Category: Those Years When We Killed the White Lotus

Female Lead – Bai Wei
Male Lead 1 – Su Mo
Male Lead 2 – Lin Zisheng (our MC)

Bai Wei slowly walked towards Lin Zisheng. Her steps are delicate and graceful, and her smile is pure and beautiful. It is like an angel has fallen into the mortal world; a silent beauty that people can’t bear to touch. Just that this most beautiful scene is not seen by the person she admired and hoped the most the see.

Lin Zisheng still sat there quietly on the long bench and reading the book in his hand. The sun shone through the gaps in the leaves; carrying a quiet serenity. At that moment when anyone sees him, they would experience a peaceful state in their mind. Lin Zisheng obviously had an aura that keeps people away from him, but they will still have these thoughts in their hearts – peaceful, calm, and stable.

“This classmate…”

Finally, Bai Wei couldn’t stand being ignored and called out to Lin Zisheng. She also reached out to pull at his sleeve. However, before her hand could touch him, Lin Zisheng closed the book in his hand and looked up. His gaze met Bai Wei straight in the eye. There were only calmness and indifference in his pure black pupil as if the person in front of him is not some pretty female but just a dead item.

Bai Wei has seen this gaze countless times before, just that it was never on her. So, seeing this caused her to feel particularly embarrassed, and even faint anger in the deepest corner of her heart. This person clearly viewed her even more important than his own life, how dare he look at her with such a gaze?!

“Are you looking for me?”

Looking at Bai Wei who stood rooted in place, Lin Zisheng’s eyebrows slightly wrinkled up and an annoyed expression gradually appeared in his eyes.

Annoyed?!

A change of emotion finally appear from Lin Zisheng, but it caused Bai Wei to become angrier instead. Lin Zisheng actually showed an annoyed expression to her?!

“Hello, I am Bai Wei from Year 1, Class C. I…”

“Class C? I’m not interested in knowing you.”

Lin Zisheng cut her short before Bai Wei could finish her words. Then he reopened the book in his hand and completely ignored everyone around him.

At this moment, Bai Wei really wanted to scream out. Why is everything so different from what she imagined? Shouldn’t it be Lin Zisheng got captured by her charm and publicly confess to her?!

The 001 which was stealthily observing Lin Zisheng with his missions, stared at him with a face of adoration. This is its host’s first time doing the tasks, but he could grasp his character’s character so well. The ML2’s character setting is an iceberg top student. Each major in University A is divided into 4 classes: A, B, C, and D. As a top student, he naturally doesn’t care for weaklings. But why did it felt like something is wrong? 001 obviously has forgotten about their task, which is to save the white lotus. One should call the system stupid for forgetting that, right?

“This… this classmate, I, I just want to know you.”

Bai Wei lowered down her head. Her voice gradually became softer, and she lightly bit her lips. If someone is to look closely, they will even see tears glazing in her eyes; a clear image of someone being bullied.

“I just saw that you didn’t have any friends, so…”

That ‘I came here to rescue this lonely and autistic you’ look gave Lin Zisheng a burst of nausea.

“I don’t need friends,” Lin Zisheng closed the book in his hands, then stood up to head back to the dormitory. At the moment he passed by Bai Wei, he whispered, “I am Lin Zisheng, not Su Mo. You have gone to the wrong place.”

Wh… what?! How could he know this?!

Instantly, Bai Wei’s heart becomes flustered. This is her biggest secret, how could that person know about it?! Could it be… he also is reborn? Thinking of this possibility, Bai Wei is relieved and an understanding dawned on her. No wonder Lin Zisheng acted like he hated her. If he is reborn, then everything can be explained. Lin Zisheng must be blaming her for causing him to be disabled from the past life. However, he must be still deeply in love with her. Otherwise, he won’t harbor dissatisfaction with her in the end.

And at this moment, the Lin Zisheng who ‘harbored a dissatisfaction to Bai Wei’ is being warned by the System.

[Serious warning, serious warning! Before the completion of the tasks, the host is not allowed to let anyone know about your identity as an outsider. Otherwise, you will be judged as failing the tasks and be subjected to twice the punishment.]

“Bai Wei will not think that I am an outsider.” Chuckling, Lin Zisheng’s tone is filled with mockery towards Bai Wei, “A retard will not has such IQ.”

