Abducted by the White Moonlight of a "Tormented Protagonist" Novel - Chapter 40

Chapter 40

“Slap!”

Song Zhiqi was not one to swallow her anger. Before, when he was bossing her around, she was able to endure it for the sake of the company’s image. But this action of his crossed her line.

The man covered his face and stared at Song Zhiqi with wide eyes. The fat on his body trembled with his anger. He raised his other hand and pointed at Song Zhiqi with a shaky finger.

“Do you know who I am? How dare you hit me!”

Song Zhiqi took a wet wipe from the table and wiped the back of her hand fiercely. When she heard him, she scoffed, “Then do you know who I am?”

“Who are you! I’m telling you, I’ll make sure you can’t work in this company!” The man was furious. He tried to get up and grab Song Zhiqi, but he lost his balance and fell back into his chair halfway up.

Seeing him like this, Song Zhiqi rolled her eyes mercilessly. “You don’t even know who I am, and you dare to say that you’ll make sure I can’t work here. Is your confidence piled up from all that fat on you?”

After she finished speaking, she didn’t bother with him anymore and turned to leave.

“Stop right there!” The man saw that she was about to run, so he quickly got up and chased after her. In front of many other employees, he pointed at Song Zhiqi and cursed, “What a shameless slut. You tried to seduce me. Didn’t your family teach you any shame? I’m a married man, and you still had the nerve to go after me!”

When he said those words, the entire place suddenly fell silent. Not a single sound of a keyboard could be heard. It was eerily quiet.

Song Zhiqi stopped in her tracks when she heard him. She turned around and looked at the man with a shocked expression, her eyes full of confusion. She then looked down at her own appearance.

Did she look like someone who would try to seduce a man who looked like he weighed at least 300 to 400 pounds?

The other employees also looked at him with complex expressions when they heard what he said.

Did he even know who he was pointing at and cursing?!

And seducing him!

Oh no, please spare their eyes and ears! Did they look that stupid?! Did he actually think they would believe him?

If Song Zhiqi really wanted to seduce someone, seducing Shen Shiyi would be a much better choice than him!

However, the man took their silence as a sign that they wanted to see more gossip. His face couldn’t help but show a smug look.

“If you apologize to me now, I’ll pretend that nothing ever happened!”

Song Zhiqi: “…”

“What’s going on? Why aren’t you working?” A slightly serious female voice came from a distance. When she got closer and saw the situation, her eyebrows furrowed deeply.

“President Zhou? Why are you here?”

Song Zhiqi saw Zhong Yujin appear and that she knew the man. She thought that he must be someone related to the company.

But so what? He deserved to be hit anyway. If Shen Shiyi dared to scold her because of this, she would never be her friend again!

The system was now completely calm. This series of actions by Song Zhiqi did not fit her “innocent flower” persona from the original novel at all.

If it were the original female lead, wouldn’t she be scared and apologize for forgiveness? Then the man would get even more carried away, and at the critical moment, the male lead would jump out, show his dominance, protect the female lead, and punish the man?

Now, none of these things were happening.

Considering that Song Zhiqi had completely deviated from the female lead’s persona, the system silently added two pounds to Fu Wen’s weight.

The man who was called President Zhou was excited when he saw Zhong Yujin appear. He pointed at Song Zhiqi and said, “Assistant Zhong, how do you manage your employees? She even tried to seduce a married man!”

Zhong Yujin saw him pointing at Song Zhiqi and saying those words. She then looked at Song Zhiqi’s face, which was about to roll her eyes. She was silent for a moment and then asked with a very sincere tone, “You said she seduced who?”

“Me! I have a wife!” President Zhou said loudly.

Zhong Yujin looked at him with a very complex expression. She then took a deep breath and said to the other employees who were listening, “Get back to work. Don’t listen to such pointless things.” She then turned to Song Zhiqi and said in a low voice, “You can go back first.”

Song Zhiqi glanced at the man, nodded, and left.

The man was furious when he saw that Song Zhiqi was about to leave and that Zhong Yujin’s attitude was still the same. “Is this how Assistant Zhong handles this matter? Is this the company’s culture?”

