After Joining the Game, She Came Out as Gay [Infinite] - Chapter 8

The next day.

Qi Cheng had originally intended to wake up early and be the first one in the large common living area to observe the others as they arrived, but she unexpectedly overslept.

Breakfast time had already passed.

Considering she had been deep in thought until about 2:00 AM the previous night, it was only natural for a normal person to sleep in to catch up on rest.

However, this tendency toward oversleeping should not have happened to Qi Cheng .

In the past, there were times when she had rested for only about 30 minutes a day; she had long since grown accustomed to a state of sleep deprivation. Her bodily functions had adapted to chronic fatigue, and her cells had made relative adjustments accordingly.

Furthermore, given the person she used to be, she would have found it impossible to sleep soundly.

That she was able to fall into a peaceful slumber this time felt like a miracle even to her.

…Is it because my mind and body have grown lax after coming to the Divine Domain? Qi Cheng wondered.

When she arrived in the living room, as expected, everyone else was already gathered there.

Moreover, even God was present.

Something was playing on the oversized television screen surrounded by sofas. Everyone’s attention was primarily fixed on the TV.

The first person Qi Cheng looked for was Nie Siya.

She was sitting next to Kuang Liao.

Judging by everyone’s posture, it seemed they had sat down randomly. And yet, she had chosen to sit beside Kuang Liao.

As if sensing a gaze from behind, Nie Siya glanced back at Qi Cheng , squinted slightly, and then turned back around.

That look was as if a passerby were looking at a hedge by the roadside—she didn’t acknowledge Qi Cheng as a “presence” at all.

Qi Cheng : “…”

To be honest, that blow was not small.

Beside her, Kuang Liao was curled up in a corner of the sofa with his arms around his legs, his body trembling incessantly. It was clear that his current state was very poor.

“Oh, him?”

Noticing Qi Cheng looking at Kuang Liao, God approached her and said, “This guy has been like this since last night. I thought he might have claustrophobia, so I dragged him out of his private room, but he’s still acting like this. Seriously, why do I have to worry about your mental health issues? What a pain…”

“You complain, but you didn’t just stand by and watch, did you?”

“After all, you are all my important merchandise, hee-hee~☆” The panda acted cute.

Qi Cheng : “…”

To make a panda—such a cute and adorable animal—show such an evil smile, God was truly a disgrace to the panda race.

Rather than a panda, he was more like a brown bear draped in a black-and-white coat. The kind that could bare its fangs at any moment.

Could it be that her sleeping until now was also God’s handiwork…?

“Our company has never required employees to work overtime! Therefore, employee overwork simply does not exist!”

Qi Cheng was startled by this sudden shout. She looked toward the source of the sound: the television screen.

“…What is this?”

God said, “It’s a live broadcast of the lower world. That is, the reactions of the people related to you after your deaths. Hmm… although the people in the first season asked me the moment they arrived at the Divine Domain, ‘What happened to my family after I died?’—requests like that, to know the situation below—your season isn’t too late either.”

God walked to the front of the screen, patted it hard, and said, “What’s broadcasting now is Yu Feihang’s live stream!”

“Move aside, don’t block the screen, you’re in the way!”

Hearing Ni Qian’s protest, God’s head slumped in disappointment as he shuffled to the side.

“…To be yelled at like that, I’m so heartbroken…”

However, no one cared about God sulking in the corner.

“Our company’s scheduled working hours for employees are strictly enforced according to national labor regulations. If you don’t believe it, you can look at Yu Feihang’s attendance records!”

On the screen, a person in charge, dressed in a suit and leather shoes, was showing attendance records to reporters.

“Can you guarantee that these attendance records are true and valid?”

“What kind of talk is that? Our employees use electronic clock-ins, so there’s no way to forge these records! If you don’t believe it, you can ask IT personnel to confirm; anyone would know if the data had been tampered with just by checking!”

The close-up shot provided by the reporter showed that Yu Feihang’s attendance records all reflected a prompt clock-out at 18:00 every day.

“Therefore, the death of employee Yu Feihang has nothing to do with our company!”

“But, according to Mrs. Yu, Mr. Yu came home very late every day.”

“Hmph, he probably lied to his wife about the company requiring overtime while he was out having an affair. Although we don’t like to say such things, many people in the company know that Yu Feihang often met with different women right after work. Poor Mrs. Yu, it seems she has been deceived by her husband all along.”

Everyone turned to look at Yu Feihang.

His expression was one of unprecedented rage.

“Because the dead can’t speak to defend themselves, they can just pin whatever labels they want on me…!”

He leapt from the sofa, lunged toward the screen, and pounded on the image of the HR supervisor, shouting in a fury: “‘Having an affair’…? I would need the time and energy to have an affair for that! You people! You forced employees to work overtime after they officially clocked out! And you didn’t pay us a cent in overtime! …’Meeting different women’? Ha! Weren’t those clients the ones the company demanded I secure, otherwise I’d have no performance results! Do you think I enjoyed acting like a clown, forcing smiles for those old women!?”

