Translated by: Xena
Wang Po has been changed to Granny Wang.
After returning to Bieyuan, Chen Mo injected his internal energy into Chen You’s body.
He himself was poisoned, injured, and his internal energy was in chaos, but he still forced himself to do so. It was undoubtedly a very dangerous thing, and one careless move could be fatal.
However, Chen Mo didn’t hesitate at all.
Chen You closed his eyes and sat cross-legged according to the voice in his ear. He had watched similar scenes on TV and felt that they were very awesome and magical. However, having experienced the transmission of internal energy just by sitting down, he really couldn’t explain how it felt like.
He felt a warm current flowing through his body, and anywhere it went felt comfortable.
After a while, Chen Mo spat out a mouthful of blood. The first sentence he asked Chen You was, “How do you feel now?”
Actually, Chen You didn’t feel very good, but the words that came out of his mouth were ‘much better’. He took out a small white bottle and took out a pill for the young man. “Take this.”
Chen Mo didn’t ask anything and put the medicine into his mouth without hesitation.
Chen You found a handkerchief on himself and wiped the blood off the other’s clothes before looking at the wound on his arm. It was a bloody mess. Seeing it made his scalp feel numb. “I’ll get someone to call a physician.”
Chen Mo shook his head. “No need.”
He tore open his sleeve and took out medicine from his pocket without saying a word. He then sprinkled it on the wound and paid it no more heed.
Chen You watched all of it and shook his head. He asked casually, “Is it painful?”
The young man remained silent for a while before speaking in a hoarse voice, “You said you weren’t Liao Qingfeng.”
It was not a question.
Chen You quivered. “Yes, I’m not.”
There was no expression on the young man’s face. “Then who are you?”
Chen You replied, “I am…”
There was no sound. He changed the beginning. “My name is…”
Still no sound.
The young man said coldly, “You refused to even make up a name. Liao Qingfeng, there are some things that you will say if you want to say them and some that you forget about after saying it. I’ve never been able to see through you.”
Chen You thought to himself, Forget about you. I can’t even see through myself. I hate restrictions.
He called out to the System in his mind, “Why can’t I tell him?”
The System replied, “What do you think?”
Chen You hehehe-d. “Big Baby, tell you what, you’re practically looking for a hit with these four words of yours, you know?”
The System replied, “I know.”
Chen You was furious. “Sometimes I really want to bite you to death!”
“If I can’t say it, then what about writing it? I want Second Pup to believe that I’m not Liao Qingfeng. It’s beneficial for the mission. I’m good, you’re good, we’re good. So why can’t I?”
The System replied, “These are the rules.”
Fvck the rules. Chen You was very annoyed.
He then realized that the young man was not in the room anymore. He didn’t notice when he left. He most probably felt like he had been played again.
Chen You sighed. “How’s the progress of the mission?”
The System answered, “Just as you were sucking the poison from the target, you gained 1.5 evil points.”
Chen You complained, “Why didn’t you tell me earlier? I might have been able to get all of Second Pup’s evil points if I’d sucked more.”
The System was already used to him being stupid. “If you did that, you would’ve died before you could get the evil points and exit the mission world.”
Chen You uttered, “…So scary.”
After an unknown amount of time, the young man returned to the room.
Chen You quickly took a look. His expression was really bad, with “I’m a cheap bitch”1犯賤: to insist on doing something demeaning despite knowing so; to have no respect for oneself… To better understand the word, please look at the english translation of the song 犯賤 (fanjian) by Jordan Chan. Or click this link and have google translate the page written all over it.
Really? Didn’t I tell you that I like you? You don’t even have this little confidence. You’re still too young.
Chen Mo placed the teapot on the table and took out a cup to pour some water. With a cold face, he went to the bed and offered the cup to the man’s mouth. “Drink some water.”
Chen You didn’t reach out to take the cup. He lowered his head and took a sip. “I thought you left.”
He said that without thinking and he didn’t know which nerve he touched, but the ice on the other party’s face fell off, and he couldn’t face him anymore.
A ballad came from the courtyard, sad and forlorn.
Chen You didn’t understand what the ballad was about, but he knew the sorrow in Second Pup’s mother’s ballad. Her lover had died, leaving her alone in the world. The years were long and it was too painful. She wanted to find her lover, but she didn’t want to live anymore.
If he could hear it, Second Pup must be able to hear it too.
Chen Mo tightened his grip on the cup.
Whoever it was that leaves first, the one who stays behind would bear the most pain and carry all the negative emotions.
If the greatest wish of the one who goes first was for the one who stays behind to live well, then the one who stayed behind would suffer even more, wanting to die yet also needing to live at the same time.
