C40 — Deadly Lover
by UntamedSA young housekeeper named Zhong Xiaoxiao received a task from her company to clean a villa in the city center; it was the first time she stepped into a rich man’s place; she was overwhelmed by the exquisite furnishings in the house, the exquisite leather sofas, and the famous paintings hanging on the walls.
“Being rich is really good.” She sighed and worked even harder.
Her boss was sleeping in his room, so Zhong Xiaoxiao could only turn down the speed of the vacuum to avoid waking up her employer with the noise.
Perhaps the air conditioning in wealthy families was good, but to her, the room only felt cool and imposing. Although it was just halfway through summer, it was freezing in the room.
Zhong Xiaoxiao picked up the air conditioner remote control only to realize that the air conditioner hadn’t been turned on since the beginning.
“……” She touched her head and didn’t think that much; she just put on her jacket and poured the dirty water into the toilet.
What she didn’t know was that there was a woman hanging upside down in the bright and spacious washroom.
The woman was wearing a blo-od-stained white floral dress, and her seaweed-like hair hung down, covering her half-destroyed head, and if you looked closely, you could still see the red and white chunks of brain mixed in her hair.
However, she didn’t claim anyone’s life, she just hung silently on the ceiling.
【Union channel】
【Liu Jingyun: Finally released… Jiang Xingyu asked us to guard you.]
[Zhuo Yu: I didn’t realize that the BOSS could actually keep you guys hostage; what’s the situation on your side?]
[Luo Musheng: It was so ruthless! In this movie, Liu Jingyun and I were with you when we first went online. We were both unprepared and didn’t expect to be ki-lled by you. Oh no, I should say it’s your character.]
[Liu Jingyun: We are now in ghost form; we were going to be your ghosts, but as soon as we found you, we were captured by Jiang Xingyu. I feel that he has surpassed the realm of a ghost; he was able to rip open another dimension; after he stuffed Luo Musheng and me in there, the system was useless.]
[Luo Musheng: It’s not a bad thing; the fact that we’re both in ghost form means that there’s no need to be afraid of death; we’re only afraid of spiritual damage or transcendence. Even though it looks like we’re being played by the movie, in reality, it enhanced us; as long as we’re released, all of our skills will still be useful.]
[Zhuo Yu: Maybe it’s to balance out the forces in the movie? The other team will most likely be stronger than us or have a numerical advantage.]
[Luo Musheng: I think so too, or else the set wouldn’t have added such an opening ki-ll for no reason.]
Zhuo Yu laid down on the bed and sighed softly.
It seemed that this movie wasn’t that simple anymore. Whether it was a game or reality, once there were too many people involved, things would become more complicated. But to the people in the set, watching people fight was endlessly enjoyable, so adding team confrontation was also for the sake of audience viewing, right?
Ring –
Zhuo Yu’s cell phone rang; he looked at the caller ID and found that the name on it was also surnamed Zhuo.
Knowing that he had forgotten a lot of things due to the stimulus and that this was most likely a character family member, Zhuo Yu didn’t let the other party wait long before pressing the answer button.
“Brother.”
The gentle voice from the other side made Zhuo Yu frown; he didn’t want to recognize any random relatives.
“I heard that you ran away from the hospital and have been drinking everywhere for the past two days.” Zhuo Ran’s tone held intimacy but also blame: “You’d better clean your act up; a lover is just a lover; how could the situation hurt you like this? For people like us, giving your heart away is a big no-no.”
He paused and added, “Of course, I know you certainly didn’t; you just got distracted for a moment.”
“I… ” Zhuo Yu was tempted to retort, but that wouldn’t fit his character, and he wanted to know what else the man could say.
“Originally, the relationship between you and Jiang Xingyu had already caused a lot of dissatisfaction in our family. Now that things have dragged on to this point, there are rumours that you are an illegitimate child; it almost angered our father to death. I’ll give you three days to come home and apologize, and then accept a blind date. The other party is the eldest daughter of the Su Group, who is about the same age as you. Recently, the situation outside hasn’t been peaceful, so you can move back home.”
The “brother” on the other side directly and bluntly hung up the phone; Zhuo Yu felt the cold wind brushing by, like an icy hand brushing his cheeks.
“Zhuo Ran, your dear brother.”
Jiang Xingyu’s voice rang out, so gloomy that it was clearly noticeable. He appeared at Zhuo Yu’s bedside, sitting on his side, and with a casual wave of his hand, that cell phone fell under the bed and went into deadlock.
