I Quit Being This Female Lead (GL) - Chapter 52

“I… I came to get back together with you…”

Mang Ke looked nervously at the person in front of her. Feeling the woman behind her pushing her fiercely, her knees were shaking with tension.

Wait a minute. Xun Fangyun was the one who bullied her first, which led her to put on an act with Jia Yun. Now that she was coming back, she should be strong and assertive, not so timid!

But, but…

Mang Ke stared at Xun Fangyun’s gloomy face, unsure whether she should loftily demand that Xun Fangyun accept her affection, or apologize on her knees.

Both options felt utterly miserable!

The office fell into dead silence.

Mang Ke and Jia Yun were trembling. Mang Ke trembled out of fear, and Jia Yun trembled from stifling her laughter.

Xun Fangyun’s dark eyes examined the two of them for a moment. After an unknown period, she finally walked around the desk, reached out, grabbed Mang Ke’s wrist, and pulled her forcefully into her arms.

Clutching Mang Ke, Xun Fangyun bared her teeth at Jia Yun like a territorial black cat.

“You must keep your word,” Xun Fangyun said to Jia Yun, squeezing Mang Ke’s waist. “Whether you go back on your promise or not, I will not give her to you.”

Mang Ke was startled. She suddenly found the person holding her tightly to be inexplicably adorable.

Even though Xun Fangyun was angry, even though Xun Fangyun had pushed her away, Mang Ke knew that she still liked her.

The joy of knowing the person she loved still loved her felt truly wondrous.

Mang Ke buried her face in Xun Fangyun’s shoulder. It had been so long since she hugged this person. The familiar scent and warm body temperature made Mang Ke blush.

If it weren’t for the outsider, Mang Ke truly wanted to kiss Xun Fangyun…

Jia Yun looked at the two clinging to each other and clicked her tongue: “Don’t be so resistant to me. Don’t you feel that you’re sweeter together now than you were before, after being separated?”

Xun Fangyun said, “If you hadn’t interfered, Mang Ke and I would have been together a long time ago!”

Jia Yun asked playfully, “Really?”

Xun Fangyun: “…”

If Jia Yun hadn’t interfered, she might still be rejecting Mang Ke. So, in that sense, this woman was at least somewhat useful.

But looking at her shameless grin, Xun Fangyun honestly didn’t want to thank her.

“What exactly do you want?” Xun Fangyun asked the woman in front of her. “I don’t think you came here just to return Mang Ke to me. Say what you need to say directly. At least within this book, I can unconditionally satisfy you.”

“It seems you know enough, so I’ll tell you.” Jia Yun chuckled. “Why don’t you let go of Mang Ke first? You’ll have plenty of time to hug later.”

Mang Ke’s face instantly flushed. She thought she had been invisible, and their conversation wouldn’t involve her.

Xun Fangyun also felt it was inappropriate to talk while holding someone, so she released Mang Ke, but tightly held her hand, fingers intertwined.

Jia Yun: “Tsk, the putrid smell of romance.”

Ignoring the woman next to her whose expression was twisted with envy, Xun Fangyun looked Mang Ke up and down and whispered, “I thought you were angry with me.”

“I was angry, yes.” Mang Ke said, blushing. “But it seems I’ve been bullying you during this time too, so let’s call it even?”

Xun Fangyun couldn’t help but curve her lips into a smile. She felt she hadn’t smiled properly in a long time. The feeling was comforting, and her tone softened considerably: “Fine, we’ll call it even. I bullied you, and you bullied me. Let’s not be angry anymore, especially since… we probably don’t have much time left together.”

“Oh, speaking of that, let me interrupt.” Jia Yun said. “You don’t mind me interrupting, right?”

Xun Fangyun frowned: “You already interrupted. Just say what you need to say.”

Jia Yun chuckled wryly: “I didn’t expect General Manager Yu to make dirty jokes.”

Xun Fangyun: “…”

What is wrong with this woman!

She’s abnormal!!!

Jia Yun didn’t mess around for too long. She straightened her face, pretending to be serious, and said to Xun Fangyun, “You now know that this is a world within a book, right?”

Xun Fangyun: “Mhm.”

The topic made her unhappy, so her expression was not good.

Jia Yun smiled: “You don’t need to be so sad. I’m standing here to explain the current situation to you.”

So Jia Yun copy-pasted the conversation she had in the hospital for Xun Fangyun, concluding with: “I’ve been observing you for a long time and found that your physical condition has improved significantly. I believe the treatment is working.”

Xun Fangyun was somewhat stunned. She had always thought she was just an awakened anomaly, never realizing she was a living person.

“Then who am I?” Xun Fangyun asked. “Since you’re the one treating me, you should know who I am, right?”

