Arc 1: Chapter 1

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As night fell, darkness gradually enveloped the whole sky, and the last ray of sunshine vanished beyond the horizon. The street lamp was dim and hazy, pouring out a warm yellow light. The light reflected the villa on one side, which was exquisite and gorgeous. At a glance, it looked like a castle from an oil painting.

In a room on the third floor of the villa, a young man in a white suit looked around in surprise.

He was about twenty years old with slightly curled black hair, his skin was clean and fair, and his round, apricot eyes gave people an innocent feeling. His eyelashes were long and dense like two small brushes, and there was a small dimple on his left cheek. He was both handsome and cute, just like the popular puppy type of handsome guy that people liked.

521 lay on his shoulder and looked around. It sighed in awe: “Wow, Senior, this room is so big and beautiful! There’s a bed, a sofa, a carpet, and the lights are also shiny. It looks great, are you living here from now on?”

Lin Yuan nodded with a smile: “Yup yup! From now on, I’ll be living here. I’ll also give you half of the bed, so we can sleep together.”

As a system who just gained human form, Lin Yuan felt that he was an excellent senior system. Of course he should take care of his rookie junior system who was doing his first task.

521 turned around happily in circles and rubbed against Lin Yuan: “Dearest Senior, you’re so good to me, 521 likes you the most~”

The appearance of the system was set as a palm-sized fur ball. 521 was a pink in color, so its whole body was pink and soft with a pair of small white wings on his back. What these fur balls loved to do most was rub against others. Although Lin Yuan had already become human and was not a fur ball anymore, he still liked to do the same. So when 521 came to rub him, Lin Yuan immediately rubbed it back happily.

One person and one fur ball rubbed joyfully, when suddenly a “click” was heard and the door opened.

Lin Yuan and 521 looked towards the door and saw a man in a black suit walk in.

The other party was tall, with beautiful and profound, a temperament as cold as ice, and pale, bloodless skin that had not seen the sun in a long time. His eyes were as dark as a bottomless abyss, where even the brightest ray of sunshine could not enter.

This was Huo Chen…

Lin Yuan’s mission target, this world’s greatest villain. And at the same time, Lin Yuan’s marriage partner.

In the world plot, this world supported same-sex marriage, and the original Lin Yuan was the illegitimate son of Lin Ye’an, a rich man in Cloud City.

When the original owner turned 20, Lin Ye An sent his subordinates to bring him back to the main house, and then not even a month had passed before he was married to Huo Chen, the president of the Huo family. But Huo Chen was originally Lin Yan’s fiance. Who was Lin Yan? This matter was pretty complicated.

Lin Yan was the only child of Lin Ye An’s main wife and the legitimate heir of the Lin family. When he was 18, he and Huo Chen, who had already taken over the Huo family for two years, became engaged. But Lin Yan didn’t have feelings for Huo Chen. He was actually already in love with Huo Chen’s nephew, Huo Huai’an.

During the fourth year of their engagement, Huo Chen had become a well-known figure in the business world. As for Huo Huai’an and Lin Yan, they were deeply engrossed in a sadomasochist love story with the identities of future aunt and nephew, loving each other to death. At some point, Huo Huai’an ran to Huo Chen to ask for permission to approve of his and Lin Yan’s relationship.

Huo Chen only had two words for him: “Get out.”

Huo Huai’an immediately ran to Elder Huo, his grandfather and Huo Chen’s father, to cry. Elder Huo spoiled Huo Huai’an the most, and he was furious at Huo Cheng.

Six years ago, Elder Huo was in a car accident and became seriously injured with both of his legs ending up paralyzed. As a result, everyone thought the Huo enterprise was going to fall, and the rest of the business world became turbulent. At that time, Huo Huai’an was still very young and there was no adult in the Huo family to take responsibility. Elder Huo had no choice but to push out Huo Chen, who had just turned 24.

