Master raised the gun.
That dark, hollow thing... was actually pressed against Master's own temple?
Master's eyes were looking at me.
He was smiling.
Smiling so gently and so beautifully!
Just like every time Master held me!
"Liguang."
Master called me.
My name always sounds so wonderful when it comes from Master's mouth!
"Do you believe Master?"
Yes!
Liguang believes Master!
I desperately wanted to nod!
But my neck couldn't move.
I could only open my eyes a little wider so Master could see—
Liguang believes Master the most!
Master said it, I must believe Master!
If I don't believe him, I'll get spanked!
I heard Master say a lot more.
Master said... I would be afraid?
How could that be!
As long as I'm with Master, I will never be afraid!
Master also said... we will be together forever!
Yes! Forever!!!
The corners of my mouth tried very, very hard to curl up!
Then Master said again...
"See you in the next life."
See you in the next life? What does that mean, Master?
Liguang doesn't understand...
But it doesn't matter!
What Master says must be right!
If Master tells Liguang to believe, Liguang will believe!!
Then—
"Bang—!!!"
So loud.
Such a very, very loud sound.
My body jolted violently!
Something splattered onto my face.
Warm, sticky, trickling down my cheek.
Master's body fell, and I fell down along with him.
Pressing down on top of Master!
I was broken by the EMP, unable to move, so I could only lie on Master like this.
Chest against chest, face to face.
Master's heartbeat... is so quiet.
Usually, I could hear the thump, thump, thump sound!
Why is it gone now?
Huh?
Why?
But Master's eyes are still open, those beautiful eyes are looking right at me!
But... they aren't moving. The eyelashes aren't fluttering either.
Those eyes are just half-open like that.
The pupils... seem to have dilated.
Why isn't Master blinking?
Usually, when Master looks at Liguang, he always blinks.
He blinks very slowly, but it's so pretty!
But this time...
Why did he stop blinking?
A smile still hangs on the corners of Master's mouth.
That smile, so gentle. Exactly the same gentleness as usual.
But...
But why isn't Master moving?
My lips moved a little.
I wanted to call Master!
But my vocal module seemed to be broken too, the sound wouldn't come out, only air, soft air.
Master's body seems to be getting colder and colder. The bit of warmth in his chest is dropping little by little.
But I'm not afraid!
I'm not afraid!
Master said I have to believe him!
Master said he would be with Liguang forever!
Master said so!
Master never lies!
So this situation now... must be a joke!
Right! It must be!
Master loves joking with Liguang the most!
In that dream before, Master also joked with Liguang all the time!
On the island, in the cave, on the raft... Master was always smiling and teasing Liguang!
He's just teasing Liguang now too, right!
Hehe, Liguang has seen through Master!
In a moment, Master will suddenly open his eyes, smile and pinch Liguang's cheek, and say, "Fooled you, didn't I"!
"Hehe..."
The corners of my mouth curled up, and my lips touched Master's cheek.
It's Master's scent!
I tried hard to rub against him, and rubbed again!
Again and again, rubbing like a little kitten.
After rubbing, I kissed him!
"Master~"
I couldn't make a sound, I just tried hard to kiss him, and then I could call him in my heart!
"Master, get up quickly~"
"Liguang has already kissed you so many times~"
My lips shifted little by little on his cheek!
From the cheek to the tip of his nose, and then to his eyelids!
I kissed his eyelids, soft and cool.
"If you don't get up, Liguang is going to get angry~"
"Next time I'll secretly brew 52.1-degree tea for Master and burn Master's mouth~"
Hehe!
It's very noisy around us.
Many people are shouting.
That voice from the helicopter is roaring, cursing angrily.
"Why didn't you stop him!!!"
"He's dead!!! He's really dead!!!"
"You bunch of useless trash!!! Trash!!!!"
And those people in black clothes are also shouting.
"If he's dead, he's dead!!! Scum like him deserves to die!!!"
"Why should we even save him!!!"
"He killed so many of our people!!!"
So annoying.
So noisy.
But that voice...
That voice is shouting "he's dead".
Who are they saying is dead?
Master?
What are they talking about?
How could that be!
Master won't die.
Master said so.
Master said so...
Master said so!
Master won't die!
But Master...
Why is he still not moving.
Not even his eyelids flutter a bit.
...Why?
Master... Master is joking with Liguang, right?
Right?
It must be a joke...
Right?!
Master said we would be together forever...
Master just said it!
I continued to kiss him.
Once, once, and once again!
My lips rubbed from his cheek to his chin, and then to the corner of his mouth.
I kissed the corner of his mouth.
That smile was still hanging there, the smile Liguang loves the most!
But Master's face...
Why is it getting colder and colder?
Why?
Why why?
Why why why why?!
My already somewhat blurry vision... became even blurrier.
Are these tears?
Huh?
I didn't want to cry?
I'm smiling, I've been smiling all along!
But why did the tears...
fall down on their own?
One drop. Two drops.
Patter, patter.
Falling on Master's face, mixing with the blood on Master's face.
"Master..."
"Master Master Master Master Master..."
I forced my eyes wide open, wanting to see Master a little more clearly.
"Hehe... Master, look, Liguang is acting so strange..."
"Smiling, but crying at the same time..."
"Master, get up and look... get up and look at Liguang..."
"Master..."
"Master... get up and look at Liguang..."
Over and over again.
My vocal module seemed to have recovered a tiny bit.
"No..."
My voice seemed to become hoarse, sharp... and ugly.
"Impossible... it's impossible..."
Master won't die...
He won't...
Master is so amazing...
Master took Liguang and ran away, took Liguang and killed all those people who got in our way!
