Underworld Player Chapter 52 - Mu QianSe's Code of Conduct

The truth was, Mu QianSe still harbored some latent infatuation for her first love.

As they say, "the deeper the love, the keener the vengeance". After she broke up with her ex-boyfriend, she had stuck a picture of him to the wall facing her desk. Since then, she had thrown knives at that picture every day, for target practice, and also in resentful memory of how her precious first love had been ruined.

If things took their natural course, once they graduated from college, they would most likely have parted ways and lived out the rest of their lives without ever crossing paths again. Their brief dalliance would be no more than a painful footnote born of foolish, young passion in a dark chapter of her life.

Of course, Mu QianSe always believed there was a chance that she might turn on some law-enforcement-based program on TV and find out what that lowlife had been up to.

But nothing was certain except uncertainty itself.

For the life of her, she could not fathom how that ambitionless, video game addict who had nothing to offer but a pretty face could have transformed overnight into a secret guardian of humanity!

There's no way something as fantastical as all that could be true, goddammit!

The worst part of that was, even when she tried to look for evidence to disprove this, she had failed to find anything definitive, but ended up uncovering more evidence to prove it instead!

...Could Lin XiaoYi's theory be true, after all?

Thus, such thoughts had occupied Mu QianSe's mind night after night as she tossed and turned in bed, unable to get to sleep.

If she applied that theory to her vivid recollections of all the unreasonable things her ex-boyfriend ever did, it seemed that a reasonable explanation could be found for each of his bizarre actions... but the theory itself had to be a wild flight of fancy!

The poor girl racked her brains for any memory of supernatural encounters she might have had when she was still dating Bai Zhi. If something like that had happened, whether that guy was a hero or not, at least

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