My Exclusive Dream World Adventures-Chapter 166 - What do you take me for

Chapter 166: 166 What do you take me for?

Chapter 166: 166 What do you take me for?

“Chen… Xu, wait… wait… for me.”

Chen Ziqi pedaled her bicycle behind him, barely keeping up, gasping for air as she shouted.

The street was crowded with pedestrians who turned to look at her cries, some knowingly stepped aside, allowing her to follow him.

Having left the noodle shop more than ten minutes ago, she had chased him for a great distance and was close to exhaustion. Yet, Chen Xu was still sprinting ahead, his pace unrelenting. He was almost out of sight.

She thought resentfully, how could this guy run so fast? Her legs were about to break.

Despite these thoughts, she gritted her teeth and pedaled with all her might.

Finally, she saw Chen Xu run into a large building.

By the time she reached the building and managed to stop, she looked up at it, took a deep breath, took out her cellphone, and dialed a number, “Auntie, it’s me, yes, I’ve eaten. By the way, what’s the name of Chen Xu’s company? No worries, he’s left a document at home and I can’t get through to his phone. Okay, send me the address too, yeah, quickly, he needs the document urgently.”

After hanging up, she placed her bicycle to the side and, holding her phone, walked into the building.

No sooner had she entered the lobby than her phone rang with a message. She opened WeChat, memorized the company’s name, then politely asked the nearby security guard, “Uncle, what floor is Wanhua Company on?”

“Eighteenth floor.”

“Thank you, Uncle.”

After expressing her gratitude, Chen Ziqi approached the elevators. It was already past nine o’clock, and there weren’t many people waiting, so an elevator soon arrived.

Taking the elevator to the eighteenth floor, she was about to ask reception when she saw someone rush into the staircase next to her—Chen Xu of all people.

She was truly shocked this time; after nearly twenty minutes of frenzied running, he still had the energy to run up the stairs. The guy was ridiculously tough.

What on earth had upset him?

“Chen Xu?”

The receptionist was a female employee who looked at him curiously. Chen Xu, however, didn’t acknowledge her and rushed ahead.

Chen Ziqi hurriedly followed, her concern now mixed with a faint excitement—there was sure to be drama ahead.

With this in mind, she clenched the new phone in her hand, her father had bought it for her after she secured a guaranteed university entry spot. With its 50x zoom and super night mode, she could capture clear images from afar.

Something must be seriously amiss for the usually composed and stubborn Chen Xu to act so irrationally. How could she justify not recording this with her new phone?

With that excitement, she followed closely behind Chen Xu.

“Chen Xu, what are you doing here?”

Chen Xu barged into the electronic sales department, nearly colliding with a man. When the man looked up and saw him, he appeared surprised.

The rest of the department heard the commotion at the entrance and turned around, energetically greeting Chen Xu as they recognized him.

Old Tang was pouring water from the cooler and turned around, surprised, “Are you looking for me?”

Ignoring everyone else, Chen Xu asked Old Tang, “Where’s Luo Xiyun?”

“In the office—” Old Tang began to reply instinctively, then immediately felt something was wrong. Chen Xu’s expression was dark, his eyes carried an agitated emotion, and his tone was very impolite, even directly calling Luo Xiyun by name.

Old Tang asked with some concern, “Are you alright?”

Chen Xu shook his head and walked towards the office.

Secretary Guo saw his charged demeanor and sensed something amiss, quickly rising to block the doorway, “Chen Xu, Mr. Luo is resting inside…”

Chen Xu pushed her shoulder, moving her aside, grabbed the doorknob, turned it, and flung the door open with such force that it hit the wall with a loud bang.

At this, the others in the office realized something wasn’t right and stood up in unison.

Another bang—the door closed.

Secretary Guo, anxious, moved forward to try and open it, turning the knob a few times to find it locked. She pounded on the door in a panic, “Chen Xu, open the door quickly, please don’t do anything stupid.”

The others in the office exchanged bewildered looks, and a strange silence fell over them for a moment.

Chen Ziqi took advantage of the distraction to climb onto a desk, lifting her phone to start recording, focusing the lens on Secretary Guo at the doorstep.

Secretary Guo, exasperated by the lack of response from inside, screamed, “What are you standing around for? Go call security.”

…

Inside the office, Chen Xu locked the door, his eyes fixated on Luo Xiyun. She leaned against the desk, her face slightly pale, also watching him with an air of disbelief.

On the way there, he had a myriad of questions he wanted to ask her.

But now that she was right in front of him, he felt a wave of fear and realized, with words on the tip of his tongue, that if her answer turned out to be true, it might be a catastrophe for him.

What should he do?

