As an experimental subject, Chaoyue felt that she might be the only one among them who possessed an intense yearning for s*x and love.
Because she was too intelligent.
She could understand many things about this world.
From her observations, Duan Fan was more likable than Duan Li.
Because Duan Fan loved to smile, she began to imitate Duan Fan and smile as well.
She had indeed done the right thing.
There was an extra trace of appreciation in the Doctor’s gaze when looking at her.
She was the most successful experimental subject.
But the one thing she had never experienced was s*x or love.
She longed for everything she had never received.
Chaoyue stared at the sweat on Liu Qiu’s forehead and gently reached out to wipe it away.
The cool touch of Chaoyue’s fingertips made Liu Qiu unconsciously rub against her.
“Chaoyue… it feels so good.”
Her voice was low and hoarse, spreading through the private room like damp mist.
Liu Qiu’s eyelashes trembled as she breathed hot air.
Her legs shifted slightly, rubbing together.
She truly felt uncomfortable—hot, sticky, and unbearably itchy.
[System, why hasn’t the medicine worn off yet? I feel awful.]
The system scanned Liu Qiu’s body again before replying.
[Host, you haven’t sweated enough yet. It’s fine. Just wait a bit longer and you’ll feel better.]
“Liu Qiu.”
Chaoyue’s voice came from above her head.
Liu Qiu blinked her damp eyes and looked toward Chaoyue.
The lighting in the private room was dim, and she couldn’t clearly see Chaoyue’s face.
Her lips were pressed together as her chest rose and fell sharply.
Silence spread through the room.
It felt as though the only sound left was her own rapid breathing.
“…Chaoyue.”
Chaoyue opened her arms and lifted Liu Qiu from the sofa.
Her smile was bright and charming.
“Honestly, I really can’t do anything with you.”
“I’ll just carry you outside.”
Nestled in Chaoyue’s cool embrace, Liu Qiu couldn’t control her body.
She wrapped her arms around Chaoyue’s neck and pressed herself tightly against her, enjoying the temperature of her body.
Cool.
Comfortable.
“Chaoyue… you’re really nice.”
The praise slipped out of Liu Qiu’s mouth in a soft, muddled tone, sweet like it had been dipped in honey.
Chaoyue tightened her arms slightly.
Her eyes flickered repeatedly.
“Liu Qiu, you really shouldn’t keep acting spoiled like this.”
“Otherwise… I might really check you out.”
Today she wouldn’t be the passive one.
She’d be the one in charge.
The first time should have a sense of ceremony.
She planned to take Liu Qiu to a luxurious hotel.
Chaoyue spoke softly, and Liu Qiu didn’t hear clearly.
Her face pressed against Chaoyue’s neck as she rubbed against it unconsciously.
“So comfortable… Chaoyue.”
Cool.
After the heat in her body eased slightly, exhaustion slowly flooded over her.
“Chaoyue… you’re really nice…”
Liu Qiu murmured and closed her eyes amidst the noisy background sounds.
Chaoyue narrowed her eyes as she walked out of the bar.
Why was Liu Qiu rubbing against everything like a little puppy?
It was making her feel a little heated too.
The sun outside was still blazing.
Carrying Liu Qiu in her arms, Chaoyue spotted a purple sports car parked by the street.
The car door opened, and a woman wearing a dark purple shirt stepped out.
Chaoyue let out a long sigh.
“Duan Fan, why are you following me?”
Duan Fan strode closer.
Her gaze immediately fell on Liu Qiu in Chaoyue’s arms.
The smile on her face was faint.
“Chaoyue, bringing a married woman to a bar?”
“You’ve got some nerve.”
Chaoyue blinked.
“Well, since you drove here, why don’t you take Liu Qiu and me to a hotel?”
Duan Fan narrowed her eyes and stared at Liu Qiu’s closed eyes.
“Drunk?”
Chaoyue felt that talking here with Duan Fan was a waste of time.
She carried Liu Qiu around her and walked past.
“If you’re not giving us a ride, forget it.”
“Bye, Duan Fan.”
Duan Fan wasn’t going to let her leave so easily.
She stepped in front of Chaoyue with a grin.
