Chapter 265 - Chu Tiankuo's Namelist

Chapter 265 Chu Tiankuo’s Namelist

The atmosphere in the area was so tense that it solidified, and neither of the two men was willing to show their weakness. There were sparks of fire in their eyes as they looked at each other, as if they would start a fight at any time.

The cause of all this was that girl who stood by the side.

Tang Xia had a complicated look on her face, and before the situation could worsen, she held onto Ye Yifan and said hesitantly, “Yifan, could you leave first? I have something to say to Chu Tiankuo.”

“Yifan? How intimate.” Chu Tiankuo stared coldly as Tang Xia and Ye Yifan held each other’s hands, with the word “dissatisfaction” clearly written on this face.

As if Tang Xia had sensed his gaze, she silently let go of Ye Yifan’s hand and merely looked fixedly at Ye Yifan with a pleading look in her eyes.

“Wasn’t it because he threatened you?” When Ye Yifan heard Tang Xia’s voice, his expression loosened up slightly but his eyes continued to watch Chu Tiankuo with great hostility.

“No. How could I be threatened by him?” Tang Xia denied it and forced a smile on her face to try to make her voice sound more lighthearted.

Ye Yifan looked at her suspiciously and then looked at Chu Tiankuo. There was an obvious look of suspicion in his expression. “Really? Then why did you say earlier that you ‘can’t leave’?”

Tang Xia’s complexion turned pale very slightly. Ye Yifan held onto her shoulder with a serious expression. “Tang Xia, I hope you understand that if you have to force yourself to save me, then I would rather be a zombie.”

As he said this, Ye Yifan even took an intentional glance at Chu Tiankuo.

Chu Tiankuo’s eyes shone as he stared at Ye Yifan’s hand, which was placed on Tang Xia’s shoulder. His expression could almost kill a person.

When Tang Xia saw that the atmosphere between the two of them had become tense again, she denied repeatedly, “It’s really not like you think. I really have something to talk to Chu Tiankuo about. Could you excuse yourself for a while?”Access v ip novel

This time, Tang Xia’s tone of voice was much more firm than before. She frowned and pushed Ye Yifan’s hand away from her shoulder and she already seemed to be a little displeased.

Ye Yifan was stunned. “Could it be that I really misunderstood?”

“Didn’t you hear? Tang Xia asked you to leave first.”

That cold voice could be heard and Ye Yifan moved his eyes. He saw that Chu Tiankuo had already walked over without him realizing it. He stood beside Tang Xia and was looking at him unhappily.

They looked like a compatible couple, and he would only ruin the atmosphere if he continued to stay here.

Ye Yifan suddenly remembered that Tang Xia had always been interested in Mr. Chu. Maybe he really had misunderstood. As if he had suddenly lost his confidence, Ye Yifan looked at Tang Xia with a dim look. “I’ll go first then.”

His voice was low and muted and was completely stripped of the sense of sharpness that it had when he confronted Chu Tiankuo earlier on. After he said this, Ye Yifan took one final deep look at Tang Xia before he turned and left.

Tang Xia watched his forlorn silhouette and opened her mouth, but in the end, she said nothing.

“Why? You can’t bear to part with him?” Chu Tiankuo snorted and straightaway closed the door to block Tang Xia’s view. Did she care so much about him that she even had to watch his silhouette?

When Tang Xia saw that Ye Yifan had left, she secretly heaved a sigh of relief. When she heard Chu Tiankuo’s voice again, she shook her head and looked at him. “Why are you here?”

“Do you wish fervently that I would not be here?” Chu Tiankuo replied with a rhetorical question. The expression on his face was hidden by the backlight when he spoke, and it made it impossible for one to guess his emotions.

Tang Xia was a little stunned, and for a moment, she did not know what to say.

Chu Tiankuo took her silence as a silent acknowledgment and directly came forward and grabbed hold of Tang Xia’s jaw viciously. “There is nothing you can do about this, even if that’s what you think, because you will have to stay close by my side in the subsequent period! Don’t forget that you made the promise yourself!”

Chu Tiankuo increased the force of his hands when he recalled the anxious look on Tang Xia’s face when she pleaded with him in order to save Ye Yifan. His expression became increasingly dark and it was unclear whether it was because of jealousy or resentment.

Tang Xia stood up painfully and pushed him away hard. “Chu Tiankuo, what are you doing?”

She looked at Chu Tiankuo in disbelief. After the previous few fictitious worlds, she thought that Chu Tiankuo had changed. But now, it seemed that she was wrong.

This Chu Tiankuo made her feel afraid.

“What am I doing? Tang Xia, I should be asking you this. What are you going to do?” Chu Tiankuo suddenly became agitated, and the expression on his face looked like that of a child who was hurt.

“That man was the one whom you previously said that you liked, right?” He held onto Tang Xia’s shoulder firmly. He was going to wipe out the area that that man had touched with even greater force.

After a while, Tang Xia managed to react to the fact that he was referring to Ye Yifan. She merely felt tired in her heart and wanted to push him away but she could not seem to break free from Chu Tiankuo’s clutches.

“Can you not be like this?” After Tang Xia struggled to no avail, she could only give up. She lost control of her emotions and yelled out at Chu Tiankuo. Since the moment that they met again, Chu Tiankuo had constantly been forcing her.

Chu Tiankuo suddenly embraced Tang Xia and his voice was dull and muted. “You don’t understand. I can only see you through this.”

Those words were obviously warm words, but when Chu Tiankuo said them, it only made Tang Xia feel chills down her spine.

