Chapter: Chapter 285
“Hey, are you in such a hurry?” When Xiaoya heard what Qila said, surprise appeared on the girl’s face. She hadn’t expected that they had just practiced together in the morning, and now Qila said she was going to take Qianqian sister away.
Qila nodded with a grim expression, “Sister is being targeted.”
She had already told Xiaoya the whole story, believing that the intelligent girl Xiaoya would understand her decision. After all, Xiaoya also had a sister.
As expected, Xiaoya’s surprise only lasted for a moment. After calming down, she understood Qila’s decision. If it were her, she would have made the same choice if her sister encountered such a situation.
Abandoning the safety of a loved one for a performance that wasn’t that important? Xiaoya couldn’t do such a thing.
“But Qila, you have to compensate me well in the future.” Xiaoya said to Qila with a smile.
This sentence made Qila’s expression even more strained. Xiaoya didn’t know that this parting might be a farewell.
Qila’s change in expression did not escape Xiaoya’s eyes. The young girl thought her request was too much, so she quickly added, “Just treat me to a meal. Your Highness Qila, you can’t afford even one meal, can you?”
“That’s not the problem, it’s…” Qila paused. She didn’t know if it was appropriate for her to tell Xiaoya about this. It would be better for Bai Ling to tell Xiaoya.
However, Xiaoya had to know. It shouldn’t be a big problem to tell Xiaoya in advance.
Yes, that’s it.
“I might never come back after this trip,” Qila said.
Xiaoya’s expression didn’t change. Qila said the same thing the last time she took Qianqian sister away, but she came back, didn’t she?
“It’s okay, I can come to the demon world to find you,” Xiaoya said indifferently. She was no longer afraid of going to the demon world.
Her good friend was the Demon King and the princess of the demon race. She could walk sideways in the demon world, so what was there to be afraid of?
Qila shook her head and explained helplessly, “The spatial rifts that border the world are constantly disappearing. According to estimates, these rifts will completely disappear in as little as a month.”
“Disappear?”
“Yes, disappear.” Qila nodded. “You should have guessed what this means, right?”
“The passage between the human world and the demon world will disappear?” Xiaoya’s mind was still quick. She immediately understood Qila’s meaning. “When will it be restored?”
“I don’t know. Maybe it will be restored soon, maybe it won’t be restored until we disappear.” Qila showed an expression of not knowing. “I’m not an expert, and those experts are also at a loss about this matter.”
This was completely different from previous predictions.
However, now was not the time to discuss these academic issues.
After understanding what Qila was trying to say, Xiaoya’s eyes immediately became watery. “So, I might never see Qila and Qianqian sister again, right?”
“Yes, I originally planned to tell you after finishing this performance with Xiaoya, but I didn’t expect sister to be targeted. In that case, I can’t let sister be in danger anymore.” Qila’s expression turned firm. She knew that doing so would make Xiaoya sad, but for her sister, she could only do this.
“Wuwuwu, why so suddenly…” After getting Qila’s personal confirmation, Xiaoya couldn’t hold it back anymore. She threw herself into Qila’s arms and began to sob softly. “Can you stay with me for a little longer?”
Qila sighed and nodded, “We still have some things to organize, and we will leave tomorrow morning.”
In other words, there was still an afternoon and an evening.
This little time could only be described as a blink of an eye.
After crying in Qila’s arms for a while, Xiaoya, with teary eyes, let go of Qila. “Then I’ll call Xiaomeng and ask her to prepare to play an extra role.”
While chatting, Xiaoya heard from Zimo that the script for Sleeping Beauty was also ready, so Qila’s sudden departure should not cause much impact.
At most, it would be the lack of a princess that attracted attention. Anyway, it was just a school cultural performance, so it wouldn’t matter if someone was missing.
“En.” Qila nodded. This matter indeed needed to be told to Zimo. “By the way, how should I tell Xiaomeng the reason why Little Qi can’t participate in the performance?”
“Just tell her it’s because of family reasons. Sister is seriously ill, and I have to stay home to take care of her, so I can’t participate in the performance.” Qila gave a half-truthful excuse. “Didn’t the previous princess role also withdraw due to family reasons?”
“Eh?” Xiaoya blinked. She didn’t know what had happened to the family of that female classmate who played the princess.
Qila then realized that Bai Ling had kept quite a lot of things from Xiaoya, such as not telling Xiaoya what happened to that female classmate’s family.
“Xiaoya, you don’t need to think too much. You just need to know that something unexpected happened at that girl’s home,” Qila said vaguely. “First, let’s talk to Zimo about my situation.”
“Okay, but Qila, you have to explain it well later.” Xiaoya glared at Qila. She hated it most when people kept things from her.
“Okay, okay, I’ll explain.”
After calling Zimo, Xiaoya briefly explained the situation to her friend. Zimo’s reaction to this matter was also quite normal.
“Is that so? Well, okay.” Zimo’s voice was a little cold. Her performance this morning was not very good, possibly because she didn’t sleep well last night.
During this conversation, Xiaoya also heard a strong sense of sleepiness from Zimo’s voice, as if she had forcibly pulled Zimo out of her dream.
“Is Xiaomeng sleeping? I’m sorry for calling at this time,” Xiaoya apologized in a low voice.
Hearing Xiaoya’s apology, Zimo suddenly woke up, and her voice carried a trace of emotion, “It’s okay, it’s okay. I was just dozing off. Sigh, I’m starting to suspect if this princess role is cursed. Everyone who plays it has problems.”
