Fate Trading System – Chapter 343

Plan B

Heart-Stealing Operation 2

Master Fourteen, I feel like you were a bit rushed. You must explain to me clearly what exactly is going on and what I should do next.

【Yes. After the system rectification, there will be the following changes. Due to the change in clients, missions will now be issued by This Humble One on their behalf. The punishment system remains the same as before without change. There will no longer be a one-month rest period. As compensation, the Host will no longer have any restrictions on her authority. Access to any information will be free of charge. After a world’s mission is completed, you will receive one year of lifespan value, without any deductions. Whatever the Host needs, This Humble One will do its utmost to provide.】

The benefits after the upgrade sound pretty good. I prefer it this way compared to before.

【If the Host has any other areas of confusion, feel free to ask This Humble One. This Humble One will answer each of them for you in detail.】

Okay.

【Transmission complete.】

【The client’s wish is for Chu Muyu¹ to fall in love with her, and then to reject her.】

Wow, this mission, does this mean you want me to play a conquest game²?

【Background information is being transmitted.】

When Su Xin opened her eyes, she felt a sharp pain in her wrist.

One side of the bedsheet on the bed was almost soaked through with blood. The black-haired young girl lying on the bed had a pale face.

Master Fourteen, will I have to face this kind of death scene every time I arrive from now on?

【Yes.】

The original host’s name was Lin Xiaohuan³, 20 years old, a university student.

Su Xin’s own bleeding wrist began to slowly recover, the wound finally congealing into a scar.

None of this had changed. The shocking bloodstains on the bedsheet were still there; only the body had been healed.

Su Xin received the memories, shook her head feeling a bit dizzy, got up from the bed, changed out of her dirty clothes, and then pulled off the bedsheet.

The mattress pad underneath was also dirty, so Su Xin pulled it all off at once.

Su Xin first threw the bedsheet into the washing machine, digesting the memories in her mind.

Lin Xiaohuan was a spare tire⁴, and the super-invincible-big-spare-tire kind at that.

She was gay, but her parents and her older brother were all very old-fashioned and traditional people. Their family did not allow any discussion of rebellious matters, let alone a heaven-shocking scandal like homosexuality.

But Lin Xiaohuan had understood her true sexual orientation five years ago. She did not dare to tell anyone, because she knew that if her family ever found out, it would definitely be very miserable.

The girl she liked was her best friend, Chu Muyu.

This person, Chu Muyu, was a flower butterfly⁵. She was very good-looking, had good physical assets, and a smart brain. The wild bees and reckless butterflies⁶ around her were never few. She started having puppy love in junior high school, and it has continued until now.

Lin Xiaohuan originally held the thought that it could never be her anyway, and just silently accompanied and gave. But everything changed after university began.

Chu Muyu had a new partner who was very charming, also the public lover type. The two of them quickly fell in love. Lin Xiaohuan planned to forever stay by her side as a friend, but she never expected that Chu Muyu and her partner would fall into a state of breaking up and getting back together. Every time Chu Muyu got hurt, she would go find Lin Xiaohuan to drink and cry to her.

After getting drunk once, Chu Muyu unintentionally revealed that she had actually known for a long time that Lin Xiaohuan liked her.

And Chu Muyu also said that if, after a few years, she and her partner were still not done with their back-and-forth, and she had truly given up hope, she would get together with Lin Xiaohuan.

Lin Xiaohuan was a very persistent and stubborn person. She believed this big pancake drawn for her⁷ and put in even more effort for Chu Muyu.

But every time Chu Muyu’s partner cheated, Chu Muyu would also cheat back in retaliation, but her partner was not Lin Xiaohuan, but other boys.

Lin Xiaohuan’s heart was pierced again and again, until yesterday when she gathered all her courage to ask Chu Muyu if the promise from that time was still valid, and was mocked by a bad-tempered Chu Muyu.

“It’s impossible for me to be with a girl in this lifetime. I’m not some damn homosexual. Did you think I didn’t know you look at me with that disgusting gaze after I get drunk? Letting you stay by my side is a favor to you. Can you not think of getting an inch and taking a foot⁸.”

Lin Xiaohuan’s nerves were already rather delicate, and being provoked by the person she had liked for so long, she fell into extreme self-loathing and, in a moment of despair, committed suicide.

