Lin Jianyuan sprinted toward the crystal at full speed!

Bang!

Lin Jianyuan was sent flying!

He dusted off his butt, climbed back up, took a deep breath, and retreated to a spot more than a hundred meters away.

“Your Majesty!” Squishy cried anxiously. “Take it easy!”

“It’s fine,” Lin Jianyuan said. “It doesn’t hurt anyway.”

Then he launched into another hundred-meter sprint.

Little Stone said uneasily, “This isn’t about whether it hurts, it’s about…”

Bang!

The black crystal remained perfectly intact!

Meanwhile, Lin Jianyuan was sent flying again!

And unlike the fifty-meter sprint, the rigid collision from a hundred-meter sprint generated even more recoil and stronger reaction force!

So Lin Jianyuan turned a marble again!

“Ugh!”

Completely wrapped in the bronze imprint, Lin Jianyuan ricocheted through the pink stomach like a three-dimensional marble!

Luckily, the stomach wall was soft, so Lin Jianyuan only bounced 128 times before finally coming to a stop!

“…Urgh!” He nearly threw up.

But the moment he remembered that he was inside his wife’s stomach, he hurriedly covered his mouth with his hand and forcibly swallowed the urge to vomit!

The little toys: “……” Sometimes we really think it might be better if you loved him a little less.

Lin Jianyuan sat on the ground, dizzy and seeing stars, clearly needing quite a while before he recovered.

He frowned and slowly looked around, thinking about what to do next.

There really were a lot of crystals around him, and most of them were black.

One look and you could tell they represented negative emotions.

He didn’t know the exact mechanism, but common sense told him that having so many rock-hard crystals stuck all over the stomach wall had to be uncomfortable for his wife.

What could he do?

His A-class little toys couldn’t deal with them, and even the S-class [Remorse] imprint couldn’t break them.

Lin Jianyuan even placed his palm against one, but the black crystal did not split open down the middle like some “Open Sesame” door.

…Fine. Once again, reality confirmed that while his ego might be enormous, it was apparently not enormous enough for that.

So what could he do?

Lin Jianyuan rubbed his chin and carefully surveyed the area again.

Most of the crystals were black, with some white, pink, and yellow mixed among them.

Yellow was the rarest. There were probably only two or three of them, and all of them were tiny.

There were a few more white and pink ones, but compared with the black crystals, they were still a minority.

Together, there were maybe twenty or thirty.

…Wait.

Lin Jianyuan had a sudden thought, so he stood up and quickly counted.

Three, six, nine…

He couldn’t tell exactly how many black crystals there were, but it seemed like… a multiple of three?!

Could this actually be the second stage of some minigame… a matching gem puzzle?!

The moment the thought occurred to him, Lin Jianyuan decisively bent down and picked up the nearest black crystal. It was about the size of a keyboard and wasn’t particularly heavy, so he lifted it easily.

The content of this crystal was: I’m going to tear up the contract.

Lin Jianyuan carried I’m going to tear up the contract over beside You encountered [Remorse] alone.

Then he found another one: I’m going to tear Shi Shaoning apart.

He carried that over too, and now, three black crystals sat pressed closely together.

Nothing happened, but Lin Jianyuan refused to believe it.

He forcefully knocked the three crystals together.

Still nothing happened.

Lin Jianyuan: “…”

The little toys: “…?”

“Your Majesty?” Squishy asked in confusion. “What are you doing?”

“Don’t interrupt,” Little Stone said solemnly. “The King is observing the situation.”

Squishy: “Ohhh.”

Lin Jianyuan: “…”

Lin Jianyuan kept his face expressionless, pretending that he wasn’t embarrassed.

Excellent. Through one failed experiment, he at least proved his own failure!

With a single operation, he eliminated the possibility of this being a matching gem puzzle game! Who could possibly witness this and not praise him as a genius?!

Lin Jianyuan rubbed his cheeks, which ached from embarrassment, and forced himself to calm down again.

If this wasn’t a match-three game, then what else could eliminate the crystals?

…Could he just bite them?

The little toys seemed to have mentioned that these things could be “crunched up.”

