The Domineering CEO, but a Crybaby! - Chapter 29

Chapter 29: Because My Heart Aches

As He Shu was hypnotized, the bathroom instantly became quiet.

In the quiet space, the ‘drip-drip’ sound of water hitting the floor also became clear.

Cen Qianyi looked down. The hem of He Shu’s dress was like a roof after a rain, with water droplets trickling down.

Thinking of the reason for her appearance, Cen Qianyi looked back at the person who had lost consciousness.

She was hugging her chest, like a statue, standing still, just quietly looking at her.

The light from the bathroom ceiling fell into He Shu’s eyes, and inside, there was a blankness.

Cen Qianyi looked at those eyes that had suddenly lost their luster. Her hand, holding the bunny fur, tightened a little, and a hint of displeasure that she herself hadn’t noticed flashed in her eyes.

This person’s eyes were often wet before, with all kinds of emotions inside. These emotions made this face, which should have looked a little sharp, seem a lot less cold and hard.

But now, there were no emotions in those eyes. They were like dusty pearls, looking very dull…

Cen Qianyi shook her head, dispelling the inexplicable sigh in her mind. People who were hypnotized were all like this. No matter how special the person in front of her was, she couldn’t be any more special.

Putting away these strange thoughts, Cen Qianyi got to the point and asked the questions she wanted to ask.

But before she asked the questions, she remembered the light that had burst from He Shu’s eyes in the moment before she lost consciousness, that eager emotion she wanted to express.

It was as if she had something she wanted to say and something she wanted to do.

Cen Qianyi hesitated and then gave the command.

“Do what you wanted to do just now.”

She had also given this command the last time she hypnotized He Shu.

At that time, the person had inexplicably kowtowed to her. She wondered what she wanted to do this time.

As she was thinking, as soon as her words fell, a fist came flying at her face.

“You pervert.”

At the same time, He Shu’s mechanical and flat voice rang out.

Although Cen Qianyi was surprised, she reacted quickly and easily caught He Shu’s obviously harmless attack.

After all, the strength of a hypnotized person was not nearly as great as when they were conscious.

She held He Shu’s clenched fist and looked at her, her eyes filled with confusion.

“What did you say?”

“You pervert.”

He Shu responded to Cen Qianyi’s question mechanically, without any emotion, like a question-and-answer machine.

Cen Qianyi’s heart, however, had some fluctuations. A pervert?

She wondered if she had misheard her.

Or maybe it was different from what she had thought.

She pinched the person’s hand and spoke again: “Who are you talking about?”

“Cen Qianyi, you pervert.”

It should have been a very emotional sentence, but because she was hypnotized, it was said without any emotional fluctuations, just to answer her question.

Cen Qianyi was sure she hadn’t misheard or misunderstood… She looked at He Shu… So this person had wanted to hit her before she lost consciousness?

Heh. Cen Qianyi snorted. This person was really full of surprises.

A pervert… Cen Qianyi chewed on these three words. It was really interesting. She had received countless insults and heard all kinds of malicious curses in her life.

But “pervert” was the first time she had heard it.

Her? A pervert?

How were these two words connected?

Cen Qianyi looked at the person who was speaking. This glance made her find the problem.

The person had been hugging her chest before, and she hadn’t paid much attention, but now that she had thrown a punch, she had opened her arms…

Looking at the completely soaked bathrobe, which had only been able to reveal some of her waistline before, now her entire curves were exposed, including the two uneven points on her chest…

Cen Qianyi shifted her gaze a little. She probably understood how the term “pervert” came about…

But… what was so perverted about this? It wasn’t like she hadn’t seen it before.

It was just like that…

Besides, how could this person have the nerve to call her a pervert…

Did she not remember what she had done herself?

Cen Qianyi let go of her fist and pushed her hand back, making her continue to hug her chest to cover the parts she wanted to cover.

The dripping sound of water continued. She hadn’t paid much attention to it before, but now that she did, it was a little annoying.

