The Witch's Taste

Chapter 386 Xia Qingyu, let’s show it off

In the command room on the side of the bridge, Chen Ziang did not see Xia Qingyu.

Thinking about it carefully, this is indeed not her office.Just because she was too busy at work some time ago, she often stayed here, which over time gave people the wrong impression.

Chen Ziang took out his cell phone and called Xia Qingyu.

The prompt has been shut down.

He returned to the bridge, just in time to see Yuuki Izumo coming back from outside.

"Where is Xia Qingyu?" Chen Ziang stopped her and asked, "Have you seen her today?"

"You finally..." Yuki Izumo suddenly fell silent.

"Finally what?" Chen Ziang asked strangely.

It sounds like a weird way of saying "Have you finally remembered her?" But looking at Yuki Izumo's expression, there is no hint of anger or sarcasm.

"It's okay." Yuki Izumo replied, "She is in her office. I went to look for her just now."

"Okay." Chen Ziang said goodbye to her and walked to the office area on the upper level of the bridge.

The offices of all starship executives are located on the upper floor of the bridge, which is the most tightly guarded place inside the Forever. However, Chen Ziang rarely goes to his office - he usually stays on the bridge during his daily work, and in his spare time, he goes back to the bedroom to accompany his sister.

After passing the guard post and arriving at the office area, he saw the door of the other party's office was half open. Xia Qingyu was sitting on the office chair, staring at the starry sky outside the porthole in a daze.

She was not holding a mobile phone in her hand, and she was not plugging headphones into her ears. In other words, she was not distracted by anything else, she was simply immersed in some unfathomable thoughts, or she was completely emptying her mind. ...Based on Chen Ziang's understanding of her, it is most likely the former.

But having said that, Chen Ziang didn't know Xia Qingyu very well.

In fact, the core of the so-called "tsundere" should actually be "jiao", and "arrogance" is just a disguised shell.

If I have to give an example, for example, the male protagonist did not have dinner because he worked overtime. When the heroine found out, she ridiculed him and blamed him for not taking care of his body. When he was about to go to bed, she suddenly brought a bowl of noodles and said, "The ingredients cannot be left overnight to avoid It was a waste, so I made a bowl of it"... So in the final analysis, the core is the latter!Without this kind of altruistic behavior in the back, the words in the front would just become pure poisonous words!

Chen Ziang reviewed his past memories again and found that Xia Qingyu had indeed helped him a lot, but she often packaged this behavior as "I have my own purpose, I just helped you."

For example, she helped her get rid of her boss, and then promoted her to the position of head of the field section of the fifth intelligence bureau.If this were done to others, wouldn't it be enough to make your subordinates burst into tears of gratitude?But she always behaves like "I have no one available, you can still be useful", which makes people feel disgusted.

Another example is when she encounters an extremely difficult mutation like the Witch, which even requires her to risk her life to deal with it. As a boss, she could have just sat in the office, but instead she personally went out to solve the problem with herself. This is even in the strictest sense. , can be regarded as a life-long friendship, right?But he had to show his disgust, "Why are you always holding me back? Without me, you would have died long ago."

For example, it's like a game in Galgame. While she is desperately trying to advance the main plot, she has to choose the one that reduces her favorability every time, which is really difficult.

Even later, when Gao Tianyuan was about to fall into destruction, Xia Qingyu could have returned to the empire to continue to live a life of dignity, but because she wanted to save more humans, she specifically launched a relationship to go to the empire to get resources, and then accompanied her on the Milky Way. Wandering Journey - You must know that she is a princess of a country!

In the novel, the heroine puts down her power and travels around the world with the hero. Isn't this a proper palace plot?

Let's see how she handles it: she first ridiculed and ridiculed this "Mother's behavior" of wanting to save everyone, and then acted like "I have no choice but to help you for the sake of my sister"... By now, Chen Ziang also knew that Xia Qingyu was by no means a cold-blooded person, but what he didn't understand even more was why the other party deliberately pretended to be like this.

Could it be that my favorability is too high and you will explode on the spot?
After recovering from the chaotic and complicated thoughts, Chen Ziang looked intently again. Xia Qingyu still didn't move in the office.

