After I Died, The Little White Flower Heroine Went Mad - Chapter 10

The other person’s hand was so hot. Wrapped around her ankle, it was like a branding iron, shockingly scorching, and very forceful too. In order to stop her from running away, Li Zhu used a firm grip to restrain her.

Bai Wei’s impression of her was poor. She only felt as though she was being bitten and licked by a burning-hot venomous snake.

But the other person’s restraint did not actually hurt. Li Zhu grasped the degree of force precisely, and the pressure she used to apply the medicine was gentle too.

So in a daze, Bai Wei somehow felt that this person’s coercion was gentle.

Bai Wei was only eighteen after all. Although her thoughts ran deep, she was still young in the end.

The cold ointment was being applied lightly, while hot fingers held her tightly. In her heart, she clearly hated the other person, yet she could also clearly sense that the other person was being gentle with her. Because of that, her feelings became extremely conflicted and complicated.

The sensations in her body were even more unbearably uncomfortable. Before long, she felt as though the fire around her ankle was burning upward along her skin, making the calf of the leg propped on Li Zhu’s knee twitch and tremble lightly beyond her control.

[Bai Wei affection +5]

[Bai Wei affection -5]

[Bai Wei affection +3]

……

[Bai Wei affection +5]

[Bai Wei affection -5]

[Current Bai Wei affection: -5]

Good.

After riding a roller coaster all night, the affection score had finally risen back up.

Although it still had not broken through zero, this was at least some progress, wasn’t it?

Listening to the system notifications in her mind, with Little Bai’s affection score rising and falling, Li Zhu could not help sighing inwardly.

At the same time, because of it, she easily understood just how complicated Bai Wei’s heart was right now.

She was not so bad as to insist on deliberately playing with someone’s feelings.

After applying the medicine and wrapping a few loops of gauze around the top of Bai Wei’s foot to protect the wound, she released her hand and let Bai Wei go.

Bai Wei froze for a moment, then quickly pulled her leg back.

She had rolled up her pants and run barefoot through fields plenty of times before, yet for some reason, exposing her bare feet like this in front of Li Zhu now made an inexplicable sense of shame rise in her.

Was it because the other person was dressed neatly and looked cold, perfect, and flawless, while she had only been able to stand barefoot on the ground just now, looking far too wretched?

Was it because the other person remained calm and elegant even kneeling on one knee, while she was flustered, her heart pounding like a drum, helpless and ridiculous like a clown?

Was it because the other person’s hands were too beautiful, with distinct knuckles and long, fair, slender fingers, while her own feet, which had often done farm work and gone into the fields in the past, were truly too ugly—rough and scarred, making the contrast far too humiliating?

Bai Wei had always known the gap between herself and these favored children of heaven in the academy. Usually, she could only make herself try not to care.

But tonight, being treated like this by Li Zhu, seeing Miss Li’s exquisite composure form such a sharp contrast with her own ugly, miserable state, still made the sensitive Bai Wei unable not to care.

In front of this true noble young lady, the ugly duckling from the slums inevitably felt inferior.

So Bai Wei not only quickly pulled her leg back, she also immediately reached out and tugged down the slightly long pants to cover her feet completely before hurriedly putting on the slippers.

No matter how clever Li Zhu was, it was impossible for her to know everything Bai Wei was thinking.

Besides, she did not think Bai Wei’s feet were rough or unattractive at all, and she did not think Bai Wei looked miserable either.

If anyone had to be called miserable, it should be her. Bai Wei had already played her so badly that she had entered a second playthrough, okay?

Looking at Bai Wei’s lowered head and silence, Li Zhu thought she was shy and uncomfortable, so she did not think too deeply about it.

She stood up from in front of Bai Wei, went to the bathroom to wash her hands first, then came back, bent down, and picked up the first-aid kit on the ground, putting it back where it belonged.

When she came out of the storage room and returned to the living area again, she saw that Bai Wei was no longer sitting. She had gotten up from the sofa and walked to the bathroom door, where she was tidying up her broken little leather shoes.

Out of politeness, Li Zhu did not tell her to throw the shoes away. Instead, she said she would find her a box to put them in.

Nyx’s cultural auditorium had naturally held more than one performance, so this suite was not something “Li Zhu” was using for the first time.

There were many brand-new spare clothes inside, and in very wealthy fashion, many formal dresses and shoes had been casually placed there too.

But shoeboxes… there really were none.

Li Zhu searched carefully again in the walk-in closet dedicated to storing formalwear. In the end, she finally found two brand-new bags that had not even been unwrapped, casually tossed into a corner of the glass display cabinet.

She took one bag out, brought the box and paper bag outside, and handed them to Bai Wei.

When Bai Wei saw the box Li Zhu handed over, her eyelid twitched lightly.

No matter how poor she was, she still knew this brand. Even if she had not known it before, after a month of being immersed in Nyx, she should know it by now.

Bags from this brand were said to cost at least ten or twenty thousand gold coins. That was money a person could only earn after working hard for one or two years.

Yet such an expensive bag had been casually thrown into the storage room by Miss Li. If Li Zhu had not searched for it today, she probably would not even have remembered it existed.

Once again, Bai Wei felt the gap between herself and Li Zhu, a gap like an insurmountable chasm. It made her feel as if she had suddenly fallen into an abyss even while standing on level ground, struggling to breathe.

She stood in this luxurious suite that only rich people could enjoy and looked at the exquisite, beautiful Miss Li before her.

Truly—she wanted nothing more than to pounce on her, bite her neck, and eat her flesh.

Unfortunately, she could not do that.

And although Bai Wei’s heart was filled with overwhelming hatred, not a single trace of it showed on her face.

She even looked extremely polite. Her lashes lowered slightly, her gaze restrained, and she demurely received the things in Li Zhu’s hands with both hands.

The room’s light shone down, falling onto her hands as she took the box. In the faintness, the shadow of one finger on her right hand seemed slightly bent.

But Bai Wei quickly drew her hand back, so Li Zhu did not see it.

Li Zhu only felt, for some reason, that the way Bai Wei had looked at her just now seemed a little strange.

Was it an illusion?

Just as she was thinking this,

somewhat unexpectedly—

Knock, knock, knock.

A knock sounded at the door.

She had changed Bai Wei’s plan, and the plot had already departed from its original track. Now, a new story was being written.

So who could be coming?

Li Zhu walked over with a trace of curiosity and reached out to open the door.

When she saw the person outside, she could not help raising her brow lightly.

Oh?

It was a new friend.