Peach-Orange! – Chapter 161 – Sister Su Tao, Where Did Sister Xiaocheng Go?

She is indeed a small cloth doll now, but this skill has given Chi Xiaocheng a different operational space!

Since obtaining this skill, she had secretly used it once in her room, disguising herself as a girl about her own age. From the mirror, there wasn’t the slightest flaw to be seen.

It was more like temporarily becoming another person within a limited time frame. The appearance, height, weight, measurements. Everything, as long as it fell within the normal human range, could be customized by herself!

The only downside was that this skill could only be used once a week, and the duration was pitifully short, just three hours.

There was room to maneuver, but she couldn’t blindly experiment, nor could she create a duplicate of herself.

Xiaocheng was already lying in a hospital bed, pretending to be dead. If another Xiaocheng appeared, it would scare people to death.

“System, how much emotional value do I have now?”

[Answering host: 4399.]

“That much?!”

[This time, the host was truly dead, not like the last time when there was still obvious hope of a fake death. All the characters experienced intense emotional fluctuations due to your death, resulting in a large batch of emotional value.]

[However, after this, characters like Su Tao will provide significantly reduced emotional value if they experience similar situations again.]

For the same kind of emotion, experiencing it repeatedly would yield diminishing returns, a measure to prevent exploiting the system. Chi Xiaocheng knew this.

But she hadn’t expected that this emotional harvest from her death would end up being a case of killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.

“With a full four thousand points….”

Chi Xiaocheng sat in the drawer, pondering how to use this emotional value.

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Suddenly, she thought of something important. “System, now that I’m dead, will the world’s will still target me?”

[No. After the host’s death, your surface-level influence has dropped to an extremely low level. As far as the original storyline’s main plot is concerned, no major deviations have occurred. Although it was accidental, this is indeed a very successful fake death.]

The butterfly was dead, but the tornado stirred by its wings would not stop.

While the main plot hadn’t changed, many details had shifted.

Dongfang Yang and Si Chen had sided with Chi Xiaocheng. Xiao Ming hadn’t managed to connect with Su Tao. The original male lead, the divine doctor, who should have appeared long ago, had barely interacted with Su Tao because she had never fallen ill.

Even Brother Long, who should have already been assassinated due to Chi Song’s absence, was now leading a group of underlings to Jiuzhou City in person.

This was the butterfly effect!

From now on, Chi Xiaocheng no longer needed to worry about the world’s will interfering with her plans.

With 4399 emotional points….

“System, purchase a smartphone, a set of intermediate-level hacker tools, and the Status Glasses!”

A whopping 3000 emotional points. Chi Xiaocheng gritted her teeth and decided to go for it.

[Status Glasses (3000 emotional points): When worn, the glasses display others’ attitude toward the host in numerical and textual form. The glasses can be upgraded and modified by spending additional emotional points.]

This was something she had long had her eye on.

It would allow her to clearly understand how others truly felt about her. With this, she could finally figure out what Su Tao’s true feelings were toward her.

And based on that, she could strategize how to win over Tao-Tao.

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All the guilt, regret, pain, and obsession… they would all have to transform into love in the end.

And it had to be love for her alone!

A red glint flashed in the straw doll’s eyes. Chi Xiaocheng quietly pushed open a crack in the drawer, confirming there was no light outside before swiftly hopping out.

She then leaped down from the high desk, landed on the carpet, and quickly ran to a corner of the room where cloth dolls were usually placed.

From today onward, she, Chi Xiaocheng, would be an ordinary cloth doll!

As time passed, Su Tao, torn between the school dormitory and Chi Xiaocheng’s home, ultimately chose to return to the house filled with memories.

Dragging her exhausted body, she staggered back to the neighborhood entrance.

Uncle Zhang was still on duty, but he was more vigilant than before, now equipped with a stun gun and a tranquilizer gun.

The security of the neighborhood had been upgraded significantly.

“Sorry, Xiao Tao.”

Facing Su Tao, Uncle Zhang’s myriad emotions condensed into just those few words.

Su Tao forced a smile and shook her head.

She knew what Uncle Zhang was thinking.

But she wouldn’t blame others. The root cause of Xiaocheng’s death was herself.

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The only person she would blame was herself.

Walking into the neighborhood, she headed toward the floor where Chi Xiaocheng’s home was.

The deeper she went, the colder and more oppressive the air felt.

The once-warm memories now only filled her with fear and dread.

Yet, even so, these were the traces she had left behind.

Su Tao stepped into the elevator and instinctively wrapped her arms around herself.

Even though her winter coat was thick, she still felt freezing.

When the elevator doors opened, Su Tao was startled to find a petite figure already waiting at her door.

“Xiaocheng?”

For a moment, the similar petite frame made her hallucinate that it was Chi Xiaocheng.

No, this wasn’t Xiaocheng. Her hair was too long, and it wasn’t tea-colored.

When the girl turned her head, Su Tao gradually snapped back to reality and asked, “I remember you… You’re the little one who usually mans the front desk at the dormitory, right?”

Thick, long hair cascaded down to her hips, her face marked with a few scars, and her heavy bangs nearly covering half of one eye.

She was even slightly smaller than Chi Xiaocheng.

Fang Ning gave Su Tao a sweet smile. “Hello, Sister Su Tao! My name is Fang Ning. I’ve always greeted you when you returned to the dorm, remember?”

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Only then did Su Tao recall.

About half a month ago, a new dorm supervisor had appeared in her dorm building.

She usually sat cutely at the front desk like a mascot, occasionally helping students with their takeout orders. At night, she would secretly let in latecomers without reporting them.

Her petite and adorable appearance had stirred a protective instinct in many of the girls, and there had been a lot of discussion about her when she first arrived.

But at that time, Su Tao had been under immense pressure and had mostly overlooked her.

Realizing this, Su Tao tried her best to suppress the grief from Chi Xiaocheng’s death and forced a smile. “Sorry, I’ve been busy lately and didn’t pay much attention.”

Fang Ning clasped her hands behind her back and gently shook her head. “It’s okay. I’ve always had pretty low presence.”

Su Tao asked, “Then, Fang Ning, why are you here… Are you waiting for me?”

‘But how did she know I live at Xiaocheng’s place?’

Or… was she waiting for someone else?

A faint sense of unease rose in Su Tao’s heart.

Then, she saw Fang Ning flash a shy smile. “Well, it’s not exactly that I was waiting for you, Sister Su Tao. I was actually looking for Sister Xiaocheng, but no one answered the doorbell, so I thought I’d wait and see if she’d come back.”

With that, Fang Ning glanced behind Su Tao, as if searching for a certain small figure.

She looked up at Su Tao with an innocent, expectant expression. “Sister Su Tao, didn’t Sister Xiaocheng come back with you?”