Huo Chen’s thunderous and capable means soon stabilized the Huo enterprise’s situation. Later, in order to further win over Huo Chen, Elder Huo gave him 15% of Huo’s shares and made a marriage agreement with the Lin Family. He showed to the outside world that he placed great importance on his son, Huo Chen, but in reality, Elder Huo had always disdained this son and only used him as a chess piece. In Elder Huo’s eyes, the Huo family was his property and he could give it to whoever he wanted to. Huo Chen was only used as a temporary guard to slave away for the Huo family until Huo Huai’an was ready to take over.

Now that his precious grandson liked Lin Yan, and even begged Huo Chen for approval, how dare Huo Chen not voluntarily take the initiative to back out of the engagement. He even dared to tell his grandson to get out. Elder Huo was enraged and felt more pity for his grandson. Since Huo Chen had the guts to treat Huai’an like this, then it’d be better if he died.

Elder Huo came forward in person and ordered Huo Chen to withdraw from the engagement and allowed Huo Huai’an and Lin Yan to be together. At the same time, in order to avoid Huo Chen marrying another rich family that could threaten Huo Huai’an’s future, Elder Huo planned to arrange a poor marriage partner for Huo Chen.

As for why Elder Huo chose Lin Yuan, it was thanks to Huo Huai’an’s reminder. Huo Huai’an told Elder Huo that since everyone in the upper circles already knew of the engagement between the Lin and Huo family, suddenly breaking the engagement and the news of Lin Yan and Huo Huai An’s relationship would lead others to gossip. It’d be better to choose someone else from the Lin family for the engagement, and the illegitimate child was the best choice.

In this way, Lin Yuan married Huo Chen.

When Lin Yuan first entered this world, it happened to be his wedding with Huo Chen. He’d just received the plot of the world, bit his finger curiously, and then happily went to get married.

Actually, according to the rules of the Space-Time Management Bureau, hosts transformed from systems typically go to small worlds to play various cannon fodder roles first. Their only task is to maintain character and complete the plot. But somehow, when it came to Lin Yuan, he was directly bound to the Villain Rescue System.

Lin Yuan’s target for his first task was the villain, Huo Chen. A mentally ill villain, one that was really sick, the kind that needed a lot medicine.

Silence surrounded the two people, accompanied by the slight brush of the curtains moving with the wind. The sound of leather shoes stepping on the floor beat rhythmically, unhurriedly, elegant and calm, like a beast patrolling its territory. It brought muted danger and aggression.

Lin Yuan blinked his eyes and looked at Huo Chen, who was gradually approaching. His fingers tensed slightly and he showed a little nervousness.

Huo Chen stopped in front of him and looked at him quietly. His pupils were dark, like icy glass beads.

“Lin Yuan.” Huo Chen called his name with no expression on his face, and his voice was cold like a lake during a winter night.

Lin Yuan had already understood a bit about what kind of person Huo Chen was from the world's plotl. To put it simply, he was a sick person. He tortured Huo Huai’an and Lin Yan to the point of death, but that was all because he was sick.

So what should he do?

After thinking about it, Lin Yuan’s eyes lit up. He should first say something nice. According to his knowledge, all humans liked to listen to nice words. He also liked it. If someone praised him as the cutest and most beautiful fur ball in the Space-Time Management Bureau, he would be happy enough to blow bubbles.

Lin Yuan looked at Huo Chen with a smile, and nodded his head like a chicken pecking rice. “Yup yup! I am Lin Yuan, dear husband. You look so good~ the most most most most good-looking person I’ve ever seen~”

Huo Chen’s sharp eyes narrowed slightly and looked at the young man in front of him. For a moment, he was stung by the brightness in the other's eyes.

Too clean.

Originally, Huo Chen came to warn Lin Yuan to be more conscious and stay away from him in the future, but he didn’t expect that the other was so simple-minded.

Does he not know?

Before coming over, did the Lin family not say anything to him?

“I look good?” Huo Chen closed in on Lin Yuan, and his cold, slender fingers pinched his jaw.

Lin Yuan felt the coolness of the other party’s fingertips. He thought to himself that Huo Chen’s fingers were cool and comfortable against his skin. After being a fur ball for too long, his residual instincts made him subconsciously rub against the other and his eyes shined brightly: “Uh-huh! Very very good-looking~”

Although he intentionally said nice words, he wasn’t lying. The target indeed looked really good.

