CH 18

Chapter 18: How to distinguish between true and false 

“Fake?”

Kou Li accidentally touched the sore tendons on Bian Yi’s arm while supporting him, and for a moment, Bian Yi’s mind went blank.

Fake? Is it really fake?

No, that’s not right.

Bian Yi shook off Kou Li’s hand and coldly questioned, “Fake? Guan Xi knocked on my door with my face, didn’t you let him in? He gave you what I bought as a gift, is it fake? He lived in this house for sixteen years, is it fake?”

Kou Li looked at Bian Yi without denying it. “It’s real.”

Bian Yi looked up at the ceiling, with an extremely mocking smile on his mouth. “So, what is true and what is fake?”

Kou Li looked beyond Bian Yi’s shoulder and gazed at the door. “At least, what you said earlier was fake.”

Bian Yi’s smile froze, and he leaned against the door, feeling somewhat uneasy and indescribable inside.

Then Kou Li shifted his gaze from the door behind him to Bian Yi and asked, “Don’t you really remember? I told you, only you and I have those memories in those places.”

Bian Yi girt his back teeth hard, hugged himself, and had an inexplicable emotion in his throat.

Yes, he remembered.

In the beginning, he also suspected that everything on the screen was fake. The technology there was more advanced than in their world, and Guan Xi looked exactly like him. Maybe when he looked up, the person on the screen was Guan Xi, but when he lowered his head, it was his own face.

It was too alike. If the technology was good enough, who could tell if the person on the screen was Guan Xi or Bian Yi?

So when the system first released the scene of Kou Li and Guan Xi being intimate, Bian Yi did indeed doubt it. But as time went on, and Kou Li didn’t come to rescue him, and no one responded to him, he had to watch the scene of the two of them entangled on the screen from time to time.

Although the locations were so familiar, and Kou Li’s facial expressions were so familiar, how could he tell who the opposite Guan Xi really was?

Anyone would feel angry, sad, and aggrieved. His former lover was not only taken away but even the place where they used to be happy was now occupied by someone else.

How could he tell the difference?

How could he tell!

Bian Yi felt a chill in his heart and a wave of nausea.

“Ah Yi…” Kou Li’s voice was hoarse, and he wanted to reach out to him. But when his hand was about to touch Bian Yi, it stopped abruptly.

Unexpectedly, Bian Yi reached out and grabbed Kou Li’s hand, urgently asking, “What about Xiao Shu? What about Xiao Shu?”

If it was really fake, if it was fake, then his Xiao Shu, was it…

“Xiao Shu?” Kou Li’s attention was on Bian Yi’s hand, and for a moment, he didn’t understand why he suddenly mentioned Xiao Shu. But he felt the strength of Bian Yi’s grip.

Kou Li’s whole body was as cold as an ice-cold blade. He tightened something, and the veins on his neck bulged…

Upon hearing those words from him, Bian Yi completely lost his strength and slid down to the floor.

Kou Li picked him up and half-supported, half-carried him onto the bed. Bian Yi was shaking violently, and Kou Li suppressed his endless anger, took a blanket, and wrapped him up.

Kou Li had many questions he wanted to ask, but he didn’t want to tear open Bian Yi’s wound again, showing it to himself, even though he had guessed and felt like he had been cut deeply in his heart, bleeding profusely.

That system hiding behind Guan Xi, he knew, he would definitely destroy it.

Bian Yi was gasping and trembling, his mind exploded into a mess of emotions, and he didn’t push Kou Li away who was hugging him tightly.

He breathed heavily for several minutes before calming down a bit. “So, what you mean is that Bian Yu didn’t introduce a piano teacher to Guan Xi, and Guan Xi didn’t arrange for someone to be a teacher for Xiao Shu?”

Kou Li also took a few deep breaths before responding, “He came in and I found out.”

Bian Yi tightly gripped the blanket on his body and looked directly into Kou Li’s eyes, “You didn’t lie to me?”

Kou Li quickly gave his answer, “I wouldn’t lie to you.”

Bian Yi suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness surging through his body. He wanted to ask more questions, but as the words reached his lips, he felt even more powerless.

Kou Li seemed to know what he wanted to ask and took the initiative to answer, “I couldn’t control myself. The day after that person saw Xiao Shu, I had Jian Yi gouge out his eyes. I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have let him see Xiao Shu.”

In fact, Kou Li still wanted to apologize. He didn’t want Bian Yi to see his bloody side, making himself look even less like a normal person. But now, he didn’t want to pretend to be a perfect gentleman in front of Bian Yi anymore. He wanted to be real because Bian Yi already hated him so much, and he couldn’t be any worse in his eyes.

