Warning
There is Suicide in the chapter.
At this moment, Xia Yuanyao was in a sorry state. He could feel those people constantly following him, relentlessly chasing him, but they were not in a hurry to kill him. Instead, they were toying with him like dying prey, mocking and driving him away.
Although Xia Yuanyao didn’t know the exact reason, he had to play this boring game with them.
Because, as long as he ran a bit more, Jiang Nianran would be closer to the airport. As long as he lifted his foot one more time, Jiang Nianran would be a bit safer.
Xia Yuanyao didn’t know how long he had been running, but it felt like a very long time, long enough for the world in his vision to start spinning continuously. When he felt that he couldn’t take another step, in the dark and seemingly endless night ahead, a bright and dazzling high beam shone towards him.
With his hands on his knees, Xia Yuanyao gasped for breath incessantly, squinting his eyes. He watched as the black car approached, coming to a stop about two meters away from him.
Amidst the haze of a strong light, he saw the bodyguard getting out of the car and walking straight to the back seat, opening the door, followed by a burly man stepping out of the car.
…
Inside the villa, the awakened Gu Weizhou had a look of despair on his face because the man had stripped him of all his clothes, so he was destined to run naked.
[Number 001, what do you see?]
Glancing at the screen, Number 001 truthfully replied, [A lump of unidentified object].
Gu Weizhou, wandering naked with no burden, once again looked up at the sky at a 45-degree angle with his bare bottom.
Seeing the image on the screen resembling a horror movie, with only a floating head in the air, Number 001 pondered for a moment and decided to tell the host about some of the things it had heard. Otherwise, it felt that the host would become blackened and think of destroying the world.
[I heard something.]
[Tell me…] The voice sounded desolate.
[…Pei Ye sent people to kill Jiang Nianran and Xia Yuanyao.]
[Useless system, why didn’t you tell me earlier!] Gu Weizhou suddenly turned his head and dashed to the edge of the bed.
[…] I wouldn’t have said it if I had known earlier.
Meanwhile, in the bright beams of light in front of the car, Pei Ye had already pressed the dark barrel against the man’s forehead, his eyes filled with a dark and indiscernible gleam.
This man was the one who completely turned him and Fu Xiuran against each other.
With a dark expression, Pei Ye said, “What right do you have to linger in his heart?”
Xia Yuanyao was taken aback. Who?
However, it was evident that Pei Ye at this moment had no intention of explaining the reason to him. As soon as he saw the man’s strong thumb move to pull the safety catch, it was a split second before he was about to grip the trigger.
Ring Ring Ring…
The silence of the scene was suddenly interrupted by a distant ringing of a phone.
Upon hearing that distinct ringtone, the hostility in Pei Ye’s eyes dissipated instantly like mist.
He temporarily handed the gun to his subordinate and took out his phone from his pocket. Pressing the answer button, the next second, a familiar and overly pale face appeared on the screen.
Seeing that pale face on the screen, the coldness in Pei Ye’s eyes turned into tenderness. Speaking in a warm tone, he said, “…You woke up so soon. Is there anything uncomfortable?”
Gu Weizhou had a cold expression. “What are you doing?”
“I’m doing some work. After I finish, I’ll come back to accompany you immediately.”
“Is your work to chase and kill Jiang Nianran and Xia Yuanyao?”
“Yes,” Pei Ye answered without any visible change in his expression as if he was talking about something ordinary, an inconspicuous existence on the ground, like an ant.
Gritting his teeth, Gu Weizhou said, “You’re not allowed to touch them.”
Still gentle, Pei Ye replied, “Be good, don’t make a fuss. They’re not worth a second of your thoughts.”
“Pei Ye!!!” Gu Weizhou angrily shouted.
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Do you love him so much that it compelled you to take the initiative to call me for the first time, and love him enough to show such intense anger?
But the confused Gu Weizhou on the other end could only wonder, love him? Love who?
Seeing the person’s silence once again, he continued, “But today, I will kill him. He’s just an ant. Why do you love him? What’s so good about him that you refuse to even look at me? What makes him better than me? How is he better than me!”
With each word, a piercing and menacing darkness filled Pei Ye’s eyes, like a surging river breaking through a dam. Even through the screen, Gu Weizhou’s heart trembled uncontrollably.
But… who is the one that I love? Gu Weizhou’s face was filled with confusion.
The silence on the other end was like the final straw that broke the camel’s back. Pei Ye covered his face with one hand, emitting low, sinister laughter.
As if comforting himself, he said, “It’s alright, it’s alright. After tonight, I will cut off his head. I will kill all those unnecessary people in this world, and eliminate all those annoying individuals. Everything will be calm, and you will still be mine, forever and ever, only mine.”
