“Let
go!”
On the bed, half of Yan Huan’s body was still hanging off the edge, forcing him into a precarious balancing act with his legs.
To make matters worse, Spencer was curled up on top of him, pressing him down, making it even harder to endure.
After a brief struggle, sensing his intention to escape, Spencer clung to him even tighter and shouted,
“Supplent!”
Her face was flushed, and a single tear soaked into Yan Huan’s T-shirt.
From his angle, all he could see was half of her delicate, porcelain-like face, slightly pressed out of shape against his chest.
“Hiss…”
A suffocating sensation, like a python coiling around him, surged through his body, making his own face flush a little red.
Yan Huan patted the bed in resignation, finally giving up on struggling.
As soon as he stopped moving, Spencer’s grip loosened again, leaving him speechless.
“…Huh, as the academy’s doctor, this looks like a case of peak physical health to .”
Just as Yan Huan was slightly relaxing, Ye Lina had sohow dragged over a chair and was now sitting beside them, observing with great interest.
Hearing her remark, Yan Huan turned his head toward her with a deadpan look.
“Ms. Ye Lina, what the hell are you even saying?”
“Just a passing thought, don’t mind .”
Ye Lina smiled slightly, looking at Spencer still clinging to Yan Huan, and asked,
“So, what exactly is going on here?”
Yan Huan glanced down at Spencer, who was pouting and clinging to him like a koala, and explained,
“How should I know? I ran into her at the club building, and she suddenly seed unwell. So I brought her here, thinking you could call her family or maybe an ambulance?”
“No need for an ambulance. She should be fine.”
“…For so reason, hearing that from you makes
doubt it even more.”
Yan Huan shot her a highly skeptical look.
After all, every ti he ca to the infirmary, Ye Lina’s solution was either sending students ho or feigning ignorance.
And she had an incredible habit of making the most inappropriate jokes.
But Ye Lina didn’t bother explaining. Instead, she leaned back in her chair, rolled backward to the desk, and picked up a small bronze naplate, holding it up for Yan Huan to see.
"Senior Honorary Physician – Saint Lyon Hospital – Ye Lina Ivanovna Sokolova"
Yan Huan blinked and looked at the tiny, golden-haired doll-like doctor in front of him.
“……”
Under his unwavering stare, Ye Lina’s once-calm eyes shifted away slightly. Then, finally, she sighed in surrender and admitted,
“Alright, fine. Actually, she’s wearing a biotric monitoring wristband—one of the latest models developed by Golden Lion Group. It hasn’t turned red, so it’s nothing serious.”
Yan Huan looked down at Spencer’s left wrist and finally noticed a high-tech, semi-transparent band wrapped around it.
At the mont, the band was glowing with a warning yellow and displaying fluctuating waveforms, along with the words:
"Detected unknown anomaly. Alert triggered."
Seeing this cutting-edge device, Yan Huan clicked his tongue in amazent.
“This thing was just showcased at the Eagle Nation Tech Expo, right? Costs over a hundred grand, and she’s just casually wearing it?”
Ye Lina smirked as she put away her naplate and said,
“You really don’t know who you’re dealing with, do you?”
“Who else? So rich girl’s daughter.”
“Wrong. She’s the rich girl’s daughter.”
Ye Lina chuckled and pointed at Spencer, still nestled in Yan Huan’s arms.
“This kid is the only daughter of the chairman of the Golden Lion Group—the prized jewel of the Black Gold family.
“No matter how greedy Principal Hers is for money, he still values academic reputation. Even if soone offered a fortune, he’d never accept a completely incompetent student.
“Except for this one.
“Because they paid too much for him to refuse. And the backing behind her is too big for him to reject.”
Golden Lion Group—full na Golden Lion Energy Enterprise Group—was a petroleum monopoly giant across the ocean.
As its founding family, the Spencer lineage was widely known as the Golden Lion Family or the Black Gold Family.
The corporation had sprawling investnts across various industries, including Golden Lion Bank, Golden Lion Entertainnt, and Golden Lion Tech.
One of its most successful investnts? Linn.
Now, in the very heart of this man-made ocean city, amidst its most extravagant, sky-high real estate, stood a colossal skyscraper emblazoned with the Golden Lion insignia.
