The Female Lead of the Abusive Novel Can Hear My Heart's Voice - Chapter 46

Laughter came from beside her. Xia Chi pointed at her head, “I understand the dean’s death better than anyone. Why do you think you caused it? Because of the plot?”

Xia Mucai stared blankly at Xia Chi, her mind struggling to process how Xia Chi knew about the plot.

“Are you wondering how I know about the plot?” Xia Chi easily guessed what she was thinking first, because she knew Xia Mucai too well; second, because she could hear Xia Mucai’s inner thoughts.

Xia Mucai nodded. It couldn’t be that the female lead was reborn, right?

“Want to guess?”

The only thing Xia Mucai could think of was rebirth. Then she understood, “You’re reborn!”

“Do I look like it?”

She thought for a moment. How could someone reborn still be so meek, without any changes at all?

Soon, Xia Chi’s finger touched her chest, “You told me.”

“I don’t remember telling you anything.”

She realized Xia Chi was taking advantage of her again. Blushing, she opened the hand Xia Chi had been holding, “Say it, but don’t move your hand around.”

“Alright, alright.” Xia Chi shook her sore hand, pouted pitifully, and blew on it. “I can hear your thoughts. I know everything you think.”

“You know everything?” Xia Mucai looked worriedly at Xia Chi’s injured hand, feeling she might have been too rough. “Are you okay?”

Xia Chi continued to blow on her reddened hand, “I’ve known for a long time you’re not my official sister. You’re the lucky cat.”

“Do you like me like this?”

“I do!” Xia Chi grabbed her hand and said, “If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t be who I am now. You let me become myself.”

“Let go of me.” She didn’t understand what Xia Chi liked about her. At most, she felt sympathy. “Your liking for me is just novelty. Once the freshness wears off, you won’t like me anymore.”

Xia Chi’s heart ached deeply. After all they had been through, wasn’t that love? The only reason she could think of was, “Is it because I’m not good enough? I haven’t reached the level you want.”

“Xia Chi, you’re already great.” She sighed, “It’s me. I don’t know why I like you, and I have no qualities worth your liking.”

“Why would you say that? I like every part of you.”

She suddenly recalled what they had done last night, and with surprise said, “We already did it. You didn’t resist. You like me.”

“Xia Chi, I came for the holo chamber. Didn’t you forget our agreement?”

Xia Chi clenched her fists, her voice cold, “I know.”

She still held on to hope, her voice trembling, “Have I not made you like me even a little?”

“You like me a little.” Xia Chi controlled the joy in her heart, her eyes shining as she stared at Xia Mucai. “But only a little.”

She felt hopeless. But thinking that even a little liking is still liking, she cheered herself up.

Xia Mucai dashed Xia Chi’s hope, “Don’t put your feelings on me. So many people in Binhai City are in comas. If you save them all, they’ll be grateful to you.”

She was also upset. Grabbing her hair, she said, “My liking for you is just like how I like everyone mixed with sympathy. I don’t think I have found a reason to like you.”

If Xia Chi took care of her and cooked for her, everyone around her could do the same. There were many friends who cared for her like Xia Chi.

“I don’t need your sympathy!” Xia Chi wiped her tears and pushed Xia Mucai hard.

Xia Mucai fell heavily onto the bed. She endured the pain and stretched out her arm to see what was wrong with Xia Chi.

Xia Chi kept wiping her tears, crying bitterly like a child.

For some reason, seeing her cry pierced her heart like a needle.

She felt like she was a bad person.

“Don’t cry, you’re making me seem heartless.”

“Xia Mucai.” The person sobbing on the bed called her name. She was about to ask what was wrong when Xia Chi said, “I don’t care if you don’t like me. I like you, and that’s enough.”

How unreasonable!

She wanted to slap Xia Chi awake.

But the next second, her body was held down, and Xia Chi’s voice was in her ear, “Don’t forget our agreement. If you want me to save them, you have to rely on me.”

She instinctively struggled but then held back at that voice.

Xia Chi kissed her neck, crying while roughly claiming her.

Her body was like a puppy bitten here and there, bruises scattered everywhere. Xia Chi’s hot tears fell on her skin like burning coals, crying endlessly.

She should have been angry but couldn’t help feeling heartbroken.

When she opened her eyes again, it was nighttime. She had been lying in bed most of the day and night.

Xia Chi carried her to the bathroom, where water was pouring. She could see herself leaning against the glass door, crying again.

What was there to cry about? Cry, cry, cry if she cried until her eyes were blinded, what then?

She was tired, pulled the blanket over herself and fell asleep, wrapped up like a dumpling. Xia Chi cried in the bathroom; she slept soundly on the bed.

Because deep down, she knew she would be fine.

The next morning, Xia Chi left a note on the table, weighted down with breakfast.

Xia Mucai woke up groggy, saw the breakfast and the note, took a piece of bread and quickly scanned the note.

