Defeat the system! Kiss my little monster!

"Qi Mohan?"

Yu Zhuo was slightly surprised by the answer. He had thought that Lin Shuang would turn her attention to King Tamo after seeing the skull, but he did not expect Lin Shuang to take a more roundabout approach.

He actually threw dirty water on Qi Mohan.

Yu Zhuo closed the door, his expression unchanged, but he was secretly making plans in his heart.

In fact, whatever choice Lin Shuang makes won't significantly affect the subsequent development of events; he just wants to make Lin Shuang give up on Tamo.

Whether to eliminate Qi Mohan or Tamo first, it wouldn't have much impact on Zhou Yanshu.

In any case, both of these people are difficult to deal with. Since Lin Shuang is willing to deal with Qi Mohan first, it saves Yu Zhuo's effort.

Yu Zhuo walked back to Zhou Yanshu's bedside. He waited for the doctor to finish the examination before packing up his things and heading back.

The driver had been waiting on the road for a long time. Yu Zhuo carried the "unconscious" Zhou Yanshu back to the car and briefly explained the route back.

He avoided inconspicuous side streets and deliberately chose a main road with surveillance cameras to leave. Tamoko wasn't so easily fooled; Zhou Yanshu would need to remain unconscious for at least two or three days before he was considered normal.

Yu Zhuo got into the car and closed the door. Through the window, he saw Yu Xiangwan standing at the door.

Yu Xiangwan's expression was slightly cold. He stood by the stone pillar outside the main hall, staring at Yu Zhuo without moving for some reason.

Yu Zhuo frowned. He and Yu Xiangwan stared at each other for a few seconds before the latter quickly looked away and strode into the inner hall.

Yu Zhuo vaguely felt a little confused. He rolled up the car window and pulled Zhou Yanshu from the corner to his side.

Zhou Yanshu continued to feign unconsciousness, and Yu Zhuo held his hand, then pushed him aside after a moment.

"Please drive faster, I have an urgent matter to attend to back home."

Yu Zhuo kept an eye on the cameras on both sides of the road. He said a few words to the driver and then closed his eyes.

It was already dark. Yu Zhuo rested his head on one hand against the car window, took out his phone, and quickly checked the messages.

[Xiao Luan: Everything is normal; no one has noticed anything unusual.]

Yu Zhuo turned off his phone screen.

The car drove on the highway, and the scenery outside flashed by quickly. It was mostly dark, with only the streetlights illuminating the road ahead.

Yu Zhu blinked, and in the vast expanse of trees that flashed by, he saw the same dark figure he had seen before.

He crouched on a branch of a large tree, dressed in night clothes that seemed out of place in this world. A black mask covered his face, obscuring everything beneath.

The car was moving, and the dense forest flashed past Yu Zhuo's eyes. Only the man in black seemed to be frozen at a certain point in time, simply squatting on a tree branch and silently watching Yu Zhuo.

Yu Zhuo also rested his chin on his hand and looked at him.

Zhou Yanshu was fast asleep in the other seat. Yu Zhuo squinted his eyes, hooked Zhou Yanshu's fingers in the shadows, and gently kneaded the flesh on his fingertips.

That familiar drowsiness washed over Yu Zhuo's mind. His eyelids grew heavy, and his eyelashes trembled twice before he relaxed.

The fragments of his soul are merging; perhaps he'll start dreaming again.

"Commander Mu, what is the matter that you summoned me here for?"

A deliberately disguised female voice rang in Yu Zhuo's ears, seemingly soft yet not quite, with an indescribable stiffness.

Yu Zhuo looked around, and the scenery around him had changed without him realizing it.

It was still dark overhead, but he wasn't inside a moving car. Behind him was an artificial hill, surrounded by lush vegetation, and he could hear the gentle flow of the stream beside him.

Yu Zhuo looked toward the source of the sound, where a slender figure was hidden in the corner of the artificial hill.

"I mistook someone for someone else today, you know?" Yu Zhu looked at the shadows, and said helplessly, as if he had remembered something. "I smelled a familiar scent on him, and I thought it was you."

The figure behind the artificial hill paused, then said with some surprise, "Really? Commander Mu didn't recognize me?"

"You ran so fast, I didn't even see your face," Yu Zhuo said slowly. "Why didn't you come looking for me?"

"Looking for you? Commander Mu, we just slept together, and now... we have nothing to do with each other anymore."

Yu Zhuo smiled and said, "Really? Then why did you come here today? I can let go easily. If we break up today, I can go find someone else."

After a long silence, the woman's voice rang out again, its meaning unclear.

"Find someone else?"

"Heh... Sure. Anyway, you don't even recognize me, so it doesn't matter if you find someone else."

Seeing that he was standing motionless behind the artificial hill, Yu Zhuo simply took a step forward and asked, "Are you angry?"

"Commander, please don't come looking for me again."

"why are you mad?"

"..."

"Is it because I said something wrong, or because I didn't recognize you?"

"I……"

“I already know I was wrong.” Yu Zhuo took another step forward.

“I’ve been trying to find you. That night… I didn’t have time to clean you up. I went to the wrong Shen Yu because he smelled like me… There are many reasons, but a mistake is a mistake. I really couldn’t find you before.”

The figure remained motionless in the shadows.

Yu Zhuo looked at him, then lowered her eyes helplessly: "You must be very sad, right? I've disappointed you again."

"Disappointed, not quite." The figure chuckled lightly, his tone completely nonchalant. "Commander Mu, I was just joking with you, did you really take it seriously?"

“Of course I took it seriously,” Yu Zhuo said in a deep voice. “I don’t believe you didn’t take it seriously.”

Knowing his and Zhou Yanshu's fate in Shen Yu's world, he stubbornly persisted in his path to certain death, ultimately killing Zhou Yanshu by mistake on the battlefield.

He was so stupid that he couldn't even recognize Zhou Yanshu's figure and aura.

He only realized this at the very last moment, when he plunged the sword into Zhou Yanshu's heart.

So he killed Zhou Yanshu and then committed suicide.

His own memories were missing from the torn fragments of his soul, but so what? Lu Xun, A Ran, Mu Yu Yuan, Ruo Ruo, Yu Zhuo... they were all him.

Everything they did was essentially an act of self-preservation.

"Commander Mu, are you crying?"

Yu Zhuo felt a lump in his throat. He raised his eyes slightly upon hearing this, frowned, and said, "No."

"Ah……"

A soft laugh rang out, and Zhou Yanshu suddenly strode out of the shadows. Yu Zhuo only felt a cold wind blow past her, and then a warm hand grabbed her chin and forced her to the corner of the artificial hill.

Zhou Yanshu didn't say a word of nonsense. He bit Yu Zhuo's lower lip, used a little force to pry open his teeth and stick out his tongue.

“Commander, no matter how big a mistake you make... I will forgive you.” Zhou Yanshu’s hand went into Yu Zhuo’s clothes. He vigorously stroked the bones and muscles on Yu Zhuo’s back, and the calluses on his palms caused a large tremor on his skin.

"I won't hold a grudge against you."