There’re Always Paranoid Thoughts to Monopolize Me - Chapter 16.2

Huo Jun lowered his eyes and looked at her.

“Call me ‘brother.'”

“…”

Qin Ke instinctively froze.

A few seconds later, her face turned pale.

This sentence reminded her of someone—Huo Zhonglou from her previous life.

Just because of that sham wedding without even a marriage certificate with Qin Yan, her parents from the Qin family forced her to call him “brother.” And during countless long nights after that absurd substitute marriage, his favorite thing was to force her to call him that.

With the same obsessive and possessive look in his eyes.

The thought she had suppressed for so long resurfaced.

Qin Ke felt a chill run down her spine.

“No…” Qin Ke lowered her head, lightly biting her lip, trying to suppress the fear in her eyes. “—No.”

Huo Jun’s eyes darkened.

At the most tense moment, Qin Ke’s phone suddenly rang.

The ringtone breaking the silence was like a timely rain for Qin Ke. She quickly reached into her pocket, and upon seeing the caller ID, she eagerly answered.

“Xinqing?”

“…”

After the call was hurriedly ended by Gu Xinqing on the other end, Qin Ke looked at Huo Jun.

“My friend is coming over here.”

Huo Jun sneered.

There was a malicious gleam in his pitch-black eyes.

He leaned in closer, pushing the limits, “Do you think I care?”

“…”

Qin Ke took a light breath, raised her eyes, and looked at him as calmly as she could.

“I care, Huo Jun.”

“…”

“If you respect me, please step aside and let me down.”

Facing the girl’s amber eyes, Huo Jun’s pupils suddenly contracted.

After a few seconds of silence, he laughed hoarsely.

“Do you really think you’ve got me wrapped around your finger—Qin Ke?”

“…” Qin Ke didn’t respond, only pressing her lips together.

Huo Jun’s voice grew even lower, a suppressed restlessness and hostility in its depths. “Who gave you that confidence?”

After a long silence, Qin Ke finally blinked.

She lifted her head.

“You.”

Her voice was soft and clear.

Her gaze was pure and unwavering.

[Who gave you that confidence?]

[You.]

Huo Jun was speechless.

After a moment, he burst into laughter like a madman, unruly and wild, his shoulders shaking slightly with the force of his laughter.

Qin Ke quietly watched him.

Her gaze remained unchanged from the beginning—showing no retreat or fear.

Huo Jun stopped laughing.

He tilted his head slightly, his eyes revealing an extreme contradiction of innocence and greedy desire.

“Then remember, you must hold the ‘chain’ tight, Qin Ke.”

He leaned forward, whispering in her ear with a hoarse and low laugh.

“Because you’re holding a ‘mad dog’ on the leash, so never give him a chance. Otherwise, he will surely drag you into his lair and ‘devour’ you whole.”

“…”

“You have no idea how tempting you are in his eyes.”

Huo Jun looked at her intently for a moment, then turned and left.

Qin Ke: “…………”

If this madman had stayed a second longer, she really would have called the police.

****

Not long after Huo Jun left, Gu Xinqing came running in, out of breath, calling Qin Ke’s name.

Qin Ke sighed, “What happened? Why are you in such a hurry?”

“Urgent…extremely urgent.”

After taking a few deep breaths, Gu Xinqing finally explained everything she overheard about Qin Yan and Gao Hao’s scheme in the infirmary.

After she finished, Gu Xinqing was still indignant.

“Qin Yan is insane! Even if she’s jealous that Huo Jun likes you, how could she dare to do such a thing!—Xiao Ke, you must find an excuse to back out tomorrow, don’t fall for their trap!”

Although Qin Ke was surprised, she had already mentally prepared herself beforehand.

After listening to Gu Xinqing, Qin Ke smiled faintly.

“I can’t back out.”

“…Huh??” Gu Xinqing was anxious, “How can you not back out? Qin Yan clearly wants to harm you!”

“If I back out this time, there will be a next time.”

Qin Ke’s smile was cold.

In this life, she had seen through Qin Yan completely—Qin Yan would not stop until she pushed her into the abyss.

Gu Xinqing: “Then… then what do you plan to do?”

Qin Ke’s eyes flickered.

“I need your help, Xinqing.”

Gu Xinqing clenched her fists, “Of course I’ll help you, just tell me what you need!”

Qin Ke: “Tomorrow I will go and play along with their plan. But I need to borrow your phone and I need you to find someone tomorrow night.”

“Who?”

Qin Ke: “The person in charge of the military training base, Teacher Wu Qingyue.”

Gu Xinqing was stunned.

Meanwhile, Qin Ke lowered her eyes.

Qin Yan had forced her to this point.

Since Qin Yan wanted to push her into an inescapable abyss, she would not hold back against Qin Yan either.

——

In her previous life, the bright path Qin Yan walked out of thanks to Wu Qingyue, this time Qin Ke would cut it off with her own hands.

****

After discussing the plan for tomorrow with Qin Ke, Gu Xinqing finally left the bulletin board group’s tool room.

By then, it was already time for washing up, and there were no more people around the tool room.

So when a figure suddenly appeared from under the tree, Gu Xinqing was almost scared into screaming.

She calmed down only after recognizing the cold, handsome face in the moonlight.

“…Brother Jun?”

Gu Xinqing was stunned. She looked back at the tool room, which still had its lights on. “What, what are you doing here?”

Huo Jun glanced at her indifferently.

“Tell me what you just told Qin Ke.”

Gu Xinqing choked up. “This…”

Huo Jun’s gaze turned cold.

“Or, should I ask Qin Yan and Gao Hao myself?”

Gu Xinqing was startled. “Brother Jun, how do you know it has to do with them!?”

Huo Jun looked at her expressionlessly.

“I-I’ll tell you…”

Gu Xinqing couldn’t withstand his slightly intimidating gaze and had no choice but to explain everything.

Occasionally, she tried to gauge Huo Jun’s reaction.

However, from beginning to end, Huo Jun’s expression was hidden in the shadows beneath the tree.

Gu Xinqing couldn’t see anything.

When she finished speaking, the air fell into a near-dead silence.

After a long while, Huo Jun turned and left.

Only his voice, still tinged with cold and grim notes, lingered in the night air—

“Don’t tell her I know.”

Gu Xinqing: “…?”

Gu Xinqing: “Brother Jun, what are you going to do?”

Huo Jun remained silent.

In the darkness of the night,

Only a cold, grim chuckle echoed back.