Control him? Try it.

Li Jie put the ring in his pocket before entering the gates of Li manor. He walked inside to encounter Li Feng who was getting out of the car. 

"Looks like you have been enjoying your days off." Li Jie could feel the mocking in Li Feng's words. He sighed even though he was a villain not a a*shole. Li Feng helped him mend his relationship with his mother; he couldn't bring himself to curse him yet.

"Yes…yes I did." Li Jie answered Li Feng honestly remembering the chocolate pastry he had in Leng Rui's house. He reported about the engagement as they got inside. 

The sun had already settled and the lights were brightly lit. Jian Tang sat in the living room waiting for her son. She was so bored after Li Jie left today that she even cooked dinner. Now the only thing that was left was for Li Jie to return.

"Mother…" Li Jie hugged her and the whole family ate together. Conveniently enough when Li Jie was leaving for his room his phone rang with a special ringtone. The youth was quickly alerted and tried to turn the volume down. 

Li Feng didn't seem affected but Jian Tang's face turned dark. As if she knew who the caller was. 

"Ah'Jie, are you still in contact with Mo Shirong and Song Ping?" Her delicate face frowned waiting for his answer. Li Jie seemed to be caught in a dilemma. If said the truth he doesn't even know these people then it would be suspicious. But if said yes then wouldn't it be lying to his mother. 

"Um…I need to pick this call up first." Li Jie hurriedly got up from under the watchful eyes of Jian Tang and Li Feng. They seemed to have spotted his unnatural behaviour.

Li Jie walked outside for a quiet spot to call back the person. But he didn't even know when he reached the greenhouse. A sweet smell of flower blooming entered his nostrils tingling him as soon as the door was opened. 

[Host, both Mo Shirong and Song Ping are your sidekicks. They help you do the dirty work like bullying the protagonist.] System spoke, giving him a summary of their backgrounds, waiting for Li Jie to call back and make use of these sidekicks. 

Li Jie frowned hearing about both of them. It seemed like the original owner had weird taste in friendship. Rather than friendship it was more like these two flies taking advantage of his name as a young master of the Li family.

Li Jie quickly called back on Mo Shirong's number. The youth wasn't weak, he knew how to break a relationship cleanly. Li Jie soon heard an excited but deep voice of a teenager who seemed to have broken his voice early. From the system's description Mo Shirong was easier to deal with than Song Ping. Not that he trusted the system.

"Hello, Mo Shirong?" Li Jie stood there to answer from the other side. 

"Li Jie, is that you? Where have you been? You haven't met us since the study break for the national college entrance examination." Li Jie frowned hearing the bombardment of questions onto him. The halo of this world clearly made the side villain character as annoying as possible.

"And?" Li Jie walked deeper in the greenhouse bored. On the other side Mo Shirong was taken aback he quickly changed his questioning attitude to a milder one.

"No, me and Song Ping were just worried about your national college entrance examination result."

Li Jie finally found the source of the sweet aroma. He perfunctorily answered Mo Shirong first. His step halted in front of the angel trumpet. He didn't know if he should be happy or fire the person caring for the greenhouse.

The annoying voice of his 'friend' rang in his ears once again. "We wanted to call you to vent your frustration." Mo Shirong smiled on the other side, clearly knowing the original Li Jie's academic records in the last few years. Anytime it was the result time Li Jie would bully people to vent his frustration. Or spent his money on them. Taking them to karaoke or restaurants showing off his money. But they didn't care, they had no way to succeed their families. And the Li family was only second to the Leng family in the city. As long as the fool paid for their expenses they didn't care much.

"I heard Bai Lian seemed to have got a job in the XC bar these days. Do you want to tag along?" Mo Shirong asked Li Jie, expecting him to say 'yes' immediately. Since Bai Lian was Li Jie's well-known target. 

[Host, nice chance to bully the protagonist Bai Lian

But Li Jie frowned at Mo Shirong and the system's suggestion of bullying a minimum wage worker. He was a villain but he had standard protagonists or he wasn't bullying people at work.

"No." Li Jie cut the call in a hurry disgusted at these people. But his knees quickly got weak as he knelt down. His face grew pale, he was drenched in sweat. But refused to make a sound biting his lips tightly. He was given an electric shock by the system.

A robotic sound rang in his head.

[Host, I have sent a message to Mo Shirong from your phone. You are going to XC bar at 10:30 pm. Please, do your job properly.] Li jie sat on the greenhouse floor not moving an inch. For the first time he had to admit he was scared. But not scared of the system. 

Li Jie hugged the pot of angel's trumpet, eating a flower in the process. 

[Host?... What are you doing?] System 420 couldn't understand why Li Jie would eat poisonous flowers when he knew the effect of the flower.

If Li Jie was in state in answer he would have said cause he hated people controlling him but he wasn't in the state.