Xiao Yang’s sharp questioning exploded like thunder in his ears, and the deafening sound penetrated his brain and heart.
The indistinct feelings wrapped in the mist suddenly became clear.
Yes, the terms “brother” and “sister” were all just excuses.
Perhaps he initially planned to use Bai Qingqing, but as they spent more time together, he started seeing her as an obedient and adorable younger sister. The longer they were together, the harder it became for him to let her go.
He held her in the palm of his hand, carrying her wherever he went. He wanted to merge her into his body, to engrave her into his bones and blood, inseparable.
So, when he saw Bai Qingqing treating Xiao Yang and Cheng Rui well, he couldn’t help but feel displeased. He instinctively lied to Xiao Yang and made him wait, repeatedly asking her about her feelings. If she had truly expressed a desire to be with Xiao Yang or Cheng Rui, would he have agreed? No!
Bai Qingqing belonged to him, and only he had the power to influence her emotions, her everything.
An overwhelming desire for control and possession, like a devilish vine, swept through his heart, entwining him tightly. Only she could sustain him.
Fu Chen slowly raised his face, looking at Xiao Yang’s angry expression. He curved his lips into a faint smile and said, “You’re right, I didn’t see her as a sister.”
In his heart, Bai Qingqing had long ceased to be a sister and had become an indispensable woman to him. That’s why he thought that as long as he returned alive from Death City, he would go find her.
And what did he want to do when he found her? Of course, claim her as his own.
Xiao Yang tightened his grip on Fu Chen’s clothes, his temples and arms showing strained blue veins. His eyes burned with increasing anger as he gritted his teeth and said, “So it’s true, Fu Chen. I misjudged you. You’re shameless!”
“She trusts and relies on you so much, sees you as her brother, and yet you developed such feelings for her.”
A dark expression appeared on Fu Chen’s handsome face as he spoke in a low voice, “Brother?”
He sneered and said, “You all know that our brother-sister relationship is a lie, and someday this lie will be exposed. So what?”
“Damn it!” Xiao Yang, filled with anger, threw another punch, but this time he missed Fu Chen’s face, and his arm was caught in mid-air.
The next moment, his hand was thrown off, and the hand that had grabbed Fu Chen’s collar was now caught by the man. A force as heavy as a thousand kilograms made his arm weak, and he couldn’t hold on.
Fu Chen let go of his hand, calmly straightened his clothes, and looked at the furious Xiao Yang. “Thanks for your words, they woke me up.”
Xiao Yang’s arm, which had been thrown off by Fu Chen, felt numb. He was temporarily unable to move and felt even more angry hearing his words.
He had always regarded Fu Chen as his elder brother, and now his brother wanted to compete with him for a woman. Wasn’t there anything more frustrating in the world? And he might not even win.
Fu Chen stopped pretending and said directly, “You’re not a child anymore. Understand that there’s no such thing as fair competition in this world. Bai Qingqing, she belongs to me.”
Xiao Yang, unwilling to accept it, said coldly, “She has no romantic feelings for you, only sees you as a brother.”
Although Fu Chen had injuries on his face, his mood was good. He struck his pain-inflicting rival with a blow, saying, “Haven’t you heard the saying that my brother, initially my boyfriend, later became my husband?”
Xiao Yang: “…”
Fu Chen grabbed his collar and pulled him along, appearing like he was teaching him a lesson. While walking, he said, “Your room is now mine. Tonight, you’ll be staying with Liang Zhiyu.”
“No way!” Xiao Yang was furious and refused to back down. “That’s my room. Who do you think you are!”
“You don’t have the right to choose,” Fu Chen declared mercilessly.
Xiao Yang had known Fu Chen as a subordinate, always getting beaten up, always controlled by the big devil. Now, he truly had no way to resist the domineering Fu Chen.
“I didn’t bring Qingqing with me anyway, so it’s useless for you to take my room,” he said coldly.
Fu Chen threw him into the car, his face expressionless as he said, “Your room has good Feng Shui, and I like it.”
In the car, the three of them saw Fu Chen and Xiao Yang return, both men with injuries on their faces, each with a different expression.
Shen Mingxuan raised his eyebrows and glanced at them, unbothered as he whistled, “A fight, huh? Xiao Yang, you’re really something. Daring to challenge the captain.”
“Looks like you didn’t win,” Liang Zhiyu said with a faint smile.
While outside, Xiao Yang had thrown a punch at Fu Chen, but he didn’t put much force into it. It left a bruise on Fu Chen’s handsome face. Xiao Yang’s face hadn’t fared any better, swollen on one side. He rubbed his face and said irritably, “If you’re brave enough, go and fight Fu-ge.”
Fu Chen’s eyes flickered slightly, and for the most part, he maintained an indifferent and cold attitude. He rarely clashed with his teammates, and no one would provoke him. He treated Xiao Yang quite well, but today was the first time he had punched Xiao Yang and taken his room.
Didn’t Fu Chen find Bai Qingqing?
His psychic ability is so high, it’s impossible for him not to find Bai Qingqing. Xiao Yang didn’t bring her along in the car, so why is he bullying her?
“What’s the matter? Is the Feng Shui of that room good?”
Xiao Yang clenched his fists and suppressed his unwillingness. He could only give up the room.
Bai Qingqing stayed in the space, barely feeling the passage of time. She made a packed lunch and prepared some beverages and iced tea. She set up a reclining chair for outdoor camping and entered vacation mode with Xiao Zi Cao.
