Beating Instances through Words Left by the Dead

Chapter 666: Chapter 307: Love and Existential Anxiety

Yu Siyi watched Henderson and his son joking at the entrance of the distant building, her brush flying across the paper as she captured the scene.

If you were to turn over her easel, you would discover at least ten sketches of Henderson and his son together, all drawn over the past ten days.

At this moment, Yu Siyi had removed many accessories from her face, and the pierced holes had healed and closed.

Several tattoos on her body, including a butterfly with petals as wings between her collarbones, had vanished, and her red and white hair was dyed back to black.

Now she wore a white long dress, a red jacket, and a white beret, distinctly resembling a quiet and introverted art girl, with no trace of a rebellious spirit.

Her transformation was so significant that Wu Chang initially couldn’t recognize her in the security zone, and even her parents might not recognize her now.

The change in appearance did not reflect a change in her heart; on the contrary, her repressed rebellion doubled and transformed into madness and obsession, hidden deep within.

This outfit was chosen based on Lu Langfeng’s psychological profile, predicting the type of woman he favored the most.

She guaranteed that no matter what guise Lu Langfeng wore, he would be drawn to her and would inevitably seek contact when they met again.

By then, she planned to firmly ensnare him.

Yu Siyi’s mouth curved into a smile as she withdrew her gaze from Congressman Henderson and looked at the paper in front of her.

A sketch filled with paternal love was completed.

Looking back on this time, only a few days had passed in the real world, but for her, it felt like several years.

After leaving Wanghai City, she was taken to Yanjing to join an organization called the Management Bureau of Anomalies.

There, she met the most renowned Scholar in Xia Country, Shi Ning.

Shi Ning devised a complete transformation plan for her, first making her a Player of the Abyssal Game and initially sending her into a special Reward Dungeon before the Trial Dungeon.

According to Shi Ning, it had originally been an Erosion Dungeon; due to the high degree of erosion, it didn’t merge with the real world upon clearance but became a Floating Dungeon stuck between reality and the Abyssal Game.

During the dungeon, she met a master resident of the Erosion Dungeon, skilled in Talent Enlightenment.

According to the master, she was inherently gifted with the Power of Root, which she had mastered, called Love, a power that enabled her to earn affection.

Her longing for love and obsession with Lu Langfeng helped her quickly apply her Talent, and with the master’s guidance, she comprehended the Root power entirely.

Never had the master seen such a talented prodigy; she took only a year to fully grasp the Desolate Realm’s root and use its power at will.

Shi Ning’s plan allocated three years for Yu Siyi.

The master initially wished to retain her for foundational enhancement, but when she insisted on leaving, he astonishingly found himself unable to reprimand her harshly and even gifted her a treasured special Item as a graduation gift.

Only then did the master realize he had fallen into Yu Siyi’s power during the year’s study, hopelessly in love with her—not as lovers, but akin to a mentor-student or father-daughter bond.

Though he recognized this, he was already so deeply entangled that escape was impossible.

Using her mentor to test her abilities, she left the Floating Dungeon to discover that a year of learning there equated to only a few hours externally.

After that, Yu Siyi faced her Trial Dungeon, a D-Level True Dungeon.

Handling a D-Level True Dungeon as her Trial Dungeon placed her among the top ten prodigies in the Management Bureau’s history, with a dungeon pollution rate of 68, surpassing even Sword Star.

Within the dungeon, she compelled every native who saw her to fall hopelessly in love with her, clearing the dungeon without resistance, achieving an A-Level clearance reward.

As soon as the Trial Dungeon ended, eager to catch up with Lu Langfeng, she signed up for the Reward Dungeon opportunity granted to each Management Bureau member.

This time, she drew a near-out-of-control D-Level True Dungeon, securing an A+ evaluation, completed a Breakthrough, and at the end earned a chance to draw a Title.

She drew a golden Title, ”Cocoon Weaver.”

The ”Cocoon Weaver” title, combined with her Power of Root, allowed her to draw threads of affection from targets and weave them freely.

For example, her sketch of Henderson was sufficient to express Henderson’s love for his son.

Next, she inserted her brush into Henderson’s chest in the artwork, the brush flicking out, pulling an orange thread from Henderson’s chest, connected on one end to Henderson, and the other to Little Henderson.

Threads of affection were color-coded to distinguish feelings.

Red indicated romance, orange for familial love, indigo for friendship, and white for one-sided admiration and respect.

Within Henderson, the orange thread was the thickest and most conspicuous, indicating that his younger son was his greatest emotional investment.

Thus, she selected this thread.

Yu Siyi took out a pair of scissors, cutting the orange thread and wrapping the portion that should have merged into Little Henderson around her wrist.

The next moment, Congressman Henderson, who was joking with his youngest son, witnessed his fatherly affection cooling quickly. Looking at Little Henderson again, his gaze shifted to that of how one would view a relative’s child.