Important T/N: This arc contains mentions of suicide and other content that might be triggering like gore etc. If you struggle with or are having thoughts of self-harm/depression please know that you are not alone. Help can be found in your country: here or here
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Arc 2: 18 chapters
This is a campus romance novel. Judging from the outline, the plot is very old-fashioned.
After the female protagonist who is naturally bad at studying transfers to the highschool of the novel’s focus, she meets the cold iceberg male protagonist who is an academic overlord.
The two became the seatmates, and in the constant fights, a spark of love was ignited. Studying together and watching shooting stars together. The male protagonist is handsome in various ways, and the female protagonist is very cute.
According to the system, this is a simple campus sweet romance novel.
The main task is the same as the previous world, it is still to increase the vitality of the male protagonist to 100.
The side mission is to investigate the reason for the male lead’s depression.
In the original text, the unapproachable and reliable male lead is a 12-year-old boy who has just entered the first year of junior high school.
At this time, he was standing outside the window on the 15th floor, stepping on the window sill that was only three fingers wide, and his thin body was exposed in the wind and rain.
The summer rainstorm was fierce and the boy’s legs were shivering from the cold, the hand holding the window frame was bloodless.
Chu Shici spun around anxiously on the bedside table, trying to find an angle to jump off and stop the male lead.
The system shouted in his mind, [What are you climbing for? You can fly!]
‘How to fly, I have no wings!’
[What do you need wings for? You are a little Superman with a small cape and red pants that can fly.]
Chu Shici touched his back and found a small cape cut from red cloth.
Seeing that the hero’s body had already started to lean forward, Chu Shici didn’t think much about it, and jumped off the bedside table in two steps.
The red cloak behind him danced up and down, and a force lifted him up.
Chu Shici was suspended in the air, floating forward, his eyes widened in shock.
As long as you have money, plasticines can also be made to fly in the sky?
The sound of wind and rain is getting louder, and lightning flashes across the night sky from time to time, illuminating the city under the night sky.
Mingzhe’s house was on the 15th floor, and he looked down at the hard concrete road below.
If you jump from this height, you will die instantly.
The rain hit his face, blurring his vision.
The distance between the two residential buildings is narrow, and the wind blows through the middle, bringing a dull and long whistling sound. It’s like the roar of a monster, and it’s also like a call from the abyss.
The street lamps in the rain cast a faint halo, Mingzhe stretched out his hand towards the dark street below.
It was as if a hand was holding him in the dark night, trying to drag him down.
There was nothing outside the window, no one dragged him, it was because he didn’t want to live anymore.
Mingzhe took a deep breath, closed his eyes and slowly let go of his hands.
He was just about to let go of another index finger when he suddenly felt something hit his chest.
At first he thought it was raindrops, but then he realised it was a living thing.
Mingzhe frowned slightly, it was probably some stupid bird that was confused by the rain and bumped into people in the middle of the night.
He opened his eyes and saw a plasticine figure floating on his chest, pushing him into the room with all its might.
The little man is only the size of a palm, with two black bean eyes on his round head. He has a blue body and red underpants, with a piece of red cloth floating behind him.
It was the plasticine superman that the teacher taught him to make when he was in the handicraft class in the third grade of Mingzhe’s Primary School.
He is very talented, and although the little man is not very delicate, he is very cute.
The teacher specially rewarded him with a little red flower, and the students in the class also circled around his plasticine figurine.
It was the first time Mingzhe heard so many people praise him, so he took Superman home as a trophy and put it on the bedside table.
The situation in front of him was too magical, Mingzhe was distracted, he subconsciously grasped the window frame, grabbed Superman’s cape with his free hand, and lifted him up.
The plasticine figurine has short arms and legs, and he can’t even touch his fingers when he flops about.
Mingzhe was silent for a long time: “Is this an Illusion?”
He was just twelve years old, and he hadn’t yet reached the stage of changing his voice. The voice is soft and light, with the immaturity unique to boys of this age.
Chu Shici wiped the rain off his face and looked up. When he saw Mingzhe’s appearance, he was completely stunned.
