Abducted by the White Moonlight of a "Tormented Protagonist" Novel - Chapter 43

Chapter 43

Song Zhiqi was completely stunned by her words. What did she mean? Was she thinking what she thought she meant?

Song Zhiqi once again scorned her own mind for being so flexible and understanding so much.

She looked around. Fortunately, there weren’t many people. She quickly pulled Gu Shiyu down and motioned for her to speak softly.

Although she already had a slight guess in her heart, for the sake of accuracy, Song Zhiqi still asked with some hesitation, “What do you mean?”

Gu Shiyu’s face was tense. Even though she had used makeup to cover it up, the faint dark circles under her eyes were still visible. It was obvious that her actual state was not as good as it seemed.

Gu Shiyu also realized that her previous behavior was a bit too strange, so she lowered her voice and said, “You know, Brother Fu Wen has been so excellent since he was a child. Many girls like him, and he has been in many relationships, so would you think he’s dirty?”

These past few days, Zhou Sui’s words had been replaying in her mind. A matter that she didn’t pay much attention to before was brought up like this, and she had to face the things she had deliberately ignored before.

Song Zhiqi took a deep breath until she couldn’t hold it anymore, and then slowly exhaled. Her face was ashen.

She really asked this.

She had the system, so she couldn’t say she minded. After all, if she minded, how would she proceed with the mission?

But it was impossible for her to say she didn’t mind. After all, if she really liked someone, how could she not mind that he had been intimate with others?

Gu Shiyu’s question was like feeding her sh*t.

But she still had to hold her nose and eat it.

So, the look in her eyes as she looked at Gu Shiyu was a little resentful. Who made this young lady realize this problem in the first place?

Why did she have to come and ask her?!

She forced a fake smile onto her face. “Since President Fu is so excellent, it’s normal for him to have been in so many relationships. As long as there’s love, how can you feel it’s dirty?”

However, the truth was that Fu Wen, that dog, couldn’t have had any proper relationships. So far, he had never given any of the women around him a title. He was always playing the “deep love” card.

[Even though I’m sleeping with other women, the one I love in my heart is you. The position of Mrs. Fu will only be yours.]

Song Zhiqi felt disgusted in her heart but couldn’t show it.

And this young lady was really good at beautifying Fu Wen. Fu Wen was clearly a man who would take anyone or wanted to get anyone he found pleasing to the eye. How did that kind of relationship become a relationship in her eyes?

Gu Shiyu was deep in thought after hearing her words, but after a moment, her face showed a bit of a dilemma. “But wouldn’t you feel uncomfortable?”

“Of course!” Song Zhiqi said straightforwardly.

Gu Shiyu immediately looked at her with bright eyes, wanting to hear what she had to say.

The system also made a series of electronic sounds in Song Zhiqi’s mind to show its presence.

Song Zhiqi coughed lightly and said in a profound tone, “If you like a person, how can you not be possessive of them? Although I would feel uncomfortable, I would only hate myself for not meeting him sooner. As long as he can be devoted to me after we’re together, I won’t mind too much about the past.”

“But what if he still does it after you’re together?” Gu Shiyu quickly followed up.

This question successfully made Song Zhiqi speechless.

Because she thought of the most abusive part of the plot, which was when the female lead angered the male lead, and he wanted to humiliate her. He would make the female lead watch him sleep with other women, trying to use this method to punish her.

Oh, my god!

Song Zhiqi wanted to curse again, but she still had to endure the feeling of having eaten a fly and said through gritted teeth, “Of course, you have to forgive him! After all, you have to give people a chance to correct their mistakes. But you can’t forgive them more than three times. If it’s more than that, then the person is not worth our effort.”

System: “…I didn’t expect you to be so tolerant.”

Song Zhiqi: “I should be, I should be.”

System: “Then what about Shen Shiyi? What if she gets involved with other people?”

“She wouldn’t dare!” Song Zhiqi said angrily. When she came back to her senses and saw Gu Shiyu’s stunned expression, she realized that she had just shouted what she was thinking in her mind.

“Song Zhiqi, what’s wrong with you?” Gu Shiyu asked blankly. How could she be so calm one second and then lash out the next?

