Chapter 15
All the way north, Lu Shenxing was busy and exhausted. He was mentally prepared that it would be troublesome to bring Xin Liang with him, but things turned out beyond his expectations.
Xin Liang's wounds kept healing and then reopening. Not only himself, but even Lu Shenxing's whole body was covered with an unpleasant smell, a mixture of sweat, blood, and medicine.
"Why is your sister crying like that?" Lu Shenxing wiped his hands, took the hard steamed bun and took two bites.
"She's taken a fancy to something." Xin Liang tilted his head towards the curtains fluttering in the wind, "It's something I like."
Lu Shenxing didn't care about arguing with a woman, "Just give it to her."
"I've always asked her to spoil her." Xin Liang's voice was filled with sharp and harsh anger, as if someone had scratched his reverse scale. "But I can't let her do this."
Lu Shenxing heard it and raised his eyebrows. "Very expensive?"
Xin Liang's profile was soft, and from the corner of his lips he uttered, "It's the only thing I want in this world."
So valuable? Lu Shenxing narrowed his eyes and scanned Xin Liang's face with an inquiring gaze, but found no flaws.
The soldier driving the carriage waved the whip in his hand, and the horse raised its head and neighed, then stomped its saddle and galloped away. The wheels of the carriage squeaked as they rolled over the small mound of earth, and the people in the carriage accidentally bumped into each other.
Lu Shenxing reached out and caressed Xin Liang in his arms, and suddenly said, "I heard it that time."
Suddenly, Xin Liang's body trembled and his back hit the car wall. Blood began to seep out and slowly spread around on his thin white clothes, like spreading ink.
Lu Shenxing's face was dark and he was having a brain spasm.
He guessed that Xin Liang would play dumb, but he heard a voice ringing in his ears, calm and quiet, with a carefully concealed tension.
"I didn't act on impulse." Xin Liang froze for a moment and spoke word by word.
Lu Shenxing's thick black eyebrows were raised. After seeing Xin Liang's life, he still didn't understand him.
"Are you tired of me?"
"Not really."
"Have you married yet?"
“No.”
"I kissed you and you feel disgusted?"
"Not really."
…
After a round of questions and answers, Xin Liang raised the corners of his lips, his voice filled with uncontrollable ecstasy, "I'm very happy that you like me too."
How could I not know? Could it be that I was really interested in him? Lu Shenxing fell into deep thought.
"Kiss me again."
"no."
Lu Shenxing made a sound through his nose, which seemed to indicate a hint of displeasure. He had just said that he liked her.
"...I can't move." Xin Liang seemed to have noticed Lu Shenxing's mood, and the little color on his face faded to his hands and feet because of anxiety.
Only then did Lu Shenxing notice the bright red spot on Xin Liang's back. His face tensed and he reached out to lift up Xin Liang's shirt. After re-bandaging him, he moved his face closer.
Xin Liang's ears turned slightly red, and her lips moved to the tip of Lu Shenxing's nose, touching it lightly a few times.
There was a dry and itchy feeling that was spreading quietly. The pounding heartbeat came from his chest, not so steady. Lu Shenxing took a deep breath, and he seemed to see a golden wheel stick bending little by little.
"Ding, Mr. Lu, please confess your feelings within one and a half minutes."
After reading that, Lu Shenxing wanted to vomit the food he had eaten the previous night. "It's too disgusting. It's not my style."
"Ding, countdown to ninety seconds."
"Ah! You are the angel who has fallen into the mortal world!" Lu Shenxing finished reading the beginning, the veins in his neck popping out, and he swallowed. "The first time I saw you, it was as if I saw the most dazzling light. You were so beautiful, so beautiful that I couldn't take my eyes away. I cried."
I fucking cried too. Lu Shenxing closed his eyes and said, "Thank you, fate, God, heaven, and earth. Meeting you is the destiny of my life!"
His Adam's apple moved up and down, and he kept swallowing saliva, trying hard to suppress something.
Xin Liang's cheeks burned hot. "Can you say it again?"
“…” Lu Shenxing hooked his arms around Xin Liang’s neck and kissed him on the forehead.
The whole world is quiet.
After riding back to Xilang City at full speed, Lu Shenxing handed Xin Liang over to the doctor and summoned several generals to find out the truth. It turned out that they had captured two Kuhai people who had sneaked into the city.
