After Transmigrating Into a Book, I Was Played by the Black Lotus – Chapter 84

In the Unseen¹

Lin Xingzhu was the first to feel that something was not right.

Feeling the strange sensation on her face, Lin Xingzhu freed a hand to wipe it.

Wet, and there was a faint milky smell².

What is this?

Lin Xingzhu stared blankly at the milky white wiped on the pad of her finger, not returning to her senses.

Just at this moment, her face seemed to be dripped on with the familiar wetness again.

Lin Xingzhu: “……”

This time she seemed to see clearly where they were dripping from, but precisely because she saw clearly, Lin Xingzhu’s brain instead completely crashed³.

Is this real?

Bai Xiying, who was above her, felt her chest swelling, while Lin Xingzhu, who had been caressing her, seemed to have stopped, making no movements at all. She furrowed her eyebrows in discomfort.

“……What’s wrong?” Bai Xiying whimpered.

Lin Xingzhu swallowed, her throat feeling a little tight. “I think I’m having a hallucination……”

If she wasn’t having a hallucination, how could she see someone lactate without any warning right before her eyes?

This is too outrageous!

Too unscientific!

Lin Xingzhu squeezed her eyes shut, and when she opened them again, the scenery suspended above her had still not changed!

She even witnessed with her own eyes two drops fall under the pull of gravity, and in the next second, she felt a different sensation on her lips.

Lin Xingzhu subconsciously licked them.

……Fuck!

Lin Xingzhu tried hard to forget the taste she had just accidentally sampled, her lips trembling as she spoke: “You, Xiying, your body seems to have undergone some bizarre changes.”

Bai Xiying’s cheeks were crimson, her brows slightly furrowed as she lowered her head to look at her. With this movement, her gaze happened to sweep over the white dots on Lin Xingzhu’s black collar.

At the same time, she also became aware of the strangeness of her own body.

Her chest felt an unprecedented swelling and discomfort.

Bai Xiying’s gaze shifted downwards; all absurdity became impossible to hide on her naked skin.

Bai Xiying: “……”

Her eyes were dazed, her sluggish appearance as if she no longer recognized herself.

Suddenly, Bai Xiying seemed to remember something. Her expression changed slightly, and she pulled away to sit up, grabbing her clothes to put them on.

It was this series of actions that brought Lin Xingzhu, who had been stunned in place like someone who had never seen the world, back to her senses.

“Don’t be afraid.” Lin Xingzhu quickly calmed down and comforted her, her voice steady. “We’ll go see a doctor, go to the hospital to see what’s going on.”

Bai Xiying quickly cut her off: “No! No need!”

Lin Xingzhu could no longer care about herself. She waved away the small toys scattered on the carpet and wrapped her arms around Bai Xiying’s slightly trembling and soft body, saying in a gentle voice: “No matter what happens, I will be with you, so don’t be afraid.”

Bai Xiying’s stiff body slowly relaxed under Lin Xingzhu’s gentle and soft-spoken comfort. She leaned into Lin Xingzhu’s embrace, her slender white fingers tensed very tightly, firmly clutching the clothes she hadn’t had time to put on.

“I know what’s going on.” Bai Xiying’s voice was hoarse. “This isn’t the first time I’ve encountered this kind of situation.”

Lin Xingzhu’s movements paused. Hearing that something was wrong in her voice, she held her even tighter.

Bai Xiying’s gaze fell emptily on a neatly arranged shelf, and she gave a bitter laugh. “It seems that today we are destined to lay all our cards on the table.”

Just before they started, Lin Xingzhu had said they should talk about serious business first. Bai Xiying had been evasive, telling her to solve her pleasure problem first before talking business.

But all her recent joy had come to an abrupt halt with those sudden liquids, frozen in place.

She wrapped her arms around Lin Xingzhu’s neck and said considerately in a low voice: “But if you want, I can service you first, and then we can talk.”

“……” Lin Xingzhu held her arm and said helplessly: “Am I that kind of person whose heart is clouded by lust?”

What time was it? How could her own girlfriend’s mind still be filled with such junk⁴?

Bai Xiying lightly rubbed her cheek, saying with attachment: “You’re not, I am.”

After saying this, they picked up the clothes they had just thrown on the carpet, put them on simply, then found a comfortable position to lie down in and began the talk that had been repeatedly postponed.

Lin Xingzhu lowered her eyes to meet her gaze. Bai Xiying’s expression was much better than when she had just seen the sudden milky whiteness.

Her lips moved: “Where should we start? From the beginning?”

Bai Xiying nodded.

Lin Xingzhu then smiled a little, stroking her hair and saying in a low voice: “Then you should already know everything. I am not the original Lin Xingzhu. I am the Lin Xingzhu from another world who accidentally replaced her a few months ago.”

Mentioning this, Bai Xiying raised her head and said: “Actually, I knew long ago that you weren’t the original Lin Xingzhu.”

Lin Xingzhu: “How could you tell? My personality?”

If it was a matter of personality, even if her changes had a reason, there would indeed still be differences from the original person.

Bai Xiying shook her head, extending a finger to point at the small mole at the corner of her left eye. “I could tell from here. The original Lin Xingzhu didn’t have a small mole on her face.”

“Although personality is one aspect, when I started to suspect and began to observe you with purpose, I very quickly discovered something was not right.”