After speaking, he turned around, intending to pick up the gun and continue towards Xia Yuanyao who was not far away.
With no time to consider who he truly loves, Gu Weizhou witnessed this scene and shouted, “Pei Ye! If you dare to harm either of them even a bit, I will make you regret it!”
His footsteps faltered, but he did not pick up the device in his hand.
“Regret? I only regret not knowing earlier how deeply you loved him. I only regret not killing him earlier, allowing him to linger in your heart for so long, making you break your boundaries time and time again.”
Gu Weizhou was on the verge of collapse, desperate to know what strange thoughts this man had concocted. Who the hell could tell him who he truly loves?!
As he thought about this role-playing masochist, who had become terminally ill, Gu Weizhou suddenly realized that this world had unknowingly veered in a strange direction.
However, Jiang Nianran and Xia Yuanyao were definitely the ones he had to protect.
Thinking that he had experienced enough love in this crazy world and had done everything he needed to do, Gu Weizhou slowly lowered his head and, in a gentle and calm tone, said, “If… you harm either of them, I don’t mind… joining them in death.”
“You dare!!!” Pei Ye roared furiously.
With no fluctuation in his emotions, Gu Weizhou raised his eyes and spoke in a nonchalant tone, “You can try and see if I dare.”
As these words fell, Gu Weizhou directly picked up a water glass from the side and smashed it on the bedside table with a “bang.” Then, he grabbed a sharp shard and pressed it against his own neck.
“Xiuran, stop! Stop! I’ll listen to you. I’ll listen to everything you say!!!” Pei Ye’s entire body froze, fearing that if he would be even a second too late, the sharp glass would pierce the young man’s major artery.
“Let them go,” Gu Weizhou’s words remained calm and indifferent.
“Alright, alright, I’ll listen to you. Let them go!” Holding his phone, Pei Ye yelled at the people around him, “Let him go, let him go!”
Meanwhile, Xia Yuanyao, not far away, was completely stunned by this sudden turn of events. Moreover, he heard a name from Pei Ye’s mouth – Xiuran.
When searching for these two characters, the first name that came to his mind was Fu Xiuran.
But wasn’t Fu Xiuran dead? How could it be?
Quickly recalling the man’s expression of longing and the inexplicable hostility he had always felt towards himself, a wildly absurd thought suddenly arose in Xia Yuanyao’s mind. Could it be…?
“Get lost, why haven’t you left yet!”
Xia Yuanyao, looked at Pei Ye’s sinister gaze as if he was facing a nemesis, and thought he had figured out all the complexities between them, the love, hatred, and entanglements. For some reason, at this moment, he suddenly felt a hint of sympathy for the man in front of him, who was almost going crazy with love.
With these thoughts in mind, Xia Yuanyao’s gaze, filled with complexity, shifted to the phone in the man’s hand, and he said, “Um… you’re a good person, but I’m sorry, I only love Nianran.” So, I can only disappoint you.
Suddenly hearing these words, Gu Weizhou’s hand trembled, accidentally scratching his own neck.
Who the hell can tell him how the person on the other end had imagined some strange things? He seemed to have never formally met Xia Yuanyao, right? And Xia Yuanyao, why the hell are you feeling guilty over there!
But in Pei Ye’s eyes, it seemed like Gu Weizhou was heartbroken and wanted to commit suicide after hearing Xia Yuanyao’s face-to-face rejection.
Fearing that he would do something foolish, with his eyes completely red, Pei Ye pointed the gun at the person not far away and roared at Xia Yuanyao, his voice filled with all the strength he had, “Get lost, get out!!!”
Never appear again, never appear in my sight, never, ever!
Looking at the man who seemed to be on the verge of madness, Xia Yuanyao cast a complex glance at him and turned around, quickly leaving. At this moment, Pei Ye, who was killing and chasing people was now only concerned about Gu Weizhou who might do some foolish things at home.
So while ordering his subordinates to rush to the villa, he tried to calm the person down, saying, “I have let them go, Xiuran, don’t do anything foolish. I will listen to you from now on, don’t do anything foolish.”
Seeing the shocked and fearful expression on the man’s face, Gu Weizhou, who had been watching the person across from him from start to finish, suddenly smiled proudly. Parting his lips, he uttered the name that had been engraved in his bones, a name that had been repeated countless times throughout the countless reincarnations.
“Pei Ye…”
As those two words reached Pei Ye’s ears, his footsteps suddenly halted because, for the first time, this person called him with such tender affection.
Yes, it was indeed laughable.
