I Ran Away After Three Years as Stand in, CEO Went Mad Chapter 05

I Ran Away After Three Years as Stand in, CEO Went Mad Chapter 05

I stayed Declan’s “arrangement” for two years.

I was starting to wonder if his unrequited love would ever graduate, when the algorithm pushed me a video.

A girl stood in an airport, long yellow dress, fluffy hair, bright smile.

The caption—

[Three years in German will make our five years feel like seven.]

[This is honestly the most meaningful decade of my life!]

My sixth sense told me this was Declan’s “one that got away.”

No wonder he couldn’t wait for her.

I wouldn’t either.

I swiped away the video, but my chest felt tight.

Like I was about to lose this fifty-thousand-a-month job.

My thoughts spiraled, and my head started to hurt.

Then I heard a long-lost mechanical voice.

The System had only ever said two things to me in over a decade.

One: the plot intro.

Two: [Get the hell out and fake your death before they come back.]

I said, “Do I really have to die? Is there a Plan B?”

The System ignored me.

I kept muttering. “You’re so cold.”

“Can’t you give me more plot guidance?”

The System left its final words.

Completely useless for the plot: [I’ve had enough of being controlled by that psychiatrist.]

Fine. I had to leave.

Before going, I went back to the office to process my resignation.

Thanks to Declan, I’d been a kept woman for two years but still had two years of assistant experience.

Another job wouldn’t be hard.

I handed my resignation to HR.

She was surprised. “Does the CEO know?”

I said, “He’s about to.”

Former coworkers whispered, “Now that the real one is back, the fake has to go.”

NPCs with their catty scripts again.

I didn’t let the gossip get to me.

After all, I had ten million in the bank. Life was good.

HR said she couldn’t give me a termination letter yet. Fine.

I’d be getting a death certificate soon anyway.