I Was Taken by the Female Lead After Transmigrating into a Book - Chapter 16

Bai Feifei’s breath hitched in her chest when she suddenly heard those words. It was a painful knot of emotions.

She blinked away the excess emotions and the sharp pain in her eyes, and said as calmly as she could, “What are you talking about? I don’t understand.”

“You don’t understand?” Huo Wu chuckled, her voice lightly floating into Bai Feifei’s ears, a little harsh. “If you keep playing dumb, we don’t have to see each other again.”

Bai Feifei’s hands suddenly clenched into fists.

In that instant, she tried to tell her everything. But as the words were about to come out, she suddenly remembered something that had happened a long time ago.

It was when she was very young.

When she first arrived in the book, everything was still unknown. She didn’t know if this world was the same as her own. She only knew that her target was Huo Wu, and at that time, she was also accompanied by a system named ‘0521.’

There was one time when she had a sudden thought and wanted to tell Huo Wu that she wasn’t from this world, and that this world was just one in a book, and that she was the savior.

At that time, she was anticipating what Huo Wu’s reaction would be, but Huo Wu didn’t even look up… She couldn’t hear her at all.

Bai Feifei was a little stubborn then and tried with different people.

Jiang Yueming, Fu Xiaoxiao, and even countless children at the orphanage. In the end, she got the same reaction from all of them: no one could hear words related to these topics.

Bai Feifei’s eyes filled with tears, and she tried to say, “Because the previous Bai Feifei wasn’t me. I left this world after I turned eighteen.”

Huo Wu’s reaction was still indifferent. She just looked at her with a cold face.

Bai Feifei was suddenly disheartened and swallowed all the bitterness.

She took a deep breath, looked up at Huo Wu again, and said, “I just want to…”

Huo Wu waited for her to speak.

Bai Feifei gritted her teeth and suddenly grabbed Huo Wu’s hand, bringing it to her own waist. “I just want to win you back. Ah Wu, do you believe me? There must be people in this world who turn over a new leaf. And there must be many things that are not what they seem! What you saw before was definitely not the real me…”

Huo Wu frowned and looked at Bai Feifei. “What nonsense are you talking about?”

Bai Feifei’s words were disorganized and jumbled. By the end, she seemed to have completely lost track of what she was saying, only holding on to her hand and refusing to let go.

Huo Wu paused, looked at Bai Feifei’s face, and suddenly felt a little compassionate.

Without the heavy, thick makeup, without the messy eyeshadow and colorful hair, and without the exaggerated, unsold lipstick, Bai Feifei’s appearance at this moment was as clean as a white rose after the rain.

Huo Wu suddenly said, “Come closer.”

Bai Feifei calmed down a little and obediently moved closer.

Huo Wu lowered her head and approached her. Bai Feifei’s breath suddenly hitched. She could smell the fragrance from her and feel her breath on her, causing a shiver on her skin.

Huo Wu moved the hand that Bai Feifei had placed on her waist. She touched her cheek, then her nose, and finally her ear.

Afterward, Huo Wu said, “No piercings on your face?”

Bai Feifei was stunned for a moment before she realized that Huo Wu was talking about lip rings, nose rings, and earrings. She quickly said, “No, no, not a single one.”

“No tattoos either,” Huo Wu’s finger lingered on Bai Feifei’s neck for a moment, and she reached out to effortlessly turn her body around. “What about your back? Do you have any?”

“No… none either,” Bai Feifei let out a breath, a blush rising on her face. “Didn’t you see already?”

Huo Wu said nothing more, and fell into deep thought as she looked at Bai Feifei’s back.

In the summer, Bai Feifei always liked to wear dresses, all kinds of them.

Even in high school, she loved to travel everywhere and take all kinds of pictures. In her daily life, Bai Feifei was definitely a bold girl, so bright and beautiful that people couldn’t even have any dirty, nasty thoughts about her.

She could walk confidently through the mall in a long, spaghetti-strap dress. She could wander freely through an amusement park in a trendy, asymmetrical top. She could even play the “bottoms missing” trick and mess with her teacher for half a day, laughing as she lifted her shirt’s hem to show the teacher that she was just wearing short shorts.

After being scolded, she would happily skip back home to change her clothes.

Huo Wu looked at Bai Feifei’s back again.

She was also wearing a long dress today, a light yellow one, which, under the lights, made her smooth, radiant back look like it was glowing. A ribbon was mysteriously tied at her waist, finally falling into the deep dimples of her lower back.

Huo Wu reached out and touched it.

Bai Feifei flinched but then held still and didn’t move again.

Huo Wu’s index finger just poked her; she had no other intentions.

She withdrew her hand, looked back at the noise in the distance, and said, “I won’t touch you. Turn around.”

Bai Feifei turned around, looking at Huo Wu cautiously. She subconsciously glanced at her own back and said in a low voice, “Does it not look good?”

“…No,” Huo Wu was quiet for a moment. Bai Feifei’s straightforward question almost made her forget what she was going to say.

“What you said just now, were you serious?” Huo Wu said.

Bai Feifei thought about all the jumbled things she had just said. After a long time, she still couldn’t quite figure it out. She could only nod guiltily and gritted her teeth. “I’m very serious!”

Huo Wu nodded and said, “What if you lie to me again?”

“There is no ‘if’ anymore. I promise!” Bai Feifei was so anxious her eyes were red. As if she was trying to confirm something, she said repeatedly, “There will be no accidents that can separate us this time, not even if I die. Ah Wu, I will definitely not lie to you again.”

