Cannon Fodder – Chapter 60 – To Be Both Sick and Sweet is True Yandere

Had it really been less than three days?!

Su Tao had even thought a whole week had passed. Her hands trembled as she held her phone, as if her strength hadn’t fully returned yet. Her slender, delicate index and middle fingers pressed against her lips in disbelief.

Three days, meaning that excluding the first day when she had nearly given up, she had been forced to kiss dozens of times over the next two days?

No… had it really been forced?

She had drunk so much orange juice that she vomited repeatedly.

The oppressive environment filled her with terror. The only other source of taste was that soft little mouth, and that softness and sweetness had unconsciously become a source of comfort in her heart.

She had begun seeking it out on her own, demanding it.

It was no longer Chi Xiaocheng forcing her. It had been her own choice.

Mechanically, Su Tao turned her head to look at Chi Xiaocheng, whose petite figure was bustling about near the sofa.

Steeling herself, Su Tao opened WeChat and saw that many messages had been replied to, each with a different excuse. Since she had already requested leave before disappearing, no one suspected anything about her three-day absence.

Chi Xiaocheng had handled things meticulously. Apart from restricting Su Tao herself, there had been no impact on her daily life.

Everything had happened, yet it also felt like nothing had happened.

A secret remains a secret because it is buried deep in the heart, unseen by anyone, yet constantly weighing on the soul. Once revealed, it bursts forth like a flood.

“Tao-Tao.”

Amidst her tangled thoughts, Chi Xiaocheng’s voice called out.

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Su Tao looked over to see the petite loli holding a sachet embroidered with an orange design. “This is for you.”

Taking the sachet, Su Tao noticed a pleasant and familiar fragrance.

Chi Xiaocheng explained, “This sachet helps soothe the mind, reduce fatigue, and improve sleep.”

The moment she saw the sachet, Su Tao couldn’t help but think of the incense burner, and her hand trembled slightly.

Chi Xiaocheng, understanding her thoughts, smiled softly. “Don’t worry, I didn’t tamper with this. These past three days must have been exhausting. You barely got any proper sleep, right?

“Sorry~”

Chi Xiaocheng lowered her head, docile as a child who had done something wrong.

Holding the sachet, Su Tao wasn’t sure if it was just her imagination, but she did feel some of her fatigue easing. And she really liked the scent. It was comforting.

“I believe you.”

Su Tao pocketed the sachet and reached out to pat Chi Xiaocheng’s head. “Actually, I’m also at fault for what happened. I’m sorry, Xiaocheng.”

Chi Xiaocheng kept her head down, trembling slightly as if overwhelmed by the head pats.

After a long internal struggle, Su Tao finally said seriously, “So… let’s just pretend these past few days never happened, okay?”

“Mhm~”

A mosquito-like hum of agreement came in response.

Su Tao smiled in relief. “Then, Xiaocheng, I’ll be going now?”

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“Remember to keep the sachet with you.”

“Okay.”

A mix of complicated emotions made Su Tao quicken her steps toward the door. Even as she crouched to put on her shoes in the entryway, she didn’t dare look back at Chi Xiaocheng, afraid that a single glance would trap her in that dark little room again.

And precisely because she didn’t look back, she missed the flushed excitement in Chi Xiaocheng’s eyes.

“System, even though I kept her locked up at home and did such terrible things to her, she still took all the blame herself and treated me so gently.”

“That’s what a ‘white moonlight’ is~! So lovable!!!”

Watching Su Tao’s retreating figure as she put on her shoes, Chi Xiaocheng couldn’t help but feel reluctant.

An inexplicable impulse rose in her heart to just keep Su Tao in her home like this forever.

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Shoes on, coat draped over her shoulders, Su Tao opened the front door. Unlike the cold inside the apartment, the chill outside felt refreshing against her skin, carried by the fresh air.

“Finally, I can leave.”

Would Xiaocheng feel reluctant right now?

A strange emotion welled up in Su Tao’s heart. As she stepped out and turned to close the door, she instinctively glanced back at Chi Xiaocheng.

What kind of gaze was that?

Amidst crimson hues, reluctance, affection, attachment, and loss swirled together.

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Strangely, Su Tao could sense the emotions radiating from Chi Xiaocheng. Her feelings weren’t just an act.

Click—

The door closed.

The lovely figure disappeared beyond the entryway. Chi Xiaocheng exhaled deeply and sat back on the sofa.

“What a shame, three days was too short. A whole week would’ve been perfect.”

[Host, over these three days, you’ve collected a total of 2,185 Emotion points from the female lead Su Tao. After deducting the 1,000 points spent on the mental soothing sachet, plus the remaining points from before, you now have 1,215 left. Would you like to draw a card?]

“Not for now. I’ll save them for later.”

1,200 points might seem like a lot, but they could be spent in an instant.

Over these past few days, she had already used several hundred points just on system store purchases.

The incense burner that sapped Su Tao’s strength, the yandere-themed light novel she had secretly taken, all the items used to decorate the room. Everything had been bought from the system.

[But Host, was the sachet really necessary? It was so expensive.]

“Of course it was necessary. Every time I saw Su Tao before, she always looked at least a little tired. She has to study, work part-time, and deal with all sorts of nonsense from those male leads, it’s no wonder she can’t sleep well.

“After these three days, she looks even more worn out.

“Even so, she forced herself to keep talking to me with a smile.

“It hurts to see!

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“If this goes on, even if I don’t do anything to her, she’ll collapse sooner or later. And since I’ve altered the plot, she hasn’t even met that ‘miracle doctor’ male lead yet. Without anyone to help her recover, how long can she last?”

Giving a gift was just an excuse. Her real concern was for Su Tao’s well-being.

“Besides, this helps solidify my yandere persona.” Chi Xiaocheng walked to the balcony, where she could see Su Tao’s retreating figure heading toward the neighborhood gate from the high-rise.

As if speaking to the system, or perhaps just to herself, she murmured,

“Yandere, yandere, if there’s only ‘sick’ but no ‘sweet,’ it’s not appealing at all.

“Stabbing, killing, locking people up, even cannibalism… using ‘love’ as an excuse to vent dark impulses isn’t yandere, it’s just insanity. The formula for yandere isn’t just murder and consumption.

“‘Sick’ makes people conflicted. ‘Sweet’ makes them adore you. Only with both can you be a true yandere.

“If I only pressured Su Tao and showed her my terrifying side, even if I could rely on her lingering feelings for the original host to keep her, what would the final outcome be?

“She’d break down. She wouldn’t be able to take it. She’d think I’m a lunatic, and in the end, she’d either go mad or be broken by me. Among countless branching paths, the one where she truly loves me would remain forever out of reach.

“That’s not what I want.”

Chi Xiaocheng’s gaze grew colder as she watched Su Tao’s retreating figure.

“So, the next step to making her fall for me is to eliminate every single nuisance around her, one by one.”

In the distance, a man stood chatting with Su Tao near the security booth.

Ye Liang!

That guy had actually come straight to her neighborhood!