Chapter 45: The Whip
It was a small room with only a brown wooden table on either side of it. There was only one exit from the room.
Anyone with a discerning eye can tell from this setup that it's an interrogation room.
The interrogator and the interrogated were Su Yan and Qi Shaoyou.
[The aloof beauty, she actually has this side to her? Is this the same Su Yan who is usually so serious and unsmiling?] 0527 sighed as she watched the two of them in the corner.
"Given the current situation, 0527 can't return to Qi Shaoyou's mind either," Qi Shaoyou said coldly to 0527 in his heart.
[Turn off your hearing and turn around to face the wall.]
Upon hearing the last two words, 0527 was about to make a cheesy joke when she saw Qi Shaoyou's murderous gaze.
The aggrieved tabby cat stayed in the corner of the room, angrily staring at a cat on the wall.
This stingy boss, she spent so many Happy Beans and she's still so stingy!
Seeing Qi Shaoyou turn her head away and avoid eye contact, Su Yan turned her face back to her.
Su Yan grabbed Qi Shaoyou's neck with one hand, forcing her to lean back, and with the other hand, she lashed Qi Shaoyou's calf with a thin black leather whip.
Qi Shaoyou has changed his clothes. He is wearing a regular short-sleeved shirt on his upper body and shorts that don't reach his knees, exposing his fair and tender calves to the air.
Su Yan wore a moon-white cheongsam, the fabric of which seemed to be made of some kind of gauze, so transparent that you could see the petticoat underneath.
Even though the petticoat was just a later version of a sundress, Qi Shaoyou still felt shy. She only dared to look at the jade hairpin in Su Yan's hair to avoid her gaze.
"Still the same as always, so easily embarrassed." Su Yan smiled as she looked at Qi Shaoyou's familiar expression.
Su Yan has a great figure, and the cheongsam she's wearing accentuates her slender waist with its cinched design. The moon-white cheongsam seems to have grown along her curves, fitting her body perfectly.
Clearly, the season they were in had changed from winter to summer. Qi Shaoyou broke out in a cold sweat as he analyzed the current situation.
The cold, black leather whip gently lashed against Qi Shaoyou's bare calves, and her heart jumped repeatedly with each strike.
The whips were applied lightly or heavily, as if teasing him. Qi Shaoyou would have preferred to be actually beaten rather than endure the beating.
This is infuriating! Qi Shaoyou gritted his teeth. What on earth did she do before?! Even the damn system won't tell her!
"What, you don't want to acknowledge the sister who raised you? From the moment we started until now, have you called me 'sister' even once?"
Su Yan's voice was extremely cold, as if she had just emerged from the icy chill of winter.
Qi Shaoyou shuddered. As she was thinking about how to get through this dream in a soft and gentle voice, she heard Su Yan's impatient snort.
"Ha. Still thinking of getting away with this? Qi Shaoyou, I've had you for twelve years now, do you think I don't know you?"
After saying that, Su Yan moved her hand from Qi Shaoyou's neck to his hat.
With a gentle pluck, Qi Shaoyou's long, flowing hair cascaded down.
"I told you not to cut your hair, and you haven't cut it for years. You used to be so well-behaved, how did you become so naughty?"
Su Yan recalled her encounter with Liang Man earlier that day, realizing that Liang Man had intentionally stirred up conflict between her other self and Liang Man.
However, she did not expect that the inner demon had already been able to control Liang Man's body.
In comparison, her progress was indeed much slower. The frustration she felt today, along with the complex emotions of finally being able to see Qi Shaoyou here, were all intertwined.
Qi Shaoyou, who didn't even know that people in his own world had long hair: It's no use asking me that! I have no idea what you want to know!
"Sister," Qi Shaoyou called out in a hoarse voice. Since she couldn't answer the second question, she could only answer the first one.
Su Yan then felt much better.
"Good girl, I knew my sister was the best." Su Yan moved the leather whip in her hand up inch by inch from Qi Shaoyou's knee, finally stopping at Qi Shaoyou's chin.
"Come on, tell your sister now, why won't you say that you paid her medical bills?"
"You were the one accompanying your sister during her treatment, yet you pretended to be mute? Qi Shaoyou, how dare you cut my hair back then!"
"What, now that you can fly, you think what your sister said isn't important anymore?"
Without knowing the background, Qi Shaoyou couldn't come up with a correct answer even if he tried!
"I didn't want you to worry." Qi Shaoyou didn't know how to respond, so he chose a generic answer.
"Smack." Qi Shaoyou's calf was left with a red mark. Although Su Yan controlled the force, it only looked red and didn't hurt much, but Qi Shaoyou still had tears in his eyes.
How terrifying! How truly terrifying! Not because of the pain, but because of the unknown.
"Tell me the truth! Qi Shaoyou, why did you do so much for me, and why did you just leave after doing all that!"
"If I hadn't been so persistent, if I hadn't kept looking for you again and again, and only found out the truth at the very end, Qi Shaoyou, I would have hated you to death if I hadn't known all this!"
Su Yan's eyes were brimming with tears, yet she refused to let them fall. The whip striking Qi Shaoyou felt like it was striking her heart.
But she had to force him; she had to force Qi Shaoyou to reveal his own path to survival, word by word.
Twelve years of relying on each other, three years of protecting each other, and a love that was never spoken until death.
Intense love and intense hate are so easily transformed. Over the long years, Su Yan sometimes couldn't even tell whether she loved her or hated her.
The pain of love is not easily overcome, nor is the pain of hate. Qi Shaoyou didn't know how to begin; she only felt that she had indeed hurt Su Yan deeply.
Even though he was the one who got hit, Qi Shaoyou felt a little sorry for Su Yan's tears.