Cen Qianyi paused her questioning. She took a bath towel from a rack on the side and wrapped it around the person’s shoulders.

“Take off your wet clothes, dry your body, and come out to see me in a bathrobe.”

The command was very clear, and she also pointed out the direction for the bathrobe. Cen Qianyi quickly walked out of the bathroom, closed the door behind her, and leaned against it, letting out a sigh.

The steam in the bathroom hadn’t dissipated yet. It was very stuffy, and Cen Qianyi realized that she was a little hot after leaving the bathroom.

She reached out and touched her neck, wanting to cool down a little.

Inside the bathroom behind her, there were some faint sounds. The person who had received the command was probably executing it.

Cen Qianyi breathed a sigh of relief. Generally speaking, a hypnotized person’s flexibility in various parts of their body would be much worse, and their abilities would also decline. For example, with Fang Nian before, she had given her a gun, but she hadn’t adjusted the direction for her, so she couldn’t hit the person even at such a close distance.

Later, He Shu just had a blanket thrown over her head, and it took her several times longer than a normal person to break free.

However, this flexibility also varied from person to person. She had conducted some experiments and concluded that people who were usually very active were not good after hypnosis, while people who were usually not active were affected much less.

The one inside was not a professionally trained person, so she was considered average. Now, she probably belonged to the group with a relatively small impact.

Changing clothes should be fine.

As soon as this thought popped into her head, she heard a “bang” from behind her, followed by a “thud,” and then a cry of pain.

Cen Qianyi turned around, pulled open the door, and saw He Shu on the floor, lying on her side in a very strange position.

She was like a shrimp curled up, with her hands and feet connected by a piece of black fabric.

Cen Qianyi took a look, and her eyes widened. She probably knew what had happened.

After only a second of hesitation, she reacted quickly, grabbed a bath towel from the side, and went over to cover the shelled shrimp, completely hiding the butt that was sticking out so brazenly.

Cen Qianyi took the panties, which were twisted like a rope, from He Shu’s hand, freeing her legs, and then casually threw the “culprit” that had probably caused her to fall to the side.

She had just seen her curled-up back and thought she was fine, but she turned her face over and was startled.

There was a large bump on the right side of He Shu’s forehead. Based on the position and direction of her fall, Cen Qianyi quickly reconstructed the scene.

This person must have tripped over her panties while taking them off, and she fell on her side, hitting her head on the cabinet.

Cen Qianyi saw that there was some bl00d in the bump, but nothing else. According to Cen Qianyi’s definition of an injury, this was only a very minor bump. But seeing the person’s pained expression, Cen Qianyi made her movements a little lighter as she checked her.

Just as she was about to pry open her eyes to check them, the person herself opened her eyes, which were filled with confusion.

Cen Qianyi raised an eyebrow. She wasn’t knocked out, so her brain should also be fine.

For a person who could trip and fall while taking off her panties, her brain was obviously not very good. Injuring it again would just be adding insult to injury.

If He Shu were conscious and knew what she was thinking, she would probably be furious. If she wasn’t hypnotized, would she possibly trip and fall while taking off her pants?!

Cen Qianyi looked at the person with the twisted face but confused eyes. She felt like she was taking care of an infant who couldn’t take care of herself. She held down the bath towel on the other person with one hand to prevent it from falling and helped her up with the other.

Although He Shu wasn’t fat, she was tall, and her hard bones were obviously not light. Cen Qianyi had to use a lot of strength to help her up.

And she had to worry about the bath towel falling off, so the process was a little difficult. By the time she finally got the person to stand up, she was also exhausted, and she also realized that her brain might have gone a little bad…

Why was she helping her? She could have just made her get up herself…

Cen Qianyi wiped the sweat from her forehead and looked at the person standing in front of her like a piece of wood. How did she always end up with a lower IQ whenever she was around this person?

“How did you fall?”

Despite her guess, Cen Qianyi still asked.

“I tripped on my panties.”

The answer was the same as her deduction… Cen Qianyi put the bath towel back on her and let go of her hands. This time, she wasn’t being a pervert.