“……”
Yan Huan paused for a mont, looking at Ye Lina with an unreadable expression before glancing down at Spencer, who was comfortably passed out in his arms.
But what did all that have to do with the fact that Spencer was a certified idiot?
At this mont, Spencer had finally settled down, lying there in a dazed, thoughtless state.
But being pinned down like this wasn’t ideal, so Yan Huan tried calling out to her.
“Spencer?”
No response. Only her head shifted slightly.
Then, she lifted her face toward him, looked straight into his eyes, and after a brief silence—
She smiled. A pure, dumb, innocent smile.
“…Mama~”
“……”
Yan Huan recoiled slightly, as if he’d just swallowed a fly, shifting his gaze away to avoid being infected by the sheer brain-cell-destroying aura she was exuding.
Instead, he turned to Ye Lina and asked,
“So why didn’t the Golden Lion chairman keep her in Eagle Nation, pampered at ho, instead of shipping her all the way here?”
“Who knows? Most people can’t even et them, let alone learn about their personal affairs.”
Ye Lina let out a light laugh, then suddenly reached out and patted Spencer’s cheek.
Smack.
The next second—Spencer snapped her teeth at her.
“Awoo!”
Luckily, Ye Lina had anticipated this and swiftly withdrew her hand.
“Well, let’s not worry about why she ended up like this for now. What matters is—how often do you get the chance to casually slap the Black Gold family’s precious little princess?
“Wanna try? Feels pretty good.”
Spencer, having failed to bite Ye Lina and not wanting to risk another attack, imdiately burrowed deeper into Yan Huan’s chest, clinging tightly while shooting a wary glare at Ye Lina.
“…I hate you!”
“Ahh, even the rich girl’s daughter is this adorable~”
Ye Lina gave a knowing, aunt-like smile, but Yan Huan wasn’t the least bit amused. His gaze lingered on her hand for a mont, hesitating.
Only now did he suddenly realize—her action just now, slapping Spencer’s face, had been…
Rough?
Ye Lina might love making inappropriate jokes, but she’d never been the type to smack soone’s face when they were sick.
“……”
Yan Huan blinked and looked down at Spencer in his arms.
A cold shiver ran down his spine.
An unsettling feeling welled up in his chest, making him instinctively recoil, wanting to push Spencer away.
And that was when he rembered—
Earlier, he had actually hit her.
A couple of weak, taunting words from her had actually provoked him into slapping her back.
That wasn’t normal.
It had to be the side effect of her Modifier.
So without realizing it, he’d been influenced by that repulsive feeling?
As soon as he beca aware of this, he forcibly pulled his thoughts away from the disgust.
His eyes refocused, trying to shake off the Modifier’s effect.
And slowly, the Spencer in his vision changed.
The aura that made him sick, that made him feel an unfamiliar desire, faded away—
Leaving behind nothing but the sheer clinging dependence in her eyes.
Yan Huan was silent for a long ti.
Then, with a glance at Ye Lina—who still looked eager to slap Spencer’s face again—he instinctively shielded her in his arms.
At the sa ti, he asked,
“…So, can you explain to
why she thinks I’m her… mom?”
Seeing her chance to tease ruined, Ye Lina clicked her tongue in disappointnt. She tapped a finger against her chin, thinking, but the more she thought about it, the more confused she seed.
“President Yan, do you know what makes humans different from animals? It’s our so-called ‘brain.’
“But the sad thing is, intelligence fluctuates—it drops when we’re sick, when we’re overwheld with emotions…
“And right now, her already pathetically low IQ has completely shut down along with her foggy consciousness.
“She’s entered a chaotic, unpredictable ntal state…”
Ye Lina then turned to Yan Huan, raising a single finger as she delivered her final conclusion.
“I call it—‘Super Idiot Mode.’”
“……”
Yan Huan arched an eyebrow. Sothing about that didn’t seem quite right, but he couldn’t find a better term to describe Spencer’s current state either.
Ding, ding, ding~
At that mont, Ye Lina’s phone rang.
She pulled it out and answered.
“Delivery? At the shopping district entrance? Okay, I’ll be right there.”
