"I just finished applying medicine on you, and you're already misusing your arm!"
Lin Qiao rushed out of Luo Nanchen's arms in a hurry. "Come here. Let me take a look."
Luo Nanchen just stared at Lin Qiao quietly. As he looked, a smile slowly crept onto his lips, and his eyes were filled with tenderness and affection.
"Xiaolin, do you still remember the first time you applied medicine on me?"
Lin Qiao was taken aback. "I applied medicine on you?"
Luo Nanchen pursed his lips. "Yes. I was eleven then. It's been more than six years."
Seeing Luo Nanchen's dejected reaction, Lin Qiao really didn't dare to be careless. She quickly tried to recall.
More than six years...
Wasn't that when she had just transmigrated into the book?
Oh, she remembered. It was the day when she went to deliver Guigui medicine to Luo Siyuan. At that time, Luo Nanchen was covered in wounds and had forced his way into Zhaoyang Palace.
To make Luo Nanchen remember the harshness of the world, she had made him stand in the yard for a whole day.
"Remember. Of course I remember."
She had always been afraid that Luo Nanchen would bear a grudge against her, afraid of ending up as a human swine.
But...
She never thought that Luo Nanchen would actually fall in love with her.
This was something she wouldn't even dream of back then. Who would have thought?
The male protagonist of a popular cool - style novel falling in love with his evil step - mother.
Oh well, the step - mother romance, how exciting.
Luo Nanchen persisted, acting like a wronged little daughter - in - law. "Don't be perfunctory. What exactly do you remember?"
Lin Qiao confessed honestly. "I remember you laughing at my medical skills."
Luo Nanchen tried hard to recall but couldn't remember anything about him laughing at Lin Qiao. He raised his eyebrows. "Xiaolin, did you remember wrongly?"
Lin Qiao shook her head. "Definitely not. I didn't wrap the wound nicely at that time, and you laughed. Although your smile was quite nice... but it was still laughter. It was nice because of your good looks!"
Hearing Lin Qiao's strange theory, Luo Nanchen didn't refute. He just smiled faintly, full of doting.
Suddenly, a bold thought popped into Lin Qiao's mind. "Hey, you wouldn't be..."
"Wouldn't be what?"
Lin Qiao still felt a bit ashamed and was too embarrassed to say it. Her voice was as soft as a mosquito's. "Wouldn't... you have fallen in love with me at that time?"
Luo Nanchen nodded as if it was the most natural thing. "Otherwise?"
"Damn it..."
Lin Qiao was in a daze for a while and still couldn't react.
Luo Nanchen was truly the male protagonist of the most popular cool - style novel of the year. His view on love had been enlightened so much earlier than others!
"Then, then, then you..."
Lin Qiao was all at sea, her mind a blank. She didn't know what to say.
Luo Nanchen let out a long sigh and pulled Lin Qiao into his arms and onto his lap. "Since Xiaolin has asked, I also want to ask. When Pei Liyu asked you to rule behind the curtain, why did you refuse?"
Lin Qiao forced a smile. "How dare I?"
"Because of the plot of this book?"
Lin Qiao nodded.
"But I thought you regarded me as a burden. So after I became the emperor, you wanted to get rid of me as soon as possible."
Lin Qiao was stunned again.
... So, this was what Luo Nanchen had thought?
Wouldn't he be very sad...
Luo Nanchen buried his head in Lin Qiao's neck. His voice was hoarse. "I thought you didn't want me. For five years, I didn't dare to appear in front of you openly. Xiaolin, I was really, really sad."
"I'm sorry..."
Lin Qiao's mind was in a complete mess. How could she have known back then that the main plot could be changed? How could she have known that the male protagonist could actually fall in love with someone else?!
Damn it. It was all that stupid system's fault.
[System No. 12345 is at your service whole - heartedly.]
... Could you please not come out and cause trouble at this time.
Lin Qiao wrapped her arms around Luo Nanchen's neck, full of apologies. "I'm really sorry. But that plot was really terrifying. The book said that you would turn me into a human swine. I really didn't dare to follow the original plot..."
"Never. I'd rather turn myself into a human swine than do that to you."
Luo Nanchen raised his head. His eyes were red, but they were full of sincerity, passion, and heat.
That was a young man's hottest heart.
...
At night, Lin Qiao lay in bed but couldn't fall asleep no matter how hard she tried.
Her mind was filled with the scenes she had seen in the Xie Mansion at dusk.
It was too bloody. She just couldn't forget it.
And the bite wounds on Luo Nanchen's body definitely couldn't have been caused by her.
After all, her teeth were not very good. In the 21st century, she had always used Lengsuanling toothpaste to brush her teeth.
So there was only one possibility.
At that time, she had been possessed by a fetal spirit.
And her soul had been in a hallucination.
Li Gusu was right. Among the seven people, her cultivation was not the lowest, but she was the only one who had an accident. The probability was as low as winning a lottery.
Logically speaking, she was the least valuable. After all, Zou Lvrui's original role was at least one of the beautiful women who followed Luo Nanchen. But what about her?
