[Who came up with this nonsense?]
[Normal people sleep at night.]
[Normal people do not get roasted alive for character development.]
The fire outside roared louder.
The system remained shamelessly calm.
[Host has successfully completed villain scene.]
Su Yueqing almost exploded.
[Completed?]
[COMPLETED?!]
[I am currently being smoked like a piece of dried meat!]
[Do I look completed to you?!]
The system remained unmoved.
[Host has gained ten villain points.]
Su Yueqing nearly fainted from anger.
[Take the points back.]
[Give me my kitchen.]
[Give me my house.]
[Give me emotional compensation.]
A burning piece of wood suddenly crashed beside her.
"Ah!"
She immediately scrambled away.
Her heart nearly jumped out of her chest.
[The heroine burns down my kitchen.]
[The family blames me.]
[My house is gone.]
[I lose property.]
[I gain trauma.]
[And somehow YOU think I won?]
The system answered calmly.
[Host should focus on survival.]
[Host’s current survival rate is sixty-two percent.]
Su Yueqing nearly choked.
[Sixty-two percent?!]
[What happened to the other thirty-eight?!]
Before the system could answer..l
Boom!
A loud crash suddenly echoed from the entrance.
The kitchen doors burst open.
Flames surged wildly.
Smoke rolled through the room.
Through the burning haze—
A tall figure stepped inside.
Su Yueqing blinked.
Then blinked again.
For a moment, she thought the smoke was affecting her vision.
Inside her mind—
[...Why is he here?]
[Did he come to collect my corpse?]
[No, wait.]
Xi Wenzhe stepped through the flames.
His dark robe was stained with soot.
His face was colder than the winter frost.
The fire illuminated his sharp features.
His eyes swept across the room before immediately landing on her.
And for the first time since Su Yueqing entered the Xi Manor—
Xi Wenzhe looked genuinely angry.
Not annoyed or indifferent.
He looked furious.
As if seeing her trapped inside this burning kitchen had ignited a fire inside him that was even more dangerous than the one surrounding them.