Though paralyzed, still radiantly charming!

Chapter 157: Kill me

In his dying moments, Ryan drank the special potion Ethan gave him, which cured his advanced heart disease.

One year later…

Death swung its scythe again, and Ryan died, bound to some so-called system. To stay alive, he had to meddle in the lives of five young girls.

“What? I have to be killed by each of these five girls in turn? I can only come back to life by getting killed? What kind of logic is that!”

“But to survive, that’s what I have to do…”

…

“Miss, I swear I won’t take responsibility for this!”

When Ryan yelled this with all his might, the whole room fell silent.

Across from him, Alice’s face was stormy, flames clearly dancing in her eyes.

The girl couldn’t believe Ryan would dare do such a thing. She clenched her teeth, gripping her blanket tightly, but even the blanket was imbued with Ryan’s scent.

Her small hand reached out from under the blanket, silent throughout the process, only to press the call bell beside the bed.

The next second, dozens of burly bodyguards kicked the door open, their guns aimed at Ryan who was still lying on the bed.

Ryan was expressionless, but the bodyguards were terrified, their hands shaking so much they could barely hold their guns steady. They had been in wars in Iraq and hadn’t been as scared as they were now.

They knew all about the young lady’s temper. She was the type who could kill without batting an eyelid, and she was clearly furious now.

How did Ryan escape from the dungeon and end up in the young lady’s bed?

Wasn’t this like courting death deliberately?

“You guys are here, good, good, good, just finish me off.”

Seeing the security arrive, Ryan felt a surge of excitement. Yes, he wasn’t scared or regretful, but excited.

This was his purpose for being here, to be killed, and then it would all be over.

However, the young lady, though her face was dark, seemed not yet resolved to kill him. She needed more provocation.

Ryan smacked his lips, disappointed at the guards who wouldn’t pull the trigger without an order.

He slowly propped himself up and, in front of everyone, repeated what he had done earlier.

He held Alice’s chin, who seemed like a doll at that moment, and then provocatively kissed her cheek hard.

[Ding~ Mission Complete]

Ryan wiped his sweat, waiting for this prompt, finally allowing a smile to cross his face.

But this smile, in front of the bodyguards, was a criminal’s brazen provocation.

…

In that instant, the world went silent.

“Take him away.”

“Huh? Take away for what? Just do it here, it’s just a matter of one shot.”

“I said… get him out of here now.”

The young lady’s voice dropped eight degrees colder, she didn’t even glance at Ryan who was still blatantly courting death, and directly ordered the bodyguards.

The bodyguards’ hearts nearly leapt out of their chests, knowing they had to act fast before the young lady’s wrath burned them too.

So, they clumsily dragged Ryan off the bed, hoisted him on their shoulders, and dashed out.

After the last person left the room, the head maid came over again to tuck Alice in properly.

The night deepened, the warmth of the person from before still lingering beside her, the girl’s heart still pounding. After a long while, a blush of realization swept across her cold face.

Ryan was taken back to the dungeon again, where the fierce-looking but hesitant bodyguards treated him well and even considerately asked if he needed anything.

Ryan was a special existence here, managing to infuriate the young lady daily, yet living more luxuriously than anyone else.

The place they brought him to, called a dungeon, was actually an incredibly lavish basement.

The young lady kept Ryan here, hidden from the outside world, for reasons unknown.

“Mr. Ryan, do you need anything else?”

“So, can you kill me now?”

Ryan earnestly responded, even discussing with the bodyguards the necessity of killing him.

He barged into the young lady’s life and even had the audacity to make advances on her. Just those two things alone were enough to get him killed several times over.

But as the bodyguards listened to his explosive statements, their eyes twitched, and their faces turned as sour as bitter melons.

After advising him to rest well, the bodyguards fled the dungeon as if escaping.

What a joke, killing him would mean the young lady would probably bury them alive next.

Watching the retreating figures, Ryan waved his hand trying to make them stay, but it was futile. He finally collapsed onto the soft bed and sighed deeply.

Today, he hadn’t succeeded in getting killed…

Ryan was trying to get killed every day, but in reality, he was already dead.

About half a month ago, a fire had destroyed the orphanage next to his house.

