After Transmigrating Into a Book, I Was Played by the Black Lotus – Chapter 82

The Real World

As it turns out, unless a person’s memory has undergone special training, it is very difficult to recall matters from over a decade ago and still have the memory be fresh.

Wen Lin haltingly picked and chose, speaking of the parts she still had an impression of.

Under Lin Xingzhu’s subtle gaze, she wiped the non-existent sweat from her forehead and drank a mouthful of coffee to moisten her throat.

“It was so long ago, it’s very normal that I don’t remember, right,” Wen Lin mumbled.

Lin Xingzhu’s sharp ears caught this sentence, and she seemed to be lost in thought.

It seems Wen Lin has been in this world for a long time. Seeing how difficult it is for her to recall things, this “long time” is probably calculated in units of years.

This was not very effective. Lin Xingzhu, who now had some clues, finally chose to ask questions instead.

Lin Xingzhu: “In your impression, were her skills good?”

Wen Lin: “……How is that possible?”

The setting of having good skills shouldn’t appear on a delicate and soft-bodied Huangwen female protagonist.

Then it seems they were not good.

Lin Xingzhu nodded and continued to ask, “She…… forget it.”

Lin Xingzhu suddenly stopped speaking. Looking at Wen Lin’s completely unaware face, she suddenly no longer wanted to continue asking.

Those traits belonging to Bai Xiying were all things she had seen with her own eyes and felt with her heart while spending every day with Bai Xiying. She didn’t really want to bring these up to ask Wen Lin, because Lin Xingzhu suddenly felt it was completely unnecessary.

Actually, she had discovered it long ago, hadn’t she?

Wen Lin, baffled: “Are there any more questions? If not, I’m leaving.”

“Wait.” Lin Xingzhu stopped her, saying, “Can I ask, what was the final ending in the original work?”

Wen Lin: “……”

She suddenly realized something: “You didn’t finish reading it?”

Lin Xingzhu said frankly: “I didn’t finish reading it.”

Wen Lin hissed, and again had a feeling that she had lost out.

She thought about the rotten tail¹ ending, but then felt that if she didn’t say anything, Lin Xingzhu wouldn’t know she was the original author anyway, so she said very naturally, “It seems it was an open-ended ending.”

“Open-ended?” Lin Xingzhu mused, “She didn’t end up with any of the characters?”

Wen Lin: “No.”

Actually, she had wanted to have the protagonist take in all of the few gongs, but for some reason, the more she wrote into the later stages, the more she felt the protagonist’s personality was becoming fuller, almost like an independent person. If she twisted it even slightly according to her own ideas, readers would shout that she was beng renshe².

And in the end, Wen Lin had originally wanted to just go for it with a “let’s have a blast” mentality and, not doing it by halves³, write a grand reunion HE. But before she could write it, she died in an accident and came to this world.

Thinking of this matter, Wen Lin sighed again: “When I was reading it back then, I felt that Bai Xiying in the later stages was becoming more and more like a person and not a string puppet. Who knew that in the universe there was actually such a magical thing, the world in the book became real, and in the world there was actually such a person.”

Thinking of this, a faint pride arose in Wen Lin’s heart.

This world really exists, and as the one who created them, in a certain sense she was the Creator……

Lin Xingzhu did not know what she was fantasizing about in her heart, she was just inexplicably shaken by the words Wen Lin had sighed out loud, and could not come back to her senses for a long time.

Wen Lin patiently accompanied her sitting here for so long, and even good-temperedly answered every question. She asked herself that she had already done pretty much enough.

Wen Lin didn’t want to get involved in their affair. There were so many beautiful women in the world; she didn’t need to take risks for a woman who could explode a mine⁴ at any moment.

Wen Lin said: “I’ve said everything I can say. I see you’ve pretty much understood it all. In the future, you don’t need to call me if there’s nothing important, right?”

Lin Xingzhu nodded: “I’ve troubled you this time.”

Wen Lin shrugged, gestured to Lin Xingzhu, and picked up her bag to leave.

She exited the coffee shop. The car was parked right outside. Wen Lin was about to press the button when she suddenly felt a gaze that made one’s heart tremble with fear.

Her hand trembled for a moment. Wen Lin subconsciously looked up.

It was Bai Xiying.

Standing right across the road, her whole body looked like it had a kind of tense, dangerous feeling.

Wen Lin nonchalantly retracted her gaze, quickly opened the car door, and drove away.

Inside the coffee shop, Lin Xingzhu drank the last mouthful of coffee and, while she was at it, paid for both of their coffees.

Taking advantage of the time while paying the bill, she glanced at the time. There was still about half an hour until Bai Xiying woke up from her nap; the time was completely sufficient.

Holding this thought, Lin Xingzhu had just lifted her foot and walked out the main door when she saw Bai Xiying standing across the road, staring fixedly at this place.

Lin Xingzhu: “……”

This was too much of a coincidence.

Moving her legs to get closer, Lin Xingzhu revealed a smile: “You’re awake?”

Bai Xiying’s pair of pitch-black eyes stared at her grimly: “Yes.”

Lin Xingzhu, who had clearly just come out to meet someone normally, was filled with a guilty conscience.

Bai Xiying’s tone was dangerous: “If I hadn’t woken up, were you about to run away with someone?”

“……” Lin Xingzhu coughed, “What are you talking about.”

Only, a trace of doubt flashed through the bottom of her heart, how did Bai Xiying find her so accurately.

The doubt flashed by and was gone. Lin Xingzhu made a move to take Bai Xiying’s hand to go home together.

