When Luo Wei regained consciousness, he found his body firmly secured to a chair.
His hands and feet were tightly bound with straps, and a taut straitjacket was fitted over his clothes. Except for his head, which could move slightly, his entire body was almost completely immobilized.
"Ugh... my head hurts so much..."
Luo Wei hissed, feeling a dull ache deep in his mind.
It must be the lingering effects of the mental contamination he had experienced earlier, which hadn't fully dissipated yet.
If his [Sanity] hadn't been relatively high, he wouldn't have been able to withstand such an impact. An ordinary person standing in front of Helena would likely have been driven mad with fear.
Gritting his teeth, Luo Wei observed his surroundings.
The only light source in the room was an old oil lamp.
The flame was weak, casting dim, oppressive shadows throughout the space.
This must be the basement of the old house, as there were no windows and the air was very stuffy.
Speaking of the air, Luo Wei suddenly noticed a heavy smell of blood permeating the room.
Guided by the flickering light, he searched the darkness for a moment before his gaze settled on a particular spot.
Teacher Evelyn's corpse lay there, a large hole gaping in her chest.
Her internal organs had disappeared, or rather, had been reduced to scattered, mangled pieces – a bloody, pulpy mess.
Helena had killed Teacher Evelyn in the most brutal way possible.
Luo Wei couldn't bear to look any longer, nearly vomiting at the sight.
If Teacher Evelyn hadn't died instantly but had merely fallen unconscious, he couldn't imagine how agonizing such a horrific death must have been.
A sense of melancholy rose in his heart, akin to a rabbit mourning a fox's demise.
Next, it might be me.
Helena's last words still echoed in his ears: "Time to properly reform big brother..."
So, how would she "reform" him?
Luo Wei glanced to his other side, where a long table stood, laden with various sizes of serrated knives, along with bandages and medicines for stopping bleeding...
The scene made his scalp tingle with dread.
He wanted to die.
He truly wanted to die, as death would at least be quick, and dying meant he could start over.
Unfortunately, he couldn't move at all now, truly finding no way to end his life...
The restraints on his body were too tight; even if he exerted all his strength, he couldn't budge them in the slightest.
This restraint chair, specially made for mental patients and forged entirely of metal, was also very effective for treating humans who had gone mad due to backlash. He had used it on others before.
He never imagined that one day it would be used on himself...
Escape was completely impossible, so it seemed his only option was to talk his way out.
Luo Wei glanced at his system panel.
[Negotiation/Pacification (Master), Skill on cooldown, CD time: 00:35:03]
Half an hour, just half an hour left on the cooldown...
This was his only chance.
As he pondered, the wooden door of the basement slowly creaked open with an unpleasant sound.
The firelight illuminated Helena's face as she entered, carrying an oil lamp and wearing a smile.
"Big brother, did you miss me?"
[Helena]
[Favorability: 100]
[Contamination: 85↑]
[A twisted being who is madly in love with you]
Luo Wei silently gazed into those blue eyes, saying nothing.
"Silence means yes, you know~"
Helena's smile widened as she gently caressed Luo Wei's cheek.
"Big brother, you saw what happened to that bitch, didn't you?"
Luo Wei remained unmoved, refusing to look at the corpse.
Helena frowned, then gripped Luo Wei's chin, forcibly turning his gaze toward Teacher Evelyn.
"I want you to look at what happened to that bitch!"
Unable to resist Helena's strength, Luo Wei was forced to once again face the scene he didn't want to see.
Teacher Evelyn's hollow corpse.
"Big brother looks so sad. Could it be that you're feeling sorry for your teacher?"
Helena's smile turned cold.
She glanced at the corpse, her eyes filled with extreme disgust. "Heh, this is the fate of any woman who tries to steal big brother away."
"This is what I wanted you to see, big brother."
"Do you remember it now? Big brother?"
Her sapphire eyes fixed on Luo Wei, observing his reaction.
Luo Wei stared at Teacher Evelyn's corpse, his emotions complicated.
Actually, when Teacher Evelyn first came for the home visit, he had been quite resentful of her, worried that her interference would undo all his previous efforts.
