Chapter 49 Online Romance with a Bad Beta: Hidden Evidence?
The current female lead is an alpha with damaged glands who is forced to lose everything. In terms of touching the heart, Xi Congshuang is just as good as her.
The blade drew closer to Xi Congshuang's vulnerable neck, the line of blood deepening. Tan Yicheng sneered, "Who is it that made me like this?"
Xi Congshuang did not deny it: "Because of me."
“Now I’m willing to pay the price for what happened before. If you kill me now, your glands will remain as they are.”
"..."
His calm, smoky gray eyes stared directly at Tan Yicheng. Although the other man was full of resentment, he was still a young man who was not yet twenty years old.
Xi Congshuang: "If you're greedy for a moment of pleasure, according to interstellar law, you'll be convicted of intentional homicide and imprisoned with no hope of ever getting out. Are you willing to do that?"
Tan Yicheng remained silent.
The silence at this time always gives people the illusion that she is acquiescing or hesitating.
As long as the other person is still breathing, they will subconsciously continue talking to try and save their own chances of survival.
Xi Congshuang was no exception: "How do you want to choose?"
Tan Yicheng said coldly, "I don't believe you. You're a master liar."
Talk therapy still didn't work!
Red Apple clutched her head and screamed silently. Why is the female lead so difficult this time?
Tan Yicheng raised the blade high in her hand, its cold light about to slice through her fragile veins. With her skills, she could have chosen many more ways to kill someone, but she chose the most primitive one.
This excessively beautiful yet wicked woman will explode in a spray of blood and die in a pool of blood.
She was beautiful, and perhaps the setting made her appear alluring.
Just then, the AI in Xi Congshuang's hand vibrated. She had set up the vaccine connection procedure, so the person on the other end of the AI spoke directly.
"Good evening, Mr. Xi. I have made contact with Professor Wei Lin, whom you asked me to find. She has agreed to arrive on Red Tea Star within three days. Is there anything else you need?"
At the critical moment, the blade, which was less than a finger's width away from Xi Congshuang's fatal spot, stopped, and a strand of long hair fell onto Xi Congshuang's knee.
It wasn't that Tan Yicheng was momentarily dazed by those words of dubious veracity, but rather that Xi Congshuang raised her knee and pushed Tan Yicheng's stomach open. Tan Yicheng groaned in pain as her abdomen was attacked, and she retreated, the knife in her hand being snatched away.
Her slender, delicate hands grasped the falling blade, ignoring the cuts on her palms, and she gripped the handle with her other hand.
Tan Yicheng's pupils contracted, thinking that this person was crazy. She immediately reached out to snatch it, but instead, she was hugged from behind and pulled closer to her, with something cold against her neck.
If you ignore the knife in Xi Congshuang's hand, you might think the two are intimate lovers meeting at night, eagerly embracing each other upon meeting. In reality, they are locked in a life-or-death struggle.
"Stop! Stop! Stop fighting!" Red Apple was so nervous she was practically melting. She didn't dare leave for a second to find a way to restore the power.
It was truly afraid that if it were to look away for even a moment, one of the two would die.
"..."
Tan Yicheng couldn't break free, so she glared at Xi Congshuang, who remained calm, but gripped the knife tightly in her hand.
If she hadn't been injured and her physical strength hadn't declined significantly, how could Xi Congshuang have had the opportunity to humiliate her?
Xi Congshuang: "You don't believe me, and you don't believe Professor Wei Lin either?"
As someone with damaged glands, it's impossible not to know Professor Wei Lin. Within the Federation, she is a top-tier figure in the field of glands and pheromones, and has handled several cases of gland repair.
Wei Lin has been getting old in recent years and is in a semi-retired state. The price to bring her back into the public eye is definitely not low.
Tan Yicheng, who was still a student, had no way to see the other party, let alone rely on her reputation to seek medical treatment. She was talented, but not to the point that the whole Federation knew about her and felt sorry for her.
Tan Yicheng wanted to retaliate, but Xi Congshuang hugged him even tighter: "Killing me to show off your power for a moment would certainly be satisfying."
“I have already countered you. My assistant is on the phone with me right now. I can send you to jail at any time, even though you failed to do anything.”
"Once you're inside, I won't give you any chance to come out."
"I mean what I say."
No one would doubt the sincerity of Xi Congshuang's tone at this moment. No one would tolerate being threatened in their home and almost killed.
Another voice came from inside the room. The person asked cautiously, "Mr. Xi, are you still listening?"
There was still no response from the AI, and the assistant didn't dare to hang up without permission, so he spoke up again weakly.
