The Domineering CEO, but a Crybaby! - Chapter 30

Chapter 30: What an Illusion

As He Shu questioned this, she sat up in panic. How was it that she seemed to be missing more than just her panties?

She looked down at the clothes on her body. They couldn’t even be called clothes. It was a white bathrobe that looked like the kind provided on airplanes.

Her gaze delved into the loose neckline, and she could easily see inside…

There was nothing!

She was actually wearing only this one bathrobe. If the sash around her waist loosened even a little, she would be completely exposed!

He Shu suddenly bent her arms and hugged her chest, looking at the person on the other side of the bed who was slowly sitting up.

“W-what did you do?!”

This shout was full of her inner strength, and her whole body trembled with her chest cavity.

With this tremor, He Shu discovered something else was wrong. Her head… Hiss, it hurt so much…

Cen Qianyi had slept very well that night and hadn’t woken up once in the middle. Now that she had been woken up, she felt a rare sense of regret.

She looked at the person who had woken her up. Her sleepiness dissipated, and her consciousness returned. The memories from last night were also received in the blink of an eye.

“What did I do?” Cen Qianyi looked at He Shu, at her eyes that were already a little red in the early morning. “What could I have done?”

He Shu felt that the other person was playing dumb. The situation was clearly not right!

“You don’t know what you did?! You pervert!”

The last three words brought back some interesting memories from last night. A faint smile quickly flashed deep in Cen Qianyi’s eyes.

“You’re talking about last night? What, you don’t remember?”

She hadn’t done anything extra last night. She hadn’t created a memory to cover the time when she had lost consciousness.

It was as if she didn’t care if the person in front of her would find out what was wrong with her.

She was even a little curious about how she would react when she discovered that she wasn’t who she thought she was.

He Shu, hearing Cen Qianyi mention last night, held her head and tried to remember, but every time she used her brain, her head hurt.

She remembered that she had taken a bath last night, changed into a nightdress, and put on a bathrobe over it.

She wasn’t wearing a bra, but she was wearing panties!

A light flashed in He Shu’s painful eyes. She remembered!

She had been scared by Cen Qianyi when she came out of the bathroom after her bath, and she had taken a few steps back and accidentally fallen into the bathtub!

Then Cen Qianyi had come in, said some things, and tried to take off her clothes.

She definitely couldn’t agree to that. She had stopped her, and then what?

And then… He Shu remembered, and then she had lost consciousness!

He Shu remembered everything. Before she lost consciousness, she had been thinking that this woman was going to play a perverted trick on her.

Oh no, had she succeeded?

He Shu’s eyes widened as she looked at Cen Qianyi: “My clothes, you took them off?”

Cen Qianyi didn’t deny it: “What, do you want to sleep in wet clothes?”

“It was you!” He Shu’s face turned red with anger after getting a definite answer.

Cen Qianyi looked natural and a little innocent: “If you didn’t want me to do it, then out of all these people on the plane, who would you want to take them off for you?”

He Shu’s heavy breathing suddenly stopped. What kind of question was that?!

Cen Qianyi seemed to be thinking seriously: “Did you want your assistant to come and take them off for you?”

He Shu instinctively frowned. What did that mean?

“Hmm?” Cen Qianyi pressed on, “Did you want her to take off your clothes?”

He Shu’s eyebrows were tightly knit. If she had no choice and had to choose, she would rather have Su Ming help her.

Wait! What was this about? What was wrong with Cen Qianyi? Why was she twisting the topic to this?

Couldn’t she take them off herself?! If this person hadn’t hypnotized her, why would she need someone to help her take off her clothes? Taking it a step back, if she hadn’t scared her, she wouldn’t have fallen into the bathtub and ended up in that state!

Just as she was about to start cursing, she heard Cen Qianyi speak again.

“Then just pretend she took them off.”

What did she mean by “just pretend”… But that wasn’t the point! He Shu was almost led astray!

“Did you just… take off my clothes… or… did you do anything else?”

Cen Qianyi seemed to not understand: “Do anything else?”

He Shu slapped her thigh in anger: “Don’t pretend. Just tell me if you did or not?”

Cen Qianyi still looked innocent: “Did what?”

If He Shu couldn’t tell that she was doing it on purpose, she would have a brain for nothing.

She was so angry. After waking up from her sleep, her panties were gone, and the pervert who took them off was pretending to be completely clueless. Was she determined not to admit it?

