The Heartthrob Protagonist Just Wants To Monopolize Me

This is part 2 of chapter 140 according to raws.

Although a long time had passed since the Quanzhuang Hotel incident, it had only been a few hours for Tong Jing.

The scene where Yu Ning killed her was still fresh in her mind and seeing that everything was going well for him, she couldn’t help but splash cold water and said, “If I were to evolve, it wouldn’t be towards space abilities, according to what I know about myself, the next step in my evolution is time.”

Yu Ning looked at her, “So you can manipulate the length of time and reset time on a person.”

“That’s right.” Tong Jing was not afraid of Yu Ning knowing her secret.

Since Ji Mingxia had disappeared and gone to another world, her ability to manipulate time was of no use to Yu Ning.

Even if Yu Ning lived in this world for a thousand years, ten thousand years, he would never get to see Ji Mingxia in his lifetime.

Tong Jing finished speaking and waited for Yu Ning’s disappointed and sad expression, only to see him close his eyes and start cultivating.

The blood-red ring on his hand had disappeared, but as he held the bronze mirror, there was a red light flooding out of his hand.

Within the red light were several more clusters of light that were continuously fed into the bronze mirror, constantly strengthening it.

Tong Jing was stunned and took a closer look. The red light was the energy left in Yu Ning’s body from the blood-red ring, but what were the other groups of light and where did they come from?

The faces of the medical staff from earlier flashed through Tong Jing’s mind.

After Ji Mingxia’s disappearance, the unconscious Yu Ning was taken to the hospital for treatment. After confirming that he was physically fine, Pei Yuan transferred him to a hospital under the Institute.

This was mainly because Yu Ning had the only mysterious item left in the world.

The world had been endangered by mysterious items for hundreds of years and the country was grateful for Ji Mingxia’s sacrifice for the world. So even though Yu Ning had the last mysterious item, they would not take action against Ji Mingxia’s beloved. However, he had to be temporarily kept in the hospital for observation to confirm that there was no danger before he could be released.

By the time Tong Jing woke up, Yu Ning had already spent half a month in the hospital.

Since it was a hospital under the Institute, the entire medical staff had naturally been exposed to mysterious items.

No wonder Yu Ning acted well behaved after getting back his memories, accompanying the medical staff for almost an hour and personally sending them off.

In reality, Yu Ning was taking the special energy in these people’s bodies!

After realising this, Tong Jing felt speechless and terrified at the same time.

This Yu Ning was really too cunning.

When others take one step, he has already taken ten. To make matters worse, he was also ruthless.

Once such a person becomes a leader, he will be a lord of his generation that treats human lives like grass.

But no matter how strong and ruthless he was, his heart still fell into Ji Mingxia’s hands.

And Ji Mingxia also chose to sacrifice himself in order to protect Yu Ning.

‘These two people …… were born to be together.’

Tong Jing thought this, and suddenly snapped back to her senses.

'Together, my ass, Yu Ning killed me for Ji Mingxia, and the score hadn’t been settled yet.

Now he wanted to use the bronze mirror to meet Ji Mingxia, how dare he!'

The entire hospital had been exposed to mysterious items for a long time, which meant that the entire hospital was like a cafeteria for Yu Ning and the bronze mirror and the energy in everyone’s body was theirs for the taking.

Yu Ning extracted energy daily and fed it into the bronze mirror.

At first, Tong Jing was resistant to evolving, but one day, she thought of something and suddenly figured it out, then started cooperating with Yu Ning.

Two months later, the bronze mirror had absorbed enough energy and finally underwent a change.

The originally old looking bronze mirror lost its rust. Unknowingly, a pattern in the shape of a clock had appeared on its body at some point.

The hands on the clock were motionless, and didn’t move backward or forward with time.

It was also Tong Jing’s first time developing this ability and she was full of glee for a long time, that was until she discovered that Yu Ning was standing aside, quietly watching her.

She came back to her senses and coughed dryly, “It’s a time cage.”

The clock was a cage capable of holding a person and using time to trap him.

The time within the clock was completely different from the one outside.

Tong Jing could manipulate time inside the clock to slow down, where an hour in the outside world is a year inside the clock.

It was also possible to pause the time inside the clock and then release the person a year later, at which point a year would have passed in the outside world, while it was only an hour for the person trapped inside the clock.

It was simply an unbelievable skill.

If she had met Yu Ning and Ji Mingxia when she had this skill, only Ji Mingxia would have made it out of the Quanzhuang Hotel alive.