For almost half a year, they had known each other, grown familiar with one another, and been forcefully entangled in a love-hate relationship. Yet, this was the first time Fu Xiuran had called his name like this.
There was no impatience, no coldness, no silence, no indifference. Just two simple words, carrying an indescribable tenderness.
In the past, Fu Xiuran had either ignored him, treated him with silence, filled with resentment in his eyes, or simply ignored him altogether… This person had never used such an affectionate tone to call him, nor had he ever seen such a gentle and warm smile directed at him.
Pei Ye thought, under normal circumstances, he would probably be overjoyed, lifting the person up and spinning around in place, proclaiming to the world that this person had finally developed feelings for him, that this person had placed him in their heart and that he had finally entered the other person’s heart.
But this uniqueness, this tenderness, this smile happened to occur at this very moment.
At the moment this person held a sharp shard of glass against their own neck.
There was no excitement. At this moment, Pei Ye’s heart was filled with nothing but panic and chaos. This feeling… this feeling was as if he was about to lose this person completely.
For the first time in his life, Pei Ye’s hands trembled, and he could hardly hold the phone. He opened his lips and took a while before saying, “Xiuran, I… I’m here, you… wait for me, wait for me to come back…” Wait for me to come back, okay?
“Come back…?”
Gu Weizhou softly murmured these two words, his gaze distant, as if recalling where he had heard this familiar phrase before.
Finally, his memory settled in the past, in certain moments, like scenes from an old movie. He stared blankly at the memories that emerged before him, one scene after another.
His embarrassment, his lowliness, his cautiousness, his complete defeat… Thinking of those countless images from the past, thinking of the various past events, tears uncontrollably rolled down his cheeks.
He said, “We… can’t go back anymore. We… can never go back.”
Upon hearing these negating words, Pei Ye in the car panicked and responded, “We can go back… Everything can be reversed. I won’t make you angry anymore, I won’t force you even a bit, I will treat you well, I will… treat you well. Xiuran, you wait for me, wait for me to come back, wait for me!”
After finishing his words, Pei Ye turned his head, veins bulging on his forehead, as he angrily roared at the driver in the front seat, “Go home, go at the fastest speed!!”
Witnessing the man’s furious and sinister expression, the pale-faced driver broke into a cold sweat on his forehead. He slammed the accelerator, and the car shot forward like an arrow.
“Do you… remember what you said to me at the seaside?” A voice suddenly sounded near his ear.
The seaside…?
Seeing the man’s bewildered gaze, Gu Weizhou seemed to reminisce something and began to laugh helplessly. While laughing, tears kept streaming down his eyes. Like a lunatic, he said, “Yes, you… how could you remember? How could you… remember?”
How could you remember that in a previous life, you accompanied me to watch the sea? How you once made a promise to me at the seaside? And how you broke your own promise, you…
How could you… remember?
Seeing the person’s sudden breakdown, Pei Ye’s entire heart was tightly clenched by this question. An overwhelming sense of suffocation enveloped his entire body, starting from his heart.
There was an inexplicable intuition telling him that whatever the other person referred to was something important, something extremely important.
Something about them, something from the past.
But…
Clutching his head tightly, and grabbing his own hair, Pei Ye felt on the verge of collapse.
Why, why couldn’t he remember, why couldn’t he remember?!!
What did he forget, what did he forget?!!
Looking at the person in front of him, who was crying in despair, devoid of the usual coldness and superiority, Pei Ye, in this moment, resembled a lost child, repeating that sentence incessantly.
“Xiuran… I’m sorry… I’m sorry…”
No matter what caused your sadness, your heartbreak, it’s all my fault. I only ask for a chance now, a chance to make up for the past, to dedicate my whole life to compensate for you, to make up for everything…
I beg you, give me a chance.
Please.
However, facing the man’s distress, facing his words, facing this face deeply ingrained in his bones, Gu Weizhou on the other end pursed his trembling lips and said,
“It’s too late…”
Too late, everything is too late…
He raised his hand, his fingertips touching the cold screen, tremblingly caressing the man’s eyebrows and eyes.
This face, he had once loved and hated. Going around in circles, starting anew, only to discover that he had never escaped from this strange cycle.
“Do you know? In my previous life, you never looked at me directly. At that time, you treated me as a toy, a toy you could casually discard. But I… I just liked you.”
“I exhausted all my goodness, used my entire life to try to warm you, to change you, and even dreamed of painting a beautiful future for both of us.”
“I always thought that you would change, that you would become the Pei Ye who loves me. Yes, you changed. So that year, you took me to the seaside and told me that you would stay with me for a lifetime, that you would be by my side forever. But…” A sorrowful smile faded, and a steady stream of tears gushed from his eyes.
