Peach-Orange! – Chapter 430 – She’s Pretending to Like You

Leaning against the doorframe, Su Tao turned her gaze toward Chi Xiaocheng, who was sitting upright on the sofa watching TV.

At first, there was nothing in her line of sight.

But then, a small row of text suddenly appeared, startling Su Tao.

Before she could even read the content of the text, she immediately took off the glasses.

Now, there was nothing in front of her.

She shook the glasses slightly in her hand without putting them on, and the strange text appeared again.

“Is this the high-tech thing Si Chen mentioned?”

Su Tao was shocked.

It was very much like VR, or perhaps even more advanced, like something out of a sci-fi novel, where content appeared out of thin air before her eyes.

The girl put the glasses back on, unaware that ever since she had tried to hold them in her hand in the room, a girl in a black dress had already appeared beside her.

Accompanied by the faint, unique scent of roses, Xiao Hei’s expression was one of deep meaning.

The moment Su Tao chose to wear the Status Glasses, the system had already communicated with Xiao Hei beforehand.

Truthfully, whether Su Tao wore the glasses or not didn’t matter.

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Chi Xiaocheng was so meticulous. How could she forget to give Si Chen the Status Glasses?

After confirming that Si Chen had given the glasses to Su Tao, and on the very next day after being with Su Tao, she immediately adjusted the glasses’ readings to normal.

No matter how Su Tao wore them, all she would see was the overflowing affection in Chi Xiaocheng’s heart.

But….

There were certain forces that did not want this ill-fated relationship to continue.

Behind Chi Xiaocheng’s back, the system had alerted Xiao Hei the moment Su Tao picked up the glasses.

[The World Will has made its move. It can no longer sit still.]

[I can sense that all the items I created using my authority and emotional energy have lost control in this instant.]

“Expected.” Xiao Hei’s expression remained calm, showing no surprise at the news. “I was wondering why, even though we’ve stopped hiding and poured all the stolen authority into Xiaocheng as luck and energy, the World Will hasn’t acted against us despite discovering us.”

The week after Chu Lingfeng’s death had been extremely peaceful for them.

The only thing weighing on Chi Xiaocheng’s mind was monitoring whether Su Tao had been influenced by the World Will.

And the result was that Su Tao had shown no signs of abnormality whatsoever.

[I also thought everything would remain peaceful. I didn’t expect the World Will to pull a fast one on me, secretly interfering with my control over the creations.]

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[What do we do now? Su Tao and the host are already together. If she sees the Status Glasses’ readings again, never mind that the original values have already been altered, since the World Will has acted, it won’t allow this relationship to progress further.]

Before, if Su Tao had used the Status Glasses to look at Chi Xiaocheng, the existing affection and love would only have deepened.

The bond between them would have become unbreakable.

But now….

The system didn’t even know whether it should interfere with Su Tao’s actions this time.

Xiao Hei could interact with reality. If she wanted to interfere, Su Tao wouldn’t even have had the chance to wear the glasses.

But Xiao Hei didn’t seem inclined to do so. Instead, she asked calmly, “System, how do you plan to stop Su Tao?”

[The glasses are my creation. I can simply disable or destroy them. At the very least, I can warn the host so she can prevent it.]

Xiao Hei took a light breath. “But our goal is to reduce Su Tao’s narrative weight, right?”

“Don’t you think this is a perfect opportunity?”

[But they’re already together. The host won’t want to endure the torment of separation again. More importantly, with the World Will’s influence, what if Su Tao can’t move past this?]

[The risk is too great!]

“The greater the storm, the greater the reward.” Xiao Hei narrowed her eyes. “Besides, if Su Tao’s narrative weight isn’t reduced, the World Will will keep watching us through her.

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“It’s like having a camera installed on us. It can monitor our actions at all times, and it can use sudden plot twists to manipulate reality and counter us!

“System, you don’t actually think this temporary peace is good enough, do you?”

Xiao Hei scoffed. “This is just the calm before the storm. And if Su Tao can’t handle even this, then what right does she have to like Xiaocheng? What right does she have to receive Xiaocheng’s love?”

Xiao Hei couldn’t care less about how Su Tao would react after seeing the Status Glasses’ readings.

This was already the final cycle.

Fighting the World Will head-on… only if Chi Xiaocheng survived would they have a chance at success.

As for Su Tao?

This was just another test of her love for Xiaocheng.

Xiao Cheng endured hundreds of cycles.

If Su Tao doubted her love for Xiaocheng just because of the World Will’s interference, then she truly didn’t deserve to be with Xiaocheng.

It was precisely because of this mindset and decision—

Because they wanted Su Tao’s narrative weight to drop completely—

That the girl now stood in the corner of the living room hallway, wearing the glasses, staring wide-eyed in disbelief at the data displayed on the Status Glasses.

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[Chi Xiaocheng]

[Height: 153 cm]

[Weight: 81 kg]

[Size: B-]

[Current Status: Mild Amnesia, Intermediate Acting Skills]

[Platonic Affection Toward You: 91 (She considers you an important friend. Even without blood ties, she still sees you as her one and only sister. She believes she can’t live without you, but she also finds your actions overly obsessive and erratic, which frightens her somewhat. Yet she still musters the courage to stay by your side because you are her sister.)]

[Romantic Affection Toward You: 30 (As a sister and fellow girl, she doesn’t understand why you like her or why you obsessively declare your love for her. She has only ever seen you as a close friend.

But to ‘treat’ you and help you return to ‘normal,’ she has no choice but to pretend to like you, pretend to be happy when with you, and even force herself to endure the discomfort of being kissed by another girl.

She desperately hopes you’ll recover and return to the relationship you had in childhood. Until the doctors find a treatment, she can only offer you this fabricated affection.)]

[Possessiveness Toward You: 60 (She feels some possessiveness toward you, but this stems only from nostalgia for the past. After your fight during summer break, she realized even a loved one like you could leave her. Out of resentment toward Ye Liang, she developed a budding possessiveness toward you.)]

[Conclusion: She’s pretending to like you.]

[Note: The above data is 100% accurate. No need for doubt. You may enable the Status Glasses Consultation Mode, where top-tier analytical experts will answer your questions.]