As if floating on the sea, with the wind blowing in different directions, Ruan Qing'an felt like a boat on the waves when she closed her eyes, experiencing a lightness she had never felt before.
Consciousness seemed to rise and fall with the waves...
Xie Huainan once said that once all the fragmented worlds were completed, he would give her a choice—to leave the Administration Bureau or stay and help him solve the Administration Bureau's problems.
Even now, Nguyen Thanh An could vaguely sense that the constraints imposed by the Administration Bureau seemed to be weakening.
but--
037: [Ancestor, if you could leave the Management Bureau, would you really choose to leave and live in a small world?]
Ruan Qing'an did not answer. She just kept her eyes half-closed, making it impossible to see how complicated her emotions were. At this moment, they were almost in a mess—love is a prison, and everyone is a prisoner.
Just like the Heavenly Dao, which is trapped, isn't she also trapped...?
"He's so cunning, truly worthy of being called the supreme god."
Finally, Ruan Qing'an laughed out loud, but there was a hint of self-mockery in his laughter: "From our first meeting, doing missions, our love that no one knew about under the control of the Bureau, to me creating a body for him, being discovered, and being hunted down together after giving everything."
"He really has a good plan. Does he want me to stay in this ridiculous memory forever? But what if he becomes the supreme god? How dare Xie Huainan? How dare he make me recall everything from the past and then make me make a choice? What makes him so confident in himself!"
Hearing those murmured words, 037 was speechless for a moment.
Her ancestors kept saying they had stopped loving her long ago, even forgotten her, repeatedly seizing the initiative in their pursuit, like a Cupid who could manipulate hearts. But could she really let go...?
[Ancestor, but the Joyful Encounter can bring the dead back to life and rebuild one's spiritual roots, you...you really want to...]
"Yes, am I, Ruan Qing'an, really that pathetic...?"
She raised her arm to cover her eyes and brows, trying to hide her expression, but two lines of clear tears flowed uncontrollably down her beautiful face, and the smile on her lips was extremely bitter.
Her voice was slightly hoarse: "037, he was actually mocking me, wasn't he? I actually... considered the choice he gave me."
Hearing Ruan Qing'an's increasingly hoarse voice, 037 became extremely anxious—those who love earnestly are always the bravest, how could our ancestors belittle themselves like this?
Even it couldn't help but want to complain about the main god.
Even though the Bureau was completely thrown into chaos by the invasion of negative forces, the place where Ruan Qing'an was sealed remained as peaceful as a paradise. So why... did they have to come to this?
But 037 still said: "Ancestor, there is one last fragment world left, but the Supreme God told me that you can choose to go or not. You can also choose whether to leave the Management Bureau now."
"Leave...?"
Ruan Qing'an's eyes flickered slightly. She raised her head, her leaden eyes filled with suppressed emotions: "I've already recalled all the experiences I had with him. What fragmented world could there be?"
Ancestors, have you forgotten?
[This is the reason why the Supreme God sealed you, and the whole truth.]
037 One Meal: [The Supreme God said that once you complete this world, he will tell you personally. The wisp of divine thought he projected into this small world has already fused and become twisted with the protagonist, which is likely extremely dangerous; it's a higher-level world.]
However, if you don't want to go, you can leave the Administration Bureau, choose your favorite small world yourself, and then go back.
"..."
The atmosphere was silent, and no one knew how much time had passed until—she finally lowered her hand, her voice slightly hoarse.
037: [Ancestor, have you... made up your mind?]
"Take me there, I want to know why."
...
[Mission Objective: Jiang Shihe]
【Affection Value: 0】
When Ruan Qing'an opened her eyes, she was standing by the lake. Her hands felt sticky and gooey. When she looked down instinctively, she saw that her hands were covered in blood!
Not only that, but at her feet was a man's corpse. His carotid artery in his neck had been severed, and blood was gushing out from the wound, staining the floor tiles red and even spilling into the lake.
"...What exactly is going on?"
