Chapter 3 Surprise or Not



"Yun'er, do you think that bitch Song Huan is dead or alive?"

Song Huan: ...Okay, you little bitch.

The relationship between us and the enemy became clear in an instant.

At this time, a finger poked Song Huan's nose, and Song Huan deliberately held his breath.

"Mom, she's dead!"

"Are you really out of breath?"

While Mrs. Song was speaking, another finger poked Song Huan under his nose, and Song Huan continued to hold his breath.

Song Huan lived for twenty years in her previous life, with no significant accomplishments to speak of. However, she was an exceptional swimmer and expert at breath-holding, relying on this skill to support herself at the age of sixteen. Before her accident, she had just earned her lifeguard certification and passed the interview for a swimming pool position at a luxury hotel. She no longer had to worry about college tuition... A bright future awaited her...

Alas! If she had known she was going to die, she shouldn't have taken a minivan at the school gate to save money!

"He's really dead," Madam Song said. "But if he's dead, why didn't Marquis Pei send anyone to inform the Song family, but instead kept it a secret? Yun'er, this Marquis Pei...could he be hiding something shameful?"

As she was about to finish her words, there was a loud bang and the door was kicked open.

The man stepped over the broken wood, crossed the screen with his hands behind his back, and said gloomily, "Who is dead?"

Song Huan: ...this sudden grand and tyrannical atmosphere.

Damn, who invited Pei Yan here!

"Pei... Lord Pei?"

Mrs. Song's face turned pale, and her voice trembled. She looked completely different from the way she had just arrogantly barged into the backyard of the Marquis's mansion and chased Jin Yue and Jin Le out of the house...

However, Song Yun seemed not to feel the gloomy aura emanating from Pei Yan. She quickly raised her eyelids to take a look at the person who came, then quickly lowered her eyes and hid behind Madam Song with a shy look on her face.

“…”

Mrs. Song realized belatedly that the man in front of her was her son-in-law of the Song family. Even if he was the Marquis, so what? He still had to call her mother-in-law? Moreover, Song Huan had gotten into trouble in the Marquis's mansion, so it was her responsibility to seek an explanation from the mansion. It was not right for a son-in-law to question his mother-in-law!

Thinking of this, Madam Song puffed out her chest, "It's our Huanhuan. Son-in-law Pei, you have to give our Song family an explanation. Our Huanhuan was a lively and beautiful young lady before she married into the Marquis's Mansion. She was supposed to return home three days ago, but our family waited and waited but no one came. So we mustered up the courage to come to the Marquis's Mansion to take a look... Unexpectedly, when we looked, our Huanhuan was dead!"

The more Mrs. Song spoke, the more she felt she was right, and her emotions became more and more passionate.

If you don't look too deeply into it, she does seem like a loving mother who desperately wants justice for her daughter.

Pei Yan was not a man who had the patience to listen to a shrewish woman talking nonsense in front of him, but after Mrs. Song opened her mouth to speak, a slender pale hand was raised from the bed and shook back and forth at him...

This woman is not dead.

Pei Yan couldn't help but frown even deeper.

Song Huan propped himself up and sat up with great effort, only to see Pei Yan with a very unhappy expression.

The system suddenly popped up a prompt: "Dear, your capture target "Pei Yan"'s favorability towards you has changed." "Favourability -10."

Song Huan: "What the hell! What's with the -10?! You're clearly trying to trick me!"

System: "Dear, let me reiterate: this system clearly states the price, and it is fair to all."

Song Huan: "...I totally believed you! I haven't done anything yet, how could Pei Yan's favorability towards me be -10? If that's not a trick on me, what is it!?"

System: "The system sets the initial favorability of the target towards the host to 0. You must have done something to lower the target's favorability towards the host. Please check the favorability history for the specific reason."

Song Huan ended the conversation with the system and opened the favorability page to check... Half a minute ago, Pei Yan's favorability towards him was indeed zero.

Song Huan was depressed. She just sat up to show Pei Yan that she was still alive. She didn't do anything else!

...Wait! She's still alive?!

Pei Yan just now... Could it be that he thought she was really dead?

Song Huan quickly raised his hand and touched the neck of his destiny.

Seeing her frightened look, Pei Yan's eyes turned even colder, but a smile appeared at the corner of his lips, "My lady is awake?"

"..." Madam Song and Song Yun were stunned for a moment, and turned back to look in the direction Pei Yan was looking.

Song Huan: "..." He smiled dryly at Pei Yan.

Pei Yan didn't react much.

Mrs. Song and Song Yun suddenly hugged each other, with expressions as if they had seen a ghost.

Just now... just now, he was clearly out of breath!

Song Huan took the time to glance at them. Are they scared?

Their reactions gave Song Huan inspiration.

Her eyes widened, and she suddenly raised her arms and stretched them out in front of her chest, her mouth opening and closing in silent pantomime: "Surprised or not? Unexpected or not."

Mrs. Song: “…Ahhh!”

Song Yun: “…Ahhhhhh!”

The two of them screamed and ran out.

Song Huan: ...Tsk, she's too timid. She hasn't even stuck out her tongue, tilted her head, or rolled her eyes yet.

Pei Yan looked at her with a gloomy look in his eyes, "My lady is in a good mood."

"Ah?" Song Huan squeezed out a short syllable, but the pain of the flesh on her neck being torn made her hold back the rest of her words.

