Marry the NPC with Money, Wife Comes Knocking - Chapter 145

Chapter 145

Ye Susheng had already been feeling down because she had been ignored. Now she was being blamed instead, and two rosy clouds rose over her cheeks, her face flushing red with anger. Mist gathered in her eyes all over again. Even so, she still couldn’t bring herself to argue back in a sharp voice.

Her only form of revenge was to lunge forward, push Hua Suihe down, and throw herself on top of her. She sealed Hua Suihe’s mouth with her lips, biting her lip as if venting her anger, though she still didn’t dare use any real force.

Pressed against Hua Suihe’s lips, she kept muttering, “Bad Hua Hua, bad Hua Hua, bad Hua Hua.”

The person beneath her did not resist. Only then did Ye Susheng belatedly catch the teasing look in her eyes. She immediately bit the tip of Hua Suihe’s nose. When she heard Hua Suihe hiss, the anger lodged in her chest finally dispersed. She still did not forget to accuse her Hua Hua, “You said that on purpose.”

“These past few days, it was clearly Hua Hua who neglected me. You only cared about chatting with those invisible strangers and left me off to the side.”

Hua Suihe feigned confusion. “Did I? Didn’t I answer you whenever you talked to me?”

“But you never took the initiative to talk to me.”

Hua Suihe retorted, “That’s not true. I took the initiative to tell you my friends’ gossip, and I took the initiative to share internet memes from the livestream chat with you too.”

“But I don’t want to hear about that.” Ye Susheng buried her face pitifully in the crook of Hua Suihe’s neck. “I don’t even know them. Hua Hua is always talking about them. I hate them.”

[Huh? We’re hated before we’ve even met?]

[I’m just a transparent person in your lives. Please don’t hate me.]

[As expected of the vinegar queen. She can get jealous over this too?]

[No wonder Hua Hua didn’t date anyone when she was a game streamer. With someone as clingy as Ye Susheng, she really wouldn’t be able to juggle both.]

Hua Suihe said calmly, “But there isn’t anything else in my life.”

Ye Susheng abruptly lifted her head, a trace of stunned confusion flashing through her eyes. “But Hua Hua has me.”

“I have you, and I also have the livestream. Since the stream is on, I can’t only focus on you, right?”

Ye Susheng very much wanted to shake her head and argue back. After all, she only had Hua Hua, and she would never feel life was hard to bear. As long as she could stay by Hua Hua’s side, she would be very happy. If Hua Hua could have eyes only for her, that would be best of all.

But now, with Hua Hua giving half her attention to outsiders, Ye Susheng felt uncomfortable.

Hua Suihe pushed at her shoulder, signaling for her to get up. “Let me sit up.”

Ye Susheng did not dawdle. After pulling her up, she knelt there herself with her shoulders drooping and her head lowered, looking as though she were waiting to be scolded.

Hua Suihe adjusted her posture, then raised a hand and rubbed Ye Susheng’s head, finding her reaction somewhat amusing. “All right, come sit here. I’ll tell you something in secret.”

“What secret is there to tell? The livestream is still on.” Ye Susheng grumbled under her breath, but she still obediently sat beside Hua Suihe and leaned against her.

Hua Suihe leaned close to her ear and explained, “There’s a whisper item. The people in the livestream can’t hear us.”

Hua Suihe took her hand, lifted the sleeve of her pajamas, and saw the faint red lines beneath her skin.

Ye Susheng noticed what she was doing and tried to pull her hand back.

But Hua Suihe did not give her the chance. She traced the crisscrossing marks that looked like cracks with her fingertips and asked softly, “This thing is going to become more and more obvious, isn’t it?”

Ye Susheng was extremely resistant to her own Anomalization. Hearing Hua Suihe ask that made her emotions turn very sensitive. “Does Hua Hua think it’s ugly? Were the things you said before just to comfort me and lie to me?”
Hua Suihe shot her an irritated look. “What if I said it really is?”

Ye Susheng forcibly pulled her hand back and lowered her sleeve to cover it, clearly taking Hua Suihe’s words seriously. Her voice was tense and panicked. “I’ll cover it with my clothes. Hua Hua, don’t be scared.”

“Tell me honestly. Is bringing me home affecting you?”

Ye Susheng shook her head in firm denial. “No.”

“No? Then what’s with those red markings getting more obvious by the day? In a few more days, they’ll be crawling up onto your face, won’t they?”

Ye Susheng instinctively covered her face, startled by Hua Suihe’s words. Her eyes were blank and terrified. “I won’t let myself get ugly, Hua Hua…”

Hua Suihe jabbed her hard in the forehead, furious at her for not knowing any better. “If you don’t tell me the truth-sure, right now you want to protect me. But what about later? What am I supposed to do by myself if something happens to you?”

“Why do you think I’ve been ignoring you these past few days? Why do you think I’m always chatting with the people in the livestream in front of you, telling you all those irrelevant little things from the livestream?”

“I wanted you to know that the livestream won’t just cut off for no reason, and it hasn’t disappeared for no reason either. This is something that needs to be dealt with. You know how to deal with it too, but you’ve never taken the initiative to bring it up with me.”

Seeing Ye Susheng lower her head in silence, Hua Suihe sighed helplessly. “I’m not saying this because I want to blame you. I just hope you won’t hide things from me when something happens.”

Hua Hua lifted her sleeve. “This morning, I thought I caught a glimpse of the red markings for a moment, but I figured I must have seen wrong. And now, by tonight, they’ve already gotten this bad.”

“Clearly, this is more serious than shutting down the livestream and living a normal life. And you still planned to hide it from me.”

Ye Susheng sniffled and stubbornly pulled her sleeve back down to cover it.

“It’s fine, Hua Hua. Once I solve this, the livestream problem will be solved along with it.” Ye Susheng made up her mind. Tonight, she would go out again and clear out the Anomalies in the Thriller dungeons. The more dungeons she cleared, the weaker Thriller’s power would become. When the time came, the Live Streaming System would naturally collapse.

She hadn’t acted these past few days because she couldn’t stop worrying about Hua Hua being home alone. Even with Black Cotton occupying the entire house, she still couldn’t feel at ease.

But Thriller’s influence on her was more severe than she had predicted. Clearing the dungeons couldn’t be delayed any longer.

Hua Suihe looked at the way her eyes had gone unfocused for no apparent reason and could guess with her toes that she was hatching some terrible plan. She clicked her tongue, grabbed one of Ye Susheng’s little braids, and tugged her closer. “What rotten idea are you thinking up now? Hm? Why don’t you tell me too?”

Ye Susheng’s gaze instantly turned clear. Following the force of Hua Suihe’s pull, she leaned in and said ingratiatingly, “It’s not a rotten idea, Hua Hua. I’m sure I can do it. Once all of this is over, our lives will go back to normal.”

Hua Suihe narrowed her eyes in a fake smile and pinched the soft flesh of her cheek with one hand. “There’s something I forgot to ask you. That day in the Safe Zone, why did you get into a fight with those Anomaly coworkers?”

Calling it a fight was already a very gentle way of putting it. It wasn’t as if she could say it had been a one-sided slaughter by Ye Susheng.

Ye Susheng felt a little guilty. Her behavior back then must have been frightening. Had Hua Hua been traumatized by it?

She asked hesitantly, “Hua Hua saw all of it?”

“Hmph. When I found a certain someone, that certain someone even said she was going to kill me.”

Afraid Hua Suihe would misunderstand, Ye Susheng’s expression turned panicked, and she hurriedly explained, “I wasn’t saying that to Hua Hua.”