Mingzhe’s skin is very fair, a little morbidly pale. The facial features have not yet opened, and there is some baby fat on the face. He had no expression on his face, and there was a dead air between his brows that shouldn’t be there at this age.
At first glance, he looks very similar to the little brother who invited him to eat fried noodles, but he is a few years younger than his little brother.
Mingzhe shook the little man in his hand, seeing that the little man didn’t respond, he said softly: “Probably an Illusion.”
Then he threw the little man behind him and was ready to jump down again.
He had just closed his eyes when something hit his chest again.
Mingzhe looked down, it was still the plasticine figure.
He poked the little man, “I’m really crazy.”
Chu Shici hugged his fingers, “Not crazy! Hurry up and go back to the room first! Let’s talk about it!”
Mingzhe doesn’t want to pay attention to his hallucinations, but the hallucinations keep wandering around him.
For a while they flew in front of him and pushed his chest, and for a while they flew behind him and pulled his collar.
Whispering in his ear about the beauty of life, asking him not to be impulsive.
Seeing that Mingzhe didn’t respond, the little man started playing tricks.
Crying and saying, if Mingzhe dies, then he will die too.
Mingzhe flicked the little man away with his fingers.
The little man’s cloak was soaked by the rain, he was flicked a few metres away, and then flew back unsteadily, begging him to go back.
The rain was getting heavier and the window sills were getting more slippery.
Mingzhe couldn’t stand anymore, he wiped the rainwater in front of his eyes, and saw the limbs of the plasticine figurine sliding down little by little.
Those black peas eyes were looking at him pitifully.
Seeing him looking over, he stretched out two short hands to him: “I’m going to melt, take me back to hide from the rain. I want a new body, waterproof plasticine.”
Mingzhe was silent for a long time, and sighed silently.
He reached out and grabbed the little man and threw it into the room, then bent his body and carefully went back into the room.
Seeing him get down from the window sill, the little man who was just dying flew up with a whoosh. Passing past Mingzhe’s eyes, he rushed to close the window again.
Finally relieved of the danger, Chu Shici clapped his hands, ‘Fortunately, the hero’s heart softened.’
The system has cut a few pictures and is enjoying them repeatedly, [Heh heh heh, little shota.]
‘Brother, please calm down, the male lead is about to jump off the building.’
[I was so nervous that I didn’t dare to say anything just now. Aren’t we temporarily out of danger now? So I want to ease the atmosphere.]
The system paused, and took out a screenshot, [Look, he’s really a cool little guy, as expected, the male protagonists have grown up handsome since childhood.]
When Chu Shici was talking to the system, Mingzhe was thinking about what just happened.
When he was about to kill himself, the plasticine figure he made came to life.
He looked down at Chu Shici, who was melted by the rain.
Mingzhe still remembered what the little man said, he picked up Chu Shici with his cloak and put it on the desk.
He took out a tissue to dry the little man’s body, took out the plasticine box from the drawer, and began to repair his body.
Chu Shici sat obediently on the table and let him fiddle with him.
Mingzhe is really clean, the desk lamp shines on him, he is almost so white that it glows.
Chu Shici looked up at him, the more he looked at him, the more he looked like fried noodles gege*.
*(Ge – brother. Gege – has a little more intimate and is a more cutesy(?) term)
Rainwater slid down Mingzhe’s hair and fell on the table.
He didn’t intend to dry himself off, nor did he change clothes. It seemed as if he was only returning to the house temporarily, and would commit suicide by breaking the window in a while.
When Chu Shici’s life was not good before, he had thought of killing himself. But he could always find another way to vent, hence he never took action.
He touched the finger in front of him, “If you have anything on your mind, you can tell me.”
Mingzhe said indifferently: “Talking to a hallucination is already my biggest concession. I will not confide my feelings to an imaginary character.”
“You’ve already touched me, why do you still think I’m a fake?”
“Plasticine can’t talk, and can’t fly. There are no organs in your body, just a few toothpicks.”
He paused, “I’m a materialist.”
Chu Shici gritted his non-existent teeth. The last person who said such a thing had his worldview shattered.
