Chapter 4: Go and Investigate

"Crunch, crunch." Ye Xiao began to nibble seeds.

Everyone looked at her simultaneously.

Ye Xiao, somewhat innocently, "Do you guys want some?"

Ye Ming'an and Du Yaru numbly shook their heads, while Gu Cheng simply hmphed coldly.

With no one else eating, Ye Xiao didn't care.

She happily munched away on her own.

Soon enough.

The second round of Liebestraum ended.

Gu Cheng prepared to applaud once more.

And then…

The third round began.

Followed by the fourth, the fifth.

Ye Bingtong, who couldn't stop playing piano, was going crazy.

The others, having listened to it over and over, were close to going insane as well.

Ye Xiao, too, started feeling a headache, so she found some cotton and stuffed it into her ears.

Seeing that the other three had all turned to look at her again,

Ye Xiao blinked and handed out two pieces of cotton to each person.

Ye Ming'an hesitated but then took them and plugged his own ears.

You can't blame him for lacking fatherly love—what kind of good family listens to the same thing so many times in a row!

After a while, Du Yaru also accepted the cotton.

Gu Cheng held out for a bit longer but eventually reached out to Ye Xiao with difficulty.

Ye Xiao didn't hold it against him and gave him not only the cotton but also some seeds to each person.

So, while Ye Bingtong's fingers cramped up from playing the piano, the three of them had started silently nibbling seeds.

Even though they were using cotton for ear protection, they began to hear the noise again, and as Ye Bingtong continued playing, she lost the tune completely—what they heard was just noise.

The few of them wanted to persuade her to take a break, but Ye Bingtong kept playing one piece after another without leaving them any chance to interject.

It was already time for dinner, but since Ye Bingtong wasn't stopping, the others felt a bit awkward about leaving to eat on their own…

Ye Xiao didn't mind any of it, she was hungry, so she went to the kitchen to find some food for herself.

After hesitating for a while, influenced by the tempting smell, the others silently ate their dinner too.

Ye Bingtong seemed completely immersed in her own world.

By the time she finished her hundredth round, six hours had passed, and it was deep into the night.

Ye Bingtong stopped, somewhat dazed, and at that moment, she felt as though her hands were no longer her own. She turned her head and smiled sweetly at Gu Cheng, "Big Brother Gu, did I play well?"

Gu Cheng: "..."

He said softly, "...It was beautiful."

It's just that he never wanted to hear it again.

Ye Xiao laughed.

[The habit of liking to listen to Ye Bingtong's piano, cured just like that? Youth, as a fellow supporting character, if you can change this habit, it would indeed be a relief for you.]

Gu Cheng pretended not to hear her. This time, he again asked to take his leave.

Originally, there were still some plots to unfold, but thankfully they weren't crucial. As Ye Bingtong's performance took up time, those plots were simply skipped.

Gu Cheng was picked up by his assistant, and Ye Xiao yawned, "I'm sleepy, off to bed."

Ye Xiao slipped away.

The female lead, with her fingers swollen badly, still stubbornly said, "Does my sister hate me? I shouldn't have played the piano..."

By this point, Ye Ming'an and Du Yaru also didn't have the energy to comfort their precious daughter, barely saying a few words before helping each other upstairs, exhausted from the day.

Back in their room.

It was now past midnight.

Ye Xiao discovered that the system had a new prompt.

"[Successfully spent one day, you can modify one word in the plot. (The number of modifiable words can accumulate.)]"

Ye Xiao's eyes couldn't help but light up.

She had been in this world for three days now, but the function had not been activated during the previous days.

It must have been because today she had successfully gone through several key plots, so the function to modify the plot was officially activated.

If all went well, she could modify one word every day, and if she accumulated them, she might be able to modify a sentence later on, even a paragraph, or even the entire ending!

Ye Xiao couldn't help but feel invigorated.

Originally fated as a supporting character, with the golden finger of modifying the plot, she would one day be able to free herself from destiny and control her own life.

Not bad at all, truly not bad.

Having discovered this method of self-help, Ye Xiao was in a great mood and fell asleep contentedly.

She slept soundly, but the other few people weren't so comfortable.

Ye Ming'an and Du Yaru looked at each other for a while before saying in unison, "You..."

Ye Ming'an took a deep breath and said, "I suddenly feel like there's something wrong with my body, should this year's physical examination be brought forward?"

Her eyes lighting up, Du Yaru nodded repeatedly, "I think so too! Especially need to check the brain thoroughly."

Otherwise, why would she hear these strange words!

Ye Ming'an was startled for a moment, "What's wrong with your brain?"

"Nothing! Just the same headache as Bingtong!" Du Yaru asserted decisively.

If she spoke out about hearing other people's thoughts, she feared she'd be treated as a lunatic.

Ye Ming'an breathed a sigh of relief and also said, "Right right right, it's a headache for me too, maybe the stress is just too much."

After comforting each other, the couple turned around and ordered people to investigate!

That whatchamacallit little punk!

They wanted to see if there really was such a person!

On the other side.

Gu Cheng made several phone calls and issued similar orders.

Ye Bingtong was currently studying at the drama academy, she had always longed for the entertainment industry and planned to make a splash there in the future.

For the sake of Ye Bingtong's dream, the Gu Family and the Ye Family had already built momentum for her early on, and her reputation as a piano prodigy had been marketed. Ye Bingtong had not even formally entered the circle yet and was already known as the number one music prodigy with millions of fans.

Gu Cheng had always been selfless toward Ye Bingtong and had never thought of investigating her, just as he had promised Bingtong, he would give her complete freedom.

But...

This time, he was going to renege.

He wanted to see if Ye Xiao's inner voice was really true. If there really was such a little punk!

Ye Bingtong didn't know that her true colors were about to be revealed, she applied ointment to her hands, still feeling the sharp pain.

Had it not been for her later performances, where she hadn't played as seriously as at the beginning, just idly playing the notes of Liebestraum—if she had continued like the first few times, playing a hundred times, she feared her hands would have been ruined.

Ye Bingtong reviewed the day's events and always felt that something was not right.

Some things that she obviously didn't want to do, yet there seemed to be a strange force driving her to do them.

This Ye Xiao, seemed rather eerie!

Ye Bingtong suddenly became alert.

She thought for a moment and took a picture of her swollen hands, then sent it to her big brother, Ye Bolin!

Mom, Dad, and Gu Cheng were all a bit odd today, and Ye Bingtong inexplicably didn't want to turn to them.

Big brother Ye Bolin had always cherished her deeply, and upon seeing her hands in that condition, he was sure to feel distressed.

Sure enough.

The aloof CEO brother in the eyes of outsiders sent a worried video call within seconds.

A smug smile appeared on the corners of Ye Bingtong's lips, and she quickly straightened up, showing a pitiful expression, and answered the video call.

"Bingtong, what happened to your hands?" Ye Bolin asked anxiously.