Scummy Alpha CEO Keeps Courting Death [Transmigration into a Book] - Chapter 106

The wind was swirling, and the half-person-high grass swayed in the breeze like a thick, heavy blanket.

The soft afternoon sun warmed the body, making one feel drowsy.

Lu Xibie’s head rocked from side to side. The moment her eyes closed, her head rested on Chu Liruo’s shoulder.

Some people say that being next to the person you love always makes you want to sleep.

The gentle breeze lifted her bangs, and the intense golden light covered her eyelids. The clothes were ordinary cotton, and the touch was finally no longer slick, bringing a sense of peace and comfort to her heart.

“Lu Xibie, do you like me?” This sentence drifted into her drowsy mind amidst the sweet scent of honeysuckle and balloon flower.

“I like you.” Lu Xibie blurted out before her brain could process it.

“You said that so naturally?” Chu Liruo embraced half of Lu Xibie’s face into her arms, “You’ve made some progress.”

“Just some?” Lu Xibie mumbled indistinctly.

“You’ve made a lot of progress.” Chu Liruo pinched her face, “When I asked you before, you acted like you’d encountered a monster.”

“Before.” Lu Xibie shook her head, “I don’t remember.”

She snuggled into Chu Liruo’s embrace, sniffing the fragrance and finding a comfortable position to nestle in.

“Then do you love me?” Chu Liruo fiddled with Lu Xibie’s ear, sometimes lightly, sometimes not.

She had borrowed some novels from the Federation Data Library, which contained many discussions of affection and love. She had read quite a few, and the protagonists always liked to ask questions like ‘do you like me?’ or ‘do you love me?’. At the time, she thought it was tacky, but when it was her turn, she couldn’t avoid it either.

Lu Xibie: “I love you.”

“Look into my eyes.” Chu Liruo gently patted Lu Xibie’s face until the light brown pupils opened, mixed with a hint of fatigue, “Really?”

“Mhm, really.” Lu Xibie leaned closer to Chu Liruo and rubbed her face against her. She had forgotten when she started using this method to express intimacy, but the action was skillful and without any sense of incongruity.

“What about you?” Meeting Chu Liruo’s gaze, Lu Xibie’s sleepiness somewhat disappeared, and she followed up with the question, waiting for her answer.

With her clear, childlike eyes, the somewhat confused Lu Xibie looked up. Chu Liruo lowered her head, their noses touching, “I don’t know.”

“You don’t know?” Lu Xibie’s sleepiness was mostly gone, “What do you mean, you don’t know?”

“I just don’t know. Not knowing is not knowing.” Chu Liruo’s lips curved up, her eyes sly.

Lu Xibie sat up, refusing to give up, “How can you not know?”

Chu Liruo: “I just don’t know.”

“That’s not an answer!” Lu Xibie was indignant.

“How is it not an answer? Love is so difficult. It requires long-lasting companionship and unwavering persistence. I think only after experiencing a long time, at the moment life reaches its end, can I tell you very certainly that I love you.” Chu Liruo said this and covered Lu Xibie’s eyes, “Sleep now, I won’t disturb you anymore.”

The tickle of her eyelashes on the palm of her hand made Lu Xibie pull Chu Liruo’s hand away and look at her, “Doesn’t what you just said make my answer seem too hasty?”

“No, not at all.” Chu Liruo denied, “Sometimes love is an encouraging word; we don’t delve into the depth of love but merely enjoy the happiness of the moment. I just need to know that at this moment, you want to make me happy, and that’s enough.”

“Then you should make me happy too.” Lu Xibie looked at Chu Liruo expectantly.

Chu Liruo placed her hand on Lu Xibie’s forehead and gently rubbed her temple, “How about this?”

“It feels very comfortable, but…” Lu Xibie hesitated. Even if it was just an encouragement, she still wanted to hear it.

“Look, the peach blossoms are blooming.” Chu Liruo pointed to the distant peach blossom forest. The petals were flying in the wind, “Next year, shall we come here together again?”

Lu Xibie: “Yes, we shall.”

Chu Liruo: “Eating delicious food, seeing beautiful scenery, meeting different people… but I think the most important thing is being with you. Being with you is all that matters.”

“Being with me.” Lu Xibie lowered her eyes, “Passing through absurdity and nothingness, and stepping into a real and colorful world.”

She could barely recall what she was like before entering this world, only remembering being shrouded in a haze, and the slight relief a tiny pill brought her.

Later, she entered The Omega’s Path to Evolution, becoming Lu Xibie, who had to play the role of [Lu Xibie]. Countless times, she wanted to end this world and herself along with it, but she truly found peace of mind here.

Every day with Chu Liruo, she could sleep well, no longer relying on a tiny pill to improve her state.

These days were similar to her original world. After the world returned to normal, innate skills gradually disappeared, and the Primordial Spirit phantom turned into a companion beast to stay by their partners’ side.

Her gaze drifted to the peach blossoms. Beneath the peach blossom trees, the Primordial Spirit little rabbit and the Primordial Spirit mastiff, now companion beasts, were playing, their traces imprinted on the petals. Lu Xibie smiled.

She no longer rejected the idea of being a character in a book.

Perhaps this was the intended ending for The Omega’s Path to Evolution. True evolution should not be about killing, plundering, and stepping on corpses to ascend to the throne, but about the world genuinely getting better, and a time when war no longer fills the relationship between humans and other creatures.

Chu Liruo kissed Lu Xibie lightly on the face, “Is that real enough?”

“Mhm.” Lu Xibie nodded. She stopped pressing for an answer. As long as they continued like this, day after day, their ordinary yet interesting life would fill their reservoir of love. She turned her head and kissed Chu Liruo’s lips, immersed in boundless happiness.

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