Mortal Kombat: Scumbag Men Stealing Away Yandere Girls

[System notification: The situation involving your mission target, S-rank girl Xia Yanle, with a danger level of 3, has been successfully resolved.]

"…………???"

What's going on? This has never happened before?

Out of caution, Bai Weiran decided to go invisible to check the situation. He chose to land next to Xia Yanle and appeared in the mall in the blink of an eye. He found that the crowd was surrounded by three layers of people, who were talking about it. In the center of the crowd were two policemen, Xia Yanle and another girl.

"She tried to attack me, but failed." Xia Yanle's tone was both cold and gentle, making her easily recognizable in the crowd, like a slightly warm osmanthus-flavored lotus root.

Xia Yanle remained silent, exuding a cool and aloof aura, but the moment she opened her mouth, she revealed such a stark contrast.

“I wasn’t a victim, but there are other victims.”

Xia Yanle held up a bubblegum-flavored ice cream bucket in the crowd, and precisely pierced the bucket with a fruit knife. The melting ice cream dripped down the handle of the knife, filling the scene with the smell of bubblegum, giving people a sticky and sweet feeling.

Xiaoya, the instigator, knelt on the ground, head bowed, sobbing uncontrollably.

Xia Yanle handed the bubble gum ice cream tub with the knife stuck in it to the policeman.

"I'm handing the victim over to you. You can take your time getting his statement!"

The police were dumbfounded; as they took the victim, their hands were covered in sugar water.

Xia Yanle, however, acted as if nothing had happened. She bent down and picked out another intact tub of ice cream from the freezer, said "Excuse me," and walked through the crowd away.

Bai Weiran: …………

He thought for half a second, then quietly followed behind her.

Xia Yanle checked out at the self-service checkout, left the mall, and headed home carrying her ice cream bucket.

The streetlights came on, there were few pedestrians, and a cool autumn breeze lifted her hair, revealing her slender neck and pearly earlobes.

"...Why were you hiding and peeking all day? Why were you so secretive?" she asked abruptly.

Bai Weiran was not surprised.

He had been warned before entering the mission that Xia Yanle had the ability to counter the surveillance system. He was wondering how Xia Yanle could counter the surveillance system, but he got the answer in the coffee shop private room last time. Xia Yanle seemed to be able to sense the existence of the system, and he himself was brought to this world by the system. He was like a bug. Even if he was invisible, Xia Yanle could find him accurately.

"You didn't hide anything, you just didn't have the opportunity to show your face. You handled it very well."

Xia Yanle pursed her lips and walked forward as if no one else was around. The pedestrians who brushed past her were not surprised to see her muttering to herself and ignored her, assuming that she was wearing headphones and talking on the phone.

"You were able to get here so quickly... So you were spying on me?"

"...I'm sorry, this is to eliminate any danger around you and ensure your safety."

“Oh, so you’re spying on me.” She chuckled softly.

"I've always been the one spying on others; this is the first time I've been spyed on—"

Bai Weiran couldn't quite grasp the underlying meaning behind Xia Yanle's words.

Was she genuinely angry, or was she experiencing twisted joy?

Xia Yanle's emotional expression was more profound than that of all the yandere girls he had ever been with.

He even felt at one point that Xia Yanle had lost the empathy that people should have.

But today...

"You're deliberately letting her go, aren't you?" Bai Weiran whispered, his voice carried lightly by the breeze past Xia Yanle's ear.

She just left behind an ice cream tub as a victim and ran away. What can the police do? Besides making the girl pay compensation, can they ask her to pay for the ice cream tub with her life?

Xia Yanle paused for a moment, lowered her eyelashes, and looked at the newly paved, smooth red brick sidewalk beneath her feet.

"Are you trying to say that I deliberately disrupted the police investigation because I thought she was my friend and that we were old friends, so I wanted to let her go, and then say something like, 'You're actually a kind and gentle person,'"

She turned to smile at Bai Weiran, a hint of mischief in her eyes.

No, not at all.

"That's not what I was thinking."

"I've already said it! I'm a monster, and monsters naturally have emotional flaws."

"I was just imitating, imitating what a 'gentle and kind person' should be like. When we were friends before, I was imitating the behavior of a 'good friend'—giving birthday gifts, writing cards, traveling together, studying together, shopping together—"

Xia Yanle raised her hand, made a circle with her index finger and thumb, squinted one eye, and looked through that circle at the edge of the sky where only a little bit of sunset red remained.

“I have read many works that describe these actions at length and with overflowing emotion. One of them is quite interesting. It says that these little things are like pearls, strung together by time, becoming irreplaceable and precious moments in life.”

Xia Yanle chuckled, but there was a hint of mockery in her laughter.

"But no one told me what to do if I didn't think these moments were precious at all, and didn't feel any emotion in my heart? I just thought it was fun and novel, but nothing more."

She lowered her fingers, a faint blue light flickering in her eyes.

"What happened today wasn't because I was gentle or forgave her out of consideration for the past. I just felt sorry for her. I think she was a true friend to me—at least for a moment! Before Qin Yun came along, I was just imitating the behavior of a good friend when I interacted with her."

