The Domineering CEO, but a Crybaby! - Chapter 21
Chapter 21: Shaving You
He Shu was speechless at herself. At a time like this, her mind was coming up with song lyrics!
It would have been one thing if it was just one line, but it was one after another!
She even felt the urge to hum a few lines along with the melody in her head.
But she couldn’t really be blamed for being so abstract.
Just as some people’s hands shake when they’re nervous and some people dry heave, her problem of wanting to sing when she was nervous was a bit niche, but not exactly rare.
Besides, her nervousness wasn’t ordinary nervousness; it was a nervousness filled with intense shame!
It was simply indescribable what she was feeling right now!
Anyone who had to do this would know if a person with a sense of shame could even do this!
He Shu quickly bit down hard on the inside of her cheek, forcing herself to get rid of the melody in her head. She didn’t want to actually start singing like a lunatic at a time like this!
Tears streamed down her face, like a torrential downpour. Soon, the fabric covering the lush green grass was soaked, faintly revealing the vigorous, lush grass underneath…
Help! Can someone please come and save her? What was she supposed to do?!
She had absolutely no experience with this! Let alone on another person, she had never even groomed this area on herself!
Was this “grass” difficult to deal with? Would it come off with a light scrape like eyebrows?
Or would it need a lot of force, like pig bristles?
Would it hurt if she used too much force?
Would it be better to shave it when it was wet, or would it be easier when it was dry?
Someone please tell her!
He Shu squeezed the edge of the underwear, which she had twisted into a rope, so hard that she had managed to make a normal pair of underwear look a little bit like a bikini.
At the same time, the electronic voice that had already sounded once in her mind was officially starting its countdown!
He Shu’s tears poured down. Between her life and her dignity, she chose to “just give it a try.”
She would just pretend she was a hairdresser. What did it matter what she was cutting? No, no, no, a more fitting comparison would be a pet groomer!
He Shu remembered that when she had taken Qianqian to the pet salon to get a bath, she had seen a groomer trimming a Corgi’s butt fur while she waited.
They had even trimmed it into a heart shape! It was so cute!
Maybe she could just pretend this person was a Corgi and this was a Corgi’s butt?
She had no other choice. It was a Corgi.
But what Corgi had such long legs?!
He Shu’s self-suggestion was broken in a second. Just then, a bright red bar suddenly lit up in her mind, and the deadly electronic voice became sharp!
Final three-second countdown!
[3]
Forget it, just pretend she’s cutting grass!
[2]
Grass that grows back after a spring breeze!
[1]
It’s not like it won’t grow back after being shaved!
He Shu tightened her grip on the rope-like edge of the underwear, and as the countdown hit [0], she pulled with all her might!
The world fell silent!
He Shu watched with wide eyes as her hands were twisted behind her back and cuffed to her legs!
She turned around in a daze and met a pair of familiar pale purple eyes.
It felt like her mind had just gone through a tsunami. Even though the tide had receded and it looked calm, it had lost its original vitality.
He Shu’s mind was a little sluggish. She blinked, and the tears that were still in her eyes fell.
As the tear slid down her jawline, a hand blocked its path, trapping it between the fair hand and her sharp jawline.
He Shu’s jaw was tightly squeezed, and her face was pinched!
It was really tight. The force was so great that it felt like her jawbone was about to shatter. Her face was completely scrunched up, and her mouth was puckered like a baby chick’s. She couldn’t say a word!
It was only then that He Shu’s chaotic mind started to work!
Cen Qianyi!
She was pinching her! She had actually broken free from the handcuffs! She could actually break free from handcuffs!
And in the blink of an eye, she had cuffed her instead!
He Shu’s red eyes were filled with terror… No, she was just shouting randomly! She didn’t actually want to die! She didn’t actually want Cen Qianyi to get up and kill her!
It was in this moment that He Shu realized that more than her dignity, she loved her life!
She only had one life, but she could throw away her dignity whenever she wanted!
