CH 95

After the first round ended, Ren Shuhan exited the game and returned to his own home.

Originally, this place couldn’t be called a home, just a blank room automatically configured by the system for everyone.

Because there was no need to breathe, it was vacuum-sealed. When the system bugged out before, Ren Shuhan woke up here. But after Ren Shuhan’s memories fully returned, he understood—it wasn’t a bug at all. It was just his former self suddenly entering the world of the book, disrupting his transmigration process that came later on.

The past experiences formed a circle, self-explanatory, gradually perfected.

The scattered worlds he had seen back then were almost the only things in this space.

The culture dish that used to contain Jiang Qingyue was gone now, leaving only a gray sofa, automatically provided by the system.

But after Jiang Qingyue arrived, he canceled the automatic vacuum setting here and purchased a transparent glass coffee table and a pink carpet from the mall, with light pink and white cushions scattered on the sofa, giving it a very cozy atmosphere.

Now, Jiang Qingyue was sitting among the cushions barefoot, wearing his shirt, waiting for him to come back.

“Are you done on your end?” Ren Shuhan pounced on him, hugging him for a while.

“Yeah, I came out after thirty minutes.” Jiang Qingyue combed his hair with his fingers and massaged his temples. “How are you feeling? Is your head still hurting?”

The past had indeed tortured Ren Shuhan enough, but the most terrifying thing was Jiang Qingyue’s disappearance.

Finding his treasure made life not so bad, and he could endure no matter what.

“I’m fine,” Ren Shuhan hugged him tightly, not letting go, and said in his ear, “I just miss you so much, really miss you.”

He repeated it several times.

Now they were complete.

Jiang Qingyue’s eyes were red, and he turned his head to kiss his neck.

A faint smell of alcohol wafted out, and Jiang Qingyue couldn’t help but lightly bite his neck. “What are you thinking again?”

“I miss you,” Ren Shuhan’s voice was muffled, already emotional. He hugged him and didn’t let go, even using his nose to nuzzle his neck. “I’ve missed you for so long. I’ve wanted to hold you like this since I was a teenager.”

Jiang Qingyue suddenly blushed and asked after a long while, “Really?”

“Yeah,” Ren Shuhan felt it was embarrassing to say it out loud, but he still kissed his cheek gently and added, “Really, and I’ve only wanted to hold you, never had a crush on anyone else. Don’t misunderstand me because of Yu Xi’s acting skills.”

Yu Xi was the character’s name in the first transmigration.

Ren Shuhan didn’t know what Yu Xi was thinking. He even developed affection for this randomly generated name. After he transmigrated back, he added the letters “AC” to his game ID, which stood for the initials of Ah Ci. Later, he continued to transmigrate and deliberately locked the pronunciation of the words “Ci” and “Xi.”

“Even if you liked him, it’s normal,” Jiang Qingyue, who was dazed by his nuzzling, didn’t know what he was saying. “He has always been very beautiful and outstanding… I mean, the appearance he showed was great.”

“I’m not stupid,” Ren Shuhan sucked and bit on his neck, his voice blurred, “I wanted to distance myself from him before, I just couldn’t do it, and I didn’t know why.”

Jiang Qingyue wanted to say something to comfort him, but he couldn’t think of anything to say. When he opened his mouth, all that came out was whining.

“Mmm, stop biting…”

An hour was really not enough.

Ren Shuhan was still not satisfied. He only ate his wife once, lingered for a long time, then leisurely opened the game mall and created a new account under his wife’s name.

In the next round, although he would use his wife’s account, he wanted to fight as himself.

“You…” Jiang Qingyue lay on the sofa, weakly, cheeks flushed, hair messy. After hesitating for a moment, he didn’t try to persuade him, but followed his lead and asked, “Can you still encounter him in the next round?”

Jiang Qingyue, Mingyue, and the assassin teammate were all like Ren Shuhan, suppressing their blood drops. As long as they killed Yu Xi, who only had four drops of blood left, Yu Xi would die completely.

