Chapter 63
At the same time, Fu Qingyun’s brain started to experience a small-scale tremor. Her hands clenched involuntarily, and Fu Qingyun gritted her teeth. “Damn it.”
“What?” Su Ziqin didn’t hear clearly.
Fu Qingyun shook her head. In the past year, the power of the plot had become a bit strange. Sometimes Fu Qingyun could feel its presence very strongly, and sometimes it was very weak. But whenever she wanted to tell Su Ziqin the truth about this world and that she knew Su Ziqin was reborn, the plot prevented her from speaking.
12138 kept sounding an alarm in Fu Qingyun’s brain, but Gu Qingli wouldn’t let Fu Qingyun go to the basement. There was a sort of prohibition among brain developers, and Fu Qingyun couldn’t even get close to the basement right now.
[There’s…] Before Fu Qingyun could finish talking to 12138, she heard a zapping sound. The voltage, which had suddenly come back on, was still unstable. The lights in the living room were shining even brighter than usual. Fu Qingyun quickly covered Su Ziqin’s eyes to prevent her from being blinded by the strong light.
12138 sighed. [Oh my, good thing you prepared two cold core devices. Bigshot, don’t worry. It’s fine.]
Fu Qingyun let out a breath of relief. The light in the house returned to normal. Su Ziqin pushed her hands away. “The power’s back? What’s going on? The villa area never has power outages.”
“It’s nothing,” Fu Qingyun said, patting her head.
Su Ziqin saw that Fu Qingyun looked much more relaxed, so she seemed to be fine. But Su Ziqin still felt that Fu Qingyun was hiding something from her. “Honey, are you keeping something from me?”
Fu Qingyun’s expression was normal, but Su Ziqin noticed that she was biting her lip. After spending a year together, Su Ziqin knew that this person was almost emotionless. Even a small action like that was enough to reveal a problem… Fu Qingyun was indeed hiding something from her.
“It’s not that I don’t want to tell you, but I don’t know how,” Fu Qingyun said. She didn’t want Su Ziqin to overthink. She cared a lot about Su Ziqin, but she couldn’t tell her the truth about this world right now. As for the brain development…
She remembered Su Ziqin’s question, “What kind of thing are you?” Fu Qingyun’s heart hesitated. She didn’t know if she should tell Su Ziqin. In her previous life, Fu Qingyun chose to trust Tang Lin and told her her secret, but she was betrayed mercilessly.
Fu Qingyun took a deep look at Su Ziqin. Her ink-colored eyes were as unfathomable as an abyss. Perhaps Su Ziqin was different…
“Honey.” Su Ziqin felt Fu Qingyun’s hesitation. She cupped Fu Qingyun’s face. Her amber eyes were full of determination. “I’ll wait for you. I’ll wait until you want to tell me.”
Fu Qingyun’s heart skipped a beat. She went forward and wrapped Su Ziqin tightly in her arms. The scent of Su Ziqin filled her nose. “I’m sorry, little fox.”
“I don’t like those words,” Su Ziqin said, pretending to be cold. The three words she wanted to hear from Fu Qingyun were never that. For a year, Fu Qingyun hadn’t rejected intimacy, but besides that one song, Fu Qingyun had never said “like” or… “love” to her.
Fu Qingyun didn’t understand what Su Ziqin wanted. Sometimes she was annoyed by her own emotional dullness. At this moment, she didn’t realize that she was already feeling annoyance. Fu Qingyun’s emotions were increasing.
“Oh my, young people have so much energy,” Fu Chenlan’s teasing voice came from the basement.
Fu Qingyun let go of Su Ziqin and saw the recovered Gu Qingli next to Fu Chenlan. “Mom looks much better.”
“Of course, I was here,” Fu Chenlan said, turning her head to give Gu Qingli a gentle smile.
Gu Qingli pushed Fu Chenlan aside and opened her arms to Fu Qingyun. “Come here, little Yun’er.”
Fu Qingyun, like a child who had received a command from her mother, immediately went forward and hugged Gu Qingli. As soon as she hugged her, Gu Qingli’s physical condition was projected into Fu Qingyun’s brain.
Fu Qingyun’s body trembled slightly. She said in surprise, “It stopped?”
“Yes, it’s unbelievable,” Gu Qingli said with a hint of regret.
Gu Qingli’s brain development was forced to stop due to the sudden power outage. This was abnormal, but it had really happened. Gu Qingli had planned to develop her brain to 100%, find the plot, and give this world its freedom.
Gu Qingli patted Fu Qingyun’s back. “I’ll have to rely on you, little Yun’er.”
“It’s okay,” Fu Qingyun said, not minding. As long as her mom was healthy, that was all that mattered.
Fu Chenlan leaned toward Su Ziqin. She saw the confusion and curiosity in Su Ziqin’s eyes. “Have you had dinner yet?”
“Not yet.” Su Ziqin’s thoughts were interrupted by Fu Chenlan’s words. Whenever Fu Qingyun and Gu Qingli communicated, she could never understand them. This made her feel a little sad, as if she were an outsider.
Fu Chenlan took her arm and led her into the kitchen. “Let’s go. I’ll show you my skills.”
“Hey, hey, hey, slow down.” Su Ziqin didn’t have legs as long as Fu Chenlan’s. Fu Chenlan always liked to drag her along.
When Fu Chenlan saw that she was no longer paying attention to Fu Qingyun, she breathed a sigh of relief. What happened to little Yun’er in that world had shocked Fu Chenlan and Gu Qingli. Gu Qingli had told her about Su Ziqin’s identity—that this child was reborn and was severely hurt by that substitute in her previous life. Her initial purpose for getting close to little Yun’er wasn’t completely pure.
