The Byoukidere Is Her Sweetie

Chapter 74: 074: If you take me, then you can control me

Asked, “Do you want me?”

Do you?

The climate at Moon Bay was damp and cold. It took a whole day by boat to reach the nearest land. In the winter, the water would freeze, and there might even be herds of animals migrating over. Most importantly, there was no doctor on the deserted island.

If Jiang Zhi were to settle down there with her…

She looked serious as she thought for a long while. Her brows relaxed and then furrowed intermittently. After more than ten seconds, her eyes filled with sorrow as she shook her head.

She! Shook! Her! Head!

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She! Didn’t! Want! Him!

Jiang Zhi was so angry he wanted to pin her down in the snow and have his way with her.

He took a deep breath of the cold air, “Fine.” With one hand braced on the outside of her arm, he leaned his body toward her, “Since you don’t want me, I’ve got no choice but to cling to you. Wherever you go, I’ll follow.”

Anyway, he had set his sights on her. Whether by stealing, robbing, or using any means of trickery and deceit, he had to have her.

But no sooner had he finished speaking his unreasonable words—

Zhou Xufang crawled out from his squeaky embrace, swiftly propping herself up with her hands, then she was suddenly far from him.

With a flushed yet expressionless face, she said in a very formal tone, “My takeout has arrived, I need to go get my takeout.”

After that, she turned and ran.

“…”

Ran?

She actually ran!

Jiang Zhi sat on the ground, beginning to question his life. Was he even less important than takeout?!

Click.

Shuangjiang looked over at the sound.

The door opened and Zhou Xufang entered, her head hanging low, despondent, like a rooster that had lost a fight, with bleakness in her eyes and no trace of spirit.

Shuangjiang let out a series of beeps.

She walked by as if she heard nothing, her soul seemingly adrift, slowly ambling until suddenly, her footsteps halted.

The room had been fitted with special soundproofing materials during renovations, so actually, it was quite hard to hear outside noises. But strangely, she could still hear Jiang Zhi talking with Ah Wan.

“Boss, why are you sitting in the snow?”

Ah Wan’s voice was a bit muffled.

Jiang Zhi sounded displeased as he snapped at him, “Who told you to get out of the car!”

Ah Wan responded with a wronged tone, “I saw it was snowing and specially came over to bring you an umbrella.” Then, surprised, he asked, “Where’s Miss Zhou? Why did she leave you here alone?”

Jiang Zhi sounded like he was in a bad temper, “Quick, come help me up.”

“Ah?” Ah Wan seemed puzzled.

Jiang Zhi panted and yelled, “I told you to come help me, damn it, cough cough cough… my legs are frozen stiff.”

Legs frozen stiff?

Zhou Xufang’s brow furrowed deeply.

Shuangjiang asked her with a synthetic voice, “What’s taking so long?”

She sat down in front of the computer, her head lowered as she fiddled with the seat cushion, replying, “Oh.”

Downstairs, the wind howled.

“Boss, shall we go back?”

Whether it was the prolonged exposure to the wind or not, Jiang Zhi’s voice had a nasal sound, “Not going back.”

Ah Wan then asked, “If we’re not going back, then what are we doing here?”

In this heavy snow, someone could freeze to death.

“Chasing after a girlfriend, haven’t you seen it before?” The second half of the sentence was said with some irritation, unclear at whom.

“…”

Ah Wan stayed silent for quite a while, before speaking with a motherly tone, “The snow is getting heavier, I’m worried you can’t withstand it.”

“Cough cough cough… cough cough cough…”

Jiang Zhi coughed for a long time, managing to choke out a single word: “Scram.”

As if the cold wind had struck his chest, he coughed violently.

Could he faint?

Zhou Xufang was worried.

Shuangjiang asked her, “Has Jiang Zhi left?”

She placed the takeout she was holding down, replying, “Oh.”

“What did he say to you?” There was something haunting about her.

Yet again, she responded, “Oh.”

Shuangjiang laughed.

She had come back, but her soul had not. @@novelbin@@

“Your face is very red.”

Zhou Xufang grunted in acknowledgement, took off her down jacket and threw it aside, then tugged at the sweatshirt underneath, muttering, “I feel so hot.”

After speaking, she touched her lip, then bent a corner of her eye with every touch.

Shuangjiang asked, “Are you feverish again?”

She pressed her cool palm against her face for a while, but it was still hot, so she stood up to get a thermometer and measured her temperature.

Forty-one degrees.

She had fallen sick again.

