Peach-Orange! – Chapter 493 – Xiaocheng Xiaocheng! What’s So Good About Her!

Time passed slowly, and the banquet soon reached its midway point.

In the side door lounge of the banquet, a small figure with tea-colored long hair, wearing a white dress, quickly slipped out through the door and ran off with that tall, 1.9-meter bespectacled man.

Her head was lowered, making her expression unclear, but her hurried and anxious state was evident from her jogging posture.

Not only that, but the message seemed to have been relayed to others as well. A woman in a white suit with a high ponytail soon walked out the side door.

She wore a baseball cap that didn’t match her current outfit and got into an off-road vehicle.

Once the group gathered, Si Chen took the wheel and quickly drove away from the banquet venue.

Just as this man had anticipated, the moment the car started, the hidden watchers surrounding the area sprang into action.

A loitering unemployed man suddenly approached a vendor stall set up not far from the side door.

“Boss, two sticks of candied hawthorns, just the sticks, no hawthorns.”

“Coming right up!”

The vendor responded, and after confirming the code phrase, his eyes immediately sharpened. As he fiddled with something, he leaned close to the unemployed man and whispered, “Identity confirmed?”

This unemployed man had been sitting on a step near the side door playing on his phone, very close to the off-road vehicle.

He lowered his voice, “It was too dark to see their faces, but their clothing matched the description. One in a white dress, one in a white suit, and that Si Chen guy, all got into the off-road vehicle together.”

The vendor smirked coldly, “The Head Maid truly foresees everything. Contact Special Envoy Qiu, tell the brothers to move now!”

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The unemployed man paused, “Special Envoy Qiu? Wasn’t our contact Shan Qing?”

“Just notified from above. Special Envoy Qiu is in charge of this operation. Boss Shan Qing has another mission. Just make the contact, don’t let them get away!”

“Alright!” The man nodded and, without another word, started off with his slouching gait.

“Wait!”

He’d barely taken a step when the vendor grabbed his arm.

“What is it?”

“You haven’t paid for the candied hawthorns.”

“???”

…

A slight move in one part can affect the whole situation. This was exactly the case here.

Less than 30 seconds after these two separated, vehicles began to depart from various points around the villa estate. Even two cars left from the villa’s underground garage.

The real person of interest, Chi Xiaocheng, had already changed into an inconspicuous set of casual clothes. Standing in the second-floor lounge, she watched from the window as vehicles continuously drove away.

She sighed helplessly in her heart, “The main event is just beginning. I hope Ningning stays safe.”

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Xiao Hei was right beside her and reminded, “No time for melancholy. She’ll be fine. First, go find Su Tao and Dongfang Yang. That so-called plan of yours… I still think it’s too risky.”

“I trust you,” Chi Xiaocheng patted her clothes, “And I trust Tao-Tao.”

‘So, the people you trust don’t include yourself?’

Xiao Hei fell silent.

She was usually quiet, even less active than the system.

But today, while being just as quiet, she seemed much more subdued than usual.

As the hidden watchers moved following Si Chen’s departure, Chi Xiaocheng also left the lounge. Checking a message from Dongfang Yang on her phone, she headed towards the banquet’s rear hall.

Dongfang Yang had arranged another car for her to leave in. But after finding him, she would still have to face Su Tao, with whom she had just argued with.

Chi Xiaocheng didn’t even know that the current Su Tao was already under the control of the World Will.

Her mind was shackled, like a homeless spirit wandering aimlessly through the banquet hall before drifting into the estate’s stunningly beautiful interior.

She was also like an owner inspecting her own domain.

This wasn’t her domain.

But it was “Its” domain.

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“The night is as dark as ink, yet it cannot hide the brightness of these lights. Such a scene is truly beautiful!”

The words came from Su Tao’s mouth, but like a machine, devoid of any emotion, though one could still sense the wonder in the statement.

A strange sense of incongruity and dissonance emanated from her.

In fact, the one speaking wasn’t Su Tao, but the World Will.

That white moonlight girl was now firmly locked away deep within her heart.

She didn’t even have room to struggle, for mortals cannot shake “divinity.”

The World Will strolled through the estate’s night scenery, enjoying the bowing greetings of every maid she passed, and continued speaking, “My Tao-Tao, why do you still want to go out? It’s so good like this. You stay obediently in that warm ocean, free from worries.

“And I will bring Chi Xiaocheng to your side, merge her into one with you, let her stay with you forever. Isn’t this what you wanted?”

Despite the confident questioning, the World Will’s tone still carried a trace of displeasure.

If the character’s weight hadn’t fallen to 50%, controlling Su Tao would have been much easier for It, and the girl wouldn’t have resisted It, a god-like existence, at all.

It wouldn’t be like now, with wave after wave of voices rising from the heart.

“Where am I? Why is it so dark all around? I can’t see anything.”

“Can I really be with Xiaocheng forever? Are you telling the truth?”

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“You’re right, I want Xiaocheng to stay with me forever.”

“But where is Xiaocheng? There’s no Xiaocheng here! It’s pitch black, there’s nothing here!”

Before, it was the World Will’s voice sounding from within, influencing Su Tao herself, guiding her thoughts.

Now that It had locked Su Tao’s soul deep within her heart, their roles had reversed.

Su Tao could no longer control her body and could only constantly ask questions of the person operating her body.

The World Will helplessly soothed, “Don’t worry, I will let your Xiaocheng see you. Tonight, after I go back with her, return to our familiar little home, then you can… Ah—!”

Before the World Will could finish, It clutched Its head in pain again.

The voice of Su Tao from within grew even louder: “Where is Xiaocheng? Where is Xiaocheng? Where is Xiaocheng? Where is Xiaocheng? Where is Xiaocheng? Where is Xiaocheng? Where is Xiaocheng…”

The extremely obsessive, incessant chatter also sparked anger in the World Will, “Enough! You are merely my puppet! How dare you resist me? What disrespect!”

However, the response was an even more obsessive series of words, “Where is Xiaocheng! Where is Xiaocheng! Tell me, where is Xiaocheng!”

“Xiaocheng! Xiaocheng! You’re still going on about her! What’s so good about her!

“Ye Liang, Chu Lingfeng! These people should have been your destined matches, Su Tao!

“If it weren’t for this person who should have died long ago gaining self-awareness, how could my things have been stolen! That piece of rat droppings that ruined my whole pot of porridge! I’ll have her reunited with you soon!”