Lethal Stunner: Kicking Off with Five Beast Husbands

Chapter 40: Chapter 40: The More You Fear and Worry, the Safer You Are

Yu Yunxiao twitched his ears and frowned at Mo Jiao. "Your interests are really diverse, huh—romance novels and horror comics."

"When I reported my preferences to the Terminal, I didn’t ask for books or comics," Mo Jiao explained. "The bookshelf in this room and these books—they’re not mine at all."

"They’re mine," Xiao Jinsheng answered.

"I believe the romance novels are yours, but these horror comics too?" Mo Jiao chuckled. "Why don’t you stop trembling while flipping through them before you explain?"

"It’s precisely because I’m scared of this kind of stuff that the thing I’m looking for must be hidden in them." Xiao Jinsheng said with determination.

"This one has traces of writing," Que Zelian pointed out.

Xiao Jinsheng quickly leaned in, only to find herself face-to-face with a grotesque ghost drawn in the comic.

She flinched backward in fear but then forced herself to lean in again, suppressing her discomfort to examine it closely. She finally noticed faint, indented handwriting on the paper.

"I seem to have forgotten myself."

"I can’t remember where I came from or how long I’ll have to live in this hellish place."

"I want to go home."

"My memory seems... faulty. Multiple personalities? Schizophrenia? But it feels like it’s neither. It’s as if someone keeps rewriting my memories—they know all my habits and can predict every decision I’ll make through those patterns."

"Compared to things I love or am accustomed to, what frightens me actually feels safer."

"The Terminal assigned me five husbands, but I don’t want them. In this world, I neither want to trust nor dare to trust anyone anymore."

"Today is October 17th, my parents’ death anniversary. Wasting away in this apocalyptic world might be worse than dying. If I die, perhaps I can reunite with my family. My memory worsens every day—maybe next year, I won’t even recall their death anniversary anymore."

"I want to die so badly. I’m afraid of pain, so I can’t bring myself to do it. If only someone could kill me painlessly. Xiao Jinsheng, quit eating those awful buns!"

The familiar handwriting, the familiar tone—after reading it, Xiao Jinsheng stood frozen, completely dumbfounded.

rifling through the

one Que Zelian discovered, none of the others yielded

that one discovery was enough

vacant as she began to parse through everything she

her middle school years. Originally kind relatives turned despicable, fighting over the millions in inheritance her parents left

of these experiences, even before coming to this world, she avoided making friends, immersed herself in the internet, and preferred spending time with animals during her

mess; her body was frail too. She failed miserably to run even 800

encountered the Divine Gold System, which had mistaken her for its

Gold System had brought her into what she believed was a post-apocalyptic beastification world from a

now things had taken a strange turn—according to her memories, she had arrived six days ago, right after selling Mo

night, or herself leaving clues in the horror comic—they were both parts of her memory, both actions she recognized as

about her faulty memory, Xiao Jinsheng realized that her nineteen years in the Mist Continent might have been fragmented, even

Clearly, Bai Yan was her prime

Divine Gold System, Bai Yan was supposed to be gentle and kind, someone adored by everyone. Bai Yan’s spiritual power increased

had many golden fingers, yes, but she wasn’t supposed to possess the

It couldn’t be...

Jinsheng felt a

entity that had brought her here—or the original plot she knew where Bai Yan was the protagonist, were entirely

this, Xiao Jinsheng felt as if her entire transmigrated life—everything she had experienced—had been under someone else’s control. Lies and truths in her memories blurred together to the point

her entire body wrapped in a suffocating

know—I’ll always be firmly on

side. "If you need it, just ask. I’ve already lost you twice;

behind his glasses. "I’m planning to compile a list of food you don’t like—though it

Su Ye raised a hand and poked Xiao Jinsheng’s

from Xiao Jinsheng, raising his brows at her. "Looks like we share a common enemy now, don’t we,

ratings girl, murder buddy!"

at the others. "See? This is what

the most venomous one here," Su Ye

herself out of the earlier haze of despair, the men present all felt

her emotions and pulled

didn’t care if the world she was in was real or fake, if her memories were true or false,