After I Died, The Little White Flower Heroine Went Mad - Chapter 8
Li Zhu was very athletic, and she had tried all sorts of sports—skiing, equestrianism, taekwondo. There was nothing she did not know how to do.
Naturally, swimming was no problem either. In fact, she was very good in the water.
After jumping into the lake, her posture was extremely composed.
Bai Wei, on the other hand, was a completely different story.
Bai Wei could not swim at all.
Water was something soft and dangerous. People could not live without it in daily life, but when it gathered together, it possessed a terrifying power.
For someone who could not swim, falling into deep water was an absolutely frightening experience. Buoyancy made one lose all control over the body, while the sensation of being wrapped and squeezed from every direction was like death pulling one into a tight embrace. The choking, drowning feeling of having eyes, ears, mouth, and nose all submerged brought suffocating pain.
And Bright Moon Lake was large and deep. In the darkness of night, it was like a boundless cavern that devoured anyone who entered.
This time, Bai Wei was no longer acting. She was truly in pain. Her body sank in the lake, and water rushed into her eyes and nose. The discomfort made her feel as though all her features were burning with a sharp, stinging ache.
She could not open her eyes. She could not speak, much less breathe. Not long after falling in, she had already choked down several mouthfuls of water.
She instinctively began struggling and thrashing, but the more she thrashed, the less she could save herself. Instead, she drifted farther and farther away.
Li Zhu, who was not afraid of water, took in Bai Wei’s state completely.
Even she had to admire it. This person had truly gone all in just to scheme against her.
As she sighed inwardly, Li Zhu moved, sweeping her arms through the water as she swam toward Bai Wei, who was drifting away from the shore.
In order to prevent accidents and make it easier to move, Li Zhu had not chosen an overly extravagant gown today. She had worn a low-key, bright-red spaghetti-strap dress, fitted at the waist with a fishtail hem.
After falling into the lake, the water soaked the dress and made it cling tightly to her body.
As a result, her waist looked even slimmer and her legs seemed even longer. The long hem of her dress floated behind her legs and spread out in the lake, swaying with the water until, in that hazy moment, it looked almost like her tail.
And then, with her waist swaying lightly and her tail trembling faintly, she came to Bai Wei’s side like a mermaid.
It was true that Bai Wei was clever and ruthless, but she also seemed especially afraid of death. After choking on several mouthfuls of water, fear inevitably rose in her heart, so her will to survive was particularly strong.
On top of that, her eyes had been stung shut by the water. At this moment, she could not open them at all. She could not see the scene around her and did not know that Li Zhu had come to save her. In her heart, she was also absolutely certain that someone like Li Zhu would never save her.
Therefore, when she vaguely sensed someone cutting through the water and coming to her side, Bai Wei thought someone else had discovered her and that she was about to be saved. Her survival instinct made her subconsciously grab this lifeline.
She reached out and clamped onto the other person’s arm, then wrapped herself tightly around them like struggling waterweed, drawing on their vitality.
[Bai Wei affection +5]
[Bai Wei affection +5]
[Current Bai Wei affection: -13]
Grabbing onto anything nearby was an instinct for someone who had fallen into water. Li Zhu understood that very well, so she did not stop Bai Wei’s actions and simply let Bai Wei hold onto her.
At this moment, under the moonlight, in the lake water, two people whose relationship had been awful to the extreme now clung tightly together like two swimming fish, their bodies pressed close and entangled.
It made Li Zhu sigh again. This person was so afraid of water, yet she had resolutely jumped into the lake to frame her. Her inner strength really was impressive.
Then Li Zhu lowered her eyes and looked at the miserable state of the person wrapped around her. Feeling the urgent force with which Bai Wei clung to her, arms locking around her, fingers pressing into her back as if they were about to dig into her skin, Li Zhu also found this person somewhat pitiful.
The little hamster that had fallen into the water had been frightened badly and could only hide in her arms, gripping her tightly.
It was just that their clever Miss Protagonist still had not realized that the person she was currently hugging was the one she hated most.
Li Zhu grew more interested and even more tender toward her. She reached out and lightly patted Bai Wei’s head to comfort her.
The movement was very gentle, but to Bai Wei, who was afraid of water and even more afraid of dying, it was the only comfort in the shadow of drowning.
[Bai Wei affection +5]
[Current Bai Wei affection: -8]
Hearing the notification, Li Zhu laughed softly.
Then she held Bai Wei’s small body and, using a standard rescue posture, brought her toward the shore.