But now that she had paid with her life, dying in extreme agony, that resentment had dissipated like smoke.
He could only blame himself for overlooking something; he hadn't anticipated that the teacher would be so kind and caring. If only he had handled the school situation more carefully...
The regret and sorrow that appeared on Luo Wei's face, however, led Helena to misunderstand.
She thought her "shock tactics" had made Luo Wei realize his mistake.
Her smile deepened.
"Since big brother knows he was wrong."
"Then... next."
"Let Helena reform you properly! Trust me, okay? After the reformation, big brother will never make such mistakes again~"
Luo Wei shifted his gaze to the increasingly excited Helena before him, his brows furrowed deeply.
"What do you intend to do to me? What exactly do you mean by 'reformation'?"
"You'll know soon enough!" Helena walked directly to the long table that resembled a butcher's block.
Then, she patiently selected from among the various knives, finally choosing one that suited her best.
Luo Wei's eyes widened in horror.
He watched as Helena, having chosen the serrated knife, began to sterilize it with alcohol, then prepared a strange-smelling potion.
Familiar with potions, he knew this was an anesthetic, usable for surgeries in this era.
"Don't be afraid, big brother. Helena will be careful~"
Having finished preparing the potion, she approached with an odd smile.
"After drinking this, big brother won't feel any pain~"
"Isn't Helena thoughtful?"
Thoughtful? Thoughtful my ass! Luo Wei's eyes were fixed on Helena as she lovingly caressed his hand.
"It's such a pity. In the past, big brother would always use these hands to gently stroke me..."
"Enjoy the feeling of being able to control your limbs for the last time, big brother."
"Because soon, they won't belong to you anymore."
Luo Wei looked at her in disbelief, beginning to understand what Helena intended to do.
That knife with its fine serrated edge was for sawing through bone during amputations...
"Madwoman... You're truly an incomprehensible lunatic..."
After being insulted, Helena didn't get angry at all. She gazed at Luo Wei softly.
"Big brother won't be able to move anymore, but Helena will take good care of you."
"Didn't big brother have many places you wanted to go? When the time comes, I can push you, and we'll travel the world together."
"We can go to the flower gardens of Eden Castle. I hear it's especially beautiful there, with tulips stretching as far as the eye can see."
"Afterwards, I'll push big brother to Brugge, the Empire's most famous commercial port. There's food from all over the world there. We can go shopping and eat delicious things every day without repeating for a whole year!"
"Oh, that's right!" Helena grew increasingly excited as she spoke, "Doesn't big brother like to research those mysterious things? During the days you were gone, Helena learned a lot, you know, and bought so many books. Helena can read them to you!"
Listening to Helena's gentle words, one after another, as if she had meticulously planned out every day of their future life after crippling him...
Luo Wei felt nothing but endless bitterness in his heart.
This twisted and heavy "love" – had he destroyed the Milky Way in his past life? Why was he being punished like this?
He didn't want to die, but he certainly didn't want to become a disabled person with his hands and feet sawn off either.
What meaning would such a life have?
The only thing he could do now was to stall for time.
Less than thirty minutes left – how could he endure this agonizing period?
But he had to do what needed to be done.
Thinking this, Luo Wei deliberately put on a bitter smile and looked at the person before him.
"Helena..."
"Let's chat with big brother for a while."
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
ap a wealthy young lady? Or else I'll be eliminated by the system? Ye Feng, who awakened the Kidnapper System, originally wanted to live a peaceful life but never imagined he would become a kidnapper of young women. However, after some time, he discovered that all the girls the system ordered him to kidnap were far from ordinary. "Big brother Ye Feng~ You've kidnapped my heart, and now you're not allowed to leave me ever again~" "Ye Feng~ You kidnapped me back then, now it's my turn to capture you♡" "Little Feng, you're mine! You can only be mine!" "Ye Feng, none of them deserve you. Only I love you the most♡" ... This is madness, they've all gone mad! Wait, what? Why are all the girls I kidnapped yanderes?!
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
