Too Much To Handle! The Canary Forced Love on The Grim/Vicious Villain - Chapter 3

Jiang Xu swallowed hard, his gaze at Si Yuhuai gradually filling with fear.

Let me think. That cousin who mocked Si Yuhuai as a bastard? Ended up with a broken leg.
That cousin who framed him for theft? Kidnapped and driven insane.
And that rich second-generation trash who kept calling him a mongrel dog…

Jiang Xu quickly slammed on the brakes in his head! He didn’t dare think any further.

Si Yuhuai raised an eyebrow, staring at him with amused interest.

Although every bit of this information was true, he was a little surprised that Jiang Xu knew so much about him.

Jiang Xu forced out a smile uglier than crying. “Si Yuhuai…”

“What did you call me?” Si Yuhuai’s brow arched higher, teasing him the way one teases a puppy. “Do I need to remind you again of our relationship?”

“Husband!” Jiang Xu shouted firmly, sliding dramatically to his knees: “Husband, I was wrong. Please forgive me!”

Chastity? What’s that? Is it more important than staying alive, hello?!

Si Yuhuai seemed very pleased with Jiang Xu’s cowering expression.

He gently patted Jiang Xu’s cheek with his palm. His voice was deliberately soft, but the fear it inspired instantly doubled.
“Be good. Stay at home and wait for me. Run again, and I’ll really get angry.”

And then, Si Yuhuai actually left.

Jiang Xu: “…”

He said he’d punish him but didn’t say how. It was like a sword of Damocles hanging over his head. Would it be saltwater-soaked whips? Or just whips?

The suspense was maddening.

As expected of a vicious villain. Truly vicious!

Jiang Xu’s wrists were still locked to the bed. Since he couldn’t break free, he simply lay flat.

He rolled over, yawned, and fell asleep like a baby.

No helping it—last night had been too exhausting. After being pinned down by Si Yuhuai all night, he hadn’t slept well at all, and now he was dead tired.

Si Yuhuai, meanwhile, couldn’t explain why he was suddenly hearing Jiang Xu’s thoughts, but his body indeed felt a bit unwell.

After getting into the car, he leaned back in the seat. A sharp pain pierced his head, followed by a buzzing sound, and then countless foreign images flooded into his mind.

Ding—Villain awakening complete.

Since last night’s blackout, strange memories had been surfacing in his mind. They felt like an absurdly long dream. Bizarre, yet unnervingly real.

Then, an obnoxiously noisy mechanical voice rang in his head—

“Congratulations, host, you have unlocked the [Mind Reading] skill and the [Favorability Value] skill.
(Mind Reading: Hear the thoughts of anyone within ten meters. Favorability Value: See how much people like you.)”

Si Yuhuai: “???”

The next second, he looked at his assistant, Li Xiuje, who was driving. Above the man’s head appeared a glowing projection of a little figure in uniform, wearing a lazy expression. Beside it were words:

Identity: Assistant. Favorability: 30.

Si Yuhuai frowned.

Li Xiuje reported, “President Si, we still haven’t located Si Yuming. But I’m certain he’s still in the country. I’ll send out more men to search.”

Si Yuhuai sneered mockingly: “You get such a high salary to bring me such cheap information. Li Xiuje, how do you even sleep at night?”

Li Xiuje: “…”

Close my eyes and sleep, duh. What, you expect me to sleep with them open?

Si Yuhuai: “…”

Not only did he hear Li Xiuje’s inner thoughts, he also noticed the numbers above his head shifting—Favorability -2 -2. It had dropped to 26.

Very much in line with a tired working man’s mood at the office.

Si Yuhuai arched a brow and tested him: “Xiuje, when I get married next month, I’ll give you two extra days off.”

Li Xiuje restrained the smile tugging at his lips. “President Si, you’re too kind!”

Wait—this stingy boss actually grew a conscience? For real?!

Favorability +2 +2 +2. It jumped to 32.

Si Yuhuai smirked wickedly: “On second thought, your efficiency doesn’t deserve vacation days. Forget it.”

Li Xiuje: Favorability -5 -5 -5!

Trash boss!

System: “…”

“Host, please refrain from bullying miserable working men.”

Si Yuhuai hadn’t expected this favorability system to be so responsive. He shut his eyes and asked why it had appeared.

The system promptly uploaded the story’s plot into his mind.

“So, you’re telling me I’m the grim villain of this novel (business-war edition), that everything I have will be stolen by that trash Si Yuming, and in the end I’ll die in a plane crash while fleeing abroad? I’m that unlucky?”

System: “That’s correct, host.”

Si Yuhuai sneered: “Si Yuming? That waste? Steal everything from me? Does he even have the ability?”

System: “Not alone, no. But with the help of your canary, who betrays you by stealing confidential files, the two of them bring you down together.”

Si Yuhuai’s smile turned cruel. “You must be insulting my intelligence.

That useless fool Jiang Xu, colluding with Si Yuming?

Two idiots teaming up and suddenly pulling off a miracle? What is this, negative plus negative equals positive?”

System: “…”

Another stubborn host who refuses to bow to fate.

And with a mouth this venomous, too!

In the end, Si Yuhuai decided to have his brain checked, just in case Jiang Xu had somehow poisoned him into hallucinating.

The medical report came back quickly. His body was in perfect condition, as strong as ever.

Leaving the hospital, he went straight to the company.

He took note: everyone he passed was all smiles and deference, yet their favorability values never went above 20.

Most absurd of all was his secretary, who greeted him with the sweetest smile—yet the giant glowing number above her head read -10.

Si Yuhuai frowned, recalling how terrible her coffee-making skills were. He’d sent her to a training program a week ago just to fix it, and she’d cried every day since.

Hmm, in that case, the number made sense.

The system was speechless.

“Host, your people skills are beyond saving!”

Si Yuhuai lounged in his chair, quite pleased with all the fearful inner voices he overheard whenever people saw him.

“Problem? Is having poor people skills against the law?”

System: “…”

From the day he entered the Si family, everyone had mocked, belittled, and despised him openly, as though he were a filthy stray dog to be stepped on.

But now—even though they all knew how pitiful his past had been—they had no choice but to offer him their gentlest smiles.

Watching their twisted expressions forced into kindness gave Si Yuhuai immense satisfaction.

That was a pleasure no artificial intelligence could possibly understand.

With time to kill, he asked lazily, “Spoil it for me—what do I do in the story after I seize everything from the Si family?”

The system thought he was testing it, so it answered immediately:
“With such a violent personality, you definitely go on a killing spree. In fact, right now, aren’t you hunting down your cousin Si Yuming’s whereabouts?”