Cannon Fodder – Chapter 38 – Su Tao: Is Xiaocheng Really a Yandere?

Su Tao was a woman of action. Once she set her mind to something, nothing could stop her unless something more important came up.

Like right now.

After settling Chi Xiaocheng, she immediately boarded a bus. Her destination: their old high school.

To be precise, a rundown house in the chaotic alley near the school.

Evening.

Liu Guijia sat in the shabby little house, limping as she typed something on her phone, her expression dark with malice.

“Chi Xiaocheng, Su Tao… I’ll make you pay sooner or later!”

Gritting her teeth in hatred, she turned to the gloomy follower kneeling nearby. She grabbed the girl’s hair viciously. “You useless bitch, why didn’t you help me back there?”

The girl was forced to tilt her head up, her face covered in scars. Trembling, she bit her lip, unable to speak.

Liu Guijia vented her anger with a slap. “Worthless trash!”

“You’re going to Qiu Li’s place later, right? Tell her to gather everyone. I’m going to finish off those two bitches tomorrow— no, the day after!”

Her knuckles cracked as she clenched her fists.

She had over a dozen delinquents under her command. With her two sisters joining forces, they could muster forty to fifty people. No matter how strong Su Tao was, could she take on so many alone?

The follower, accustomed to the abuse, didn’t react to the slap. Instead, she said weakly, “We can’t beat Su Tao.

“Building up others’ morale while destroying our own?”

Liu Guijia’s face twisted in rage. She kicked the follower aside and stood up angrily. “If that lunatic Chi Xiaocheng hadn’t scared me earlier, I would’ve beat her to death!”

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Just then, hurried footsteps sounded outside.

A delinquent girl in a tattered leather jacket rushed in. “B-Boss! Su Tao’s here!”

“What?!”

Liu Guijia shot to her feet, then winced in pain as she aggravated her injured leg.

“How did Su Tao get here? It’s at least an hour’s drive from Jiuzhou University!”

“I don’t know, boss!” The underling cried. “She… she seems to be here for revenge. We’re all adults in college now, why is she going all out?!”

Liu Guijia swallowed hard.

Revenge….

For Chi Xiaocheng!

Should she run?

But this was her base. If she fled now, what would her sisters think?

Taking a deep breath, Liu Guijia’s eyes turned fierce. “Gather the sisters. Su Tao’s alone. Can she really take on a dozen of us?

“Today, I’ll show her what I’m made of!”

As soon as the words left her mouth, the door creaked open.

A cold voice drifted in. “Oh? Is that so?”

“Su Tao!”

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The underling who’d delivered the news gasped. After confirming Su Tao was unharmed, her eyes rolled back, and she fainted.

Su Tao glanced at the unconscious figure. “Get out. I’m only here for Liu Guijia today.”

The “unconscious” underling’s eyes flew open. Offering Su Tao an awkward smile, she scrambled out the door on all fours.

Only Liu Guijia and her follower remained in the room.

The latter shrank into a corner, her bangs covering her eyes as she watched Su Tao curiously.

Liu Guijia, however, gritted her teeth. “What do you want?”

“What? After beating Xiaocheng, now you’re playing innocent?”

Su Tao’s face was icy. Her purpose here was simple:

Justice for Chi Xiaocheng.

Or, more bluntly, revenge!

If not for today’s incident, she wouldn’t have known Chi Xiaocheng had been bullied by this trash for three years.

“Seems the lessons from high school weren’t enough for you?”

Liu Guijia’s voice dripped with resentment. “I told you, I didn’t do anything to Chi Xiaocheng! At most, I punched her once! The rest wasn’t me!”

She pointed at her bandaged leg. “Even this was stabbed by Chi Xiaocheng!”

Su Tao looked at her like she was an idiot. “You expect me to believe that? This injury is clearly from Xiaocheng defending herself. Do I look stupid?”

Liu Guijia’s eyes widened.

Back then, she’d been the victim!

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Finally, Liu Guijia understood: Su Tao didn’t care about the truth. She was here for vengeance.

Was there any chance to escape?

None at all!

Taking a deep breath, Liu Guijia stood tall, no longer afraid. “Fine. Let’s settle this with our fists. Don’t think I’m still the clueless delinquent from high school!

“I’ve learned a few moves from my gangster brother. Su Tao, prepare to die!”

She launched into a military-style boxing routine right there.

Her movements were fierce, her aura overwhelming.

“Su Tao, DIE!”

She took a step forward—

BAM—!

—and was promptly knocked flat by Su Tao’s punch.

Liu Guijia clutched her face, squatting as her head spun.

“That’s it?”

Su Tao grabbed her collar and yanked her up. “Three years of delinquency in high school, and you’re still stuck in this dump in college? If not for today, I wouldn’t have known you’d been bullying Xiaocheng all this time!”

Liu Guijia whimpered, “Forget the past, but today she was the one bullying me!”

“Still lying?”

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Su Tao didn’t hold back, delivering a series of punches.

Soon, Liu Guijia was reduced to a sobbing mess, her dyed yellow hair now filthy.

“You don’t believe me when I talk, and think I’m stubborn when I don’t! What am I supposed to do?!” she wailed. “At first, she asked for money back. I refused and punched her. Then she suddenly went crazy!”

Terrified by the beating, Liu Guijia spilled everything through her tears. “She kept saying she was the victim, then muttered something about being a yandere. I thought she was going to kill me! Why won’t you believe me?!”

Where was her earlier bravado now?

But Su Tao actually stopped at these words.

Her brows furrowed deeply. “You said Xiaocheng mentioned being a yandere?”

Liu Guijia wiped her tears and nodded. “She was straddling me, playing with the knife and talking to herself. You don’t believe me, yet keep hitting me to make me tell the truth. Are you even human?!”

Su Tao scratched her cheek, a flicker of guilt surfacing.

But then she remembered: This scum had done countless evil deeds. She had no reason to feel guilty.

Right now, something more important demanded her attention.

Grabbing Liu Guijia’s collar again, she growled, “Tell me everything that happened in that room. Every detail!”

She knew Chi Xiaocheng was a yandere.

But what puzzled her was: why would Chi Xiaocheng voluntarily bring up the term “yandere”?

If she was self-aware about being a yandere… could she still truly be one?

A growing suspicion told Su Tao that whatever was happening with Chi Xiaocheng was far more complicated than she’d imagined.