Chapter 17: CH 17

“And the one with the long beard, it seems chewy.” The sound of swallowing came from the phone, “Director Mu, you have to hurry up, we’re all starving!”

“……”

The kid with tender skin who’s holding the dog?

Su Qing Xing subconsciously picked Si Si up from the sofa, then looked down and locked eyes with Si Si in his arms. Was it him that the caller was talking about?

The little snow wolf lying in Su Qingxing’s arms, on the other hand, narrowed his eyes slightly and twisted his head to look at a certain direction of the glass wall.

And everyone in Mu Rong’s office fell silent. The entire room instantly turned quiet, leaving only the slightly heavy breathing of everyone.

“Liu, General Liu, don’t joke like this.” Mu Rong’s laugh was extremely forced, “Human flesh is not as good as steak, I’ll treat everyone to a big meal when we get off work, okay?”

Su Qingxing had been observing Mu Rong’s expression, this woman who looked both strong and tough currently had an expression like she was about to cry, as if she was trying her best to pray that Mr. Liu at the other end of the phone was just joking.

It was obvious that she was fine before, but from the moment Mu Rong saw this General Manager Liu, something seemed to be wrong.

“Mu Rong, have you forgotten who single-handedly promoted you to this level?” Chief Liu’s vicious voice came from the phone, “Is it too much to ask for a few people to eat now?!”

Su Qingxing saw that Qin Guan had by now regained his ax back in his hand and made a vigilant posture.

“Boom!”

A loud sound came as if something had crashed into the glass wall of Mu Rong’s office! Even the blinds covering the glass wall trembled.

Su Qingxing immediately took a step backwards and retreated to the back of the group. But at that time, all the others also stepped backwards in unison, as if the further away they were from the wall of glass that had been hit, the safer they would be.

“Mu Rong, we’re starving to death!” The voice of Mr Liu continued over the speakerphone, “We want a big meal!”

“Pop!” Mu Rong hung up the phone in a flash and took several steps backwards just like the others.

Su Qingxing noticed that when Mu Rong was backing up, she was still holding the remote control that opened and closed the blinds.

“What’s happening outside?” While everyone was silent, Bai Hua asked with interest, “Don’t you guys want to take a look? It’s such a shame that Sister Mu was the only one who saw it when we were in the washroom earlier!”

Everyone looked at Bai Hua with incredulous eyes.

Although Bai Hua was a bit crazy at times, most of the time he would still put on a shell of modesty to hide the madness inside.

But now ……

“Why are you looking at me like that?” Bai Hua, however, smiled nonchalantdly.

“Mu Rong is not in the right state to open the door.” The one who spoke was Su Qingxing, who had never expressed an opinion before.

“Boom!” Another loud sound of impact came.

Immediately afterwards, a very loud voice yelled out from outside the door, “Mu Rong! We’re hungry! Hand over the humans!”

The hysterical voice belonged to that Chief Liu, and there were many other answering voices shouting all around –

“So hungry!”

“So hungry!!!”

“We’re so hungry!”

“We want to eat a big meal!”

Su Qingxing noticed that Mu Rong’s hands were trembling and her face was a little white, obviously reaching some sort of critical point.

The glass wall kept being banged against, again and again, incessantly, causing Mu Rong’s expression to become more and more painful, so much so that even her eyes began to redden slightly.

Who the hell was that Mr. Liu?

“Mu Rong.” Su Qingxing hugged Si Si in his hands tightly, his finger bones which had been very relaxed suddenly tightened, “Mr. Qin said, if you are afraid, close your eyes.”

The beautiful and exquisite teenager stood in front of Mu Rong, those black eyes gazing at her seriously. There was no falsehood or crookedness in his eyes, just a very sincere hope that through such a small method, Mu Rong would no longer be so afraid.

Su Qingxing was not as tall as Death, but he was already about the same height as Mu Rong who was wearing a pair of high heels. Dressed in a well-fitting school uniform, his temperament also looked as quiet as water.

When such a Su Qingxing held the little snow wolf in his arms and looked at Mu Rong, Mu Rong also stared back in a dazed manner.

A few seconds later, the woman rubbed her eyes, which were a little red but hadn’t shed tears, and tried to smile at Su Qingxing, “Thank you, brother Qingxing, I’m fine, if I close my eyes I might cry out instead.”

“Miss Mu, this is not like you!” Qin Guan walked in front of the lady and the teenager with a cigarette in his mouth and an ax in his hand, before turning back around and using the same clumsy provocation as before, “You are a high achiever who can make a ghost cry with one high heel, and now you are transformed into Lin Daiyu1?”

“You are the one who is Lin Daiyu!” It was unknown whether Su Qingxing’s and Qin Guan’s “comfort” had an effect, but although the glass wall continued to be banged against, Mu Rong still glared at Qin Guan in a very spirited manner.

“I am Jia Baoyu2.” Qin Guan, holding a cigarette in his mouth, said shamelessly.

“Squinty eyes!” Mu Rong glared at Qin Guan the same way as before.

“Grumpy girl!” Qin Guan did not budge either.

Although the two incompatible people were going toe to toe there, the atmosphere was a little more relaxed than before.

On the other side, the glass wall, even if it was strong, would make people question its durability under repeated impacts.

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So when the shaking of the blinds intensified, Mu Rong took a deep breath and suddenly said, “That Mr Liu, the one surnamed Liu, is my boyfriend.”

In the next second, everyone’s eyes gathered on Mu Rong.

Su Qingxing tried hard to recall the appearance of that Mr. Liu, but couldn’t really remember what that person looked like.

