Chapter 6 Chapter 6: Dying Before Her Eyes, Leaving Her With Lifelong Regret
Chapter 6: Dying Before Her Eyes, Leaving Her With Lifelong Regret
[Host, since your life is no longer threatened, why are you still maintaining this yandere persona? You're not a true yandere.]
Seeing Chi Xiaocheng post on her social media, the system voiced its confusion.
"This body is a little sickly and delicate, but I am certainly not a yandere," Chi Xiaocheng said lightly. "However, the original owner did provoke most of the male leads. By deepening this impression with Su Tao, we can ensure that no matter who we face, as long as the female lead is present, we won't be at a disadvantage."
"What's more, I've already left a deep impression on Su Tao's mind. I need a plausible explanation for everything I've done over the past two years to clear my name."
"Obsession, breakdown, yandere – that's an excellent reason."
[For self-preservation?]
"Of course."
[But now that there's no trouble, couldn't we just drop out immediately and go to another city, or even fly abroad?]
Listening to the system, Chi Xiaocheng was dumbfounded.
"System, I thought you were a fool. I didn't expect you to be quite a genius."
"However," Chi Xiaocheng tapped her chin, "I still don't plan on escaping. Perhaps I just like seeking excitement."
A hint of seductive smile appeared on her face, one she didn't even notice herself.
In his previous life, just before the truck hit him and he struck it lucky, he had just experienced a crisis. Two drug dealers, pursued by plainclothes officers, had nowhere to run and burst into the coffee shop where he was. One held a knife, the other a gun, and they took everyone inside hostage.
The dark muzzle of the gun made everyone present tremble involuntarily.
Only Chi Xiaocheng felt a strange thrill.
Spotting an opportunity, he circled behind the gunman. When he tried to bully a little girl, Chi Xiaocheng seized his chance. He instantly tackled him, intending to grab the gun and subdue him. But who knew? The gun was a mere prop!
Seeing this, the other bandit charged at Chi Xiaocheng. The threat turned into a brawl. As a university student with little combat training, how could he be a match for two men? Before long, his chest was gashed by a knife. The searing pain didn't make Chi Xiaocheng flinch; instead, it ignited his fighting spirit. In that moment, he knew he probably didn't yearn for a mundane and boring life.
Later, as he walked along the roadside after being discharged from the hospital, he felt a sudden daze, as if seeing the truck driver wave at him. And then, there was no 'then'. Driver's performance rating: +1.
"System, do you know how many types of yandere there are?"
[Aren't they all the same? Stabbing people, threatening others, just like you, Host, just did.]
Chi Xiaocheng gently shook her head, a faint smile playing on her lips. "Many ignorant people think like you do—that anyone who stabs, 'slices,' or insists on 'being together forever' is simply a yandere. But in reality, yandere types are categorized in many ways."
"Dependent type, possessive type, exclusionary type, aggressive type, stalker type, harmless type, worshipping type, delusional type, isolation-inducing type."
In his previous life, Chi Xiaocheng was a part-time novelist, and for research purposes, he knew quite a bit about this topic.
She continued, "What I displayed to Su Tao earlier was the possessive yandere type, wanting to make the other person exclusively mine, using various methods of confinement. But in reality, the dependent type will influence Su Tao more easily."
"By showing a side of me that's reliant on her in many ways, that I can't live without her—given the female lead's 'white moonlight' persona—she absolutely won't just stand by and let me die."
Chi Xiaocheng's smile gradually turned malicious. "To break this stalemate, I need to firmly grasp Su Tao. Using this yandere persona as a guide, I'll try to act even more impulsively in front of her later."
"Unconditionally love her, support her, depend on her, protect her, adore her."
"Then I'll make use of the main and supporting characters, stage a few scenes – the kind where I get injured in various ways to protect her."
"Ideally, I'd take a few blows for her, then end up hospitalized for months, half-crippled. Do you know what Su Tao would think then?"
[W-what... what would she think?]
The system's voice was tinged with fear.
"Guilt!" Chi Xiaocheng exclaimed, covering half her face, her eyes glinting with anticipation. "I've been injured countless times for her, all because I like her; and the reason I like her is that she gave me hope I shouldn't have had!"
"In other words, I've become what I am today from a normal person, all because of her!"
"The more she realizes this, the deeper she'll fall into endless guilt whenever I get hurt. Once it starts, she'll sink deeper and deeper."
"The day I die protecting her, right before her eyes, she'll cry in agony for three days and three nights, living with lifelong regret!"
"What a perfect script!"
Naturally, this was only a theoretical script. For now, she was still merely minor cannon fodder, easily threatened by the various male leads.
Still, the system was startled by Chi Xiaocheng's thoughts.
[Host, you truly are a born villain.]
"This is merely a last resort."
Chi Xiaocheng's expression returned to normal. She said faintly, "Still, the yandere persona is a bit tricky to manage. For now, let's take it one step at a time."
Actually, Chi Xiaocheng preferred to play the isolation-inducing yandere type. This type of yandere is the most terrifying of all! This kind of yandere girl possesses extremely strong love and possessiveness. At the same time, unlike other types, she doesn't actively display her affection. Instead, she spreads rumors around the person she likes, subtly sowing discord between her beloved and their friends or relatives from the shadows.
When the target is made to believe that everyone in the world has alienated them, doesn't care for them, doesn't love them, and detests them, that's when the isolation-inducing yandere makes her appearance. She appears with a perfect persona: gentle and harmless, like a 'white moonlight'. She is the only one who supports him, loves him, embraces him, making him dependent on her. Gradually, he comes to rely on her completely and falls deeply in love with her.
This type of yandere is excellent at concealing herself. By the time one realizes it, they are often already caught in her embrace, unable to break free.
However, the current situation prevented Chi Xiaocheng from adopting such a persona. If she had transmigrated a few years earlier, she was confident she could have isolated Su Tao into a "girl hated by the world," with only her as her friend.
As Chi Xiaocheng continued to muse, her phone chimed. Someone had replied to the social media post she had just sent.
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