People are in Honkai Impact 3rd, there's a villain simulator.

Hearing Fu Hua's words, Qiao Qiao felt a significant weight lifted from her shoulders. She glanced at Fu Hua's slender fingers as she held them.

It doesn't seem quite right for a married man like me to be so intimate with a beautiful young woman...

Qiaoqiao withdrew her hand from the delicate, fair fingertips of the woman, and said with a smile, "Thank you for your comfort. I feel much better."

Seeing Jojo pull her hand away, Fu Hua felt very sad, but then she thought that it was only natural for him to do so. After all, the 'Jojo' who used to love her was dead, and the current Jojo was Aponia's husband.

"It's alright. There are only the two of us on this island, so of course we should look after each other." Fu Hua's unpleasant expression vanished in an instant, and he cheered up, saying, "Why don't you forget about your wife today and chat with me?"

Qiao Qiao was quite happy to chat with Fu Hua. Last time in the simulation, the two of them could only be enemies. This time, even if it was just to reconnect and be ordinary friends, it would be fine. But he was so sleepy that he yawned, rubbed his eyes, and said, "Let's go to bed early tonight."

Seeing Qiao Qiao yawning from sleepiness, Fu Hua saw an opportunity to get closer to her and mustered up her courage to say, "Do you want to rest for a bit? I can lend you my leg."

Qiao Qiao saw Fu Hua gently patting her fair and smooth legs, signaling for Qiao Qiao to relax and fall asleep. This made Qiao Qiao stare wide-eyed. Although he had played with Fu Hua's thighs and Aponia's fair and tender feet, he had never let a woman give him a lap pillow before.

This Fu Hua from The Sims feels quite different from the stereotypical "straight woman" I used to know.

Fu Hua offered me a lap pillow; such a good thing would never have happened during the last simulation.

Faced with Fu Hua's fair and smooth thighs, what would you choose...?

Option 1: Walk away immediately, saying coldly, "I'm a married man. Don't try to seduce me anymore."

[Option 2: Resting her head on Fu Hua's lap, she happily said, "I haven't been this happy in a long time. Thank you, Hua."]

Option 2, isn't that just putting Aponia in a cuckold's lap?

To be honest, a decent man should choose the first option and reject the temptation of superficiality.

But... this is, after all, a villain's life simulator. It would be so boring to be a good person like in real life.

To hell with ethics and morality, I can't miss the immortal's lap pillow!

After choosing the second option, Qiaoqiao slowly rested her head on Fu Hua's fair and smooth thigh, and the feeling was absolutely amazing.

[Congratulations, host, you have received 100 crystals.]

Fu Hua looked at Qiao Qiao sleeping on her lap and the corners of her mouth turned up slightly. She was very happy that Qiao Qiao could be so close to her now, something that she could never have done with Qiao Qiao in the past.

Fu Hua gently stroked Qiao Qiao's hair with his delicate, fair fingers, which surprised him greatly.

In the last simulation, although Qiao Qiao took advantage of Fu Hua quite a bit, Fu Hua still harbored resentment towards Qiao Qiao and had never treated her so gently before.

It feels pretty good sometimes, like this.

Qiaoqiao lay on Fuhua's fair and smooth thighs, forgetting her worries like a child. Gazing at the ebb and flow of the tide under the sea breeze, she felt an unprecedented sense of satisfaction and slowly fell asleep.

Looking at Qiaoqiao's adorable sleeping face on his lap, Fu Hua couldn't help but smile. He secretly leaned down and kissed his handsome cheek: "Qiaoqiao, wouldn't it be wonderful if you could stay by my side like this forever?"

Chapter Fifty-Four: The Deepest Place

After obtaining the scales of the Judgment-class Honkai Beast Midoro, you returned to your private mansion in Twilight Street and knocked on Aponia's door, but received no response.

Since you married her, she has wanted to escape from you every day, but you have never let her go. You have chained her hands and feet to the idol, making her like a caged bird unable to fly out of your grasp.

You hired ten maids to take care of her daily needs and several chefs to prepare her meals, but she always chases away the maids and refuses to eat the food prepared by the chefs.

[And for her feeble resistance, you would give her a little "punishment" every day.]

Today, she once again spilled the chef's meal on the floor, and you immediately grabbed handcuffs and went into Aponia's room.

You opened Aponia's door without her permission, and there she was, dressed in a black nun's habit, kneeling devoutly before a statue she had carved herself.

Aponia's expression remained remarkably calm upon your arrival. Glancing at the handcuffs in your hand out of the corner of her eye, she said, "You want to punish me again today, don't you?"

[Aponia felt utterly disgusted by your punishment, yet she couldn't escape it. Over time, she grew indifferent, numb to your actions of toying with her body, and completely unconcerned.]

Surprisingly, instead of "punishing" her as usual, you put shackles on her hands and feet and took her to the "deepest part" beneath the Fire-Chasing Moths.

You chained Aponia's hands and feet to the wall, and she struggled against the chains as if she were about to charge at you, gritting her teeth as she said, "Jojo, what torture methods do you intend to use on me this time?"

