I Deduce the Female Lead Likes Me [Transmigration into a book] - Chapter 14: Sudden Change
“Why are you back? Did you remember any new information?” Zheng Fenglin asked.
“The ‘S’ isn’t me; it’s Sun Jiawen, she’s in my class. She should still be painting in the art studio now, quickly find someone to bring her over!” Kou Shuang said anxiously.
After a brief stunned, Zheng Fenglin immediately understood what Kou Shuang was saying. “Is Qiangzi still at school? Tell him to find Sun Jiawen, in Kou Shuang’s classroom.”
Zheng Fenglin didn’t talk to Kou Shuang any further but acted decisively. His command was steady and resolute, already showing hints of the great criminal police officer he would become.
Kou Shuang waited for a while, watching the busy police officers, feeling a very strange sense of detachment.
How to put it… she seemed to be just watching a TV show. The panic and anxiety of the characters had nothing to do with her; the clamor around her was just background music.
She only knew Zheng Fenglin, but Zheng Fenglin’s existence wasn’t real to her; it felt very distant. Kou Shuang felt that everything in this world had nothing to do with her.
Whether they wanted to arrest Sun Jiawen, or even misjudge her, it was all fine. After all, it was just a novel world.
Kou Shuang felt a little light-headed.
Just then, a police officer passed by her, said “Excuse me,” and pushed her aside. She lost her balance and fell onto a bench behind her. Zheng Fenglin glanced at her, wanting to say something, but was ultimately interrupted by a colleague, with whom he communicated.
As Kou Shuang was in a daze, the WeChat notification sound rang out.
Kou Shuang’s volume was set very low, making it easily ignored in such a noisy environment, yet it pierced into Kou Shuang’s ears, stimulating her nerves and reminding her: You still have things to deal with.
She unlocked her phone; it was Song Muxue.
[The department’s youth league committee meeting is ongoing here. Lu Renjia is also present.]
[He went out to answer a call and came back looking very serious, grabbing his bag and laptop, saying he had something to do and was leaving.]
[You think it might be Sun Jiawen?]
Song Muxue sent several messages, with short intervals between them, showing she typed quickly. Kou Shuang was startled for a moment and immediately replied: [I think so!]
Upon careful thought, Sun Jiawen had always been a bit strange. She looked gentle and soft but was actually very good at concealing her thoughts. But for some reason, Kou Shuang felt that she was truly deeply in love with Lu Renjia.
[But shouldn’t Sun Jiawen be in class right now?]
Just as Kou Shuang sent the message, Zheng Fenglin’s colleague’s response came.
“Fenglin, that student named Sun Jiawen, she took sick leave and left. How did you get this information? Is it reliable? This Sun Jiawen interned at Chunsheng Gallery for a week or two, and we filtered her out after checking once,” the colleague said.
Zheng Fenglin turned and pointed at Kou Shuang, saying: “I have an informant.”
But the finger pointed to an empty space, as if Kou Shuang had never returned.
••••
Song Muxue was tracking Lu Renjia.
When Lu Renjia said he had some private matters and had to leave, Song Muxue immediately replied: “In that case, let’s have the meeting another day. The rough framework is already out; we can refine it in the QQ group.”
The cadres attending the meeting all agreed. Song Muxue packed her things while keeping an eye on Lu Renjia’s whereabouts.
It was then that she received Kou Shuang’s WeChat message.
[Could I ask you for a favor?]
[Could you help me… track Lu Renjia? [prayer emoji]]
Song Muxue unconsciously smiled.
Even if you didn’t ask, I’d still do it.
Lu Renjia walked quickly. As soon as he exited the university activity center, he grabbed a shared bicycle and didn’t even notice Song Muxue following him.
Song Muxue pedaled furiously, glad that she wasn’t wearing a skirt today. Lu Renjia was too fast, and Song Muxue could only pedal with all her might, not even having time to pay attention to her phone jingling in her pocket.
When Lu Renjia stopped, she found that in front of them was a small grove near the girls’ dormitory.
Inside that grove was an elegant little pavilion. Being close to the girls’ dorm, many young couples dated there. If you walked through at night, you could step on at least ten couples.
Lu Renjia walked directly into the grove. Song Muxue observed from the entrance for a minute, stopped her bicycle, muted her phone, then quietly slipped into the grove.
Sun Jiawen was waiting for Lu Renjia in the small pavilion. Upon seeing Lu Renjia, she immediately stood up.
Song Muxue squatted behind a tree, sending a WeChat message to Kou Shuang: [He’s at school.]
[The small grove near the dorms, by the pavilion.]
The other side immediately sent a voice message.
[No voice messages, type it.]
[…I thought you had an accident, you scared me to death… I’ll be right there!]
[Mm.]
Song Muxue said, quietly squatting there.
At this moment, she completely forgot about Zheng Fenglin’s existence, forgot that Zheng Fenglin was a police officer, and that this matter was even under his colleague’s jurisdiction.
