Chapter 32 Why should Ziyu love you for the rest of his life?! [VIP]

Mingyu realized that his world was strange when he was very young.

Tree branches that sway at the same angle forever, clouds that never move, trash cans that are always at the same height, koi fish that spin the same number of times every day, butterflies that reappear the same day after being killed, and doctors in hospitals who only treat dermatology and orthopedics.

But apart from him, no one else noticed these strange occurrences.

Mingyu, who discovered the strangeness, naturally became the monster in his friends' eyes.

Gradually, he had fewer and fewer friends.

The playmates who once vowed to be best friends for life were now running forward with terrified expressions, as if he were some kind of monster.

The truth is, he was simply pointing out that his nearly fifty-year-old parent showed no signs of aging on his face.

Later, Mingyu became smarter. He stopped talking about those strange things and started trying to be a normal person. But even so, no friends came to visit him anymore.

Until Xia Xiaoqiao appeared.

Xia Xiaoqiao was older than him, and also gentler and smarter. Even if Mingyu accidentally said something that he found strange, Xia Xiaoqiao would just casually praise him, saying that observing the world was a very impressive ability.

Mingyu found Xia Xiaoqiao very strange. He didn't want to have much contact with her at first, but for some reason, it was as if it were fate. If Mingyu didn't get close to Xia Xiaoqiao, he would encounter all sorts of troublesome little things. Every time this happened, Xia Xiaoqiao would appear by his side to help him out.

One day, Mingyu was passing by the river as usual when, for some unknown reason, he suddenly fell into the water. It was Xia Xiaoqiao who, disregarding the danger, jumped into the water to save him.

Mingyu suddenly realized that he had to become friends with Xia Xiaoqiao. It was like a game setting; the game set them to be friends, so they had to become friends.

Those strange things, those unspeakable truths, were perhaps all meant to make him follow the predetermined path.

And so, Xia Xiaoqiao became Mingyu's most important friend.

From that day on, Mingyu learned to ignore those strange things—perhaps that was part of the plot.

As for the truth behind these settings, Mingyu didn't want to investigate. He had a feeling that if he did, the truth wouldn't satisfy him.

He thought everything was predetermined, and naturally believed that Qin Yuzhen and Xia Xiaoqiao were also destined to be together.

Until Qin Peng told him angrily that Qin Yuzhen had chosen a poor boy!

Driven by curiosity, Mingyu, with his exceptionally handsome face, successfully landed a job at QY Company.

He had just graduated from high school and his university acceptance letter was still on its way. Just because of his face, he won everyone's favor and curiosity as soon as he entered the company. They surrounded him and asked him all sorts of questions about where he came from.

How long will you be working? Which school are you attending? Are you dating? How is your family?

Mingyu looked at the people in front of him. They should have been curious, but when they asked questions, they remained stiff. Even after he had answered his questions, they kept repeating the same questions.

Mingyu was already used to it. He sighed inwardly. Just as he decided to push these people aside and leave, he finally met Ziyu, the assistant who had supposedly stolen Xiaoqiao's future partner.

"Don't make things difficult for the new brother."

Before his appearance came a gentle, clear voice. The next second, a pair of slender hands pushed everyone aside, creating a breathing space in the cramped room. The people who had been acting strangely like NPCs suddenly came to life, their eyes shining as they chattered and teased the young man.

Mingyu also saw the young man by following the sound.

With a pale face, black eyes, black hair, and an unsightly black mole on the tip of his nose and the corner of his eye, a slender figure, and a delicate waist, the young man gave Mingyu a friendly smile and spoke in a light and unhurried tone, his voice falling into Mingyu's ear.

"Hello, I'm Ziyu. Shall I show you around the company?"

Ziyu reached out her hand to him.

At that very moment, Mingyu looked up and saw the clouds drifting by outside the window, the branches swaying in the wind, the butterflies fluttering, and the warm sunshine.

At that very moment, Mingyu heard his own heartbeat coming from his chest.

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"You killed Ziyu once, wasn't that enough! Are you going to kill him again in this lifetime?!" Mingyu shouted, throwing a punch as if he wouldn't admit defeat!

"You jinx! You scourge! You're worse than an animal!"

Thinking of the news he heard in his previous life that Ziyu had died in an earthquake, Mingyu's eyes reddened uncontrollably, and immense pain instantly overwhelmed his mind.

If Qin Yuzhen hadn't gone to ask Ziyu for forgiveness that night, Ziyu would have kept his appointment, wouldn't have had his heart pierced by the falling steel bar, and wouldn't have died!

He looked at Qinyu Town with malice.

"You were reborn too, right?! Don't think I don't know!" Mingyu gritted his teeth. "I can tell, I can tell!"

He was agitated, his chest heaving violently, and the smell of blood in his mouth grew stronger. He raised his fist once more!

"The biggest mistake he ever made in his life was falling in love with you!"

Qin Yuzhen, having been hit a few times, naturally wouldn't allow himself to get hurt again, and successfully blocked the attack with his hand.

"Get out of my way!"

Even though Mingyu was blocked by him, he didn't panic. When his hands were restrained, he used his feet. When his feet were injured, he used his mouth to bite. He was like a small dog baring its teeth and claws, using all his strength to hurt Qin Yuzhen.

Qin Yuzhen also went berserk, his movements becoming increasingly ruthless, each attack targeting the most vulnerable parts of the human body.