“What are you looking at?” Mu Rong glared, “I’m not young, I have a successful career, and I’m not ugly, what’s wrong with having a boyfriend? It’s strange not to have a boyfriend, right?”

“Wait, keep in mind that I, your older sister3, got my promotion all on my own, it has nothing to do with that Liu guy, and we’ve almost broken up, understand4?” she added immediately, as the original tension and strength on her face relaxed a lot.

“So are we going to stay here and talk?” Bai Hua’s voice once again came somewhat abruptly, and the smiling teenager cocked his head and said, “I want to go out first.”

With that, Bai Hua actually turned around and walked over to where Mu Rong’s office door was and turned the door handle with force.

“Click.” The door didn’t respond at all, no matter how much Bai Hua tried to open it, the office door remained tightly shut.

“All the main switches in my office can be controlled with this remote.” Mu Rong waved the remote control in her hand. She had used this remote control to close the blinds on the glass wall before, but they hadn’t thought that such a small remote control could also control the door lock.

“Please open the door.” The smile on Bai Hua’s face disappeared, “I really don’t want to keep playing around.”

“Aren’t you afraid?” It was still Su Qingxing who opened his mouth, “Walking out might get you eaten.”

“No.” The expression on Bai Hua’s face was incredibly confident, “Because I am the bride of death, so I won’t die from the very beginning!”

Bai Hua was sick again.

“The result hasn’t appeared yet, no one knows who the bride of death really is.” Su Qingxing walked towards Bai Hua with Si Si in his arms, “Senior Bai, what if the Bride of Death …… is not you?”

At this moment, for the first time, two teenagers who initially gave off somewhat similar feelings stood so face to face.

One was Bai Hua, the always smiling teenager with the pure white shirt, youthful and well behaved, yet at times appearing to be intimidating. In Bai Hua’s mind, he was the bride of death, so he would not die or fail, confident to the point of being terrifying.

The other was Su Qingxing, a teenager in the academy uniform, quiet and refined, but the least daring one in the team, and many feared that Su Qingxing would be the first one to fail in the team. But it was unclear if it was because of meeting Si Si, but Su Qingxing seemed to have gradually relaxed and his whole person was slowly coming out of the shell.

The two teenagers were standing face to face, Bai Hua was still smiling and said to Su Qing Xing in a tone that was sweet to the point of being greasy, “Senior Su, what did you just say?”

“What if the bride of death is not you?” Su Qingxing asked again with a bashful face.

Seeing the two teenagers confronting each other, Mu Rong and Qin Guan were both a little surprised, after all, Su Qingxing was originally such a timid person, but now he was arguing head-on with Bai Hua.

And Du Wei, who hadn’t said much, looked at the two teenagers with very complicated eyes, his thoughts unknown to all.

“Who else could it be besides me?” Bai Hua’s eyes widened, holding a smile that couldn’t quite break out, “Is it that old woman Mu Rong, or you, Su QingXing, a coward?

“What?!” Mu Rong was ready to rush over, only to be grabbed by Qin Guan’s arm.

“Do you guys know how much it cost me to get here?” Bai Hua suddenly uttered inexplicable words, “I originally thought that there was only me and Death in this world, but I didn’t expect that there would be more of you, all as companions and burdens! None of you know how I feel!”

“Perhaps I do.” Su Qingxing’s expression was as calm as ever.

“You have no idea!” Bai Hua shouted, “Now, let me walk out, if I am safe from those monsters outside, then I can prove it to you all– I am the Bride of Death! Mu Rong, open the door and let me out!”

“You’ll die.” Su Qingxing sighed faintly.

“Perhaps you wouldn’t think so if you knew the price I’ve paid.” A smile appeared again on Bai Hua’s face, sweet and creepy.

“Actually, I really do know.” Su Qingxing looked at Bai Hua, “You tricked your friend into ‘sacrificing’ himself to the god of death with you. Then at the ceremony, after your friend ended up as a blood sacrifice, didn’t you offer yourself to the god of death by killing yourself too?”

Sacrifice?

Suicide?

Everyone was dumbfounded.

Even Bai Hua stared at Su Qingxing with incomparable shock.

“You …… how did you know?”

“You know me don’t you? You actually knew me from the beginning, you are also a student of Fan Yang High School right?!”

Bai Hua obviously didn’t guess the mysterious truth hidden in Su Qingxing, he just thought that Su Qingxing was his fellow school senior.

“Sort of.” Although Su Qingxing did not like Bai Hua, the trial was not yet over, so he said smoothly, “Your matter is really famous in the school.”

Trialists usually didn’t remember the cause of their death, and the reason Bai Hua was able to remember was probably because his obsession was just too fanatical.

“Then you should know even better why I’m so confident.” Bai Hua grew more and more agitated, “I was obviously dead, but now I am standing here alive and well, which means that someone has brought me back to life!”

“No, the one who can do this cannot be human at all, the only one who can do this is the God of Death!” That familiar frenzied expression reappeared on Bai Hua’s face, “If I am not the bride of the God of Death, why would he bring me back to life?!”

Lin Daiyu is one of the principal characters of Cao Xueqin’s classic 18th century Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber. She is portrayed as well educated, modest, intelligent and beautiful but physically frail and sickly. Read more about her here: Lin Daiyu

Another main character in Dream of the Red Chamber, Jia Baoyu is in a love triangle with Lin Daiyu (a cousin whom he loves) and Xue Baochai (a cousin he is destined to marry)

Mu Rong is calling herself elder sister (jiejie) as a confident way to refer to herself. It’s kinda like the female version of Laozi (Aka I, your father)

this was written in English.

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