Su Xin felt that young people are just fragile, sinking into these matters of love and romance⁹, making themselves unable to extricate themselves.

Lin Xiaohuan really liked Chu Muyu and did many things for her, but all of that was done willingly and gladly, not forced.

But Su Xin really disliked Chu Muyu. If you didn’t know, then it would be one thing for someone to like you. But you clearly knew, and even drew a big pancake for her. After drawing it and receiving many benefits, you refused to admit it. And if you didn’t admit it, that’s one thing, but you even mocked the other person.

What’s wrong with being gay? Did being gay provoke you or mess with you, or did it kill your whole family?

If you look down on it or despise it, then don’t let that person be by your side. Don’t enjoy what others do for you with such a clear conscience.

Lin Xiaohuan’s wholehearted sincerity was trampled to smithereens.

So her wish before she died was for that person she could not obtain, who used her sincerity, to fall in love with her, and then, to abandon her.

Su Xin could feel the overflowing despair and malice in this.

You don’t hate homosexuals? Then I will insist on making you fall in love with me.

【Host, this is the first time you’ve received a mission of this type. Can you do it?】

There’s nothing I can’t do. Give me all of this person’s information.

【Transmitting.】

Although Lin Xiaohuan was already very familiar with Chu Muyu, it was only limited to one aspect, and she did not know the whole picture.

Su Xin wanted to get all of Chu Muyu’s information and study her thoroughly.

A person like Chu Muyu is just greedy and insatiable. The more you go along with her wishes, dote on her, and are good to her, the more she will not cherish it and not care. If you do the opposite, not caring about her much, and then coaxing her when you feel like it, she will like to be clingy.

Just like her partner who cheated five times in two years, she was still madly in love with him. Of course, she herself also cheated five times, mutually hurting her partner.

Su Xin felt that Chu Muyu’s life was simply a mess. It was just that her face was a bit prettier. Su Xin couldn’t quite figure out what exactly Lin Xiaohuan liked about her.

To conquer this person and capture her heart, starting from her directly is not a way to achieve the goal. One must attract her attention from other places.

In love, the more humble you are, the more others will not care. The more you distance yourself, maintaining a not-too-far, not-too-close distance, not being as close as before, moving a little further away and blooming with your own radiance, that person’s gaze will instead be attracted over.

This is a common trait. People strive for higher places, water flows to lower places. People always like to chase after more beautiful things. Who would care about the mud by their side instead of the clouds in the sky?

Lin Xiaohuan was truly too good to Chu Muyu, to the point of being completely obedient and being able to forget herself.

Even with a fever of 38.5 degrees, she would still get up at five in the morning to go out and buy congee, just because Chu Muyu wanted to drink it.

Don’t be too good to a person if that person does not have the same feelings for you.

That will make you devalue yourself, and your sense of presence will be very low.

Lin Xiaohuan had moved out to live alone, not in the school dormitory. If she lived in the school dormitory, it would be very inconvenient for her to interact with Chu Muyu. Moreover, she also liked a solitary life and did not want others to discover her secret.

This also provided a convenient place for Lin Xiaohuan. Just like now, dying by suicide on her bed, no one would know.

Su Xin threw the clothes into a basin to soak. She really couldn’t handle the matter of washing clothes, so the things under the bedsheet that were soaked through with blood, she could only throw them into the trash can outside the door. She would go to the supermarket to buy new ones later.

Anyway, this stuff won’t just go to the landfill. There will be garbage collection workers who will take it back, wash it clean, and reuse it.

After tidying up everything in front of her, Su Xin sat on the sofa, thinking about what she should do next.

Anyway, she did not plan to pay any attention to Chu Muyu’s side for the time being. Rushing over now, wouldn’t that be degrading herself?

In the information given by Fourteen, Su Xin saw an interesting thing that Lin Xiaohuan did not know, which was Chu Muyu’s family background.

Chu Muyu was actually an illegitimate daughter, belonging to the major Chu family of L City. In an accident, her dad, her mom, and her dad’s legal wife all died. She was left without relatives.

Chu Muyu was 10 years old at that time and already understood many things.

