"Get...out..."

Xie Chen's suppressed roar echoed in the silent living room, filled with extreme pain and struggle. His tall body was slightly hunched due to the fierce internal struggle, one hand tightly covering his head, which seemed to be splitting open, while the other hand was clenched into a fist, the knuckles white from the force and the veins bulging.

What's most startling is his eyes!

Those deep, dark eyes were now being wildly eroded and torn apart by a chaotic and dazzling golden light! Two completely different lights were fighting fiercely, flashing and colliding with each other in his pupils!

What belongs to "Xie Chen" is coldness, sharpness, rage at being violated, and a trace of lingering complex emotions caused by that kiss; while the golden light reveals a more ancient, more indifferent, majesty and ruthlessness as if looking down on ants, with a cold and resolute determination to completely eliminate all unstable factors!

The main consciousness! And those unknown interference lines! They are no longer lurking, but have completely erupted into a war for dominance at this moment when Xie Chen's emotions are fluctuating violently and his mental barrier is cracking!

Lin Nuannuan was terrified by this sudden and unimaginable turn of events, frozen in place, unable to move. She watched as Xie Chen's facial muscles contorted in pain, and as the inhuman golden light in his eyes grew ever brighter. A fear from the depths of her soul gripped her!

This is no longer the obsession and possessiveness within the human realm; it is a terrifying battle being waged within the vessel of some... higher-level being!

"Who...are you?!"

In the struggle, Xie Chen squeezed out the question again, but his voice became extremely strange, sometimes hoarse and angry (belonging to the domineering CEO Xie Chen), and sometimes cold and ethereal, as if carrying multiple echoes (belonging to that golden light)!

These words were like a death knell, shattering Lin Nuannuan's last shred of hope!

"088! 088! What do we do now?!" She frantically called out to the system in her mind; it was her only lifeline.

However, all that answered her was deathly silence!

System 088, that system that was sometimes noisy and sometimes provided crucial information, seems to have never existed and has been completely lost!

Our last hope is gone!

Just as Lin Nuannuan was sinking into despair, the golden light that had gained the upper hand suddenly intensified! Xie Chen's body abruptly stopped trembling, and he slowly lowered his hand from his head and stood up straight.

His movements remained as upright as ever, but his demeanor had undergone a complete transformation. The previous gloom, violence, and exhaustion had vanished without a trace, replaced by a suffocating, absolute pressure and indifference that seemed to emanate from the primordial universe.

He raised his eyes, and those eyes, now completely filled with pure gold, coldly and devoid of human emotion, locked onto Lin Nuannuan.

Staring into those inhuman eyes, Lin Nuannuan felt her blood freeze! She felt as if she were standing naked before an absolute judge, with all her secrets and pretenses laid bare!

"An anomaly."

Xie Chen spoke, his voice steady yet carrying a strange, almost law-like resonance. Every syllable struck Lin Nuannuan's soul, causing her to tremble involuntarily.

"Your presence has disrupted the stability of the container and contaminated the established trajectory."

His words completely confirmed Lin Nuannuan's worst suspicions! He was not Xie Chen! He was the "subjective consciousness" occupying (or was) Xie Chen's body! And he saw her as an "anomaly" and "contamination" that needed to be eliminated!

"I..." Lin Nuannuan opened her mouth, wanting to explain and beg for mercy, but found that under that absolute pressure, she could not even utter a single syllable.

"Clean up the program and start it."

Xie Chen didn't waste any words and delivered his verdict directly. He slowly raised one hand, the fingers that had once gently covered the back of her hand and also roughly restrained her wrist, now wrapped with strands of dangerous golden energy, like the tentacles of death, aimed at her from afar!

The shadow of death loomed over her like a tangible entity! Lin Nuannuan had no doubt that in the next second, she would be completely annihilated by this unknown and terrifying power, leaving not even a trace behind!

The instinct for survival overwhelmed everything! She couldn't die here!

Just before the golden energy was about to erupt, Lin Nuannuan mustered all her strength and screamed out the name that might awaken her other personality:

"Xie Chen—!!"

This name, like ice water thrown into boiling oil, instantly triggered a violent reaction!

Xie Chen's raised hand suddenly froze! The pure gold in his eyes rippled violently, like a boulder thrown into a calm lake! A trace of the original Xie Chen's pained and angry ink, like a trapped beast unwilling to perish, stubbornly broke through the golden light and reappeared!