He sighed to the system, ‘When this kid speaks, his tone doesn’t change. When I first met Yan-ge, Yan-ge was in better condition than him. ‘
The system is obviously not on the same channel as him: [This facial paralysis look on a shota is just too cute.]
‘You can also think shotas are cute? I thought you only liked hunks.’
[As long as they look good, I like it, otherwise why do you think I treat you so well? Although you have done your first mission for 90 years and broke the bottom line of the leaderboard, you look good. Trash beauty, very cute.]
‘…’
For the first time, Chu Shici knew that in the system’s heart, he was a waste.
He has also experienced despair before, and can understand the hero’s helpless mood now.
Chu Shici thought for two seconds, preparing what to say later.
Mingzhe suddenly pinched his head: “Will it hurt?”
Chu Shici didn’t respond, “No, what’s wrong?”
Then his head was pulled off.
Chu Shici: ? ? ?
Sitting in front of the dilapidated desk, Mingzhe dismantled the plasticine figurine into parts and repaired it carefully.
He thought that the hallucination should be quiet this time, but the little head he put aside was still babbling to comfort him.
For Mingzhe, the word: comfort only exists in the dictionary.
His fingers trembled slightly, he pursed his lips and said coldly: “Shut up, I’m not miserable enough to need a hallucination to coax me.”
No matter what Chu Shici said afterwards, he did not respond.
Children’s tolerance is much lower than that of adults, especially teenagers.
They are sensitive, strong, and more rebellious.
Su Zheyan would listen to Chu Shici carefully, but Mingzhe would not.
Mingzhe carefully repaired Chu Shici’s body and changed some new toothpicks.
Then he took out a string and tied Chu Shici’s waist to the pole of the desk lamp.
Chu Shici grabbed his finger, “Are you going to commit suicide? Mingzhe, this world is beautiful. Only by living can you have a chance to feel happiness, and if you die, you will have nothing.”
Mingzhe shook off his hand easily, his immature voice choked with sobs, “I have nothing when I’m alive.”
Before he finished speaking, there was a sudden bang outside.
The anti-theft door was slammed shut, and a man could be heard cursing through the bedroom door.
“Point fingers at me everyday, telling me what to do everyday, that old bitch, I will kill her sooner or later. Everyone pretends to be the boss of me. Mingzhe! Mingzhe! Come out!”
There was a sound of dull footsteps approaching from far to near, followed by a series of loud bangs on the bedroom door.
“Open the door! You fucking locked the door, Mingzhe! Open the door!”
Chu Shici tugged at the string at his waist and looked up at the male lead.
Mingzhe’s face turned pale, and there was an unconcealable fear in his eyes.
He kept shrinking back, shaking violently.
Finally, under Chu Shici’s gaze, Mingzhe hid in the closet.
The man outside kicked several times, and the dilapidated wooden door could no longer hold, and he kicked it open forcefully.
Chu Shici hurriedly stood up straight, pretending that he was just an ordinary little clay figurine.
A man in his thirties walked in. He had wide shoulders and a round waist, and his body exuded a strong smell of alcohol. Wearing oily clothes and greasy hair.
The man first looked under the bed, and after making sure there was no one underneath, he went to open the wardrobe door.
He grabbed Mingzhe by the hair, dragged him out and threw him to the ground.
Mingzhe gasped heavily, struggling to stand up, trying to run out of the room.
He is young and small in stature. Before he could run a few steps, he was grabbed by the man.
Even though he was extremely scared, Mingzhe still didn’t show much expression. He pursed his lips tightly and looked at the man in fear. Running away again and again, being dragged back again and again.
The man seemed to be drinking too much, and he was cursing indiscriminately, and he untied his belt while scolding.
The system fucked up, [This ugly motherfucker! He actually hit the little shota!]
Chu Shici quickly fired a ray and burned the rope around his waist, looked around, and picked up the utility knife on the table.
Seeing the man undoing his belt, Mingzhe became even more panicked.
He fumbled for the phone on the bed and quickly dialled a number.
A woman’s weary voice came from over there, “Xiao Zhe?”
