After thinking it over, she decided it would be quicker to just ask Lin Yue directly.
With that thought, Chen Xi asked curiously, "How did you sense it?"
Without giving it a second thought, Lin Yue replied casually, "Same way people know they need to eat. I can feel the changes in my body, too."
"I see..." Chen Xi pondered, then roughly explained her suspicions.
After hearing her reasoning, Lin Yue murmured, "You think the curse disappearing might cause other problems?"
"Exactly." A faint sense of danger, long absent, stirred in Chen Xi's heart.
"And it's not that problems might arise. Knowing you, they're bound to." Her tone was certain as she lightly tapped Lin Yue's cheek with a finger. It was soft and pleasantly squishy.
Hearing what sounded almost like an accusation, Lin Yue's mouth twitched. "Huh? That's blatant discrimination."
"Why are you saying I'm bound to have problems? Don't pin that on me."
"Aw, come on. I just misspoke." Chen Xi sat up on the bed and pulled her into her arms.
"Let me put it another way. You're the protagonist, so of course you have all this trouble..." Seeing Lin Yue's resentful look, Chen Xi changed tack. "Well, you could call it an opportunity, too."
Immediately picking up on the insincerity in Chen Xi's words, Lin Yue snorted. "Then you can have this opportunity. Want it?"
"No." Chen Xi refused without hesitation.
"Think about it. This sort of thing only counts as a blessing if it happens to you." She continued trying to sweet-talk her.
"Forget all that. Just tell me what we should do." Having already fulfilled all her wishes, Lin Yue was like a salted fish with no dreams, lying on the soft down bed.
"What should we do?" Chen Xi couldn't think of an