Peach-Orange! – Chapter 168 – Destiny Favors Tao

The voice that was once sunny, sweet, and charming had now become deranged.

Su Tao seemed possessed by the same darkness that had once overtaken Chi Xiaocheng. Though she stood upright, there was something subtly twisted about her posture.

With every step she took toward Ye Liang, she hurled another question.

“Ye Liang, can you tell me where Xiaocheng is?

“What do you mean by saying Xiaocheng was cute? Did I allow you to call her cute?

“Why did you say Xiaocheng was yours? She was mine, wasn’t she?

“Xiaocheng was mine!”

Su Tao stopped five meters away from Ye Liang, as if finally unleashing the emotions she had suppressed for days. Tears streamed uncontrollably down her face.

“Why did you take my Xiaocheng away?!

“It’s all your fault, all your fault, all your fault, all your fault!

“I’ll make you pay with your life!”

Watching Su Tao’s complete descent into madness, Ye Liang gulped, his legs trembling beneath him.

‘She’s insane. Completely insane!’

And worst of all, he couldn’t beat her!

The adrenaline rush could only sustain him for so long. Now, Ye Liang felt his strength waning. If this continued, he might really die here!

Biting down hard on his tongue, he tried one last attempt at reasoning. “Su Tao, listen to me, I—”

Before he could finish, Su Tao cut him off sharply. “What’s left to explain? Can you bring my Xiaocheng back?

“Answer me!”

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With that, Su Tao charged at Ye Liang again!

Inside the room, there had at least been space to maneuver. But now, on the rooftop, Ye Liang’s back was against an ice-cold swimming pool. If he fell in with his injuries, death would be instant.

What about the sides?

How could he possibly survive a fall from the 34th floor?

There was no escape left.

Realizing this, Ye Liang suddenly burst into laughter. “Su Tao, if that’s how it is, then come at me! At worst, we’ll die together!”

This wasn’t his first life-or-death crisis.

Growing up in a powerful family as one of its favored young masters, countless people had coveted his life, hoping to kill him and seize his share of the Ye family’s wealth.

But every time he faced mortal danger, some unexpected twist would save him at the last moment.

Ye Liang knew that his luck was extraordinary.

He had even once believed that protagonists in novels were modeled after people like him.

And this was the confidence that had allowed him to act arrogantly all his life.

Somewhere in the unseen workings of fate, the heavens favored him.

Die?

How could Ye Liang possibly die here, at the hands of a woman?!

At this moment, he cast aside his fear of death. No longer clutching his wounded abdomen, he lunged at Su Tao like a cornered beast.

He believed his luck would see him through this crisis too!

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Reaching out, he attempted a desperate grab for Su Tao’s knife, willing to take the injury if it meant disarming her.

He was replaying a past crisis!

Back then, he had been similarly backed into a corner. In a life-or-death gamble, he had tried to seize his enemy’s weapon, expecting to die.

But then, his opponent’s hand had cramped. The knife slipped, and Ye Liang had snatched it, turning the tables.

From that moment, he knew:

Destiny was on his side!

His fingers hooked like claws, aiming to wrench the knife from her grip!

Like a beast’s final struggle, Ye Liang fought with reckless abandon, ignoring his wounds.

But the script he envisioned didn’t play out.

The knife in Su Tao’s hand moved as if alive. With a flick of her wrist, she effortlessly evaded his grasp. Using his own momentum against him, the blade traced a path up his arm—

Like peeling an apple.

A single rotation later, Ye Liang’s sleeve split open, revealing deep gashes in his flesh!

The razor-sharp knife, guided by the girl’s hand, reversed its motion with a shing!

An ear flew into the air before splashing into the pool behind him.

Splash.

The icy water extinguished Ye Liang’s confidence.

Destiny… wasn’t on his side?

His pupils contracted. The pain in his arm left no room for thought. Su Tao’s next strike was already coming. Ye Liang scrambled sideways in panic, his earlier arrogance gone.

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“How… how can this be? Impossible!

“Why… why is it different this time?

“Damn it, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it HURTS!”

Clutching his arm, then his missing ear, his face contorted in agony.

Tap.

A boot stepped onto the ground before him.

Ye Liang looked up in terror to see Su Tao standing over him, the bloodied knife in her hand. Flecks of crimson dotted her face like macabre blossoms nourished by violence.

Of course, Ye Liang didn’t understand why destiny had abandoned him.

Even if his protagonist’s halo remained, even without poisoned apples, he was no match for Su Tao.

There were many male leads in the story. He was just one.

But Su Tao?

She was the original novel’s only female lead.

The usually domineering CEO was reduced to a whimpering dog, snot and tears smeared across his face as he begged pathetically, “Please, Su Tao, I was wrong, I was wrong! Spare me, I’ll never oppose you again! I— I can give you money! I own businesses all over Jiuzhou City, I can give you anything!”

Su Tao stopped before him, looking down coldly. “Anything?”

Ye Liang’s face lit up with hope as he crawled toward her. “Yes! Anything! Name it, and it’s yours!”

The pitiful man reached for her leg, only to be kicked away violently!

“What I want… is Xiaocheng. And she’s never coming back!”

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Approaching Ye Liang as he curled into a fetal position, clutching his stomach, Su Tao’s eyes held no mercy.

If anything, they had lost all reason.

A voice in her mind seemed to whisper incessantly:

Kill him. Kill him!

He killed Xiaocheng. Avenge her!

The knife twirled in her hand before rising high.

Moonlight glinted off the blade.

This strike, aimed straight for Ye Liang’s skull.

But just as she was about to bring it down, a primal sense of danger forced her to freeze.

Her body resisted instinctively, as if warning her:

If this blade falls, not only will it fail, you might be the one hurt.

Then—

BANG!

The rooftop door burst open.

A one-armed man stepped through, his expression dark enough to dim the moon itself.

Su Tao turned at the sound, her eyes widening in shock.

“Brother Chi Song?!”