Thinking of the scene she had just walked into, Cen Qianyi’s gaze fell on He Shu’s waist. In that curled-up position, her butt was so prominent that she couldn’t pretend not to see it.

She wasn’t being a pervert. This person had fallen herself.

If He Shu were awake, she would definitely have shouted, “It was you, you pervert!”

If she hadn’t hypnotized her, how could she have tripped over her panties and fallen on her butt?!

Cen Qianyi looked at the red bl00d on the person’s head, hesitated, and then took the bathrobe from the side.

Worried that something might happen if this person tried to put it on herself, Cen Qianyi shook the bathrobe open, put it on her from behind, and wrapped it around her as she pulled off the bath towel.

She didn’t see anything. Cen Qianyi breathed a sigh of relief, moved to the front of the person, tied the sash of the bathrobe, and tied it in a tight knot.

“Come out.”

After putting on her clothes, Cen Qianyi was the first to walk out. After all this time, the steam in the bathroom still hadn’t dissipated, and it was uncomfortably stuffy.

After leaving the bathroom, she could finally breathe freely again. She heard a series of shuffling footsteps behind her. Cen Qianyi turned around and saw that the woman was barefoot, kicking the water on the floor without lifting her legs… just like a child…

Water splashed onto Cen Qianyi’s calves. Cen Qianyi frowned slightly. She hadn’t noticed it before, but this person was not just a little slow after hypnosis…

There was a raised threshold at the bathroom door. Seeing that the person’s toes were about to kick it, Cen Qianyi spoke: “Stop.”

He Shu obediently stopped, her eyes blank.

Cen Qianyi instructed the person to lift her legs and step over the threshold. After looking at the person’s feet on the floor, she grabbed a pair of disposable slippers from a rack on the side and threw them in front of her.

“Put them on.”

He Shu obediently extended her feet forward, but she couldn’t get them into the slippers for a long time, kicking them farther and farther away…

Cen Qianyi let out a deep sigh of frustration. If she ever commanded her to shoot herself in the head one day, she would probably miss.

Cen Qianyi took off her wet slippers, took two steps forward, kicked the slippers back, and placed them in front of He Shu’s toes, instructing her to put them on.

“Stupid.”

Cen Qianyi gave her a critique, but at the same time… she felt that the word could also be used for herself. What kind of stupid thing was she doing…

She had only intended to ask a few questions… and now she had wasted all this time.

Perhaps the commotion they had caused was a little too loud.

Cen Qianyi heard a knock on the door.

It was He Shu’s equally stupid bodyguard.

“General He? Are you not asleep?”

Tu Xuan wasn’t asleep. She was watching a movie and would occasionally glance at Su Ming across the aisle. When the blanket on her started to fall off, she would pull it back.

Just now, when she had pulled the blanket back, she had heard a “bang” and some other noises from the back of the cabin, but it was just one sound, and then she couldn’t hear anything after that.

She quietly came to He Shu’s door and asked softly.

Cen Qianyi leaned close to He Shu’s ear and gave a command: “Tell her you’re going to sleep and not to disturb you.”

He Shu did as she was told.

Tu Xuan was relieved to hear the voice and went back to watching her movie… and watching the person.

After hearing her walk away, Cen Qianyi walked to the bed, sat down on the edge, and looked at the person standing in front of her like a piece of wood.

The person had changed into a clean bathrobe and was no longer dripping wet, but her hair was still wet and clinging to her scalp, making her look a little disheveled.

Cen Qianyi felt that it was somehow an eyesore. Probably not wanting this person to get the floor wet, she got up, went to the bathroom, grabbed a towel, and came back to wrap it around her hair.

After doing that, Cen Qianyi froze for a second and looked at her hands… This hand that was used to giving people headshots was doing something like this for the first time…

She sat back down on the bed, feeling a little startled. She looked at He Shu again.

After meeting this person, it seemed like she had changed her principles many times for her. Originally, she had only intended to use her and not kill her for now…

What was she doing now?