Xia Yanle arrived home, took out her keys to open the door, and made an elegant "please" gesture towards Bai Weiran.

"Are you planning to stay out of the way all day and keep it a secret?"

"I have a cold and I look a bit disheveled right now, so I'm not fit to see anyone."

"I didn't realize you had such an image to maintain." Xia Yanle laughed in surprise, then looked puzzled as she held the slightly melted ice cream.

"So you can't eat ice cream anymore? I was thinking of buying some for you."

“I noticed you really enjoyed it last time, and giving you only two scoops of ice cream as payment was too little. I feel uneasy about it.”

The ice cream bucket in Xia Yanle's hand floated up on its own and smoothly flew into the open refrigerator freezer.

"Thank you, then I'll leave it for now and eat it when I'm better."

Xia Yanle shrugged noncommittally. The next second, she saw the freezer open again, the ice cream bucket flying out, and the pen on the table seemed to be held in someone's hand, writing on the lid of the ice cream bucket.

Before I could even read what it said, the ice cream bucket flew back into the freezer.

Xia Yanle: …………? ?

Bai Weiran calmly replied, "It's like an insurance policy, to prevent someone from sneaking a bite right after recovering from an illness."

Xia Yanle: …………

I'm the only one living in this house. Aren't you pointing at me and accusing me of stealing food?

She's not that naive.

"I'm going back to rest now. You've just recovered from your illness, so don't stay up too late." Bai Weiran paused mid-sentence.

"Oh, by the way, about what you just said, you said you're like a monster, unable to experience this feeling, and that all your actions are just imitations of it."

“A friend of mine was like that before. Don’t worry, you’re not alone.”

"He got better later."

"...Your friend, who?"

His name is Bai Weiran.

The room fell silent.

Xia Yanle was silent for a while, then ran to open the freezer and laughed when she saw the words written on the ice cream tub.

[For Wei Ran's exclusive use; those who sneak a bite will gain ten pounds.]

Chapter Seventeen: Playing video games with my sister!?

[A-Chao Super Burn: Brother Weiran, waaaaaaah! Boss Shengnan finally agreed to be with me.]

Bai Weiran: ?

[A-Chao Super Burn: Sheng-Nan promised me that if I can complete the development of this new feature module on my own and achieve a performance rating of A or above, he will allow me to transfer to another team.]

Bai Weiran: …………

Only a naive fresh graduate like Ah Chao would believe the promises made by his superiors.

In a company, whether performance is high or low ultimately depends on the boss's word.

If Sheng Nan wants to release Achao, she'll probably have to do something else.

He was thinking to himself, but sent Ah Chao a "Good luck" emoji.

Suddenly, Bai Weiran's colleagues on both sides of the workstation exclaimed in surprise. Bai Weiran was confused but did not join in the fun. He opened the development software and planned to continue adjusting the values ​​of the existing modules. Guoguo sent him a message.

[Guoguo is alive today: Weiran, quickly check your company mailbox! There's a new email copied to the entire company—it's shocking news!]

[Guoguo is not dead today: Our mysterious fourth boss has finally shown up!]

Bai Weiran: ...?

An email addressed to all company colleagues first welcomed the company's major shareholder, the fourth boss, without even mentioning Qin Ning's name directly, but referring to her by her English name. Then it announced the establishment of a new business unit, to be jointly created by General Manager Han Xin and the new boss.

Unlike other existing business units at World Entertainment, this division does not focus on game development but rather on IP incubation. It is committed to developing new IPs and considering the feasibility of expanding the company's existing game IPs.

Bai Weiran understood; this was what Qin Ning had said she was busy with.

Compared to making games, developing IPs requires more commercial thinking and skills, which is indeed more suitable for her.

[Guoguo is still alive today: I think it's a bit uncertain whether this will work out, but being willing to invest in IP development and try something new isn't a bad thing for our company. I also need to tell Ningning.]

Bai Weiran: ...I think she already knew.

To expand this new business unit, Sylvia rented another floor, the seventeenth floor.

For a time, the renovation on the sixteenth floor was going on every day with hammering and banging. To put it nicely, it was very lively; to put it bluntly, it was so noisy that it was exhausting and impossible to concentrate. Everyone had to bring their own earplugs or noise-canceling headphones.

Bai Weiran recovered quickly and was as good as new by Tuesday. However, the noise from the upstairs renovation affected his work efficiency. Work that he used to finish before 8 o'clock now always took until 10 or 11 o'clock.

At 11 p.m., he archived the data he had halfway through testing, rubbed the back of his neck, and leaned back in his office chair. He felt the light above him was too bright and couldn't help but close his eyes.

Everyone else in this work area has left, leaving him alone.

Although my body is tired, I still feel quite energetic.

I wonder what Qin Ning is doing?

She's been very busy lately, preparing for university applications and the establishment of a new business unit.

Although in the present world, Qin Ning was in a coma for three years, for Qin Ning, these three years were not a blank; her consciousness was constantly learning from her counterpart in another parallel world.

He couldn't say for sure what would happen next, but for now, Qin Ning didn't seem to need anyone's worry.