Became the Terminally Ill Supporting Male Lead’s Rabbit Spirit - Chapter 9

Chapter 9

Su Ci was so scared that she stood still, not daring to move. She pursed her lips, looking nervously at Lu Zhe who was lying on the bed.

Her mind raced, thinking about how to explain her identity.

In the quiet room, Su Ci could hear her own heart beating wildly in her chest.

She was about to die anyway, why should she felt so guilty and scared?

The young man on the bed remained motionless.

Gaining a bit of courage, Su Ci took a tentative step forward.

In the next instant, the young man abruptly sat up, startling Su Ci so much that she froze in place as her eyes widened in shock.

Oh no, such sudden movements weren’t fair at all.

Lu Zhe’s cold, pale, handsome face was flushed with the tint of alcohol, his pitch-black eyes were slightly less cold, looking moist and shiny.

His gaze settled on Su Ci, who was beside the bed, “Who are you?”

A feeling of anxiety rose within Su Ci. Was he drunk? Or was he sober?

Since he had noticed her, she might as well seize the opportunity to explain her presence, “I…”

Before Su Ci could finish her, Lu Zhe interrupted her.

The young man’s eyebrows furrowed, “This belongs to Tuantuan.”

Huh?

Su Ci was puzzled.

Lu Zhe got off the bed and squatted in front of Su Ci. To her astonishment, the young man’s cold hand directly gripped her ankle.

With her foot suddenly lifted, Su Ci lost her balance and fell sitting on the edge of the bed. “What are you doing?”

Lu Zhe glanced at her with a clear disdainful look. “This belongs to Tuantuan.”

This was what he bought for Tuantuan!

Seeing his large hand caressing the red string on her ankle, Su Ci realized what Lu Zhe was talking about.

She blinked. The young man’s eyes in front of her were dark and moist, lacking some clarity. Was he really drunk?

Su Ci sighed with relief. She struggled a bit with the ankle that Lu Zhe was holding, only to find that she couldn’t break free. “Let go.”

“This belongs to Tuantuan.” Lu Zhe repeated.

His large hand tightly gripped Su Ci’s slender ankle as he bent down to begin untying the red string. Clearly intended to remove itfrom her foot and return it to his Tuantuan.

Su Ci didn’t bother arguing with a drunk person. She propped herself up with both hands, allowing her foot to rest on the squatting Lu Zhe’s knee.

The skin of Su Ci’s current body was truly exceptional, uniformly fair and smooth. Not to mention, even her dainty feet looked extraordinarily beautiful and charming. Whether it was due to their inherent tenderness, her petite toes and ankles were tinged with a soft pink hue.

Delicate and frail.

Held by the young man’s large hand, it felt as if it could be crushed with a gentle twist.

Lu Zhe lowered his gaze, earnestly trying to untie the red string on her ankle.

The small jade-colored gourd on the red string kept swinging.

She didn’t know if it was because of the symptoms of ALS, but Lu Zhe’s hand was always cold. His fingers, with their slight calluses, kept brushing against the back of her foot, causing a tingling sensation, which made Su Ci’s calves break out in goosebumps.

Usually being held by Lu Zhe and not needing to walk, Su Ci never felt this way. But now, with her foot being held by him like this, she realized that not only were her bunny ears sensitive, even her feet were overly sensitive.

She had read online before that the feet of bunnies should not be touched randomly, as their little feet are sensitive zones for them.

Now, feeling the ticklish and tingling sensation, she clearly understood just how sensitive they indeed were!

“Hurry up.” Su Ci couldn’t stand it any longer and retracted her foot a little.

Even when drunk, Lu Zhe’s slender fingers remained nimble. In a few quick motions, he had removed the red string from the girl’s ankle.

Pulling back her foot, Su Ci stepped on the cold floor, and the ticklish feeling in the sole of her foot slightly faded. She quietly watched Lu Zhe, curious about any further surprising actions he would make.