She hung up and stood, pulling off her white coat as she casually said,
“In this state, she’s completely incapable of logical thought. Her mories are also jumbled, so she’ll misunderstand things and develop inexplicable affection for people…
“More importantly, no matter what you do to her, she won’t rember a thing. She’ll just obediently follow along~”
Ye Lina hung up her coat and then, suddenly, her tone took a sharp turn.
“Oh my, what a coincidence, Yan Huan.
“I just so happen to need to go pick up my package from the shopping district—very, very far from the faculty office building.
“And while I’m at it, I might stop for a long, long ti to enjoy so delicious desserts.
“So, I guess I’ll be leaving this completely empty infirmary—where no one else will co at this hour—to you.
“You know, the infirmary that just so happens to have fresh bedsheets and… lube.”
Yan Huan watched in horror as she deliberately took out a box of contraceptives from the cabinet and placed it on the desk.
Then, turning back, she warned him.
“…”
“Hello? Linn Education Bureau? I’d like to report a pervert working at Yuanyue Academy.”
Ye Lina wasn’t the least bit upset. She simply grabbed her phone and actually walked toward the door.
“Bye-bye now, Young Master Yan~”
“So, does that wristband notify the Golden Lion Group when there’s an issue?”
“…Clever boy. You know, I really dislike smart kids like you. Want to know why?”
She had already reached the doorway, but after hearing his question, she let out a sigh, turned around, and answered herself,
“Because smart kids are harder to fool.”
“……”
“But I’d guess it’ll take them a while to get here. So… enjoy yourself, President Yan~”
Click.
The next second, the door shut—sealing the space inside, leaving only Yan Huan and Spencer.
Yan Huan let out a deep sigh, yanked the curtain shut, and turned to face her.
Seeing that annoying woman finally leave, Spencer peeked out from his arms and let out a tiny huff.
Then, she turned to look at him.
Her golden waves cascaded over her shoulders, spilling onto his stomach.
Her bright blue eyes blinked slowly—as clear as seawater.
Yan Huan studied her.
She studied him.
After a long mont, just as he thought she might finally recognize that he wasn’t her mom—
She suddenly bead with a dumb, innocent smile and said,
“…Mama~”
“……”
Yan Huan let out a long sigh.
This ti, he didn’t avoid her gaze.
Slowly, he reached out his hand—
He wasn’t sure if it was to apologize for accidentally hitting her earlier or just a chance to calm her down and coax more information out of her.
But just as his hand extended, Spencer lowered her head herself—rubbing against his palm like a cat.
Then, she grinned goofily.
“Hehe~”
Yan Huan looked away from her, gathering his thoughts before asking,
“…Spencer, do you not want to be separated from your mom?”
“…No…”
After answering, she burrowed deeper into his chest and clutched his shirt tightly.
“…Then think—why did she send you here?”
“……”
There was no response for a long while.
But Yan Huan could tell—she wasn’t asleep.
“…I don’t know… I’ve always wanted to ask Mama… why she left
here all alone…”
She doesn’t know either?
But Spencer didn’t stop there.
“…I don’t like Linn at all. I don’t like school either…
“It’s just like before. Everyone’s so fake. They look down on people weaker than them, bully them…
“I hate them…”
She pursed her lips, her voice trembling with sadness.
“…At ho, I only have AI to keep
company. But it doesn’t understand anything…
“Every ti I ask it to call you, it always says you’re resting, that you won’t pick up… Liar…”
Yan Huan blinked.
Kid, that’s because of the ti difference.
After a brief pause, he asked,
“…So you didn’t make any friends?”
“…I did…”
Spencer nodded, then lifted her face—
And smiled.
"An Le... I want to help her steal that annoying Yan Huan away from the other girls!"
Yan Huan's neutral expression instantly darkened. Unable to hold back, he reached out and gave Spencer’s cheek a light pinch.
Yet instead of getting mad, she giggled, her head swaying along with his touch.
"Hehe~"
"...Idiot."
"I-I'm not an idiot... I'm not an idiot... I'm not an idiot..."
For the first ti, Spencer actually refuted Yan Huan, puffing up her cheeks in protest.
Even her own mother wasn’t allowed to call her dumb, huh?