“It’s nothing, it’s nothing. I just thought of something else,” Song Zhiqi said with a laugh. Her mind, however, was cursing the system for making such a random comparison, which made Gu Shiyu think she was crazy.

The system, which was cursed by her so much that it could barely get a word in, felt a little wronged.

Are you angry because you were almost mistaken for a crazy person, or because Shen Shiyi would be with someone else?

But seeing how angry Song Zhiqi was, the system didn’t dare to say anything else. It just held up several white flags in her mind, announcing its surrender.

Gu Shiyu didn’t care about her anymore. She frowned and thought about Song Zhiqi’s words. It did seem to be as she said, but why did she still feel a little weird?

An excellent person like Brother Fu Wen has always had so many women throwing themselves at him. It was only natural for him to make mistakes!

But why was she so uncomfortable? She was also very excellent! She didn’t make any mistakes!

Thinking this, Gu Shiyu couldn’t help but feel a little frustrated. How was she going to argue with Zhou Sui next time she saw her?

If that didn’t work, should she use Song Zhiqi’s arguments to argue?

At this time, Song Zhiqi had no idea how much damage her words would cause to Zhou Sui in the future. After she parted ways with Gu Shiyu, she went to the pedestrian street that students liked to visit and bought a lot of small things. Seeing how much Fu Wen liked that bracelet before, maybe the things she bought today would come in handy in the future?

When she got home, it was already past five in the afternoon. Shen Shiyi had also come out of her study and was preparing the ingredients for dinner in the kitchen.

When Song Zhiqi saw this, she couldn’t just stand there idly, so she washed her hands and went over to help.

“Wash this.” Shen Shiyi knew that she wasn’t good at these things, so she gave her the simplest task, which was to wash the vegetables.

“Mmm.” Song Zhiqi rolled up her sleeves and began to wash the vegetables seriously.

“Did Gu Shiyu need you for something?” Shen Shiyi asked casually.

When she thought of the conversation with Gu Shiyu, Song Zhiqi’s face darkened a little. She absolutely couldn’t tell Shen Shiyi those things. Not to mention whether she would be angry if she heard them, would she think she was crazy when she heard those brain-dead remarks?

Song Zhiqi also had an image to maintain! How could she let Shen Shiyi think she was crazy!

“We didn’t talk about anything. She just came to question me because I went to the Fu Group before.” Song Zhiqi lied.

However, after she said this lie, even she was a little surprised.

Today, Gu Shiyu was actually asking her those questions very seriously. She didn’t have that hostile attitude toward her and didn’t make things difficult for her.

How strange.

When she heard “Fu Group,” Shen Shiyi slightly tilted her head and looked at her. Seeing her normal expression, she pursed her lips and didn’t say anything else.

“Do you want to go out and have fun tomorrow?” Shen Shiyi asked.

Song Zhiqi thought for a moment, then shook her head and said, “No, I’m going to the hospital to see my mom.”

Ever since she signed the surgery consent form last time, she had never been back to the hospital.

“Then I’ll go with you.”

“Alright.” Song Zhiqi didn’t refuse. “But you’d better not show up in front of her. Just wait for me outside the ward.”

When she heard her say that, Shen Shiyi’s eyebrows slightly furrowed. Before she could ask why, Song Zhiqi took the initiative to explain.

“She’s a little old-fashioned. She’ll do anything for her son.”

Song Zhiqi had already tried to be tactful. The truth was that after the female lead’s mother was discharged, she would make the female lead take care of her. She would even often ask for money from her to give to her son. In the original novel, she often asked Fu Wen for money, and Fu Wen also used her to control the female lead.

So, she was worried that that strange mother would see that Shen Shiyi had a good relationship with her and then latch onto Shen Shiyi.

That kind of person might not be very harmful, but their ability to disgust people was first-rate.

Shen Shiyi was silent for a while. “Alright.”

…

To Song Zhiqi’s surprise, Fu Wen never replied to the message she sent today, which made her think a lot.

Did something happen?

