After Transmigrating Into a Book, I Was Played by the Black Lotus – Chapter 66

Night Chat

At the side, Lin Xingzhu’s expression had cooled down ever since Chu Tiantian said that sentence, her gaze slightly unfriendly as she stared at the smiling Chu Tiantian.

Bai Xiying’s gaze was indifferent: “What business is it of yours?”

Chu Tiantian’s eyes circled between the two people again, and she said with a grin: “It’s true that it doesn’t have much to do with me, but I believe you two probably don’t understand my older sister’s personality very well. For your romance to be a bit smoother, it’s still better not to let her know, right?”

Lin Xingzhu’s voice was slightly deep: “What is your objective?”

To show up at their door automatically for no reason, yet act as if she was helping them block her own biological sister, if one were to say she sought nothing, not even a ghost would believe it.

The smile on the corner of Chu Tiantian’s lips froze, her gaze falling on Lin Xingzhu who had spoken.

After a long moment, she looked at Lin Xingzhu with sincere eyes: “Alright, I do have a matter I’d like to ask biaojie for help with.”

Without waiting for Lin Xingzhu to reply, she said everything in detail: “I heard you helped Yeye transfer schools. Can you let me go in with her too?”

This was Chu Tiantian’s true objective.

She had checked; the school Jiang Yeye was about to transfer to would not accept her at all. Upon further investigation, it was also related to Lin Xingzhu. Chu Tiantian only needed to think for a moment to know what was going on.

“My older sister is spoiled, stubborn, and has a strong possessive desire. She’s also a person who will not stop if she does not achieve her goal.” Chu Tiantian did not at all feel that there was anything wrong with listing her own sister’s shortcomings in detail in front of outsiders, decisively selling her out for the sake of Jiang Yeye. “If she finds out you two are together, with her fondness for Xiying-jiejie, she will definitely come out and cause trouble.”

“I believe that with your ability, biaojie, you definitely have a way, but there are only thieves who operate for a thousand days, how can there be someone who guards against thieves for a thousand days? Being constantly thought about like this will definitely cause your romance experience to be greatly discounted.”

Chu Tiantian’s words were exceedingly sincere, both inside and out. “Moreover, I promise I won’t treat Yeye like I did before. I will definitely get along well with her.”

Lin Xingzhu looked silently at Chu Tiantian, her deep and serene eyes showing no emotion.

After a long moment, she suddenly smiled, her tone faint: “Where did you get the confidence that I would agree to you?”

Lin Xingzhu sneered: “You think of yourselves as far too important.”

She wasn’t even worried about Qiao Zijin, let alone a little girl like Chu Xiaxia who had just come of age.

What’s more, the information on the Chu family she had investigated before showed nothing abnormal. Even if there was, Lin Xingzhu was not afraid in the slightest.

To help Chu Tiantian get close to Jiang Yeye just for a smooth path in love, was to look down on her too much.

Bai Xiying looked sideways at the stern-faced Lin Xingzhu, her crimson lips slightly curled.

Although they were under the cool shade of a tree, her heart was growing hotter and hotter.

Chu Tiantian, who was rejected outright by Lin Xingzhu, was somewhat stunned, not expecting Lin Xingzhu to refuse without even thinking about it.

As a Heaven’s favored daughter¹ who had grown up, Chu Tiantian had her own pride. It was only for Jiang Yeye that she faced Lin Xingzhu and Bai Xiying like this, selling out her sister, yet she didn’t expect the other party to not appreciate it at all.

“If you’re not willing, then forget it!” A gloominess flashed in Chu Tiantian’s eyes. “Hmph, I hope you don’t regret it!”

After speaking, she turned her head and left.

Lin Xingzhu was unmoved, holding Bai Xiying’s hand and walking back.

“I’m afraid she holds a grudge against you now,” Bai Xiying said leisurely.

“Her? Let her hold a grudge.”

Lin Xingzhu really didn’t take it to heart. A little fart child² who wasn’t even an adult yet wanted to make her be on guard; it was far too early for that.

“But the matter of Chu Xiaxia does need some thought,” Lin Xingzhu said ponderously.

From the looks of it so far, the first few who had appeared were clearly interested in her girlfriend. It just remained to be seen whether the methods they used adhered to a moral baseline.

And from the results of her investigation, Chu Xiaxia was clearly not a very benevolent person.

But as long as one was human, one would always have weaknesses.

And it was obvious, she had already found Chu Xiaxia’s weakness.