Mingyu was eventually pinned down by Qin Yu, his mouth full of blood.

"Qin Yuzhen, you two have only just started dating, haven't you?" Mingyu chuckled, his eyes filled with gloom. They were somewhat similar, and at this moment, their faces were filled with disgust for each other. For a moment, looking at each other was like looking in a mirror. Mingyu said, "Are you sure Ziyu can still love you like he did in our past life?"

"What do you mean?!"

"What right do you have to restrain him? Just because he loves you? But love has a time limit; he didn't love you in his past life!"

He agreed to be with me!

"So, did you agree because you love me, or were you forced to agree because of the power of your Qin family?!"

"If you can be reborn, I can be reborn too. There's no reason why the one who died with you won't be reborn! By the time he's reborn and finds that nothing has even started yet, are you sure he'll still love you?!"

“You know, right? Ziyu never cares about your rumors, right? If he really loved you, how could he not care… cough cough.” Mingyu coughed violently a few times. “And you can also feel how special Ziyu is to me, right?”

"The concert you missed in your past life, I went with him...!"

Mingyu forced a cold laugh: "In this lifetime, I will make Ziyu fall in love with me!"

A punch, carrying an intense stench of blood, slammed down!

"roll!"

Meanwhile, Ziyu was completely unaware of what had happened after he left.

He is on his way to his aunt's address.

He had only gone halfway when his muddled mind suddenly realized something was wrong.

He picked up his phone again and found the number that had called him earlier saying his aunt was going to commit suicide.

It was a completely unfamiliar number.

Ziyu stopped in his tracks, doubts beginning to grow in his mind.

He quickly contacted the professional debt collector he had previously met.

How are things going with what I asked you to do? Do you know their current situation?

Professionals are indeed professionals; they reply to messages instantly.

【We do conduct after-sales follow-ups. Boss, that little guy couldn't stand being at school and kept making a fuss about having his grandparents move out. They just moved out a while ago.】

They moved away?

Ziyu was startled.

His aunt hadn't told him the news, which meant that if he had gone to the original address, he would have only found an empty house... no, it could have been something else...

Do you know where they moved to?

"Okay, boss, shall we send you the address?"

Send it to me.

The address was sent over quickly; it was a place completely opposite to my original address.

Is my aunt sick?

No, boss. We debt collectors are all professional. We might scare them a little, but we won't lay a hand on them.

Okay, I understand. Thank you for your hard work.

【It's alright, boss. It's nothing. If you need any more work next time, feel free to come to us.】

Yes, it will.

Ziyu closed the chat interface with the debt collector.

At the same time, the unknown number called again.

"Ziyu? Have you arrived yet?" The voice was still very anxious. Ziyu had been startled by the first sentence he spoke. He had just skipped the plot and received a warning that the plot had deviated, so he didn't have time to distinguish between truth and falsehood. "Your aunt is still making a fuss! It will be too late if you don't come soon!"

Ziyu calmly asked, "Who are you?"

"What are you talking about? Do you still want to save your aunt?"

Ziyu repeated, "Who are you? I don't know you."

"..."

The other end didn't say anything more.

"My aunt has already moved. What are you trying to do by lying to me about going there?"

Ziyu heard a rustling sound coming from the other side, accompanied by electronic music.

"Hello?"

"Beep beep beep—"

The call was disconnected.

[Help, tell me, are you sure this playthrough is the same as the last one?]

Ziyu stood still. In fact, he had had this doubt more than once.

From the very first day he returned, nothing he encountered went his way. Each event seemed increasingly absurd. He had initially thought that the scumbag protagonist's role of keeping a lover would be normal, but after skipping the plot, he was met with news that the story had deviated from its intended course.

Qinyu Town seems to be no different from last week, but everything it does and says is wrong!

The scumbag protagonist wasn't cooperating with the plot at all!

The assistant repeated the same thing.

[Please do not question the rationality of our game! Our game has undergone numerous constructions and improvements; there is no possibility of bugs. Everything is designed to serve the player. Please focus on the storyline and successfully conquer Qin Yu Town!]

"Help, I've always wanted to ask, since your game is designed to serve the players, shouldn't the storyline be controlled by the players? Why do we have to let the players follow the development of the storyline? Is that really fun?" Ziyu said.

Since the beginning of his first playthrough of the story, Ziyu has never experienced the exhilarating and enjoyable feeling that a normal game should provide. From start to finish, all he has felt is extreme repression and pain. If it weren't for his single-minded focus on money, anyone else playing this story game would have suffered an emotional breakdown, right? Especially the final "chasing after his wife" scene, it's less about the dominant character chasing after his wife and more about the final siege of the submissive character.

The reason why the submissive character forgives the scumbag is mostly not because of so-called love, but because they are forced to choose a happy ending to survive. If they are normal people, when they realize that even if they leave the scumbag, they will not get any good ending, and even if they escape to the ends of the earth, they can only continue to be with the scumbag, then at the moment they agree to the scumbag, normal people will be desperate and in pain. This kind of fate that is completely inescapable will directly stimulate the brain.

[Help, is this game really for players to play?]

Ziyu dialed the number again, but it was already disconnected.

Ziyu's confusion deepened.

The assistant's replies were slower than usual, and Ziyu's patience was about to run out when the assistant finally spoke again.

[This is the system assistant, replying to the host. The assistant's system level is too low and has entered an update phase. Please wait patiently for the update to complete.]

They chose to escape.