The Domineering CEO, but a Crybaby! - Chapter 34
Chapter 34: Following the Plot
“What’s wrong?”
Cen Qianyi’s gaze moved from He Shu’s clenched fist to her face.
Looking at the slight trembling in those bright eyes, Cen Qianyi blinked.
She felt like there were a thousand words in those eyes right now, and a strong emotion flowed through them as her gaze shifted… but Cen Qianyi couldn’t read it…
She also didn’t understand. If there was something she wanted to say, why couldn’t she just say it?
She really couldn’t. If He Shu knew what she was thinking, she would probably want to cry even more. She was full of bitterness, but she just couldn’t say it!
She was also surprised that Cen Qianyi would ask what was wrong. This wasn’t a line from the plot. She had changed it again…
How was she supposed to answer this question? She couldn’t possibly tell her that she had to “go to work” again and that she should cooperate so they could finish it quickly.
Even though she could improvise freely, she didn’t know what to improvise. He Shu simply looked at the menu and asked: “What do you want to eat?”
Cen Qianyi looked at the person’s averted gaze… It was obvious that this woman was deliberately avoiding her question… which was even stranger.
Also, this person was sitting too close. Her knees were touching, her legs were touching, and her upper body was almost touching her. Squeezed like this, Cen Qianyi felt a little hot.
She moved her body a little, reminding the other person: “Sit a little further away.”
She said this very normally, without any personal emotion. It was just a simple request.
It was different from the description in the original novel. In the original, she said this with a mix of shame and pleading.
He Shu didn’t expect that after only one deviation, the plot would come back again.
Don’t even mention it. This big villain really had something going on. Every time she changed the lines and deviated from the plot, she could always pull it back in the end.
Thinking of this, He Shu suddenly had a very bad feeling for some reason…
It was as if no matter how hard she tried, there seemed to be a change in the middle, but in the end, it would all go back to the original plot.
A feeling that something was fated…
He Shu looked at Cen Qianyi. Come to think of it, she had had a very brief thought this morning.
It had popped up when she woke up and saw her in her arms.
At that moment, how should she put it, her heart wasn’t just calm, it even felt like they were supposed to be like this. It was a very familiar feeling, like the peaceful years of two people being together for a long time.
At that moment, she even felt that the idea that the person in her arms would kill her was a joke.
After all, the posture of the two of them sleeping in each other’s arms was so intimate.
The ending shouldn’t be like the one in the book. At the very least, even if she had to kill her, it wouldn’t be such a cruel and abusive murder.
But now, she was a little uncertain again… It was as if no matter how much the plot deviated and developed, it would always return to its original fate.
She was destined to be killed by her…
Their eyes met. Cen Qianyi frowned slightly. She noticed that after she had said the previous words, asking her to sit a little further away, this person’s mood had visibly dropped.
This drop wasn’t just a brief emotional fluctuation. It was as if her entire being was covered in a layer of haze…
Like the sea outside the restaurant right now, the color was almost black, a kind of gloom that couldn’t be brightened even by the countless lights on the shore.
What was wrong… Was it just because she asked her to move a little further away?
She was just feeling a little hot.
Just as Cen Qianyi was about to speak, she saw the person in front of her seem to come back to her senses and move.
But her next action still confused her.
Since they were back on the original plot, He Shu had no choice but to continue as required. She gently rested her head on Cen Qianyi’s shoulder, and her chin sank into the person’s warm neck.
As she spoke, her warm breath puffed onto the person’s ear, and her low voice, along with the heat, drilled into the ear that had moved slightly.
“How can my baby bear to ask me to sit far away? My heart is with you… If I’m too far away, I’ll suffocate. Be good, let me stick to you.”
The words were spoken in a low and hoarse tone, which was completely different from what a love confession should sound like.
It was more like helplessness, a little grievance, and some kind of inexplicable sadness.
Cen Qianyi’s eyebrows furrowed. She turned her face, but because the other person was so close, her lips almost brushed against her cheek.
He Shu panicked and moved her head back a little. Her gaze was fixed on the fair and white cheek. It was so close that she couldn’t see anything clearly. All she could see was a patch of white in her vision, but it wasn’t pure white. There was a hint of pink.
It looked like a natural reaction of her skin to the warmth.
“Are you sick?”