She was curled up on the office chair, her slender legs were squeezed together, and her head was looking at the starry sky outside the porthole, leaving only a vague outline of Chen Ziang from the side and back.Her long black hair fell down, over her shoulders and almost to her waist. She looked like a classically elegant princess who had lived in a palace for a long time.

Well, it seems that her identity is indeed a princess.

Chen Ziang felt that she could no longer remain silent. If she didn't interrupt her thoughts with words, this man might be able to sit there all day.

He coughed and knocked hard on the door.

Xia Qingyu turned around slowly, as if she had not been aware of his presence before, and asked in a low voice:

"Is something wrong?"

"What are you doing?" Chen Zi'ang asked tentatively, "In a daze?"

"This has nothing to do with you." Xia Qingyu said coldly.

Okay, here comes the taste, it’s authentic Qingyu.

"Do you not like this kind of chat, or do you not know how to deal with other people's kindness?" Chen Ziang was not angry, he just pulled up a chair opposite her and sat down, and asked jokingly, "But you won't do this to Zili. "

Xia Qingyu picked up the open notebook on the desk, closed it hard, then put it aside and pressed it with other books.

So Chen Ziang immediately realized that there must be something recorded on it that she didn't want herself to see.

hateful!I didn't pay attention just now!
"I just don't like fools running into my office on their own initiative and asking me a bunch of stupid questions for no reason." Xia Qingyu replied coldly, "Do you have to compare yourself with women?"

"So your attitude towards me is just because I am a male?" Chen Ziang asked in surprise.

"I didn't say that." Xia Qingyu said indifferently.

"In that case, I won't talk to you about anything else." Chen Ziang said helplessly, "I have a question to ask you."

This woman... if you want to talk to her about something else, she will snap at you, making you just want to end the topic quickly; but if you get straight to the point with her, the topic will be ended quickly, but you may not get what you want. The answer!
"I encountered a sudden explosion in the subway tunnel of the ruined planet before. Do you know?" Chen Ziang asked slowly.

"I know." Xia Qingyu said.

"That incident seemed to be an accident caused by a strange combination of circumstances." Chen Ziang sighed, "But Zili Suzuna and the others believed that because there was no human evidence at all, the scene was too clean, which made people think that there might be something behind it. There’s really something fishy about it.”

"Now that they have come to a conclusion, what are you still asking me for?" Xia Qingyu asked coldly.

For some reason, Chen Ziang suddenly felt that her confidence was lacking. Although her tone was still cold, it was not as cold as usual...

"What do you know about this incident?" Chen Ziang continued to ask.

Xia Qingyu didn't answer.

Very good, Chen Ziang thought to himself.Silence is also an answer.

If it was just an ordinary accident, Xia Qingyu's character would definitely laugh at herself and say some ugly things such as "Do you think the whole galaxy wants to assassinate you?" But now she is silent and does not answer. First, she said that behind this There was indeed a conspiracy. Secondly, she probably didn't want to tell the truth, but she also didn't want to lie, so she kept silent.Silence is passive defense.A person with a strong personality like Xia Qingyu is now forced to remain silent. There must be something wrong with this.

"Do you still remember, Qingyu?" Chen Ziang changed his attack method, "You said that you owe me a life."

If you continue to ask about frontal attacks, there is basically only one ending, that is, the opponent breaks the defense and then lets you get out quickly.After all, after so many years together, although Chen Ziang still dared not say that he knew her well enough, he dared to say that he already knew how to deal with her.

"Yes." Xia Qingyu replied softly.

"So I think you should be unaware of it, or at least not aware of it beforehand." Chen Ziang held his chin and analyzed, "Otherwise, as long as you come to save me, the kindness of this life will be repaid, right?"

Xia Qingyu was silent again.Just when Chen Ziang thought she was pretending to be silent again, he suddenly saw a faint, helpless smile on her face:

"correct."

"Uh..." Chen Zi'ang was silent this time, and then said after a while, "Qingyu, are you... okay?"

"What problem can I have?" Xia Qingyu raised her eyebrows and returned to her cold expression, "Or do you prefer me to mock you?"

Sure enough, with this indifferent expression, I immediately felt much more normal.

