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Yan Junze knew that the task level determination was influenced by the strangeness level within said task.

In other words, if the strangeness level was high, then generally, the task level would also be high. But there were exceptions.

For example, if the strangeness was difficult to deal with, or if the way to complete the task was very special, then the task level would likewise be high and not easy to complete.

Since the task "Reflection Under the Moonlight" has been upgraded to "hair-raising (low)", Fang Ning's strength must have been increased accordingly.

Of course, it's also highly possible that the task mode has changed, becoming no longer that simple; at least like the Back-faced Woman before her Bond Evolution with Ke'er, with Fang Ning fully approached, she could kill Yan Junze in one hit.

However, if this is what a "hair-raising" level task is, it somehow feels like something is missing.

At this moment, Yan Junze realized, this was not exactly a task punishment, because as long as his performance satisfied Fang Ning, there was a certain chance of her growing fond (obsessed) with him.

No matter whether the object of her affection was Jiang Hao or someone else. In any case, this affection might fade away, or perhaps from this moment, it would find a new home.

Now Yan Junze strongly suspected that Fang Ning's affection had once again found its home.

Like the promise she made before, she wished "to stay by his side every next second".

In fact, Yan Junze had deeply experienced the uncertainty after task completion, like the "Hair Washing" task, which didn't specify that Ke'er would stay by his side, but in reality, Ke'er chose to stay of her own volition.

So for the "Reflection Under the Moonlight" task to eventually turn out like this, he could accept it, but emotionally... he was very resistant.

Now looking back, to successfully complete this task, there was a very high chance that Fang Ning would come to admire him.

And Yan Junze also remembered, the task prompt dared him to say a "no" to anything Fang Ning said.

Such a damn domineering woman!

If he said no now, he believed that what awaited him would definitely be a new round of being instantly killed.

"Sigh..." Yan Junze looked up at the bright moon and sighed. After a moment of silence, he looked again at Fang Ning.

"Okay."

The task prompt popped up at this moment.

["Reflection Under the Moonlight," hair-raising (low), completed, gained 1000 Different Dimension Energy points.]

[Friendly Reminder: You have successfully gained the affection of Fang Ning; her love is crazy.]

[Fang Ning (Semi-Sculpting Spirit), current Favorability: Intimate (Abnormal)]

At the same time, Fang Ning, standing in front of Yan Junze, tilted her stiff head up blankly towards the bright moon in the sky.

At this moment, she suddenly laughed happily, "I like the moonlight."

Then she lowered her head as if looking at Yan Junze and said, word by word from her torn throat, "And... like... you..."

As soon as these words were spoken, right under Yan Junze's eyelids, Fang Ning's charred body visibly dissolved, a large amount of ink-like blackness merging into the ground, forming an eerie black shadow.

This shadow had no substance and was truly just like a person's shadow, a person's... reflection, visible but intangible.

The moment this black reflection formed, it flowed like water toward Yan Junze's direction, and without any defense from him, the shadow merged directly into Yan Junze's own shadow under the moonlight.

The entire event took no more than two or three seconds.

"What's going on?"

Yan Junze was stunned, sensing something bad, he immediately turned off the camera, rushed to the portable camera set on the stone bench, stuffed everything into the black backpack resting beside him, then took off along the path he had come.

After running to the path, he turned his head to glance in the direction of the electric fountain.

Everything was eerily quiet, the area surrounding the fountain was dead silent, as if Fang Ning had never existed.

"That's not right, Fang Ning just became the Reflection Under the Moonlight, and that reflection clearly entered her own shadow," Yan Junze thought rapidly.

Although the change had happened very fast, so fast that it caught him off guard, he still saw it clearly—the shadow that Fang Ning had turned into seemed to have merged with his own shadow.

"Together, merged with my own?" As the thought arose, Yan Junze involuntarily shivered.

He turned on the flashlight he had taken out beforehand, the trees on both sides of the path were dense, and the canopy overhead was thick enough to block any moonlight from seeping through.

Under the illumination of the flashlight, Yan Junze sprinted through the path at top speed, arriving at the community road with the signpost.

He didn't pause but quickly headed for the main entrance of the Flowery Paradise Garden Residential Area.

At this time, without the obstruction of the trees overhead, the moonlight spilled down once again, shining on Yan Junze as he walked quickly across the ground, forming a small, shrunken reflection to the right in front of his feet.

About a dozen steps later, the shadow sinisterly began to grow, and then a slender black shadowy arm emerged from the pitch-dark shadow, climbing up Yan Junze's lower leg and seizing hold of it.

Yan Junze, who was in the midst of running, stumbled and plunged forward, crashing heavily onto the ground.

The shadow at his feet began to crawl up following his movements, and at the same time, a hoarse and eerie laugh rang out—it was the sound of Fang Ning who had just disappeared under Yan Junze's very eyes.

Feeling an ice-cold sensation spreading up his legs, Yan Junze finally understood, and he looked up at the moon in the sky. Before the eerie chill had completely engulfed him, he immediately rolled on the spot.

The next second, he rolled under the tree next to the road, a landscaping tree.

The branches and leaves of this tree were not very dense, but they were just enough to block the moonlight.

After he rolled under the tree, the shadow at his feet instantly vanished, and the cold feeling on his legs disappeared as well.

Yan Junze didn't have time to sit up yet, but his heart was pounding like a drum; he tried bending his legs a bit and there was nothing abnormal.

No abnormalities, that was good. After hiding under this tree, because the reflection at his feet disappeared, so did Fang Ning.

"It's over."

Yan Junze murmured with a bitter smile, slowly sitting up straight, and looking at the moonlight on the ground outside, he came to an unfavorable conclusion in his mind.

From now on, at least until he found a way to deal with Fang Ning, he feared he could no longer expose himself under the moonlight.

Could there be any more troublesome tactic than merging into one's own shadow?

Yan Junze sat under the tree, leaning against the trunk, shaking his head with a wry smile.

From now on, it seemed that he had to be very cautious before taking on tasks above the "hair-raising" level, and it was best to avoid them if possible.

He now believed that if it weren't for the mother-daughter recognition and Ke'er's extremely close relationship with him during the last encounter with the Back-faced Woman, she would have never let him remain intact as he was today.

This point was evident from the fact that the Back-faced Woman, taking Ke'er with her, showed no concern for Yan Junze when they left. Read new chapters at empire

After sitting under the tree for a while, Yan Junze finally came to terms with this fact.

It seemed that as long as he didn't expose himself to moonlight and didn't cast a shadow under the moon, he shouldn't attract any of Fang Ning's "love you to death" actions toward him.

He would just need to be careful in the future, and wait until he found a solution.

Thinking this, Yan Junze checked the time on his phone; it was only half-past nine, not very late.

He called his father, Yan Daguo: "Dad, uh, I'm currently in the neighboring Flowery Paradise Garden Residential Area. Come and pick me up, and remember to bring an umbrella—the largest one we have, the one with the Huang Feihong fighting handle. No, it's not raining, just bring it over first."