Villainous Singer (18)
Lin Ruyu could tolerate Professor Xu’s manipulations of her since it was a relationship of mutual exploitation, but she could not tolerate Professor Xu targeting Song Xuyi.
Song Xuyi was Lin Ruyu’s final bottom line.
At first, Lin Ruyu wanted to have a proper discussion with Professor Xu. Although she had already secretly developed thoughts of removing the chip from her face, her original plan was to proceed gradually. She hadn’t expected Song Xuyi’s appearance would make Professor Xu break his pattern.
Lin Ruyu had originally planned to tell Song Xuyi everything she could after the examination, but she didn’t want Song Xuyi to know about her relationship with Professor Xu—she didn’t want these filthy matters to sully Song Xuyi’s ears. After all, a nation needs people like Song Xuyi who remain forever positive like a benchmark. Song Xuyi shouldn’t be contaminated by this dust; certain dirty matters should remain known only to herself.
Lin Ruyu hadn’t expected Luo Xi would reveal her relationship with Professor Xu to Song Xuyi, so she hurriedly cut off the call between Song Xuyi and Song Yi.
After cutting off the call, Lin Ruyu pretended to be extremely fearful and sought out Professor Xu, questioning whether he intended to make Song Xuyi another test subject. Unexpectedly, Professor Xu replied “yes” without hesitation, and revealed his true intentions, telling Lin Ruyu his plan: Song Xuyi’s existence proved that Ruoshui Star people’s intelligence wasn’t low, and to control Ruoshui Star forever, they must implant chips in all Ruoshui Star people. He indicated he would soon discuss this project with military leadership to accelerate its progress, making Ruoshui Star forever subordinate to Bilin Star.
Professor Xu hypocritically produced the newest chip, one he had created that could make a person completely enslaved and self-destruct if they developed second thoughts. He offered great benefits, trying to coax Lin Ruyu into having it implanted.
Once this type of chip was widely implemented, all the citizens of Ruoshui Star would forever become slaves to Bilin Star.
To protect Ruoshui Star, Lin Ruyu had no other choice but to eliminate Professor Xu before the chips reached the military.
She pretended to agree to Professor Xu’s words, but when he cut open her cheek and removed the chip, before he could insert the new chip, she took action to eliminate Professor Xu!
Meanwhile, Lin Ruyu had long figured out Professor Xu’s personality: Professor Xu always kept a backup plan, and sure enough, Lin Ruyu discovered a memory chip at his temple containing all his research data.
Lin Ruyu extracted Professor Xu’s chip and erased all traces.
She had actually seen Song Xuyi’s message and desperately wanted to reply, however her face was too frightening at this moment. She found healing materials, but re-healing would take nearly half a month. Previously, she had deliberately maintained her most beautiful appearance in front of Song Xuyi, and naturally didn’t want to expose this face to her.
But Song Xuyi was about to register at the Advanced Robot Academy.
After registration, she wouldn’t see Song Xuyi for a month.
Lin Ruyu couldn’t control her heart’s desire to return, planning to secretly glimpse Song Xuyi once before leaving. She needed strength, so she first returned to her room, decoded Professor Xu’s chip, and installed in her cheek a chip she had developed based on Professor Xu’s approach. However, before she could go find Song Xuyi, she heard Song Xuyi’s footsteps coming upstairs…
Lin Ruyu was extremely fearful, afraid of Song Xuyi discovering her disheveled and ugly appearance, and could only hide behind the curtains. Unexpectedly, Song Xuyi still found her, and moreover, she seemed not to mind her condition at all…
Lin Ruyu selectively told Song Xuyi about her background, Professor Xu’s conspiracy, and her initial surveillance of Song Xuyi—everything she could tell her. But she didn’t express her admiration for Song Xuyi: the timing wasn’t right—Ruoshui Star was in in deep waters and scorching flames [水深火熱 | shuǐ shēn huǒ rè | meaning: in turmoil], and she was in such a sorry state, it really wasn’t the right time for a confession.
