Transmigrated as a Cannon Fodder Omega, Their Knees Bent Chapter 65.3

Part 3

“I really didn’t expect that you could actually come back.” Zuo Anran looked at his arrogant appearance, a hint of bewilderment flashing in his eyes. “The first time I saw you, I felt you could become an interstellar superstar.”

“I, Zuo Anran, have been in the entertainment industry for so long. Batches of artists have come and gone under me, but none of them could gain a firm foothold.”

“But you could.” Zuo Anran paused, then smiled again. It was unclear if he was mocking his own past stupidity or laughing at his current miserable state. “But why did you have to rebel against them? They were willing to promote you and provide for you. If you had obediently followed the path they set out for you, you would have become an interstellar superstar sooner or later! You would rather save someone completely unrelated to you than submit to their will. You really are an idiot.”

By the end, Zuo Anran’s feigned composure vanished, and his whole demeanor became incredibly agitated, just like the first time Lou Ting saw him after transmigrating into the book.

Lou Ting watched Zuo Anran’s crazed appearance without saying a word. He didn’t have the memories.

But it seemed… they didn’t know he had amnesia.

If that was the case, Lou Ting thought, he should speak less and respond to changes by remaining unchanged.

Otherwise, revealing that he had amnesia would probably just invite more trouble.

But this matter…

Lou Ting slowly furrowed his brows.

Assuming the person manipulating things behind the scenes was A, the reason the original owner went viral right after his debut was because A supported him. But midway, the original owner went against A’s wishes to save a person, causing the relationship between the original owner and A to turn into enmity.

This A was the mastermind behind everything.

Then… who did I save?

Suddenly, Lou Ting felt his mind fall into chaos. There were far too many hidden elements in Zuo Anran’s sentence, making him somewhat confused. He narrowed his eyes, and a few flashes of imagery quickly passed through his blurred vision.

These scenes felt both unfamiliar and familiar to him.

Were they the original owner’s memories?

“Why aren’t you speaking?” Seeing his long silence, Zuo Anran gritted his teeth and said, “I hate this arrogant, insufferably haughty look of yours the most!”

Zuo Anran violently threw the coffee in his hand.

With a bang, the porcelain cup shattered, and the rich aroma of coffee gradually spread, filling the entire room.

Zuo Anran’s face twisted fiercely as he roared, “Why? On what grounds are you still protected after doing something like that?! Why is it that you betrayed the organization and can still live comfortably in this world?!”

He stood opposite Lou Ting. The way he furiously stood up made it seem like he was going to grab him by the collar, but he merely stood in place without making any other move.

At this moment, Lou Ting was stunned.

I… betrayed the organization?

Lou Ting’s heart was filled with horror.

He had always thought he was the one being monitored, though he didn’t know why.

The logical suspicion was that there was something on him they cared about, but they couldn’t take it away at the moment, hence the monitoring.

But he never imagined that he might have once been one of them!

“Now look, you two got together and reduced me to this state.” Zuo Anran’s emotions turned sorrowful after a brief outburst. “Who did I offend? I was just following orders, I didn’t do anything wrong!”

“Nothing wrong?” Lou Ting raised an eyebrow. “Was I not good to you?”

“…”

Based on Lou Ting’s understanding of the original owner, the original owner had genuinely treated Zuo Anran as an older brother.

But what had Zuo Anran done? Relying on the original owner’s trust, he pushed him step by step into the abyss.

Took his benefits and then wagged his tail for someone else, and now he was here acting sanctimonious and spouting this kind of nonsense?

Lou Ting was about to laugh from pure anger.

“What are you laughing at? Are you mocking me? Yes! I don’t have as good a background as you, I don’t have as good an origin, but we worked so hard. I just wanted to be a good manager! Why did you do it? Why did you have to go and save that person?!”