“Chaoyue, you’re not even close to her.”
“Why are you carrying her?”
Chaoyue smiled back.
“We’ll be close after today.”
Duan Fan wasn’t stupid.
Combining everything Chaoyue had said, she immediately realized what Chaoyue planned to do.
Logically, she should have been pleased.
If Chaoyue suddenly pulled something like this, Liu Qiu would definitely feel disgusted when she woke up.
And it would also put another green hat on Fu Jinyin.
That would naturally make Fu Jinyin treat Liu Qiu even worse.
And Liu Qiu liked Fu Jinyin.
If Fu Jinyin treated her like that, Liu Qiu would certainly feel miserable.
“Give her to me.”
Duan Fan stretched out her hand.
The smile on her face was cold.
“Chaoyue, I want you to hand her over.”
Chaoyue laughed.
“Duan Fan, why so domineering? I’m not some delicate little wife.”
After saying that, she lowered her head right in front of Duan Fan and planted a kiss on Liu Qiu’s hair.
“Alright, Miss Duan Fan.”
“Stop arguing, or you’ll wake Liu Qiu.”
Duan Fan’s gaze turned cold.
She raised an eyebrow.
“Aren’t you the bottom?”
“You said last night you weren’t interested in Liu Qiu.”
Chaoyue shrugged.
“Yeah, I did say that.”
“But that was yesterday’s me, not today’s me.”
“And Duan Fan, just because your name has ‘Fan’ in it doesn’t mean you have to be this annoying.”
“You hate her, so if I sleep with her—”
“So stop blocking me with that expression.”
Duan Fan felt irritated.
Just then, Chaoyue suddenly said,
“The legal wife is here.”
Fu Jinyin approached slowly in silence.
She lowered her gaze and pressed her lips together.
“What happened?”
“Fu Jinyin, what are you doing here?”
“If you came any later, someone else’s fingers would already be inside Liu Qiu.”
“Oh, right. I forgot.”
“You probably wouldn’t care anyway.”
Chaoyue let out a playful “wow.”
“Duan Fan, you really say anything.”
Fu Jinyin turned her eyes toward Chaoyue.
“What… happened to her?”
Her voice was hoarse.
Her expression stiff.
Those pale eyes gave people a strong mechanical feeling.
Cold.
Almost completely devoid of emotional fluctuation.
Chaoyue narrowed her eyes.
Looking at it this way, Fu Jinyin seemed a bit like an experimental subject too.
But after living outside for six years, would an experimental subject still remain like this?
Chaoyue replied,
“She fell asleep.”
Perhaps it was because the surroundings were noisy, or because the sunlight was too strong.
Liu Qiu’s eyelashes trembled slightly.
She slowly opened her eyes.
She hadn’t been sleeping deeply anyway.
Her mind was hazy, the lingering heat still burning in her brain.
In her blurry vision, a familiar figure appeared.
“You… came to take me home?”
Liu Qiu asked hoarsely.
Fu Jinyin clenched her fingers and stiffly nodded.
A small smile appeared on Liu Qiu’s face.
Two round dimples formed on her cheeks.
That’s great.
Zhao Duo came to pick her up.
Liu Qiu struggled down from Chaoyue’s arms.
Her legs were weak, and she stumbled forward into Fu Jinyin’s embrace.
“Home… take me home.”
Fu Jinyin’s entire body went rigid.
Liu Qiu’s body was very warm.
Even her breathing was hot.
They were too close.
She had never had contact like this with anyone before.
Her heartbeat began pounding exaggeratedly fast.
Fu Jinyin’s thin lips pressed into a straight line as she stood there stiffly like a wooden post.
Duan Fan curled her lips and stepped forward.
She reached out as if to take Liu Qiu.
“Jinyin, let me carry her.”
“After all, you hate her. I know that.”
Fu Jinyin’s eyelashes trembled slightly.
She raised her hand and slapped Duan Fan’s reaching hand away.
Without saying a word, she lifted Liu Qiu into her arms.
Duan Fan lowered her gaze to look at the reddened back of her hand.
She lightly bit down on her teeth.
Although she was smiling, the coldness in her eyes was chilling.