Cen Qianyi spoke, no longer caring if she was hot or not… She wanted to figure out what was wrong with this woman first…
She felt that she was probably sick. She had suddenly become like this. Besides an illness, she couldn’t think of any other reason why a person would have such a big change, and so suddenly.
But Cen Qianyi felt that this kind of problem shouldn’t be physiological. It was most likely psychological or mental. The only explanation she found reasonable was that this person had two personalities… Her “sick” appearance might be when the other personality took over.
Cen Qianyi’s words once again deviated from the original plot. He Shu heard this strange question and lifted her head from Cen Qianyi’s shoulder.
Feeling the lightness on her shoulder, Cen Qianyi turned her head completely to look at He Shu.
Their eyes met, and both were filled with confusion.
Cen Qianyi seriously looked at He Shu’s very special eyes, trying to find a pattern in them. After all, people always say that the eyes are the window to the soul. If she had different personalities, her external appearance wouldn’t change, but her eyes should be different.
She had felt a difference before in that those eyes were always red when she saw her before, about to cry or already crying, with tears blurring her vision. Now these eyes weren’t crying, but the feeling was very similar.
He Shu noticed the probing look in Cen Qianyi’s eyes. It was rare for Cen Qianyi to have such an exposed emotion. What was she looking at?
Why was she watching her so quietly and persistently? He Shu’s heart started to pound… Was she going to hypnotize her now?!
She really didn’t want to be hypnotized by her right now… God knows what she would do!
“Hmm?” Cen Qianyi looked at the eyes that had suddenly become panicked and trembling and asked again: “Are you sick?”
“What?” He Shu was confused: “Who’s sick?”
Cen Qianyi didn’t want to waste time guessing, and she had no clues. She didn’t have much patience for anything other than figuring out how to kill a person.
It was like a good hunter could meticulously and patiently skin and gut their prey, but they couldn’t thread a needle and embroider a flower at home.
“You.” Cen Qianyi looked at the person and directly stated her suspicion: “From the first day I met you, it was as if someone was forcing you to do things you didn’t want to do.”
When He Shu heard this, her eyes widened instantly. She was surprised by Cen Qianyi’s cleverness and also surprised that Cen Qianyi had just blurted out the question.
Did she forget that her current character was a poor little thing? Did she not even want to pretend in front of her anymore?
Cen Qianyi continued, making the question more practical and thorough.
“For example, right now…” Cen Qianyi gently patted the hand on her waist that He Shu had clenched into a fist. “Do you want to hug me?”
He Shu’s fist stiffened. Although she really wanted to pull it back, she couldn’t… In the plot, she had to hug her like this…
She was surprised that she had been discovered.
What should she do now? Should she say, “No, you guessed right,” but she couldn’t let go of her. Wouldn’t that make her look like a crazy person?
He Shu could only brace herself, clench her fist even tighter, and start telling lies with her eyes wide open.
“Yes, I want to hug you.”
Cen Qianyi: “But I don’t think you do.”
He Shu was speechless.
“Why are you trembling? And why don’t you dare to open your hand?”
He Shu had no words to reply.
Cen Qianyi continued: “Do you… have two personalities? They’re controlling each other, and sometimes you feel like you’re being controlled by one of them to do something.”
A sea breeze blew in, and the orange-yellow candlelight of the scented candle on the table shook violently with the wind.
The light and shadows danced on He Shu’s face, making her eyes flicker on and off. Until the wind died down and the shadow disappeared, the candlelight became brighter, and He Shu’s eyes also became brighter!
What a turn of events!
He Shu had no idea that Cen Qianyi would think this way! She actually thought that the things she was forced to do by the system were because she had two personalities!
He Shu’s other hand, which was hanging by her side, quietly pinched her thigh to prevent herself from laughing. This explanation was too perfect!
She suddenly thought of a way to save herself! What if she just agreed with Cen Qianyi’s conclusion?
She had deduced it herself. It wasn’t something she had made up!
She could just say that yes, she had two personalities. This way, she could blame all the previous things, and some future things, on the other non-existent personality. When the time came to settle the score, He Shu could just say that she had no idea!
A genius. Cen Qianyi was a genius!
She was saved. She was saved!
She was excitedly about to say that she had guessed correctly, that she had had this problem since she was a child, and to please forgive her for some of the things she had done.