He Shu lowered her eyes, and her forehead was throbbing. She carefully felt various parts of her body, trying to find any abnormalities.

But after feeling around, all she felt was a headache.

There was nothing different about any other part of her body.

Cen Qianyi looked at her silent and panicked appearance. The smile in her eyes reappeared. This person should have remembered everything she could remember. She wasn’t even surprised about suddenly losing consciousness.

The thing she seemed most conflicted about was her missing panties and whether she had done anything to her…

What did she think she would do to her?

Cen Qianyi let her be conflicted, lifted the blanket, got out of bed, and went to the bathroom.

It was daytime, and the target island should be arriving soon. She had also heard He Shu’s assistant call for her to get up, which meant the plane would be landing soon.

He Shu, seeing the person’s back as she left, thought she was running away in guilt and shouted at her back: “Did you do anything… anything that you can only do after taking off your clothes?”

Some of the more direct words were hard for her to say. This was a little more subtle, but any normal adult would be able to understand.

Cen Qianyi turned around and looked at the anxious person.

This person seemed to really care about these things… which was a little strange.

According to the information she had found, including herself, she had seven “playthings” that she had brought home, not including the others she had played with.

Shouldn’t she be a person who was quite casual about these things?

“If I say no, would you believe me?”

Of course not! How could He Shu believe that a person who had taken off her panties would say she hadn’t done anything? Who would believe that?

Cen Qianyi looked at He Shu’s gaze, which completely revealed her thoughts. She raised an eyebrow, said nothing more, and turned around to go into the bathroom.

He Shu wanted to ask more questions, but looking at the closed door, her brain finally opened up the blockage.

She had a system!

He Shu screamed in her mind: “System, come out! What’s going on? What happened last night?”

“Good morning, Host. It’s a new day.”

“Don’t give me that cheerful attitude. What happened last night?”

“Host, you were hypnotized again.”

As expected. He Shu wasn’t surprised at all. She still had the surprise from before she was hypnotized in her memory.

“And then what? What happened after I was hypnotized?”

“Then you hit Cen Qianyi.”

“What?!”

“Of course, you didn’t succeed.”

The system, as if it were a gossipmonger, excitedly used a cheerful electronic voice to fully recount the story to He Shu: Cen Qianyi had hypnotized her, told her to do what she wanted to do, and He Shu had thrown a punch at her and called her a pervert.

It also recounted what happened afterward when Cen Qianyi had told her to take off her wet clothes and clean herself up, but she had tripped over her own panties and hit her head, and in the end, Cen Qianyi had helped her finish.

He Shu’s face grew darker as she listened. She didn’t care about this for now. She felt that something was wrong.

“Why do I feel like you sound very happy?”

The system immediately denied it: [How could I be, Host? What is there to be happy about?]

It was a kind of happiness, like seeing someone make a fool of themselves and laughing at them.

Wait, make a fool of herself…

A dense wave of black lines ran across He Shu’s forehead.

“So, I was completely exposed?!”

The system had just said that she had fallen while taking off her underwear, and Cen Qianyi had entered the bathroom after she fell.

Then she wasn’t wearing anything at all!

[No, no. Don’t worry, Host. Based on the position you fell in and the angle Cen Qianyi entered the door, she could only see your back and your butt.]

The last two words had a jumping quality in the electronic voice, which sounded like it was laughing.

He Shu tensed her butt and gritted her teeth.

“So, this pervert saw my butt but didn’t even put a pair of panties on me?!”

[Host, do you want Cen Qianyi to put panties on you?]

This time, the electronic voice was filled with more surprise. The system really hadn’t expected its host to suddenly get so bold. Not only did she dare to hit her, but she also dared to ask Cen Qianyi to put on her pants.

He Shu also thought of this. Oh right, how could she dare to ask Cen Qianyi to put on her panties…

Taking them off was out of helplessness. She was already half-naked. If she were to put them back on, He Shu imagined Cen Qianyi taking a clean pair of panties, separating her legs, putting them on her, and then pulling them up…

Every step seemed a little strange and murderous…

How terrifying!

He Shu covered her chest. She couldn’t think about it anymore. Now that she knew what had happened last night, He Shu breathed a sigh of relief.

So nothing had happened, except that she had been seen from behind.

He Shu pinched her butt. Forget it. Everyone was born with a bare butt. Let her see it. She wouldn’t lose a butt cheek just from being seen…

It was just that she found Cen Qianyi’s attitude strange. Why was she acting as if something had happened?

