Chapter 88: The Body Is Often More Honest Than the Mind

No, this is not how things were supposed to go.

At this rate, his aggressive advance should have driven the target’s attraction downward—but instead, it had climbed another ten percent.

Even for Li Shuyi’s primary personality, the one who kept saying no with her mouth, her body was still answering him with a frankly honest degree of receptiveness the moment he drew near.

This...

This made his plan rather difficult to continue.

Should he simply switch tactics and go after Li Shuyi’s main personality directly?

Wen Nan’s thoughts scattered in all directions, and the movement with which he had been pressing forward came to an unintentional halt.

Sensing his hesitation, Li Shuyi lifted one hand and gently pushed against his chest, tilting her head up to look at him. “Mr. Ye... p-please let go of me...”

Wen Nan did not continue testing her. Yielding to the force of her push, he indeed stepped back a little.

Nine Five Two Seven: Target “The Young Married Woman Next Door, Fierce as a Wolf and Hungry as a Tiger” has reduced attraction: 16%.

Wen Nan: ?

That could go down too?

He stepped forward again, raised his hand once more, and brushed the tear-damp chill from Li Shuyi’s face. Near her ear, he continued to tempt her in a low voice:

“Madam, your late husband has been gone for three years. Rather than being trapped in the pain of the past day after day, why not use this special day to begin again in a special way?”

As he spoke, his palm slid from her cheek to the slender line of her neck, then to the raised collarbone, and farther down...

The soft, thin neckline of her nightclothes was easily tugged open by his wrist...

Nine Five Two Seven: Congratulations, target “The Young Married Woman Next Door, Fierce as a Wolf and Hungry as a Tiger” has risen to 30%.

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[Heh, I’m really not surprised at all.]

[All right, looks like we’ll be seeing each other again in three hours. Even the wheel tracks are gone now.]

[So what exactly is going on with the young married woman? Can the streamer really pursue her like this? I’m honestly dying to know.]

[Before I entered this game, I was a doctor in real life. Judging from Li Shuyi’s condition, I think there’s a very high chance she has dissociative identity disorder.]

[!]

[You mean that kind you often see in movies? Two personalities switching back and forth?]

[Yes. The one in the CEO’s office earlier was probably her alternate personality. Usually, if such an alternate personality appears, it’s either due to innate heredity or because the person suffered some major upheaval in their external environment. From her background profile, I’d guess this alternate personality was born on the day her late husband died.]

[So that’s why she said in the CEO’s office that the anniversary of her late husband’s death was her birthday?]

[It should be.]

Star-rated user Little Fatty has entered this livestream. Welcome!

[Whoa, star-rated user!]

[Hey, isn’t this the guy who was with that big guild last time? You’ve settled on Nine Times Lang’s stream too?]

[*Little Fatty*: Uh, I got blocked as soon as I came in... Heh, that’s really bad timing.]

[If you live in this stream, you’ll find blocking is the norm. There’s no such thing as good or bad timing.]

[Exactly. If you come in and it isn’t blocked, that’s when it’s rare.]

[*Little Fatty*: All right, what are you talking about?]

[About dissociative identity disorder—the married ghost girl the streamer is currently pursuing.]

[*Little Fatty*: Uh, no, that’s a female ghost boss in a game. Since when do ghost girls have dissociative identity disorder...?]

[They don’t? But the young married woman really does have two different background profiles.]

[*Little Fatty*: Background profiles are adjusted according to the player’s situation. The moment a player chooses the ghost girl they want to pursue, the ghost girl’s past memories and subsequent behavior patterns are adjusted in response so the player can interact with the chosen ghost girl as fully as possible.]

[*Little Fatty*: But from my previous experience, adjusting a ghost girl’s background is like restoring factory settings—it completely overwrites the previous version.]

[*Little Fatty*: For both the old and new versions to exist at the same time after a failed overwrite... that’s just too strange.]

[(⊙_◎)]

[So a ghost girl with two personalities is actually very rare?]

[*Little Fatty*: It’s not just rare. I’ve handled a lot of ghost-girl and ordinary NPC programs for my old guild, and I’ve never seen anything like this.]

[But still, if the streamer is the one encountering it, then it should be fine, right? That big shot likes a challenge anyway.]

[Exactly. A normal player would be doomed, but for Nine Times Lang, it should be no problem.]

[From one round of six to one round of seven, it doesn’t seem like that much of a difference.]

[*Little Fatty*: No, that’s not the issue of one extra ghost girl.]

[*Little Fatty*: In this game’s rules, the task of overwriting the new version carries extremely high priority. If the old version of the married ghost girl is being preserved, that means there’s a very serious bug in this dungeon.]

[*Little Fatty*: In other words, some immensely powerful external force exists here, helping the married ghost girl retain her original version.]

[*Little Fatty*: This force is so strong that it can even overturn the underlying logic of the overwrite task.]

[(☉_☉)]

[(╬Д)]

[Brother, honestly, I didn’t understand a word you said, but that doesn’t stop me from being scared.]

[Is it really that powerful?]

[Is the streamer going to fall here?]

[Ah well, falling to a game bug isn’t shameful.]

[Nine Times Lang, the audience seat welcomes you.]

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At Li Shuyi’s home, in the bedroom.

Amid the scattered clothes, the young married woman lay flat on the bed, her chest rising and falling violently with faint tremors running through her body.

There were still tear tracks on her face; her eyes were red-rimmed, and fear lingered in her gaze. Yet her body no longer resisted as before. The stiffness that had held her waist rigid had now entirely melted away.

Her eyes rested on the man’s face before her. Her lips parted slightly, as if she wanted to say something, but in the end not a single word came out. She simply turned her head aside and no longer met his eyes.

The hands clutching the hem of his clothes gradually loosened. She parted her legs slightly, taking on an air of utter surrender.

Seeing this, Wen Nan paused in surprise, then finally gave a helpless laugh and shook his head.

He had already gone this far, and still he hadn’t managed to force out the alternate personality...

Wen Nan braced one arm on the bed and straightened up, preparing to withdraw.

At that moment, however, the woman lying on the bed suddenly changed.