Zhong Yujin took a deep breath and said expressionlessly, “Then do you know who the person you just talked to is?”

The man’s eyebrows were tightly furrowed. Why did everyone keep asking him who she was?

Zhong Yujin looked down at her watch and said calmly, “I don’t know why you’re here today, but it doesn’t matter anymore. Please transfer all the outstanding payments to our company’s account within three days. At the same time, we will also issue a written notice to terminate your distributor qualifications as soon as possible. If the payment is not received in three days, you will bear the consequences yourself.”

After she finished speaking, she didn’t even look at him and walked straight past him.

The man was stunned when he heard her words. When he came to his senses, he immediately wanted to chase after her, but at over 400 pounds, he couldn’t be faster than Zhong Yujin. She turned a corner and left him behind. At the same time, the security guards came up and drove him away.

The other employees all looked at the farce with a sense of schadenfreude. They didn’t understand why that person would think of slandering Song Zhiqi.

Wasn’t he just walking into his own grave?

At that moment, the incident that had just happened was already causing a heated discussion in the company group chat. Many people who shipped Shen Shiyi and Song Zhiqi found it unbelievable and felt that the man’s brain was broken.

On the other side, Song Zhiqi returned to the office, still feeling angry the more she thought about it. When the man slandered her, he should at least improve his own image!

Shen Shiyi saw that she had been wearing a long face since she entered the office and couldn’t help but wonder, “What’s wrong with you? Did you hear some infuriating gossip?”

Even when she heard some shocking gossip before, she wouldn’t be this angry. Could it be that today’s gossip was even more outrageous?

“I didn’t go to listen to gossip!” Song Zhiqi retorted. She hadn’t even made it to the pantry yet!

She was probably the gossip of the company now!

“Oh~ then where’s your water cup?” Shen Shiyi asked curiously.

Song Zhiqi paused. “I left it on the cabinet outside the B1 meeting room. I forgot to get it…”

She was so speechless at the time, how could she remember that?

Shen Shiyi sighed softly and got up, planning to go out and get it for her. “You’re a grown-up, and you’re still so forgetful.”

She didn’t get water, and she didn’t hear any gossip. So what did she go out to do?

Thinking of this, Shen Shiyi’s eyebrows slightly furrowed. After she found Song Zhiqi’s water cup, she asked the other employees if anything special had happened outside.

Logically, if Song Zhiqi hadn’t heard any gossip, then someone must have made her angry just now.

Sure enough, when she heard the other employees’ explanation, Shen Shiyi’s face darkened. When she heard that Zhong Yujin had already handled it, her expression looked a little better, but overall, she was still very intimidating.

The employee who was talking to her was also a little nervous, especially when they saw her face darken. But at the same time, they were also very excited deep down.

She shipped Shen Shiyi and Song Zhiqi!

Shen Shiyi filled the cup with water and returned to the office. She placed the cup on Song Zhiqi’s desk and looked at her, still pouting and being angry. She said, “Don’t worry. That person has already been kicked out by the security guards. He won’t be able to enter the Shen Group’s door ever again.”

Song Zhiqi pouted.

Shen Shiyi squatted down beside her, held her hand, and asked softly, “Did he do something to you?”

When she asked this, Shen Shiyi’s eyes flashed with a hint of gloom. She believed that if that person hadn’t provoked Song Zhiqi, Song Zhiqi wouldn’t have gone to provoke him for no reason.

Song Zhiqi’s lips flattened, and she said angrily, “He even wanted me to leave with him! What is that if not an insult?!”

“He even touched my hand like this! Who gave him the guts!”

She felt that ever since she came to this world, she had been humiliated. First, there was Fu Wen, and then there was this person who was worse than Fu Wen in every way.

What? Did the plot have a problem with her? It was using this method to humiliate her!

Shen Shiyi’s face turned cold. She suddenly felt that Zhong Yujin’s way of handling it was too lenient.

“I’ll wipe it for you. In the future, if something like this happens again, don’t worry about it. Regular guests with appointments will have a dedicated person to attend to them. If you don’t see anyone attending to them, it means they didn’t come in through the proper channels. Just call the security guards.”

