Why Are the Psychos Obsessed with a Mere NPC?

Jian Yu had no romantic feelings for Duan Feiye.

In their previous few meetings, he had always given her a strange impression.

’A handsome man with a noble, elegant, and courteous bearing. He was poised and controlled, yet he seemed like a troll wearing a mask.’

Now he was even stranger, his usual composure tinged with a hint of recklessness.

Jian Yu looked him straight in the eye, not flinching. Her expression was cold. "Have you also been possessed by a Soul Ghost Body?"

Duan Feiye’s expression faltered. "What?"

When he recovered, not only did he not feel rebuffed, but he found himself even more interested in Jian Yu’s icy face.

’Perhaps when you have feelings for someone, even the air they breathe out smells sweet.’

’Possessed?’

"My apologies, but I’m still myself."

Duan Feiye’s lips curved up as he took two polite steps back. "I was too forward. Deciding on a gift is something I should be thinking about, not a problem for the person being pursued to worry over."

’Asking someone what gift they want directly does seem insincere.’

Duan Feiye silently chided himself. ’I was too hasty.’

He’d finally found someone he was interested in, but Jian Yu was surrounded by one man after another.

It was a lively and crowded scene, forcing him to make his move only when Pei Yin and the others weren’t around.

The atmosphere grew tense. Shen Yinhong kept her head down, not daring to breathe too loudly.

Si Xu’s brow relaxed.

He glanced at the paused timer. "The competition will now resume."

Jian Yu’s gaze shifted to the right.

A brilliant white light flared. Si Xu’s figure shrank within the glowing halo until he was no longer visible.

’Another person who’s impossible to figure out.’

Jian Yu’s gaze returned to Duan Feiye.

She stared at him for two seconds before her long lashes fluttered and she lowered her gaze.

’Duan Feiye is the most clear-headed person in F7. He only cares about the result, not the process.’

’So, once his goal is set, he’ll just calmly watch Yan Qin court disaster, no matter what trouble she stirs up.’

Jian Yu didn’t think Duan Feiye had a responsibility to guide Yan Qin.

But Yan Qin’s appetite had grown, and that was inseparable from Duan Feiye’s boundless indulgence.

With Yan Qin in the picture, Jian Yu had lost much of her favorable impression of Duan Feiye.

She rejected him cautiously. "I already have Ayan and the others. I’m a very traditional woman; I don’t want to date too many people."

Duan Feiye heard something that should have been amusing, but he just couldn’t bring himself to smile.

He tilted his head, his eyes showing confusion for no more than two seconds. "You’re angry. Is it because of me?"

Jian Yu raised her eyes, and before she could even speak, Duan Feiye understood.

"If it’s not me, then it’s someone else."

He seemed able to read her micro-expressions. "I will handle things with Yan Qin. I’ll come talk to you again after that."

Duan Feiye didn’t give her a chance to reject him a second time.

"Don’t be so quick to refuse. I won’t be your fourth, but you can’t guarantee there won’t be a fifth, a sixth, or a seventh later on."

He stood up straight, his gaze gentle and modest, yet he possessed an innate, noble air.

Duan Feiye threw out his condition like a wager. "When the fourth person appears, I’ll become your fifth."

"..." Jian Yu pressed her lips together.

The way she blinked was soft, but her expression remained as cold and wooden as ever.

She couldn’t help but scream internally. ’Is this how they all play this game?!’

’I can’t out-talk him, and I can’t win this bet.’

Jian Yu avoided the topic by pulling Shen Yinhong back to the Green Spider Ant’s small chamber.

"There’s not much time left. I’ll help you form the Contract first."

The gaze on her back didn’t leave.

Jian Yu could even guess what Duan Feiye had just done by the changing expressions of the few contestants around them.

He had methodically lifted his gaze, slowly and deliberately sweeping it over the crowd, a smile playing on his lips that didn’t reach his eyes, making his dark irises seem all the more profound.

Jian Yu clenched her tense fingers and pulled Shen Yinhong closer.

A thread of red light suddenly shot out, wrapping around Shen Yinhong’s hand.

Shen Yinhong looked at her wrist, held by Jian Yu, and glanced at Duan Feiye behind them out of the corner of her eye.

She lowered her voice. "Shouldn’t we feed it something first?"

"I don’t think we need to. I can feel that it’s very anxious." Jian Yu kept her eyes on the entrance to the contracting channel.

