Transmigrating Into a Book, the Villain Becomes the White Moonlight!

74: Chapter 74 Our relationship is over.Despite saying that, Su Zheng’s eyes couldn’t help but glance toward the bedroom.

Su Bai keenly caught his father’s fleeting moment of guilt.

The corners of his mouth curled up, and without any warning, he raised his voice toward the inner room: ”Mom! Dad is discussing sending me abroad! For several years!”

”Wait a minute! You brat!” Su Zheng’s expression changed, and he reached out to stop him, but it was already too late.

”What?!” Shang Hui’s raised voice immediately came from the bedroom, followed by a series of hurried footsteps.

Shang Hui walked out of the bedroom quickly, still wearing an expensive moisturizing mask on her face and dressed in comfortable loungewear.

The mask obscured most of her expression, but her beautiful, exposed eyes were filled with shock, and her gaze locked directly onto Su Zheng.

”Su Zheng, you want to send Xiao Bai abroad? To do what? For how long? When was this decided? Why wasn’t I consulted?”

She fired off questions like a machine gun. Her voice sounded a bit muffled through the mask, but her concern and faint protective instinct were fully on display.

She walked straight to the armrest of the sofa next to Su Bai and sat down, striking a pose as if conducting an interrogation.

Facing his wife’s questioning, the ease Su Zheng had shown in front of his son moments ago mostly vanished. He opened his mouth, trying to explain: ”Huihui, listen to me, this is for the child’s future. The situation is different now...”

Su Bai quietly shrank back into the sofa and spread his hands toward Su Zheng, acting as if none of this had anything to do with him.

”Let’s go, let’s go. We’ll talk about this slowly in the bedroom.” Su Zheng almost half-embraced and half-guided his wife, whose face was written with disapproval, toward the master bedroom. Before leaving, he didn’t forget to turn back and glare fiercely at Su Bai, who was slumped in the sofa.

It wasn’t until the bedroom door clicked shut, cutting off his parents’ faint discussion, that Su Bai let out a long sigh of relief. He slumped even further, staring at the ceiling and muttering, ”Man, what a disaster out of nowhere. This is suffering...”

In the end, it was unknown what diplomatic tactics Su Zheng used, but he managed to convince Shang Hui.

The matter of going abroad for further studies was now set in stone.

Actually, Su Bai knew in his heart that from the moment his father spoke, unless he chose to join the company immediately as a ”Director Intern,” the decision couldn’t be changed.

But join the company?

Is that something a human should do?

Just thinking about wearing a suit every day, attending meetings, reviewing documents, and dealing with all sorts of shady characters—is that what a rich second-generation heir should be doing?

Choosing the lesser of two evils, going abroad for further studies at least sounded a bit more free.

Now was a fork in the road: go abroad or stay in the country.

Two directions. It was possible that one of them was completely contrary to the plot of the novel world. He could call up the system to look at the script.

But where’s the fun in that compared to gambling?

Let’s gamble!

A few days later in the afternoon, the light in the hotel suite was dim.

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”We’re finished,” Su Bai said, staring at the ceiling.

The body in his arms suddenly stiffened.

Mu Xue abruptly looked up, her voice carrying an imperceptible tremble: ”Is it because of... her?”

”What?” Su Bai instinctively asked back.

Mu Xue sat up, the silk quilt sliding down. She turned to face Su Bai and pleaded urgently: ”The thing about adding extra spice last time was my fault! I was possessed, I swear it was only that once! In the future... in the future, I will never again make any decisions on my own that might affect you or interfere with your other matters! Truly, I promise!”

She spoke very fast, as if fearing that being a step too slow would mean losing the chance to make amends.

Su Bai frowned, a bit confused by this nonsensical apology: ”What on earth are you talking about?”

What extra spice?

Seeing the genuine confusion on his face instead of the expected cold anger, Mu Xue was also stunned.

Could it be... not because of Lin Wan?

Not because of my petty, childish jealousy?

Then what could it be? Was it... simply that he didn’t want me anymore?

This realization made her heart turn cold.

”I’m going abroad,” Su Bai gave the answer directly when he saw her dazed. ”It’ll be in the next few months. I’m going to study something, and I probably won’t be back for a year or two.”

So that was it.

Mu Xue’s tensed heartstrings relaxed slightly; as long as he wasn’t tired of her as a person, it was fine.

But immediately, a greater sense of bewilderment and a trace of loss surged in her heart. ”Going abroad?”

She murmured the words, ”Why the sudden decision to go abroad? And for so long...”

”Uh... the reason is a bit complicated and hard to explain.” Su Bai looked away, uncharacteristically at a loss for words.

To settle an incident, he had established a charitable foundation, pushing himself into the public eye;

Then, out of boredom and a bit of selfishness, he had created a wildly successful game, attracting even more attention;

Ultimately, to maintain the family’s image and his own flawless reputation as a newly minted young talent, he had to cross the ocean to get a more glittering academic veneer?

This series of causes and effects was like a row of falling dominoes.

He felt like he was just slacking off most of the time, yet the game had taken on a life of its own because of that initial casual push, tilting in an unforeseen direction.

He was even a bit confused: was this going abroad a fated plot point for the Villain Su Bai in the original work, or was it a butterfly effect accidentally triggered by his series of slacking-off operations?

Or perhaps, regardless of which fork in the road he chose, this hurdle of going abroad would always be waiting ahead in some form?

”It’s okay,” Mu Xue’s voice pulled him back from his scattered thoughts.

She said softly, ”When you go abroad, I... I can still send you messages every day to report in. Just like now.”

There was a cautious persistence in her tone, as if this was the only way she could hold onto and maintain their connection.

These words actually made Su Bai a bit amused. He had to make things clearer: ”What I mean is, Mu Xue, after I go abroad, the distance will be too great and the time too long... this relationship between us should probably just end naturally.”

He used the word ’end,’ a clear definition.

Mu Xue looked up again, her eyes full of confusion and her brow slightly furrowed: ”Why?”

She seemed truly unable to understand. ”What does you going abroad have to do with... us? I can wait for you to come back.”