Chu Muyu’s adoptive mother is named Chu Yanxi¹⁰. She is the boss of the Chu Corporation and also the head of the Chu family.

Chu Yanxi’s relationship with her cousin, who was Chu Muyu’s dad, was quite good. When the pitiful Chu Muyu was brought before her, she looked at the niece she had never seen before and quite liked her. But Chu Muyu had no name or status¹¹. Living in the Chu household, she was constantly targeted by the legal wife’s two children. Chu Yanxi pitied her, so she took her in as an adopted daughter to give her a status, but everyone understood what was going on.

At that time, Chu Yanxi was twenty years old and was in a very busy period. Since she had adopted her, she had adopted her. Where would she have the time to care about how Chu Muyu’s studies were, or what her personality was like? In Chu Yanxi’s view, it was enough for her to help with raising her. Why bother with so much else? So Chu Muyu grew up freely.

Lin Xiaohuan also only remembered Chu Muyu mentioning her mother a few times, never in detail, but it was clear that Chu Muyu admired her mother very much.

Su Xin rubbed her chin. Chu Muyu is very lacking in love, but it also depends on what kind of love it is.

Master Fourteen, give me the information on Chu Muyu’s partner.

【Okay.】

Su Xin found it a bit interesting. Lin Xiaohuan’s wish was not to play with Chu Muyu, but to make Chu Muyu fall in love with her, and then reject her.

This is completely doable. Su Xin doesn’t even need to invest any feelings to get it done, as long as she is attractive enough to Chu Muyu.

Su Xin read the information on that boy sent by Fourteen. She was just looking to see if there was anything that could be researched. It was impossible for her to do anything that would involve having a relationship with that boy to attract Chu Muyu’s attention.

That way, not only would Chu Muyu’s impression of her not improve, it would become even more disgusted.

In Chu Muyu’s impression, Lin Xiaohuan was already hopelessly in love with her and could not possibly like the opposite sex, let alone like Wu Yubing¹².

Wu Yubing was that on-again, off-again, entangled partner of Chu Muyu’s.

If Su Xin had to say, these two were a case of what pot matches what lid¹³. What lingering and sentimental, entangled, lotus root breaks but the threads remain¹⁴ love? It was simply nauseating.

And for Chu Muyu to know Lin Xiaohuan’s love and still make her do those things, ordering her around, was even more excessive.

Wu Yubing was a very charming boy—sunny and cheerful, tall, his whole body never stopping its emission of a hormonal¹⁵ aura.

Chu Muyu hooked up with him on the first day, but this time, Chu Muyu really seemed to have fallen in love. Contrary to her previous behavior, she started to become very clingy.

Wu Yubing probably got tired of Chu Muyu being like this very quickly, so quarrels began to erupt between them. Three months after they started dating, Chu Muyu caught Wu Yubing sneaking a bite¹⁶ for the first time.

After that, they constantly argued, breaking up and getting back together.

Wu Yubing would bring someone home once, and Chu Muyu would also bring someone home once out of spite.

Just reading about their affairs from the memories made Su Xin feel tired, but the two people involved enjoyed it and never tired of it.

Every time they finished arguing, Lin Xiaohuan would have bad luck, being used as Chu Muyu’s punching bag¹⁷. Lin Xiaohuan couldn’t stand it, but after Chu Muyu hit her, she would cry and apologize, and Lin Xiaohuan would soften her heart again and again.

Su Xin had already sized up this body from head to toe in the bathroom.

One look was enough to know that this girl was timid, introverted, and sensitive.

Her looks were not bad; the shape of her eyes was the best feature. But she was used to shrinking into herself, always keeping her head down, with a look that hoped everyone couldn’t see her. Coupled with always being beside the extroverted and beautiful Chu Muyu, almost no one could remember Lin Xiaohuan. Everyone only remembered that by her side, there seemed to be a timid-looking little follower.

Su Xin liked the shape of these eyes.

Today was Saturday afternoon. There were no classes on Saturday and Sunday.

Su Xin intended to stay a little further away from Chu Muyu, to create some distance, but Chu Muyu did not plan to let her put this plan into action.

At nine o’clock in the evening, the phone rang cheerfully. That ringtone was specially customized, set for Chu Muyu.

