Chapter 23

<details><summary>Characters List</summary></details>

<details>Le Han – Main Character</details>

<details>Gua Gua Gu – In-game main character’s name Daji / Enchanting Imperial Concubine – In-game alternate character’s name</details>

<details>Qi Xun – Male Lead</details>

<details>Mu Yi Cheng Zhou / Mu God – In-game main character Zhan Ge – In-game trumpet’s name</details>

<details>Zhou Yao – Qi Xun’s best friend</details>

<details>Meng Bu Meng – In-game main character’s name</details>

<details>Emperor of Qi – Zhou Yao’s husband</details>

<details>Lu Jiao – In-game main character’s name</details>

<details>Qin Yuyuan (Princess Qin) – Qi Xun’s pursuer</details>

<details>Axue – In-game main character’s name</details>

<details>Zhang Yang (Prince Tang) – Le Han’s pursuer</details>

<details>Qiao Rui – Le Han’s roommate and friend</details>

<details>He Yiming – Le Han’s previous crush and senior student</details>

<details>Zhao Yifei – Le Han’s high school classmate</details>

<details>Yu Manman – Le Han’s high school classmate and He Yiming’s ex-girlfriend</details>

Edited by Bubbles

Warring States game forum.

Half an hour after the Soft and Gentle Village map came out, it suddenly stopped running, followed by an official announcement. “Announcement: There was a problem with the Soft and Gentle Village map, and now it has been removed…”

Posts in the forum followed.

Subject: “That… has anyone come out of the Soft and Gentle Village?”

“RT… I just saw the official announcement, and now I’m in a bit of a mixed mood. I’m fighting with my partner. Writing a post to calm down…”

“??? I just went to the map with my husband to play, so I don’t know. I didn’t see anything?”

“I envy the eldest brother, my mood is complicated…”

“I envy the eldest brother, my mood is complicated…”

“I envy the eldest brother, my mood is complicated…”

“After entering the map, I saw a past crush. I felt that something was wrong, so I cut him down. After that, I was turned into a woman’s appearance and was guided to another room by the system. What I saw was the dead man 1 Refers to the partner of the other person. being entangled by seventeen or eighteen women, haha.”

“Looking at the person upstairs in fear and persuading weakly— don’t destroy the formation…”

“I cut down those NPCs just like brother five, and he also cut off the heads of those pigs. Now he even wants to chop off the developer of the map [smoking].”

“After thinking about it, it seems that everyone will be separated after entering. Later, the system will extract your thoughts and create several NPCs based on people you used to like to haunt you. The person who gets rid of the NPCs first will turn into an old woman and be guided into their partner’s room. Then it is a shura field, depending on how the couple tears each other…”

“No, I just read the official announcement carefully. It seems that the Soft and Gentle Village map turned this way because there was something wrong with it? Wasn’t this the original task, ah ?”

“The official announcement was unclear. I went to Weibo, and some insiders revealed that the original task was the same as that of Tang Bohu’s order of Qiuxiang. The system was supposed to give you seventeen or eighteen husbands with your real husband mixed in between. To clear the level, you had to choose your real husband. As for who chose and who was selected, it was random. However, the procedure was temporarily tampered with by three internal employees and changed to a gathering of ex-lovers [bye].”

“What the hell, those three internal employees are single dog reporters???”

……

Le Han and Qi Xun didn’t know about the forum posts nor the complaints on Weibo.

A few minutes before the Soft and Gentle Village stopped running—

Le Han was so scared that he almost fell off the chair, and his face turned white.

“—You, you!”

Before the series of ‘you’ even came out, the man in front of him sneered, held his collar, and lifted him up. Then the scene changed, and when the two returned to the farm’s cottage, the man directly threw Le Han on the bed.

Le Han got up; his whole appearance was disheveled.

The frog outside probably felt uneasy and began to croak. A second later, the frog brought by Zhan Ge also began to croak like a chorus, and the two people heard the frogs’ sounds.

Standing in front of the bed, Qi Xun emitted cold air.

Le Han shivered and said in horror, “You, you calm down. Listen to my explanation—”

This bloody drama-like phrase stimulated Qi Xun even more. Suddenly, he took out a thing from the props inventory and threw it at Le Han.

Le Han didn’t respond. He raised his hand to block it, and the props automatically unfolded to catch him!

He felt something tighten on his body and involuntarily fell back on the bed. After struggling to see, he saw a black leather binding rope wrapped around his body, and there seemed to be a collar around his neck!

Le Han: “…”

How was this equipment a bit familiar?

Qi Xun sneered. “Remember? We got married because of this thing. I bought it when I saw it in the mall.”

Le Han felt that this might not be the right time to ask why he would want to buy this because Zhan Ge’s voice was full of threat.

His heart was beating really fast; he tried to calm down and said, “I can explain what happened just now.”

Qi Xun heard Le Han say the same thing again, took a deep breath, and said coldly, “Then you explain.”

Le Han opened his mouth to explain. As a result, he found out that he had really liked those people before. The situations where he began to like them had been exposed just now, so he thought about what else he could say.

Qi Xun was so angry that he rushed to the bed and pressed a hand on Le Han’s shoulder. He said with a grim smile, “Gua Gua, I didn’t expect that you had liked so many people.”

Le Han was about to cry and said in a weak voice, “But my heart just skipped a beat to them, just a beat!”

Qi Xun: “…” Even if it was just a beat, it was still a heartbeat!

He glared at Le Han and asked, “Do you know how I got there?”

