The Sister-Doting Film Emperor Gets Stepped On (68)

It took a great deal of effort for him to break free from this thick fog and regain his voice and consciousness.

"I am not..."

Lin Xingyan lowered his eyelashes slightly. The tear mole seemed to sense its owner's emotional fluctuation, adding a few hints of allure and vulnerability. His face was exceptionally handsome, and though his voice remained cold, it was now shrouded in a layer of morning mist, hazy and inviting.

What a playboy!

Jin Yansi didn't want to hear another word from Lin Xingyan. He must be using this cold yet innocent appearance to seduce Xie An! How shameless!

Furious, she stood up abruptly, preparing to leave. Breaking out of his emotions, Lin Xingyan's face was still flushed, but he suppressed it and spoke calmly, asking about his purpose once again: "I only want to know, what is your relationship with Xie An?"

Jin Yansi's footsteps halted, but she didn't turn around. Knowing he had caught her attention, Lin Xingyan also stood up and took a few steps toward her, maintaining a polite conversational distance.

"I asked her before, but she didn't seem to want to discuss it, which is why I came to you."

In truth, he wasn't a curious person. He used to have absolutely no interest in other people's business or relationships. He only wanted to understand Xie An a bit more.

Jin Yansi originally had no intention of paying attention to Lin Xingyan. But hearing him say that Xie An was unwilling to disclose their relationship, and remembering how heartless Xie An was—not even calling to comfort her until now—anger instantly flared up in her heart.

She turned around, twirling a lock of hair, her eyes narrowing with a hint of allure. Her red lips curved slightly, and her watery eyes sparkled with a hidden smile. "Me? I'm her ex-girlfriend."

Her voice was sweet and coquettish, with a lingering drawl.

Lin Xingyan's eyes widened. "...What?"

Jin Yansi walked gracefully toward him, her smile widening. She reached out to poke Lin Xingyan's arm, blinking her beautiful, clear eyes. "You didn't know? Xie An... she swings both ways."

Inside the system space.

Xie An looked at the system interface that had just appeared before her, slightly surprised. The content was released by 000, requiring her to maintain her second-line female supporting character persona in front of Tang Xingyu. She glanced at 001.

"You're saying that the reason I was able to smoothly finish my lines with Tang Xingyu was because you used a portion of the core's energy to delay the release of 000's mission?"

001 nodded. [I originally just wanted to test it out, but I didn't expect it to succeed. However, as you can see, we can only delay the time, not completely cancel the mission.]

Xie An scooped it up and rubbed it for a while. "I'm already very satisfied. At least the initial plan succeeded. It shouldn't be hard to find out that Shen Qingchen sent people to secretly tail me. I expect he will take the initiative to contact me within the next two days."

[You want to use Shen Qingchen's excessive control issues as an excuse to break up with him? But even if you lay these cards on the table, it won't be enough to shatter your relationship. 000 won't allow you to separate from Shen Qingchen before reaching the plot milestone either.]

"I know, so I don't plan to directly use those things as an excuse to break up. A relationship always crumbles bit by bit. Once both sides harbor suspicion and wariness toward each other, I will give Tang Xingyu an opportunity, and then use that opportunity to fall in love with him."

"There's still more than a month until Valentine's Day, which is enough to take things slow. Moving on to someone else shouldn't happen too quickly."

001 looked up at her with its deep blue eyes. [That's too slow, and there are too many variables. Therefore, we must catch them off guard.]

"How?"

[I originally just wanted to speed up the progress, but during my research, I discovered an unexpected pleasant surprise: the ability to freely set a portion of the plot.]

001 flew to the desk, displaying the plot interface for Xie An. There was a blank section on the screen that could be used to fill in text.

Xie An's eyes lit up. "You mean we can both speed up the progress and add the settings we want?"

[Yes, but the new world formed after adding settings is not a real plane, but merely a relatively realistic dream. However, the mental trauma the protagonist suffers in this dream is real.]

[Not only that, perhaps because the core does not belong to this fused world, using it can even reconstruct the zombie apocalypse plane you described in the dream.]

[Note that in the apocalyptic dream plane, the person you have to face is Qi Chuan, not Shen Qingchen. But similarly, we can still actively distort a portion of the plot.]

"In other words, I have two opportunities to construct a fictional dream for Shen Qingchen. One is the second plotline, and the other is that apocalyptic plane?"

[That is correct. But if you find it too overwhelming, you can choose to give up one. Constructing a dream requires you to set up the plot and background yourself, which consumes a vast amount of mental strength.]

"It's fine. Qi Chuan is so difficult to deal with, how could tormenting him just once be enough?"

Xie An looked at the text box in front of her, the corners of her lips curling up, her expression eager to try. She stayed in the system space all afternoon, designing two custom scenarios of physical and mental torment for Shen Qingchen and Qi Chuan based on their personalities.

After reading these two scripts, Xiao Hei cheered in excitement, unable to wait for 001 to run them immediately. However, adjusting the timeline was a complex task, not to mention constructing a dream, so 001 had to work overtime, setting the confirmed date for three days later.

Xie An left the system space. Nàng didn't plan to completely abandon her previous plan; after all, making Shen Qingchen a little uncomfortable was also good.

Remembering the contract Jin Yansi still owed her, she secretly slipped off to the hospital without informing Shen Qingchen. Since bodyguards were always tailing her, her whereabouts couldn't be hidden from him. Perhaps before long, he would find out about her little actions and call to ask about them in an insinuating manner.

But Shen Qingchen was swamped with work all day and couldn't look at his phone 24/7. Therefore, there was still a buffer period between when the bodyguards reported and when he read the message.

Xie An didn't plan to listen to Shen Qingchen anymore. From now on, she would deliberately dance on his boundaries. Shen Qingchen used Jin Yansi's poor state as an excuse to prevent her from contacting her, so she used the excuse of worrying about her half-sister to insist on coming, deliberately hiding it from him, even sneaking to the hospital at night.

She had to make Shen Qingchen feel a sense of crisis. He assumed their relationship was stable and that he had Xie An under his control, but in reality, as long as Xie An didn't want to be, she could break through his confinement at will.

The obedient little girlfriend was starting to rebel.

Xie An smiled, strutting into Jin Yansi's ward.