What Should I do After Binding the Wrong System and the Female Lead comes Knocking at my Door? - Chapter 33

Bai Zhou walked alone on the mountain road leading into the village.

She had rushed over immediately after landing at the airport and taking a taxi.

However, the taxi driver refused to enter the village, claiming that the place was impossible to navigate even with GPS. Unfamiliar people who went in might not find their way out, so he could only drop her off as close as possible and hope that a kind villager passing by would give her a ride.

Crucially, she was also carrying two large suitcases. She had intended to call Pei Yuanxi to arrange a pick-up, but neither Pei Yuanxi’s nor Gu Qing’s phones could be reached.

Walking on the rugged mountain road, Bai Zhou kicked a pebble, secretly cursing, “Nothing is going right.”

“Beep beep…”

Hearing a car horn from behind, Bai Zhou quickly moved aside and waved at the RV. She wondered if the person would be willing to take her for a ride, or at least give her directions.

The car slowly stopped beside Bai Zhou.

Overjoyed, Bai Zhou was about to knock on the window when the driver’s door opened, revealing the face of the woman, Wen Liang.

Bai Zhou: …

Wen Liang tilted her head at her: “Getting in?”

…

“Yes!”

“I absolutely have to get in today!”

Pei Yuanxi was now looking up at the mountaintop, panting.

After staying at Xiao Yiren’s secret base for a while, Pei Yuanxi suggested going up the mountain peak to play.

Her beautiful-sounding excuse: “Entering a mountain without reaching the summit is a bad omen.”

She originally thought the mountain wasn’t that tall, but it turned out she was too careless.

The person who cracked first was her, the one who initiated the plan.

To save the little face she had left, Pei Yuanxi decided to climb up even if she had to crawl.

Xiao Yiren quietly asked at the side, “Qing-jie, is this what they call an idol’s pride?”

Gu Qing sighed, persuading her again, “Let’s go back. A-Zhou should be arriving soon. Aren’t you going back so she can look for your sister in the village? We can come back once everyone’s here. After climbing the mountain then, we can all go soak in a hot spring together.”

Pei Yuanxi pondered for a moment and realized Gu Qing made sense. Most importantly, she was sure that woman Bai Zhou’s stamina was definitely worse than hers.

Then if they climbed together, she wouldn’t be the most useless one.

“Fine, I’ll reluctantly agree. But I’ve said it I’m not going back because I’m tired and can’t climb, but because I want to be with everyone. Do you understand?”

Gu Qing and Xiao Yiren nodded together: “We understand.”

“And you won’t secretly laugh at me, right?”

Gu Qing and Xiao Yiren shook their heads again: “We won’t.”

Pei Yuanxi was satisfied: “Alright, let’s hurry back and find my good friend, classmate A-Zhou!”

“What do you want with me?”

Bai Zhou scoffed from the passenger seat.

She had just asked Wen Liang why she was here, too.

Who knew Wen Liang would cautiously say that she came to find her.

“Find me? But I don’t want to see you.”

“A-Zhou…” Wen Liang asked in a calm tone, steering with one hand.

“A-Zhou, what do you think people live for?”

Bai Zhou tensed up, immediately sitting upright, pointing at Wen Liang and stammering: “I… I’m warning you, don’t scare me… fine, fine, I do want to see you! Now drive properly, will you?!”

“Okay.”

Bai Zhou: …

If looks could kill, Wen Liang would have been sliced a thousand times right now.

“Why did you come in an RV?”

“To sleep with you?”

“Sleep… sleep what?!”

Bai Zhou flinched, terrified by Wen Liang. Heaven knows that when she woke up that day and saw herself in a bunny girl outfit, covered in red marks, it cast a huge shadow on her young and pure heart.

She hadn’t been sleeping well these days, always dreaming of Wen Liang riding on top of her, wantonly abusing her…

And forcing her in the dream to answer her question: “Tell me, are you still straight?!”

While in the dream, she would cry with snot and tears: “No, I’m not straight, I’m not straight…”

Bai Zhou shivered and immediately and righteously refused Wen Liang: “I’m telling you, don’t even think about it! I won’t sleep in the same place as you!”

Wen Liang just said, “Oh.”

Bai Zhou got agitated instead!

“Why ‘oh’? I’m sleeping with Yuanxi and A-Qing tonight!”

