The Domineering CEO, but a Crybaby! - Chapter 8
Chapter 8: Beg Me to Play With You
“This slap is to make you remember. From now on, with me, there’s only one thing you can beg for, and that’s for me to play with you—beg me to play with you.”
“Crawl?”
Cen Qianyi’s ears, tickled by the strands of hair, twitched. She turned her head to look at the speaker.
“What’s wrong, pretty little dog can’t crawl?”
Cen Qianyi averted her gaze, looking at the posture the other person had adjusted her into.
What did that mean? She wanted her to crawl like a dog?
As this thought arose, Cen Qianyi remembered the last person who had insulted her in such a way. That person’s knees, she recalled, seemed to have been gouged out by her…
If He Shu could see this memory in Cen Qianyi’s mind, she would probably faint from crying.
“An owner doesn’t want a dog that can’t crawl.”
He Shu said, reaching out and patting the area just below the other party’s waist—a spot that barely fell within the ‘spanking’ category of the action prompts. She gave it a good pat as required.
Cen Qianyi’s muscles tensed. The sensory enhancer’s effect grew stronger over time. The hand gripping her waist felt steaming hot, and then there was the sensation on her buttock… Memories from last night kept surging forth, that feeling of every cell like a sponge ball saturated with water, then vibrating from an electric current, returned.
She reached out to pull the hand off her waist.
He Shu clasped her hand: “What, after a whole night, you still haven’t figured out how to be a plaything?”
“Let go of me, I won’t be your plaything.”
He Shu, of course, knew she wouldn’t, and she didn’t want to either.
Thinking of her miserable death, her nose felt sore again.
“That’s not up to you.”
Cen Qianyi suppressed the urge to kill, feigning panic.
“You’ve captured me like this, aren’t you afraid the police will arrest you?!”
He Shu wished the police would arrest her right now; she could still try for a lenient sentence.
“Cen Qianyi, genetically flawed, abandoned at the door of a charity bureau at birth, adopted and raised by a benevolent organization, graduated from the charity bureau’s affiliated middle school, living off odd jobs. Currently 27, no house, no car, no savings, no friends, no job.”
As He Shu spoke, tears streamed down her face. How miserable, even more miserable than her. At least she had a place to live, a little savings, friends, and Qianqian.
And a job that led to her sudden death from overwork.
Never mind, scratch that part. Alas, indeed, there are always people more miserable.
“Someone like you, I already said, dead and rotten, no one would care about you. Look at you, you’ve been missing for a day, has anyone reported you to the police?”
Cen Qianyi frowned. This person had certainly investigated her apparent identity and background very thoroughly.
She looked at the speaker. Shouldn’t these words be mocking, ridiculing, taunting her? Why was she crying?
Crying that she truly wasn’t a human being.
He Shu took a deep breath, reaching out and pinching Cen Qianyi’s jaw.
“Here’s a kind piece of advice: be a good plaything, and please me.”
As she spoke, she bit the other’s earlobe. He Shu sighed. She was now very numb and skilled at these perverted actions.
She could even distract herself by wondering why she always seemed to bite the same side.
“Want to see again?” He Shu gently caressed Cen Qianyi’s eyes. “Please me, and I’ll restore your sight.”
She spoke as if she were a miracle doctor. The blinding agent’s effect only lasted a day anyway, and her sight would recover today. Yet, this scumbag of an original owner used it to threaten her.
He Shu didn’t know that Cen Qianyi could already see.
Cen Qianyi slightly furrowed her brows, appearing as a pitiful little white flower, stubbornly replying: “What if I don’t listen to this advice?”
He Shu pinched the person’s face. This damned perverted CEO, like someone with ADHD, had so many actions and words.
“Do you know what happens to a plaything if I find it boring?”
Cen Qianyi, at close range, watched a tear slide down the corner of the other person’s eye. She frowned and asked, “What happens?”
He Shu, as required, leaned close to the person’s ear. For a moment, she didn’t control the distance well, and her face brushed against the other’s ear, wiping tears onto it.
“Then you’ll be the most beautiful flower tree in this garden outside the window—” He Shu saw the dash and automatically paused—” ‘s fertilizer.”
Hiss, what kind of death sentence-level words did this outlaw say?
Cen Qianyi narrowed her eyes. The tears on her ear, swept by the morning breeze, quickly chilled.
He Shu’s body trembled, feeling the surrounding temperature rapidly drop.
Good heavens! He Shu watched as the air gradually condensed into the shape of knives again!
Killing intent! The killing intent returned!
Indeed, if Cen Qianyi still didn’t want to kill her after these words, she would be utterly sick.
“Please, let me go.”
She wanted to let go too!
Looking at the pitiful person begging her, He Shu’s tears fell even more fiercely. Cen Qianyi’s appearance was truly deceptive; anyone seeing her would surely never guess that this was ‘Death’ offering someone a ‘reduced sentence’ opportunity.
