Chapter 2: The Rival Always Wants to Taste Him Again [2]

Chapter 2: The Rival Always Wants to Taste Him Again "2"

[Oh, he brought his people but didn't manage to corner Ye Qi, blew his top, and went back.]

447 replied: [But he hates Ye Qi that much. Since he failed today, he'll definitely find another chance to ruin Ye Qi's reputation.]

[Xiao Momo, what should we do next?]

Shi Mo recalled the corrupted plot of this world, his mission, and the original body's wish. He closed his eyes and remained silent for a long time.

As an operative in the Villain Department, unlike other operatives who play villains to complete the plot, his job was to use the identity of a villain to eliminate the False Protagonists who stole the protagonist's luck in these small worlds.

Shi Mo let out a soft sigh.

In small worlds thick with foul energy, there were always a few fish that slipped through the cracks of the Heavenly Dao's net.

Whether they were outsiders who didn't belong to the world, reincarnators who didn't belong to the timeline, or plunderers who stumbled upon a Wild System by chance...

They relied on their foreknowledge and so-called cheat powers to recklessly destroy the world's rules, trampling over the innocent to steal the original protagonist's luck, even causing the true protagonist to die tragically.

The original protagonist of this world, Ye Qi, as the eldest young master of the Ye family and its only heir, had been adored by everyone since childhood.

He should have, after experiencing some setbacks, taken over the Ye family and led it to even greater heights.

Then he would have devoted his life to charity, making tremendous contributions to this world, and would be remembered for generations to come.

If not for the False Protagonist of this world—Lin Ran, who had hounded Ye Qi in his past life—being reborn, that's how it should have gone.

The Lin, Ye, and Shi families had always been on good terms, and Ye Qi, Lin Ran, and Shi Mo had grown up together since childhood.

Lin Ran liked Ye Qi, and especially after Ye Qi saved him once, that affection turned into an obsession.

But Ye Qi had no feelings for him, turning him down flat from the very first confession.

Yet Lin Ran refused to give up, hounding Ye Qi at every turn.

He even used the cooperation between their families to constantly get close to Ye Qi, going after anyone who got near him, and even tried to push for a business marriage between the two families to pressure Ye Qi into marrying him.

The Lin family, for their part, had always schemed against the Ye family, wanting to swallow them whole. They used dirty tricks to set traps, but Ye Qi discovered their plot and turned the tables on them.

In the end, the Lin family got a taste of their own medicine and went bankrupt. Lin Ran, once the pampered young master of the Lin family, lost everything overnight.

This made Lin Ran hate Ye Qi, believing that Ye Qi had betrayed his affection, used his feelings to swallow up the Lin family, and caused his parents' deaths.

He wanted to ram his car into Ye Qi and take them both out, but in the end, he died in that car crash while Ye Qi only suffered minor injuries.

Lin Ran refused to accept it. The Heavenly Dao had a loophole, letting him get reborn by pure chance.

So, starting over, Lin Ran used his foreknowledge to go on a vengeful rampage against Ye Qi, wanting him to pay in blood, and even teamed up with the villain who'd also gone against Ye Qi in his past life.

And his current identity was that very villain—Ye Qi's lifelong nemesis since childhood.

The original Shi Mo had always disliked Ye Qi and butted heads with him at every turn, but it was all minor squabbling, since the two families had business dealings and couldn't afford to make things too messy.

But after the Ye family annexed the Lin family, the win-win-win situation was broken.

Afraid the Shi family would be next on the chopping block, the original host began targeting Ye Qi as well, but ultimately lost to him, got shipped abroad, and never came back.

Although the three of them had grown up together, Lin Ran and the original host didn't cross paths much—only when Lin Ran went to pester Ye Qi would the original host show up to watch the fireworks.

But Lin Ran had a weird delusion, convinced that in his past life, the original host went after Ye Qi because he had a crush on him.

So, starting over, he not only wanted revenge on Ye Qi but also wanted to treasure this "fan" who'd always been trailing after him.

That's what Lin Ran thought, but after being reborn, he squeezed the original host and the Shi family dry.

In the end, to plot and kill Ye Qi, he had the original host and Ye Qi both die in that abandoned warehouse.

Before leaving, he even shed a few tears, saying all sweetly:

"I know you liked me, and in your past life, you even got revenge for me. You'd definitely want me to have a better life this time around, so don't worry—I'll live my best life for the both of us."

Shi Mo still found it kind of funny looking back.

Because in the corrupted plot, Ye Qi indeed died in that explosion.

And the original host was literally pissed to death by Lin Ran's backstabbing of an ally and those words.

So when 447 made a deal with the original host, and he learned the truth, he readily handed over the rights to his body to them.

His only wish was to protect the Shi family and make that psycho Lin Ran go back to where he came from!

As for Ye Qi—if he could deal with it, great; if not, whatever.

Shi Mo opened his eyes, a flash of crimson in them, and let out a soft sigh.

Unfortunately, he'd come in at the wrong timeline, showing up three years early in this world. He'd originally planned to just kill Lin Ran outright before anything went down.

But after a few tries, he gave up—because unless he killed the reborn Lin Ran, the mission in this world couldn't be completed.

So he spent three years in this world playing the villain, watching Lin Ran's borderline-insane obsession and constant hounding of Ye Qi, and occasionally popping over to watch the show.

And yesterday was when Lin Ran was reborn.

Just reborn and not able to do much yet, Lin Ran only wanted to humiliate Ye Qi at tonight's charity gala.

In the plot, he did succeed.

But tonight, he'd warned Ye Qi.

But maybe because they'd been rivals for so long, even though he'd warned Ye Qi the drink was spiked, Ye Qi still drank it—and ended up getting taken advantage of by him...

"He'll come to me on his own."

Shi Mo snapped out of his thoughts, his tone all casual and indifferent.

With that, he got out of the tub, dried off, wrapped himself in a bathrobe, and walked barefoot over to the bed and sat on the edge.

Lying down, Shi Mo rubbed his eye, feeling sleepy.

Which made sense—he'd been going at it with Ye Qi for so long today.

Even for a succubus, his current body was starting to give out.

Shi Mo sighed and wrapped himself in the blanket, thinking over what happened tonight and the three years of interactions with Ye Qi.

His eyes flickered briefly, a faint smile curling at the corners of his lips.

He wondered how Ye Qi would react when he woke up tomorrow and realized he had slept with his "archrival."

That look would be pretty funny.

With that thought in mind, Shi Mo drifted into a deep sleep.

Little did he know, Ye Qi had already woken up shortly after he left.

Ye Qi had initially intended to reach out and embrace Shi Mo, but his hand met empty air, which jolted him awake and made him sit up in bed.

Staring at the empty spot next to him, he was silent for a while before accepting the fact that Shi Mo had slipped away.

His face blank, he turned on the light and glanced at the floor, a faint blush immediately spreading across his face.

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