Chu Chen’an was dropped onto the soft, big bed.Shen Delu took out the camera in his bag, his eyes dark, and pointed the lens at Chu Chen’an.
“Now answer the first question first. Why did Blogger Xiao An take the initiative to submit the information about the madhouse to AN Media?”
Chu Chen’an blinked, his butterfly-winged eyelashes fluttering slightly.
“Because…” he nervously pondered for a few seconds, the ends of his eyes red with fear, before he answered in a trembling tone, “Because I want to make money.”
Shen Delu looked at Chu Chen’an, and after hearing this answer, his smile became even more grim.
He murmured to himself, “This reason isn’t bad.”
Chu Chen’an clenched his fingers.
He was afraid that Shen Delu would be like this and not show his anger.
The more normal Shen Delu laughed, the worse his consequences would be.
“But Blogger Xiao An doesn’t look like someone who lacks money.” Shen Delu added, taking off Chu Chen’an’s socks leisurely.
Chu Chen’an shrank like a frightened deer.”Did you take those people’s photos and information to make a profit, or did you want to bring down the madhouse?”
Shen Delu picked up the information entry tool held in Chu Chen’an’s other hand and examined it for a while. His voice was gloomy. “Or… do you have a different reason?”
Chu Chen’an’s scalp was tingling from Shen Delu’s gaze.
“After your purpose is accomplished, you will be able to walk away again, hmm?” Shen Delu’s eyes narrowed, and he whispered in his ear, “Baby, I remember you promised me just yesterday that you wouldn’t leave me behind.”
Chu Chen’an’s eyelashes fluttered again.”But you’re still hiding it from me.” Shen Delu gently stroked Chu Chen’an’s brow, his eyes somber.
Chu Chen’an looked into Shen Delu’s eyes, which were filled with a sense of melancholy, and lowered his gaze.001’s mechanical voice was late but arrived:
[Unfortunately, the system has detected that your invisible camera has been damaged, resulting in 20% of your mission point two remaining unfinished.]
[Therefore, your cannon fodder mission is judged as not fully completed.]
[The following are your next punishments:]
① Zero points;
② Stranded copy two: time unknown;
③Copy Three will be unlocked.
His punishment was to remain here until copy three was ready.
Chu Chen’an sighed as he looked towards the invisible camera that he had broken not far away.
He felt that Shen Delu was horribly paranoid right now.
That gloomy gaze was so terrifying that it looked like it was going to swallow him up.
Before he had time to explain, he heard a metallic sound with a “da.”.
Chu Chen’an looked down.
He only saw that his wrists were bound by golden handcuffs.
The inner side of the handcuffs was also thoughtfully surrounded by a circle of soft pads and wouldn’t hurt his hands.
Chu Chen’an opened his eyes wide and struggled with his wrists.
He trembled as he began to panic. “I don’t want this.”
Shen Delu smiled gently and pulled off his suit tie. “Good boy, I’ll open it for you after the interview.”
……Soon, the room was filled with intermittent sobbing sounds, and the soundproof door isolated them.
Since the interview fiasco, Chu Chen’an hasn’t dared to go on social media again for a long time.
That day, Shen Delu held the camera the entire time and recorded a video that was more than three hours long.
But he was very safe and only stored it in the camera roll.
After forcing Chu Chen’an to watch it again at night, he deleted it in front of him.
Chu Chen’an looked at the expensive camera, secretly planning to throw it into the water one day.
……He only realized that night that the media company that the system coincidentally found was under Shen Delu’s name.
Of course, this AN hotel was also…
He was already exposed on the day he first sent the pictures he had secretly taken to AN Media.
Chu Chen’an rubbed his head, feeling as if he were hopelessly stupid; he was too stupid.
He stayed in the AN Hot Spring Hotel with Shen Delu for the past few days.
The most he usually did was soak in the hot springs, eat a lot of desserts, and get dragged by Shen Delu to play and chat with him.
Shen Delu talked to him a lot these days, from the preparations for the wedding to the newlywed trip, and then to the future happy post-wedding life…
Whenever Shen Delu talked about this, his mood was obviously good.
Chu Chen’an had rarely seen Shen Delu so purely happy.
His heartbeat accelerated, quietly listening to Shen Delu, as if he were also accompanying her to be happy.
He knew that this was just a virtual game, but he still couldn’t control himself; he couldn’t control his emotions.
He simply didn’t think much about it.
He’d just live out the remaining lag time here properly.
