Chapter 7

Translated by boilpoil Edited by boilpoil

Bai Lianhua thinks that if he knew Wen Fu would have heard their conversation, with his survival instincts kicking in, he would have seriously replied and firmly deny the system’s untimely joke, and then he will also carefully prepare his words to show how he does not at all want the age complementation body, so that every single sentence that Wen Fu might ponder over and misunderstand would be cut off from its source.

Yet even a thousand gold cannot buy precognition.

The system, on the receiving end of Bai Lianhua’s frustrated feelings, also feels wronged. It explains weakly for itself that that time was its first mission so it had no experience. It didn’t know that Wen Fu’s determination could have been so strong. Plus cultivators have strong souls to begin with, which are not remotely comparable to normal ones, which is why it coincidentally caused this incident.

Though it can guarantee that in later worlds no holes like this occur.

——It seriously didn’t want to cause trouble… Because it really didn’t need to do anything to make trouble find its way to its host with his accident-prone self.

If the host doesn’t believe it, he just has to wait and see. In those worlds, he definitely didn’t drag its host back with its own mistakes, but the result… cough cough, is still as joyous to see.

Bai Lianhua currently isn’t in the mood to verbally assault his heartless system, but is only looking worriedly at Wen Fu, scouring his brains for how to fix the situation while maintaining his character setting.

“I was conflicted after waking up from the dream. I hoped it’s real, that meant I could see you again… Yet I also hoped it’s fake, that would prove you have never lied to me.”

“I have found my way out of my meaningless self-blame, but I’ve made my way into a new predicament. The two thoughts would fight all the time, endlessly without stop.”

“If a cultivator’s soul was not powerful enough, my cultivational consciousness would have failed long ago, so I must stop this and make a choice between the two. So I chose to let go of myself and follow my heart.”

“And——I thought you’d be back.”

“I was right. Like Xi Tong said, you’re back.”

“Even your appearance and aura felt the same, as if your death was just a hallucination of mine.”

“So, you also came for my physical attribute at first, didn’t you?”

“And Bai Lianhua isn’t even your name. It’s Su Zhu . I heard Xi Tong call you that.”

“Though I still want to call you Bai Lianhua.” Since it’s the name you told me yourself.

No no no, I, Bai Lianhua, have not changed my name nor surname. Bai Lianhua has always been my name.

Wen Fu doesn’t feel like waiting for Bai Lianhua’s answer, however, and continues on his own.

“While I didn’t know why you didn’t lay your hands on me in the end… And miraculously got another chance to stand before me.”

“——Ah, right, you won’t be acting so softly this time?”

Bai Lianhua starts speaking dryly, “no…”

He wants to explain, but he realises that it’s impossible to explain. Even if he were to expose the system in his explanation, the result probably wouldn’t be any different from now. Hiding the system, however, that little troublemaking turd might still be able to have a critical effect at the right time.

——No matter what, the white lotus character setting is inevitably broken down… Sigh. Is it too late to switch the route to a black lotus?

Wen Fu continues, “but no problem. It’s fine even if it’s like this.”

Bai Lianhua “…!”

What did he hear? Jeez, is that what it feels like to find a glimmer of hope for living in a life-or-death situation?!

Bai Lianhua looks at Wen Fu with a shocked expression as he closes and opens his eyes several times in rapid succession. He is thinking in his mind if he really was so great at persuading him that their characters actually switched around and transformed Wen Fu into an endlessly tolerant true●White Lotus, and will choose forgiveness even in a situation like this?

Though Wen Fu’s next sentence dashes his hopes, “I want your love in return.”

“You don’t want to die, and how fortunate, I also don’t want to see you die again.”

“So it’s alright. Whether it’s real, or fake, I won’t let you face death again… I’m here.”

“If it were the age complementation body’s fate to be someone else’s fortune… Then even if I were to be reforged into a pill, it should enter your mouth. You’ll bring me along to continue living.”

“If a white lotus like you needed nutrients to live, I’ll be the ground you root yourself in.”

“Though this all hinges on you being sincere to me, at least as much as I am for you.”

Wen Fu did not stop at all saying all these. Clearly, he’s already given it thought and it’s not a whimsical decision.

Bai Lianhua is so shocked his voice almost cracked, “you’ve been thinking this all these years?”

“Yeah.” Wen Fu’s smile is unchanging, “didn’t you ask me why I wanted to raise my cultivation amount quickly?”

“Since I know you’d be back.”

“You were always a Zhuji cultivator before me. Though since everything before were smokes and mirrors, then everything could have been an illusion. I didn’t even know if it were your real cultivation rank… I had to have enough power to be sure I could keep you around——I didn’t expect, though, that meeting you again, you’d still be Zhuji, and it doesn't appear fake to me.”

“Plus, for an age complementation body, the higher the cultivation amount, the better the quality of the pill reforged, and the better the effect of prolonging life——the more you’d be interested, perhaps?”

