After Rebirth, My Ex-Girlfriend Became Obsessive - Chapter 47

An Yu’s body temperature was exceptionally warm, and Lin Duxi greedily sought more of it. She buried her face in An Yu’s hair, breathing in her scent, her heart and mind filled with nothing but her.

An Yu froze, as if she hadn’t yet processed Lin Duxi’s earlier words. Lin Duxi had overheard their conversation and refuted her. Embarrassment and shock tangled in An Yu’s chest, mixed with a hint of shame, leaving her stiff and motionless.

The person in her arms grew even bolder. Lin Duxi wrapped her arms around An Yu’s waist, her slender, jade-like fingers lightly tracing An Yu’s spine, her mind flooding with thoughts-both appropriate and inappropriate.

She and An Yu could no longer be separated. She was a vine that had grown clinging to An Yu-once, and still now. The six years without An Yu had been a dark prison.

People naturally crave light, and Lin Duxi was no exception. An Yu had been the deity who pulled her from the abyss, cleansing the stains from her body, holding her hand and teaching her how to love. Now, she would never let go. She wanted her deity to love her forever, to love only her.

Lin Duxi thought-  how despicable of me.

But she couldn’t control it. The mere thought of An Yu leaving made her unbearably distressed, summoning all sorts of dark impulses-thoughts that would hurt An Yu, that would make her cry. Right now, she was already restraining herself as much as she could.

An Yu snapped out of her daze and looked down at Lin Duxi nestled in her arms, her expression complicated. Then, she gently pushed Lin Duxi away.

“Someone’s coming,” was all she said, not asking about the meaning behind Lin Duxi’s earlier words.

Lin Duxi lowered her head and softly acknowledged, her eyes veiled as she suppressed the storm of emotions inside.

The cameraman, after bandaging his wound, hurried back to the scene. The live audience immediately noticed Lin Duxi appearing alongside An Yu, and anyone could sense the strange tension between them.

[What did An Yu and Lin Duxi talk about while we were gone? I really want to know!]

[What are you two doing?! Don’t mind us, keep going!]

[Why does their atmosphere feel off? Did they fight?]

[No way! It’s normal for couples to argue, and these two don’t seem like the type to fight over nothing. Maybe they just ran into some issue-let’s wait for them to work it out.]

Pei Lu had been missing for a long time and only reappeared at dinner, wearing a cap and a mask as he stood in the shadows near the bonfire, glaring venomously at An Yu.

An Yu paid him no attention-her mind was in chaos. A thought had taken root in her mind, growing relentlessly, gripping her heart as if to crush it.

The task the system had assigned her… she probably wouldn’t be able to complete it.

An Yu sat by the grill, hands clasped together, her eyes reflecting the flames, which seemed to sear her heart.

During their embrace in the grass, why hadn’t she asked Lin Duxi directly? She still didn’t understand why-but the moment she saw Lin Duxi, all the questions she wanted to voice vanished like vines creeping in the dark, only daring to grow in the hidden corners of her heart.

A pale hand suddenly entered her vision. An Yu blinked and looked up to see Lin Duxi holding out a bottle of beer, smiling against the wind. Backlit by the fire, An Yu could only see the curve of her lips, not the emotions in her eyes.

“Thanks.” An Yu reached out to take it, but at the last second, she deliberately avoided touching Lin Duxi’s fingers. She opened the bottle and took a sip, then faced Lin Duxi, unsure of what to say.

Lin Duxi smiled at her again before turning away to continue what she’d been doing. An Yu sighed quietly and took another drink.

Xie An’an came over to chat, and An Yu distractedly responded to her, answering each question mechanically. Xie An’an rambled about things they’d seen before, but her gaze accidentally met Lin Duxi’s from a distance-staring straight at them, her eyes dark and unreadable.

Xie An’an stiffened, quickly ended the conversation with An Yu, and excused herself, claiming she was tired.

An Yu glanced around but didn’t see anything unusual. Her eyes lingered on Lin Duxi, who was now sitting in a chair scrolling through her phone, the screen’s glow reflecting in her pupils. In the dim night, she was the only source of light.

Someone like her… was meant to be the protagonist. And those youthful memories they shared? Perhaps they were just stolen moments An Yu had snatched from the shadows.

An Yu turned away, finished her beer, and returned to her tent.

The tent was meant for two, but with An Yu alone inside, it felt too spacious. She didn’t zip it up completely-for some reason, she didn’t want to seal it shut.

The night wind slipped through the gap, chilling her skin and sobering her half-dazed mind. Suddenly, she remembered something.

When Pei Lu had mocked her earlier, he’d mentioned her high school days sitting beside Lin Duxi as desk mates, as well as her family’s bankruptcy. She had never told anyone about these things-so how did Pei Lu know?

An Yu’s expression darkened. She immediately pulled out her phone and called Shi Yu.

“What’s up, An Yu?” Shi Yu, still awake, answered quickly.

“Back in high school, was there someone named Pei Lu?”

“Pei Lu? The same one on the show with you? Let me think… I don’t remember him. If Pei Lu’s face hasn’t been altered, he would’ve stood out in high school, but I don’t recall him.”

An Yu thanked her and hung up, her face grim.

Pei Lu hadn’t been a student at Jiangcheng No. 2 High. That left only one possibility-Pei Lu had investigated her.

An Yu frowned. It didn’t matter if Pei Lu looked into her-her family background was public knowledge for anyone who cared to dig. But if he had investigated her, he must’ve also investigated Lin Duxi. His goal couldn’t just be to mock her or threaten her to stay away from Lin Duxi.

An Yu’s entire body burned with frustration. She unzipped the tent and stepped outside, sitting by the lake to let the wind cool her anger as she cursed Pei Lu inwardly.

What kind of trash is Pei Lu?  From what An Yu knew, he cycled through girlfriends every month-he was unattractive, sleazy, and now he was secretly investigating people? How the hell had the system chosen  him  as the male lead?

Thinking of this, An Yu started cursing the system too.  Stupid system!  Shocking her without warning, threatening her, forcing her to act without caring about Lin Duxi’s feelings-neither of them were any good.

After venting, some of her irritation faded. She lifted her head to gaze at the starry sky, a faint bitterness creeping in.

In her past life, she had accomplished nothing. Her parents had committed suicide, and before she could even uncover the truth, she’d been pushed off a building. Now, she was trapped by the system’s commands, unable to move freely.

Why did I have to find out I’m just a fictional character?

An Yu’s thoughts wandered, but the last image in her mind was a slender figure from her memories.

Everything An Yu knew about Lin Duxi had come from Lin Duxi herself. Even by graduation, all she knew was the name of the orphanage Lin Duxi had grown up in. Lin Duxi had never spoken of her past, and An Yu had never asked.

Back then, she’d thought-  we have so much time ahead of us. There’s no rush to share everything now.

They had lain in her room, bathed in moonlight, whispering the most sincere promises of youth.

She had already sensed something wrong at home-the things she’d taken for granted were slipping away at an unimaginable speed. An Yu was afraid. Losing material things didn’t matter, but she feared that what she cherished most would vanish along with them.

“Will you stay with me forever?”

Eighteen-year-old An Yu had clung to her most precious treasure, childish in her insistence on hearing that promise.

“I will. I would never lie to An Yu.”

And so, An Yu had been happy-so happy she’d fallen asleep holding her beloved close.

But Lin Duxi  had  lied.