Chapter 260 : Played to Pieces
[Ding, detected host entering nervous state, heart activity intense, heartbeat index exceeding 160% reaching 62 beats/min, overloaded operation, please host calm down.]
[Ding, detected host entering nervous state, heart activity intense, heartbeat index exceeding 180% reaching 76 beats/min, overloaded operation, please host pay attention to calming mood and easing emotions.]
[Ding... reaching 200%]
Ding dong~ Ding dong~
At the door of Weiyang Apartments room 103.
As the doorbell rang again and again in Yun Xia's home.
At this moment, Su Mo's little heart, stimulated by the crisis of having Senior Chu Tianlan in front and Junior Yun Xia behind, began trembling non-stop in her chest, with increasingly urgent system notification sounds ringing in her mind.
Facing this crisis, Su Mo now had two choices before her.
One was to quietly wait for Senior Chu Tianlan to leave.
But choosing this option, during the waiting process, might very likely wake up the sleeping Yun Xia.
If the hypnosis ended and Yun Xia came to open the door, she would definitely discover her disguise, and then with the senior and junior working together, her mission would fail.
The other choice was to open the door now.
But this choice also had drawbacks.
According to Su Mo's usual observations, the relationship between Chu Tianlan and Yun Xia, this pair of senior and junior, was very close like An Xiaoqian and Lin Muyao, those best friends.
Although Su Mo was now wearing Yun Xia's makeup, if she rashly opened the door and made Chu Tianlan leave, it might make the detail-oriented Chu Tianlan notice something amiss.
And if she let Chu Tianlan enter the room, she'd fall into a cyclical crisis. If their conversation woke Yun Xia and she came out of the room, everything would be ruined just the same.
Of course, Su Mo had also considered the plan of welcoming Chu Tianlan into the room and then secretly escaping.
But considering her physical constitution of only 2, even with the small white socks, Su Mo felt she probably couldn't outrun Chu Tianlan, who exercised daily.
Ding dong~
While Su Mo's CPU spun frantically, time wouldn't stop for this.
The doorbell had already begun ringing for the third time.
As the doorbell rang, Chu Tianlan's gentle girl's voice also appeared outside the door.
"Junior Yun Xia, are you home? I sent you a WeChat message, why haven't you replied?"
Perhaps Chu Tianlan's voice triggered muscle memory in Yun Xia.
Mmm... ehn…
Soon Su Mo heard dissatisfied whimpering sounds from the bedroom, clearly a prelude to getting up.
Facing the increasingly tense crisis, thinking that if the mission was exposed, her 'tough guy' dream would shatter and she'd really become a beautiful girl, and one with a strange mark at that.
Ding dong~
Ehn~
Ding dong~
Because the sense of crisis was too intense, with the doorbell and bedroom sounds becoming increasingly urgent, at this moment Su Mo only felt her little heart completely out of control, as if it would leap from her chest.
Her pale little hands began trembling from the rapid heartbeat, and her whole small body had to lean against the wall to barely avoid falling, even her vision began to blur.
[Ding!!!!! Detected host entering nervous state, heart activity intense, heartbeat index exceeding 221% reaching 88 beats/min, overloaded operation, please host calm heartbeat, otherwise will enter fainting, shock, convulsion state. (Warm reminder: Host can use calming pills to restore normal heartbeat)]
As this huge notification sound from her system rang out, hearing about the calming pills in the warm reminder.
Under the influence of survival instinct, Su Mo didn't hesitate and directly summoned and swallowed them.
As the 'calming pills' with a slight sweet taste were consumed, the next second, like magic.
Su Mo's heartbeat directly returned to normal, and her nervous emotions began returning to normal.
While Su Mo's original intention in taking this pill was to calm her emotions.
She didn't expect that after her emotions calmed.
Su Mo suddenly discovered her brain had become clear.
Facing the current problem of being caught between front and back, the calmed Su Mo, seeing Yun Xia's aunt's shoes at the entrance, then looking at the cold medicine packaging in the trash bag that she had consumed yesterday, and smelling the little mandarin scent from Yun Xia that had rubbed off on her, a reasonable and mature plan immediately emerged in Su Mo's mind.
The next second, Su Mo first opened the bedroom door a crack and spoke to the struggling Yun Xia who wanted to get up, mimicking aunt Yun Shu's voice.
"Little Xia Xia, my friend is here, don't worry, keep sleeping!"
After this sentence, Yun Xia's emotions were soothed and she stopped struggling to get up, quickly falling back into exhausted sleep.
After solving the Yun Xia problem, Su Mo went to the entrance, gently opened the front door, and welcomed Chu Tianlan inside.
Chu Tianlan had been feeling strange since yesterday.
Because ever since the bold Su Mo started playing Hide-and-Seek, An Xiaoqian, that little junior, had been very enthusiastic about catching Su Mo and punishing her.
Since the day before yesterday, she sent herself a message almost every hour.
Some of these messages were predictions about where Su Mo might go. Others were about where Yun Xia planned to search and punishment play outfits.
But yesterday, Yun Xia's WeChat was unusually quiet.
She had been quite active before noon, but after sending a voice message at 2 PM, she disappeared, even choosing not to reply to messages sent to her.
Although she sent a simple "mm" at night, confirming Yun Xia's safety.
But considering their usual communication, Yun Xia always sent voice messages.
Thinking of all these inconsistencies, the worried Chu Tianlan specially came to visit today.
As the door opened, Chu Tianlan was slightly stunned.
Because the usually lively Yun Xia who opened doors was not only slow today.