“Of course I know,” Jia Yun said. “You’re my fiancée. How could I not know? This experimental project was initiated by me.”

Xun Fangyun: “…Who asked you about the plot?”

Jia Yun replied, “I wasn’t talking about the plot, either.”

Mang Ke: “…”

All three fell silent for a moment.

Looking left and right, Jia Yun mischievously smiled: “Whether it’s in the book or outside the book, I’m your fiancée~”

Xun Fangyun: “!!!!”

Mang Ke: “…”

She felt like she had just become an intervening third party.

Wait, if Jia Yun is Xun Fangyun‘s fiancée, what was all that about the dozen girlfriends she mentioned before?!

Jia Yun pouted and looked around vaguely: “It doesn’t matter how many girls I dated before getting married. We weren’t going to get married anyway. It was just dating, that’s all. Don’t look at me like that~”

Mang Ke asked curiously, “Then you and Yun Yun [Yùn Yùn]…”

“Which Yun Yun are you referring to?” Jia Yun pointed to herself and then to Xun Fangyun: “We both have ‘Yun’ in our names. Which one are you talking about?”

Mang Ke blushed and hid behind Xun Fangyun: “This one.”

Xun Fangyun felt a sweet warmth in her heart for some reason, and her ears involuntarily became hot. She squeezed Mang Ke’s hand slightly, feeling her body temperature.

Jia Yun didn’t mind their little gestures. She spread her hands and said, “Don’t worry. Because Xun Fangyun is currently in a vegetative state, our relationship was severed from the start. After all, my family wouldn’t let me marry someone who is permanently confined to a bed.”

Perhaps the remark was too blunt, but Xun Fangyun’s mood instantly plummeted.

Fortunately, one headache had disappeared.

“Now, listen carefully to what I’m about to say,” Jia Yun said, adopting a serious expression. “Xun Fangyun, do you know why you lived in the first world for more than twenty years?”

Xun Fangyun looked at her suspiciously.

“Generally, one world only requires about a month. Although the initial progress is slow, you shouldn’t have stayed in that world for so long,” Jia Yun explained. “In the first world, we were looking for a matching healing character for you, so we kept sending ‘female leads’ into that world. The reason you have so many years of memory is because many people dated you.”

Xun Fangyun: “…”

So, without her knowledge, she was forced to be a ‘Player’ in a dating game???

Jia Yun continued: “However, none of them could treat you, because your brain waves only fluctuate when two people are mutually attracted. Everyone other than Mang Ke was completely useless; they couldn’t even make you feel fluttery. Some even started seducing the NPCs halfway through. Such shallow women.”

Mang Ke listened blankly. Good thing she wasn’t led astray, otherwise she wouldn’t be sitting here listening to this long-winded speech.

Jia Yun glanced at the clueless couple and decided to use simpler language: “I’m giving you a vacation in the book. I think the stimulation for Xun Fangyun has been sufficient. Since the outside world can’t communicate the situation to me, I plan to go out and check.”

“As for Mang Ke…” Jia Yun looked at little Mang Ke and smiled, “I will wake you up in two months.”

After rambling on for a while, the woman turned and left, leaving the two who were still processing the massive amount of information.

Mang Ke sat on the sofa and asked curiously, “Is Jia Yun leaving me here for two months?”

Xun Fangyun: “It seems so.”

Mang Ke was puzzled: “Why?”

Xun Fangyun cleared her throat: “Probably to let you rest.”

Mang Ke: “???”

Suddenly, Mang Ke felt her arm tighten, and she was pulled into a familiar embrace.

“Yun Yun [Yùn Yùn]…”

“I’m so happy.”

Xun Fangyun held her close, inhaling the pleasant scent of her shampoo, feeling happier than she ever had.

She was alive.

As long as she could wake up, she could be with Mang Ke.

She wouldn’t have to wait alone like this anymore. She could grow old with Mang Ke, sitting in a nursing home, watching the sunset together.

Mang Ke rubbed her cheek against Xun Fangyun’s and couldn’t help but smile: “Although things seem complicated, the ending seems pretty good.”

She propped herself up on the sofa and lifted her head.

The office was empty now…

As if testing the waters, Mang Ke’s kiss was cautious. She just touched Xun Fangyun’s lips and quickly retreated, trembling slightly.

Mang Ke’s ears were burning. She blushed and said, “I’ve wanted to do that for a long time.”

She wanted to kiss her in their private space.

Now, more than ever.

Xun Fangyun’s eyes flickered, and she couldn’t help but curve her lips into a smile. She pressed her head against Mang Ke’s forehead, touching their lips together.

“That’s not enough.”

A tongue tentatively reached out, kissing Mang Ke’s lips. Mang Ke felt something moist and soft exploring her mouth, making her breath hot…

Two months?

She needed to think carefully about how to use that time~