But just as she was about to speak, a waiter came and served them an aperitif.
“This homemade aperitif was made by our boss herself. Please enjoy it, distinguished guests.”
The boss she was referring to was, of course, the owner of this island, Yao Bing, who was also the person Cen Qianyi was supposed to kill.
This line was also in the original novel. The person who suddenly appeared just pulled the plot back again.
This was so frustrating. Couldn’t she have come a little later?!
Looking at the lines she had to say that popped up in her mind, she protested to the system in her head.
“You moronic system, this is unreasonable! We’ve already gone so far off track. You can’t just pull it back like this, can you? At least let me answer Cen Qianyi’s question first!”
[The Host has no right to change the lines, but you can wait for the next free improvisation.]
He Shu didn’t know if it was her imagination, but the electronic voice sounded a little happy.
Her protest was unsuccessful, but what the system said was also right. Cen Qianyi would definitely deviate from the plot again. She would wait for the next free improvisation to tell her that she had guessed correctly.
“Keep it up, Host. There isn’t much plot left. Unlocking freedom is just around the corner!”
He Shu didn’t know why it was so happy. To unlock freedom, she had to finish the plot, and on the day she unlocked it, she might be dead.
This was a truly moronic system.
After the waiter left, the countdown started in her mind. He Shu paused her words, picked up the flute-shaped glass, took a sip, and looked at Cen Qianyi.
“It’s good. Try it.”
She looked calm on the outside, but she was screaming on the inside.
Hurry up and try it!
But this woman always messed up at the crucial moment.
She just stared at her, not moving.
Cen Qianyi was still waiting for He Shu’s answer and didn’t pay any attention to He Shu’s words, which she thought were a deliberate change of topic.
He Shu was really frustrated. She was supposed to change the plot, but she didn’t say a word.
Well, she couldn’t be blamed. She could only continue with the lines.
“Not drinking? Does my baby want me to feed you?”
After saying this, He Shu still hoped that Cen Qianyi would react, drink it quickly, and change the plot!
Otherwise, she really couldn’t be blamed for acting like a pervert!
Cen Qianyi looked at the person, at her eyes that were suddenly fluctuating with emotion. She had called her “baby” again…
Alarms started blaring in He Shu’s mind, making a “werwerwer” sound, and red lights started flashing.
There was nothing she could do!
He Shu held the glass and took a big gulp, but she didn’t actually swallow it. She held all of it in her mouth.
The hand on Cen Qianyi’s waist could finally be taken off. She unclenched her fist and moved it up along Cen Qianyi’s back to her neck, and then she used a little force to press the person toward her.
At the same time, He Shu tilted her head forward, as if she was going to physically practice the “feed you” she had just said.
Cen Qianyi felt the constraint on the back of her neck. Looking at the person who was getting closer and her puffed-up cheeks… she had seen that the person had drunk the wine but hadn’t swallowed it.
So what was she going to do now?
He Shu felt that she was being obvious enough. She looked at Cen Qianyi. Was this person an idiot? Why wasn’t she reacting at all?!
Cen Qianyi quickly figured out what the person was going to do, but she didn’t move.
She was a little incredulous that this person would actually “feed her.” She looked at the red lips that were so close. Was she really going to do it mouth-to-mouth?
If she could do that, she wouldn’t have been afraid to really hug her when she had her arm around her waist.
Cen Qianyi blinked, silently watching the red lips get closer and closer. Even though she didn’t believe it, when the approaching breath mixed with her own, her heart still skipped a beat.
At this close distance, she could no longer see her expression. All she could see in her vision were the long eyelashes that fluttered like a butterfly’s wings.
It was as if if they got any closer, the butterfly could land in her eyes.
It was too close… Could it be…
Cen Qianyi suddenly became a little uncertain, but she still didn’t move.
He Shu felt like her chest was about to burst. Her hope had completely vanished. This person really wasn’t moving. Was she out of her mind? Could she not see what she was about to do?
Anyone with a brain cell could figure it out. She was about to feed her the wine in her mouth. Why wasn’t she moving?!
There was no time to think about why. When the countdown in her mind reached [1], He Shu closed her eyes and leaned in as if resigned to her fate.