She touched the gauze on her neck, and when she looked up again, she saw Pei Yan sitting beside her at some point. A handsome face suddenly approached her, and Song Huan's heart began to beat wildly. His skin was so white that it glowed, his facial features were exquisite and perfect, and his pores were so fine that they were almost invisible... Was this man really someone who had fought on the battlefield for ten years?

Song Huan looked at Pei Yan with deep resentment. Why did she get darker when exposed to the sun?

"Hmm? What do you want to say?" Pei Yan moved closer, with a hint of smile in his eyes.

Suddenly, Song Huan had the illusion of being pampered.

But... damn, there's a bright gray box flashing above this guy's head: "Favorability -10."

What the hell is this? It's obvious that he's trying to trick her!

Song Huan... was very panicked.

I was so panicked that I couldn't speak. I was afraid I would be killed and wouldn't even be able to beg for mercy.

"System! System! Do you have any items like painkillers for sale?"

She wants to speak.

system:"……"

There was silence.

Song Huan: "You're offline again?"

system:"……"

Song·No Temper·Huan: "I have a suggestion. Let's invest and upgrade the program..."

system:"……"

Song Huan looked at Pei Yan who was so close to him, and suddenly he smiled.

Pei Yan was slightly startled, a hint of murderous intent flashed in his eyes.

Her smile was too bright and too dazzling, not something that should appear around him.

Song Huan seized the opportunity, pounced on him when he was not prepared, and gave him a tight bear hug.

Pei Yan: “…”

Song Huan silently counted the countdown for "Hug Pei Yan, the capture target" in the system: ten, nine, eight, seven...

"What are you doing!" Pei Yan was slightly angry, and a feeling of nausea surged from the depths of his heart. He grabbed Song Huan by the back of the neck and was about to throw him out.

But Song Huan hugged her even tighter. Since this guy wanted to make love with her, wouldn't it be a loss for her if she didn't go along with it and complete the mission?

Three, two, one.

Ding—mission accomplished.

Congratulations on gaining one month of life.

Song Huan quickly let go of Pei Yan, closed his eyes, and fell straight back—unexpectedly, he didn't hit the pillow...

"Pretending to be dead? I'll count to three. If you can't open your eyes, you'll have to keep them closed forever."

Pei Yan put his arm around Song Huan's back, put his lips close to Song Huan's ear, and said in a cold voice, "Three."

Song Huan suddenly opened his eyes, tilted his head and blinked at Pei Yan.

Boss! Can I act cute?

Don't kill me!

The girl's face was so weak and pale due to her injury that she looked pitiful. Her eyes were dark, bright and watery, which made people feel... soft-hearted just by looking at them.

This emotion came inexplicably strange, and Pei Yan couldn't help but half-narrow his eyes. After a moment, he snorted coldly, loosened his grip, threw Song Huan onto the bed, and got up and left.

Song Huan breathed a sigh of relief and reacted very quickly by quietly supporting his elbows under his body to prevent his neck from suffering secondary injury.

But the moment her head touched the pillow, Song Huan saw Pei Yan's favorability towards her flash from "-10" to "-6"...

Hehe...even though you say no with your mouth, your body is very honest.

Just now, in a flash, Song Huan recalled the whole story. Although Pei Yan didn't like women getting close to him, it didn't mean that he would kill every woman who got close to him. Before the cannon fodder female supporting role, a female general from the enemy country sneaked into Pei Yan's tent at night to kill him. Pei Yan captured her alive but did not kill her, and even let her go.

It was also a night visit, but if there was any difference, apart from some objective reasons, it was simply because Pei Yan had not yet fallen in love with the heroine in the book and did not care about his own reputation.

That's why Song Huan had the courage to give it a try. At this time, Pei Yan and the heroine in the book were still separated by thousands of miles, and she was Pei Yan's legally married wife. What would be wrong with a hug?

I never thought that the bet was right.

After surviving the disaster, Song Huan happily opened the daily tasks and received health points.

She held Pei Yan for ten seconds and earned a month.

Later, Pei Yan hugged her again, and the system gave her another six hours.

Song Huan discovered that the name of the task "Hug the target Pei Yan" had changed to "Hug once a day", and it was shown as completed at the end.

From this point of view, the tasks of "kissing, hugging and chatting" will be daily tasks in the future, and they can all earn health points. Although not much, it is better than nothing.

The broken system is really a scheming dog, finding all kinds of ways to make her have physical contact with her target.

Song Huan glanced at the top line again, "Get the strategy target Pei Yan to reply ten sentences." Progress: 3/10.

There's also a small line of red text below the task: This task has been activated and will expire at midnight tonight. Please complete it as soon as possible. If the task fails, it will be reopened the next day.

Song Huan skipped it. Isn't it just talking? This task is not difficult, but she can't speak now, otherwise it will be completed in minutes.

Her eyes fell on the "Kiss" and "Consummate the Marriage" tasks under the "Hug" task... A kiss for three months, sleep for a year, the temptation is huge.

There is a line of small red text under both tasks: Task Tips.

Song Huan first clicked on the task prompt below "Kiss": Please choose to complete it when the target Pei Yan's favorability towards you reaches more than 50%, otherwise the host will be at risk of death.

Song Huan: ...

Then click on the task prompt below "Consummate the Marriage": This task is extremely dangerous! Please choose to complete it when the target Pei Yan's favorability towards you reaches 99%, otherwise the host will be at risk of death!

Red text, bold, exclamation mark!

Song Huan: ...Goodbye!

The author has something to say: Song Huan: I regret not taking the minivan...

Liuliu: Safety first!

Also, can I have a two-point comment? (This chapter continues with the red envelope~)

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