Chu Chen’an sat on the sofa and clicked on the system control panel, his personal homepage.
[Gamer ID: Chu Chen’an]
[Points: (Calculating…)]
[Gold: 1452 】
[Level: Level 2]
[Tap here to upgrade automatically.]
[Props: [to be activated]]
[Illustration: 2 [Click here to view]]
[Characteristics: None]
[Attribute: Charming value, full marks]
[Comment: A little fool who only knows how to be pampered won’t be able to return home!]
There was a small red dot behind Chu Chen’an’s page [illustration].
A card surfaced on the screen; the front side of the card was an oil painting with blo*od-stained capsules scattered all over it, and a syringe was stuck in the painting, spreading down deep black blo*od.
The card was flipped to the other side.It was the introductory card of Shen Delu, the NPC behind this copy.
[Game Copy: Suburban Asylum]
[Level: Medium/Easy]
[Name of the NPC behind the scenes: Shen Delu]
[Shen Delu is the sole heir of the Shen Clan. His mother suffered from schizophrenia for years, and his father had seven or eight illegitimate children outside the home, which caused his mother’s condition to continue to deteriorate because of her husband’s cheating. Since she gave birth to him, his mother thought he was sick with a very dirty disease. His mother felt that he shouldn’t have survived and that he deserved to die.]
[When he was three or four years old, he was put in the bathroom by his mother, who tried to drown him. ]
[At age seven, he was given an entire bottle of melatonin by his mother.]
[When he was eleven, he was doused with gas by his mother; he was thrown straight down from the third floor; he had his throat pierced by glass.]
[But these ten years have passed, and he still survived.]
[Because he knew he didn’t deserve to die.]
[The one who deserved to die the most was his crazy mom.]
[She should have died.]
[Later, at nineteen, he inherited the family business, solved all the people who wanted him dead, and finally stepped on the pyramid of power.]
[And that’s when he suddenly felt meaningless again; he wanted to die.]
[In the past, his mom always said he was sick, but as he thought about it, he did seem to be sick.]
[In those nights of death and despair, dealing with those disgusting and stinking lives, he might have gone crazy long ago.]
His mind began to twist, and he began to yearn for death.
So he invested in an asylum for the criminally insane and took in patients who deserved to die as much as he did.
[He got sick, and he planned to die here.]
……
[Click here to collapse.]
As Chu Chen’an looked on, he became teary-eyed.
He then understood why Shen Delu had always said that he had been sick before.
In fact, he wasn’t sick at all.
Their stories seemed to connect.
Later, he entered this madhouse and met Shen Delu.
He foolishly gave Shen Delu candy.
And then he laughed and ate the candy.
He probably dismissed the idea of dying then.
……
“Baby, why are you crying?” Shen Delu carried a plate of washed strawberries on the coffee table, squatted in front of Chu Chen’an, and stroked his cheek with his palm.
Chu Chen’an’s nose was red.
He wanted to cry even more when he was asked by Shen Delu.
He raised his hand and wrapped it around Shen Delu’s neck, his face pressed against the side of his face, shrinking into Shen Delu’s arms.
Shen Delu was a little surprised at his sudden initiative. His palm ran along Chu Chen’an’s back, and he kissed his face. “What’s wrong?”
Chu Chen’an didn’t say anything and hugged Shen Delu tightly.
Why was the life experience of the behind-the-scenes boss he met all so miserable?
Shen Delu didn’t ask more questions; instead, he changed the topic: “Our wedding is scheduled for five days later; let’s go to the church to do it, okay?”
“Okay…”
Chu Chen’an’s face was buried in Shen Delu’s shoulder.
A trace of surprise flashed through Shen Delu’s eyes.
An’an responded to him.
He propped up the back of Chu Chen’an’s head and leaned down to passionately kiss his red lips, drawing in his fluids for a long time.
“An’an, you’re so good.”
…..
They got married in the biggest church in Country A and spent more than a month traveling as newlyweds.
Shen Delu took him to many very beautiful places and showed him many romantic landscapes.
They kissed on a ship.We watched countless sunrises and sunsets together.
Except for Shen Delu’s heavy desire. Besides this, their wedding trip was relatively relaxed and enjoyable.
Later, Chu Chen’an realized that all the industries under Shen Delu’s name had changed their names two years ago, and they were all named after him.
AN, AN.
Shen Delu integrated all the longing during those two years into the bits and pieces of life.
Chu Chen’an was stranded in this copy for two and a half years.
When he left, it was late at night.