The wrist wearing the smart device happened to be the same hand that was around Tan Yicheng's lower back, and it seemed like the person was speaking to Tan Yicheng from behind.
"!"
A third person's voice woke Tan Yicheng, bringing a sliver of rationality back to his tense mind.
"call--"
The power in the dimly lit room was suddenly restored, and Tan Yicheng's eyes lit up. He subconsciously closed his eyes.
Ten minutes later, the power that had been cut off was restored.
Ten minutes is the limit. If it goes any longer, the main control system will eventually detect the vulnerability here and send someone to inquire.
Xi Congshuang released her hand, pushed the person away, and glanced at her bleeding palm.
She raised her other wrist to reply, "I'm listening. Send me the exact news of Professor Wei Lin's landing later."
The assistant, unsuspecting, responded and was then disconnected.
Red Apple finally breathed a sigh of relief; no matter what, it was good that the host had survived.
Looking at the female lead again, I comforted myself that it was good that she could escape her tragic fate; in short, she was finally on the right track.
Now that things have come to this, Tan Yicheng has no other choice, and the culprit is the same person.
This problem is so frustrating that just thinking about it makes one grit their teeth.
Tan Yicheng reached out his hand: "Give me back my things."
Without a second thought, Xi Congshuang hid the knife behind her back: "Why? To hide evidence of your crimes?"
"And what about you?" Tan Yicheng pointed to the back of his neck. "Should I cut off my glands and give them to you so you can hide the evidence?"
Xi Congshuang: "..."
Red Apple's eyes lit up. In all these years, this was the first time it had encountered someone whose poison was on par with Xi Congshuang's.
But Xi Congshuang slowly frowned: "That thing is all bloody, what would I want with it?"
Tan Yicheng: "..." Maybe we should just kill him.
Xi Congshuang looked at the things in her hands, which were also covered in blood. She was a germaphobe and found them dirty, so she didn't want to take them anymore and returned them.
Tan Yicheng: "?"
If you're not going to pay it back, why are you paying it back now?
She said, "Aren't you afraid I'll hide the evidence?"
Xi Congxue gave her a strange look: "If I just walk out like this, you won't be able to explain yourself no matter how hard you try."
There's too much evidence; one more or one less doesn't matter.
Besides, it's just a knife.
Tan Yicheng: "......"
Just now, in order to survive, her adrenaline surged and she didn't feel any pain at all. Now that she has calmed down, Xi Congshuang feels a tidal wave of intense pain coming from all parts of her body, frantically demanding her presence.
Her face didn't reveal her true emotions, but her pale complexion showed that she wasn't as relaxed as she appeared.
Tan Yicheng is a student majoring in mecha. After long-term training, her physical fitness and reaction speed dropped significantly after her gland was injured. After the serious injury, her various levels were almost the same as those of a healthy beta.
However, his physical strength is still much stronger than that of a true beta. Only his stomach hurts from being hit by a knee, but he can still move freely.
Her neck was fine, so Xi Congshuang didn't actually press the knife down.
It wasn't that Xi Congshuang was soft-hearted; suppressing her would only further provoke Tan Yicheng's temper and wouldn't be effective in negotiations.
Xi Congshuang's hand was bleeding profusely. She awkwardly pressed her bleeding right ear with her other hand. Her hearing was poor, and it still hurt a lot when her hearing aid was forcibly ripped off.
She looked around the house unfamiliarly and walked toward what should be the bathroom.
A few seconds later, Xi Congshuang came out of the room covered in blood. She frowned and opened the door to another room. This time she didn't go in. She just looked inside and then pulled her head back and closed the door behind her.
This is a dark room where various medicines are stored; the female protagonist must never see it.
Tan Yicheng didn't rush to wash the knife. He crossed his arms and watched Xi Congshuang wander around his house like a headless fly, letting her fight like a trapped beast.
She knew very well that Xi Congshuang had recently moved here specifically to show off her moonlit apartment to her online boyfriend, and had been living there for several months.
Why was she so sure?
Because it was she who encouraged Xi Congshuang to move, so that she could further confirm the other party's whereabouts.
Tan Yicheng: "What are you turning?"
Xi Congshuang calmly replied, "If I told you that I hit the back of my head on the door when we were fighting and lost part of my memory, would you believe me?"
Tan Yicheng: "I don't believe it."
Who knows if this liar will next say something like, "I don't remember anything about the past, but I'm willing to apologize to you. I really didn't mean to," or something like that, trying to gain sympathy.
She'd heard this kind of talk countless times. It was the same thing her classmate's younger sister, who had caused all this, said, crying her eyes out in her hospital room and trying to morally blackmail her.