Huo Chen was stunned by his rubbing, as if he had been approached by an innocent and harmless little animal, and a warm, itchy feeling spread across his fingertips. This feeling was so strange that Huo Chen frowned unconsciously. He moved his fingers down little by little and stopped on Lin Yuan’s Adam’s apple.

Lin Yuan had only became a human today, and except for 521, Huo Chen was the first person to have physical contact with him. 521 was furry all over and had soft fur to rub, but Huo Chen was different. The skin that touched him caused a slight itching, and he could clearly feel the creases of his fingertips.

Having one’s Adam’s apple touched by someone else made Lin Yuan uncomfortable, but he was well-behaved and didn’t move away. He just said softly: “It’s a little itchy when you touch me.”

Huo Chen was silent for a moment, then his slender and cold fingers slowly grabbed Lin Yuan’s pale and thin throat. But his strength was almost nothing, just holding it.

Lin Yuan remembered the scene of Huo Chen choking Huo Huai An in the plot, which looked similar to his current situation. In the plot, Huo Huai An couldn’t resist at all, his resistance was feeble like an ant and he was almost choked to death.

But right now… Lin Yuan turned his neck to the left and turned his neck to the right. It was very relaxed and didn’t hurt at all. His breathing was also smooth. Suddenly Lin Yuan’s head was full of question marks: “???”

His movements and expression were clear at a glance, clean as a piece of white paper that was never tainted by any brush strokes. Huo Chen originally wanted to tease him for a while, but looking at him like this, he lost interest.

Just an illegitimate child who was used as a tool and had no freedom, he didn’t even have the right to say no. Boring. There was no need to waste time on him.

Huo Chen moved his hand away and stood up straight. The light from the ceiling fell on Huo Chen’s black suit, and the light and shadow at his feet mixed and blurred. The light fell on his body, and a large shadow stretched out beneath him.

“Lin Yuan, I’m here to tell you to not appear in front of me casually in the future.” Huo Chen warned coldly and said in a low voice: “As long as you are obedient, I won’t treat you badly. Money, cars, villas, whatever you want.”

After saying these words, he turned around and left.

Of course it was impossible for Lin Yuan to do so, he came to this world for Huo Chen. He immediately followed. He blinked at a loss behind Huo Chen and said anxiously, “No! I don’t want money or cars or a villa. I want to follow you.”

He had to get close to the mission target in order to find a way to save the other party.

Huo Chen suspected that he heard wrong. He paused his steps and turned to look at Lin Yuan. His eyes were as gloomy as the night sky: “What did you say? Say it again.”

Lin Yuan repeated it obediently, word for word. “No! I don’t want money or cars or a villa. I want to follow you.”

“Follow me?” Huo Chen sneered, grabbed Lin Yuan’s wrist and pushed hard. He pushed him against the cold wall.

Lin Yuan’s human form was not short. He was 1.82 meters, with a slender, healthy figure, but Huo Chen was even taller than him. Huo Chen’s thin body in front of Lin Yuan could almost completely cover him.

The slender fingers seemed to be just a thin layer of skin wrapped around the bones, and they pressed on Lin Yuan’s Adam’s apple, gently rubbing, bringing an almost indifferent coolness.

“Lin Yuan, when you were at the Lin family, did Lin Yan not tell you?”

Lin Yuan blinked in confusion and wondered what Huo Chen meant. Just as he was about to ask, he heard the sudden beep of the system.

【Di! Please pay attention, host! Please pay attention, host! The villain’s blackening value is 76%, which belongs to the medium danger range. Please do your best to eliminate the villain’s blackening value and relieve the crisis.】

After reporting the number, 521 nervously flew around Lin Yuan, shouting anxiously: “Ahhhhh senior, senior! What to do, what to do? He won’t suddenly kill people right? Senior if you’re choked to death by the villain, what will happen to 521’s end of the year performance evaluation? Is it too late to change the host?”

Lin Yuan: “.......”

This senior’s life and death are uncertain now and you still want to think about the end of the year performance evaluation!!

But he also used to be a system, and the end of the year performance evaluation is indeed important.