Tears fell nonstop. He Shu struggled, trying to save herself. The hand on her throat tightened even more. The person who had been underneath her pulled her legs out and sat up straight, forcing He Shu’s head to be lifted up as well.
Warm breath hit her face. It was so close that He Shu felt a sense of awkwardness, as if the other person’s long eyelashes could brush against her if they just blinked.
It was the first time she had seen these pale purple eyes so close. They were misty, like a small purple flower blooming in a corner of a garden in the early morning, a lonely kind of beauty.
A warm hand was placed on her eye, wiping away her tears.
The mist in her vision dissipated.
“Look at me.”
A soft groan, along with the dissipating mist, sounded clearly. He Shu’s pupils trembled. The voice also seemed to have a bit of moisture on it, and it felt cool when it entered her ears.
“Cen—”
He Shu looked at those eyes, trying to mumble out the other person’s name, trying to beg for mercy. But for some reason, the moment she looked into those eyes, her pupils trembled uncontrollably, and a mysterious spiral seemed to be constantly spinning in her eyes.
It was so fast that He Shu couldn’t even finish calling out the name she had on the tip of her tongue before she forgot what she was trying to do…
Cen Qianyi looked at the person’s scattered pupils, released the hand that was holding her jaw, and wrapped her arms around her. She relaxed her body and leaned against her completely.
Her forehead was resting on the straight shoulder, and Cen Qianyi was breathing heavily. It felt like a needle was piercing her head over and over, causing waves of sharp pain.
The anesthetic in her body hadn’t completely worn off. The hypnosis last night had already been an overuse of her abilities, and now, to hypnotize another person in just one day, the side effects were a little more serious than she had expected.
She leaned on He Shu’s shoulder, breathing slightly. If it weren’t for the many things she still didn’t understand about this person, she would have killed her directly.
Why go through all this trouble and even use hypnosis?
After the pain subsided, Cen Qianyi released her arms from around the person, sat back on her knees, and looked at the person who had lost her self-awareness.
“Name.”
“He Shu.”
With a question and an answer, Cen Qianyi confirmed that He Shu had been hypnotized. Not only that, but it also confirmed her previous investigation results—this person was indeed He Shu.
She pinched her forehead and looked at the corner of the other person’s eye, where there were still tears from her crying.
“Why were you crying just now?”
Cen Qianyi asked this as she looked down and lifted the hem of her pajamas. Her flat abdomen was wet, all from the tears this person had just shed…
She annoyedly pulled her pajamas to wipe it off.
She finished wiping it off but still didn’t hear a reply. Cen Qianyi looked up in confusion and saw that the other person still had that dazed look.
She wasn’t awake, so why wasn’t she answering the question?
If Cen Qianyi hadn’t been looking down just now, she would have noticed that He Shu had actually answered her…
She asked again: “Hmm? Why were you crying just now?”
And she had been crying so miserably… She had originally thought the tears were a plea for her cooperation. She had laid there, wanting to see what the person was actually going to do.
Although she had a guess, this person was always full of surprises, and she was patiently waiting for a result.
But the person cried more and more… She gradually felt that her abdomen and the area below were getting wet from her tears…
Cen Qianyi looked at He Shu. Why was she crying?
She saw He Shu open her mouth. Cen Qianyi’s ears twitched, curious about her answer. But she saw the person’s mouth open and close as if she were speaking, but she didn’t hear a single sound.
“What are you saying?”
He Shu’s mouth opened, and another series of open and close motions, as if she were answering her question, but Cen Qianyi still couldn’t hear a sound.
What was going on?
Cen Qianyi’s brows furrowed. People she hypnotized could usually answer her questions honestly, unless the person themselves didn’t know the answer.
She had never encountered this situation before… For a moment, Cen Qianyi didn’t know what was wrong.
She tried asking a few more questions, each one more private than the last.
Finally, she even asked for He Shu’s bank account password, and the other person answered honestly.
If He Shu were awake right now, she would probably laugh out loud. The password she gave was her bank card password from before she was in the book.
After paying her quarterly rent with that card, there was only seventy-three dollars and twenty-five cents left. Anyone who wanted to take it could have it. She now had a net worth of billions.
