Restricted Fantasy Invasion

Chapter 6
When did Ye Shiyu get this APP?

She remembered, it was only the second morning after moving to Linmen. When she woke from a deep sleep and checked the time on her phone, that purple APP had suddenly appeared on her home screen out of nowhere.

Was there something wrong with her phone? Or had it caught a virus?

Ye Shiyu thought this, because when she long-pressed on the APP, she realized there was no option to delete it at all.

Out of curiosity, she decided to open the APP to see what was inside, but the instant she did, countless illusory messages surged into her mind, and lines of text fantastically floated before her eyes,

[Welcome to the Modifier APP, Ye Shiyu, host]

[Current APP level: 1-The level will increase with frequency and number of uses. When the level rises, the APP's effects, duration, and other attributes will be enhanced.]

[APP effect: Individual Hypnosis-Causes a single target to fall into a brief hypnotic state. While hypnotized, the subject will obey your commands completely, and after the effect ends, the subject will forget everything that happened during that time.]

[Usage: Twice a week, each time lasting 15 minutes. Just summon the desire to use the APP in your mind, then show the phone screen to the target you wish to hypnotize.]

[Notes]

[1. Do not reveal the existence of the APP]

[2. The APP will appear on the phone you use most often, but make sure your phone is charged when using it]

[3. Any delayed commands given during hypnosis will not persist after the 15-minute limit]

[4. Although after the effect ends, the APP will automatically correct any unreasonable memories in the hypnotized target so they absolutely won't notice anything strange, the host must still be cautious of third parties-avoid making any mistakes that could expose the APP]

Ye Shiyu's pupils gradually widened, her expression filled with disbelief as she stared at the last line of those illusory words, written in pink cursive,

[Please use it without hesitation!]

Could this just be a stupid joke?

The phone must definitely have a virus. Back in the country, Ye Shiyu had heard that Linmen had a lot of this kind of cybercrime.

It wasn't until this moment, because of Yan Huan's arrival, that she nervously used it for the first time, even wrapping the process in the guise of "exchanging contact information."

If it didn't work and the other person looked confused, she would just say,

"Sorry, I pressed the wrong thing."

Then she could just open plane.

But now, looking at the handsome boy standing there, his eyes completely vacant and unmoving, Ye Shiyu's heartbeat was speeding up bit by bit.

"Thump. Thump."

That heartbeat sounded like a furious war drum, wild and chaotic, symbolizing her disbelief.

"It actually... worked!"

Meanwhile, Yan Huan, seeing Ye Shiyu's wide eyes, realized that she, like Bai Yi, must also be using the modifier for the first time.

Because of his resistance, although he'd felt a little uncomfortable when he first saw the APP interface, he had basically recovered by now.

It was just that his whole body still felt a little tingly and numb, like the slow recovery after a limb falls asleep-an uncomfortable sensation.

Yan Huan was a bit speechless. He'd even held out hope, thanks to Aunt Ye, that maybe Ye Shiyu didn't have a modifier, but ended up becoming Ah Wei on the very first night.

And sure enough, all the content of these modifiers was this sort of indecent, R-rated stuff.

Fine, fine, so this is how you want to play?

You started it!

Activating Perfect Expression Management, he flawlessly acted out the dazed state of someone instantly hypnotized, his body remaining perfectly still.

Ye Shiyu took a deep breath and carefully glanced at the dimly lit hallway.

After confirming that no one had noticed anything here, she gently placed her hand on Yan Huan's chest, trying to push him inside, wanting to move into the closed room before proceeding further.

But the moment she touched him, it was like hitting a burning wall-not only could she not budge him at all, but his body heat made her withdraw her hand as if scalded.

Are boys always this warm?

Having grown used to the coldness of dolls, she now realized the huge difference between people and dolls.

What should she do if she can't move him...

Wait, right now, he'll do whatever she says!

Ye Shiyu remembered this point, and tentatively said to Yan Huan in a soft voice,

"Go into the room."

"."

Yan Huan instantly felt a faint tingle run through his numb body, as if urging him to walk back into the room.

On the surface, he maintained his dazed vacancy, but walked himself back into the room, then turned to look at Ye Shiyu.

Ye Shiyu glanced again toward the stairwell, then entered the room herself, turning to shut the door completely.

"Click."

Still feeling unsafe, she gently twisted the lock to secure the door.

"Phew."

In the enclosed space, the girl's floral scent filled the air, making Yan Huan subconsciously search for its source, finally settling on her long black hair.

When Ye Shiyu turned around with a sigh of relief, Yan Huan quickly blanked his expression again.

