A Psychiatrist's Bizarre Game Journey / Dream of the Mist

"Hey! Why are you hugging me like that again! Even if you got there first, couldn't you have tried another way? Like carrying me on your back?"

Upon seeing this, Ye Chen's eyes lit up with envy, and he immediately lodged a protest.

"Are you kidding me? What if there's someone or some trap behind us, and we can't see what's behind us? Wouldn't Yanran be in danger? Do you even care about her safety? If you do, don't make these unreasonable demands and cause me trouble, okay?"

Bai Feng immediately rejected the idea and even lectured Ye Chen in return.

## Chapter 403, 398. The Villainous Female Supporting Character is a Huge Hit! (Part Six)

"..."

Ye Chen was taken aback by Bai Feng's question and remained silent for a moment. Just as he was about to say something after finally figuring out how to refute her, he saw Bai Feng suddenly turn around with a slightly serious expression.

"Hey, can you feel it? The spiritual energy in that direction is especially chaotic. Something's definitely wrong."

Bai Feng pointed to a certain direction to the side and said to Ye Chen with certainty.

Upon hearing this, Ye Chen also came to his senses and carefully sensed the surrounding spiritual energy.

Indeed, the spiritual energy in the direction Bai Feng pointed to was slightly disordered. Although the degree of disorder was not large, it was extremely noticeable compared to other places.

Of course, at least judging from the distance affected by the spiritual energy disturbance... it's still quite a distance from Bai Feng and Ye Chen.

However... the most pressing problem right now is clearly not the disordered spiritual energy over there, but rather...

Ye Chen immediately looked to the left, pointed there, and whispered a reminder: "There are two people coming this way. I don't know if they are heading towards the direction of the spiritual energy disorder, or if they are coming for us... Should we take cover for now?"

"There's no need for that. If you can sense that someone is coming from over there, how could I not? One of the people coming is someone I knew before, but we were separated because of the teleportation array to the second level."

Bai Feng shook his head, then gestured towards Zhou Ke'er in his arms, "Besides... that guy probably won't hurt Yan Ran either, and might even protect her like we do."

Upon hearing this, Ye Chen first subconsciously showed a relieved expression, but then quickly sensed... was something amiss?

Why do I keep running into cultivators who like Lan Yanran just by walking around? Is something wrong? Isn't Lan Yanran now universally hated?

Ye Chen was shocked for a whole year. He thought he could help Lan Yanran when she was being hunted down and in a very bad situation, protect her safety, and write a touching story of unwavering devotion. Then, Lan Yanran would naturally return to his arms. Even with Bai Feng, a troublesome competitor, by his side, Ye Chen still felt that he had a chance.

But... if a few random guys suddenly appear out of nowhere... then who knows!

"Hey, what's going on here? What's wrong with that guy?"

Ye Chen quickly asked, but then immediately changed his mind: "No, now is not the time to ask this... We can find out about this later, anyway, he's already here... In short, how many people still like Yan Ran? Or rather, were there any other people who were with you on the first floor?"

"To be precise... there should also be a sword cultivator who is obsessed with the sword, and it seems that he is also pestering Yanran."

Bai Feng glanced at Ye Chen and immediately saw what this little brat was up to.

"There really is one?!"

Ye Chen was shocked again. He had just asked casually, thinking there was no one else, but he didn't expect... there really was someone?!

Hearing this, Zhou Ke'er, who was pretending to be asleep, almost unconsciously twitched at the corner of his mouth. Fortunately, he restrained himself with strong willpower, otherwise he might have been discovered to be faking his sleep.

I never expected you to seduce so many men again. Lan Yanran, you are truly a sinful woman!

Zhou Ke'er inwardly condemned Lan Yanran with such heartache and indignation.

Huh? What does your insulting Lan Yanran have to do with me, Zhou Ke'er?

Ye Chen, standing to the side, was already lost in a terrifying fantasy: he never expected that the infamous Lan Yanran was actually so popular, with so many male cultivators still liking her... Could it be that many of those so-called forces chasing Lan Yanran were actually after Ye Chen, waiting for Lan Yanran to be forced into a dangerous situation, and then they would reappear to protect her, making Lan Yanran submit to them?

Bah! These despicable bastards! They can even come up with such vile schemes and tricks! They have no shame whatsoever!

Ye Chen inwardly condemned it with resentment.

He was clearly the only one with this idea in mind.

"...Even someone like you, who should have a grudge against Yanran, is now shamelessly following her. Don't you think it's normal to bump into a few people who like Yanran all the time?"

Bai Feng glanced at Ye Chen, and seeing his expression of being shocked for a whole year, he couldn't help but speak up and mock him.

"That makes sense now... what a load of rubbish! Damn it, you're from the Demonic Sect, I can't argue with you! I'm not going to argue with you."

