Scum A with a Sweet Black Lotus O – Chapter 135
by Little PandaPei Xuezhi doesn’t belong to anyone; on the contrary, “She” belongs to Pei Xuezhi.
The night was like dusk, and no stars were visible.
The current time was three in the morning.
Fu Chaoyun’s mood was not light.
By meticulously sifting through all sorts of details1, Fu Chaoyun finally found the most likely place where Pei Xuezhi was—
Of course, this also included messages Pei Xuezhi had unintentionally left behind.
The reason it was “unintentional” was that Pei Xuezhi had proactively chosen to meet Chi Guisi, wanting to remove Fu Chaoyun from this matter and resolve it herself first.
In Pei Xuezhi’s plan, Fu Chaoyun was supposed to not be involved in this matter from beginning to end.
A good idea.
But how could that be possible? How could the latter just sit back and reap the benefits?
The two had known each other for nearly half a year in total, so even if Pei Xuezhi wanted to hide things, Fu Chaoyun could still find some clues from the minor details.
Of course, during the time she had no leads, she also tried asking the System, but ultimately gained nothing.
Trash is trash.
Right then, in the pitch-black night, the Alpha looked up at the tall skyscraper before her. Under the reflection of the lights, those amber eyes were surprisingly bright… and determined.
It had been less than twelve hours since the disappearance, the police hadn’t been mobilized yet, and the people she had with her were all her own—outstandingly capable and guaranteed to keep their mouths shut.
Even in modern civilized society, an Omega being kidnapped by an Alpha for several hours and not returning would inevitably lead to a bad reputation. Even if Fu Chaoyun said she didn’t mind at all, once word got out, there was no guarantee others wouldn’t overthink it.
She had considered every aspect.
Finally, Fu Chaoyun took that step. “Let’s go.”
Hotel.
Inside the suite.
“Aren’t you leaving?” Pei Xuezhi asked.
Just now, Pei Xuezhi’s sarcastic remark had almost made Chi Guisi completely lose her mind, even her facial expression becoming uncontrollable.
She had to admit, although she was mocking the other person, hearing that Fu Chaoyun was coming did bring a bit of happiness to her heart. However, this instinctive emotion was quickly suppressed by reason, followed more by worry.
The previous two operations had shown that the other party wasn’t a completely brainless existence. Since she dared to abduct her, she must have made corresponding preparations.
Moreover, Chi Guisi had occupied this place first. To some extent, it might be her lair, so she must have made many arrangements. If Fu Chaoyun were to barge in alone2…
Very dangerous.
Extremely dangerous.
Pei Xuezhi asked this as a way of probing.
This question indeed brought Chi Guisi back to her senses. Her face, twisted with anger, gradually regained a smile when she faced the Omega, but this didn’t make her look any kinder. On the contrary, her whole person seemed even more distorted.
“Hearing she’s coming to save you, my Xuezhi seems very happy?”
The Alpha’s voice was very light and soft, her eyes deep and affectionate, yet they carried an indescribable sense of danger.
Pei Xuezhi didn’t answer.
Chi Guisi continued talking to herself, “Daring to come save you like this, it seems she really likes you a lot…”
“That’s right, too. How could ‘Fu Chaoyun’ not like ‘Pei Xuezhi’…”
Her voice was almost a murmur.
Speaking of this, she even chuckled.
Pei Xuezhi had been watching the Alpha’s expression, so at this moment, she was indeed smiling genuinely, not mockingly.
Yet it made one’s skin crawl3.
Smiling?
Why was she smiling?
What was she going to do to Fu Chaoyun?
Sure enough, the next second, the Alpha’s gaze fell on her again, and she said gently, “Xuezhi, you don’t need to probe me anymore.”
“Escape? How could I possibly escape!”
“I’m just waiting for her to come, waiting for her—”
Her azure eyes suddenly turned fierce. “I want her to personally witness her own defeat, to see you standing with me in the end!!”
“What are you going to do?” Pei Xuezhi asked, her tone very calm, seemingly not at all nervous for Fu Chaoyun.
But her hand hidden under the table had fingertips digging into her flesh. At this moment, she was relying on this pain to force herself to calm down quickly.
During a confrontation, one must never show fear.
She had miscalculated.
Just as she had racked her brains wanting to help Fu Chaoyun deal with Chi Guisi first, Fu Chaoyun similarly didn’t want her to face the moody Scum A alone.
Chi Guisi suppressed her smile. She squinted at Pei Xuezhi, seemingly able to see through the Omega’s bluff4 beneath her calmness, and said deliberately.
“She doesn’t seem to have appreciated your good intentions…”
She paused.
“Perhaps she understood but wasn’t willing to accept it. Tsk tsk tsk, truly a fine drama of deep affection, the man is willing and the maiden is interested5, but they’re destined to be doomed lovers6!”