Then her consciousness began to blur again, and her body felt as if it were being controlled by another person.
"Why does my sister still love using a whip so much? It hurts a lot when you hit someone like that."
"I am in pain, and my sister's heart is in pain too."
Hearing those familiar words, tears finally streamed down Su Yan's face. She grabbed the chin of the despicable, hateful, and repulsive person in front of her and kissed him fiercely.
When their lips met, it was like a fierce battle. Su Yan hated him so much she wanted to devour him, yet she couldn't help but gently kiss every inch of him.
She had lost track of how long she had waited; hundreds or even thousands of years of waiting had finally come to an end…
Her sister, a part that was always missing from her soul.
"Su Yan, let's go back." After the kiss, Qi Shaoyou gently removed the hairpin Su Yan used to hold her hair, his eyes full of tenderness.
The long, black hair, no longer restrained by the hairpin, cascaded down like the finest silk.
"This is my fate, what does it have to do with you? Don't gamble your future for my sake."
"Sister, you will be happy. You deserve true happiness. No war, no strange father, no scheming manipulation." Qi Shaoyou stroked Su Yan's cheek, gently comforting her.
"Without you, what difference is there between this world and hell! Qi Shaoyou, don't even think about abandoning me again!"
"You always use sweet words, you always deceive me! Happiness! Without you! I can't be happy every day I live!"
Su Yan's tears rolled down her cheeks uncontrollably, and she shook her head, refusing to agree no matter what.
Tell me, how did you leave me! Tell me! Give me an answer!
"Qi Shaoyou, you mustn't leave me! Let me save you, let me change your fate!"
Su Yan gripped Qi Shaoyou's collar tightly, crumpling the white collar in her fist. Her face was contorted with agony, as if she were enduring the most excruciating torture in the world.
"Sister, I won't tell," Qi Shaoyou said with a smile, gently shaking his head.
"It's my fate..." Before he could finish the last word, the usually calm and elegant man suddenly bit Qi Shaoyou.
It was bloody, but this time Su Yan didn't show any mercy.
When Qi Shaoyou got up early the next day, he only felt a little pain in his calves.
She lifted her pajama bottoms and saw a red whip mark on her fair calf.
It looked appalling, so Qi Shaoyou quickly changed into summer pajamas. Winter trousers felt both painful and itchy against his skin.
Anyway, with heating, summer pajamas won't be too cold.
The wounds inflicted in dreams must be carried into reality! It's truly illogical!
0527 really wants to complain at this time: the most unreasonable thing is that the main system deducts the retirement pension of the big boss.
Considering that it would bring up the big boss's sad story, 0527 decided to give up.
"Sister Manman, you're here today..." Qi Shaoyou remembered that Sister Manman should have been at work today.
"Something happened on set, so we had to stop filming for half a day." Liang Man naturally knew what Qi Shaoyou wanted to ask.
Holding the book in her hand, she immediately noticed Qi Shaoyou's calf, which had been slapped red.
"What happened to your leg?" Liang Man put down the book in her hand, and the spine of the book hit the glass coffee table with a crisp sound.
"I'm a restless sleeper..."
Qi Shaoyou tried to escape and hide, but was discovered in a second...
She hates this world! Really!
"Let's put the meal aside for now and get the medicine applied first." Liang Man reached for the first-aid kit.
Qi Shaoyou wanted it to heal on its own and didn't want to apply any medicine.
Can't she just run out the door right now?
"Can we skip the medicine?" Qi Shaoyou tried to squeeze out tears, but was met with a cold refusal from Sister Manman.
"Sister Manman, please be gentle!" Qi Shaoyou could endure the pain of being hit, but she really couldn't stand the itchy and painful feeling of applying medicated oil.
Liang Man smiled slightly, and was about to agree when she heard a voice in her heart.
"This wound is a whip mark, and the force was applied very skillfully. Don't you think it looks more like a wound caused by flirting? Don't you want to know who hurt her?"
Just one sentence was enough to make Liang Man quite agitated. She asked Qi Shaoyou to sit on the sofa and put his calves on her thighs.
She suppressed the strange thought, warmed the medicated oil in her hands, and gently applied the medicine to Qi Shaoyou.
"Your wound isn't broken and isn't bleeding. Using some medicated oil can speed up the healing process and also reduce the pain."
Liang Man gently comforted him, and Qi Shaoyou, feeling that terribly familiar feeling, simply grabbed a few pieces of paper and put them in his mouth.
She knew she would recover faster, but this feeling was really awful!
The pain wasn't a sharp, clean pain; besides the pain in my palm, my fingers felt a tingling, numb sensation.
Seeing the big shot like a fish that had jumped ashore, 0527 silently swallowed the grudge of losing Happy Beans.
"Look, you clearly like her. You like her being happy because of you and you also like her being sad because of you."
"Admit it, Liang Man, you like to control everything about her."
The voice in her heart analyzed Liang Man's selfish motives little by little, dissecting all the darkness within her.
"Then go for it, just go for it..."
Words that sounded almost like seduction rang in Liang Man's ears.
Liang Man felt something was wrong and her movements became slightly too forceful.
"Ugh..." Qi Shaoyou bit down on a tissue, feeling like he was being tortured.
"I'm sorry, did I hurt you, Sister Manman? I'll be gentler." Liang Man composed herself and stopped listening to the evil thoughts in her mind.
The medicine hadn't been applied for long when Qi Shaoyou felt as if his soul had been thoroughly ravaged.
"So, you really aren't going to tell Sister Manman how she got the wound?" Liang Man's words, though spoken softly, made Qi Shaoyou feel uneasy.
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The first update tomorrow will still be at 9 AM, but the second update might be a little later. The author has to go out for some errands, sorry QAQ.
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