Chapter 397: Contract Termination
Seeing Rong Fan remain silent, Yu Li stood up:
"Rong Fan, I have to say you are very patient, you even managed to fool me."
When he first joined the team, Rong Fan told Yu Li about his experience.
After being taken in by an adoptive family, his life was not good.
That adoptive family already had a child, so in the end, Rong Fan was just an outsider.
Kids naturally don't like outsiders taking away the affection of their parents, so all the beatings and bullying Rong Fan suffered came from that child.
That child's punishment was meant to make Rong Fan recognize his place.
Rong Fan knew that the orphanage aunts and caretakers also disliked him, and he had nowhere else to go, so to survive in the adoptive family, he had to work part-time outside, earning some pocket money to lessen the burden on those parents.
Unfortunately, every time he went out, he was "robbed."
But dungeons were even more ruthless places—survival was not easy.
By chance, he once saw Limu in a dungeon.
A girl about his age, yet she possessed tremendous power.
He learned that she had long since left the novice dungeon and was only hiding her level to accompany Yu Jiao here. Rong Fan deeply understood this was his last chance.
He had to team up with Limu.
In fact, he succeeded.
His relentless pestering actually worked.
With the title "Limu's Teammate," almost no one dared to oppose Rong Fan, and some even started flattering him.
The once skinny boy working part-time in a café had completely transformed in just a few months, exuding confidence and flamboyance that didn't suit a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy.
All of this, however, was just Rong Fan's one-sided story.
It was the "truth" he told Limu alone.
Even Yu Jiao didn't know any of this.
The truth was otherwise.
That child really rejected him, yes, but the claim that the child incited others to gang up on Rong Fan was never true.
Although the adoptive family wasn't very doting on him, at least he had no worries about food and drink.
Everything was orchestrated by Rong Fan himself.
He just wanted to arouse Limu's pity.
Besides, he had long observed that Limu was a calm and carefree personality;
Yet sometimes, this woman was soft-hearted;
otherwise, why would she accompany Yu Jiao to explore dungeons?
So he gambled that Limu wouldn't dig too deep and that his acting skills, honed over years in the orphanage, would fool her.
Win or lose.
Only at the very end did the woman vaguely sense something was wrong.
Because Bai Shaodong somehow learned of her information and repeatedly tried to join them.
The same trick seemed to have appeared on someone else as well.
But Limu was too lazy to argue with Rong Fan because she was about to leave soon.
Consider it a gift she gave to Rong Fan.
People want power;
using some tricks isn't unforgivable.
Only when she returned this time did Yu Li realize how big a problem she had left behind.
Because last night she used points to buy some data from the system and learned about everyone's changes over the past ten years.
This included Rong Fan.
After she left, he secretly killed the real child of that family and naturally became the only "heir," inheriting their fortune.
Until the parents of that family died, they never knew that the murderer of their biological child was this perpetually kind and smiling adopted son.
Rong Fan could hurt himself to join Limu's team, then betray Limu once powerful,
he could certainly stab the adoptive parents who had raised him for so long in the back.
Thinking of this, Yu Li lowered her eyes and sighed silently. She walked to the window and slowly drew the curtains.
In an instant, the light in the room dimmed drastically.
Rong Fan saw her action and a bad premonition arose in his heart: "Yu Li, what are you going to do??"
The woman turned her head, her gaze calm as she looked at him.
"Rong Fan, I can't say much if you want to climb higher, but you've been by my side for so long, you should know what I hate the most."
Her footsteps were slow, but each step felt like it was stepping on Rong Fan's heart. The man's face grew paler and paler.
Limu... probably already knew the truth.
How did she find out?
Tears welled up in his eyes, his lips pale, and he hurriedly tried to explain: "Yu Li, listen to me! You have no idea how much suffering I endured in that adoptive family! They only pretended to be kind on the surface, but actually demeaned me openly and secretly, treating me like a toy for their child!!"
Yu Li lowered her eyelids, remained silent for a moment, then spoke softly:
"Rong Fan, haven't you figured it out? I don't care how that family treated you, nor what you did to that family, just like before when I didn't care whether what you said was true or false."
"You lied to me, used me to climb up, and the past is past. You've reached your goal now, so why come crawling back?"
There was no emotion in the woman's dark pupils, yet an inexplicable sense of fear and panic crept in.
"I already gave you chances, and Yu Jiao clearly warned you."
Rong Fan's pupils contracted. His body trembled uncontrollably under the quilt. The overwhelming suffocating pressure nearly made him unable to breathe;
he could only gasp with his mouth open.
At this moment, he truly felt—Yu Li was indeed Limu.
His fingertips trembled as he muttered, "Limu, I... I was wrong. I can leave Deva, and I won't cause trouble for Bo Jingmo. Please spare me this once."
Yu Li let out a low laugh: "Spare you?"
"Rong Fan, considering your years of friendship with Yu Jiao, I have already spared you a lot."
She slowly raised her hand, her gaze gentle yet cold, lips slightly parted.
"The punishment I give you is only to bring you back to your original state."
Realizing what she was about to do, Rong Fan's heart jolted. In an instant, a chill surged up his spine. Stammering in desperation with a trembling voice and sobbing, he pleaded: "No... Limu! You can't do this to me!! This is all I worked so hard for!!"
The woman's fingertip lightly tapped his forehead. Upon hearing his words, she tilted her head slightly, expression puzzled.
"You worked hard?"
"Wasn't it me who gave it to you?"
Accompanied by a surge of black energy, a sharp system alarm rang in Rong Fan's ears.
[Error! Error! Invasion by unknown object detected! Unknown creature intrusion detected!!]
[Contract is being forcibly terminated!! Alarm! Alarm! Reported to main system!!]
Even the filming system was stunned.
Not again? Seriously!?
It hurriedly tried to stop it: [Yu Li! Yu Li! Wait!! I'll do it! I'll handle it!! Don't act!]
If forcibly terminated, the system would be damaged again!!
[Ding—Player Rong Fan and filming system contract terminated. Regrettably, due to player withdrawal, all points will be treated as breach penalties. Hope to cooperate with you again in the next life.]
The familiar system voice echoed in his mind. Rong Fan felt something inside his body gradually disappear. His eyes instantly bloodshot as he screamed: "No!!!"
All his years of hard work!! Gone!
This was more painful than death!
Ignoring the wound on his shoulder, his eyes red, he almost shouted: "Limu!! Why are you doing this to me?! Just because I lied to you?! I cooperated with Yu Jiao to find you all these years!! Even if I made mistakes, I have atoned for them. Why are you treating me like this?!"
Yu Li pulled out a tissue, lowered her gaze to wipe her fingertips, and said leisurely: "Naturally, there are other reasons."
She dropped the tissue and smiled faintly at the man.
"Last night, how could you hurt my boyfriend's face?"