Now, as if truly alone, the look on Ye Shiyu's face was finally no longer the blank mask she wore during the day, but showed obvious fluctuations.

Her brows furrowed, her skin-white as snow-seemed to flush with color from her quickened heartbeat, and those calm, watery eyes now sized people up and down.

It was like a figure from a painting had suddenly stepped into reality, so vivid and alive.

"So, what should I do with you?"

She stroked her chin, pacing back and forth in front of Yan Huan, as if she hadn't even decided what to do after hypnotizing him, muttering to herself all the while,

"Should I hypnotize him tomorrow and make him tell Mom to cut off contact? No, even if the APP can fix his memory, Mom would keep calling and asking about him, and if something went wrong, she'd notice..."

Yan Huan watched her, listening quietly like a doll, secretly storing those words in his heart.

"Or should I hypnotize him to do some bad things at home? Make Mom dislike him... Yes, that's it. Besides, this guy definitely also..."

Ye Shiyu looked up, seemingly having made up her mind, and suddenly turned to Yan Huan.

Bringing her fragrant presence closer to Yan Huan, she looked at his face and softly asked,

"What's your purpose in coming here?"

"To have dinner at Aunt Ye's house."

Hearing Yan Huan's emotionless voice, Ye Shiyu, apparently not getting the answer she wanted, opened her mouth, reconsidered her wording, and asked another way,

"Then, how do you feel about coming here?"

But the question was still too vague-if she really hypnotized him, he probably wouldn't even know how to answer.

She really wasn't good at dealing with people; you could sense it from just a few words.

Yan Huan's dazed eyes trembled slightly, and he said,

"I'm a little scared."

"Scared? What do you mean?"

Ye Shiyu was taken aback, not understanding Yan Huan's words at all, and heard him continue,

"I'm afraid of people connected to my parents... In the past, right in front of me, they took my home, took everything from my dad and mom, as if I didn't exist. Clearly, they were all relatives and friends of my parents, but why... I don't know why it happened like that. I'm afraid it'll be the same this time. It was so hard for me to finally leave the orphanage."

Ye Shiyu's fingertips clenched tighter and tighter. Looking at Yan Huan, whose face trembled even under hypnosis as if trapped in painful memories, she couldn't help but say,

"All right, stop, don't think about it anymore!"

"Yes."

Yan Huan's expression slowly returned to normal, escaping from that pit of pain, becoming blank and dazed again.

Seeing this, Ye Shiyu finally let out a long breath, and muttered to herself,

"Mom would never do something like that."

Even so, Yan Huan's seemingly heartfelt words still messed up her thoughts, making her forget what she was supposed to do, so she could only look up at him again.

Right, she needed to add plane first-after the hypnosis ended, the APP should help him fix his memory.

Anyway, today was just to test if it worked; as for everything else...

There's plenty of time in the future.

"Unlock your phone, open plane, and give it to me."

Yan Huan saw Ye Shiyu standing there, lost in thought, but when she spoke, he still took out his phone from his pocket.

He unlocked it with his fingerprint, revealing a desktop with a blue ocean background.

Opening plane, Ye Shiyu was shocked by the dense list of chat boxes and red dots.

So... so many chat boxes?

What are all these groups?

Student council main admin group? Math 1001 group one? Martial Arts Club chat group? Track and field group? Fencing group? Driver's group? Mahjong group...

This was the first time Ye Shiyu had seen a plane like this, because she usually only had a few chat boxes-one with Mom, one with Aunt Chen, and when she was still in school back home, she'd never joined any classmates' groups.

"Ding!"

Just then, Yan Huan's phone suddenly rang.

"!"

Ye Shiyu jumped in fright and quickly looked over, seeing a message from someone noted as "Sakuramiya Vice President," whose avatar was a white cat,

"There's something I need to discuss with the President. Is the President available now?"

What should she do?!

Who is this now...

Ye Shiyu stared at the screen, then looked up at the dazed, motionless Yan Huan in front of her.

Ah, whatever, she'd just let him reply after the hypnosis ended.

Ignoring it, she got ready to tap the "Add Friend" button in the upper right corner.

Seeing this operation, even Yan Huan couldn't help but feel her intelligence had burned out.

How about you let me help you reply?

Haven't you already hypnotized me, only to have me stand here pretending to be a doll?

But this also shows that Ye Shiyu, despite being exposed to gentlemen like Yan Huan in her past life, is different-she really doesn't understand this stuff at all, so her first attempt was so clumsy.

Just as Ye Shiyu's finger was about to touch "Add Friend," the entire screen suddenly went black, then was taken over by a voice call interface.

