Chapter 52 That was the same little snake that suffered its whole life.
"You...don't go..." Fu Yanli said these words softly.
Xu Wenci didn't hear it clearly.
But Xu Wenci had no intention of leaving. Instead, he plopped down on the sofa, leaning half his body against the backrest, one hand supporting his chin, his elbow resting on the backrest, a slight smile on his lips, and his head slightly lowered. His entire demeanor was completely different from before.
Fu Yanli breathed a sigh of relief; Xu Wenci had finally stopped pretending.
fine.
It's been really hard to keep it all bottled up inside.
"Do you know why our punishments suddenly stopped?" Xu Wenci smiled wickedly, seemingly trying his best to look like a bad kid. "I know that both your rules and our punishments are meant to bind us together, but the reason the punishments suddenly changed is because of you, right?"
There was no response.
Fu Yanli lowered his head, his fingers trembling slightly, his deep purple eyes filled with helplessness.
Xu Wenci seemed even more smug, "So, I..."
He squinted, unable to see Fu Yanli's expression, and suddenly he didn't want to continue the topic.
Fu Yanli, who had been listening attentively, suddenly retorted, his eyelashes trembling slightly. "It's not because of me."
"Not because of you?" Xu Wenci jumped up like a firecracker suddenly detonated by this topic, grabbing Fu Yanli's collar.
Fu Yanli was about ten centimeters taller than him. Instead of standing on tiptoe, he pulled Fu Yanli down, making him squat slightly so that their eyes were level. Only then did he squint and continue speaking with satisfaction:
"Would I be tied to you if not for your rules? Would I be your secretary if not for these damn scripts?"
His eyes were bloodshot as he stared intently at Fu Yanli, wishing he could tear Fu Yanli to pieces right then and there.
Fu Yanli lowered his eyes, but you could still vaguely see that the corners of his eyes were red.
Perhaps seeing Fu Yanli remain unmoved and motionless, Xu Wenci became even angrier. He sneered, loosened his collar, but his hands were trembling.
"Aren't you particularly smug, Fu Yanli? You always look like you don't want to listen to me... It's the same in this world, and it was the same in the last..."
"In the last world, I killed you. Did you think it was incredibly noble of you to forgive me out of compassion? In the last world, we never argued. Did you think your personality was particularly endearing?"
"In this world, I finally accepted that you don't have the memories of the previous world, and I no longer have to act out a love story with you in fear. But what happened?"
Xu Wenci smiled, took a step back, and gave Fu Yanli a gentle push, trying his best to suppress the sob in his voice, and said:
"Fu Yanli, am I funny? Am I funny? You want to see me soften, you want to see if I've fallen for you because of your hot-and-cold attitude in your past life, right? What else do you want to see me do?"
"Fu Yanli, in your eyes I am nothing, am I? It was like this in the last world, and it's like this in this world too? In the last world, you acted like a superior, benevolent person, and in this world, you're playing the victim, trying to use me as a weapon?"
Fu Yanli was pushed and stumbled.
He didn't know how to explain it.
"I don't……"
"That's all you can say..." Xu Wenci interrupted Fu Yanli, his eyes narrowed, tears streaming down his face. He turned his head and continued, "I should have killed you sooner, instead of being soft-hearted because of your feigned foolishness..."
Fu Yanli looked up, his eyes also red.
"In the last world, I really didn't blame you..."
"Fu Yanli!!!" Xu Wenci suddenly raised his voice, which was distorted due to the tearing, "I don't know what you want to do? But now, let me go."
Let me go...
I don't want to be tied to you.
Regardless of the last world...
It's still this world...
Xu Wenci could accept this world's silly, clueless pet snake with a brain the size of a peanut.
But he couldn't accept the treacherous, vicious, cold-hearted, and selfish snakes of the last world that could bite people to death at any time.
Although it was the same little snake.
The last ray of daylight outside the window was swallowed by the night. The living room was dark, with only the heavy breathing of two people mingling and colliding in the darkness.
"Baby...I really..."
"Shut up!" This word used to be Xu Wenci's nightmare.
"Baby, give me a kiss, and I'll tell you the password..."
"Baby, doesn't my new dish look amazing...?"
"Baby, why are you chatting with other people and not with me..."
Fu Yanli was like a venomous snake that was always wrapped around Xu Wenci's neck. Whenever things didn't go his way, he would tighten his grip on Xu Wenci's neck and only feel at ease when he could feel the pulse coming from Xu Wenci's neck.
"You've always wanted to call me that, haven't you..." Xu Wenci tried to sneer at Fu Yanli, but knew he couldn't actually laugh. "Let me go, stop calling me that, and sever the connection between us..."
Fu Yanli knew that someone as perceptive as Xu Wenci must have discovered at the family banquet that the punishment between the two of them was a false proposition.
Xu Wenci might be wondering why the punishment was normal at the hospital, but there were no restrictions at the family banquet?
He felt that it was a punishment carefully chosen by Fu Yanli.
The feelings between two people will create a bond between them.