[…]

Host-daren actually makes sense, the system is unable to respond. QAQ

[Since Host-daren knew that Bai Wei couldn’t guess, then why did you say those words?]

Host-daren is too clever that it’s worrying, the system couldn’t understand the pit he dug (for FL).

“In order to let her misunderstood that I am reborn.”

This way, his next plan will be easier to execute.

[This… doesn’t that means Host-daren is adding difficulties to your task?]

001 couldn’t understand why Lin Zisheng did that even more.

[ML2 is disabled because of her in his past life. She will definitely think that the host will come back to take revenge, then how do you raise her good feeling?]

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“You are talking about normal people. As for retards…”

Pushing open his dormitory room’s door, Lin Zisheng went in and laid comfortably on the bed. He closed his eyes then slowly explained, “She will only think that I’m harboring a dissatisfaction. She might even think that I am still deeply in love with her.”

Hehe, one simply can’t deny that the brain waves between Lin Zisheng and Bai Wei at the moment are indeed in line.

“Plus, don’t you think that it’s easier to raise good feelings if someone who obviously hated you protects you in secret?”

Upon hearing the last sentence from Lin Zisheng, 001 expressed its respect to its host-daren like unending torrential river water.

“So, I’m done with the part with the female lead now. Next is Male Lead 1.”

Actually, in Lin Zisheng’s heart, ML1 is easier to take down compared to FL. The reason is simple because the male lead in this world is a fickle man who has no integrity at all. Although he(LZS) doesn’t like using a ‘honeypot’ trap, it seems to be exceptionally useful in this world.

There aren’t any classes early the next morning but Lin Zisheng still woke up early. Bai Wei should be scared by him yesterday and won’t be looking for ML1 so soon. Hence, right now he wanted to go and give Su Mo an unforgettable chance encounter. Although Su Mo didn’t like men, but after the impact from seeing his(LZS) face, the impression he(SM) will get from Bai Wei should be much smaller even if they met after this today.

Lin Zisheng specially put on a white casual suit, it has the same effect as Bai Wei’s white dress. Although he couldn’t act like Bai Wei’s delicate pitiful look, his cold temperament is equally memorable.

[Host-daren, you are my male god starting from today. Please take my knees!]

Watching Lin Zisheng fixing his appearance in front of the mirror, 001’s eyes have turned into heart symbols. A pink background appeared around its body, and it looked like a besotted idiot. But Lin Zisheng doesn’t blame the system because, in order to stay healthy, Lin Zisheng has a habit to exercise and keep fit. So even if his body has turned into 20 something years old, he could only look better than ever. Wide shoulder, narrow waist, long legs, and adding his face that is exceptionally delicate and slightly soft but not feminine at all; no matter who sees this, one must address him as a male god. And because of this, Lin Zisheng has quite some confidence in his ‘honeypot’ trap.

In the morning around 8.10, Lin Zisheng sat on the long bench under the classroom floor. Wearing a headphone and holding a book in his hand, he is no different than those students who wake up early to study under the classroom building.

[Host-daren, what are you doing sitting here? Aren’t you going to get a ‘chance encounter’ with ML1?]

001 is a little anxious seeing Lin Zisheng being indifferent. Su Mo has walked over, but how come Host-daren still doesn’t have any reaction?

Lin Zisheng didn’t answer. Instead, he glanced at the group of people slowly walking over at the corner of his eyes. There are not many people in that group, probably around 4-5 people. But Lin Zisheng could see that the tallest man of them all is the center of the group. That person is Su Mo. When he saw Su Mo, Lin Zisheng finally understood why so many people fought to climb into his bed despite knowing that this person is a fickle man. Not taking account of anything else, just his face alone could cause a countless woman to pounce without any second thoughts.

A pair of phoenix eyes slightly squinted, and the corner of his mouth is carrying a lazy smile. The top 2 buttons from his shirt were unbuttoned, revealing a honey-colored chest, making him sexy and dangerous at the same time. All these were enough for women ‘to rush like ducks’ (scrabbles madly for something unobtainable).

Lin Zisheng: … Coquettish to the max.

