Scummy Alpha CEO Keeps Courting Death [Transmigration into a Book] - Chapter 15

“Live… together?” Chu Liruo looked up at Lu Xibie. Her eyes, illuminated by the sun, held an amber glow—clear and harmless.

“Yeah, do you want to live together?” Lu Xibie sought her opinion and continued, “I just checked the Zigu Military Academy’s student management regulations. First-year students aren’t allowed to change dorms casually, but those with a family relationship can apply to live in the same dorm.”

“I… I…” Lu Xibie paused, remembering the vastly different reputations she and Dan Ruojing had. Anyone would think it was better for Chu Liruo to live with Dan Ruojing than with her. “I won’t do anything to you.”

As the words left her mouth, even Lu Xibie herself felt their futility.

Smelling the faint floral scent of honeysuckle and balloon flower, Lu Xibie looked into Chu Liruo’s transparent, clear eyes and spoke again, “Dan Ruojing is truly dangerous. In the future, she will…”

…kill many people.

Lu Xibie had only said half her sentence when her mouth felt like it was glued shut by an unknown, heavy, and sticky substance. She couldn’t make any sound. Chu Liruo, who was standing beside her, froze again.

Pain from all directions pierced her nerves. At the same time, the mechanical voice of the Golden House poured into her ears like concrete.

“Warning! Warning! The host is in violation. You cannot reveal future plot details to characters in the book.”

“Got it.” Lu Xibie covered her head with both hands, struggling to squeeze the words out through her teeth.

The overwhelming pain receded like a tide.

“Hooch—”

“Hooch—”

Lu Xibie bent down, hands on her knees, gasping for air. It had only been an instant, but her back was soaked with sweat.

The frozen Chu Liruo’s eyes twitched slightly as she looked at Lu Xibie, who had suddenly bent over. “What’s wrong?”

Lu Xibie looked up at Chu Liruo, shook her head, and hummed from her throat, “Nothing.”

Lu Xibie’s tear-filled eyes unexpectedly met Chu Liruo’s. She reached out and lightly brushed Lu Xibie’s reddened eye-tail, wiping away a shimmering tear. “Why are you crying?”

The cool touch at her eye-tail made Lu Xibie’s consciousness gradually return from the recent pain. She subconsciously reached out to grab the slender, pale arm but stopped the moment her fingertips touched it. She looked at Chu Liruo, her voice trembling and fragmented, “Please, live with me, okay?”

Live with me, and at least you’ll survive until this world disappears.

This version of Lu Xibie felt foreign to Chu Liruo.

But ever since her rebirth, the Lu Xibie she had encountered kept challenging her original impression of her.

The moist, teary eyes, the slightly red eye-tails, and the different voice made Chu Liruo feel like Lu Xibie was pleading with her for something.

Why?

Why would she hope to live with her?

Lu Xibie watched Chu Liruo, waiting for her answer. She had read half the novel and knew some of the plot for the people she had met, but Chu Liruo was different. This time, she had successfully entered Zigu Military Academy and was taking classes, and Lu Xibie was clueless about her future plot.

In a way, she had changed part of Chu Liruo’s story.

Currently, Dan Ruojing’s skill was Poison Thorn, but in The Omega’s Path to Evolution, Dan Ruojing’s strongest skill was Deprivation, which involved consuming cores and stripping others of their innate abilities. The novel didn’t explicitly state when Dan Ruojing obtained the Deprivation skill, but Dan Ruojing’s repeated requests for “Lu Xibie” to bring Chu Liruo to her was enough to show that Chu Liruo’s innate skill was very useful to Dan Ruojing.

No matter what, Chu Liruo shouldn’t get too close to Dan Ruojing.

Chu Liruo observed the anxiety in Lu Xibie’s eyes and grew more curious. It seemed that ever since Lu Xibie knew she was living in the same dorm as Dan Ruojing, she had become restless.

After her rebirth, Chu Liruo had seen annoyance and indifference in Lu Xibie’s eyes, but not the violent rage she was used to seeing before. Now, she was seeing new emotions.

Was it for her?

Humans have a premonition of danger.

In the past, whenever Chu Liruo saw Lu Xibie and Dan Ruojing, her heart would clench, and her limbs would feel cold.

