Li Chuan had been terrified of ghosts since she was a child, and upon hearing his words, she turned deathly pale. "Mr. Lu, please don't scare me. Are you hallucinating because you're angry? You might have fainted because of low blood sugar or being too tired, right?"

"There's no one here! Have you lost your mind because of Miss Xu? There's clearly nothing here."

"Could there be ghosts in this villa?"

Lu Jingci stood up, his gaze icy as if he were looking at a dead object. "Regardless of whether it's true or not, go find out where Xu Wuning ran off to."

The sun was shining brightly outside the window, but Li Chuan inexplicably felt a chill on her neck.

The outside light shone on Lu Jingci's face, while on the other side, the shadows grew deeper and deeper, the darkness obscuring his face.

He muttered to himself in a malicious voice, enunciating each word clearly: "Bring her back, tie her up, and kill her!"

……

the other side.

Xu Wuning moved into a villa under her own name, locked herself inside, and refused to come out.

Xiao Ke shook her head: "That's right, what can Lu Jingci do to us if we don't go out?"

"We'll leave as soon as we see the original male and female protagonists get together, and as soon as we see the world functioning according to the original plot."

"As for the subsequent plot after the male and female leads get married, and whether the villains will face the risk of destroying the world, we won't concern ourselves with that. Everything is preordained; we are not a redemption system, and these things are irrelevant to us."

"Although we didn't complete the mission, we didn't make a complete mess of the world, so we can say that our merits and demerits cancel each other out. In that case, it won't be too shameful for me to return to the system station."

Merits and demerits cancel each other out? A narcissistic system, it doesn't know where the merits lie.

Xu Wuning lay on the sofa, having just sent a message to her father, and shook her head upon hearing the system's words.

Her eyes dimmed for a moment when she heard the words "risk of world destruction".

If this world really disappears, then what about her father, Su Wanyue, and all her relatives and friends from childhood?

She didn't answer the system's question, but simply lifted her eyelids slightly. "So, after all this talk, the female lead is Tang Susu, but who exactly is the male lead? Have you found out?"

Xiao Ke held the task panel. "Wait, I'm checking them one by one."

"This is my first time doing this task, so I'm not very familiar with the procedures, but don't worry, I'll definitely be able to find it, it just might be a little slow..."

then.

Twenty minutes later.

Another half hour passed.

An hour later, Xu Wuning was asleep when Xiao Ke suddenly cried out in surprise:

"Found it! Host, Jiang Xu'an, gentle and kind-hearted, is the male protagonist of this novel!"

Xu Wuning was startled awake by its loud voice. "What are you shouting for? You scared me! Who is it? Jiang Xu'an? Senior?"

Xiao Ke nodded: "Yes, it's him."

"The information has been loaded. In the original plot, the male lead Jiang Xu'an will be with the female lead Tang Susu."

"In the early stages, Tang Susu liked the villain Lu Jingci, but Lu Jingci had no interest in her at all. He thought she was infatuated and had no work ability, so he fired her from the Lu Group."

"At the same time, Jiang Xu'an was cruelly abandoned by the vicious female supporting character. Thus, the two unfortunate souls met and redeemed each other."

Xu Wuning clicked her tongue: "What author wrote such a corny plot?"

Suddenly, Xiao Ke seemed to see something, and his expression changed drastically as he held the task panel.

"Wait... what's this?"

"Holy crap! Host, something's happened! I just realized, what's going on with Tang Susu? Why doesn't she have a love line? If she doesn't have a love line, how is she going to fall in love with the male lead later on?"

"If the male and female leads don't end up together, wouldn't the entire plot fall apart? If I go back to the system website, wouldn't I be laughed at to death?"

"It's all over, the sky is falling!"

"Host, quickly ask Tang Susu what she's doing? What's going on?"

Xu Wuning frowned. She quickly checked the task panel and found that Tang Susu no longer had the red love line.

Under Xiao Ke's repeated urging.

She called the company's HR department, asked for Tang Susu's green bubble, and sent a verification message.

On the other end, Tang Susu excitedly accepted the friend request, "It's Miss Xu, is there something you need? Please let me know."