As she was thinking, the bathroom door opened, and Cen Qianyi came out.

It looked like she had washed her face. There was steam on her face, and there were some sparkling water droplets on the strands of hair on her forehead. She looked a lot more lively and seemed to have more energy.

It was as if she had slept well last night.

He Shu thought about the position they were in when they woke up this morning… How did they end up sleeping together last night?

Just as she was about to ask the system, she saw Cen Qianyi, who had just come out, lift her shirt to reveal a slender waist.

“What are you doing?”

He Shu shouted. Cen Qianyi’s movements stopped for a moment.

“Changing clothes.”

She said it very naturally, and her actions were also very natural, as if He Shu was the one who was being abnormal.

No, this was too natural. How could she so naturally change her clothes in front of her…

He Shu suddenly jumped off the bed, rushed into the bathroom, and slammed the door shut.

She was truly a very casual person to change her clothes in front of her like that.

He Shu let out a breath. But she wasn’t a casual person!

He Shu looked at herself in the mirror. She should be able to tell, right? She was a respectable person!

Wait… He Shu thought about her character in the book and the things she had been forced to do… Okay, even though she didn’t look very respectable, in reality, she was a respectable person!

The respectable person had a big bump on her head. He Shu leaned closer to the mirror, wanting to get a better look.

How did she get hit so badly? A lot of the dense bl00d vessels had already scabbed over.

Hiss, no wonder it hurt so much.

She reached out and lightly touched it. This damn perverted villain. What was she trying to do by hypnotizing her? She asked the system while observing the bump on her head.

“She just asked you a few questions.”

“I didn’t say anything I shouldn’t have, did I?”

“Don’t worry. I muted everything for you.”

He Shu wasn’t at ease and asked the system to recount it. When she heard that the other person had asked her why she saved her and gave her her shoes, He Shu was stunned.

“I said my heart ached for her?”

“Yes.”

This was a big misunderstanding. At that time, it was because she was influenced by the dream. If her heart ached, it was for the poor little darling in her dream.

But forget it. This answer seemed to be a good misunderstanding.

“How was it? Was Cen Qianyi moved?”

“The system doesn’t know.”

He Shu was also being silly. How could this idiotic system know about Cen Qianyi’s emotions?

She thought of a serious problem. This villain’s cheat was too big.

She wondered what the author was thinking. A person who could hypnotize people, make them tell the truth, and even alter memories was too terrifying.

“Is there a way to not be hypnotized?”

“There might be…”

“What does ‘might be’ mean?”

“Host, have you forgotten? This book was unfinished, and many of the settings weren’t explained, including the cheat. But the book did mention that there was one person who couldn’t be hypnotized, so that means there should be a way.”

Hearing that someone couldn’t be hypnotized, He Shu guessed: “The protagonist Nie Wenju?”

“Yes, that’s her.”

This was probably the protagonist’s halo. He Shu was envious, but when she thought of Nie Wenju, she got a little angry. She wondered where this protagonist had died. Had she seen the message she had sent to her department? Why was there no reply?

He Shu was thinking about whether to send another message and be more detailed while squeezing toothpaste. At this moment, the door opened, and another person appeared in the mirror.

Seeing Cen Qianyi’s face, He Shu’s hand trembled, and a long string of toothpaste was squeezed out!

Just as she was thinking about having the protagonist take the person away, she appeared. He Shu felt a little guilty. She looked at the person approaching in the mirror, and the toothpaste became longer and longer.

The person was getting closer and closer and was right behind her. He Shu didn’t dare to turn around.

Cen Qianyi reached out, as if she was hugging He Shu from behind.

He Shu’s words “What are you doing” were just on the tip of her tongue when she saw the person’s hand land on the sink and take the comb…

Phew. He Shu breathed a sigh of relief. She had scared herself. She just wanted to comb her hair…

Cen Qianyi looked at her panicked appearance and thought of what she had said last night about being afraid.

She was afraid of her, but the reason was unknown.

Cen Qianyi raised an eyebrow and combed her messy hair.

He Shu looked at the eyes in the mirror. No, why was this person combing her hair so close to her…

She was about to tell her to move away, but the other person spoke first.

“Brushing your teeth?”

He Shu frowned. What a stupid question.

“How many teeth do you have?”

He Shu raised an eyebrow. How many teeth could she have? She licked her tongue. Why hadn’t this domineering president’s wisdom teeth been pulled out? So, counting those, she normally had—

Wait a minute. He Shu suddenly woke up. Why was she counting her teeth? She should tell her to move away!