Lu Shenxing sat on the chair and glanced at the two men who were restrained. "Did you find out the terrain?"
Everyone remained silent, feeling quite embarrassed.
Lu Shenxing tilted his head nonchalantly. He had no interest in Dayang's unification of the world.
"Didn't you notice that the shorter one is a woman?"
Lu Shenxing's light words stirred up a storm in everyone's heart, and even made the two men's faces change drastically at the same time.
"Impossible!" Tong Yi pointed at the man's chest, "There's no bag here."
"Eat more pig brains from now on." Lu Shenxing raised his chin slightly and called out, "Shi Fu."
Kang Shifu stepped forward, put his fingers on the side of the short man's ear, and rubbed it slowly. Just when everyone was confused, a thin mask was peeled off, revealing a beautiful face.
Everyone was surprised, "How did the general tell the difference?"
Lu Shenxing threw out two words, "Guessed."
“…”
His gaze drifted intentionally or unintentionally over the tall, dark-skinned man. A gleam of brilliance flashed across Lu Shenxing's eyes, and he smiled. "You two, have you ever seen a male...dog in heat?"
Tong Yi personally went to bring in a big yellow dog. No one knew where he found it, but the dog would hug people's legs and rub against them.
"Pull it to the back." Lu Shenxing's lips curved even wider, full of evil, "Beauty, you come in too."
Soon, a woman's screams were heard, and gradually, there were more panicked cries. Lu Shenxing was not in a hurry, and tapped the table with his fingers neither lightly nor heavily.
The men below looked at their general with admiration, and they could even think of this method.
When the woman's screams became miserable, the dark-skinned man closed his eyes and said, "Stop!"
Lu Shenxing raised his hand, and the woman behind him huddled in the corner, her clothes torn. The big yellow dog spat out the rags in its mouth and was dragged away screaming.
The dark-skinned man stared at Lu Shenxing, his eyes bloodshot.
"You exposed your weakness yourself. You can't blame anyone else."
Lu Shenxing learned that the two men were subordinates of the fourth prince of Kuhai, and was ordered to bring the heads of Changzhou back. He sent someone to deliver the map to the emperor.
"General, how do you know they are a couple?" Tong Yi wondered, "Did you guess it too?"
"Yeah, I guessed it." Lu Shenxing turned and left.
Tong Yi asked his colleagues, "Why do I feel like the general is teasing me? Hey, I'm asking you a question! Don't leave—"
They went to a restaurant on the street and Lu Shenxing chose a seat by the window. When the proprietress saw that it was him, she dropped what she was doing and went upstairs to chat with him.
As soon as the dishes were served, Lu Shenxing saw the person who was supposed to be lying in the room appear in front of him.
The proprietress was sitting next to Lu Shenxing. She noticed that the young man had not moved behind her and joked, "Master Military Advisor, do you mind if I sit here?"
Xin Liang said calmly, "I mind."
The proprietress' smile froze on her face and she stood up and left awkwardly.
The atmosphere was a bit depressing. Lu Shenxing packed up the table of dishes and strode forward without saying a word.
Xin Liang followed behind, walking with difficulty.
Hearing something being knocked down and someone screaming, Lu Shenxing stopped, pinched his eyebrows, pulled the person on the ground up, and heard a voice in his ear.
"What?" Lu Shenxing's tone was filled with suppressed anger. "Is the military advisor apologizing to this general?"
Xin Liang pursed his lips, then relaxed them. He said, "I was wrong."
"I shouldn't have gotten carried away, shouldn't have been so ignorant of the seriousness of the situation, and shouldn't have been so wishful thinking as to not want the general to come into contact with anyone."
The three of them were talking like spilling beans, and Lu Shenxing was speechless.
After this incident, Xin Liang still refused to change his mistake. Wherever Lu Shenxing was, he was there. He was like a moving iron cage. Once Lu Shenxing got close to someone, he would calmly send the person away.
Soon, from the east to the west of the city, everyone knew that the general and the military advisor were together.
Fortunately, everyone accepted their relationship.
Lu Shenxing leaned against the door frame with his arms folded. He saw Xin Liang holding a basket in his left hand and a bamboo stick in his right hand. People passing by kindly made way for him.
"The military advisor went out to buy groceries."
"Um."
Lu Shenxing raised his voice, "The military advisor is so capable, I wonder who has this blessing?"