Unfortunately …… Yu Ning had already subdued her so even if she was more powerful, she would still be under his control.

After hearing her description, Yu Ning said, “Put me inside the clock.”

“You want to go in?” Tong Jing asked with a puzzled expression, “What are you going to do in there?”

“Cultivate.” Yu Ning said.

Tong Jing did not understand Yu Ning’s intentions at first, but was enlightened when Yu Ning walked out of the clock an hour later and all of the energy he had accumulated today had been cultivated.

The evolution of mysterious items was extremely difficult, requiring a large amount of energy as well as endurance.

Although Yu Ning was powerful, he was a human after all.

A mysterious item would not change even if it was left for a thousand years, but a human’s lifespan was short.

Moreover, one’s stamina and memory deteriorates with age, and the likelihood of success decreases with the passage of time.

Yu Ning was obviously aware of this, so he planned to use the time cage to extend his cultivation time.

It had only been an hour in the outside world, but for Yu Ning and Tong Jing, a year had already passed, and the energy had all been absorbed, so the bronze mirror was invariably a little closer to evolving.

But ……executing this kind of thing was very frightening.

This ability was originally meant for use against the enemy, not to help others, so Yu Ning’s plan contained risks.

The time cage was like a small dark room, once a person is locked in, they are deprived of their senses such as sight and hearing and their consciousness is continuously thrown into chaos. Although they will not get hungry and do not need to sleep, they can easily have a mental breakdown under such extreme conditions.

Scientific theory says that it only takes a week for a normal person to become insane.

And this time cage lasted for a whole year!

Thinking of this, Tong Jing looked at Yu Ning warily, deeply afraid that he would suddenly go crazy and attack her.

She had a second chance at life and she’d be wronged if she died at the hands of this madman Yu Ning again.

But Yu Ning was calm, and looked no different from an hour ago.

But he sat at the window in front of his bed for a long time, looking at the sky and grass. He also ate his lunch more slowly than usual, but aside from that, there were no other abnormalities.

In the afternoon, Yu Ning said to Tong Jing, “Let me in again.”

At first, Tong Jing could only open the time cage once a month, but after Yu Ning had cultivated for a year in the morning, she had now evolved to opening it once a week.

“You want to go in this afternoon? Are you crazy?” Tong Jing said with wide eyes.

Yu Ning looked at her indifferently.

Tong Jing only felt a chill run through her heart and muttered, “Fine, it's not like I'm the one going in anyway.”

When he came out the second time, Yu Ning’s expression was still calm.

For the next consecutive weeks, Yu Ning continued to enter the time cage to cultivate.

The frequency of opening the time cage kept increasing and soon, Yu Ning’s day directly turned into ten years.

He hadn’t gone mad yet, and didn’t look different from normal, except that upon closer inspection, one would find that he had lost a lot of weight, and after his cheeks were sunken in, the light cast three-dimensional yet jagged curves on his face, making the already gloomy person look even more gloomy.

Tong Jing looked at Yu Ning in surprise.

Yu Ning hadn’t yet gone crazy which was simply weird.

Either he was already on the verge of collapse and would lose his mind at any moment, or …… he had already gone crazy.

Naturally, only a lunatic would not be afraid of being locked up in a small dark room, after all, the thinking of a lunatic is different from that of a normal person.

Although there were many people in the hospital with special energy, it wasn’t enough given Yu Ning’s consumption.

On seeing that the entire hospital’s energy had been drained, and that the cultivation could not continue for the time being, Tong Jing could not help but secretly encourage Yu Ning, “Yu Ning, this hospital is no longer of any use to you, aren’t you going to leave here?”

“Leave here?” Yu Ning was looking out of the window and did not look at Tong Jing, as if he was asking a rhetorical question or repeating her words.

Tong Jing said, “Yes, leave here, go find people who have harnessed mysterious items ah. Let’s catch them all, drain them up one by one and dispose of them cleanly ……”

“Drain them up one by one and dispose of them cleanly.” Yu Ning repeated again. “That’s a good idea.”

Tong Jing was instantly excited. “You agree?”

Yu Ning said out a name, “Pei Yuan.”

‘Pei Yuan? Wasn’t this one of the top experts in the Institute?’

Tong Jing was excited at the thought that Yu Ning was going to fight Pei Yuan.

She had long disliked those people and it would be great if Yu Ning was going to fight with them.

