Chapter 35 – The First World 35

 

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Maybe it was because they had been apart for too long, or maybe it was because he had been in the capsule for too long.

 

At first, Chu Shici could only passively endure Su Zheyan’s kisses without being able to respond.

 

Su Zheyan gradually sensed something was amiss.

 

He stopped and wiped away Chu Shici’s tears, hesitantly speaking, “Ah Ci?”

 

The system also chimed in, asking, “Darling, wake up, you’ve arrived at your destination!”

 

Chu Shici continued to stare blankly at Su Zheyan and said, “Are you really back?”

 

Su Zheyan furrowed his brow and asked, “Why do you ask that?”

 

“Sorry, I thought I was dreaming. You told me to take it slowly, and I need to take it slowly.”

 

Chu Shici took deep breaths, closing and opening his eyes repeatedly.

 

Every time he opened his eyes, he nervously looked at Su Zheyan.

 

He repeated this five times, and after the last time he closed his eyes, Su Zheyan heard him silently counting a few numbers.

 

When Chu Shici opened his eyes again, their gazes met.

 

Su Zheyan leaned down and rubbed his cheek against Chu Shici’s face, finally eliciting a reaction from him.

 

Chu Shici tightly bit his lower lip, trying to suppress the choked sobs echoing within the small capsule.

 

“Why did it take you forty years to come back! I thought it would be at most ten or twenty years, you bastard! I never expected it to be forty years. I thought you wouldn’t come back, that you didn’t want me anymore, just like them!”

 

Su Zheyan remained silent, furrowing his brows and quietly gazing at him.

 

Chu Shici lay beneath him, with the hard black stone behind him causing discomfort on his back.

 

But he seemed completely oblivious to the pain in his back as he gripped the edge of Su Zheyan’s clothes, crying and shouting.

 

“I almost gave up. In these past few years, I couldn’t even dream of you. You never looked for me in my dreams! Su Zheyan! Fuck… Fuck… Don’t abandon me.”

 

He curled up, shrinking into Su Zheyan’s embrace, sobbing, “Please comfort me quickly. I’m really scared. Kiss me, or sleep with me, just treat me kindly. Do something, don’t just stand there like in my dreams, where I couldn’t even touch you.”

 

Su Zheyan remained silent for a long time before suddenly getting up and leaving the capsule.

 

Chu Shici couldn’t care about crying anymore and grabbed the hem of his military uniform, anxiously asking, “Where are you going? Are you leaving again? I won’t cry anymore, don’t abandon me. I’ll be quiet, I won’t cry anymore.”

 

Su Zheyan glanced at him and pressed his invisible earpiece, speaking in a cold voice, “Regroup and wait for me on the spaceship.”

 

Someone on the other end said something, and Su Zheyan’s brows furrowed even more. “I can take care of myself. Without my command, no one is allowed to come near.”

 

He paused and added, “Contact the psychologist. I’ll bring someone back later.”

 

Chu Shici looked up at him, his chest heaving heavily.

 

The system sensed that something was off and nervously observed with a tissue in its hands.

 

Su Zheyan severed the connection, loosened Chu Shici’s grip, and took off his military uniform, laying it on the ground.

 

He remained silent throughout, and his silence made Chu Shici increasingly uneasy.

 

Su Zheyan extended his hand towards him, and instinctively, Chu Shici moved back.

 

Su Zheyan pursed his lips tightly and forcibly pulled him out, placing him on the spread-out uniform.

 

During the forty years, not only had Chu Shici not changed, but Su Zheyan also looked the same as before.

 

Chu Shici couldn’t find any trace of the years on him. He stared into those blue eyes, trying to find the sense of security he once had.

 

Under his gaze, Su Zheyan’s eye sockets visibly reddened, and a layer of mist formed in his cold eyes.

 

Tears swirled in his eyes, and his once cold voice became dry and hoarse.

