Chapter 129 The Finale "After all, you loved me so much..."
Shi Yu was stunned for a moment.
So Shen Su also obtained this item. Does that mean everyone who entered this instance obtained this item? But Mo Rugui and Eve are not from the same real world as them, and he has no way to verify this with them.
But they didn't directly confront the system in this instance, so why would the system give them this thing out of the blue?
Could it be that Jiang Liuyue helped them?
This possibility cannot be ruled out.
But the chances are very small.
Logically speaking, obtaining this coupon should be a good thing.
But Shi Yu clicked "no".
There's something fishy about this.
It's as if... the system knew their purpose and what they wanted, so it used this coupon to bribe them so they wouldn't meddle in other people's business anymore.
Shi Yu wanted to discuss it with Shen Su, so he called Shen Su directly, but Shen Su didn't answer. He figured Shen Su might be busy with work, so he sent a text message: "What about you? Have you used it?"
Shen Su replied instantly: "Used."
He's not answering the phone.
But the message is replied to instantly?
It seems they really are working.
Shi Yu didn't bother him any further, but wondered if Shen Su had acted too quickly. Didn't Shen Su find the permanent game withdrawal ticket suspicious? Or was Shen Su just too happy and couldn't resist using it?
However, Shi Yu didn't dwell on the issue anymore. This time, she was in the dungeon for three months straight, and she had accumulated a lot of work in real time. For a while afterward, Shi Yu was busy with work.
Shen Su would occasionally send him messages, but they were usually short and simple, such as "Remember to eat," "It's getting cold, wear more clothes," and "It's raining, remember to bring an umbrella."
It's clear that Chen Su has been extremely busy lately!
A month later, Shi Yu was finally less busy. He asked Shen Su tactfully, and Shen Su said that he was not busy either. So he invited Shen Su to his home.
That evening, Shi Yu took a shower. As it was getting dark, Chen Su still hadn't arrived. He lay in bed looking at his phone, waiting for Chen Su. He heard the door open, but Chen Su didn't come in. He got up and went out of the bedroom, only to find Chen Su sitting upright in the living room.
Shi Yu: "..."
Seeing Shi Yu come out, Chen Su stood up and asked, "What did you want to see me about?"
Shi Yu: "..."
What do you think?
Shi Yu wondered if Shen Su wanted to play some games. Since Shen Su wouldn't take the initiative, he had to. So he walked over and subtly hinted, "I'm hungry..."
Shen Su paused for a moment, then suddenly realized: "Oh, I'll go cook."
Then she actually went to the kitchen to cook.
Shi Yu: "…………"
It feels like flirting with a blind person.
It has to be said that although Shen Su is sometimes out of touch, his cooking skills have improved a lot, so Shi Yu will forgive him for now and just hopes that he can do better tonight.
After finishing his meal, Shen Su said goodbye and left.
"…………"
For three months straight, Shen Su didn't touch him. At most, they would hold hands, and it was always Shi Yu who took the initiative... Shi Yu had mentioned it subtly a few times, but Shen Su didn't know whether he didn't understand or he really didn't.
Shi Yu didn't bother to mention the rest, as it would make him seem overly eager.
However, on their days off, they still eat together, go on dates, work out... doing all the things couples do, and most of these were suggested by Chen Su.
So Shi Yu thought, maybe... Shen Su wanted to have a Platonic relationship after eating too much meat?
Until one day, Shi Yu accidentally saw that Shen Su's mobile browser search history was full of things like "how to pursue someone you like", "good places to travel", "restaurants suitable for dates", "what guys generally like", etc.
You should know that Shen Su used to be a playboy who knew all the best places to eat and have fun, so it's impossible that he would search for these kinds of questions...
Later, Shi Yu found some time to go to Qiu Xiaoyuan's house. Taking the opportunity of tutoring Qiu Xiaoyuan, he asked her some questions. However, Qiu Xiaoyuan seemed to have lost her memory and forgot everything about the game. According to Qiu Xiaoyuan's mother, Qiu Xiaoyuan had been going back and forth between school, tutoring class and home during this period and had not gone anywhere else.
From this information, we can know that Qiu Xiaoyuan also obtained the ticket, exited the game, and used it.
The price of leaving the game is losing all memories related to it.
Since he obtained the "Permanent Exit from Game Ticket", the system has not forced him to enter the dungeon, but Shi Yu found some time to enter the dungeon again.
He entered a mid-level dungeon this time and came out in one night.
He found that the game seemed to have become much easier?
