The Domineering CEO, but a Crybaby! - Chapter 43

Chapter 43: This Isn’t Over

Perhaps it was because the smile from this morning had caused too much shock to He Shu. Now, when she saw Cen Qianyi smile again, He Shu’s reaction wasn’t as big as it was in the morning.

It might also be because she had seen this kind of smile from Cen Qianyi before.

Let her think. It was that time, in the lounge of her office, when she held the ‘rabbit’s tail’ and said to her, ‘It’s quite fun.’ And the night before they came to the island, on the plane, Cen Qianyi said she wanted to sleep with her, and she also smiled at her like this.

He Shu was surprised that she remembered these few smiles of Cen Qianyi so clearly… As soon as she thought about it, a scene seemed to appear in her mind.

It was probably because those few smiles had also shocked her… Looking at the smile on Cen Qianyi’s face again, and analyzing it together with these few similar situations, this smile seemed to carry a hint of mischievousness.

Although she didn’t know what the person was going to do this time, she thought it probably wouldn’t be a big deal…

At least she wouldn’t die.

But it was also possible… this time, in addition to this smile, she also locked the door… This was a little scary… He Shu completely turned around. Her heart was in her throat, and she stared at the person at the door without blinking.

After Cen Qianyi locked the door, she walked toward her with a faint smile.

The distance between the two of them was not far to begin with. With every step Cen Qianyi took, and with every bit the distance shortened, He Shu’s heart jumped up a little!

Especially when she saw that Cen Qianyi’s smile hadn’t disappeared, and it was very different from the previous two similar situations, a sense of urgency, like a drumbeat, seemed to be ringing in He Shu’s mind, signaling that something big was about to happen.

Amidst this noisy and tense drumbeat, He Shu started to retreat in rhythm.

In the quiet room, under the dim yellow light, two figures, one advanced and one retreated.

The retreating person was the first to stop.

He Shu was forced to stop. She felt that she had bumped into something behind her leg. She looked back and saw that the thing blocking her retreat was the sofa.

When she saw this beige leather sofa, some memories from the morning uncontrollably surged out. He Shu’s eyes were like boiling water, filled with a burning sensation.

She slapped her face, which was also starting to feel a little hot, forcing herself not to think about it.

She retracted her gaze and turned around. Her vision suddenly went dark. Her line of sight was met with a pair of pale purple eyes.

He Shu blinked. The distance between her and these eyes was so close that she felt as if the ends of her eyelashes could touch the other person’s eyelashes when she blinked.

“Ah!” Time seemed to instantly return to its normal speed. He Shu exclaimed. As she leaned back, she straightened her neck to create some distance. “W-what are you doing!”

Why, why did she suddenly get so close? Was she playing ‘123 Red Light, Green Light’ with her?

How could she be so fast!

And there was no sound at all. She just turned around, and the person was already in front of her!

Cen Qianyi looked at the pair of panicked eyes. She hadn’t noticed before that these eyes were so interesting when she looked at them up close.

The panicked eyelashes trembled. Her eyes only reflected her, as if she was dancing in her eyes, as if even she had become more vivid.

She moved forward a little more and saw that the eyes were trembling even more violently, like a small fan, as if fanning up a little wind that made her eyelashes also tremble.

“You came back quite early today.”

The slightly rising end of her voice was like the curve of her lips that hadn’t been straightened yet. The teasing in her words revealed that the speaker was in a good mood.

He Shu, however, couldn’t relax because of this light tone. Cen Qianyi was too close to her. The breath she exhaled seemed to rush onto her face, mixing with the hot air she was exhaling rapidly.

He Shu leaned back a little more, not wanting her breath to be tangled up with the other person’s.

“I have, I have something to do.”

Cen Qianyi raised her eyebrows slightly, remembered something, and flattened the curve of her lips a little. Seeing that the person’s backward leaning posture was about to exceed the limit, she kindly straightened her body and created some distance.

The person in front of her retreated, and He Shu’s body, which was about to give out, could finally return to a normal posture. But before she could be happy, she saw the current situation, and the uncomfortable feeling didn’t lessen at all.

After Cen Qianyi straightened up, she propped one hand on the back of the sofa and pinched the corner of the T-shirt sleeve on He Shu’s body with the other.

He Shu felt that this posture was as if she had been cornered… With the locked door and this posture, she didn’t know what the person was going to do. She waited for her to continue.

Cen Qianyi didn’t ask He Shu what the ‘something to do’ she had mentioned was. She changed the topic and asked about something else.

“What did you do today?”

Cen Qianyi looked at the simple white T-shirt on her. In the morning, the person had only put on a bathrobe when she left. These clothes weren’t hers.

She rubbed the corner of the sleeve with two fingers. The fabric felt soft and had been washed several times. It wasn’t new.

This wasn’t He Shu’s usual style either. Cen Qianyi’s gaze went down, looking at the length of her shirt, which was clearly inappropriate and a little short.

If she had asked the island for clothes, they would have given her new, well-fitting ones.

