Chapter 189: The Ones Who Can’t Be Shaken Off (8)
Tang Yiyi was very surprised by the message. Her first reaction was to think that Rong Rong’s phone had been stolen. She thought that the scammers these days were really arrogant. Even the scam messages they sent after impersonating someone were so careless.
But she still called the other person, worried that Rong Rong had encountered a major issue related to her personal safety. As soon as she picked up, she heard a mournful sound from the other end, “President Tang…”
Tang Yiyi immediately became a little nervous and believed the contents of the text message a bit more. But the first words she spoke were, “Didn’t I tell you before? You’re not my employee. You don’t have to call me that. I don’t like you calling me President Tang.”
If not President Tang, then what should she call her?
Old Tang?
Rong Rong muttered to herself on the other end of the phone. She used a sob to skip over the unimportant matter of the address, and then started talking about how serious her sister’s illness was.
And how difficult it was to treat. Other than borrowing money from Tang Yiyi, she couldn’t think of a better way to treat her sister in time.
Of course, Rong Rong didn’t tell Tang Yiyi the specific details about Rong Si. She blurred a lot of the details, so that if the two of them accidentally met in the future, President Tang wouldn’t easily start chatting with her as if she were her brother-in-law, and accidentally reveal something, which would then get Rong Rong stabbed again.
After barely making sense of what she had said, Tang Yiyi chuckled softly, “Rong Rong, I know a few pretty good psychologists. I can introduce you to them. Don’t worry. Your sister will definitely get the best treatment—but no matter what kind of illness it is, it shouldn’t require borrowing a hundred million. Calm down first.”
Of course, she wouldn’t actually introduce a doctor. According to the plot rules of the domineering CEO character, usually such a psychologist would be a good friend of Tang Yiyi, who would then reveal the shocking truth about how “the sister is in love with her sister” to her without revealing the source.
Rong Rong thought about the patterns she had seen in dramas when she was a child.
One was crying, and the other was making a scene.
“P-President Tang, do you not want to lend me that much money? I, I know. My request is very offensive to you, but I thought our love was priceless. How could it be measured by such mundane money?”
Tang Yiyi: “…”
She rarely felt a bit of a headache. When she had met Rong Rong before, it was when she was looking for part-time jobs after leaving school. At that time, no matter how hard the part-time boss was on her, the kid still had her bottom line. At that time, she admired that innocence and stubbornness that hadn’t been worn down by society. But she didn’t expect that in the end, this innocence that she had indulged and protected would turn on her.
This didn’t feel so good.
“Rong Rong, listen to me,” Tang Yiyi said with unprecedented patience. Before she started reasoning with Rong Rong, she didn’t forget to take a sip of her Americano to wake herself up, “I don’t care who told you to borrow such a large sum of money, but I think you should calm down first, and listen to my advice on this matter.”
Rong Rong put her phone on the pillow of her dorm bed. Fortunately, as a player, she didn’t need to actually do homework. She only needed to hold the textbook and read the words to complete it.
So at this moment, she was letting Tang Yiyi’s nagging go in one ear and out the other while thinking about ways to get rid of the other perverts.
After about ten minutes, the voice on the other end of the phone stopped. Rong Rong answered the call, sobbed twice expressionlessly, and asked pitifully in a high-pitched voice, “Then… how much money are you planning to lend me to take my sister to see a doctor in the end?”
Tang Yiyi: “…”
She tried to tell herself that it was because Rong Rong was worried and confused, which proved that she was a kind-hearted person, even though according to her previous investigation of this person, she remembered that Rong Rong didn’t have a biological sister at all. She didn’t know where this distant relative had come from.
“I’ll send you a living allowance first. Consider it a gift from me to you and your sister. Use this money as an emergency fund. If you encounter any more trouble after that, just tell me—I’ll have my assistant contact a psychologist for you. I’ll send you her contact information later.”
