Quick Transmigration: Will Even a Foolishly Popular Person Be Forced to Love Him?

Yun Zhi pushed his chest away and said seriously, "You idiot who can't even understand his own feelings and has to come to ask the younger generation for advice is not allowed to say such things."

Qi Li: "..."

He lowered his eyes, and after several seconds, he said, "I don't understand."

"If you don't understand, you don't understand. It won't do anything anyway." Yun Zhi didn't want to talk to him anymore.

Qi Li opened her mouth, "But... if that's the case... how should we get along? I don't think I can find the right balance..."

"You're so stupid!" Yun Zhi glared at him angrily. "Just treat each other the same way you treated each other before. Why think so much?"

Qi Li stared intently at her: "...What if this makes you hate me?"

Can I really get along with her like before?

He wanted to hold her, kiss her, and possess her...

The way she longed for him was almost too much; how could she possibly allow that?

Yun Zhi really wanted to sigh: "I'm a person, not a piece of wood that can't move. If I hate you, of course I'll leave."

Instead of being as assertive as Tian Gang, she commanded, "Don't be so lazy. Learn to read people's expressions and moods! Stop asking questions all day long, understand?"

As Qi Li looked at her, a slight smile slowly crept onto his lips.

He didn't realize he seemed to be smiling, so his voice sounded a little light: "Then can I learn how to like you?"

Yun Zhi hesitated and said, "...Huh? Uh, I guess it's okay?" She was not sure.

"Why are you so fixated on this? You should even try to like me..."

Yun Zhi's eyes not only sparkle when others mention her, but she herself also has exceptionally bright eyes.

When she gazes intently at a person, the person's shadow falls into her clear pupils, like the reflection of the sky and clouds shimmering on a lake.

Qi Li thought for a moment and said, "It's probably an equivalent exchange, right?"

"I'll give you my affection, and you give me yours in return," he said earnestly.

Yun Zhi hesitated for a moment, then said, "Um..."

"Then I might be the bad one. I can't give you the equivalent." The idol issued a disclaimer.

What if she's going to lie to him and play with him again? He can't say anything definitively!

"Wouldn't Qi Li think she was going a bit too far?" Yun Zhi secretly glanced at Qi Li's expression.

Surprisingly, Qi Li agreed: "It's okay, if it's you, just give me a little."

"Alright." Yun Zhi coughed. "Then it's settled. When you've learned what 'liking' means, tell me. And then..."

"And then?" Qi Li pressed.

Yun Zhi smiled at him. Her eyes curved when she smiled, as if all the sunlight had been shattered in the arc of her eyebrows.

She said, "Then, maybe I'll pay a little more attention to you because you like me."

...Yun Zhi, who said such words, was indeed very, very bad.

Qi Li only realized this much, much later.

He should have realized this during their first collaboration.

At that time, Yun Zhi was just a very minor character, and even with Qi Li's help to add more scenes, her role was still not very large.

Even the character played by Yun Zhi, the "white moonlight," has a personality completely different from Yun Zhi's.

The cannon fodder character in the script is gentle, reserved, and clever, while Yun Zhi is always slow-witted and dull.

But this slow-witted and dull girl has a heart that is impossible for anyone to fathom.

At that time, she pretended to be skilled at seducing him, and once he took the bait, she would run away in fright.

The second time, she clearly said those words to him like an agreement and a promise, she clearly made the promise... that they would get along like before.

As a result, after filming of "The Crime" was completed, Yun Zhi disappeared without a trace again.

Even now, even though they've done something unforgivable, they've already shown this pitiful expression before anyone has even properly taught them a lesson.

That's so outrageous. Qi Li thought. How could she be so unreasonable?

He had been trying very hard to be patient and learn how to please her.

I won't dwell on it, I won't be jealous. I'll only care about her, and only try to please her.

Let her do whatever she wants.

He kissed her lips, swallowed her tears, and made her bright, clear eyes lose their focus.