“Mom! Save me, I’m dying, save me!!!”
“What’s the matter with you, Xiao Zhe? Let your Uncle Liu answer the phone.”
“He’s going to hit me, save me Mother, save me!”
“What nonsense are you talking about? Your dad and I are busy with work and don’t have time to take care of you. Your Uncle Liu is willing to help. You should thank him.”
Mingzhe wanted to say something, but the phone was snatched by the man.
The man who was full of swear words and a rough voice just now changed his expression as soon as he picked up the phone.
He said shyly in a simple and honest voice: “Li-jie*, how are you and Ming-ge doing recently… It’s okay, it’s okay, don’t blame Xiao Zhe, adolescent children are like this.”
*(Sister Li)
“I heard from the teacher that he encountered bullying on campus. I guess he has a psychological shadow. It may be a bit of paranoia. Li-jie, don’t worry, I will take him there on Sunday. Take him for a check up at the hospital. Find a psychiatrist, don’t many children have psychological problems now?”
“Our families are so close, it’s not about paying back the money. Ming-ge and I grew up wearing a pair of trousers. I look at Xiao Zhe as if he is my own son. Don’t worry, jie, I will take good care of him. He studies well and has a good temper. He is a good boy, and I like him a lot.”
Amidst the woman’s repeated thanks, the phone was hung up.
The room was quiet again, the lights were not turned on in the room, only a small desk lamp was turned on.
Lightning flashed outside the window from time to time, illuminating the man’s face.
Mingzhe was forced onto the bed, he turned around and wanted to get under the bed.
The man pulled him out by his ankles, pulled out his belt and slammed it down on him.
“Fucking no one thinks highly of me, and everyone yells at me. Today I got myself a woman, and she won’t even let me smoke a cigarette. She can’t even stand the smell of cigarettes, can’t stand it then get out! Damn wearing so little, said she’s a secretary, isn’t it just a high-level chicken? Think too highly of yourself.”
He beat and cursed in a low voice, venting all his depression and dissatisfaction in life on Mingzhe.
“Went to the airport and agreed to pay the high-speed toll, and then started to change his mind after I got there. Blah blah blah, I just retorted a few times, and he actually wanted to complain about me. So what if he’s a college student? They look down on me, everyone looks down on me!”*
*(I guess he is a taxi driver or a driver from a ride hailing company.)
Mingzhe curled up, covered his head and said nothing.
The man’s voice sounded like a roar from hell, Mingzhe was terrified.
He would rather jump from the 15th floor, and he regretted why he didn’t jump just now.
Mingzhe bit his lips tightly, and from the corner of his eye, he saw the light shining from the eyes of the little clay figurine on the table, burning the thin thread at the waist, and flying towards the man with the utility knife in his hand.
He found the right angle, stabbed the man in the back of the neck, and then swished to hide in the corner.
If it wasn’t for the fact that the utility knife was too big to control, and his physical strength was really insufficient, Chu Shici would have killed the beast with one blow.
After staying on Desolate Star for so long, affected by the environment, his thoughts are quite different from people in civilised society.
The pain from the back of the neck made the man stop, raised his hand to touch his neck, and felt blood on his hand.
He grinned, “When did I get scratched?”
Because the wound was not big, he didn’t care. He threw the belt aside casually, grabbed Mingzhe by the collar, and wanted to smack him in the face.
Just as Mingzhe was about to close his eyes, Chu Shici held the utility knife and stabbed the man in the back twice.
The man threw Mingzhe to the ground, touched the wound on his back and looked around in confusion.
Mingzhe took the opportunity to get up, and staggered out of the bedroom without putting on his shoes.
From behind came a man’s cry of pain in surprise, “Damn it, what keeps biting me!”
Mingzhe didn’t dare to look back, he opened the door and ran all the way to the elevator door, frantically pressing the elevator button.
The elevator descended slowly and stopped on the fifteenth floor.
Two women who were about to work the night shift were standing inside chatting. Seeing the child with bruises all over his body and messy clothes outside the door, both of them were taken aback.
One of them reached out to block the elevator door and asked worriedly, “Little brother, do you need help?”