It seemed that she needed to strengthen the management of the front desk and security guards in the future so that uninvited people wouldn’t be able to enter so easily.

“I already wiped it.” Song Zhiqi mumbled.

“It’s okay to wipe it again.” Shen Shiyi used a wet wipe to carefully clean her hand. What she was thinking about was how to make that man regret everything he did today as soon as possible.

Only when he lost everything he relied on would he stop being so arrogant.

Looking at Shen Shiyi meticulously wiping her hand, Song Zhiqi thought of something else.

The system had said before that there was a plot point where the female lead was harassed, and the male lead came out to protect the female lead and made the harasser go bankrupt.

She felt that what was happening now was very similar.

So, were these plot points unavoidable, and would they still appear in a different way no matter what the current situation of this world was, even if she wasn’t in Fu Wen’s company?

If that was the case, Song Zhiqi’s mood couldn’t help but become a little anxious.

Shen Shiyi wiped her hand clean and then rubbed her head. “Do you want to rest in the lounge? I’ll call you when it’s time to eat.”

“Okay.” Song Zhiqi readily agreed. There was something she urgently needed to do.

She went into the lounge, and the first thing she did was take out a pen and paper and start writing down the plot snippets she could remember. If it was really as she thought, that the plot points were unavoidable, then she’d better know what they were and when they would happen.

The timeline was a bit of a problem. After all, the TV show snippets she saw were all out of order. She could only write down the things she remembered first.

1. 1. 1. 1. The female lead was having a pleasant conversation with the second male lead and was seen by the male lead. The male lead then thought that the female lead was a flirtatious woman and would be with anyone.

1. 1. 1. 1. The furious male lead forced himself on the female lead and sexually humiliated her.

1. 1. 1. 1. When he took the female lead to a banquet, he let others bully her and stood by and watched with a cold gaze. The more others saw his attitude, the more they bullied the female lead.

1. 1. 1. 1. He imprisoned the female lead, treated her as his complete possession, and trampled on her dignity.

When she was about to write the fifth point, Song Zhiqi’s face suddenly became very ugly.

Because she just remembered one thing: Fu Wen’s reason for forcing the female lead to donate her cornea and kidney was because something had happened to Shen Shiyi.

Song Zhiqi stopped writing and grabbed her head. Her heart was pounding, and her mind was in a mess.

What happened to Shen Shiyi that she needed to donate her cornea and kidney?

However, no matter how hard Song Zhiqi tried to recall, she couldn’t remember what had happened to Shen Shiyi. At that time, all the TV show snippets seemed to focus on tormenting the female lead and didn’t mention what had happened to Shen Shiyi!

Song Zhiqi’s face was grim. She forced herself to calm down and continued to write, trying to see if she could sort out a timeline and find the time when something happened to Shen Shiyi.

At this moment, Song Zhiqi especially regretted not watching this TV show.

5. 5. 5. 5. The first love gets into an accident, and the male lead forces the female lead to donate her cornea and kidney.

5. 5. 5. 5. The female lead escaped with the help of the second male lead and found that she was pregnant.

5. 5. 5. 5. She returned to the country with her child and reconnected with the male lead. The male lead thought that the female lead had a child with another man and felt that she couldn’t live without a man.

5. 5. 5. 5. The male lead used the child to make the female lead listen to him and humiliated her in various ways.

After sorting it out like this, this Fu Wen was truly not a human being!

He didn’t do a single thing that a human would do!

“System, can you help me add to this?” Song Zhiqi asked cautiously.

System: “…Host, you know the rules.”

Song Zhiqi sighed softly. “Then can you at least tell me the next plot point that’s going to happen?”

“Oh, I can. You and the first love will be kidnapped at the same time, and the kidnappers will make the male lead make an extreme choice between the two of you!” the system said.

Song Zhiqi looked at the plot points she had sorted out. It seemed that she had missed a lot of things!

She wrote down what the system said, highlighted that this was the next plot point that was going to happen, and then frowned deeply.

She didn’t have a deep impression of this plot point. She didn’t remember if she had seen it before, and she didn’t know if the female lead and the first love were injured during this time.