But Yu Xi already knew Ren Shuhan’s method of changing accounts. Even if he had no money, even if he had to pawn his last two drops of blood, he should find a way to block the bindings of these three people, so that even if he died again, he would still have the last drop of blood left, after all, survival was the most important thing.

From then on, Yu Xi would never play ranked matches again.

For a former server champion, pushing him to this point was already quite extreme.

But from Ren Shuhan’s expression, it seemed that Yu Xi must die.

“Don’t worry…” Before entering the game, Ren Shuhan suddenly paused, turned back, and asked, “I’m not as impressive and graceful as you might think. Will you still not reject me?”

Jiang Qingyue was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and said, “How could I?”

His eyes were full of love for him, and traces of himwere all over him. Ren Shuhan saw this and suddenly felt his heart soften.

“I’ll be back soon,” he said.

Jiang Qingyue also created his own data under his account and entered the game. “Okay, I’ll wait for you.”

…

“The game begins.”

Yu Xi opened his eyes in despair.

This time, he knew without looking that his last four drops of blood were already in the hands of his enemies.

Since the launch of Sweet Murder, there had never been so many people crowded in the ranked match live broadcast room, waiting for the game to start. This was the first time a server champion might fall!

Before the end of the previous round, Ren Shuhan opened the mall and customized a lock-on card, directly locking Yu Xi’s item mall.

As the saying goes, money isn’t everything, but without money, everything is impossible. Yu Xi, as a seasoned player, understood this well. He had never given up on survival, but now he found himself in a dead end. He never thought there would be such a day. Even if he wanted to pawn his blood drops, he had no way to do it!

But Ren Shuhan had thought of this as soon as he knew Yu Xi’s identity.

He hadn’t used it all this time, simply wanting to torture him a bit.

And it was quite a coincidence that the map for this round was no longer favorable to Yu Xi. It was a volcanic crater.

Boiling magma, exploding sparks, scorching temperatures—everything made Ren Shuhan want to laugh…

Wasn’t this the legendary “crematorium”?!

“Yu Xi,” Ren Shuhan couldn’t wait to private message him before the match started, teasing, “Isn’t this your favorite crematorium? Are you happy?”

Yu Xi didn’t reply.

After all, the private message ID was Jiang Qingyue’s full of gibberish characters ID, not Ren Shuhan’s.

“Do you think you can escape by not actively engaging in battle this time?” Ren Shuhan persisted. “Let me tell you the truth, I’m not Jiang Qingyue. I’m Ren Shuhan. Even if you hide in the magma, I can still dig you out.”

Yu Xi only replied with one sentence: “Jiang Qingyue, don’t think you can deceive me like last time.”

“Don’t believe me?” Ren Shuhan suddenly had a new idea and couldn’t help but laugh. Relentlessly, he continued, “I’ve killed you with my own hands before. Why don’t you believe me?”

Yu Xi stopped replying.

“Well, okay,” Ren Shuhan said calmly, “Let me tell you the truth. I am really Ren Shuhan, but now I am Ren Shuhan controlled by Jiang Qingyue. I can only maintain a little bit of self-awareness.”

Yu Xi finally couldn’t help but reply, “What do you want?”

“I want revenge on you,” Ren Shuhan said with a gentle smile when he uttered these words. “I want you to experience what I felt back then, being killed by the person you love the most. This is the script I arranged for you, just like the fate you arranged for me back then.”

“That fate wasn’t arranged by me, it was predetermined!” Yu Xi was hysterical.

“I’m no longer as naive as I was back then. Do you think I’ll still believe you?” Ren Shuhan said, laughing heartily for a while before continuing, “You gave me two choices back then, and now I’m giving you two choices. Either end it yourself at the beginning of the game, or wait for me to find you. It’s up to you.”

This was a magma map, where the ground would constantly be engulfed by flames. Unlike the underwater map where players could breathe underwater, they couldn’t survive in magma.

As soon as they jumped into the magma, players would be burnt to ashes.

Yu Xi had already chosen to self-destruct once, so it didn’t matter if it happened a second time. But what was terrifying for him this time was that, for him, this time was truly the end.

In the main world of Sweet Murder, residents are naturally exempt from death.