Xin Liang curved his lips and said, "Yes, General."
"...You're so nice."
After eating and drinking to his heart's content, Lu Shenxing, in a good mood, lifted Xin Liang's chin, leaned forward and kissed him, then stuck out his tongue to pry open his teeth and probed inside. After a few glances, he thought, the chicken soup tastes good.
Xin Liang opened his lips blankly, and Lu Shenxing twirled his tongue with a smile in his eyes.
"I...I'm going to wash the dishes."
"Don't fall on the threshold."
Lu Shenxing smacked his lips in dissatisfaction. He had read a sentence before that said every man can be straight or gay in more than one way, but he didn't believe it at first.
"Ding, congratulations Mr. Lu, mission one completed."
Lu Shenxing was stunned. Xin Liang's world was not perfect. The gap was just his kiss?
"So I'm going to enter the next world now?"
"Ding, our company received a lot of customer complaints recently, so the planning department has come together to develop a new set of..."
"Speak human language."
"Ding, Mr. Lu has three choices."
"If you wish, you can vanish from this world in the next second." The mechanical system voice continued, giving people a deliberate illusion. "The target is blind. He will live the rest of his life in the memories left by Mr. Lu, or he will choose to commit suicide for love because he does not want to live alone."
Lu Shenxing's face was gloomy. This system was so fucking annoying. He walked to the back room.
"What's the second option?"
"Ding, the target has 30 years left to live. Mr. Lu can kill him now. That way, he can leave first and won't be the last one left. He won't have to endure the pain."
It sounds like the best of both worlds. Lu Shenxing frowned and couldn't bring himself to do it.
"Ding, three, Mr. Lu can stay with the target until his life comes to an end, and you leave."
Lu Shenxing stood at the door, watching the thin green figure walking slowly. The crisp sound of bamboo sticks hitting stone slabs rang in his ears, from unfamiliar to familiar.
He heard his own voice, "I choose three."
"Ding, Mr. Lu, I've given you thirty years, but you will pay the same price in the next world."
We’ll talk about what happened next later. Lu Shenxing walked over and pulled Xin Liang, who was about to hit the water tank.
"I just kissed you and your face is so red. How can I play with you?"
Xin Liang said seriously, "You can play."
Lu Shenxing leaned on Xin Liang's shoulder, his chest shaking, "Then let's find a free day and play for a day."
It was very hot and humid at night. Lu Shenxing, who couldn't sleep, sat on a tree stump in the yard to cool off. The sudden movement made his drowsy mind suddenly clear up.
Lu Shenxing ran to Xin Liang's room and saw him curling up his hands and feet and making uncomfortable sounds. He reached out and pressed his shoulders to turn him around. "What's wrong?"
Seeing the bloodstains, Lu Shenxing was terrified and shouted loudly, "Don't grab it with your hands!"
Xin Liang really didn't try to catch it, and when he couldn't stand it anymore, he banged his head against the wall.
Lu Shenxing found a piece of cloth and stuffed it into Xin Liang's mouth. Just as he was about to say "bite this", he saw his bloody tongue.
"Hit...knock me out..." Xin Liang's mouth was full of blood, and his face was covered with tears and sweat. He begged tremblingly.
Lu Shenxing didn't take what Doctor Liu said seriously, but after seeing it with his own eyes, he realized how horrible it was. If it were someone else, he would definitely advise that death would be a relief after such torture.
Lu Shenxing patted Xin Liang on the back of his neck, and in just the time it took him to take two breaths, the other party woke up.
They endured the night like this. When the sun rose, Xin Liang was completely disfigured and both of Lu Shenxing's arms were bitten by him. The two looked like they had been fished out of the water.
Not wanting to go through this again, Lu Shenxing had to send people out to look for relief medicine after calling the system in vain.
Knowing what he was worried about, Xin Liang, who was lying on the bed, said, "You can tie me up."
Lu Shenxing pinched his chin, his eyes fixed on his tongue, "Then let's see how you bite your tongue to commit suicide?"
"Put something in my mouth ahead of time."
"Did you tell me when you had the attack?" Lu Shenxing cursed irritably, "If I hadn't heard it in the yard, you would have gouged both of your eyeballs out."
Xin Liang remained silent. He thought it would be over soon and was used to facing it alone.
