Peach-Orange! – Chapter 573 – The Little Black Room Really Arrives

Have a good sleep. When you wake up, I will be back by your side.

And I’ll bring Brother back with me.

Closing the door, with everything ready, Chi Xiaocheng walked into her brother’s room again.

She took out a set of rather androgynous clothing; she planned to wear this set when going out later, then disguise herself as an elegant older sister. This way, no one could possibly connect it back to her.

“But, I still feel a bit sorry for Tao-Tao.”

Sighing, Chi Xiaocheng changed her shoes at the entranceway.

Both are important people, and she can’t bear to part with either.

Chi Xiaocheng hates making this kind of choice. She is an adult; she wants it all.

However, the reality is, to have it all, one must possess the corresponding strength. Otherwise, the moment one gains something, one is inevitably forced to give up something else.

But, going to save her brother is something she has already decided.

“Ah woo~”

While tying her shoelaces, Chi Xiaocheng let out another long yawn. “What’s going on? I’m so terribly sleepy.”

Could it be that I’m tired too?

Chi Xiaocheng shook her head, stepped her other small foot into a white sock, put her shoes on with some difficulty, and then stood up.

The moment one hand gripped the doorknob, she felt the strength in her body gradually draining away.

“What in the world is going on?”

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Chi Xiaocheng held onto the doorframe, her legs giving way, and she fell to the ground again.

Her brain began to feel groggy, her eyelids heavy and fighting to stay open.

“Could it be… the one I drank was the drugged one?

“But that doesn’t make sense at all.”

She distinctly remembered double-checking the left and right of that soup. And now, Su Tao was restrained by her on the bed, so how could…

Her consciousness began to blur; the intense drowsiness made her unable to muster any strength.

In her ears, the sound of shoes stepping on the floor began to reach her.

With difficulty, Chi Xiaocheng looked towards the sound and noticed a familiar, pale leg.

Following the line of sight upward, it was Su Tao’s somewhat livid, pretty face.

At the same time, one of her hands was holding a pair of handcuffs.

“Tao… Tao-Tao?

“How did you…”

Su Tao let out a cold laugh. “Xiaocheng, you are really careless. Feeding me medicine, didn’t you even check if I swallowed it or not?”

“And you didn’t really think these little handcuffs could actually stop me, did you?”

After Chi Xiaocheng left, she spat out the water with the muscle-relaxant powder that she had never swallowed. As for the handcuffs and shackles, she only needed to exert a little force to tear them directly off the bed.

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“I was just pretending to sleep, then to see if you, Xiaocheng, would really leave me. I never expected it, never expected…”

Su Tao lifted her gaze, looking at the ceiling illuminated by the last remaining sliver of light, feeling somewhat emotional and sighing.

“Before falling asleep, I specifically said I didn’t want you to leave, Xiaocheng. And yet.

“And yet you still want to leave me!”

Step by step, Su Tao walked towards Chi Xiaocheng. The girl was now too sleepy to speak, but Su Tao tirelessly answered her unspoken question. “What, Xiaocheng, you want to ask why you are feeling drowsy even though you were the one who drugged me, right?”

Chi Xiaocheng gritted her teeth and forcefully pinched the flesh on her thigh.

The pain restored a bit of clarity to her. She nearly begged, “Tao-Tao, please don’t be like this, okay? I… I really can’t just leave Brother alone. If he, if he dies, then even if we defeat the World Will later, but without an important person, can that still be considered the most perfect ending?”

“Then have you thought about me, Xiaocheng!” Su Tao waved her hand and shouted sharply, “You sneak out now, have an accident, I wake up, and then hear news of you being hospitalized again?

“Or, more drastically, I wake up and Xiao Hei appears by my side, telling me you’re dead?”

Chi Xiaocheng pressed her lips together. “I… I didn’t say I don’t care about you, but I care about Brother too. He’s your brother as well!”

“Yes!” Su Tao nodded in acknowledgment. “I care about Brother Chi Song very much, but do you know, Xiaocheng, I care about you even more!”

Su Tao held her forehead with one hand, letting out a somewhat broken laugh. “But you, you lied to me again, saying you’d be good.

“Said you wouldn’t sneak out alone, wouldn’t abandon me.

“Then what are you doing now!

“Drugging me, imprisoning me, even though I’ve said over and over again that I don’t want you to go out, don’t want you to leave, don’t want you to get hurt, you still insist on going out!

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“Do you think I would still live on alone after you die!”

The girl’s hoarse roar echoed continuously in the living room.

That face, originally panting slightly and deepening in breath, suddenly revealed a somewhat eerie smile. Her brown-red eyes seemed to glow.

Su Tao gently stroked the handcuffs in her hand, her tone shifting to gentle. “Well, Xiaocheng, you were the one who didn’t listen to me first, so I don’t need to listen to you anymore, right?”

“I said I would protect you, so this time I won’t allow you to go, and I won’t let you have any possibility of an accident.

“What perfect ending, what future where everyone can be happy, none of that is important! None of it is as important as you!”

Su Tao came to Chi Xiaocheng’s side, knelt on one knee, and held her, preventing her from falling.

Her hands cupped Chi Xiaocheng’s face.

Chi Xiaocheng, her eyelids heavily fighting sleep, felt like she was about to fall asleep the next second.

Even so, she could still see Su Tao’s face, flushed seemingly from excitement.

“I won’t let you leave me.”

As her eyes gradually closed, Chi Xiaocheng suddenly felt her small mouth being captured, her teeth quickly pried open.

Contrary to this intoxicating gentleness, on her hands, were the icy cold handcuffs.

With the multiple-dose of sleeping powder, she could no longer hold on.

Her eyes completely shut.

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Although in a warm embrace, it felt like falling into an endless abyss.

She was completely asleep.

After increasing the dosage of the sleeping powder, it would cause deep sleep for at least four hours or more.

Su Tao held Chi Xiaocheng, kissing her to her heart’s content before finally letting her go, looking at the girl’s quiet and cute face.

After admiring it with burning eyes for a long time, she then spoke softly, “Xiao Hei, are you planning to stop me?”

Her mind was not confused at all; at this moment, she was extremely clear-headed. She knew that if Chi Xiaocheng made this choice, it must have been with Xiao Hei’s tacit approval.

That guardian spirit in the black dress was Chi Xiaocheng’s greatest confidence in going out.

She hadn’t forgotten this ghost-like girl.

And Xiao Hei very naturally appeared beside Su Tao, crossing her arms and saying calmly, “I never supported Xiaocheng going out on an adventure. Chi Song can only be left to Si Chen and Dongfang Yang to handle, trusting that his luck will see him through.”

“I’m the same as you.” Xiao Hei looked at Chi Xiaocheng’s face. “I only care about Xiaocheng. What happens to others has nothing to do with me. As long as she is fine, that’s enough.”

Their goals were indeed the same now.

But…

Xiaocheng can only be mine alone.

Su Tao held Chi Xiaocheng, turned her head, and stared directly at Xiao Hei’s face with those eerie eyes. “You say you only care about Xiaocheng, then what kind of feeling is this care of yours?”