Upon hearing this, you coldly looked at Aponia, reached out and lifted her chin, saying, "Aponia, I'm tired of you. You're no longer my wife, and you have no right to live in my mansion anymore."

Hearing Jojo say he wanted to break up with her, Aponia was skeptical. She had tried every possible way to escape from Jojo before, but each time he had stopped her. He would do anything to get her, so Aponia didn't believe Jojo was truly willing to abandon her.

[I suspect Qiao Qiao is playing some kind of passive-aggressive game, deliberately wanting to see me begging him.]

Aponia said calmly, "What kind of reaction do you hope to see from me? Do you want me to kneel down and beg you to let me stay by your side?"

[You're not going to keep wasting your breath on Aponia, so you release her chin, turn away cruelly, and say, "Aponia, stop deluding yourself. From now on, we have nothing to do with each other. This 'deepest place' is your home, and you'll never see me again."]

With that, Jojo slammed the prison door shut and walked towards the other side where Aponia was. A cherry-haired girl with a katana at her waist, who seemed to have been waiting for a long time, walked towards Jojo.

That's... Qiaoqiao's new love.

Seeing Jojo and Sakura leave together, Aponia stood frozen in place. She had tried so hard to escape from him before, and now, just as she wished, she had been abandoned by Jojo and had nothing more to do with him. Yet, she felt a deep sense of resentment and humiliation.

A helpless smile appeared on Aponia's lips. She should have realized that a handsome, refined, and wealthy boy like Jojo couldn't possibly like her; it was all just a game for him.

As Aponia watched your receding figure, she murmured to herself, "I always thought you were foolish, but now I realize I was the real fool, which is why I kept believing you."

At this moment, Aponia is utterly disappointed in you, having abandoned any remaining affection for you, and her heart is filled with murderous intent.

[Congratulations, host, you have received the reward—Divine Sound.]

[This reward can mentally interfere with any sentient being. For those with Honkai adaptability below B-rank Valkyrie, you can freely create illusions and control their actions. For those with Honkai adaptability above B-rank Valkyrie, your divine voice can modify their physical strength by influencing their mind.]

Seeing the reward given by the Villain Life Simulator, Qiao Qiao was not moved at all. After all, he had seen many strange abilities in the simulator. This divine sound was nothing more than being able to influence other people's minds. To Qiao Qiao, it was nothing special.

An even bigger surprise is yet to come.

After you left the deepest place, you stood outside the tightly closed cell door, reluctant to leave for a long time.

Seeing your motionless, forlorn expression, Sakura couldn't help but step forward and say, "You love Aponia so much, yet you were so cruel to her, making her hate you so much... was it all really worth it?"

You glanced at Sakura's worried expression, clenched your fist, and made a silent vow: "As long as she's happy, even if she hates me for the rest of her life, I'm willing."

Upon hearing your answer, Sakura immediately adjusted her stance, viewing herself solely as your job, a bloodstained blade, and no longer objecting to your decision.

[By imprisoning your one true love deep within, you also lose your only attachment. You then begin a frantic purge of the forces that oppose you, like moths drawn to a flame.]

[Your methods of sweeping away criminals are extremely simple and brutal. You'd rather kill a hundred innocent people than let one guilty person go free. Even if someone just says the wrong thing, they might be imprisoned in the deepest place. It's like a brutal and unreasonable version of a literary inquisition. Everyone in the entire Moth Chasing the Flame lives in fear.]

[Congratulations, host, you have received 500 crystals.]

[You ordered a large number of members of the Firemoth to undergo super-transformation surgery, resulting in the deaths of many excellent warriors on the operating table. You also specifically ordered that Gretchen, the daughter of Hen and Blanca, who was not yet fourteen years old, be put on the operating table.]

[Congratulations, host, you have received 500 crystals.]

[Mebius was initially pleased to have obtained a large number of high-quality test subjects from you, but upon seeing Gretchen on the experimental table, she resolutely launched into a tirade against you. You immediately retorted sarcastically, "Mebius, I originally thought that as the most inquisitive researcher among the Flame Chasers, as the purest form of evil, you could understand my feelings. But now it seems your so-called evil isn't thorough enough."]

Seeing your crazed expression, even Dr. Möbius felt a chill run down her spine. Although she was willing to sacrifice others' lives for scientific research, she would also conduct experiments on herself. In essence, she considered her own life and the lives of others to be equal, willing to sacrifice them for science. However, she could not trample human lives underfoot like you do for your own purposes.

[You immediately order Sakura to make Dr. Möbius ten years younger, and then imprison him in the "deepest place."]

[Congratulations, host, you have received 500 crystals.]

[You eliminated all opposition forces with your swift and decisive methods. Many people surrendered to you to protect themselves, and your power grew rapidly. You soon announced the removal of Dr. Mei from his position and imprisoned him in the 'Deepest Place'.]

[Now, the entire Fire-Chasing Moth is in your hands.]

[Congratulations, host, you have received 500 crystals.]

[And soon, your brutal rule was met with a fierce backlash, the first to bear the brunt being the warrior bearing the inscription of 'hero'—Kevin.]

