Chapter 10

Translated by boilpoil Edited by boilpoil

Bai Lianhua smacks his lips. He’s acquiesced now as if given up from originally opposing to the deal.

Or, with how stubborn Wen Fu is, he might really do something like lock him up inside his residence his whole life.

He is a hikikomori, sure, but that is when the Internet and a computer is provided. There’s nothing in this world, and he’s even got a trash body that will never see any success in cultivation. Bai Lianhua is terrified just imagining himself staying inside Wen Fu’s residence his whole life.

Wen Fu is someone who acts on his words. He starts to bring Bai Lianhua along to occasions in the cultivation realm, complying with his promise to take Bai Lianhua out sometimes. He knows Bai Lianhua doesn’t know much about the outside world, so as long as he is interested, he is willing to take him there to go sightseeing even if he himself isn’t that interested.

From start to finish, he will keep Bai Lianhua by his side at all times, however, as if they are inseparable.

——He really didn’t dare let go… If Bai Lianhua left his sights completely, and returned secretly into the Forest of Mists, leaving him behind to only be able to stand on the edge of the Forest gazing inside, he doesn’t know if he would really go mad and go inside the forest regardless of the consequences.

Many people didn’t even have the time to start murmuring about how Wen Fu who has disappeared for a while has finally got out of his training, before being shocked senseless by Bai Lianhua who is standing next to him.

It’s not that they don’t believe there’s true love in this world, but… a Dacheng rank demonic cultivator and a little Zhuji cultivator from the righteous path? Is this bizarre pairing formed by Mad Libs?

——Yes. Everyone can clearly see how Bai Lianhua is a righteous cultivator from the inside out. His gaze is crisp, his aura just and immaculate. He’s not fallen into the demonic path.

Gu You did suggest to Wen Fu to entice Bai Lianhua into demonic cultivation, thinking it would help Bai Lianhua better integrate into them demonic cultivation society in the future, since everyone can see how serious Wen Fu is towards Bai Lianhua so they will spend a long time together in the future. Given, you know, what the hell would it look like if such a little righteous cultivator is put right into this den of demonic cultivators of theirs? It’s as odd as seeing sheep walk into a group of wolves.

Though Wen Fu rejects it without hesitation. He doesn’t want Bai Lianhua to be tainted.

Even if Bai Lianhua isn’t pure white himself with his own little schemes, but in his core he’s only suited to righteous cultivation. If he were put into the demonic path with its law of the jungle, without him defending him, he’ll be consumed until not even bones were left. So he won’t let him practice demonic cultivation… Of course, nor will he let him roam about among the righteous cultivators.

After he has given up his age complementation body to be reforged by Bai Lianhua, when the problem of his longevity is solved, he can of course return to his Forest of Mists and continue the previous casual life he had before it was interrupted by him.

This is why he’s not worried taking Bai Lianhua with him outside will tarnish his reputation and make him unable to act freely among the righteous cultivators in the future.

Bai Lianhua had lived his days freely from the clutches of the whole cultivation realm, and he will certainly continue to be able to do that afterwards.

Though Wen Fu’s concerns turned out to be unnecessary. Those righteous cultivators all had great imagination, and God knows what ‘great evil demonic cultivator forcing himself upon pure little pitiful righteous cultivator’ plot they’ve creatively contrived, and thanks to that they’re all showering Bai Lianhua with their sympathies while they curse Wen Fu, the outrageous demonic cultivator.

#Look how gentle and clean he makes one feel. He must have been forced by the dirty demonic cultivator! What a heart-wrenching affair!#

#My word! 'To emerge from the dirt without being tainted' is surely an apt description of this pitiful cultivator#

#The damn demonic cultivator must have liked that warm, fuzzy and clean aura the cultivator had, so he didn’t make him into a demonic cultivator, and instead is deriving pleasure from watching him being conflicted because of his kind heart… How sad it is for this great righteous cultivator of ours, to have to face the torture of the evil demonic cultivator every day#

When he heard about the rumours circulating among the righteous cultivators, Bai Lianhua goes “…”

——Uh, should he remark on how scary the white lotus halo is, or are all the righteous cultivators in this world intellectually challenged? He’s never interacted with them before, so he didn’t know how outlandish their thought processes are.