When opening the door, she also held up her hand making a shushing gesture.
Besides the somewhat inconsistent behavior, whether it was Chu Tianlan's imagination or not.
She always felt that today's Junior Yun Xia seemed to have some physical changes.
She seemed a bit taller, and her chest seemed a bit flatter. Although the scent was the same little mandarin as usual, it seemed to be mixed with a faint familiar delicate fragrance.
Delicate fragrance?
Associating this with Su Mo's unique scent.
Facing the Yun Xia before her.
Chu Tianlan quickly shook her head, feeling she must be having hallucinations from being too mentally taxed searching for Su Mo these past two days.
After all, how could Junior Yun Xia possibly find Su Mo and not tell her!
Just as the detail-oriented Chu Tianlan, seeing Su·Yun Xia·Mo, had countless thoughts racing through her mind in an instant.
Su Mo had already pulled Chu Tianlan into the living room and said quietly.
"Senior Chu, my Aunt came back from out of town, had a fever last night, just broke the fever this morning and fell asleep."
Chu Tianlan, entering the room, saw the small shoes at the entrance that didn't belong to Yun Xia, and looked at the cold medicine packaging in the trash. Although her sixth sense still felt something was off.
She did relax somewhat.
After all, everything seemed explainable now.
Yun Xia not replying to her messages was probably because she had to take care of her sick aunt.
Being slow to open the door was probably for the same reason.
Having figured all this out, just as Chu Tianlan was about to discuss yesterday's 'Mo Mo's Ready-Made Clothing Store' revenue and today's direction for searching for Su Mo with Yun Xia.
She saw Yun Xia had already walked to the entrance, put on her small shoes, and said.
"Senior Chu, I need to get some congee for my aunt. You sit here for a bit, and later we can discuss where to catch Su... Senior Mo Mo. Should we have small wontons together?"
Hearing Yun Xia's suggestion to buy breakfast, Chu Tianlan was slightly stunned.
Logically, shouldn't she accompany Yun Xia to buy breakfast for her 'aunt'?
However, following basic etiquette of being a guest.
And considering that 'Mo Mo's Ready-Made Clothing Store' had been doing well recently, Junior Yun Xia could now be financially independent, Chu Tianlan didn't think much of it.
During the leisure time waiting for breakfast, Chu Tianlan took out her phone and quietly browsed the Su University forum, seeing if she could find relevant information about the disobedient Junior Su Mo.
Just as Chu Tianlan silently browsed posts,
After scrolling through 5 posts, Chu Tianlan was slightly puzzled.
The breakfast shop was right at the entrance of Weiyang Apartments, so why hadn't Yun Xia returned yet?
After scrolling through 10 posts, Chu Tianlan's phoenix eyes narrowed slightly, some details catching her attention.
Even though Yun Xia had been gone so long, why was there still such a rich little mandarin scent in the room?
And wasn't this shopping time too long? Ten very long posts, even cooking would be done by now!
This isn't right!?
Because of the violations accumulating one after another since entering Yun Xia's home.
Considering that Yun Xia's aunt was also a woman, as a fellow girl, Chu Tianlan, after brief consideration, first went to the kitchen to get a cup of water.
Then she knocked on the door and entered the aunt's room.
But found it empty.
Facing this situation, Chu Tianlan's delicate eyebrows furrowed, then following the 'little mandarin' floral fragrance, she walked toward Yun Xia's room.
Creak~
When she carefully pushed open the wooden door,
The scene before her eyes made Chu Tianlan's narrow phoenix eyes widen.
She saw Yun Xia's small room with messy bed sheets, clothes scattered around as if robbers had ransacked the place.
What surprised Chu Tianlan most was that the room wasn't housing an 'aunt' at all, but clearly Yun Xia herself.
At this moment, Yun Xia, covered by a small blanket, had her pale little face tinged with satisfied exhaustion.
Her bare leg exposed outside the blanket was even slightly trembling.
Looking at Yun Xia in this thoroughly bullied state, Chu Tianlan immediately realized that the 'Yun Xia' who had just left was Su Mo!!!
Silently clenching her pink fists, she mentally noted this 'under the nose' account.
However, thinking that Su Mo had already escaped for half an hour, chasing now would definitely be futile.
To obtain some useful information, Chu Tianlan took three steps in two, walking to the messy bed.
Looking at the bed and Yun Xia's exhausted sleeping appearance, Chu Tianlan's delicate eyebrows furrowed slightly.
So how did the frail Su Mo manage to subdue Yun Xia and bully her so badly?
Although Yun Xia slept sweetly and beautifully, not wanting to disturb her.
Chu Tianlan still gently patted Yun Xia's cheek out of curiosity.
After gently patting the little face that was flushed like she was drunk a full five times,
Yun Xia finally opened her sleepy eyes after several dissatisfied whimpers.
Seeing Yun Xia wake up, Chu Tianlan waited a bit more until her eyes seemed clearer before asking.
"Junior Yun Xia, how exactly were you bullied by Su Mo yesterday?"
Hearing Chu Tianlan's question mentioning Su Mo.
Yun Xia somewhat puzzledly reached out her small hand to cover her little head in thought, even making an 'mm' sound.
After carefully thinking for a full five seconds, she finally answered.
"Senior Chu, how did you come to my house? I... I haven't seen Senior Mo Mo at all?"
Hearing Yun Xia's answer and looking at the just-awakened Yun Xia's not-too-bright appearance.
At this moment, several big question marks slowly appeared above Chu Tianlan's head.
Could it be that... Junior Yun Xia... was played to pieces?