At the same time, He Shu also thought about it. She didn’t plan on forcing her mouth open and pouring the wine in like it was written in the original novel. She just planned to go through the motions. So wouldn’t most of the wine in her mouth flow out?
Would it get her clothes wet?
Cen Qianyi would be fine, though. Her dress was waterproof!
She was probably the only one who would get dirty.
When the countdown in her mind reached [0], He Shu swallowed, and all the wine in her mouth went into her own stomach… not a drop was spilled…
She frantically pulled away to see what this sudden cold thing she had just kissed was.
Cen Qianyi was tightly holding a spoon against He Shu’s mouth. Her heart, which had been beating wildly, was pounding against her chest.
Just now, at the last second, she had realized that the other person really dared to kiss her and had made a move in time. If there had been a third person there, they would have definitely noticed that her skills were not those of an ordinary person.
In that split second, she was even able to precisely control the spoon so it wouldn’t poke the person’s face.
Cen Qianyi looked at those surprised eyes and felt a rush of heat to her head.
He Shu heard the countdown end in her mind. Looking at the current situation, she instantly understood. Cen Qianyi had made a move at the last second!
A huge rush of joy bounced in her chest. The wine she had just swallowed seemed to have an immediate effect, and He Shu’s entire body felt hot.
The only thing that was cold was her mouth, which had been touched by the spoon.
Thinking about the purpose of the spoon, He Shu awkwardly coughed and wanted to say something, but she heard the other person speak.
“What are you doing?”
Well done. That one sentence pulled them back to the original plot again. In the original novel, after He Shu force-fed Cen Qianyi a sip of wine mouth-to-mouth, her angry question was this very one.
He Shu’s face crumpled. This could also connect… and it wasn’t even logical. In the original novel, she had successfully kissed her and force-fed her the wine, and the other person had angrily pushed her away before saying this question. Then she had said the next line. Now, she hadn’t succeeded, and Cen Qianyi hadn’t even pushed her away. Wouldn’t the connection be abrupt?
She protested to the system, but the system still said that the lines couldn’t be changed and encouraged her to finish the plot quickly.
There was nothing she could do. He Shu could only continue.
She reached out to touch the corner of Cen Qianyi’s mouth. In the original novel, it was to wipe away the wine stain. Now, she was just purely touching her face.
“You’re not being good again.”
Cen Qianyi turned her head away, just like in the original novel, and avoided He Shu’s hand. At the same time, she also pulled back the hand holding the spoon, and the spoon fell on the table, making a crisp clinking sound.
He Shu’s heart skipped a beat. She thought the other person was going to attack her, but she saw that Cen Qianyi just picked up the other glass of wine on the table and drank it all…
He Shu’s eyes lit up. The plot had changed!
This woman was reliable at the crucial moment!
In the original novel, after He Shu force-fed her the wine, the other person questioned her, then directly picked up the other glass of wine on the table and splashed it on her. Then she had slapped her back and cursed at her badly…
Now she had drunk it! She had drunk the wine!
Looking at the part of the plot and lines that had disappeared from her mind, He Shu really wanted to hug and kiss the person. She was so promising!
But on second thought, this person was also something else. If she had changed the plot and drunk it earlier, they wouldn’t have even had to go through all that plot just now!
No kissing, not promising!
The waiter came to serve the pre-meal fruit, just like in the original novel. In the original, it was written that they watched her hit the person and then asked them if they wanted to order, as if nothing had happened.
He Shu took her cue and ordered the food.
The plot just went on like this, and Cen Qianyi also fell silent, just like in the original novel.
However, in the original novel, she was pitiful, but now she was more in the “leave me alone” mood.
It was a very disjointed scene. He Shu looked at the person and felt that something was very wrong. Was the person in the original novel really Cen Qianyi? Could she just be hit like that?
Even if it was acting, it felt too wrong…
This original novel always gave her the impression that even though Cen Qianyi had powerful settings, she was still pitiful in reality.
Although the Cen Qianyi she knew would also act pitiful when Officer Judy came, in reality, she hadn’t suffered any actual harm.
But in this book, she always seemed to get hurt in reality.
This feeling was like two books had been stitched together. It was very disjointed. The book later explained that many things were an illusion from the original He Shu’s perspective, a hallucination after being hypnotized. He Shu felt that this was probably a deliberate sentence to make the unreasonable parts reasonable.
