Chapter 1

Chapter 1

The bullet chat was stunned.

[LMAO, the male lead schemes all he can, but it’s nothing compared to his stupid sister’s sudden flash of inspiration.]

[She actually confessed to the world’s most brutal and inhuman Ghost King? Is she worried she won’t die fast enough?]

[Calling him “Senior”? I’m dying. I guess being several thousand years older technically makes him a senior.]

[Tsk tsk, I can’t look. This supporting female character is definitely going to be torn to shreds…]

My heart hammered against my ribs like a drum. I was so terrified I didn’t dare lift my head.

I regretted everything. I should have listened to my brother and stayed home like a good girl.

The Sound Transmission Jade Slip lying on the ground still emitted a faint glow.

The message showed as “read,” yet there was no reply.

A bitter sense of despair welled up in my chest, and I felt the pathetic urge to cry again.

My brother… it really felt like he didn’t want me anymore.

[Sigh, the male lead only stayed away on purpose because he wanted his sister to be a bit more independent.]

[They’re both grown up now, after all, but the sister still clings to him every day like a child. Anyone would get tired of that.]

[Exactly. The brother is the number one genius of the Way of Detachment. He carries the heavy burden of saving the world. Not only is he busy to death every day, but he also has to clean up his sister’s messes. He’s had enough.]

[The sister wandering into the demon’s den this time was also the male lead’s intentional arrangement. He just wanted to teach her a lesson.]

[Once she’s been hurt and knows what pain feels like, she won’t run around everywhere anymore.]

[He originally arranged for the lowest-level monsters, which wouldn’t have been life-threatening, but he didn’t expect the big villain to show up today to catch the runaway female lead…]

[All I can say is, safe travels to the sister on her way to the afterlife…]

[Uh, why are you guys feeling bad for her? I think it’s better if this useless girl dies. She’s just a drag on the male lead anyway.]

They were right.

Without me as a burden, my brother would live a better life.

The tears I had been suppressing for so long finally broke free. Warm droplets fell, one by one, onto the Ghost King’s pale, cold fingertips.

His palm paused. He narrowed his long, thin eyes.

The look in his gaze was dark and unreadable.

Villains hated cowardly tears.

Just when I thought I was about to be strangled to death, he suddenly let go.

He stared at my flushed, suffocating face and smiled.

“You like me?”

Air rushed back into my lungs.

Before my brain could even process the question, my survival instinct forced an answer out of my throat.

“…I do.”

“You want to be with me?”

I took a deep breath and gritted my teeth.

“Yes.”

“Oh-”

His phoenix eyes narrowed slightly as he took his time looking me over. From head to toe, he didn’t miss a single spot.

I subconsciously tensed my body, only to be caught off guard by his satisfied inner thoughts:

[Her little face is so red. She’s so shy she doesn’t even dare look at me.]

[Hmm~ She really is this Esteemed Lord’s little fangirl.]

…

I clenched my fists, my face turning an even deeper shade of red.

“What is your name?”

“…Pei, Yunmiao.”

I lowered my eyes, my voice trembling. This was the name my brother had given me.

The man raised an eyebrow. His crimson pupils shone with startling brightness in the dark, burning with an inexplicable sense of pleasure and excitement.

“Wrong.”

He pressed a hand onto my head, looking down at me. He spoke with absolute conviction:

“Your name is Pei Miaomiao.”

“My Pei Miaomiao.”