I Conquered the Villain Boss Chapter 110
Translated by Digitalian (ko-fi)
Edited by Azure
Chapter 110: Doomed To Be A Tragedy
It was late at night when the party ended. Qi Yuan said goodbye to Su Qin and dragged Chu Yuan, who was sixty percent drunk, home.
Once they reached the room, the man collapsed onto the bed, groaning, and did not move for a long time.
Qi Yuan thought he was very drunk, so she quietly got a basin of hot water to wipe his cheeks and arms.
Chu Yuan narrowed his eyes and cooperated with her movements, letting her wipe him.
After wiping his face, the girl gathered the clothes thrown on the sofa to put them in the storage box for laundry tomorrow.
"Thud."
Two square boxes slipped from the man's coat pocket to the ground.
"Huh?" What were they? Cigarettes? Or chewing gum? Qi Yuan leaned over to pick them up. After taking a close look at the packaging, she reacted as if she were scalded and quickly threw the boxes on the table.
"Pfft." Chu Yuan, who was secretly observing her every move, couldn't help but laugh.
Qi Yuan glared at him fiercely and was about to speak when Chu Yuan sat up, picked up the small box that she was averse to, and looked at her with a half-smile. "Qi Yuan, I've bought them all. Do you want to try it?"
Knowing that he was just teasing, Qi Yuan's face still blushed. She rushed into the bathroom quickly with her clothes, not forgetting to turn back and lock the bathroom door.
The young man turned the small box back and forth between his fingers, and then he casually put it on the bedside table.
Chu Yuan put his hands behind his head, and stared at the ceiling in a daze, waiting for the girl to come out of the shower.
……
The cinema was showing a nostalgic old movie. The girl bought the tickets. When they arrived, they realized that it was a couple's seat, so the young couple who got a chance to watch a movie together on the eve of their engagement squeezed into the small private room awkwardly.
The couple's seat was secluded. The window faced the big screen, but they wouldn’t be disturbed by others.
After sitting down, the girl relaxed completely. She leaned back on the soft chair and sighed. "I watched this movie when I was in elementary school. It was the Chinese version on the movie channel. The heroine was really beautiful."
After reading the title of the movie, Chu Yuan lowered his voice to avoid disturbing others. "I rarely watch this kind of literary romance."
"You don’t know what you’ve missed." The girl grabbed a piece of popcorn and fed it to her mouth, squinting her eyes comfortably. "My sister..."
The girl almost let it slip, and she changed her words abruptly. "My sister didn't like to watch romance movies before. She said that they were all fake, no matter if it was a comedy or a tragedy. There aren’t so many ups and downs in life... Later, I recommended ‘Flipped’ to her, and she watched it over and over again for twelve times."
"’Flipped?’" Chu Yuan bit the straw of his Coke and said vaguely, "I know that movie."
"Have you watched it before?"
"No."
"When I have time, I can watch it with you." The girl stuck out her tongue mischievously. "Just treat me to a meal."
Chu Yuan chuckled. "Okay."
The engagement ceremony would be held the next day, and the two of them felt a little awkward sitting together.
The young man's eyes were fixed on the screen, trying to divert his attention with the beautiful images of the movie.
He persisted for ten minutes and failed.
The faint fruity fragrance of the girl drifted into his nose, and he licked his lips.
There were many things that weren’t suitable to be said at the engagement party that he wanted to tell her on the eve of the engagement, but her eyes were fixed on the screen, and he didn't want to interrupt her.
The young man sighed in frustration, causing the girl to turn her head to look at him.
"What's wrong? Don't you like it?"
Chu Yuan shook his head. "Nothing." Fearing that she would read too much into it, he added, "It's quite interesting." Actually, he didn't pay attention to what the movie was about the whole time.
"Oh." Qi Yuan suddenly asked, "Do you like comedy or tragedy?"
The girl's voice was very low, and Chu Yuan subconsciously moved closer to her and asked, "What?"
Qi Yuan leaned close to his ear and repeated her question, "Chu Yuan, do you like comedy or tragedy?"