Lin Jianyuan hesitated, then stepped on I’m going to tear Shi Shaoning apart and climbed onto You encountered [Remorse] alone.

Facing the largest and hardest black crystal, Lin Jianyuan opened his mouth and bit down with all his strength.

Mm. Excellent.

Lin Jianyuan rubbed his aching jaw and teeth, which felt like they were about to snap.

He thought calmly: Excellent! I eliminated another incorrect answer!

Who could possibly look at that and not praise him as a genius!

“Your Majesty. We need to hurry.”

The Angel Eyeball suddenly spoke in a serious tone.

Lin Jianyuan was about to tell it not to worry, since the bronze imprint had no buff time limit, when the Angel Eyeball said, “The Queen is waking up. He’ll be coming to rescue you very soon.”

Lin Jianyuan went still for a moment, then smiled, “Mm.”

His thoughts suddenly softened. Maybe it was because the tension he carried this whole time abruptly loosened when he heard the words, “He’ll be coming to rescue you very soon.”

Then an idea flashed through Lin Jianyuan’s mind!

If an S-class emotional crystal was indestructible, then what would happen if two indestructible things collided with each other?

Lin Jianyuan casually picked up another crystal at his feet.

This one was pink, and the content of the crystal was: Taking a hot bath together.

Lin Jianyuan originally intended to use the pink crystal to smash the black one.

But the instant he touched the pink crystal, he realized something was wrong.

It was soft.

Surprised, he lifted the crystal carefully in both hands and examined it.

The pink crystal was slightly lighter than the color of the stomach wall. It definitely had the texture of a crystal… but it wasn’t sharp-edged like the black ones.

This pink crystal looked like repeated polishing had worn it smooth.

It was stroked countless times, so it had no sharp corners. The whole crystal looked smooth and round and cute.

It was even warm in his hands. Warm enough to make you want to smile.

Across his retina, an incredibly vivid image appeared. Lin Jianyuan, stark naked, soaking in hot water with his roommate.

Splash!

The two people in the bathtub were messing around, sending water sloshing over the edge.

Holding the pink crystal, Lin Jianyuan could almost feel the gentle hot water spilling over his wrist, running down his forearm, and soaking warmly into his clothes.

…

When he came back to himself, Lin Jianyuan realized that the corners of his mouth were slightly lifted.

So not all the crystals represented negative emotions. There were also feelings like this.

Warm, beautiful, and too precious to want to forget.

Something stirred in his heart. Lin Jianyuan raised his eyes and looked at the enormous black crystal in front of him, which was nearly two meters tall.

He stepped forward.

Holding Taking a hot bath together, he gently tapped it against You encountered [Remorse] alone.

Click.

The two crystals touched.

No impact. No violence.

The enormous, indestructible black crystal simply melted away naturally. Like an ice cream suddenly carried into a steaming bathroom.

It dissolved rapidly.

Lin Jianyuan quietly watched the black crystal disappear, then turned to deal with the others.

Work. Work. Overtime. F**k overtime. I’m going to kill the director. I’m going to kill [Hesitation]. I’m going to kill [Remorse]. Why the fuck am I working overtime again? I’m going to tear up the contract. I’m going to tear Shi Shaoning apart.

Taking a hot bath together was like a specialized weapon specifically designed to counter black crystals. One gentle touch was enough to make all those bad emotions disappear.

The corners of Lin Jianyuan’s mouth never came back down, but his eyes started stinging again.

“Baby,” he couldn’t help murmuring softly.

At some point, the hyperactive bowel sounds rumbling from deep within the digestive tract disappeared.

In their place was a gurgling gurgle sound. The familiar, soft, and gentle bowel sounds, about four or five times per minute.

The stomach was an emotional organ, so it held both the good and the bad.

Holding Taking a hot bath together, Lin Jianyuan patiently began clearing away the black crystals scattered everywhere.

He touched each one before dissolving it, and, with growing amusement, discovered that every single one of them was related to work.

So even S-class Aberrants hate going to work!

Once the larger black crystals were mostly gone, only the white, pink, and yellow ones remained.

Lin Jianyuan touched a white one, and an image immediately appeared before him.

A tall, slender, pale figure with a little topknot standing by the sink, washing underwear.