Ye Chen turned his head away angrily, looking in the direction where he had just noticed someone coming. "Let's pay attention to those two people first! You just said that one of them is no threat to Lan Yanran, but the second one might be a different story, right?"

No sooner had Ye Chen finished speaking than two people appeared on the other side.

Among the two newcomers, the one walking in front was none other than Chen Yulu, who had previously been relatively unknown. Behind him followed a female cultivator with a serene appearance who exuded an air of tranquility and detachment.

Of course, she's not as pretty as Zhou... ah no, she's not as pretty as Lan Yanran.

"Hey... are you sure this guy likes Yanran? There's a girl with him too... I don't think this is a good thing!"

Ye Chen was stunned for a moment upon seeing this, and then quickly transmitted his voice to Bai Feng: "Why does it look like... this guy's main wife discovered that her Daoist partner was bewitched... seduced... no, attracted by another woman! And then she came to catch them in the act!"

"Asking me won't help; I don't know who that female cultivator is either."

Bai Feng shook his head, but didn't seem to care much. He was even too lazy to use telepathy to answer directly. In any case, to him, the only ones who came were a Golden Core cultivator and a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, whom he could easily defeat. Why was he so flustered?

Zhou Ke'er, who was pretending to be asleep, immediately realized what Bai Feng was saying after hearing it – wasn't this the senior sister Lan Yingying that another bystander mentioned when she bullied Chen Yulu?

Although I couldn't see what was happening because my eyes were closed, I figured this was probably it. I never expected they'd run into each other on the second floor... This is...

The wife comes to confront the mistress?

Zhou Ke'er's thought process was strangely similar to Ye Chen's.

"!"

Chen Yulu glanced up casually and saw Bai Feng in front of him. He seemed to realize something immediately, then looked around and saw Lan Yanran in his arms. She was looking relieved and about to say something when she heard a clang of a sword behind her.

But Lan Yingying, standing behind him, instantly drew her sword and said sternly, "The young master of the Demonic Sect, Bai Feng, and the female demon Lan Yanran... neither of them are people we can defeat! Junior Brother Chen, I'll buy you some time, you run!"

## Chapter 404, 399. The Villainous Female Supporting Character is a Huge Hit! (Part 7)

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Chen Yulu was stunned for a moment before he realized what was happening. Under the strange gazes of Bai Feng and Ye Chen, he quickly explained to Lan Yingying, who was already in a fighting stance, "No, Senior Sister Lan, you've misunderstood! They won't attack us... probably."

"Why is that?...Oh!"

Lan Yingying was taken aback by his words, glancing at Chen Yulu with a puzzled look. Just as she was about to ask, a sudden thought flashed through her mind. Looking at the scene in front of her, where Bai Feng was holding Zhou Ke'er, who was pretending to be unconscious with her eyes closed, she suddenly realized and said, "I understand now. Could it be that Lan Yanran, that female demon, was injured and fainted, and they are in a hurry to find a place to treat her wounds, so they have no energy or time to deal with us?"

"What?! Lan Yanran is injured?!"

Lan Yingying's words only made things worse, causing Chen Yulu to exclaim in surprise. He had thought it was just a normal coma caused by the alternating consciousness of "Lan Yanran" and the "monster occupying Lan Yanran's body," how could it have turned into an injury?!

How could Lan Yanran get injured even with Bai Feng, a peak Nascent Soul cultivator, guarding her?

"Hey...didn't anyone tell you that if you already have a woman by your side, you shouldn't worry about other women in front of her?!"

Bai Feng pursed his lips and said in a inflammatory tone, actually using these words to subtly convey a message to Lan Yingying, who was completely kept in the dark, reminding her that Chen Yulu actually knew Lan Yanran.

"What are you talking about! This is completely different! I did this because she entrusted me with this task... You should have heard the truth, but you just let it go, and instead... you let that monster do whatever it wanted, how could you do this?!"

Upon hearing this, Chen Yulu felt awkward for a second and subconsciously offered a couple of explanations. However, he quickly realized what was going on and found a suitable—perhaps not so suitable, but one he thought was appropriate—excuse for himself. He immediately turned to Bai Feng and asked him a question.

"That's really strange. You're allowed to like the weak, helpless, and pitiful 'Lan Yanran,' but I'm not allowed to like the quirky and clever 'Lan Yanran' now? You're really arrogant to deny that an existence has the right to continue to exist."

Bai Feng scoffed at Chen Yulu's questioning, gave a cold laugh, shrugged, and answered as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

"But...but the 'she' you're talking about...is a monster?!"

Chen Yulu couldn't help but be shocked by Bai Feng's words, and looked at Bai Feng in disbelief, asking a question.

