Abducted by the White Moonlight of a "Tormented Protagonist" Novel - Chapter 24
Chapter 24
It was clear that Fu Wen had also seen them. He instinctively frowned, and his eyes held a hint of cold anger as he looked at Song Zhiqi.
He wanted their relationship to be good, but not too good, especially at this critical moment.
Gu Shiyu was a little surprised to see Song Zhiqi. But after the surprise, she looked at Shen Shiyi, who was next to Song Zhiqi, and her brows furrowed almost imperceptibly. She couldn’t understand how Song Zhiqi and Shen Shiyi had become so close.
“Shiyi,” Fu Wen said, walking forward and taking the initiative to greet her.
Shen Shiyi lazily looked up at him. She sighed softly in her heart, knowing that there was no way she could have a quiet lunch with Song Zhiqi today.
“Mhm.” Shen Shiyi responded flatly, without any warmth.
“What’s with that attitude!” Gu Shiyu was immediately displeased with her cold attitude toward Fu Wen. She had never been that cold to Fu Wen before!
Song Zhiqi quickly and subtly pulled on her sleeve, desperately winking at her. Is this person stupid? How is she going to make Fu Wen change his view of her like this!
“Shiyu!” Fu Wen scolded in a deep voice. “Is that your upbringing?”
“You!” Gu Shiyu’s eyes turned red with anger. But with Song Zhiqi holding her back, she could only suppress her anger and let out an angry snort at Shen Shiyi!
Seeing her like that, I felt a headache coming on. Is this girl’s mind completely filled with Fu Wen? Can she even be changed?
Shen Shiyi was completely unmoved by her attitude. She looked at the hand Song Zhiqi was using to pull Gu Shiyu’s sleeve, and a cold smirk appeared on her lips. “Since we ran into each other, let’s eat together.”
With that, she reached out and hooked her arm around Song Zhiqi’s neck, pulling her back to her side. She put her arm around my shoulder and walked straight inside. After putting a few steps between them and the two behind them, she lowered her voice and said, “You better behave.”
My eyes widened in shock as I looked at her. What did I do that requires me to behave?
Shen Shiyi snorted and ignored my confused look. She followed the waiter to the private room.
Behind us, Fu Wen said to Gu Shiyu in a deep voice, “Be nice to Shiyi from now on.”
“Fu Wen brother!” Gu Shiyu said, displeased. “Look at her attitude toward you just now!”
Fu Wen looked up at Shen Shiyi’s back, and his eyes unconsciously softened. “You don’t understand. That’s just how she is.”
Gu Shiyu’s eyes turned red with anger as she watched Fu Wen protect and defend Shen Shiyi. She wanted to turn around and leave, but she was also worried about leaving Fu Wen alone with those two.
In the end, she could only hold back her anger and follow them into the private room.
Shen Shiyi and I sat together, so the other two could only sit opposite us. Shen Shiyi scanned the code to order, without any intention of including the two people opposite her.
And the system, which had been gone for who knows how long, now sounded in my head with a surprised and praising voice.
“Host, you can do it! You’ve created another opportunity to meet the male lead and cultivate feelings!”
I gave a polite but awkward smile. Thank you for the praise. This time it was a pure accident. Besides, I wanted to have a good meal this time and didn’t want to see this so-called male lead ruin my appetite.
However, the system’s next words made my heart sink, and my whole body stiffened.
“Host, when I went back to the headquarters for a meeting just now, the higher-ups told us to quickly win over the male lead and finish the plot.”
“So, next, I will issue our first official mission.”
“Within three days, obtain the medical fees for your mother from the male lead.”
“If you don’t complete it within three days, you will be punished by the system.”
When I heard these words, my heart felt incredibly heavy. This meant that I had to complete the mission issued by the system. But if the system started issuing missions, my initiative would become lower and lower!
“What… is the punishment?” I said with some difficulty.
Based on my experience from reading novels, the system’s punishments are usually electric shocks or something similar, anything that causes my body to have problems.
When it came to this, the system became a little smug, and its tone rose. “Adhering to the principle of ‘killing the heart,’ all physical pain is inferior to mental collapse. Regarding the Host’s punishment, the system has another target.”
Hearing this, my heart turned cold. No way. Is it going to use my ‘abuse value’ against me?
“If the Host doesn’t complete the mission, the male lead will gain one pound,” the system said with some self-satisfaction. In the novel, the female lead was so concerned about the male lead that she would never tolerate something like this.
Song Zhiqi: “…”
That’s it?
For a moment, I didn’t know whether to be glad that the system’s mind was messed up or to complain about it.
My mission isn’t completed, but the punishment is on someone else. What does that have to do with me!
I’m all for it!
But listening to the system’s smug voice, I tried to suppress the joy in my heart. I put on a shocked and sad expression, accusing the system of doing something like this!
Gaining weight is such a huge blow to someone like Fu Wen who is strict with his body management!
Sure enough, the more I accused and pleaded with the system to change the punishment to something like an electric shock on me, the more the system was unmoved. It was even more confident that its punishment choice was perfect! Its comprehensive evaluation result was so correct!
After all, the female lead was willing to get an electric shock and harm herself rather than let the male lead gain weight!
What a deep affection this is!
The system couldn’t help but shed tears for my feelings.
Although I was pleasantly surprised that the system’s punishment was just gaining weight, and it was on Fu Wen, I couldn’t just openly fail to complete the mission. After all, I had to let the system see how important Fu Wen was to me, which would be convenient for future missions and plots.
I sighed faintly in my heart. On the surface, I was shy and timid, constantly stealing glances at Fu Wen, looking like a bashful little wife who didn’t dare to look at her crush directly.
After placing the order, Shen Shiyi looked at me from the side and saw me winking at Fu Wen.
Her face sank. She gritted her teeth slightly. She lowered her head and deleted all the dishes I liked from the order!
When Fu Wen saw my shy and timid look, he only felt a fire rising in his chest.
He liked this kind of gentle, innocent rabbit-like appearance of mine, someone who could be controlled and dependent on him.
After the food was served, I looked at the table and saw that there was nothing I liked. Even the broth was clear. I looked at Shen Shiyi in shock.
Didn’t she say she was going to treat me to a feast! This is a feast?!
However, in the face of my gaze, Shen Shiyi looked straight ahead, not even glancing at me.
I looked at her cold profile, feeling a surge of anger. This pig said something and didn’t follow through!
I snorted coldly in my heart. I got up and moved to sit closer to Fu Wen, trying to get chummy with him.
“Mr. Fu, I once heard that you acquired a company for a third of the market price. Can you tell me how you did it? You’re so amazing!” I said, holding my face in my hands and looking at Fu Wen with bright, adoring eyes.
This question touched the heart of someone like Fu Wen. Besides, he was in front of Shen Shiyi, so he could show her how capable he was. He looked at me with a little bit of approval.
“If you want to hear it, of course. And later, you can come with me to the Fu Group. There’s an office there that collects all the representative artifacts of the companies I’ve acquired,” Fu Wen said. He seemed calm on the outside, but his heart was pounding.
He collected those things to show off his abilities and to show others that the consequence of opposing him was to be displayed as a trophy for others to see!
My eyes lit up. I said happily, “Okay~”
Shen Shiyi, who had been quietly cooking her food, heard my joyful and lingering voice and that I was going to follow Fu Wen. The hand holding her chopsticks turned white, and her face became terrifyingly grim.
She slowly turned her head to look at me, a cold curve on her lips.
The little fox is not behaving.
Maybe she wants to have her skin peeled off.