She quietly gazed at Song Xuyi, secretly making a resolution: someday in the future, on a mild and sunny day, when both would return to their homeland Ruoshui Star and shed all stigma and burdens, she would remove the chip from her cheek and confess to Song Xuyi under the blessings of Ruoshui Star’s people…
When Song Xuyi heard about Lin Ruyu’s background, she couldn’t help but shed tears once again.
She had never imagined Lin Ruyu would carry such heavy burdens and hatred, and she understood even more clearly the weight of Lin Ruyu’s words—Lin Ruyu had essentially placed her entire life in her hands, for if her background were leaked, only death would await her.
“Ruyu, I… my father isn’t a bad person either. I’m sorry, I was pretending before. I actually was very confident about getting first place…” Thinking of her previous concealment from Lin Ruyu, Song Xuyi felt incredibly guilty, and her heart ached for Lin Ruyu’s sufferings, tears flowing uncontrollably…
Lin Ruyu originally didn’t want to cry, but she felt Song Xuyi’s concern for her, and this feeling filled her heart with endless joy, like sunlight slowly melting the thorns in her heart. She raised her head to look at the gradually rising sun outside the window, thinking perhaps it was because the morning sunlight was too bright that tears involuntarily flowed from her eyes…
And just as Lin Ruyu’s tears fell, the highly realistic android that Song Xuyi had placed on the windowsill—the one that looked remarkably like Lin Ruyu’s mother and was given as a gift—suddenly turned around, looked gently at Lin Ruyu, and smiled as it spoke—
“Ruyu, you’re really amazing, there will be many people in this world who love you…”
Lin Ruyu was stunned and turned to look at Song Xuyi. Although Song Xuyi had set up an encouraging program, she hadn’t expected the robot to self-activate at this moment. She felt somewhat shy, but meeting Lin Ruyu’s gaze, Song Xuyi still managed to look directly at Lin Ruyu: “This is what I wanted to tell you!”
Lin Ruyu’s eyes curved into a smile.
All the emotional suffocation in her heart dissipated in this moment, as if something had opened the door to her heart. The sky outside the window was especially blue at this instant, and her mood was like the brilliant sun that filled the sky, suddenly becoming incredibly clear and bright…
“I know.”
Lin Ruyu heard herself speak softly, and she smiled at Song Xuyi without saying more, but in her heart, she continued: “In this world, I carry too many responsibilities and burdens, I don’t love this world. The only one I love is you—”
Song Xuyi later went to register at the Robot Academy.
Because of Professor Xu’s former high regard for Song Xuyi, other professors paid special attention to her, but Song Xuyi once again resumed her previous awkward demeanor in the advanced institution, even struggling to keep up with some courses. When others asked why she had performed so brilliantly in the graduation test, she said it was because her good friend was Lin Ruyu, and she had coincidentally seen a similar model at Lin Ruyu’s place a few days before the exam, which was why she completed the test assignment so quickly…
Everyone thought Song Xuyi had dog sh*t luck [狗屎運 | gǒu shǐ yùn | extremely good luck], and no one doubted her words, because Lin Ruyu was the darling of major brands, endorsing countless products. It wasn’t surprising that robot factories would give newly developed robots to Lin Ruyu, and Song Xuyi had appeared quite mediocre before the exam…
Thus, Song Xuyi gradually faded into obscurity at the advanced institution, like many people of limited talent, despite her efforts, she seemed unable to achieve high accomplishments.
Song Xuyi studied many robots at the advanced institution, spending most of her time on humanoid robots. She continuously studied everything about humanoid robots, from skin color and hair texture to human organs and emotions… Almost all classmates and teachers sneered at her focused research: even though humanoid robots had reached scale, they were the most difficult of all robotics projects to study, after all, human emotions were the hardest thing to control—even humans couldn’t control their own emotions, let alone robots?
How could Song Xuyi, with her average talents, thoroughly research such a difficult course?