The deeper the bond, the more closely the punishment will be related to the two people.
Initially, the punishment was only for Fu Yanli personally, but later, Fu Yanli may have deceived the rules, causing the rules to turn the punishment for one person into a little game to warm up the relationship between two people.
As for why Xu Wenci thought this way, it was probably because when Xu Wenci realized that Fu Yanli had memories of the previous world, Fu Yanli was just over a meter away from Xu Wenci.
Xu Wenci wanted to catch up, but found himself unharmed and without any restrictions.
Previously, he had vaguely guessed from Fu Yanli's actions of clutching his knees and calves that his feelings of liking or disliking Fu Yanli would affect Fu Yanli's pain.
So, it's normal for this to affect the punishment, right?
He probably guessed that the punishment was fake, no, or rather, that the punishment was based on deception.
"You scheme against this person, you scheme against that person, you even scheme against the relationship between us..."
"You want us to go from unreliable allies to lovers who would never betray each other?" Xu Wenci narrowed his eyes, mercilessly exposing Fu Yanli's thoughts. "I don't care how you managed to fool the rules, but can something that could never exist between us really grow out of scheming?"
The reason he was so certain was because he had flipped through Fu Yanli's rulebook when Fu Yanli went upstairs, and the punishment had indeed changed.
The punishment turned into a very ordinary electric shock punishment.
Oh.
Fu Yanli is still as shrewd as ever.
After saying all this, he finally breathed a sigh of relief. Over the years, in the last world and in this world, all the suffering had been blamed on Fu Yanli...
But...why...?
Not very enjoyable...
I wasn't very happy either...
He turned and left.
However, he was free.
As he walked out of the villa, he stopped, momentarily lost in thought.
Is this really freedom?
Fu Yanli could no longer fool the rules, and the author had no time to pay attention to the plot.
At least until the next world arrives, he is free to do most of his things.
Fu Yanli squatted down, slowly covering his knees, burying his head in them.
What Xu Wenci said is all wrong.
He neither thought nor did he do that.
He neither schemed against the rules nor cheated them.
That's the purpose of issuing the code.
The same applies to the penalties stipulated in the rules.
He didn't know why the punishment suddenly stopped working.
He did not blame Xu Wenci for killing him.
Because he knew that Xu Wenci was in great pain.
Xu Wenci had a very hard life as a child, and he suffered a lot more as an adult.
He suffered his whole life.
The suffering Xu Wenci endured after the age of twenty-seven was all inflicted by him.
He endured being drenched in the rain, drawing blood to save lives, and being provoked without provocation time and time again.
Pain can devour a person.
The enemy in Xu Wenci's eyes... is him...
So when Xu Wenci awakened, the first person he killed was him...
Then... Xu Wenci learned that it was all because of the script...
His goal became himself and the world of the script.
However, when Xu Wenci learned that he was actually just an ordinary protagonist without memories of the previous world, he hesitated.
The pain is caused by the person in front of you, but that person hasn't had time to do those things yet.
Besides, he already killed him in his past life.
This gave him an opportunity to take advantage of the situation.
But the pain still consumed Xu Wenci.
People consumed by pain rarely realize that perceiving pain is also a skill.
Being acutely aware of pain allows them to avoid it earlier.
Fu Yanli lowered his eyes, his cheeks slightly damp.
He didn't know what was going on.
He didn't know what to do.
The pain he caused Xu Wenci in the previous world was real and tangible.
Actually, Xu Wenci was right about one thing.
He was very good at scheming, scheming to make everyone hand over their interests to him, scheming to manipulate what he considered to be rigid rules and scripts.
Therefore... he naturally assumed that he would also be adept at handling matters of the heart, and so he began to scheme.
But no, that's not the case.
He could never fathom his mother's thoughts, just as he didn't know why his mother had married Fu Rongzhen in the first place.
He could never figure out his importance in Xu Wenci's heart, just as he could never know why Xu Wenci started to fall ill continuously after his ghost disappeared.
Is it because of the script?
Is it because of the inseparable connection between him and Xu Wenci?
He didn't know.
He actually knows nothing.
But ironically, he had to pretend he knew everything in order to get even a sliver of comfort.
"Fu Yanli, you should die."
As Xu Wenci plunged the dagger into his heart, he thought, "Xu Wenci is really beautiful."
Beautiful amber eyes, bright like glass marbles rolling on the ground.
People always say that love never expires.
But by then, Xu Wenci's love for him seemed to have truly expired.
He didn't blame Xu Wenci.
He did so many things.
How could he treat the person he likes like that?
Why didn't he awaken sooner...?
Why did he have to follow the script...?
Why did he forget how he fell in love with Xu Wenci...?
He kept thinking about these issues.
I've been thinking about it.
Then, he climbed to the 27th floor and jumped off.
That way, Xu Wenci will never see him again.
Xu Wenci didn't want to see him.
But see you in the next world!
In the next world, he won't be like this again.
So, love me, Xu Wenci.
That was his only thought as he fell into the abyss.
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