Su Xin glanced at it and immediately hung up, then reset the incoming call ringtone.

After being hung up on once, Chu Muyu did not give up, but persistently called again.

Su Xin continued to hang up. A few minutes later, the phone did not ring again.

Su Xin knew it would be this result, because Chu Muyu did not care much about Lin Xiaohuan at all. To Chu Muyu, if she were to coax Lin Xiaohuan, it would be equivalent to losing face. After calling a few times, if it didn’t connect, Chu Muyu would feel that the other party didn’t know what was good for them¹⁸.

Ten minutes later, the phone rang again.

But this time it was not Chu Muyu, but another person.

Lin Xiaohuan also had friends. Although few, these friends treated her with sincerity.

For Lin Xiaohuan, she had two good friends: one was the chubby Lan Xixi¹⁹, and the other was the carefree Mu Bai²⁰.

“Hello, what’s up?”

The person calling was Mu Bai, who should be far away in another city right now.

After finishing high school, Mu Bai did not go to university, but instead went to inherit his family’s business.

His family owned a restaurant, and Mu Bai had also liked cooking since he was young, so he had good culinary skills. Mu Bai’s father passed away when Mu Bai was in his second year of high school. Only his mother was left at home to support the family, having to take care of him and the business, so she was completely overwhelmed.

So he voluntarily went to learn how to do business with his mother after graduating from high school, because he felt his grades were not particularly good. If he went to university, it would be a waste of time for him. He wouldn’t be able to learn much knowledge, and he didn’t really like studying either. It would be better to settle down and not waste those few years, and come back to do business.

His mother understood his actions, so she agreed to his decision.

Mu Bai was one of the people who knew Lin Xiaohuan’s secret. He also knew how much Lin Xiaohuan liked Chu Muyu and how much she had given for her.

But what Lin Xiaohuan didn’t know was that Mu Bai had once liked her too. Su Xin discovered this clue while reviewing Lin Xiaohuan’s past memories.

In matters of feelings, it really is a case of the person involved is confused, the bystander sees clearly²¹. Lin Xiaohuan couldn’t see it herself because she was deeply engrossed in it, but Su Xin saw it very clearly.

During that time in high school, Lin Xiaohuan had been silently giving to Chu Muyu, while Mu Bai had been silently guarding Lin Xiaohuan.

Later, Mu Bai saw things more clearly and let go of those feelings, because he knew that some things determined by birth cannot be reversed by nurture. There was no need for him to reverse it either; he could only feel heartache and give his blessings.

“It’s nothing, just wanted to call and say hi. How have you been recently? Have you been eating well?”

“Yes.”

“Are they still fighting and breaking up recently?”

“Mhm.”

“You shouldn’t get involved anymore. There won’t be any good outcome. She is a heterosexual, you can see that clearly. It’s already been five years, you should have let go by now.”

Mu Bai would call every year to persuade Lin Xiaohuan. Mu Bai knew that feelings cannot be forced, but he felt that if he didn’t advise her, and something really happened to Lin Xiaohuan in the future, he would feel very sad.

If Lin Xiaohuan could have let go of Chu Muyu, she would not have walked down the extreme path of suicide.

Su Xin listened to the boy’s voice on the other end of the phone and sighed a little in her heart.

The real Lin Xiaohuan had already left and had no chance to hear these words.

Actually, it’s not that she was unloved. Although Lin Xiaohuan’s parents and brother were very rigid and hated those things, they did not know her sexual orientation, and their love and care for her had not diminished.

It was just that Lin Xiaohuan was too sensitive. The feeling of keeping a secret locked in one’s heart is not pleasant, especially when it has been hidden for 20 years, never daring to speak of it to those close to her.

With pressure from multiple sides, plus the ever-deepening torment in her own heart, the tragedy was practically obvious.

“I know. I’ve seen it clearly now. I won’t pester her anymore in the future.”

“Huh? You’ve said that before. Actually, I don’t believe this sentence. But the reason I don’t believe it is not that I don’t believe you, but that I don’t believe your emotions.”

Lin Xiaohuan had been hurt before, and had been in pain before, crying and saying she would never like Chu Muyu again. But after Chu Muyu softened up, she still followed by her side.