But what really caught Yan Huan’s attention was the phrase "helping An Le steal ."
That reminded him of the study group at noon.
This girl had been acting out so much during the session—turns out, it was to distract Ying Gong and Bai Yi’s attention from An Le.
Was that sothing An Le asked her to do?
Or was Spencer just acting on her own?
"An Le is so stingy. Even if I drink just one bottle of her water, she holds onto it like it's made of gold... and I was the one who gave it to her in the first place... but since we’re friends, I just…"
Spencer kept muttering under her breath, but Yan Huan caught a key word.
Water?
That bottle of water—
The one An Le had been holding so protectively.
The one he was supposed to drink but didn’t, because Spencer was causing a scene.
The one he saw An Le drink later.
He knew she had drunk from it—
He had drunk from it, too.
Ying Gong had been there, so he hadn’t ntioned it to avoid awkwardness.
But logically speaking, given An Le and Spencer’s relationship, Spencer drinking her water shouldn’t have been that big of a deal.
Unless…
That wasn’t normal water.
Yan Huan suddenly rembered how Spencer had been acting strange from the very beginning.
Flushed cheeks, rising body heat, hazy consciousness, unusual obedience…
"Thud."
Wait a minute.
If An Le had asked Spencer to help distract Bai Yi and Ying Gong—
If that bottle had been ant for him—
Then…
Yan Huan’s mind suddenly pieced together three crucial mories:
"Spencer distracting Bai Yi and Ying Gong while An Le held onto the water bottle, waiting to be alone with ."
"Spencer drinking An Le’s water."
"Spencer now feverish, flushed, and delirious."
An Le, who had a Modifier—
What exactly had she been planning to do to him?
Yan Huan’s blood ran cold.
He swallowed hard, still struggling to believe it.
Because that wasn’t like An Le.
At most, she was timid—
Lacked confidence.
Easily swayed by others' opinions.
But at her core—she was not a bad person.
And besides, he was the one who had taken the water first.
She never told him to drink it.
Maybe… he was just overthinking it?
Yan Huan shook his head, pushing away the doubt.
Right now, dealing with Spencer was the priority.
"Spencer, why do you like taking things from other people?"
Spencer tilted her head, thinking for a long mont before answering seriously,
"...Because those birds have everything. They're so pretty, their feathers so colorful, they all gather together in their high, cloudy castles..."
Yan Huan’s face darkened.
What the hell was she even talking about?
Was her brain completely fried now?
Still, at least he was getting a clearer picture of her background.
Born into an elite family in Eagle Nation.
An only child.
Yet, for so reason, her mother had sent her across the ocean to Linn, alone.
And now, an AI was taking care of her?
Rich people’s lives were truly beyond comprehension.
"...Mama, sleepy~"
After answering so many of his questions, Spencer seed tired.
She let out a huge yawn, rubbing her eyes sleepily.
"Then you—"
"I want you to sleep with ."
"......"
I’m recording this.
If her family walks in and sees us in bed together, I need evidence to play before I get silenced.
"Say that again. I’m getting my phone."
Face dark, Yan Huan pulled out his phone, ready to hit record.
Before he could even start, Spencer moved.
Lowering herself, she wrapped her arms around his neck—
Her entire body pressing flush against his.
Yan Huan’s pupils shrank slightly.
His gaze locked onto hers—just inches away.
Nose to nose.
She wasn’t wearing any makeup, yet her skin was flawless, pale and smooth.
Who knew how much money her family had spent pampering her like this.
But it was her eyes—
Clear, untainted, completely pure.
She stared at him, unblinking.
Her long eyelashes fluttered, casting soft shadows over her arched brows.
Then—she spoke.
"...Like."
Yan Huan froze.
He hadn’t even had ti to respond when—
Footsteps—hurried, approaching fast.
His face changed.
He whispered urgently to Spencer,
"Whatever happens, don’t make a sound."
Then, he yanked the curtain shut and pulled his legs up onto the bed, hiding them completely.
“Mm…”
Spencer had already buried her head in his neck, completely still.
Click—
"Ms. Ye Lina! Are you here?!"
The door swung open.
An Le’s frantic voice rang out.
An Le?
Holding Spencer, Yan Huan felt a wave of relief.