Bai Xiying looked at her curiously: “Do you have any ideas?”

Lin Xingzhu looked at her with a smile: “I’ll tell you when we get back.”

Hearing this, Bai Xiying no longer dwelled on it.

After the group had lunch together and stayed for a while longer, Lin Xingzhu proposed her departure to Mother Jiang.

“You’re leaving so soon?” Mother Jiang was a little reluctant. “Your jiujiu³ hasn’t even come back today.”

Lin Xingzhu had already met her uncle when she brought Jiang Yeye back two days ago, so it wasn’t absolutely necessary to see him today.

She said: “I’ll come see you again some other time, it’s alright.”

The three of them chatted at the main gate for a while longer before Mother Jiang let them go.

There was a hint of complaint in Mother Jiang’s brows: “That child Yeye, really. She’s upstairs and doesn’t even know to come down and see you off.”

“What’s there to see off,” Lin Xingzhu said with a smile, then waved her hand, “Then we’ll be leaving now.”

After speaking, Lin Xingzhu went to the garage to get the car. Bai Xiying got in and sat in the passenger seat as usual. Just as she was about to start the engine and leave, they suddenly saw Chu Tiantian run out of the villa with red eyes.

Seeing her face pale and her eyes red-rimmed as she bid farewell to Mother Jiang and ran off in a flash, Lin Xingzhu and Bai Xiying exchanged a glance, both finding it a little strange.

At noon, she was negotiating with people, her eyes full of crafty thoughts, and in the afternoon, she ran off with a tear-streaked face.

At night, the two of them were drinking a little wine on lounge chairs under the moon, quietly enjoying their last night at the mountain villa.

After a long time, Bai Xiying brought up the topic: “What you said during the day about Chu Xiaxia, what are your thoughts?”

Lin Xingzhu glanced at her.

Under the night sky, countless stars twinkled, the specks of starlight seeming to fall into her black eyes that were as vast and boundless as the cosmos.

Sufficiently brilliant, but also sufficiently mysterious.

Bai Xiying’s heart beat uncontrollably for such a gaze. A body that had truly tasted extreme pleasure seemed to have become even more disappointing.

She took a sip of iced lemon juice to suppress the heat, and asked: “Why are you looking at me? Why did you stop talking?”

The successive sweet days seeped into her heart, but while indulging in the supreme pleasure Bai Xiying brought her, Lin Xingzhu had never forgotten the secret Bai Xiying carried from beginning to end.

—And that door she had never had the chance to push open from beginning to end.

“I previously investigated some information on the Chu family for business,” Lin Xingzhu told a small lie, “From some of the information, I discovered that Chairman Chu seems to be a wife-controls-strictly⁴.”

Bai Xiying, hearing this news, raised her eyebrows: “Oh?”

Lin Xingzhu thought of the stack of secret information she had investigated and smiled: “Human heredity is really interesting. It’s truly a case of to have such a father, there must be such a daughter⁵.”

If it weren’t for finding the so-called Fourth Gong, and in addition her suspicion of Chu Xiaxia, Lin Xingzhu wouldn’t have gone to such great lengths to investigate such secret information.

In order to confirm Chu Xiaxia’s identity, she had spared no small effort.

Bai Xiying gestured for her to continue.

“You may not know, but Madam Chu, that is, Chu Xiaxia and Chu Tiantian’s mother, was snatched by Chairman Chu.”

Bai Xiying looked in surprise at the news-exploding Lin Xingzhu.

“Back when Madam Chu was in university, she had a boyfriend, but this boyfriend couldn’t resist temptation and cheated on Madam Chu behind her back. After the matter was exposed, Madam Chu was naturally heartbroken, and Chairman Chu entered upon the emptiness⁶ of Madam Chu’s emotional wound to invade and conquer her heart.”

“Oh right, it’s said that when Madam Chu was suffering from her emotional wounds, some of her friends around her, for some unknown reason, all distanced themselves from her.”

Just as Lin Xingzhu took a sip of water to wet her throat, Bai Xiying curled her lips, and added with a smile: “Is it that the boyfriend who cheated back then also had another hidden story?”

Lin Xingzhu glanced at her and admitted: “That’s right. Not long after Madam Chu and Chairman Chu got together, it seems someone revealed to her that the reason her boyfriend cheated back then was because Chairman Chu had specifically sent a woman to seduce him.”

Bai Xiying sighed with a smile: “But that man still couldn’t resist and cheated.”

