NOVEL NEXT Ch. 38
Chapter 38: Liked?
“Is that true!?”
Lu Feng stood up in shock.
He had just thought there was something off about Dong Ningning and Zhang Yifeng, and then Zhang Tong told him that Dong Ningning had just run into Lin You’s room, and that Zhang Yifeng had happened to catch that scene.
What—what kind of absurd NTR plot was this?
“When did Dong Ningning come out of Lin You’s room, do you know?”
Zhang Tong shook his head and said,
“I don’t know… anyway, when I left she was still inside.”
After hearing Zhang Tong, Lu Feng sat down with a darkened expression.
To be honest, he did not believe Lin You was an Evil Spirit Follower, but Dong Ningning was his first suspect, so now anyone who had contact with her was under suspicion.
“In that case… let’s first see whether Lin You is willing to tell us about this.”
Lu Feng said in a low voice.
……
In Lin You’s room, Dong Ningning and Lin You sat side by side.
By now Lin You had already put on clothes, but his muscular body was still visible through them.
In front of them was tea brewed personally by Dong Ningning.
Lin You had not wanted her to do it, but he could not refuse her enthusiasm; plus she claimed to know a bit about tea ceremony, so Lin You had let her.
They were silent for a while before Lin You spoke first,
“Um… Dong Ningning, did you come to see me for something?”
The girl shook her head, looking somewhat anxious,
“Actually… it’s nothing much, I just wanted someone to talk to… Xiao Bai is still unconscious, and she went through that this morning… I already…”
As she spoke, Dong Ningning’s eyes reddened again and tears were about to fall.
For a moment Lin You panicked. He was good at fighting, but comforting a girl was something he knew nothing about.
“Don’t cry, don’t cry, it’s fine, Bai Quye will be okay…”
He hurriedly tried to reassure her, but Dong Ningning shook her head dejectedly,
“No, I’m not just worried about that… I just feel… if this keeps going on, we’ll all die here… I don’t want to die yet…”
“That won’t happen! None of us will be hurt, Lu Feng has already—”
Lin You hurriedly stopped himself from saying more and nearly let something slip.
Lu Feng had repeatedly told the others not to reveal their discoveries to anyone, because no one knew the others’ identities.
“What happened to Lu Feng?”
Dong Ningning looked at him with a puzzled expression.
“Lu Feng is… very smart! He’ll surely think of a way!”
Lin You said awkwardly with a smile.
Dong Ningning narrowed her eyes slightly,
“By the way, I heard before that you and Lu Feng discovered something? Could you tell me about it?”
“Discoveries? What discoveries?”
Lin You looked at her blankly as if he did not understand what she meant,
“Sigh, who wouldn’t want to end this game early… but those two win conditions are just too harsh, and with the Evil Spirit constantly killing people, there’s no energy left to think about how to solve those problems…”
Lin You forced a smile,
“Don’t look at me like I’m fine now, I was scared to death. When I saw Bai Quye’s room today, I nearly collapsed…”
“I see…”
Dong Ningning lowered her head in despair; it seemed the faint hope that had been sparked was now completely dashed.
The girl’s distracted appearance gave Lin You a twinge of guilt, but he was not deliberately hiding things from Dong Ningning—he had been thinking of the bigger picture.
The atmosphere in the room became oppressively heavy.
They were silent for a long while. Suddenly Dong Ningning stood up and grabbed Lin You’s hand.
Lin You was startled and instinctively wanted to pull away, but when he felt the heat of the girl’s palm, he strangely did not refuse.
Dong Ningning looked disheartened; her gaze at Lin You was shy and hazy, her cheeks pink, her ample chest rising and falling rapidly, her tender lips exhaling a feminine scent.
“Lin You, let’s… do it…”
The girl’s words were low like a mosquito’s hum, but sharp-eared Lin You still heard them clearly.
In an instant he was stunned as if struck by lightning, looking at the person before him with a face full of disbelief,
“Y—you said what?”
“I said… let’s… do it.”
This time the girl’s voice rose a little.
“Do… what?”
Lin You seemed to ask again to confirm, while Dong Ningning blushed, keeping her head down and not daring to look at him,
“Do… that kind of thing…”
As she spoke Dong Ningning gently undid the buttons of her knitted cardigan and removed the shirt underneath.
Before Lin You could react, her clothes had already slipped off her.
As the clothes fell, Dong Ningning raised her arms and, blushing, covered her ample chest.
!!!
Only then did Lin You notice that she was completely bare underneath!?
“Dong Ningning, you, you—”
Just as Lin You felt increasingly at a loss, Dong Ningning walked toward him with her head down, rested her head against Lin You’s solid chest, and said,
“If in the end we’re all going to die… I want to give myself to the person I like…”
She looked up and regarded Lin You—who was a full head taller than her—with tenderness in her eyes,
“Would you… be willing?”
!!!
Lin You felt as if his brain was about to crash.
……
After an unknown length of time asleep, the girl on the bed finally woke up slowly.
Her mouth tasted nauseatingly of blood, and her neck hurt as if it were being torn apart, making Bai Quye cough painfully.
She recalled that before losing consciousness she had intended to kill herself… but judging from the fact that she was still alive, she had clearly failed again.
Now, calm, Bai Quye remembered the unbearably painful death process when she had hanged herself, and fear flickered in her eyes—
She really did not want to experience that kind of pain a second time…
However, her intention to commit suicide had not changed—rather than be killed by the Evil Spirit, she would end her life with her own hands. Only… this time she would not try hanging again.
“Sorry, Ningning, I can’t do what I promised you…”
The girl gave a low, desperate sigh.
Outside it was already dark; the quartz clock on the wall was about to point to seven.
Bai Quye sat on the bed for a while, then climbed down to go to the dining room to eat something—after all, even if she decided to kill herself, she could not starve herself forever.
However, the instant her right foot touched the floor, a chill that pierced to the bone surged out and spread through her body.
The next moment, a cold arm shot out from under the bed and clamped tightly around her ankle.
Bai Quye had no time to scream before another pale, withered hand reached out and covered her mouth tightly.
“Mmm! Mmm! Mmm!…”
She struggled in despair but could not overcome the enormous force coming from the limbs.
Then four more arms shot out and bound the struggling girl’s four limbs tightly…
Finally, she was dragged beneath the bed and fell silent forever.