"Ding ding ding~"

"Voice Call: Sakuramiya Vice President"

!!!

She's... she's calling?!

The suddenly enlarged white cat avatar startled Ye Shiyu, and hearing the noisy ringtone, she shuddered all over, looking especially flustered.

Thieves always feel guilty, and Ye Shiyu, currently up to no good, was no exception.

She hurriedly reached out and pressed the reject button, cutting off the blaring ringtone.

"Doo doo."

"Phew."

The ringtone finally disappeared, and Ye Shiyu let out a sigh of relief.

Then, to prevent the other party from calling again, she hesitated and typed a message in Sakuramiya Vice President's chat window,

"Sorry, I'm busy right now and can't answer the phone." There was no reply for a while, so thinking she'd gotten away with it, Ye Shiyu reached out to tap the close button in the top left corner.

Just then, the other party's plane name changed to "The other party is typing."

"Ding~"

A notification sounded, and the other side sent a message-just three simple words,

"Who are you?"

!!??

Ye Shiyu was so stunned she didn't move, as if she'd died for a good while.

This is hilarious.

Seeing her thunderstruck expression, Yan Huan almost couldn't hold it in.

At that moment, in the depths of Yan Huan's dazed gaze, a sympathetic look appeared, and Ye Shiyu's pink lips actually started to pout little by little. The movement was small, but she really did pout, as if she'd suffered some huge grievance.

Huh?

Only then did Yan Huan realize that Ye Shiyu could actually make the same expression as Ye Lan!

Sakuramiya Vice President, you're really something, you're really something!

Ye Shiyu shakily raised her hand, wanting to scroll through their previous chat history, hoping to find some clue about Yan Huan's interactions with Sakuramiya Vice President, but all she saw were many call records.

No wonder she called directly!

The rest were just various school documents; the two of them had barely chatted otherwise?

So how did the other party know from just one sentence that it wasn't Yan Huan on this end of the phone?

Never mind, just let him handle it himself.

Ye Shiyu chose to fool herself and, by the way, retracted the message she'd just sent.

"?"

After she did that, the other side sent another question mark. That question mark was like the scythe of death-just seeing it made her shiver.

Ye Shiyu pretended not to see it, exited the chat, pulled up Yan Huan's plane QR code, scanned it with her own phone to add as a friend, then tapped "Accept."

"Ding~"

Done.

"Phew."

Ye Shiyu let out another breath of relief, closing Yan Huan's phone as if she were shutting the gates of hell.

After finishing all this, Ye Shiyu glanced at her own phone and realized that ten minutes had already passed-a very, very long ten minutes.

That's enough for today.

Looking at Yan Huan before her, she put the phone back in his pocket, but at the same time, a hint of hesitation flashed in Ye Shiyu's eyes.

In fact, Mom had been asking about Yan Huan for days before coming to Linmen, and of course, she'd told her about it. Besides, since childhood, Mom had always told her she had a very good friend.

Ye Lan had said so much, but it wasn't until this face-to-face meeting that Ye Shiyu felt she'd begun to understand this boy a little.

He might really be an outstanding person, and his circumstances were pitiable, but-

The hesitation in Ye Shiyu's eyes was gradually swallowed by a certain desire. She picked up the phone again and said to Yan Huan,

"Sit here and don't move. When you wake up, you should forget everything that happened just now, and then just..."

"Yes."

Once Yan Huan sat down, Ye Shiyu turned and left, unlocked the door, and walked out.

"Ka-da."

Yan Huan glanced at the door, stretched his tingling body, and waited for the modifier's effect to wear off completely.

A few minutes later, the tingling sensation in Yan Huan's body faded away like the tide, exactly fifteen minutes after the hypnosis had started.

In an instant, a new memory appeared in his mind.

In that memory, Ye Shiyu came to knock on the door, and after he opened it, she added him as a friend on her phone, chatted for a bit, and then left.

For some reason, after returning to his room, he felt a bit sleepy, so he sat down to rest for a while and nearly dozed off.

In his groggy state, he heard a message from Sakuramiya Vice President, but because he was too tired, he declined the call and sent a message he'd never normally send.

After receiving Sakuramiya Vice President's strange inquiry, he belatedly retracted it, and only now was he fully awake.

Yan Huan mulled over the new memories in his mind, feeling a bit horrified.

The key wasn't just that Ye Shiyu's modifier could add memories-it was that these new memories actually made Yan Huan feel like they were things he would do, and had done.

The memories perfectly covered up everything that had happened in the past fifteen minutes, and Yan Huan felt that if he didn't have resistance, he'd have absolutely no sense of anything being off.

