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Chapter 9

Green Ghostfire
With five million in hand, I quit the demanding job I had.

I spent a year traveling. I went to see the northern lights, skydived, and went deep diving.

I threw myself into every extreme sport I could find just to feel how good it was to be alive. Whenever my heart started pounding fast, I would remember that lifeless villa. I would then breathe in even harder.

It was during my travels that I met Susan Jameson.

She was not some overbearing CEO, and she was not some obsessive madwoman, either.
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  • Returning to Her Madness   Chapter 9

    With five million in hand, I quit the demanding job I had.I spent a year traveling. I went to see the northern lights, skydived, and went deep diving.I threw myself into every extreme sport I could find just to feel how good it was to be alive. Whenever my heart started pounding fast, I would remember that lifeless villa. I would then breathe in even harder.It was during my travels that I met Susan Jameson.She was not some overbearing CEO, and she was not some obsessive madwoman, either. She was just an ordinary photographer with a warm smile and clean hands.We met under the northern lights in Frostland. She handed me a cup of hot cocoa and asked with a smile, "Cold?"I did not answer the way I had in that mission world like a machine following a script at that moment. Instead, I hunched my shoulders a little and grinned. "I'm freezing here. Share some with me."We fell in love naturally.Susan did not know what kind of past I had. She only knew that sometimes, I would sim

  • Returning to Her Madness   Chapter 8

    I turned to the system after I watched Jessica sob until she fell apart on the screen and asked, "If the female lead ends up like this, can this microworld still be saved?"The system sighed. "No. It can't be saved now. Her mind has completely collapsed, and her comprehension of this world is falling apart. She's the pillar holding this world together. If she doesn't want to live anymore, the world will be destroyed along with her."Just as I thought.After Jessica finished crying, she slowly got to her feet. She then went to the drawer and took out the lighter she had once treasured most. "Since you don't want to stay in this world, I'll leave with you. The fall into the abyss must be long and cold… I'll go keep you company."Jessica then set the curtains on fire.The flames spread fast as the fire swallowed the luxurious furniture, the bed that held countless memories of ours, and then both her and my bodies.Jessica held my corpse tightly, and even as the fire consumed us, a f

  • Returning to Her Madness   Chapter 7

    Jessica kissed my forehead gently before walking into the basement. Henry and the thugs were tied to chairs inside.What followed was so brutal that even the system had to censor most of it.Jessica barely needed to interrogate them.Desperate to stay alive, the thugs spilled everything. They told Jessica how Henry had contacted them and given them the drugs, how he had told them to have fun with me, even ordering them to film and take pictures of it. They even copied his vicious tone so perfectly.The evidence was undeniable.Henry was still crying and screaming. "Jessica, I did it for you! That man doesn't love you at all! He's like a block of ice! Only by crushing him would he start depending on you again! Didn't you agree to this from the start? You wanted him to suffer too!"Those words became the final blow that crushed Jessica, because they were all true. She had had a hand in this, too.If it wasn't because she wanted that fantasy of playing the hero, if she had not agre

  • Returning to Her Madness   Chapter 6

    Jessica said nothing else as she simply stayed beside my body, her eyes cold. The aura of madness around her seemed to have disappeared, replaced by a frightening calm.She glanced at the bodyguards behind her and spoke faintly, as if she were talking about something ordinary. "Take these men and Henry back with you. Don't let a single one of them escape.""Jessica! What are you trying to do?! Aren't we best friends?" Henry screamed in terror and tried to run toward her, but the bodyguards pinned him to the ground without mercy."Seal this place off and investigate everything. I want to know exactly what happened, down to the second," Jessica said before letting them carry my body out. She stayed close the whole time, her hand wrapped around my cold fingers.-The Sand family's private doctor came over in a rush to examine my body.After we returned to the villa, Jessica stayed by the side of my corpse.She brought warm water over and slowly wiped the blood and dirt from my body

  • Returning to Her Madness   Chapter 5

    The factory doors were kicked open with brutal force, and dust flew everywhere. Jessica looked frantic and sharp at the same time, the harsh light illuminating her back."Wil!" She shouted my name, her voice full of fake panic and affection.In her fantasy, I should be curled up in a corner, shaking with fear. I should have thrown myself into her arms, sobbing, and she would have held me tight, told me she had come too late, and then we would make up.Instead, what welcomed her was a corpse that had lost all signs of life.My body lay on the concrete floor, my clothes torn to shreds, and bruises littered my exposed skin. My face was ashen and drained of all color. My eyes were closed, and dried blood still stained the corner of my mouth.The men who had kidnapped me stood aside, completely lost, with pale faces."What happened..." The expression on Jessica's face froze for a moment as she staggered toward me."Wil? Stop messing around. I'm here... Wil?" She dropped to her knees

  • Returning to Her Madness   Chapter 4

    That day, Jessica said she wanted apple pie from that old shop on the south side of the city. It had been my favorite dessert two years ago.I drove out, but when I reached a deserted coastal road, my car suddenly died.I got out to take a look, and before I could react, someone had already covered my nose and mouth with a handkerchief that reeked of chemicals. Before I blacked out, my only thought about this was that this was so cliché.-When I woke up again, I was tied to an iron pillar in an abandoned factory. Several thugs stood around me with cameras, looking me over with malicious intentions.An old loudspeaker hung overhead, and Henry's smug voice came through it. "Wil, you're awake? Are you very scared right now?""Henry, this is illegal," I replied calmly.He burst out laughing before saying in a sharp tone. "Haha! Who do you think arranged this? Jessica gave her tacit approval!"My heartbeat stayed steady, and it didn't stir at all.Henry continued, "At first, she o

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