 

“How dare you say that, you liar. You said you could hibernate, that you wouldn’t perceive the outside world. You said that with every blink, you had no idea what was happening outside.”

 

Tears splashed onto Chu Shici’s face, leaving him speechless.

 

“You really acted so capable. Back then, I couldn’t see through your lies at all. You told me to let go and do whatever I wanted, for as long as I wanted, without worrying about you. I believed you. I believed it all.”

 

Normally, no matter how miserable Su Zheyan cried, his expression would remain unchanged.

 

But now, his expression was completely out of control as he hugged Chu Shici, murmuring in a state of collapse, “And then I put you into the capsule myself and locked it for forty years. Before leaving, I even told you not to leave and wait for me. I locked you away for forty years, Ah Ci, I didn’t know you were conscious. How did you get through these years? Do you hate me?”

 

In the previous second, he was a proud and indifferent general, giving orders to soldiers in a cold voice.

 

In the next second, Su Zheyan hugged Chu Shici, crying until his face turned red and he had difficulty breathing.

 

Su Zheyan pulled out the military knife from his waist and placed it in Chu Shici’s hand, letting him stab or slash as he pleased.

 

Chu Shici was dumbfounded by his crying.

 

He looked at the knife in his hand and then at Su Zheyan, who was on the verge of fainting from crying. He couldn’t react for a moment.

 

The system sighed in his mind, “My goodness, he really knows how to cry. But it looks so good. I took several screenshots. Ah, now do all seme cry so alluringly? I want to…”

 

Before the sentence could be finished, the system was thrown into the black box.

 

Chu Shici tried to speak, “Yan ge, you don’t have to feel guilty. I deceived you without your knowledge.”

 

Su Zheyan, with red eyes, suddenly kissed him.

 

He kissed Chu Shici’s lips, their bodies wrapped in the military uniform, trembling uncontrollably.

 

“I’m worried about you, it’s all right now, it’s all right, Ah Ci. I did it, the country is safe and stable now. I will take you away from this desolate planet. I’m not a prisoner anymore; I can give you the best life. We don’t have to be apart anymore.”

 

“I love you, Ah Ci. I’ve come back to take you with me.”

 

Initially, Chu Shici’s mind was a bit clouded, but upon hearing the trembling voice in his ear, all the grievances suddenly surged out.

 

Unable to hold back any longer, he tightly embraced Su Zheyan and kissed him back passionately.

 

Time seemed to rewind forty years.

 

They were outside the capsule filled with black stones, in the vast wilderness, comforting each other like wild beasts gone out of control.

 

The first time they did such a thing, they were about to part ways, not knowing how long it would take to see each other again.

 

Perhaps Su Zheyan would die outside, or maybe Chu Shici would leave this world with regrets. To alleviate each other’s anxiety, they resorted to the most primitive solution.

 

Forty years later, they embraced each other in this barren wilderness.

 

They attempted to release the pent-up grievances and longing through this savage act.

 

Chu Shici lay on the military uniform, enduring an even more intense impact than before.

 

He had watched too many films, and his language became quite vulgar. At first, it felt okay, but as time went on, he began to feel nauseous.

 

The system said it was due to excessive exposure to explicit content, leading to sexual indifference. It warned him that if he didn’t quit this behaviour, he would become useless in the future.

 

However, Su Zheyan was clearly just a beginner who didn’t know anything besides working hard. Yet Chu Shici’s reaction was extremely intense.

 

It was as if every simple touch could reach his soul through his body, gradually soothing the wounds in his heart.

 

Those blue eyes kept staring at him, as if afraid that he would disappear.

 

Every teardrop that fell from Chu Shici’s eyes was wiped away by Su Zheyan.

 

He heard a cold and hoarse voice in his ear, “Ah Ci, I owe you forty years, and I will repay them all in the remaining years of my life.”

 

The system attempted to pry open the lock in the black box and received a prompt from the backend.