Since they had met this time, the sense of oppression that Chu Tiankuo had been imposing on her become stronger and stronger. It seemed that Chu Tiankuo increasingly could not conceal his feelings since that confession and was becoming more and more capricious.

For example, a second ago they were still in confrontation with each other, but in the next second, he hugged her tightly with so much force that it was as if he wanted to rub her into his body.

Tang Xia felt so choked by him that she could not breathe, nor could she break free. As she struggled on, tears somehow began to fall from her eyes.

The warm liquid trickled down her cheeks and fell onto Chu Tiankuo’s arm. It made him regain his rationality instantly and he released Tang Xia. When he saw her tear-stricken face, he raised his hands to wipe them away for her, and his actions were gentle and slightly helpless.

Chu Tiankuo’s sudden gentleness and sudden overbearing manner tortured Tang Xia and drove her mad. She asked with bloodshot eyes, “What do you want?” Her voice still had a hint of tears.

Chu Tiankuo stroked her cheek. “Just stay by my side with your mind at ease.”

For a moment, Tang Xia did not know whether he was referring to the end of the current livestream or if he meant to remain in the fictitious world forever. She felt a sense of chill around her when she thought of the latter.

After all, she and Chu Tiankuo were people from two different worlds and there would not be an ending.

Tang Xia wanted to say it out loud honestly, but swallowed her words when she came into contact with Chu Tiankuo’s eyes, which suddenly turned cold.

With Chu Tiankuo’s current capricious character, who knew what would happen to her after she said it? Tang Xia took one glance at Chu Tiankuo and ultimately chose to remain silent.

In the subsequent time, Chu Tiankuo did not speak again. Tang Xia could not figure out what Chu Tiankuo was thinking about and she did not dare to speak rashly. The two of them remained in Chu Tiankuo’s office quietly. The atmosphere was strangely quiet but inexplicably peaceful.Updates by vi p novel

Chu Tiankuo did not restrict Tang Xia’s actions, nor did he allow her to leave the office. Tang Xia could only watch Chu Tiankuo from aside or walk around bored. At night, Chu Tiankuo suddenly got up.

“I’m going out for a while. You stay here,” Chu Tiankuo said to Tang Xia in a deep voice and walked out.

Tang Xia was so bored that she quickly followed after him and asked eagerly, “Where are you going? Can I come along?”

“No.” The answer that she received was merely a cold word from Chu Tiankuo, he did not even stop.

“You even said that I could not leave your side,” Tang Xia complained before she suddenly thought of another possibility. She asked with anticipation, “In that case, can I go out to hang around for a while during the time that you’re gone?”

Chu Tiankuo had already walked over to the door, and when he heard her voice, he turned his eyes gloomily and took one glance at Tang Xia. It was obviously warm in the room but that look made Tang Xia shiver inexplicably.

“Does she want to look for that man?” Chu Tiankuo’s voice was even colder than his eyes. “No.”

After he said this, Chu Tiankuo did not give Tang Xia any further chance to speak as he directly opened the door and left. After he left, Tang Xia tried to open the door but it would not budge.

“As expected, it’s locked.”

Tang Xia was slightly discouraged, so she went back to his desk and sat down and played with a pen on the table in boredom.

She found it increasingly hard to understand Chu Tiankuo now. He used the serum to ask her to stay close by his side. But after she remained behind, he did not seem to have any other plans.

“It’s not so much about a feeling of affection but rather that of possessiveness.” Tang Xia criticized in her heart. When she recalled the spine-chilling gaze that Chu Tiankuo gave her before he left, she continued to feel a sense of chill. Chu Tiankuo was really an unfathomable person.

He did not let her leave and yet he ran out mysteriously for some unknown matters. The more Tang Xia thought about it, the more resentful she felt while she rolled the pen around on the table.

Chu Tiankuo’s desk was neatly kept and the suede mat on the table was spotlessly clean. Tang Xia was initially only playing with the pen, but suddenly, she had a desire to explore Chu Tiankuo’s work desk.

She placed the pen down and looked out the door. Chu Tiankuo probably would not be back for a while, right?

“Since he was the one who did not want to take me along and I am bored, it probably wouldn’t hurt for me to look around.” As this thought crossed Tang Xia’s mind, she opened all the drawers one by one to take a look.

Most of the drawers were largely filled with professional books and notes. Tang Xia was uninterested, but just when she was about to close the drawer, from the corner of her eye, she saw a small corner sticking out from one of the books. It seemed to contain something between it.

“What is this?”

Tang Xia paused her actions for a moment and pulled the book out. Sure enough, there was a piece of paper in it that was even turned over. Baffled, Tang Xia flipped the paper around and she saw a few names written on it:

Tang Xia, Ye Yifan, Jiang Yu, Li Xianxian, Lu Huanyu, Irene

This was obviously the list of surviving anchors. Why would Chu Tiankuo write this down? Tang Xia felt a chill in her heart. All the names aside from her own were crossed out.

As Tang Xia looked at the list intently, she did not notice the soft noise outside the door. By the time she realized it, Chu Tiankuo was already standing before his desk.

“What are you doing?”

The gloomy voice seemed to speak right beside her ears and it made Tang Xia stand up in shock. In a panic, the list of names even slipped through her hands.

Chu Tiankuo picked up the list of names, and with merely a glance, his face instantly darkened. Tang Xia flinched and tried to back away but Chu Tiankuo directly pressed her against the wall. “How dare you!”