Chapter 111 A Love Tribulation "Hold me, Pei Wenjing, I've missed you..."
This person wasn't asleep; he was just bluffing. Realizing this, Shen Cangyu switched hands and continued groping: "I just want your Sun and Moon Pot. Why are you so nervous? You're not secretly hiding some wine somewhere and don't want me to know, are you?"
Pei Wenjing stared at her. The one who loved to drink was Shen Cangyu, not him, but he deliberately hid the Sun and Moon Pot because he didn't want Shen Cangyu to see it. If she saw it, she would definitely know what he was planning to do.
"You..." Pei Wenjing quickly reached out to stop her. In the blink of an eye, the two had exchanged several blows. Pei Wenjing stared intently at Shen Cangyu's movements, trying to predict her next move.
During their exchange, Shen Cangyu had already realized that Pei Wenjing hadn't hidden the Sun and Moon Pot under his body. If the Sun and Moon Pot wasn't in the room or on his person, then there was only one place it could be.
Shen Cangyu's hand moved as smoothly as a fish, suddenly sliding up Pei Wenjing's arm and slipping into his sleeve. Pei Wenjing's eyes widened in surprise. Just as he was about to pull away, Shen Cangyu suddenly grabbed him, leaned forward, and left a light, fleeting kiss on his cheek.
Light as a cloud, his mind went blank, and he stood there stunned, letting Shen Cangyu open his sleeve and take out his Sun and Moon Pot.
Shen Cangyu opened his Sun and Moon Pot and peered inside. She saw that the pot was full of books and notes. Most of the books did not have names on their covers. She took one out and was about to open it to read.
Pei Wenjing looked up and breathed a sigh of relief. Thankfully, it wasn't the information about Kunlun he had seen today, nor the spell to awaken the Five Evils, nor his plan to carry Shen Cangyu to Kunlun.
Wait… that’s the book! Pei Wenjing’s breath hitched, and he quickly stepped forward to try to snatch the book back.
The stolen book lay on the bed, its pages turned, the image falling directly on the two entwined figures. Why this particular book of all people? Pei Wenjing felt like dying at that moment.
Not long ago, he saw this book in the library. Since there was no name on the cover, he casually flipped through it and glanced at it. After just one look, he quickly closed the book and dared not look at it a second time. Besides him, many other disciples with copper-coin eyes usually entered the library, including quite a few children. He absolutely could not let those children see these things.
Pei Wenjing thought that such filthy things should not be left in the library and should be destroyed as soon as possible. So he put the picture album into his Sun and Moon Pot and waited to destroy it when he had time.
But to his surprise, before the destruction date arrived, his Sun and Moon Pot unexpectedly fell into the hands of Shen Cangyu, who then happened to take out this book. Pei Wenjing gritted his teeth and thought, "Sure enough, keeping this kind of thing will only bring harm to mankind. I should have burned it on the spot."
Shen Cangyu looked at the books scattered on the bed, then at Pei Wenjing's flushed face, and finally understood why Pei Wenjing hadn't dared let her open his Sun and Moon Pot—it turned out he had secretly hidden erotic pictures inside. His Sun and Moon Pot was piled high with books; could it be… all of them were erotic pictures?
She really hadn't expected Pei Wenjing to be this kind of person. She realized that she did lack understanding of him and didn't know that someone who seemed so ascetic and well-behaved would have such a fetish.
"No, I found it in the library. I've never seen it before," Pei Wenjing explained anxiously.
Pei Wenjing realized the flaw in his words and knew that too much talk would lead to mistakes, so he shut his mouth.
"So you're saying that you haven't read this book, but it slipped out of the library, crawled into your Sun and Moon Pot, and even sneaked into your bed at night?" Looking at Pei Wenjing's tense face, Shen Cangyu couldn't help but laugh.
Pei Wenjing took a deep breath to calm himself down and said, "I saw it by chance in the library, but I only glanced at it. I knew it was inappropriate to leave this book in the library because many children would look for books there, so I decided to take it away and burn it when I had time. I didn't expect you to see it."
Moreover, Shen Cangyu found Pei Wenjing's nervous explanation more amusing than the pursuit of the truth.
"Shen Cangyu," Pei Wenjing laughed in exasperation at Shen Cangyu's unyielding attitude, "Are you doing this on purpose?"
He said with a sneer, "Think what you want, take me for who I am." Pei Wenjing pushed her away and got up, wanting to find a place to calm down.
Shen Cangyu realized that Pei Wenjing was truly angry this time. When he was angry, his breathing would become rapid, his lips would gradually turn from red to white, and his hands would tremble slightly, though he would clench his fists to try and control himself. Seeing him like this, Shen Cangyu realized that when she pulled his hairband last time, he was only pretending to be angry, but wasn't really angry.
A scene flashed through Shen Cangyu's mind. The last time he saw Pei Wenjing with such an expression was when she ignited her own soul.
Shen Cangyu felt her heart clench suddenly. She gasped for breath, feeling a lingering pain in her heart.
Pei Wenjing was about to leave when he suddenly saw Shen Cangyu's smile fade and her clutch her chest. He banished all his thoughts and looked at Shen Cangyu: "What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?"
Shen Cangyu had pretended to be injured many times in front of him. Every time they argued, Shen Cangyu would suddenly say this, waiting for Pei Wenjing to nervously check her over before she would reveal a triumphant smile and say, "Sorry, I was just kidding." At this point, Pei Wenjing would be furious, but their argument would also come to an end.
She lied to him a hundred times, and he would fall for it for the hundred and first time. Whenever she said she wasn't feeling well, he would always get nervous, and after realizing he'd been tricked, he would only feel relieved that nothing serious had happened. Even when she finally ignited her soul, he hoped she would say "I was just kidding" like she always had, but he never heard it.
