Why Are the Psychos Obsessed with a Mere NPC?

Si Xu lowered his gaze to the special shackles, his Adam’s apple bobbing slightly.

His lips were pressed into a thin line, his jaw taut with restraint.

Jian Yu slowly drew back her hands and feet.

Her gaze went blank for a moment, and her fingers slowly tightened on the blanket.

’I’ve been found out.’

She hadn’t tried to break free from her restraints for the past few days.

’Today was the first time. Maybe my act wasn’t convincing enough.’

’No, wait... Si Xu saw through it in a single glance?’

Jian Yu turned over, her wide eyes staring at the handcuffs as she contemplated her life choices.

’Should I come clean?’

Before she could decide, the shackles on her wrists and ankles suddenly clicked open.

Si Xu sat on the edge of the bed, wrapped an arm around Jian Yu’s waist, and pulled her into his embrace. "You make me feel so good."

He lifted the chains with his fingers, first letting out a muffled chuckle, then a low laugh, and finally, a hearty one.

’She could have run, but she didn’t. She stayed of her own free will and even indulged my madness for six whole days.’

Si Xu felt a satisfaction unlike anything he had ever known.

"..." Jian Yu paused, her cheeks flushing.

Si Xu had said the word "good" so many times that she couldn’t help but misinterpret it this time.

Jian Yu leaned her head on his shoulder.

’So, what are we now?’

’Is this a tacit understanding? Something we’re leaving unsaid?’

Jian Yu didn’t want to leave the Imperial City for now, and it wasn’t as if she had no feelings for Si Xu whatsoever.

’The fall of an ascetic, divine being... it’s thrilling.’

’The way Si Xu acts like he can’t live without her is right up her alley.’

’What she liked wasn’t just his forceful, perverse side, but also hearing a divine, Immortal-like man utter such wanton and debauched words to her.’

’Real-life yanderes are nothing like the ones in Mary Sue novels.’

’They have no money, no looks, and they might even be abusive.’

’Ugly and poor, they make sure they’re the only contact in your phone, forbid you from going out, and won’t even let you connect to the internet.’

’They constantly check your phone’s location, install cameras for 360-degree surveillance, assume you’re trying to leave them every time you go out, and accuse you of cheating if you exchange a few extra words with someone else.’

’Then come the threats and retaliation, the wild mood swings, the beatings whenever they get angry. After they calm down, they’ll be on their knees, begging for your forgiveness, but the next time they get mad, the beatings start all over again.’

Jian Yu was very clear-headed about all this.

She liked the possessive type, but she knew what she needed was to be cared for, not to be the victim of suffocating, soul-crushing, despair-inducing psychological manipulation.

Thinking so hard was making her a little hungry.

Jian Yu rubbed her stomach. After a few seconds with her eyes downcast, she asked, "Is there no food today?"

The reason she hadn’t run away yet—aside from her own gratification—was that she still got to eat good food every day.

This kind of life was sustainable. It had its flavors.

But today, Si Xu wasn’t being so agreeable.

He laid out an array of fragrant dishes, deliberately placing Jian Yu’s favorite fish soup right in the center.

"Come with me, and I’ll let you eat."

Jian Yu’s eyelashes trembled. She spoke as slowly as a glitching machine, "I want... to stay here."

Evidently, Si Xu was unwilling to share.

Even though he suspected she wasn’t unwilling, he refused to compromise in the slightest.

Si Xu’s expression was complicated. "You want me to join them? Do you really think that’s possible?"

A wave of displeasure washed over him again.

He pressed down on the nape of Jian Yu’s neck, kissing her until they were both breathless before slowly letting go.

Si Xu’s voice was strained. "I found you first. What right do they have? I’ll give you one last chance. Come with me, or I’ll take you with me when I die. We’ll die together!"

Jian Yu’s ears tingled, his panting words leaving her so shaken she couldn’t recover her wits.

Her organized train of thought was completely derailed.

After a full five seconds of silence, Jian Yu finally lifted her eyes.

Her voice was cool and clear, yet held a hint of sluggishness. "Calm down... No one actually wants to date a true yandere."

