Chapter 4 Survival
Before dying, people always say nonsense that they don't even understand, and Lu Yan is an example. But he did it on purpose, because he knew that the more outrageous the will was, the more it would arouse Yu Zechuan's curiosity.
Worried that Yu Zechuan didn't hear clearly, Lu Yan repeated it again: "Yu Zechuan, I've actually been secretly in love with you for a long time."
"I recognized you when you were downstairs. Do you really think I would be stupid enough to take a strange man home to avoid the rain?"
Yu Zechuan obviously didn't believe Lu Yan's lies. He came to his senses and kicked the dagger on the ground to prevent Lu Yan from snatching it and using it as a weapon. He then reached out and grabbed the man's neck: "Lu Yan——"
Yu Zechuan said in a cold and drawn-out tone, thinking that Lu Yan was a vixen: "Do you think that all men will bow down to you just because you have a pretty face? You can fool that idiot Jiang Boyun with such lies, but don't try to fool me."
Lu Yan lied without blinking: "I didn't lie to you, I really like you."
Villains often die because they talk too much. The best thing for Yu Zechuan to do at this time is to kill Lu Yan with a single blow, rather than continue arguing with him, because this man will surely say more words that will confuse his mind.
But Yu Zechuan was still careless. He couldn't help but sneer: "Like? If you really like me, why would you team up with Jiang Boyun to send me to prison? Is this what you call love?"
Lu Yan fell silent upon hearing this.
Yu Zechuan sneered: "Why, you can't make it up?"
Lu Yan shook his head and said hesitantly: "Actually...actually, I turned from love to hate."
Yu Zechuan: “…”
"I've liked you since the first day I joined the company, but I found that no matter how I appeared in front of you, you never noticed me. Instead, you fell in love with Jiang Boyun, that shameless loser."
Since the original body joined Yinchuan Group as a treasurer, it is true that he has been in front of Yu Zechuan quite a lot, but it was definitely not the "love" that Lu Yan mentioned, but to obtain secrets.
Yu Zechuan tried hard to recall and found that Lu Yan seemed to appear in front of him often, but he was busy with work and never paid any attention to him.
Lu Yan tried to hold back his tears and said in a hoarse voice, "I didn't want to frame you at first. I just wanted to send Jiang Boyun to prison so that you could see his true face. But I didn't expect you loved him so much that you took the blame."
Yu Zechuan: “…”
The loss case back then involved too many things. To be honest, no one could escape responsibility, and Yu Zechuan was the first to bear the brunt of it. In order to protect the rest of the people, he had to take the blame first, otherwise the entire company would collapse.
There is no escape anyway, and it is better for one person to be destroyed than for a group of people to be destroyed.
This incident was like a thorn stuck in Yu Zechuan's heart, and as the years passed, it gradually turned into festering and rotten, and any touch would bring piercing pain, but it was mentioned repeatedly on this rainy night.
Yu Zechuan fell into silence for no reason. He suddenly loosened his grip on Lu Yan, slowly took a step back, and lit a cigarette in the darkness. A dark blue flame lit up out of thin air, making the scar on the man's right face even more hideous.
Lu Yan did not let down his guard. He leaned against the door, wondering if the other party believed his lies.
Yu Zechuan lowered his eyes and exhaled a puff of smoke, then suddenly said, "Open the door."
Hmm? Open the door?
Lu Yan thought, is he finally going to leave? This is really exciting news. He stood up hesitantly, then opened the door 180 degrees and asked reluctantly, "Are you... leaving?"
Walk faster, walk faster, it will rain heavily soon.
Yu Zechuan answered the question irrelevantly and flicked the ash expressionlessly: "Lu Yan, do you know what I hate most in my life?"
Ah, he knew the answer to this. Yu Zechuan had already mentioned it in the last game.
Lu Yan inexplicably felt a sense of excitement about cheating on the exam, and nodded, "I know, what you hate most in your life is being cheated on."
As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly felt a sharp pricking sensation in the back of his neck, as if some kind of cold liquid had been injected into him. He couldn't control his body and fell to the ground. Lu Yan turned around in surprise, only to see a man wearing a black mask suddenly appear in the corridor. His pupils shrank in shock.
Yu Zechuan actually has a helper? ! !
Yu Zechuan was stunned for a moment by Lu Yan's answer. He came to his senses, put out his cigarette, walked in front of Lu Yan, squatted down, and pulled out the needle from his neck: "You guessed it right."
Yu Zechuan patted Lu Yan's face, his lips slightly curled, but without any warmth: "So next time don't make up such nonsense to deceive me."
Lu Yan...
Lu Yan felt that he needed to start over again.
This time, he woke up a little slowly. Lu Yan only felt that he had a very long dream. After finally escaping from the muddy dream, his brain ached as if it was about to explode, and his body was sore and weak.
Lu Yan struggled to open his heavy eyelids, but what he saw was not the familiar environment of the rental house, but an apartment with cold tones. Thick curtains blocked the glaring sunlight outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, and an unsettling silence surged in the air.
“Blah——”
Lu Yan sat up in surprise, and the slightly cool silk quilt slipped quietly from his waist. He looked around and subconsciously called out, "System?"
A black heart quietly emerged from the air, and it was still the familiar mechanical voice: [What's up?]