He touched the hand of the person next to him, put his hand in the other's palm, and scratched it a few times with his fingertips.
Lu Shenxing looked at Xin Liang's miserable face and sighed in his heart, "I'm still angry."
Xin Liang lowered his head, "It's my fault."
"You'd better stop saying that." Lu Shenxing sneered, "You'll do the same thing next time."
Xin Liang said softly, "I want to move over there."
"Wait until you recover. I won't bully patients."
Lu Shenxing saw that although Xin Liang's world was sunny, it was very monotonous, with only him in it, which was not a good thing.
Humans are social animals. If they isolate themselves, they will only be lonely and vulnerable forever. Lu Shenxing began to let Xin Liang feel and accept the people around him little by little.
One month had passed, and Lu Shenxing rode alone to the woods in the suburbs. Since the mission had been completed and the system had given him another thirty years, he had nothing to worry about.
The sound of horse hooves approached. King Jing was dressed in white, just like when they first met, but his complexion was much worse.
Lu Shenxing held a piece of wild grass in his mouth and spoke slowly, "Why is your Highness not staying in the royal city? Why is he coming here?"
King Jing took a deep breath and said, "You know the answer but you still ask."
Lu Shenxing laughed and said, "I am stupid and don't understand what Your Majesty means."
"Changzhou, don't get carried away!"
King Jing was always conceited and thought that Lu Shenxing would not dare to disobey him. He didn't know that he was totally wrong.
Apart from Xin Liang, there is really no one in this world that Lu Shenxing cares about.
"Lie down on the ground." Seeing King Jing looking at him with murderous eyes, Lu Shenxing sat back on the ground. "Your Highness is not in a hurry, and neither am I."
"Let me tell you a story." Lu Shenxing looked up at the sky. "Once upon a time, there was a child. He was born into a wealthy family and had many brothers and sisters, but his mother happened to be a concubine. Do you think he was lucky or unlucky?"
A name appeared in King Jing's mind, and his face looked unhappy.
"He lost his mother at the age of three, became blind at four, and was treated like an animal... toyed with. No one wanted to see him get any better." Lu Shenxing closed his eyes. "How do you think he survived?"
King Jing snorted coldly, "There are so many pitiful people."
"That's true. Isn't Your Highness one of them?" Lu Shenxing sneered, "He wanted to use others as tools, but ended up hurting himself."
Having his sore spot touched, King Jing's face became extremely ugly.
"Everything has its own cause and effect. Your Majesty, I want to give you four words." Lu Shenxing looked at him coldly, "You reap what you sow."
King Jing suddenly laughed, "Changzhou, I told Wuya when I came here that you probably don't want to see Xin Liang missing any limbs."
As he wished, Lu Shenxing put on a fearful expression, thinking that he had arranged for Tong Yi and Kang Shifu to wait and see, and Wu Ya would be unable to escape.
"Your Majesty, please lie down. I am shy."
When King Jing heard Lu Shenxing surrender, a look of satisfaction appeared in his eyes, and he lay down with his back to the ground.
There was a layer of gloom between Lu Shenxing's brows. When he saw King Jing, he wanted to cut off his flesh and blood with a knife and feed it to the dogs. Only then did he realize how much Xin Liang weighed in his heart.
As Prince Jing's body trembled non-stop, Lu Shenxing felt that the time was almost right. "Prince, open your eyes and see how I can make you feel good."
King Jing's head was pulled back with great force, and the next moment, all the confusion and lust on his face disappeared, leaving him with a horrifying expression.
"You don't really think it's me, do you?" Lu Shenxing threw the chopsticks at him and raised the corner of his lips. "If I can't kill you right now, I don't even want to use my hands."
Such a great humiliation was like a pain in the ass for the proud King Jing.
The internal force was running rampant in King Jing's internal organs, and his eyes went dark. He suddenly pinched Lu Shenxing's neck, intending to die with Lu Shenxing.
With a "pu" sound, the sharp blade pierced through the flesh and blood. King Jing's pupils dilated and the blood in his mouth dripped down.
Lu Shenxing pulled out his dagger, kicked King Jing away, and looked down at him condescendingly. "Your life or death has nothing to do with me. I blame you for provoking him, and you shouldn't have hurt him again and again."
"My Lord, have a safe journey."
A breeze blew by, and the dead leaves rolled up, covering the spreading blood.
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