Chapter 229 Glass
After Wen Jingchen left, Xin Que's injuries disappeared without a trace.
Xin Que slowly sat up, pulled off the cumbersome bandages, and was about to get out of bed.
"Aren't you going to act for a while longer?" Luo Huayi slowly emerged from the shadows and walked behind Xin Que.
Xin Que shook her head. "There's no need."
Luo Huayi hugged the woman in front of him from behind, his gaze falling on the narrow glass of the ward door that reflected their figures.
Outside the glass is the hospital's bustling corridor.
Thorns slowly extended from the shadows in the corner of the wall, obscuring the glass.
Until the entire private room was completely hidden by thorns.
“Xin Que…” Luo Huayi’s burning hot hand slid under the woman’s loose hospital gown and gently caressed her smooth, muscular waist.
"I suddenly noticed something."
The man wrapped his left arm around her waist, pulling her close, while his right hand cradled Xin Que's slightly turned cheek. Warm, wet kisses landed one after another on her exposed neck, his voice muffled.
The kiss, exposed to the air, quickly cooled down, and the alternating hot and cold sensation caused a strange itch to rise on the skin.
Xin Que frowned slightly, raised her hand and grabbed Luo Huayi's hair, forcing him to leave. "What is it?"
Despite the pain from being pulled on her scalp, Luo Huayi bit her collarbone before raising her head. "You could tell at a glance that Ying Yun's core had been replaced by the people in the prison."
Xin Que has an unusually high pain tolerance due to her profession, so Luo Huayi's bite did not cause her any real harm.
But it was a blatant provocation.
"Xin Que... how did you do that? You could even tell that person's true identity without thinking..."
Luo Huayi gazed at the woman in his arms. Perhaps because of the backlighting, her eyes, half-hidden by her drooping hair, were dull and lifeless. "Cheng Zheng is back by your side?"
"When...when did this happen?"
He had been watching her so closely, yet he had no idea when Xin Que had met up with Cheng Zheng.
Xin Que pinched his face, "Are you going crazy again?"
It was just a question, not a denial.
Luo Huayi pulled her hand away, her tone intimate, revealing nothing unusual, "I'm perfectly normal. I was just asking... Are you afraid I'll hold a grudge and get revenge on him?"
He was already extremely familiar with Xin Que's personality, and this reaction was tantamount to an admission.
Xin Que noticed the man's hand, which had been roaming around her waist, gradually moving downwards. She grabbed his wrist, her voice instantly turning cold, "Are you deliberately trying to make things difficult?"
Luo Huayi fell silent, staring at her in silence for a long time.
"Xin Que..." Luo Huayi called her in a hoarse voice, "I only have you left."
"Can't you give me something unique... even just something to act out to fool me?"
This heart, long since numb, still yearns for special favor in return.
It's not the cold-bloodedness towards tools, but the passionate and unique emotion towards a lover.
Luo Huayi couldn't understand why Xin Que wouldn't even bother to lie to him with words.
He felt that he had already made concessions time and time again in his demands.
He gradually emptied his life, handing it all over to Xin Que, only to end up not even receiving a vague promise like "I only love you."
Xin Que acted forcefully, forcefully pulling Luo Huayi's wrist behind his back, and said, "Kneel down."
The pain from having his joints forcibly twisted, coupled with the woman's cold command, made the man's breathing quicken.
This was probably the first time he had openly refused her orders.
After a long while, Luo Huayi still did not bend his knees under Xin Que's increasingly sinister gaze.
"I don't want to kneel."
Luo Huayi spoke softly, "I don't want to back down this time either."
Xin Que stared into his eyes for a long time before letting out a cryptic laugh, "Alright."
She abruptly released Luo Huayi's hand and distanced herself from him. "Then what do you want?"
Luo Huayi watched her sit down in the companion chair, and after a long while, she took a step and walked to her.
He leaned on the armrest of the companion chair, looked down to meet Xin Que's gaze, and said, word by word, "I only want you... and the place next to you can only have me."
Seeing that Xin Que did not refute, Luo Huayi frowned slightly and added, "Not an assistant or a pawn, but the position that the marriage system in your real world recognizes."
Xin Que genuinely found it funny this time.
But she didn't rush to explain to Luo Huayi. Instead, she gently patted his cheek and repeated the key phrase from his request, "The institution of marriage?"
...
When Wen Jingchen came to the hospital again under Ying Yun's identity to follow the plot, he was not surprised to see that Xin Que had changed her clothes.
If they can see through the constraints of the program to his true identity, it's not surprising that they have other methods.
He knew that Xin Que could isolate the ward from the outside world, and that the prison could not see their interactions. After pushing open the door, he stopped pretending and simply placed the lunchbox in his hand on the bedside table.
He then lit a cigarette and sat down in the caregiver's chair.
"Gain your trust by following the instructions of those engineers from the Huo family." Wen Jingchen gestured with his chin toward the lunchbox, lit a cigarette with a lighter, and said, "Just make do with whatever you can."
Xin Que seemed to have just washed her hands, as they were still quite wet. Ignoring Wen Jingchen's actions, she casually grabbed a tissue and wiped her hands. "Have you thought it through?"
Wen Jingchen scoffed, "Do I have any other path to choose?"
Xin Que turned to look at Wen Jingchen, "I know a little about your cards, there's no need for you to play mind games with me."
Wen Jingchen paused in his smoking motion.
"The fact that the Huo family was able to bring you down means that they have all the administrator AI's permissions, right?"
"As the former warden who had full control over the administrator accounts... you wouldn't have any backup methods?"
Xin Que sat down in a chair next to him across a coffee table, her voice calm, "Since we've already reached a dead end, let's not hide anything."
Wen Jingchen flicked his cigarette ash with his finger. "It seems I have no secrets from you."
This feeling of having no secrets from a former rival is like being shamefully naked, making one repulsed from the depths of their heart by their unbridled prying and speculation.
Xin Que rested her elbows on the armrest, her hands folded over to cover the lower half of her face. From Wen Jingchen's perspective, she looked quite presentable.
To the naked eye, one cannot tell that this person is a madman who kills indiscriminately.
"Same here." Xin Que smiled. "Let's talk about how to solve the most pressing problem right now—"
"How do we lure Huo Fenglin in here and then send you out?"
Wen Jingchen frowned, casually tossing his cigarette butt into the ashtray on the coffee table between them. He turned to Xin Que and asked, "Is this place absolutely safe?"
Xin Que nodded.
Wen Jingchen's gaze swept over the closed ward room.
It was still the same enclosed space as the last time I came.
Hospital bed, bedside table, accompanying chair, toilet...
Wen Jingchen felt relieved and looked away.
"If we want to lure Huo Fenglin in, we'll have to use you as bait," he said.
Xin Que looked at Wen Jingchen and said, "Being bait is not a problem. The important thing is that Huo Fenglin will definitely bring a lot of security measures with him when he comes in—such as the remaining seven AI supervisors."
Wen Jingchen frowned deeply. "Huo Fenglin is so cautious that it's normal for him to bring seven bodyguards with him at once... His chances of winning in a head-on confrontation are zero."
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