Rong Rong was too lazy to check what amount of “allowance” that she was giving her through her fingers. She said directly, “Tang Tang, I’m so scared. She’s the family I finally found, the only family member who didn’t abandon me. She needs me so much now. What I can do is not just accompany her. I definitely have to give her a lot and a lot of love. Since I’m already in love with you, I definitely hope you can give her all of yourself, like I do… Do you understand?”
Tang Yiyi: She didn’t really want to understand.
She rubbed her temples with a headache. She didn’t know how her usually favored honeysuckle had turned into this because of the influence of others. Could it be because of that sister?
“Tell me, what do you want?” At this moment, her tone was still soft.
Until Rong Rong said that if she couldn’t have a hundred million, she needed at least fifty million to give her sister a sense of security. In addition to that, she wanted Tang Yiyi to put aside those mundane things and accompany her through her only family bond when she and her sister went to see a doctor.
Tang Yiyi: “…”
This time, she finally lost some patience, “Rong Rong, what are you doing? One moment you want money, and the next you want me to put aside everything to accompany you. I remember that you weren’t this unreasonable before.”
Oh ho!
Had she finally gotten angry?
Rong Rong thought that she had been waiting for this for a long time. She acted like she was a person who was trapped in extreme emotions. While there weren’t any roommate NPCs in the dorm, she did her best to act. On the phone, she asked, “Tang Tang, you used to treat me so well. Can’t you spoil me one more time now?” and then started crying about how tragic her sister’s life was.
She even deliberately adjusted her voice in hopes of creating the painful effect of a demonic sound piercing through the phone.
Sure enough, in less than half an hour, Tang Yiyi coldly said the lines she wanted, “You’re not very calm right now. I’ll give you some time to clear your head.”
“What do you mean, President Tang? Do you want to break up with me? I thought you were different from those utilitarian rich people. I thought you had a true heart for me. Was I thinking too much?”
Tang Yiyi endured the urge to vomit blood, “I don’t want to break up.”
“You do! If you hang up the phone today, it’ll prove that you don’t love me anymore!”
Rong Rong slowly opened her computer, logged into online banking, and started checking the money that the other person had sent her earlier. She found that it was only a few tens of thousands of yuan.
Although she wanted to keep it to use, she had asked the system and learned that the laws in this game world were quite complete. After Tang Yiyi had barely endured her crying for another five minutes, she returned the money the moment she hung up the phone.
She also included a message:
“Since you can’t stand me, then I won’t take any advantage of you. From today onwards, we have no relationship anymore. I wish you a bright future.”
The message couldn’t fit this many words, so Rong Rong sent it in a text message.
After completing all of this in one go, she felt like her whole soul had been sublimated. Every pore on her body was exuding the coolness of being free of a pervert. She leaned back into her chair, and, with her head tilted back, Rong Rong asked,
[System, have I completely gotten rid of Tang Yiyi?]
System, “Detecting that the character Tang Yiyi’s love for you has wavered. Congratulations on a successful breakup. But before you get rid of everyone completely, whether she will appear in your world again after the breakup is up to the character to decide.”
Oh, so it meant that even after the breakup, there would still be danger?
Trash system.
Su Mingxiu had originally wanted to be that flower-selling passerby forever. But because she couldn’t get close to the student dormitories, she hesitated and changed her identity. She found that the sunflower was still in her hand.
Golden and bright, it was full of hope.
She sat behind the window of the passageway on the first floor of the girls’ dormitory and carefully admired the sunflower in her hand. After a moment, she found a clean, transparent pen holder and inserted the flower into it at an angle. The flower was slightly lowered, with the large flower heart facing her direction.
From afar, it looked like the sun was also bowing to her, and Su Mingxiu was, in this quiet night, the sole possessor of a ray of sunshine.
Until a figure rushed by the window, went through the gate, and then backed up, knocking on her window, “Why are you here?”