She flipped through her notebook. She had added a lot of new things to it, but she couldn’t find a plot that corresponded to Fu Wen’s current situation.

Logically speaking, the current timeline was when the female lead and Fu Wen were entangled, but because of her transmigration and Shen Shiyi’s sudden return to the country, the timeline was messed up, which also led to the plot being a mess.

Did Fu Wen’s attitude change because of the butterfly effect?

Song Zhiqi didn’t understand, and what worried her the most was Shen Shiyi.

In the middle of the night, when she was sound asleep, she vaguely heard some mumbling next to her. She forced herself to open her blurry eyes. The voice was coming from Shen Shiyi.

Under the moonlight from the window, she could vaguely see Shen Shiyi’s face. Her eyebrows were tightly furrowed, as if she was in a nightmare. There was a hint of pain on her face.

“No, don’t…”

“Don’t…”

“Please… please…”

She kept begging for something. Warm tears seeped out from the corners of her eyes, wetting her sideburns.

“Don’t!”

Shen Shiyi’s body suddenly leaned forward. She stretched out a hand as if she wanted to grab something. Then, her entire body fell back onto the bed, and the mumbling stopped.

Song Zhiqi was startled by her sudden movement. She quickly checked her condition and saw that she was sound asleep with tears in the corners of her eyes. She wasn’t conscious at all.

Seeing her in this state, Song Zhiqi’s eyebrows furrowed. She felt that Shen Shiyi must have some kind of secret.

And her state tonight…

Song Zhiqi bit her lip. She wasn’t sure if this had happened before. Maybe it had, but she was sleeping too soundly to notice?

But seeing her brows gradually relax, Song Zhiqi couldn’t bear to wake her up. She could only lie down facing Shen Shiyi with a heart full of questions and actively put her arm around her waist.

After that, she didn’t fall into a deep sleep again. No matter how sleepy she was, she always kept a string in her mind, paying attention to Shen Shiyi’s movements.

Fortunately, Shen Shiyi didn’t have that kind of episode again in the following time.

…

Early the next morning, Song Zhiqi was half-awake, yawning in bed. However, the other person was already dressed and was applying lipstick in front of the mirror, looking refreshed.

Song Zhiqi was a little stunned by this sight. She asked with some hesitation, “Did you sleep well last night?”

Shen Shiyi looked at her lipstick in the mirror, and a faint smile appeared on her lips. She turned to look at Song Zhiqi, raised an eyebrow, and said in a clear voice, “Of course. But what about you?” She paused here.

“Huh?” Song Zhiqi subconsciously expressed her confusion.

Shen Shiyi walked over and sat on the side of the bed. She looked down at Song Zhiqi’s face, which clearly showed a lack of sleep, and chuckled softly. “I didn’t bother you last night, so why didn’t you sleep well?”

Song Zhiqi: “?”

She stared at Shen Shiyi blankly. After she fully understood what she said, she grabbed the pillow that belonged to Shen Shiyi and threw it at her!

“Shut up!”

Shameless!

Shen Shiyi caught the completely harmless pillow, leaned over, cupped Song Zhiqi’s face, and kissed her on the forehead. The faint lipstick stain landed on it. Shen Shiyi looked at it and felt even better.

However, Song Zhiqi was about to roll her eyes.

One-night stand.

Two-night stand.

Three-night stand.

If this continued so confusedly, how many one-night stands would they have?!

And from Shen Shiyi’s appearance, it seemed like she didn’t know what happened last night. So, she was actually not conscious of her mumbling in her sleep and other actions?

Thinking this, Song Zhiqi waved Shen Shiyi’s hand away and got up to wash up. Since she didn’t remember, and her situation last night was clearly not a good memory, she wouldn’t expose her wound.

When she entered the bathroom, Song Zhiqi looked at the lipstick mark on her forehead in the mirror and was a little lost in thought. She carefully touched it with her fingertip. Her eyes then fell on the marks on her neck that hadn’t completely disappeared. She pursed her lips.

“She’s a dog.” Song Zhiqi mumbled softly.

That person always liked to leave these messy marks on her. It would take a long time for them to disappear every time.

