Peach-Orange! – Chapter 211 – After the Confession, What Comes Next?

With hope and anticipation, people instinctively begin to change.

It’s like when a socially awkward single person gets into their first relationship after over twenty years. They instinctively want to improve themselves, to show their better side to their partner.

Su Tao was the same.

Every day, she wanted to better herself before Chi Xiaocheng woke up.

So that when she opened her eyes, she would see a more perfect version of herself.

She worked hard to study, exercised to nurture her health, and expanded her social circle to enrich her experiences.

Each day was a little tiring, but also very fulfilling.

At the same time, she really wanted to share her joy with someone.

Dr. Cheng was very busy with work and didn’t know that Xiaocheng had actually “died” once. He was like an elder to her, offering help whenever she needed it.

Though Su Tao really wanted to share her happiness with him, she was always afraid of disturbing his work.

After Chi Xiaocheng’s death, they gradually talked less and less.

She had many other friends, but their relationships were just that, friendships.

After much deliberation, she finally decided to invite her friend Chengcheng out on Saturday.

If the girl didn’t tie her hair up, Su Tao would often see Xiaocheng’s shadow in her. But after confirming that Xiaocheng would wake up, she no longer saw that illusion when meeting this friend again.

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Chengcheng still wore the same resigned expression as she did during their phone calls. “I only get three hours off every week, and now you’re wasting them again.”

Su Tao clasped her hands together apologetically. “Our relationship is just right, familiar but not too familiar. We get along the best, and isn’t hanging out the same no matter where we go? This one’s on me.”

They were online friends, almost like kindred spirits, knowing each other inside out yet barely interacting in real life.

This sense of closeness with just the right amount of distance made Su Tao feel at ease.

She was also the only person Su Tao had actively told that Chi Xiaocheng had died, and then come back to life.

Fang Ning knowing had been an accident, never her intentions.

Chengcheng curled her lips into a smile. “Actually, it’s just that you don’t have many friends, so you can only come to me, right?”

Su Tao laughed in response. “Not really. It’s just that with some friends, we’re either not close enough or too close. It’s hard to talk to them about things related to Xiaocheng.”

Chengcheng raised a skeptical eyebrow. “Then how come I’ve never heard of these so-called friends of yours?”

“Everyone has their own social circles, you know.”

“But wouldn’t your Xiaocheng get jealous if she knew you had other social circles?”

Chengcheng’s sudden question made Su Tao freeze for a moment.

This person was both a confidante and a friend, so Su Tao saw no need to hide anything. “If it’s just friends with no other relationship, Xiaocheng probably wouldn’t get jealous, right? As long as I make it clear that I like her, it should be fine.

“And that’s exactly why I never mentioned those things to Xiaocheng before.”

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Like Chen Qian and Xiaowei.

Su Tao got along very well with them.

But she rarely brought them up around Chi Xiaocheng, afraid of triggering her unstable yandere tendencies.

Yet Chengcheng let out a meaningful “Hmm~” and said, “Tao-Tao, you still don’t understand yanderes well enough. Keeping secrets from her is also a form of cheating in her book.”

“Maybe we’re just looking at it from different angles?” Su Tao rubbed her chin thoughtfully. “I always thought that as long as I liked her and wouldn’t betray her, it’d be fine.”

“Theoretically, yes, but did you really like her before?”

Su Tao was momentarily speechless, then glared at her friend. “At the very least, I like her now!”

Chengcheng was still curious.

“Are you sure?”

“Absolutely!”

“Even though she’s a girl, and you’re also a girl?”

“I—” Su Tao bit her lip and huffed, “It’s not like it’s impossible! Anyway, I’ll get used to it and work hard to overcome it!”

She pushed Chengcheng into a milk tea shop, quickly changing the subject.

This friend was great in every way, except for her tendency to tease her out of nowhere, just like Xiaocheng used to. She always brought up topics that made Su Tao uncomfortable, as if deliberately testing her reactions.

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But that was precisely what made her a friend.

Thanks to Chengcheng, Su Tao had no choice but to face and sort through many topics she would have otherwise avoided.

After strolling around for a while, they arrived at Chi Xiaocheng’s home.

Su Tao said, “This is where Xiaocheng and I live. The house was earned by her brother and is under his name. In the future, I plan to buy a new place with my own money as our little home.”

After kicking away King, who had inexplicably tried to approach, Chengcheng casually glanced around the place. “I think this place is pretty nice too. Why not just live here in the future?”

Su Tao smiled softly. “It’s still her brother’s house. He’ll need to get married and have kids someday, right? I want to build Xiaocheng’s and my future with my own hands.”

“Eh~”

Chengcheng looked at Su Tao with a knowing smirk. “You’ve already thought as far ahead as marriage? Tell me, what specific plans do you have?”

The moment those words left her mouth, Su Tao’s smile stiffened.

Then her face flushed red.

“Marriage and all that… I haven’t really thought about it,” Su Tao sighed. “Actually, I’m not sure what our future will look like. Even though I’ve been trying my best to overcome my own awkwardness, the fact is, two girls like us won’t ever be accepted openly, will we?

“I’ve imagined what Xiaocheng might look like if she woke up ten years later, but I’ve never pictured her in a wedding dress. Or rather, I don’t dare to.”

She sat on the sofa, sighing. “Back when I couldn’t accept Xiaocheng’s yandere side, I often wondered, if we really got together, would we have to sneak around just to go on dates? Would we get pointed at if we were discovered, then thrown into the news?

“Even now, aren’t there plenty of people online attacking people like us?”

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“So that’s why you always told me before that you thought two girls together was weird?”

“Yeah, that was part of it.” Su Tao nodded faintly. “Another part was my own worldview. After all, growing up, my education never touched on that topic, so rejection was almost subconscious.”

“Even now?”

“If I still felt that way now, why would I openly tell you that I actually like Xiaocheng?” Su Tao shot Chengcheng an exasperated look. “I already said it, once Xiaocheng wakes up, I’ll confess to her!”

Chengcheng boiled a pot of water and sat beside Su Tao. “Have you thought about what comes after the confession? She’s a yandere, and after dying once or twice, what if she gets even worse? What will you do then?”

The moment those words were spoken, Su Tao, sitting on the sofa, froze.

She had imagined many scenarios. If Xiaocheng had truly died, or if she came back to life.

The most important thing was to confess to her after she woke up and establish their relationship as girlfriends.

After all, that had been Xiaocheng’s dying wish.

But what comes after the confession?

How would she handle her yandere tendencies?

Su Tao glanced sideways at Chengcheng, faintly sensing something.

This question of hers felt like it was being asked from Xiaocheng’s perspective.