The spot where the two of them had fallen into the water was right by the lake, and they had not drifted for long afterward. Li Zhu only had to paddle a few times before reaching the bank.
Then, exerting strength with one hand, her beautifully lined arm lifted Bai Wei out and placed her onto the shore in one smooth motion.
After that, Li Zhu pressed both hands onto the grassy ground by the lake, pushed herself up slightly, and, like a lithe mermaid, returned to land cleanly and beautifully.
At that moment, Bai Wei was still dazed.
Because of previous experiences, she was extremely afraid of water. After falling in, she had ultimately been unable to keep herself from feeling somewhat panicked and frightened. In the midst of struggling, she had almost been filled up by lake water in no time, her whole body soaked until she felt both pain and dizziness.
Now that she had just come ashore, her consciousness had not fully cleared. As she sat half-lying on the bank, she had no time to look at the person who had saved her. She first instinctively lowered her head and coughed up water.
“Cough, cough!”
“Cough, cough!”
“Cough, cough, cough…”
But in the end, she was a clever person.
It was one thing not to know who had saved her while she had been in the water and unable to open her eyes.
But now that she was ashore and could see, she should gradually react and realize something.
It was Li Zhu.
The person who had saved her was actually Li Zhu!
How could it possibly be Li Zhu?
How could Li Zhu immediately jump into the water after her and save her? How could Li Zhu save her? Why had Li Zhu saved her?
This young lady really was exactly the same as what [M] had said: a genuine lunatic, someone whose actions followed no logic at all.
But that was temporarily unimportant.
The most important thing now was whether Li Zhu had realized she had deliberately fallen into the water just now.
She had fallen before Li Zhu even touched her. Had she made it a bit too obvious? Anyone with even a little brain should have been able to sense something was wrong, right?
But if Li Zhu really had noticed, why would she jump in to save her? Li Zhu did not know about Zhou Zhi Xing’s existence. If she sensed something was wrong, she should have immediately left.
What should she do if Li Zhu had truly discovered that she was framing her? Insist to the end that she had accidentally fallen into the water?
But Bai Wei also felt somewhat that Li Zhu did not seem to have noticed.
Had Li Zhu noticed?
Had Li Zhu not noticed?
Bai Wei had imagined that the plan might go wrong, but she had never expected something like this to happen. The person she was trying to frame had jumped into the lake to save her!
The usually shrewd person was finally frightened. As she lay there, her coughing gradually weakened. Her head hung low, and beneath her damp hair, her pupils contracted like the tips of wheat awns.
For a moment, she truly did not know what to do. She sat there stiffly, not daring to move.
Li Zhu stood on the grass beside her, lowering her eyes to look at Bai Wei curled up there. She took in Bai Wei’s expression completely and could not help laughing softly.
Then she did something even more shocking.
First, she bent down, picked up the shoes scattered on the ground, and put them back on.
Then she walked over, bent down again, reached out, and scooped Bai Wei up from the ground in a bridal carry.
Bai Wei was still caught in a storm of thoughts, wondering what Li Zhu wanted to do and what she should do next.
Who could have expected the world to suddenly spin? In the next blink, she had already been picked up by Li Zhu and fallen into Miss Li’s arms.
Bai Wei was badly startled. She was almost scared to death, and her eyes immediately widened.
She instinctively struggled.
“You!”
Li Zhu lowered her head and looked at her. Without saying a word, she raised her brow lightly at her.
The little hamster who had been baring her teeth and waving her claws was frightened into stillness. Her body stiffened, and she instantly lowered her flags and ceased all resistance.
Because she could not figure out what Li Zhu wanted to do.
And because she wanted to figure out what Li Zhu wanted to do.
So she simply quieted down and let Li Zhu do as she pleased.
Li Zhu was very satisfied with her obedience. Holding her, she stepped away.
As for being OOC—what was there to fear? Right now, she had that all-purpose line of “Miss Li does whatever she wants.”
Besides, she had already been schemed against by the heroine until the game ended in failure. If the game still nitpicked her self-rescue behavior, then this game would have no justice at all.
In the end, this proved that in certain aspects, the game was still fairly reasonable. It did not issue any warnings about Li Zhu saving someone or saving herself.
Li Zhu very smoothly fished Bai Wei out of the water and carried the heroine away.
As for that certain highly poisonous little white flower, she was completely wilted now. She could not understand what Li Zhu was thinking, and she could not say a word. Her head drooped as she nestled in Li Zhu’s arms, not daring to move.
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NyXXenon
So is li zhu and bai wei the same height?