“Aren’t you afraid A-Qing will knife you when she gets up in the middle of the night?”

“…Then I’ll find another family to stay with!”

“You’re a girl in the prime of her life, in a remote little village, and you’re not staying with us. Aren’t you scared?”

Bai Zhou’s voice gradually quieted: “But… but you still can’t think about it…”

Wen Liang clicked her tongue: “Look how anxious you are. Leaving everything else aside, even if you were willing, I wouldn’t do anything. This is a rented RV. Who knows what other people have done inside.”

“I’m definitely not willing!”

Despite saying that, Bai Zhou breathed a sigh of relief. Since Wen Liang said so, she didn’t have to worry about being stripped naked again in a daze.

That woman Wen Liang might be shameless, but she did have this much credibility…

“Alright, alright, not willing, not willing~ We’ll be there after one more turn,” Wen Liang coaxed her gently.

Bai Zhou was full of questions.

“How do you know the way so well? Didn’t that taxi driver say the road was hard to find?”

“The road is easy to find. He just didn’t want to drive on the mountain road. If he scraped the chassis or damaged something, it wouldn’t be worth it.”

Wen Liang parked the car at the village entrance, just as the trio of Pei Yuanxi, Gu Qing, and Xiao Yiren came down from the mountain.

Bai Zhou rolled down the window and poked her head out to ask, “Yuanxi, why are your legs shaking?”

Pei Yuanxi scratched her head: “You two came together?”

Didn’t they say they had a fight?

Judging by the looks of it now, that doesn’t seem to be the case.

“We ran into each other on the way.”

Wen Liang got out of the car and walked towards them.

Meanwhile, Xiao Yiren’s eyes lit up: “It really is Wen Liang!”

“Huh? Is this your little fan?”

Pei Yuanxi nodded: “She’s Xie Yiren. She watches my movies often, so she likes you too.”

Wen Liang smiled, squatted down, and extended her hand.

“The pleasure is mine~”

Xiao Yiren giggled and shook hands with Wen Liang.

Bai Zhou scornfully huffed, and then, looking disgruntled, asked Pei Yuanxi: “Why did you let her come too?”

Pei Yuanxi looked at Bai Zhou blankly: “What’s wrong? Aren’t the three of us the best trio?”

Bai Zhou could tell Pei Yuanxi was feigning innocence. She didn’t believe Pei Yuanxi didn’t know.

But she had a hard time saying the truth. What could she say?

Say she was slept with by her best friend?

That their pure friendship evolved into a “lip-to-lip” friendship?

She could only whine to Gu Qing: “A-Qing, control her~”

Gu Qing shook her head: “Sorry, I’m not part of your trio. I can’t control her.”

Everyone present: …

As expected of you; you can even get jealous over this.

Pei Yuanxi stiffly changed the subject: “Did you bring the gifts I asked you to bring?”

“Brought them! They’re in two large suitcases. Not only for Little Friend Yiren, but I also prepared a gift for Yiren’s mother.”

Pei Yuanxi patted Bai Zhou’s shoulder: “That’s thoughtful of you.”

Wen Liang, standing next to her, stared at Pei Yuanxi’s hand and coughed.

Pei Yuanxi looked at her own hand, then turned and patted Gu Qing’s shoulder: “A-Zhou, that’s thoughtful of you.”

Bai Zhou: …

She finally understood: all three of them had some sort of issue.

The most normal one was herself…

“Let’s go, let’s go. First, drop off the gifts at Xiao Yiren’s place, and then I’ll take you to say hello to my sister.”

“No need, I’m here.”

Pei Muchan and Chu Qingyan walked over to the group and nodded to Bai Zhou and Wen Liang: “Welcome. Everyone’s here. Come over to my place for dinner tonight, and yes, this little friend too.”

Bai Zhou and Wen Liang nodded nervously.

Pei Yuanxi leaned close to Wen Liang and whispered, “I can understand A-Zhou being nervous since she used to be in my sister’s secretary team and now acts as my chief advisor, but why are you nervous?”

Wen Liang quietly replied: “What I’m nervous about is my sister finding out about A-Zhou’s chief advisor role and transferring her back.”

Pei Yuanxi: “Relax, my sister won’t bypass me to make decisions for me, unless A-Zhou herself wants to go back.”