Ryan rushed to help, successfully rescuing most of the children, but during the last trip, a falling beam hit him, and he was overtaken by the flames.

Twenty-three years of life, gone in the blink of an eye.

Perhaps heaven took pity on him,after his death, he was chosen by the system to be a host, needing only to complete certain tasks to be resurrected.

“What a rip-off! The condition for resurrection is to be killed by five beautiful girls?”

The system periodically selected targets around Ryan, and if he wanted to resurrect, he had to be killed by the five beautiful girls chosen by the system.

It was like playing a dating simulation game, except Ryan’s task was to achieve a disastrous bad ending in each scenario.

Wasn’t this just forcing him to be a jerk…

At first, he couldn’t accept it, but what about those kids after his death? He had just gained the ability to repay the care he received in his childhood.

He needed to survive, so he had no choice but to accept the system’s tasks.

Right now, he was on his first mission, and the target was the mafia princess Alice Sinclair he had just encountered on the bed.

However, his mission wasn’t going smoothly.

For now, he decided to check his current progress.

[Main Mission: Be killed by Alice Sinclair (Progress 0%)]

[Side Mission: Her Scent (Intimate interaction with Alice once)]

[Mission Status: Completed]

[Mission Success Reward: Loyalty Potion +1 (Effective for thirty minutes, cannot be used on mission targets), Skill Point +1]

Ryan looked at the golden text floating in the air and pursed his lips.

The so-called reward appeared as a strange little bottle, which materialized in his hand at a thought.

The bottle was small, about the size of a small blue bottle, sealed with a cork. To use it, one simply had to pull out the stopper and have the other person drink the potion.

The so-called Loyalty Potion would make the drinker unable to defy Ryan’s will for half an hour.

It was a pity it couldn’t be used on mission targets,he really wanted to give it to Alice, have her kill him, and end the mission right there.

As for the skill point, it was the first time Ryan had received one. It seemed to be a kind of light orb when he held it.

Ryan initially thought it was a free attribute point item, but after reading the details, he realized it was more like a gacha draw.

“Another gacha… great.”

As a Doctor who had spent $4,000 to max out on Deep Dives, Ryan had no love for these kinds of things and immediately decided to stash away the light orbs.

But when Ryan saw the penalty for failing the mission, he deflated.

[Main Mission Failure Penalty: Soul Death]

If being killed by a beautiful girl at the end of each mission phase was like dying in a game, where he could resurrect after meeting the conditions, then soul death was undoubtedly like having his game account deleted.

He definitely wanted to resurrect, which meant he had no other choice.

Looking at his 0% mission progress, Ryan scratched his head.

He had already been so bad, and yet Alice could still resist killing him,he really had no other options.

It seemed that relentlessly courting death wasn’t a sustainable strategy,he had to think of something else.

To advance the mission, the skill points clearly played a significant role. After hesitating for a moment, he took out the light orb again.

Every skill point is like a lottery ticket that you can exchange for the skills you need from the prize pool.

And skills come in different tiers. The system refreshes the prize pool based on the tasks Ryan is currently undertaking.

For instance, this time, the skill points are divided into B, A, and S tiers.

The best, of course, are the S-tier skills, which include two options: specialized vehicle driving and professional combat techniques.

Specialized vehicle driving is obviously useless for Ryan, so he sets his sights on the professional combat techniques.

Getting that skill would definitely be a boost for him later on. Alice isn’t killing him now, but the environment he’s in is pretty dangerous.

Kidnapped by a mob boss’s daughter and stuck in her villa, he’d be done for before Alice even gets a chance to kill him if he didn’t have a skill to rely on.

The A-tier skills are more numerous, with a variety of abilities mixed in.

Ryan is interested in “One-Man Army” and “Poison Expert,” both combat-oriented skills with the key feature of attracting hostility.

For example, if he were to poison Alice and then get caught, it would be hard for her not to kill him.

In the end, Ryan’s attention turns to the B-tier skills, which are more practical—even “Advanced Mathematics” is among them. All in all, it’s best not to end up with a B-tier skill.

Ryan glances at the corner where the surveillance camera is located, turns his back to the camera, and clenches the orb of light in his hand.

“Come on! Let’s go all out! It’s time for my luck to shine!”