Zhao Xuning shook his head.
Zhao Xuning's older sister is also a more rational person, so she didn't quite understand Zhao Xuning's state. After sitting there thinking for a few seconds, she asked again, "So what do you want?"
Zhao Xuning paused.
After a long silence, she sighed deeply: "I don't know."
//
The word "I don't know" encompasses far too much.
Zhao Xuning has been in this state ever since he broke up with Shen Hui.
During the time she was dating Shen Hui, whenever someone asked her what she wanted, she could clearly and concisely state her needs.
But now, she even subconsciously tries to avoid the question.
Because she didn't dare to say what she wanted.
Because those ideas have become unattainable desires.
It was something that was readily available.
Zhao Xuning drove home and called a colleague downstairs to arrange a shift change. It wasn't until he entered the house and saw a pair of unfamiliar shoes that he remembered there was someone else at home.
Liang Shi actually had somewhere to go.
She has the key to the house that Liang Xinzhou gave her before, so she can move in anytime.
But she didn't go there; instead, she went around to Zhao Xuning's place.
Perhaps during these difficult days, she didn't want to be alone.
Zhao Xuning turned on the projector, put on the VR headset, and started watching the movie.
She was used to living alone and didn't change her pace just because there was another person in the family.
Liang Shi slept until evening, and only when the sky was ablaze with the color of the setting sun did she open the door to the second bedroom.
For a modern person, not having a mobile phone feels like something is missing.
When Liang Shi woke up, she subconsciously reached for her phone, only to find it had a black screen before realizing that she had moved out and turned off her phone.
As she sat on the bed in a daze, the orange-pink sunset spread across the sky, and the out-of-the-way light fell on her. She raised her hand to shield her eyes and actually felt a few drops of water.
Liang Shi sniffed and pulled a piece of paper from the bedside table to wipe the water stains off his hands.
Then she lazily got up, went out, and saw Zhao Xuning engrossed in watching a movie as soon as she opened the door. She sat down next to him as if they were old friends and asked, "Dr. Zhao, are you hungry?"
Zhao Xuning took off his glasses and headphones. "What?"
"What are we having for dinner?" Liang Shi asked.
Zhao Xuning shrugged: "I do intermittent fasting at night, I don't eat."
Liang Shi: "?"
"Didn't you drink with me before?" Liang Shi asked.
Zhao Xuning: "That was an accident."
Cold and indifferent, mechanical like an AI.
After a long silence, Liang Shi said, "Let's eat spicy crayfish, the spiciest and most numbing kind."
Zhao Xuning frowned and looked at her, as if asking, "Aren't you unable to eat spicy food?"
Liang Shi nodded to herself, subconsciously reaching for a takeout order, only to find her phone was off. She looked at Zhao Xuning and said, "Dr. Zhao, why don't you order?"
Zhao Xuning: "?"
While ordering takeout, Zhao Xuning asked, "Who brought it up, you or Xu Qingzhu?"
Liang Shi was taken aback, paused for a moment before realizing what was happening, and leaned over to look at the screen next to Zhao Xuning. "I suggested it."
Zhao Xuning nodded: "Okay."
I casually ordered the spiciest and most numbing one.
"What about Xu Qingzhu?" Zhao Xuning asked.
Liang Shi: "...At home, or at the company, I don't know."
She was very composed, so composed that she didn't seem like someone who had just gotten divorced.
However, it's also possible that she was the one who filed for divorce, so it was easier for her.
But her eyes were a little more swollen than when she saw them in the morning, and she wasn't entirely unconcerned.
Zhao Xuning glanced at her, put his phone aside, and continued to focus his gaze on the large screen.
Clicking play, Liang Shi exclaimed in surprise, "I like this too!"
Zhao Xuning nodded: "This is a very niche topic."
Liang Shi shrugged: "But it looks very good."
Zhao Xuning didn't speak again after that. She was a woman of few words, especially since she had just returned home today and was in a bad mood. She just wanted to watch a movie to relieve her frustration.
Liang Shi was usually very quiet, at least in front of Xiao Bai and Sister Wang, but now compared to Zhao Xuning, she was actually quite talkative.