“I never thought that I would die at your hands, never, never!”
As soon as the words fell, Pei Ye’s pupils shrank several degrees.
In the previous life… died at… his hands?
“Do you believe it? I was reborn, to live again once more, and I wanted to stay far away from you, but…” Gu Weizhou laughed crazily and sadly, “Why did I meet you again, why did I meet you again, why do you keep haunting me, why…!”
“Xiuran… Xiuran, I… I don’t know… I don’t know, I won’t hurt you anymore, I won’t…” Pei Ye, in extreme distress, was at a loss for what to do.
To him at this moment, the other person’s words were undoubtedly a thunderbolt out of the blue.
So, all this time, his coldness towards himself was because he had hurt him in his previous life. The reason he refused to touch him, saying he was dirty, was because he died at his hands in the previous life. The reason he didn’t want to love him even a bit was that he had already given all his love to his past self, only to receive a body full of scars in return…
He wanted to tell that person that it was all fake, that it was just a dream, but when his gaze reached the dead silence hidden deep in the person’s eyes, all his words turned into suffocating breathlessness.
He knew it must be true.
He had deceived him before, so what right did he have to make him believe him again, what right did he have!
“Xiuran… Xiuran… I… I’m sorry, I’m sorry…”
“Sorry? Hah… no matter how many apologies there are, they can’t change the image of you aiming a gun at me, deeply engraved in my mind. No amount of apologies can erase the heartless and cold look in your eyes that is forever etched in my mind, Pei Ye, my heart… died when you pulled the trigger.”
As the words fell, his eyes slowly closed, and tears fell from the corners of his eyes. Gu Weizhou trembled as he said, “Do you know?… I loved you so much…”
So much…
The next moment…
“No—!”
In the man’s desperate roar, the sharp glass suddenly cut through the view of that fair complexion. In an instant, an endless darkness surged like a fountain, splattering all over the screen, round and smooth, cascading down.
Blood, as far as the eyes could see, the entire world was filled with vivid red.
Pei Ye wanted to say something, to say something to stop him, to tell that person something, but… not a word came out.
His entire throat seemed to be tightly clenched by an invisible hand, unable to breathe, unable to move, only able to silently watch this bloody and glaring scene.
And the future he had imagined about them, the beauty he had imagined for the future, shattered in an instant like a mirror falling to the ground with a bang.
The drops of blood falling from the person’s eyelashes, like scorching lava, burned all the beauty he had imagined. All that he wanted to protect, and his heart, were all riddled with holes by the sudden attack from the person across from him.
In the warmth of the blur, Pei Ye saw the figure of the smiling person falling to the ground. In a teary and vague state, he seemed to see the exceptionally blue sea and the exceptionally beautiful sunset of that day.
Under the blue sky and the sea, on the soft sand covered with orange hues, there were two people sitting side by side, holding hands tightly, leaning on each other.
The salty sea breeze gently blew, and that person turned his head with a gentle smile and said,
“Pei Ye, I love you.”
Tl has something to say: This marks the end of the first Arc. I hope you enjoyed it!!
WOAH WOAH WOAHHHHH I..I didn’t expect that!!
…Did Gu Weizhou act as Xiuran, or did he really mean that? Like, there seem to be some locked memories, and I would also believe that Gu Weizhou initially was attracted to Pei Ye, but there’s the system bug that made him go through these worlds so. many. times. And Gu Weizhou is a controlling, manipulative person… So, wtf just happened??? Feels like a fever dream.
Thank you for the chapter.
oh you know this maybe the original xiuran’s settings/memories? bc wow serious whiplash
Я в шоке!!!!
Спасибо за ваш перевод 💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛
Sorry, wrong language
I’m in shock!!!!
Thank you for your translation 💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛
I like this endiiiing!
Ohhhhhh … Owowow
Haaa???? hAAAaaaaa??????
Are we seeing two masocists in love? Huh? I is confused, I want context 😭😭
Ehhhh… Damn
JUST ME CRYING MY HEARTS OUT. I WANT DETAILS. THIS IS TRAGIC AND HEARTHBREAKING.😭😭
Damn. Explosion of emotions right there. Could not say I saw it coming and honestly I thought that that was the end for a sec and was almost ready to riot, only to read “tee hee end of the 1st arc!!” And was like ‘woa’
huh? my simple self is having trouble comprehending this complicated setting
Ummm dang… I was bored that I just skim through it but I was surprised by him revealing that he was reborn and such.. So I reread but I never expected mc to actually love the scumbag?? 😮