Cen Qianyi’s gaze fell on the person’s confused eyes, and her pale purple eyes were filled with confusion.

She leaned back slightly, supporting her body with her hands behind her, and pulled away to look at He Shu carefully.

What was so special about this person?

Was she especially good-looking?

Not really. Cen Qianyi looked at the face that was fully exposed now that her hair was wrapped up. This face was, of course… good-looking. Without her hair to frame her face, the angular outline was already perfect.

But she wasn’t exceptionally good-looking. She was just generally good-looking.

So what else was special about her? Was she especially rich? Obviously not. She wasn’t as rich as her.

So what was so special about her?

Was she especially good at crying?

That was true… She had never seen anyone who could cry so much.

Thinking of this, Cen Qianyi put these inexplicable thoughts aside, retracted one hand, and made a gun-shaped gesture with her hand, aiming it at the person.

“Answer me. Are you afraid of me?”

“Yes.”

Cen Qianyi’s hand moved slightly, as if she had fired a gun. As expected, she was right.

“Why?”

He Shu opened her mouth, and a long string of words came out, but Cen Qianyi didn’t hear a single sound…

“What are you saying?”

Cen Qianyi sat up straight and looked at the person.

He Shu’s mouth was opening and closing just like before, but not a single sound came out.

Cen Qianyi remembered that the last time she hypnotized her, it was the same. There were a few questions that she seemed to be answering, but she couldn’t hear her voice.

A look of confusion filled her pale purple eyes. She got up and moved closer to He Shu, asking again: “Why are you afraid of me?”

She turned He Shu’s head so that her mouth was right next to her ear. Her breath puffed on her earlobe, but Cen Qianyi still didn’t hear a sound.

Cen Qianyi turned her head and looked at the person, holding up her face with one hand.

This was quite special.

Giving up on this question, Cen Qianyi thought for a moment and asked another question.

“When you discovered there was a bomb, why did you run with me?”

“The bomb is dangerous. If we don’t run, we’ll die.”

“You were worried I would die?”

“Yes.”

He Shu was indeed, in that moment, only worried that everyone would die if the bomb exploded.

And she had confused reality with her dream, forgetting that Cen Qianyi was capable of escaping on her own and thinking of her as the poor little darling with an injured leg from her dream.

Cen Qianyi looked at the person’s empty eyes and was sure that she wasn’t conscious… But she couldn’t be sure if she was telling the truth under hypnosis…

After all, she had given her a fake bank card password.

After some hesitation, Cen Qianyi asked another question.

“Why did you give me your shoes?”

This question seemed to stump the person. She hesitated for a moment before giving the answer.

“Because my heart aches.”

Cen Qianyi’s heart skipped a beat.

My heart aches…

This was the first time she had heard a word like that… Someone, her heart ached for her…

She looked at He Shu. This person… what was going on in her head? Did she need her to feel sympathy for her?

Were they that close… Was she not afraid of her? Then why did her heart ache for her?

Was she sick?

If He Shu were awake, she would also think her answer was crazy, but the situation at the time was what it was, and it was a result of a bunch of things that couldn’t be explained clearly.

If she told her that it was influenced by a dream, she wouldn’t even be able to explain how she had that dream… It was simply ridiculous…

Cen Qianyi looked at the person, remaining silent for a long time…

Until the figure in front of her swayed, and she felt a weight on her shoulder.

The hypnosis had worn off, but the person hadn’t woken up.

Cen Qianyi listened to the breathing that was becoming steadier on her shoulder and was surprised that this person had just fallen asleep like that.

She could sleep in this situation… She had been scared to death before she lost consciousness, but now that the hypnosis was over, she just closed her eyes and went to sleep.

If He Shu were conscious, she wouldn’t bother to explain. It was impossible to explain to a person who had never experienced working from eight in the morning to three in the afternoon for a month straight and then suddenly dying from overwork what it felt like to be extremely sleep-deprived.