She still felt this way when she saw Dan Ruojing now, but not when she faced Lu Xibie.

“Okay.” The voice, as soft as silk, floated into Lu Xibie’s ears. She carefully held Chu Liruo’s excessively slender arm. “You agreed?”

“Mhm.” Chu Liruo nodded.

“That’s good, that’s good.” Lu Xibie exhaled a sigh of relief, opened her terminal again, and pulled up the Zigu Military Academy’s student management regulations for Chu Liruo to see. “Look at this rule. If there are no issues, we can apply together on the terminal.”

Chu Liruo leaned her head over to look at Lu Xibie’s terminal.

A delicate, gentle fragrance enveloped Lu Xibie’s nose. The faint pain was soothed by the scent. Lu Xibie stared at the terminal and said dryly, “Even though we’ll be living in the same dorm, you can rest assured, I won’t cross the line down the middle of the room. Before… before there were many rumors about me, but…”

Lu Xibie chose her words carefully. She couldn’t very well say that the previous “Lu Xibie” wasn’t her.

If she did, the Golden House’s warning would immediately follow.

“…I won’t do anything to you.” Lu Xibie thought it over and decided that this unconvincing statement was the best she could do.

Listening to Lu Xibie’s noticeably more words, Chu Liruo tilted her head to look at Lu Xibie’s eyes, reached out to wipe the lingering moisture from her cheek, and said gently, “I know.”

“You… know?” The moment she felt the cool touch, Lu Xibie’s body involuntarily stiffened. She looked at Chu Liruo’s slightly curved eyes. She was faintly happy that Chu Liruo had agreed to live with her, yet she also wondered why she had agreed so easily.

The former “Lu Xibie” had never done anything good.

This complex psychology repeatedly folded and tangled, like a bendable clothes hanger around her neck, making her speechless.

“Mhm.” Chu Liruo casually hummed in agreement, opening her own terminal. “Is this the interface to go in?”

Lu Xibie: “Mhm.”

Lu Xibie stood in place with her arm half-raised. Chu Liruo occasionally leaned closer to check her terminal.

Wave after wave of refreshing honeysuckle and balloon flower scent surrounded Lu Xibie. The voice that had haunted her mind since entering The Omega’s Path to Evolution was now ignored by her brain.

Drowsiness crept in, and Lu Xibie suddenly realized that if she lived with Chu Liruo, she might be able to get a good night’s sleep every night.

Chu Liruo turned her head and met Lu Xibie’s gaze. Those eyes, slightly red with fatigue, were calm and gentle. “Are you tired?”

“Mhm.” Lu Xibie lowered her head, her voice slightly nasal. “I’ve been tired for a long time.”

Chu Liruo glanced at the time on her terminal. “It’s only four in the afternoon. Didn’t you sleep well last night?”

Lu Xibie nodded. “Mhm.”

Not just last night—she hadn’t slept well any night since entering The Omega’s Path to Evolution.

Chu Liruo: “Then you should go back and sleep first. We can apply this afternoon after you’ve rested.”

“No.” Lu Xibie shook her head. “I can’t sleep when I go back.”

“Mhm?” Chu Liruo’s eyes narrowed slightly.

Lu Xibie rubbed her eyes and looked at Chu Liruo’s terminal. “Let’s apply first.”

“Okay.” Seeing Lu Xibie’s persistence, Chu Liruo nodded and operated her terminal with her.

“Done. We can send it now.”

Lu Xibie clicked the white button on the terminal. According to the Zigu Military Academy’s student management regulations, the application would be processed within an hour. “The result will be available in an hour.”

“Okay.” Chu Liruo followed suit and clicked. After sending the application, she was inexplicably relieved.

She yawned and also felt a little tired. She hadn’t had a good night’s sleep since she entered Zigu Military Academy and lived in the same dorm as Dan Ruojing.

“You’re tired, too?” Lu Xibie put away her terminal and reached out to brush away the stray hair beside Chu Liruo’s ear.

“Mhm—” Chu Liruo closed her terminal, nodded, and leaned her head forward, resting it slightly on Lu Xibie’s arm.

