After Transmigrating Into a Book, I Was Played by the Black Lotus – Chapter 88

Video Chat

Qian Duoduo was originally just an ordinary female university student.

She came from an ordinary rural family, and like most people in this world, went through a thousand hardships and ten thousand bitters¹ to get into a good university.

When she went to attend university in an unfamiliar and bustling city, she went together with a female student named Deng Jin².

Qian Duoduo and Deng Jin were originally good friends. They were from the same village, and were together in elementary, middle, and high school. And luckily, because their college entrance exam scores were not far from each other, they referenced each other when declaring their aspirations at the time, and were both ultimately admitted to the same university; it was just that the majors they studied were different.

Because of her interests, Deng Jin studied journalism, while Qian Duoduo, because she hated math, basically filled in majors that did not require studying mathematics.

After starting university, four years’ time can change a person a lot. At the very least, for Deng Jin and Qian Duoduo who were already good-looking to begin with, after graduating from university they became even more beautiful and full of temperament because they knew how to dress up.

But sometimes, being beautiful can also become a person’s original sin.

After graduating from university, Deng Jin and Qian Duoduo chose to stay in the local area to find work. At that time, they had just stepped into society and rented a house to live in together. Before the two of them had found the jobs they wanted, one night, the two of them went out shopping and to have fun together, and in the end, only one came back.

And the one who came back, was Qian Duoduo.

The other person, Deng Jin, had disappeared.

Qian Duoduo and Deng Jin’s family used various methods but never found her good friend, and reporting it to the police seemed to be of no use; the police never found Deng Jin.

Not long after, by a strange combination of yin and yang errors³, Qian Duoduo began to enter and exit the world of fame and fortune by virtue of her beauty.

Until at a bar party for pleasure, when she went to the restroom, she accidentally overheard the chat of two half-drunk second-generation rich kids and suddenly sensed something.

After that, Qian Duoduo came to A City, met Wen Lin in a bar, and became her lover.

At the same time, Qian Duoduo also accidentally discovered the secret of Miyue Bar.

She was certain that Deng Jin’s disappearance was definitely related to this place.

But by this time, Qian Duoduo had already clearly recognized that she could not shake Wen Lin in the slightest. And what she could do was to please Wen Lin, to stay by her side for a little longer.

She had to take the opportunity to get evidence.

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“So you brought her back?”

Bai Xiying quietly listened to Lin Xingzhu speak in the video, and only after she finished speaking and lifted her water cup to drink and moisten her throat did she ask with furrowed brows.

Lin Xingzhu said: “I brought her back, but I had her stay in the house next door.”

Bai Xiying was a little surprised. She thought Lin Xingzhu had directly brought the person back to the apartment, so that wasn’t the case?

Lin Xingzhu looked at her and smiled a little: “Did you forget that I am a second-generation rich kid?”

For a second-generation rich kid like her, the thing she lacked the least was real estate.

And the place where she lived now naturally consisted of more than just the two apartments she and Bai Xiying lived in.

Bai Xiying looked at her gentle eyebrows and eyes, and suddenly felt that she missed Lin Xingzhu a little.

Although they could video chat every day, how could that compare to being together every day?

Bai Xiying looked at her smiling appearance and slowly commented: “But I feel that compared to a second-generation rich kid, you are more like a corporate slave.”

Lin Xingzhu: “……It’s not that I’m like one, I originally am one.”

Especially recently, she has been even busier.

The two of them idly chatted for a couple of sentences, then pulled the topic back to proper business.

Bai Xiying asked: “She said she knocked Wen Lin unconscious and ran. In that case, will Wen Lin think she ran because she found out some secret?”

Thinking of what Qian Duoduo had said, Lin Xingzhu said: “She said she won’t, because she ran because she couldn’t stand what Wen Lin was going to do to her tonight, and not for any other reason. More importantly, she will still go back.”

Bai Xiying’s expression changed slightly. “She deliberately sought you out today.”

Lin Xingzhu said helplessly: “It looks like she has probably been watching me for a long time.”

And it looks like when she jumped onto her car tonight, besides wanting to use her “kind heart” to evade the people chasing her, the most important thing was still to reveal some information to her that she had always wanted to dig up.

Qian Duoduo wasn’t sure what she could do, but she could be sure that she was not an enemy, and might even be a helper. So she would share information with her, because she felt that with her own identity and status, doing some things might be easier for her to succeed at than for herself.

Mentioning these things, Lin Xingzhu thought of Wen Lin, her expression somewhat complicated: “I didn’t think that the person behind Yue Chuanzhu would really be Wen Lin.”

She remembered the Wen Lin she had dealt with before; with three words and two sentences⁴, one could almost figure out what kind of personality this person had.

She had a petty cleverness, but was not decisive enough.

The most important thing was that Wen Lin was almost no different from those second-generation rich kids she had seen who lived a drunk life and died in a dream⁵, eating, drinking, and playing.

Lin Xingzhu was suddenly a little curious, what kind of person was the Wen Lin from before she transmigrated into the book? Had the Wen family’s wealth and status over so many years corroded her? Or was she originally this kind of person?

Bai Xiying had almost never dealt with this Wen Lin, but she had heard things about her from Lin Xingzhu’s mouth.

“Wen Lin……” Bai Xiying said contemplatively: “It should be said that, regarding the matters behind the Pink Building and Miyue Bar right now, Wen Lin is actually not the most important one.”

The most important thing is the Wen family behind her.

