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Translated by boilpoil Edited by boilpoil
“An -shao , are you alright?”
“Holy shit, An -ge , are you alright? You couldn’t have passed out from being too nervous, right? Hahaha, but, I guess, marrying with the most wealthy person…”
“Zhuang Feiyu you shut up, An-ge, are you alright? Do you need me to get the doctor here?”
Liu Yu’an is pressing on his temple, and only says when the pain starts subsiding from inside his head, “no need.”
His physical distress just now is normal for having transmigrated into a world. A doctor wouldn’t help.
Among the vast universe, there are different realms of existence – main worlds and virtual worlds.
Main worlds are an existence unto themselves. They are stable, they are forever. They have been ever since time immemorial.
Virtual worlds are artificial byproducts. They can be the world formed through a novel, or a comic… These worlds are unstable due to limitations in the creator’s own experiences, knowledge, worldview, writing skills, factors like that.
Really, really unstable.
It is possible for them to just collapse and disappear.
Liu Yu’an is someone born in the main world.
He happens to be employed at the Virtual World Management Centre for his hobby. His job involves him heading to the virtual worlds when any shows a tendency towards collapse, to resolve the factors collapsing such worlds, so that they can continue existing in a stable manner.
He is currently transmigrating into a novel world.
If the world is proceeding as normal, the plot dictates that this cannon fodder here that he transmigrated into, has an affair with the protagonist Bottom while being formally engaged to the world’s most wealthy man. And, at the scene of the actual wedding between them this cannon fodder hears someone mention the protagonist Bottom was hurt somewhere, and ran away to go look for him.
The most wealthy man himself is a mentally twisted man that has an unhealthy amount of obsessiveness over the cannon fodder.
His running away from the wedding was the trigger for the wealthy man’s outrage.
He completely toppled the family of the cannon fodder, and then imprisoned him, before starting to target like mad the protagonist Bottom who the cannon fodder liked.
Since the protagonist Bottom is bullied, the protagonist Top would definitely intervene, so in the end, it’s a showdown between the most wealthy man and the protagonist Top.
And the normal plot is that the protagonist Top finishes off the most wealthy man, who ends up tragically dead.
But, here… After our cannon fodder has ended up going mad, running out on his own wedding, instead of his family being brought to ruins or himself being imprisoned, the most wealthy man decided to collapse the world economy.
Yes, that’s right.
The man, the one man, has collapsed the world economy.
This kind of ridiculous occurrence that would never ever happen in the main world has happened in the virtual world.
Can’t be helped.
That’s what virtual worlds do.
Ridiculous but theoretically possible things can very well happen.
The massive unemployment that followed along with chaos and mass die-offs caused the world to collapse.
As it collapsed before it could be fixed, the world was restarted and the timeline is now again at the scene of the wedding, just before the cannon fodder ran out.
His mission is to pacify the antagonist’s wild idea of dragging the world to ruins with him.
To Liu Yu’an, this feels like it is going to be an exceptionally simple mission, so simple that he didn’t even feel like coming in the first place. Since the most wealthy man loves ‘him’ so, so much, as long as he didn’t run out, the man will probably not even entertain the notion of world destruction in the first place.
And when the protagonist Top gets his growth in a few years, the most wealthy man wouldn’t have the power to bring the world to its knees alone anymore.
Anyway, unfortunately for him, yesterday was the day for the department outing, and besides a few girls who are on duty back at logistics, the others have all gone skiing.
The skiing range is far away enough that they failed to stop the world from collapsing in the first place, because the girls aren’t actually qualified to enter.
He is the only person available, having just returned from his last world, late, missing the social outing. Besides, he owed a favour to the head of the department.
So he came.
“Really? Are you… feeling alright?” Zhao Xian asks again seeing him still holding his head.
Zhuang Feiyu also concurs, “An-ge, maybe we should get a doctor, really, you…”
“No,” Liu Yu’an puts his hand back down and swivels his chair towards Zhao Xian and co., asking, “the wedding is beginning soon, right?”
“It’s starting at 12, and it’s 7 to 12, but you know the venue is a bit further away from this dressing room, so we’d have to head out at 5 to 12.”
“So, 2 minutes left,” says Liu Yu’an.
He’s slightly looking forward to seeing the wealthy man, described as a ‘feminine-looking man with a cold poker face that never melts.’
“An-shao, it is time,” two minutes later, a staff member says.
“Alright.”
Liu Yu’an stands up and heads for the venue led by Zhao Xian, Zhuang Feiyu and the staff.