Her body seemed to have gone haywire, one moment as cold as ice and the next blazing like fire. She felt no discomfort, only a heat that made her restless, with a desire to leap and bounce around, to jump into the sky and split the air.

Then, with a fierce leap, the ceiling light clanged loudly.

Shuangjiang: “…”

She felt that Zhou Xufang was behaving too oddly.

“Is there any medicine left at home?”

Zhou Xufang looked up for a while and fortunately, the lamp Jiang Zhi had given her was not damaged. She was sweating and thirsty, gulping down two cans of milk in one go.

She said, “None left.”

She had consumed all the fever medicine.

Moreover, aside from feeling hot, she didn’t seem to feel unwell anywhere else, but…

It was so hot.

She couldn’t stay put any longer, “I’m going out for a bit.”

Shuangjiang asked her, “To buy medicine?”

No.

She dressed and donned a black, fluffy hat, saying, “Jiang Zhi’s scarf is still on the floor, I forgot to pick it up.”

Shuangjiang: “…”

Then, Zhou Xufang vanished from the room in an instant.

Shuangjiang felt that during her fever, her speed seemed even faster…

At the entrance to building seven, Jiang Zhi was still standing there, with Ah Wan carefully holding an umbrella behind him.

“Boss, you…”

Ah Wan paused, trying to hold back, but he couldn’t.

He spoke up again, “You…”

And once more, “You…”

Repeatedly starting and stopping, he hadn’t dared to speak his mind.

Such indecisiveness was annoying. Jiang Zhi turned and gave him a cold glance, “Is your tongue twisted, or can’t you keep your mouth shut?”

Ah Wan straightened his tongue to speak, “Did Miss Zhou reject you?”

Just one sentence.

Successfully turned the blossoms in Jiang Zhi’s eyes into ice, freezing to three feet deep, and the light shooting from within was bone-chilling.

He said, “Give me the umbrella.”

Ah Wan shuddered, “Oh.” He quickly handed over the umbrella.

Jiang Zhi held the umbrella in one hand and brushed snow off his shoulder with the other. His misty blue hair was weighed down until it drooped, his eyes held moist vapor, misting into fog, making his entire appearance seem a lot more obedient and harmless, but—

His body was full of hostility, “Move out from under the umbrella.”

Because he wasn’t allowed to share the umbrella, Ah Wan’s heart suddenly grew cold, “Oh…” He hugged himself tightly, bracing against the wind and snow, hunched over and shuffled to one side, enduring the torment of the cold.

It was so excessive, so heartless, so capricious… As Ah Wan was mentally greeting his employer, the sound of a door came from the stairwell entrance.

Oh, the bane to the employer’s existence had arrived.

Look at the boss, as his eyes went from winter to spring in an instant, “Why have you come down again?”

He knew she couldn’t bear to leave him.

Zhou Xufang, with a face flushed red, expression serious, “Scarf.”

Jiang Zhi didn’t understand, “Hmm?”

She said, “I forgot to pick up the scarf.”

So, she didn’t come for him?

The fingers of the hand clutching the umbrella turned white from gripping so tightly, and the spring in his eyes vanished completely, “So, you don’t bother picking up a living person like me, but you come down to pick up a scarf?” His face was red with embarrassment and annoyance, like a newlywed bride.

Zhou Xufang hung her head in silence.

Not obedient at all! Jiang Zhi was so angered by her that it pained him, and he called out to Ah Wan.

“Ah?”

Jiang Zhi commanded, “You go pick it up.”

Hmph!

You only take it out on me! Dare to do that with Miss Zhou! Using soft tactics on the weak but fearing the wife!

After Ah Wan finished grumbling internally, he clutched his shivering self, “Oh.”

The scarf was picked up.

He didn’t look like he would faint either.

Zhou Xufang then said, “I’ll go back up.”

Just as she turned around, Jiang Zhi grabbed her hat, “Won’t you take me with you?”

He couldn’t be at peace with her going back alone.

And also, he wanted to go to her place!

Zhou Xufang stopped for a moment and pulled her hat back down, wearing it askew, “You should go home, it’s very cold.” She was worried he might fall sick.

He was too fragile.

Jiang Zhi, still holding the umbrella, continued to stand at the door entrance. The wind was strong, swirling snowflakes chaotically, many of them landing on him. His lips were a delicate shade of pink, which made his face look even paler. He did not insist on entering, remaining quiet and still.

He began to cough again, “Not going back, want to see you some more.”

Zhou Xufang turned around, “Jiang Zhi—”

He interrupted her, “Didn’t you want to be rid of me? You can only tell me what to do if you accept me.”