Chapter 9 The Repeating Kiss
Four months later, Lin Kai and Lin Weiwei left the hospital.
Mom called. She bragged, "Next week is Weiwei and Gu Chen's engagement banquet. Even though we cut ties, Mom still hopes you can come and bless Weiwei."
"Okay. I will definitely be there." I smiled brightly. Revenge time had arrived.
The old men of the Lin and Gu families had carried guns together in the past.
Dad and Gu's dad had known each other since childhood. Decades of business.
Lin Weiwei and Gu Chen were childhood sweethearts. When the families worked closely, they verbally arranged the marriage to strengthen ties.
But in recent years the Lin family had stalled while the Gu family rose. The Gus started looking down on the Lins.
The Lin family fought desperately to marry Lin Weiwei into the Gu family and keep using their resources.
To me, any banquet was a trap.
Who would trap whom remained to be seen, but I would ruin it for them.
Sure enough.
On the night of the banquet, before the Lin family could move, Gu Chen walked out to die.
He tilted his head at the classic forty-five-degree overbearing angle and looked down his nose at me. "Not just anyone can be my fiancée. You are not even worth one of Weiwei's fingers."
You idiot. You are the one the size of a finger.
When I stayed silent, he continued. "The second miss of the Lin family really has bad manners. A country bumpkin stays a country bumpkin who cannot step on stage. How could someone like you deserve me?"
Deserve you? You deserve to be sent to a pig farm for breeding.
I usually felt sorry for idiots.
"Young Master Gu and the eldest miss of the Lin family are a perfect match."
A black-hearted radish and a rotten sweet potato. How could they not be perfect?
"I am called Chen Wan, not Lin. Today Young Master Gu is engaged to the Lin family's daughter. It has nothing to do with me." I spoke softly.
Many noble ladies and young misses whispered behind me.
"That is the real daughter of the Lin family?"
"I heard she is very vicious and often bullies the Lin family's eldest daughter."
Gu Chen heard the talk of snatching the groom and raised his head angle another ten degrees.
"I don't care if you are Chen Wan or Lin Wan. I love Weiwei. No matter what tricks you play, I will never look at you."
"Oh, right, right, right." I would never look at you either, you nose-breathing breeding pig.
Then the white lotus appeared.
Lin Weiwei walked up to Gu Chen, gave him a deep loving look, then turned to me with red eyes and a trembling voice.
"Sister, you... you won't take Gu Chen Gege away, right? You already took my parents and everything at home. All I have left is Gu Chen Gege."
What? You only have this pigeon left? Did Lin Kai die? I had not played enough yet.
Gu Chen held Lin Weiwei's tearful face and said tenderly, "I don't want any Chen Wan or Chen Die. I only want you."
"I will love only you in this life. One lifetime, one pair."
Then he kissed her right in front of me.
You two really want to disgust me, don't you?
I spoke silently to the Plot Replay System. Replay their deep confession 99 times.
The two who had just finished kissing suddenly stiffened as if cursed. They started repeating the scene.
Gu Chen held Lin Weiwei's tearful face and said tenderly, "I will love only you in this life. One lifetime, one pair."
Then he kissed her again.
And again. Someone in the crowd gasped that Young Master Gu was so devoted.
And again. Everyone watched them kiss.
After countless repeats, they had disgusted the entire room.
I stepped aside and watched them suck and slurp again and again.
Everyone stared. Phone and camera flashes made them look like two zombies lost in love.
Lin Kai saw the repeating kiss. He let out a scream of pure terror that shook the whole hall.
The crowd woke up too. They watched the two repeat the same words, the same kiss.
The once-beautiful love now felt like a twisted horror film.
The pair acted as if possessed. Their lips were chewed raw. The strings between them were no longer saliva but blood. Still they repeated.
One guest stepped back and started a panic stampede.
The romantic confession kiss turned into bloody mutual gnawing. Their eyes burned red as if they would turn into corpses.
"Gu Chen, stop. Let her go. Come here."
Gu Chen's parents were shocked to see their son so insane.
When he did not respond and kept gnawing, they rushed over to pull them apart.
But Gu Chen's strength was terrifying. They could not move him.
After the kiss, when he rebounded to speak sweet words, he knocked Gu's dad straight to the floor.
Gu's dad hit his nose. Blood poured out. It looked awful.
She shouted at the Lin couple, "Why aren't you separating them!"
But the Lin couple were already scared senseless.
The hospital had said they were cured. How could it happen again? Even Gu Chen had relapsed?
The guests whispered more.
"Too terrifying. Like they are under a curse."
"I heard the Lin family's daughter caused chaos at the hospital. Something about schizophrenia. Looks real."
"No way. I think it's zombies. Young Master Gu sucked the blood out of that girl and slurped it back in."
"Really. Even Tokyo isn't this intense."
"Could they be ghouls?"
"That's the kind of love where you are in me and I in you. A love full of blood."
"Love your damn love. It made me want to vomit my dinner. I won't want meat for three months."
"Could this be a Lin family trick? I heard the Gu family didn't want this marriage. The Lin assets are smaller, and the bride is a fake daughter."
The Gu family had never wanted the alliance. They had always looked for a match that could push them higher.
But Gu Chen only ever thought about Lin Weiwei.