Lulu Lu seemed to understand why that strange god always chose midnight as the start of each attempt.

A long, endless night was the best time to think.

The first two attempts had both ended in failure. Lulu Lu felt a little down, but she pulled herself together very quickly.

If anything, getting counter-killed and then raped by Lily Liu just now made Lulu Lu feel deeply unconvinced. It stirred up her fighting spirit instead.

Lily Liu, I’m definitely going to make you mine!

With that obsession in her heart, Lulu Lu finally got one hundred percent serious on her third attempt.

In the first two rounds, Lulu Lu had been more or less careless. After all, the strange god hadn’t set any penalty for failure, nor any limit on reloads. She felt no pressure, so naturally she couldn’t take it fully seriously. She’d thought a rough plan and sticking to it would be enough to succeed.

After failing twice, Lulu Lu decided to learn from her mistakes and prepare properly this time.

It felt as if she had returned to those nights when only 2D girls kept her company, searching through one choice after another for the road to a happy ending.

Only this time, she had to write the choices herself. And the yandere was no longer her target to capture, but herself...

...But after thinking it over carefully, Lulu Lu realized Lily Liu actually did seem to have a bit of a yandere streak too. At the very least, the way she stayed calm in a crisis, and that slightly twisted performance after turning the tables, both felt very yandere.

Before transmigrating, Lulu Lu had been a galgame enthusiast. She had dozens of all kinds of galgames installed on Steam. And if she’d played one, then she’d absolutely cleared every ending and collected every CG. Ask why, and the answer was simple: compulsive completionism.

Lulu Lu asked herself honestly and felt she counted as a veteran galgame player. Tsundere girls, kuudere girls, energetic girls—she could handle those types with ease. But yandere galgames were something she truly never understood. She simply couldn’t comprehend how yandere girls thought.

But after personally acting the role twice, she seemed to understand a little now.

“To make the one you love yours alone”—that was the driving force behind everything an obsessive, possessive yandere did.

If she wanted to raise her roleplay value, then she needed to do things that helped push that goal forward.

And once her actions, or the consequences of those actions, strayed too far from that goal, her roleplay value would drop. If it fell below zero, she’d reload and start over. Just like now.

Lulu Lu spent quite a while replaying her first two attempts in her head, and she did manage to sum up some useful experience.

First, she realized she had underestimated her childhood friend too much. Or rather, she had taken too much for granted.

Compared to others her age, Lily Liu was far more mature. And when sudden situations came up, she was abnormally calm. Even if she had no guard up against Lulu Lu at all, successfully controlling her still wouldn’t be easy.

Lily Liu was not someone Lulu Lu could easily handle. The failures of the first two attempts had already proven that as long as Lulu Lu got careless, she would lose completely. Last time, she didn’t just lose her panties—she even lost her first time.

But Lily Liu had weaknesses too. Deep down, she liked excitement, and she was the type who couldn’t handle alcohol at all. Lulu Lu could use the cocktails at home to get her drunk. That counted as fairly important intel.

Second, Lily Liu’s relationship with her parents didn’t seem very good. And her parents... looked like they loved money. Lulu Lu could use money to buy time with Lily Liu from them.

Lulu Lu didn’t want to describe Lily Liu’s parents as gold-digging or profit-driven, because she didn’t know the deeper reasons behind it. Just like how, in Lulu Lu’s eyes right now, Lily Liu also felt strangely unfamiliar.

The closer you were, the stranger it felt.

She felt she still knew far too little about Lily Liu. Even though they had grown up together, her understanding still only stayed on the surface. Lily Liu’s family, her relatives, and her inner self were all shrouded in a layer of mist to Lulu Lu, waiting for her to blow it away and dig deeper.

If she wanted someone to become her possession forever, then that person should be transparent to her from head to toe, from body to soul—that was the conclusion Lulu Lu reached after thinking it through.

Because only then could she craft the most perfect hunting plan for her “prey.”

And so, a brand-new idea took shape in Lulu Lu’s mind.

“Hey, strange god. I know you’re watching the show. I’ve got a question for you.” Lulu Lu took the initiative to contact the strange god in her mind.

Since it was a god, and it could directly stamp information into her brain, then being able to hear her thoughts was only natural.

And as expected, the strange god replied almost instantly:

[Ask.]

So Lulu Lu asked without any politeness at all:

“If I spend time getting to know Lily Liu more deeply, instead of directly kidnapping her, will my roleplay value reset to zero?”

The strange god directly slapped a few huge words into Lulu Lu’s brain:

[Why are you even asking that? The rules are right there. Go try it yourself.]

“Fine.”

Lulu Lu got an answer that wasn’t really an answer, and nodded.

She decided not to rush so much anymore. She would take it slowly and spend time increasing her understanding of Lily Liu.

...

...

A familiar morning. A familiar school cafeteria. Lulu Lu once again carried her tray over and sat down beside Lily Liu.

“Are you still mad?” Halfway through the meal, Lily Liu asked the familiar question.

This time, Lulu Lu didn’t brush it off lightly. She nodded instead.

“Of course. I cried all afternoon yesterday. Lily, you have to tell me who that girl you like is.”

Of course, Lulu Lu already knew the answer to her own question. She just wanted to switch up the response and see whether anything would change, like saving in a galgame and then picking a different option.

The result caught Lulu Lu off guard. Lily Liu said slowly,

“Ling Lianlian.”

“What? Ling Lianlian?”

Lulu Lu almost thought she had misheard. She asked back on instinct,

“Her?”

Lily Liu didn’t look at Lulu Lu. She kept her head lowered, pretending to eat as she said,

“Mm.”

Ling Lianlian was the energetic girl in their class, the lively and cheerful type. She got along very well with both Lily Liu and Lulu Lu—in other words, the classic “sudden heroine” type.

The three of them were all members of the manga club, and they all liked shoujo manga about friendship between girls. So during club activities, they would always gather together, reading and chatting at the same time.

Ling Lianlian was naturally friendly, and she quickly blended into the pair. From then on, the three of them became friends with shared interests.

“Lulu...”

Lily Liu seemed to notice how stiff Lulu Lu had gone, and asked carefully,

“We’re still good friends, right?”

“Ah, of course.” Lulu Lu smiled, though the smile wasn’t very natural.

This time, it really wasn’t natural. Lulu Lu had almost lost control of her expression.

The moment she heard the name “Ling Lianlian,” a blazing rage rose in her heart for no reason at all. It burned so fiercely that her mind nearly went blank, and she almost exploded on the spot.

Having inherited that bone-deep love for Lily Liu, Lulu Lu could not accept anyone else possessing even a single strand of Lily Liu’s hair.

Even if Lily Liu was only using Ling Lianlian’s name as a shield, it was still the same. She couldn’t accept it. Absolutely couldn’t. Even just thinking about it made her furious enough to die.

It took Lulu Lu quite a while to calm the surging emotions inside her. Then, with a dark expression, she walked out of the cafeteria.