The two of them went to the hospital. When they arrived in front of the ward, Song Zhiqi glanced at Shen Shiyi. Shen Shiyi was also very smart and stopped. She pointed to the chairs in the hallway, indicating that she would wait there.

Song Zhiqi gave her a look of appreciation. She knocked on the door and went in, just in time to see the caregiver massaging the female lead’s mother.

The surgery was very successful. The female lead’s mother’s complexion had visibly improved a lot, but she was still a person who had been worn out and toiled for half of her life. Her overall condition was a world of difference compared to Shen Shiyi’s mother.

At nearly fifty years old, her hair was completely gray. Her face had many deep and shallow wrinkles, and even sunspots, which made her look much older.

The moment she saw her appear, Song’s mother’s originally gentle brows showed a hint of impatience. It was obvious that she didn’t want to see Song Zhiqi.

“How’s your body?” Song Zhiqi didn’t care about her attitude and asked as a matter of routine.

“It’s very good. You should arrange for me to be discharged soon. Don’t waste this money!” Song’s mother was very harsh toward Song Zhiqi. She didn’t even look at her directly. The disdain and disgust in her eyes were practically gushing out.

The caregiver saw that the situation was not right and went out to give them some space. She couldn’t understand why her face changed so quickly. One moment she was chatting with her, and the next she was like this toward her own daughter.

After only the two of them were left in the ward, Song Zhiqi pulled up a chair and sat down. She said in a calm tone, “The doctor said you still need to stay in the hospital for a period of observation.”

“The doctor said! The doctor just wants to make money off of us! How else would the hospital make money if he didn’t say that?” Song’s mother immediately retorted.

She looked at the hospital bills every day. Seeing the money flowing out so quickly, she felt heartbroken. Although the money wasn’t coming out of her own pocket, wasn’t Song Zhiqi’s money her money?

It was all for her younger brother!

Song Zhiqi pursed her lips. She cared about the hospital making money off of them, but she didn’t care at all where the money came from.

Even though she knew how they treated the female lead in the original novel, at this moment, she couldn’t help but feel sad for her.

Since she was a child, had she ever felt love? Had she ever felt normal love?

If the female lead had always lived in such a loveless environment, it was no wonder that even with Fu Wen’s kind of love, she would feel a little moved.

Because she had never been treated well, it would probably be very difficult for her to distinguish what normal love was like.

“The incision on your body hasn’t healed yet. You should rest well. It will heal faster with the caregiver taking care of you,” Song Zhiqi said with as much patience as she could muster.

“There’s no need to waste that money here. Your brother will be back in a while. We should save this money for him to get married,” Song’s mother refused. When she mentioned Song Zhiqi’s younger brother, a soft look appeared on her face. It seemed like she really missed her son?

Song Zhiqi looked at her indifferently. The reason she was still sitting here was because she was using the female lead’s body and was controlled by the plot to a certain extent.

But this did not mean that she would endure it like the female lead!

However, Song’s mother still didn’t stop. She chattered on and on. “You can just take care of me after I’m discharged. It will save the money for the caregiver, and we can save more for your brother’s dowry.”

“Why are you spending so much money? Your brother will need money to get married and buy a house in the future. Where won’t we need money?”

Song Zhiqi pursed her lips. Spending so much money? Wasn’t all that money being spent on her?

“Indeed. Your surgery cost more than 200,000 yuan. That is a lot of money. If you didn’t have the surgery, we could have saved more than 200,000 yuan. Wouldn’t that be great?” Song Zhiqi scoffed. This kind of person was really not worthy of any sympathy.

Song’s mother was stunned. Then, she became furious. She grabbed the things on the table next to her and threw them at Song Zhiqi!

“You good-for-nothing! I raised you, and this is how you repay me? Listen to the nonsense you’re saying!”

Song Zhiqi dodged in time. The water cup she threw shattered at her feet. Shen Shiyi also heard the commotion and ran in worriedly. She frowned at the scene in front of her.

“Are you alright?” Shen Shiyi didn’t look at Song’s mother. Instead, she walked to Song Zhiqi’s side and asked in a low voice. Her eyes were looking over her body.

