This was the question he wanted to avoid so that Lai Jiayi won't be too downhearted anymore, but...it can't be helped. He had to tell her the truth.
The AI took a deep breath first to calm his heart.
'It's okay. Lai Jiayi is a strong girl...surely– she won't give up even after knowing how difficult her target is.'
Thus with all his might, the AI flew toward Lai Jiayi's head and stopped in front of her eyes.
He then opened his mouth slowly.
"Level SSS...it means, his difficulty level is the hardest, quack... " The AI gulped.
"Because...up until now no one succeeds in getting his heart. NOT A SINGLE PLAYER did, quack!"
….what?
Lai Jiayi blinked her eyes a few times. The girl straightened her back as she looked at the man's biodata again, staring at it for a few seconds, but that 'difficulty level SSS' information was still there.
Lai Jiayi kneaded her temple and went silent. Her head felt dizzy.
"Okay, wait a minute. Let's sort this out. First, I have to chase after a man in real life."
"Yup, quack!"
"Those players that win...they marry their capture targets."
"That's right, quack!"
"Now second...this man, my target. He's someone with difficulty level SSS...no player has succeeded in getting his heart?"
"Yep, quack!"
"Why did no one get his heart??" Lai Jiayi shouted.
"I don't know ah, quack!!" The AI shook its head.
"Is it because he's too handsome, so he got a high standard for a girlfriend?"
"Maybe...quack?"
"Is he really that handsome?"
Lai Jiayi glanced down at the man's profile picture, and upon seeing his picture, she froze. She could somehow agree with the media stating how handsome this CEO was.
Jet black hair like that of a demon king in a fairytale, the color of the darkness. It's pitch black enough to blind her eyes in the dark.
"Handsome indeed…" Lai Jiayi mumbled, seeing a pair of light blue eyes resembling a dark blue ocean, yet it looked chillingly cold.
"Who, quack?" Upon hearing the mumble, the AI couldn't help but ask.
He rubbed his cheek to Lai Jiayi's back of the palm, yet the girl only paid a side glance at the duck and pointed at the man she was observing.
"This guy. Look at his tall, high nose bridge."
Her words made the AI look over their capture target's picture, and just like the girl...he couldn't help but admire the man's face.
"Oh yes, that's so cool and wait, his skin is so white! Like a mochi, quack!" The AI praised the man, but his praise was a bit off that Lai Jiayi had to roll her eyes in annoyance.
She leaned to the AI and protested, "Not mochi, it looks like snow instead, and look, his lips look so red in contrast with his skin."
The girl raised her left eyebrow. "A pity his lips are thin, and he's not smiling at all. He looks so cold." Lai Jiayi shrugged. She stretched her legs as she stared at her phone.
"Yes, yes, but if he smiled, he would be very handsome, right quack??" The AI added his thoughts, followed by Lai Jiayi's mumble.
"Okay, I admit that he is handsome indeed...even without smiling..." Lai Jiayi sighed, reluctantly agreed when a thought suddenly flashed by.
'Is it that hard to make this man fall in love with those beautiful players? There must be an unknown reason why he didn't fall for them…'
Unable to contain her curiosity, Lai Jiayi looked down and asked,
"So why is he so difficult to get?" She shifted her body to feel better. "It can't be because he is too handsome, right?"
The AI who was rolling on the bed fidgeted a bit, seemingly hesitated to answer, but in the end, he spoke,
"Look at the side note, quack. That is the reason why he is the most difficult target we got quack." The AI pointed his wing at Lai Jiayi's phone.
Lai Jiayi immediately looked at her phone screen to see this side note she failed to notice initially.
….hm?
"Can't forget his deceased girlfriend, his first love." Lai Jiayi read the note out loud.
At first, she didn't understand... but a few seconds later, a realization hit her hard.
This….this man...had someone else in his heart?? He already loved someone even though this someone was gone already!!
"G-god...are you serious? Like...not even a single player can win this guy over? No one can make him fall in love again?"
Lai Jiayi covered her mouth. Her long white sleeve covered her lips as she asked in a trembling voice.
Cold sweat began to drench her back.
'This...is bad. No way. No way!!'
The AI stared at Lai Jiayi sideways and weakly nodded, giving the last death sentence to Lai Jiayi.
"No one succeeds so far. Once a target is conquered, he will be kicked out from the target lists, quack, but he's still there." The AI gritted his metal teeth nervously.
"That's why the list you see now has been changed except for your target, quack..."
'Your target had been sitting in the target list since the first generation of players.' was what the AI couldn't say.
He didn't want to hit Lai Jiayi even harder with the cold truth.
Hearing this, Lai Jiayi's face instantly turned pale.
She remembered reading a magazine about this guy, Zhao Yang's undying love for his deceased girlfriend.
He's also famous among the young girls because of his strong loyalty!
She also used to admire this kind of man from afar but to think one day. His loyalty became her biggest wall to win his heart!!
"...I'm done for, my chance to win is 0!" Lai Jiayi abruptly threw her face to the pillow. She had the urge to break things right now.
"Why am I so unlucky?? The game uses real men. The target is level SSS!" Lai Jiayi hit the bed with her weak punches feeling that she was about to cry.
'I'm really done for.'
Seeing Lai Jiayi bury her head to the pink pillow looking super shocked, the AI went silent for a few seconds.
'I have to comfort her…'
The AI was just about to console Lai Jiayi when something he forgot to mention suddenly merged in his mind.
AI: 😶 Oh, damn.
'I...forgot to tell Lai Jiayi that there's a time limit in playing this game!! The player had to conquer their target within the time limit else...they will lose!'
'Should I tell her??'
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