Spring Breezes Blowing - Chapter 2

Chapter 2

“System, System!! What is going on?!”

Hiding behind a pillar, I frantically questioned the System in my mind.

[Host, as you can see, Xiao Yu has turned dark.]

“I know he’s turned dark! You didn’t tell me he takes pleasure in killing people now. Tell me how much time has passed here. He looks several years older. Oh no, oh no-it’s been so long. Does he even remember me?”

“What do I do, System?”

The System had no idea what to do.

It left me with a single line-[Good luck, Host]-and crashed.

Behind me, unhurried footsteps drew closer and closer.

I clenched my skirt and took a deep breath.

Calm down!

If I managed to redeem him last time, I could definitely do it this time.

This time, I even had the foundation from before.

So what if the sunny, beautiful youth had turned into a gloomy madman?

Don’t panic.

Don’t panic.

Don’t panic, my foot.

He was nothing like the Xiao Yu I knew!

Boohoo. I might not die, but I could still feel pain.

I lifted my foot to run.

A pair of hands clamped around my neck, and a low, gentle voice sounded behind me, his breath brushing against my ear.

“Caught you.”

The hand around my throat slowly tightened, stealing my breath bit by bit.

He leisurely walked around to stand in front of me, then used the knife that had killed someone to tilt up my chin.

Warm blood slid down my neck.

Death was closing in.

The instinct to survive forced me to struggle.

I grabbed his wrist and managed to force out, “Xiao-”

I had only uttered one word when disbelief and shock surfaced in those deep, black eyes.

He let go.

The dagger fell to the floor and rolled twice with a clatter.

Xiao Yu half-crouched in front of me, cupped my face, and pressed his thumb hard against the corner of my eye.

His fingertips trembled, and so did his voice.

The word Sister sounded so close.

“…Sister, is it you? Have you come back?”

I had spent a total of ten years in this era.

When I first met Xiao Yu, he was an unfavored prince in the cold palace.

That year, he was only nine, a genuine little kid.

Every transmigrated girl had to have some kind of cheat.

My cheat was that time had stopped for me.

An undying body. An ageless face.

I remained at the eighteen years old I had been when I transmigrated.

Later, even after Xiao Yu grew up, he still kept calling me what he had before.

Even now.

I clutched my throat and coughed, and he lightly patted my back.

The instant his palm, covered in thin calluses, touched my skin, I couldn’t help shrinking back.

“Don’t come near me.”

The girl lying in the pool of blood flashed before my eyes.

The pain of nearly dying just moments ago crawled over my heart again.

He wasn’t Xiao Yu!

Xiao Yu would never do this!

Yesterday, after Xiao Yu and I finished suppressing the rebels, the System told me my capture target mission had been perfectly completed and that it could send me home.

I went to say goodbye to Xiao Yu. His brows and eyes drooped like a pitiful little puppy’s as he promised me he would be a good emperor.

What did he have to do with a good emperor now?!

“Sister?” Xiao Yu tilted his head and leaned toward me.

Then he suddenly laughed softly.

“How could you possibly come back?”

He lowered his head, his voice unbearably gentle.

“Am I dreaming?

“Sister, did you know I missed you, so you came to see me?”

He placed a gentle kiss on my forehead, and his embrace was so tight it was as if he wanted to merge me into his very bones and blood.

He lifted me and carried me toward the bed, murmuring low in my ear, “Sister, I missed you so much.”

“Xiao Yu…” I grabbed his sleeve. “Calm down.”

He pinched my chin and lowered his head. I turned away, and the kiss landed beside my lips.

On the floor, a face that resembled mine by seventy percent stared ahead with wide, lifeless eyes, the pupils dark and hollow.

“Even in my dreams, Sister doesn’t listen to me.” Xiao Yu sounded faintly aggrieved as his warm fingertips hooked the strap of my nightgown off my shoulder. “How should I punish a disobedient Sister?”

Shaking, I shoved him away.

But that bit of strength was meaningless against an adult man.

He pinned my hands behind my back and, with unhurried movements, wrapped his belt around them again and again.

What he wanted to do was obvious.

“Xiao Yu!”

He lifted the hem of my nightgown. “Isn’t Sister dressed like this to seduce me?”

I shook my head hard. “No! These are pajamas!!”

“Sister, you’re so beautiful.” He wasn’t listening at all. Obsessively, he stroked the side of my face. His palm was covered with thin calluses, and wherever it touched my skin, it felt both ticklish and hot.

As he tore open my pajamas, he murmured, “Sister, you always say I’m a child, but I’ve clearly grown up.”

I knew I shouldn’t have trusted those nineteen-yuan-and-ninety-cent pajamas from Pinxixi!

How did they tear apart the moment he pulled? Boohoo.

“You can’t do this! I want to go home!!”

Who knew that line would completely infuriate him? He chuckled and tore down the curtains at the four corners of the bed, moving closer to me bit by bit. “Sister really isn’t obedient. You want to leave me again.”

He tossed aside the ruined fabric, gripped my waist, and bent down. His scorching kisses fell across my skin, burning so hot that my entire body trembled.

I stared blankly at the canopy above the bed as tears pattered down. “I only went home for one day. The System said you had turned dark and sent me back again. It didn’t even ask whether I wanted to.

“And now you want to force me too.” I burst into a sob, my tears impossible to stop. “The System didn’t tell me you were this dangerous now. It told me to save you, but why is no one saving me?”

I had clearly only just finished the college entrance exam. The worst thing I had ever done was lie to my mom about needing forty yuan for schoolbooks and pocket ten yuan for myself.

Ten yuan couldn’t even buy a small cake!

Why were they doing this to me?

Boohoohoohoohoo.

The more I cried, the more heartbroken I became. The more I thought about it, the more miserable I felt.

In front of me, Xiao Yu started taking off his outer robe. I was crying so hard my face was covered in tears and snot, and he could still bring himself to do this.

I hiccuped through my sobs. “Pervert!!”

His outer robe fell over me.

He untied the belt binding my wrists, his lowered brows and eyes hiding his expression.

“I’m sorry.” He gathered the robe around me, his fingertip brushing the corner of my eye.

I dodged backward. His expression dimmed. After a pause, he still took out a handkerchief and wiped my tears clean.

“Sister… I thought I was dreaming.”