Not to mention that she could fall asleep as soon as she closed her eyes. Even with her eyes open, a sleep-deprived person’s consciousness could drift away.

And now, He Shu felt a pillow. Although it wasn’t very comfortable, it was a support, and she fell asleep contentedly.

She even adjusted her position as she slept, looking for the most comfortable posture.

Her swaying head rubbed against Cen Qianyi’s neck. The towel that was wrapped around her hair came undone, and her wet hair rolled around in Cen Qianyi’s shoulder.

Cen Qianyi’s body instinctively recoiled from the itch. She held He Shu’s jaw, moved her head off her shoulder, and took a step to the side.

He Shu lost her support and fell forward directly onto the bed that Cen Qianyi had been blocking.

She was still not awake…

Cen Qianyi looked down at the person lying on the bed. She even adjusted her position and climbed up a little…

Unbelievable.

Cen Qianyi looked at the person who was sound asleep and felt that there was no need to use the “sleep aid” on her.

She looked at the person for a while, and then Cen Qianyi also gave up the idea of waking her up and hypnotizing her again.

Even if she asked those questions she couldn’t hear the answers to again, she felt that she still wouldn’t get an answer.

But she would definitely figure out the reason.

She would peel off all the secrets on this person!

Thinking of this, the image of that bare butt from just now couldn’t help but pop into her head…

Cen Qianyi’s eyes twitched. She looked at the person who was well-wrapped in the bathrobe. Even though she couldn’t see anything, she still pulled the blanket over her, just in case.

After confirming that the person had no chance of waking up, Cen Qianyi went to the side to get He Shu’s jacket and took out her phone.

After quickly inserting the chip given by [Xi], He Shu’s phone had no secrets from Cen Qianyi.

Cen Qianyi restored all the messages He Shu had sent and saw the tip.

Even though she knew the content of the message, Cen Qianyi was still a little surprised. This person could actually know things that only she knew.

Cen Qianyi looked at the person on the bed. How did she do it? Could it be that she was hiding somewhere and watching when she killed someone?

Her? A pair of teary eyes instantly appeared in Cen Qianyi’s mind.

Would she dare to watch?

He Shu didn’t know that she was this kind of person in Cen Qianyi’s mind, but if she did, she could only give her a thumbs up. She really wouldn’t dare to watch.

He Shu was half-asleep and felt that the area under her was uneven. She adjusted herself with her eyes closed, pulled the blanket out from under her, and lifted her leg to press it on top comfortably before continuing to sleep.

Cen Qianyi looked at the clean leg that had popped out of the blanket. This person didn’t seem to exercise, but her legs were well-proportioned. Seeing her wild movements, she was glad that the bathrobe was long enough.

Otherwise… Thinking of this, Cen Qianyi suddenly thought of something. She wondered what kind of expression this person would have when she woke up and saw her own state.

A vivid face slowly appeared in her mind.

Cen Qianyi couldn’t help but curl the corners of her lips. She wondered if she would cry.

She lowered her head and continued to look at the messages on the phone. Generally speaking, if anyone else saw this kind of message, it wouldn’t be a question of whether they would cry or not.

It would be a question of how they would die.

She glanced at the person sleeping soundly on the bed. She would remember this life for now. She lowered her head and quickly typed and edited a message.

She had implanted a program in He Shu’s phone, and she impersonated Fang Nian to send a reply to He Shu.

After this, all the messages He Shu sent would be intercepted in this “chat room” like a database. Only Cen Qianyi could see the messages she sent.

She wanted to see what else she knew.

After doing this, she logged into the bounty league to look at the information [Xi] had sent her.

The information was about her target this time.

Yao Bing, a philanthropist… Seeing the word “philanthropist,” Cen Qianyi snorted. She was just putting on a show. She continued reading and saw her “hobbies.” She turned to look at the person on the bed.

It was no wonder that this person was invited to join the club she had set up.

They had the same “hobby.”

However, the person on the bed was not on the same level as Yao Bing, not in any aspect.