But on second thought, it seemed possible. Just now, Cen Qianyi had really not moved at all and had almost let her kiss her.
He Shu’s scalp tightened at this thought. It was so close, just so close. She didn’t know what this person was thinking. If she was going to make a move, why didn’t she do it sooner!
She couldn’t figure it out, she couldn’t figure it out at all!
Fortunately, the part about hitting her could be skipped. He Shu breathed a sigh of relief. She didn’t have to curse either.
Compared to those swear words, He Shu felt that she would rather do it like this, calling her “baby” all the time. At most, it would just make her feel a little nauseous.
The original He Shu was also a pervert. After hitting someone, she would act as if nothing had happened, continue to stick to the person, and serve her a dish, feeding her one bite at a time.
He Shu continued to follow the plot, picked up a mushroom with a fork, and was about to feed it to Cen Qianyi.
“Baby, eat a mushroom.”
She planned to eat herself after the other person refused and then talk about the topic they hadn’t finished earlier, about her two personalities.
When she saw the other person open her mouth, He Shu squeezed her eyes shut, worried that she had gotten herself drunk with that one glass of wine!
When she opened her eyes again, the mushroom on the fork was gone, and Cen Qianyi’s cheeks were puffed up, moving, as if she was chewing…
W-what was going on? Why did Cen Qianyi eat it?!
It wasn’t until the countdown in her mind reminded He Shu to continue with the lines that she, like a statue with a soul, pulled her hand back from mid-air.
“Is it good?”
“Mmm.”
He Shu: …
Not only did Cen Qianyi eat it, but she also responded with the original line. Although it was only one word, it was still shocking enough!
He Shu looked at Cen Qianyi, but Cen Qianyi’s eyes were slightly lowered, and she wasn’t looking at her. She only opened her mouth and ate when He Shu offered her food.
The meal passed in a very bizarre way, with one person feeding and the other eating, all while perfectly following the lines.
He Shu was so surprised that she didn’t even eat much herself.
Cen Qianyi was quite full, but her thoughts were a mess. It felt like undigested food was in her brain.
Perhaps it wasn’t just the woman next to her who was sick. She was also sick… Covering her slightly uncomfortable heartbeat, she seriously thought about what was wrong with her.
The two of them each thought about their own things, and the meal and the plot were finished in a way that was not much different from the original.
It wasn’t until the dessert was served.
He Shu looked at the small, palm-sized cake, and her eyelids twitched wildly.
She looked at Cen Qianyi. Cen Qianyi was facing away from her and wasn’t looking at her. Her gaze was also on the cake on the table.
He Shu took a deep breath. It was the last part of the plot. After hesitating for only a few seconds, He Shu decided to finish it quickly.
This meal had almost driven her crazy. She had even started to have the idea that being a pervert might be better than being a lunatic.
If this bizarre situation continued, she really couldn’t take it anymore!
This time, she didn’t need the countdown to urge her. She used the pad of her index finger to swipe a little cream from the cake. Before Cen Qianyi could react, she smeared it along the corner of her mouth.
Cen Qianyi turned to look at He Shu, feeling a little sweetness seep in at the corner of her mouth. She raised an eyebrow slightly, looking at He Shu’s hand, which still had a little white cream on it.
Before she could ask what she was doing.
He Shu spoke.
“Are you full?”
Cen Qianyi didn’t know why she had smeared the cream on her face. When she heard the question, she nodded.
He Shu’s hand trembled, and her hope was shattered. The person was following the plot again.
Then she had to follow it too.
He Shu slowly moved closer to the person. This process was very slow, deliberately giving the other person time to react.
When she was about to get close to the person, He Shu even stopped. Her gaze and breath were still for a moment.
But the other person, as if on purpose, just didn’t move.
Forget it. She had been through enough tonight. Let’s just finish this quickly!
He Shu moved forward a little. Before Cen Qianyi could react, she licked the cream off the corner of her mouth.
The sweetness spread in her mouth, but it couldn’t cover the bitterness in He Shu’s heart.
Like a pervert, after licking the person’s face, she also licked the person’s ear.
She didn’t know why this kind of pervert had to say things in this posture, facing the person’s ear.
The person wasn’t deaf.
“Then it’s my turn.”
“Baby, I’m so hungry.”
“I want to eat you.”