Lin Xingzhu followed Bai Xiying’s train of thought in an instant.

Indeed, with Wen Lin’s personality, if she were really to be put in full charge of those matters, it would be impossible for the Pink Building to still be safe and sound and continuing to prosper and grow powerful to this day. After all, from the news that Qian Duoduo took great pains to inquire about, it seems the Pink Building appeared several years ago.

For so many years, she would not have been able to easily control everything.

Regarding the matters there, Wen Lin should have put in effort at the very beginning, so up to now she is still the person who “manages” the Pink Building, enjoying many rights.

Lin Xingzhu hissed, her good-looking brows wrinkling: “There are also people in the Wen family who are in politics.”

This was the most complicated matter.

Obviously, Bai Xiying had also thought of it.

Although they were separated by a video, as she looked into Lin Xingzhu’s eyes, it was as if she were looking into her heart at the same time.

“Are you still going to manage this matter?”

From the very beginning, when it came to the Pink Building, Lin Xingzhu and Bai Xiying had guessed that there was definitely collusion between politics and business involved. But at that time, even though she knew there was no way to completely dismantle Miyue Bar and the Pink Building, Lin Xingzhu still didn’t give up and had been continuously having people keep an eye on that place.

As for what could be done by watching? Could this matter definitely be solved? Lin Xingzhu was actually also uncertain in the bottom of her heart.

Although she was uncertain, she felt that since she knew about this matter, she couldn’t just let it go and not manage it.

And now, Lin Xingzhu knew a further truth.

Lin Xingzhu rubbed her fingers; in her heart, she actually already had an answer.

She looked at Bai Xiying on the other side of the video, who was wearing pajamas and leaning against the side of the bed, with a strange kind of gentleness: “I will manage it, and I know you won’t be unmoved either.”

The video connected on the screen, and the two people looking at each other both stopped speaking. In the stagnant space, because they were cut off by a vast distance, even the sound of breathing that could be heard before was gone.

Lin Xingzhu kept looking at the video, watching as the waves in Bai Xiying’s eyes on the other side moved slightly, and her expression became even more gentle.

And so, Lin Xingzhu knew her answer.

Bai Xiying agreed that she would not treat it as if she hadn’t seen it.

These few months of being together from morning to night had allowed Lin Xingzhu to recognize what kind of person Bai Xiying was, and after the two of them had thoroughly opened the skylight to speak bright words⁶, her understanding of Bai Xiying became even deeper.

And Lin Xingzhu also believed that Bai Xiying’s feelings about her were the same.

It was precisely because she thoroughly and clearly understood Bai Xiying’s past experiences that Lin Xingzhu could be certain that when Bai Xiying saw that such a group of forcibly controlled people existed, since she had the ability, she would definitely not ignore it.

Back then, Lin Xingzhu had people go carefully watch that side and didn’t hide it from Bai Xiying, and after Bai Xiying found out, she just told her to be a little careful.

She did not oppose it; she didn’t feel that it was a matter that didn’t concern her and should be hung up high⁷.

Bai Xiying took a deep breath and said: “I know I can’t help you in this aspect, but you must be careful.”

She said: “You are the most important.”

Lin Xingzhu touched her chin and said: “I’m not stupid, of course I know to protect myself first before doing other things.”

Although she had a good heart, she was not an absolute Holy Mother.

If she was going to help, she definitely couldn’t let herself get trapped, nor could she let the Lin family get implicated.

So this was very thorny.

As they were chatting, Bai Xiying changed the topic again: “Have you finished drinking what I left for you?”

Uh……

Lin Xingzhu looked at Bai Xiying’s generous manner and felt ashamed of her own inferiority. “I finished it.”

Bai Xiying said with some regret: “It’s a pity we’re not together, otherwise it wouldn’t have to be wasted.”

She still had a little every day, it was just all squeezed out and thrown away.

Thinking of this, Bai Xiying looked at Lin Xingzhu’s unreachable face, and her heart felt a little itchy.

Actually, according to her, even if they weren’t in the same place, it would be fine for her to bring some toys and let Lin Xingzhu control them from her side when she had some free time, but just as she mentioned it before leaving, she was refused by Lin Xingzhu.

Lin Xingzhu said that in order not to affect the competition, plus they had agreed before to be restrained, it was a good opportunity to let her cultivate her body and mind during this period.

Bai Xiying had asked Lin Xingzhu at the time, hadn’t she said that fun between lovers was allowed to exist?

Lin Xingzhu had no words to say.

But though she couldn’t open her mouth, she could also make Bai Xiying shut her mouth along with her.

And so, the two of them did not discuss this topic again that evening.

And until Bai Xiying left, there were no toys in the suitcase.

Seeing Bai Xiying’s gaze, Lin Xingzhu coughed.

Bai Xiying stared at her resentfully, and only when she was done did she ask: “In the end, did you eat the abnormally spicy chaofen?”

Mentioning this, Lin Xingzhu could feel the fire-like heat still lingering around her mouth.

She touched her lips and said: “I ate it, but by the time I was ready to eat, it was already cold, so I heated it up myself before eating.”

However, Lin Xingzhu still didn’t manage to get that fresh batch of abnormally spicy chaofen; she would definitely have to go buy another portion to try another day.

Seeing this, Bai Xiying suddenly also felt a little hungry. She said: “I also want to eat a late-night snack.”

But it was too late now, and she was too lazy to move, so she should just go to sleep.

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