Wen Fu does pay him due respect when in the company of others. How did they conclude that Wen Fu is torturing him left to right, up to down, inside to outside every single day?

It’s awkward. He’s living inside Wen Fu’s residence, eating top-class pills every day in a house built with great materials and laced with many spell circles beneficial to cultivation, supplied with endless high-quality cultivable qi stone, pile upon pile of rare and valuable ingredients for him to waste in alchemical cultivation, plus a Dacheng elder who’s online 24/7 to provide one-on-one vein cleansing and guidance sessions… Besides not being able to move freely around, he can be said to be eating well, sleeping well, playing well, and there’s nothing to complain about.

It’s lucky he’s a cultivator. If it’s another world, he’ll have gained more than 10 kilos by now perhaps.

When Bai Lianhua sees Wen Fu as he turns his head around, he feels ashamed, feeling like he has one way or another to inexplicably smear his reputation for the worse… Before this, even though Wen Fu was a well-known demonic cultivator, he was never one that was involved in relationship scandals.

Wen Fu has clearly heard of those rumours as well, and can therefore understand the guilt in Bai Lianhua’s expression——In fact, he thinks Bai Lianhua’s current personality of blowing up with just a little tease, compared to when he was kind and collected but seemingly detached from earthly affairs, is way easier to read. So he gradually raised his brows and said, “So I forced you? Mm?”

Bai Lianhua shows a courteous smile of light embarrassment. It’s not a sentence he can easily follow up. While Wen FU did limit his personal freedom of movement before, but he didn’t particularly do anything that was unforgivable.

“Then it seems I would be losing out if I don’t force you a bit.” Wen Fu chuckles, “since all the previous methods didn’t seem to be effective in breaking through your cultivation rank… Then there’s only one choice left, which is you and I duo-cultivating .”

This is a well-known method of quickly raising the cultivation amount of one side.

Bai Lianhua widens his eyes as he hears him say it, no longer able to maintain the peaceful, indifferent expression he usually has, and shakes his head continuously, “no, no thanks!”

The topic has suddenly jumped so much, he’s having a hard time swallowing it.

Bai Lianhua tries to convince Wen Fu, “even if we duo-cultivated, it won’t be useful for me… And I think it’s good enough for us now. I’m serious. I’m happy like this.”

Yet his rejection is null and void.

Wen Fu is completely unconvinced, “I’m not though… What else could I do, let you die in front of me again after just another hundred years?”

“In the end, you want my age complementation body, and this is the best path… I also said, I will give it to you in the end, but if there were other ways to prolong your life we must also give it a try——This is the second time I’m emphasising this.”

Bai Lianhua looks at Wen Fu as if begging, with wet and helpless eyes, clearly communicating his trembling fear inside.

Wen Fu chuckles, “since reappearing, you’ve always been like this, but… exactly what it is about me are you afraid of?”

“True. I hate you; but how much hate there is I have for you is the same amount of love I have for you.”

“Before you came back, I’ve always thought about how I want to torture you after you’re back. But when you’re really back, have I ever laid my hands on you?”

“How beautiful the dew beads slide down a lotus petal. Many a method I have conjured to extract tears from you like so, but alas, I cannot bear you tearing up.”

#Wen Fu, the antagonist saying terrifying things the way one would recite a piece of literary art#

#A sensitive poet probably living inside him#

#Talented at literary compositions. Prefers especially to compare his lover to white lotus, and, describing the scenery of a lotus being picked, wilting, falling, and covered in dews, etc., to imply threats and intimidations#

#Worse, when consumed together with a tone that one can’t tell apart from amusement, the effect is unexpectedly potent#

#Will immobilise any willpower in seconds#

After some ridiculous thoughts passed through his mind, Bai Lianhua feels he’s already quite proficient at giving up and giving in.

