novelraw Chapter 9 : Love Birds and Peace Doves
Chapter 9 : Love Birds and Peace Doves
"Bang!"
Xifeng roughly kicked open her bedroom door with one foot, her small mouth almost pouting to the sky, her willow eyebrows twisted into two symmetrical check marks. She was practically ready to write "unhappy" on her face.
She didn't dare express any dissatisfaction in front of Bei Yaoyue, but that didn't mean she had no grievances about Bei Yaoyue's heartlessness.
She had only asked Bei Yaoyue to pat her head once—was that too much? Too much?? Too much???
It was something that could be easily done with just a simple hand movement, and it wasn't some heinous evil deed. She wouldn't even agree to such a simple request—was there anyone more heartless than Bei Yaoyue in this world?
From this small incident, she could already foresee what kind of miserable life she would live under Bei Yaoyue's oppression.
And it would be the kind where calling to heaven gets no response, calling to earth gets no answer.
Life is hard, Xifeng sighed.
This reminded her of that saying—marry the right person and they'll swing with you through life romantically; marry the wrong person and they'll duel with you on Mount Hua to decide who's stronger.
She figured she and Bei Yaoyue were definitely enemies from a past life, naturally incompatible, somehow bound together in this cursed relationship.
In the end, she could only blame herself for being careless, not controlling her mouth, sucking blood she shouldn't have sucked, carelessly leaving behind a fatal weakness.
Suddenly, a bold and crazy idea appeared in her mind—if she had directly converted Bei Yaoyue into a dependent back then, or even... killed her on the spot, wouldn't all this humiliation have been avoided?
Logically, since she was a vampire, perhaps there really was some method to convert humans into dependents.
Better late than never—if she found a way to secretly convert or kill Bei Yaoyue tonight, perhaps she could regain her freedom?
But this evil thought only appeared for an instant before the sobered Xifeng quickly extinguished it.
As a good youth who had grown up under the nurturing influence of socialist core values, she would absolutely never commit illegal criminal acts like taking someone's life.
As for converting into a dependent... first she'd need to know how to do it.
The vibration from her phone interrupted Xifeng's thoughts. She casually pulled out her phone from her shorts pocket, and the awakened screen displayed a line of large text.
"From QQ: Your friend 'He Pingge' sent you a message."
After clicking it, what met her eyes was a brief sentence: "How have you been adjusting these past few days?"
This simple but caring sentence instantly brought tears to Xifeng's eyes. Coo coo, you really care about me the most in this world, wuu wuu wuu...
He Pingge was her childhood friend, who had the very cute and fitting nickname "Coo Coo," and was four years younger than Xifeng—of course, the former Xifeng. Now she had to call the seventeen-year-old He Pingge "big sister."
There was actually a third person who was also childhood friends with them both—Ji You, now twenty years old and a third-year college student.
The three had developed extremely firm and pure friendship since childhood. Over more than ten years, they had become extremely close male and female best friends. Though not blood siblings, they were closer than blood siblings.
Of course, there had only ever been pure friendship between them, and none of them had ever had any inappropriate thoughts.
The reason their friendship had never deteriorated was actually quite simple—He Pingge was a pure yuri enthusiast, and her sexual orientation was undoubtedly female.
As close friends, Xifeng and Ji You naturally respected her choice, so they had long since eliminated any inappropriate thoughts in the bud, preserving only the sincere emotions of opposite-sex friends.
Currently, He Pingge was in their hometown—Autumn Maple City—attending her senior year of high school. In about twenty more days, she would enter the battlefield of the college entrance examination.
Ji You was in Crescent City with Xifeng, attending Crescent University of Technology—the same university Xifeng had attended—as a third-year student.
"It's okay, nothing I can't adjust to. Why are you suddenly asking this?"
Curious Xifeng directly typed out and sent her question.
After graduating from middle school, she had come to Crescent City alone, and it had been a full seven years now. She didn't quite understand why He Pingge would suddenly ask "How have you been adjusting these past few days?"
"Beep... beep..."
What answered her wasn't a string of explanatory words, but a video call request.
Xifeng's first reaction, feeling guilty, was to hang up this video request. Her current appearance made her too ashamed to see anyone.
But just as her finger was about to press the decline button, she hesitated again.
After all, He Pingge was genuinely concerned about her, and it seemed inappropriate to refuse like this. Moreover, in He Pingge's current perception, she should naturally look like this anyway, so there was nothing to hide.
Whether it's fortune or disaster, if it's disaster you can't escape it. She would have to face the reality of becoming a white-haired loli sooner or later.
Helplessly shaking her head, Xifeng clicked the accept button.
"Konbanwa (Good evening)!"
The moment the video connection was established, even before the video signal had reacted, an energetic voice came through the phone's speaker, carrying the unique vigor of a young girl, like a warbler singing loudly at dawn, clear and pleasant.
Following closely was a familiar smiling face, youthful yet full of vitality, with short black hair tied in a side ponytail, adding a touch of pure sweetness to her appearance.