As a mother, she was selfish. She wasn’t willing to easily let Su Ziqin know little Yun’er’s secret. Su Ziqin’s past was extreme and crazy. What if she turned out to be a second Tang Lin? Fu Chenlan didn’t want to take that risk. Besides, their relationship was already great. There was no need to add more trouble.
Gu Qingli looked at Su Ziqin’s back with a profound gaze. She said to Fu Qingyun in a serious tone, “You haven’t told Ziqin about your brain, have you?”
“No.” Fu Qingyun’s eyes suddenly darkened. She wanted to tell her, but she was a little scared.
How could Gu Qingli not see her hesitation? She smiled gently and stroked Fu Qingyun’s cheek. “As your mom, I don’t want too many people to know your secret, especially this child who carries the hatred from her previous life. But over the past year, I can see that she really loves you.”
“Love?” Fu Qingyun lightly uttered the word. She was still very confused. “Mom, I don’t know…”
“Do you want to be with her forever?”
“Yes,” Fu Qingyun said without hesitation.
Her directness made Gu Qingli laugh. “That’s what liking someone feels like. What if she were to be with someone else one day? Would you be sad?”
“Sad?” Fu Qingyun didn’t understand what sadness was. Her brain told her that it was a useless emotion.
Gu Qingli pulled Fu Qingyun to sit on the sofa. “She would be holding someone else the way she holds you, acting coquettishly with someone else, holding someone else’s hand. What would you think?”
“I…” Fu Qingyun hesitated, not knowing what to say. A year ago, she would have said without hesitation, That’s great. Tell her to stay away from me. But now, just the thought of Su Ziqin being with someone else made Fu Qingyun’s heart feel empty.
Fu Qingyun unconsciously touched her chest. Her ink-colored eyes were filled with a sense of loss. “It’s uncomfortable here, but if she’s happy, then it’s okay.”
“You silly child,” Gu Qingli said, pinching her daughter’s face. She knew her child was in a state of loving without knowing it. The emotional part of little Yun’er’s brain was still too small. “Whether you tell Ziqin about your brain or not, Mom won’t interfere with your decision. But I hope you think it through…”
“She’s different from Tang Lin,” Fu Qingyun said quickly.
“Then why don’t you tell her yet?” Gu Qingli directly exposed her daughter’s weakness. Her child wasn’t as strong as she seemed. Even with 95% brain development, her gentle nature couldn’t be changed.
Fu Qingyun watched Su Ziqin’s busy figure in the kitchen from a distance and mumbled, “It’s not the right time yet.” She wanted to wait until she truly understood those emotions before telling Su Ziqin. She didn’t want to disappoint Su Ziqin.
“It’s your decision,” Gu Qingli said, not forcing her daughter too much. She wasn’t a cruel mother. Thinking about the power she had just felt, “The plot you and 12138 mentioned just interfered with the power in this area for a moment. I think it might be planning something soon.”
Fu Qingyun nodded. Her eyes became cold again. “The male and female lead haven’t done much recently. I thought it was already very weak.”
[It’s not.] 12138 projected the current state of the plot into both the mother’s and daughter’s brains. A web-like structure was wrapped around the plot sphere. Even the part that had collapsed due to the change in Li Zhengyin’s fate was visibly repaired.
Fu Qingyun’s eyes narrowed as she looked at the gradually shrinking gap. [Will it affect the tiger?]
12138 sighed. [We don’t know yet. And the system we sensed before is also a potential threat. Bigshot, you must get the little villain to take action against the male and female lead soon.]
Fu Qingyun lowered her head silently. For the past year, it seemed like Qin Renfeng was being pushed hard, but the impact on Su Yingying was minimal. She had become famous and gained a lot of luck from this world. The rise and fall of the Su family didn’t seem to affect Su Yingying much either.
“This needs an opportunity,” Gu Qingli pointed out directly. They couldn’t tell Su Ziqin the truth about this world right now. Su Ziqin wanted revenge, but she wasn’t an impulsive person. She wouldn’t attack those two for no reason.
Fu Qingyun rested her chin on her hand and rubbed her thumb against her index finger, thinking. “Mom is right. We can’t act first. They are like a solid wall now. And there’s no second Li Zhengyin for me to pry at.”
“Brother Sihai suddenly fell ill a year ago. This is actually very unusual,” Gu Qingli said. “Brother Sihai has always been in good health. He shouldn’t have gotten sick suddenly.”
Fu Qingyun knew about this, of course. But in the past year, she couldn’t figure out where Qin Sihai was. But 12138 said he was still alive. “The whereabouts of the Qin family head have been hidden. Neither we nor 12138 can find him.”
“The plot is blocking it,” Gu Qingli said. “In the instant the power went out, I felt the plot’s power targeting Ziqin.”
Fu Qingyun was stunned. She hadn’t felt that at all…
“Xu Zhiqian called me to the company. There’s a small problem with the autumn event,” Su Ziqin said as she walked out of the kitchen. She didn’t look very happy. “It seems to be an issue with the spokesperson.”
Fu Qingyun looked at her watch. It was already past eight o’clock. Why would Xu Zhiqian call Su Ziqin back to the company so late? “I’ll go with you.”
Su Ziqin shook her head. She turned and put on her jacket at the entrance. “I’ll go by myself. You’ve had a long day, honey.”
“But…” Fu Qingyun was about to say something else, but Su Ziqin turned around and winked at her. “Honey, be a good girl. I’ll be back soon.” With that, she closed the door and left.
Ten minutes later, Gu Qingli stood up abruptly and grabbed Fu Qingyun. “Little Yun’er, hurry and follow her! That call wasn’t from Xu Zhiqian.”
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