 

【Vitality +30, current vitality 30.】

 

【Vitality +10, current vitality 99.】

 

When the system finally came out of the black box, Su Zheyan was leaning against the capsule, whispering softly to Chu Shici.

 

Chu Shici nestled in his arms, draped in his military uniform.

 

Their fingers intertwined, and they both seemed much more stable.

 

The system looked around, noticing signs of a fight on the ground.

 

It threw away the lock-picking tools in its hands, “Again! I knew you would come up with something. Not even a drop of soup left for me!”

 

…

 

According to Su Zheyan, the reason he only came to pick up Chu Shici forty years later was that he existed in a different timeline.

 

Su Zheyan used the space-time bridge to travel back in time and informed the Omega Queen of the future situation.

 

The Omega Queen acted swiftly and decisively. She immediately destroyed the Mainframe here, completely annihilated the space-time bridge, and the established coordinates.

 

High-ranking officials of Eternal Life Technology were arrested, and the founder, Eva, was thoroughly investigated. All dangers were snuffed out in their infancy.

 

This timeline became completely independent, and people from the future no longer had a chance to travel back.

 

However, at the moment the space-time bridge was destroyed, Su Zheyan, who had traveled through time and space, disappeared.

 

He seemed to have anticipated that he had reached the end of his time. Before the space-time bridge was destroyed, he entrusted a small iron box to the Queen.

 

“I have changed gender and cannot touch the black stone. This was made for me by someone I entrusted. Please give it to the present me. I’m about to disappear. But there are things I must do and someone I must find.”

 

He paused, and a gentle smile appeared on his usually indifferent face. “He is doing well. I love him very much.”

 

After he disappeared, the Queen found a three-year-old Su Zheyan in this timeline and gave him the iron box as a gift.

 

When Su Zheyan was five years old, he opened the iron box. It was filled with black stones, with a paper heart folded in the middle.

 

He unfolded the paper heart and saw two lines of text. The first line was crossed out, indicating it had been completed.

 

The second line read, “Go to the desolate star and bring Ah Ci back.”

 

Below was a small map.

 

The moment he saw those two lines, he knew Ah Ci was a human.

 

After that, he would dream of a man with short yellow hair and a slight limp.

 

At that time, Su Zheyan didn’t know what the dream meant. He continued to grow up normally and lived his own life.

 

But as he grew older, there was always a sense of emptiness in his heart, as if a piece of flesh had been forcibly taken away.

 

Su Zheyan joined the military and became a general. In the empire ruled by the Omega Queen, it was not illegal for betas and omegas to join the military.

 

The empire had not abolished the death penalty, and the Desolate star was not an exile but a resource mining area for the empire.

 

He achieved great success in his career and lived a happy and fulfilling life, but Su Zheyan always held the paper heart absentmindedly.

 

Different timelines collided, and many memories appeared in his mind.

 

Versions of Su Zheyan from different timelines slowly merged, and the overwhelming emotions and memories simultaneously assaulted his brain, causing him to fall ill and spend two years in recovery.

 

During these two years, he completed the integration completely.

 

His future self would fall in love with a man who started as a small robot and later became a human.

 

The man refused to reveal his full name and only went by the name Ah Ci.

 

Ah Ci had accompanied him through the most difficult times, and they fell in love amidst the ruins. In the end, Ah Ci left for his ideals and ambitions, and now it was time for Su Zheyan to go and bring Ah Ci back.

 

…

 

Su Zheyan’s explanation was puzzling, and Chu Shici couldn’t understand it for a moment.

 

He remained silent for a long time, tugging at the military uniform on his body, attempting to free himself from Su Zheyan’s embrace.

 

Su Zheyan held him even tighter.

 

Chu Shici’s face turned slightly pale, and he hesitated, saying, “So… you are my Yan Ge?”

 

Su Zheyan pursed his lips, lowered his gaze, and looked at him silently, appearing somewhat aggrieved.

 

The system peeked at the situation and commented, “He’s being questioned. Tsk tsk, he looks so sad.”