… Right, to be honest, Bai Lianhua felt that the flag he set up earlier is really going to be retrieved.

He, right there and then, suddenly really wants to take this blackened little white bok choy that is Wen Fu for himself.

Tough words but a soft heart. Always scaring him with these big words, but no matter how insane he sounds, Wen Fu really did never lay his hand on him. Instead, everything he does, he does for him… He could have made him into a puff of smoke easily with all his cultivation amount, but he continues to tolerate him here and there all the time.

Like a paper tiger putting up its best tough act.

Wen Fu called him cute, which infuriated him to no end, but likewise, he also considered Wen Fu like that to be true cuteness instead.

That hand in Bai Lianhua’s heart that kept suppressing the sprout is suddenly lifted, it is nurtured by Wen Fu’s words and shoots up with unstoppable force into a lush, dense vegetation.

“Yes. You have really never harmed me.” Bai Lianhua has a gentle smile on.

“So I’m not going to be afraid of you… Then what about you? Will you be scared I’ll therefore take advantage of this to do whatever I want to you?”

Bai Lianhua’s smile enlarges, until cute little dimples appeared, even if the content was not so harmless, contrasting with his soft and gentle tone.

Wen Fu is stunned before a smile emerges on his lips, as he can’t control the overflowing joy in himself, “I’m not scared either.”

He even opens his arms and indicates to Bai Lianhua, smiling, “come. Do what you want to me. I’ll stand by my words.”

The system tragically screams out in an ‘argh,’ and is wailing about how its host is transforming into a black lotus. The character archetype is going to collapse.

Bai Lianhua, with an unchanging smile on the surface, talks to the system in his mind, “haven’t you heard? Neither Wen Fu nor I am afraid, what are you on about… the white moonlight mission won’t fail as long as I can stop Wen Fu from continuing to break down, right? There’s never such a saying as a black moonlight, you know?”

System “… Host, you’re not the host I knew!”

You’ve become black-hearted… Wouldn’t it have already been enough to just keep acting like a white lotus to reject with the caveat of the possibility of acceptance?! I just wanted you to continue hanging the carrot in front of Wen Fu, not actually laying your hands on him! You’re a weak white lotus, so why not just wait obediently until you’re picked?

Bai Lianhua says, “then tell me, facing the suffocating pressure from Wen Fu every day, without any means of relief, then how will a person have to be to not go perverted under that? Now I got messed with enough that I fell for him, speaking of, thanks to your encouragement as well.”

Without waiting for the system’s response, Bai Lianhua one-sidedly cut the connection with the system. Not just audio this time, but video as well.

System: “???” Oh my God! The white lotus turned carnivorous!

Author’s notes:

The woke theatrical act 1:

Bai Lianhua: Emm… Why do all those righteous cultivators think Wen Fu is doing all sorts of unspeakable torture on me? If it were not myself in that story, I’d have been crying in sympathy for that little poor guy

Mob A: It can’t be helped. Your white lotusness is so naturally exceptional when put in contrast with the moody big demonic cultivator Wen Fu→_→

The woke theatrical act 2:

Bai Lianhua: Who knows my dear antagonist is so peculiar and into writing all sorts of campy renaissance dramatic headache-inducing eighth-grade-syndrome nontraditional sentences… What else can I do? I’m also depressed over here… Oh well, I can only supply myself as his sole resource to frequently appear in all sorts of classic antagonist quotes_(:з」∠)_

By the way, friend, have you heard of black moonlight?

PS: So many little angels hate the system… Emm should I say you’re all good detectives or something? There is something up with the system! But I can’t spoil anymore, since this is material for the last world! I can’t spill it all out here can I QAQ [Holding tight onto the little blanket trembling_(:з」∠)_]

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