He then entered several more instances, where he learned some information. It turned out that everyone had received a "permanent exit ticket" on a certain day, causing most of the players to leave the game. However, some players were unwilling to leave. The game has since been drastically changed, no longer accepting new players, and the difficulty has been reduced. Death is no longer a punishment mechanism.
Shen Su's name is no longer on the leaderboard. Not only that, Mo Rugui, Eve, Jiang Liuyue, and Qiu Xiaoyuan's names are also gone, which means they all used that ticket.
Although the game wasn't destroyed, everything is moving in a positive direction.
So why would the system do that?
.
That day, Shen Su invited Shi Yu out for dinner, and Shi Yu gladly accepted.
Shen Su booked a high-end restaurant by the river. It was a candlelight dinner with roses, a violin... everything was dreamy. Finally, Shen Su pushed out a cake and sang "Happy Birthday" to him.
The moment the candles went out, colorful fireworks burst across the river, their reflections shimmering in the water alongside the restaurants on the bank. Shen Su took out a beautifully wrapped gift box and handed it to him, saying, "Happy Birthday."
Shi Yu neither accepted the gift nor responded to the question. He stared intently at the person opposite him and asked, "Where is Chen Su?"
Chen Su's hand trembled slightly as he took the gift, but he forced himself to remain calm: "What are you talking about? I'm right here. What's wrong? Are you too tired from work? If you're tired, take a few days off."
Shi Yu glanced around and shook his head: "Shen Su wouldn't do these fancy things, and he knows I don't like them."
"Stop pretending." He looked directly at the man opposite him, who was wrapped in the skin of a fallen slumber, and said, word by word, "Lucis."
"Chen Su" was stunned.
"Where is Chen Su?" Shi Yu asked again.
Lucius avoided the question, looking at the fireworks reflected on the river outside, and said, "Haven't we had a great three months together? We get along very well. You like the real world, so we live in the real world. You like this body, so I'll use this body to stay by your side. Isn't that good?"
Is self-deception really that good?
“What’s the point of deceiving yourself?” Lucius said with a hint of despair. “I won’t tell you where he is. Wherever he is, he will never come back, and you will never see him again. You can only be with me, the one in this body.”
"Don't you think you're pathetic? You don't dare to express your love using your real identity, you only dare to hide under someone else's body, using someone else's identity to steal someone else's love." Shi Yu's voice wasn't loud, but every word was clear. "I really think you're pathetic."
"Your attempts to provoke me won't work. I'm not telling you where he is."
"Even if you don't want to say it, I can guess. You made a deal with him, swapped identities, you became him, and he became you, and you're both stuck in the game forever, right?"
Lucius's silence proved that his guess was correct.
"Also, who said I used that ticket?"
Lucius froze: "You..."
Shi Yu entered the dungeon again, and the live stream room opened accordingly. As more and more viewers joined, he opened his inventory and found the item.
Should the [Permanently Remove Game Tickets] be destroyed?
Shi Yu nodded.
A pop-up window then appears: "Confirm permanent destruction?"
[Confirmed] [Let me think about it]
"Think about it" is a large button, while "Consider" is a very small button, and the two buttons are connected together.
When Shi Yu clicked "Confirm," the edge of her skin touched the "Think about it" message.
The system then assumed he clicked "Think about it".
Okay, please consider it carefully.
Shi Yu: "..."
Shi Yu re-destroyed it.
An ad popped up this time.
[You can close the ad after watching for ten seconds]
Shi Yu obediently watched the ten-second ad, and sure enough, a black "X" appeared in the upper right corner. He clicked it, and the interface redirected to another ad...
He learned his lesson. The next time a conspicuous black "X" popped up, he didn't click it. Instead, he clicked the inconspicuous little "X" in the bottom left corner. This time, the ad disappeared, but then the familiar content popped up again.
A pop-up window then appears: "Confirm permanent destruction?"
[Confirmed] [Let me think about it]
...
After being teased like this for half a day, even the most temperamental person would have been worn down and had no temper left.
Shi Yu said to the air, "Chen Su, is it fun?"
The voice was calm, but it inexplicably made people feel cold.
A pile of data in the void slowly solidified into a human shape, eventually becoming the appearance of Chen Su, who walked towards Shi Yu wearing the same shirt and trousers they had left in.
The very first sentence was infuriating: "You're going to destroy your game tickets even if you're permanently banned? Aren't you afraid you won't be able to leave the game in the future?"
Shi Yu remained silent, staring intently at Chen Su.
After a moment of eye contact, Chen Su's gaze turned serious. He said, "Actually, there's something I've never had the chance to ask before. Now that I do, may I ask?"
Shi Yu said expressionlessly, "Ask away."
