Actually… if it weren't for the previous world, Su Xuan wouldn't mind accepting this one. Zhang Tingting was a considerate and virtuous woman. Without the system, he could have lived a simple life, earning a modest living and passing his days in peace…

But he knew this world was fake! It was trying to give him a false sense of perfection to keep him here!

"This world has one huge flaw!" Su Xuan murmured as his body leaned over the edge of the rooftop. "It has no idea that I have a system! The world where I have my system… is unimaginably awesome!"

As his body tilted, a feeling of weightlessness spread through him.

Just then, a hand suddenly grabbed his arm and yanked him back! Then another hand, and another, clutched onto him, dragging him from the rooftop's edge to safety.

"Su Xuan, were you trying to jump?"

"How could you do such a thing!"

"We're getting married tomorrow!"

"Don't you want to marry me? Did I do something wrong?"

It turned out Zhang Tingting had come to the rooftop with her parents and her younger brother.

"Hold on!" Su Xuan inexplicably raised a hand, stopping them. "Wait a moment before you speak!"

His gaze was focused on one person's wrist. It was Zhang Tingting's mother, and she was wearing a jade bracelet.

Su Xuan was familiar with that bracelet. It was the very one Qi Li had given him! Its texture and color were identical.

A flaw! This was another flaw in this world!

"Auntie, may I take a look at your bracelet?" Su Xuan couldn't help but reach for Zhang Tingting's mother's wrist.

His action, however, was misunderstood by Zhang Tingting's father and brother.

"Su Xuan, behave yourself!"

"How can you take liberties with your mother-in-law!"

As they reprimanded him, Zhang Tingting's father and brother reached out to stop Su Xuan. He tried to push them away but discovered, to his dismay, that his strength was no different from that of an ordinary person. This world had stripped him of his formidable physique!

He was immediately pinned to the ground and escorted back to his home.

He sat on the sofa while Zhang Tingting's family sat opposite him, looking like a group of interrogators questioning a criminal.

"Tingting, he usually seems so reliable," her father said suddenly. "What's gotten into him today? Did he eat something strange?"

"I don't know either!" Zhang Tingting said, completely baffled. "He's just been acting weird all day!"

"Could he have another woman?" her mother guessed.

"I don't think so," her brother-in-law chimed in. "If he had another woman, he wouldn't be trying to jump off a rooftop. Besides, you've already prepared the bridal house for him. Why would he betray my sister?"

Listening to their discussion, Su Xuan's gaze remained fixed on the bracelet on his mother-in-law's wrist.

That bracelet is the key to leaving this fake world! But this world has suppressed my strength, reducing my combat ability to that of a normal person. Forcefully snatching the bracelet is unlikely. I'll have to outsmart them!

*Phew!*

Su Xuan suddenly exhaled, blinking in feigned confusion. He looked at the people before him and began his performance. "Why… why are you all looking at me like that?"

"Why?" Her father glared. "You don't know what you just did?"

"You were about to jump off the rooftop, and we stopped you," her brother-in-law added. "But then you tried to grab my mom's hand, wanting her bracelet."

"Ah?" Su Xuan feigned shock. "Impossible! How could I do something like that?!"

"You did," Zhang Tingting said, frowning.

"Oh no, this is bad!" Su Xuan scratched his head. "A buddy gave me a cigarette today. I just smoked it on the rooftop, and then I must have blacked out. I don't know what I was doing…"

"Case closed!" her father exclaimed. "That's pretty much what I guessed. There's something wrong with that cigarette."

"Yes, he was hallucinating," the brother-in-law agreed.

"So that's what it was." The mother-in-law stroked the bracelet on her wrist. "And here I thought he had designs on me!"

*Phew!*

Zhang Tingting also breathed a sigh of relief, then said with a serious expression, "Su Xuan, you must never associate with that friend of yours again. His cigarettes are bad news; he's definitely involved in something illegal!"

They actually believed that? Hearing their conclusion, Su Xuan felt this world was even more fake than he imagined.

"I'm much better now," Su Xuan said quickly. "Um… Tingting, should we get started on dinner for your family?"

"You still remember that?" Zhang Tingting smiled playfully, taking Su Xuan's hand and leading him toward the kitchen.

Just before entering, she glanced back at her family, a strange, sinister smile flashing across her face.

「In the kitchen」

Zhang Tingting immediately picked up the only kitchen knife, smiling cheerfully. "I'll go ahead and shred some potatoes."

She was acting as if she were afraid of Su Xuan taking the knife.

Su Xuan narrowed his eyes and reached for the knife in her hand. "Let me do it! It would break my heart if you cut your hand."

"No need, I should do it. I'd feel even worse if you got cut," she replied.

"I insist!"

Su Xuan suddenly grabbed Zhang Tingting's arm and snatched the knife from her.

If I can't deal with everyone out there, I can certainly handle you alone. Now that I have a knife, nothing is off-limits!

"Everyone, come in! He's acting up again! He has the knife!" Zhang Tingting screamed.

THUMP! THUMP! THUMP!

The others immediately rushed into the kitchen.

"Nobody move!" Su Xuan barked, pressing the kitchen knife against Zhang Tingting's neck.

"Su Xuan, are you not satisfied with everything we've given you?" her father asked gravely.

"Shut up," Su Xuan snapped, turning his gaze to her mother. "Take off your bracelet and give it to me!"

"No," the mother-in-law said, shaking her head.

"Aren't you afraid I'll kill your daughter?" Su Xuan tightened his grip on the knife.

"I don't believe you will," the mother-in-law said enigmatically. "Isn't she a regret in your life? Now you have a chance to make up for that regret, don't you? If you kill her, your life will no longer be perfect. Where else could you possibly find such a wonderful woman?"

Just as I thought… This is all too fake!

Su Xuan suddenly shoved Zhang Tingting away and lunged at her mother with the knife.

The brother-in-law was the first to charge him.

Su Xuan swung the knife fiercely. The brother-in-law fell to the ground with a thud, his head tumbling across the floor as if it were a detachable part.

"Stop him!" the rolling head shouted. "Stop him!"

The father-in-law charged next, only to be cut down as well.

"He's out of control! He's lost it!" the mother-in-law screamed, turning to flee.

But Su Xuan caught up to her, slashing her across the back and knocking her to the ground. He quickly knelt and wrenched the jade bracelet from her wrist.

The moment he had the bracelet in his hand, a sudden transformation began…

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