At this moment, a big hand stretched out from behind Mingzhe.
The man embraced him, smiled honestly at the two women, and said apologetically, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry, the child is not sensible. I just beat him up, and he wants to run away from home.”
The woman who spoke out earlier frowned: “This is domestic violence, what have you done to the child?”
The man held Mingzhe’s waist with one hand, and pressed the fruit knife hidden in his sleeve against Mingzhe’s body through his clothes.
He nodded and bowed to the woman, “I know this is wrong, so I regretted it as soon as he went out. Didn’t I come to chase him? Hurting my own child also hurts me. I just hit him on the spur of the moment, because I couldn’t discipline him well enough. Boys are not easy to discipline. Sorry to bother you.”
“But you also can’t beat the child. Verbal education will be fine in the future. You can see that he is covered with injuries.”
The woman said a few more words, and at the urging of her companion, the elevator door closed again.
After the elevator descended, the voices of two women’s conversations could still be vaguely heard.
“Tongtong, we can’t control things like domestic violence.”
“But that child is so pitiful. He looked at me just now, as if he was asking for help.”
“His father is so strong, what if we provoke him too much and he retaliates against us? Let’s go, we have to work the night shift, two girls are not safe.”
The sound became softer and softer, and finally disappeared completely.
There was surveillance in the corridor, so it was inconvenient for Chu Shici to fly out.
He stood on the shoe cabinet and looked out.
The man coaxed Mingzhe nicely and pushed him back into the room.
After the security door was closed and he left the monitoring range, he changed his face again.
“If you try to run away again, I will beat you to death today.”
Chu Shici picked up the utility knife again.
If you still dare to fight, I will dismember you today.
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Because if he hits Mingzhe, there will be several wounds on his body for no reason.
The man felt panicked, and after taking Mingzhe home, he hit him a few times and didn’t dare to do it again.
He opened a bottle of alcohol, turned on the TV, and sat on the sofa to watch and drink.
There are only four families on the first floor of this kind of building, and Mingzhe’s original home is next door. Now that his parents went out to work, the house is temporarily vacant.
The location is too remote, and it cannot be rented out.
Further to the right, there lived an old man with deaf ears, and opposite was a middle-aged woman who worked the night shift all the year round.
As long as the sound doesn’t reach downstairs, no one will know what’s going on in this house.
The man instructed Mingzhe to serve him tea.
By the time the man fell asleep on the sofa, it was already past two o’clock in the morning.
It’s still raining outside and his parents’ house is locked. Mingzhe has nowhere to go.
He dragged his bruised body to the bathroom for a quick rinse, then lay back on the bed.
Dimly, he saw a little man in a red cloak flying towards him holding a medicine bottle.
The little man stroked his forehead and flew away in a hurry.
When he came back again, there was a box of antipyretics on his head.
Mingzhe stretched out his hand in a daze, and touched the little man’s head, “Are you my hallucination?”
Chu Shici was holding a cotton swab to rub the medicine on him, and when he heard this, he tilted his head and looked at him: “You’ve already touched me, how could I be a hallucination?”
Mingzhe’s eyelids became heavier and heavier, “You saved me just now?”
“I cut him a few times, don’t worry about it, it has nothing to do with you. You have a good rest, I’ll take care of it.”
Hearing this sentence, Mingzhe managed to cheer up, “You want to kill him?”
Chu Shici didn’t answer.
If it was in the past, he really couldn’t do it.
But after staying on Desolate Star for a while, he dared to do anything.
Mingzhe held him in his hands, “You can’t kill people, it’s against the law. It’s wrong to kill people, we can’t break the law, you have to be obedient.”
Chu Shici touched his fingers with complicated emotions.
The system wiped away tears, [What a good little boy, how sensible.]
It helped Chu Shici fill in the details of the side missions, [The male lead’s parents went out to work, so he was handed over to the care of the animal-faced neighbour. The neighbour vented all his dissatisfaction in life on the male lead, beating him and insulting him every day. The male protagonist is too young to resist, and he is kind-hearted by nature and can’t bear to kill. He has no choice but to commit suicide.]