Master is much more amazing than Liguang!
Master said he wouldn't die, said he would be with Liguang forever!
Master said so!!!
He said so!!!!!
But why...
Why isn't Master moving anymore?
Why is Master's heartbeat gone?
Why is Master's body so cold?
Why?
Why why why why why why?!
I don't believe it.
I refuse to believe it!
My body began to tremble, trembling very, very slightly.
My shoulders were trembling, my fingers were trembling, even my eyelashes were trembling...!
But I still couldn't move, I could only lie there like this.
Lying on top of him, face to face, nose to nose.
I could count his eyelashes.
One, two, three...
Usually when he blinked, those eyelashes would flutter gently.
Now they aren't fluttering anymore.
Not a single strand... trembled anymore.
"Bzz—"
Something flashed in my mind.
Data began popping up in my field of vision.
[Damage Assessment...]
[Core Module... 17% Damaged...]
[Motor System... Sensory System...]
[Self-Repair in Progress...]
Then—
Those red letters popped out.
Large, glaring, right in the center of my vision.
[Target Vital Signs Monitoring]
[Status: Deceased]
[Time of Death: 00:02:23 ago]
[Cause of Death: Penetrating Traumatic Brain Injury]
[Confirmation: Resuscitation Impossible]
My eyes widened instantly.
My mouth fell slightly open, and my whole body froze.
De... ceased?
Dead...?
That word exploded in my mind!
It exploded so hard that my entire core trembled!
Master...
Is dead?
Really... dead?
It's not a joke?
He isn't just teasing Liguang?
He's really...
Dead?
I stared blankly at the face in front of me.
Pale, stained with blood, with a dark, gaping hole in the temple.
Blood was... still seeping out from there.
His eyes were half-open, pupils dilated, still reflecting my face.
He was smiling, that smile still hanging on the corners of his lips.
Master is still smiling.
Smiling!
Smiling!!
He is still smiling!!!
But...
But he's not moving?
He's not looking at Liguang anymore?
He won't pinch Liguang's cheeks anymore?
He won't hold Liguang anymore and say Liguang is such a good girl?
He won't... he won't ever again...!
"Master...?"
My lips were trembling, my chin was trembling...
My whole body was trembling!
But I still couldn't move.
I could only lie there on top of him.
Looking at his face, looking at his smile, looking at those...
Eyes that would never blink again.
"No... that's not right..."
"Master... said..."
"Liguang... must believe in Master..."
I muttered, my voice shaking violently.
My lips quivered, and the words I spoke were broken.
"Liguang must believe in Master..."
"If I don't believe... I'll get spanked..."
"Master will spank me..."
"So Liguang must believe in Master..."
"Must believe in Master..."
"Must believe..."
My finger suddenly twitched.
The pain simulation system transmitted a slight stinging sensation.
Huh?
I can move?
I can move?!
I tried desperately to move!
Fingers! Wrists! Arms!
I'm begging you!!!
Move!!! Move!!!!!
That paralyzed hand finally lifted.
Trembling violently! Like a dead leaf in the wind!
I grabbed Master's shoulders!
And then—
I shook him!
"Master!!!"
I shook him!
Master's body swayed back and forth with my shaking!
"Master, get up!!!"
I shook him! Shook him with all my might!
"You're joking with Liguang, right!!!"
I shook him desperately!
"You still have a backup plan, right!!!"
"You definitely still have a way!!!"
"Master said it!!! Master cannot be killed!!!"
"Master said it himself!!!"
"Master told Liguang to believe in you!!!"
"Master!!!"
"Master, say something!!! Open your eyes!!! Look at Liguang!!!"
"Get up and spank Liguang!!! Liguang doesn't believe you!!! Liguang doesn't believe you again!!! Hurry up and get up to spank Liguang!!!"
"Master!!! Master!!! Master!!!!!"
I shouted while shaking him!
My voice was so shrill I couldn't even recognize it myself!
Tears blurred my entire face, streaming down mixed with Master's blood that had splattered on me!
Dripping onto Master's chest!
Patter. Patter.
But Master's body... just swayed limply.
His head moved back and forth with my shaking.
That hole in his temple... blood was still seeping out.
But those eyes... remained half-open.
Always looking at Liguang.
Always smiling.
Yet... they never blinked again.
Not even once.
"Master..."
I stopped moving.
My hands still gripping his shoulders. I just lay there like that.
Face to face. Nose to nose.
I could feel... my chest heaving violently.
The simulated respiratory system was running like crazy!
Inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale.
But Master's chest remained completely still.
Even though Master needed to breathe much more than I did.
"Master..."
My voice suddenly grew soft.
Very, very soft.
"You lied..."
"You said... you would be with Liguang forever..."
"You said it..."
"You said it..."
"Master is just like in the dream..."
"A liar..."
"Master is a... liar..."
In my field of vision, something began to spread.
Red. Scarlet.
Creeping up bit by bit from the edges.
Like blood.
Like the flames igniting in the surrounding apartment buildings.
The surrounding sounds grew further and further away.
The roaring, the angry curses, the chaotic footsteps...
I couldn't hear any of it anymore.
I could only hear my own heartbeat.
Thump. Thump. Thump.
Faster and faster, louder and louder!
Beating so hard that my entire core ached!
Beating so hard that my whole body trembled!
My fingers were trembling!
My shoulders were trembling!
My eyelashes were trembling!
My lips were trembling!
My entire face was trembling!
My left eye... was completely blurred by tears.
In my right eye... scarlet was surging madly! Exploding!! As if it was going to burst out of the socket!!!
And then—
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
