A woman lying on the bed seemed to be trapped in a nightmare, struggling restlessly.
She kept muttering, “No… No… I’m going to kill you. Kill you!”
The commotion caused by the nightmare was especially noticeable in the spacious bedroom.
The bedroom door was opened immediately afterward.
A man dressed in a black suit hurried inside.
He quickly walked to the bedside. Seeing the woman struggling and crying on the bed, his eyes were filled with heartache.
However, there were other emotions in his eyes as well.
The nervousness and fear in his gaze were unmistakable, as if he were worried about something.
He embraced the struggling woman and called out, “Yiyi, wake up. It’s me, Yichen. Yiyi…”
Gu Nanyi opened her eyes. Everything before her was blood-red, as if she could see the dismembered body of her husband and the corpse of her son.
She mistook the person holding her for her enemy and shouted, “Su Xiao, I’m going to kill you!”
She did not know what she had grabbed, but she immediately stabbed it into the back of the person holding her.
Pei Yichen could tell that something was wrong with Gu Nanyi, so he did not resist.
When Gu Nanyi felt the warmth of fresh blood on her hand, she realized something was wrong. Her emotions gradually calmed, and her eyes became clear.
Looking at Pei Yichen, who was holding her and was otherwise unharmed, she reached out and cupped his face, carefully examining him.
“Yichen, it’s you. Thank goodness. You’re all right!”
Pei Yichen knew that Yiyi had fallen into the memories of her previous life.
“Yiyi, we’re back. We’re both back!”
When Pei Yichen had first awakened, he discovered that he was in a car speeding along the road.
His subordinate, Mo Bei, was driving them back to Nanchen Manor.
Looking at the familiar roads and the familiar person, he asked, “Mo Bei, what time is it now?”
Hearing his BOSS’s voice, Mo Bei did not understand why he was asking, but he honestly answered, “BOSS, today is March 17, 2044.”
When Pei Yichen heard the date, 2044.3.17, he froze.
He was back?
Had he been reborn?
What exactly was going on?
After returning to Nanchen Manor, Aunt Lan hurried over.
“Sir, you’re finally back. Madam suddenly developed a fever and has been talking in her sleep. The doctor examined her but couldn’t find anything abnormal. Please go and see her quickly!”
Hearing this, Pei Yichen immediately went upstairs and opened the bedroom door.
What he saw was the scene unfolding now.
Gu Nanyi was holding Pei Yichen’s face, only to discover that her hands were covered in blood. As if remembering something, she said, “A-Chen, I’m sorry. I’m so sorry… Bai Su, come quickly and check on A-Chen!”
Bai Su was Pei Yichen’s personal physician and also his good friend.
Hearing her call, Bai Su immediately entered and saw blood flowing freely from Pei Yichen’s back.
What Gu Nanyi had accidentally touched just now was a small dagger, which was now lodged in Pei Yichen’s back.
However, in order to comfort Gu Nanyi, Pei Yichen did not care about the injury on his back at all.
Seeing this, Bai Su immediately stepped forward and took out his medical kit. He had Pei Yichen lie down against Gu Nanyi.
“Yichen, bear with it for a moment.”
Pei Yichen hummed in response and looked at the worried Gu Nanyi.
“Yiyi, I’m fine. Don’t worry. It doesn’t hurt at all.”
“You’re lying. When you blew yourself up, you didn’t say it hurt either. You even told me before that you were afraid of pain when you were acting spoiled with me.”
Hearing this, Pei Yichen knew that those had been lies he made up in his previous life just to make Yiyi feel sorry for him.
He simply had not expected…
“All right. I’m afraid of pain!”
Hearing this, Bai Su thought his good friend was becoming more shameless by the day.
Back when they were overseas, this man had dug bullets out of his own body without making a sound. And now he was claiming to be afraid of pain?
Heh!
Although he was complaining inwardly, his hands did not slow down.
He quickly administered an anesthetic, removed the dagger, stitched the wound, applied medicine, and bandaged it all in one smooth motion.
“All done. Don’t let it get wet for the next few days!”
After saying that, he picked up his medical kit and left. Before leaving, he glanced at the two people on the bed.
Sigh. His good friend’s wife was perfect in every way, except that whenever she saw that scumbag Su Xiao, she seemed unable to look away.
They had been fine before. He did not know when it had started, but the two of them had begun tormenting each other.
Now, only the two of them remained in the bedroom.
Gu Nanyi looked at the man lying in her arms as if he had no bones and somehow felt that the two of them should not be like this.
However, Gu Nanyi really loved Pei Yichen.
When she was fourteen or fifteen, she had experienced the first stirrings of love. The two of them had grown up together, and she had gradually fallen in love with Pei Yichen without even realizing it.
Later, she encountered that scumbag Su Xiao and, for some unknown reason, began chasing after him.
It turned out that all of this had been caused by the plot imposed by the Heavenly Dao.
Only at the moment of her death in her previous life had she learned that the world she lived in was actually a book called Heaven’s Chosen, Overlord Apocalypse.
The chosen one in this book was Su Xiao.
As for the female lead, she was naturally the chosen one’s childhood neighbor, the sickly beauty He Weiyue.
She and her family were all cannon fodder.
Before the Apocalypse, they provided Su Xiao with money and resources. During the Apocalypse, they became the ones who provided the male and female protagonists with their golden fingers.
“Yiyi, what are you thinking about?”
Pei Yichen noticed that the aura around Gu Nanyi was changing and that murderous intent was spreading throughout her body.
Gu Nanyi said, “A-Chen, do you know? After you blew yourself up, Su Xiao and He Weiyue didn’t die. He even killed our Mo Mo.”
As Pei Yichen listened to Gu Nanyi, his fists clenched tightly.
Those two really were…
If that was the case, then they should experience what it felt like to die!
However, they were in the country now, not overseas. Killing people at will was against the law.
“Yiyi, killing people in the country is illegal.”
“Yes, I know. This time, after being reborn, I’ll definitely make them pay for their blood debt with blood. …By the way, A-Chen, did you know that the world we live in is actually a book? Our entire family is cannon fodder, people who provide the male and female protagonists with their golden fingers.”
Pei Yichen heard this and said, “No wonder. Sometimes, you weren’t yourself. In my previous life, I should have broken free from the plot before you did. Although I stopped you from going to see Su Xiao, it was always useless. You would always encounter Su Xiao and He Weiyue again at another point in time.”
At that moment, Pei Yichen seemed to remember something.
“I think something just appeared in my mind.”
“What?”
“A space. It seems to be a ring space.”
“I remember now. The original plot seemed to say that after our family died, the male and female protagonists were reborn and discovered a ring. It hadn’t turned to dust. They never expected that, by some coincidence, the ring turned out to contain a space. Also, the bracelet I gave Su Xiao before the Apocalypse is a space too.”
“If that’s the case, then the original plot has changed.”
“Exactly. Let’s see if there are any other effects. If there aren’t, then that means the two of us can change the plot.”
“Mm. Husband, I want to enter your space and take a look!”
Hearing his wife’s words, Pei Yichen said, “Okay!”
“Wait. You can establish a blood contract first. The bracelet on your wrist should be it.”
Gu Nanyi said, “Okay.”
She picked up the small dagger, cut her finger, and let a drop of blood fall onto the bracelet.
Immediately afterward, the bracelet emitted a white light and disappeared. It then transformed into a tattoo on Gu Nanyi’s wrist. Unless someone looked closely, they would not be able to notice it.
The ring on Pei Yichen’s finger had also transformed into a tattoo, appearing on his index finger.