I Ship My Rival x Me

CHAPTER 27

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The car continued moving, steadily and at a uniform speed.

Gu Yiliang did not speak, and I dared not either.

Quiet. It was too quiet. It truly was really too quiet.

Even Quietism was not this quiet, a quietus was not this quiet, a quiet lung was not this quiet, and a quiet sun was never this quiet!

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I was panicking and was tied up tightly with a sense of crisis.

Other than the roar of the engine and the radio, I seemed to be able to hear my own pounding heartbeat as well.

I wasn't a coward, it was this atmosphere that was too peculiar!

His fingers holding onto the steering wheel, why were they white? His straightened back, why was it so tense? Why were the tips of his ears red, and why was his Adam's apple bobbing away?!

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Such a situation, such a silence, such a stalemate...

My eyes narrowed, turning sharp in an instant.

— Don't tell me Gu Yiliang wants to do something to me?!

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Was he planning on selling my organs? Or selling me into a circus or some rural area? Or did he simply just want to kill me and eat me?

However, after going through two road junctions, step by step, I came to a conclusion. He had been so nice to me during this period of time. For all I knew, perhaps he wanted me to put my guard down and find a good opportunity to kill me off. If he got rid of me, his adversary, he would then be able to take a further step up his career.

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This sense of crisis I was feeling reached its peak when I saw the same billboard advertisement from the car window for the third time.

I clung tightly to the door, preparing myself to escape through the window and flee at any moment. Cautiously, I asked, "Why... are we turning circles here?"

Gu Yiliang looked even stiffer, and he sounded even more cautious than me. "I haven't prepared anything at home, and I was thinking about looking for them on the way back... Yes, I'm looking for a supermarket."

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What was not prepared that made him so nervous until he seemed to have lost his wits?!

Tape? Nylon ropes? A rongeur? An electric saw? Plastic sheets? Garbage bags?

Uncle Policeman, I'm very scared!!

I pressed myself further into the door, and I tried to speak very lightly, hoping to calm him down. "Turn right up ahead, I saw a small convenience store there just now."

He turned his head slightly to look at me, and his entire being seemed abruptly more steady now.

The car took a right turn and then stopped.

Gu Yiliang said, "I'll go buy the things myself, just wait for me in the car."

Quaking, I nodded and watched him step out of the car and enter the store. Immediately, I scrabbled wildly at the door, trying to unlock it.

【Gu Yiliang's Phone Memo — Excerpt 1】

Things that were supposed to come would come. My adversary had suggested going to my place.