At least it wasn’t the Golden Lion Group.
If he had been caught before recording anything, he’d be physically erased by the rich family’s damage control team.
Just as he was about to get up—
An Le’s panicked muttering ca from outside the curtain.
"What do I do? If I hadn’t planned to give that aphrodisiac to Little Huan… then even if Spencer drank it by mistake, she wouldn’t be in this ss… It’s all my fault..."
Inside the curtain, Yan Huan's entire body went stiff.
His eyes widened in shock.
Terrified, he imdiately lay back down.
"It’s all my fault… I’m to bla…"
Click-click-click—
At the edge of the bed, ow-chan flickered into view.
Grinning, she turned back and excitedly whispered to Yan Huan,
"An Le’s Modifier is about to explode with fragnts, ow!"
Yan Huan pressed his lips together, sighing inwardly to ow-chan.
"An Le overthinks everything. I have no idea why the Modifier would choose her as a host. It feels like… no, even just saying a few sharp words, like with Ye Shiyu, would be enough to make her drown in guilt."
"That’s true, ow… But whatever the case, at least we’re finally about to get so new fragnts!"
ow-chan eagerly awaited the mont An Le’s Modifier shattered into pieces.
But then—
Silence.
Click... click…
The sound of fragnts falling suddenly stopped.
ow-chan froze in place.
What’s going on, ow?
The process can stop halfway?!
Then, amid the silence, An Le’s unsteady breathing could be heard.
“…It’s not my fault… But either way… I should… I should just focus on finding Spencer first…”
Not her fault?!
ow-chan was shocked.
It had never imagined that the Modifier could be stopped mid-collapse.
Yan Huan hadn’t expected it either.
His brows furrowed as he glanced toward the curtain—
As if trying to see through it and understand this suddenly unfamiliar childhood friend.
“…I’ll just wait here for Ms. Ye Lina. She should have Spencer’s family’s contact information.”
“……”
Hearing this, Yan Huan’s breathing grew shallow.
But just then—
Spencer, who had been resting quietly in his arms, reacted.
She heard An Le’s voice.
Though her consciousness was still hazy, her golden hair suddenly brightened.
Then, as if responding to so invisible signal, it twitched and curled—forming two antenna-like shapes.
An invisible pulse radiated outward, spreading across the entire room.
“……”
Still dazed, she shifted slightly—
Then, as if acting purely on instinct, her hand pressed down on Yan Huan’s abdon.
"!!"
Yan Huan’s eyes widened in shock.
He looked down in horror at Spencer—
She was still asleep, completely unconscious, yet her body wasn’t acting that way at all.
She was doing this on purpose.
Provoking him on purpose.
She was forcing him to endure it—
To make sure An Le, sitting just outside the curtain, sensed that sothing was wrong.
Even now, in her unconscious state… she could still plunder?!
Yan Huan was about to fight back—
But then, he saw Spencer’s lips part slightly, her throat shifting—she was about to speak.
"!!"
Shit.
If she made even a single sound, An Le would imdiately—
Without thinking, Yan Huan froze completely, not moving a muscle.
Sensing that he wasn’t resisting anymore, Spencer—still in her ‘Super Idiot Mode’—seed satisfied.
She humd softly and let her hands wander even more freely, exploring the muscles that had slightly hardened from his training.
Right now—
Right now, he had two extra points in the Reproduction attribute.
And now—he was being forced to endure this temptation, completely silent, right in front of his childhood friend?!
“……”
Outside the curtain, An Le sat in her chair, her face turning red as she glanced at the contraceptives and other items Ye Lina had left on the table.
But then, she suddenly rembered—
The mistake she made earlier today.
Because of a mont of reckless impulse… she had almost done sothing terrible.
This wasn’t the way to win Little Huan’s heart.
It was too shaless.
She should win him over with true feelings, with courage.
After all—
She and Little Huan were supposed to be pure love.
…Right?
For so reason, that thought suddenly crystallized in her mind.
What she didn’t realize was that—
Just a few ters behind her, hidden behind the curtain—
The air was growing thick.
There was no love.
There was no courage.
There was only overwhelming numbers.
There was only primal desire.
There was only unholy corruption.
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