After the clues were submitted, the headquarters quickly sent a reply.
[The submission of the branch task failed.]
The system hissed, [It shouldn’t be, no matter how I look at it, I think it’s because of this.]
Mingzhe was already asleep, and Chu Shici flew back and forth to rub medicine on him.
He tore off the quilt and Mingzhe’s worn and faded pyjamas. Under the clothes were bruises and purple scars, some of which were still oozing blood.
Chu Shici took a deep breath, and his anger rose slowly.
Not to mention that the male lead looks like the brother who bought him fried noodles, he can’t stand any child being beaten like this.
Seeing Mingzhe, Chu Shici remembered his former self.
The difference is that it was his own father and stepmother who beat him back then.
Whereas this was an irrelevant outsider who hit Mingzhe.
Chu Shici was obedient from a young age, but his temper has always been violent since he was a child. He would beat whoever beat him, and if he couldn’t beat him, he would run away from home. Every time he is subjected to domestic violence, he will not lie down and be beaten.
Mingzhe looks very cold and unapproachable, but he is actually a well-behaved and sensible child. He must be very obedient too, otherwise he wouldn’t have stayed here.
Chu Shici’s body was too small, and when the medicine was finished, it was already dawn.
He lay in Mingzhe’s hands, and said to the system: ‘That man is very good at pretending to be a good person. He lied to Mingzhe’s parents. It can’t go on like this, even if Mingzhe is not beaten to death by him, he will be driven crazy. When the male lead goes out and the man is alone at home, I will kill him. ‘
The system imitated Mingzhe’s tone, [It is wrong to kill people, it is illegal to kill people.]
Chu Shici looked at his arm made of plasticine, and showed a sneer very similar to Su Zheyan.
‘It’s none of my business, I’m not human. ‘
At six o’clock in the morning, the small alarm clock on the bedside table rang several times.
Mingzhe opened his eyes, trying to turn off the alarm clock.
He just raised his hand, but found a plasticine figure lying in his hand.
Short arms and short legs, with two peas eyes on the round head. Blue wears red pants and a crumpled red cape behind him.
The memory gradually came back, and Mingzhe remembered what happened last night.
He tore off the collar of his pyjamas and looked in. All the injuries on his body had been taken care of. On the bedside table were the antipyretics* and half a glass of water that he didn’t fill.
*(substance that reduces fever)
A man’s gasping sound came from the living room, “Damn it, where did these injuries come from?”
Mingzhe hid under the blanket subconsciously, but when he saw that the man hadn’t come in, he poked his head out again.
He gently touched the plasticine figurine, “Move.”
Chu Shici was soundly asleep and did not hear his voice.
Mingzhe waited for a while, then poked him again, “Did I hallucinate last night, or are you really alive?”
The little man remained motionless, and the light in Mingzhe’s eyes gradually dimmed.
The system that stayed up late to watch the drama watched the whole process, and it kicked Chu Shici violently, [Don’t sleep anymore stinky host! Get up and work!]
Chu Shici was kicked awake and sat up suddenly.
He slowed down for two seconds, then raised his head and smiled brightly at Mingzhe: “Good morning! Xiao Zhe!”
Mingzhe froze for a moment, his cheeks flushed slightly.
He pursed his lips, and a faint smile appeared on his immature face, “Hello, Little Superman.”
[Vigor value +5, current vitality value -14/100.]
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T/N: New arc, new: “You can support the authors on JJWXC as well”, I remember I didn’t spend more than USD$8 on these chapters. So you should support them too. An excellent guide has been posted here: https://cangji.net/jjwxcguide/ It’s equivalent to less than a single meal these days.
Update: Tomorrow~
- After becoming enemies with the lord god
- Blog
- Completed
- Don't talk to me!
- Dropped
- Ghost Marriage
- Hunger Academy
- I opened a safe house in the Infinite Stream
- Notices
- Ongoing
- The Dragon Lord is Weak and Helpless but Has a Big Appetite [Interstellar]
- Want to ascend? Then fall in love.
- What can I do, I'm not human.
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