“And I, this ‘despicable’ villain, will inherit everything she previously owned, especially—the beauty.”
Pei Xuezhi turned her head away.
She knew that talking about things like “a society ruled by law” or “you can’t kill people” with such an “outlaw7”… was useless.
She didn’t even listen to the other’s harsh words, because they were just useless, clamorous nonsense.
With Fu Chaoyun’s arrival, the whole plan was in disarray. She now needed to focus on analyzing the trump cards and bargaining chips she currently held, then figure out a way for both of them to escape, and if possible, to get rid of this venomous insect in front of her once and for all8!
To this end, Pei Xuezhi’s mind raced.
On the other side, Chi Guisi didn’t care about Pei Xuezhi’s thoughts—in other aspects, she might be completely obedient to Pei Xuezhi, but on this point alone, she wouldn’t back down half a step, and there was no room for discussion.
She even gave out various instructions for arrangements right in front of Pei Xuezhi, a joyful and lighthearted smile constantly on her face, as if everything she desired could be achieved immediately.
After finishing all this, she extended an invitation to Pei Xuezhi, “Let’s go.”
Pei Xuezhi’s dark eyes looked over.
She wants to take me there?
Is this arrogance or complete confidence? Or is she plotting an even bigger conspiracy…
Chi Guisi was in a very good mood at this moment. If possible, she could even bow like a queen’s knight, come over to take the Omega’s hand, and offer a kiss on the back of it.
“Xuezhi always has to see it for herself before she’ll give up hope!”
Fu Chaoyun barged in.
Even though she had brought professionals from various fields and used the fastest positioning methods, it still took some time to actually reach this place.
During this time, Chi Guisi neither fled nor hid, just sat in this room, unhurriedly waiting for the other party to take the bait.
“Bang”—
With a loud noise, the suite door was kicked open. Fu Chaoyun refused her subordinates’ attempts to stop her and boldly walked at the very front. As she looked up, she met the eyes of Chi Guisi, who was sitting in the living room, waiting in full readiness.
Fu Chaoyun’s gaze didn’t pause for even a fraction of a second, nor was she surprised. She directly looked past this person, scanned her surroundings, searching for traces of the person she wanted.
To no avail.
“Where is she?” Fu Chaoyun heard herself ask, her voice rational and cold.
“Who?” Chi Guisi retorted.
Even though Fu Chaoyun ignored her, her gaze remained fixed on the other person.
Unlike when she was talking to Pei Xuezhi just now, where she seemed crazed at the mere mention of the name “Fu Chaoyun,” her face was even smiling. She looked at Fu Chaoyun as if looking at a long-known friend, gentle and calm, without any hostility, giving the impression that one had found the wrong person.
She was looking at the person opposite her.
Or, perhaps, just at that body she had once used.
Reminiscently, nostalgically, greedily… and yet, in the depths of those icy blue eyes, a hint of cold indifference showed through.
Clearly, all of this was fake.
“You know who.”
Only then did Fu Chaoyun look at the person opposite her.
Just like her, the intruder, Chi Guisi was also surrounded by many people protecting her.
These two who had been contending behind the scenes for a long time—or perhaps it was the Scum A who had been largely stirring up trouble, and Fu Chaoyun had no choice but to confront her for self-preservation.
At this moment, they finally met face to face, confronting each other.
Fu Chaoyun didn’t want to beat around the bush and said directly, “Pei Xuezhi.”
“Using her full name? How distant. I thought you’d use a more intimate form of address in front of me…”
Chi Guisi said this as if they were old friends. If one looked closely, although her tone was relaxed, her gaze remained fixed on Fu Chaoyun from beginning to end, as if deliberately trying to provoke her.
Seeing Fu Chaoyun unmoved didn’t affect her enthusiasm for her performance in the slightest.
“Xuezhi… Of course, I’ve sent her away.” She chuckled, arrogant and mocking. “Did you expect me to keep her here, waiting to watch your ‘hero saves the beauty’ act?”
“Old-fashioned, so old-fashioned, hahaha—”
She laughed as if she had thought of something amusing, but Fu Chaoyun’s expression remained unchanged.
“You wouldn’t,” she interrupted.
Fu Chaoyun wasn’t swayed by Chi Guisi’s exaggerated attitude, nor did she feel jealous of the intimate terms of address the other deliberately used. She merely analyzed rationally and objectively.
“If you wanted to leave, you could have taken her and left right from the start, flown directly abroad, without needing to wait for me to arrive.”
“The fact that you dare to wait here so brazenly… means you’re prepared. You were deliberately saying things to provoke me just now… Is she nearby?”
Fu Chaoyun looked around. “Are there any secret passages or hidden rooms designed into this place?”
