“Xiyu, time to eat.”
“Yeah.”
“Open your mouth, ahh~”
Xia Xi’s eyes were lifeless as she mechanically obeyed Du Xiyan’s command, opening her small mouth and taking a bite of the rice mixed with egg and ham from the spoon.
How should I describe the taste? Terrible. Not just ordinary terrible — far worse than anything An Xiaoyu or Luo Xinyu ever made.
But this might have been intentional on the other party’s part, because every day it was the same fried rice, yet one time it would be especially salty, another time especially sour, and today’s batch was especially sweet. Clearly, the other party had deliberately chosen to overload a certain seasoning to create this dark cuisine.
As for the purpose…
“Xiyu, is it tasty?”
Du Xiyan looked at her with expectant eyes.
“Mhm, mhm, it’s tasty.”
Xia Xi didn’t dare say it wasn’t tasty. Yesterday, he’d made the mistake of saying it wasn’t good, and the other party immediately brought out something even worse. In the end, he was the one who suffered.
Rather than eating something even worse, it was better to just tolerate this barely swallowable food.
“As long as it’s tasty~”
On a normal day, Du Xiyan didn’t seem anything like the yandere Leng Xiyu had described. On the contrary, she seemed more like someone with a certain… letter-related hobby.
Based on the countless games Xia Xi had played with his own little sister, yandere behavior and emotions tended to be far more extreme. But Du Xiyan had only confined him to a room, occasionally giving him so-called rewards or punishments, without doing anything to harm herself or Xia Xi himself.
“Xiyu, I made you such tasty fried rice. Won’t you show me some appreciation too?”
Hearing that, Xia Xi immediately understood what this girl wanted. But what could he do? His limbs were tied up and he couldn’t move. Food, water, washing up — everything depended on the other party. In this situation, what else could he do but go along with her?
“Just go ahead.”
Xia Xi had completely given up. Anyway, today was the second day. Once midnight passed tonight, he could leave this cursed place.
“What’s this? Xiyu, you look like you’re really unhappy?”
Du Xiyan straddled Xia Xi’s legs, her delicate little face very close to Xia Xi’s. Her warm breath brushed against his face, bringing a slight tickle.
“Boring. Xiyu, you can leave now.”
Seeing the calm, unrippled look in Xia Xi’s eyes, Du Xiyan pouted, then got off his legs, crouched down, and untied Xia Xi.
“Huh? You’re letting me go just like that?”
Xia Xi was also surprised. He hadn’t expected the other party to release him so easily, especially after how perverted she’d been yesterday.
Where was the problem?
Could it be that because she’d resisted so fiercely yesterday, and today chose to lie flat instead?
There’s a saying: the more you resist, the more excited I get.
So now, because he’d given up and stopped resisting, Du Xiyan lost interest?
“Otherwise? I can tell, Xiyu, you still don’t like girls. Hmm… although your reaction when we kissed was pretty intense, that was probably just a pure physiological response.”
Du Xiyan looked a bit downcast.
“I originally thought that if I pretended to be a yandere, Xiyu, you’d slowly turn gay. But I never expected that even like this, you still don’t like girls.”
Who says I don’t like girls?! I’ll sue you for defamation!
He, Xia Xi, was a purebred manly man! How could he possibly not like girls?!
Forget it. Anyway, the original owner of this body did like boys. The person Du Xiyan was talking about was Leng Xiyu, and it had nothing to do with Xia Xi.
“Why did you think of pretending to be a yandere? That kind of behavior is dangerous, isn’t it? If Leng… if I chose to call the police, you’d be finished.”
If Xia Xi chose to call the police afterward, then Du Xiyan, who had restricted someone’s personal freedom, would definitely face legal judgment, and might even end up with a criminal record.
Betting your own future on a vague, uncertain affection — that kind of approach was irrational no matter how you looked at it.
“I didn’t plan to do this at first. I originally intended to spend more time with you and slowly turn you gay. But a friend I met online told me that pretending to be a yandere works faster, so I gave it a try.”
After untying all the ropes on Xia Xi’s body, Du Xiyan straddled his lap again.
“After I captured you last time, I did reflect on myself and wanted to apologize to you. But when I found you, you were being so intimate with another man!!! And then I… I…”
“And then you captured me again?”
Xia Xi asked rhetorically.
What kind of mess was this?
In other words, even if Leng Xiyu hadn’t come to ask her brother for help, the matter between her and Du Xiyan could have been resolved. Instead, by asking someone to pretend to be her boyfriend, she angered the other party, causing Xia Xi to be locked up for two days for no reason.
So…
That damn system’s mission description was wrong too. Du Xiyan clearly wasn’t a yandere, so why call her one? It made Xia Xi worry for nothing, afraid that if the other party was in a bad mood, she’d dismember him.
“Mhm… I’m sorry.”
Du Xiyan lowered her head, not daring to meet Xia Xi’s eyes.
“It’s fine. Xiyan, you’re actually still very cute.”
Xia Xi didn’t focus on the fake boyfriend-girlfriend matter, but instead kept praising Du Xiyan’s cuteness.
To avoid the fire spreading to his real body.
“Really? Does Xiyu really think I’m cute?”
“Of course. When have I ever lied to you?”
Xia Xi’s face didn’t flush and his heart didn’t race. He had already mastered the art of lying through his teeth.
“Then… Xiyu still likes me a little, right?”
“Huh?”
“Isn’t that so? Xiyu, you think I’m cute and you don’t hate being around me. Doesn’t that mean you like me a little?”
What kind of twisted logic was this…
Why was it exactly the same as the thought process of certain cringey guys?
“She smiled at me, so she’s interested in me.”
“She’s looking at me. Is she paying special attention to me?”
“She insulted me! She must be deliberately finding chances to talk to me more.”
Anyway, it was a very magical logical brain circuit.
“I…”
Xia Xi really wanted to say that wasn’t the case, but when he saw the other party lift her head, her eyes seeming to flash with red light, the words already at his lips were swallowed back down with his saliva.
“Yes… yes, that’s right. I don’t dislike you, Xiyan~”
Only after hearing this did Du Xiyan return to normal, revealing a sweet smile.
“Then~ Xiyu, let’s kiss~”
Huh? Again?
“Wait, wait, I… mmph!!!”
I’m dirty again!!!
…
“Wei~ So the weak young lady had fun at another girl’s place and finally decided to come back?”
Xia Xi, using Luo Xinyu’s body, lay comfortably in the bathtub, on a video call with Luo Xinyu herself.
“Xinyu, what are you talking about? I don’t understand~”
“Pfft, when I called you the past two days and heard those robotic replies, I knew you weren’t in my body anymore! Hmph hmph, so who did you go play with this time? Confess! Otherwise, when I get back to the capital, I’ll subject you to the tickle torture!”
