“So, can’t we just do it tonight?”

Lu Xiaoyao watched as Mu Chen, dressed in black, came alone to communicate with her and the others, mentioning the issue of cooperation with Lena.

Lena’s idea was to wait until Mona returned next weekend before taking action.

Mu Chen didn’t tell them Mona’s real identity, only saying that she was an NPC specially designed by the game to help everyone.

Besides them, Mingmei also notified Bai Xiao and Yuan Fang, with the same message.

However, according to Mingmei’s feedback, Bai Xiao and Yuan Fang seemed to be somewhat resistant to Lena.

Mingmei didn’t know if it was their own wariness of Lena or the characters’ dislike of her. In any case, they hadn’t voiced any objections yet.

And on his side, Lu Xiaoyao seemed to be reaching her limit with Mona.

“Why? Why do we have to wait another week?”

Unable to get an answer from Mu Chen, Lu Xiaoyao’s face instantly turned into a bitter gourd expression, and she began to complain.

Then, she turned to look at Julian, and then mustered her courage to look at Mu Chen, boldly asking, “Are you planning some kind of trap?”

“That’s not it.” Mu Chen said, his gaze directly locking onto Lu Xiaoyao. “It’s you who needs to prepare.”

“Eh?”

Now it was Lu Xiaoyao’s turn to be dumbfounded.

What did she need to prepare?

“You should have guessed what Mona wants from you.” When Mu Chen said this, the expression on Lu Xiaoyao’s face instantly became serious.

“Yes, she wants me to fall… and even wants to force me when I don’t follow her ideas.”

Like last night, Mona suddenly went crazy and almost made Lu Xiaoyao pounce on Julian!

Ahem, thankfully, she hadn’t broken through her shame to the point of playing this kind of father-daughter cosplay with Julian.

Good thing she was able to hold on!

“So, what did you do?”

Mu Chen knew from Mingmei that Lu Xiaoyao was pretending to be a bad person, but listening to Lu Xiaoyao’s own description, it sounded like she was describing someone else.

“I just pretended to be fallen…”

Whether Mingmei’s description was too realistic or Lu Xiaoyao’s rhetoric was too superb, in any case—Lu Xiaoyao: I’m trying hard to play a bad person.

“But this stuff doesn’t hold up.” At the end, Lu Xiaoyao was also very distressed, and she had even lost some hair because of it!

Lu Xiaoyao was afraid that this data wouldn’t be reflected on her real body, right?

She didn’t want to come out of the game pod after playing a game, only to find her hair inside!

“I’ve been leading her on for a week now, talking about doing bad things every day, but not doing a single one. I’m afraid that when I go back this time, she’ll instigate me to do bad things!”

“Then just do it. If it really doesn’t work, don’t have any psychological burden about doing it,” Julian thought for a moment and gave Lu Xiaoyao a last resort.

After all, everyone had played so many games, and there were always some games that challenged their personal bottom line.

“But…” Lu Xiaoyao said, looking even more troubled, “If it was just simple killing, that would be fine… But in order not to kill, I bragged to Mona about all kinds of cruel and inhumane ways to kill… Hey, hey! I want to state first, I’ve only heard about these, I’ve never done them! Not even in games!”

Julian: “……”

Listening to Lu Xiaoyao say this, Mu Chen also understood.

No wonder Mona was patient enough to wait for Lu Xiaoyao. To her, if Lu Xiaoyao really did these things, it would really be an eye-opener!

But who knew that Lu Xiaoyao was a master of drawing cakes (empty promises)?

“Have you ever thought that the greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment? You’re stringing Mona along like this. If she finds out in the end that you won’t do these things, have you thought about whether what you said will be used on you?”

Mu Chen wasn’t being alarmist. With Mona’s personality, if she found out that someone was playing with her, she would definitely make the other person suffer.

“No, no, no, no way?!”

Sure enough, Lu Xiaoyao’s face turned pale with fright when she heard this, and she began to stutter.

She had never thought about what Mu Chen said!

At worst, she could just learn from Hu Yue and kill herself!

She’d quit the game!

“What do you think?” Mu Chen’s eyes were cold, making Lu Xiaoyao shiver again.

“I, I still think I can muddle through QAQ!”

“Oh, good luck? Keep muddling through for another week~”

……

“Daisy? You look terrible. Did you not have a good time going home this week?”

Ever since Mu Chen said all those things last night, Lu Xiaoyao had lost all her energy.

She looked even more like a gloomy villainess.

It was just that this villainess’s eyes were too innocent and full of despair.

“Without a mistress at home, everything is a mess. I went back and cleaned up for a long time… I’m tired.”

When Lu Xiaoyao said this, Mona smiled and said, “Isn’t that a good thing?”

As she spoke, Mona took Lu Xiaoyao’s arm again when she wasn’t paying attention, leaned close to her, and whispered, “Didn’t you say… you wanted to be the mistress of this house? As the mistress, you naturally have to do more of these things.”

“You don’t want to?” Suddenly, Lu Xiaoyao glanced at Mona, who was holding her arm, and asked, “Don’t you want to be the mistress of your house?”

Mona: “……”

This question really stumped Mona.

If she had been asked this before, her answer would definitely have been yes.

She wanted to become the mistress of that house.

But now, Mona hesitated.

For some reason, whenever she thought of Lena, Mona felt inexplicably irritable.

Did she want to replace Lena?

Perhaps, the moment she hesitated, she had already made her choice.

“Our family is different from your family.” Mona gave Lu Xiaoyao a perfunctory smile before giving this answer.

“Don’t you only want your father and you at home? In my house, there’s also a mother.”

“Yes, although I want that, if my father has a woman who likes him and can give him happiness, I don’t think I can refuse, right?”

Lu Xiaoyao didn’t know why she thought of her mother, who was obsessed to the point of death, when she said this.

Her grandfather had once sighed that the Lu family had ultimately ruined her mother.

If she had been persuaded to start a new marriage earlier, perhaps her life would have developed differently, instead of twisting her longing for her lover into a morbid state, obsessing to the point of madness.

Her and Lu Gui’s unfortunate childhoods both stemmed from her.

But at the same time, she and Lu Gui were also unable to make each other happy.

Six of one, half a dozen of the other; mutual loathing. No one could say the other was bad.

Suddenly feeling sentimental, Lu Xiaoyao sighed heavily, and then met Mona’s complex gaze.

“I thought that after Aunt Sheila’s matter, you would reject having another person in the family.”

“Of course I would reject it, but like I said before, if Dad really likes her, then I can’t do anything about it.”

Lu Xiaoyao shrugged, and then she heard Mona’s suggestive and devilish words: “Then just let Dad only like you.”

Mingmei, who was hearing Mona’s statement through Lu Xiaoyao’s perspective, fell silent.

This Mona really dares to instigate!