When the Villain From an Angsty Novel Transmigrates Into a Sweet Romance [Quick Transmigration] - Chapter 8

She came with an aggressive momentum, and her attitude did not seem like she was bluffing. Therefore, Chi Xia gripped her hand back, her eyes deep and appearing full of affection. Those peach-blossom eyes were already enough to make people stop and lose themselves, let alone at this moment. Consequently, the words Fang Yuqing wanted to curse out stopped during this gap of a breath. She only heard Chi Xia ask, “Fang Yuqing, this is the second time you have asked me such a thing. Regarding the question of whether I hate you, are you really that curious about the answer?”

The first time was in the kitchen after a meal; at that time, Chi Xia’s answer avoided a direct response and turned instead to another explanation. Today was her second time.

Fang Yuqing tugged her wrist back, but Chi Xia would not let go. She glared at Chi Xia indignantly. Perhaps because of the pause just now, her momentum suddenly weakened a lot, and she did not look so fierce anymore, appearing like a deflated balloon.

She looked down along their clasped wrists. That crushed gold bracelet, whose surface was polished very exquisitely, was sparkling under the light. The brilliance reflected by the cutting surfaces of those crushed gold beads actually made Fang Yuqing feel dizzy. She shrugged her shoulders and said, “Don’t look at how we haven’t seen each other for many years; during a certain period of time, I dreamed of you almost five days out of a week. Among them, the most repeated scene was that dispute when we broke off our relationship. After knowing the news of my mother’s remarriage, I was a bit afraid to see you, mainly because I didn’t want my own filter to be shattered, because I have always been concerned about you at that stage.”

As Fang Yuqing spoke, she became a little tired. She simply sat on the bar chair, lifted her feet to rest on the footrest of Chi Xia’s chair opposite her, and said leisurely, “In fact, most long-lost reunions do not have a very good ending. People’s hearts change. The friendship of those years was real, and the strangeness many years later is also real. So I was particularly worried.”

Fortunately, they had both not changed. Hate was still hate this, of course, referred to Chi Xia.

Chi Xia frowned slightly, then quickly smoothed her expression, saying, “You… have wandered off-topic.”

Fang Yuqing almost couldn’t catch her breath. Gritting her teeth, she said, “This is called foreshadowing! Do you understand or not! No wonder your composition skills couldn’t compare to mine. With your level of emotion, it would be strange if you could write prose that moves people!”

“Okay, then you continue.”

Fang Yuqing was stifled and lowered her head dejectedly, saying, “How did I come to know a friend like you? Do I owe you something? Resulting in having to repay it in this life.”

Seeing that she was about to go off-topic again, Chi Xia couldn’t help but pat her shoulder and said, “You haven’t told me yet why you care so much about me hating you.”

“Chi Xiao’er, do you have a lump in your brain? I care about you as a friend and am unwilling to fall out with you again, so that is why I ask you time and time again. Back then, we fell out and did not reconcile; that was back then. When we were young, how could we know how to cherish things? Now we have met once again because of our parents’ remarriage. I don’t want this kind of regret to happen a second time. I need to know what your feelings are toward me, so that I can apply the right remedy to compensate for the harm caused to you by the argument back then.”

Fang Yuqing really could not hold back her anger anymore. She kicked Chi Xia’s calf with her foot, using an act of physical retaliation to strike back against the lethality brought by Chi Xia’s words.

Chi Xia blinked. The pain on her leg didn’t attract her attention at all because she was startled by Fang Yuqing’s words. Her heart no longer drifted among the clouds; it dropped instantly, becoming heavy.

She was a villain, a villain in a world of “angst” novels. Whether blackened or having a miserable background, she would be alone and miserable even until death. This was the character design. Every time she completed a mission, she had to go through this kind of life once. When it happened many times, the heart would gradually become numb. Perhaps when she killed someone for the first time, Chi Xia’s fingers would tremble, but she couldn’t remember those memories clearly because it had been too, too long. Therefore, in her life, the only spark of vitality was System No. 009.

But in the mouth of the current Fang Yuqing, she became particularly important. Especially with the seriousness in her eyes, the whole person of Fang Yuqing was practically glowing.

In this world, she did not need to play anyone. She was herself, her truest personality revealed in front of Fang Yuqing.

But she… would still say words about how much she cared for her.

Chi Xia burst into a bright smile. The delight at the corners of her eyes and brows was so obvious. That she had these emotions all came from Fang Yuqing’s affirmation.

She was incomparably beautiful. When the layer of cold thorns was removed, she would actually be so soft and beautiful, as if the cold wind had vanished, finally waiting for the willow trees to sprout and the flowers to stretch their waists. Everything was beyond compare.

Fang Yuqing looked at her blankly for a long while before finding her voice, saying, “You… you should smile more.”

Chi Xia turned her head and let go of Fang Yuqing’s wrist. She did not speak, but merely unfastened her bracelet with a single, swift hand. Without that bracelet sparkling under the light, her slender wrist seemed no longer to attract attention.

“Why did you take it off?”

Chi Xia said, “This matter has already been turned over like a page. There is no need for me to continue wearing it.”

Being bitten was only a superficial injury. Chi Xia had suffered many hardships; this little bit of skin pain counted for nothing at all. Therefore, when Chi Xia was “bullied” by Fang Yuqing, there was a moment of astonishment in her heart. This surprise came from Fang Yuqing showing her teeth and retaliating against her. The obedient and pure female lead in the plot actually had her own little explosive temper. While everyone else thought Fang Yuqing was very obedient and sensible, Chi Xia witnessed her other side, named “willfulness and bratty behavior.”