As summer approached, mosquitoes were especially numerous. Song Muxue’s thighs and calves were exposed, and she was bitten several times, with the bites very close together, forming a Big Dipper constellation. She couldn’t hear what the two were saying and was worried she’d lose track of them if she left, so she just continued to squat there.
After a while, Kou Shuang suddenly appeared and squatted beside Song Muxue.
“How long have you been here?” Kou Shuang asked quietly, hunched over.
Song Muxue glanced at the WeChat chat history and also whispered: “Twenty minutes.”
“Twenty minutes? What are they talking about for so long… You can’t hear anything, yet you can still squat here. You’re really something,” Kou Shuang said, glancing at Song Muxue: “Aren’t you itchy from the mosquito bites?”
Song Muxue glanced at Kou Shuang.
That glance was shy and alluring, combined with those snow-white thighs, Kou Shuang’s mind began to wander. She reached out and grabbed Song Muxue’s thigh, right at the “spoon” part of the Big Dipper constellation.
Song Muxue was startled and quickly pulled her thigh back. She looked down and saw four claw marks, like meteor “tail gas,” and… goosebumps.
Song Muxue exerted great effort to control herself from screaming aloud: “What are you doing?!”
Kou Shuang was also a little embarrassed, unsure why she had suddenly acted so impulsively… Her thigh was white, and the mosquito bites were red, but she hadn’t been so restless with her hands before, had she?
However, the touch really did feel good…
Kou Shuang was good at pretending. She told herself several times, “This is just an NPC,” and after mentally preparing herself, she nonchalantly said: “Seeing you like that just made me itch, so I scratched for you. Does it feel better?”
Kou Shuang looked at Song Muxue, thought her face seemed a little red, so she threw a flirtatious glance, feeling quite dashing herself.
Song Muxue: “…”
What’s wrong with Kou Shuang lately? She seems different from the one I know.
Despite this thought, Song Muxue couldn’t help but recall the touch just now. Kou Shuang’s hand was very cold; she wondered how it maintained that temperature in early summer. The mosquito-bitten area was very itchy, red and stinging, but after being touched by the cold hand, it felt less uncomfortable.
So, it should have been comfortable.
But as soon as Kou Shuang asked… the itchiness silently surged back, like ants crawling, like warm water scalding.
Song Muxue glanced at Kou Shuang. Kou Shuang still had that nonchalant look, and even asked her: “Still itchy? Should I scratch for you again?”
“…” Song Muxue covered the Big Dipper and the four meteors with her hand and said: “Are you here to scratch me, or to track them?!”
Only then did Kou Shuang look towards the two people.
Song Muxue looked at Kou Shuang’s profile and suddenly found her quite beautiful.
No, she had always known Kou Shuang was beautiful, but she had never noticed how beautiful Kou Shuang’s eyes were. Pure, sparkling… and when she looked at her just now, there was a cynical indifference. Although she was smiling, the happiness wasn’t real; it didn’t reach her eyes.
Cynical? How could that be Kou Shuang? Song Muxue shook her head, trying to shake the thought from her mind.
The next second, Kou Shuang stood up, muttering: “I can’t hear anything here, just squatting and feeding mosquitoes and scratching? I’m going straight in. You wait here, and if anything goes wrong, call the police!”
With that, Kou Shuang rushed out from behind the tree, heading straight for Sun Jiawen.
“Oh ho! Sun Jiawen! You stop right there!”
She even shouted!
Song Muxue looked at her unwavering stance, a little bewildered, with only one thought in her mind: Kou Shuang, she hasn’t gone crazy, has she?!
But she didn’t move after all. She listened to Kou Shuang’s words and quietly hid where she was.
Her palm pressed on the mosquito-bitten area, trying to flatten the mosquito bites and also calm the ripples in her heart.
But the itchiness seemed to be uprooted from her thigh, slowly, slowly, transferring to her palm.
••••
Kou Shuang ran directly towards the small pavilion. When she appeared, Lu Renjia and Sun Jiawen both looked surprised.
Lu Renjia called “Kou Shuang,” wanting to take a step forward but was stopped by Sun Jiawen.
Sun Jiawen, who had been speaking quietly, instantly raised her voice, saying: “Don’t go near her!”
Her voice was particularly sharp, startling the birds in the grove, causing them to scatter and flee.
“Sun Jiawen, we’ve already break up…”
“No!” Sun Jiawen shrieked again: “You can’t be with Kou Shuang!”
“…” Kou Shuang looked visibly helpless and said: “Girl, Lu Renjia and I aren’t in a relationship at all.”
Song Muxue wasn’t sure why Kou Shuang rushed out, but to be safe, she still took out her phone and quietly recorded a video.
She had a habit of preserving evidence, and it had been like this since she was very young; her parents taught her.
Sun Jiawen was clearly in an abnormal mental state, spreading her arms and hunching her body, looking somewhat disheveled.
Kou Shuang, meanwhile, spread her palms, making a “I’m harmless” gesture, and said: “Lu Renjia loves you. He personally admitted to me that you are his girlfriend.”
…but “ex-girlfriend.”