Cen Qianyi narrowed her eyes and had her answer.

He Shu didn’t know why Cen Qianyi suddenly asked this question, nor did she know why she was rubbing her sleeve. But rubbing her sleeve was better than rubbing her, so she didn’t try to pull her hand away.

“Nothing much. I just walked around and looked at things. The scenery on this island… is not bad.”

Cen Qianyi let go of her sleeve, rubbed it twice on He Shu’s arm in a very disgusted manner, and then changed to directly pinching He Shu’s arm.

“Alone?”

When her fingertips touched her skin, He Shu’s arm tingled. She immediately looked at Cen Qianyi. Her eyes were panicked and confused. Why was she pinching her arm?

Could it be that she was going to break her arm?

She looked down at her pinched hand. This was her right hand! He Shu didn’t know why she was worried about which hand it was at this moment. Could she accept it if it was her left hand?

As she was thinking about whether to kneel and beg for mercy right now, the other person spoke again.

“Hmm? Who did you look at the scenery with?”

Cen Qianyi saw that she lowered her head and didn’t respond, so she asked again.

He Shu’s mind returned from her fear of losing her hand.

“No, nobody.”

She had stayed at the shooting range all day and hadn’t looked at any scenery at all. Who could she have been with?

He Shu’s head was lowered. Cen Qianyi couldn’t see her expression, but she knew that the person was lying, lying for that person.

“Why didn’t you take me with you?”

“Huh?” Being too surprised, He Shu looked up at Cen Qianyi. What did this person mean by her words?

The situation right now was also very strange. How did they get to this point of talking to each other…

Cen Qianyi looked at the surprise in He Shu’s eyes. She didn’t seem to have ever considered this matter at all.

“I haven’t seen the scenery on this island in the past two days since we’ve been here.”

He Shu was confused. She didn’t understand at all. What did this mean?

“You want to see the scenery too?”

Wasn’t this killer here to kill people? Did she also have the time to admire the scenery? After she asked, she saw the other person nod.

“Yes, I want to see it.”

He Shu’s eyes widened. She didn’t expect this person to be someone who ‘doesn’t forget to appreciate the beautiful scenery while working.’

If she wanted to see it, she should just go. Was she stopping her?

She didn’t know if her gaze was too direct. She heard Cen Qianyi speak again.

“It’s not very convenient for me to go out alone.”

He Shu pursed her lips. The people who came to the island as a companion were indeed restricted in various places, and there were many places they couldn’t go. But she was Cen Qianyi. She didn’t believe that there was any place she couldn’t get into.

But she couldn’t say that. He Shu glanced at her arm, which was still in Cen Qianyi’s hand. After thinking for a moment, she said, “Then if you want to go, tomorrow… tomorrow I… I’ll take you with me.”

Lying to Cen Qianyi’s face, He Shu was a little nervous. She would never go look at any scenery with her. It was very likely that some deserted corner would become the place where her body was buried…

This was also a lawless place. No one would care if she died.

He Shu thought of Yu Yun again. She was just transported out to sea by a speedboat. She didn’t know how long she would be drifting on the sea… She had originally wanted to find Su Ming to see if she could pay someone to search for her, and hopefully, they could pull her out and find a place to bury her.

But her phone was like a ghost. She couldn’t send out messages.

He Shu didn’t know that the person who was messing with her was right in front of her.

Cen Qianyi heard He Shu’s promise. Her fingertip slowly drew an X on He Shu’s arm. This was her habitual response when she agreed to someone’s request.

“Okay, tomorrow.”

He Shu didn’t expect Cen Qianyi to actually want to go see the scenery tomorrow. Had she forgotten what she came to this island for?

Once she succeeded tonight, everything would be in chaos tomorrow. In the original novel, they would leave tomorrow. What scenery would they be looking at?

After Cen Qianyi spoke, she also thought about this. Tomorrow might not be a good time to look at the scenery, but if this person wanted to see it, staying for one more day wouldn’t be a problem. But to be honest, the scenery on this island wasn’t that great. Her island was better than this. If this person liked this kind of scenery, she might as well go to her island.

Thinking of this, Cen Qianyi looked at the person. She decided to wait for now and deal with these troubles first.

He Shu noticed that after their conversation ended, Cen Qianyi’s aura was a lot gentler than it was at the beginning. And she seemed to be in a good mood and didn’t seem to have any intention of settling scores with her.

But now was indeed not a good time to settle scores. Cen Qianyi still had business to attend to.

He Shu tentatively spoke: “Uh, there’s a banquet tonight. Why don’t you go change your clothes and go with me?”

When Cen Qianyi heard this, a look of understanding flashed in her eyes. She looked at the person: “You came back for this?”

He Shu nodded.

A quick flash of light appeared in Cen Qianyi’s eyes. She then let go of He Shu’s arm, and a slightly troubled expression appeared on her face.

“Change clothes, you say, but… I can’t untie this.”

Cen Qianyi pointed to the belt on her waist.