Bai Xiying let her reach out her hand and didn’t struggle after being held by her.

Lin Xingzhu let out an imperceptible sigh of relief, but before she could completely let out that breath, she suddenly noticed something strange on her neck.

Lin Xingzhu’s eyelashes trembled, and she lowered her eyes to look.

Bai Xiying’s bright red lips curled up. Ignoring her question, her slender white fingers brushed across her neck, the pads of her fingers rubbing against the tender flesh, inch by inch as if measuring, yet also as if flirting, bringing waves of shivers: “Since you’ve come, then stay and accompany me forever.”

Don’t think about escaping.

At the same time, the situation of their hands instantly reversed. The right hand she had extended was fiercely restrained by the other person. Lin Xingzhu suspected that if there were a pair of handcuffs nearby right now, her right hand would definitely be locked up tightly.

Lin Xingzhu’s lips trembled: “What are you talking about?”

Her undefended and unstruggling appearance made Bai Xiying slightly more pleased, but she was still very angry.

She murmured in a low voice: “You secretly ran away today while I was sleeping. I’m very angry.”

“I reported it to you, but you were sleeping.”

Bai Xiying turned a deaf ear: “You secretly ran out to see someone else, and it was that Wen Lin.”

It’s that Wen Lin who comes from the same place as you.

After Bai Xiying said this sentence, she bit her lips tightly.

Lin Xingzhu’s heart jumped; she didn’t expect her reaction to be so big.

She subconsciously wanted to loosen her sharp lips, but her right hand was being gripped fiercely by Bai Xiying, and her neck was still held in Bai Xiying’s hand. The moment her body moved, Bai Xiying was instantly startled awake.

“I-I can explain.” Lin Xingzhu said quickly, “I had a reason for coming to see her.”

Bai Xiying stared at her gloomily.

Lin Xingzhu looked into her eyes that were like a deep abyss vortex: “I did it to understand you better. Only by finding the crux of the problem can we fundamentally solve the problem between us.”

Who would have thought this sentence seemed to touch some sensitive nerve of Bai Xiying’s. She was seen to curl her lips, her eyes as if brewing a black fog that never saw the light of day: “But shouldn’t you be the one who understands me the most?” No matter from which time-space world one looks at it.

She tilted her head, staring straight at Lin Xingzhu.

Lin Xingzhu: “……”

She suddenly realized, Bai Xiying knew everything.

Probably after she and Wen Lin met and talked in the mall, Bai Xiying had become suspicious at some point.

It was even unknown whether she had heard their conversation.

Lin Xingzhu coughed lightly, “Should we go home first before discussing these issues?”

She used her eyes to signal Bai Xiying to look at their surroundings.

The position where the two of them were standing happened to be across the street from the coffee shop entrance. Although they weren’t wearing any bizarre clothes, their strange posture was still vaguely attracting some gazes.

Moreover, discussing these issues in a public place was indeed not very appropriate.

Bai Xiying shot her a glance and lowered the hand that had been caressing her neck, but the other hand that had been tightly gripping Lin Xingzhu’s did not loosen from beginning to end.

Lin Xingzhu also had no intention of making her let go. Although her body was not as sensitive as Bai Xiying’s, with this amount of force, there was probably already a mark on her wrist.

But thinking of Bai Xiying’s state, Lin Xingzhu still acted as if she didn’t feel it.

It was very close to the apartment from here, probably about a ten-minute walk.

Lin Xingzhu hadn’t driven when she came out, and it looked like Bai Xiying had also walked over, so when they went back, the two of them walked back holding hands.

The road was not a straight line, and from the main gate of the residential complex, there was more than just one road leading to the coffee shop.

Lin Xingzhu pondered for a moment and asked tactfully: “Did you put some kind of tracker on me?”

Bai Xiying’s gaze turned to her, without any concealment: “You guessed?”

Lin Xingzhu’s heart sank.

Bai Xiying pursed her lips: “A tracking software is installed on your phone, and the signal on the other end is connected to my phone.”

Seeing that Lin Xingzhu’s expression was not very good, she showed no sign of regret at all: “I don’t have a sense of security.”

She said deliberately: “Maybe if you wore that collar, my insecurity would decrease a lot.”

“……” Lin Xingzhu pursed her lips, looking at her suspiciously.

Actually, she was more helpless than angry. The thought that Bai Xiying had quietly put a tracker on her long ago, yet still guarded her step by step for the past two days, not letting her leave the room, made her feel somewhat helpless for a moment.

So Lin Xingzhu couldn’t help but say: “Since you already have a tracker, what are you afraid of me going out for?”

Anyway, she can always find me.

Bai Xiying’s eyes suddenly became very deep, “Can technology explain why you appeared here?”

Technology cannot.

So a tracker also cannot stop Lin Xingzhu from leaving.

The image of Lin Xingzhu and Wen Lin talking cheerfully flashed before her eyes again. Bai Xiying bit her lip; her already crimson lips became even more demonic due to being engorged with blood.

They are both special people from the same world. What if they really trigger some clue by meeting again and leave without any warning?

Bai Xiying’s gaze patrolled over Lin Xingzhu’s suddenly silent face, an unreadable emotion floating in her eyes, “I will let you know that the current world is your real world.”

Your joy, pain, sorrow, and happiness are all here.

Bai Xiying’s wrist exerted force, gripping Lin Xingzhu and striding back.

Lin Xingzhu: “……”

Wait, she never said this world wasn’t the real world!

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