“He’s getting in our way again, isn’t he?” Although Jiang Xingyu was asking a question, he had already heard everything clearly.
“A blind date? Yes, people like you are the ones who will be arranged for a marriage; I can only be someone who can’t show my face next to you; you told me that a long time ago.”
Jiang Xingyu’s eyes gradually turned crimson; bloo-dy tears dripped down his face, but he wasn’t crying; he was pleasantly crouching over Zhuo Yu, gently biting and devouring the other party’s earlobe.
“Let me hear your choice.”
Zhuo Yu let out a long sigh in his heart. Here it came: the second life-and-death crisis he had to face had come.
“Don’t hurt that woman; she is innocent.”
The gusts of wind rose up, and the ghost straightened up, glaring at Zhuo Yu with those blo-od-red eyes.
“I won’t listen to my family’s words; don’t worry; since I said I would suffer with you, I won’t back out.” Zhuo Yu acted very frankly: “Those things, they are no longer in my consideration.”
Jiang Xingyu suddenly smiled, “But I’m backtracking; there are too many people staring at you; as long as you’re alive for a day, you’ll be coveted; I’m really going crazy; I can’t stand it.”
Zhuo Yu’s heart went cold.
Jiang Xingyu picked up Zhuo Yu and murmured, “Your injuries haven’t healed yet. Before, I was trying not to leave any after-effects, but it seems like there’s no need for that now.”
“What are you going to do?”
“Let’s play a romantic game. How long has it been since you looked at the stars?”
Ignoring Zhuo Yu’s resistance, he carried the person step by step up to the top floor of the five-story villa, where Liu Jingyun in the washroom and Luo Musheng in the living room had already finished their surveillance work, and together they saw the captain being taken away by the fierce ghost.
Liu Jingyun tried to stop Jiang Xingyu, but his aura was overwhelming; she couldn’t even get one step closer before she was suppressed to death by Jiang Xingyu’s gaze.
That’s it; this life-and-death test could only be handled by the captain.
Zhuo Yu was taken all the way to the rooftop, where there was no guardrail; he was placed on the edge, and if he moved his body just a little bit, he would fall down, and below that was a large green grassy area, filled with white precious moonflowers.
“Ah, I’ve always wanted to try dying with you.” Jiang Xingyu revealed a malicious smile. “Satisfy me.”
A gust of fresh wind, as if being pushed, caused Zhuo Yu, who had long given up the idea of survival, to fall lightly. Human life only needed a little strength to dissipate in this world.
Zhuo Yu sighed in his heart. Forget it; he must have chosen the wrong option; he’d just start over.
He looked at the fierce ghost who had fallen with him beside him and somehow felt a little relieved—Number One was really clingy.
A muffled sound rang out as he fell to the ground, and a large area of white roses stained red with bloo-d. The janitor, who had just stepped out of the door, witnessed this scene. She screamed in terror and hurriedly dialed the emergency number.
However, when Zhong Xiaoxiao finished reporting the case with a trembling voice, the expression on her face changed, and she gave a complicated hum.
“The captain wants me to watch you die, so don’t blame me.”
She immediately switched to the union channel.
[Zhong Xiaoxiao: Zhuo Yu is dead, pushed down the stairs by the ghost and splattered in bloo-d.]
[Zhuo Ran: Very good; I knew that my call would definitely irritate BOSS; he left Zhuo Yu alive because he wanted to see him suffer, but if someone really wants to snatch Zhuo Yu, he will take him away without mercy.]
[Zhong Xiaoxiao: Do you think that’s still love?]
[Zhuo Ran: Who knows.]
Just as Zhuo Ran opened the champagne and wanted to celebrate, everything went back to square one, and he found himself sitting at home, his cell phone memo filled with all sorts of plans.
This was three days ago.
Of course, Zhuo Ran wouldn’t have any memories of what happened; he was in a trance for a moment before muttering, “Sure enough, let’s give Zhuo Yu a call in a few days to test the waters.”
[Died three times, remaining resurrections 6; no new archive points have been opened yet.]
“!”
Zhuo Yu woke up with a jolt, realizing that he was being held in Jiang Xingyu’s arms and the scenery around him was cluttered; he had returned to the timeline of archive point 1.
He was still holding the bottle of thousand paper cranes in his arms.
“You don’t love me at all; then how about apologizing for the rest of your life? It will last longer than love.”
