You're the Fucking Unnatural Creature

"Did you wreck the room like this to force me to sleep with you?"

At the teasing voice, Jian Ran instinctively turned around. In the hazy moonlight, he saw Lu Yanting's handsome face, which wore the hint of a smile.

His dark eyes were like a sky brimming with starlight, deep and fathomless. His features were beautifully proportioned, his lips pale and thin, his jawline sharp and clean...

He really did deserve to be called Asia's Number-One Visual. Even Jian Ran, who wasn't a woman, felt his heart flutter at the provocation.

At that thought, an idea suddenly popped into his head.

All this suggestive probing-could Lu Yanting be trying to... use his looks to dodge the bill?

You can seduce me.

But seducing my money?

Absolutely not!

Jian Ran steadied himself and let his gaze drift elsewhere. "It's just some broken glass, isn't it? The room's still livable. Where's that guy?"

"Who?" Lu Yanting asked, leaning against the doorframe with the corners of his mouth lifted.

"Ji Yuanming." Just saying his name annoyed Jian Ran.

"Still unconscious where he fell."

Jian Ran froze for a moment. "You didn't help him?"

"Was that necessary?" Lu Yanting tilted his head. "If it is, I can go over now."

"No need." Jian Ran waved a hand. "Leave him to fend for himself."

As he spoke, he glanced thoughtfully at the wide-open window, then abruptly turned back toward Lu Yanting. "What did you mean by what you said earlier?"

"You know this line of work too?"

Lu Yanting was modest, giving a slight nod. "Someone in my family studies it, so I know a little."

"Were you touching the bloody water to probe that thing's memories?"

Jian Ran nodded. "More or less."

"There was a chance while it was off guard. Too bad an idiot interrupted me."

They both knew perfectly well who that idiot was.

Lu Yanting smiled. "How did you end up with him in the first place?"

"I was blind."

Jian Ran made no attempt to dodge the question. Just as he finished speaking, the lights in the villa suddenly came on.

It seemed that without that thing causing trouble, they could still get through the night safely.

"Let's eat. I'm hungry." Jian Ran rubbed his stomach and headed out.

As he passed Lu Yanting, he deliberately kept his distance, as though avoiding any appearance of impropriety.

Lu Yanting narrowed his eyes slightly and pressed his lips together. Without a word, he followed him out of the room.

Not long after the two disappeared, a pair of blood-red eyes slowly emerged at the edge of the wide-open window, staring fixedly at the door...

Ji Yuanming woke up on his own. When he sat up and looked around, there was no one there.

He remembered Jian Ran glancing back before he lost consciousness.

Could it be...

He hadn't cared whether I lived or died and had just left me unconscious?!

How infuriating. Just because he has someone new, he can be this coldhearted?!

Completely forgetting the real reason he had fainted from fright, Ji Yuanming planted one hand on the ground and sprang to his feet. He headed straight for the first-floor dining room and immediately spotted Jian Ran wolfing down his food as though nothing had happened.

"You're actually still in the mood to eat?!"

"I nearly died!"

The camera had just been switched on, capturing Ji Yuanming's roaring face.

Li Yuan panicked and almost blurted out, "Don't air this part!"

But Lu Yanting cut in first. "But you're not dead yet, are you?"

"You're six foot three and can't even protect yourself? Were all those workouts for nothing?"

"I-"

The retort left Ji Yuanming choking on his words, unable to speak.

Recalling how he had fainted from fright, he did feel a little embarrassed. He glanced at Jian Ran out of the corner of his eye and cleared his throat before saying, "I've had low blood sugar lately. Fainting is pretty normal."

Hearing this, Li Yuan nearly clapped and cheered.

Although the villa was eerie and terrifying, he still didn't want filming to stop-or the show to be taken down for violating regulations.

After all, opportunities to have two big stars join a production were truly rare in an assistant director's career.

Having finished speaking, Ji Yuanming sat back down in a huff.

He hadn't heard the earth-shattering commotion of Jian Ran chasing the ghost, so naturally, it hadn't affected him as deeply. He simply assumed it was a stunt for the show and would soon be explained.

After all, other variety shows often did this to grab attention.

It was different for everyone else.

The female ghost's screams had been very real, and the image of Jian Ran chasing a ghost had left a deep impression.

The furtive glances they cast his way thus held admiration and awe, along with a measure of wariness.

"What are you looking at?! Eat!" Jian Ran suddenly barked.

The guests and crew immediately lowered their heads, shoveling food from their bowls with their chopsticks in perfect unison.

Fans who had just entered the livestream stared at the scene, dumbfounded.

[What did I miss? When did they get tamed?!]

[Jian Jianjian actually rose up? He's ordering them around now? The wildest part is that Lu didn't even talk back! He looks so cute obediently doing as he's told!]

[Am I the only one who noticed what Ji Yuanming said at the start? Something must have happened while the livestream was paused, right? Can the production team even guarantee our idol's safety?! Having Jian Jianjian around is like planting a time bomb.]

[Keep it clean, everyone. No mindless bashing-let's be happy together, sisters! Jian Ran has already gotten enough hate. Can you shut up? If the haters keep trying to make themselves heard, it just gets disgusting!]

[Anyway, I'm firmly backing Jian Ran now. I can't help it-he's so handsome I'm hopelessly hooked!]

[...]

In a conference room at a secret base.

In front of a projector.

Several people in special uniforms sat around the conference table.

There were men and women, all wearing solemn expressions as they stared straight ahead, as though studying a classified project...

The presenter paused the video and said in a clear voice, "This man is named Jian Ran. He's an obscure, bottom-tier celebrity."

The middle-aged man at the head of the table frowned. "Put it in plain terms."

"A minor entertainment celebrity who never became popular. He's frequently smeared and criticized, constantly embroiled in rumors, and has a terrible reputation."

The middle-aged man nodded. "Understood. Continue."

"The reason we identified Jian Ran as a target of interest was that, during an official awards ceremony not long ago, a colleague detected anomalous fluctuations."

"He was also at the scene."

"Before we could act, several paper talismans floated out. Before they even reached the ground, the anomalous fluctuations had disappeared."

The middle-aged man tapped his fountain pen against the tabletop. "Could it have been a coincidence?"

"Once or twice might be a coincidence, but we did discover something unusual during this variety show." The presenter paused, his tone turning precise and solemn.

"On his way to the filming location, he successfully averted an unnatural mudslide!"

"Combined with Jian Ran's subsequent behavior, we have reason to suspect that he is connected to these unnatural anomalous fluctuations."

"Perhaps he himself is..."

"An unnatural creature!"

The air in the conference room suddenly froze, tension slowly spreading.

Had Jian Ran been there, he would certainly have cursed, "You're the fucking unnatural creature!"

"Your whole family is!"