Chi Xia would frequently mention that incident during this period in order to hold the upper hand. She hoped to defeat Fang Yuqing in everything and make her suffer. Nothing is more successful at threatening people than having a handle on them, so why wouldn’t Chi Xia do it?

However, now she had changed her mind, probably because the light in Fang Yuqing’s eyes moved Chi Xia too much.

Fang Yuqing was extremely startled. “Turned… turned the page?”

Chi Xia squinted and swept a glance. “What, you are unwilling?”

Fang Yuqing opened her mouth, always feeling a bit of indescribable loss in her heart. The matter had been flipped over and passed; wasn’t this what she had always looked forward to? From now on, Chi Xia would no longer mention the matter of her biting her. But in doing so, it felt like that sense of a bond that others couldn’t join had decreased a lot. Because only she dared to bite her, others wouldn’t do so, and Chi Xia would definitely not allow others to do so. So this special “honor” was written off today?

“How about you still wear it? I’ll help you put it on!” Fang Yuqing would never make things difficult for herself, only for others. Since she didn’t want to see Chi Xia take it off, she would help her put it back on. What a small matter.

Before Chi Xia could refuse, she saw that Fang Yuqing had already started struggling with the bracelet. She was concentrating intensely on putting the bracelet on her.

“Sometimes your thoughts are really hard to fathom.”

Fang Yuqing asked back, “For example?”

Chi Xia explained faintly, “For example now, for example that clarification. To you, shouldn’t I have clarified that rumor which couldn’t possibly be the truth?”

Hearing her mention that incident, Fang Yuqing lowered her eyes and said, “What is false is false. If you clarify it, will others believe it? It would be better not to clarify.”

“I was afraid your ‘peach blossoms’ romance would be scared away by me.”

Fang Yuqing gave a cold laugh. “Then I should thank you?”

Her eyes were emitting cold air, as if…if Chi Xia dared to say something she didn’t like to hear, she would resort to physical violence.

Chi Xia sighed helplessly. She looked at Fang Yuqing lazily, propping her cheek to observe Fang Yuqing’s battle of wits and courage with the bracelet clasp. She asked, “Speaking of which, do you know who spread that rumor?”

Fang Yuqing shook her head. At that time, she was focused on competing with Chi Xia. Before and after class, besides Chi Xia, there were only teachers around her. She was not very familiar with the names of the surrounding classmates, so much so that after hearing Chi Xia’s clarification, the first thing Fang Yuqing thought of was that Chi Xia was unwilling to be friends with her.

“How would I know about that? You know?”

Chi Xia curled her lips and smiled meaningfully. “At that time, I already had some clues.”

“Then who was it?” Fang Yuqing immediately became energized and pressed Chi Xia for answers.

She leaned her body forward. Looking from behind, there seemed to be an illusion that she could fall into Chi Xia’s embrace. Chi Xia used her arm to block horizontally in front of her and said jokingly, “Didn’t you leave later? When the female lead of the topic was missing one person, do you think the rumor would continue to spread?”

It was a coincidence. Not long after the two of them finished their breakup, Meng Ruyan’s work was finished. There were many extreme relatives at home, and Meng Ruyan was also reluctant to leave Fang Yuqing there alone. She found connections to let Fang Yuqing enter a high school as a visiting student for a year.

She came in the summer and left in the summer.

After she left, the rumors died down.

But… Chi Xia also became more cold and taciturn. Therefore, some people speculated whether Chi Xia had been dumped. However, they forgot one thing: Chi Xia was like this from the very beginning. Her signs of being cheerful and talkative were actually related to [Fang Yuqing].

Fang Yuqing finished putting the bracelet on Chi Xia and asked curiously, “Your personality is cold and clear; you rarely pay attention to the nonsense of others.”

“So?”

“So when the school was spreading the topic of the two of us being a couple back then, why did you go and clarify? Or is it that in your view, the names of the two of us should not be mentioned together?”

This was the point Fang Yuqing was most conflicted about. Hearing her clarification in her youth felt like a rainy day where everyone else had an umbrella, but she was looking at the rainy day all alone. This feeling of loneliness made Fang Yuqing urgently need to get feedback from Chi Xia. However, Chi Xia’s personality was hard and cold. She didn’t know how to coax people. Whatever Fang Yuqing asked, she answered, and extra words never left her mouth, causing the void in Fang Yuqing’s heart to grow deeper and deeper.

“?” Chi Xia tilted her head, looking displeased. She corrected, “It was never for that reason. I just didn’t like those people portraying you as a ‘licking dog’ desperate pursuer.”

Just because Chi Xia’s nature was somewhat cold, Fang Yuqing’s brightness became a personality that others thought would chase after someone. If it weren’t for her chasing, how could the iceberg be melted?

Fang Yuqing’s eyes slowly widened. Her soul was shaken, and she murmured, “So, you did it for me.”

“Otherwise? I’m not so cowardly as to let you suffer this kind of groundless rumor-mongering.”

“Chi Xia, I knew you were the best!!” For some reason, Fang Yuqing actually threw herself into Chi Xia’s arms excitedly. Perhaps it was because the problem that had been trapped in her heart for years was finally solved by the person who tied the bell.

Her passion startled Chi Xia. Hearing the praise from Fang Yuqing’s mouth, she awkwardly turned her face to the other side. Chi Xia was not used to this kind of atmosphere. Seeing the coffee cup on the bar, she pushed Fang Yuqing away and said unnaturally, “Fang Yuqing, change to another coffee brand; this one is really hard to drink.”

Her eyes were wide and round, and she couldn’t say a word.

Xiaxia, could it be that you are allergic to romance?

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