A familiar line.
Zhuo Yu raised his eyebrows; in the end, it was he himself who asked No. 1 to increase the difficulty, and…
The feeling of death wasn’t bad; he had to thank Number One for giving him the opportunity to experience it. Zhuo Yu looked at Jiang Xingyu’s temperamental expression, and suddenly a non-ordinary rebellious desire rose.
This time, he didn’t obey.
As if he were taking revenge, Zhuo Yu grabbed the ghost’s neck and pressed the man down onto the sofa.
“Who said I was guilty?”
Jiang Xingyu looked at him with some surprise.
“Listen to me carefully; even if you die, I won’t be afraid of you. It was you who ran to me and wanted to be my thing; then you deserve to belong to me after you die; even the god of death can’t take you away from me.”
Zhuo Yu sneered, “How do you think you came back to earth? It was me; I ki-lled my two best friends and used it to call you back to earth; don’t be mistaken.”
Jiang Xingyu was slightly stunned.
“You said you’ve loved me for thirteen years, so it’s only right that you die for me, so what if you die? I still brought you back.”
Zhuo Yu condescendingly looked at the ghost: “You are my dog, and a dog wants to turn against its master?”
Zhuo Yu was now even more capricious than Jiang Xingyu. One second he was still confessing, and the next second he became the same person as before, a far cry from the disheveled and drunken man; his violent look made a touch of red appear at the ends of his eyes, revealing a kind of morbid beauty.
Jiang Xingyu sobered up from his daze and unexpectedly laughed out loud.
“This is you, my baby; you’re back.”
Zhuo Yu felt that Jiang Xingyu was strangely agitated, and his words revealed extraordinary excitement.
“Yes, yes, I’m your dog, and now the dog really wants to devour the master.” Jiang Xingyu picked the person up and brought him towards the bedroom. “But it’s a different kind.”
Zhuo Yu was calm on the surface, but inside he was completely flustered. What was Jiang Xingyu up to?
Zhuo Yu’s original strategy was that since the wistful route didn’t work, he would try something more perv-erted; he didn’t expect that the perversion had gone too far and stimulated the ghost; it wouldn’t be images that couldn’t be aired, right?
Although his upper body was in good shape, in the end he was a disabled person; he couldn’t resist at all.
When pressed onto the bed, Zhuo Yu suddenly felt a sensation of being bitten by a predator on his neck. He didn’t object; on the other hand, it was as if he had returned to his first meeting with Asha. Zhuo Yu was actually quite interested.
Too bad it wasn’t destined to be a romantic action movie.
Jiang Xingyu saw Zhuo Yu’s bare thigh; it was no longer intact, all sorts of scars coiled around it like an ugly centipede. Large areas of bruising hadn’t dissipated; some of the abraded traumas were still oozing bloo-d, and he even saw the deformity of the leg bones.
Was Zhuo Yu injured this badly?
Like a pot of cold water had been poured on him, Jiang Xingyu looked at Zhuo Yu with some disbelief.
Why wasn’t he in the hospital? What was he doing dragging around this injury?
This wasn’t Zhuo Yu’s style at all. Zhuo Yu was a person who extremely pursued perfection; even if his body was splattered a little by a stain, he would be furious, but now, if he delayed medical treatment, he would become disabled.
This was simply the most unbelievable thing in the world in Jiang Xingyu’s head.
Why did Zhuo Yu……
“Lost interest when you saw my legs?” Zhuo Yu didn’t smoke, but he still picked up the lighter on the nightstand at the moment and lit one for himself.
Jiang Xingyu’s emotions were a bit complicated; obviously he was the dead victim, but why was there a sense of guilt now?
It wasn’t normal.
“I had to finish the ceremony before the seventh day of your death; how could I have time to stay in the hospital?” As if Zhuo Yu had heard Jiang Xingyu’s inner thoughts, he lazily asked, “Did you think I was lying to you about what I said?”
Indeed.
Jiang Xingyu didn’t think carefully about what Zhuo Yu said, because no matter what Zhuo Yu said, he wouldn’t care anymore. He only wanted to treat Zhuo Yu as his plaything, watching him until he died. This was the state of mind after a status reversal; why would the superior need to listen carefully to the voice of the inferior?
Wasn’t Zhuo Yu doing the same thing before?
But reality told him that Zhuo Yu seemed to really be a bit off.
