After Transmigrating Into a Book, I Was Played by the Black Lotus – Chapter 96

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Parallel World IF Line 5

Until they went upstairs and returned to the room, both of their expressions were still a little strange.

Bai Xiying had not the slightest interest in that girl; she had seen plenty of people who were captivated by beauty like this, the only difference between them being whether it was simple appreciation or a desire to possess.

Very obviously, the girl downstairs who brought Lin Xingzhu back was simply appreciative.

She just wanted to know Lin Xingzhu’s mood.

Thinking of this, Bai Xiying lowered her head to look at Lin Xingzhu, who was sitting on the sofa obediently drinking water. Her face still carried a drunken look and astonishment; clearly, she had not yet completely come back to her senses.

Recalling the girl’s simple and cute appearance, Bai Xiying asked with a smile, “What, have you eaten vinegar?”

Lin Xingzhu raised her head. “Hm?”

Bai Xiying said, “She said she wanted to add my WeChat, did you eat vinegar?”

Lin Xingzhu looked at Bai Xiying with an absurd expression. “How is that possible?!”

She was just surprised to have only discovered today that He Yudong was actually a face-con¹; this could explain He Yudong’s various past attitudes toward her.

“Heh.“

Bai Xiying suddenly let out a cold laugh.

Lin Xingzhu looked at her, not understanding why.

Bai Xiying gazed at the blush on her face and, thinking about the matters in her own heart, pressed her lips together with a poor expression.

Not eating vinegar was a good thing, but this also showed that Lin Xingzhu had no interest of that kind² in either her or He Yudong.

Regarding the latter, Bai Xiying was extremely pleased, but when she thought of the former, Bai Xiying’s mood was not so wonderful.

After letting out a cold laugh, Bai Xiying did not speak again. Seeing that she could not figure anything out, Lin Xingzhu retracted her gaze and drank the warm water in her cup in one gulp.

She wanted to take a shower and go to sleep.

Thinking this, Lin Xingzhu got up from the sofa. As she passed by Bai Xiying’s side, she spoke with a very good attitude, “Thank you for tonight, ah.”

Bai Xiying did not answer, gazing at the cake on the coffee table that Lin Xingzhu had not forgotten to buy for her, even though she had to attend a social engagement. Her heart felt somewhat complicated.

Various emotions flashed through her, but the one constant was her desire to fiercely grab this warmth into her own hands.

Seeing that she did not answer, Lin Xingzhu did not mind. After so many days, she had already grown accustomed to Bai Xiying’s occasionally moody personality. As a housemate who had some basic understanding of her, after getting along for a period of time, Lin Xingzhu felt that she still had a bit of tolerance for Bai Xiying.

She tugged at her shirt and lifted her foot, about to leave.

The next second, her shirt collar was yanked, and Lin Xingzhu’s entire person was pressed down onto the sofa.

The sky and earth spun, and her head instantly grew dizzy.

Lin Xingzhu was blinking her eyes, not yet having recovered her senses, when she suddenly felt a mouth fiercely kiss her own.

“……”

Lin Xingzhu blinked, feeling something brush past her eyes, making them a little itchy.

“?!”

After a long moment, her sluggish brain finally realized what the current situation was!

Her mouth was being blocked, and something was rampaging³ inside.

Lin Xingzhu’s eyes were full of shock.

Bai Xiying… she… she… she… how could she suddenly use her mouth⁴?!

The person pressing on top of her had a crimson face, and her eyes seemed to hide a mysterious abyss, attracting one to explore it irresistibly.

Lin Xingzhu, with her eyes open, met her gaze for a moment, getting lost in it for two seconds before slowly looking away.

She suddenly gave a shove and pushed Bai Xiying, who was pressing down on her body, away!

Her mouth a little red from being kissed, Lin Xingzhu lay on the sofa, trying hard to suck in fresh air.

Bai Xiying, who had been pushed away by Lin Xingzhu, staggered for a moment before quickly steadying herself. Then, she raised the back of her hand and wiped it across her lips, wiping away the silver thread⁵ that had been attached to them and broken in the air. She licked her lips, let out a light laugh, and commented, “A kiss mixed with the taste of alcohol really doesn’t feel too good, ah.”

Lin Xingzhu: “……”

If she had any drunkenness left, then most of it was scared out of her after Bai Xiying’s sudden attack.

Hearing Bai Xiying’s frivolous and wanton comment, Lin Xingzhu, bearing lips that were red and numb from being kissed, gave a cold laugh. “Then you’re not very picky either, are you.”

Bai Xiying raised an eyebrow. “Because it’s you, ah.”

Lin Xingzhu was not the least bit flustered.

She gazed at Bai Xiying, who just loved to go crazy⁶ in the middle of the night. Her feverish brain quickly calmed down. She raised a hand to wipe her lips, then lowered her arm and said coldly, “Do you know what you’re doing? I’ve said before, don’t use sex to make a transaction with me.”

She thought Bai Xiying was reverting to her old ways, that after seeing He Yudong, she had grown vigilant and was once again entertaining the idea of a transaction.

Lin Xingzhu looked at Bai Xiying and, expressionlessly, reiterated once more, “Transactions⁷ are not going to work with me.”

Thinking of Bai Xiying’s living environment, Lin Xingzhu was actually not surprised that she would use such a method.

But she did not at all hope that Bai Xiying would use the things she had learned on her.

Bai Xiying was not the least bit frightened by her ice-cold expression. She tilted her head and chuckled, “How can you be so certain that I’m using sex to make a transaction with you, then? If I said that I wanted to kiss you because I like you, would you believe it?”