Everyone: “…”

Seeming to realize there were women present—especially Xia Lifang—Yu Feihang calmed down slightly and leaned back powerlessly against the sofa, covering his face with one hand.

“…Sorry, I didn’t mean to insult women.”

Ni Qian said, “Ah… it’s fine, we understand.”

No one could see his expression at this moment.

But even without looking, everyone knew in their hearts. Encountering such a black-hearted enterprise and being so slandered, no one could maintain a calm mind.

The only person present who acted as if nothing had happened was God, who had regained his spirits.

The image on the screen suddenly cut off.

“Alright,” God said. “Now, who should be next?”

He suddenly looked at Qi Cheng .

Qi Cheng ‘s heart skipped a beat.

If this guy broadcasted her situation in the lower world, it would be equivalent to exposing the big lie she had told earlier.

However, God hesitated to switch the broadcast content to her, as if he were just intentionally teasing her.

Then Ni Qian murmured, “…But, I really didn’t expect that Mr. Yu was already married…”

She really knew how to bring up an awkward subject.

Perhaps she felt that Yu Feihang, with his “playboy” vibe, couldn’t possibly have been tied down by a family so early.

God suddenly said, “Little Yu isn’t the only one with a family! Right, Little Liao? Also, Little~ Fang~ actually has two sons.”

Yu Feihang snapped his gaze toward Xia Lifang.

“You… you actually have children?!”

With two children at home, she was still messing around outside. Did this woman not feel her conscience prickling?

Xia Lifang glared at him fiercely.

His words were equivalent to indirectly exposing the fact that they had already become intimate. Because of all the people he could have asked, he chose to ask her.

No, he shouldn’t have asked that at all.

This stupid pig was truly stupid to the core.

Anger flared in her heart, and she forgot to maintain her broad-minded lady-like demeanor in front of the crowd.

“Isn’t that obvious! To have reached my age without having children, how big of a failure would one’s life have to be?!”

Qi Cheng sighed inwardly. There it was again, the “Success Theory”; this person was truly an over-intelligent fool.

Xia Lin also felt that Xia Lifang was foolish—though she had no eye contact with Qi Cheng .

However, her focus was different from Qi Cheng ‘s.

Xia Lin looked at Yu Feihang—sure enough, the expression on his face was spectacular.

For people with normal values, a woman with a family who still went out seeking flirtations would only make them feel disgusted. Even if they were already dead, even if the person who initiated the seduction was himself, it was still disgusting.

Just as Qi Cheng said, Xia Lifang was too good at making enemies. Now, she had likely lost even her last vote.

“That trash is finally dead. Heh, he was a waste of air while he was alive anyway. If I were a loser like him, I would have chosen to end it myself long ago.”

The woman who suddenly appeared on the screen grabbed everyone’s attention again.

And among them, Kuang Liao’s reaction was the strongest.

It was like a gathering storm about to tear everything apart; a murderous, uncontrollable madness was surging in his eyes.

Being closest to him, Nie Siya was naturally the first to feel this surge of anger.

She was clearly startled by this sudden change in him.

Kuang Liao, whose mental state was already poor, suddenly began clawing at his hair and laughing hysterically after the woman on the screen appeared.

Nie Siya asked anxiously, “…Mr. Kuang!?”

“But this way, you’re saved from the divorce process, and we don’t have to work as hard as before.”

“Hmph, that trash, just this once, actually did me a big favor.”

God quickly wrote something and stuck labels on the corresponding positions of the man and woman leaning against each other on the screen.

[Mrs. Kuang.] [Adulterer.]

In fact, even if God hadn’t gone the extra mile, they would have already guessed.

Kuang Liao suddenly let out a roar like an enraged lion. He rushed to the screen, tore off the labels, and kept clawing at his wife’s face on the screen, screaming manically: “Aaaah… you bitch… you looked down on me until the moment I died…! Fine, fine! I’ll live just to show you! I will definitely be resurrected… I want to live and make you regret it! Make both of you regret it! Hahahahaha!”

God skipped around joyfully, saying, “Yes, yes, yes, that’s the spirit! Work hard to clear the stages, work hard to survive! Then be reborn with your memories and go settle your grudges, hee-hee-hee!”

Even Yu Feihang was encouraged. “That’s right… the dead can’t argue, so I have to live. I’ll live to expose how much of a beast your black-hearted company is!”

God: “Hee-hee-hee…”

Kuang Liao chuckled to himself, staring intently at the screen as he stumbled backward. Just as he was about to hit the corner of the coffee table, Nie Siya quickly caught him.

“Are you okay, Mr. Kuang?”

“Did you actually commit suicide over something so trivial?” Xia Lifang suddenly said.