paranoianovel Chapter 819 Jealousy
Chapter 819 Jealousy
This was supposed to be a heartwarming gesture, but the two girls watching it blushed deeply—one was green with envy, and the other was blushing so much she wanted to kill someone.
However, no one was so oblivious to the atmosphere as to step forward and stop them. Although they didn't know the details, Funina's exhaustion was undeniable. So they could only be patient.
"Can you explain now?" Ying took a deep breath, frantically repeating the words "calm down" in her mind. "What exactly was the whole story behind your performance? Now that everything is over, you can finally tell me, right?"
Ying didn't even need to look at the "corpses" on the ground to know that they were just unconscious. She also saw Navia and the people from White Pine Town, as well as many of the workers from Melo Petersburg.
Although she didn't know if all the Fengdan people were here, based on her understanding of Zuo Xi and her knowledge of his abilities, she figured that everyone present had been properly protected.
So all the previous "disasters" now seem to be nothing more than a puppet show. Zuo Xi is the only puppeteer, and everyone, including her and Paimon, is just a puppet being manipulated on the stage, with the sole purpose of completing this drama.
It's nothing. Ying is already used to being manipulated and whittled by Zuo Xi. But as an actor, shouldn't she have the right to know what the script looks like after the performance?
"Does this need any special explanation?" Sandonne scoffed mercilessly. "Calling you a blond idiot is no exaggeration. Isn't it already out in the open—all of Fontaine's prophecies have been verified, albeit through 'deception'."
Although Sandoni himself didn't know the full picture of the plan, it wasn't hard to guess. Working backward from the outcome and combining it with everything that came before, the answer was obvious—it was all about "deception."
"Of course I know that!" Ying clenched her fists, telling herself not to argue with this woman. "I'm asking about the whole process. Do you even know what a process is? How did you do it? Why did you do it? Why didn't you tell anyone? Why... why did you have to act like that before?"
Ying said this through gritted teeth. Although Zuo Xi liked to tease her, she still thought he had gone too far this time. The problem wasn't that he had kept it a secret from her, but that he dared to threaten her with his own life!
She was genuinely terrified, okay? That's too much! Paimon was even scared to tears!
Especially since she had just experienced something similar not long ago, to be honest, Ying couldn't take such a shock anymore. Seriously speaking, she was almost developing PTSD!
"Well..." Zuo Xi scratched her face, slightly embarrassed but quickly recovered.
“You might not understand how I did it if I told you now, but I can explain it to you slowly later if you are still interested; as for why I did it... it’s very simple, just like what I did in Inazuma in Liyue—it was all for profit—look, didn’t this add a large territory to Winter? This is Winter’s second colony, and in terms of area and significance, it can even be ranked first. Those people were just rescued incidentally, and I don’t want my territory to be completely devoid of living people, that would be too creepy; and why not tell others, of course, is to ensure that I can ‘deceive’ them.”
Zuo Xi answered Ying's questions one by one, counting on her fingers. When Ying heard the middle part, she thought Zuo Xi was talking nonsense—this guy has been hypocritical for a long time, and he hasn't changed this habit even after becoming a god—but when she heard the later part, she couldn't help but roll her eyes.
Is this what you call "deception"? Those words spoken to the heavens just now were practically a threat!
"And the last one?" Ying pouted, staring at Zuo Xi with dead fish eyes. "Give me a reasonable explanation, or else..." She bit her lip, then puffed out her cheeks, which was quite rare for her, "or else I'll punish you by making you travel with me until I'm happy!"
Ying would never have shown this attitude before. Back then, she knew how to restrain herself and knew that Zuo Xi had not chosen her, so she suppressed her feelings.
But things are different now. Now that she has openly declared her feelings, there's no point in being coy or pretending anymore. Besides, having experienced two life-or-death situations, Ying suddenly feels that cherishing the present is the most important thing, and there's no time to worry about anything else.
That's why she can now act so effortlessly—it doesn't matter whether there's a result or not, it doesn't prevent her from facing her feelings squarely.
“That’s hardly a punishment,” Zuo Xi shook her head. “If you really want a punishment, you should wear something disgusting to offend my eyes.”
After the teasing, Zuo Xi began to formally respond to Ying's question, but Sandone interrupted him, slowly stepping forward: "Foolish traveler, why don't you use your brain to think about this question? Think about what you've experienced in the past ten days while you were gone."
“Your name is Ying, right? Sometimes I’m really jealous of you.” Sandonne looked at Ying with an unfriendly expression. “Your trip to Mero Petersburg has no impact on the overall plan, so why don’t you guess why this part of the story happened?”
She gave a soft, cold snort, frowning and glancing sideways: "Because this was all arranged by him specifically for you, so that you wouldn't have to witness the process firsthand—normally, everything would have been over after you left Mero Petersburg. You could have skipped the process and seen the final result directly, but you insisted on running away, didn't you?"
"He went to all this trouble to get you away, don't you think it's because he's afraid you have the ability to ruin things?"