What would happen to Luo Xiyun, to Yang Jinxia, to Bai Jinxuan?

He suddenly felt his hands and feet go cold, his breathing difficult.

The two looked at each other in silence, ignoring the noise coming from outside the door.

One second, two seconds…

Gradually, Chen Xu found an answer in Luo Xiyun’s eyes.

Could it really go on like this, avoiding the issue?

He took a deep breath, suppressed the indecision and unease in his heart, and finally spoke up, “How did you know there was a photo of my ex-girlfriend in my wallet?”

His voice was hoarse, his throat as if choked by something.

Hearing these words, Luo Xiyun’s eyes gradually reddened, and she said in a very light, very soft voice, “How did you know the name Du Feng?”

Chen Xu’s head spun with dizziness, and in a daze, he was back in that villa.

He murmured, “Sounds like you two are a perfect match, not bad.”

Luo Xiyun’s vision blurred in an instant, “Really? I thought you would say that I don’t deserve him.”

Chen Xu watched the tears well up in her eyes, and his heart felt like it was about to explode, “Aren’t you usually quite, quite confident?”

“I… used to be…” Luo Xiyun’s chest heaved violently, and large tears slid from the corners of her eyes.

Everything became clear.

This conversation had taken place in a dream, which meant that she truly possessed memories from the dream.

No, that’s not right. In the dream, the one who had spent months with him, had cold wars with him, made up with him, and got into bed with him wasn’t some copy. It was her herself.

“I’m such an idiot.”

Chen Xu grabbed his hair tightly, his expression somewhat pained. At this moment, he wished he could slap himself several times, “I should have realized this earlier…”

Now, how was he supposed to face the woman before him?

Pretend like nothing had happened? That was obviously not possible. But to be with her, would she be willing?

How was he to face Yang Jinxia?

How was he to face Bai Jinxuan?

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Since in the first dream, the person by his side was Luo Xiyun herself. Then the second dream, the third dream, were evidently the same.

Thinking this, he felt his head was about to explode.

“Why?”

After a while, he looked up, his eyes red with rage, “Why didn’t you tell me sooner? Why didn’t you give me any hints or clues?”

If she had recognized him sooner, wouldn’t all that followed have been avoided?

Luo Xiyun slowly straightened herself, wiped off the tears at the corner of her eyes, and asked, “What about you? Why didn’t you come and ask me?”

With such a big secret as Chen Xu harbored, how could he have possibly taken the initiative to reveal it? This time, it was only because he had realized a huge problem that he had come to ask directly.

But this was something he couldn’t explain.

“Do you remember in the dream when we first met, what we said?”

Chen Xu snorted lightly, “You said I wasn’t your type. Such arrogance, such disdain in your words for me—I never forgot it.”

“I thought it was just a dream. I didn’t dare, I didn’t want to humiliate myself.”

Luo Xiyun scoffed, “In the end, you’re just insecure.”

“That’s right, I am insecure. Even later on, when I noticed something, I didn’t dare to ask. Do you know why?”

Chen Xu stood up straight too, and as he spoke, his voice involuntarily carried a trace of anger, “Remember the last day in the dream? I was sitting in the wheelchair and asked you if you had ever loved me.”

“Your answer was no love. At that time, I was on the verge of death. You told me you never loved me. What did you expect me to do? Grovel at your feet in reality?”

“And you?”

Luo Xiyun’s face flushed, her hand tightly grasping a spray bottle nearby, her breath somewhat unsteady, “Have you ever said a word that you liked me? Did you ever say you loved me? What am I in your heart? Just a bed partner?”

“Why should I love you? Why should I take the initiative to find you? Who do you think you are?”

“You… are nothing but a bastard, a complete son of a bitch, a thorough scumbag. So what if you were to die… do you think… that I, that I would… be heartbroken? You…”

By the end, she was crying so hard that she couldn’t catch her breath or speak.

Chen Xu felt as if he had been struck by lightning, and he walked step by step towards her, embracing her trembling body, and murmured, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry…”

“Don’t touch me…”

Luo Xiyun struggled frantically, pushing against his chest with her hands.

With a bang, right at that moment, the door was pushed open from the outside.

Two security guards walked in, followed by a large crowd of people. Seeing the scene before them, the onlookers immediately erupted in commotion.

“Stop.” One of the young security guards, seeing someone daring to make an indecent act in the office, became enraged. With a shout, he pulled out his baton and swung it toward the back of the audacious man.

Luo Xiyun, still struggling, happened to see this and tensed up, pointed at the security guard, and ordered, “Get out.”

The young security guard stood there with his baton raised high, looking at her blankly.

Outside, the expressions on the faces of all the onlookers were frozen as well.

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