Chapter 99: Hmph~
Outside, the night wind was slowly becoming freezing cold.
The cold wind made the curtains rustle. Inside, the room was brightly lit. The shadows of two people sitting on the sofa stretched long and thin across the white wall.
Click!
Jiang Heng lit a cigarette and coldly glanced at the woman sitting opposite him.
Xu Yanan.
Unlike Mu Yi, even after many years, she still looked almost the same as she did in his memories. She still kept that young, innocent appearance from middle school.
Of course, that was only on the surface.
Back then, the scene of her mocking Mu Yi and calling him a useless mama’s boy had been so dramatic that people would want to record it on camera.
Jiang Heng still remembered it clearly.
“If you want help, then you should at least act like you’re asking for help~ I can help you, but what benefits can you give me?” Xu Yanan crossed one leg and looked at Jiang Heng with obvious greed in her eyes.
Whether she agreed or not depended entirely on her mood. Naturally, she thought she was the one in control now.
Since Jiang Heng was the one asking for help, he should lower himself. If he refused, she could just leave anyway. Even if she did not help, she would lose nothing.
“As long as the plan succeeds, I’ll give it to you.”
Jiang Heng casually said words that made Xu Yanan’s heart race.
“Mhm~ You really do understand me well. You know exactly what I want.”
A ripple appeared in Xu Yanan’s eyes. She could not help licking her dry lips.
The most basic human desire tempted her like a moth flying toward fire. She wanted to personally light that fire inside him, and she was already getting impatient.
“It’s already past midnight. Why not stay the night?”
Stay?
Heh, stay so you can eat me alive afterward?
Jiang Heng sneered in his heart and stood up to walk toward the living room door.
“No need. Have a good rest. Remember, I want to see Mu Yi tomorrow night.”
He was only two steps away from the door.
Yet those two steps felt like an endless moving walkway going backward. No matter how he walked forward, the distance between him and the door did not change at all.
Hm?
Jiang Heng frowned.
“What? Changed your mind and decided to stay?”
“......”
The joy in her voice annoyed Jiang Heng, but he had no time to care about that now.
Then, a figure suddenly appeared by the window.
It was the little witch wearing the pointed witch hat!
“When night falls, close your eyes. The little witch has appeared~” She blinked and waved her wand.
Before the man and woman inside the room could react, the surroundings around them suddenly changed. It felt as if they had returned to the middle school campus from years ago.
A boy wearing a skirt sat in front of a white piano, playing a beautiful melody.
Students surrounded him from every direction, watching the show.
Not only students from that school, but also many from other schools were there. Those outsiders had all been specially brought by Jiang Heng to laugh at the boy.
Yes, Jiang Heng himself was not even a student of that school.
He came from another high school.
This whole scene had only been a task he arranged for his girlfriend, Xu Yanan.
Building his own happiness on other people’s pain, that was the way Jiang Heng had always lived.
Birds of a feather flock together. Naturally, the people around him were the same kind.
As the piano music rose and fell, people around them slowly started failing to hold back their laughter.
Everything was developing exactly the same way as it had in their memories, right in front of the increasingly pale and frightened Jiang Heng and Xu Yanan.
It was as if someone was deliberately forcing them to relive this past.
However, at the moment the piano music reached its climax, every sound suddenly stopped.
Including the boy, every faceless person slowly and stiffly turned around. They laughed strangely as they walked toward them with slow and messy steps.
They looked like puppets controlled by someone else, their body movements unnaturally strange.
Creaking sounds also came from their bodies.
“J-Jiang Heng!” Xu Yanan was so scared that she quickly ran toward Jiang Heng. But right behind him, a woman in red suddenly appeared.
Her long hair covered her face. Her head was lowered, making her face impossible to see. Her whole body was wet, as if she had just climbed out of water.
“Hm?”
The pale hand of the woman in red slowly reached toward Jiang Heng’s neck, yet he still had not noticed her.
He was clearly about to die!
“Watch out behind you!” Xu Yanan did not dare get any closer, but when she saw Jiang Heng in danger, hesitation flashed across her face. In the end, she still forced herself to rush toward the woman in red.
Watching Xu Yanan’s actions through the crystal ball, the little witch’s eyes were full of pity and sadness.
“If she knew...”
“After Jiang Heng finishes using her, she will become nothing more than a corpse. Would she still be this brave?”
Resting her chin on one hand, the little witch sighed emotionally. Broken and messy memories flashed through her mind.
The little witch turned the crystal ball again, and a new image slowly appeared on its surface.
A man and a woman sat side by side on some steps. Both of their faces were slightly red.
It looked just like the innocent feelings of young love beginning to bloom.
Only one final step remained before they could break through the invisible wall between them and hold hands.
“The mood is pretty good~”
The little witch covered her mouth and smiled like an excited aunt watching romance gossip.
………………
Mu Yi had originally truly planned to turn back into a man.
Honestly speaking, what reason did she have to refuse becoming a man again? She should have happily welcomed the return of her old “brother” and become a real tough guy again.
Yet when the little witch appeared before her, she made a decision she had never even dared imagine in her entire life.
That was… staying the way she was and continuing to live as a girl!
Both the little witch and Gu Zhiren were deeply shocked by this, especially Gu Zhiren.
His deep gaze made her feel heavy for no reason. Her chest felt tight, as if a huge stone was pressing down on her, making it hard to breathe.
She hated that feeling.
What they did not know was that the most shocked person was actually herself!
Now the little witch had left, leaving only her and Gu Zhiren alone together again.
Mu Yi was so nervous that she could not make a sound.
But she knew she could not just sit there and do nothing.
So she kicked her legs lightly and pretended to look relaxed and cheerful, like a little deer running freely across the grassland. A relieved smile appeared on her pretty face.
“You don’t actually think I decided to stay like this because of you, right?”
She playfully closed one eye and deliberately bumped Gu Zhiren’s shoulder while he stayed silent beside her.
“If thinking that makes you happy, then sure, Little Chubby, you can think that way~ But that’s only your opinion. It doesn’t mean I really think that way, okay?”
She tilted her head, half closed her eyes, and smiled calmly with the corners of her lips slightly raised.
“I wonder if the little witch managed to find the people secretly targeting us? I hope she gives them a really harsh lesson~”
Mu Yi narrowed her eyes and smiled.
Hmph, as expected of me. I actually came up with such a perfect solution.
She proudly placed one hand on her waist.
“Hmph~ Hm?”
Mu Yi proudly posed with her hand on her waist, but she soon noticed the person beside her still had not said a single word.
The white-haired girl froze for a moment. The smile on her face slowly faded away, and worry appeared in her eyes.
It felt like something was wrong with her childhood friend...