The Green Spider Ant was hopping up and down at the contract entrance, its two fluorescent green eyes looking up anxiously.

’Feed it? What feeding? Contract! Contract now!’

’This little one has already eaten eight meals today!’

Although Jian Yu couldn’t understand the Alien Beast’s words, she could feel its emotions.

The other end of the red thread had barely touched the Green Spider Ant before the creature jumped and spat out several green strands to stick to it.

It eagerly retracted the green silk, along with the red thread, into its abdomen.

[Congratulations to Zone 13, contestant #869, for a successful Contract. The mutual consent level between both parties is one hundred percent!]

The announcement played three times.

"AHHHH!" Shen Yinhong happily hugged Jian Yu, jumping up and down. "It worked! The contract level is so high."

The Green Spider Ant lay with its belly facing the sky.

Its eight legs flailed wildly. ’Ahhhh, it worked.’

Jian Yu was also a little excited, though her face was pale as she hugged her back.

She opened her mouth, about to say something, but when she looked up, she saw several people staring at her.

There were ten contestants in this batch. After Jiang Fei left, three more had succeeded one after another.

Their contract levels were all around seventy to eighty percent, and two of them were even non-consensual Contracts.

The few remaining people hadn’t brought an Assistant Master. They most likely wanted to use their spiritual power to force a Contract but were unwilling to settle for that, so they had been stalling until now.

Jian Yu understood their eager, pleading gazes. Noticing the tense atmosphere, she turned around thoughtfully.

She looked up at Duan Feiye.

He hadn’t left, nor had he spoken. He simply lifted his eyelids, his eyes flashing with a complex light she couldn’t decipher.

’Fortune favors the bold.’ One person eagerly approached her. "Could you possibly..."

Jian Yu was a little tired. If she could, she would go back and sleep right now.

"Wasn’t it easy enough for you to reject me?" Duan Feiye’s calm gaze swept over the surroundings.

His gaze wasn’t sharp, but it held a piercing quality that made people uneasy.

"If you want to forfeit, you can leave now."

The contestant whose intentions had been seen through silently turned away, no longer trying to get Jian Yu’s help.

[Congratulations to Zone 13, contestant #63, for a successful Contract. The contractual bond was initiated by contestant #63.]

[Congratulations...]

Unable to withstand the pressure, everyone resorted to using their spiritual power to force a Contract. Those who failed could only leave dejectedly when time was up.

...

Retracting his gaze, Duan Feiye lightly tapped his fingertips together, clasping his hands twice.

"My offer still stands. I hope you’ll consider it. I’d rather be Little Four than Little Five."

It was time to clear the area.

A curtain of fireflies swirled into view as Duan Feiye calmly turned.

The hem of his clothes lifted slightly, revealing a wrist bone. The skin was a cool, pale white, a stark contrast to his steady back.

’Jian Yu understood Ling Yanzhi. When he liked someone, he didn’t need a reason.’

’In Ling Yanzhi’s eyes, it didn’t matter whether he loved someone who was already wonderful or someone who became wonderful because of him. What mattered was that he liked them.’

’As for Duan Feiye, he seemed calm, but in reality, his affection for someone was a frightening thing.’

’Even if the person he liked did terrible things, he would still love them. No matter how rotten, how bad, or how ambitious they were, he would just love them. He could just forgive them.’

’At first, Jian Yu thought Yan Qin had the female lead’s script.’

’Then she realized her own script was from the perspective of a random passerby, seeing nothing but the female lead’s romantic scandals.’

’The steady Duan Feiye wasn’t steady at all.’

’The selfish Ling Yanzhi had the magnanimity of a first wife.’

’The cold and demonic Xi Yu was actually just a gloomy little mushroom.’

’The ruthless Pei Yin was the youngest and also the most soft-hearted.’

’Si Xu, Sheng Yue...’

’So, why did Xu Jianjuan go mad? Like Yan Qin, was she also possessed by a Soul Ghost Body twice?’

Jian Yu recalled the day she transmigrated. She seemed to remember smelling a foul odor on the female lead.

At the time, she had assumed the girl had just been splashed with stinky, dirty water.

"Yu?" Shen Yinhong was half-supporting Jian Yu. "You look awful. Does forming a Contract require you to use your Soul Beast’s power?"

Jian Yu was listless. She gave a vague nod. "Yeah."

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