As she said this, Bai Xiying’s eyes were fixed tightly on Lin Xingzhu, not missing the slightest change on her face.

In fact, after these words left her mouth, she already had an answer in her heart.

There was not the slightest change in Lin Xingzhu’s gaze as she said calmly, “I believe you.”

The curve of her lips froze in place. For a moment, panic appeared in Bai Xiying’s heart.

Lin Xingzhu’s voice continued, “You don’t need to be surprised. I believe that you definitely kissed me because you like me, and that’s why you would make such a move.”

Lin Xingzhu was not being narcissistic; rather, she could tell from Bai Xiying’s words and attitude that all those who had once forced her had met with her retaliation and gotten the ending they deserved. She believed that if Bai Xiying did not want to, she herself would not do such a thing.

And regarding the topic of casual intimacy, Lin Xingzhu also held her own conclusion—when Bai Xiying had first appeared here, she had teased her many times and had many opportunities to truly implement more intimate contact, but she had not, and yet it had happened today.

This was enough to show that during this period of contact between the two of them, Bai Xiying’s attitude toward her had definitely undergone some changes.

Lin Xingzhu was not a block of wood, so how could she possibly not have noticed?

The emotion in Lin Xingzhu’s eyes was very faint, and her voice at this moment was also very calm. “But you and I both know that the ‘like’ in your heart is too narrow.”

“Why do you like me?” Lin Xingzhu ignored Bai Xiying’s slightly changed gaze and stated the truth plainly, “It’s nothing more than that you like this kind of peaceful life, you want to possess this kind of life completely, you indulge in it, you want to possess it, and so you extend the feelings in your heart, projecting this feeling of possessiveness onto the giver who is temporarily sharing these things with you.”

Lin Xingzhu raised her eyes to look at her. “And this giver is me.”

She had not missed Bai Xiying’s peaceful sleeping face as she dozed off in the brilliant weekend sunlight, had not missed her comfortable expression as she calmly read a book, spaced out, and passed the time in the sun, nor had she ignored the increasingly peaceful temperament of enjoyment and calm that emanated from Bai Xiying.

Compared to when she first arrived, Bai Xiying had changed a lot.

Lin Xingzhu had seen it all, so it was not difficult to guess these motives.

Bai Xiying’s expression was very ugly. She sneered, wantonly releasing the thorns all over her body in an attempt to make everyone retreat with her barbs. “It’s laughable, right? You saw through me long ago, yet you never said anything, just letting me carry on with this awful, ridiculous self-performance.”

Actually, it shouldn’t be like this, and Bai Xiying was also very clear about that in her heart. She ate Lin Xingzhu’s food, wore Lin Xingzhu’s clothes, and lived in Lin Xingzhu’s home, yet she still sarcastically harassed her in such an unseemly manner.

But when Lin Xingzhu truly analyzed the her of this moment, Bai Xiying still couldn’t help but panic, and after the panic came the anger of being seen through.

How could she be like this!

But why should she be angry, then? Shouldn’t she have counterattacked with a light breeze and thin clouds⁸, just like on the first day?

Bai Xiying did not know, and at this moment, she did not want to know either.

Lin Xingzhu shook her head. “I’ve never thought that way.”

“I just wanted to give you time to understand the difference between our two worlds,” Lin Xingzhu said. “I just wanted you to understand that you have left the mire and broken free from your shackles. You can freely choose your life and your future now. There are no predetermined words to frame your destiny anymore. You are free.”

“If you like your current life, you can rely on your own two hands to create one that belongs to you. I believe you have that ability, Bai Xiying.”

Lin Xingzhu looked at her seriously. “No matter how good this life is now, it doesn’t belong to you; it’s mine. But the beauty that belongs to you is waiting for you in the near future.”

“Bai Xiying, the you of right now is free.”

So you don’t need to be frightened and uneasy anymore, projecting your own feelings just to possess this kind of comfortable life, squandering those truly precious emotions on unnecessary people.

This kind of “possessive-style” like was something Lin Xingzhu did not want, nor did she hope for Bai Xiying to give it away.

The sound belonging to Lin Xingzhu lingered in her ears, gentle yet powerful, unhurriedly telling of everything. It was clearly a plain tone, yet it was like a high-hanging boulder that smashed fiercely into the bottom of Bai Xiying’s heart, shattering a corner of the barrier she had sealed herself behind.

Bai Xiying looked deeply into Lin Xingzhu’s eyes. She felt as if she were enveloped within a vast and boundless river of stars, brilliant and warm.

“……” Bai Xiying’s voice was hoarse. “So that’s what you were thinking, ah.”

She was no fool; she could not fail to hear the sincerity in Lin Xingzhu’s words.

She suddenly had the feeling that she wanted to cry.

Bai Xiying tilted her head back, and only after stopping the moisture in her eyes from welling up did she lower her gaze to look directly at Lin Xingzhu. “You’re right.”

In an instant, she remembered many things—the normal years before her absurd fate had come knocking. It turned out that many years ago, she too had once lived diligently and struggled actively.

Her thoughts returned, and the aura belonging to Lin Xingzhu enveloped her surroundings.

Bai Xiying looked at Lin Xingzhu. Deep in her eyes, there was some relief, yet also a deeply hidden unwillingness. “Thank you.”

She was unwilling—why had she not met Lin Xingzhu sooner? Why did she and Lin Xingzhu have to be people from two different worlds?

That possessive ‘like’ not only did not fade, but it was even mixed with new emotions, burning more and more fiercely!

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