Fu Jinyin actually dared to treat her like that.
Some stray dog that appeared from nowhere dared to show her attitude.
“Fu Jinyin.”
“Aren’t we partners?”
“Is this how you treat a friend?”
Fu Jinyin glanced at her indifferently.
Then she turned around with Liu Qiu in her arms, walked to the roadside, hailed a taxi, and got in decisively.
Duan Fan’s eyes flickered.
After a while, she suppressed the emotions that had surfaced and returned to her lazy, frivolous demeanor.
She turned to Chaoyue.
“Weren’t you planning to sleep with Liu Qiu?”
“Why didn’t you stop them?”
Chaoyue withdrew her gaze from the departing taxi.
She winked playfully at Duan Fan.
“Her wife showed up.”
“Of course I can’t keep going.”
“But Duan Fan, why are you so concerned about Liu Qiu?”
“You’re not secretly in love with her, are you?”
Duan Fan raised an eyebrow.
“No.”
“I’m not secretly in love with her.”
Chaoyue’s eyes sparkled with amusement.
“That’s good then.”
Duan Fan narrowed her eyes.
“I’m openly in love.”
She was twenty-eight years old.
Even though she had never dated before, she wasn’t stupid enough to not understand her own feelings.
Falling for a hated rival within a few days was sudden.
But liking someone wasn’t shameful.
Duan Fan walked toward her sports car.
“I drove around below Liu Qiu’s apartment over and over today.”
“I didn’t understand why before.”
“But after you reminded me… now I do.”
If it wasn’t secret love, why circle someone’s building like that?
Standing beside the car, Duan Fan shrugged.
“Chaoyue, go back to my sister.”
“Liu Qiu isn’t suitable for you.”
“Whatever type you want, I’ll find one for you.”
Chaoyue walked to the other side and got into the car.
She sighed.
“Ah… I shouldn’t have talked so much with you.”
“Find me someone tall with long legs, broad shoulders, a slim waist, long hands, a good face, and strong.”
Duan Fan glanced at her deeply.
“Fine.”
“But don’t let my sister find out.”
“You’ve been with her for years.”
“I think she still cares about you a little.”
Chaoyue lowered the car window and looked at the passing traffic.
“Li-ming Jie wouldn’t care.”
“She was the one who told me to go to nightclubs and find someone to sleep with in the first place.”
Duan Fan curled her lips.
She gripped the steering wheel and stepped on the accelerator.
The sports car slowly started moving.
Sure enough, someone like Chaoyue treated things as entertainment.
Wanting to sleep with Liu Qiu was probably just a sudden whim.
Duan Fan exhaled lightly.
“Did Liu Qiu get drugged?”
She had smelled a faint trace of SI earlier.
SI was a stimulant that had recently become popular.
People with weak resistance could react just from inhaling the powder.
“Maybe,” Chaoyue replied.
Duan Fan glanced at her.
“Seatbelt.”
“I’ll drop you off at Xingyun.”
“Looking at you now is kind of annoying.”
Chaoyue just smiled and didn’t respond.
She took out her phone and started playing a game.
The sports car continued driving.
Meanwhile, on the other side, Fu Jinyin sat stiffly in the taxi.
Liu Qiu leaned against her shoulder, breathing evenly as she fell asleep again.
Fu Jinyin didn’t move.
Even her breathing was extremely light.
It felt strange.
Her heart hadn’t calmed down since the moment Liu Qiu leaned close.
The taxi eventually stopped outside their residential building.
Liu Qiu still hadn’t woken up.
Fu Jinyin pressed her lips together.
Under the driver’s urging, she reached out and carried Liu Qiu out of the car.
Liu Qiu was very light to her.
She could easily carry her upstairs.
Back home, Liu Qiu was still sleeping.
Fu Jinyin sat on the sofa with Liu Qiu in her arms, unsure what to do.
This was the first time she had encountered such a situation.
Liu Qiu was hugging her very tightly.
It was strange.
Her heart felt uncomfortable.
She wanted to do something, yet she had no urge to kill her.
The blood beneath her skin began to stir.
Fu Jinyin knew what that meant.
