Fate Trading System – Chapter 346

Plan B

Heart-Stealing Operation 5

As Su Xin was carrying her books upstairs, she heard Fourteen’s reminder.

【Host, Chu Muyu is waiting for you.】

Mm, got it.

Su Xin knew she would come.

Chu Muyu, after all, was not some big boss who had been navigating society for many years, like Chu Yanxi. Her thoughts were still very easy to guess, and people of this age are very susceptible to the method of provocation¹.

The more you ignore her, the more worked up she gets.

Su Xin saw Chu Muyu leaning against the wall, smoking. Chu Muyu pinched out the cigarette, threw the butt on the ground, and crushed it out with her foot.

“Why are you standing at the doorway?”

Su Xin asked with a very natural attitude, taking the key out of her pocket and opening the door. She showed no sign of anything unusual; she was perfectly normal.

And the more normal her expression was now, the more something was not right.

Chu Muyu had already prepared herself to argue with Su Xin, but she did not expect Su Xin to say this. A pile of words was stuck in her throat, and she did not know how to get them out.

“Did you not bring your key? I remember I seem to have given you one before. Did you lose it?”

Su Xin was so normal, it was as if she were talking to a somewhat familiar housemate.

Chu Muyu felt something was not right, but she couldn’t say what it was exactly. In this situation, it was not good for her to lose her temper.

“Mhm, I didn’t bring it.”

“Then I have a spare key in my room. I’ll go get one for you. Don’t lose it again next time.”

“Wait a minute… Lin Xiaohuan, don’t avoid me. Can you just explain things clearly? Didn’t you say the other day that you weren’t angry with me anymore?”

“Do I look very angry right now?”

“Then why haven’t you come to find me for meals these past few days? I can’t see you before or after class, and when I come looking for you, you’re never at home. I sent you so many messages, and you didn’t reply to a single one. What on earth do you want?”

“Chu Muyu, I think you seem to be a bit unclear about the situation right now.”

“How am I the one who’s unclear about the situation? The one who really doesn’t get it is you, right?”

“Do you still remember what I said to you before?”

“Didn’t you say you wouldn’t like me anymore, but we would still be friends?”

“That’s right. Since we’re just ordinary friends, why should I still look for you every day? I don’t like you anymore anyway, so why should I still stick to you?”

Su Xin retorted. Since she was the one who wanted to be friends first, then let’s be friends.

Why should she go find an ordinary friend to hang out with every day? Does she have a lot of time? She can’t even keep up with her studies, okay?

“You’re definitely just throwing a tantrum.”

“What tantrum am I throwing…”

“If you want to like me, then just keep liking me. I won’t stop you. That day, I was really just angry and said that. Is it necessary for you to act like we’ll never have contact again for the rest of our lives²?”

Oh.

Su Xin was indifferent in her heart. Like your mom. Even liking your mom would be better than liking you.

“Don’t you think you’re being really excessive and unreasonably making trouble?”

“Hey, who’s the one being excessive and unreasonably making trouble? It’s been so long that you’ve liked me, and I’ve let you be by my side for so long, but it’s impossible for me to be with a girl. So it’s not my fault that you like me, and it’s not my fault that I can’t accept you. Can’t we just be good friends? Like before. But now you insist on making it like this. Are you still planning to break off relations with me, and then never have anything to do with me again?”

Chu Muyu sat on the sofa, looking furious.

Su Xin placed the books on the coffee table in the living room and poured herself a glass of water to drink.

“Do you insist that I tell the truth?”

“What truth?”

“Do you think I was good to you before?”

“Yes.”

Chu Muyu was not without eyes, unable to see when others were good to her. Of course she knew Lin Xiaohuan was very good to her. It was precisely because she was so good to her that she was so unscrupulous.

“But I’m only that good to people I like. For friends, there’s no need to go to that extent. Since you feel that me liking you is a very disgusting thing, I stopped liking you. Isn’t this as you wished? Then why are you coming to me now to say these things?”

“How many times do you want me to say it? Those were just angry words that day. Can you please stop taking that sentence so seriously?”

“Then you will never accept me. Is that sentence true?”

Su Xin did not break character, still maintaining the same expression on her face, pressing her with questions step by step.

Chu Muyu averted her eyes somewhat unnaturally, but still nodded.

“So, that’s why I said, don’t you think you’re being unreasonably troublesome? Since you will never accept me, and I know this is impossible, why should I still hold out hope for you? I was already on the verge of giving up, but you said those words to me that time when you were drunk, which is why I continued to persist, liking you with empty hope, being good to you every day. I didn’t want any reward from you, but since you have already cut off this possibility and taken back the hope you gave me.”

At this moment, Su Xin already looked a bit emotional, her eye sockets slightly red. She took a deep breath and continued.

“Then don’t come and disturb my life anymore. If possible, I hope I can be a little further away from you. That way, my heart won’t feel so bad.”