“Idiot system, come out quickly! Can’t we just go along with this and let her go?!”
Refusing the plot, erasure.
The system uttered not a single word of nonsense, and then, as if scared by the killing intent, it wouldn’t come out no matter how much she called.
He Shu wiped her tears. Her last chance for a reduced sentence was gone.
Then she might as well finish the plot quickly and die sooner for a better rebirth.
He Shu pinched the person’s face as she had in the hospital, and in the same manner, pretended to slap her face away.
“This slap is to make you remember. From now on, with me, there’s only one thing you can beg for, and that’s for me to play with you—beg me to play with you.”
After completing the action, He Shu quickly pressed down on the person’s back, forcing her back into a kneeling and sprawling position.
“Now, boohoohoo, crawl for me.” As she spoke, He Shu pulled the iron chain on Cen Qianyi’s neck collar, using a little force.
Cen Qianyi had no choice but to lift her head, looking at the tear-blurred face, her eyes filled with complex emotions.
What did this person just say? She wanted to play with her… and she was so delusional as to ask her to beg her to play with her…
What was in her head…?
Looking at the posture she had been forced into, indeed, she wanted her to crawl. Quite audacious.
Such a person… never mind, living is a waste.
Cen Qianyi decided to retract her decision from last night.
He Shu looked at the densely packed air knives in front of her. Her knees instantly went soft, but she couldn’t run!
Not only could she not, He Shu glanced at the iron chain in her hand; she also had to whip her!
After whipping her, she had to drag the person out the door.
He Shu made one last desperate plea: “System, if I drag her out to crawl like this, there’s truly no saving her!”
Refusing the plot, erasure!
He Shu’s tears streamed down her face. She really wanted to strangle herself with the iron chain. Once again, she prayed to every Bodhisattva she could think of, and of course, her dog angel.
Qianqian, please bless her, bless your owner so she can die quickly when she falls into Cen Qianyi’s hands later.
He Shu closed her eyes. As the mental countdown neared its end, she had no choice but to raise the iron chain, ready to whip the person.
Just then, a knock came from the door!
The silence in her mind was sudden!
He Shu slammed on the brakes, the whip striking her own face instead, making her flinch from the pain.
“What’s going on, system? This wasn’t in the plot!”
The original character has developed beyond the script. Host, you may improvise freely.
Before He Shu could fully grasp the first half of the system’s sentence, she heard Su Ming’s voice.
“Boss, are you in there?”
Su Ming’s voice sounded a bit urgent. He Shu looked at the iron chain in her hand and immediately dropped it.
“Come in.”
He Shu noticed that all the action prompts and countdowns in her mind had stopped. This was probably due to this “original character extending beyond the plot” situation.
Su Ming walked directly to He Shu without glancing sideways, reporting in a low voice: “Boss, something’s happened.”
He Shu: “Hm?”
Su Ming glanced at Cen Qianyi beside them. He Shu didn’t get the hint and continued to wait for Su Ming’s update. Su Ming was a bit surprised that He Shu didn’t want to avoid Cen Qianyi.
Indeed, Boss was a bit different with this new plaything.
Collecting herself, Su Ming quickly got to the point: “Doctor Pei is dead. Hospital colleagues discovered it five minutes ago during a shift change. The police have already been notified.”
Doctor Pei?
He Shu was shocked: “Pei Congxin?”
Su Ming nodded.
He Shu snapped her head back to look at Cen Qianyi, who was sitting on the floor. The person was fine yesterday when she gave Cen Qianyi an injection, and now she’s dead?
“When did she die?”
“Hospital colleagues’ preliminary judgment is two hours ago.”
That would be around 2 or 3 AM.
He Shu’s eyes trembled. Although she had only just met the person yesterday, and only saw her once, hearing that she had suddenly died still made her feel uneasy.
At the same time, she was somewhat suspicious… Her gaze fell on Cen Qianyi. Could this have been Cen Qianyi’s doing…?
Cen Qianyi caught the flicker of suspicion in He Shu’s eyes, and couldn’t help but wonder what she knew.
He Shu quickly dismissed her own guess. Cen Qianyi was currently under the effects of a muscle relaxant, couldn’t see, and was locked in this room. She had personally opened the lock just now, so it shouldn’t be her.
Averting her gaze, He Shu looked at Su Ming: “Have you learned the specific details?”
Su Ming nodded, about to report, but He Shu suddenly held up a hand, interrupting her.
He Shu looked at Su Ming, then at Cen Qianyi, and then at the plot in her mind.
Her eyes brightened again and again.
She began to walk out, saying as she went: “I’m going to climb the mountain, uh, and walk the dog. Talk as we go.”
Su Ming immediately followed. At the doorway, He Shu seemed to remember something and looked at Cen Qianyi.