Zhuo Yu sneered in his heart. No wonder this guy had repeatedly ki-lled him. It turned out that he only listened to his own words and wanted to see him suffer. This guy’s love must have gone bad.
He remembered his requirements to Number One in the beginning was… “hate.”.
Guilt didn’t matter, for Jiang Xingyu, it was hate that lasted longer than love.
Jiang Xingyu truly hated him.
The deep love, infatuation, and possessiveness he was faking was just venting his hatred.
He was, after all, a ghost. If he knew what “love” was, he wouldn’t be a ghost.
Zhuo Yu instantly understood the key point; he had always thought that Number One’s character still loved him as much as he did in the past; that was why he tried to please the other party and tried to stabilize Jiang Xingyu; however, now he understood.
Jiang Xingyu didn’t love him; maybe he loved him before he died, but the ghost didn’t have the ability to have the perception of “love,” and the person he was now was no longer the same person he was before.
“Alas.” Zhuo Yu sighed. Wasn’t his script about a scumbag reneging, but was it too late?
It was indeed challenging to try to deceive a fierce ghost that was full of hate and ready to ki-ll painfully.
Zhuo Yu was satisfied.
Since he couldn’t be wistful, then they would clash fiercely; he made up his mind to walk on this tightrope.
“You caused yourself to become disabled in order to retrieve me?” Jiang Xingyu mumbled confusedly for a moment, “It can’t be another one of your tricks, right?”
“Get lost.”
Zhuo Yu pushed the man away as he finished his cigarette under the hazy nightlight, then he pressed the cigarette out into Jiang Xingyu’s hand.
“I still have unfinished business; do you think the ceremony is that simple?”
Zhuo Yu flipped out the book from under his pillow.
“You still need to ki-ll all your enemies; I don’t need to tell you this; it’s the instinct of you fierce ghosts; have all my friends died already?”
Zhuo Yu calmly picked up his cell phone and turned it back on, then dialed the numbers one by one.
This time, no one picked up, and only one person, Lin Anqi, picked up the phone and muttered something about it being the middle of the night.
Zhuo Yu hung up.
“Except for him, all of them are indeed dead, right?” Zhuo Yu’s expression was unchanged, without any feelings of heartache or regret.
“Baby, you’re crazy.” Jiang Xingyu looked at him appreciatively.
“Yeah, did you just realize that?”
Zhuo Yu’s mind flashed through countless fragments; those people were truly close friends; they had mocked Jiang Xingyu after knowing that Zhuo Yu had someone beside him, constantly whispering in Zhuo Yu’s ear, instilling the theories of unworthiness, playthings, and so on.
After listening for a long time, Zhuo Yu became indifferent to Jiang Xingyu.
“So why did you ki-ll them? I never got around to asking you.” Zhuo Yu’s eyes seemed to be able to see through people. “Were you enemies? But saying bad things about you doesn’t make someone an enemy.”
Jiang Xingyu had been ruled by the instincts of a fierce ghost; he only knew that he wanted to ki-ll those people; he hadn’t had the time to think about it in detail.
“Isn’t there one left? Go listen to him; don’t rush to ki-ll him; there might be unexpected gains.”
Zhuo Yu reverted back to his original character. Jiang Xingyu actually felt that his aura as a ghost was suppressed; he subconsciously wanted to listen to Zhuo Yu’s words, as if he really were one of his dogs.
Obviously, it was Zhuo Yu who didn’t want him, and it was Zhuo Yu who ki-lled him.
Jiang Xingyu’s head hurt; for the first time he knew that a ghost’s head could ache. It was time to make a decision; things were not as simple as he thought.
“Release Liu Jingyun and the others.”
“?”
“I ki-lled them; they must have wanted to seek revenge on me; you were the one who stopped them, right?”
The fierce ghost waved his hand, and two ghastly white ghosts appeared in the room, while Jiang Xingyu himself disappeared into the air without a trace.
Zhuo Yu knew he had gone to investigate the truth.
The female ghost without half of her head was very agitated, but she wasn’t as powerful as Jiang Xingyu, so she couldn’t speak at all and could only let out a strange “ho ho” sound.
[Union Channel]
[Zhuo Yu: Speak here.]
[Liu Jingyun: Captain!]
[Liu Jingyun: Captain! I’ve finally been released!]
[Zhuo Yu: No need to say anything; I basically understand your situation.]
[Liu Jingyun: Eh?]
[Zhuo Yu: Luo Musheng, have you heard of a person named Zhong Xiaoxiao?]