The faint, cold scent of fir and moss calmed her heart. She should have feared Lu Xibie as she feared Dan Ruojing, but at this moment, she felt very relaxed.

“Quick, look! Who is that?!”

“Isn’t that Lu Xibie?”

“And the one next to her.”

“It’s her new wife!”

“Oh yeah, Lu Xibie even provoked Dan Ruojing today.”

“What?”

“Didn’t you see the post on the school forum?!”

“What post?”

“It’s number one on the Hot list, ‘How to Get Dan Ruojing’s Attention’.”

“What does that have to do with Lu Xibie?”

“You’ll understand when you read it!”

…

Classes for different departments and grades ended at different times. As other students came out, Lu Xibie and Chu Liruo stood in the shade of a tree. However, given Lu Xibie’s notoriety on the school forum even before she entered the school, a large portion of the students who followed the forum recognized her. Not to mention, she had just had a confrontation with the goddess in the hearts of many new students.

“How calculating! So calculating!”

“But Lu Xibie and her wife look so affectionate?”

“She’s deliberately trying to get Miss Dan’s attention, and at the same time, she’s all lovey-dovey with her new wife???”

“No way. We have to let Miss Dan see this!”

…

Just then, Lu Xibie, who had been standing still, noticed the unusual atmosphere around her. She looked up and saw many people standing at a distance, their terminals pointed at them.

A post on the school forum titled “[The Little Tyrant Lu Xibie and Her Wife’s Affectionate Moments]” was rapidly climbing to the top of the Hot list.

“[Picture] Block 5, Biological Exploration and Research Building. Come and watch the show, fast.”

“Lu Xibie really doesn’t like Miss Dan anymore?”

“She used to follow Miss Dan every day. Who would believe that she doesn’t like her anymore?”

“Is she using her wife?”

“Hard to say.”

“If you ask me, if you have a wife, you should treat her well. You shouldn’t be two-timing.”

…

“A-rank cleared. Enemy kill count 100%.”

Dan Ruojing walked out of the holographic practice room. Shang Le’an handed her a bottle of recovery fluid.

Dan Ruojing glanced at Shang Le’an, took the recovery fluid, and smiled with her eyes. “Why are you here?”

“I guessed you’d be here,” Shang Le’an replied, looking at the screen by the holographic practice room’s door. “A-rank cleared, enemy kill count 100%! Is that your score?”

“Mhm.” Dan Ruojing nodded, unscrewed the cap of the recovery fluid, and drank it.

“You’re getting more and more powerful!” Shang Le’an was secretly shocked. While he could also clear A-rank, his kill count was only 65%.

A kill count of 100% meant that she hadn’t missed a single simulated mutated creature.

Dan Ruojing’s eyebrows furrowed slightly as she swallowed the liquid. “It’s not enough.”

The recovery fluid flowed down her throat and spread to her limbs and bones. Her strength was gradually recovering.

She loved the feeling of power surging through her body.

Shang Le’an: “That’s not enough? You’re not thinking of going to the S-rank holographic practice room, are you?”

Shang Le’an was one of the few Alphas who knew Dan Ruojing’s true strength.

“Why not?” Dan Ruojing said nonchalantly.

Shang Le’an didn’t continue the topic. “Did you see the school forum?”

“What’s happening now?” Dan Ruojing lowered her head and opened her terminal. As expected, she and Lu Xibie would appear in the forum posts.

Shang Le’an: “Lu Xibie and her wife seem… very affectionate.”

Hearing Shang Le’an say this, Dan Ruojing’s finger, which was scrolling on the terminal, paused for a moment. She looked up at Shang Le’an. “You don’t think I’m really interested in Lu Xibie, do you?”

“Of course not.” Upon hearing these words from Dan Ruojing, Shang Le’an’s lips couldn’t help but curl into a smile.

Dan Ruojing lowered her head and continued to browse the posts on the school forum. When she saw the photo of Lu Xibie and Chu Liruo leaning against each other, she didn’t get angry; instead, she smiled.

So, this was the “date” Lu Xibie was talking about?

Dan Ruojing was smiling, but the smile on Shang Le’an’s face gradually disappeared. He smelled something unusual and took a step back.

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