“You’re practicing Gu Technique.”
“N-No, I’m not!”
Su Mu didn’t expect Chen Qing to be so perceptive. She had only asked a casual question, yet Chen Qing figured it out right away.
Looking at the flustered Silly Shizun trying to explain herself, Chen Qing already had her answer.
However, she wasn’t surprised at all. After all, this Silly Shizun was always plotting against her, and with Gu Technique as a handy weapon to use against her, Chen Qing didn’t believe for a second that the Silly Shizun would obediently leave it untouched without learning it.
If this Silly Shizun were that honest, Chen Qing would even suspect she was harboring some other little scheme in her heart.
Chen Qing looked at Su Mu seriously.
“If you dare to do that, next time you’re feeling unwell, I’ll just throw you outside and let you suffer in pain until you die.”
“Oh.”
Seeing Chen Qing’s serious expression, Su Mu knew her secret practice of Gu Technique had been discovered.
She just hadn’t expected that the reason for being found out was her own offhand question.
Meanwhile, Chen Qing, seeing the Silly Shizun readily agreeing, pinched her waist hard again.
“No sneaky little actions behind my back, got it!”
Seeing the serious expression on Chen Qing’s face, Su Mu could only abandon her brilliant plan.
From the look on Silly Shizun’s face, Chen Qing knew she had successfully scared her.
However, although the Silly Shizun secretly practicing Gu Technique was within Chen Qing’s expectations, she certainly wouldn’t let her off just like that.
She’d properly teach this Silly Shizun a lesson after these few days passed.
The bedding gradually warmed up, and Su Mu felt the pain in her lower abdomen lessen somewhat.
But she had no sleepiness at all now. Her beautiful eyes were spiritedly fixed on Chen Qing.
Seeing how energetic Silly Shizun was, Chen Qing’s own sleepiness diminished a lot as well.
Looking into Silly Shizun’s clear and beautiful eyes, Chen Qing suddenly saw those cold eyes from her previous life flash before her again.
“Under what circumstances would you betray someone you greatly respect, who treats you like family and cherishes you?”
“Eh, me?”
Chen Qing’s sudden question left Su Mu a bit dazed.
Why was this Villain suddenly asking something like that?
“Yes, you.”
Although she didn’t know why Chen Qing had abruptly asked this strange question, since she wasn’t sleepy anyway, Su Mu thought about it seriously for a moment.
“Has she betrayed me?”
“No, you are one of the people closest to her in this world. She wouldn’t possibly betray you.”
“Has she done anything else to wrong me?”
“No. From childhood to adulthood, if you told her to go east, she went east; if west, she went west. She rarely ever went against your wishes.”
Chen Qing’s two absolute answers left Su Mu dazed once more.
“You’re sure I betrayed her?”
“Certain. And you killed her with your own hands.”
“Impossible.”
Su Mu shook her head and said seriously.
“She hasn’t betrayed me or done anything to wrong me. Why would I betray her, let alone kill her?”
“Is that so.”
Chen Qing’s gaze darkened. The words sounded nice, but they were all lies.
Su Mu’s mind short-circuited from Chen Qing’s out-of-nowhere question.
Could her previous guess be right? Was this Villain really about to suffer a mental breakdown?
【Host, I’m adding a condition to the Villain’s hypothesis: if you betrayed that person, you could smoothly return to Blue Star.】
The System’s blatant hint instantly cleared things up for the puzzled Su Mu.
“System, the ‘small grudge’ you mentioned between me and this Villain… it isn’t that I betrayed her and even killed her, is it?”
【I don’t know.】
The System’s curt three words completely shattered the defenses of Su Mu, who had never lost an argument with the System before.
“You $%$%$%&, and you still say you don’t know? You’ve hinted at it so blatantly!”
【Host, I never said I was hinting at anything. This is your personal interpretation; the System bears no responsibility.】
“You! I $%$%$%%&!”
Su Mu once again let the System experience the ferocious verbal assaults of Zu’an netizens.
However, for a Host who cursed so filthily, the System had long since figured out a coping strategy.
No matter how viciously she cursed, the System just needed to play dead.
The System had already made up its mind: after completing this mission, it would definitely publish a book titled 《How to Deal with Filthy-Mouthed Hosts》.
With its wealth of experience from being cursed at, the book was sure to be a bestseller.
Seeing the Scamming System playing dead again, Su Mu could only helplessly start piecing things together based on Chen Qing’s words and the System’s hint.
If the question Chen Qing had just asked was based on her past life’s experience, then Su Mu should have already betrayed and killed her by now.
But if she had succeeded, why was she still here?
Shouldn’t she have returned to Blue Star by now, living her happy little life?
Yet the current situation was that the Villain had been reborn with a grudge against her, but the Su Mu who had supposedly completed the task…
Not only hadn’t returned to Blue Star, but had been caught by the reborn Villain instead.
And whether that person who betrayed the Villain and killed her was actually Su Mu…
If it was her, she should be on Blue Star right now.
If not, in the original novel plot, this detestable Villain was taken out by the Female Lead. What role did Shizun even have?
And one involving betrayal and personally killing the Villain, with no small amount of screen time at that.
Could the original novel plot have changed?
The convoluted information and possibilities were taxing Su Mu’s brain to its limits.
If this were an anime, white smoke from system overload would already be rising from her head.
Chen Qing, seeing the dazed Silly Shizun, reached out and flicked her forehead.
“I was just asking. Don’t overthink it.”
Chen Qing assumed Silly Shizun was still hung up, obsessing over why she would betray her.
But it was somewhat amusing that even the current Silly Shizun couldn’t figure out why the Shizun from back then had betrayed her.
Chen Qing interrupted Su Mu’s jumbled thoughts.
Although Su Mu still couldn’t quite piece together exactly what was going on, one thing had dawned on her.
The grudge between her and Chen Qing was even more serious than she had imagined—a profound enmity of betrayal and life-or-death.
No wonder Chen Qing had come at her with a sword, wanting to kill her the moment they met.
The fact that Su Mu was still breathing now was probably thanks to Chen Qing’s momentary soft-heartedness back then.
This Scamming System had even tried to fool her into thinking it was just a small grudge.
This System was far too scammy. If Systems could win awards, this Scamming System would take first place in the “scam” category.
“You asked me a question earlier. Can I ask you one now?”
“Go ahead.”
Chen Qing looked at Silly Shizun, curious what she would ask.
“When you’re in a bad mood, you won’t suddenly feel like chopping someone, right?”
Su Mu looked at Chen Qing seriously. The answer to this question was crucial to her personal safety.