However, it is precisely because of this meeting that Lin Zisheng has his guard up. 001 gave him an introduction about how Su Mo is a fickle person, and his interest in other people has never gone over than a week, except for the female lead. But Lin Zisheng could sense that behind his wanton and unrestrained appearance hides a bloodthirsty beast. Once entangled, one is afraid it will not be that easy to escape, and even would get swallowed whole without anything left.

[Host-daren, male lead is approaching. Do your best, ganbatte~]

001 doesn’t know Lin Zisheng’s thoughts and anxiously urged, but Lin Zisheng has decided to give up (his current plan). Just that the other person might not be willing to do the same. As the two of them passed by each other, Su Mo’s body turned slightly somehow and bumped straight at Lin Zisheng.

“Ah, sorry. I didn’t see you there and accidentally bumped into you.”

Su Mo bent over to help Lin Zisheng pick up the fallen books, and apologized insincerely. As he placed the books on Lin Zisheng’s hands, his(SM) fingertips inadvertently brushed the back of his(LZS) hand. This skin is better than a woman’s, plus this face is so beautiful that it causes hearts to beat rapidly. A pity that all this belonged to a man.

“Thank you.”

Taking the books back from Su Mo’s hand, Lin Zisheng raised his head and glanced at Su Mo. He nodded and said his thanks, then walked towards the direction of the library without looking back.

After Lin Zisheng left, Su Mo looked at his own hand. He gently rubbed his fingertips and the corner of his mouth carried a thoughtful smile.

“What is it, Young Master Su is charmed?” The young man at the side saw Su Mo’s smile went up to ask, “Since when Young Master Su is interested in men?”

“A bit, but a pity that he is a guy. If he is a woman…”

A bit of regret appeared in Su Mo’s heart. It is rare for him to meet someone who fits his taste perfectly, just that the gender is not suitable.

“If Young Master Su is not interested, then how about giving it(the chance) to me?”

The young man saw Lin Zisheng’s appearance just now as well. If Young Master Su is not interested, then he is very interested. Just as the young man still wanted to say more, a hand reached out to grip his neck. Although there’s no force in the grip, the young man could still feel the threat coming from the owner of the hand.

“Remember this, you cannot touch him. No one can touch him.”

Such a fitting person to his taste, even he(SM) couldn’t touch so how could he let other people do it?!

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A pure white room, there was no light source but it looked very bright. A young man is leaning on a lounge chair in the middle of the room. The expression on his face is a rare peaceful look. His pair of eyes are tightly shut. His eyelashes are long, causing a light shadow (on his face). If not for his chest’s weak breathing movement, one might mistake him as a perfect jade carving; beautiful but lifeless. Finally, the young man slowly opened his eyes. His pure black pupil carried a deathly stillness that was not in line with his age, like a pool of stagnant water; not a sign of life.

“Where… is this? Didn’t I died already?”

He muttered to himself, and when he looked down at his hands, the stillness from his face finally broke.

“This is… me?”

This pair of slender and fair hands don’t have any scars or calluses. It was not something his current self could possess… instead, it was a long long time ago when he was still studying at school. Just as he wondered what is going on, a voice suddenly sounded in his mind causing him to stiffen his back.

[Hello Host, I am Bulingbuling, the glowing-in-brilliance System 001, a White Lotus Rescue System for ‘Leaving a Good name for White Lotus forever’. You will go down a journey with me to various worlds to save endangered White Lotuses. Let’s move forward for our great cause!]

Bulingbuling, glowing in brilliance…. leaving a good name for White Lotus?

This… what is this damned thing?!

[Dearest Host, due to a car accident, your body is now dead. I have stopped your time at the moment of your death. Now you have 2 options: One, accept the task. Earning enough points will let you exchange a lot of things, you can even choose to go back to your world before everything happens. The other option is to refuse, then you will be dead for real. The system will not be able to bind with you from the rejection, the stopped time from the earlier moment will continue to move again.]

Although the System sounded particularly plain, it gave people a lively feeling like one is conversing with a child.

“If I accept the task, what kind of task do I need to do?”

Lin Zisheng’s curiosity is provoked by this System. If anyone who knew Lin Zisheng is here, they would know that someone is going to be in trouble. Anyone who provokes his curiosity will not have any good ending, because that person will be thoroughly studied from the inside out by him; literally ‘from the inside out’. Just that this so-called System doesn’t understand Lin Zisheng at all. Therefore, it walked further and further down the death-seeking route.

