Peach-Orange! – Chapter 147 – Another Worldline

Basement, restraints, knife, the first time drinking “orange juice”…

Su Tao felt she would never forget this scene even in death.

Back then, she had thought Chi Xiaocheng was about to stab her, only for an earth-shattering twist.

Chi Xiaocheng had actually confessed to her!

Her childhood friend, sister-like companion, and closest confidant… had secretly been in love with her for over a decade?

Afterward, Chi Xiaocheng’s hidden yandere tendencies surfaced, turning Su Tao’s peaceful life upside down.

More than once, Su Tao wondered what her life would have been like if Chi Xiaocheng weren’t a yandere?

Would she have been spared this suffocating, overwhelming love?

“Another dream like this… is it telling me there’s only one possible ending?”

Xiaocheng had stabbed everyone.

For her sake.

Yet, to Su Tao’s surprise, when Chi Xiaocheng sat on the bed this time, she didn’t redden her eyes and confess like before.

Instead, tears streamed down her face as she raised the knife and plunged it hard into the face of the dream-version Su Tao.

Su Tao watched in disbelief, her pupils contracting.

‘Doesn’t Xiaocheng love me?’

‘Doesn’t she hate Ye Liang?’

‘Why would she attack the dream version of me, slashing my face with a knife? Does she want to kill me?’

‘If so, why is she crying so painfully?’

The knife left marks on the face. The dream Su Tao, bound to the bed, screamed and writhed in agony.

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But Chi Xiaocheng didn’t stop. Instead, she grew more frenzied.

She carved up her face, then stabbed her chest.

Yet the tears she shed, the anguish on her face… it was no less than the dream Su Tao’s suffering.

Su Tao herself moved closer and heard Chi Xiaocheng murmuring incessantly.

“Ye Liang only likes your face. If I ruin it, he’ll definitely leave you alone.

“If you become ugly, he’ll give up.

“Then you won’t get hurt because of him.

“I’m sorry, Tao-Tao. No matter what you look like in the future, I’ll stay by your side.

“Sorry… sorry… sorry… sorry….”

The pained whispers at her lips reminded Su Tao of the previous dream’s contents.

Chi Xiaocheng had a strange dream, convinced Ye Liang would harm her, and thus resorted to extreme measures to stop it.

In this basement, this time, there was no confession.

No descent into yandere madness.

Instead, she stubbornly acted on her own methods. Clumsy, yet too afraid to explain.

This was a different ending from the last dream!

Su Tao realized this instantly, but then grew fearful of what would come next.

A Chi Xiaocheng who would do this to her… what would happen afterward?

Before long, Ye Liang’s bodyguard in a suit arrived.

He shoved Chi Xiaocheng aside, rescuing Su Tao while letting Chi Xiaocheng escape through a hidden door.

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What happened after that?

Ye Liang came, furious at Chi Xiaocheng as always. But unlike reality, the dream version of Su Tao’s face was mutilated, and she passed out from the pain.

In the blink of an eye, the dream fast-forwarded to her waking up.

Ye Liang listed all the terrible things Chi Xiaocheng had done, vowing revenge and promising to teach her a lesson.

The dream Su Tao hesitated. She still believed Chi Xiaocheng could be saved.

Maybe this was just a deeper misunderstanding.

But after their argument, months passed with no resolution. Ye Liang kept pressuring her, and the dream Su Tao, unsure what to do, could only beg him not to hurt Chi Xiaocheng.

Ye Liang played along, feeding her lies about Chi Xiaocheng’s actions, claiming he had merely “calmed her down” without harming her.

But Su Tao, following Chi Xiaocheng in this dream, saw the truth. And it was nothing like what Ye Liang described.

To evade Ye Liang’s men, Chi Xiaocheng had nowhere to go. She hid in abandoned shacks or under bridges.

But how could an ordinary girl escape someone as powerful as Ye Liang?

Cameras everywhere, search parties in every corner.

Chi Xiaocheng slashed her own face to avoid recognition, moving only at night. Helpless, she schemed desperately just to get back into the hospital.

To see Su Tao, who had woken up.

To warn her about Ye Liang’s danger.

Could someone really go to such lengths over a dream?

If not for Chi Xiaocheng’s interference, if not for seeing Ye Liang’s true nature in the snow, Su Tao would never have imagined he could be that kind of person.

Now, watching as a spectator, she trailed Ye Liang.

Just as Chi Xiaocheng had said, with her face ruined, she was no longer the beautiful swan but an ugly duckling.

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Ye Liang made it clear in conversations that he no longer liked her. But because of her influential father abroad, he kept up the act.

Pretending to care.

And during her hospitalization, he slandered Chi Xiaocheng relentlessly.

Fabricating “proof” that Chi Xiaocheng “hated” Su Tao.

Slowly, the dream Su Tao began to wake up.

But the real Su Tao, watching from outside the dream, couldn’t believe this alternate reality where Chi Xiaocheng wasn’t a yandere, this was how things unfolded.

“Would I really abandon Xiaocheng because of Ye Liang?

“That’s impossible… right?”

Su Tao murmured the question, asking her dream self.

But really, she was asking her present self.

Then, she fell silent.

Was her current struggle with the yandere Xiaocheng… a form of abandonment?

She pondered silently, but the dream didn’t pause.

After immense effort, Chi Xiaocheng, now covered in injuries, lived like a stray dog on the streets.

Without Su Tao, constantly hunted by Ye Liang, anyone could kick her.

But she didn’t give up.

She wanted to see her Tao-Tao.

To apologize for ruining her face.

To tell her how dangerous Ye Liang truly was.

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From Su Tao’s omniscient perspective, Ye Liang was undeniably a villain, drawn to her beauty, ready to discard her once her face was ruined.

But upon discovering her father’s influence, he masked himself in false affection, two-faced in every way.

In the dream, confined to the hospital, Su Tao had no way to contact Chi Xiaocheng. All her information came from Ye Liang. Even Dongfang Yang rarely visited.

Finally, through relentless effort, Chi Xiaocheng found an opportunity.

She crawled through filthy sewers to infiltrate the hospital.

But she wasn’t the protagonist.

She was a side character doomed to die.

A stepping stone for Su Tao’s story, a pawn in the hands of fate.

Entering the hospital, searching desperately for Su Tao’s room. Filled with longing, she was caught by Ye Liang.

Threats, intimidation, manipulation….

Ye Liang allowed her to see Su Tao, but if she dared say a word out of line, he would cut off Su Tao’s treatment.

Or even kill her.

Chi Xiaocheng was just an ordinary girl. Evading Ye Liang’s hunt this long was already a miracle.

She was truly afraid now.

Afraid Ye Liang would murder Su Tao.

Afraid Su Tao would unknowingly end up with him.

Afraid Su Tao… would hate her.

And this was the first, and likely last, time they would meet.