“Were they injured?” Song Zhiqi asked.

System: “…Mm, of course.”

Song Zhiqi: “…”

…

“It’s time to eat.” A knock came from the door, accompanied by Shen Shiyi’s voice.

Song Zhiqi came back to her senses from her tangled state. She looked up and saw Shen Shiyi open the door, revealing half of her body.

“Oh, okay.” Song Zhiqi put away what she had written, got up, and walked towards Shen Shiyi.

Shen Shiyi casually glanced at the notebook she put away, didn’t ask anything, and moved aside to let Song Zhiqi walk past her to have lunch together.

Today’s lunch was very hearty, as if to make up for the bland breakfast. Song Zhiqi ate with a satisfied expression.

She found that being with Shen Shiyi was a truly good time, and it felt so natural, with no burden at all.

When she was eating, Shen Shiyi liked to watch her eat. She always felt that this little fox was especially cute when she was eating.

“Little Cicada.” Shen Shiyi suddenly spoke.

“Hm?” Song Zhiqi responded casually. She was already used to her calling her “Little Cicada.”

“I have whatever you want,” so don’t be fooled by others.

Song Zhiqi hadn’t even opened her mouth to speak when the system suddenly said in a hurry in her mind, “Ding, emergency mission. Please, the female lead must answer: ‘No, I want marriage, which you can’t give me. I want children, which you also can’t give me!'”

The words that were about to come out of Song Zhiqi’s mouth got stuck. She was shocked by the system’s words. When it said that, did it consider whether she even wanted these things? Especially the child, would you want one if I gave you one?

Song Zhiqi didn’t plan to complete this mission. It was fine if she didn’t. She’d just add a few more pounds to Fu Wen’s weight so that he wouldn’t have such a good day today.

“That’s…”

“Host! You must complete this mission!” the system suddenly said in a very serious tone. This mission only required her to speak, so there was no reason to fail.

Song Zhiqi was determined. “You must have…”

“Bzzzzzzzzzzzz—”

All kinds of messy electric currents pricked Song Zhiqi’s brain. She understood that this time she couldn’t get away with it so easily. She gritted her teeth and said, “You are wrong to say that.”

“I want marriage, which you can’t give me. I want children, which you also can’t give me.”

The tingling sound in her brain stopped abruptly after Song Zhiqi said, “which you can’t give me.” It was as if nothing had happened before, except for the faint tingling sensation that was still there.

Shen Shiyi’s face changed instantly when she heard her words. She stared at Song Zhiqi, trying to see if there was any possibility that she was joking.

But Song Zhiqi was asked by the system to control her expression, so Shen Shiyi couldn’t see anything.

Shen Shiyi was silent. She finally lowered her eyes as if nothing had happened, put some food in Song Zhiqi’s bowl, and said, “Eat.”

Song Zhiqi felt a little uncomfortable seeing her like this. She didn’t understand why the system insisted that she say those words. Was it because Shen Shiyi’s words were too ambiguous?

But hadn’t they already done more ambiguous things?

After that, she ate without much taste. After she finally finished eating, Shen Shiyi didn’t say anything. She just cleaned up the trash and continued to work.

Before Song Zhiqi went into the lounge, she poured Shen Shiyi a cup of warm water and placed it next to her hand. She went into the lounge and couldn’t wait to ask the system what had happened just now.

The system didn’t answer her question immediately. It wasn’t until Song Zhiqi had washed up and was about to lie down on the bed that it suddenly spoke. “The main brain came to inspect our work! You don’t want to live, but I do!”

“Huh?” Song Zhiqi was confused. What? The main brain came to inspect the work?

“The main brain must have noticed that our mission progress was too slow and came to check,” the system said with a hint of fatigue in its voice. It didn’t understand how an existence like it could feel tired.

Song Zhiqi was speechless.

Why would something like that come to inspect the work?

Did that mean that as long as the main brain came to inspect, she couldn’t do anything that was out of character?

What if the main brain came to inspect frequently?

“Then let’s make an agreement. If the main brain comes to inspect again next time, you’ll notify me in advance.” If it did that kind of messy thing again, her head would really explode.