Although Lin Yuan was no longer a fur ball, he was affected by 521’s attitude and thought he should also try his best to save the villain. For the end of the year performance evaluation! Fighting!!!

Lin Yuan gained back his fighting spirit. “Nothing. Lin Yan didn’t say anything.”

He just arrived at this world, he hadn’t even seen that Lin Yan.

Huo Chen looked into Lin Yuan’s clear eyes and whispered with a low voice, as if there was a cold dark fog: “He didn’t say? Good, then I’ll personally tell you.”

The two of them stood so close that their breaths blended, and it seemed they could even feel the temperature of the other’s skin.

“I’m sick, Lin Yuan.” He said in a faint tone. Because his back was facing the light, his handsome and pale face was completely shrouded in the shadows. “Psychotic.”

Lin Yuan thought to himself, oh that, he already knew.

Huo Chen’s slightly long inky bangs dropped down, almost covering his eyes. There was a lingering gloom between his eyebrows and his whole person was purely dark.

“So be good, be quiet, don’t appear in front of me, then you can live a little longer, understand?”

Lin Yuan unconsciously nodded, but then reacted and shook his head quickly: “No, we are married so we should be together.”

Huo Chen never took this marriage to heart. For him, this was just a means used by Huo Huai’an to disgust him. As for Lin Yuan, if he listened, then he could spend money to raise him like raising a cat or dog. If he didn’t listen, then he’d be thrown outside, out of sight.

Now he clearly said that he was sick, but Lin Yuan was not afraid.

Be together? Be together with who?

With the mentally ill him?

Huo Chen moved his hand away from Lin Yuan’s Adam’s apple and grabbed his chin with enough force such that they were eye to eye. His eyes were dark, staring at Lin Yuan with warning and his tone was sarcastic: “Are you sure? You want to be with me?”

Lin Yuan felt a bit of pain when pinched, but he wasn’t angry. Huo Chen was sick and sick people should be treated with patience.

“Yes. I want to be with you.” Lin Yan said seriously. His voice was warm and looking at Huo Chen, his eyes seemed to be dyed with a warm light, clear enough to see the bottom.

Only by staying together and protecting Huo Chen by his side could he find a way to save him.

Huo Chen’s bangs covered the coldness in his eyes. His lips were slightly redder than most people and his skin was too pale, making him look like a gloomy beauty, with a faint sense of evil.

After a while, Huo Chen slowly hooked his lips and asked: “You want to be with me, aren’t you afraid?” His tone was light, as if he was saying something insignificant: “I already said I’m mentally ill.”

“I need to take medicine, a lot of medicine, in order to control myself.”

“Lin Yuan, if you and I are together, if you sleep on the same bed as me, it’s very likely that in the middle of the night I will kill you…”

His hand held Lin Yuan’s neck again, and his voice was low and strange: “I will continue to use force like this, until you die…….”

While saying this, Huo Chen didn’t really do anything. Lin Yuan was not Lin Yan. He was just an innocent outsider who was pulled in without knowing anything.

Which was why even though Huo Chen’s mental state was not good, and he needed to take medicine every day, he had never vented his emotions on irrelevant people. That would be too boring.

So after saying everything, Huo Chen was stunned at himself, and he coldly stared at Lin Yuan. Why… did he have to tell Lin Yuan everything and deliberately scare him?

Lin Yuan did not think so complexly, as a system, he was simple-minded. These scary and threatening words were nothing to him. For Lin Yuan, the task was the most important, so even if he was really choked by Huo Chen and failed the task, he would apply for work-related injury compensation once he returned to the bureau.

But he was curious about one thing: “You want to sleep with me?”

After asking, Lin Yuan looked at 521 in embarrassment. He just said that he would give half the bed to 521, but now Huo Chen said that he wanted to sleep in the same bed as him. What to do?

Lin Yuan was quite embarrassed, but as he was entangled, he suddenly remembered that 521 had only thought about its performance evaluation and didn’t care about his life or death. So Lin Yuan, as the host, also chose Huo Chen, the mission target, over the junior system.

