200 A Corrupted System (1/2)

”What birds?” Nie Chang was bewildered. Just what was his darling talking about? He knew nothing about any birds!

Su Yan grew even angrier when his boyfriend dared to further deny his knowledge about that dirty novel. ”Hmph!” With a snort, he crossed his arms and faced the other side.

Nie Chang blankly looked at him and finally took a look at the phone. There should be a reason why it had been thrown at him. The last few sentences that Su Yan seemed to have read gave him a rough idea of what the problem was even though he had no idea how some birds figured into that. He found the answer to that pretty quickly though.

[”Something hot?” Wang Ya Hui blinked. ”Like what?”

”Mh, like … this.”

The man grabbed his chin and bent down, pressing his lips onto Wang Ya Hui's. The youth opened his mouth in surprise, only to be faced with a snake winding its way into his mouth and exploring him.]

Nie Chang stared at the 'snake'. Alright. If that was a snake, then he didn't need much imagination to guess what the 'bird' was. No wonder Su Yan was angry. If you grew up sheltered enough to only find out about same-sex relationships at the age of twenty-one, then naturally, you would find this kind of thing appalling.

Nie Chang scratched his head. He knew that so he certainly wouldn't have put this kind of explicit novel in Su Yan's library. So why was his darling blaming him?

He navigated back to the list of novels and indeed, there it was: 'The Adventure of the Four Birds'. And it even came with a note that seemed to be written by him. This couldn't be a bug on the website. Not with the message attached. So what then? Had somebody tried to sabotage their relationship with this? But he was the only one who knew that Su Yan had this account.

Nie Chang's gaze flickered. Well, there was another person or rather thing that knew about this.

He leaned over to Su Yan and put the phone on the dashboard. ”Ah Yan, it wasn't me who put that in onto your reading list. I —”

Su Yan whirled around and pointed at Nie Chang's nose. ”You still dare to pretend! If not you, then who should it be?!”

”Your system.”

”Ah?” Su Yan frowned, his anger overridden by his puzzlement.

Nie Chang knew that now was the time to strike if he wanted to sooth Su Yan's ruffled feathers. ”Mn, think about it: The system was the one that proposed this website as the place where you upload the story. It also tried to push you in the direction of writing boys' love all this time, didn't it? And I reckon it would want you to learn more about the genre now that you've published your first two stories. So maybe this is something it prepared for a new task? It wouldn't be the first time it gave you a strange one, would it?”

Faced with Nie Chang's arguments Su Yan didn't know what to say. This sounded … really logical. And if he thought about it, he couldn't see any reason why Nie Chang would add this type of novel to his library.