[Host-daren, we are the first White Lotus Rescue System in the parallel space. Our goal is to protect the endangered species in the parallel space – White Lotus; helping them to avoid all kinds of imprisonment, abuse, and the fate of being killed!]

The System was talking so passionately about their mission that it didn’t notice a hint of cold light flashing through Lin Zisheng’s eyes the moment he bowed down his head.

White Lotus, huh?

Lowering down his eyelids and covering the maliciousness in the depths of his eyes, Lin Zisheng relaxed himself and placed his entire weight on the lounge chair. He seemed very relaxed but if one paid attention to his hands, one will find out that his hands by his side were tightly gripped; it has even turned white.

“I accept the task.”

Lin Zisheng’s voice is steady and indifferent. In the short moment when he lost control, he pressed down all his emotions in the darkest place at the bottom of his heart.

[The first world we are going to enter: Rebirth of the Blackened White Lotus. Host-daren please get ready for the transfer, 3,2,1 —]

After a burst of white light, the Lin Zisheng who is originally inside this white room has disappeared. Only the slightly swaying lounge chair proved that he was here a moment ago.

…

“That was a September weather. Although summer is over, it still carried the heat that has not been dispersed. And in this weather, she walked into everyone’s heart like a breeze.”

“She walked over from afar. A white dress swayed with the breeze like the water waves spread out and gather together. Black long hair hung from behind her. However, because of the wind, there were always a few strands of hair straying away. Sometimes sticking to her cheek, sometimes it floated away.”

“Her appearance was not extremely beautiful, but that white jade-like skin let other people to unable to look away. And the main thing causing people to get infatuated was her pair of eyes. Dark blue eyes like the sea carrying endless light within; like countless broken stars fell into the Milky Way.”

“Passing by her, one would inadvertently smell the lotus fragrance from her body, people can’t help but be deeply attracted…”

Reading the book in his hands, Lin Zisheng could feel the deep malice from the world. He didn’t say anything, just holding the book in his hands and staring at System 001. There is no expression in that thick black pupil; just indifference. But because of this, his pupil seemed to look a bit darker; giving people a sense of suffocation and oppression.

[Host… host-daren, this is the world of our mission.]

A little kitten-like being with a pair of wings looked at Lin Zisheng. Its gaze is a bit cautious. The System itself also doesn’t know why this world would be so bizarre! No… or it should say this being called White Lotus is bizarre? No, no, no, this is impossible! As a White Lotus Rescue System, how could it has such horrible thought!

“Dress like water waves? How much wind do you think you need to get this effect? And floating strands of hair? Is her hair made of metal spring or she has become a spirit? And the most unreliable thing was the lotus fragrance. Is she really not a lotus spirit?”

Lin Zisheng felt like ranting when he looked at the book in his hand. He couldn’t bear to look at this unreliable thing anymore and simply gave up; casually throwing the book away and then stared at System 001.

“Since you brought me here, then tell me what kind of world is this.”

Actually, this world is quite simple. Taking away all those dramatic nonsense, this is a story of a stubborn white lotus wandering between two men. Hooking up with Male Lead 1 in admiration, but couldn’t bear to let go of the ‘national good spare tire’ Male Lead 2. In the end, because she wanted to ‘board on two boats'(two-timing ML1 and ML2), causing both boats to sink. That caused Male Lead 2 to be disabled while she gets imprisoned by Male Lead 1 doing various SM play.

Of course, the most bizarre thing is not this; the story is not over yet. The white lotus couldn’t stand the torture anymore and finally committed suicide. Then she is reborn, and this time she wanted to obtain both male leads and control them in her hand. The result is Male Lead 2 gets blackened as well, causing her to get tortured to death by both male leads.

“Hehe, indeed a model example of ‘no zuo no die’.” (Meaning, if you don’t do it, you won’t die)

Listening to 001 telling the story, Lin Zisheng felt that it is not easy for a white lotus to get so retarded. One can’t deny that low IQ is a crippling illness ah.

“Then what is my mission?”

[Please wait.]

[System scanning…]

[Your identity is Male Lead 2, Lin Zisheng.]

