Chapter 7

Chu Yu held Lin Yi’s hand and pulled her up, but still did not dare look at her.

Her face still remembered that sweet sensation. So soft, so warm… and the cherry blossom fragrance lingering at the tip of her nose.

The little dog was about to lose control of her pheromones.

In a panic, she bit her tongue, not letting herself keep indulging in wild thoughts. Nervously, she said, “Sister, are you okay?”

She herself really was fine.

Although she had been the one to fall, she had landed solidly on Lin Yi. Her face had even been buried against Lin Yi’s chest…

But Lin Yi had been pinned beneath her.

The little dog looked at Lin Yi anxiously.

The nervous look in her eyes made Lin Yi find her inexplicably cute. Lin Yi smiled and said, “If I said I wasn’t okay, how would you compensate me?”

“Not okay?” The little dog’s eyes immediately widened. She said anxiously, “Where are you hurt? Does it hurt badly? Should I call an ambulance?”

“No need,” Lin Yi said with a soft laugh.

She took Chu Yu’s hand and placed it on her own waist, then said softly, “It hurts here. Massage it for me.”

Her voice was very light, carrying a faint, almost imperceptible trace of ambiguity.

But right now, Chu Yu’s mind was filled only with the thought that she absolutely could not let Lin Yi be injured. So the ambiguity Lin Yi threw out landed on the little dog like music played to a cow.

Chu Yu hurried to the sofa and threw all the pillows, the laptop she had been working on earlier, the colored pencils, and the scattered storyboards and script aside. Then she ran to her medicine box and rummaged out a medicated patch.

Lin Yi had originally been leaning against the doorway, watching Chu Yu bustle around with a smile.

When she saw the medicated patch, she froze slightly.

A very long time ago, before she had gone abroad and before Chu Yu had become a pervert, the two of them had once participated in a film training camp together.

Chu Yu was in the director group, and Lin Yi was in the acting group.

At that time, everyone was only allowed to bring one twenty-inch suitcase. More than half of Chu Yu’s suitcase had been filled with all kinds of emergency medicine.

Lin Yi had teased Chu Yu, “You’re here to be a director, not an actor. Is it really that dangerous?”

Chu Yu had looked up at her, her bright puppy eyes curved with [read the original at bailiantales.com]a smile. “But you’re an actor.”

Lin Yi had frozen slightly.

It was not until later, during special training for an action scene, when she needed to fall from a horse. After several failed takes, they kept filming until the horse finally grew agitated. As she fell, the horse suddenly reared, forcing her to roll off its back and twist her waist.

Chu Yu, who had been training with the director group next door, had been the first to run back.

Only then had Lin Yi learned that Chu Yu’s entire suitcase of medicine had been brought for her.

—Is being a director really that dangerous?

—But you’re an actor.

The little dog in her memory overlapped with the little dog busily moving around before her eyes, and Lin Yi lost focus for a moment.

Don’t you hate me?

Don’t you hate me so much that you wish I would die?

Why have you suddenly become warm again, like before…

She did not know.

But she had clearly already decided to give up on Chu Yu. Yet the little kid who had once made her heart move had returned again.

“Sister, I found the medicine!” Chu Yu ran over, helped Lin Yi lie down by the sofa, then gently tore open the packaging of the medicated patch.

A memory also suddenly flashed through her mind.

At the film training camp in the past, she seemed to have done this too, applying medicine for Lin Yi.

Chu Yu did not think too much of it and only regarded it as the original owner’s memory, as a past the novel’s author had never written.

“Sister, it might hurt a little. Bear with it,” Chu Yu said.

She carefully rolled up the hem of Lin Yi’s top, exposing Lin Yi’s slender waist. Though slender, it was extremely firm, with lovely muscle lines and a warm, alluring touch that made Chu Yu instantly hold her breath.

Do not be rude. Do not be rude…

The little dog frantically brainwashed herself.

Form is emptiness. Emptiness is form…

Lin Yi could not help laughing out loud.

Only when Chu Yu heard Lin Yi’s laugh did she belatedly realize that she seemed to have accidentally muttered aloud all those rambling words she had been using to brainwash herself.

Her face flushed red.

Lin Yi said, “Massage it for me. It hurts.”

Actually, her waist did not hurt, but for some reason, she really liked seeing Chu Yu look shy. This expression felt long-lost, and very cute.

Chu Yu immediately said, “Okay!”

Afraid that if she massaged poorly she would hurt Lin Yi, she urgently searched on her phone for how to massage someone’s waist. Then, following the video tutorial, she began seriously recreating the movements on Lin Yi.

She faced it as if facing a formidable enemy, trembling with caution, so careful that even during the college entrance exam, she probably had not been this tense.

Lin Yi laughed despite herself.

She had originally wanted to see Chu Yu look embarrassed. Who would have thought the little dog would truly have a mind free of distractions, treating her entirely like a final exam?

“Sister, is this okay?” Chu Yu asked with concern.

“Mm,” Lin Yi said softly. “It’s very comfortable.”

Her voice carried a trace of lazy ambiguity. Any Alpha who heard such a voice would probably immediately lose control of their pheromones.

Not to mention, Lin Yi was the person in her heart.

But Chu “Currently Taking the Nursing Department Final Exam” Yu only felt a long sigh of relief, happy solely because she had been able to help Lin Yi.

