Jiang Zheyu felt her temper growing shorter and shorter the more she was with Shan Xun.

’He’s killing me, I’m so mad!’

’That damn Shan Xun!’

’AAAAAH, he’s driving me crazy!’

Fuming, she tugged Shan Xun by the hand and stormed toward the base hospital. "Still so chatty? I guess that bullet wasn’t very deep!"

Shan Xun trailed after the furious Jiang Zheyu. After a moment of silence, he spoke again. "I’m sorry. Please don’t be angry."

But Jiang Zheyu was furious and had no desire to answer him. Once she had dragged him to the base hospital, she turned to leave in a huff.

"Where are you going?" Shan Xun frowned, grabbing Jiang Zheyu’s wrist. "The scene hasn’t been completely secured. We don’t know if any slipped through the cracks. Don’t leave yet."

But Jiang Zheyu was seeing red and refused to listen to a word he said.

She shook off his hand and said coldly, "Don’t worry. I’m just going back to my room to rest."

With that, Jiang Zheyu left.

Shan Xun stared at the arm the female had shaken off, unable to register what had happened for a long moment.

He watched Jiang Zheyu’s retreating figure, his brow furrowing slightly. An uncontrollable wave of irritation washed over him. He was unhappy because she was unhappy. He was angry because she was angry. The feeling left him incredibly frustrated.

This feeling tangled his thoughts into a messy ball of yarn.

Of course, he had no idea that a female needed to be coaxed.

His personality and behavior were too rigid. He never managed to say the right things a female liked to hear, nor did he know how to please one.

The Beastman Doctor was treating his wound.

"The female is angry? Do you know why she’s angry?" Shan Xun’s sharp features drooped, making him look like an abandoned, wounded wolf.

All the sharp edges of his presence seemed to have been brutally filed down, leaving him listless and miserably repressed.

’Why do I always make the female angry?’

’How can I make the female happy? How can I get along with her?’

The Beastman Doctor hadn’t expected Captain Shan to ask him such a question. He had certainly never seen the captain look so defeated, and for a moment he was both surprised and a little wistful.

Although the Beastman Doctor didn’t know what had happened between Captain Shan and Jiang Zheyu, knowing the captain’s personality, he felt it was inevitable that he would clash with a female and make her unhappy.

Still, seeing the captain’s state, he offered a tactful suggestion. "You can’t interact with a female the way you do with your subordinates. I have a detailed tutorial on how to get along with females. Would you like to see it, Captain Shan?"

There was a long silence. Just as the Beastman Doctor thought the captain wouldn’t take him up on the offer, Shan Xun spoke. "Send it to me. It’s just for the sake of the mission."

The Beastman Doctor was speechless.

’I don’t believe for a second this is just about the mission,’ he thought.

Nevertheless, he sent the detailed tutorial to Shan Xun.

Meanwhile, after storming off, Jiang Zheyu was starting to feel a little regretful.

’It wasn’t even that big of a deal. There was no need to fight about it at all.’

’It was all Shan Xun’s fault. His tone was too harsh. Of course it would provoke a bad reaction from someone.’

’And because of his tone, I couldn’t help my own tone from getting nasty.’

’If he had just spoken nicely back then and explained things clearly, everything would have been fine.’

Sigh...

Jiang Zheyu heaved a long sigh.

’But why am I still a little angry? What am I going to do?’

’It’s not like Shan Xun and I are that close. Why should I have trusted that he’d make the shot?’

’I don’t even trust Si Yu, so how could I possibly trust Shan Xun?’

’Wasn’t that just gambling with my own life?’

’Si Yu could have blown my brains out with a single shot, and I was just as worried that Shan Xun might miss Si Yu and hit me instead.’

After her explosive anger subsided, Jiang Zheyu felt drained and listless.

She felt she no longer even had the energy to be angry.

Jiang Zheyu returned to her room. She had just closed the door and was about to go lie down on her bed.

Before she could turn around, a body pressed against her from behind, and arms wrapped directly around her waist.

"You’ve been very naughty," Si Yu’s low voice came from behind her.

Jiang Zheyu’s entire body stiffened.

She sent out a probe with her spiritual power and discovered this was another Biorobot body.

So, Si Yu hadn’t controlled just one Biorobot; he had sent two.

Shan Xun had already destroyed the first Biorobot, but the other one had been hiding in Jiang Zheyu’s room.

Jiang Zheyu couldn’t help but recall what Shan Xun had said at the base hospital—that things weren’t secure yet, that he was worried some might have slipped through, and that she shouldn’t leave.

’Shan Xun was right. One really did slip through.’

’I’m so screwed. If I’d known, I wouldn’t have stormed off in a huff. Now I’ve been caught again.’

’Will Shan Xun come for me?’

Jiang Zheyu had a feeling that if she were captured this time, it would not end well for her. Her heart leaped into her throat.

"Si Yu..." Jiang Zheyu tried to stall for time.

But the moment those two words left her lips, her vision went black.

In the last second before everything went dark, a single thought flashed through Jiang Zheyu’s mind: ’This is the end for me.’

...

Jiang Zheyu was woken by a wave of stifling heat, her body damp with sweat.

She opened her eyes to pitch darkness. She couldn’t see a thing.

"System, am I blind?" Jiang Zheyu hurriedly asked.

She suspected Si Yu might have blinded her.

"You are not blind. This is a dark room," the System’s mechanical voice rang in her ear. "There is no light, so it is normal that you cannot see."

Jiang Zheyu moved her hands and feet slightly, only to hear the clinking of chains.

She felt like she was about to completely lose it.

’Damn it! I’ve been captured again!’

’And isn’t this the kind of treatment reserved for the female lead? How did it end up happening to me?’

’See? This is what happens. You really can’t get involved with a psycho.’

’One little disagreement and it’s straight to the dark room and iron chains.’

Jiang Zheyu didn’t have time to dwell on that. Her body was burning up. Sweat was already pouring out, soaking her hair and clothes. She felt like she was going to explode from the heat.

She felt so thirsty... so needy.

She desperately wanted a man.

"Did Si Yu do something to me?" Jiang Zheyu tugged at her clothes. "He didn’t drug me, did he? System, give me an antidote."

"Affirmative, Host," the System responded.

After she took the antidote, the feeling indeed subsided a great deal.

’Ha! He thinks he can drug me? He has no idea I have the System, does he?’

Just then, a noise came from up ahead.

The door opened, and the flood of light made Jiang Zheyu squint. It was painfully bright, and her eyes struggled to adjust.

Si Yu walked in slowly. He wore a Baise suit as white as snow, and his long, silver hair seemed to catch the light in every smooth strand. Backlit as he was, he looked like a divine messenger.

But Jiang Zheyu knew he was anything but.