Wen Liang’s expression tightened. Crap, now that Pei Yuanxi said that, she was even more worried. What should she do?

“Chu Qingyan!”

Xiao Yiren shouted from the side and immediately jumped into Chu Qingyan’s arms.

Chu Qingyan quickly caught Xiao Yiren.

“You’re so heavy now. I can barely lift you.”

Xiao Yiren’s eyes welled up with tears, and she asked with a slight sob, “Chu Qingyan, where have you been all these years? I almost forgot what you look like.”

“Be good. I’ve been too busy, but I’m back now. Don’t cry, don’t cry.”

Chu Qingyan spent a long time coaxing Xiao Yiren until she finally calmed down.

Pei Yuanxi leaned towards her sister again and asked: “Sis, what’s going on? Are you being cheated on?”

Pei Muchan rolled her eyes at her sister: “Stop talking nonsense!”

Just then, Xiao Yiren, still nestled in Chu Qingyan’s arms, asked expectantly, “Chu Qingyan, are you here to take me away this time?”

Pei Yuanxi looked back at her sister: “Sis, speak!”

Pei Muchan: …

Chu Qingyan gently stroked Xiao Yiren’s head: “I brought my girlfriend to meet the family this time.”

Pei Muchan glared back at her sister.

Pei Yuanxi awkwardly cleared her throat: “Chu-Chu Jie, you and Xiao Yiren have such a good relationship?”

“Of course! I’m the one who named Xiao Yiren. We’re the best friends in the world, right?”

Xiao Yiren nodded emphatically.

“And I promised Xiao Yiren before that once I settled down outside, I would bring Xiao Yiren over and personally mentor her.”

Everyone present nodded.

“Makes sense.”

Makes sense my foot!

Leaving aside whether Xiao Yiren’s parents would agree to her being taken away for mentoring, how could Chu Qingyan so calmly introduce herself as bringing her girlfriend home in front of Xiao Yiren?!

However, Pei Yuanxi and Gu Qing remembered that Xiao Yiren had been shipping Girls’ Love (GL) couples for a long time, and everything suddenly clicked for them.

So, it was your verbal instruction that made her this way!

I wonder if Tian-jie (Yiren’s mom) knows that her daughter has been subtly changed by Chu Qingyan?

The group first dropped off the gifts at Xiao Yiren’s house and then went to Chu Qingyan’s house together.

Xiao Yiren was currently tilting her head, curiously examining Pei Muchan.

Seeing Xiao Yiren, Pei Muchan was reminded of how cute her own sister was when she was little.

Her gaze softened, and her tone became gentle: “What is it~”

“Are you Yuanxi Jie’s sister?”

Pei Muchan nodded: “Yes.”

“Are you also Chu Qingyan’s girlfriend?”

“Yes.”

“Then, do you know that Yuanxi Jie and Qingqing Jie are dating?”

Everyone present: ???

Gu Qing looked nervous. They had agreed to come as friends this time. Now that Xiao Yiren had suddenly exposed them, she didn’t know how Pei Muchan would respond.

Pei Muchan chuckled softly: “I do.”

Xiao Yiren asked again: “Do you agree?”

Everyone present dared not move, inwardly shouting incredible!

Pei Muchan seemed to ponder for a moment and then said: “I support all of my sister’s decisions. But, Little Friend Yiren, what made you ask this question?”

Xiao Yiren smiled and clapped her hands: “That’s great! Now the couple I ship is real!”

Pei Muchan smiled and gave Gu Qing, whose eyes were shining, a slight nod.

Gu Qing pursed her lips, instantly offering high praise to Chu Qingyan’s verbal instruction.

Before anyone could let out a sigh of relief, Pei Muchan looked at the others present and began calling out names: “Wen Liang.”

Wen Liang called out: “CEO Pei.”

Pei Muchan nodded: “Don’t be nervous. In fact, ever since Xiao Xi (Yuanxi) entered the industry, I’ve always kept an eye on her. I know how much you helped her bypass detours at the start. It’s fortunate that Xiao Xi has a confidante like you by her side.”

“You’re too kind. It’s just what friends should do.”

Pei Muchan asked again: “I specifically looked into your situation, and I’m curious why you haven’t joined Xiao Xi’s studio?”

Wen Liang took a deep breath: “I’m afraid that the relationship between Yuanxi and me will be… jeopardized by matters of profit.”