Xu Wuning typed back, "Just asking, how have you been lately?"

Tang Susu's face flushed. "Thank you for your concern, Miss Xu. I've been doing very well lately, and my salary is very high."

Xiao Ke gave Xu Wu Ning a look. Xu Wu Ning hesitated for two seconds, then asked, "We're just chatting, okay? I wanted to ask you, do you have a type of guy you like, like the gentle and refined type? I can introduce you to one..."

Tang Susu blushed even more: "I used to like gentle and mild-mannered guys, but not anymore. I prefer guys with a personality like Miss Xu's, who are confident and generous."

"Furthermore, Ms. Xu told me that my career will definitely be successful in the future, so I only want to focus on my career now and don't want to date. I can't let Ms. Xu down."

Her voice was brimming with excitement, like she'd been injected with adrenaline. "Don't worry, Miss Xu, I'll work hard at Xu's and achieve great things as soon as possible, so as not to let you down!"

Xu Wuning: "..."

Xiao Ke: "...What kind of inspirational message did you feed the female lead?"

"Now, the one who saves the female lead isn't Jiang Xu'an anymore, how come it's you?"

"Host, you're a villainous supporting character. It's one thing that you accidentally hooked up with the antagonist, but how did you end up saving the female lead?"

Xu Wuning: "How would I know?"

Xu Wuning replied to Tang Susu with a "Go for it!" emoji, put down her phone, and stared at Xiao Ke.

What should we do now that this has happened?

Xiao Ke scratched his head in frustration: "The villain likes you, the female lead likes you. But what about the male lead? You and the male lead, Jiang Xu'an, don't seem to have any connection, right?"

Xu Wuning said firmly, "Don't worry about that. There's nothing between us. Jiang Xu'an and I are just college classmates and friends."

Xiao Ke breathed a sigh of relief.

Just then.

An unfamiliar number rang, and Xu Wuning subconsciously pressed the answer button.

"Xu Wuning, it's been a few hours, did you miss me?"

On the other end of the phone came Lu Jingci's chillingly magnetic low laugh, his tone incredibly intimate yet sending shivers down one's spine.

Xu Wuning gritted her teeth: "Does wanting to kill you count? Get lost!"

Xiao Ke gets agitated whenever she hears Lu Jingci's voice, and is so frightened that she hides under the table next to her.

But Lu Jingci's laughter deepened, its sickly, lingering tone echoing in my ear: "You're so heartless, but I miss you so much, Ningning..."

Xu Wuning snorted: "Shut up, you pervert, don't give me those harassing phone calls."

"Don't think you can harass me just because you're handsome. I don't have time for your flirting. Bye."

Just as she was about to hang up, Lu Jingci's smile vanished, and his voice became low, husky, and sinister: "Why don't you guess where I am right now?"

"Xu Wuning, you choose whether you open the door and come out yourself, or I have someone do it for you."

"I've seen your door. It's old-fashioned oak, and the hinge rivets are sticking out."

"It'll take a bit of effort to pry off the rivets one by one, and the whole door will come off in a few hours. If you can't pry it open, then just break it down!"

"As for the inner door, that's even simpler. A few people, a few axes, and it'll be done in a few minutes."

Just then, the horns of several cars suddenly blared outside the window.

Xu Wuning jumped up from the sofa, lifted the curtains, and looked outside.

Downstairs, several black luxury cars parked in an orderly fashion, one after another.

A dozen bodyguards got out of the car and surrounded the entire villa.

It's always like this.

From a distance, Xu Wuning met Lu Jingci's gaze through the window.

The madness deep in his eyes was suppressed to the point of being almost distorted, and the corners of his crimson lips curled up strangely as he waved to her in greeting.

The voice on the phone was filled with a morbid possessiveness and paranoia: "Xu Wuning, I'm telling you!"

"If I get in, tonight in your villa, I'll make you cry and beg for mercy, just like last time on the big tree in the yard, the more you cry, the harder you cry."

Even if you crawl forward a few steps while crying, you'll still be grabbed by the ankle and pulled back.

"Are you coming out, or should I come in?"

"You have one minute to choose..."

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