Zuo Anran was now completely engulfed in his own rage. He had joyfully thought Lou Ting would be his stepping stone to a higher position, never expecting that Lou Ting would anger the people behind the scenes by saving someone. For his own sake, he had no choice but to follow their wishes and torment Lou Ting.

He was just about to complete the mission. As soon as Lou Ting died, he could finally truly enter the organization. But the result—not only did Lou Ting not die, he even came back!

Zuo Anran was panting heavily. “That medicine didn’t kill you; you really got off easy.”

Medicine to induce a heart attack? Lou Ting thought to himself. The original owner’s death really did have hidden circumstances.

“Heart attack?” Zuo Anran laughed. “You were so stupid back then. Sure enough, missing so much mental power, even you couldn’t think normally. Now I don’t know if you’ve thought it through, but where did you get a heart attack from?”

“You—” I don’t have a heart disease?

No, accurately speaking, the original owner didn’t have a heart disease.

Was the original owner killed by Zuo Anran?

Lou Ting rejected this theory… Zuo Anran himself probably didn’t have the guts. Was it the people behind him who wanted to get rid of him?

In other words, it was still that ‘A’ who wanted him dead.

After all, he was a public figure. A sudden disappearance would still arouse public curiosity, and such a thing wouldn’t stand up to scrutiny. Was that why they set up the heart attack scenario?

That made sense.

Lou Wenjiang and Lou Yu both had heart conditions.

Thinking of this, Lou Ting finally felt that the person orchestrating this behind the scenes had a meticulous mind.

His father and younger brother both had heart conditions, so if he also died of a heart attack, the news wouldn’t arouse suspicion when it spread, and they could even use their ‘illnesses’ to drain the original owner dry.

However, what was this about lacking mental power and being unable to think?

Is my missing mental power related to that person?

Lou Ting felt his mind was a tangled mess. It was as if he could faintly see the end of the thread, but couldn’t definitively confirm the result.

Trying to find a way out through the confusion, wanting to pull out the complete thread.

But…

“Did you want to see me just to tell me this?” Lou Ting wasn’t afraid that Zuo Anran would spread this kind of thing. Putting aside how shocking it sounded, even if he did speak out, that organization probably wouldn’t let him off, and Zuo Anran wasn’t that stupid.

“Of course not.” Zuo Anran slumped back into the chair, sneering, “I hate you, I hate you very much. You ruined my chances twice. You shouldn’t have saved that person, that was the first time. You also should have died when your mental power was depleted, that was the second time! Good things don’t happen a third time, and I won’t give you a third chance to ruin me.”

Lou Ting said, “If you don’t provoke me, I won’t actively seek you out either.”

He now treated Zuo Anran as if he were nothing. If Zuo Anran hadn’t taken the initiative to come looking for him this time, he would have almost forgotten about this person.

Zuo Anran laughed loudly. “You make it sound nice. The organization has already abandoned me. I ended up in this state today all thanks to you. Lou Ting, I’m unhappy, and you shouldn’t think about being happy either.”

Hearing this, Lou Ting could already tell that Zuo Anran had no dirt on him.

It was purely to trick him into coming over to listen to his nonsense.

Lou Ting stood up and said, “Then we’ll see about that.” He was completely unafraid of this level of provocation.

Seeing this, Zuo Anran stumbled over to the floor-to-ceiling window and spread his arms. “Lou Ting, surviving twice means you’re lucky, but your spiritual sea has long been riddled with holes. First, you split your mental power to that person, and then it was forcibly extracted by the organization. It’s only by luck that you didn’t turn into an idiot! But it’s different now. I’m willing to use the rest of my life to trade for your permanent imprisonment in this lifetime!”

As he spoke, Zuo Anran fiercely smashed into the floor-to-ceiling glass!

“Zuo Anran!” Lou Ting realized something was wrong and hurriedly stepped forward. In an instant, glass shards flew everywhere. It was only when Lou Ting got closer that he saw the sharp object in Zuo Anran’s hand.