However, it wasn't much more than that. Occasionally, during a particularly exciting part of the movie, I would exclaim, "This camerawork is really good," or "This frame is really beautiful."
The crayfish arrived in less than half an hour.
There was still some beer in the refrigerator that Liang Shi had bought that morning, so the two of them sat down at the coffee table and started eating.
Liang Shi really can't handle spicy food. If it were the original owner's body, she could tolerate it a little, but her own body would cry from the spiciness.
Zhao Xuning was a little better than her, but not by much.
By the end of the meal, their noses and eyes were redder than the crayfish on the table.
Liang Shi looked at Zhao Xuning through the mist, and then Zhao Xuning opened two bottles of her treasured red wine.
After drinking too much, Liang Shi said indignantly, "How can there be someone who is 100% compatible?! How can I get a divorce?! I finally had a family... and it's all falling apart like this."
"At least you got married," Zhao Xuning said, also a little tipsy. "I haven't even gotten married yet."
Liang Shi glanced at her and said, "Then go get it!"
Zhao Xuning: "...Shut up!"
“You awkward fellow,” Liang Shi said.
Zhao Xuning: "...You seem to be better than me?"
The rhetorical question was full of sarcasm.
Liang Shi paused for a moment, then raised the bar to change the subject: "Come on, let's drink."
This topic was thus dropped.
But after a few more drinks, Zhao Xuning leaned back on the sofa and rambled on, "What's wrong with Xu Qingzhu? Did you two have a fight before the divorce? She asked me for sleeping pills a few days ago."
Upon hearing this, Liang Shi felt a dull ache in his heart, as if he had been hit by something. "He should be fine after this."
As long as she leaves, their divorce will be fine.
"Then why don't you seem sad at all?" Zhao Xuning asked. "Didn't you love Xu Qingzhu to death before?"
Liang Shi: "..."
After a long silence, Liang Shi said in a low voice, "They didn't really divorce."
We'll have to get it back later...
Zhao Xuning was puzzled by this, but Liang Shi refused to say it no matter what.
She dared not even entertain such a thought, for fear of being detected.
I wouldn't dare entertain the idea of exploiting a bug in the world's laws for even a second.
So all of this is true; she really wants to divorce Xu Qingzhu, following the development of the plot.
She reserved these days for Xu Qingzhu and Lu Jiayi, her soulmates.
"Aren't you worried?" Zhao Xuning said, "Xu Qingzhu was already very popular before."
Liang Shi paused slightly, "I'm not too worried, I'm just worried about her health."
Nightmares that recur day and night, and endless psychological suggestions, could drive Xu Qingzhu to the brink of a mental breakdown.
Rather than these considerations, Liang Shi felt it was better to follow the plot's development.
First, they got divorced, which means the timeline progressed to the point where the original owner was no longer in the story.
But when she returned, it was in her own name.
As for the storyline where Xu Qingzhu and Lu Jiayi get married, as long as they don't fall in love with each other, she still has a chance.
She had already noticed a pattern: Lu Jiayi and Xu Qingzhu's current relationship, even with their previous goodwill, was only that of slightly closer friends.
Lu Jiayi is not the type of person who would interfere in other people's relationships.
Xu Qingzhu gave Liang Shi so much confidence, which is why Liang Shi made this decision.
Without consulting Xu Qingzhu.
Once the discussion begins, the plan is doomed to fail.
The worst outcome would simply be that Liang Shi fails to exploit the bug, following the original plotline, and he would have no complaints.
In the end, she and Xu Qingzhu will be happy together, right?
Liang Shi thought all of this through before leaving.
This idea had been popping into her head frequently for many days, so she kept summarizing Chen Liuying's story and reviewing Sun Chengcheng's appearance, including the differences between the original plot points and the current timeline and plot points.
Finally, we decided to exploit the bug.
Liang Shi's explanation was so vague that even Zhao Xuning, who was very intelligent, didn't understand it.
However, this did not stop Zhao Xuning from talking to her incessantly.
Zhao Xuning, who had drunk too much, became somewhat rambling, as if she wanted to say everything that she usually didn't say when she was pretending to be aloof.
Holding the wine bottle, she complained to Liang Shi, "You know what? When I was with Shen Hui, she was always the one who coaxed me."