When the medicine jar died, Chen You was standing by the window. He saw him grabbing Second Pup’s mother’s hand. He said that he wanted her to go outside for more walks and see the places they wanted to go to but had no chance to. He also said that they would meet again in the next life.
However, once the medicine jar was dead, Second Pup’s mother couldn’t even leave Bieyuan, let alone go to the outside world.
Coincidentally, the medicine jar was buried in the west of the city. Second Pup’s mother accidentally saw Li Dafu’s grave and her eyeballs almost popped out. She stared with wide eyes before she threw herself towards the grave and fell head first.
After that, Second Pup’s mother went crazy.
Chen You suddenly felt a bit dizzy. He was about to lie down and talk, but as soon as he lay down, the exquisite cup in his arms fell to the side.
The atmosphere in the room changed slightly.
Chen Mo glanced at the exquisite cup and then at the man again. He asked what was confusing his heart, “Why did you appear at Scar Five’s place?”
Blinking his eyes, Chen You started talking nonsense. “I heard that Scar Five had something from the imperial palace on his hands, so I wanted to take a look and play with it.”
Chen Mo said with a straight face, “You’re courting death.”
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel the same way. It’s all the System’s fault for pitting me. Chen You wouldn’t talk back to the young man like this, so he said smoothly instead, “I was too confident and didn’t think it through. Thank you for arriving in time.”
Chen Mo’s eyes flashed. He turned his head and didn’t say anything.
Chen You sighed. “Take this exquisite cup and hand it over.”
Chen Mo suddenly turned his head back.
Don’t look at me like that. The side quest was already completed when I got the cup. Chen You added, “I know you’re working for the imperial court. It shouldn’t be just to capture Scar Five, but also to recover the exquisite cup.”
Chen Mo suddenly said, “You stole the cup for this?”
Chen You, “…” Alright, if you want to think that way, then I’ll have to admit to it.
“There must be a reason for this, right? Just take the cup.”
Chen Mo didn’t take it. His expression was strange, as if he was restraining something.
A few moments later, he closed his eyelids and meditated, circulating his qi to heal his wounds.
Chen You lay down and stared at the cup for a while before asking the System, “Is Second Pup alright?”
The System said, “Aren’t you worried about yourself?”
Chen You was stunned. “Didn’t I just suck a few mouthfuls of blood from him? Don’t scare me.”
The System said, “Pray ba.”
Chen You hesitated for a second but prayed in the end. He was greedy this time. He hoped that God would bless Second Pup.
“The side quest is really completed, right? Let me see it.”
The System said, “What are you going to look at?”
Chen You said, “The mission has been completed. Isn’t there a record? I want to see that.”
The System said, “The more stupid one is, the more trouble there will be.”
Chen You snorted. “Why do you care?!”
A second or two later, a screen appeared out of thin air in front of him. On it were written the four worlds he had completed previously with ticks beside them. In the fifth world, there was an additional side quest, with a tick.
Chen You saw it with his own eyes and heaved a sigh of relief.
He remembered something that he had missed out on. “Then I’ll complete one more side quest. There will be rewards, right? What is it? Is it still like last time where I’ll be free to choose the next mission world?”
The System said, “There are no rewards.”
Chen You couldn’t accept it. “Why not?”
The System said, “Why are you so annoying?”
“…” Chen You answered, “You’re angry? Don’t be like this. If I don’t talk to you, who am I supposed to talk to? Have pity on me.”
The System said, “You are the most annoying person of all time.”
Chen You was very surprised. “Yo, not bad. Doesn’t matter what you say, as long as I am the ‘most’, it’s still very awesome.”
The System crashed.
“I’m so dizzy.”
Chen You tilted his head, feeling extremely uncomfortable. He wanted to call out for the young man, but he remembered what was played on TV. The hero could not be disturbed when he was practicing his martial arts, otherwise his qi would deviate and his life would be in danger.
Not long after, Chen You’s face was drained of blood. He felt like he was dying. A fishy sweetness rolled down his throat and then he fell into darkness.
Chen Mo opened his eyes and saw the man lying on the edge of the bed with a wisp of blood on his lips.
His pupils contracted. “Liao Qingfeng?”
The man did not respond.
Chen Mo pursed his lips tightly, picked him up, and injected internal energy into him again.
However, the effect was not as good as the first time.
Chen Mo’s expression was grave. He called Granny Wang over. “Look after him.”
When Granny Wang saw the person on the bed, she was shocked. She quickly asked with a trembling voice, “What happened to the Old Master?”
Chen Mo didn’t answer. He only said, “I’ll be right back.”
Granny Wang sighed and sat down in the room. Those two turbid eyes looked after the man.