Normally, He Shu wouldn’t have access to a person like Yao Bing, but it was a good thing she had joined her club. That Yao person would be at the welcome ceremony for the new members.

Cen Qianyi squinted. That would be a good opportunity to act.

After all, people who did a lot of bad things knew that “karma” would come for them, so their security was very strong, and they wouldn’t easily show their faces in public.

Thinking of this, Cen Qianyi put down her phone and looked at He Shu.

This person’s security… was really… hard to describe, a complete mess.

Even a person like Fang Nian could easily sneak into her villa.

Cen Qianyi thought of He Shu’s bodyguard captain who had just come to ask questions. This person could just hear a sound and walk away.

She had never even considered that her boss might be threatened and had no choice but to say “I’m fine.”

And just now, He Shu’s voice was like a robot’s, without any fluctuations in tone. Her tone was completely different from her usual one, and that person didn’t even notice the abnormality.

And this was her bodyguard captain.

And she was giving her a raise.

Cen Qianyi sneered. Then she thought of her own 666.

What was she doing worrying about this? It wasn’t 6.66 million. If it were six million, she might consider getting her a new security system that could be called safe.

As this thought popped into her head, Cen Qianyi’s face suddenly darkened. What was she thinking… She only killed people. Why was she thinking about how to protect them…

She must have used too much energy on hypnosis. Cen Qianyi finished reading the information, put the phone back, went to wash up, and then got into bed.

She also needed to sleep to replenish her energy.

She lifted the blanket and got in, but even after a long time, Cen Qianyi couldn’t fall asleep.

She turned to look at the person who had no idea that there was an extra person next to her and was still sleeping soundly. She thought for a moment, pulled the person’s hand under her neck as a pillow, squeezed into her warm embrace, and put her hand into her other free hand.

He Shu, who was sleeping soundly, felt a cat squeeze in and reflexively started kneading her paws.

She didn’t know how long it had been before she felt the dog in her arms settle down.

She also fell back into a deep sleep.

…

The next day, He Shu was woken up by a series of knocks on the door and a gentle reminder to get up.

“Boss, are you awake? Breakfast is ready. Do you want to get up and eat?”

In her daze, He Shu heard Su Ming ask her if she wanted to eat breakfast. Before she even opened her eyes, she reflexively answered, “Yes.”

“Okay, I’ll wait for you to get up.”

A series of footsteps walked away, and He Shu slowly opened her eyes.

When she saw the person in her arms, He Shu was unfazed.

Habit was truly a terrible thing. After only a few days, she was already used to waking up with a woman in her arms.

He Shu yawned. Her brain slowly turned on, and she began to wonder how she and Cen Qianyi had ended up sleeping together again?

This time, they were even on the same pillow!

This person was completely in her arms. He Shu looked at her hand that was under the person’s neck, squeezed it, and felt that it was a little numb.

She carefully tried to pull it back and, at the same time, realized that her leg was also on top of the person.

This time, she was completely awake, and her clear eyes were filled with horror!

She had actually put her leg across Cen Qianyi’s waist!

Did she still want this leg? She looked at the person with her eyes closed and wanted to carefully take her leg back before she woke up.

Gently, without disturbing her, she slowly retracted her leg…

Her leg… Huh? He Shu’s eyes widened. She felt that something was not right.

Something was a little off.

He Shu reached out and touched the leg that was hovering over Cen Qianyi’s waist. Following the leg up, she touched a butt.

It was her butt, a very direct butt.

It was a little perky, a little firm, and felt a little smooth to the touch, without any extra things.

There was nothing at all… He Shu’s eyes widened. She didn’t even have what she was supposed to have!

Her dilated pupils were filled with shock and disbelief. He Shu pinched the butt hard.

When she realized that it hurt, her horror doubled.

“What are you doing?”

A voice with the grogginess of just waking up rang out next to her ear.

She looked in the direction of the voice and met a pair of pale purple eyes.

In her panic, a thought popped into her head, and the voice that came out of He Shu’s mouth was completely off-key.

“Where are my panties?!”