Si Xu squeezed Jian Yu’s neck lightly, their lips brushing together.

When she tried to pull back, he yanked her forward again. "Next time, don’t cry and beg me to stop. I won’t go easy on you again."

Jian Yu’s expression held a hint of imperceptible confusion.

’He went easy on me? I don’t think he did, did he?’

’In fact, didn’t he get more worked up the more I cried?’

’She had enjoyed it, sure, but why was he rewriting his own memories?’

Si Xu: "Yu. Jian Yu!"

After he called her name twice, Jian Yu looked at him with a delayed reaction. "..."

Ripples disturbed the indifference in Si Xu’s eyes.

In that instant, the emotions he had hidden for years seemed to rise and fall in his gaze.

Si Xu whipped his head away, forcefully suppressing all those emotions back into the depths of his heart.

"You’re mine."

The light in his eyes flickered, and the tight set of his lips hinted at how wronged he felt. "You want me to be the other man? Impossible."

Jian Yu’s eyes widened as she thought carefully.

’Now that they’d slept together, she couldn’t help but feel a little tender affection for him.’

She made a suggestion, the end of her words trailing with a bit of her usual, off-beat slowness.

"What if I break up with them... and get together with you first?"

Si Xu froze. "And what about them?"

Jian Yu’s reply was stiff and clumsy. "And then... I get back together with them?"

The emotion in her wide eyes was sincere. She looked obedient and helpless. Her voice was hoarse, lending her normally cool tone a trace of softness.

"I’m hungry."

"..."

Si Xu released her. "Go on, eat."

"Thank you." Jian Yu paused for a long moment before she remembered to say it.

She wrapped the blanket around herself, clutching it with one hand while she dug into the food with the other.

Si Xu closed his eyes for a moment, his long lashes hiding the emotions in their depths.

A faint halo of light gathered on his lashes, coating them in a hazy beauty.

When he opened his eyes again, a fierce struggle flashed through those crystalline pupils.

He stared directly at Jian Yu. "I can’t do it."

Jian Yu, lost in the fragrant aroma of her meal, didn’t make a sound for a long time.

Without thinking, she slowly lifted her head.

’Just humor him, humor him.’

"You were the first. Be generous."

Si Xu froze, a tiny spark igniting in his pupils and spreading rapidly.

He lifted his hand, and his very knuckles seemed to glow with a hazy light.

"Really?"

Jian Yu watched him gently tuck away a strand of hair that was getting in her way as she ate, her gaze turning vacant for a moment.

’What did I just say?’

’She remembered that time outside the school, with Liu Xing... she’d already been with Ling Yanzhi...’

Jian Yu’s fingers unconsciously picked at the edge of the blanket. "Actually, Ayan..."

Her explanation was cut off.

"Fine." Si Xu was going mad with jealousy, yet he struggled to maintain the magnanimity of the ’primary partner’.

The pressure of the ’Beast Soul’ in the air, the shackles he’d unlocked and brought back with him... the moment he walked in, Si Xu knew he couldn’t keep Jian Yu.

He was jealous that Ling Yanzhi and the others took up so much of Jian Yu’s time.

But in the end, he realized that what he had received was far more precious than anything Ling Yanzhi had gotten.

At least, he hadn’t been rejected.

Jian Yu frowned, asking thoughtfully, "Fine?"

’Fine with what? She didn’t understand.’

Si Xu pressed a hand to his heart. "You’ll break up with them and be with me first."

His ’other man’ status was suddenly imbued with the mindset of a primary partner.

He was feeling a little giddy.

Now full, Jian Yu put down her chopsticks.

She spoke with deliberate slowness, "I feel like... that’s not a great idea."

Yuge flew over, and the leftovers were cleared away into a Space Ring.

[Master, she’s lying to you.]

"You’re lying to me?" Si Xu pressed down on her again, his eyes conveying his deepest desires.

...

Beads of sweat rolled down to his collarbone, disappearing into the contours of his pectoral muscles.

"I’m begging you."

He panted softly, pressing down on Jian Yu’s hand. "Say it. Say you only want me."

The cage began to sway in mid-air.

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