The wooden-faced male ghost nodded slowly.
Zhuo Yu sneered.
After a person died, the last thing that disappeared was the sense of hearing; he heard that voice, and remembered the woman’s name. He had wanted to take a gamble, but he hadn’t expected that someone would really be stupid enough to use their real name in a movie to get close to him.
[Luo Musheng: I remember, Zhong Xiaoxiao is the vice president of the Tianxiang Trade Union; her specialty is probing for information; her ability is that she can change her body shape and appearance at any time, and she often dresses up as a wide variety of people to get close to her enemies and then lay her hands on them.]
[Zhuo Yu: Who is the president?]
[Luo Musheng: He seems to also be surnamed Zhuo, called Zhuo something.]
[Zhuo Yu: Zhuo Ran, that was the name on my caller ID.]
[Luo Musheng: Yes, that’s him.]
[Zhuo Yu: Coincidentally, our opponent has been determined; it’s someone from the Tianxiang Trade Union.]
[Luo Musheng: It’s only the first day in the game, right?]
Zhuo Yu didn’t answer; these few times he died were enough for him to find out who the enemy was. With Luo Musheng around, the Tianxiang Trade Union was now directly under his gaze.
[Zhuo Yu: Now, organize your intelligence on the Tianxiang Trade Union; we’re going to take the initiative].
Zhuo Yu hadn’t forgotten that Zhuo Ran’s phone call ignited the fire. If it weren’t for that phone call, he wouldn’t have been pushed down from upstairs by Jiang Xingyu.
On the other side, Lin Anqi had been scared out of his wits and returned home uneasily.
This time his conversation took on a new dimension.
“This is fu-cking crazy; I don’t care if you believe it or not, but Jiang Xingyu seems to be haunting me; I saw him!”
Lin Anqi wanted to growl, but he could only lower his voice: “Zhuo Ran, if you’re still a human being, hurry up and give me a solution; I don’t want to die here because of your family’s shit.”
Zhuo Ran’s voice was still cold. “So what? It was you who called the two of them to come to the party in the first place; the police can’t trace me.”
“You! You despicable thing, aren’t you afraid I’ll tell Zhuo Yu?”
“What’s the point of telling him? I’ve heard that Zhuo Yu has gone crazy, and him believing your words will only cement the fact that he’s crazy.”
Lin Anqi finally stopped caring, “I know you’ve wanted to ki-ll Zhuo Yu for a long time; this time he didn’t die because Jiang Xingyu blocked the knife for him; next time there might be someone else; there are some people’s blessings that you can’t snatch away!”
Zhuo Ran’s voice finally took on other emotions as he mocked, “Do you still really think it was Zhuo Yu who pushed him into the truck? Too naive; no matter how much my brother fools around, he’s not someone who would ki-ll someone; there’s a hidden agenda in there that you don’t know about.”
“Besides, who said my target was Zhuo Yu?”
“The one I wanted to ki-ll in the beginning was Jiang Xingyu, ah.”
He hung up; Lin Anqi broke out into a cold sweat as he fell into the bathtub, not understanding how things could have developed to this point.
As for Zhuo Ran on the other end of the phone, he hadn’t yet been attacked by the BOSS, and he also didn’t yet know that the ghost ignored space and could hear what he was saying at any time, so naturally, he didn’t intentionally mind his words when talking to the master of the Baoshan Temple like he would do in the future to prevent the secret from leaking out.
Instead of trying to ki-ll Zhuo Yu, it was more likely that the plan was for Zhuo Yu to suffer an undeserved disaster.
Zhuo Ran knew very well what would happen to Zhuo Yu’s character after the incident, because the push on Jiang Xingyu was also not of his own volition but the master’s handiwork.
So, Zhuo Yu must be devastated—maybe he really went crazy.
Having ki-lled his beloved with his own hands, even if he didn’t want to admit it, even if he spoke ill of Jiang Xingyu, as the character’s brother, Zhuo Ran knew that Zhuo Yu had always loved the other person deeply.
And Jiang Xingyu, who witnessed everything and heard all this with his own ears, went mad.
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Eyyyy, the drama 😌
I’m almost done with the next chapter, so see ya tomorrow, I can’t wait ✌️
I picked up a new novel, it’s a QT novel as well. Here’s the synopsis, if you wanna check it out, three chapters are up.
Interesting! Thank you for the chapter!
Ohhhh so it’s that kind of dog blooded plot…