 

Chu Shici explained in a low voice, “You said the Yan Ge who traveled through time and space disappeared, and you are another Su Zheyan from a different timeline. So, are you… the Yan Ge I know?”

 

Before he could finish his sentence, his ear was bitten.

 

Su Zheyan looked at him with a cold expression, his cheeks flushed with anger.

 

Gritting his teeth, he sneered, “How am I supposed to explain? I’m the same person in every timeline.”

 

“I know, but you’re only 23 years old now, and for you, you’ve only seen me once.”

 

“26.”

 

“Age doesn’t matter. It’s our first meeting.”

 

Su Zheyan’s chest heaved heavily, and he was on the verge of biting his lower lip until it bled.

 

“These two timelines are parallel. Future me traveled back in time and entered this timeline, causing a separate branch to form and the past me to receive the paper heart. Initially, we were the same person from different timelines, and when I was 23, versions of me from multiple timelines merged.”

 

Chu Shici asked in confusion, “Why were you able to merge?”

 

“I don’t know. The scientists of the Empire couldn’t explain it.”

 

“Then who are you exactly?”

 

Su Zheyan looked as if he was about to cry.

 

“You don’t recognize me.”

 

He curled his lips and revealed a mocking smile. “I understand. You don’t see me as the person in your heart. Since you don’t recognize me, then I’ll leave.”

 

As he spoke of leaving, he held on even tighter.

 

The system clicked its tongue and said, “Why make it so complicated? I’ll deduct a small processing fee and check the compatibility of your souls. Our system judges people based on soul recognition.”

 

After two seconds, it came back with a report. “There is compatibility, but it’s a bit strange. Both of you, just like your souls, are outsiders.”

 

“What are you saying?”

 

【In the world of novels, the souls of the natives are blue. For someone like you who traveled through, your soul is red, and his soul is also red. I accessed the image records of your interactions with your man, and the two souls completely overlap. The Su Zheyan in front of you is your man. Just like you, he is a traveler.】

 

After the system finished speaking, it exclaimed again, “His soul is also bound by chains, something only criminals have. He must have done something wrong. After sealing his memories, he was exiled to this small world by the headquarters for punishment. It’s really pitiful. With so many timelines here, he probably doesn’t even know how many times he has committed suicide before meeting you.”

 

Chu Shici poked Su Zheyan’s cheek. Su Zheyan was still angry, ignoring him.

 

“His Vitality is already at 99 points. What will happen to Yan Ge after I leave? Will he continue to be punished here?”

 

【No, the environment he is currently in is safe, and there are no conditions for punishment. It’s likely that he will die of natural causes. As for whether he will be punished in other worlds afterward, it depends on how many punishment worlds he has been sentenced to.】

 

“Can I accompany him?”

 

【Are you talking about experiencing the punishment worlds with him? Don’t hold unrealistic fantasies.】

 

Just as the system finished speaking, the sound of vitality points decreasing could be heard.

 

Opening the panel, they saw that the host’s vitality had dropped to 20.

 

The system tossed the file aside, allowing it to be mouthy and spill everything.

 

…

 

In this timeline, Su Zheyan’s parents did not die in the war.

 

When their son went out, he brought back a male beta.

 

There were still marks of kisses on the beta’s neck. Their son was stubborn and didn’t say anything, but he always held the other person’s hand.

 

Their son finally came to his senses and was willing to find a partner, making the elderly couple very happy.

 

Su Zheyan held Chu Shici’s hand and went to the government to register their citizen information.

 

The Queen had learned her lesson and used relatively simple methods. Taking photos, filling out electronic forms, and drawing a blood sample.

 

The entire process was open and transparent, without the risk of having a crystal implanted silently.

 

Having spent forty years in the capsule, where he could only talk to the system, Chu Shici was now a bit afraid of people.

 

But every time he felt nervous, Su Zheyan would silently hold him in his arms.