Lin Jianyuan’s face immediately turned red. He coughed awkwardly and turned away.

“Huh? What are the white ones?” Squishy asked curiously, wriggling its way onto his shoulder.

Lin Jianyuan asked, “You can’t see it, right?”

Squishy: “Right.”

Lin Jianyuan: “Then take a guess why I’m not telling you.”

Squishy: “???”

Squishy looked utterly baffled.

Little Stone couldn’t take it anymore and helplessly reminded it, “Obviously it’s private couple stuff! Private!!!”

Didn’t you notice that the pink crystal didn’t reveal its contents to you either?!

Didn’t you see how the corners of the King’s mouth stayed raised after he touched the pink one?!

How do you still not understand?! Idiot!

Squishy was shoved back into Lin Jianyuan’s trouser pocket by Little Stone, still thoroughly confused.

Lin Jianyuan decided to leave the white crystals alone.

He looked around again, searching for the rarest yellow crystals.

There. One over here.

He bent down and picked up the tiny yellow crystal.

Almost the instant he touched it, his expression changed, and he reflexively took a step backward.

“Your Majesty?”

“What happened? What happened?”

The little toys all poked their heads out of his pocket.

“N-nothing…” Lin Jianyuan’s expression was a little strange.

What was that?

What was that just now?

Wet and soft.

It clearly looked like a hard crystal, but when he touched it, it felt soft and slippery... And hot.

Even hotter than Taking a hot bath together.

Countless possibilities instantly flashed through Lin Jianyuan’s mind, and every single one of those possibilities involved the color yellow.

After all… the crystal really was yellow.

But… yellow? Xie Yu? His wife?

His digestive-system wife who didn’t even have a reproductive system???

Lin Jianyuan looked deeply suspicious. Hesitantly and very cautiously… he touched the yellow crystal again.

The scene was projected onto his retina once more.

Lin Jianyuan nervously widened his eyes and immediately saw that the image was none of the countless possibilities he imagined.

Instead, it was... trimming nails.

The two of them were sitting side by side on the sofa at home. A warm yellow floor lamp glowed beside them, and they were leaning crookedly against each other.

His roommate curiously leaned his head over to watch Lin Jianyuan trim his nails.

Click.

Lin Jianyuan pressed the nail clipper.

His roommate, curious, reached over and touched his fingertip.

“You have to cut them that short?” his roommate asked.

“Mm. And you need to file them afterward,” Lin Jianyuan said. “Otherwise the edges are too sharp right after cutting, and you might accidentally scratch yourself or someone else.”

“Scratch?” His roommate sounded confused.

Apparently, he didn’t quite understand how much damage ordinary human fingernails could possibly do.

The Lin Jianyuan in the image smiled but said nothing. He simply picked up a transparent plastic nail file and patiently smoothed each freshly trimmed nail.

His roommate rested his head on Lin Jianyuan’s shoulder, with his appendix swaying gently back and forth like a cat’s tail.

…

Oh. So that was the kind of yellow it was.

Warm yellow!

Lin Jianyuan was simultaneously overwhelmed by how cute his roommate was… and inexplicably relieved.

See! I was overthinking it!

My sweet-smelling, soft, innocent, naïve, pure-hearted wife who literally doesn’t even have a reproductive system!

How could he possibly have those kinds of dirty thoughts?!

Of course I’m the only one who overthinks things!

The only person with yellow trash in their head is me!

Since it was the yellow of warm lamplight, the yellow crystals were naturally good things too.

Lin Jianyuan decisively and carefully put the yellow crystal back where it was and continued clearing the remaining black ones.

He worked quickly. The more he did, the more practiced he became, and soon, almost all of the black crystals were gone.

He straightened up and looked around, preparing to check whether he missed any tiny black crystals.

Then, from the corner of his eye, he caught sight of something white in the distance.

It was a long, white object, and against the soft pink stomach wall, it looked incredibly out of place.

Hm? What was that?

An Aberrant caught in a gap in the stomach lining?

Lin Jianyuan quickly walked over, and the next second, he completely froze.

It was a leg.

A leg, from the upper thigh to the knee, to the calf, to the ankle, and to the toes.

A complete…

human leg.