A Twisted Way of Living / Tears

"The banquet... why am I here too?"

Qianqi sat hunched over in her chair, anxiously glancing at the people around her. Among the many people who had come to the banquet, she was the only one who wasn't very familiar with anyone.

Why did Lin invite her?

... Did he remember something? No, even if he did remember, they only crossed paths once during high school.

"Oh dear, being too popular isn't good either."

At that moment, a flippant voice sounded from beside her, and Lin slowly walked to her side.

"It's really not easy to talk to everyone."

Is he talking to me?

A big question mark appeared above Qianqi's head.

Chapter Seventy-Two: A Perverted Way of Living

Why are you here?

Early in the morning, Lin faced Yan Luo's emotionless questions.

"... I suppose so, because you invited me into your house yesterday."

"Oh, then why haven't you died yet?"

"..."

Lin wondered how the issue of sheltering someone could jump to a life-or-death situation. Did she learn communication skills from Vill-V?

After their conversation last night, Yan Luo felt more and more that taking in this guy of unknown origin was a mistake, so much so that he got angry as soon as he saw his face this morning.

In her eighteen years of life, she had never been angry. She didn't know why her anger would rise whenever she saw Lin, especially when he said some strange things with an innocent look on his face.

"I'm going to school, get out." Yan Luo shooed him away expressionlessly; she didn't want Lin running around in her house while she was away.

"Wait a minute, I'll go with you." Lin quickly followed her.

After a night of contemplation, Lin concluded that the key to breaking the deadlock lay with Yan Luo. He couldn't possibly be searching for clues and the monkey's claws all over the world, and he and Yan Luo were the only two special individuals in the World Bubble.

To use a game analogy, this world is a game that is infinitely close to reality, and he and Yan Luo are the game players. This game cannot give them an almost infinite range to complete an impossible task.

But... is this a good idea?

After seeing Yan Luo's carefree demeanor, Lin knew that this was not only directed at Yan Luo, but also at his own problem.

What right does he have to end someone else's dream? He cannot demand that others share the same views.

Using the banner of justice to interfere with other people's choices, isn't that just... selfishness?

To everyone's surprise, Yan Luo immediately stopped when he heard that he wanted to go with him, and looked at him coldly. "Pervert."

"..."

"Scumbag."

"..."

"Asshole."

"..."

"Satyr."

"I'm just going to investigate something." Lin decided to stop Yan Luo from spouting increasingly strange words, and he explained with a shrug, "I..."

"Maggots." The cold insult slapped at Lin's face.

"... That's prejudice."

"Looks like your memory is on par with a goldfish." Yan Luo adjusted his satchel, looking at him with disdain. "Unless you have a split personality, who else could that maggot from last night have been?"

"I have a dual personality," Lin nodded in agreement.

"..."

Mobius was not wrong in a sense. Lin was very serious most of the time, but due to his personality and emotional flaws, he was also far more eccentric than the average person when he acted like a jerk.

For example, he can now make his usually calm self blush with anger.

Lin eventually went with her, but he didn't enter the school in front of Yan Luo, after all, her gaze, which was almost treating him like a worm, was warning him not to step into her sacred school. So Lin could only go around and climb over the wall next to her.

Fortunately, he has done this kind of thing a lot. Not just a few days ago, but he and Kevin also flipped through many pages together when they were in school.

For Yan Luo, this was the place she had chosen, the place where she felt she had experienced the happiest time in her heart. Therefore, Lin believed that there must be some hidden information in the school that she had not yet discovered.

However, even if you narrow it down to the Chienyu Academy, it's not something you can just find easily...

Lin quietly arrived at the rooftop. Looking at the crowd below, he pondered how it differed from the original Chienyu Academy.

"Lin, good morning. Are you going after school today?" Kevin casually put his hand on Yan Luo's shoulder. "You almost won yesterday, but that guy refused to fight. Were you scared?"

"..." Yan Luo was about to say that Lin must be scared, but he couldn't say the words.

She felt that it shouldn't be like that.

I don't know where the reason comes from, but Yan Luo just feels that although that guy is despicable, perverted and lecherous, he shouldn't be someone who is afraid of being defeated by others.

Of course, this doesn't change the fact that she hates that person.

"I'm not going," Yan Luo said coldly, which surprised Kevin. "He won't go anymore."

"Huh? How did you know?"

"He slept at my house last night, and I said I wanted to settle things with him." Yan Luo said, his teeth clenched and his eyes blazing with anger. "He said that as long as he doesn't accept the challenge, I will never beat him."

"... Your home?"

He is homeless.

"I see..."

At this moment, another person in a school uniform jumped out and joined the conversation helplessly. "What's going on? Didn't you guys notice that person was trying to get Lin's attention?"

The two turned around and saw that it was Vill-V.

"Lin is one thing, she definitely lacks... something in this area. Kevin, what's wrong with you? How did you even manage to win Mei's heart?"

Kevin scratched the back of his head, puzzled. "I asked Lin to say a few words to Mei for me, and then..."

"Okay, that's enough." Vill-V raised her hand to stop. "Don't you all think that person's behavior is a bit too strange?"

Kevin nodded. "A little..."

"Criminal acts." Yan Luo stated her opinion bluntly.