After Cen Qianyi asked several questions, there was no longer a situation where He Shu’s mouth moved, but she couldn’t hear her.
She asked He Shu again why she was crying, and still, there was no sound…
Cen Qianyi’s pale purple eyes showed surprise. It was too strange… She looked at He Shu. This person was truly as unique as her name suggested…
She tried asking a few more questions.
She finally realized that any questions about why she was crying, why she was wronged, or why she was scared were met with no sound.
But other questions, about her personal information, height, weight, and bank card password, were all normal.
Cen Qianyi looked at He Shu, trying to find a pattern. From the looks of it, she couldn’t hear the answers to any questions that involved the reasons for her feelings.
Cen Qianyi looked at the thing He Shu was holding and raised an eyebrow. She had forgotten about this question.
“What were you trying to do just now?”
“Shave you.”
The answer was direct. Cen Qianyi’s eyelid twitched slightly. She looked down at the hem of her skirt. The part of her abdomen that she hadn’t wiped was still wet. It felt a little damp.
This time, her guess was correct. This person was actually going to do that.
But if she was going to do that, why was she crying? She looked so wronged and hesitant, and she kept delaying, making her think that maybe she had guessed wrong…
Thinking about how the other person had looked so forced just now, Cen Qianyi asked: “Did someone force you to do this?”
“No.”
He Shu answered quickly because the system wasn’t a person!
Cen Qianyi looked at her, her eyes flickering. After thinking for a moment, she moved forward and uncuffed He Shu’s hands and feet, setting her free.
“Continue what you were trying to do just now.”
The moment her words fell, she saw He Shu throw the hair removal razor away without a moment’s hesitation. Then, she put her hands in front of her as if she were holding something and pulled it up, a motion similar to pulling up a pair of pants…
Cen Qianyi raised an eyebrow, watching the person finish this motion before kneeling straight up, facing her, and heavily kowtowing.
Cen Qianyi: …….
That wasn’t all. After He Shu got up, she put her hands together in a prayer pose and mumbled something.
“Qianqian, please bless me…”
After doing all that, He Shu fell to the side and went to sleep.
Cen Qianyi looked at the person on the ground, her eyes trembling.
A moment later, she turned to look at the object He Shu had just thrown away.
So… what she was trying to do was not what she was trying to do just now… It was actually the opposite…
But she had just said that no one was forcing her…
So, why was she doing something she didn’t want to do?
Cen Qianyi thought back to the reason she had given for doing this—to take her to an island to wear a bikini…
She was reluctantly going to shave her with tears in her eyes so she could wear a bikini?
Cen Qianyi: ……
Thinking about it this way felt too absurd and abnormal.
She looked again at the person on the ground, whose breathing had already become slow and steady. She remembered the last thing she had said.
Even though it was mumbled and not very clear with the crying, she had heard it.
She said, “Qianqian, please bless me.”
She had also kowtowed to her, and with her hands together, that phrase must have been a prayer.
Cen Qianyi leaned forward, helped the person on the ground up, and used her hands to pry open her closed eyelids.
But she was a moment too late. The person had already fallen asleep…
Once she fell asleep, the hypnosis was automatically broken.
Cen Qianyi hesitated for a moment, then released her hands, letting her eyes close. She cupped the other person’s face and still asked the question.
Sometimes, people who have just come out of hypnosis can answer honestly.
“Who is Qianqian?”
He Shu, in her sleepy state, heard the question and answered instinctively without thinking.
“My dog.”
Cen Qianyi’s eyes trembled, and her hands, which were cupping the person’s face, suddenly tightened.
This woman! She actually dared to treat her like a dog!
Cen Qianyi’s hands slid down He Shu’s face, which was still not completely dry from her crying, and landed on her long neck.
The pressure on her hands gradually increased.
He Shu groaned uncomfortably and scratched. In her sleep, she seemed to see her beloved little Samoyed with a twinkling halo, smiling at her.
In her dream, she smiled softly in return.
“Also… my god.”