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Chapter 1.6

Uncomfortably shifting in his seat, Wuqiong's eyes darted nervously around the private room of a high class restaurant that he was abducted into earlier, staring at anything but the handsome and chiseled man sitting in front of him. Apart from the two of them, there was no one else in this soundproof room, although Wuqiong could faintly detect the presence of guards standing outside the door. He was completely blocked off without escape and despite being the most nervous he has ever been as a system and a host, Wuqiong did not make an attempt to escape.

He had just been walking within the school grounds towards the dorms after finishing up clean up duty, before the smell of chloroform assaulted his nose and the world spun into black. Upon waking up, his first thought was 'What the hell, the prince acted this quickly?! I've only just interacted with the FL smh isn't this too soon-' before his thoughts were stopped by the sight of the man in front of him.

Sitting leisurely in a custom three-piece suit with his strong arms comfortably folded in front of his chest, sat the most gorgeous man Wuqiong had ever laid his eyes upon. With sword-like brows framing deep and profound peach blossom eyes, a high nose arch, thin but crimson red lips and chiselled facial bones and a jawline that looked as if god had personally sculpted this face- Wuqiong could instinctively understand that this man was dangerous and definitely not someone the prince, even as the ML of the world could control into moving for him.

(A/N: yeah yeah typical ML description I know, blame this author's lack of creativity ┐( ' д ' )┌)

Getting over his initial shock over this unknown character and scene of being abducted that did not exist in the original plot, Wuqiong's brain exerted itself to try to make sense of who this pressuring man was, whose eyes had been unabashedly boring into Wuqiong's so intensely that it was as if he was trying to peer into his soul. Like this, they sat in silence for what seemed like forever- Wuqiong felt his throat going drier by the minute, as cold sweat started to form around the baby hairs on his forehead.

Finally, the silence was stifled by the crisp ringing of the domineering man's mobile. Narrowing his eyes at Wuqiong, he let the phone run just three times before a deep voice resounded into the room, "Reschedule everything for today". Not even bothering to listen to the person on the phone, the line was already cut off. Then, the man had asked him a question which had caught him by surprise,

"You. Who are you?"

Although he had been asked a question, Wuqiong could hear from the tone that this was a command. However, he could only helplessly think to himself, 'Who am i? Were YOU abducted or was I?! Who are you, this hidden boss like character! I want to ask you that myself?!'

In spite of his bitterness, Wuqiong did not let his thoughts show on his face, still maintaining the guise of a clueless and utterly scared and confused youth who had just been kidnapped. Slowly, Wuqiong carefully stammered out whilst staring at his clammy hands, "This Sir... I am just a normal high schooler, I- what are you going to do with me? Where is this? I-"

"Cut the acting" the man interrupted as Wuqiong involuntarily stiffened in response, the man's thin lips curled up slightly as he continued, "You are Yun Wuqiong, second male lead of this pathetically low levelled world plane. Your death is the catalyst to the romance between the two leads, you should know that but yet you deliberately follow the plot to provoke the original events. So I ask once again- 'Yun Wuqiong', Who. Are. You?"

Feeling as if the world was quickly toppling around him, genuine shock filled Wuqiong's eyes as he finally looked up into the bottomless and dangerously dark orbs of the man sitting opposite him. For a split second, a thought that those intense eyes looked a little familiar flashed quickly by his brain, however it was quickly forgotten and pressed down by more urgent matters, like 'how the hell does this man know so much?'

Narrowing his eyes in suspicion, the earlier guise of innocence and fear had already been discarded. He equally stared back at the man just as intensely before carefully probing out,

"Are you a system transmigrator?"

The smile on the chiseled face only grew wider, although it did not reach his deep peach blossom eyes. Obviously, the man had no intention to answer and was waiting for him to answer first. Wuqiong swore he could feel the temperature in the room drop a couple degrees, 'Frick who is this scary boss like character ah! Isn't this supposed to be an easy BG world, where did this Chen Yaojin appear from, frickin' crepes you think you can bully me?!'

With both unwilling to answer the other's question, they were now in deadlock with two pairs of eyes staring unrelentlessly into the other- one pair bright and glowing with a full spectrum of colours dancing around if you looked closely, and the other pair so pitch black that they appeared to be devoid of life. Gloating in his head arrogantly at this small victory of not yielding to the man's immense pressure, the little system did not seem to be aware of how dangerous this situation could potentially be for him.

Raising his sword-like brows slightly in amusement, the face of the man who looked like he had been sculpted by the gods softened slightly, before abruptly reaching forward to mercilessly grab Wuqiong's chin. Before the petite youth could react, he heard the domineering man crunch out words that shocked Wuqiong to the core again, "Still won't talk? That's no issue, I'll just go murder off the world's leads then, hrmm?"

Wuqiong, whose chin was caught in the other's tight grip, stared fiercely into the man's bottomless eyes, growling out in anger with narrowed eyes, "..You dare?"

'This bastard dares to even touch the protagonists of the world? Doesn't he realise the world would collapse if they were to die?! I still need to find Yun Wuqiong a family first and slowly torture that fake prince, how dare he try to collapse this world?!'

Yet, horror and slight fear crept up Wuqiong's nerves as he suspiciously felt that the man in front of him indeed knew that the world would collapse...however, it seemed as if.. as if, 'he simply doesn't care? ..Who the hell is this, really?'

Watching Wuqiong's face change expressions rapidly, the man felt as if he could watch this person's reactions forever. Seemingly knowing what Wuqiong was thinking, he playfully decided to scare the little man further with a light laugh,

"Ah, still not talking? Should I kill you first and see what happens?"

Wuqiong's eyes widened incredulously as his soft and small lips parted in disbelief.

"You.. you wouldn't.." a small voice whispered out. Forgetting that if he died, the man wouldn't be able to locate him anyways so why would he kill him that easily; somehow, he felt that this man wouldn't possibly hurt him. With a more resolute tone, Wuqiong whispered again, "You wouldn't."

The mysterious man frowned slightly as he felt something within him throb. 'Did he miss the joke, how can I get anything out of a dead body if his soul escapes? But he's right, I can't bear to see this person in front of me hurt again.....again?'

Wuqiong watched warily as a flash of emotion and confusion swept past those dark eyes, the man's expression becoming more profound by the minute. Letting go of Wuqiong's chin, he sat back down and kneaded the space between those valiant brows, as if trying to remember something incredibly important. A slight hint of desperation could be heard in the deep and velvety voice, "Really, who are you.."

'...and why do I feel like this at the thought of something happening to you?'

Faced with this moment of rare vulnerability in the other man, Wuqiong subconsciously could not lie to this person. "I.. I'm just a system, well I was. After i finished up the last mission with my host, I was alone in the Xinhai space again and.. and before I knew it, I became a host and was already in this world to complete the former soul's wish. So.. so, who are you?"

After his words, three were left paralysed by shock at the revelation.

The first, that he honestly blurted out the truth so straightforwardly, unable to understand what overcame him. Meanwhile, the second asked the unseen third mentally, 'Is this even possible?'

AUTHOR'S NOTE

Bit of a longer chapter, so.. Who is this? Who is MC? Who is this third character?!

Read on to find out LOLOLOL