absurd deduction game.

Yu Xing led the performers into his small villa.

The place was quite nicely decorated. Qu Xianqing thought it was a bit old-fashioned, but during the Republic of China era, it would definitely have been considered very fashionable. One or two servants passed by and, seeing that the young master had brought guests and was chatting happily, they did not greet him but quietly walked past.

Finally, the two stopped at a terrace on the second floor, a place specially set up for relaxing and drinking tea. The brown leather sofa was slightly sagged from the performer's sitting. The maid served tea and snacks, and the young master continued talking about the topics they had discussed when they first met.

In front of the actors, the young Yu Xing made no attempt to hide his displeasure, ranting about his own father and all the women who had been brought in—some were concubines, and some didn't even have a title—looking extremely resentful.

Qu Xianqing could sense that Yu Xing's mood was rapidly improving as she confided in him.

"So, you don't want to get married so early?" The performer took a sip of red tea and pointed out the crux of the matter with a smile.

The young master went abroad early and returned to China at the age of 22. He is definitely a young prodigy. However, in China, at this age, he should be looking for a girl to marry. Many second-generation rich kids get married first and then start their careers. Having a family doesn't even affect their ability to go to university.

That's why Master Yu had the idea of ​​arranging a marriage between his son and the daughter of his business partner. To put it bluntly, it was a marriage alliance.

Young Master: "In my father's opinion, it's okay if you don't like someone. Just marry her and raise her first. Then you can marry someone you like later. He said that every family has a few concubines... I get annoyed when I hear that."

“He doesn’t understand new ideas at all. Young people nowadays advocate freedom of love and marriage, and spending their whole lives with only one person. Look at how many fashionable women there are on the street lately, right? The manager of Xingbang Bank is a cool and stylish lady! Such women are suitable for dating and marriage, but my father only likes old-fashioned women who wear mandarin jackets and have cheongsams.”

He snorted coldly: "Even if we take a step back, do you really think the daughters of those business owners would willingly share a husband with a bunch of women, like my father thinks? The old man is outdated. If he continues to treat young girls as commodities, he'll suffer sooner or later."

The actors listened quietly, not saying much, but occasionally responding with a sound to show that they were listening attentively.

Finally, he asked, "If you disobey your father, will he punish you?"

Yu Xing rolled her eyes: "Let him punish me. It's not like he gives me all my money. Besides, I'm not a kid anymore. If he cuts off my allowance now, am I supposed to beg for food? If he locks me in the house, do you think I won't run away?"

"What if he sends your servants to watch over you?" the actor asked again.

Yu Xing said, "I can hit people, but they don't dare to actually beat me up."

The actor then burst out laughing.

The young master is cheerful and kind, but he is not the type to suffer losses. He will treat those who are good to him even better, and those who are bad to him even worse. He has a strong sense of morality and is very proactive in doing so.

Therefore, after he grew up, he rarely suffered at home anymore and was not morally coerced by others.

Qu Xianqing, however, found it infuriating.

Judging from that, that Master Yu really did cut off Yu Xing's food and drink, and really did imprison him!

Yu Xing is so good, why should she be chosen?
Qu Xianqing, in her mind's eye, pricked up her ears, wanting to hear more.

But then the actor sitting opposite him glanced at him, took a sip of tea, and let out a soft sigh.

The young master immediately noticed: "What's wrong?"

The actor smiled gently, but his words carried a hint of bitterness: "You and Master Yu are nothing alike. Master Yu is a womanizer, but you are as straight as a block of wood. It's much more comfortable to be with you."

Qu Xianqing didn't understand what was going on, mainly because she didn't know the cause and effect, and couldn't think straight for a moment. But the young master suddenly got angry and asked warily, "That old man is bothering you again?!"

"Is he sick? You already said you didn't want to be with him anymore!"

Qu Xianqing: Huh?
She nodded to the cosmic cat for a moment, then looked at the performer through "Yu Xing's" eyes.

It must be said that, even without the "enemy" filter, she had to admit that the actor was a natural-born leading lady. His face had soft lines and was delicate and beautiful. Although it was obvious at a glance that he was a man, he always made people forget his gender.