Having retrieved the red string, Lu Zhe didn’t glance at the stunningly beautiful Su Ci sitting on the edge of the bed. Instead, he held the red string and began searching the room for the bunny.

Su Ci could tell from the young man’s actions. Ahem, she was right by the bed. Where else would he look for her?

She stretched out her long legs, and the tip of her foot gently touched the drunk young man who was searching through the drawers by the desk. Kindly, she informed him, “Stop looking, I’m right here.”

Lu Zhe turned his head, looking at Su Ci disdainfully, “Tuantuan is prettier than you.”

Su Ci, who was sitting on the edge of the bed, suddenly stood up. Criticize her for anything, but you can’t say she wasn’t good-looking.

How could her bunny appearance possibly be prettier than her current look?

She called out to Fu Gui, “Who’s the most beautiful in the world?”

Fu Gui clearly sensed Su Ci’s gritted teeth and resentment, [In Fu Gui’s heart, the master is the most beautiful in the entire world.]

Su Ci snorted. See, that’s the correct response.

Over there, Lu Zhe’s deep black eyes grew shinier and wetter, and his rigid face reddened more and more. Clearly, the effects of the alcohol were intensifying.

He turned his head and approached the fair-faced Su Ci, “For Tuantuan.”

Su Ci watched in astonishment as Lu Zhe squatted down, once again taking her ankle and retying the red string he had just taken off her foot.

Ah, he was indeed very drunk.

…

At Zhao’s residence.

Li Changfang grabbed Zhao Youyou by the collar, delivering a heavy slap.

Her palm was thick, and the slap sounded loud, stunning Zhao Youyou.

With the slap, a red mark appeared on Zhao Youyou’s fair face, visibly swelling.

“You hit my daughter? I’ll fight you to the end!” Upon seeing her daughter getting hit, Mother Zhao immediately stepped forward to confront Li Changfang.

Li Changfang, being stout and plump, was obviously more than a match for the slender Mother Zhao. Yet despite taking several slaps from Li Changfang, Mother Zhao fiercely pulled at Li Changfang’s hair in retaliation.

Dong Jian saw Father Zhao trying to step in and help, so he immediately intervened, and the two began to tussle.

Zhao’s residence was instantly thrown into chaos.

Zhao Youyou stood there in a daze, her face stinging so much that tears streamed down. She had not expected things to escalate to this extent.

She had read some rebirth novels before, where the female protagonists would buy lottery tickets, houses, and become wealthy after being reborn. Why did it turn out like this for her?

“Stop it, all of you, just stop!” Zhao Youyou didn’t dare to approach, but she stamped her foot from the side in desperation.

“Little wretch, give back the lottery ticket… once you give it back, we’ll stop,” Li Changfang said while slapping Mother Zhao and keeping her pinned down.

Mother Zhao clung to Li Changfang’s hair, refusing to let go, “Get lost! The lottery ticket belongs to our family.”

To steal her money was equivalent to stealing her life.

Left with no other choice, Zhao Youyou called the police.

Even if Zhao Youyou lied, and Mother Zhao’s birthday numbers were different from those on the lottery ticket, the incident occurred before the lottery win. So even if Zhao Youyou did trick them, it was only over two yuan. From the police’s perspective, she couldn’t have possibly known in advance that this ticket would win.

Moreover, Zhao Youyou spent a hundred yuan to buy the ticket from Dong Jian. It was a mutually agreed transaction. Therefore, the lottery ticket belonged to Zhao Youyou.

As for the testimony of the lottery shop owner, they could only confirm that Zhao Youyou indeed spent a hundred yuan to purchase the ticket from Dong Jian.

Having no choice but to agree to a settlement, Dong Jian and Li Changfang left the police station with gritted teeth. Seeing the Zhao family emerge from behind, Li Changfang spat angrily.