Her tentacles were about to come out.
She should throw Liu Qiu away immediately.
“Tick. Tick.”
The wall clock struck the hour.
Fu Jinyin watched as purple-black tentacles emerged.
Three of them writhed and crawled toward Liu Qiu.
“Go back,” Fu Jinyin said quietly.
But they didn’t listen.
The tentacles twisted and slipped into Liu Qiu’s clothes through the hem and collar.
The system had originally been watching a TV drama.
But because it was worried about Liu Qiu, it glanced over from time to time.
That single glance nearly made it scream.
There’s a monster!!!
The system was about to warn its host when the space around it suddenly began to distort.
[203, long time no see.]
The system’s attention was immediately drawn away.
[201? Why are you here?]
Two balls of light appeared in the dark space.
One was the system.
The other was another system.
[203, you saw it, but don’t say anything.]
[How do you know what I was about to do?]
[You really haven’t improved at all.]
[Did you forget? I was the one who sent you to bind with this host.]
[Of course I monitor you from time to time.]
[…Alright.]
[But why can’t I tell my host?]
[When your host accumulates enough power to go home and returns, then I’ll tell you.]
[Otherwise, if you speak now, it might make your host’s journey home even longer.]
The system imagined Liu Qiu crying.
[…Fine. I won’t say anything.]
“Oh right, what about the host you brought? Are their missions— hey, 201! Why are you leaving so fast?!”
Before the system could finish speaking, the other light sphere had already disappeared.
The system sighed.
Looking at the screen that had already turned into mosaic blur, it silently prayed for its host.
When the host finally returned home, it would definitely need maintenance.
Why hadn’t it detected that this wife wasn’t human?
Meanwhile, watching the tentacles’ movements, Fu Jinyin’s face turned pale.
Each of her tentacles had an independent nervous system.
Normally they obeyed her control.
But today, she clearly hadn’t ordered them to approach Liu Qiu.
Liu Qiu’s skin was hot and soft.
The sensations were transmitted clearly through the tentacles.
Fu Jinyin lowered her gaze.
Liu Qiu’s clothes had been pushed up to her chest.
Sticky liquid covered her skin.
Fu Jinyin’s body trembled.
Her breathing became heavy.
“Go back.”
But the tentacles seemed even more excited.
One coiled around Liu Qiu’s waist, wriggling.
Another wrapped around her soft chest, squeezing.
A third tried to push under the waistband.
The liquid from the tentacles spread everywhere.
Fu Jinyin suddenly bit her lip hard.
She stood up, carried Liu Qiu into the bedroom, placed her on the bed, and forcefully pulled the tentacles off her.
Then she strode out and rushed straight into the bathroom.
Cold water poured down from above.
All of Fu Jinyin’s tentacles emerged, thrashing as they searched for something.
Fu Jinyin stared blankly at the floor.
She pressed her hand against her heart.
There was a long scar there.
Her heart… was broken.
Her brain was broken too.
Emotions she couldn’t understand were appearing.
Restless.
Burning.
Surging.
“Liu Qiu…”
She had become very strange.
Fu Jinyin couldn’t explain why she went to the bar to find Liu Qiu.
Nor could she explain why she wanted to hug Liu Qiu.
When she hugged her, her heart beat extremely fast.
It was irritating.
She wanted to do something.
But what could she do to stop feeling so restless?
And why had the tentacles done that?
Wrapping around Liu Qiu’s chest and squeezing it.
So strange.
Fu Jinyin thought of Chaoyue.
They were both experimental subjects, yet Chaoyue lived almost like a normal human.
She could laugh and make noise.
She had abundant emotions.
[Subject No.112 is even more defective than expected.
The emotional module in her brain is damaged.
She may be unable to process or accept emotions.]
Fu Jinyin lowered her eyes.
Water slid down her cheeks like tears.
She could understand.
When the heart was restless and agitated, it felt irritating.
That was a bad emotion.
Those people always denied her.
Until the moment they tried to kill her.
Even that emotion she understood.
The tight pain in her chest—that was sadness.
So she would eventually understand.
The strange emotions she felt toward Liu Qiu today.
She just needed time.
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