The little dog happily wagged her tail.

Unfortunately, she was only happy for less than a second.

Because the next second, she suddenly heard that terrifying voice:

System: [Model Scumbag Alpha System activating. Please carry out the mission: take an intimate photo of the two of you and use it to threaten Lin Yi.]

Chu Yu: ?

Chu Yu: !

Chu Yu: If you want to kill me, just say it directly! Don’t pull this right when I’ve finally managed to repair my relationship with Lin Yi a little!

Lin Yi could clearly have let her fall straight onto the floor earlier, but Lin Yi had saved her. Not only had she saved her, she had even willingly served as a human cushion and let Chu Yu press her down. And Read on BaiLianTalesnow the system wanted to force Chu Yu to kick her while she was down? How could she possibly do that?

Besides, this mission was way too excessive!

How was this being a scumbag Alpha? This was practically being a pervert!

System: [If the mission is refused, the loop will begin. Electric shock preparing…]

Chu Yu: Don’t!

Even now, her chest still ached faintly. Just thinking of the terror of being pierced through made her unable to breathe.

Why exactly… had she been sent here?

And why did the script insist that she become a scumbag Alpha?

Was it just because the novel’s author had written her as one?

Chu Yu wanted to cry but had no tears.

Since she could not refuse, she might as well seriously look at the mission.

[Mission requirement: take an intimate photo of the two of you and use it to threaten Lin Yi.]

The little dog thought for a few seconds, then her eyes lit up.

The mission only said she had to take an intimate photo of the two of them. It did not say how that photo had to be taken. She could absolutely invite Lin Yi to take the photo with her. Although she might be rejected, if Lin Yi agreed, then it would not count as creepy secretly taking photos.

As for using it to threaten Lin Yi… the mission had not said what she had to threaten her with, right? She could absolutely set a threat that was not excessive and use that to muddle through.

Looking at it this way, there seemed to be a lot of room to maneuver in this mission.

But perhaps the system had heard her thoughts, because the next second, that terrifying voice announced again:

System: [Regarding mission details: the photo must show the tattoo on Lin Yi’s waist. The threat must be at least kiss-level.]

Chu Yu: …

Just kill her.

How was she supposed to say this? How?

“Sister, can I take a picture of your waist?”

No, the mission required an intimate photo.

“Sister, can I take a photo together with your waist?”

Lin Yi would definitely think she was a pervert!

Although it seemed she already was a pervert to begin with.

Whether it was all the rotten things the original Chu Yu had done, or the rotten things the system had demanded she do after transmigrating into the book, all of it made Chu Yu feel that it would be strange if Lin Yi did not think she was a pervert.

Then how should she say it…

Seeing that the medicated patch had already been applied and Lin Yi was about to sit up and lower her clothes, Chu Yu hurriedly said, “Sister!” right before that beautiful waist was covered.

Lin Yi paused and turned to look at her.

The little dog bit her lip and said, “Sister, can I look at the tattoo on your waist?”

When she had been massaging Lin Yi earlier, she had seen the tattoo on Lin Yi’s waist.

It was a butterfly pattern.

A very beautiful tattoo.

A butterfly spreading its wings as if about to fly. Perhaps it was small, but it had wings and the sky.

Chu Yu liked this pattern.

Just as she liked Lin Yi.

Lin Yi froze slightly. Her voice was a little dry as she said, “Didn’t you dislike this tattoo?”

“I…” The little dog said in confusion, “I disliked it?”

Lin Yi curved her lips and said softly, “You once said that the thing you most wanted to do was break this butterfly’s wings.”

Chu Yu: …

All right. Even though she had always known she was a pervert, she was still shocked again and again by the extent of her own perversion.

There was a smile on Lin Yi’s face, and her beautiful peach-blossom eyes looked at Chu Yu with great interest.

“I…” The little dog bit her lip and said, “I don’t hate it now. Sister, do you believe me?”

Silence.

For a moment, only the continuous ticking of the clock’s second hand could be heard.

After an unknown length of time, Lin Yi suddenly smiled and said softly, “Why wouldn’t I believe you?”

Chu Yu raised her head and looked at her.

“I am always believing you,” Lin Yi sighed softly.

If she were not always believing in Chu Yu, how could she have been hurt by her again and again? She had even agreed to take Eden after Chu Yu had abruptly replaced her on set and humiliated her in public once before.

Since she had already believed in her so many times, what did it matter if she believed in her one more time?

Wasn’t that right?

Besides… Chu Yu really had changed a lot. A great deal.

When the little dog heard Lin Yi say she believed her, her eyes lit up, and she happily wagged her nonexistent tail. She reached out to wrap an arm around Lin Yi’s waist, striking while the iron was hot. “Sister, let’s take a photo together, okay?”

Even though Lin Yi knew Chu Yu had changed, after having practically developed PTSD toward Chu Yu over the past three years, she still instinctively shrank back a little when faced with the little dog’s sudden intimacy.

The little dog instantly froze in place, at a loss.

Lin Yi’s heart softened. She reached out, took Chu Yu’s arm, and placed it around her own waist. With her other hand, she took Chu Yu’s phone and opened the front-facing camera.

The little dog looked at the phone screen, overwhelmed by the favor.

Click.

System: [Taking an intimate photo of the two of you: completed.]