Upon seeing Xifeng, He Pingge smiled sweetly, and that smile full of vitality and energy seemed to cast a resurrection spell on Xifeng's heart that had been wounded by Bei Yaoyue, instantly bringing her back to full health.
Ah! Her Coo Coo was indeed the gentlest. In comparison, Bei Yaoyue was simply an unforgivable demon!
Unconsciously showing a knowing smile, Xifeng collapsed on the bed like a dead fish, completely relaxing: "Good evening, Coo Coo. Aren't you about to take the college entrance exam? How do you still have time to chat on QQ?"
"Who do you think I'm chatting with? I'm concerned about you, aren't I?" He Pingge pouted slightly, expressing some dissatisfaction. "You just moved to Crescent City, and you'll start transferring to Tianshui No. 1 High School next week. I was worried you wouldn't adapt to life there, but seeing that you seem to be in good spirits now, I'm relieved."
"Good spirits my ass..." Helplessly giving a bitter smile, the words came to her lips but Xifeng swallowed them back.
The matter with Bei Yaoyue... better not mention it if possible. Being forced to become someone's maid was too embarrassing to talk about.
Wait, transfer!?
Only then did Xifeng notice a key word in He Pingge's statement. So in this parallel world-like reality, she had just moved to Crescent City and would start transferring to Tianshui No. 1 High School from next week.
If she thought back to calculate the time, she had indeed moved to Crescent City when she was fourteen years old. Calculating this way, it made sense.
But this way, wouldn't the fact that she and Bei Yaoyue had been neighbors for many years become a false premise? Or was it that in Bei Yaoyue's perception, she was actually just a new neighbor who had moved in only a couple of days ago?
This might be a small, harmless bug that no one would ever notice, so after just thinking about it briefly, Xifeng decided not to dwell on it anymore. After all, almost no program was 100% bug-free, as long as Lillian didn't create the kind of Fatal Error that could crash the entire program.
If this world's processes crashed, who knew what strange things might happen.
Seeing Xifeng's bitter expression, He Pingge tilted her head and asked: "Why did you suddenly look so worried? Is there something troubling you?"
"No no no, nothing. I'm just a bit worried about whether I'll be able to fit in since I'm about to enter a new environment."
Having confirmed the current situation, Xifeng quickly waved her hands and continued the conversation without changing expression.
When it came to lying, she considered herself quite skilled. She had practiced lying plenty since childhood, and now she could lie through her teeth without changing expression or heartbeat.
Although lying to He Pingge made her feel genuinely guilty, this lie was necessary—she couldn't afford to lose this face.
The matter of becoming Bei Yaoyue's maid... absolutely could not let a second person know!
"Relax, believe in yourself. Such a cute girl like you will definitely have many people who like you." He Pingge's smile almost overflowed from her eyes.
"Wha... what cute, don't talk nonsense." Her cheeks unconsciously heated up. Xifeng, who was still psychologically male, found it somewhat hard to accept compliments like "cute."
"I'm not talking nonsense. My Xifei has always been the cutest girl in this world." Saying this, He Pingge playfully winked.
"Xi... Xifei!?"
A nickname she'd never heard before left Xifeng completely stunned. What dimension did this ridiculous nickname fall from?!
Most importantly, this nickname didn't sound good at all, and might even lead to strange misunderstandings!
Xifeng's big reaction instead made He Pingge freeze. She blinked her sparkling black obsidian eyes, looking completely confused: "What's wrong? Haven't I always called you that?"
"No... nothing..." At this moment, Xifeng even had the urge to cover her face and crawl under the bed. So this was He Pingge's exclusive nickname for her, but wasn't this nickname way too embarrassing?
"It's getting late." He Pingge put away her smile and adopted a serious expression. "You should go to bed too. Your health is so poor—stay up less, or I'm really afraid something will happen to your body."
"Thanks for the concern. I'll take care of my own health." Xifeng helplessly scratched her head. It seemed that in other people's perception, she was indeed a pure sickly girl.
But only she knew in her heart—she was a vampire!
She could rapidly heal even from fatal wounds, so minor illnesses and injuries couldn't possibly trouble this body.
She felt that the reason she was so physically weak wasn't because her body's constitution was inherently poor, but more like she had been afflicted with a weakening curse or similar debuff.
"I'm getting a bit sleepy too," He Pingge said, very timely letting out a yawn.
"Oh... okay, good night. You take care of your health too. The college entrance exam is coming up, don't wear yourself out."
"Oyasumi, mata ne (Good night, see you later)."
As the final words fell, the video call ended.
Placing her phone beside her pillow, Xifeng frowned, feeling that things were not simple.
She always felt that today's He Pingge's attitude toward her was somewhat different from before.
Although their relationship had always been very good, almost talking about everything, not avoiding even private topics, and showing no mercy when troubling each other, wasn't today's He Pingge being a bit too concerned about her?
Maybe she was just overthinking.