Su Ming followed her gaze. Boss was walking the dog, but forgot the dog… She looked back at He Shu, realizing the boss hadn’t moved, and in an instant, she understood her meaning.
Su Ming went inside, pulled the person from the floor, and led her out. Cen Qianyi appeared completely unable to resist.
He Shu stepped aside to let Su Ming go out first.
After Su Ming took Cen Qianyi out, He Shu found that all the plot hints about the room disappeared!
If the timing wasn’t so off, He Shu would have given herself a thumbs-up. Her brain was just so useful at crucial moments.
This was indeed an instance of the original character developing beyond the script. Su Ming was the one who took Cen Qianyi out of the room. Since the person was already brought out, she naturally didn’t have to force her to crawl.
He Shu took Cen Qianyi from Su Ming’s arms, slipped her hands under her knees, and simply carried her, telling Su Ming to relay the details known by the hospital as they walked downstairs.
Cen Qianyi wrapped her arms around He Shu’s neck as soon as she was lifted into the air. At this distance, she could easily take the other’s life, but unfortunately, there were too many people around; it wasn’t a suitable time to act.
On the first floor, He Shu saw the servants already lined up at the door, waiting for her.
She turned to Su Ming: “Try not to spread the news about Doctor Pei.”
As she spoke, she very deliberately glanced at the people at the door.
Su Ming immediately understood and sent everyone away.
He Shu saw that the plot point ‘making Cen Qianyi crawl out of the main gate in front of the servants’ had also disappeared from her mind.
He Shu was so excited she wanted to shed tears. She understood! She couldn’t change the plot, but the characters in the book could!
She hadn’t said or done anything; Su Ming had done it all herself!
This ‘lackey’ was incredibly useful. Yesterday she said people were stupid from working so much, but He Shu wanted to retract that. This was a top-tier employee.
Raise her salary, definitely raise her salary!
After Su Ming sent the servants back to the annex building with instructions not to go out, she returned to He Shu’s side and continued to relay what she knew.
This continued until He Shu reached the foot of the mountain at the edge of the garden.
He Shu’s villa was already on the mountaintop; the mountain she was to climb was actually a slightly higher peak on the summit.
While Su Ming was talking, He Shu walked faster and faster, almost running. The system prompted that she needed to reach the summit before sunrise. The sky was already brightening.
“You go and get more information first. We’ll talk when I get back.”
After dismissing Su Ming, He Shu looked at the peak in front of her. The steps were neatly clean, as if someone had swept them.
She said she was climbing a mountain, but it was actually just climbing stairs.
He Shu put down Cen Qianyi, estimated the number of steps, and then looked at Cen Qianyi beside her, who was both muscle-paralyzed and blind.
If she made the person climb herself, there wouldn’t be enough time.
No time left!
He Shu took off her jacket, wrapped it around Cen Qianyi, zipped it up, and then hoisted her onto her back and began to climb.
Fortunately, it was called ‘climbing the mountain,’ and walking was also called climbing the mountain, not actually having to kneel to crawl. The plot also didn’t require Cen Qianyi to climb the mountain step by step herself.
She carried the person up the mountain, letting her walk a couple of steps in between before continuing to carry her. Cen Qianyi could still be considered to have ‘climbed the mountain.’
He Shu felt her brain was so useful at crucial moments!
Thank goodness, this body’s stamina was also incredibly good!
And fortunately, the person on her shoulder was also unusually cooperative, not uttering a sound or moving, just letting her carry her.
Cen Qianyi had been subtly observing her surroundings since He Shu carried her out of the villa.
Last night, she didn’t have enough time or energy to scout the specifics of this residence. She hadn’t realized it was a villa built on a mountain.
Moreover, there was only this one building on the mountain. This mountain seemed to be a private one, probably belonging to the woman currently carrying her.
She was indeed playing very ‘wildly.’ Listening to the woman’s increasingly heavy breathing and watching the distant flower tree in the garden at the foot of the mountain, Cen Qianyi’s hands, forced into her clothes, rubbed her fingernails together.
She wondered what this person was doing taking her up this uninhabited mountain. She didn’t believe it was just to watch the sunrise…
But no matter what, Cen Qianyi’s lips curled slightly. She would definitely make her regret this trip up the mountain.
Oh, no, it should be regret being born into this world.
He Shu was climbing with fervor when she suddenly felt a chill down her back. She wanted to look back, but the alarm in her mind started counting down!
No time left. With only a few steps remaining, He Shu gave the person an upward jostle, took two steps at a time, and began to sprint.
Finally, as the light in the sky broke free from the shackles of darkness, He Shu stepped onto the mountaintop.
Her stride was too large, and her foot slipped!
“Ah––”
A shout echoed across the mountaintop as the light of dawn broke.
He Shu’s shoulder lightened. Her face plummeted forward, watching in wide-eyed horror as Cen Qianyi was thrown from her hands!