Lu Yan frowned: "Why is my rebirth location not in the rental house this time?"
The system unexpectedly said: [You are not dead. Yu Zechuan took you back to the apartment where he currently lives. ]
[It is now noon of the next day. It is so rare that you have successfully survived 24 hours. ]
The tone of the next sentence was cold, and it seemed that he was just trying to please the crowd.
Lu Yan was somewhat surprised when he heard this. He touched the aching back of his neck, threw back the quilt, stood up and walked to the door, but he heard faint voices of conversation coming from outside.
Lu Yan calmly opened the door and saw two men sitting on the sofa in the living room. One of them was Yu Zechuan, and the other one had his back to the door, so his face couldn't be seen clearly, but he was most likely the bastard who attacked him from behind yesterday.
Xue Jin sat on the sofa with his legs crossed. Seeing Yu Zechuan with a computer on his knees and his hands rapidly typing on the keyboard, he couldn't help but kick the corner of the coffee table: "Hey, what are you going to do with the man in the room? He will wake up soon. It will definitely be a problem if he stays here."
Yu Zechuan stared at the computer screen with frowned brows, his pupils reflecting dense data, and said in a cold-blooded tone: "Kill him when he wakes up."
Xue Jin: "It's all done, why are we waiting for him to wake up?"
Yu Zechuan: “…”
Xue Jin joked: "She is deeply in love with you, are you reluctant to take action?"
Yu Zechuan simply closed his computer: "Only an idiot would believe him. I asked you to check Jiang Boyun's schedule for the next half month. Did you find out?"
Speaking of this, Xue Jin's face became a little solemn. "I don't know if he heard the news that you were released early after your sentence was reduced this morning, and he suddenly added a few more bodyguards around him. Jiang Boyun will go to the United States next week to discuss a business deal, and he should be in China most of the time."
Yu Zechuan was not surprised by this: "He has so many lackeys around him, it's not surprising to find these. You should keep an eye on him in the company these days, and contact me immediately if there is any situation."
Xue Jin glanced at his watch and stood up from the sofa: "Okay, it's getting late, I'll leave first."
It was not until this moment that Lu Yan saw Xue Jin's face clearly. The other man was well-mannered, dressed in a suit and tie, and he was obviously an elite, but he seemed inexplicably familiar.
Lu Yan searched hard in the memory of his original body and was surprised to find that the other party was Xue Jin, the investment consultant whom Jiang Boyun hired from abroad at a high salary three years ago.
My goodness, Yu Zechuan has buried this chess piece very deeply.
Seeing Xue Jin leave, Lu Yan closed the door quietly and returned to bed. He frowned and thought for a moment, feeling that things were getting more and more complicated: "System, where did this Xue Jin come from? What is his relationship with Yu Zechuan?"
The system still had that dead tone: [One question will deduct 5 points.]
Lu Yan thought it was a good bargain: "Then you can take it."
System: [You don’t have any points, what should I deduct? ]
Lu Yan: “…”
Lu Yan closed his eyes and buried his face in the pillow. He couldn't accept the fact that he was a pauper in his previous life and was still a pauper in this life.
The system believes that if you have no money, you can only support yourself: [If you have any questions about the character settings, please explore them yourself. ]
Explore on your own?
Lu Yan opened his eyes and sneered. Just explore on your own, who is afraid of who? However, just as he had this thought, the light blue game panel suddenly popped up with a "ding":
[Ding! The player has triggered a side quest——
Explore Xue Jin's identity background.
Success reward: 50 points.
Failure Penalty: None.
Time limit: 30 days. 】
Lu Yan raised his eyebrows: "There are actually side quests?"
The system probably didn't expect this, because it was obviously stunned for a moment, and then it reacted and said: [Side quests are randomly triggered. Since they have been released, you should do them. The later the levels, the more difficult they are. The points can be exchanged for life-saving props.]
Lu Yan was about to ask something when he heard footsteps outside the door. He quickly fell back on the bed and pretended to sleep again. Then he heard a door opening and someone slowly walked to the bed, casting a shadow in front of him.
"If you like sleeping so much, I don't mind helping you."
Lu Yan opened his eyes immediately upon hearing this, only to see Yu Zechuan standing by the bed, staring at him. He came back to his senses a little late, threw back the quilt, sat up from the bed, and made an appropriate expression of dejection: "I thought you were going to kill me yesterday."
"I will kill you, but not now."
The effect of the medicine on Lu Yan had not yet worn off, and he only had two points of his strength left, so Yu Zechuan did not tie him up. Instead, he took him to the living room outside and forced him to sit on a chair.
Suddenly leaving the dark environment, the sunlight was a bit dazzling. Lu Yan couldn't help but close his eyes, and when he opened them again, a cold mobile phone suddenly touched his ear.
Yu Zechuan stood behind Lu Yan and said in a playful tone: "Didn't you say you like me? Ask Jiang Boyun out and let me see your sincerity."
Oh~ It turns out the other party wanted to use him as bait.
Lu Yan suddenly realized, but shook his head honestly: "I can't make an appointment."
Yu Zechuan frowned: "Why?"
Lu Yan was silent for a moment:
"…I just called him a stupid idiot yesterday."
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