Su Xin did not feel that Lin Xiaohuan was particularly pitiful or worthy of sympathy. The path she walked was her own choice. She just hadn’t met the right person at the right time and had placed her hopes on the wrong person.

And she foolishly thought that one day she could really wait until the clouds part to see the moon²², and like in a fairy tale, live happily ever after with the princess.

Just because Su Xin did not sympathize with Lin Xiaohuan did not mean she did not detest Chu Muyu’s actions.

“This time, I’ve really let go. You don’t know what kind of words she said to me yesterday.”

Su Xin insisted on not going OOC, continuing to speak according to Lin Xiaohuan’s way of thinking and tone of voice.

“Did Chu Muyu say something very nasty? This person is really so annoying.”

“She said she hates me. She said she hates homosexuals, and that she will never be with a girl in her life.”

“I knew she must think that way in her heart. That’s why when you very happily told me what she said to you after she got drunk, I didn’t believe it at all at the time. But you never listen to me.”

“Don’t worry, I will be better to myself in the future. Anyway, this world is so big, without Chu Muyu, it’s not like I can’t go on. I think it’s time I should turn my eyes to a broader place. It’s not like I’m the only one with this orientation in the world. I will find the person who truly belongs to me and is suitable for me.”

“It’s best if you can think like that, of course. Remember to call me if anything happens. No matter what, I will try my best to rush to your side.”

“Okay.”

People always turn a blind eye to what is in front of them and instead focus on the distance.

To Lin Xiaohuan, her friend Mu Bai was certainly important, and her family was also certainly important, but she still chose to end her own life. Such examples are not uncommon.

Su Xin only felt emotional for a little while. It was precisely because of the appearance of such people that the mission was changed.

Su Xin hung up the phone, not worried about meeting Chu Muyu at school on Monday.

Although the two of them were in the same school, they were not in the same department. The reason they could be so close usually was because Lin Xiaohuan actively stuck to Chu Muyu.

If she was careful, in such a big school, it was entirely possible for the two of them to never meet.

At ten o’clock, Su Xin’s phone vibrated violently again.

This time it was a strange number. The caller ID showed the location as the same city.

“Hello.”

“Excuse me, is this Miss Lin Xiaohuan?”

“I am. What is it?”

“Your friend is drunk at our place and has been clamoring to call you. But we just used her phone to dial you and found that you never picked up, so we had to use my own phone to call you.”

“Chu Muyu?”

“That’s right.”

Su Xin thought that the bar Chu Muyu went to this time was quite ethical, to actually call her. In the past, it would have been good enough if no one had taken Chu Muyu to a hotel.

“Then just let her emerge and perish on her own²³ there. You can also find a room for her to sleep in. She will pay for it herself when she wakes up tomorrow.”

“Hey, hey, hey…”

“Xiaohuan, it’s me. Can you come pick me up, please? I feel really sick. Yesterday was my fault, I shouldn’t have said those things, but I was in a really bad mood yesterday. What I said were all angry words.”

Su Xin understood. This was Chu Muyu’s self-injury stratagem²⁴ again. Every time after she lost her temper, she would always pull this move, but Lin Xiaohuan just happened to fall for it every time.

When faced with the coquetry and tears of the person she liked, Lin Xiaohuan had no resistance.

Su Xin rolled her eyes on her end of the phone. She actually really wanted to hang up, but in order to maintain the persona, such an action was not allowed.

Su Xin’s eyes darted, and an idea came to her mind.

In any case, she couldn’t let Chu Muyu have it too easy first. Isn’t it just picking her up because she’s drunk? Of course, no problem.

It’s just that where to send her is a problem.

Lin Xiaohuan and Chu Muyu were renting together, but Chu Muyu didn’t often come back to live with her. She was either with Wu Yubing or in a hotel outside; in short, she wouldn’t go home.

Chu Muyu had always been pretending to be a good baby in front of her mother, Chu Yanxi, and a good baby could not possibly be dead drunk like mud²⁵ outside.

Moreover, Chu Muyu was quite afraid of Chu Yanxi and did not dare to act presumptuously in front of her.

“Where are you? I’ll come pick you up.”

Su Xin went to change her clothes, a smile on her face.

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