[Main mission: Change the female lead’s fate, prevent her from dying under Male Lead 1 or 2’s hands. Reward : EXP 200 & 500 Points. Failure will deduct 500 Points.]

[Side Mission 1: Raise positive feeling from Male Lead 1 to 80% and above. Reward : EXP 50 & 100 Points. No penalty for failure.]

[Side Mission 2: Raise positive feeling from Female Lead to 80% and above. Reward : EXP 50 & 100 Points. No penalty for failure.]

[Side Mission 3: Help Female Lead to untie the matter in her heart and ends her blackened situation. Reward : EXP 80 & 120 Points. No penalty for failure.]

[As a newbie, you have 1 chance of exemption. That means no penalty for first time failure. Also, a reminder, when your points are lower than -2000, you will suffer a 1-time physical injury. When your points are lower than -5000, you will suffer 1-time soul punishment, while getting below -10000 will get yourself directly destroyed.]

[Do you accept the task?]

Listening to 001 explaining the mission with its plain mechanical voice, Lin Zisheng was between laughter and tears. Change the female lead’s fate? Can you really save a retard?

“Yes.”

Since he has decided to protect his family, Lin Zisheng absolutely will not allow himself to give up. Even if some of the tasks are a bit disgusting… it’s not like these tasks don’t have loopholes.

[As of now, Male Lead 1, Male Lead 2, and Female Lead are currently students from University A. Confirm entering the plot?]

“Yes.”

Since the decision has been made, then everything should be done as soon as possible. Lin Zisheng is not someone who drags matters. Upon giving his confirmation, Lin Zisheng felt his surroundings fading and became brighter.

When Lin Zisheng could feel himself standing on the ground again, he looked down at his clothes and couldn’t help wrinkling his eyebrows. He who has accustomed to wearing suits is now wearing some kind of youthful attire. He really couldn’t get used to it right away. Reaching out to tug at his collar, Lin Zisheng then remembered that he is not wearing a shirt so he didn’t wear a tie.

[Host, please take note that the target is 50 meters ahead in the northeast direction. Both of you will encounter each other in 2 minutes.]

“What?” Lin Zisheng was stunned when he heard 001’s words, “Isn’t the FL supposed to meet ML1 first, then accidentally encountered ML2?”

He remembered that the story was written like this.

[Because FL is someone who has reborn, the world could only know the general context and couldn’t completely grasp the FL’s movement.]

Meaning, the FL’s movement right now will not be following the original plot. So he has to improvise as he goes? Lin Zisheng raised his eyebrows, the corner of his lips curved up to a shallow smile, and then instantly disappeared. He didn’t forget that the Lin Zisheng in this world is an iceberg top student, he would easier get OOC-ed if he smiled too much.

Walking a few steps, he found a place to sit then he looked down at the book in his hand. His lowered eyelids concealed the maliciousness in his eyes, and the cold temperament from his body could be clearly seen ‘rejecting people outside a thousand miles away from him’. Although Lin Zisheng is the only person sitting on the long bench under the tree, no one dares to approach; the is probably the so-called aura of the iceberg top student. Of course, not everyone has discerning eyes. At the very least, the being called White Lotus doesn’t have much ‘eyesight’, and very narcissistic as well.

White lotus Bai Wei carefully maintained her temperament while looking for her target. In her past life, she didn’t appear at this place but ran into a ‘demon’ that she could never forget at another location. But in this life, she will definitely change her fate and search for that person who has always been obsessed with her. Bai Wei believed that even if the time that they should meet has changed, that person will definitely fall for her at first sight. Because she is very pure and lovable, how could there be anyone in this world who doesn’t love her?

That ‘demon’ treated her badly like that all because he fell deeply in love with her; so much in love that he couldn’t bear to lose her. That’s why he imprisoned her and tortured her because she wanted to escape. Bai Wei knew about that demon’s feeling, so even if she hated him, she still decided to give him a chance. As long as he doesn’t treat her roughly anymore, she still could reluctantly agree to be together with him.

Of course, Lin Zisheng doesn’t know all these thoughts in Bai Wei’s mind. If he knew, he would sigh in admiration; as expected from the Female Lead, the circuits in her brain are not the same as normal people.

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