“We’ll see about this in the future.”¹ Their home was on the eighth floor while the Zhao’s lived on the fifth. Wasn’t it easy to make things difficult for the Zhao family? They couldn’t break the law, but they could do things to annoy the Zhao family.

The next day, when Zhao Youyou opened the door, she was greeted with a pile of trash spread all over her doorstep, complete with some foul-smelling liquid. The stench was so overpowering that she almost threw up her breakfast.

She now understood what Li Changfang meant by ‘we’ll see about this in the future.’

……

The room was very quiet.

When Lu Zhe woke up, the sky was already bright. The warm morning sunlight streamed in, landing on the grayish bed, causing him to close his eyes again from the brightness.

After a while, Lu Zhe opened his eyes again, clarity filled his dark pupils.

His head ached a bit.

Lu Zhe remembered drinking with Boss Fang last night. It seemed he had gotten drunk then dreamt the entire night.

In the dream, he was putting a red string on a bunny’s little foot.

No, he also dreamt of a girl with a red string tied around her ankle. He couldn’t see her face clearly but knew she had fair skin.

She chided him softly, asking him to stop making a fuss.

Lu Zhe’s long eyelashes concealed the expression in his eyes. As he got up, he noticed his school uniform placed beside him. The bunny was buried within the uniform, only its little head peeking out, deep in slumber.

Not far away was the red string that had been untied from its little foot.

When they arrived at the classroom, Su Ci was pulled out of Lu Zhe’s backpack, and only then did she fully awaken.

She had forgotten how long Lu Zhe had caused a ruckus last night. He kept untying and retying the red string. In the end, unable to resist her drowsiness, she drifted into a daze and fell asleep.

To her surprise, when she woke up, she had turned back into a rabbit.

Don’t ask her how she felt about it, she regretted it! She regretted that she had been so distracted by Lu Zhe’s antics that she forgot to seize the opportunity to kiss him a few more times.

Looking up at the young man with a rigid face and a resolute chin, she found it hard to believe that this was the same person who, like a fool, held her foot and fussed over it for most of the night.

Su Ci looked down at her little feet. This morning, he had wrapped the red string around her ankle again.

“I heard a transfer student has joined our class.”

“I saw him when I passed by the teacher’s office earlier. He’s tall and handsome. Plus, he even donated a library to the school.”

“Oh my god, so he’s tall, rich, and handsome?”

“Now that we’re in the third year of high school, why would someone transfer?”

…

Zhao Youyou was in a bad mood this morning. Mother Zhao wanted to confront that family, but Zhao Youyou stopped her because there was no evidence indicating that they were the culprits. Moreover, she didn’t want her mother to argue with that unreasonable couple and risk another fight.

Her face, where Li Changfang had slapped her, was still swollen. Even after a night, the swelling hadn’t subsided, and speaking caused pain as it stretched the affected area.

She sniffled, feeling wronged. Whether it was the incident from the day before yesterday where she was falsely accused of claiming credit for saving someone, or the lottery ticket matter, she felt aggrieved.

She did save someone. She wasn’t lying; it was just that the person she saved was different. She was guilt-free about that.

As for the lottery ticket, she had paid for it. It was a legitimate and mutual transaction. It was Dong Jian who later changed the numbers, so it wasn’t her fault.

Biting her lip, with the corners of her eyes reddening, Zhao Youyou inadvertently looked up and saw a boy walking not far away, accompanying a teacher. His gaze was arrogant, his presence dominant, and his handsomeness was hard to ignore.

Zhao Youyou froze at the sight.

Was it him?

Lying on Lu Zhe’s lap, Su Ci perked up her rabbit ears, listening to the murmurs and discussions of those around her. She remembered that this new transfer student must be the male lead from the book.

Recalling the description of the male lead in the book and then looking up at the young man above her, she made the connection.

Now that the male lead has appeared, the supporting male lead, like Lu Zhe, would likely fade into the background.

¹: ?????? basically means there’ll be opportunities in the future (hinting revenge or settling scores).