The female leads who were scummed by her all turned blackened (GL) - Chapter 9

Soon, Chan Xi had to implement this vague idea ahead of schedule—feigning illness and acting pitiful, then asking questions.

Because after that night, Chan Yiye never returned to the Chan family, nor to the bedroom opposite Chan Xi’s.

At first, Chan Xi thought it was as the system said—Chan Yiye had just taken over the real power of the Chan family and was busy dealing with business matters. But it was like this for one day, two days… and a week.

In addition, Chan Xi called the female lead, but she didn’t answer, and she didn’t reply to WeChat messages.

“You’re a machine, you know,” Chan Xi cursed in her heart.

What else didn’t she understand? Chan Yiye was avoiding her and didn’t want to see her.

On the one hand, Chan Xi grumbled and cursed. On the other hand, she breathed a sigh of relief. This showed that Chan Yiye cared very much about what happened that night and didn’t know how to face her, so she avoided her.

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Chan Xi’s strategy was to feign illness and act pitiful.

But the implementation of this plan didn’t go smoothly, because the system said that the function of feigning illness required points to exchange. She was penniless, so how could she have any points? In the end, she had to really get sick, otherwise, the thermometer would show that she was faking it.

Chan Xi could only bitterly take cold showers in winter. She turned off the heating in the bathroom and bedroom and soaked naked in ice water. The skin exposed to the air reacted with goosebumps, and the cold stung her senses. Her body soaked in the ice water seemed to be wrapped and invaded by endless cold. Chan Xi chattered her teeth, cursing the system while soaking.

As she cursed, her body seemed to lose consciousness.

Two hours later.

Her body seemed to have a last flash of vitality, emitting waves of heat. Chan Xi was surprised to find that her hands and feet were so stiff that she couldn’t move. She waved her hands hard and regained a little sensation.

When she exhausted her strength to return to bed and hid in the quilt, the weariness of regaining warmth swept her consciousness.

••••

“Ms. Chan, is there anything urgent? There is a more important meeting to be held later. Do we need to reschedule?” The assistant saw Ms. Chan frequently opening her phone, frowning, as if she was thinking and worried about something, and finally couldn’t help but ask.

After all, if Ms. Chan had something to do, she had to coordinate in advance. The attendees of the next meeting were all important shareholders, and their schedules were also very busy.

“…No, just proceed as usual.” Chan Yiye suppressed the strangeness in her heart and put on a gentle smile again, shaking her head at the assistant.

That woman used to send her messages every day. Why hasn’t she sent one today?

When she realized what she was thinking, her face sank. She had stayed away from that woman, but she was still able to disturb her thoughts. Chan Yiye took a deep breath and suppressed these thoughts, deciding to focus on dealing with the company’s affairs.

Soon, the assistant informed her that the meeting was about to begin.

However, at the same time, the phone suddenly started to vibrate continuously, and a call came in.

Chan Yiye’s intuition told her that this call was related to Chan Xi, and her brows suddenly relaxed.

Ignoring the vibrating phone, she said to the assistant, “Let’s go.”

The assistant also saw the unaccepted call and carefully reminded, “Ms. Chan, you have a call.”

“Ignore it. It’s just an unimportant person and matter.”

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On the other side, Aunt Chan looked at the still unanswered phone screen and anxiously paced back and forth.

On the bed, Chan Xi’s pale face was curled up in the quilt. The feeling of being sick was terrible. Her body was cold and hot, as if she was being roasted in a double world of ice and fire. The price she paid was so huge that Chan Xi insisted on seeing Chan Yiye before seeing a doctor and taking medicine.

In the blur of her eyes, she saw Aunt Chan’s anxious figure in front of the bed.

“Aunt Chan, she still… didn’t answer?” Chan Xi murmured, the dull pain in the back of her head getting worse.

She regretted using this strategy. If Chan Yiye still didn’t come back, wouldn’t she lose both her wife and her troops?

Chattering her teeth and enduring her mental weakness, she reached out to Aunt Chan for the phone, “I’ll call…”

The regular and mechanical busy tone was like the boundless darkness of night. The hope rising in her heart was gradually eroded by this darkness. Chan Xi’s memory uncontrollably recalled the fragments she had forgotten in the corner.

Why was she so sure about the strategy of being sick? In addition to what happened at the banquet a few days ago, it was also because when she hadn’t broken up with Chan Yiye, Chan Yiye would soften her heart every time she was sick. No matter what they had argued about, she would hug her tightly when she was sick and tell her to take care of herself.

Every time she was sick, Chan Yiye would hug her in her arms, and she would always fall asleep smelling the fragrance of her hair.

Maybe she was so feverish that her reason was blurred. Without the interference of drunkenness, Chan Xi could clearly perceive a phantom.

In front of her was a familiar back. She reached out to grab it, but it was empty.

She was a little sad… sad that the female lead didn’t come back as she expected… or sad that the female lead didn’t love her anymore?

Chan Xi thought that maybe today was just a farce, just her self-directed and self-acted play.

Until the moment the phone was connected—

“Hello?”

If you keep thinking about it, there will be a response.