At most, she was just a tool to push Luo Nanchen towards darkness.
By now, when Luo Nanchen could completely take control of the power, shouldn't her part in the story be over?
Who was adding scenes for her? And adding such a bloody one?
She really wanted to thank his whole family.
Luo Nanchen turned over and wrapped his arms around Lin Qiao from behind. "Why aren't you sleeping yet? Are you still thinking about what happened in the Xie Mansion?"
His voice was extremely deep. It seemed that he had been woken up.
Lin Qiao nodded. "As soon as I close my eyes, I see the scene of Xue Tingyu having her fetus cut out. I'm a bit scared."
Luo Nanchen closed his eyes and kissed Lin Qiao's hair hazily. "Don't be afraid. I'm here."
Lin Qiao turned around. "Luo Nanchen, I want to ask you a question."
"Sure."
Just as she was about to speak, Lin Qiao felt too embarrassed to say it. "Well, it's not that important. Let's go to sleep first."
Luo Nanchen opened his eyes and was no longer sleepy. "Go ahead. I'm not sleepy."
"Will you use... violence on me?"
"?"
"Come on... I mean domestic violence. Do you understand?"
Luo Nanchen's eyes were bright and clear. He looked at Lin Qiao very seriously. "Why do you suddenly ask this? Is it because of what you saw today?"
Lin Qiao nodded and then shook her head. "Not entirely. I told you before that I grew up in an orphanage. But later, when I was about seven or eight years old, I was adopted."
The days after being adopted were actually not very good.
The kids in the orphanage all envied her for going to live a good life, but only Lin Qiao knew that compared to being adopted by this family, the days in the orphanage were actually not that hard to bear.
Lin Qiao's adoptive father was a drunkard and a gambler. Every day when he lost at gambling and got drunk, he would take his anger out on her and her adoptive mother.
Every time, her adoptive mother would protect her and try her best to prevent her adoptive father from hurting her. But on her adoptive mother's body, old wounds hadn't healed when new ones appeared.
Lin Qiao had tried to resist, just like when she resisted the orphanage director.
But when she resisted the director, all she got was a scolding for being ungrateful. When she resisted her adoptive father, she got a more brutal beating.
Blue and purple scars were densely and horribly spread on her adoptive mother's legs, waist, arms, and even face.
She used her swollen hands to apply medicine on her adoptive mother and wiped her tears on her tattered clothes. At that young age, Lin Qiao didn't know that this kind of behavior was called domestic violence. She only knew that her adoptive father was disgusting.
Sometimes, her adoptive father would even violate her adoptive mother in front of her.
On purpose. Arrogantly.
Later, Lin Qiao escaped from that place and went to college. Her college roommate was curious and dragged the whole dormitory to watch porn.
Lin Qiao only took one look and almost vomited.
Those scenes made Lin Qiao involuntarily think of her dark and bloody childhood memories.
After that, Lin Qiao, who had almost forgotten those memories, thought that sex itself was disgusting for a long time. It was filled with violence and blood.
Her roommates said she was being pretentious and acting pure.
But no one believed that she really felt nauseous and couldn't help vomiting when she saw those scenes.
After being adopted, they lived in a slum where it leaked when it rained and was freezing when it snowed. Her adoptive father would take things from home to gamble. Later, when there was really nothing left to gamble with, he wanted to send her to the casino.
Her adoptive mother desperately protected her and hugged her tightly.
At that time, she couldn't even cry. She just stood there blankly, letting her adoptive father and adoptive mother tug at her.
Suddenly, her adoptive mother pushed her out and said, "Run."
She looked back and saw her adoptive father pick up a stool and smash it at her adoptive mother's head.
In an instant, Lin Qiao's world turned dark.
Her adoptive mother's face was covered in blood, looking hideous.
She was still saying, "Run."
Her adoptive father seemed not to have vented his anger yet. He continued to kick and beat the fallen adoptive mother.
Her adoptive mother gradually stopped moving. No matter how much he beat and scolded, she never moved again.
There was blood splashed from her adoptive mother's head on Lin Qiao's face. She crawled into the landlord's room like a madwoman and said, "Please, please save my mother."
The landlord thought Lin Qiao was just a little beggar causing trouble and ignored her. He even had someone drive Lin Qiao out.
On that day, her adoptive mother was beaten to death right in front of her.
If the police hadn't arrived in time, the stunned Lin Qiao might have already become a prostitute in some casino.
In the Xie Mansion, Lin Qiao knew that she had to stay calm to avoid being affected. But the reason she was still confused by the hallucination was that at that time, Lin Qiao had thought of her adoptive mother.
Her adoptive mother and Xue Tingyu had the same ending. They both died in torture.
She even thought that the original owner who had been turned into a human swine was actually quite lucky. After all, the original owner had done many evil things, while Xue Tingyu had been upright all her life, and her adoptive mother had always been kind - hearted.
In the end, they all ended up like this.
Life is unpredictable. Fate is unfair.