The leader of the cultivation alliance has a crush on me.

Song Ke knew that Chu Tiancheng was in the hospital, and she lay in bed, unable to sleep as she pondered his situation.

The branches of the trees outside the window were dappled with moonlight and projected onto the French windows. Song Ke stared at the ceiling, looking conflicted.

Should we try to matchmake or not?

Sad people.

We've been here for so long, and not only has there been no progress, but it feels like things are going in the opposite direction. Where exactly did things go wrong?

Song Ke sighed again.

"Why are you sighing? Are you not welcoming me at all?"

Song Ke was startled awake by the sudden sound and sat up.

"Love-obsessed?" She realized that the familiar voice belonged to someone else who was also love-obsessed.

Song Ke finally found an outlet for her anger and immediately started talking non-stop: "No way, how can you do this to the system? The plot was almost over before you showed up. Do you have any sense of responsibility? Be careful, or I'll complain about you."

"Why are you in such a hurry?" the love-struck man said, then laughed awkwardly, "Well, don't worry, everything's fine."

"I didn't disappear on purpose, it's just that something unexpected happened a while ago." It paused here, not continuing, and instead asked, "I see your mission progress is still 0, have you been here all this time for nothing?"

Song Ke looked annoyed: "What do you mean I came for nothing? I tried my best, okay? What does it have to do with me if the two of them don't click?"

My love-struck mind scanned the plot progress and instantly understood what had happened recently.

"what."

Song Ke asked, "What's all the fuss about? Why are you making such a fuss?"

The lovestruck man paused for a few seconds, then said calmly, "It's nothing, I just feel like I came at the perfect time."

"Chu Tiancheng isn't in the hospital. Why don't you go and cultivate a relationship with him? Don't waste such a good opportunity."

Song Ke: "What detours did I take? And what feelings did I develop with him? If anyone should go, it should be Gu Qing."

Speaking of this, Song Ke was even more helpless: "Sigh, before He Yunming appeared, I thought Chu Tiancheng still had a chance, but now Gu Qing keeps talking about He Yunming, I think it's hopeless."

恋爱脑叹了口气，很欠揍的提醒：“那个你是不是搞错了一件事？”

"???"

Love-struck: "This is your perspective."

Song Ke raised an eyebrow and asked, "So?"

Love-struck: "Of course you're the protagonist. In the previous storyline, you and Chu Tiancheng had a bad ending, so shouldn't your task now be to win over Chu Tiancheng and have a happy ending?"

Song Ke's tone suddenly turned fierce: "What did you say?"

The lovestruck girl looked completely guilty: "Don't we understand things differently?"

"I remember saying that back then, didn't I?"

Song Ke shook her head firmly: "You didn't say that."

"You said I'm just a cannon fodder supporting character, I can't break character, I can only be a simp." At this point, she quickly asked, "Before, I would get a headache if I didn't pester Chu Tiancheng, but I haven't had that problem since. What happened?"

The lovestruck man was speechless, thinking to himself, "Your headaches stopped later because I had an accident and didn't have time to process the plot."

However, it dared not say this to Song Ke's face.

"Maybe it's because you just transmigrated into the book. Everything takes time to adjust, right? After all, it's not your body."

"But now is not the time to talk about that. Your task now is to quickly avoid a bad ending for you and Chu Tiancheng."

"However, I don't think it should be too difficult, right?"

Song Ke thought that if the original plot were followed, it would be extremely difficult, since Chu Tiancheng never liked Song Keke until his death.

Is it feasible now?

Why didn't this love-struck person appear sooner? She just rejected him and completely offended him. They've been in a cold war for days, and Chu Tiancheng hasn't taken the initiative to contact her, which means he's really angry.

I don't know if it's easy to coax her.

Seriously, they deliberately raised the difficulty of the task by several levels.

In today's padded dramas, this would probably have been criticized eight hundred times over. Things that could have been resolved from the beginning were instead dragged out for dozens of chapters.

What kind of "love-obsessed system" is this? It's a complete piece of garbage.

"Hey, hey, hey, just talk about the mission, why are you making personal attacks?" The love-struck person said, "Other people get sick unexpectedly at work, but why is it considered heinous when it comes to me? Do you know how much effort I put into sensing you?"

"What should we do now?" Song Ke asked, looking troubled.

The lovestruck man encouraged her: "Of course you should keep pursuing him."

"Use your persistent skills, I don't believe Chu Tiancheng is so heartless."

"Let me tell you, although there are rewards for completing the task, there are also penalties for failing to complete it."

Song Ke's gaze turned fierce again: "You didn't mention any punishment before, how can you be like this? Do you really think we're easy to bully just because we don't have a labor contract? I don't know where you learned this bad habit of arbitrarily increasing the penalties."

The love-struck person comforted her, saying, "Oh well, it's not a big deal for you anyway, you're not going to die."

Song Ke: "You mean Chu Tiancheng will die?"

The love-struck man pursed his lips and said matter-of-factly, "This is his original fate, it's not a punishment."

"What is the punishment?"

“I’m telling you, if you don’t explain yourself clearly now, I’m quitting. If I quit, I can’t go back.”

The love-struck man said in a reassuring tone, "These are just minor punishments that can't be brought to the table. You don't need to worry. You are the chosen one I selected. If you are punished, I will be punished as well, so I won't harm myself."

"Be good, go and coax Chu Tiancheng. Maybe he'll soften his heart, and you'll complete your mission. Everyone'll be happy, right?"

Song Ke only realized what had happened when she reached the hospital entrance. In the middle of the night, she had actually listened to the encouragement of a broken system and rushed to the hospital to find Chu Tiancheng. Thinking about it now, she really was crazy.

The hospital was unusually quiet in the middle of the night. There was an inexplicable chill in the elevator corridor, which made people unconsciously feel a little panicked.

Song Ke subconsciously shouted in her mind: "Hey, you love-struck fool, come out and have a chat."

The lovestruck man teased her, "Seriously? You're such a scaredy-cat, you're afraid of this too?"

"Don't worry, although I'm not that powerful, I can still automatically block out demons and ghosts, so even if there are any, they won't be able to see you."

Song Ke gritted her teeth and whispered, "Is that the important point?"

"Does it matter whether they can see me or not? What matters is whether I can see them."

The lovestruck girl fell silent instantly. Song Ke watched as the elevator doors opened. As soon as she stepped out, she bumped into Aunt Chu Tiancheng, who looked extremely haggard, as if she had aged a lot overnight.

Song Ke opened her mouth to greet them, but the moment Aunt Chu Tiancheng saw Song Ke, she turned fierce. She pointed at Song Ke with a questioning look on her face and said, "Song Keke, you dare to come here? I was just wondering how to settle accounts with you, and you still dare to show your face in front of me. I'll fight you to the death."

Before Song Ke could react, she was shoved hard and bumped into a trash can next to her, instantly feeling a sharp pain in her lower back.

"what are you doing?"

Seeing that she still wanted to come over and hit her, Song Ke ignored her sore lower back and grabbed her with both hands, her face turning ugly.

"Why did you start hitting me? What did I do to you?"

Aunt Chu Tiancheng looked at Song Ke with resentment: "Song Keke, you're still pretending. I know you usually dislike Zhou Chu, but you don't have to be so heartless. He's only in his early twenties, and you just watched him get his leg broken without doing anything. How can you be so vicious?"