“How, how did you get there?” Le Han had no choice but to ask.

“After I separated from you, I found myself in a room. I was the only one in the room!” Qi Xun’s eyes were full of accusations, “I didn’t meet anyone!”

Just now, both of them understood the game rules of the map.

When the players entered the map, the people they liked or used to like would be reconstructed by the system and appear in the room as NPCs.

If there was no one in the room, it meant that the player had not liked anyone else except for his marriage partner in the game.

In the game, Qi Xun had never been moved by anyone except Gua Gua.

In reality, this was also the first time he was moved by someone in so many years.

Compared with the more than dozen people in Le Han’s room, it was tragic—

Qi Xun never expected that his partner looked so innocent but actually had such a rich love history! The moment he stepped into that room and knew that those men were all the ones that Gua Gua had liked before, Qi Xun simply received a bolt from the blue! 2 A metaphor for an unexpected and shocking event or disaster that happened suddenly.

Le Han was really about to cry, his face was flushed, and he said in a flustered and helpless voice, “I’m sorry, I like people very easily—”

Le Han wanted to bite off his tongue. The more he talked, the more wrong it sounded.

Qi Xun was about to explode. Just listen to what this Gua Gua was saying!

The frogs outside the hut kept croaking one after another, making Qi Xun even more upset. He angrily said, “What kind of frog do you raise!”

Le Han wanted to cry without tears. “The frog is so cute, ah …”

“Where is it cute?!” Qi Xun was mad.

Le Han collapsed and said, “The green of the frog in the game is quite beautiful, ah !”

Qi Xun: “…”

Green, very good-looking!!!

Yes, it is!

Qi Xun took out a second item from his prop inventory. It was a shiny black leather whip, and his eyes were shining with a creepy light.

Le Han: “…”

Le Han was scared out of his wits and made a quick decision. The tied hand on the side by the rope pressed the control panel in the air and directly clicked to go offline!

In an instant, the person on the bed disappeared, leaving behind a bundle of props.

Qi Xun was stunned, and the next second, he furiously pumped on the bed twice and gritted his teeth in anger.

This Gua Gua ran away!!

In a male dormitory of T University, Le Han took off his helmet and got up from the bed, panting desperately.

His movements were so loud that it scared Qiao Rui, who was still playing with his phone in the opposite bed.

Seeing Le Han’s pale face and sweaty head, Qiao Rui asked in surprise, “What’s the matter? Is your game helmet broken? Are you not feeling well?”

Le Han said in a daze, “Exposed!”

Qiao Rui was nervous. “Exposed what?”

Le Han: “I have exposed my love-struck fool attribute!”

Qiao Rui: “…”

Le Han told him what happened in the game just now. He hugged his knees, still in a state of shock. “…You say, if my future boyfriend knows that I like others so easily, will he also be that angry?”

Qiao Rui thought about it and said, “Well… it’s normal to be angry…”

Le Han swallowed and was a little aggrieved. “But I was single at that time!”

Qiao Rui said, “The problem may be that if you like others very easily, your boyfriend will feel very insecure.”

Qiao Rui had a good understanding of the ‘easy’ degree of Le Han’s ‘easy to like someone.’

Le Han was stunned.

No sense of security?

How could there be no sense of security?

Before, he wanted to fall in love, but he couldn’t find a partner. He had fantasies in his heart, so he was easily moved. But after he got married and had a husband, he was satisfied, ah .

Even when Prince Tang confessed and said he wanted to have a relationship with him, he had refused!

Le Han hesitated, “If I tell him that I haven’t been attracted to others after I met him, will he forgive me?”

“Maybe.” Qiao Rui felt strange when he saw Le Han biting his finger while he thought and asked, “You aren’t serious, are you?”

Le Han was thinking seriously. When he was interrupted, he looked at Qiao Rui blankly.

Qiao Rui tsked twice, tapped on his phone, and then Le Han’s phone vibrated, showing that Qiao Rui had sent a picture on WeChat.

Le Han took a look at it and saw that it was the black and greasy strong man again.

Le Han: “…”

Qiao Rui: “Take a look at your husband and calm down.”

Le Han wiped his face and calmed down.

Lying back on the bed again, Le Han quietly looked at the ceiling of the dormitory. He suddenly thought that even if he explained to Zhan Ge, maybe Zhan Ge would be dissatisfied.

He never thought about this problem when he was single, but now that he thought about it, Le Han had a headache.

Le Han thought about it from Zhan Ge’s perspective. Zhan Ge had never liked anyone else before. On the other side, he had more than ten secret crushes. Anyone would be upset.

In fact, there were more than a dozen of them in reality, eh …

Couples could have a big fight because of this and break up.

Although Le Han felt that this wouldn’t be the case between him and Zhan Ge, he could imagine that when he expressed his feelings to Zhan Ge, he would ask him in a depressed way:

“If I pour you a glass of water, will your heart skip a beat?”

“If someone else holds your shoulders, will you like him?”

“Even if it’s because you want to fall in love so much— do you want to fall in love that much?”

You are a man.

Although you are gay, you are still a man, ah. To go so far as being a love-struck fool to this point? Do you think about falling in love the whole day?

Some of the mocking words heard in the past echoed in his ears, and Le Han closed his eyes gently.

After a while, he turned over, pulled up the quilt to cover himself, and slowly exhaled a breath.

1

Refers to the partner of the other person. 2

A metaphor for an unexpected and shocking event or disaster that happened suddenly.