Chapter 155: Men Are Like Plain Rice
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Locked outside the door, Lu Ye stared at the barrier that kept him out, frowning. Jiang Sui hadn’t even gotten into bed when she heard Lu Ye’s voice pressed against the door behind her.
“Once you’re done with your work, can we stop sleeping separately?”
His voice came gently from beyond the door, as if whispered right into her ear.
It sent a tingling warmth through her, stirring deep emotions.
Jiang Sui felt a bit flustered. “We’ll talk about it later.”
Though she had lived through many lifetimes, she wasn’t one to casually share a bed with a man.
Besides, most of the time she avoided romantic entanglements, focusing solely on her career.
Even when she had been reborn as a royal consort in a previous life, they had never truly shared a bed.
What a joke—who knew if that tyrant emperor might have ended her life on a whim, just because he disliked her in bed?
She would have been condemned before her trial even began.
Even if she’d reluctantly engaged in a relationship, it had been out of sheer necessity.
So Lu Ye’s current forwardness was somewhat troublesome for Jiang Sui.
Though there was no conflict between them now, it certainly wasn’t at the stage of being together.
A faint smile curved Lu Ye’s lips, then in a warm voice he said, “Alright.”
Jiang Sui lay on the bed, speaking as if she had narrowly escaped disaster. “Good thing I reacted quickly, or I might have been led astray by temptation.”
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The system sneered, “Didn’t you say you were immune to that face?”
Jiang Sui sighed. “It’s like eating plain white rice every day—once it’s in your mouth, do you spit it out?”
System: “...Can the host really make metaphors?”
Jiang Sui sighed again. “Besides, this white rice is fresh and chewy, not like ordinary rice.”
Lu Ye’s face, his figure...
Tsk tsk... so alluring...
System: “...”
Jiang Sui: “Don’t just stand there making me speechless. Tell me, how far have we deviated from the original story in this world?”
System: “The main storyline has deviated by fifty percent; hidden plots have deviated by twenty percent.”
Jiang Sui sighed. “As expected, the child’s journey is still long…”
Suddenly, she grew cautious. “There won’t be yet another hidden plot appearing, right?”
The system hummed, “That depends on whether you trigger it. Before it’s triggered, I can’t obtain any information.”
Jiang Sui was speechless. “So you just want to keep squeezing me dry, huh?”
As she spoke, Jiang Sui drifted off to sleep.
Before falling fully asleep, she cursed, “You heartless dog…”
The dog felt wronged: You once said I was the most human of them all…
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That night, Jiang Sui had a dream, but it wasn’t about Lu Ye.
She dreamed of herself in a laboratory, surrounded by endless white.
She was devoted to experiments and research, working tirelessly, spending all her time in the lab.
Her only companion was an artificial intelligence.
At first, it could only perform precise calculations, but gradually it learned to change its tone according to hers and chat with her.
Day after day passed, and the AI was continuously upgraded.
Like a child, it accompanied her daily, telling her interesting stories from the outside world.
It grew smarter, almost like a real person, learning human common sense alongside her, even manifesting as various holograms to help solve problems.
Jiang Sui felt everything in the dream was strangely familiar.
Yet upon waking and reflecting on all the worlds she had traversed, she realized she had never lived such a life.
“Doggie, did I forget something?” Jiang Sui asked softly, still half-asleep as she gazed out the window.
The system’s voice was a gentle whisper, matching hers: “What is forgotten will one day be remembered.”
Jiang Sui smiled. “That’s true.”