It said the holo chamber problem would be solved, and she wouldn’t need to come anymore.

In short, Xia Chi let her go.

Her heart twinged but soon returned to normal. She finished the bread, picked out a set of clothes from the wardrobe all black.

The clothes still carried Xia Chi’s unique scent, reminding her of the exhausting day and night, her sore waist and legs. That person had even patted her butt before leaving.

But it didn’t matter. She wanted to go back to see how Yu Yinyin and the others were doing. She hadn’t returned to the shared apartment for three days; she wondered what they thought.

“Boss Xia, that person has left.”

In the office, Xia Chi listened to Mo Qi’s report without stopping her typing. She ordered, “Hold a press conference in three days.”

“There’s one more thing, Boss Xia.”

Xia Chi was busy, didn’t even look up, “What?”

“Xia Mucai had an accident on the street. She was clutching her chest and unconscious.”

Xia Chi paused, then shut the computer without thinking, “Where is she now?”

“On the street near the hotel.”

Without hesitation, Xia Chi rushed out of the office, even forgetting to bring her lucky cat figurine.

Her mind was on Xia Mucai lying on the ground, unattended.

She couldn’t let go.

The lucky cat sat on the office desk, squinting its eyes, smiling at everyone not creepy, but cute and auspicious.

Placed in the haunted house, it could ward off evil spirits, unlike the paper doll with a smiling face outside that was obviously evil.

The black mist controlled by Mo Qi surged out impatiently, attacking the shining lucky cat, finally grabbing it.

The mist gathered into a humanoid shape, its face randomly changing like a gacha pull with facial features flying around and even two mouths, one above the eyes.

Expecting an evil god to grow a normal human face was impossible.

After the evil god left with the lucky cat, Mo Qi’s eyes cleared. She originally intended to continue covering up Gu Bai’an’s theft of holo technology, but thinking about who Xia Chi was, stealing would have been discovered long ago.

“Gu Bai’an, you’ve done enough.”

Xia Mucai was walking on the street when she suddenly heard Xia Chi’s voice behind her. She turned around to see Xia Chi rushing over, looking worried.

“Don’t leave!”

What was this about? Had Xia Chi regretted? Did she really like her that much? She had no qualities worth liking.

“What are you doing here? We have no verbal agreement.”

Xia Chi stopped, hands on her knees, panting, “You… you’re okay, that’s what matters…”

Xia Mucai squinted, eyeing the weird Xia Chi suspiciously. “You’re acting weird.”

Rushing back anxiously, speaking words she didn’t understand. “What do you mean ‘you’re okay’? Were you hoping something bad would happen to me?”

“Mo Qi said you fainted on the street. I was worried about you…”

“Can you be more ridiculous? Mo Qi told you while watching me collapse?”

In her heart, Xia Chi couldn’t even admit she was regretting it and was using someone else as an excuse.

“Don’t look for me anymore.”

Just as she turned, Xia Chi grabbed her hand, “I’m not lying. Mo Qi told me you had an accident, so I rushed back. I’m worried about you.”

Xia Chi’s eyes were sincere, not like she was lying.

So Mo Qi had lied. What was her purpose?

Xia Mucai had long left the Xia family and had no idea about company matters. In her impression, Mo Qi was a loyal minister. How could she lie?

“Xia Chi, don’t joke. I know what Mo Qi is like.”

“But I was really lied to. Xia Mucai, just trust me once.”

Xia Mucai had a bad premonition. Something was definitely wrong.

Her hand was pulled; Xia Chi’s eyes were angry. “Let’s go back to the company and ask Mo Qi. Teng family managed to develop the holo chamber so quickly because Mo Qi helped push it.”

“Xia Chi, is my real body in your hands?”

With that reminder, Xia Chi realized, “I left in such a hurry, I forgot to bring it.”

“No need to go back. That person definitely wasn’t Mo Qi. It was a diversion to steal my real body.”

Suddenly, the wind howled, clouds covered the sky. Since yesterday, the weather forecast had warned of an approaching typhoon, but the two had been lying in bed.

The typhoon was coming, and the coast was the most dangerous.

“How could this be?”

Xia Mucai forced a bitter smile, “You should know my mission was to watch you fall into hell. I was badly injured, woke up with amnesia. A so called god told me the mission.”

“Now it sounds ridiculous. I, a lucky cat from Fuxing, actually had a mission to be vicious, watching you rise. But my wounds didn’t worsen, they healed instead.”

“Xia Chi, we were both deceived by the same person.”

After saying this, Xia Chi was shocked.

She still couldn’t understand Xia Mucai’s cryptic words.

Xia Mucai: “I sensed my real body is by the seaside.” She looked up at the sky and sighed, “The typhoon is about to come. You should go back.”

She slowly pried Xia Chi’s hand away, but Xia Chi refused to let go.

“I want to go to the seaside to see my real body. Why are you following me?”

Xia Chi stubbornly said, “I’m worried about you.”