Gusts of wind were blowing furiously, uprooting a tree beside Zuo Xin Street, soil still clinging onto the roots of the tree. It fell onto the street, blocking the way of many cars.
Hu Yinli sat in the driver’s seat and honked a few times.
Beside him, Xu Senni held up a small mirror to touch up her lipstick. The teeth in the mirror were sterling white, and her lips were wide and thin. With the bold red lipstick on them, they looked much more attention-grabbing, it’s just that her facial features were too plain and the plainness couldn’t be ignored.
Looking up, she saw that the street was lined with cars, none of them moving. Yet the person beside her kept on honking. His cufflinks weren’t on, and his eyebrows seemed to be locked in place.
Squinting, she carefully observed her makeup while whispering. “Worrying now is useless, it’ll only make you feel worse.”
Hu Yinli was extremely anxious, talking while looking over at two other cars. “What do you know? This collaboration is incredibly important, if anything goes wrong, there’ll be big trouble.”
Xu Senni stopped, and capped her lipstick and put it back into her bag before taking out a cotton swab to smudge her lips while talking.
“Yinli, why’re you mad at me?”
Her words were quite calm, and just as Hu Yinli was about to blow up at her, he turned his head, and Xu Senni pouted, her eyes filled with hurt, making her seem very pitiful and wronged.
Immediately, his temper cooled.
Xu Senni smiled, not caring about her smile lines. These days, he’d been quite unusual. At home, he would always be holding his phone, and the moment she sidled over, he would be looking at the news.
Before, hadn’t he always held her hand?
Once, when he had been taking a shower, she’d unlocked his phone only to see it open into his chat with Cen Si Miao. Moreover, it had always been him to take the initiative to text, while Cen Si Miao would merely reply with an ‘en’. Either that, or she would only reply an hour later.
Xu Senni’s eyes were full of hatred. She wanted to see just how this Cen Si Miao would steal him back.
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Cen Si Miao had been pretty busy lately. She’d been busy maintaining her young look, getting massages, going around all the shopping malls, and eating and playing to her heart’s content.
‘Exactly which one of these requires actual work.’
The system looked at the task bar and spoke before stopping. He’d been the small cutie developed by the Jinjiang Technological City and local government, so just how had he gotten this kind of host?
“Ah…about that.”
Cen Si Miao cut into her beef ribs as she listened. The meat was fresh and tender, and it went well with the wine, after eating one mouthful she felt like she was in heaven. “What?”
“Shouldn’t you be completing your task?”
“I am.”
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All The Male Leads Have Blackened
RomanceTHIS STORY IS NOT MINE. ALL CREDITS BELONG TO THE AUTHOR AND TRANSLATOR(S). Before Cen Si Miao died, she had a heart like the golden sun. After she died, she followed around the system developed by Jin Jiang and the Underworld. As she went from plac...