I Conquered the Villain Boss Chapter 75
Due to a health issue that restricts screen time, I will have to go on hiatus for this novel for a month first. Hopefully, my condition gets better after that. I seek your understanding in this, and thanks for your support all along!
Translated by Digitalian (ko-fi)
Chapter 75: The Reason For Their Separation
Qi Yuan’s gaze met Jiang Ran’s. Then, she rolled her eyes and silently replied, "He’s out of his mind."
Jiang Ran, "..." Was it really okay for you to say that about your fiancé?
"Sister Ranran, she has lost her memory." Seeing the interaction between the two girls, Chu Yuan glanced at his mumbling fiancée with a half-smile. "She had a car accident and forgot about me."
What kind of melodramatic plot was this? Jiang Ran twitched the corner of her mouth. "Can Si Xu treat that?"
Of course Si Xu couldn't.
After hearing Chu Yuan's explanation of his purpose, Si Xu directly drove him out of the laboratory.
"Seventh Brother, can you help her?" Chu Yuan held on to the door of the laboratory and refused to let go. "She doesn't remember me, won't warm my bed, and won't even let me hold her hand. It's so hard for me!"
"I can't cure her amnesia." Si Xu said seriously, "Or, you can find a brick to hit her and see if it works."
"What's the principle for that?"
"I don't know –– it's written in the book."
Qi Yuan, who was squatting on the side listening to the conversation between the two, felt an inexplicable pain in the back of her head. She wanted to roar: What kind of books were you reading? You quack!
Seeing that Chu Yuan trusted this quack so much, she was really worried that Chu Yuan would find a brick to hit her.
Chu Yuan was still whining like a spoiled child, "Seventh Brother..."
Si Xu said expressionlessly, "It's no use even if you called me dad."
Chu Yuan, "..." Seventh Brother, you’ve changed. You used to be very cold. Did you abandon your coldness after your trip?
……
Jiang Ran and Qi Yuan squatted in a row and watched the two men's show for a while. She felt bored and found a topic to chat with the girl beside her.
"Are you really Captain Chu's fiancée?"
Qi Yuan thought for a moment. "No –– he said we’ve broken off the engagement."
"In other words, you were once an engaged couple?"
"I don't think this possibility is very likely now." Qi Yuan thought seriously. "Although I don't remember what I was like before, as long as I wasn’t blind, I’d definitely not like him."
Jiang Ran, "..." She suddenly felt that Captain Chu was so pitiful.
After finally throwing Chu Yuan out of the laboratory, Si Xu took off his white coat and called Jiang Ran to go home.
Chu Yuan followed him relentlessly, dragging Qi Yuan who wanted to slip away with one hand. "Seventh Brother, look at her again. Is there really no cure for her?"
Qi Yuan. "... Why did you make it sound like I’m about to die?"
Ignoring her complaints, Chu Yuan persisted. "Seventh Brother, look at her. I think she can still be saved. I mean it."
Si Xu didn't even turn his head. "There’s no cure. Stop bothering me."
"Seventh Brother~"
Si Xu threatened expressionlessly, "If you call me again, I'll kill you."
Knowing that this man would do what he said, Chu Yuan silently shut up.
Si Xu held Jiang Ran's hand and went upstairs without looking back.
……
On the way back, the man kept sighing. This made Qi Yuan, who finally felt a sense of relief, felt inexplicably a little guilty.
"Well..." She stretched out a finger and poked Chu Yuan's arm. When the man turned to look at her, she grinned. "I think it's pretty good now, really."
"What's good about it?" Chu Yuan skillfully grabbed her collar and quickened his pace, humming angrily. "Let’s go home. I'm hungry."
Qi Yuan was led by him for a few steps and she struggled. "Just walk on your own. Why are you grabbing my collar?"
The man did not let go. "Don't think I don't know that you’ve been looking for an opportunity to escape."
Qi Yuan, "I didn't!"