Song Zhiqi shook her head and gestured for her to go out with her eyes.

Shen Shiyi pretended not to see Song Zhiqi’s gesture and stood by her side to protect her.

Song’s mother looked at this woman who suddenly appeared. She looked at her carefully. She could tell from her clothes that she was not from an ordinary family. Then, she saw how she was protecting Song Zhiqi. A kind smile appeared on her face, and her eyes when she looked at Song Zhiqi were also a little loving.

“Why didn’t you introduce your friend to your mom?” Song’s mother completely ignored what happened before and enthusiastically greeted Shen Shiyi to sit down.

Shen Shiyi’s face was a little tense. She didn’t have a good impression of Song’s mother.

She didn’t think she didn’t hear her calling Song Zhiqi a good-for-nothing!

Song Zhiqi tugged on her sleeve. Her eyes, as she looked at Song’s mother, were a little disgusted. “You don’t have to pretend to be nice. I’ve done everything I could for you. From now on, we’ll cut ties. Don’t come looking for me anymore!”

She wasn’t the original host. So, after she did what needed to be done, she would neatly cut ties with her.

If she didn’t leave this kind of family, they would only drag her down and suck her dry!

Song’s mother’s face changed. The fake kindness she was putting on was instantly torn apart, revealing a fierce look.

“Don’t you even think about it! You belong to our Song family whether you’re alive or dead!”

“You will do whatever I tell you to do!”

Shen Shiyi’s anger flared up. She looked at Song’s mother and said coldly, “You’ve lived for so long, but it’s like you’ve lived in vain!”

“What are you to lecture me?” Song’s mother immediately started cursing. She was originally thinking of getting on good terms with Shen Shiyi since she didn’t look like an ordinary person, but now she couldn’t stand it anymore!

“You’re really not a person!” Song Zhiqi pulled Shen Shiyi. Before she left, she said coldly, “I won’t care about your things anymore, and you don’t have to look for me.”

Song Zhiqi understood that if she didn’t turn against her today, she would be sucked dry by her forever!

Shen Shiyi followed Song Zhiqi out. She looked at her visibly upset face, pursed her lips, and said in a low voice, “I was worried.”

She went in because she was worried. After all, that person was Song Zhiqi’s mother. She was afraid that Song Zhiqi would be bullied and not know how to fight back.

Song Zhiqi held her hand tightly. “I know.”

She didn’t blame Shen Shiyi. She was just worried that Song’s mother wouldn’t let it go.

Song’s mother had said that the female lead’s younger brother was coming back. The female lead’s younger brother was not a good person either. She was worried about what these two might do in the future.

This time, they didn’t have Fu Wen giving them money. She didn’t know what would happen to them in the future.

“Are we going home?” Shen Shiyi asked.

“Let’s go.”

…

Lately, Song Zhiqi had been getting more and more anxious.

Because she found that Fu Wen seemed to be deliberately avoiding her.

She hadn’t received a single reply to her messages. When she went to the Fu Group building, she was always told that Fu Wen was on a business trip and wasn’t in Xinjiang City. When she asked when he would be back, they said they didn’t know.

Although she wasn’t under the pressure of that unknown force when she was with Shen Shiyi, her heart uncontrollably ached with Fu Wen’s change in attitude. She was like a woman in love who was being ignored by her boyfriend, and she couldn’t help but feel sorry for herself.

Song Zhiqi hated this feeling, but she couldn’t get rid of it. This also made her temper a little unpredictable. Even Shen Shiyi herself often didn’t know which word would suddenly hit her and make her face sink.

Looking at Song Zhiqi, who was once again sulking with her back to her, Shen Shiyi had a worried look in her eyes. She proactively walked forward, hugged her from behind, rubbed against her, and said in a low voice, “What’s wrong? Can you tell me?”

Feeling Shen Shiyi’s tolerance for her, Song Zhiqi knew everything very clearly in her heart, but in the face of her advances, she still couldn’t help but feel annoyed.

She felt uncontrollably inferior to Shen Shiyi.

Just like the attitude of the female lead in the original novel toward Shen Shiyi.