Such famous female impersonators were indeed very popular with men... especially those lecherous and pleasure-seeking men who were indiscriminate in their desires.

But, what should we do?

The actor wasn't really a powerless performer. We don't know how powerful he was at this moment, but he was definitely not an ordinary person. Could he really be troubled by Master Yu's harassment?
I'm afraid that the moment Master Yu gains an advantage, he'll be turned into pieces the next second.

Bringing this up to Yu Xing at this time is clearly an attempt to elicit Yu Xing's discontent and concern.

Qu Xianqing pouted.

The actor in the scene seemed to be just mentioning it casually, and his emotions were very stable. Instead, he comforted the young master: "Don't worry, Master Yu didn't do anything to me. He just said a few words. Besides, the master is generous with his reward money. I earn a lot by performing for him, so I'm not at a loss."

"Don't worry, although Master Yu's views are very different from yours, he still loves you. He knows that you and I have a good relationship and are friends, so he will never force me. On the contrary, because Master Yu values ​​me, the other audience members who come to watch the play are much more respectful when they are with me, and the play is much easier to sing."

Hearing this, the young master's agitated hair calmed down.

The actor is right. His father is old-fashioned and lecherous, always clinging to outdated ideas, which is why they don't see eye to eye. But ultimately, the old man only has one son. After his older sister got married, he was all that was left by the old man's side. No matter how many concubines he had, the old man always found ways to prevent them from getting pregnant, in order to threaten his position as the young master.

Although Yu Xing didn't care about this so-called status, he felt that the whole thing was wrong from the root. The point wasn't to protect his belly.

But Master Yu did love him quite a bit, and on matters of principle, he never did anything to utterly disappoint him.

For example, actors, as his friends, could also gain some respect. For another example, when Yu Xing went abroad to study art, Master Yu was very supportive.

Aside from some moral issues, occasional punishments, and the domineering nature of his father, Yu Xing actually lived a very good and comfortable life. He had never encountered any setbacks from childhood to adulthood. If Master Yu hadn't loved him, he wouldn't have been able to raise him to be such an outstanding person.

This feeling is complex; it's not just a conflict between father and son, but also happens to coincide with a period of dramatic change in societal values.

It will definitely make people unhappy, but it's not something life or death is a big deal.

The topic became somewhat awkward, and after a few words with Lingren and Yuxing, they stopped talking and moved on to other things. Somehow, the conversation drifted to their ideals.

The young master said he likes painting and sculpting. He likes the feeling of everything being born at his fingertips. Perhaps in ten or twenty years he will have to inherit the family business and become a busy businessman, but before that, he wants to travel around and become a traveling painter.

In turbulent times, perhaps he will come to agree with some people's ideas on his journey, stop to complete certain missions, or perhaps he will complete his journey in an ordinary way and return home in an ordinary way... Anything is fine, anything is good. Qu Xianqing could feel that Yu Xing's eyes must have been shining when he said these words. He had not yet experienced darkness, and his whole being was light and dazzling.

Even the actors were stunned by the eloquent young master before them, listening while unconsciously spacing out.

"Hey, what about you? I mean, if you weren't an opera singer, what would you want to do?" the young master suddenly asked.

The actor snapped out of his reverie and actually thought about it seriously.

He held his teacup, gazing at the sky outside the terrace, and after a long while, he smiled and said, "If I didn't set any conditions and didn't care about reality... I would like to be a scientist."

Young Master: "Huh?"

This was clearly an unexpected answer.

Performer: "What, are you surprised?"

The young master laughed and said, "I thought you would want to be a super rich person, without having to work hard... or some other kind of profession. In short, I didn't expect you to want to be a scientist."

"Why is that? What are you thinking?"

Qu Xianqing was also surprised for a moment. After all, judging from their appearances, actors and scientists were so incompatible that even putting them together seemed out of place.

However, shouldn't we get to the point now? The reason Yu Xing showed her this memory was to answer the question she asked, wasn't it?
In the memory, the actor smiled and explained, "I recently heard someone mention Mr. De and Mr. Sai, so I asked him a question, and that's how I learned that Mr. Sainz is science."

