildered expression. She opened the box and inserted the candles, lighting them one by one. She said casually, "I know when your birthday is. I can't just not acknowledge it..."
The exquisite and beautiful little cake was lifted in front of her in a blink of an eye. Lin Xicai said calmly, "Make a wish."
Xu Tian stared blankly at Lin Xicai, staring at the cake with flickering candlelight, and did not move.
Lin Xicai sighed, "Are you so disrespectful?"
Xu Tian pursed her lips for a long while, then finally closed her eyes, clasped her hands together in front of her chest, and under the moonlight, she earnestly made a wish towards the flickering candlelight.
The autumn breeze helped her blow out the candles, and the two of them quietly shared the small cake by the river.
Finally, Lin Xicai slowly sorted out the garbage one by one and put it into the bag.
"Go home," she said. "Your wish will come true."
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The third class on the afternoon of the second day was physical education. After completing the fixed KPI of running two laps, the physical education teacher called for the students to disperse.
The team dispersed sparsely. Lin Xicai took two steps forward, stopped the male sports committee member, and whispered a few words to him.
The male physical education teacher's face changed when he heard this. Lin Xicai pursed his lips and said a few more words. The male physical education teacher nodded with a serious look on his face.
Then, Lin Xicai left the crowd, walked in the opposite direction alone, and left the playground.
The room at the far side of the third floor of the gymnasium is a discarded equipment room. It is said that a student once had an accident here, and later there were many exaggerated rumors about this equipment room. It was regarded as some kind of ominous place and was gradually abandoned. Few people go in and out.
Lin Xicai had no objection to the place chosen by Li Ci. She never believed in ghosts and gods. Compared to those, people were obviously more difficult to deal with.
The equipment room hadn't been looked after all year, and it wasn't locked. The door was ajar. Pushing it open, he was greeted by the smell of damp dust. Li Ci was inside, blending in with the damp dust in the air.
"You are always so rude and made me wait for 24 minutes," said Li Ci.
"Why don't you say that you came early?" Lin Xicai said.
Li Ci seemed to smile. He was originally leaning lazily against a table, but he immediately stood up and walked towards her. His tall and thin figure approached step by step, and he walked very slowly, like a playful torture.
He watched her face, trying to see something in it that would turn him on.
But she just stood there, not seeming to open her mouth to bite the hook he had set.
Li Ci stopped less than half a meter away from her, leaned forward slightly, and spoke with the same intimacy and frivolity as before: "Do you know why I met you here?"
His eyes fell on her ear, "Because there is no surveillance here, they can't see what we are doing."
Lin Xicai tilted her head slightly, and their breaths collided in the air. She spoke in a light voice, "Then do you know why I agreed to come here?"
She suddenly raised her eyes and looked him straight in the eye, then smiled: "What a coincidence, it's also because there are no surveillance cameras here, so they can't see what we are doing."
This was the first time that the two of them were so close and she didn't move away. Li Ci couldn't help but look down at her, his eyes landing on her long and curled eyelashes, then sliding down, and finally landing on her wet lips.
She smiled slightly, and there was a sweet sinisterness in her faint smile.
In this dim, damp, dilapidated room, it was like a goblin slowly appearing.
The first few times they met, he could clearly feel her fear, anxiety, irritability and disgust.
He toyed with her emotions tirelessly.
But today, everything is calm.
Her emotions were no longer affected by him, and instead she showed some desire to take control.
It's like a piece of candy. When you peel off the exquisite candy wrapper, there is a beautiful poison lying inside.
This indescribable strange feeling made Li Ci feel novel.
"Li Ci."
She suddenly called his name solemnly.
Then he spoke calmly, as if stating a matter-of-fact truth, "You asked me to come here with you, and now I am here. Now it's your turn to go somewhere with me."
Li Ci stared at her, "Where are you going?"
"One, where you should be."
The silver ring on Lin Xicai's little finger flashed.
A white light suddenly flashed before Li Ci's eyes. The light became brighter and brighter, expanding infinitely in his field of vision, wrapping him up and swallowing him.
It devoured his body and his consciousness. His consciousness seemed to be interfered with by some kind of energy and became uncontrollably dispersed.
In the last moment of his consciousness, he seemed to think that this was the first time he heard this person calling his name...
There was silence all around, and only the dust and her remained in the scrap equipment room.
Lin Xicai stretched out her hand, raised it slightly, squinted her eyes and looked at the ring on her little finger, as if she was admiring a piece of pleasing jewelry.
——She was quite surprised that the space given to her by the system was used in such a way.
…
At the same time, on the playground, under the shade of a tree, a figure suddenly froze.
Xie Shi opened his eyes, his amber pupils suddenly contracted, and his Adam's apple rolled unconsciously.
Like a shooting star streaking across the dead night sky, the instantaneous light it flashed burned through all his expectations.
Complex and intense emotions burst out in his eyes.
Just like the sea after a hurricane, it can no longer calm down.
He almost forgot that she had such a thing in her hand.
It's even more unbelievable that she would use it to do such a thing.
He thought she would come to him for help, he thought she would ask the Fu family for help, he thought she would endure and give in, he thought she would become hysterical... She avoided all his expectations and made such a decision with such a harmless face.
He was stunned, shocked, and even...
Overexcited.
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