Huo Wu held out one hand and slowly took hold of Bai Feifei’s slender neck.

She didn’t use any force, and Bai Feifei could feel it. When her neck was in Huo Wu’s palm, her first feeling was not discomfort, but happiness.

Huo Wu used to love touching her neck. There was no purpose to it. Sometimes when they slept in the same bed and she was lying on Huo Wu’s arm, Huo Wu liked to do this, and then she would pinch her chin.

Huo Wu was indeed playing with the soft flesh of Bai Feifei’s chin with her thumb and forefinger.

While she was pinching, she said, as if confirming something, “Then I’ll ask you one last question.”

Bai Feifei’s eyes watered from her pinch. Her voice trembled as she said, “Ask.”

“Why did you leave me back then?” Huo Wu lowered her eyes to look at Bai Feifei’s face. Her expression was calm, yet there seemed to be another emotion hidden within it.

Bai Feifei didn’t dare to make a joke about this question, but she couldn’t say anything either.

Finally, she grabbed Huo Wu’s hand and said with a very serious expression, “It’s really because I was sick…”

Bai Feifei poured out her last memory. She said, “My memory during that time was very bad. I was always in a daze, and I had to take a lot of medicine and get a lot of shots…”

The pulsations from the hand in hers told Huo Wu that the person in front of her was not lying.

She was telling the truth.

Huo Wu withdrew her hand.

Bai Feifei swallowed twice. Her throat was uncomfortably itchy, and she wanted water.

She smoothly wiped away the tears that Huo Wu had caused in her eyes and sniffled. “Do you believe me now?”

Huo Wu didn’t answer whether she believed her or not. She just looked at her own hand and said, “That day, when we… did it, was it your first time?”

Bai Feifei’s face turned red. The beautiful scene from that day replaced the scene in front of her. She said in a muffled voice, “Didn’t you… try already?”

Huo Wu glanced at Bai Feifei’s face several times, pursed her lips a few times, and finally slowly managed to squeeze out one word: “Yes.”

Yes?

Yes??

Yes??!

That one word didn’t sound like a good thing at all, did it?

In a panic, Bai Feifei, afraid that the reputation of the original owner’s promiscuity would be placed on her, immediately pounced on Huo Wu, wrapped her arms around her waist, looked up, and said, “It was my first time, it was really my first time! It was my first time in all three lifetimes combined! The kind where both my body and my heart belong to you!”

Some hair brushed against Bai Feifei’s face, and it was a little itchy. Bai Feifei didn’t want to let go of Huo Wu and subconsciously rubbed her chin against it. When she realized what she had rubbed against, her eyes had already caught a glimpse of Huo Wu’s unbuttoned collar.

She swallowed, her eyes glued to the sight.

But Huo Wu suddenly reached out and pinched her chin, a half-smile on her face. Her eyes stared straight at her, with a teasing, cajoling look. “Alright, I believe you.”

Bai Feifei didn’t dare to think too deeply about whether she really believed her or not.

But there was love because of hate. It was better for Huo Wu to hate her, not believe her, and doubt her, than to ignore her.

A smile appeared on Bai Feifei’s face. “Are we going home? Sister Meng still has to take you back to the set, right?”

“Yes,” Huo Wu nodded.

Bai Feifei skipped back behind her. During the walk, she looked at her hand many times, wanting to hold it, but not daring to.

When they got to the front door, she saw that Ji Meng had already brought the car out and was dozing off with her arm resting on the window. Only then did Bai Feifei look at Huo Wu and realize that she had been on her phone the whole way, arranging for their departure with Ji Meng.

A feeling of indescribable disappointment enveloped her. Bai Feifei forced a smile, took two steps forward, and proactively greeted Ji Meng. “See you next week, Sister Meng!”

Ji Meng had looked at her schedule before driving and knew that Bai Feifei had an audition next week. Although the role had been given to her, the necessary procedures still had to be followed so that the producers and investors had nothing to say.

She nodded and said with a smile, “See you next week.”

Huo Wu got into the car and watched Bai Feifei through the crack in the curtains.

She knew that Bai Feifei had been trying to look at her, and had even been leaning on the car window, but she didn’t respond.

Ji Meng saw all this and started the car.

When they got to the entrance of the residential area, Ji Meng looked in the rearview mirror and broke the ice. “Did you guys talk it out?”

Huo Wu shook her head. “I don’t know.”

“You don’t know?” Ji Meng was stunned, and then she laughed. “What do you mean, you don’t know? What’s so hard about talking it out in front of that girl Bai Feifei? I didn’t see you having a hard time when you yelled at the producers in front of the director, did I?”

Huo Wu closed her eyes again, slumping in her seat. She frowned, annoyed, and said, “I don’t know means I don’t know.”

Ji Meng shrugged and made a sign of surrender. Then she signed out and drove away.

As she was leaving, she saw a familiar car driving in. It was the car that had previously taken Bai Feifei to the company.

She paid a little more attention, and then remembered the ankle-high grass in Bai Feifei’s courtyard, and the table full of food she had made today. She sighed and said, “That girl has it tough. If there’s no big deal, just let her off the hook. Since you can’t bear to be heartless, then don’t pretend to be.”

Huo Wu said expressionlessly, “You talk too much.”

Ji Meng chuckled, knowing that it was a done deal.

She hummed twice and called out to the back, “Put on some music, will you? It’s a long road ahead, and it’s not easy to drive at night.”

Huo Wu put on her eye mask. “Whatever you want.”