“You—”

Just as she spoke, she saw the person in the mirror smile: “Don’t squeeze anymore. That’s enough toothpaste to brush a shark’s teeth.”

He Shu looked down in a daze and saw that she had almost squeezed the entire tube of toothpaste out.

A soft laugh came from behind her ear.

He Shu was extremely embarrassed, but at the same time, she really wanted to shove all the toothpaste into her mouth and make her shut up.

What the hell? Cen Qianyi was like a completely different person today. She was talking an unusual amount.

“Aren’t you going to ask if I’m the one who caused the injury on your head?”

He Shu raised an eyebrow and met the eyes of the person in the mirror again.

What did she mean by that?

Cen Qianyi looked at the emotional eyes in the mirror and was a little surprised.

“You don’t think I did it?”

He Shu blinked. She knew she hadn’t done it.

Cen Qianyi put away the comb, took a step to the side, and no longer looked in the mirror but directly into He Shu’s eyes.

“So your panties are gone… you think I did something to you… but you don’t think I’m the one who caused the injury on your head…”

As she spoke, she took a step forward, and her breath directly hit He Shu’s lips.

“In your heart, I’m a person who would play a perverted trick on you… but wouldn’t harm you?”

What kind of illusion had she given her…

He Shu’s eyebrows were tightly knit. What was this all about?

Hiss, why did her head hurt whenever she thought? What was Cen Qianyi even saying?

Cen Qianyi was also surprised by the conclusion she had drawn…

He Shu, enduring the pain, thought for a moment and understood what Cen Qianyi meant. She had forgotten that she wasn’t supposed to know how she got the injury!

Oh my god, He Shu felt that this morning, her panties were gone, and her brain was also not working properly.

That’s right! She still wasn’t wearing panties!

She suddenly thought of a saying that might be a common phrase or a proverb: “Your butt determines your head.” Could it be that this was actually a realistic phrase? For some people, once their butt lost its panties, it was like their brain lost its brain cells?

How terrifying. He Shu stopped her wild thoughts and forced her brain to think quickly. What should she say now?

“That, this, this thing is clearly a bump!” He Shu thought of an explanation. “I can see that. How could I not see that?”

Cen Qianyi looked at the toothpaste that the person was starting to squeeze again, and a smile that she herself hadn’t noticed flashed in her eyes.

“Then do you remember how you got that bump?”

This time, He Shu’s brain was working very fast. She had been hypnotized, so she shouldn’t have any memory of this.

“By accident, I think. I can’t really remember. It’s so strange. Did I suddenly fall asleep last night?”

After her brain cells started working, He Shu began to test Cen Qianyi in reverse, wanting to see how she would explain that part.

Cen Qianyi’s face didn’t turn red, and she said with a serious expression: “Yes, you just fell asleep while you were talking.”

He Shu took a deep breath and screamed in her heart. Was she a pig? Even a pig wouldn’t fall asleep in the middle of talking!

Wait, pigs can’t talk!

Seeing that the person was simply and crudely trying to attribute her sudden loss of consciousness to her suddenly falling asleep, He Shu could only accept this responsibility with tears in her eyes.

“Haha, this shows that I have a clear conscience. I can eat and sleep soundly.”

Unlike some people who do a lot of bad things and definitely can’t sleep well!

Cen Qianyi’s expression remained unchanged, and she continued to talk nonsense with a serious face: “You also sleepwalked after you fell asleep.”

He Shu turned around, and after once again shaking off the excess toothpaste from her toothbrush, she began to brush her teeth.

She chose to remain silent.

Cen Qianyi continued: “You knelt and begged me not to leave and to stay by your side forever, and you kowtowed to me.”

She said with a smile: “That bump on your head is how you got it.”

He Shu suddenly turned her head to look at the person. Compared to this lie, she was more surprised by what Cen Qianyi was doing…

She seemed to be teasing her…

As this thought popped into her head, He Shu’s scalp tingled. Had something else happened last night that she didn’t know about? Why did Cen Qianyi seem to be in such a good mood today…

Cen Qianyi: “Why aren’t you talking?”

He Shu: “My head hurts.”

After waking up, she felt that the villain had changed her face, which was terrifying.

Cen Qianyi heard her say her head hurt, and she moved closer, wanting to check the wound.

He Shu suddenly took a step back.

