Chapter 140: The Scandal of the Century
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Chen Yu cleared his throat. Staring at the face across from him—the face he hated so much it made his teeth ache—he suddenly laughed in fury.
“Luo Xiangdong… No. What should I call you?”
“You regarded yourself as God, manipulating everyone’s life and death, basking in the world’s attention. That must feel pretty damn good, doesn’t it?”
“But do you know what you are in my eyes? You’re the most pathetic person in the world—a miserable wretch still desperately putting on an act even now!”
The smile on Shen Feng’s face stiffened for a moment, but he quickly resumed his refined, affable expression. Picking up his knife and fork, he continued cutting the steak on his plate with leisurely precision, as though Chen Yu had merely told an unfunny joke.
Damn, this bastard’s performance was flawless.
Chen Yu cursed viciously to himself.
“Fine. Since you’re so eager to play the leading role, so eager for the whole world to know about your ‘glorious achievements,’ then I’ll grant your wish. I’ll follow your way of thinking and lay everything out for you!”
“Let’s begin with the first game you designed!”
Billions of viewers around the globe, after witnessing that mind-shattering reversal, held their breath once more. Even the scrolling comments had grown sparse.
“I gave your first game a name: ‘Fate.’”
“Rather fitting, wouldn’t you say?”
The corner of Chen Yu’s mouth curled in mockery.
“Because that game is a reflection of your entire life. From the moment you were born, Heaven—the greatest gambler of them all—stamped you with a tragic fate!”
“Because when you were old enough to remember things, when you first looked into a mirror, you discovered in despair that your soul… was a fucking girl’s!”
Boom!
Those words exploded in the minds of viewers around the world like a bombshell.
“What the hell?! What did I just hear? A girl?!”
“Holy crap! No wonder he created such a twisted game. It turns out he’s a pervert himself!”
“Wait, wait, wait. Isn’t that handsome middle-aged man Luo Xiangdong? He’s a man! What does it mean that his soul is a girl’s?”
“I get it! He means the person is biologically male but considers himself female psychologically!”
“My God! That’s too much information… I need a drink of water to calm down…”
The live-stream chat erupted in an instant. Everyone was stunned by the sudden revelation.
Inside the restaurant, Shen Feng’s knife stopped moving for the first time.
He raised his head. The amusement and appreciation in his deep eyes had finally vanished, replaced by a dark, sullen glint.
Chen Yu noticed the change in his expression, and the pleasure in his heart intensified.
That was all it took to break through his defenses? This was only the beginning!
“Just like the game you designed, no one gets a choice. Their fate is sealed inside that damned suitcase from the very start! Whether they live or die is decided in the instant it is opened!”
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“You’re the same! You had no choice! You could only live in this world wearing a man’s body while carrying a woman’s heart!”
Chen Yu’s voice suddenly rose.
“Then you gradually grew up. You refused to submit to your fate and wanted to prove yourself, so you became flamboyant and conspicuous. You also loved playing all kinds of games, didn’t you?”
“Because Heaven played the cruelest game of all with you, you decided to impose that attitude of ‘life as a game’ on everyone else!”
“Am I right?”
Shen Feng gave a cold snort. He neither admitted nor denied it. Instead, he picked up his knife and fork again and placed a bloody piece of steak in his mouth.
Chen Yu could not be bothered with his reaction and continued speaking on his own.
“We investigated. The real Luo Xiangdong had been timid, introverted, and even somewhat antisocial since childhood. His personality was worlds apart from the one you’re displaying now!”
“Or perhaps I should say that your personalities complemented each other perfectly!”
“So, during your freshman year, you met Luo Xiangdong.”
“The moment you saw him, you were drawn to his melancholy air and his talent. No, ‘drawn’ isn’t the right word. It should be ‘infatuated.’”
“You fell in love with him!”
“So you approached him of your own accord—or rather… you pursued him! You enjoyed the feeling. You were a naïve little gay boy experiencing a racing heart for the first time, discovering for the first time what happiness felt like!”
“And that poor Luo Xiangdong, because of his introverted nature, had hardly had any friends since childhood.”
“Your arrival was like a ray of light illuminating his bleak world.”
“He regarded you as the first—and only—true friend of his life. He cherished you deeply, cherished the ‘friendship’ between you, and even… never explicitly rejected those ‘kindnesses’ of yours that crossed the boundary between friendship and something more!”
Chen Yu’s pace was unhurried, but every word pierced Shen Feng’s heart.
The veins on Shen Feng’s hand bulged uncontrollably around the knife and fork, yet he continued forcing himself to maintain his composure.
“What a pity… It didn’t last.” Chen Yu shook his head, a look of regret appearing on his face.
“Just before the summer vacation of your freshman year, in the most secluded grove on your campus, you decided the time was right. You summoned all your courage and confessed everything to him.”
“You told him every secret in your heart, every ounce of your love.”
“You imagined that he would be moved by your feelings and accept you, and that the two of you would live happily together, just like in a fairy tale.”
“But what you never expected was that he… was straight!”
“And what’s more, he rejected you—rejected you so decisively!”
“I can imagine how you must have felt at the time. It must have been absolutely… devastating, wasn’t it?”
Chen Yu paused deliberately. Watching Shen Feng’s face begin to twist, he widened the curve of his smile.
“To be looked at like a monster by the person you loved most… That must have been painful, wasn’t it?”
“All your pride, all your fantasies, were shattered in that instant!”
“With your extreme, twisted personality, under such devastating humiliation, it would only have been natural for you to do something perverse, wouldn’t it?”
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Chen Yu suddenly leaned forward, lowering his voice until it became a devil’s whisper.
“And then…”
“You… imprisoned him?”
The final five words were spoken so softly that they nevertheless exploded beside Shen Feng’s ears like a thunderclap.
Clang!
Shen Feng could no longer hold on to his knife and fork. They fell heavily onto the plate with a harsh metallic crash.
The hand that had been holding them began to tremble violently, beyond his control, and his face turned deathly pale in an instant.
His eyes were filled with fury. Memories buried for more than a decade surged forth all at once.
Chen Yu caught the change in his emotions and smiled in satisfaction.
Got him!
He had pierced through the greatest psychological defense of this old pervert!
At the same time, the global live-stream chat once again crashed.
“What the hell did I just hear? He imprisoned him?!”
“Wait! What is that corpse-reviving guy talking about? That handsome middle-aged man… isn’t he Luo Xiangdong? Then whom did he imprison? Luo Xiangdong?!”
“Holy shit! Are there two Luo Xiangdongs?!”
“Oh my God! I think I’m starting to understand!”
“Buddy above, I think you’re talking nonsense!”
“The biggest scandal of the century! This is absolutely the biggest revelation of the entire century, no contest!”
“This isn’t a mystery film anymore. It’s a damn horror movie!”
The chat went completely insane. Every viewer’s entire worldview was being crushed, rebuilt, and crushed again.
The direction this story was taking had surpassed even the wildest imaginations of everyone watching.
Looking at Shen Feng’s discomposed reaction, Chen Yu knew he had guessed correctly.
He leaned back in his chair, calmly lifted the red wine before him, and swirled it gently.
“Looks like I was right.”
His tone was filled with the composure of someone in complete control.
“Then…”
“Let me tell you about your second game!”