Chapter 25: The System Driven Mad

An Yu fiddled with her smartphone expressionlessly, locked the room door, lay down on the bed, and detached herself from the world.

No matter what happened to anyone, An Yu could always wish them peace and quiet.

However, there was one thing that stumped An Yu.

Looking at the dazzling array of games before her, An Yu didn’t know which one to play!

But first, she ruled out FPS games; what if yesterday’s situation repeated itself—it would be bad, she feared her teammates might really track her down through the internet.

Scrolling back and forth on her phone, An Yu finally stopped at a highly popular game.

This one it is.

An Yu nodded as she clicked open a certain 5v5 MOBA game.

This time it was still a competitive game; she refused to believe she truly couldn’t figure it out.

Last time it must have been a mismatch in game genre; rubbing glass to shoot was too hard for An Yu, but this time would be different—she, An Yu, was going to be a gaming genius!

Of course, even if she couldn’t become a gaming genius, it was fine; her demands could be very low—just not dragging her teammates down~

An Yu confidently clicked download, registered an account, and started playing.

……

……

An hour later, An Yu deleted the game she had just downloaded.

Hmm, she was great; this time she really didn’t drag her teammates down.

She lost in the newbie tutorial.

This was too strange—how could someone lose the newbie tutorial? 

Was there some bug? 

An Yu sucked in a cold breath.

Thinking the game had some issue, An Yu confidently started a match… a bot match.

Then, unsurprisingly, she lost again.

The bots were even fountain-camping her!

As expected… the games in this world were too weird!

An Yu shook her head; she still refused to believe it was her problem and instead fiercely shifted the blame—she didn’t dwell on it inwardly, which could be considered a merit, hmm, probably.

Anyway, today was not suitable for continuing to game.

Glancing at the time, it wasn’t bedtime yet, and after two intense games, An Yu wasn’t sleepy.

But gaming was definitely out; An Yu, who rarely had entertainment time, suddenly didn’t know what to do.

Faced with such a high-performance device, she, An Yu, could only stare blankly.

[Host.]

“Cough!”

The system suddenly speaking in her mind startled An Yu; she had almost forgotten she had a system.

However, whatever the system said basically revolved around An Qing, which wasn’t something An Yu wanted to hear—she just ignored it!

Just as she was about to ignore the system, An Yu heard it speak.

[If the host wants to pass the time, you can watch some movies or animations.]

An Yu: ?

An Yu tilted her head in confusion; her villainess self-rescue system wasn’t making her save herself but teaching her how to kill time—was this right?

Faced with An Yu’s confusion, the system said nothing.

The system was utterly speechless; when told to save herself, she wouldn’t do it, and earlier An Yu hadn’t even spared An Qing a glance—did she know that because of this, An Qing’s hatred value had risen again!

Of course, the system wasn’t speechless just because of that.

An Yu’s attitude was something it had anticipated; anyway, no key plots had unfolded yet—as a system, it still had a chance to turn things around!

Hmm, probably.

What truly left the system speechless was… An Yu was too bad at gaming; it hurt to watch! 

How exactly did she play to lose the newbie tutorial!

Not wanting its eyes to suffer anymore, the system decided to speak up and remind her; plus, it hadn’t seen this world’s film and TV products and could watch along with the host.

Though for some reason, the system felt like it was becoming An Yu-ified, but that had to be an illusion…

Ever since coming to this world, the system hadn’t had a single good day; the host was disobedient, ghosts haunted at midnight, and the bells had to be replaced out of its own pocket.

Couldn’t it have some good days?!

Just watch, just watch!

Unaware of the system’s thoughts, An Yu nodded expressionlessly.

The system’s suggestion was pretty good!

Hmph, as long as it didn’t involve An Qing, her system was quite normal!

As expected, the reborn heroine was just too awful!

After mentally criticizing An Qing once more, An Yu installed a video app on her phone and casually browsed.

After some serious consideration, she finally chose a fairly popular girl band anime to watch.

The reason was simple: she could listen to music and watch, double the relaxation!

Shifting into a more comfortable position, An Yu hit play.

But soon, An Yu began to regret it.

As she watched, An Yu found it indeed good-looking and good-sounding, but it didn’t seem suitable for bedtime viewing.

And why did she feel these band girls were all a bit strange, like they carried some heavy burden.

Especially that blue-haired octopus girl—did she put medicine on her tentacles or something? How come everyone couldn’t forget her?

So weird…

But thankfully, it was all fake, fictional; in reality, there wouldn’t be such heavy girls.

At least not around An Yu.

An Yu nodded with certainty, then glanced at the time in the bottom right corner.

Hmm, time’s up; bedtime.

As expected, doing something always made time fly.

An Yu plugged in the charger, turned off the screen, switched off the light, then slipped under the covers and closed her eyes.

The whole process flowed smoothly like clouds and water.

[Huh?]

For some reason, the system let out a puzzled sound.

[Host?]

The system softly called An Yu, but An Yu had clearly fallen asleep.

[Instant sleep, for real??]

The system emitted an extremely bewildered sound, completely unprepared for An Yu to fall asleep so quickly.

[…]

Watching An Yu fall asleep in one second, the system no longer knew what to say.

Regret—utter, absolute regret.

It regretted speaking up to remind An Yu; this was practically digging its own grave.

But it couldn’t be entirely blamed on the system.

How could it know its host would sleep the moment she said sleep, stop the moment she said stop—it had been watching intently!

Didn’t An Yu care at all about what happened next?

The band disbanded; the originally timid penguin girl, because of the band’s collapse, took the stage alone to recite poetry, calling back the cat guitarist to play for her…

And then, there was no then.

Because An Yu didn’t watch further.

No, was there really someone who could stop here and not continue?

Was An Yu really not curious if the penguin girl could successfully revive the band?

How could she be so disciplined, able under the influence of such a plot to normally go to sleep on time?

Next episode—at least let the system finish the next episode; in the next episode, it would know if the band could be revived!

[AAAAAHHH!]

Collapsed—the system completely collapsed this time.

How could its host be so cruel; how was it supposed to sleep tonight!

The system wished it could instantly materialize a body to finish watching the rest.

Then it would viciously spoil it all to An Yu, to see if she truly didn’t care!

The system huffed angrily at the sleeping An Yu.

[Damn it, if not for you being cute, I’d really want to spank you hard!]