Chapter 48 Help! She's not the female lead! This plot shouldn't be about her!
Yunyang stood in front of the kitchen counter, holding a handful of sticky ribs in her hand, but her mind was in complete turmoil.
Xiao Ting, oh Xiao Ting.
Who told you to pretend to be lame all the time? Even when you stop pretending, you're still wandering around in a wheelchair.
Well, now look what happened! The system has assigned you a script where you're truly crippled.
Ugh, this damned, misplaced sense of morality.
Yunyang irritably slammed the ribs into the basin.
Garlic bird, garlic bird, everyone has their own destiny, wealth and honor are determined by fate.
She's just an NPC in the story, why is she worrying about the protagonist's legs?
Besides, it's not necessarily true that an accident will happen today.
Anyway, Fu Xiaoting has already assigned her to Fu Xiaojun, and she's leaving soon.
Once you leave, you won't be able to see or know anything anymore.
Yunyang took a deep breath and poured the marinated ribs into the boiling oil.
With a sizzle, the rich aroma of meat exploded out instantly.
Just then, there was a "buzzing" sound above my head.
The roar of the range hood stopped abruptly.
The kitchen fell into a deathly silence, and then the light disappeared.
The power is out again.
In the darkness, only the hot oil in the pan continued its reluctant sizzling.
A few seconds later, the overhead light flickered twice and then came back on.
The servants in the kitchen breathed a sigh of relief and began to chatter amongst themselves.
"That startled me, the power went out again."
"I heard that the Guo family in the neighborhood is fighting again and has damaged the power lines in our area. I don't think we'll have any peace for the next few days."
Yun Yang's heart skipped a beat as she listened to their discussion.
Frequent power outages... Xiaoting...
She realized it instantly.
Even if the Guo family doesn't fight each other, the system will still come up with a hundred ways to black out the storage room in order to advance the plot.
A maid who was chopping vegetables seemed to remember something and patted her chest with a look of lingering fear.
"Have you heard? Last time there was a power outage, someone went to the storage room to get something. It was dark, and they couldn't see clearly. They accidentally knocked over a shelf and broke another person's leg!"
As she spoke, she looked at Yunyang with a worried expression.
"Manager Yun, it seems like Manager Ju has been busy with outside matters lately and hasn't had time to take care of these things. Could you please have someone reinforce the storage shelves in the storage room? Or... at least install an emergency light."
“Yes, yes,” another young maid chimed in, “Our kitchen staff have to go to the pantry seven or eight times a day, it’s too dangerous.”
“And that door lock!” the maid added. “The lock on the storage room door is broken too. Once it’s closed from the outside, it can’t be opened from the inside. Last night, Sister Zhang was locked in there for more than half an hour.”
Yun Yang froze on the spot.
The door cannot be opened from the inside.
No wonder the system told Gu Yan to throw away the key.
"Cloud Butler! Cloud Butler!"
A gasp pulled Yun Yang back from her thoughts.
"Pot! The ribs in the pot are burnt!"
Yunyang snapped back to reality, a strong smell of burning filling her nostrils.
She hurriedly turned off the stove, staring at the pile of dark, unidentified objects in the pot, but another image uncontrollably flashed through her mind.
That time at the cemetery.
She stood there dumbfounded, hesitating whether or not to help Xiaoting.
Without the slightest hesitation, he scooped her up from the ground, carried her, and hid in the cave.
Yun Yang pursed her lips and made a decision in her heart in an instant.
She picked up the spatula and, expressionless, dumped the entire pot of culinary disaster into the trash can.
Then, she took off her apron and said to the dumbfounded maid beside her, "I'm going out for a bit. I'll make the ribs when I get back."
She didn't go anywhere else, but went to the tool shed first.
I took a set of tools and a brand new rechargeable emergency light from inside.
Then, he walked quickly toward the storage room.
It's definitely too late to reinforce the frame.
But as long as emergency lights are installed, the storage room will not be completely dark even if there is a sudden power outage.
As long as the light source is continuous, he will not be afraid.
Don't be afraid, the task assigned to Gu Yan by the system will not be completed.
Whoever caused the system to embezzle so much money from her, they'll all suffer.
Hehehehehe, let's destroy each other together!
(It's absolutely not because I'm worried about Xiaoting, absolutely not!!!)
(no!)
...
basement.
Fu Xiaoting was looking at the unconscious Fu Xiaofang with amusement.
Fu Xiaofang had a plastic wrap over his nose.
He took two deep breaths through his nose, but found there was no air, so he opened his mouth, revealing a mouthful of teeth.
Swoosh—
Suddenly I felt a gust of wind.
Fu Xiaoting subconsciously looked towards the half-open door.
A person, like a penguin about to fight, charged forward with an air of utter indifference.
Fu Xiaoting raised an eyebrow.
It seems to be brewing.
He moved his wheelchair and followed silently.
Storage room.
Holding the emergency light in one hand and gripping the metal ladder with the other, Yun Yang huffed and puffed as she climbed up.
I climbed to the top and placed the emergency light in the intended position.
Then, carefully steadying himself, he held onto the wall behind him with one hand while quickly pulling a screw from his pocket with the other.
What's Xiao Yun doing? Sneaking around like that, are they planning to raid my base?
Xiaoting's heartfelt words!
Yun Yang panicked and her hand trembled.
She didn't hold the screw properly, and it slipped straight off her fingertips.
In that instant, without thinking, Yun Yang let go of the wall and bent down to reach out and grab it.
As a result, the body instantly lost its balance.
"ah--!"
Yun Yang let out a short scream, and her whole body tilted backward uncontrollably, falling off the ladder.
Oh no!
He's going to get a concussion from that fall!
[Little Brewing, I'm truly impressed!]
Fu Xiaoting mentally complained.
Despite the complaints, the body reacted quickly.
He stood up, rushed over, stretched out his arms, and caught her steadily as she fell.
The immense impact caused him to stagger back two steps, but he ultimately lost his balance and both of them crashed heavily to the ground.
The expected excruciating pain did not come.
Yun Yang felt a sudden darkness before her eyes, and then she landed on a hard, warm cushion of flesh.
She opened her eyes groggily and found herself lying on top of Fu Xiaoting.
"hiss--"
A gasp came from beneath her.
Yun Yang jolted awake and hurriedly scrambled off him.
"Sir, are you alright? Sir!"
She apologized as she helped him up, and immediately noticed the long, bloody gash on his arm.
It must have been scraped by something on the ground when I fell.
Fresh blood was gushing from the wound, instantly staining his light-colored sleeves red.
"You're injured! What should we do? What should we do?"
Yun Yang's face turned pale instantly.
"Don't move! I'll go find someone! Call a doctor!"
She panicked and became incoherent, then turned and rushed towards the door.
But when she got to the door, she realized that the ladder had fallen over when she fell.
One end of the ladder slammed into the door, and with a crisp "click," the door... was closed.
Yunyang pressed the door handle hard.
It remained completely still.
"Open the door! Open the door!"
She tried a few more times, but the doorknob seemed to be welded shut.
Just as the maid said, it couldn't be opened from the inside!
She turned around and began banging on the door.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
"Help! Is anyone there?! I'm in danger!"
She shouted at the top of her lungs for a long time, but there was only deathly silence outside, not even a footstep.
A very bad premonition suddenly welled up inside me.
No way...
No way! No way!
She's not the female lead!
The plot shouldn't have made her leave!
As if to confirm her guess.
The next second.
The already dim light bulb overhead flickered twice stubbornly, then, with a "snap," went out completely...
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