“It doesn’t matter. We’ll find her eventually.”
“You must be joking,” Chi Guisi interrupted her. “I went to great trouble to take her away, only to put her right in front of you? Am I an idiot?”
Fu Chaoyun: “It really was you.”
Not surprised at all.
At the same time, Fu Chaoyun saw clearly that when she had just stated her guess, a shadow had flickered across the other’s eyes.
—She had guessed correctly.
Fu Chaoyun and Chi Guisi had clashed before.
Strictly speaking, there hadn’t been many real confrontations between them. The time with Jian Yi was entirely the Scum A setting a trap for Fu Chaoyun to figure out. Only the incident with Mi Shan was a formal confrontation.
But just this one experience allowed Fu Chaoyun to get a grasp of the other’s personality and methods.
It wasn’t learned from the original script or the System.
This feeling was very strange…
She instinctively understood everything about her, as if… as if she understood herself.
But—
How could that be possible?
Fu Chaoyun quickly suppressed this bizarre thought. Right now, the most important thing was Pei Xuezhi’s safety.
So, she asked again, “Where is she?”
“If you think I’m lying to you, then why don’t you try looking.”
As they faced off, Fu Chaoyun suddenly made a hand gesture, and the people originally gathered behind her were about to spread out and start searching.
Without Chi Guisi even needing to move, the moment this group started to act, countless dark gun muzzles were aimed at their heads.
A sense of pressure washed over them.
Fu Chaoyun wasn’t flustered. “I thought what you said earlier meant ‘okay’.”
Chi Guisi smiled, refined and polite. “Indeed, I did say okay.”
The next second.
Her face suddenly twisted.
“Then if I were to say ‘die,’ would you go die too?!”
“Die for Pei Xuezhi!”
Fu Chaoyun didn’t answer.
A mocking expression indeed appeared on Chi Guisi’s crazed face. “You won’t… right? No matter what, you always put yourself first. You’re a selfish person!”
It was as if she were celebrating her own victory, her complete and utter victory.
“Your affection for Pei Xuezhi is nothing more than this. Only I! Only I truly love ‘Pei Xuezhi’…”
Fu Chaoyun just quietly watched the other’s performance.
Faced with such accusations and declarations, there was no anger on her face. The two faces were clearly completely different apart from being good-looking, but at this moment, her calm demeanor was inexplicably similar to Pei Xuezhi’s earlier.
Their feelings for each other didn’t need to be proven by such things in the first place.
She was rational.
It’s just a romance; does it have to reach the point of life and death?
Besides, deciding each other’s life and death without the other party’s involvement, forcing the one who lives to unknowingly bear everything thereafter, is inherently unfair…
Death is just a momentary thing.
But the rest of one’s life is very long.
Fu Chaoyun really couldn’t understand the thinking of the person opposite her.
Quite the opposite of her.
The Scum A was extremely twisted and crazy. All her actions stemmed from her most immediate, true thoughts. Perhaps she had made plans initially, but when emotions ran high, the original plans would be completely overturned, and she would make choices and judgments based solely on emotion.
It could be said that the other person was her complete opposite.
—Apart from both liking Pei Xuezhi, the two had almost no similarities.
And yet, inexplicably…
These people, accustomed to “freedom” abroad, were currently lawless.
But this was currently within the country.
Even though she was currently targeted by so many dark gun muzzles, if the other party still wanted to leave safely with Pei Xuezhi, even the most impulsive person would have to maintain a shred of rationality. Therefore, Fu Chaoyun didn’t feel a life-threatening sense of pressure.
Fu Chaoyun thought for a moment and said seriously, “This is something I can’t answer for you alone.”
She couldn’t make the decision unilaterally and let the other person bear everything—no one can completely decide another person’s entire future life, even if they are lovers or partners.
Chi Guisi: “You’re just saying nice-sounding words!”
Knowing it was useless to reason with the other party, Fu Chaoyun simply stopped wasting her breath. She glanced lightly at the gun muzzle pointed directly at her.
“I’ve called the police.” She directly revealed her trump card. “Before barging in here alone, I also made many arrangements outside. If there’s no news from me by six o’clock this morning, you will also be blockaded, unable to ever leave this country.”
“You think those people here can catch me?” Chi Guisi seemed extremely disdainful.
“Yes.”
Fu Chaoyun replied, and at the same time, she discovered something else.
The Scum A always carried an air of superiority. Perhaps benefiting from the convenience of being able to change bodies, everything she displayed was no longer just confidence or even arrogance.
She seemed like a “Child of Heaven’s Mandate” who completely transcended this world!
Heaven’s Mandate? Fortune?
Something flashed through Fu Chaoyun’s mind, too quickly for her to grasp.
Chi Guisi then proposed enthusiastically, “Why don’t we make a bet.”