She then falsified her medical records, claiming she had suffered brain damage and amnesia, and refused to cooperate with the investigation. The federal government, prioritizing humanitarian considerations, allowed the investigation to be temporarily suspended.
Her family took the opportunity to buy her a ship ticket to another planet and escape.
Xi Congshuang: "If you don't believe me, there's nothing I can do."
After saying that, she walked across the island, covered in blood. The kitchen was usually behind the island.
She didn't care about anything else; all she wanted was to wash the blood off her body as quickly as possible.
Tan Yicheng stared wide-eyed: "You...?"
Why don't you play by the rules?
She stood there for a while, determined to talk to Xi Congshuang about curing the glands. But the sound of rushing water kept coming from her ears, and the amount of water used was already more than needed to wash away the bloodstains on her body.
Was she taking a bath inside?
Tan Yicheng strode towards the kitchen and grabbed her wrist from under the faucet: "The wound was already bleeding, and you're still rinsing it with water? Do you want to die?"
Xi Congshuang looked at her; her face was even paler than before, and her eyes and brows appeared dark and gloomy.
The wounds on her hands turned white from being washed, but the thin wounds were still bleeding continuously. The wound on her neck, which she hadn't had time to treat, began to scab over and stopped bleeding.
Xi Congshuang's hands were very cold. She withdrew her hand and said, "The blood can't be washed away."
Tan Yicheng: "..."
She had just learned something new; anyone would know that when a wound is bleeding, you shouldn't touch flowing water, as the water will only cause the bleeding to increase.
Is this person trying to go into shock due to blood loss?
Xi Congshuang: "I know what you want to say, but..."
"No, it's just that." Tan Yicheng pulled the person away before they could cause him to go into hemorrhage and shock, and then turned off the tap.
At first, Xi Congshuang was reluctant and glanced at the sink a few more times. She was forcibly dragged into the living room, passed by the bloodstains, and pressed down on the sofa.
Tan Yicheng crossed her arms and said, "If you are injured, you should stop the bleeding in time, clean the wound simply and then apply medicine, instead of desperately rinsing the wound with tap water, which will cause infection."
In short, she had to be able to breathe and speak before meeting Professor Wei Lin.
She attributed Xi Congshuang's persistence to the fact that she was a wealthy person who was usually waited on and didn't know how to take care of her wounds.
And who knows, maybe she's having an omega-like episode again and wants to be pampered.
Tan Yicheng didn't feel that way, and Xi Congshuang wasn't a real omega, nor was she an alpha who developed a protective instinct upon seeing an omega.
Xi Congshuang: "I know."
Doctors and nurses had told her about this problem before, saying that she shouldn't be so fixated on completely cleaning the blood from the wound; timely bandaging was the most important thing.
She just couldn't help it; it was like she had obsessive-compulsive disorder. She found the bloodstains and wounds very unsightly.
Red Apple accepts this well; she's always been like this, just avoiding the issue altogether.
Tan Yicheng said irritably, "You know? What do you know? You know?"
Xi Congshuang remained silent.
Seeing her face visibly turning paler, I wondered if she might actually go into shock from blood loss. Xi Congshuang looked like she could be blown away by the wind.
Tan Yicheng: "Don't just sit there, go get the medicine box and apply the medicine."
Xi Congshuang honestly replied, "I don't know where the medicine box is."
These things all fall under the category of unexpected events related to the original owner's information provided by the system.
The data will record that the alpha is a minor who has not yet undergone secondary differentiation, but it will not record the layout of her house, the name of the intelligent robot, or where the first-aid kit for treating external injuries is located.
Tan Yicheng was once again amazed: "This is your home and you don't know it? Can't you give the housekeeping robot a command to help you find it?"
Xi Congshuang said quietly, "I forgot the instructions."
She sat on the sofa like a ghost, looking just like a blood-covered female ghost from a horror movie.
"..."
Tan Yicheng turned around, thinking to himself, "Where's my knife?"
She couldn't bear to continue associating with this person; she couldn't wait for Professor Wei Lin to arrive on Red Tea Star.
After a while, Xi Congshuang's head finally calmed down, and she got up unsteadily, preparing to find the first-aid kit.
Actually, she still has some desire to survive. Apart from a slight problem with her ears, she can run and jump now, which is much better than before.
These conditions were never available before.
He's even capable of fighting the female lead.
In the end, Tan Yicheng pressed her back onto the sofa to wait. Since the blood on her hands would drip wherever she went, it was better not to bother with that.