Memories flooded into Shen Cangyu's mind, causing her a splitting headache. She raised her hand to press her head, but as soon as she released her hand from her chest, her heart also began to throb with pain.
Pei Wenjing watched her movements and took over, pressing on both sides of her head to ease the throbbing pain. "Don't rush, sit down first." He guided her to sit on the bed beside him. Seeing Shen Cangyu's furrowed brows and pained expression, he rummaged in his sleeve and found several universal remedies. These medicines could relieve pain, and in his desperation, he could only hope that if Shen Cangyu took the medicine, perhaps the pain would be relieved.
He held the pill to Shen Cangyu's lips, but Shen Cangyu kept her jaw clenched and refused to open her mouth. Pei Wenjing coaxed her, saying, "You'll feel better if you take the pill. Take one."
Every time Pei Wenjing showed that expression, she couldn't help but want to keep him. Because she knew that Pei Wenjing would run away when he was angry, and once he wanted to hide, it would be very difficult for her to find him again.
Every time they argued, it was Shen Cangyu who deliberately picked a fight. She intentionally wanted to make Pei Wenjing angry, but when she saw that he was really angry, she couldn't bear it.
Then why does she still nitpick?
Shen Cangyu pondered amidst his chaotic thoughts.
Images flashed through her mind, and she suddenly heard herself in her memories say, "Pei Wenjing, don't fall in love with me. The day you fall 100% in love with me, you will die."
"Why are you just a character set up in a script? If only you could really come back to life..."
"Pei Wenjing, if only we hadn't been from two different worlds from the beginning..."
I'm so sad. Why is she so sad?
Shen Cangyu heard a crisp sound, like the sound of an eggshell breaking, and in her chaotic thoughts, she regained the memories she had lost.
When she first came to this world, she was destined for a grand female protagonist storyline, and making Pei Wenjing fall in love with her was only one of her tasks, because Pei Wenjing was her emotional tribulation. To become a god, she first had to make Pei Wenjing's affection for her reach 100%, and then kill him.
In Shen Cangyu's eyes at the time, Pei Wenjing was nothing more than a character in a novel, a stereotypical figure programmed into the story. But to her surprise, this character always harbored feelings of affection for her, though those feelings remained permanently at 80%, never rising further. Even though she had completed all the main quests and defeated Pei Wenjing, the leader of the Five Evils, according to the plot, she should have killed him at that point, escaped the storyline, and returned to reality.
However, at that time, Pei Wenjing's favorability towards her was only 80%, so she was unable to continue the storyline.
"Then come with me to the mortal realm for a stroll," Shen Cangyu said. She refused to believe that if she continued to waste time with him, she wouldn't be able to raise his favorability rating to 100%.
Having completed the main storyline, she no longer needed to maintain the image of a righteous person. So she adopted a false identity and traveled the world, doing whatever she wanted according to her own will.
Pei Wenjing was right behind her, following her around like a shadow. Shen Cangyu felt troubled; she didn't know how to win over this blockhead. Making a two-dimensional person fall in love with her was incredibly difficult. After all, a two-dimensional person was just a two-dimensional person, data was just data, a machine was just a machine—how could they possibly develop a human heart?
It wasn't until she got drunk one night that Shen Cangyu said to Pei Wenjing, "You're so annoying, you're preventing me from completing my mission. I never want to see you again in my life." Pei Wenjing took her seriously and disappeared. Only then did Shen Cangyu realize that she didn't want Pei Wenjing to leave.
Love arises without warning, and she even deceived herself, but by the time she realized it, it was too late; it was an unsolvable ending.
If Pei Wenjing falls in love with her, he will die. If she falls in love with Pei Wenjing, she doesn't want him to die; she can only try to keep him away from her, as far away as possible.
Looking at Pei Wenjing's 95% favorability rating backstage, Shen Cangyu thought, "Don't fall in love with her; there's no future for them."
Pei Wenjing was very obedient to her. If she told him to leave, he would leave. But she also knew that he would come back every night and stay by her window. He was just obeying her and didn't dare let her see him, but he didn't want to leave.
As Shen Cangyu watched Pei Wenjing's favorability rating steadily rise backstage, he thought, "Since it's destined to end, let's indulge ourselves a little."
She admitted that even though Pei Wenjing was just a fictional character, she had fallen in love with him. She wanted to be with Pei Wenjing.
At the moment when Pei Wenjing loved her the most, Shen Cangyu heard the system's voice: "The favorability value has reached the target, and the task is being settled."
Before her lay the countdown to kill Pei Wenjing, but she couldn't kill him. If the mission failed, everything would restart, and her story would begin anew, from the moment she arrived in Kunlun. Shen Cangyu didn't want to endure this torment any longer. No matter how many times she had to go through it, she would always fall in love with Pei Wenjing; he was someone she couldn't kill.
"It hurts so much, Pei Wenjing," Shen Cangyu said to Pei Wenjing. She had no choice. She didn't want to repeat that damned plot. So let her, the protagonist, disappear. A novel without a protagonist would be ruined, and everyone in this world could survive in a story without her. She died, but this world would continue, the people here could continue to live, and the person she loved could live on in this way.
"Don't cry." Pei Wenjing wiped away Shen Cangyu's tears, but found that he couldn't stop them no matter how he wiped them away. He had never seen Shen Cangyu like this before. He didn't know what memories she had regained that had made her like this.
Shen Cangyu suddenly opened her blurry eyes, looked at him, and said, "Hug me, Pei Wenjing, I missed you."
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