At the entrance to the venue, Shao Yanxi is already there.
When he sees Liu Yu’an, accompanied by staff, he bites his lips a bit and reflexively tries to head towards him, but then he stops immediately.
He stands in place, watching as Liu Yu’an heads towards him step by step.
His gaze is fixed, fiery.
Even the densest person in the world would realise Shao Yanxi likes Liu Yu’an from the gaze alone.
The distance means that Liu Yu’an can currently see how Shao Yanxi looks but not tell how fiery his gaze actually is, and he really looks just like how the book described him.
He’s exceptionally pretty… no, he’s handsome. In fact, it’s downright jaw-dropping backlit by the dim lighting of the corridor.
Just one look and there is already a niggling feeling inside him.
Though Shao Yanxi looks feminine, but the cold aura about him is a clear giveaway. In fact, it really does fit the book’s description, feeling like an icy, cold snake with a predator’s gaze.
In one word, elegant.
In two words, cold and elegant.
Even someone like Liu Yu’an, who has been in cultivation worlds, demonic realms, and Yaoguai realms, and having seen immortals, demonic cultivators and Yaoguais, can say for certain that Shao Yanxi is terribly eye-catching.
Even if he might not be the number one, he’s definitely in the top five.
Liu Yu’an really is amazed.
A good-looking person, who is the wealthiest, who loves him to death, how could anyone end up writing for the original cannon fodder to… fall in love with the protagonist Bottom and decide to betray him.
True, relationships and ‘true love’ are fickle, illogical, but still.
Anyway, Liu Yu’an stops the train of thought soon enough, as he is surprised to finally see how passionate Shao Yanxi is looking at him.
For all 24 years he’s lived in the main world, and hundreds, thousands of years in the virtual worlds, Liu Yu’an has never seen anyone look at him like that.
The niggling inside has become stronger.
“So early?” Liu Yu’an decides to ignore it and ask.
Shao Yanxi opens his mouth for a bit before ending up merely uttering a cold syllable in the end, “mm.”
Liu Yu’an “…”
He might have an idea about why the original cannon fodder betrayed his love.
That cold, taciturn style of talking would have indicated to Liu Yu’an that he is displeased with him if it were not for the deep, fiery, unblinking gaze.
And, obviously, Liu Yu’an is not the only person bearing witness to it.
Zhao Xian and co. are also here.
This untouchable atmosphere between the two has dissuaded Zhao Xian from greeting Shao Yanxi at all, and only Zhuang Feiyu, dense and forward as he is, immediately and politely greets him, “greetings, Mr. Shao.”
Because he is his idol.
Seriously, a 26-year-old who is already the most wealthy person in the world.
“Greetings.” Shao Yanxi finally seems to have realised there are others present besides Liu Yu’an, and he finally moves his gaze over elsewhere, the fieriness dying down in the process.
So now the other people and staff finally stop pretending to be sculptures and greet Shao Yanxi in turn.
He might look cold but he does respond to them cordially.
After that, Zhao Xian drags Zhuang Feiyu away to enter the main hall from the side.
The moment he enters he glances back at Liu Yu’an and Shao Yanxi who are by the entrance, only to find Shao Yanxi again staring intently at Liu Yu’an.
Zhao Xian “…”
He recalls all those anti-fans online prancing about every day telling Liu Yu’an to get out of the entertainment industry, and chuckles.
If they were to learn that this most wealthy man that they would yell ‘Husbando’ and ‘Daddy’ to every day likes… or rather, is fanatically obsessed with, Liu Yu’an who they in turn are yelling to leave the entertainment industry, how would they react?
It’ll be a spectacle for sure.
On the scale of the online servers collapsing, even.
And of course, neither Liu Yu’an nor Shao Yanxi would know what Zhao Xian is thinking, as they are at the entrance, waiting for the wedding to begin.
Soon enough, they can hear the Wedding March playing from outside the hall, during which they hear the loud cue from the MC, “——Please welcome our two handsome grooms!”
Then, the staff opens up the door to the hall.
Then, Liu Yu’an can feel a poke at his arm. He turns, to see Shao Yanxi biting his lips and is trying to poke his hand through the gap between his own arm and body.
When he sees Liu Yu’an looking at him, his hand trembles a bit and he bites his lips tighter.
It takes him a while to finally utter, coldly, “we have to walk the aisle now.”
Liu Yu’an “…”
He knows what he’s trying to do, of course. He lifts his arm up slightly so that Shao Yanxi could successfully cross his arm with his.
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