“Then why don’t we remove this role?”
“No, we can use the other version of the script. The version where the princess and Sleeping Beauty are the same person. The plots of the other classmates haven’t changed. Only the two of us have to work overtime.” Zimo said quickly. She couldn’t let this role be removed just like that.
The conversation with Zimo ended quickly. This girl didn’t react much to Qila’s sudden joining and departure, as if Qila was just an optional person to her.
It didn’t matter if she came, and it didn’t matter if she left. Oh, no, it was better if she left, so she could get the princess role she had always dreamed of.
“I don’t know if it’s my imagination, but I feel like Xiaomeng is a little happy?” After hanging up the phone, Xiaoya muttered softly.
Although Zimo controlled her emotions very well, Xiaoya’s intuition told her that Zimo seemed very happy about Qila’s sudden departure.
“Who knows? Maybe she’s wanted to hog the princess role for a long time,” Qila shrugged. However, there was no need to pay too much attention to this matter.
Since she had already withdrawn from this performance, why bother with these things?
She was leaving tomorrow.
Today’s time would be spent staying by Xiaoya’s side.
…
“This is really unexpected,” Zimo mumbled, sitting in front of her messy desk and looking at the script she had flipped out of the drawer.
She had prepared this script long ago. In fact, the creation date of this script was even earlier than the one she submitted to the teacher. This meant that this script was the original one, the true form of the story in her heart.
Sleeping Beauty and the Princess were the same person, and in the end, the Prince still did not recognize this fact. He thought he had defeated the witch named Sleeping Beauty, unaware that the lover by his side was the woman he hated.
His dream had never ended.
However, this story seemed a bit dark, so Zimo later revised the story, separating the Princess and Sleeping Beauty. Thus, the current story came into being.
But the princess in this story seemed rather meaningless. Her existence seemed to be purely to give the Prince a goal to strive for.
This character only had a little sense of existence at the beginning and end of the story. At other times, the real heroine, Sleeping Beauty, was more present. Prince’s romantic involvement was even with Sleeping Beauty.
It really made one wonder why the Prince would choose the Princess in the end.
“This story might get quite a bit of criticism,” Zimo sighed after carefully reviewing her work.
This story was not traditional at all. Good did not triumph over evil. Instead, evil deceived good.
The evil Sleeping Beauty created a deception, played the young and ignorant Prince for a fool, and finally successfully ended up with the Prince. The Prince still thought he had done a great deed, truly saving a kingdom influenced by an evil witch.
“I actually think this story is very good,” a faint voice sounded in Zimo’s ear. This time, the voice sounded much weaker, but it felt so clear to Zimo.
The girl twisted her head in confusion. She had been hearing this voice for the past few days but couldn’t find the source. She suspected she was hallucinating, but the voice today was so clear that she felt it might not be an illusion.
And the voice seemed to see Zimo’s thoughts, “You are not hallucinating. I am real, and I am in your head.”
In her head?
Zimo couldn’t understand what the voice meant. What did it mean that she was in her head?
A parasite? Or something else?
“What are you?”
“Me? You can call me a god,” the voice carried a hint of pride, seeming unusually proud of its identity. “And you will be the vessel for my descent into this world.”
“Vessel?” Even if Zimo was slow, she understood the situation based on her many years of reading novels. “You want to take over my body?”
No, absolutely not!
“You should feel proud to serve a great god.” The illusory voice carried a hint of pity, as if pitying this pathetic mortal for being so ignorant. “I originally planned to wait a few more days, but the plan has changed.”
The world in front of her suddenly began to blur. Zimo struggled to keep her eyelids open, preventing them from closing completely. She could feel something trying to enter her brain and take over her body.
If she closed her eyes now, she might never wake up again!
She hadn’t finished her performance with Xiaoya yet. She hadn’t expressed her feelings to Xiaoya yet. How could she be possessed by this so-called god like this?
Absolutely not!
But she was just an ordinary girl. In the face of divine power, her resistance was like a mantis trying to stop a chariot.
“I will build a huge and perfect stage for you, and you and your good friends will complete your performance on that stage,” before losing consciousness, Zimo heard the voice say. She widened her eyes, wanting to say something, but the next moment, her eyelids could no longer stay open.
…
“No, no, something is wrong.” Leticia propped her forehead, enduring waves of headaches as she leaned on the pillow and mumbled softly. “I can’t leave now. Something big is about to happen.”
Just now, a thought flashed through her mind. This thought was simple: she couldn’t leave now.
But why?
Leaving now was undoubtedly the best choice. She had already been targeted by the gods. Continuing to stay in the crisis-ridden Central City was playing with her life.
Not only her life, but also Qila’s life!
Upon careful consideration, it was clear that the best choice was to immediately return to the demon world.
But, but!
Her intuition told her that she couldn’t leave, absolutely couldn’t leave!
This couldn’t even be called intuition. It was as if something was shouting madly in Leticia’s heart, telling her not to leave Central City now.
What should she do? Should she trust her intuition?
Did that even need to be asked?
Intuition, when it’s time to trust it, you have to trust it, especially such a strong intuition.
It wasn’t that Leticia was bragging, her sixth sense was summed up in one word: reliable, extremely reliable.
Her intuition had never been wrong before, and this time would surely be the same.
“But, what will happen if I stay here? Will it be something beneficial to me?” Leticia pondered, covering her head. “I also have to persuade Qila. Tsk, it’s a bit troublesome.”
However, one thing was certain: she had to stay here. She absolutely had to stay here.