 

After filling out the forms, Su Zheyan directly pulled him to the neighboring marriage registration office.

 

Chu Shici couldn’t believe that he could get married to someone. He stood in front of the door, hesitant to go in.

 

Su Zheyan asked him in a cold voice, “Don’t want to?”

 

Chu Shici shook his head, “I dare not. Maybe we should forget about it. What if you regret it later…”

 

Before he could finish his sentence, Su Zheyan dragged him inside.

 

The two of them bickered all the way, and the female beta in charge of registration glanced warily at Su Zheyan. While Chu Shici was signing, she quietly asked him, “I saw it all. If you’re being forced, just blink.”

 

Until they completed the formalities and received their marriage certificate, that beta continued to send secret signals to Chu Shici, indicating that she had a gun and could subdue the foul male beta who forced them into marriage at any time.

 

Chu Shici had known for a long time that he had serious psychological issues, but he never had the money to seek treatment during his lifetime.

 

After leaving the desolate planet, Su Zheyan found the best psychologist for him.

 

The Empire was powerful, the country was prosperous, and there would be no major wars in the coming years.

 

While Chu Shici underwent psychological treatment, Su Zheyan was always by his side.

 

He could see that his Ah Ci was fragile now, having spent forty years in the capsule without any daylight. Ah Ci instinctively hunched his body while walking.

 

Looking at Chu Shici, Su Zheyan was reminded of his past self.

 

The same despair, the same helplessness.

 

But they were both lucky. Just when they were about to collapse, they grasped each other as a lifeline.

 

In the past, Ah Ci would cheer him up, and now it was his turn to protect Ah Ci.

 

When Su Zheyan turned forty, Chu Shici’s psychological issues had improved, and he gradually emerged from the shadow of those forty years.

 

He was no longer afraid of confined spaces, nor would he wake up in the middle of the night, hugging Su Zheyan to repeatedly confirm if he truly existed.

 

When they were supposed to have their wedding, Su Zheyan was out fighting.

 

Later, due to various delays, under the urging of their parents, they held a belated wedding ceremony.

 

Su Zheyan was a general, and many soldiers came on their wedding day.

 

Over a thousand mechas flew overhead, forming a grand welcoming procession.

 

Su Zheyan led Chu Shici into his mecha.

 

Mecha was a man’s romance, and Chu Shici’s attention was completely focused on the cool mecha, without noticing how skilled Su Zheyan’s piloting technique was.

 

At the wedding venue, before Su Zheyan stepped out of the mecha, he glared at it fiercely.

 

The emcee on stage eloquently said, “Mr. Su Zheyan and Mr. Chu Shici, two betas, officially became a beta couple today. Let us offer our blessings to them. Wishing these two betas a happy and fulfilling life!”

 

“B” is the abbreviation for beta, and “2b” refers to two betas. People in this world were accustomed to this terminology and didn’t find it funny.

 

The whole audience applauded, and only Chu Shici was tickled by the humor, tightly pursing his lips and giggling.

 

Su Zheyan glanced at Chu Shici, a faint smile curling up at the corner of his mouth.

 

Although he didn’t understand what Ah Ci found funny, when he saw Chu Shici laughing, he would join in the happiness.

 

…

 

It had been thirty years since Su Zheyan took Chu Shici out.

 

During these thirty years, Su Zheyan’s vitality remained stuck at 99, and he couldn’t increase it even by a single point.

 

The system thought there was a problem with the data and reported it to the logistics department. The technical department replied that everything was normal.

 

In order to maintain their livelihood, the system learned to allocate potions.

 

According to the system, some departments would provide the host with access to the system store.

 

Many systems, like itself, would take on part-time jobs during working hours. They would sell the items they made at a low price to the store, which would then sell them to the hosts at a higher price.

 

“I’m making ‘Charm Elixir.’ Hosts from the strategy department like using it. After drinking it, they become more charming and gain a higher initial favorability rating,” the system said.

