"Ugh..."

  Qin Nuo slowly regained sciousness after an unknown amount of time. When he opened his eyes and sat up, he found himself in a void, bnk space.

  Game space?

  Qin Nuo was momentarily stunned, looking at his body. It wasn't Li Xiaoming's body, but his own.

  In a daze, he recalled the game annou he heard before losing sciousness.

  "So, after pleting the role-py, I was sent back to the game space."

  Suddenly, a voice from the game echoed in the space: "Ending the first role-py for Pyer 'Phantom.' The sed role-py has been loaded."

  "Would you like to ehe instanow to plete the sed role-py?"

  Qin Nuo eechless. Isn't this a bit too rushed? Li Xiaoming had just finished his role, and now it's already time for the sed one, barely catg his breath.

  "The first role-py ended just like that?" Qin Nuo asked.

  "It's already over. The final role-py score will be automatically calcuted after the game ends," the System replied.

  "Hoyers have pleted their roles?"

  "42 pyers are currently pying the first role, 5 pyers are on the sed role, and 1 pyer is ohird role!"

  "Someone's already ohird role?" Qin Nuo's expression ged slightly. It seems there are quite a few skilled pyers in this instance.

  "After pying three roles, even if you haven't pleted the main storyline, you automatically exit the instahese pyers are progressing as if they're on steroids, probably not fog on the main storyli all."

  As Qin Nuo muttered to himself, the game asked again if he wao ehe instance for the sed role-py.

  Qin Nuo firmed his entry. pared to the previous instance, his progress in this one was indeed a bit slow. Game time waits for no one; he o speed up.

  "Pying the role of Li Xiaoming's family was truly exhausting. Not only was the character's psychology twisted, but even the seemingly perfect family was bizarre beyond belief."

  "I hope the sed role I py is a bit more normal."

  Of course, this thought was a bit of a luxury. In the Horror World, which role is normal?

  "At least don't let it be a student again. Those brats are really hard to handle."

  At this moment, the game's loading progress was plete: "The sed role has been loaded. Pyer is being transported. Good luck!"

  As the voice faded, a white light appeared before his eyes, and Qin Nuo immediately felt a sense of weightlessness.

  As the white light gradually faded, the surroundings became clearer.

  The air around him carried a hint of silend a peculiar st.

  He found himself in a room that looked like a rental. It wasn't rge, with no kit, and the living room and bedroom were ected.

  There were many things, but everything was ly arrahe floor was , and a few pots of jasmine were pced on the baly, with a birdcage hanging beside them. Inside was a white parrot, bobbing its head and hopping around.

  It seemed to notice Qin Nuo waking up and mimicked a human voice, repeatedly saying, "Son! Son! Son's awake!"

  Qin Nuo's face darkened.

  What kind of nonsense did the parrot's oweach it?

  "Judging by the room's decor and the parrot, the character I'm pying seems to be someoh a certain taste."

  He was sitting on a puter chair, with a desktop puter still on in front of him. The s was filled with various file windows, as if he had fallen asleep in the middle of work.

  The clothes rack beside him had ly hung suits and various styles of clothing.

  Seeing this, Qin Nuo breathed a sigh of relief.

  Finally, he wasn't pying a student!

  Qin Nuo moved the mouse to check the tents of those folders.

  They were mostly detailed ao test papers, course assigs, and several tables listing the daily workload.

  A course schedule showed that all ese nguage csses were recorded and noted on a dar hanging on the wall.

  "It seems this time I'm pying a ese teacher."

  This was a bit troublesome; he had never been a teacher before, so it was a challenging role for him.

  He got up and walked to a mirror to see his full appearance.

  He looked about twenty-five or twenty-six, with a very fad ly bed dark hair. He was a handsome young man, with a bit of Mr. Yan's vibe, but less of the hidden ing.

  "He looks bright and sunny. Judging by his attire and room decor, he doesn't seem like a sloppy, introverted, socially anxious shut-in, and might even have a social butterfly syndrome."

  Based on his observations, this was Qin Nuo's tentative guess about the character's image.

  Qin Nuo walked around the room, hoping to gather more information to identify the character's personality, others' impressions, and so on.

  On the bedside table, Qin Nuo saw two photo frames.

  One was a group photo with two elderly people, presumably his parents.