"Stalk Lin, then beat her to a pulp in the arcade game, and then show up at her doorstep..."

"And some are wearing pink dresses," Yan Luo added.

"..." Vill-V's expression was a little strange, but she continued, "Wearing a pink dress, then saying that he was homeless and needed shelter... his behavior was... full of criminal intent, but he didn't cross any lines, just unusually strange."

"If there were two doors outside an unknown house, one with a sign saying there's a hundred dollars inside, and the other with a sign saying there's a swearing parrot inside, which door do you think would attract more people to go in?"

Yan Luo looked at her calmly. "You mean he's trying to get my attention this way?"

"Not only that, he's also constantly getting closer to you, making you used to his presence." Vill-V curled her lips into a playful smile. "He really is an interesting person."

Of course, Vill-V could see the meaning behind Lin's actions, as well as the way he often looked at Yan Luo.

"It's not easy."

Kevin patted Lin's shoulder with a look of emotion.

"... Don't give me that 'you're finally getting married' look like a father in a TV drama."

Yan Luo coldly pulled his hand away. "No matter how much I say, it won't change the fact that he's a pervert. I just want to stay at school now and don't want to see him."

Three minutes later, in the classroom.

"Hello, I am the new teacher, Yan Luo."

Lin stood on the podium, calmly holding his textbook, looking down at the menacing Yan Luo below.

Chapter Seventy-Three Tears

"What exactly do you want to do?"

"Bang!"

Yan Luo punched the wall like a bullet, blocking Lin's path. Her gaze was extremely hostile.

She couldn't understand what was wrong with this person at all. "Inexplicable" didn't even begin to describe him. Even if he was a perverted stalker, there was no need for him to go to such lengths.

Besides, how did he become a teacher?

"..." Lin glanced at her indifferently, without showing any emotion.

Lin thought a lot on the rooftop, wondering if he was qualified to make choices for Yan Luo, and whether his future would end up like Yan Luo's.

In the end, he decided to let things take their natural course.

It's not that she's given up on leaving this World Bubble, but rather that she's searching for clues on her own. Yan Luo won't actively try to awaken her. If this is her wish, then let it continue.

"Just looking for a job." Lin bent down and passed under her arm, carrying a thermos to the water dispenser to fill up with water.

After filling a cup with hot water, he leisurely returned to the podium, took a small sip, exhaled a comforting breath, exuding a retired air that belied his age, and even squinted his eyes as if dozing off.

For a moment, even Yan Luo thought he was an old man in his fifties or sixties who had come to class just to collect his salary.

But Yan Luo had witnessed his sharp operating methods and aloof demeanor; no matter how old he was psychologically, he couldn't possibly be an old man. This was clearly an act.

She guessed correctly. Lin did indeed intend to maintain a distance from Yan Luo, so that he could easily know what was happening around Yan Luo. Moreover, he had some guesses about the World Bubble that had been changed by the wish Yan Luo made...

"So annoying."

Yan Luo leaned against the barbed wire fence, holding a bottle of hot milk he had bought from a vending machine, with an empty lunchbox at his feet.

After finishing the milk in one gulp with a blank expression, licking the milk stains off the corners of his mouth with his tongue, he added, "So annoying."

Kevin, who was squatting to the side eating heartily, looked up in confusion and asked indistinctly, "What's so annoying?"

"That person..." Yan Luo's face didn't betray her feelings, but the way she kept tapping the bottle revealed her inner turmoil.

"Teacher Yan Luo?"

Why did you start calling him "teacher"?

"But he really is a teacher now."

Without even glancing at it, Yan Luo casually tossed the bottle over the barbed wire behind him and threw it from the top floor. It drew a perfect parabola and landed in a trash can that looked smaller than an ant from the top floor.

Kevin smiled innocently and said, "Isn't this great? The girls all say we have another handsome teacher, and the boys don't dislike him either."

"That's because he's too pleasing to the eye," Yan Luo said coldly without any mercy. "Whether from a female or male perspective, his appearance is impeccable, like the appearance of a 'saint'."

Logically speaking, a normal person shouldn't look like that, so beautiful it's unreal, as if they exist to be worshipped.

Yan Luo, of course, did not believe that people could be born looking like that. The difference between top-tier and perfect is not just a matter of appearance.

She couldn't see any signs of artificial manipulation by Lin, so it was probably adjusted when he was still an embryo.

"Aren't you the same?" Kevin chewed on a croquette, his favorite food since transferring to the Far East, crunching it with great relish. He casually pointed at Yan Luo's face. "I think you two look a bit alike."

Kevin's words stunned Yan Luo.

She... too?

"You're right, you're just an ordinary person, or at least you should have been just an ordinary person. But your thinking ability, information gathering ability, physical strength, and appearance... are all the same as mine, you shouldn't be a naturally occurring anomaly."

Lin's words were like a thorn, piercing her heart and making her heart beat faster.

No, she's an ordinary person; she's lived an extremely ordinary life since childhood.

But then she thought about how she had immediately noticed the problem with Lin's appearance. Why was she so sure that he wasn't a natural product?

Why is that?

"Ideals, beliefs, life, future... no matter how much you talk about them, a person is just a living being made up of these few things."