"Oh? Who was the person who climbed over the balcony and was hung on the balcony last night while I was asleep?"
"..." Qi Yuan was indignant. "That's because you ignored my wishes and forcibly imprisoned me!"
"Imprison?" Chu Yuan smiled grimly. "Qi Yuan, it's almost been a year since the apocalypse. Why are you still so naïve? You’re an ordinary person. Am I supposed to let you go and let other men ravage you?"
Qi Yuan didn't like the tone of his voice, so she shook his hand away and stopped walking.
Chu Yuan turned around and looked at her. His baby face was full of confusion. "Why did you stop?"
How could he still ask this question nonchalantly... She felt the urge to kick that innocent-looking face twice.
Qi Yuan pursed her lips and didn't answer.
"Are you angry?" Chu Yuan folded his arms in front of him and smiled slowly. "Did I say anything wrong, Qi Yuan?"
Without waiting for the girl to reply, he suddenly raised his slightly cold hand and touched her cheek with his slightly cold fingers.
Unlike the temperature of his fingers, there was a gentleness in his eyes that was almost like a sigh.
Qi Yuan, who instinctively wanted to dodge back, subconsciously stopped moving after meeting his eyes, and stared at him blankly.
"If I'm wrong," Chu Yuan sighed as he stroked the hideous scar on her right cheek, "Tell me, how did you get the scar on your face?"
Reminded by him, Qi Yuan covered her right cheek reflexively, hiding the hideous scar under her palm.
The girl stepped back a few steps in embarrassment, avoiding the man's fingers.
She didn't answer his question. She dodged her gaze, and lowered her head. Then, she walked around him and forward quickly.
What was there to say? He was so smart. Could he not figure it out?
–– As an ordinary person, this was the only way she could think of to protect herself.
The girl only took a few steps when Chu Yuan caught up with her from behind and grabbed her wrist. "Qi Yuan."
The girl's nose tingled, and she said in a muffled voice, "What?"
"Don't feel inferior." He said softly, "You look beautiful like this."
Beautiful? How was she beautiful? Even she found the scar on her face scary when she looked at it.
"I'm not trying to coax you." Chu Yuan said slowly. He wasn’t as frivolous as before, but more serious. "Not everyone has the courage to burn their boats –– you may not remember it, but you’ve always been this way. I used to be attracted by your courage. I was obsessed with you, unable to extricate myself."
"You..." This person said sweet words without hesitation. Qi Yuan thought that after a few days of getting along, she had already gotten used to it, but her cheeks turned a faint blush uncontrollably. "Why do you always say this kind of thing?"
"Don't you like it?" Chu Yuan smiled. "You were very happy when I said these words to you before."
Qi Yuan stammered with her cheeks getting hotter. "You-you... I-I-I don't remember what happened in the past. I'm not lying, I really don't remember!"
"I know."
You wouldn't have let me bully you like this before –– you were much more obedient now.
Chu Yuan pursed his lips, not letting himself show too much smugness. "I believe you... So, I'm trying my best to find a way to cure you."
"You... You also said that our engagement has been called off." Qi Yuan was puzzled. "Chu Yuan, why are you obsessed with the things in the past?"
She finally asked that question.
He supposed that after their reunion, without the memory of the past, this question had troubled her for a long time.
Chu Yuan was silent for a moment, and asked her back, "Why do you think we broke off the engagement?"
"It’s because... we weren’t suitable." What else could be the reason?
"Qi Yuan, we broke off the engagement because the Chu family fell into decline, and your father felt that I wasn’t worthy of you."
"..." Was that so? They broke off the engagement for such a mundane reason?
While the girl was in a daze, Chu Yuan pinched the girl's soft ear and sighed softly. "Your father looked down on the Chu family after our family’s decline and forced you and me to break off the engagement. Do you understand?"
From what he meant, it seemed that they did not break off the engagement voluntarily. When they broke off the engagement, they were still in love, right?
