"Lin Yang, aren't you coming with?" Su Yan asked as she wrapped an arm around her friend's shoulder.
A few days had already passed since the villain first woke up. Lin Yang wanted to learn and acclimate to the ways of the world that's why she stared to work. It's just a common day job enough to supplement their daily need but won't really leave any room for savings at the rate she spent.
"Thank you, but not today." She replied to her colleague that she got closer with since Su Yan likes to give her so much food.
"A fellow foodie!" Su Yan once loudly exclaimed once she discovered Lin Yang's monstrous appetite.
Su Yan grumbled, she couldn't convince her friend to come out ever since after work. She wasn't also one to force others to come when she had been clearly rejected especially with her understanding of Lin Yang.
Su Yan quickly regained her smile and waved goodbye.
"Go home safe! See you!"
Lin Yang hummed as she proceeded to also walk out to go home.
[[...]]
The system feels a bit depressed seeing this scene. He wanted the host to face hardship and the woes of daily life but it seems, its host just adjusted well. Everyday the host also seems to be exploring new knowledge while searching the internet. It doesn't seem that the host fully understands what she's searching, right? It was a bunch of garbled scientific nonsense and different manuals of various instrument.
Hell! It even saw a tutorial on the mechanism of a laundry machine?
Ok, it shouldn't be so harsh on the host. No matter what, she came from a back-end society and it should understand. But! It has already been several days and with no mission progress! The host also continously muted the system!
Cue cute princess gown on a little white blob
The host wouldn't ignore her cute little system? Others wouldn't do so, of course. The system is the prettiest and handsomest of them all!!
Lin Yang shook her head, it seems that the system has a bunch of garbled nonsense that it has been spouting and surrounding it.
Unconciously, she also began to smile and hum. She was closer to the apartment and imagined what would greet her.
The system wanted to curse!
'F***, the host has done a f****** terrible thing to the villain.'
Lin Yang opened the door and was greeted by the aroma of deliciousness.
'Steamed fish, sweet and sour pork, pickled vegetables' Lin Yang's mood become lighter as she stared at the prepared food.
"Welcome home" Zi Hao said softly
'F***, what's that tone.' The system seemed to understand goosebumps as he stared at this strange villain.
The scenes of the world on the villain is a terribly far cry from the current man wearing a pink apron with tamed hair and a sweet? voice.
It's like a wife welcoming her husband...
Bah! It's just the host's evil taste! Obviously, the host should warm the villain with delicious meals and companionship. Now, it seems to be the other way around. Tell me, who conquers who?!
"It smells delicious." Lin Yang had a slight smile as she rolled up her sleeves, and washed her hands. Afterwhich, she just sat down the table.
Zi Hao conciously served and fixed the table before sitting down.
The place was surrounded by a comfortable silence. Both of them were people who were silent by nature and for Zi Hao, it was a rare moment of peace. No, it could be said that ever since he woke up, everyday the edge on him was being worn out that he wanted the moment to last forever...
He was about to stand to put away the dishes but was stopped by hand grabbing his.
"Wait a moment, I'll do the dishes." Lin Yang abruptly stood up and patted Zi Hao to sit down.
Lin Yang had a rare moment of being pricked by conscience with her new housemate that she unconciously treated as a junior. Being so used to being served...
Zi Hao sat down and stared blankly at his hands,
"Warm..." he quietly thought
The next moments was again a warm daily living scene between 2 incompatible people met by faith or the system's machineries.
...
In the darkest of the night, a shadow was lurking around. It amazingly opened the locked door and proceeded to walk towards the bed.
The shadow stood besides the bed without any movement and breath. Suppressing all his presence and then attacked!
Everything happened in just a blink. Lin Yang was pinned down by her troublesome housemate with a knife on her neck. Her hand defended the strike and they were deadlocked.
Lin Yang just raised an eyebrow in question towards Zi Hao.
"You... What's your purpose?" Zi Hao asked unblinking and eerily
"Hmmm, money." Lin Yang answered thoughtlessly. Well the villain has loads of it, he shouldn't mind sponsoring her culinary pursuit.
Zi Hao's mood seems to darken at her response
"Is that all?" Some force was applied to the knife but they still maintained the same position.
In another blink, their positions had changed.
Lin Yang was on top of him pressing an acupoint in his hand that made him release the knife. She also held his arms above his head.
In another perspective, if you ignore the knife and everything. It was the dark of night with two single persons in such a position. Which was what the system saw when he came back from shopping and browsing the system's mall. Such thoughts was also what prompted him to go offline again.
'Wow! I never thought the host had it in her." The system thought and was flustered.