Rong Rong had been about to go find her to celebrate. She had thought she would have to search all over the place to find her by chance, but she didn’t expect that she was always in the place closest to her. When the glass window was opened, she came closer with a smile and asked, “Do you want to drink beer?”
Su Mingxiu slowly raised her finger and pointed at the small blackboard that was hanging on the wall opposite her, letting her see the dormitory rules, and below that were the month’s confiscated illegal appliances and beers.
Rong Rong: Fine.
She raised a hand to touch her nose. Just as she was about to ask if juice was okay, she suddenly saw that the pixelated person behind the glass window was completely enveloped in fog.
When the fog disappeared, it was a stern-looking old woman. At the same time, someone else walked down the stairs behind the gate, wearing the simplest short sleeves and a skirt, with even the bow tie in place. Without a doubt, this was the pixelated person that she wanted to go have a drink with.
“It’s okay now.” Su Mingxiu reached out her hand to her, with a very faint smile on her face. In Rong Rong’s eyes, this appearance was just a blurred square at the corner of the pixelated person’s lips.
It had a feeling of being both smiling and not smiling.
She subconsciously raised her hand, wanting to wipe the blurred square clean.
Looking at her actions, Su Mingxiu didn’t want to dodge. So she was touched directly by Rong Rong’s fingertip, right next to the corner of her mouth. She stood quietly, and only after Rong Rong’s fingertip had pressed against the corner of her lips back and forth did she ask softly, “Is there something on my face?”
“It’s not.”
Rong Rong was reminded by her and suddenly woke up, remembering what she was doing. She hurriedly pulled back her hand. Her fingertips landed on Su Mingxiu’s sleeve. As she pulled her out, she subconsciously muttered, “I just thought that your touch would be a little different from theirs…”
She didn’t expect that even the pixelated person was soft.
“What?”
Su Mingxiu had actually heard her clearly, but she wasn’t sure if she was really comparing her to others.
But Rong Rong didn’t want to say anymore. She just pulled her toward the convenience store. In the end, she didn’t see many real beers. There were only fruit wines and pineapple beer.
She finally took two bottles of pineapple beer and led Su Mingxiu all the way to a secluded place. She accidentally saw a lake at the bottom of a hill. She could see small couples secretly dating around the lake from time to time.
Rong Rong glanced at it and then looked away, feeling a bit strange in her heart. After all, she already found the relationships in here annoying, so why did she seem to be rushing to… find another one?
Her scalp tingled from her own thoughts. Just as Rong Rong was about to retreat, she suddenly heard a “click” sound. It was the sound of Su Mingxiu opening the pull tab of the pineapple beer in her hand at some point.
The sound of the bubbles attracted her attention.
When Rong Rong looked up again, the moonlight was passing through the clouds and landing on the lake at the bottom of the hill, making the lake look like a piece of jade with restrained light.
The light spread out on the lawn, illuminating the faces of every couple who had come together. It was at this time that Rong Rong found that the person standing in front of her with the pull tab hanging on her finger suddenly became clear.
It was as if…
She had progressed from the pixels of a Little Tyrant learning machine to the… small ads on a web page.
As everyone knew, the image quality of these two-dimensional small ads was usually not very exquisite. But it easily gave people the illusion that they would be able to see it clearly as long as they clicked on it. Rong Rong blinked her eyes hard, thinking about seeing it more clearly. But in the next second, Su Mingxiu turned back into that low-resolution pixelated person again.
“Uh…” Looking at the person in front of her, whose expression was changing and tangled, Su Mingxiu took the pineapple beer from her and took a sip, asking, “What’s wrong?”
Rong Rong shook her head.
Then she laughed to herself as if she had discovered something new and funny. All of the bad emotions and thoughts from earlier had been swept away. She also pulled open the tab of her beer and took a big gulp of the pineapple beer.
She didn’t know why—
She suddenly really wanted to see Su Mingxiu in high definition.
She had a hunch that this person would definitely be a hundred times more beautiful than those girlfriends.
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