With a very serious expression, Chen Su asked a cliché question: "If I get old, ugly, sick, or disabled... and can no longer give you everything you want, will you still love me?"
After saying that, he waited anxiously for the answer.
Shi Yu didn't keep him waiting long, replying expressionlessly, "Yes."
Shen Su relaxed completely and let out a soft breath: "If you can accept this, then even if I'm just a bunch of data now, you should still love me, right?"
Shi Yu remained expressionless: "That requires some consideration."
"This needs to be considered?" Shen Su was shocked and incredulous. "I don't believe it. You don't love me, so why did you come to see me?"
"I want to see how miserable you are."
"Oh, so indifferent?"
"Um."
Shi Yu's words grew increasingly ruthless, yet her eyes gradually reddened.
Finally, Shen Su couldn't hold back any longer. He swept his arm around Shi Yu and pulled her into his embrace, patting her back as he coaxed, "Okay, okay, that's alright. Even if you really don't love me anymore, it's okay. It's enough that I love you. I love you the most..."
The two embraced for a long time. Once Shi Yu had calmed down, Shen Su began to explain things one by one.
"I entered this instance not because of any special guest tickets, because those kinds of tickets are not so easy to obtain. Actually, the system contacted me in the previous instance and wanted to make a deal with me. You know the details of the deal. After everything was over, we switched identities. He returned to the real world using my identity, and I took his place as the system."
"Of course, I'm not doing this to abandon you. I'm definitely not the kind of man who would abandon his wife and children. My character is absolutely trustworthy; you can ask your aunt, uncle, and my business partners about that..."
"Alright," Shi Yu waved her hand to interrupt, "Let's get down to business."
“Okay, I was a little hesitant to make this deal with Lucis at first, but then I thought, to completely solve the game, we have to solve the system, but we don’t know the system, we don’t understand it, we don’t know its weaknesses, so it would be too difficult to solve. But what if the system is one of our own? Wouldn’t that solve everything?”
"Because this transaction needs to be kept confidential, I didn't tell you."
"I'm actually quite glad that the system is love-obsessed, otherwise it wouldn't be so easy to solve."
Shen Su spoke in a lighthearted tone throughout, but Shi Yu was anything but happy. He said, "But now you can never get out."
"Not necessarily." Shen Su smiled mysteriously. "Give me some time."
One morning more than ten days later.
The real world.
Shen Su knocked on Shi Yu's door, holding a bouquet of flowers in his arms. He leaned against the door frame, smiled at Shi Yu, and waved, saying, "Good morning!"
Shi Yu watched Shen Su's video twice from beginning to end, then rushed up and hugged him for a while before letting go and asking, "You switched back?"
“No, that’s not it.” Shen Su said as he walked into the house, deliberately being mysterious, pausing between each sentence before saying the next. “Lucis simply self-destructed.”
Shi Yu took the flowers and put them in the vase, then followed him, asking, "Then why did you..."
Shen Su turned around, and Shi Yu, unable to brake in time, bumped into Shen Su's arms. Shen Su hugged him and lowered his head to explain, "But I found someone else to work for me."
"Who?" Shi Yu nestled in Shen Su's arms and didn't move.
"Jiang Liuyue"
Shi Yu looked up in shock: "Jiang Liuyue isn't dead?"
“Jiang Liuyue died long ago, but he is not Jiang Liuyue; he is a bunch of data. Data can be restored, it just takes some time.” Then Shen Su sighed regretfully, “However, it seems that Mo Rugui used a permanent exit ticket?”
After thinking for a moment, Shen Su added, "But it's hard to say. Maybe one day Mo Rugui will re-enter the game? It all depends on their fate."
"Speaking of which," Chen Su suddenly asked seriously, "do you believe in fate?"
Shi Yu was taken aback, and then heard Shen Su say, "Actually, one of the terms of my deal with Lucis was, 'Unless you recognize me, I cannot appear in front of you.'"
"So, in other words," Shi Yu remained motionless in Shen Su's arms for a moment before uttering, "if I hadn't recognized you, I would never have seen you again?"
"Um."
"What if I didn't recognize you?"
"What can we do? We can only keep waiting until the day you recognize me." Shen Su tightened his arms around Shi Yu, buried his chin in Shi Yu's neck, and added, "But I believe you won't make me wait too long."
“After all…” Shi Yu thought the second half of the sentence should be “After all, you wouldn’t be that stupid,” and was about to nod in agreement.
The second half of the sentence is:
"After all, you love me so much."
Shi Yu: "..."
His nodding motion froze, and then he abruptly withdrew it.
(End of text)
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