He Shu didn’t have time to be happy that her arm seemed to be safe. She looked in the direction Cen Qianyi was pointing. Looking at the bathrobe on her, she remembered that she had tied the belt on her waist this morning.

Had this person not changed her clothes all day because she couldn’t untie this belt?

How was that possible? She was Cen Qianyi. How could she not be able to untie a simple belt?

She looked at Cen Qianyi: “You can’t untie it?”

Cen Qianyi’s face was very serious, and she nodded in a very earnest manner.

He Shu: …

She was acting again. A woman who could shoot a gun was trapped by a belt. Didn’t she think it was funny when she said it herself?

He Shu couldn’t understand what Cen Qianyi was trying to do. She felt that ever since this morning, this person had been completely abnormal.

The person just looked at her silently, as if asking for her help. She was so weak and helpless.

He Shu bit the bullet and played along with her.

“Then should I try?”

Cen Qianyi nodded. Her guess in her heart was confirmed a little more. This person had a very inexplicable indulgence toward her.

He Shu didn’t know that the person was testing her. She looked down at the belt. She had been too flustered this morning. She had tied it so tightly that the belt was hugging her waist like a measuring tape. Perhaps because the bathrobe was loose, tying it like this made her waist look very thin…

She didn’t even mind that it was so tight all day, and she hadn’t untied it… If He Shu didn’t know that the person was capable of untying it, she would have felt guilty. But even though she knew, He Shu was still a little embarrassed, after all, she was the one who did it.

She bent down and reached out to untie the belt. It was indeed tied very tightly. He Shu used her barely sprouted fingernails to pry at it.

This feeling was so strange, as if she was untying a plastic bag from a takeout order. Thankfully, she had a lot of strength. After a minute of struggle, she finally untied it.

He Shu let out a heavy breath. She had the feeling of finally being able to eat after untying the takeout bag, and her mood lightened a lot.

“Okay, it’s untied.”

She looked up at Cen Qianyi. The next second, after seeing Cen Qianyi’s situation, the breath she had just exhaled was sucked back in.

Because she sucked in too hard, she accidentally choked.

“Cough, cough, cough.”

He Shu covered her mouth forcefully, wanting to hold back the cough. But some things couldn’t be held back, like this cough, and like the memories that were popping up in her mind.

Inside Cen Qianyi’s loose bathrobe, on her exposed skin, the ‘strawberries’ reminded He Shu of what she had done in the morning.

The part that was exposed was only the tip of the iceberg. She knew what it would look like if it was fully exposed. It would be ‘dense and numerous.’

After a day, the ‘strawberries’ hadn’t faded at all. In fact, they seemed to be even darker.

He Shu wanted to cry. She lowered her head and coughed with a loud noise toward the carpet. She didn’t dare to look at Cen Qianyi, not knowing what her expression was right now.

She also didn’t know how the person planned to deal with her for this matter.

There was no way she would just let her off. In the original novel, she had pretended to be a pitiful little girl, so she had waited until the end to settle all the scores with her.

Now that Cen Qianyi wasn’t even pretending anymore, He Shu suspected that she was going to make a move on her earlier.

Even if she didn’t want to kill her, she would probably torture her first.

It was terrifying. She didn’t know how she would torture her…

He Shu thought about her extremely tragic death, and she felt a faint pain in her fingers. Would she melt one of her fingers first? No, this was done with her mouth, so it had nothing to do with her hands… If she was going to be punished, it should be her mouth.

But how would she punish her mouth? He Shu thought in horror. She couldn’t possibly pull out her tongue, could she? Her tongue was also an accomplice.

In her horror, a glass cup filled with water appeared in her lowered line of sight. The hand pressed against the glass wall was fair and slender, and it had a clean and translucent feeling like glass.

She knew it was Cen Qianyi’s hand just by looking at it.

Thinking that this hand could easily break her neck, He Shu hesitated and didn’t dare to move until the glass cup shook in her line of sight.

“Have some water.”

The water in the cup moved along the wall of the cup. Cen Qianyi’s voice brought He Shu’s mind back.

How could she refuse Cen Qianyi’s ‘kindness’ at this time? He Shu trembling took the cup, looked at the transparent water, and guessed that something might have been added to it… In her panic, He Shu’s coughing stopped. She didn’t drink the water but thanked her.

“Thank you, I’m fine.”

Cen Qianyi looked down at the person. She hadn’t expected the person’s reaction to be so big. She looked down at her exposed skin. She was the one who did all this, wasn’t she… She had the guts to do it… and now she was so panicked just by looking at it.

The red marks on her chest fell into her pale purple eyes, mixing into a strange color. The corners of Cen Qianyi’s eyes curved slightly. This wasn’t over yet.

Although He Shu had her head lowered and was catching her breath, she was always paying attention to the figure in front of her from the corner of her eye, maintaining her vigilance.

So, in the first instance, she saw the bathrobe, whose belt she had just untied, fall onto the carpet.

The soft fabric touched the soft carpet, making no sound at all.

Realizing what had happened, a ‘boom’ went off in He Shu’s mind.

“What are you taking your clothes off for!”