It would be a dog eat dog show and when Yu Ning was seriously injured, she would take the opportunity to break away from him, and she would be the only mysterious item left in the world!

Tong Jing added excitedly: “If you can deal with Pei Yuan, I will do my best to help you in your next cultivation!”

Yu Ning finally turned his head and looked at Tong Jing as he said, “You have made a promise, if you go back on it, you will be destroyed.”

Tong Jing froze, and a sense of foreboding rose up in her heart.

In just a week’s time, Yu Ning had spent nearly fifty years in the Time Cage.

Although he hadn’t gone mad yet, his entire being had undergone an invisible change.

Not only Tong Jing felt it, but the medical staff had obviously noticed the abnormality as well.

After testing Yu Ning several times, they confirmed that there was an abnormality in his body but they could not find the cause, so they finally reported the situation to the Institute.

Ever since Ji Mingxia disappeared, everyone at the Institute has been dispatched to take care of the aftermath.

By now, it was almost wrapped up.

Special people had now become ordinary people and many of them were unable to adapt to their new identities for a while, so a large number of jobless people hung around the Institute.

It was at this time that Yu Ning’s abnormal situation was reported, and since there were many idlers around, the Institute immediately organised a large number of people to visit the hospital.

That morning, the hospital seemed to have given a lot of medical staff a holiday, so the whole hospital was exceptionally quiet.

Tong Jing took the opportunity to urge Yu Ning to use the chance to escape from the hospital.

But Yu Ning was calm and collected, and no matter how much she tried to persuade him, he just ignored her.

It was not until dozens of cars drove into the hospital one after another and she saw Pei Yuan leading a large group of people inside that Tong Jing was frozen in her tracks.

She had finally persuaded Yu Ning to take action against Pei Yuan, but then he delivered themselves before they could even leave?

And even if he brought himself, why did he have to bring so many people!

Pei Yuan was leading the way, and behind him were dozens of people, both old and young. Although Tong Jing did not know them, her senses were now extraordinarily sharp, and she could see that all these people were people who had harnessed mysterious items.

And because most were already old and had harnessed them for decades, the energy in their bodies was not less than that of Pei Yuan even though their combat power was not as good as that of a young man with talent and strength.

As this group of people walked in, the energy in their bodies was drawn out before they even got close to Yu Ning.

The group did not sense anything throughout the process, allowing Yu Ning to extract the energy with abandon.

Tong Jing’s face turned green, this was not a dog biting a dog.

This was clearly a wolf rushing into a flock of sheep, and the sheep automatically shed their wool and lay flat, allowing Yu Ning to slaughter them ……

By the time Pei Yuan and the others reached upstairs and knocked on the door of Yu Ning’s ward, Yu Ning had already scavenged their energy.

A large amount of energy filled his body, not only did it nourish Yu Ning’s body, it also made his originally pale and thin face slightly rosy.

As soon as Pei Yuan and the others entered the ward, they saw Yu Ning sitting quietly on the bed, with delicate features and a rosy complexion; there was no trace of his psychotic appearance.

Pei Yuan had originally planned to test and pacify Yu Ning, but was immediately relieved once he saw that he was in such good condition.

After Pei Yuan and the others had left, Yu Ning immediately looked at Tong Jing: “Start cultivating.”

He stripped the energy from his body and continued to inject it into the bronze mirror.

Without this energy to nourish him, Yu Ning’s face instantly turned pale again, only his eyes looked like they were burning with endless flames.

He looked so gloomy and eerie that Tong Jing was afraid of him, so Tong Jing had no choice but to continue to work as hard as she could.

A month passed in the blink of an eye and after opening the time cage ten times a day, Tong Jing got stuck at a bottleneck and could not improve any further.

One hour in the time cage was equal to one year in the outside world. Tong Jing had opened it ten times a day, so Yu Ning would cultivate for ten years in just one day.

After one month, more than three hundred years had passed so even if Yu Ning didn’t find it annoying, Tong Jing couldn’t take it anymore.

From the outside, Yu Ning did not look any different from before, he was as calm as a pool of stagnant water, but Tong Jing became increasingly afraid of him.

There were even times when Yu Ning looked at her and Tong Jing felt a chill down her spine.

After embarking on such a terrifying and crazy path, it would be best if Yu Ning found Ji Mingxia, but if not ……

Tong Jing didn’t even dare to think about it.