After eating, she rested and continued absorbing crystal cores to diligently level up, oblivious to the situation outside.
Fu Chen pushed open Xiao Yang’s room door, went in, and tidied it up. He sat by the bed and said, “Qingqing, are you here?”
He was certain that Xiao Yang had disobeyed his orders and brought Bai Qingqing along in the car; otherwise, he wouldn’t have reacted so strongly.
His obedient little sister had grown quickly. She was able to hide from him without being detected by his psychic ability.
In her previous life, Bai Tiantian’s spatial ability reached an advanced stage where it seemed she could store living things inside, but that was just hearsay.
Fu Chen’s black eyes grew deeper. It seemed that she was hiding in the space, which was why his psychic ability couldn’t detect her.
Bai Qingqing might have upgraded her spatial ability to avoid his search, but even if she was hiding inside the space, there was still a time limit.
They were going to enter the fog city tomorrow, and he wanted to have her by his side for peace of mind.
Fu Chen said in a deep voice, “Qingqing, I know you’re here. Come out. Big brother promises not to punish you and won’t blame Xiao Yang.”
Bai Qingqing didn’t wake up upon hearing Fu Chen’s voice. Instead, she suddenly heard the system’s voice in the space: [Host, your time in the space has ended. Please leave as soon as possible.]
Her spatial ability had reached level five, allowing her spirit to freely enter and exit, but it had time limitations. She could only enter or leave once a day, and the time limit was twelve hours.
She had half an hour left before she had to leave the space.
Bai Qingqing quickly ran to the Spirit Field and looked at the growing fruits and vegetables with a hint of regret in her eyes.
The progress bar was at around thirty to forty percent. It would take several more days for them to fully mature. She was looking forward to seeing what the mature fruits and vegetables would look like.
Bai Qingqing waited until the last minute before leaving. When she came out, she found Xiao Yang’s room empty. It was already around three or four in the middle of the night. Did Xiao Yang go on guard duty and hadn’t returned to sleep?
Bai Qingqing unceremoniously lifted the blanket and laid down on the bed, slipping into the warmth of the covers. As she fell asleep, she felt something poking her neck, causing discomfort.
She reached out and randomly groped around, then took out the item and opened her eyes to look.
She froze, staring at the item in her hand. It was the black hair tie that she had forgotten to put away, with several shiny crystal cores threaded through the missing space. They were transparent, light green, deep purple… beautiful and sparkling crystal cores.
Only one person in the team would do something like this: Fu Chen.
Bai Qingqing’s nose felt a bit sour as she hummed, “Do you think I’ll forgive you just because of this? Wishful thinking.”
Her brother knew she was in the car and knew she needed crystal cores to upgrade, so he replenished her resources.
She held the crystal cores, suppressing her emotional fluctuations, and closed her eyes to sleep.
When sunlight seeped through the curtains, Bai Qingqing suddenly opened her eyes. She heard the sound of footsteps, the opening of a door, conversations, Xiao Tiantian hurriedly going downstairs to prepare breakfast, Liang Zhiyu and Shen Mingxuan discussing the route to the fog city, Xiao Yang’s yawn, and the familiar footsteps approaching her room.
These lively sounds felt like the days they were together.
As the footsteps drew closer, she turned over and quickly got out of bed, rushing to hide inside the large suitcase that Xiao Yang had used to carry her.
The lock clicked, and someone pushed the door open.
Bai Qingqing hid inside the narrow suitcase, surrounded by darkness. She could hear a man’s voice and then the sound of him sitting on the bed.
It wasn’t Xiao Yang, it was Fu Chen.
So, it was Fu Chen who had slept here for half the night.
Bai Qingqing slowed her breathing, listening anxiously to the commotion outside.
Fu Chen immediately noticed that the bedding had been disturbed as soon as he entered the room. He curved his lips and casually took off his coat, sitting down by the bed. His well-defined fingers searched around the pillow, but unsurprisingly, he didn’t find the string of crystal cores.
Fu Chen lay down on the bed, closed his eyes, and the dark, crow-like long lashes cast a clear shadow beneath his eyes.
Bai Qingqing thought Fu Chen would discover her, but he just lay down and fell asleep, that stinky brother.
Carefully moving her stiff body, she found a comfortable position and curled up inside the suitcase. She absentmindedly drew on the top of the box with her fingers.
After a while, Fu Chen woke up, got up, and left the room.
Bai Qingqing was finally able to free herself and crawled out of the suitcase, stretching her stiff and numb body.
She rubbed her shoulder while thinking to herself that since Fu Chen knew she was in the car, why was she hiding? She was just suffering unnecessarily; it would be better to come out directly.
With that thought in mind, when Fu Chen returned to the room in the evening, she instinctively hid inside the suitcase again.
It was as if she were playing hide-and-seek with Fu Chen. If he didn’t find her, she wouldn’t come out.
Fu Chen changed his clothes in the room, and Bai Qingqing caught a strong smell of blood. It seemed that the journey hadn’t been peaceful, and the team had encountered some danger.
Just as she was thinking about it, she heard footsteps approaching the bed.
Bai Qingqing’s heart raced, her breathing becoming tense, as she felt the suitcase she was in being slowly pulled out.
Fu Chen squatted on the ground, unlocked it with his slender fingers, and opened the large suitcase.
His gaze was deep, and his voice carried a seductive magnetism as he said, “I’ve found you, little sister.”
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