A short while later, Tan Yicheng took out a medicine box from the living room cabinet and placed it in front of her.
Tan Yicheng: "I'm here to kill you, not to be your family doctor. Do it yourself."
Xi Congshuang: "I know."
"..."
Tan Yicheng stared at her silently.
The red apple, standing to the side, knew what the female protagonist was thinking: "What do you know now?"
Tan Yicheng's original intention in saying those words was to threaten Xi Congshuang into remembering what she had said before, and also to tell her not to have a relapse, because no one would take care of her.
So I just watched from the sidelines, several thoughts running through my mind.
Xi Congshuang raised her hand, slowly opened the medicine box, and used the external wound spray. The long and deep wound had mostly healed, and the bleeding had been successfully stopped.
She kept her head down, so Tan Yicheng didn't see the surprise in her eyes.
Such a deep wound would have required stitches to heal in her world, but in this era, a few sprays of spray were enough to heal most of it and stop the bleeding.
At this rate of healing, she should be able to form a scab by tomorrow and be fully healed within three days.
From not far away came Tan Yicheng's voice reminding them: "Don't shake hands, the wound will reopen."
Xi Congshuang looked up and heard Tan Yicheng say, "The wound on your right hand has reopened, which will affect your signing of the agreement. Delaying the process is useless."
"..."
Xi Congshuang sometimes couldn't tell where the female lead's intelligence level was.
However, she understands that it is perfectly normal for people to change their thoughts after experiencing a major setback.
She asked, "What agreement?"
Tan Yicheng leaned down and looked into her eyes: "Words are no proof. You have to give me a copy of the agreement that you promised to completely cure my glands and the voluntary donation agreement."
Xi Congshuang: "Aren't you worried I'll change my mind?"
Tan Yicheng: "It's okay, I can just visit your house again."
She dared to climb out of the window on the 102nd floor; Xi Congshuang had no doubt about her courage.
This is a female protagonist who managed to escape from prison despite being severely injured, and single-handedly made herself one of the Federation's number one enemies—according to the data, she's just one step away from merging another large-scale space pirate group and establishing her own empire.
In the end, she failed. The organization was wiped out by collusion between the Federation and its inside agents.
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The agreement, in duplicate, is signed by both parties and transmitted to the notary public database. It is approved within five seconds, indicating that it has taken effect.
This efficiency still slightly surprised Xi Congshuang.
The laws and social norms of this world are very different from what she used to know. Many things can be done online, and there is a greater inclination towards paperless office work.
"You've received the message, haven't you?" Xi Congshuang asked.
Tan Yicheng was surprised that Xi Congshuang was actually so honest and nodded casually.
Although one of these two people is not afraid of being sued and can afford to pay compensation, the other is too lazy to sue and is quick to kill.
But this thing is actually necessary to legitimize the relationship between the two parties.
Xi Congshuang: "When are you planning to leave...?"
Tan Yicheng: "Where are the extra rooms in your house?"
Their voices rang out simultaneously, and they both turned to look at each other, their eyes filled with suspicion.
Xi Congshuang pointed in one direction: "You should be able to find an empty room over there."
Tan Yicheng became alert: "You're not trying to lie and get away with this again, are you?"
"..."
Almost forgot, the female lead is still on guard; how could she possibly leave so easily?
It's estimated that the female lead won't easily let Professor Wei Lin go once she arrives on Red Tea Star. If something goes wrong during this time, she still risks failing her mission.
For the sake of the mission, she could tolerate it and take in the female lead from the prison.
Suddenly remembering something, Xi Congshuang said, "I mind sharing a room with someone else."
Tan Yicheng: "..."
Who wants to share a room with her?
She was still an alpha, after all. Her superior hearing allowed her to hear the sounds happening inside the room, so she didn't need to personally guard a beta.
As Tan Yicheng lay on the bed fully clothed, he thought to himself.
The bedside lamp was still on, casting a soft glow on the bed.
She couldn't sleep at all. In the past, she could go two days without sleeping when she participated in war drills at school. Today, she slept for a lot of time during the day and could easily stay up until dawn without feeling sleepy.
He wanted to take revenge but failed. He was given a chance to repair his glands, and it would be impossible for Tan Yicheng not to want to restore them.
However, Xi Congshuang seemed to have changed drastically tonight, quite unlike her usual sensitive and arrogant temperament.
Rather than believing her nonsense about hitting the door with the back of her head causing memory loss and thus not remembering, it's better to refute her claim.
Or perhaps she has some other scheme in mind.
She raised her wrist to activate the AI, intending to test it out.
Almost forgot, she also has another identity: a soft and cute high school alpha.
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