Unless an unaffected third party pointed out the contradiction between memory and reality, only then might the person with the implanted memories start to doubt.

These modifiers are really ruthless.

Yan Huan's expression grew more serious as he examined his fully recovered hand and sorted through the details of what had actually happened.

It seems Ye Shiyu doesn't want me to stay, or rather, not just that-she doesn't even want me to interact with Ye Lan.

Hmm, if the modifier is related to desire, then Ye Shiyu hypnotizing me with it is also to satisfy some desire of hers.

Desire, desire...

Yan Huan unconsciously recalled that Aunt Chen had mentioned before that Ye Shiyu always had to write her name on everything.

He raised his eyebrows, and an answer vaguely surfaced in his mind, but just then, the door sounded again,

"Dong dong dong~"

No way, again?

Yan Huan steadied himself on the sofa, paused, and then asked,

"Who is it?"

"Xiaohuan, it's Aunt Chen. I warmed up some milk for you."

"Coming."

Upon hearing that, Yan Huan finally relaxed, got up, and went to open the door.

Outside, Aunt Chen was smiling and holding a glass of milk, and not far behind her stood Ye Shiyu, also holding a glass of milk and looking at him expressionlessly.

There's a theory that criminals often return to the scene of the crime to check things out.

Ye Shiyu was probably the same-she must be checking to see if Yan Huan noticed anything after the effect wore off.

"Here, you two drink your milk. It'll help you sleep-I added a bit of honey. Try it and see if you like it. If not, I won't put any in tomorrow."

"No problem, Aunt Chen."

Yan Huan acted as if he hadn't noticed anything unusual, and seeing his calm expression, Ye Shiyu was finally satisfied and quietly turned away with her milk.

Aunt Chen said, "Xiaohuan, take your milk inside to drink. The toothbrush and toiletries are in the bathroom, all new. If you need anything else, just tell me."

"Will do, thank you, Aunt Chen."

"Go to bed early, Xiaohuan."

Yan Huan took his milk and went back to his room, set the milk on the table, and pulled out his phone.

First, he opened the chat window with Ye Shiyu he'd just added, but since they'd just become friends, nothing had been sent yet.

He thought for a moment, then sent a message:

"Shiyu-jie, if you have any questions about school, feel free to ask me."

And he added a smiley face emoji that, in his previous life, had a hidden meaning.

After a pause, she replied with an "OK" hand gesture.

The atmosphere was all big-sisterly harmony and brotherly respect, as if that whole Japanese anime plot had never happened.

Yan Huan leaned speechlessly against the sofa, took a sip of milk, then suddenly remembered something and quickly opened the chat with Sakuramiya Vice President.

There, a glaring question mark still stood out.

Yan Huan couldn't help but chuckle. He opened the chat window and pulled up the emoji list.

Inside were countless categorized emojis-cats, anime, panda people, GIFs, all sorts.

His finger slid skillfully and quickly, and he sent over a sweating, head-down cat emoji, with the words:

"Sorry."

The other party is typing.

"Was the President's phone in someone else's hands just now?"

A reply in seconds-was she actually worried that I'd been done in by some bad guy?

A cat-nodding emoji was sent over: "Mm-hmm."

"I'm at work, a friend helped me reply earlier, something came up just now."

Come to think of it, do I usually send so many emojis that the moment I don't, Sakuramiya Vice President figures it out right away?

Well, Sakuramiya Vice President is very familiar with everyone in management. She has an excellent memory, so it's normal for her to notice things like this.

Thinking of this, Yan Huan typed and asked,

"What was the urgent matter you mentioned before?"

Along with this message, he sent another cat emoji with a question mark.

The other party is typing.

But after quite a while, no message came through, nor did she call-she prefers phone calls for communication, as she says it's more efficient.

Just as Yan Huan was about to check other group chats and wait for her reply, she finally responded, albeit belatedly,

"It's been resolved, President."

Yan Huan glanced at the chat box and sent that cat-nodding emoji again,

"That's good. Get some rest, Sakuramiya."

"Okay."

The milk was already finished, the phone tossed aside, and Yan Huan's body finally relaxed a bit, stretching out on the sofa.

"Meow~"

The chubby Meow-chan appeared quietly again, tilting its head with concern as it watched him.

Yan Huan glanced at it and patted the sofa beside him.

Meow-chan understood instantly, jumped up, and nestled its soft, furry body in his arms.

Stroking its silky fur, Yan Huan smiled helplessly,

"Looks like if I don't take action soon, there'll be no way out for us, Meow-chan."

"Meow~"

(End of this chapter)