Lin Yuan’s eyes were bright: “Okay, I’ll give half of the bed to you. Let’s sleep together.”

Huo Chen couldn’t understand how Lin Yuan listened to people at all, when did he say he would sleep with him? But looking at Lin Yuan’s expectant face, Huo Chen frowned lightly and refusal rolled around the tip of his tongue before it came out: “You got it wrong, we don’t live in the same room, so we can’t sleep together.”

Lin Yuan was doubtful: “But we're married. If you don’t sleep in the same bed as me, where do you sleep?”

He was really pondering about this problem, Huo Chen realized. He found that Lin Yuan was a little simple-minded, a little stupid, and not very smart. Obviously he deliberately said all of those words to scare him, but Lin Yuan didn’t react at all. Instead he was considering that after marriage the two should sleep together.

Really a fool.

Huo Chen let him go and coldly pulled up the corners of his mouth: “This villa is mine and you’re afraid I don’t have a place to sleep?”

Lin Yuan felt that made sense, but he still thought he had to try and stay with the mission target 24 hours a day. “We really won’t sleep together? Isn’t it that after marriage, husbands will sleep together?”

Huo Chen faintly raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: “You want to sleep with me? Do you know what husbands on one bed usually do?”

Lin Yuan smiled back and nodded: “I know, roll in the sheets ah.” t\n euphemism for sex

Among the hosts that he used to bind, there was one who really liked to roll in the sheets. For the whole night, he rolled from the top of the bed to the bottom, then even rolled on the floor, on the sofa, and in the bathroom. Every time he secretly glanced, he didn’t dare look on. His fur shyly turned pink and he became a pink fur ball.

Since Huo Chen asked this question, he also wanted to roll in the sheets?

Lin Yuan believed that he finally understood the meaning of the villain, and turned so shy he twisted awkwardly: “You want to roll in the sheets? Ok, I can accompany you, but we can’t roll for the whole night, I still need to sleep.”

Huo Chen didn’t know what to say for a moment, and his expression was subtle: “No need, I don’t want to. You go to bed, and I’ll go back to my room.”

If he stayed any longer, who knows what he’d hear.

He left the room and directly closed the door, making a soft thud.

After taking a few steps forward, Huo Chen looked back. The closed door blocked his sight and he couldn’t see the person inside, but he could picture Lin Yuan. A little silly and his eyes were clear and bright, which was a lot more comfortable on the eyes than the spoiled young master of the Lin family.

Lin Yuan…….

Huo Chen mulled over these two words in his heart over and over again, and the tip of his heart gradually gave birth to a trace of inexplicable subtle pleasure. The warmth of the young man’s skin also lingered on his fingertips, and Huo Chen had a rare smile on his face.

The wedding night turned out better than he expected.

In the room, once Huo Chen closed the door, 521 rushed into Lin Yuan’s arms and said angrily: “Senior, you clearly said that you would give half the bed to 521 and sleep with 521, how could you lie? This is a scumbag’s behavior! Half the bed is 521’s! 521’s!”

Lin Yuan grabbed 521’s wings and held it up, he was also aggrieved: “Yes, yes! I’m a scumbag, but you just said you would change hosts, so aren’t you a scum system too?”

521 stopped shouting, but it still didn't like that it was lied to and sobbed sadly. Thankfully, it didn’t cry for long until it suddenly sensed something.

【Di! Congrats host, the villain’s blackening value decreased to 75%. Please continue working hard.】

After reporting the number, 521 was immediately happy and excitedly called out: “Senior, senior! Look, the blackening value decreased! It decreased!”

Lin Yuan didn’t understand what happened. He released 521 and skeptically looked at the system’s screen that showed the blackening value that decreased by 1%: “521, do you know why the blackening value decreased?”

As a new system, 521 had even less experience than Lin Yuan. If it knew why then there must be ghosts. “Don’t know. But maybe it's because, senior, you said at the end that you wanted to roll in the sheets with the villain?”

Lin Yuan tried to recall how his previous hosts looked when they rolled in the sheets. They all seemed very happy and comfortable, and he suddenly felt like he found a way. “It’s possible. Tomorrow I’ll ask him again.”