Ruan Qing'an was completely dumbfounded. Just then, she heard footsteps approaching. She turned her head sharply and saw a woman and two men running towards her.
"He's dead! Why is he dead again?!"
"Did this woman kill him? No... that can't be! Who killed him? Who was it?!"
Their faces were filled with terror, but even more so with despair, just as the man at her feet breathed his last—
The three people who ran over instantly turned into a bloody mist and exploded!
"Target failed!"
"The execution penalty has been carried out and is in effect."
A cold, mechanical voice echoed throughout the space. It was indeed the system speaking, but it wasn't 037 from her mind.
Sensing something was amiss, she instinctively looked down.
When his attention fell on the corpse, Ruan Qingan realized that the dead man lying on the ground was very tall, and even though he was covered in blood, his exceptionally tall stature was still evident.
Not only that, his cold, pale face was also as handsome as a marble sculpture, with a high nose bridge and deep features.
In short, he's so handsome he doesn't look like an ordinary person.
037: [Um... he... he's the male lead.]
Stunned, Ruan Qing'an was dumbfounded: "Oh no, you told me the male lead is dead, so why am I even here?"
Should we bury Jiang Shihe, or remain widows for him?!
But before 037 could answer, Ruan Qing'an suddenly realized that the whole world was like a bad signal. Everything in her vision froze, then flickered like an old television screen, and then everything started to disappear, as if being reset.
The entire world, including Nguyen Thanh An, has been reshaped.
At that moment, a system notification came from beyond the sky.
"Instance reset, world reorganized, begin!"
The original owner's body was reset, while Ruan Qing'an's soul was protected by the Administration Bureau. She was like an outsider, watching helplessly as the world was reborn and returned to its initial state.
Finally, 037 explained: "Ancestor, this is a horror instance. In the original story, the female protagonist, Ji He, participated in a horror livestream called 'Global Horror,' and what you're in is just a horror instance."
"So I'm just an NPC?"
[Probably. The original female supporting character didn't have much screen time in the original story; she was only related to the male lead.]
Upon hearing this, Ruan Qing'an finally began to examine the original owner's memories.
The original owner was an NPC in this horror instance, and she was obsessed with the male protagonist, Jiang Shihe, who was also an NPC—she pursued him by spying, stalking, and sending threatening letters, in ways that would make any normal person's hair stand on end.
Not only that, the original owner never expressed her feelings, afraid of being rejected and having her illusions shattered. She was also unhappy that Jiang Shihe was involved with other people, and then... then she killed Jiang Shihe.
Throughout the entire horror instance, the player's only task is to protect Jiang Shihe from dying and to find the murderer, then kill the murderer in return, in order to achieve the ending.
037 added: [But the instance isn't that simple; the background is a supernatural serial murder case, so...]
Therefore, Jiang Shihe was never successfully rescued and was killed every time. He was trapped in a death loop of being killed by the original owner of the body, a pervert, until Ji He participated in the dungeon and awakened Jiang Shihe's personal consciousness. Only then did he break the death loop and kill the original owner.
In the end, the female protagonist, along with the NPC male protagonist she had kidnapped, killed the villainous original owner, left the instance, and lived a happy and fulfilling life together.
Ruan Qingan: ...So what does this have to do with me?
037: [Well, this time it's a little difficult—]
Ruan Qing'an smiled kindly: "Is this what you call a little difficult? Little system, how much of a jerk does Jiang Shihe have to be to fall for me, who has always been the one to mess with him? Just tell me, how did he fall for me?"
037 trembled: [Oh my god, after this dungeon ends and resets, the female lead Ji He arrives, and the male lead awakens.]
The next moment, the atmosphere became deathly silent.
Ruan Qing'an said with a blank expression, "So, as long as I reveal the identity of the murderer, I don't need to do this mission anymore, right?"
Um... the male lead will probably just kill you.
Ruan Qingan: I'm truly impressed by you, 037—*&#%@#
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