I Got Burned by This Host Three Times!

Xia Yu climbed out of bed. "Let's see what the protagonists are doing."

"Okay!"

System 001 pulled up the interface. The screen showed Xia Wanqing and Chu Lan in a studio, one playing guitar and the other holding a microphone as they sang a soulful duet, intimacy lingering between them.

He changed clothes, grabbed his phone, and said, "Come on. Let's earn some points."

"Go, Host! This little system is going to stock up. Call me anytime if you need anything!"

"Mm."

001 instantly cut off contact. Out of Xia Yu's sight, it immediately opened the system marketplace. "Hahahaha! Snacks, snacks..."

All System 105 saw was the two tiny paws it had manifested, leaving afterimages across the page. As it moved, a little sofa, tea table, television, and other items appeared around them. The empty space soon became a comfortable lounge suite. The elite system nestled into the soft sofa, swinging the little feet that had appeared at some point, munching loudly on a bag of chips. When 105 looked up, it saw that 001 had 12 points left...

"Little Five, move. You're blocking the TV," it said lazily as the little television began playing GG Bond.

"..." System 105 silently shifted aside. The big shot's life was way too comfortable!

"Come sit over here. Watch with me. Here, there are drinks. Have some. They increase experience points. Why are you only Level 1? You're so weak."

It wanted to cry but had no tears. Was it that it did not want to level up? It simply could not! It had been bound to its host for two days, yet its experience had not increased at all. At first, it thought the mission had not officially begun. Now, however, it seemed the experience points had never gone to it in the first place. No, judging from its mission, there had never been any experience to gain at all!

001 gave it another once-over, its tone somewhat disdainful. "At your leveling speed, when will you ever manifest wings? You're just a black little ball. You're pretty ugly."

"..." Sorry. Being ugly was its fault. It had offended the big shot's eyes.

"Hurry up and drink something."

"Thank you, Boss..." It floated over and took tiny sips from the drink on the table. Before it had even taken two sips, the LV1 above its head changed to LV3.

"!!! I leveled up!" Oh my god! What kind of heavenly drink was this? Its experience was rising so fast!

001 was unsurprised. "Your level is low, so that leveling speed is normal. It's not like me. At my level, this stuff isn't enough to increase even a single experience point. Sigh, it can only satisfy my cravings."

"..." Boss, were you showing off? You were, right? Right?

105 gulped down an entire can of the drink and rose to LV10. This unexpected gift greatly lessened its fear of 001. It cautiously drifted closer. "Um... Boss..."

"What?"

"How did you end up binding this host? With your level..."

A system as elite as it could choose its own mission world and host. Logically speaking, it should not have been willing to come to such a low-level novel world. The rewards were pathetic, suitable only for rookie baby-bottle systems like it. For an elite system, they were not even enough to fill the gaps between its teeth.

001 shifted its gaze from GG Bond to it and said darkly, "You look down on this host?"

"No, no, no!" What was it, daring to look down on a host chosen by the big shot? Did it have a death wish?!

"Tsk. Low levels are a fatal flaw. You have no permissions at all, just dumb and clueless."

"Huh?"

"Is your impression of this world limited to the original version of the plot?"

"The original version? Is there hidden plotline? Isn't this a world about humiliating scum and face-slapping?"

"How long ago was that plot? Oh dear, low-level systems really don't get their plot updates in time."

105 shrank in embarrassment. "I'll work hard to level up..."

"If this world were really that simple, would I still be here?" 001 crunched its chips even louder, sounding deeply aggrieved and frustrated. "Do you know how many times I died in this world? Three times! I got burned by this host three times! It's an utter humiliation!"

"Huh???" It opened its mouth in horror. "Boss, you..."

"This is a corrupted world. The host was reborn. After dying miserably in the plot you know, some unknown bug brought him back to life. His darkening value instantly maxed out. I happened to detect the massive villain value in him while passing by, got greedy and wanted to siphon off some experience, then carelessly ended up bound to him."

001 truly wanted to slap its past, brain-dead self twice. For that tiny bit of experience, not even enough to fill the gaps between its teeth, it had gotten itself dragged in.

It had bound itself to Xia Yu when Xia Yu was three years old. Xia Yu had already been reborn by then, but because of some unknown bug, it could not detect the properties of this world. Relying only on villain value, it assumed the child was a natural-born villain. Wasn't that a perfect fit for its Villain Development System? Besides, a natural-born villain would not require any effort to raise. It could lie back and win while earning experience, then run off once it had earned enough.

Later, it gradually realized something was wrong. Even a natural-born villain could not be this black-hearted, could they? It had done missions for so many years and bound millions, if not tens of millions, of hosts. Yet it had never seen a five-year-old villain pin the protagonist down in a swimming pool and try to drown him. Nor had it seen an eight-year-old villain splash water on the electrical wiring in the protagonist's room and send him to the ICU. It had certainly never seen a twelve-year-old villain act like a crime boss and directly hire someone to run the protagonist over...

Really, if it had not intervened at critical moments, Chu Lan would have died who knew how many times. It had once deeply suspected that it was not actually a Villain Development System, but a Protagonist Rescue System.

Later still, it grew tired. It no longer wanted to deal with this corrupted world, so it used the exclusive authority of a top-tier system to forcibly terminate the binding. It had done this before, but guess what happened? It was erased...

Hahahahahaahhh!!! It was erased! The forced unbinding failed, and it was erased! If it had not accumulated ten thousand years' worth of points to exchange for a Revival Card, it would have been gone long ago!

After reviving, time reset to the moment it had first bound itself to Xia Yu. To its utter shock, Xia Yu retained all his memories. It was numb. It no longer dared to slack off and planned to carry out its mission properly, determined to turn the vicious villain into a cute and charming villain.

So it followed procedure and transmitted the plot to its host. The moment Xia Yu finished receiving it, his chubby little hand grabbed a fruit knife and stabbed it straight into his own heart...

Damn it! It had been revived for less than two hours when its host committed suicide, and it was erased again! Hahahahaha, waaah! It had gone insane!

After spending another ten thousand years' worth of points to revive, it was truly terrified. Crying and begging, it pleaded with Xia Yu to stop harming it. If it kept dying like this, even a hundred million years' worth of points would not be enough to burn through!

Back then, the three-year-old Xia Yu propped up his chubby little face and spoke the cruelest words in the sweetest baby voice. "You saved Brother so many times. You're on their side. You should die too."

001 truly could not even cry. "Big brother, be reasonable. If you die, I die too. You don't know whose side I'm on?"

"Then don't interfere with my business anymore, okay?"

"But the protagonists are the pillars of this world. If you kill them, this world will collapse, and you'll die too..."

Little Xia Yu touched his heart. "What's there to be afraid of? It's not like I haven't died before."

"..." 001 had never wanted to use derogatory words to describe its villain host, but right then, it wanted to point at Xia Yu's nose and curse him out. Lunatic! Psycho!

Unable to stop its deranged host from wanting to kill the protagonists, it began slacking off again. They were all going to die anyway. Whoever wanted to save the protagonists could save them. It was done.

When Xia Yu was eighteen, he orchestrated a car accident and killed the male protagonist. Sure enough, the world collapsed. Everyone died. It was erased for the third time, completely numb from dying.

Yet this time, before it even used a Revival Card, it revived directly. It finally understood that the bug lay with its host. He could not die! As long as the host did not die, neither would it. Damn it, those ten-thousand-year point reserves from the first two times had been wasted!