"That's not the case." Chen Zi'ang said vaguely, "So, what's behind this incident?"

"It is true that someone is planning it." Xia Qingyu said lightly, "I have already asked people to check the details."

Cha, that is to say, she denies that she did it herself.Chen Ziang breathed a sigh of relief. It was good. Suzuna's guess was wrong.

"That……"

"But it may not be possible to find out in the short term." Xia Qingyu was silent for a while and then said, "You don't have to worry about this matter. From now on, you just need to protect yourself."

"You mean..." Chen Ziang pondered, "There will be another attack on me next?"

"Otherwise, why would I remind you to protect yourself?" Xia Qingyu asked in surprise, "Don't you understand the meaning of the word 'protect'?"

"But isn't this contradictory?" Chen Ziang asked her back, "If the mastermind behind it is still planning an attack against me, you should let me know the general situation instead of simply and rudely telling me 'don't worry about it'."

"If you insist on intervening, that's okay." Xia Qingyu said coldly, "As long as you have the ability to find out."

"I don't mean to interfere." Chen Ziang was slightly annoyed by her attitude and said, suppressing his anger, "I want you to share the information with me."

"No." Xia Qingyu refused bluntly.

"Why?" Chen Ziang asked irritably.

"Because I just owe you a life." Xia Qingyu said quietly, "I will repay you in my own way, but this does not mean that I have to obey your orders. Can you understand?"

Again!

Chen Ziang was a little crazy.Obviously your motive is to protect me, why do you say so many sarcastic words as if you are deliberately trying to control my favor?You won't feel comfortable if you don't make me angry, right?

"Xia Qingyu!" He stared into the other person's dark eyes, trying hard not to become furious, "What on earth is going on with you?"

"Before asking questions, why don't you organize your own questions first?" Xia Qingyu asked him back.

"You know what I mean!" Chen Ziang said angrily.

"I don't know." Xia Qingyu said indifferently, "Maybe the ape thinks its cry should be understood, but..."

Before she finished speaking, Chen Ziang got up angrily, crossed the desk and came to her, holding her shoulders down.

For an instant, an emotion similar to panic flashed in Xia Qingyu's eyes, but this strange emotion was quickly submerged in her eyes as deep as night, and turned back into an expressionless and cold look.

So it was Chen Ziang's turn to do nothing.What on earth should I do now to pry this woman's mouth open?

Kiss him hard?
No, no, no, that's all if they are really in love with each other.Now I am still not sure whether this woman likes me, nor do I know what kind of emotions I have towards her. If I forcefully kiss her, wouldn’t it be like harassing my sister-in-law?

"Can you let me go?" Xia Qingyu asked coldly.

Chen Ziang silently let go of her shoulders, sighed longly and said:

"Feel sorry."

"I don't accept the apology..." Xia Qingyu wanted to say something else, but was quickly interrupted by Chen Ziang.

"Xia Qingyu, you did help me a lot in the past." He decided to express the doubts that had troubled him for so many years, regardless of whether he could get the answer from her mouth, "but I still don't understand..."

"Judging from the facts, I don't think you actually hate me in your heart, because I can't understand the psychology of 'hating a person but having to help him'; but judging from your words and demeanor, every time you help me Later, you will deliberately say some cold and hostile words, as if you are worried that the relationship between you and me will heat up, so you deliberately want to arouse my disgust..."

"To be honest, I'm really confused by you." Chen Ziang took a deep breath, and then stared into Xia Qingyu's eyes again, showing a somewhat confused and uneasy look, "So, Qingyu."

"Why are you doing this? What I actually want to ask is...do you have...a good impression of me?"

Xia Qingyu looked at him blankly.

It was not a cold and emotionless look, but a feeling of being shocked to the point of losing the ability to speak... so much so that Chen Ziang thought she had finally broken through her guard and was about to open up to herself and tell the truth.

However, what followed were cold and heartless words:

"Yes, I chose to help you for some reasons in the past...but that doesn't mean I have a good impression of you."

"The reason why I said something offensive to you after I helped you is to prevent you from misunderstanding."

"Can you accept this answer?"

　This should be the last time, I mean Xia Qingyu behaves like this.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)