Bai Lianhua “…”

The system pops up suddenly, “mm. I don’t know if host you’re moved, but this system is extremely moved… You sure are a chosen one among white lotus, host, to be able to make the antagonist so firmly sacrifice himself. It’s clear how weighty you as a white moonlight is in his mind.”

“While I’ve only had you as a host, but this system can already feel that nobody will end up better than you ever. You sure are a talented and excellent and diligent great host!”

Bai Lianhua blocks off the system’s communications again.

He takes a deep breath to calm down, then asks, “are you sure you want to do this?”

“Mm.” Wen Fu’s lips perk up, “I have endless methods to force you to stay by my side, never to escape. I can even use all these techniques like changing your memories or using runes to make you unconditionally obey all my requests. I could… even erase your cultivational consciousness.”

“But, I won’t accept it. I want your affection of your own volition.”

Wen Fu’s serious tone makes Bai Lianhua believe that this guy really did consider the cruel methods he listed.

This is worse than hating him to the bone and then kill him once and for all.

Bai Lianhua can’t help but shudder. He’s never been able to predict Wen Fu’s thoughts ever since their reunion.

“Aren’t you afraid I’ll lie to you?” Like pretending to agree, then treating him with a deceptive attitude… A love-hate relationship drama of dozens of thousands of words could be had here.

“Haven’t you been doing that before?” Wen Fu chuckles like he doesn’t care, “since I’ve been had once, I’ve become better at seeing through lies. If you want to lie to me again, fine. If you can deceive me the whole length of my life, and even yourself, then that’s better.”

This sounds really bitter.

Bai Lianhua sees the situation like an unleashed horse wildly running off in an unknown direction, he scours his brains, “while just saying this might not sound persuasive at all… Yes. I do have some situation that is hard to explain in words here, like my reappearance, but I can at least guarantee that I’m not hostile to you. I really don’t want the age complementation body, nor want to prolong my life. The deal is invalid, I reject it.”

Wen Fu doesn’t speak, but his expression between smiling and not is clearly in disbelief. His stance is clear.

Bai Lianhua feels defeated, “I’m serious.”

“Mm. I’m serious too.”

Not letting Bai Lianhua counter again, Wen Fu raises his eyebrows to shut the topic off one-sidedly.

Bai Lianhua wants to speak again and opens his mouth, but he realises that he’s temporarily silenced.

Wen Fu closes in and touches the corner of his lips, “I do like your voice, and if it were anything else, I’m probably capable of patiently listening to it for my whole life, but if you were to continue like that… I don’t want to get mad at you. Would you stay quiet for a while?”

Bai Lianhua “…”

What a simple and rough solution. Directly cutting off the communication? A high cultivation rank cultivator sure isn’t someone you’d want to cross.

…Uhh, this is almost exactly like what he does to the system every day.

Bai Lianhua stares at Wen Fu while biting his lips hard.

He’ll never acknowledge such a one-sided deal. He’s never going to cooperate, see what Wen Fu could do? At most he’ll just die.

He’s executed his mission so many times, and it’s not the first time he’s had to fake death, at best it’s just going to be a more tragic death——Well, perhaps not merely tragic, but he could probably withstand it somehow…

Wen Fu chuckles again.

“Before I’ve never seen such an expression on you. You’ve always been calm, been gentle, like a pond that never has ripples. So, is this the real you? It’s cuter than I thought.”

Bai Lianhua stares at the rising corners of Wen Fu’s lips, and feels like closing in to squeeze it back down. Chuckling, chuckling, always the smile. Always a different but somehow still as mortifying smile… To hell with ‘cute,’ you’re the cutest one, ok?

…

Bai Lianhua is silenced for the whole actual day.

When Wen Fu mercifully retracted his restrictions, Bai Lianhua decided not to speak, to show his displeasure with Wen Fu through his silence.

——What else could he do? Thanks to the troublemaking system, he’s just a pitiful soul wavering about in the wind and rain. He has no gold fingers to speak of other than knowing the world’s original direction. He’s also not got the protagonist halo to win against this devilish Wen Fu several cultivation ranks above him, nor has he got the antagonist halo that he could toy with him with just an evil grin.

As for committing suicide? The system isn’t gonna help, that guy is still looking forward to him finishing the mission.

While Wen Fu is also clearly alert against this, and has made the preparations. All the sharp objects in the residence have had restrictions placed on them. The moment Bai Lianhua extended his hand, the little cutie he eyed would float away quickly, not able to be caught.

Plus there’s no alchemical stove nor alchemical cultivational ingredients in here. Bai Lianhua can’t even poison himself to death. As for self-destructing his veins… Wen Fu’s soothing these few days weren’t just on the surface. There’s quite a bit of Wen Fu’s cultivation power in his veins. If he met danger, they would firmly protect the few vital points on Bai Lianhua.

How embarrassing. He can’t even die easily.

Author’s notes: Bai Lianhua: My name is super easy to remember, a white lotus forever desu ~

I don’t want to live now, so can I have 108 ways to quickly die?

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