 

Chu Shici also wanted to increase his charm. “How much does it cost?”

 

“We can’t use it in our department. Cheating will result in punishment. And why do you need it? Su Zheyan is completely devoted to you. You don’t need to increase your charm,” the system replied.

 

“I’m afraid,” Chu Shici said.

 

“Afraid of what? If you dare to say you’re afraid in front of him, he can give you a cold face tonight and cry while making love to you,” the system stated matter-of-factly.

 

It spoke the truth, and Chu Shici fell silent.

 

Su Zheyan never cried when he fought, nor did he cry when he got injured. But he always felt so heartbroken for him that tears would well up in his eyes.

 

In the interstellar era, the average human lifespan exceeded 200 years, and the aging process had slowed down.

 

Chu Shici had been living in the empire for forty years, and he initially thought that Su Zheyan’s vitality remained stagnant at 99 because Su Zheyan felt indebted to him and wanted to make up for it.

 

But forty years had passed, and his vitality still hadn’t reached 100.

 

During those forty years, the empire had undergone significant changes.

 

Without the founder, Eva, in charge, Eternal Life Technology was eventually replaced by other companies. The queen learned her lesson and closely monitored various high-tech corporations.

 

Machines couldn’t commit crimes, but humans could. If scientists had corrupted morals, the harm they could cause to society would be immeasurable.

 

Su Zheyan had risen through the ranks and gained great fame, becoming the idol of countless young betas.

 

Someone online said, “General, you are such a good man, willing to marry a disabled person who can’t be cured and love him so much.”

 

After receiving treatment, Chu Shici had become immune to keywords like “disabled” and “cripple.”

 

But Su Zheyan hadn’t.

 

He took some time to learn, registered an account, and went to the comment section to reply with a “Fuck off.”

 

Su Zheyan had strict upbringing and disliked the internet.

 

He only had two ways of cursing, one was “fuck off,” and the other was “get lost.”

 

That comment was the peak of all his learned skills, using everything he had acquired in his lifetime.

 

He could fight hundreds in a battle, but he was worse than an elementary school student in an argument. The opponent spewed poetic insults, leaving him dumbfounded.

 

If it weren’t for Chu Shici holding him back, he would have piloted his mecha and flown to another planet that night to have a face-to-face talk with that person.

 

Chu Shici had a well-behaved appearance that elders liked. After marriage, Su Zheyan’s parents often came to visit him. In the world of novels, he once again experienced the warmth of family.

 

When Chu Shici’s vitality slowly rose to 60, the doctor who regularly conducted psychological evaluations on him informed Su Zheyan, “The patient’s mental health has significantly improved, General Su. Although your loved one still cannot walk normally, he no longer has suicidal thoughts.”

 

That day marked fifty years since Su Zheyan brought Chu Shici back.

 

The system had been doing part-time jobs for a total of ninety years, and today it finally heard the notification sound.

 

【Vitality +1, current vitality 100/100.】

 

【Main quest: Save the male lead – Help Su Zheyan regain his spirits and become a positive male lead (completed).】

 

【The host will leave the world in 24 hours, and the physical body of this world will enter idle mode. Please prepare for departure, both the host and the system.】

 

The system stood frozen for a while before abandoning the half-prepared potion and rushing to the mailbox.

 

When it saw the salary card, it cried tears of joy and sighed deeply in the system space: “It’s a salary! After ninety years, I finally made it!”

 

Chu Shici listened to the voice in his mind, but he didn’t react for a long time.

 

He once thought that time couldn’t heal his wounds, but later he realized that it wasn’t time that deepened the wounds, but loneliness.

 

Su Zheyan had been with him for fifty years, smoothing out the wounds in his heart. The remaining old wounds no longer troubled his life.

 

As Chu Shici was about to leave the space, he was sitting next to Su Zheyan, reading a book.

 

He turned his head and looked at Su Zheyan, planting a gentle kiss on his cheek.