To have someone seduce her boyfriend, and also use methods to make her friends distance themselves from her one by one, while he himself offered comfort and gentleness, it would be hard for an isolated and helpless girl not to be moved.

Not to mention that this person who entered upon the emptiness was also very handsome.

Bai Xiying thought of Chairman Chu’s face on the financial news and curled her lips, “Did he overturn the car⁷ in the end?”

“Naturally, otherwise where would I have gotten this information,” Lin Xingzhu said affirmatively.

“After overturning the car, Madam Chu was naturally disgusted to the extreme, but at that time the two were already discussing marriage, and it’s said she was also pregnant. In short, the two of them still ended up together in the end.”

Lin Xingzhu spoke leisurely, her words containing a hidden sarcasm: “So, Chu Tiantian really inherited her father’s good genes.”

Bai Xiying thought of the Chu Xiaxia from her past life, and everything seemed to have an explanation, “It seems she wasn’t wrong during the day.”

Lin Xingzhu glanced at her, similarly thinking of how Chu Tiantian had described Chu Xiaxia during the day.

Thinking of this, she again looked deeply at Bai Xiying, moved her gaze away, and continued: “But Madam Chu is a woman of relatively high morals, and the things Chu Xiaxia and Chu Tiantian have done have been hidden from her from beginning to end.”

This was also why after Chu Xiaxia’s school bullying incident was exposed, she was trapped by this matter and unable to extricate herself to come find her.

Bai Xiying, however, lowered her eyes, suddenly understanding the reason why Chu Xiaxia didn’t continue to pester her after she was let go by Chu Tiantian in her past life.

It seems someone had reported this matter to Madam Chu, who in turn restricted Chu Xiaxia’s freedom.

And this candidate…

A face that was extremely similar to Chu Xiaxia’s but gloomy and pale suddenly flashed in her mind.

—Chu Tiantian.

But the Chu Tiantian of the past life and the Chu Tiantian she saw in this life had completely different temperaments.

Lin Xingzhu looked at the pensive Bai Xiying and asked with a lift of her lips: “What are you thinking about?”

Bai Xiying raised her eyebrows: “Thinking about whether you’re going to start with Madam Chu?”

Lin Xingzhu did not answer, but suddenly asked her in return: “As a tutor who taught her for a period of time, what kind of person do you think Chu Xiaxia is?”

Bai Xiying’s eyes flashed slightly, and she said after pondering: “She’s a… person who is very much like her father, and pretty much as Chu Tiantian said.”

She had just affirmed Chu Tiantian’s words a moment ago.

Lin Xingzhu’s expression didn’t change. She tapped on the lounge chair beneath her, making a light tok tok tok sound in the quiet night.

“Did you have an unpleasant time with her when you were her tutor?”

Bai Xiying pursed her lips and smiled, looking particularly alluring under the moonlight: “If it wasn’t very pleasant, I don’t think she would like me as Chu Tiantian said, would she?”

Lin Xingzhu let out a light laugh: “Also true.”

But if the interaction was pleasant, why was Bai Xiying not at all surprised by all the adjectives Chu Tiantian used, and even agreed completely? If it wasn’t because she had long since investigated the materials, then it must be that she had already seen through Chu Xiaxia’s true nature. With Bai Xiying’s personality, if she had seen through Chu Xiaxia’s true nature long ago, could she still have gotten along pleasantly with her? And since the tutoring ended until the last banquet, they had had no contact. At this time, one a university student, the other a high school student that one couldn’t hit with an eight-pole-length stick⁸, Bai Xiying had no opportunity to learn of Chu Xiaxia’s true nature. Then it comes back to the original point, if the truth is that Bai Xiying had investigated Chu Xiaxia, why would she investigate?

Lin Xingzhu looked with a smile at the charming and alluring Bai Xiying, a myriad of thoughts flashing through her mind in a short moment.

Bai Xiying raised her eyebrows, leaned forward slightly, and the loose silk clothing slid down, revealing half of the rising and falling softness and a soul-hooking curved gully.

In the quiet and ambiguous night, it was white to the point of being a little dazzling.

Lin Xingzhu only glanced once before her attention was captured by the words that came lightly from Bai Xiying’s vermilion lips.

“Are you suspecting me?”

Bai Xiying’s slender fingers slowly caressed Lin Xingzhu’s cheek, bringing a tingling, numbing sensation to Lin Xingzhu.

Her posture was the epitome of seduction, yet within her affectionate eyes was hidden a gurgling abyss that was impossible to discern.

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