Yet no one knew that after hearing Lin Ruyu’s story, Song Xuyi, despite Lin Ruyu’s opposition, had also implanted a chip in her body. She was originally intelligent and hardworking, and with the chip’s assistance, it was like adding wings to a tiger [如虎添翼 | rú hǔ tiān yì | idiom: to make something even better], greatly accelerating her research progress. She had already secretly developed robots that could help Ruoshui Star people with mining.
And her focus on humanoid robots was only because of her ambitious desire to challenge the highest difficulty—could she also develop robots that were similar to humans but possessed emotions and preferences?
Once such robots truly emerged, it would be a heavy blow to Bilin Star’s proud robotics system, thoroughly crushing the Bilin Star people’s spirit!
However, perhaps due to her personal feelings, or perhaps because she had spent too much time with Lin Ruyu, the robots Song Xuyi created always had one or two similarities to Lin Ruyu, and she habitually placed the chip beneath a red birthmark at the corner of the robot’s eye.
Four years at the advanced institution flashed by, and Song Xuyi graduated once again. Generally, most students graduating from the advanced institution would enter Bilin Star’s research institutes, but since Song Xuyi’s performance had been mediocre, few research institutions extended olive branches to her, and those that did were the worst institutions…
Therefore, when Song Xuyi decided to return to Ruoshui Star, no one questioned her decision: after all, Song Xuyi’s father was a Guardian Song Yi, and rather than staying on Bilin Star working at inferior research institutions, it was better to return to Ruoshui Star to enjoy wealth and assist her father.
What surprised everyone was that Lin Ruyu wanted to return to Ruoshui Star with Song Xuyi!
Lin Ruyu had finally successfully terminated her contract with her former agency, and thereafter arranged her own career. Perhaps because she had once wanted to study robotics research, she seemed particularly favorable toward robotics companies these years, becoming a spokesperson for many robotics research companies…
Lin Ruyu’s public excuse was that Song Xuyi was her girlfriend, and she wanted to return home with her girlfriend—
This was the excuse they had agreed upon for the public, however, when discussing it with Lin Ruyu, looking at those enchanting beautiful eyes, Song Xuyi’s heartbeat couldn’t help but quicken for a moment.
In the time that followed, the two pretended to be in a relationship, appearing together at various occasions. When Song Xuyi looked at Lin Ruyu, she blushed more and more frequently, and finally had to admit—she had fallen in love with Lin Ruyu.
Song Xuyi secretly made a resolution to confess to Lin Ruyu after returning to Ruoshui Star.
She expressed her feelings for Lin Ruyu to the system, however, somehow, Song Xuyi suddenly couldn’t connect with the system…
Song Xuyi had a vague premonition in her heart—perhaps she was really about to return.
Therefore, Song Xuyi treasured everything on Ruoshui Star even more.
Her original plan was to confess to Lin Ruyu after returning to Ruoshui Star, however, when they returned to Ruoshui Star, both became so busy their feet don’t touch the ground [腳不沾地 | jiǎo bù zhān dì | idiom: extremely busy]—
Song Xuyi implemented the mining robots she had developed, liberating the hands of Ruoshui Star’s people, causing worldwide astonishment.
Only then did the Bilin Star people realize they had let a tiger return to the mountain [放虎歸山 | fàng hǔ guī shān | idiom: to let a dangerous person return to power], and ordered Song Xuyi to return to Bilin Star. However, Song Xuyi refused to comply, and by then they were already overwhelmed—under Lin Ruyu’s leadership, the people of Ruoshui Star had started a wave of resistance.
Only then did the Bilin Star people realize that all the money Lin Ruyu had earned over these years had been converted into weapons and imported to Ruoshui Star.
Although Song Xuyi’s intervention accelerated many processes in this world, the male and female protagonists still followed the original story outlin], meeting and falling in love, about to hold their wedding at the Guardian’s mansion.
