Chapter 58 The World Collapses, Third Playthrough Begins [VIP]
"ah!"
Ziyu suddenly stood up, startling Haiyue, who was about to wake him up for class.
"Why did you suddenly yell?! You scared me to death!" Haiyue said irritably. "Aren't you going to class?! That teacher for the easy class is really strict today! If you don't go, I won't take attendance for you!"
Ziyu, who had just opened his eyes, stared in shock at everything in front of him.
The familiar bunk bed with a desk underneath, the familiar roommates, and the familiar surroundings.
"Ziyu, are you alright? Did you have a nightmare?" Haiyue noticed that Ziyu's complexion was off and quickly asked, suppressing his bad temper.
"No." Ziyu rolled off the bed, found a mirror again, and looked at her face. Her face was slightly immature, her body looked healthy because she hadn't experienced six years of vegetative state, and her eyes could see things clearly.
"Hey, Ziyu, I'm not trying to be mean, but do you really need to be so narcissistic?! You look in the mirror as soon as you wake up?" Seeing that Ziyu was in good spirits, Haiyue immediately reverted to his usual self, chattering away. He still sported his flamboyant red hair, showing no signs of the future chubby, wife-obsessed man he would become. "Are you going to class or not? I'm telling you, Qin Yuzhen is in class today too."
Upon hearing the name Qin Yuzhen, Ziyu frowned imperceptibly, and at the same time, a slight throbbing pain rose in her heart.
Ziyu immediately straightened up.
He said firmly and forcefully, "Go!"
*
This is a large class.
In university, some courses may be considered easy for certain majors, but for others they are highly beneficial and unique professional courses that require special enrollment.
This refers to the current Ziyu and Qinyu Towns, but one is the former and the other is the latter.
Ziyu sat in the last few rows, looking at Qin Yuzhen, who was sitting steadily in front, with a strange expression.
He had made eye contact with Qin Yuzhen the moment he entered the classroom, and he knew it the instant their eyes met.
—I have no memory of the previous game in Qinyu Town.
And it was during class that he finally understood his current situation.
The situation is now clear: he has not only started his third playthrough, but he has also moved up the timeline by almost a year before the beginning of the story.
The current storyline is about his unrequited love for Qin Yuzhen, and how he relentlessly pursues Qin Yuzhen like a devoted admirer, begging for her to even glance at him.
In the previous playthrough, there were not just two bugs, but three bugs in total.
There are three romanceable characters, and all three are bugged.
Ziyu was truly on the verge of tears.
Three bugs! No wonder the second playthrough was so chaotic.
However… Ziyu frowned, and tried calling out to the assistant again, while simultaneously opening the system panel. This panel recorded the plot's progress and deviation values, along with other relevant information, and even a program for the system or assistant to report their work status to the main system. Previously, this kind of thing was handled by the system or its assistant.
Ziyu called out to her assistant several times.
There was still no response.
Ziyu's heart sank rapidly.
Even someone who didn't care much about the system realized something was wrong.
He still remembered what the mechanical voice he heard before starting over said.
"The system has escaped... The assistant has voluntarily relinquished its control over the control panel..."
Ziyu murmured.
Previously, Ziyu had tried to report his current situation through the program that reported to the main system, but unfortunately, no matter what he replied, the emails seemed to sink without a trace.
This means that he has now become an unclaimed player without any supervision or rewards for completing tasks!
Ziyu felt bewildered.
A corporate slave who had always followed the routine and completed tasks step by step, even when forced to do a second playthrough, obediently followed the plot, began to feel lost.
He looked up at Qin Yuzhen again. Qin Yuzhen, who was a student, suddenly straightened his back, and you could see his tense state from his profile.
Ziyu suddenly remembered how Qin Yu had said in front of everyone at the engagement banquet last week that he was no good.
Haiyue looked at Ziyu, who suddenly started laughing, and asked curiously, "What's wrong with you?"
“You’ve been sighing, frowning, and laughing ever since you sat down. I know Qin Yuzhen is hard to win over, but you don’t have to drive yourself crazy just to chase after a guy, brother.” Hai Yue said, pounding his chest and stamping his feet, looking like a good brother who had gone completely insane because of being infatuated with a man.
Ziyu: ...
"What do you think I am?!" Ziyu said helplessly. "I was just thinking!"
Haiyue didn't believe what the love-struck brothers said; his eyes were full of suspicion.
Ziyu had no choice but to cover his face with a book and cower like a turtle.
Actually, he wasn't wrong; he really did think of something fun.
Being unclaimed means having no mission or goal, but it also means that one can do whatever one wants.
His eyes darkened.
He was puzzled: why did Tang Zuo kill Qin Yuzhen in his past life?
And it was precisely at the very moment he had completely abandoned the mission that he appeared before them, and killed him with a single shot.
Although I don't know if there will be any bugs in this playthrough, or if he will have a chance to be resurrected... well, let's just go with the flow for now.