The ambiguous air in the room had not yet dissipated. He slept very deeply, and he only remembered that Shen Delu hugged him especially tightly.
Shen Delu looked at his whitened and cold face and slightly pursed his lips, then he smiled.
His reaction was also calm.
Shen Delu leaned down and kissed Chu Chen’an’s lips, covered him with the quilt, and tightly encircled him in his arms.
He had waited for this day for a long time.
Because he knew that what should come would still come.
He coaxed Chu Chen’an gently, like he always did: “Sleep, baby, I will find you. Don’t worry, I won’t lose you; we will be together forever. Good boy, sleep at ease.”
Shen Delu closed his eyes, his lips pursed in a smile, and he pressed against Chu Chen’an’s cold face as he fell asleep again.
His heart was beating fast with anticipation.
He was going to find his An’an; he was going where An’an was.
…..
[Ding~]
[Congratulations, Legacy Remnant Removal +1]
[Congratulations! The copy world has been successfully cleared!]
[Reward Points: X500]
Chu Chen’an froze, but he didn’t feel happy at all.
[Currently, we have detected that your emotional investment in this copy is as high as 99%. Please adjust your status in a timely manner.]
[Don’t worry too much; they are all just game avatars; they won’t come to reality to find you~.]
Chu Chen’an sighed.
He didn’t know why, but his heart always felt empty after every copy he experienced.
[Your level has automatically risen to level 3; please keep up the good work yo~!]
[Alright~]
[Clean up the mess early.]
[Now the next game copy will be automatically opened for you; you will enter copy three after 3S. Please, player Chu Chen’an, get ready.]
Again!!!
[3S]
[2S]
Chu Chen’an quickly stood up in the system space, watching the seconds go by on the control panel.
【1S】
[Drop]
[Copy 3 resurrection program activated successfully]
[Good luck.]
[Copy 3: Beiyuan Boys High School]
[Difficulty: Medium/Difficult]
[Reward Points: X1000]
[Reward Points: X1000]
[Reward Points: X1000]
Chu Chen’an raised his hand to block the white light in front of him and squinted his eyes open with difficulty.
He only felt that his entire body was freezing and trembling.
A ringing sound resounded in his ears, and only after his vision and hearing were completely clear did he see his surroundings.
He was lying in an ice coffin.
Dressed in a familiar and unfamiliar school uniform, he lifted his own hands and looked at them for a few seconds, feeling vaguely uneasy.
It couldn’t be.
System 001’s icy voice rang out.
[Congratulations! The punishment you left behind in Copy 2 has been activated. Since your true body consumed too much energy in the first two copies, the system considers you to use your original body first. After your true body is restored, you can use it again.]
Meaning, he was resurrected as Chen An?
Chu Chen’an’s eyes widened as he panicked.
“Then how long do I have to use this body?”
[Five days at the latest, then your true body will be restored.]
Five days…
In five days, he would have long been locked up by the per-vert in this copy!
How would he have a chance to complete the main quest?
[The difficulty of your copy quest has increased this time, so you need to work harder.]
Then, the system shut down.
Chu Chen’an looked around the dark room, too scared to curse 001 out loud. He called out in a low voice, “001, you quickly come out for a moment; I haven’t finished… you can…”.
With a “snap,” the indoor lights suddenly turned on.
Chu Chen’an was so frightened that he was suddenly silenced.
He was in a luxurious and empty room.
He looked around to make sure no one was there before he dared to carefully sit up.
The per-vert seemed to have gone out.
Hurry up and run!
The surroundings were so cold that he tiptoed out of the ice coffin and jogged all the way to the door. He had just run to the door when the indoor surveillance quickly lit up with a green light.
A cold, low voice startled him.
“Baby, welcome home.”
Chu Chen’an’s footsteps lurched, his face paled, and he slowly turned around.
He saw the camera with a bright green light and swallowed hard.
Luckily, it was just a monitor.
“I’ll be right back, and you’re not to run out this door until then.” The man’s voice was cold, and his words held a warning: “Do you hear me?”
Seeing that he wasn’t there, Chu Chen’an placed his hand on the door, pushing it open and stepping on the floor of the doorway with his bare feet.
“Baby, do as you’re told.”
The green light from the surveillance hit Chu Chen’an’s body.
The man’s cool voice carried a creepy softness: “It’s cool outside; be good and stay inside; wait for me to come back.”
TN:
New arc, new psych — I meant love 🌝
YAYYYY NEW ARC! Thank you for the update!! <3