"Science is amazing, isn't it? It can bring about tremendous changes to our lives. That's how your telephone and clock came about. In ancient times, the people who created these things might have been regarded as gods."

He leaned back slightly, sinking into the brown-red sofa, crossed his legs, propped one hand on the side of his face, and his thumb casually brushed against the red tassel hanging from his earlobe.

"If I weren't an actor, not in this lowly profession, if I could dream freely... I would want to become a scientist, to see just how amazing science really is, and to create some things I like to keep me company."

As the performer spoke, he glanced at Yu Xing and said jokingly, "Maybe I could make a doll that looks exactly like you, so realistic that it would be indistinguishable from the real thing, and then have the doll do my work... Hmm, I should make many, many more, so that countless versions of you can accompany me."

The young master scratched his head: "Mechanical doll? It sounds interesting, but when I imagine the scene you described, it feels kind of creepy."

He put his hands on his hips and said, "No, no, you're not allowed to make a doll exactly like me. I'm one of a kind, the only one in the whole world!"

The actor chuckled: "Can't I even imagine it?"

"No way! Who would like to have a bunch of things that look just like themselves in the world? If you really become a scientist, you can't do such a terrible thing!" the young master complained.

Qu Xianqing: "..."

hateful.

It's no secret among the top strategists that actors can create all sorts of things. Besides those secretive, inhuman experiments, even the flower seeker we met last time was an actor's creation.

He can do more than just make dolls.

He has reached the stage of creating real "people".

Furthermore, the "people" created by the performers can gain recognition from the absurd system, and like other strategists, they can increase their power by running dungeons and develop their own ability system.

They only saw the Flower Seeker, but the actor was always good at hiding things. Who knew how many things he was hiding that were the same as the Flower Seeker's? In this respect, the actor was unfathomable.

The "ideal" he confided in Yu Xing when he was a young master was probably already realized back then, wasn't it? Was he using this opportunity to say it a hunter's subtle mockery of his prey, or was he testing Yu Xing's level of acceptance of it?
If... if Yu Xing hadn't shown any reluctance, would the actor have actually created many "Yu Xing" to accompany him forever?

Qu Xianqing's thoughts drifted far away, and then she noticed that the scene in front of her, like her thoughts, began to blur and drift into the distance.

The scenery was changing, and the memories she received, infused by the tendrils of the branches, shifted to a green space.

Gululu...

Several bubbles appeared in this space and floated gently upwards. Qu Xianqing adjusted to the scene and realized that she, Yu Xing, as she perceived him, seemed to be soaking in a green liquid.

This is……

Having completed so many simulations, she quickly realized what it was—a petri dish.

Yu Xing was suspended vertically in a giant cylindrical petri dish. The green liquid inside was probably something like a nutrient solution.
Through the liquid, which was sometimes murky and sometimes clear, some people in white coats were reflected in the glass. Qu Xianqing watched as some of them hurried past, while others stood nearby, seemingly observing her.

Oh, it's about observing Yu Xing.

The muffled conversation had lost its clarity over time, and Yu Xing couldn't remember it. When Qu Xianqing heard it, all she could hear were some vague "waibibabu".

However, Yu Xing turned around in the scene, facing the back she had just seen, and the performer, also wearing a white coat, suddenly appeared in her field of vision.

The performer had a data book tucked under his arm. He smiled and, as if noticing the experimental subjects in the petri dish looking over, stepped forward and placed his palm on the glass.

He said, "It will be soon, young master."

The voice was incredibly clear, a stark contrast to the white coats around it.

Qu Xianqing belatedly realized that although Yu Xing could still move, she showed no emotional fluctuations and was cold and lifeless.

There was no fear, no anger, all emotional fluctuations were stripped away, so it just stayed quietly in the glass container, its body in the nutrient solution completely uncovered, yet it couldn't even feel shame.

The actor looked at the once-smiling young master and said in the exact same tone as when they chatted on the terrace, "You are unique, there is only one of you in this world. You are right, so, poor thing, young master, you can only be studied by me personally."

"Don't worry, I am the most outstanding 'scientist' of this era. I will turn you into the most perfect creation, and then... you will be just like me." (End of Chapter)