Cen Qianyi looked at her nervous appearance, put away her slight smile, and looked at her quietly.

Just as He Shu was about to call the system to see if the murderous aura experience card was still working, the person turned around and left.

Before she left, she said, “Go find your assistant for some medicine.”

…

Su Ming was very worried when she saw the bump on He Shu’s head.

After applying the first aid medicine on the plane, she even wanted to find a hospital after they landed.

He Shu refused, saying it was just a minor cut.

When Su Ming asked how she got hurt, He Shu made up a reason, saying that she had slipped and hit her head while taking a bath.

Su Ming became even more nervous after hearing this. Luckily, it was just a minor cut. If she had been knocked unconscious… She looked at Cen Qianyi with a hint of blame.

This person hadn’t even reminded her boss to put on medicine last night.

It was clear that she was a person who didn’t care about her boss.

Thinking about how it would just be her and her boss going to the forgotten island this time, she was very worried.

After all, this island was special. It was an “island of three no’s.” The sea area it was in was a special zone that didn’t belong to any country, wasn’t managed by any organization, and wasn’t bound by any laws.

The people who owned these islands were either rich or powerful, and they could be said to be like emperors on the island.

These private islands couldn’t be entered without an invitation. Trespassing was a death sentence.

This time, only her boss was invited to go, and she could only bring one “companion.”

Su Ming, Tu Xuan, and two other bodyguards could only wait on this transit island.

“Boss, how about I go with you?”

Su Ming looked at the wound on He Shu’s head. Getting hurt right after leaving was a bad omen.

Besides, she looked at Cen Qianyi behind He Shu. If something really happened, this woman wouldn’t be able to protect her boss. Her boss would have to protect her.

He Shu wanted to bring her, but she couldn’t. No, if she could, she wouldn’t even want to come!

It was only because of the person next to her that she had to come. There was still a bunch of “plotlines” waiting for her…

For some reason, He Shu also felt a sense of unease.

But it was enough for her to worry about it herself. She didn’t want her assistant to worry with her.

She smiled and joked with her: “You have to wear a bikini on the island.”

Su Ming didn’t care, as long as she could protect her boss.

Just as she was about to say something, Tu Xuan took a step forward and pushed Su Ming away.

“What’s the use of you going? Boss, if you’re worried, I’ll go with you.”

Su Ming and He Shu both looked at Tu Xuan.

Tu Xuan was wearing a combat uniform, and even through the fabric, you could feel her strong and powerful muscles. He Shu imagined her wearing a bikini.

Wow, it would probably look like a bodybuilding competition, and the kind that focused on muscles.

Su Ming was surprised. Tu Xuan was usually a very dedicated person, but not very proactive. When her boss went out, unless she was specifically asked to go with her, she wouldn’t actively volunteer.

What was wrong this time?

But with her appearance and body, it was clear that she couldn’t be the boss’s “companion.” Su Ming thought that she was a better fit.

Just as she was about to try again, she saw the person behind her boss move.

She moved closer to her boss and linked arms with her.

“Don’t worry. I’ll take care of her.”

As she said this, she leaned on He Shu’s arm as if she was very dependent on her.

He Shu’s arm instantly felt stiff, as if it had been wrapped by a python. She didn’t dare to move.

She didn’t know what Cen Qianyi was acting like this time…

Su Ming’s eyes were very direct, filled with “What’s the use of you?”

Cen Qianyi pursed her lips, and her tone of voice was like a gentle sea breeze that could be felt all over the island.

“She’ll come back safely.”

When this sea breeze entered her ears, He Shu’s scalp tingled, and she felt a hurricane and a tsunami.

What the hell? Why was she setting up a flag at a time like this?!

Generally, in movies, once someone said something like that, most of the time, they wouldn’t come back.

“Don’t believe me?”

Cen Qianyi whispered two words into He Shu’s ear, a voice only the two of them could hear.

He Shu’s thoughts were brought back by the warm air on her earlobe. She was being stupid.

Cen Qianyi was here to kill people, but she wasn’t. She was just invited to come and have fun. What kind of danger could she be in?

Her biggest danger was right next to her.

As long as she didn’t want to kill her, she was safe.

Thinking of it this way, those words could be considered Cen Qianyi’s promise.

At least on this island, she wouldn’t kill her.

He Shu breathed a sigh of relief, leaned close to Cen Qianyi’s ear, and spoke in a voice that only the two of them could hear.

“Of course I believe you. How could I not believe my safety consultant?”