System: “Then I’ll use three ‘beeps’ to let you know beforehand?”

Song Zhiqi: “Okay, that’s a deal. We have an agreement.”

System: “No problem.”

After she dealt with this matter, Song Zhiqi thought about Shen Shiyi outside and felt a little worried. She didn’t know what she would think after hearing those words. Did she need to explain herself later?

She sighed heavily. Why were there so many problems?

Then she thought about Fu Wen, who was waiting for her to conquer, and she wished she could split herself into eight pieces to be used.

As she was feeling drowsy, Song Zhiqi felt that she had forgotten something important, but her brain couldn’t process it. So she just gave up on thinking about it.

…

Shen Shiyi, who was outside, was originally working, but her movements gradually became slower and slower. In the end, she was just staring blankly.

The two things Song Zhiqi wanted were indeed things she couldn’t give her.

She lowered her eyes and looked at the palm of her hand.

She couldn’t give them to her, but she didn’t want to let go.

She was the one who… started it.

Shen Shiyi lowered her head and tried to adjust her emotions.

Maybe Song Zhiqi said that on purpose to make her angry?

She suppressed her emotions, finished the rest of her work, and got up. She quietly opened the door to the lounge and smiled helplessly at the sleeping Song Zhiqi inside.

She didn’t understand if Song Zhiqi was the reincarnation of a sleepyhead. She loved to sleep and could sleep so much.

She carefully closed the door. Shen Shiyi went to deal with President Zhou’s matter. Since he dared to do it, he should have the ability to bear the consequences.

So, when Song Zhiqi woke up and came out after washing up, she saw that Shen Shiyi was still very busy. She couldn’t help but feel a little emotional.

Sure enough, a proper person in power was not that leisurely. She didn’t come to work for just one day yesterday, and she had been busy without a break today.

But then, Song Zhiqi also became busy herself. She took out the notebook she had written in before and started to figure out how to avoid those plot points.

Even if she couldn’t avoid them, at least they shouldn’t happen to them.

Suddenly, Song Zhiqi remembered what she had forgotten before she fell asleep!

She had forgotten to discuss how to strengthen security with Shen Shiyi!

Thinking of this, she looked up at Shen Shiyi, saw that she was still busy, and decided to wait until she was a little more free to talk to her.

The system only said that the next plot point was a kidnapping, but it didn’t reveal who the kidnappers were or when the kidnapping would happen.

If she and Shen Shiyi hired more bodyguards to avoid the kidnapping, but the kidnapping plot had to happen, then who would be kidnapped?

Song Zhiqi thought hard. She didn’t want innocent people to be dragged into this. After all, if she and Shen Shiyi were kidnapped, according to the plot, they would only be injured and not die. But if it was someone else, she wasn’t sure.

What if the kidnappers kidnapped them, but Fu Wen didn’t cooperate with their extreme choice, and they just killed them? That would be a tragedy.

Perhaps she was thinking too hard. She didn’t even notice Shen Shiyi walking closer until she spoke next to her ear, which made her jump.

“What are you writing?” Shen Shiyi sat on the arm of Song Zhiqi’s chair, put an arm around her shoulder, and asked curiously.

Song Zhiqi’s first reaction was to quickly cover the notebook. Her heart was pounding, and her mind was blank. She didn’t know what to say.

“Hm… male lead, female lead. Are you going to write a novel?” Shen Shiyi asked.

“Yes, yes! I’m going to write a novel. I’m outlining it now!” Song Zhiqi quickly used the excuse that Shen Shiyi gave her. She was grateful for it in her heart.

Hearing this, Shen Shiyi said with a hint of disdain, “Why is your outline so cliché? This kind of thing isn’t popular anymore.”

“Huh?” Shen Shiyi also knew about this?

“Your male lead character is no good. He’s not likable. You should change it and make the lead a woman.”

“If you don’t know how to create a female character, you can use me as a prototype. I don’t mind.”

Song Zhiqi: “…”

She felt like she was being hit by a flying abacus bead.

Wouldn’t that turn it into a lesbian novel?!