Murder the Dream Guy

Xiang Wan did not say anything. She acted as though she had seen nothing.

“Captain Cheng, is it okay for me to login to QQ?”

Cheng Zheng looked away.

It was also a snowy day where the snow danced in the sky…

There was silence for two seconds; he did not turn back to look at her. “It’s alright, you may go ahead.”

“Sorry for the trouble…”

Xiang Wan behaved as though she had not seen the picture and got to the QQ login screen where she entered her own account.

She had failed to update for two consecutive days without notice. She wondered how her readers would be taking it.

Naturally, the post and pictures which Meng Chi had created and posted onto the internet also spread in Wen Quan’s forum.

Of course, her readers would have gotten to know about that post as well.

Xiang Wan went through some of the chat records, and her scalp went numb.

There were all kinds of guesses in the reader chat group…

The most common guess which was mentioned in there was… Xiang Gongzi should have departed for the nether!

They also said that “Murder the Dream Guy” was the last literary work of Xiang Gongzi, and would forever be part of the list of books that never had an ending…

There were also readers who remarked that ever since Xiang Gongzi wrote this book, creepy things had been happening to her.

One of them commented: whatever case that the Author had written would take place in real life, would such an author be a simple person?

There were even readers implying that she could be a member of a criminal syndicate as the cases written in her novel always garnered a lot of attention—to the extent that there might be problems with her mentality.

The reader who said this got kicked out of the reader chat group.

The moderator who kicked that reader was—Yuan Qianqian.

Xiang Wan continued to check the history and was surprised to find out that her moderator, Yuan Qianqian, appeared at the QQ chat group again.

No matter how Yuan Qianqian explained to the readers, there were still some readers who were immersed in their own fantasy stories and firmly believed that there would be no more updates for “Murder the Dream Guy”…

There was something even funnier. A reader even wanted to organize a get-together to pay their respects to Xiang Gongzi.

Frankly, Xiang Wan felt amused, but she was also a little distressed at the same time.

Well, she had the privilege to see how her readers responded to her ‘death’. That was something not a lot of people had the opportunity to see.

These female readers were so talented!

She sighed and sent a grinning emoticon to the chat group.

A second later, it invoked a storm in there.

“Xiang Gongzi!?”

“It’s Xiang Gongzi herself right?”

“… Are you alive?”

“Gosh! There’s not a word. Could it be that she came back to life?”

“Don’t scare me! Mama, I’m never going to read ‘Murder the Dream Guy’ again. I’m scared to death.”

“… Didn’t the post said Author died in the explosion? Who is this person? Why don’t you say anything?”

“Wow! I can hear my heart pounding so loudly. I can’t take it anymore! Xiang Gongzi, if this is really you, say something, please?”

“… If you don’t talk, we’re really going to burn some joss papers and joss sticks for you!”

“…”

Xiang Wan had deliberately kept quiet.

Her readers were too quick to jump to all sorts of exciting conclusions that amused her much.

Her eyes couldn’t catch up with the speed of all these messages pouring in!

“Aye!” Xiang Wan sent another emoticon.

Immediately, another immense wave of messages came crashing in.

One of her moderator, Huangpu, also responded.

“Ahhhh, my Gongzi ah, you finally showed yourself. You didn’t know that after you ‘left’ us, how unbearable it is for us… As an Author, how can you just go ahead and die without leaving behind your plot outline? Do you know that your story left us hanging for more? If you just leave us like this… what are we going to do?”

Xiang Wan took a deep breath.

“What an affectionate confession! All of you must have loved me so much.”

“Of course! We look forward to the stars and moon, as well as… your updates!”

“Don’t say it anymore! I’m almost touched to death…” Xiang Wan continued to banter with them.

“Don’t! Don’t die!” Immediately, another reader continued, “why not do this? Finish this book before you die?”

“Hahahaha, support the above comment!”

“+1!”

“…”

Xiang Wan felt out of breath from laughing too much. “What did I do to have such thoughtful readers?”

“Well, it’s all because you’re such a great Author!”

“Like attracts like! You’ll get readers similar to you!”

“Agree with the reader above, as well as the one above the reader above!”

Xiang Wan chuckled. “Forget it; all of you are a group of heartless readers… I should just go and die again! Bye, bye!”

“Don’t! Leave your plot outline behind first…”

When the readers saw Xiang Wan, who was rumored to have died in an explosion, appearing in the chat group, many readers popped out to have a chit chat and banter with her. Xiang Wan also took note that those who chatted with her did not include Yuan Qianqian.

She furrowed her eyebrows and sent Yuan Qianqian a private message.

“Babe, are you there?”

“Where did you go for the past few days? Why didn’t you respond to any of my messages?”

Nevertheless, she did not receive a response from Yuan Qianqian, so she decided to message Fang Yuanyuan’s QQ.

“My dear, are you better now?”

Fang Yuanyuan almost replied instantly.

“Oh my! You’re alive now?”

“…”

The way she put it was like she had died and came back to life!

Xiang Wan chuckled once again. “Why? Are you hoping that I’ll die so you can inherit my QQ account which is on SVIP membership?”

“To hell with your big uncle!”

“My big uncle is also your big uncle!”

“However, both of us don’t have a big uncle!”

“… You’re right. Then to hell with your big uncle!”

The two of them were behaving as per usual, confronting each other without mercy as they bantered around.

After exchanging their ‘greetings’, Fang Yuanyuan asked about what happened to Xiang Wan.

“Yesterday when I got to know about your abduction, I was nearly scared to death. Fortunately, later at night, I received news that you’re safe and sound… Otherwise, I would be so worried that I can’t get to sleep…”

“You can’t sleep?” Xiang Wan said, “I thought you can battle 300 rounds with your Huanghuang?”

“Bleh!”

Xiang Wan was able to imagine Fang Yuanyuan’s shy and blushing face.

“What battle?” Fang Yuanyuan added, “He suffered several bone fractures and could only stay in bed, all wrapped up like a dumpling… No, like a mummy. So do you really think he could battle, in his current state?”

“Oh!” Xiang Wan continued, “I’ve heard your regrets! Hugs, don’t be sad!”

“Scram! You think we’re like you… both of you are already injured but still persisted on… No, it should be—persevering with the deed… Hahahaha…”

Xiang Wan replied with another banter, “… Why are you so crude?”

No, it was not only crude!

“What nonsense did you hear? Who said that?” She asked.

“What nonsense? Didn’t everyone know about it? Both of you exercised too much and got so intense that Captain Bai’s wound at the arm tore open…”

“… Oh heavens!”

Who would know about this?

Xiang Wan thought of Cheng Zheng in reflex.

She recalled the scene where he was talking to Hassan about something in his usual indifferent demeanor.

No! Was he really that type of person would carry tales?

Xiang Wan felt puzzled and asked Fang Yuanyuan. “Who said that?”

Fang Yuanyuan sent over a mysterious emoticon. “HuangHuang!”

“So who told Huang He about it?”

“It should be Tang Yuanchu? We’re at the same hospital…”

D*rn, Tang Yuanchu managed to survive and was even able to gossip now? Xiang Wan was glad for him nonetheless.

From yesterday till now, she had not yet found out how Tang Yuanchu and Huang He was doing. Never did she expect that they were fine and was actually gossiping about her and Bai Muchuan.

Xiang Wan replied with an evil grin, “Hurhur! These people are going to get it!”