Ziyu looked up from her book and saw the teacher talking non-stop, her classmates dozing off, and her friends chattering around her.
Ziyu thought, why not just start a new life?
The main system didn't reply to him, and the assistant and the system also disappeared inexplicably. He wasn't that powerful enough to tear through space and time to go home.
Forget it, I'm tired of being a corporate slave.
As for Qin Yuzhen... He decided to stay because he was moved by Qin Yuzhen's undisguised affection in the second playthrough. Since Qin Yuzhen didn't remember anything in the third playthrough, there was no need to continue playing the scumbag seme and submissive uke plot with him.
When the bell rang, the students packed up their books at an astonishing speed. Many rushed out almost as soon as the bell rang. The teacher regretfully took back what he hadn't finished saying and slowly packed up his books while maintaining order.
Haiyue urged Ziyu to go to the cafeteria to buy lunch. As Ziyu got up, she made eye contact with Qinyuzhen once again.
Qin Yuzhen abruptly averted his gaze as if he had been scalded, the intensity of his action suggesting extreme disgust for Ziyu.
If Ziyu felt Qin Yuzhen was avoiding her during her first playthrough, then after experiencing the second playthrough, Ziyu felt that this person...
Ziyu touched his nose.
Why does Qin Yuzhen seem different from the scumbag seme character in the story?
Is it a bug that appeared again in the third playthrough, or has Qinyu Town always been like this?
*
Qin Yuzhen had been pursuing Ziyu subtly for almost a year.
From the moment Ziyu entered the classroom, he realized that the other person's eyes were on him.
Qin Yuzhen pursed his lips, but his body involuntarily straightened up a bit more.
Ziyu is shy and gentle. The most obsequious thing she does is silently remember what she needs and then deliver those things to her no matter how far or difficult it is.
At first, he just casually mentioned that a new brand of sneakers was pretty good. No one knows who told Ziyu about it, but Ziyu spent half a year's savings to send it to him.
Qin Yuzhen knew at a glance that the guy who didn't know the brand had bought a fake.
His family is rich and doesn't need Ziyu's flattery, let alone a pair of fake sneakers.
If someone gave him a pair of fake sneakers, he wouldn't even touch them. But when he thought back to the quiet and well-behaved young man he saw carrying a suitcase on orientation day in his sophomore year, he inexplicably accepted the sneakers. When talking to his friends, he stopped talking about any branded items and instead talked about cheap and practical things.
He didn't realize that his behavior would become evidence of Ziyu being a simp in other people's discussions.
Qin Yuzhen pursed his lips, and even the usually arrogant young man felt a little flustered and guilty.
He thought that if Ziyu really wanted to confess her feelings to him, he could barely accept it.
He also noted the value of those gifts, thinking that perhaps when he wanted to start a new company and prove his abilities to his family, he could have Ziyu work as his assistant.
This is already a kind of favor, considering their family has so much wealth; at worst, he can just pay Ziyu a higher salary.
As Qin Yuzhen heard the school bell ring, he knew that, as usual, Ziyu would shyly come up to greet him.
He only needed to give a cold reply; he didn't care about the other person anyway. He just didn't want people to say that he was unfriendly to his junior.
Then, Qin Yuzhen watched helplessly as Ziyu and the red-haired man beside him left, chatting and laughing happily.
Qinyu Town: ?
Qin Yuzhen suddenly stood up, looking incredulously at Ziyu, who hadn't even turned back to look at him before disappearing completely around the corner.
He didn't greet me...?
He didn't even greet me!
Qin Yuzhen's heart felt as if it had been suddenly clenched. He gritted his teeth and stared at the corner where Ziyu disappeared. Just as he was about to chase after her, he vaguely felt a sharp pain in his waist.
Ziyu!
The pain in his waist, combined with the pain in his heart, converged in his brain, and Qin Yuzhen felt a rare sense of grievance.
I don't know why, but it seems like there's something wrong inside me, that this shouldn't be happening to me.
Ziyu should take the initiative to approach her and look at her with bright, loving eyes.
Or perhaps it's in a warm and cozy home, whispering sweet nothings to yourself.
Qin Yuzhen snapped back to reality, unable to accept that such a strange scene had appeared in his mind.
Does he really want to be with someone like that?
His face instantly darkened, and he hurriedly packed up his textbooks and left the classroom.
Qin Peng, Qin Yuzhen's cousin, was also a student in this class. Qin Yuzhen was unaware that Qin Peng had been watching everything all along. He had always admired his cousin and immediately noticed Qin Yuzhen's dissatisfaction.
Okay, okay, since my cousin doesn't like it, there's no need for him to pretend anymore.
Qin Peng revealed a sinister smile.
He was clinging to his cousin and even tried to break up his cousin's relationship with Xiao Qiao. Now that his brother is staring at him so intently, he must be dissatisfied with Zi Yu!
Since that's the case, let him teach this guy a lesson on behalf of his brother!
They are truly ignorant and arrogant.
An orphan actually dared to covet his cousin?
That's wishful thinking!
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