Chapter 114 I believe the world will sing my praises

"Oh?"

Chen Yu narrowed his eyes. "Then why is it that you couldn't collect the supplies from some people?"

Seeing that Chen Yu was interested, Zhang Zixuan immediately explained, "No, no, no, my ability isn't to control emotions; it's to amplify emotions that are already there!"

"As long as they have even a shred of trust in me, I can amplify it until they're willing to hand over their supplies! Those I couldn't collect from were people who didn't trust the Academy from the very beginning!"

She spoke faster and faster. "Some people are afraid of you, and I can amplify that too! I can make them even more terrified of you, too scared to even think of resisting! Keeping me alive is much more useful to you than killing me!"

Chen Yu nodded. "I see. So that act you put on just now was just to make me pity you and then amplify my emotions, right?"

Zhang Zixuan's expression changed. "I... I didn't..."

Chen Yu raised his hand.

Her entire body jolted.

"Yes!"

Her voice was trembling. "Just now... I wanted to try..."

Chen Yu chuckled. "But you realized that I didn't feel the slightest bit of pity for you, didn't you?"

Zhang Zixuan swallowed hard. "Yes... yes..."

Chen Yu approached and then crouched down.

Zhang Zixuan huddled in the corner, her whole body shaking. She didn't dare look at him, yet she didn't dare look away.

"Zhang Zixuan, President Zhang."

Chen Yu spoke slowly. "You said just now that you can amplify the emotions in people's hearts."

Zhang Zixuan nodded frantically. "Yes... yes, yes, yes!"

Chen Yu nodded. "If you told others that your Talent was Empathy, that you could sense the goodwill of others and bring people closer together..."

"What would they think?"

"They would think that with you around, everyone would be more united and no one would betray the group."

"And you, you're a natural-born leader."

"They would willingly believe in you and follow you."

Zhang Zixuan's pupils constricted. "How... how do you know these things?!"

This was the most perfect lie she had ever thought of!

But she had never told anyone!

How could Chen Yu know?

Her mind was racing!

Until Chen Yu smiled slightly. "That's not important. What's important is... I want everyone to see what the goddess of our Film Academy, Zhang Zixuan, has become!"

"?"

Zhang Zixuan didn't understand.

Chen Yu casually tossed something; there was a clinking sound as metal hit the ground.

It was a chain.

At the head was a leather collar connected to a long, thin metal chain, with a clasp at the other end.

"This is..."

Zhang Zixuan looked at the chain, her pupils shrinking bit by bit.

At first, she was dazed, not realizing what this meant.

Then came a hint of terror. "You... what do you want to do..."

Her voice began to shake. She huddled further into the corner, but her back hit the wall. There was nowhere left to retreat.

Chen Yu didn't say anything.

He just looked at her.

But the calmer he was, the more panicked Zhang Zixuan became.

Her breathing grew more rapid. "You want to humiliate me? In your dreams! Don't even think about it! I'd rather die!"

Chen Yu still said nothing.

He just looked at her."

Zhang Zixuan's tears flowed again. "You... just kill me! Kill me right now if you have the guts!!!"

"Kill you?"

Chen Yu shook his head. "Why are you thinking of such beautiful things?"

The fear in Zhang Zixuan's eyes became increasingly distorted, turning into a vicious glare. "Chen Yu, who do you think you are? You think you're a big shot just because you killed a few people?"

Her voice changed too!

She crawled up from the pool of blood, kneeling on the ground and looking up at him!

Her face regained its cold arrogance!

She leaned forward, her eyes full of disdain. "Back in the Debate Society, I didn't even bother to look at you! Do you know what we called you? The Invisible Man!"

"You think you can humiliate me just because you're powerful now? I'm telling you, keep dreaming!"

"You're still that orphan! You're still that..."

*Thud!*

Zhang Zixuan's voice came to an abrupt halt.

Because Chen Yu had already grabbed her by the throat.

His fingers tightened.

He lifted her off the ground and pinned her against the wall.

Zhang Zixuan's eyes bulged, her mouth hung open, and her face turned from deathly pale to purple.

Her hands desperately tried to pry his fingers away, but that hand didn't budge an inch.

The corners of Chen Yu's mouth curled up slightly. "Sorry, President Zhang, but now that I'm powerful, I really can humiliate you. You'll never escape my grasp."

Zhang Zixuan couldn't speak.

She could only make rasping noises.

But a flicker of relief flashed through her eyes.

Yes, relief.

She was finally going to die.

Although this way of dying was far from what she had imagined.

In any case, it was finally going to end.

Her eyes began to roll back, and her consciousness faded bit by bit.

But...

As the feeling of impending death truly surged up.

She suddenly didn't want to die anymore.

She was afraid.

Primal fear made her beat desperately against the wall.

*Thump, thump, thump!*

*Thump, thump, thump!*

Her fingernails were torn back, and blood smeared the wall, but she couldn't feel the pain.

Her legs began to kick wildly, and rasping sounds came from her throat, as if she were screaming "Help."

Chen Yu smiled slightly and let go.

Zhang Zixuan collapsed, crashing into the pool of blood.

She lay there, coughing violently and gasping for air, bloody froth bubbling from her mouth.

Chen Yu crouched down. "Oh~ so you're afraid of death too?"

Zhang Zixuan looked up, her eyes filled with nothing but terror.

Chen Yu chuckled. "Alright, since you don't want to die, you should know what to do next, shouldn't you?"

Zhang Zixuan lay in the pool of blood, her whole body shivering.

Her white tube top was soaked in blood and clung tightly to her body. Her exposed waist was strikingly thin, her skin as white as porcelain, dotted with a few droplets of blood.

The hem of her short cake skirt clung to her legs, revealing a portion of her fair calves and slender ankles.

Though her oval face was swollen and the corners of her mouth were torn, even so...

Those large, round eyes were still beautiful, and her long eyelashes trembled.

Her gaze slowly shifted toward the chain on the ground, and tears welled in the corners of her eyes for the countless time.

"President Zhang, if you're unwilling..."

"I could also cut you into eighteen pieces and hang them in the Central Plaza."

"I believe the world will surely sing my praises."

"And I'll kill anyone who doesn't."

Chen Yu's mundane words sounded incredibly harsh to Zhang Zixuan's ears.

She was truly afraid now.

Afraid through and through.

She was afraid of dying.

She was afraid of Chen Yu.

She propped herself up with both hands and crawled forward bit by bit.

She crawled toward the chain.

Tears were still flowing, falling one by one onto the chain.

She reached out, her fingers shaking violently. For someone as high and mighty as her, there was nothing more humiliating than this.

"I'll count to three, or there will be a punishment."

"Three."

Zhang Zixuan looked up sharply.

Chen Yu tilted his head. "Fooled you. There is no one or two."

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╥﹏╥ About to go back to work like a beast of burden, but the author (Pork Chop) caught a fever first, 38 degrees. After finishing these two chapters, I'm feeling delirious. I probably won't take tomorrow off... hopefully. I'll do my best to keep the updates coming; I don't want to stop now, sob sob sob.