"For movies, I prefer comedy."
"Why?"
"Life is already so difficult. Watching happy movies can help relieve stress." As someone who had never thought about this question, he made up a reason at random.
"I like comedy too." Qi Yuan said, "It's not to relieve stress, but I feel that watching happy stories will make me feel happy."
She glanced at the screen and said, "Unfortunately, this movie is a tragedy."
"Are the male and female protagonists separated?"
"She’s a noble princess, while he’s a powerless reporter." Qi Yuan sighed. "Even if the princess can temporarily forget her identity and enjoy herself on the streets like an ordinary girl, she still has to reassume her original identity and take on her own responsibilities after being willful –– it’s natural for two people like them to go their separate ways."
The girl suddenly became sentimental, and Chu Yuan held her hand silently.
His slender fingers curled slightly, but did not retract in the end. Qi Yuan looked at him with a smile in her eyes and whispered, "But I think even if it's just a short day, in the days after their separation, she’ll think of her one-day holiday and smile knowingly –– there’s no better ending than this."
"Qi Yao." He moved closer, and the two could almost hear each other's breath. "It's just a movie, a story written by the screenwriter. Don't be sad."
He still called her Qi Yao, and the smile in the girl's eyes disappeared. She lowered her eyes to hide the faint sadness in her eyes.
"Chu Yuan, if there’s a road that you know will end in tragedy, will you continue to forge ahead?"
"No."
"What if it was to protect someone important to you?"
"No." Chu Yuan said, "Since I know that it’s a tragedy and I still continue to forge ahead instead of trying to correct my way, it won’t be persistence, but stupidity."
Qi Yuan was stunned before smiling again.
She pinched his ear like he usually did, and felt the skin on her fingertips suddenly warm up. Qi Yuan whispered, "Chu Yuan, let's kiss."
"..."
She asked as a matter of course, and Chu Yuan's cheeks blushed slightly –– fortunately, the lights in the cinema were dim, so his blush wasn’t easily exposed. As the girl's eyes looked expectant, he leaned over and kissed her.
This was the first time the two kissed after confirming their relationship. From the initial tentativeness, they gradually began to explore deeper to seek satisfaction...
When they separated, there was a glint in the girl's eyes, as if she was angry and shy at the same time. "Chu Yuan, you’re such a good kisser. Have you had many girlfriends before?"
"No." His breathing was also a little unstable. "You’re the first and will be the only one, Qi Yao."
……
Thinking about it now, the girl was always inexplicably sad at that time, most likely because of the sisters’ swapped identities.
He was her lover, but when he looked at her, he always called out her sister's name.
Chu Yuan sighed and raised his arm to cover his eyes.
If Qi Yao hadn't told the truth when they met for the last time, he would never know that the girl he was engaged to was actually Qi Yao’s younger sister who impersonated her.
After taking a shower, Qi Yuan found that the person on the bed seemed to be asleep. She climbed onto the bed carefully, but before she lay down, she was pulled into the man's arms by the waist.
Knowing that resistance was useless, Qi Yuan closed her eyes and yawned sleepily. "Chu Yuan, do you really want me to regain my memory?"
Since the day they met, this guy had been pestering Professor Si relentlessly, trying his best to find a way to cure her.
Why was he so persistent in helping her regain her memory?
Chu Yuan rested his chin on the top of the girl's head. He was silent for a moment before telling the truth. "Qi Yuan, when the Chu family's direct lineage was in decline and I was forced into a desperate situation, you asked to meet me."
Hmm? Qi Yuan was no longer sleepy in an instant. "Then what happened?"
"I kept the appointment." Chu Yuan said, "But you didn't come."
"I... stood you up?"
"Yeah." Chu Yuan's voice became even lower. "The person who came to the appointment was not you, but your sister, Qi Yao."
Qi Yuan was so shocked that her mind went blank for a moment.
"Qi Yuan, I really want to know why you stood me up that day." Or was asking him out actually a trap from the beginning?