 

Su Zheyan noticed his unusual behavior and asked in a cold tone, “Feeling unwell?”

 

Chu Shici shook his head, holding Su Zheyan’s hand and intertwining their fingers. “After meeting you, I have no regrets in my life. Yan Ge, you made me realize how amazing I am and gave me the courage to keep going. You always say that I saved you, but in reality, you saved me.”

 

Su Zheyan averted his gaze slightly, his ears turning slightly red.

 

“You have something on your mind, but you can’t say it?”

 

“Mmm.”

 

Su Zheyan remained silent for a while and said, “It’s alright. I’m here, don’t worry.”

 

Driven by selfish motives, just as Chu Shici’s consciousness was about to leave the world, he whispered softly into Su Zheyan’s ear, “In the future, I want to try a Platonic kind of love.”

 

The next second, the system pulled him away from this world.

 

At the same time, Su Zheyan’s expression momentarily turned blank, and his blue eyes dimmed.

 

After a few minutes, he returned to normal.

He lowered his head and looked at the person in his arms. “Did you just speak?”

 

“I can’t remember, it probably doesn’t matter.”

 

…

 

Chu Shici felt a pang of jealousy in his heart. He always had this feeling that after he left, his man would dote on the idle character.

 

Fortunately, he had left a trick up his sleeve before leaving, hoping that Su Zheyan would like the concept of Platonic love.

 

The system shook its head and tutted. “Look at how jealous you are, you lemon tree. I asked the question you entrusted me with, and there are currently over 25,000 souls in a state of exile and punishment. It’s impossible to determine which one is your man. However, I heard from the headquarters that a few prisoners have finished their punishment today and have been sent to other worlds.”

 

Chu Shici held his breath. “Can you find Yan Ge?”

 

“You think too highly of me. I’m just an intern. The information about the prisoners is classified, and even regular employees don’t have the authority to access it.”

 

After the system finished speaking, it secretly opened the vitality panel, afraid that the host’s vitality would drop again.

 

But after contemplating for a while, Chu Shici’s lips curled up instead. “Thank you for your hard work. I’m already content to have spent over ninety years with Yan Ge. Don’t worry, this time I’ll be fine.”

 

The system remained silent, staring straight at him.

 

“What’s wrong?”

 

“Nothing, I just feel that you smile more naturally than before.”

 

Satisfied with Chu Shici’s condition, the system began loading information for the next world.

 

The new world was a campus romance novel, and their target object was the male lead.

 

After the dizziness subsided, Chu Shici slowly opened his eyes.

 

The system was speaking to him in his mind. “There’s been a little mishap this time, and it’s not my fault. It’s due to unknown reasons. You’re not a human, you’re a rubber clay figurine created by the male lead. But don’t worry, I bought you a patch. You can fly like Superman, just a bit slower. Your eyes can emit laser beams, but they’re not very strong, maybe just enough to light a match.”

 

After the system finished speaking, it stood with its hands on its hips. “Praise me.”

 

“Awesome!”

 

Chu Shici chatted with the system while surveying his surroundings.

 

It was a bedroom, and he was currently standing on a bedside table.

 

There were dried bloodstains on the worn-out floor, and the word “death” was written on the wall.

 

Not far away, on a makeshift desk, there was a stack of middle school exercise books. On the chair sat a worn-out and faded school bag, indicating that it was a child’s room.

 

When his gaze fell upon the window, he saw a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy hunched over, straddling the windowsill.

 

Through the glass, he could see the buildings on the ground. It was raining outside, with occasional flashes of lightning illuminating the night sky.

 

The boy stood barefoot on the narrow ledge, gripping the window frame with one hand, bowing his head silently as he looked down below.

 

At the same time, Chu Shici heard a notification sound.

 

“Male lead Vitality detected. Current Vitality: -19/100.”

 

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welp that wraps up the first world. (ಥ﹏ಥ)

now on to the next huehuehue

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