Bian Yi wearily closed his eyes and weakly said, “Go out, I want to be alone for a while.”

Kou Li let go of his arm, looked at him for a while, and then helped him lie down, took off his shoes, covered him with a blanket, and only then came out of the room.

Outside, Kou Li saw Uncle Hua not far away in the corridor.

As soon as Uncle Hua saw him, he came up to him and was shocked when he saw the blood still oozing from his mouth. He couldn’t tell whether it was caused by biting or fighting.

Kou Li looked at the door for a while before leaving with Uncle Hua, specifically instructing people not to disturb Bian Yi.

Inside the room, Bian Yi curled up under the blanket.

He tried to analyze everything he had learned, but his head was throbbing and confused.

He should be happy. If Kou Li didn’t lie to him, it meant that Xiao Shu hadn’t been harmed. But he couldn’t smile.

All of this made him look more like a joke.

At this moment, Bian Yi wished he could be a little stupid so that he could continue to hate with righteousness, without reducing or doubting whether the target of his hatred was correct.

But unfortunately, he stubbornly held on to his sanity.

The system didn’t kidnap him just because of Kou Li, and what it showed him was half true and half false.

If it was simply for the things on Kou Li’s body, it would have killed him directly, allowing Guan Xi to take his place permanently. When Guan Xi got what he wanted, it could deceive that idiot into his death, and then there would be no one in the world who knew the truth.

It didn’t need to waste time and energy to imprison him and make him go crazy with illusions.

As a precise AI without emotions, it should know the importance of saving time and energy, right? Therefore, what it did naturally had a necessary reason.

And the reason was that he also has something the system wants.

So he was kidnapped not only because of Kou Li, but more because he was Bian Yi.

Bian Yi felt it was particularly absurd and ridiculous.

What exactly was he in all this?

In the glass room.

The screen opposite Guan Xi went black, but the entire room was still bright, very bright, the kind that could pierce through people’s heads.

After Guan Xi had realised, someone came into the glass room across from him.

It was that pervert, Jian Yi.

Guan Xi was already trembling. He covered his ears, afraid to hear what kind of heart-rending words would come out of that person’s mouth.

Jian Yi raised his eyebrows and looked at the person in front of him, unexpectedly not mocking him.

However, he pressed a few keys.

Guan Xi lost consciousness again.

And this time, the duration was extended because Jian Yi really messed with his brain.

These crazy researchers also recorded the entire process with equipment.

So, when Guan Xi regained consciousness again, the screen displayed the entire process of Jian Yi messing with his brain.

At first, Guan Xi didn’t recognize what was on the screen, until he saw his own brain opened up and the face with closed eyes. At that moment, Guan Xi’s heart almost stopped

He was directly scared and vomited. He didn’t know what Jian Yi had done, but an unprecedented and enormous fear completely enveloped him.

He thought he still had time, after all, Bian Yi said he would keep him for sixteen years.

He didn’t expect this psychopath to actually follow through, and he really went after him when they met again.

Out of a survival instinct, in extreme fear, Guan Xi escaped using the escape skill he bought with his last points.

When he got away, he still hadn’t fully recovered from that state of fear.

Until a hand rested on his shoulder.

Guan Xi was so scared that his mouth opened wide. Maybe it was his survival instinct, but even in this situation, he had a last bit of wit. He didn’t have a chance to observe the surroundings, but he didn’t scream.

This also meant that no one nearby was attracted by his screams.

“… Bian Yi?”

As the sea breeze blew, Guan Xi gradually regained consciousness and looked up at the man in front of him.

It was Xu Rui.

Upon seeing Guan Xi’s eyes, Xu Rui quickly realized who this person was.

His face turned pale, and he took out his phone to call the police.

Unexpectedly, Guan Xi somehow mustered up the strength to pounce on him and knocked his phone out of his hand. He hugged Xu Rui’s leg, crying and begging, “Please, don’t call the police, save me, I’ll do anything for you, anything you say.”

Xu Rui tried to shake him off with his foot, but Guan Xi held on tightly, constantly pleading with him. His face showed a fragility and helplessness that the real Guan Xi would never have revealed.

Suddenly, Xu Rui stopped, and a very bold idea came to mind.

In the glass room, Jian Yi appeared, holding a phone in his hand while talking on it. Seeing that the room was now empty, he was not surprised at all.

With a lazy smile, he hooked his finger and said to the person on the phone, “Hmm, he ran away. I knew it. How could you possibly be as kind as your wife and feed him for sixteen years? He’s a monster. He should be thrown into hell. What’s the point of enjoying life in heaven?”

The voice on the phone sounded crazy and sinister, wrapped in blood, “Yes, he doesn’t deserve it. He deserves to die.”