Although her improvement was at a bottleneck, Tong Jing’s strength had long surpassed the past because of Yu Ning’s hundreds of years of hard work and she was now the most powerful mirror spirit in history.

Because Yu Ning would lock himself in the small dark room every day, Tong Jing would get bored and leave the hospital from time to time to go outside and get some fresh air.

Although she had been a Mirror Spirit for a long time, her range of activities was not extensive and she would only move around the province.

Now that she was so powerful that she could instantly move thousands of miles in a flash, Tong Jing went to more and more distant places to have a look.

Everyone was like a fast-forwarded story to her eyes.

She could read a person’s life in just a few seconds.

She travelled all over the globe, met a lot of people and saw a lot of things.

At first, Tong Jing was full of novelty and felt that everything was good, but slowly, after seeing a lot of the outside world, she became a bit bored.

But when she returned to Yu Ning’s side and watched Yu Ning locked up in a small dark room all day, Tong Jing felt even more bored again.

Why do these humans always do things that she could not understand?

Especially Yu Ning, was it worth torturing himself like this for Ji Mingxia?

The time cage had been open for hundreds of years, and like Yu Ning, Tong Jing had also gone through many years.

By now, she could no longer remember what Ji Mingxia looked like.

She couldn’t help but be curious about Ji Mingxia again.

What kind of fairy-like character was he that he could make Yu Ning obsessed with him like this?

Time slowly passed by in the cage.

This time, Tong Jing's bottleneck lasted a whole five hundred years. Yu Ning and when the time cage had been used to the extreme, they finally saw a ray of hope, the hope of leaving this world.

Tong Jing never expected Yu Ning to succeed in helping her develop the space ability!

“If we want to, we can open up space right now and travel to a new world.” Tong Jing said excitedly.

She had lost interest in this world and desperately wanted to explore new realms.

However, when she turned her head, she saw Yu Ning’s expression stony, devoid of any semblance of joy.

Tong Jing instantly reacted and muttered, “Space is more complex than time, time only goes forward and backward, yet space is like the universe, immeasurable. Once we leave here, we can quickly get lost and find ourselves in any world …… As for Ji Mingxia ……”

Who knew which world he was staying in?

There were billions of spaces, and in each space was a whole world.

Trying to find Ji Mingxia in such a situation was simply more difficult than finding a needle in a haystack.

As Tong Jing spoke, her voice grew smaller and smaller, and she didn’t dare to go any further.

More than a thousand years had passed from the first time she opened the time cage.

More than a thousand years ah ……

Tong Jing always felt that although Yu Ning looked like a normal person on the surface, he had actually gone crazy a long time ago.

Perhaps he had gone crazy from the day Ji Mingxia disappeared. This madness had been attacking for a thousand years and if all hope was lost now, what would Yu Ning become?

Tong Jing simply did not dare to think about it.

In the next instant, the scene around her changed, instantly transforming from a hospital to a student dormitory.

This was a dormitory at H University, and on the dormitory door sign were the numbers 502.

‘Wasn’t this Yu Ning and Ji Mingxia’s dormitory?’

Tong Jing was filled with curiosity and she followed Yu Ning through the dormitory door.

Luo Zixuan and Lin Cheng were sitting in front of the computer playing games.

With Yu Ning and Tong Jing’s current abilities, ordinary people wouldn’t be able to detect their presence as long as they didn’t want to.

Yu Ning walked to his desk, gently pulled out a book from the bookshelf and rummaged through it.

Just then, the bed to one side creaked and a person climbed down.

At first, Ting Jing thought it was Yu Ning’s roommate and didn’t pay much attention, but when the man walked past her, the corner of her eyes caught his face and she was shocked.

“Yu, Yu Ning …… Ji Mingxia, it seems to be Ji Mingxia!!!” Tong Jing was so surprised that she stuttered.

Yu Ning didn’t even raise his head, as if he had expected the man to be there, and said, “It’s not him.”

“It’s him, he looks like Ji Mingxia, exactly the same, look!” Tong Jing exclaimed.

The person Yu Ning had been looking for for so long was in the school, and Tong Jing couldn’t help but get excited.

“It’s not him, he’s the Ji Mingxia of this world.” Yu Ning said.

Shortly after Ji Mingxia had disappeared, this Ji Mingxia reappeared in the middle of the campus.

At first, everyone thought it was Ji Mingxia who had returned.

But soon, they discovered that this Ji Mingxia was not the other Ji Mingxia.