“What?” Fu Chaoyun replied.
“Let’s gamble.”
Chi Guisi sat there. Being of mixed heritage, coupled with the crowd surrounding her, made her Alpha aura seem exceptionally powerful. Her eyes, blazing and crazed, looked at Fu Chaoyun.
“Whoever wins gets to have Pei Xuezhi!”
Fu Chaoyun looked at her.
From the moment she entered until now, she had always acted rationally. Only at this moment did a hint of anger finally appear on her cold, beautiful face.
“Pei Xuezhi is a ‘person’ with independent thoughts.”
“She has never been ‘anyone’s’ spoil of war!”
Chi Guisi’s arrogant face froze for an instant, even revealing a confusion she herself might not have noticed.
But it was fleeting, and she quickly returned to normal.
“I will not give up Pei Xuezhi. Pei Xuezhi is… so Pei Xuezhi is also mine!”
Only she herself probably knew the words she mumbled9 in the middle.
Chi Guisi suddenly looked up. “So, Fu Chaoyun—”
The other person called her name, but perhaps because the other had once used this body, and she too had been called by this name, it always carried an indescribable awkwardness.
This awkwardness even affected Fu Chaoyun.
“Want to bet? Or will you give up directly like a coward?”
Fu Chaoyun tilted her head. With just a look, one of the people following her directly snatched the gun from the hand of the nearest bodyguard in black and, in a backhand motion, aimed it at Chi Guisi’s head.
The movements were swift and decisive, and the atmosphere in the room became even more explosive, tense and oppressive to the extreme.
Chi Guisi’s head was targeted, but seeing this change, she suddenly burst into uncontrollable laughter.
“Nice words, but in the end, aren’t you still…”
Aren’t you just like her, reducing Pei Xuezhi to a contested prize? Of course, she loved Pei Xuezhi so much; she was just deliberately saying things now to provoke that person. Afterwards, she would definitely cherish and treat her Xuezhi well.
This action seemed to indicate that Fu Chaoyun had abandoned her inner principles, becoming the same as her.
—She wasn’t any better than her.
—Even though… she had never lost to her either.
Just this thought, this kind of “victory,” was enough to make Chi Guisi laugh heartily, to the point of forgetting the current change in the situation.
As if knowing what she was thinking, Fu Chaoyun suddenly turned back, her eyes still cold.
“Get this straight.”
She said.
“Now, I’m taking back the ‘contested prize’ you offered.”
Pei Xuezhi is not anyone’s spoil of war. In a sense, she doesn’t even belong to anyone.
On the contrary.
All along.
—It is “She” who belongs to Pei Xuezhi.
Or perhaps.
It is… “They”.
The author has something to say:
Suddenly remembered my story is set in modern times, and then I mentioned guns… Suddenly feels very risky!!! 【The intuition of someone who’s been [content]-locked many times】
Safe driving, I should probably just fast-forward through this part (coincidentally, I’m really stuck on this plot segment too!). I’ll wrap up the kidnapping storyline tomorrow. Tomorrow should be about one and a half chapters.
LP: Was ‘Fu Chaoyun’ split into half or something
Footnotes
- 抽丝剥茧 | chōu sī bō jiǎn | Lit. to spin silk from cocoons and peel off layer by layer; meaning to meticulously analyze or unravel a complex situation piece by piece.
- 单枪匹马 | dān qiāng pǐ mǎ | Lit. single spear and one horse; meaning to go into battle or undertake a task alone, single-handedly.
- 毛骨悚然 | máo gǔ sǒng rán | Lit. hairs stand on end and bones chill; meaning to make one’s hair stand on end, to be terrified, to make one’s skin crawl.
- 虚张声势 | xū zhāng shēng shì | Lit. to make an empty show of strength; meaning to bluff, to put on a bold front when one is actually weak or scared.
- 郎有情妾有意 | láng yǒu qíng qiè yǒu yì | Lit. the young man has affection, the concubine (or young woman) is willing/interested; an idiom describing mutual affection between a man and a woman.
- 亡命鸳鸯 | wáng mìng yuān yang | Lit. fugitive mandarin ducks (a symbol of lovers); referring to lovers who are on the run or in a desperate, often tragic, situation.
- 法外狂徒 | fǎ wài kuáng tú | Lit. an arrogant and Savage person outside the law; an outlaw, someone who acts with blatant disregard for the law.
- 一劳永逸 | yī láo yǒng yì | Lit. to toil once and benefit forever; meaning to solve a problem once and for all, to achieve a permanent solution with a single effort.
- 囫囵吞掉 | hú lún tūn diào | Lit. to swallow whole; often used metaphorically to mean to accept something uncritically, or in this context, to mumble or slur words so they are unintelligible.
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