He wanted to have her, and he wanted to be had by her.

He wanted to disregard everything else and indulge in love and desire with her.

She was clearly happy too.

She clearly didn't refuse...

Isn't this what it means to like someone? Isn't this enough?

Why be cold to him and abandon him?

Why fabricate such a simple and obvious lie?

Why is it that no matter what I do, you still seem to have no feelings for me at all?

Yunzhi, Zhizhi...

If even human desires and pleasures cannot attract your attention, then what can move you?

Am I to ask you for something with a heart that still doesn't understand what love is?

For the first time, Qi Li understood so deeply what jealousy was.

Gu Shihe, mature and reliable, has supported you a lot, and is the Mr. He you rely on the most.

Xie Yuan may seem arrogant, but in reality, you've always had secret interactions and memories with him in some unknown corner.

Lu Ci, unruly and difficult to deal with, occupies countless hours of your energy and is someone you care about deeply.

Even Pei Ran... no matter what, a big fan will always be special in the idol's heart.

Everyone can occupy a place in your heart, but it seems like I have nothing...

If others can easily drag you into endless desires, if others can give their complete preferences without hesitation.

Do you still remember what you once said to me?

Qi Li thought to herself, "If only I hadn't met Yun Zhi."

That way, I don't have to keep my eyes on her all the time, and I don't have to keep trying to guess what she's thinking.

There's no need for her to wear such a false, empty shell, like an ignorant and dull wild beast that doesn't even have the right to be tamed.

So, it's all Yunzhi's fault.

It's all her fault that she ended up like this.

She brought this trouble upon herself; she reaped what she sowed.

Her indifference was her fault; she brought it upon herself...

"...Don't look at me like that, it's so ugly..."

Qi Li's gaze was so focused and obvious that even in the darkness, Yun Zhi, whose face was covered in tears from being pinched and kissed, could not ignore it.

"Not ugly at all," Qi Li's eyes were shrouded in the night, and after a long while, her voice was so soft it was almost a whisper, "The ugly one is me."

How could Yun Zhi be ugly?

It's clearly him who's ugly and unsightly. It's them who should be.

Shameless. Utterly despicable. He bullied her, deceived her, and forced her to bloom in his arms.

They are absolute villains, and after death they will surely fall into hell, where they will be endlessly burned by raging fire day and night.

Yun Zhi was speechless. The beautiful idol's slender fingers rested weakly in someone's arms.

Unable to resist, and unable to think clearly, she could only tilt her head back and breathe heavily, her cheeks flushed and tears streaming down her face.

In the darkness, everything is swallowed up by the monster of night.

The world seemed to be shaking and shattering before my eyes, and I felt as if I were in an inescapable deep sea.

She heard Qi Li say, "...Zhizhi."

If this feeling of being burned when I see her is what liking is;

If this feeling of malice, like a fishbone stuck in one's throat, condensed in one's heart and uncontrollable and undispellable, is actually liking;

If you like the feeling of your heart being corroded by drops of strong acid as your eyes are wet with her tears.

Then——

Qi Li's voice was exceptionally gentle:

"I think... I really like you. I like you a lot, a lot."

He thought: Now, I don't need to give you my feelings in exchange for that.

Just like that, I'll act like a clueless, naughty child and take back that little bit of care you had for me.

"...Why would you like me?"

Yun Zhi asked anxiously, her eyes shining with a clear, watery light in the darkness, confused and bewildered. Despite her disheveled state, she remained as pure as the white bird she had first met.

"I don't understand... Waaah, I don't understand—"

Qi Li chuckled softly, and his kiss, for the first time without any lust, gently landed on Yun Zhi's damp cheek:

Do I need a reason to like you?

Slow-witted Yunzhi, clumsy Yunzhi.

Poor, adorable, and clueless Yun Zhi...

It's okay if you don't understand; it's best if you never understand.

Don't try to understand how this disgusting, vulgar, and utterly ugly feeling I have for you can actually be called liking.