For the sake of the woman he loved, he raised the Heavenly Fire Judgment, activated the Annihilation Mode, and aimed it at the tyrant who reigned over the Fire-Chasing Moths.

But you couldn't help but smile.

Chapter 55 Kevin, you don't want Dr. Mei to...

Kevin exuded a cold and stern aura, the Heavenly Judgment in his hand burning with scorching flames; even its embers were enough to engulf the entire headquarters of the Firemoth.

[Your eyes reflected a raging fire, and you couldn't help but smile, clap, and cheer. You walked to a box-like object tightly covered by a black cloth, then lifted the cloth to reveal a cold, beautiful woman with black hair imprisoned inside.]

Dr. Mei was imprisoned in a cold iron cage. Her once bright and smooth black hair was now disheveled, her hands and feet were bound by chains, and a black collar was around her neck. The former leader of the Moth Chaser had fallen to the point of being a prisoner.

Seeing Mei trapped, Kevin was eager to turn you into the embers of his fiery blade, but you calmly and collectedly stopped him, pulling on the chain of Dr. Mei's collar, forcing her cold and beautiful face closer to your sneer.

[You inhaled the delicate, orchid-like fragrance emanating from Dr. Mei, and smugly tugged at the collar around her neck, saying, "This collar is a life-sensing connection collar that Velvet crafted for me. If my body is injured, the person wearing this collar will also be injured..."]

Your eyes gleamed with an eerie purple light, a cold smile playing on your lips as you looked down at Kevin and said, "In other words... if you kill me, Dr. Mei will die too."

To verify the truth of your words, you even went so far as to stab your own right hand with a knife.

[The instant you pierced your own palm, Dr. Mei's body convulsed, letting out a painful scream, and a wound identical to yours appeared on her palm.]

Even though Dr. Mei's face was pale with pain, she was unwilling to become a hostage for Jojo to threaten Kevin. Her eyes were resolute as she said, "Kevin, don't worry about me, just kill that scum Jojo!"

Hearing Dr. Mei's words, Kevin was torn. Although he wanted nothing more than to kill you, he couldn't bring himself to hurt his beloved Dr. Mei.

Ultimately, Kevin succumbed to the darkness for the sake of his loved ones, forced to relinquish the Judgment of Heavenly Fire.

[Congratulations, host, for taming the Thirteen Heroes of the Flame Chaser, the warrior Kevin who bears the inscription of 'Salvation'. You have received 500 crystals.]

After taming Kevin, you could say you've eliminated the greatest threat to you among the Firemoths, but then another threat appeared before you: the warrior bearing the inscription "Sunrise"—Kosmo.

[Kosmo, like Kevin, is one of the future Thirteen Heroes of the Flame Chaser. He possesses the genes of the Honkai Beast "Vishnu" fused within him, granting him the terrifying ability to "infinitely grow stronger" by devouring other Honkai Beasts, just like Vishnu. Currently, "Vishnu" within him has surpassed the Judgment level, becoming a "Doomsday Level" Honkai Beast.]

The young man with black hair and eyes as clear and orange as the sunset entered your room after Kevin. Looking at his slightly immature, delicate face and slender shoulders, you coldly said, "Even Kevin has submitted to me, what can you possibly do?"

The green-haired boy clenched his right fist at his waist: "Even if I face an opponent Kevin can't defeat, I won't run away. I must kill you, so that everyone can be happy."

The boy's unwavering determination stirs your emotions. If this were a shonen manga, you, the villain, would be defeated by the "hero" before you. But you already know Kosmo's greatest weakness, and before him, the curtain is drawn back to reveal the iron cage imprisoning Gretchen.

You held onto the collar around Gretchen's neck, playing with her delicate, white feet, and said with a cold smile, "Kosmo, Gretchen is on me now, and you don't want..."

In the end, Kosmo was eliminated at lightning speed.

[Congratulations, host, for taming one of the Thirteen Heroes of the Flame Chaser, the warrior known as "Sunrise," Kosmo, and for receiving 500 crystals.]

After Kevin and Kosmo submitted to you, you handed each of them a maid outfit.

Seeing Kevin and Kosmo dressed in maid outfits, their expressions of utter hatred for you yet forced to submit, you couldn't help but burst into maniacal laughter: "I love seeing your expressions of wanting to kill me, yet being completely powerless to do anything about it."

[Congratulations, host, you have received 200 crystals.]

[The first of the Thirteen Heroes of the Flame Chaser—Kevin, the third—Aponia, the eighth—Sakura, the ninth—Kosmo, the tenth—Mebius, and the eleventh—have all fallen into your hands.]

After a moment of euphoria, you calmed down and said coldly, "Next... is you—Vilvie of 'Spiral'!"

Having tamed Kevin, the leader of the Thirteen Heroes of the Flame Chaser and the strongest human, you now face no further obstacles within the Flame Chaser Moth and can proceed directly to the Spiral Workshop to capture Velvet.

[As the most outstanding genius inventor of this century, Kevelvi is certainly not stupid. She had already foreseen that after Kevin's defeat, you would be eager to take her into your possession. So, she escaped from the headquarters of the Firemoth with the remaining thirteen heroes: Alicia, Eden, Hua, and Su.]