"Don't... touch... her!!"

A hoarser, more primal, and violent roar erupted from the same throat! It was the voice of the domineering CEO Xie Chen, filled with anger at being manipulated and an absolute, inviolable possessiveness of everything!

His body trembled violently again, and the raised hand turned with difficulty, inch by inch, toward his own chest! It was as if two souls were wrestling madly within the same body, one wanting to carry out the elimination, and the other wanting to defend it to the death!

Golden light and inky shadows flickered, intertwined, and tore at him wildly! The air in the living room became viscous and distorted due to this supernatural force, the furniture trembled slightly, and the lights flickered, as if the entire space could not withstand this terrifying storm within!

Lin Nuannuan collapsed to the ground, staring dumbfounded at the horrifying scene that was beyond her comprehension. She saw Xie Chen's face change expressions at an alarming speed—sometimes as cold as a god, sometimes as ferocious as a demon; sometimes with indifferent and ethereal eyes, sometimes filled with a bloodthirsty obsession!

This is a war between consciousnesses, between souls! And the trigger was her!

Was it because of that kiss that brought them to the brink of climax? Was it because her existence, this "anomaly," exacerbated the imbalance of power within him?

Just as the battle within reached its climax, seemingly about to tear the body apart completely at any moment, another unexpected event occurred!

Xie Chen suddenly clutched his head, letting out a long howl that was inhuman, a mixture of pain and rage! In that howl, there was both the defeat of the golden light's majesty and the frenzied counterattack of the dark shadow!

Immediately afterwards, a chaotic and massive flow of information, like a flood bursting its banks, uncontrollably rushed into Lin Nuannuan's mind through the not-yet-fully-stable "deep empathy link"!

"ah--!"

Lin Nuannuan felt as if her head was about to explode! Countless fragments of images, sounds, and emotions, like sharp shards of glass, forcibly filled her consciousness!

She saw it—

A gentle woman lay collapsed beside the piano, blood pooling beneath her... (It's the woman in the photo! Xie Chen's mother!)

Young Xie Chen huddled in a dark corner, crying helplessly, while outside the window, thunder and rain roared...

A cold hospital room, an electrocardiogram showing a flat line, a man's indifferent back...

A blurry, colossal consciousness, radiating an aura of majesty, pierced a golden fragment into the forehead of an infant…

We travel through bizarre and fantastical tunnels, where silhouettes of countless worlds flash by...

Beneath the cheerful electronic tone of System 088 lies a barely perceptible, cold, programmed instruction: [Ensure the container's emotional stability, guide energy recovery...]

Finally, all the images shattered and coalesced into a pair of eyes—a pair of eyes that, amidst endless cycles of reincarnation and suffering, always carried a trace of unwillingness and stubbornness, searching for something… Xie Chen's eyes!

These fragmented pieces of information are too vast and too chaotic, containing immense pain, betrayal, imprisonment, and... a faint yet tenacious longing that transcends countless barriers!

"Pfft—" Unable to withstand the enormous mental shock, Lin Nuannuan felt a sweet taste in her throat and spat out a small mouthful of blood, her consciousness instantly becoming blurred.

In the last second before she completely lost consciousness, she saw the struggling figure in front of her suddenly turn around.

The gold and ink in his eyes were still fiercely battling, but his gaze was precisely fixed on her, his eyes extremely complex—there was lingering coldness, intense pain, and deep confusion, but more than anything, there was a heart-pounding shock, as if he had crossed countless mountains and rivers, pierced through layers of mist, and finally confirmed something!

He staggered forward and reached out his hand to her.

His lips moved, and with the last vestige of his consciousness as "Xie Chen," he uttered two broken yet incredibly clear words:

"It's...you..."

Immediately, the golden light in his eyes intensified again, attempting to regain dominance and forcefully suppress the shock and confirmation that had just emerged!

But that fleeting look in her eyes, those two words, were like a brand, deeply etched into the depths of Lin Nuannuan's consciousness as she was about to fall into darkness.

It's you...

Was it her that he had found, that he had been searching for all along?

The suspense in the story reaches a double climax of emotion and truth at this moment—the female protagonist, under the shock of consciousness, glimpses the male protagonist's tragic past and the truth of reincarnation, while the male protagonist, in the gap of the struggle for consciousness, seems to finally recognize the female protagonist's true nature! Can this brief confirmation reverse the fate of being "erased"? Everything awaits to be revealed in the next chapter.