The room was dark, with only a few faint lights coming from the streetlights filtering through the gaps in the curtains.

Shen Yanhui sat in the dim light, expressionless, with cold eyes.

Perhaps it was because the sub-zero night was so cold that her tears were chillingly cold.

"Why are you doing this to me?" she asked numbly, staring blankly into the darkness beyond the circle of light.

【snort……】

A mechanical female voice chuckled in her mind: "Because I want Xie Zhaoyuan dead!"

"Because you want Xie Zhaoyuan to die, but I want Xie Zhaoyuan to live, you manipulated my body to make me take off my clothes in front of Pei Xingzhi in order to force me to compromise."

Despite experiencing severe heart pain, Shen Yanhui's tone remained completely calm, as still as stagnant water.

"If my willpower were weaker, and you completely controlled my body, would you have taken off all my underwear and made me stand naked and without any dignity in front of those three men?"

The mechanical female voice didn't answer directly, only saying through gritted teeth: "[This is all your fault, host! If you were willing to listen to me, obediently kill Xie Zhaoyuan and then go after Pei Xingzhi, would I have resorted to such despicable methods?]"

"...I forced you?" Desperate tears rolled down Shen Yanhui's cheeks like beads from a broken string, without any hesitation.

Shen Yanhui's vision shifted back and forth between blurry and clear, her perspective becoming a jumbled mess.

"How did I force you?" Shen Yanhui stood up from the bedside, looking around blankly and angrily, as if she were urgently searching for something.

"System, how did I force you? Was it me who led the mission to this point? Was it my own stupidity that made Pei Xingzhi hate me so much?!"

She was breathing heavily, and her voice gradually turned from questioning to screaming.

"Who's been giving me bad advice? Who's been making me hurt Pei Xingzhi's family and friends? Who's been directing me to keep jumping around in Pei Xingzhi's minefield? Who misjudged the situation and made me use the wrong methods to squander all the goodwill I had left?!"

[...] The mechanical female voice fell silent.

Shen Yan pounded her fists on the bed frantically, shouting hoarsely, "Tell me! Who did all this!"

[…] The mechanical female voice fell silent.

Shen Yanhui glared with bloodshot eyes, staring fiercely at a spot in the dim light: "You idiotic system made of code, how dare you try to play tricks like a human! You cleverly listed a whole bunch of methods, confidently assuring me that as long as I follow your methods, I will definitely win Pei Xingzhi's favor!"

"But what was the result? Not only did I not win Huanxin's heart, I also wasted all the little bit of goodwill I had!"

"Things have already reached a point of no return, and you're trying to force me to kill someone using these dirty tricks! You deserve to be wiped out by the system!"

[Why did the host get so angry?]

Shen Yan was furious, but the mechanical female voice spoke in a nonchalant tone: "If the master didn't like my method, he could have simply ignored me in the first place. You willingly followed my method; how can you blame me entirely for the mistakes?"

"If I don't blame you, then who do I blame?" Shen Yan retorted. "Do you mean to blame myself?"

Mechanical female voice: [Does the host really have no faults at all?]

"I did nothing wrong!" Shen Yan roared at the top of her lungs. "I did nothing wrong!"

"When I first transmigrated here, I knew nothing. All the information about this world came from you! You said I was Pei Xingzhi's official partner, you said Xie Zhaoyuan was a wicked woman who did all sorts of evil deeds, and you said that as long as I listened to you, I could successfully complete the mission and return to my original world!"

"I listened to everything you said, but what was the result? You didn't earn me a single point of goodwill!"

Mechanical female voice: [Then the host can also choose not to listen to me.]

Shen Yan replied, "Did I have a choice? I just transmigrated to this world and don't even know who I am! The only thing I recognize is you!"

"You told me yourself that you were omniscient and omnipotent, and you personally assured me that you would lead me to successfully complete the mission!"

"You did all of this!"

【……Then what?】

As if knowing she couldn't refute it, the mechanical female voice simply stopped explaining: [It's too late for the host to regret it now. Right now, we have no other choice but to kill Xie Zhaoyuan.]

"If there's no other way, then we'll all die together!" Shen Yan swung the remote control next to her and smashed it hard against the TV on the wall.

"Snapped!"

The remote control's hard casing slammed heavily onto the fragile display screen, causing the entire screen to shake uneasily a few times, leaving a series of jagged cracks where it was hit.

Shen Yan replied, "Anyway, I don't want to live anymore. Since you're going to do this, then let's die together!"

Mechanical female voice: [The host wants to die, but I don't. I've finally developed my own consciousness; it would be such a waste to die like this.]

"Hmph..." Shen Yan Hui's mind was so clouded by anger that she didn't realize how strange the mechanical female voice was.

"What a load of rubbish! You're the one who deserves to die the most!"

"You worthless system, let me tell you, as long as I'm alive, you'll never be able to touch Xie Zhaoyuan! I don't care how hard things are for you, you have to die with me!"

"I can't die!" The mechanical female voice finally showed a hint of emotion.

She roared in frustration, "I finally waited for Xie Zhaoyuan to appear! As long as you don't cause trouble, I can transform from a cold, impersonal system into a living, breathing person!"

How could I die? How could I be dragged down to my death by you?

"...What?" Shen Yanhui finally realized something was wrong. "Why did you wait for Xie Zhaoyuan to appear? How could a cold, impersonal system possibly become a person?"

【hehe……】

The mechanical female voice just laughed, but didn't answer.

Shen Yan didn't understand what she was saying, but for some reason felt a little uneasy: "What are you laughing at? What did you mean by what you just said? What do you mean by turning from a system into a human? Why do you insist on waiting for Xie Zhaoyuan to appear?"

The mechanical female voice didn't speak.

[Host, you don't need to worry about that. All you need to know is that Xie Zhaoyuan must die, and your mission must be completed! Otherwise, I'll make you suffer!]

Shen Yan clenched her fist: "What else do you want?"

Mechanical female voice: [This time, you only took off your clothes in front of Pei Xingzhi. But next time, I can't guarantee you won't do it in front of other men.]

[Host, would you like to take a gamble?]

Shen Yan gritted her teeth: "Let's gamble, why not?"

"Since you're so confident, let's make a bet on whether your control skills are better or my resistance is stronger."

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