Lin Xingzhu was startled by what she said and subconsciously touched the spot with the small mole.

She had always thought this body was completely identical to her own, never expecting that there had been subtle differences from the very beginning.

“So you’re actually reborn, aren’t you.” Lin Xingzhu pressed towards the teardrop mole at the corner of Bai Xiying’s right eye and said softly, “You came back for another round, and suddenly discovered a variable had appeared in the midst of a predetermined everything, so you decided to first observe in secret……”

Bai Xiying did not deny it.

Next, they chatted for a long time about their respective origins before Lin Xingzhu carefully asked: “What did you mean just now when you said this wasn’t the first time you’ve encountered it?”

She pointed a finger at Bai Xiying’s chest. From this angle, a small patch could be seen that looked like it had been soaked through.

Lin Xingzhu said: “Did you encounter this situation in your previous life?”

Bai Xiying hugged her arm, enduring the feeling of fullness, and said: “Yes. At the time, I discreetly went to the hospital, but the doctor only said it was because my body had been stimulated by drugs before, and that this was a delayed side effect.”

“After learning the truth, I stopped caring about it.”

The Bai Xiying of that time already harbored the will to die; this kind of bodily change could not shake her decision in the slightest.

And after starting over, her body had received far too little stimulation compared to her previous life. Except for the very beginning, she had not been in contact with any drugs, and gradually, Bai Xiying had forgotten about this matter.

But she never expected that one day, it would suddenly appear again.

“A side effect?” Lin Xingzhu furrowed her brow and repeated the words. She suddenly remembered what the doctor had said to her when she took Bai Xiying to the hospital after she had been drugged.

At that time, the doctor said that Bai Xiying’s body had been drugged again before it had fully recovered from the stimulation of the first new type of drug. With repeated instances, her body would become more sensitive than others and would also produce unavoidable side effects.

Could it be that the side effect the doctor spoke of was this?

Bai Xiying: “What’s wrong? Did you think of something?”

Lin Xingzhu glanced at her and repeated the doctor’s words to her again.

“I don’t think it’s just that.” Bai Xiying looked at her and said, “The drug stimulation is one reason, but I don’t know why, I feel that isn’t the most fundamental reason.”

As for the most fundamental reason, Bai Xiying couldn’t say either.

She suddenly stared at Lin Xingzhu, bringing up a topic that hadn’t been mentioned just now: “Before you transmigrated, you actually had opportunities and channels to learn about my life, right?”

“Just like watching a TV series, the original you was the audience, and I was a character in the plot. Everything is undefended against the audience, so I couldn’t perceive you, but you could see me.”

Lin Xingzhu’s beating heart suddenly skipped a beat.

She looked at Bai Xiying’s calm and certain expression, and was surprisingly not surprised that the intelligent woman could deduce the original truth of the matter from spider silk and horse tracks⁵.

“You’re right.” It had come to this point, so there was no longer any need to hide it. Lin Xingzhu admitted, “The only difference is that you weren’t a character in a TV series, but the protagonist of a novel.”

“……Protagonist?” Bai Xiying blinked in confusion, thought of her experiences in her past life, and suddenly gave a mocking laugh. “There can actually be a protagonist who has it this bad?”

She suddenly raised her head to ask, her tone abruptly becoming bizarre: “Do you think the us right now could be characters who have fallen into a new plot again?”

“One ring linked to another. We think this is the truth of the matter, but actually, all of this is just entertainment written again by someone else.”

Lin Xingzhu: “……”

She was startled. “That probably won’t happen, right.”

Bai Xiying smiled a little. “Right, how could that be possible?”

She suddenly remembered the pair of clear, bright eyes she had glimpsed in a thick, lightless black fog before her death in her past life. Looking at Lin Xingzhu from this angle, Bai Xiying suddenly discovered that the pair of eyes she saw before she died were actually so similar to Lin Xingzhu’s.

So similar as to be identical.

“Maybe it was when you were ‘watching’ me that you felt pity for me, so in the unseen, I was given the chance to have another go, and you had the strange adventure of passing through time and space.”

If she hadn’t met the variable, Lin Xingzhu, Bai Xiying felt that she would have chosen death when she first came back.

She was completely indifferent to everything—revenge, wealth, love, and hate. Compared to her weary heart, none of it was worth mentioning, so tiny and waveless that it couldn’t stir up a single ripple.

But it just so happened that the first person she met when she opened her eyes was Lin Xingzhu, the Lin Xingzhu whose soul was so pure it made people unable to resist approaching.

And thus, there is the them of today.

Listening to her words, Lin Xingzhu was inexplicably reminded of the fine, dense breathing sounds she heard in her blurred consciousness when she died in her past life, and also those large patches of blood mist, strange and quiet.

She vaguely remembered that before she opened her eyes again, a breathtaking streak of white had slid across her line of sight.

Like a lustrous, bright wrist.

As if remembering something, Lin Xingzhu raised Bai Xiying’s hand, her gaze carefully roving over her wrist.

Suddenly, her gaze froze on a small red mole on the inner side of her wrist.

Bai Xiying let her stare at her wrist, just asking curiously: “What are you looking at?”

“I’m looking at how our strange adventure seems to have already been destined in the unseen.”

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