Song Xuyi originally thought it wouldn’t follow the ending from the original story outline, and went to set up mining robots elsewhere a few days before the wedding, since Lin Ruyu already knew Song Yi’s identity, everything shouldn’t develop like the original plot outline.
Song Xuyi hadn’t expected to hear the news the day before the protagonists’ wedding that Song Yi had announced she was his adopted daughter!
Everyone thought it was because Song Xuyi was now the vanguard of resistance against Bilin Star, and Song Yi, being Bilin Star’s attack dog, was deliberately distancing himself from Song Xuyi.
Song Xuyi sensed something was wrong!
She and Lin Ruyu rushed back to the Guardian’s mansion day and night, arriving just in time for the protagonists’ wedding…
Only then did Song Xuyi learn: the Bilin Star people had been continuing Professor Xu’s plan these years. Having witnessed the resistance led by Lin Ruyu, they had accelerated their progress, planning to implant chips into every Ruoshui Star person after this wedding…
And those responsible for this project, along with all the chips, had been smuggled into the Guardian’s mansion mixed within the bride’s dowry.
Song Yi had already planted energy bombs throughout the mansion. He had only learned of this plan the previous day, and had been preparing to sacrifice himself for the world at any moment, secretly storing many energy bombs: killing the Bilin Star people and stopping this project—this was the best method he could think of to protect Ruoshui Star’s people.
What did it matter if he died bearing a stigma forever?
Ruoshui Star would always have new hope, he had already seen the sparks of fire [星星之火 | xīng xīng zhī huǒ | metaphor for budding revolution] ignited on Ruoshui Star…
However, Song Xuyi didn’t want Song Yi to enter eternal sleep this way—a hero shouldn’t sink into the earth like this.
In the chaos, Song Xuyi and Lin Ruyu only managed to knock unconscious and stuff Song Yi, the protagonists, and other innocent Ruoshui Star people into the spacecraft…
At this moment, only half-machine humans like Song Xuyi and Lin Ruyu could stop the Bilin Star people.
As the spacecraft rose into the air, Song Xuyi and Lin Ruyu struggled to intercept the fleeing Bilin Star people. The Bilin Star people sneered at first, but finally discovered in horror that these two’s combat abilities were terrifyingly inhuman. They stood at the doorway, and no one could get past them.
And in the sea of blood, they saw each other’s determined eyes filled with smiles—
What did it matter if they died here?
Ruoshui Star would get better in the future.
The people had weapons, their strength had gathered, Song Xuyi had freed their hands, their living conditions had greatly improved, and soon after, they would discover more ‘surprises’: the nearly complete set of robotics learning technology Song Xuyi left behind; the virus Lin Ruyu had planted in Bilin Star’s military light brains; and those who had grown up, the new generation of Ruoshui Star about to take over…
This was the faith rooted in their bloodline, fighting for freedom and equality.
The starlight’s fire would eventually burn through those constraints from beyond the stars, igniting the light of freedom and peace belonging to Ruoshui Star’s future.
Only, it was somewhat regrettable that they hadn’t had the chance to express their feelings to each other.
Song Xuyi looked at Lin Ruyu, and Lin Ruyu seemed to have something to say as well, but she was used to being modest in front of Song Xuyi. Looking at Song Xuyi’s expression, she instinctively let Song Xuyi speak first, and so, meeting her widened eyes, Lin Ruyu heard Song Xuyi’s confession—
“Ruyu, I like you!”
“No,” that girl she had been thinking of tilted her head, revealing a playful smile, shy yet bravely looking straight into her eyes: “I love you!”
Then, the energy bombs ignited…
The author has something to say:
The next story will return to the real world.
Actually, it should be… not too angsty… right?
I haven’t dared to be too cheerful in the author’s notes lately, afraid of receiving knife blades in the mail.
LP: I’m back! Sorry, I was sick this entire time. I hope i won’t get sick again for at least a few years, I hate it :(
Re-translated on February 01, 2025
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