Peach-Orange! – Chapter 104 – Possess Her, and She’ll Definitely Be Yours!

At 1:30 a.m., Su Tao, who had just finished the last poster for the school’s publicity department, had barely turned off her computer and gotten into bed when she received a call from Chi Xiaocheng.

At this hour, Chen Qian was already in bed with a small light on, staying up late to read novels.

Roommate Xiaowei’s snoring hadn’t stopped the entire time.

Su Tao knew Chi Xiaocheng well. If there wasn’t something important, she would never call so late and risk disturbing her possible sleep.

She answered the phone and asked a question.

But what she heard was a voice trembling slightly.

“Tao-Tao… do you really like me?”

There was no context or reason, and nothing particularly unusual had happened all day.

Why was she asking this?

Had someone said something to Xiaocheng?

A faint unease crept into Su Tao’s heart. After a moment of silent thought, she softened her voice as much as possible. “Xiaocheng, what are you talking about? Of course I like you.”

Even if it was an act, she couldn’t let it show in front of her.

Yet, the emotions on the other end of the phone seemed unusually obsessive, latching onto that brief moment of hesitation.

“If you like me… why did you hesitate before answering?”

Su Tao froze. “Xiaocheng?”

“Beep—beep—”

She looked down at the phone screen. The call had been hung up.

Chen Qian poked her head out and asked, “What happened?”

Su Tao pressed her lips together. “I don’t know, but Xiaocheng seems… emotionally unstable.”

With that, she grabbed a coat and draped it over her shoulders. “I’m going over.”

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“This late?!”

Chen Qian glanced out the window, where the faint light revealed ice on the glass and swirling snow outside.

“Is it really necessary? The snow’s so heavy out there. I doubt you’ll even find a cab. And we have Old Zhu’s class at 8 a.m. tomorrow. Skip it twice, and you’ll have to retake it.”

Su Tao put on gloves and a scarf, exhaling softly. “I’m worried. I should go check on her.”

She reached out and shook her roommate’s bed. “Xiaowei, where did you park your bike?”

The snoring stopped abruptly, replaced by a lazy voice. “Spot 21 next to the public parking in Zone B~”

Su Tao nodded and hurried out without another word.

Chen Qian watched her leave, shaking her head sympathetically. “Having to constantly manage Chi Xiaocheng’s emotions… It must be exhausting, running over at the slightest disturbance. I don’t know if being liked by someone like that is a good or bad thing.”

Xiaowei’s sleepy voice drifted over again. “Why care so much? Turn off the lights and sleep!”

Chen Qian’s lips twitched. “Why don’t you get up and turn them off yourself? Were you even asleep?”

Xiaowei didn’t respond, and soon, soft snores filled the room again.

Meanwhile, Chi Xiaocheng hung up the phone and sat on the floor, leaning against the bed frame.

Even though the room’s heater was on.

She felt frozen to the bone.

Her mind was filled with the words of her other self:

“Do you really like Su Tao? Does Su Tao really like you?”

And the flood of false memories.

Was that dream real?

Had her past self gone insane?

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All because she loved that wretched woman too much?

Were her feelings for Su Tao love or possession? Or neither?

‘Am… I not normal?’

Chi Xiaocheng clutched her head in pain. She knew it was just a dream, that the contents were likely fabricated and not real.

But every time she remembered how her ex-girlfriend had deceived her, a heart-wrenching pain would surge—as if someone were whispering in her ear that it had all been true.

The medical report in the dream had clearly stated “dissociative amnesia.”

Was it fabricated? Or had she truly forgotten those memories?

Were those three months of listless isolation real?

Which side was reality?

The memories brought pain, but not fear.

What terrified her was the thought that Su Tao might be like her ex-girlfriend—pretending to like her.

Lying with affection to placate her yandere tendencies.

“If even she doesn’t want me… then why am I even alive in this world?”

The deeper the love, the deeper the pain.

She never wanted to experience that kind of abandonment again!

But just now, when she asked, Tao-Tao had hesitated.

Once the seed of doubt was planted, it was only a matter of time before it took root. Her unstable mind was the perfect fertilizer.

Chi Xiaocheng forced herself not to dwell on it. She was afraid to think about such things.

Biting her tongue, she suppressed her voice and said, “System, exchange a dose of strong sedatives for me!”

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[70 emotional points deducted.]

The needle pierced her skin. The system’s black-tech concoction made Chi Xiaocheng’s face twitch violently for a moment.

Her gaze gradually cleared, and rationality regained control.

Leaning against the bed, she gasped for breath. “System, this isn’t like you. You’d usually say something.”

[Apologies, Host. Your state was unusual. I feared speaking might affect you.]

Chi Xiaocheng stared at her bloodless palms, her expression stiff. “Tell me… am I not normal, like in that dream’s diagnosis?”

[Host, it was just a dream. You are yourself.]

“Will sleeping make it better?”

A desire to escape took hold. An overwhelming unease clung to her. She was scared.

In all her time in this world, she had never felt such fear.

She feared betrayal.

Feared that Su Tao might abandon her.

Even felt terror at her own past actions of pretending to be yandere.

“What if… just what if….”

Chi Xiaocheng spoke slowly to the system. “If I pressure Tao-Tao too much and she can’t take it… would she abandon me? Send me to a mental hospital?”

All her confidence came from Su Tao’s feelings for the original host, from Su Tao’s moonlit-white personality… so enviable, so desirable.

But in the original story, hadn’t Su Tao given up on the original host too?

‘If she was only pretending to like me… then what was the point of everything I’ve done?’

What can’t be possessed will never be possessed.

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[Host, I recommend taking a pill and getting some sleep.]

“I just woke up!”

Chi Xiaocheng clutched her head again.

“System, do you hear it? There’s a voice… a voice keeps talking.”

“Possess her, possess her, possess her, possess her….”

“That voice is telling me to possess Tao-Tao….”

Muttering aloud, Chi Xiaocheng suddenly froze.

In the dream, hadn’t she also urged her past self to possess someone else?

“I don’t need Tao-Tao to like me. Just possess her completely?”

This goal contradicted everything Chi Xiaocheng had been doing.

Dr. Cheng, Chen Qian, Sichen, even Fang Ning, she controlled them one by one, squeezing Su Tao’s social circle.

She even harmed herself, all to make Su Tao focus entirely on her.

So that, through daily interactions, she would gradually grow to like her.

But who could say if that affection was real?

For two years, her ex-girlfriend had also seemed to like her so much.

And the result? Betrayal.

The voice in her ear seemed to speak again:

“No one can confirm whether Tao-Tao truly likes you. What if she’s pretending, only to betray you when you love her most?”

“Possess her. Whether she likes you or not, she’ll be yours!”