  The other hoto with a girl, where they were pying ier, smiling happily.

  The girl was quite pretty, with fair and skin, matg well with the character he ying. If nothing else, they were likely in a retionship.

  In the photo, her of them ws on their ring fingers. Qin Nuo looked at his finger, which was also bare, indig they probably hadn't reached the stage of discussing marriage.

  Qin Nuo picked up a thermos cup with a loving photo of him and the girl. Not only that, but some ets and ors also had photos of the girl.

  "It seems they're still very mu love." Qin Nuo didn't know whether to ugh or cry. In real life, he had never dated, but in the game, he had to experience pying the role of a guy in a passioionship?

  Anyway, it wasn't as eous as Li Xiaoming's pyboy antics, so Qin Nuo felt lucky.

  Qin Nuo sat back at the puter, looked at the course schedule, and found that all his csses for the wo days were crossed out in red on the dar.

  Why was that?

  He opehe character's phone, an old-fashioned button phone, and found a text message.

  After reading it, Qin Nuo uood. He had caught a cold and fever and had taken two days off.

  "No wonder I feel dizzy and have a runny he role's experience is incredibly detailed," Qin Nuo muttered.

  From the course materials beside him, Qin Nuo found the character's name, Liang Zisu.

  "The name is quite elegant, fitting for a teacher."

  Qin Nuo tio browse the study materials. Since he ying a teacher, these were things he would iably enter.

  It seemed that to help pyers better portray their roles, Qin Nuo didn't feel dizzy or have a headache while looking at the deeag materials. Instead, he found them surprisingly clear and easy to uand.

  "Just like how Li Xiaoming inexplicably remembered the way home."

  Qin Nuo put the teag materials ba their pce, feeling much less pressured.

  "Hungry! Hungry! Daddy's hungry!"

  At this moment, the parrot on the baly called out again, its voice loud and childlike, as if a kid was shouting.

  "Damn it, how did this Liang Zisu teach the parrot? Did he really treat this bird as his aor?"

  Qin Nuo looked at the parrot in the cage, feeling a strange sense of humiliation.

  The parrot fpped its wings, g incessantly.

  Qin Nuo had no choice. He couldn't strahe annoying bird, so he went to the baly, found a bag of bird food, and poured it into the bowl in the cage.

  The parrot happily ate, ughing in a way Qin Nuo couldn't describe, but it was quite sleazy.

  "Ding, pyer fed the pet parrot, gaining 2% role-py pletion!"

  A game notification suddenly sounded in his mind, and Qin Nuo eechless. Even feeding a bird earned role-py points.

  Yawning, Qin Nuo didn't know if it was the cold weather or his own cold, but he shivered a bit, rubbed his nose, and decided to lie ba the bed.

  He had just checked the baly and found that he was at Bck Crow Ghost School. Liang Zisu wasn't living in a rental but in a teacher's dormitory.

  His parents were likely far away, and his girlfriend possibly in a different city, living alone, which was undoubtedly a good thing for Qin Nuo.

  The fewer people around, the easier it was to py the role. Qin Nuo wished this Liang Zisu was aremely introverted person.

  As Qin Nuo was thinking, there was a sudden kno the door, and a female voice came from outside: "Mr. Liang, are you asleep?"

  Qin Nuo was a bit surprised but responded and got out of bed to open the door.

  Opening the door, he saw a girl in her early tweanding outside, wearing gsses, with a fair fad a white checkered shirt, looking very pretty.

  In her hands was a bowl of steaming mint ginger chi pe.

  Qin Nuo looked at the female teacher, momentarily stunned.

  The female teacher, feeling a bit embarrassed under his gaze, slightly lowered her head and said, "Mr. Liang, I heard you were sick, so I made some chi pe. Drinking it should make you feel better."

  "It's quite hot, so be careful."

  "Oh, thank you very much." Qin Nuo snapped back to reality and quickly took the bowl, almost dropping it because it was too hot.

  The female teacher didn't say much, gnced into the room, and smiled slightly, "If there's nothing else, I'll leave now. I hope you get better soon."

  After the female teacher left, Qin Nuo returo the room, closing the door with his heel, and pced the chi pe oable.

  His daze wasn't because the female teacher was stunning, but because he had seen her before and even chatted a few times.

  She was Li Xiaoming's English teacher...

  JOSOLUNA