Everything seemed to have returned to that period of time.
Huo Yuhao was just an ordinary office worker, living a three-point-one-line life in a first-tier city.
This afternoon, Huo Yuhao and his colleague had completed the proposal needed for the next day early. All that was left was for the leader to sign. His work for the day was basically over.
Huo Yuhao was still doing a final check. Unexpectedly, the colleague in the next seat suddenly pulled his arm, a look of impatience on his face.
"What are you doing? I'm almost done on my side... don't disturb me!" Huo Yuhao pulled his arm back and said with annoyance.
"Wow, so explosive! This figure, even the face is the same as your girlfriend's!" The colleague in the next seat, Yu Dong, was as if he had discovered a new continent, his two eyes shining as he stared at the computer screen.
"What the hell?" Hearing him mention his girlfriend, Huo Yuhao's attention was involuntarily attracted. He subconsciously looked towards his computer screen.
On Yu Dong's computer screen, a malicious little website was open. In the most conspicuous position, the peerlessly beautiful girl in the photo was scantily clad, making an inviting and ambiguous posture towards the two in front of the screen.
Huo Yuhao had a university-era campus belle girlfriend. This was no longer a secret in the company. While everyone was envious and jealous of him, they had also secretly resolved to also find such a beautiful girl.
After several years of a long-distance love race, Huo Yuhao had finally achieved a positive result with his girlfriend, Yuzuko. They had decided to get their marriage certificate next year and to hold a grand wedding with the savings Huo Yuhao had accumulated over these years.
But the scene before his eyes made him dumbfounded. No matter what, it was impossible for him to be mistaken. Including some of the minor features of her face, this face could only be his girlfriend, Yuzuko.
How could it be her?
Huo Yuaho's eyes couldn't help but widen. He no longer heard a single word of Yu Dong's torrential and endless words. Now he just wanted to rush back to the small house they had rented and question her loudly.
Yuzuko was a gaming shut-in and was addicted to the world of the second dimension. On normal days when Huo Yuhao was at work, she would always get up very late and then turn on her equipment to do some game boosting or do some graphic and text optimization for people on the internet. In a month, she could also save a lot of money herself.
But, just such a girl, why on earth had she chosen such a path? Huo Yuhao didn't understand. Even if the two of them were short of money, his savings from these years were enough to pay the down payment for a house in an urban village in a first-tier city.
After getting the website address from Yu Dong, Huo Yuhao returned to his seat and began to browse carefully. It was fine not to look closely. A close look gave him a shock. The link with Yuzuko's photo, when he clicked into it, was all photos of her from various angles, her introduction, and even, a price tag...
Until the end of the workday, Huo Yuhao's entire person was still in a daze. Seeing his appearance, Yu Dong couldn't help but persuade him a few times. After all, girls these days were simply too open.
Huo Yuhao didn't hear a single word. He just returned to the small house the two of them had rented in a daze. The moment he opened the door, he heard the ringtone of Yuzuko's mobile phone.
At this time, Yuzuko was sitting on the sofa, her pretty face already occupied by anger. Her slender two hands were flying, constantly searching for something on the computer.
"Whose call? Why aren't you answering?" Huo Yuhao's tone was not very good. It was just that Yuzuko was still buried in her own work and did not hear his displeasure.
"A bombing from a dog. No need to bother."
"Bombing?" Huo Yuhao frowned. He subconsciously picked up her mobile phone and swiped the answer key.
"Is that the slut Yuzuko? This old one really misses your skills. Can it be cheaper for one night..."
Huo Yuhao only felt a nameless fire rise. He immediately hung up the phone. But in the next second, another unknown number had dialed in.
He calmed himself and answered again. What immediately followed was still an endless stream of filthy words.
What's going on?
Huo Yuhao himself was also puzzled. Although on normal days everyone might receive some harassing calls, Yuzuko's situation was completely abnormal!
He walked over and saw Yuzuko's beautiful face filled with fierce, baleful energy. She had opened the malicious website plastered with her photos and was rapidly taking screenshots, submitting reports, and filing complaints.
"What are you..." Huo Yuhao was at a loss. Looking at Yuzuko's appearance, it seemed that her personal information had been leaked and had been taken by these bad webpages to be messed with.
Yuzuko suddenly stopped the movement in her hands, turned her head to look at the returned Huo Yuhao. The two of them silently looked at each other for a few seconds. The next moment, Yuzuko had fiercely pounced into his embrace.
"Sob sob... I've been maliciously pranked by someone..."
Huo Yuhao quietly listened to her recount the cause of the matter.
Yuzuko had always been a king in a certain famous game's district. Perhaps because she had occupied that rank for too long, it had caused some opponents who were no match for her to have evil intentions. After having pretended to add her as a friend through a certain communication software and had successfully obtained her general information, those people had begun their bottomless operations.
From then on, Yuzuko's photos and identity information had been circulated on all sorts of malicious websites and malicious interactive platforms. That group of people had, through the latest technological means, restored her all-around appearance and had begun to publicize and cyberbully her on a large scale.
Just now, these people had even gotten her parents' contact information and had sent vicious threats to the two elders.
Late at night.