Indeed, some people may die, but those are usually reckless gamblers, and such cases are very rare. After all, even if someone has made a lot of enemies, they can choose not to participate in ranked matches and just survive.

But now, to make him face death voluntarily, he couldn’t do it.

After the 10-minute countdown ended, Yu Xi activated stealth mode.

His teammates for this round were overall stronger than the previous round, but none of them could keep him alive at the beginning. No matter where he ran, he would soon be discovered because there were almost no coverings on this map. The barren hills were very low, and they would split apart at any moment, blending into the rivers of flames.

However, on the opposite bank, just across the narrow river from them, Ren Shuhan shouted, “Yu Xi, come out, it’s me!”

Yu Xi’s teammates shivered. “Buddha, do you need us to help you find him?”

Someone pointed in the direction Yu Xi had fled.

Ren Shuhan nodded and said, “I’ll find him myself.”

Yu Xi had only fled for a few minutes before despairingly stopping in his tracks, facing the sea of fire with nowhere to go.

“Yu Xi,” Ren Shuhan approached him, expressionless. “It’s me.”

Yu Xi turned around blankly. “Shuhan?”

Ren Shuhan nodded and slowly approached, stopping a step away from him, one hand in his pocket.

“Have you freed yourself from his control?” Yu Xi’s eyes widened, but he dared not approach.

He felt as if he were living in a dream.

Only the audience had an overhead view and lived in the real world:

“Is Yu Xi going crazy?”

“Is Unpronounceable Buddha hiding something up his sleeve? What is he doing?”

“Are you sure it’s the god? Isn’t it the beauty using the god’s data to appear like him?”

“I thought the top player would have a more tragic end? Why is the result like this…”

Ren Shuhan didn’t speak, just quietly watching Yu Xi.

“How did you do it?” Yu Xi cried. “Do you know how long I’ve been waiting for you? I’ve traveled through so many worlds for you, but I’ve never succeeded. Can’t you also wake up for me?”

For the first time in so long, Ren Shuhan felt as if this person really loved him, but was it really love?

Yu Xi finally took a step forward.

The distance between the two narrowed, and Ren Shuhan gently raised his hand, unhesitatingly plunging the blade into Yu Xi’s chest.

It wasn’t a fatal blow.

Yu Xi was still alive, but he couldn’t believe it.

“Why?” Blood flowed from his mouth. “It’s you… I won’t be mistaken, it must be you, but…”

“Because I’m afraid you won’t feel enough pain.”

When Ren Shuhan said these words, his face still showed no expression.

Yu Xi suddenly remembered that when Ren Shuhan killed him with his own hands for the first time, he was like this.

Perhaps, he never really understood him.

But Yu Xi didn’t dwell on this possibility.

His last word before dying was, “Jiang…”

Then he fell backward into the sea of fire.

There were still 20 minutes left in this round, but the live broadcast room was quiet, and the arena was equally quiet. The surrender came too late.

During this time, Ren Shuhan submitted a request to the game, asking for all items in the inhumane section of the mall to be permanently closed and unable to be customized again, while also unfreezing all the time in the world of thebooks. The price was just the huge tip money in his account and more than thirty extra drops of blood.

After doing all this, Ren Shuhan felt a little tired.

The Jiang Qingyue from all the worlds before was just a simulated memory mapped to a cultivation vessel and didn’t exist in any world. Only in the original immortal realm, dressed in white, was Jiang Qingyue a real person.

But that beautiful and lovely person had disappeared, hiding in a place he couldn’t find, always sleeping.

It wasn’t until memories were extracted that he reappeared by his side with a new body.

Ren Shuhan had just said that he was afraid Yu Xi wouldn’t feel enough pain, but in fact, he didn’t know how much painful it was to be killed by the person he trusted.

After all, Jiang Qingyue had never told him.

I apologize for having been terrible with updating these two weeks, I’ll try to post more regularly… ESPECIALLY AFTER THIS ENDING akjfskjsdkjs T______T

Like… if I get it right from that last sentence… REN SHUHAN KILLED JIANG QINGYUE BEFORE????????????

Thank you for reading