“Chu Muyu, to what extent are you going to force me, still holding on to that idea, wanting me to continue being good friends with you, and treat you well like before?”

“Do you think giving up on feelings is such an easy thing? Liking someone isn’t something you can just control with words, saying you don’t like them and then you don’t?”

“Let me ask you, you’ve already broken up with Wu Yubing now, but if he told you that he still wants to be good friends with you, to chat about everything, to interact in the same way as before, to continue eating together and going out to play together, would you agree?”

“Why wouldn’t I agree? Who says you can’t be friends after breaking up? Is there a big problem with that? And we two never even dated. The situation between him and me doesn’t seem to apply to the situation between us two.”

Chu Muyu grabbed a corner of the sofa, feeling somewhat agitated, and said with some conflict.

“Then that just means you don’t like him that much at all. You only broke up a few days ago, and you can let go so quickly. Ah… I almost forgot… you are Chu Muyu. Even Wu Yubing, who you seemed to love to death and could forgive for anything, is just someone you can give up on so casually.”

“Indeed, the situation between you two does not apply to the situation between us. To use your feelings for him, or rather, his feelings for you, to describe my feelings for you would simply be a defilement.”

“I’ve let go now. It’s just that I still need space and time to adjust. A relationship like before is impossible to go back to.”

Chu Muyu stared blankly at Su Xin, wanting to go over and pull Su Xin’s hand, but Su Xin took a step back and dodged.

“I can wait for you to slowly adjust. Don’t distance yourself from me, can you…”

Only now did Chu Muyu become a little flustered, realizing the seriousness of the matter.

She had many friends. If she wanted to call friends and companions to go out and play, she could find many people. There were plenty who wanted to accompany her. But a good friend like Lin Xiaohuan, who wanted nothing and silently stayed by her side without asking for anything in return, there was really only Lin Xiaohuan.

She could be unscrupulous when drinking precisely because she knew Lin Xiaohuan would definitely come to pick her up.

Lin Xiaohuan always silently did a lot for her. When she was by her side, she could always live very comfortably, without having to ask about trivial and tedious matters, because Lin Xiaohuan would always take care of them for her.

How could Lin Xiaohuan possibly leave her? How could she possibly stop being good to her?

Su Xin knew what it meant to stop before going too far. She only wanted to give Chu Muyu a small bit of torment. She hadn’t forgotten her main mission was to conquer Chu Muyu, not to make a clean break³ with her and never interact again.

“Let’s not talk about this now. I’m going to make fried rice to eat. Have you eaten tonight?”

“No.”

When Chu Muyu saw that Su Xin no longer seemed angry, she knew there might be a chance⁴ in this matter.

She just knew it. How could Lin Xiaohuan bear to leave her? As expected, Lin Xiaohuan would still be soft-hearted towards her.

In this world, Su Xin finally lit up her culinary skills. Although at present, she was only proficient in making egg fried rice. Lin Xiaohuan’s cooking skills were actually quite good, and she could make many things, but… the food Su Xin made was just that tiny bit slightly off. But this egg fried rice, Su Xin had already practiced it until she was very familiar. At least, she herself was quite satisfied with what she fried up.

She diced the ham sausage. There was also half a cob of corn left over from the morning in the kitchen. Su Xin shucked the corn, then took out green peas and an egg.

The leftover rice was loosened up until it was soft. Su Xin also sliced some Chinese sausage⁵.

Chu Muyu looked at the kitchen from outside, then walked into her own room, which she hadn’t slept in for a long time but was still kept very tidy.

Chu Muyu remembered that she didn’t seem to have slept in this bed many times, because although this apartment was rented with Lin Xiaohuan, she didn’t come back very often, except for when Lin Xiaohuan had to bring her back when she was drunk.

Chu Muyu sighed. She herself didn’t know why she was sighing.

The messages on her phone were constantly flashing. Chu Muyu replied to some and saw a message from Wu Yubing.

He was asking her out to eat.

If it were before, Chu Muyu would have definitely gone out directly, regardless of whether Lin Xiaohuan was preparing a meal for her.

But now…

Chu Muyu hesitated for a moment, her fingers tapping on the keyboard a few times, and replied with two words.

Not going.

She really thought she liked this boy very much, because Wu Yubing was very charming.

But now…

Chu Muyu irritably turned off her phone. She hated thinking about these things the most.

“Time to eat.”

“Coming.”

The egg fried rice, placed on a white porcelain plate, had distinct grains. The egg, ham sausage, and green peas combined into a beautiful color.

When it was almost time to sleep, Chu Muyu suddenly spoke.

“I’m sleeping here tonight.”

“Whatever you want. Anyway, this is an apartment we rented together.”

“Mhm.”

“Wait a minute… Chu Muyu, what are you doing walking towards my room?”

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The author has something to say:

Chu Muyu: Delighted, she still likes me after all.

Xin-jie: Like your ma bi⁶.

Qing-jie: Suddenly blushing.jpg

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