When Huo Yuhao had accompanied Yuzuko out of the police station, his face had already changed from anger to comfort.
Unless they could provide accurate evidence, and all sorts of materials, as well as the official confirmation of the platform, otherwise this matter could not be filed as a case. To dispatch and arrest the relevant personnel was even more so out of the question.
Evidence? In a game's district, there were just a few teams that were thinking of bringing themselves down. It was just those few evil parties with ill intentions and a belly full of bad water. The key was, would they dare to admit it?
And to want to make a move through the authorities, one had to go through many procedures and all sorts of proofs. In the end, the evil culprits might not necessarily be successfully caught. On the contrary, it would make one's own fabricated scandal known to all.
"Don't think too much. Maybe those dogs just have a three-minute passion. After doing this kind of thing for a week or two, they will stop on their own."
"I hope so," Yuzuko tried to force a smile. After all, there was nothing they could do now.
What Huo Yuhao didn't know was that because of this comfort of his, it would make him suffer and regret it for his next life.
Time passed day by day. Soon a year had passed.
Yuzuko still had not quit that game. She had to, with the posture of an absolute king of the trial, press this group of evil beasts until they could never turn over for all eternity.
What Huo Yuhao had not expected was that not only had that group of beasts not stopped, but on the contrary, they had intensified. The target even more so had been brought to him, this legitimate boyfriend.
Huo Yuhao had tried to have Yuzuko temporarily quit that game. Rather than drilling into a dead end, it was better to admit defeat once. If a dog wants to get on a wall, it's better to just open the door and let the dog go. After it has had enough of its tantrum, it will naturally not have that crazy energy anymore.
The result was out of his expectation. These beasts not only wanted to ruin Yuzuko's reputation, what was even more terrifying was that in the bombing of information, it was as if a devil had time and time again persuaded her to die.
Yuzuko had once been addicted to the beautiful world of the second dimension. But reality had in the end pulled her back to this hell-like reality.
With the spread of the information, no matter how many times they moved, there would always be someone among the surrounding neighbors pointing fingers at her. It had made her once not go out the main door at all. Until one day, the food delivery person had recognized her as the female lead on a certain webpage. In the midst of rubbing his fists, he had taken out a stack of silver notes and wanted to have some fun with Yuzuko.
When Huo Yuhao had returned to his residence, he had just happened to see the delivery man lying on the ground at their own door. Of course, the person had not been able to go in for a spring night. Yuzuko, who had been living in fear for a year, had already become a little neurotic. She always had a steel knife in her hand.
So the delivery man had been killed.
Huo Yuhao was in a panic and was about to call the police but was pulled back into the house by Yuzuko along with the corpse.
She had told Huo Yuhao that he would surely be fine, because the sin was on her. On the knife, only her fingerprints were left.
That night, Huo Yuhao was in a daze as he listened to Yuzuko sing her favorite songs from the second dimension. By midnight, he, who had been busy for a whole day, could no longer hold it in and had fallen into a deep sleep.
When Huo Yuhao had woken up the next morning, he had just happened to see Yuzuko standing alone on the balcony. The window was wide open. The oncoming morning wind had lifted her long hair. She had plunged down—
Huo Yuhao had run over in two or three steps. However, he did not have the Ice Empress's wings, nor the Immortal Spirit Wood, let alone the Universal Pull.
He had failed to hold her hand.
Time came to the court. He was acquitted. Letting Yuzuko's parents cry into a mess of tears, the family of the delivery man had still issued a sky-high compensation.
In the end, Huo Yuhao had used his lifelong savings to pay this compensation for Yuzuko's parents. This was one of the few last things he could do for her.
Returning to his residence, it was again the night of the weekend ranking competition. Not just Yuzuko's mobile phone, but even his own mobile phone was continuously ringing with a piercing phone ringtone.
Subsequently, Huo Yuhao had left a last word for his elder brother to take care and to take care of his parents for him. He had disappeared alone into the dark city...
As long as one used a fake identity to add them as a communication friend, if it was a person in the game in the same city, there were ten thousand ways to ask the other party out.
Huo Yuhao stood erect in the dark night. In his cold and clear eyes, only an endless pain and killing intent was left. Under his sleeve was a deeply hidden sharp edge.
His face was icy. He long-pressed the voice key and sent a voice message to the chaotic world on the chat box of his mobile phone screen. "Brother, we seem to be very close. Come out for a drink..."
From now on, let the world feel pain—
The Three-Eyed Golden Lion had deeply experienced that pain, as well as the boundless resentment and regret.
It looked at the once again sleeping Huo Yuhao. There seemed to be something more in its pupils. Immediately, it slowly walked towards its own resting place.
The girl's once-favorite ballad, mixed in the passing gentle breeze, melodiously spread to all parts of the Star Dou Great Forest.
[The flowers that bloom in the wilderness—]
[Can you please tell me?]
[Why do people always hurt each other, fight with each other?]
[The flower that blooms with awe-inspiring dignity—]
[What do you see in your eyes?]
[Why is it always so difficult for people to understand each other?]
[When the rain leaves with the summer, and the blue sky loses its trace]
[Only your lonely figure is left]
[With a slightly rippling heart, you come before me]
[Yet you never say a word—]