Chapter 32: “Hell”

Yun Buran waved goodbye to Su Nian downstairs from her apartment. Happy Valley was too far from their homes, and since it was getting late, Su Nian had accompanied her back by taxi.

This date would probably be unforgettable for her.

Yun Buran couldn’t wait to rush into her room, hugging that familiar piece of clothing, and started rolling around on the bed.

“You did it, Yun Buran!”

She hadn’t actually been completely lost in Su Nian’s tender warmth recently. Deep down, she had always been clearly uneasy.

She never really knew what Su Nian wanted. If that were the case, then all this beauty was just a mirror flower, water moon. Even if she wanted to grasp it, she had no direction.

So she took a gamble. At the best possible moment, she asked the best possible question.

Now she had broken all the information gaps. She was also certain that her display of vulnerability had brought their hearts closer.

Although she tried to guide Su Nian further while still in tears, her probing ultimately failed. She didn’t get any promise she wanted.

“Su Nian, you really are a good teacher.”

Yun Buran muttered heavily and slowly.

She had completely transformed herself from the most passive position before into an equal footing with him. Most importantly, she had thoroughly figured out Su Nian’s motivation, purpose, and plan. Right now, she was constantly organizing information, deconstructing Su Nian as a whole person.

But before this, she knew very well that she definitely couldn’t outplay Su Nian. So she let her true feelings explode, mixing truth with falsehood.

“I never wanted to just be friends with you, my Su Nian. Using any means necessary, you can only be mine.”

Yun Buran couldn’t help but gasp.

Next, she would let Su Nian see the “self-redemption” he wanted to witness, and then slowly infiltrate everything about Su Nian—including his life, his heart, his body, everything he possessed.

The girl’s room was still as warm and lovely, yet the cool-toned lamp brought more unease than the darkness outside the window.

“How is this possible?”

“I mean, that should have been considered the ending CG. Why, when we parted at the end, did Jealousy remain perfectly hidden even though the demonic energy had weakened significantly?”

Xiali was going crazy all the way home with Su Nian.

“Because it hid deeper inside.”

Su Nian casually stroked Xiali’s fur twice.

“Still within your expectations?”

The demon from Hell was starting to get scared of these godlike people.

“She chose to exchange her true feelings for mine, and I did sincerely share my life creed with her.”

“She got what she wanted. But that has nothing to do with your goal, and it’s only made the problem more serious.”

Su Nian explained to Xiali coldly.

“So the situation is worse now? Why is that?”

“Her love for me was never medicine. It’s an accomplice to the demon, only making her worse.”

“Sigh, all that effort for nothing.”

Xiali felt exhausted. This mission was way more troublesome than she had imagined.

“No, my seed has been planted. Another milestone goal has been achieved.”

“But there’s something I’d like to ask you, Xiali.”

Su Nian stopped at the stairwell, not going up, and spoke coldly.

“Why did the demon take root in her heart when she was still a child?”

…

Su Nian finished his mango milk and then stared blankly at his seat.

This was rare for him during morning reading—doing nothing, just resting. But in reality, he was constantly sorting through information.

Su Nian was sure that when he first found Xiali, she probably didn’t know the specific details. But he guessed it was related to Xiali slowly regaining her power.

However, recently she had definitely remembered a lot of things but hadn’t told him.

“Dear Haki Xiali, you’d better explain to me properly why you weren’t at all surprised that Yun Buran was parasitized by a demon as a child?”

Yesterday, Su Nian kindly interrogated her downstairs.

“What’s so surprising about that?”

Xiali wanted to escape. She could even skip sleeping at home today.

“According to what you said before, demons would use me as an anchor and be born into girls around me with psychological defects. Then I have a few questions.”

“First, the timeline doesn’t match at all. I don’t believe young Yun Buran had any connection with me. Second, it’s obvious that the Demon of Jealousy was also one of the causes of her misery, as well as a source of her heart disease. The causal relationship is clearly off.”

Su Nian said with a cold sneer. And now he realized a deep problem: why had he trusted Xiali so easily in the first place? Not only was the information she provided incomplete, but he also couldn’t verify the truth of what she said. If saving the world were a pretext?

Su Nian shouldn’t be the kind of person who trusts others so easily.

“Sorry. I cast a psychological suggestion magic.”

Xiali immediately bowed in apology. She understood that confessing honestly was the best way to deal with this man.

“Explain in detail.”

Su Nian’s smile had completely vanished.

“Hell was originally governed by the Seven Great Demons, corresponding to the Seven Deadly Sins. Each was responsible for different areas, jointly maintaining the operation of Hell.”

“And you? What does the Daughter of Hell do?”

Now that the psychological suggestion was lifted, Su Nian remembered this important clue.

“I’m the overseer, responsible for maintaining their balance. And I am indeed the Daughter of Hell, created by It, in charge of Hell’s order.”

“Hell itself has its own consciousness?”

Su Nian frowned.

“Yes. It is our origin.”

“Interesting. And what about heaven? Or something called the Upper Realm?”

“There isn’t any.”

Xiali shook her head.

“I used analogies based on the culture I’ve absorbed from you. But there is no so-called heaven or hell. Actually, we usually call our world *.”

Xiali made a sound that Su Nian couldn’t understand at all.

Su Nian felt a headache. So he had absolutely no reference points for this information.

“You can also use the concept of the Inner World to correspond. Our world does govern your death and rebirth. Actually, we don’t even have that concept. We all exist in the form of *.”

After some explanation, Su Nian finally understood. The world Xiali came from could be described as existing in the form of souls, and this was only an approximation using terms close to their world’s culture.

As for the “Hell” they were in, it was equivalent to the internal settings of this world, responsible for maintaining its normal operation. If you asked why they did this, it was as complicated as asking why we live.

In short, it was only natural that the world operated through seven main components working together, while the system itself had its own consciousness. Xiali was just a broken security guard.

The two planes were never supposed to interfere with each other, but a bug had appeared.