"Here we go again, always talking about monsters. It's really laughable. It's like if you were born into the Demonic Sect, you would naturally become a member of the Demonic Sect. Is that something you can decide for yourself?"

Bai Feng looked at Chen Yulu with an incomprehensible expression, seemingly utterly astonished by the other's narrow-minded prejudice. "Could it be that she chose to become the monster you're talking about? If every being could choose its own birth, how could there be so many monsters and beasts in the world? Besides, don't monsters and beasts deserve to be good beings? What kind of stereotypes are these!"

Chen Yulu was rendered speechless by Bai Feng's questioning, unable to utter a word for a moment. After all, the logic was indeed sound...

Ye Chen and Lan Yingying, who had been completely oblivious to what Bai Feng and Chen Yulu were arguing about, finally had a chance to ask what was going on when the two of them finally stopped talking.

Ye Chen, naturally sensitive to the fact that there were two Lan Yanrans in their conversation, quickly pulled Bai Feng aside and asked him about it in a low voice.

Lan Yingying, on the other hand, was more concerned about... how Chen Yulu met Bai Feng and Lan Yanran, and also wanted to ask about Lan Yanran's background.

As for Zhou Ke'er himself... sigh, he's already pretended to be unconscious, why is he still appearing on camera? He's having a great time slacking off, and he's even hung up the "Yanran Technique" and started cultivating on his own.

Previously, because she didn't have a cultivation technique, even if her spiritual power naturally accumulated to its limit, she couldn't break through her cultivation realm and could only stop accumulating at that limit. But now that she has a cultivation technique, it's different... Moreover, unlike the cultivation techniques in the previous module that she had to understand and read herself, this cultivation technique has been recognized by the system as something that can be equipped. So Zhou Ke'er only needs to attach it to the character template and then click to use it.

Of course... this method of use also has drawbacks. Although there are no barriers to use at the beginning, as long as you are equipped, if you do not understand the working mechanism of this thing at all, you will not know how to use it at all once you uninstall it.

If you keep equipping yourself with the same techniques, it's like you can only use one at a time.

Therefore, to avoid this situation, Zhou Ke'er is currently using the "Yanran Technique" to automatically cultivate in her character template while simultaneously reviewing it in her mind, trying to understand how this thing is actually practiced.

So he's currently very busy, completely immersed in cultivation, and has no time or inclination to deal with the outside situation.

……

"What?! The monster that possessed Yanran's body just now was that summoned monster by the priest?! Why didn't you say so sooner?! Why did you keep it from me?!"

After learning the "truth," Ye Chen was stunned for a few seconds before his eyes widened in shock as he questioned Bai Feng.

"Why should I tell you? Tell you that Lan Yanran is actually a monster in your eyes? So that you can look at her with a strange, monster-like gaze? And then force her to quickly get out of Lan Yanran's body?"

Bai Feng stared sharply at Ye Chen, his tone unreadable, but his words clearly revealed his feelings: "Why?! You don't understand anything at all. You've never actually spent any time with Lan Yanran. How do you know? Is it just because her existence makes her seem like a monster to you, that she's not worthy of being liked by others? Based on your own prejudice?!"

"But..."

Ye Chen was speechless at the questioning, staring at Bai Feng in shock. After a long while, he stammered, "But... if she came to annul the engagement before because..."

"Stop dreaming! Think about it carefully. Was her personality the same when she went to break off the engagement as it was just now?!"

Bai Feng narrowed his eyes. "Don't attribute all the grudges that Yan Ran has made to 'her,' that's not fair. I think... the real Lan Yan Ran is no good at all. Her pretentious pitiful act before really disgusted me!"

"...Indeed...completely different...I'm just deceiving myself..."

Ye Chen finally seemed to give up on self-deception, sighing dejectedly and accepting reality: "When she came to annul the engagement before, she was so arrogant and haughty, completely different from how she was just now..."

## Chapter 405 400. The Villainous Female Supporting Character is in Crisis (Part 1)

On the other side, after listening to Chen Yulu's explanation, Lan Yingying pursed her lips, her eyes showing a slightly complicated expression.

"So you just believe her so easily? Based on her own words, without any evidence... who knows, she might just be trying to fool you? After all, she is Lan Yanran!"

Lan Yingying stared at Chen Yulu, her tone somewhat inscrutable. She said Lan Yanran might be lying to Chen Yulu, but that wasn't what she really wanted to know. Whether Lan Yanran was lying or not was irrelevant to her; she only cared about Chen Yulu's answer.

"But her performance was absolutely genuine, I'm absolutely certain of that! Besides, the rumors say Lan Yanran is a treacherous and cunning female demon, which is clearly the fault of the monster possessing her, so how can we blame her?"

Chen Yulu didn't understand Lan Yingying's true meaning. He genuinely thought she didn't believe his explanation and was skeptical, so he quickly continued to explain to her.