Chapter 161: Chapter 159: She Transmigrated into the Wrong Book?

Lu Xiao went to see Su Xinyao anyway.

Facing Lu Xiao, Su Xinyao wasn’t as volatile.

But clearly, she wasn’t much better.

“What are you doing here?”

“Did Zhou Rui put you up to this?”

“Zhou Rui?”

Su Xinyao raised her head, her eyes darting away before that look was replaced by something else.

“What do you know! Zhou Rui loves me! Everything he does is for my own good!”

“For your own good?”

Lu Xiao took a step forward, the invisible pressure making it almost impossible for her to breathe.

“For your good, he had you bring back a deadly pathogen that could kill thousands, sending you to your death? For your good, he had you act like a lunatic and run straight into the line of fire?”

“Shut up! Don’t you dare slander him!”

Su Xinyao shrieked, oblivious to her wrists, which were chafed red by the handcuffs.

“I wanted to come back myself! I hate Su Tang with every fiber of my being! She stole everything from me!

Zhou Rui is just helping me fulfill my wish!

He said that as long as Su Tang is dead, everything can go back to normal.

I’ll be able to take back what’s mine!

He’ll love me just like in my dreams, and no one, no one will be able to tear us apart again.”

The more Su Xinyao spoke, the more agitated and incoherent she became, as if lost in a beautiful dream of her own making.

Her state was just as Su Tang had described.

Su Tang had said she was like an addict; sometimes Su Xinyao was very cunning, but other times, she seemed completely unhinged.

Her whole demeanor was just off.

Lu Xiao sneered and continued to press her.

“Help you? Helping you means letting you carry a deadly pathogen and get captured like a disposable pawn? Su Xinyao, wake up! You’re nothing but a knife in his hand, a chess piece to be thrown away after use! You’ve been sold, and you’re still helping him count the money!”

“No! That’s not it!”

Su Xinyao shook her head desperately, her messy hair whipping across her face, making her look even more pathetic.

“He… he needs me. The Northwest needs me, too! It’s all your fault! You’re the ones who ruined me!”

“The Northwest?”

Lu Xiao seized on the keyword, his eyes suddenly turning dangerous.

“What is he doing in the Northwest? What does he need you for?”

Su Xinyao realized she had let it slip, and her face instantly drained of color.

She bit her lower lip hard, not daring to utter another word.

The frantic energy from before was gone, replaced by endless, lingering fear.

“Speak!”

Lu Xiao barked, but Su Xinyao just kept shaking her head.

“I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know!”

“Su Tang is the biggest obstacle. As long as she’s gone, as long as she’s dead…”

She spoke vaguely. It was clear she knew very little about Zhou Rui’s specific plans in the Northwest. Or rather, Zhou Rui never intended to tell her the core details.

Lu Xiao stared at her, his mind racing.

Considering the highly mutated pathogen Su Xinyao had brought…

An extremely terrifying theory began to form in his mind.

’Zhou Rui is likely trying to secretly develop biological weapons in the Northwest.’

’This strain of streptococcus, which can reproduce rapidly in the air and has a high mortality rate, must be one of the results of his research.’

’Su Tang is knowledgeable and was the first to identify the problem.’

’That’s why Zhou Rui needs her dead.’

And Su Xinyao had the same idea. When they put their heads together, their goals aligned perfectly.

’But why would Zhou Rui do this?’

Afterward, no matter what else Lu Xiao asked, Su Xinyao’s only answer was “I don’t know.”

Unable to get anything out of her, Lu Xiao had no choice but to leave.

“Sir, sir, you have to get back! Your wife collapsed!”

Hearing this, Lu Xiao forgot everything else and rushed to find Su Tang.

Su Tang was pregnant. ’Could she have overworked herself recently?’

In the hospital room, Su Tang lay on the bed, her face pale, an IV needle in the back of her hand.

“Lu Tuan, it’s nothing serious. Just a bit of low blood sugar.”

Hearing the nurse’s words, Lu Xiao finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Meanwhile, Su Tang, with her eyes closed, stared at the book flipping open before her in her mind’s eye, completely dumbfounded.

’No way. I knew there was a reason Su Xinyao seemed like a completely different person.’

’I’ve transmigrated into the wrong book!’

This period novel was a fan-fiction, its plot “modded” by someone dissatisfied with the original story!

The originally kind and beautiful female lead, Su Xinyao, had been reborn, and the male lead had become a vengeful arch-villain.

He was even going to create some kind of virus to destroy Lu Xiao.

The pages in her mind continued to flip. The originally heartwarming period-drama plot was scribbled over in red ink, mangled beyond recognition.

The text before her eyes read:

*Zhou Rui, after laying low for ten years, returns with the reborn female lead, Su Xinyao, vowing to make Lu Xiao pay in blood.*

The reason was that years ago, Zhou Rui’s sister had suffered complications during childbirth. On the way to the hospital, she was stopped for an inspection by a patrol led by Lu Xiao, which delayed her from receiving critical medical attention.

This part wasn’t in the original book; Su Tang had no idea.

Many plot points were crossed out with red ink. The entire book was basically a rewrite.

Su Tang felt the world spin. ’So that’s why the plot is completely unrecognizable.’

’Author, your book has been changed this drastically, and you’re not going to do anything about it?’

The red ink on the pages bled like blood. In the corner of the page was a black-and-white photo of Zhou Rui’s sister, whose eyes and brows bore a slight resemblance to Su Tang.

’No wonder. So Zhou Rui’s hatred for Lu Xiao, combined with his displaced anger toward that similar face, was all being directed at me.’

Su Tang slowly opened her eyes. Lu Xiao quickly asked, “Still dizzy? The nurse said you didn’t eat lunch.”

Su Tang grabbed his wrist, the pages in her mind flipping to the final Chapter.

*Zhou Rui detonates a virus bomb in the Northwest. Lu Xiao, while protecting civilians, becomes infected with the fatal strain and ultimately dies along with the villain. As for the child in her womb…*

This child wasn’t supposed to exist. Even she wasn’t supposed to exist.

“Lu Xiao, can we take a few days off? I want to go see your old patrol routes.”

Lu Xiao raised an eyebrow and caressed her pale cheek. “A sudden interest in archaeology?”

He thought she was worried about Su Xinyao, so he took her hand and pressed a light kiss to it.

“Don’t overthink things. Zhou Rui can’t stir up any trouble.”

Su Tang looked at the conviction in his eyes, and her heart went cold.

He didn’t know he was standing on the edge of a fateful cliff, just as he hadn’t known back then that the ambulance he’d stopped was carrying Zhou Rui’s only living relative.

“I just want…”

“I want to know what you were protecting every day.”

Lu Xiao let out a low laugh. “When you’re feeling better, I’ll take you.”

“Don’t worry about Su Xinyao. I’ve already reported the situation up the chain of command.”

Su Tang didn’t say anything more, just sighed.

’You couldn’t even say the plot has collapsed,’ she thought. ’It’s just run off to who-knows-where.’

’From the looks of it, the targets of Zhou Rui’s revenge are clearly me and Lu Xiao.’

’And Su Xinyao is just a pawn, because in the book, they all die in the end.’

’There’s no point distinguishing between the male and female leads anymore.’

’To change our fate, would it be enough to find out where Zhou Rui is ahead of time?’

’Or even just find out who he is. Any clue would be enough.’

“Lu Xiao, let’s go find Geng.”

“I want to ask Geng for a favor.”

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