Defeat the system! Kiss my little monster!

Sheng Shixian leaned against Pei Du without moving. After a while, he turned his head, the gag in his mouth occasionally brushing against Pei Du's face.

Pei Du understood what he meant: "I'll pick some for you next time we eat."

Sheng Shixian remained silent. He didn't show much resistance on his face, but consciously moved back onto the sofa, his emotions suddenly stabilizing during this time.

“If you behave well tonight, I’ll untie you tomorrow during the day.” Pei Du took a step back in his attitude.

Sheng Shixian loves to play pranks at night, so Pei Du needs to pay close attention to this—lest Sheng Shixian start thinking of crazy ideas again tonight.

Sheng Shixian's gaze towards Pei Du was slightly subtle. He didn't answer, his eyes darting between the second and first floors before finally choosing to stay on the sofa and sleep.

Pei Du had a gut feeling that Sheng Shixian was different today than usual.

Sheng Shixian has become more rational in both his speech and actions, no longer able to enter a dazed state at any time as before, but instead making choices and thinking.

His memory is returning.

After some time, he will remember everything completely.

Pei Du didn't know the extent to which Sheng Shixian's memories had returned, but at least now he was no longer a mentally unstable beast.

Pei Du turned off the lights downstairs. He walked up the stairs, and when he turned around, the entire downstairs area was already dark. Pei Du could only make out the black lines of things in the blur, and the scene at the sofa was even more difficult to discern.

"Mmm." Sheng Shixian made an indistinct sound from inside.

Pei Du sighed and said, "I know you're there. Go to sleep."

Sheng Shixian remained silent.

Pei Du went upstairs and closed the door. He sat back down at his desk and picked up his phone, only to find he had missed several calls. Apart from the two suspicious numbers at the top, the other three were from Qi Sheng.

Pei Du swiped his finger across the screen to call Qi Sheng back, and the call was quickly connected within a second or two.

"What's up?"

"Damn it, Pei Du, we've been classmates for over ten years, and this is the attitude you get when we talk on the phone?"

Qi Sheng was somewhere nearby, and the noise on his end was deafening, with occasional bursts of high-decibel rock music. "What were you doing just now? I called you several times and you didn't answer. Don't tell me you went out and got bitten by some alien again!"

Pei Du twirled the black book in his hand and said, "I'm at home. What do you want?"

"I heard you went back to the lab? Hey kid, why didn't you tell me?" Qi Sheng's voice became clearer away from the noise, presumably he was walking out with his phone in his hand. "Are you feeling better? Don't overwork yourself."

Pei Du hummed in agreement: "I'm feeling much better lately and can go to work, so you don't need to worry."

"That's good. Looks like my medical skills are pretty good after all," Qi Sheng said. "How's that mutant you're raising? Can he walk?"

“He…” Pei Du paused, his hand pressing against the hard, rough, and uncomfortable cover of the black book. “He ran away. He bit me and then ran off. I don’t know where he is now.”

"Really?! Holy crap, these mutants are heartless! Pei Du, let me tell you, all these mutants are the same. You can't change them at all. They're not even human..."

Qi Sheng harbored great resentment when he mentioned the alien species. He seemed to have been attacked by them before, and therefore loathed these creatures the most.

Even now that he is a doctor, he adheres to the three principles of not saving people: not saving despicable people, not saving petty people, and not saving mutants.

But as long as the money is right, the "three no's" above can be abandoned.

Pei Du had doubled the price before Qi Sheng reluctantly agreed to treat Sheng Shixian.

"Alright, no need to mention him anymore." Pei Du didn't want to listen to Qi Sheng's rambling anymore. Qi Sheng could go on and on about the alien species for half an hour, which was a complete waste of time. "I'm fine, you don't need to worry."

Qi Sheng paused for a moment, then said, "Okay, okay, if you don't want to talk about it, then don't. I'm going to karaoke later, are you coming?"

Pei Du: "I'm not coming."

Qi Sheng clicked his tongue and said, "What's the point of you staying home all day?"

Pei Du's expression remained unchanged: "I have to work tomorrow, I'll hang up if there's nothing else."

"Okay, okay... hang up, hang up. I have things to do too. Let's not waste time talking nonsense." Qi Sheng's voice cut off as he spoke. Pei Du put down his phone and realized that Qi Sheng had hung up the call himself.

Pei Du didn't pay any attention.

He's already dead, what's the point of him going out to play? If the murderer can't be found, Pei Du won't even leave behind a trace of his soul.

Pei Du put his phone aside, opened the black book, and continued reading from the pages he had already reached.

The clues about the characters in this black book have almost all been solved. Pei Du is now putting himself into the roles of the characters and deciphering the content, which is actually equivalent to An Jia's life on a certain level.

From the age of nine, when An Jia met Ling Shu and Ling Yu in Xianghe Village, she began to enter into a complex and entangled relationship with them.

My master always says that he's different from me and Ling Shu. Ling Shu and I are the same kind of people, while he's just an extra for us, so he tries hard to get closer to me.

I don't understand why he thinks that way. How can someone like Ling Shu be in the same category as me? I'm not crazy. But Master always says that, and every time I hear him say that, my heart aches for him.

Pei Du seemed to be deep in thought. Ling Yu had that white ball system, and the PUA ball should have also told Ling Yu about the settings of this world.

Ling Yu said this because he knew that An Jia and Ling Shu corresponded to the female lead and male lead respectively. They were both at the top of the world, and therefore belonged to the same category.

Ling Yu, in this world, was perhaps originally just a minor supporting character.

[Later, somehow the conversation turned to Pei Du. Every time Pei Du is mentioned, I feel uncomfortable. After all, our relationship is complicated, and I don't want to upset my master.]

[But Master didn't seem to care at all about my relationship with Pei Du. Didn't he get jealous? Later, Master explained to me that he didn't care about Pei Du because he knew Pei Du and I weren't the same kind of people.]

Pei Du was numb. Yes, he was just a supporting character.

I asked him, "What kind of person is Pei Du?"

The master smiled. He said, "Pei Du is someone who is dispensable."

Pei Du: "..."

The creature that could barely survive scanned the contents of the book and sneered, "What is he pretending for? Bah, shameless! He's just a supporting character, and he thinks he's superior just because he's equipped with a stupid P-ball?! He even dares to put you down!"

Pei Du didn't expect Gouqie Tousheng to react so strongly. Before he could even speak, Gouqie Tousheng turned the ball around and held up a sign for Pei Du, saying, "Pei Du, you can't let him eliminate you. What do you mean by 'dispensable'? You're an ATM, you know!"

Pei Du’s words caught in his throat.

"Without you, where would the female lead get money? Without you, where would Sheng Shixian get a house? We need to be confident! We resolutely oppose ideological erosion and insist on opposing P, fraud, and violence!"

Pei Du: "..."