"Oh dear, who is this? He looks unfamiliar. Did you come to the wrong place?" Jiang Chengxiao's words were sarcastic as he looked him up and down, clicking his tongue in an extremely unpleasant manner.
Jiang Chengli didn't even raise an eyebrow. As he passed by him, he suddenly reached for his sleeve, as if he had pulled out something, and poked it directly at Jiang Chengxiao's thigh.
Jiang Chengxiao jumped back instantly, looking like a frightened bird, and started cursing.
"Third brother, you're having another episode! In front of Mother and your sister-in-law, you're trying to make me childless? You're a real scoundrel!" Jiang Chengxiao yelled, his whole body covered in sweat.
When Jiang Chengli made the stabbing motion, Jiang Chengxiao's mind was filled with those memories: the horrible scene of being chased with a knife and about to be castrated, which even his pleas for mercy were to no avail, and had become a complete nightmare.
As soon as I saw him make that move, my body reacted instinctively; avoiding such an action was ingrained in my bones.
"Second brother, I just flicked my hand, how did that make you childless?" Jiang Chengli raised his hand, his palm empty, clearly the action of reaching for something in his sleeve was just a smokescreen.
His tone was full of mockery, and his face wore a strange smile.
Jiang Chengxiao realized he had been tricked. His third brother hadn't done anything, yet he had been so frightened, especially in front of his stepmother and siblings. It was truly embarrassing.
"Ha, who knows what wicked ideas you're hiding in your heart!" He coughed lightly, unwilling to admit it easily.
“That’s because my second brother has something to hide, that’s why he thinks I’m up to no good. My eldest brother would never think that way,” Jiang Chengli said without hesitation.
The two brothers were shouting at each other when suddenly they heard the system's voice in their ears.
[Wow! What is Jiang Laosan doing now?! Host, you must stop him! You have to protect Jiang Laosan's male dignity. His manhood doesn't belong to him, it belongs to Xing Xiaoya. If he loses it, the special connection between him and Xing Xiaoya will also cease to exist.]
[Xiaoya must be the most special person in his life, his savior, his goddess, the only good woman who can make him a real man...]
[Jiang Laosan is really terrifying. He's a man, not someone without genitals. He's perfectly fine himself, so why is he always eyeing other people's bodies?]
The system was even more excited than Jiang Chengxiao himself, shouting incessantly and giving orders to Xu Wanying.
The group reacted differently to the system's outburst.
"Third brother, what do you mean by saying that your elder brother wouldn't think that way? I think you've been watching me the whole time. What is it about me that makes you want to watch me like that?" Jiang Chengxiao seemed to have been reminded by the system and actually asked in that direction.
"Second Brother, you're overthinking this. What is there about you that I should be keeping an eye on?" Jiang Chengli asked calmly.
Jiang Chengxiao was hit where it hurt. He was impotent and could only be a normal man with Xing Xiaoya, which made him no different from a eunuch.
[Hey, host, do you think Jiang Chengli might also be impotent?] The system suddenly had a thought and asked curiously.
【What's the meaning? 】
"[It means exactly what it says. Jiang Chengxiao has to be ranked third or fourth male lead. He can only be with Xiaoya, so Jiang Chengli, the second male lead, can too! His body has to be devoted to Xing Xiaoya.]" the system declared confidently.
Xu Wanying scoffed: "What nonsense are you spouting? The 'only being able to fall for Xing Xiaoya' trope is exclusive to Jiang Chengxiao, isn't it? Now Jiang Chengli has appeared too. What kind of exclusive trope is that? It's become so common, does anyone still ship these two couples?"
Xu Wanying's words made even more sense, while the system still struggled: [Host, you said before that the entire plot has changed; we can't rely solely on the previous novel. You, the butterfly, have arrived; with a single flap of your wings, everything is different.]
[It must be because you made unwanted advances towards Jiang Laosan, which displeased the World Consciousness, so it started to restrain Jiang Chengli. I've already said, he must remain chaste for Xing Xiaoya!]
Hearing it being forced into a twisted setting, Hsu Wan-ying immediately rolled her eyes.
[What nonsense are you spouting? Did Jiang Chengli tell you himself that he's impotent? How can you be so sure? What makes you so certain that he's a eunuch? Were you eavesdropping under his bed in the middle of the night?]
The system, stuttering under her barrage of criticism, began to stammer.
Speak your mind!
[Jiang Chengxiao previously captured a group of charlatans, hoping to cure his impotence. One of the fortune tellers said, "Like cures like." To become more virile, one must eat—cough cough—maybe Jiang Chengli, who's been eyeing his second brother's manhood so intently, is trying to use "like cures like"?]
As soon as the system finished speaking, Xu Wanying gagged.
"Yue—" She couldn't control herself and made a sound in front of the other three people.
"Wanying, are you alright?" Cen Ying immediately stepped forward and gently patted her back.
"Stop arguing! You two have so much energy, go to the training ground and practice a few rounds. Stop talking nonsense here!" Cen Ying glared at the two of them, her face revealing a hint of dissatisfaction.
The Jiang brothers couldn't help but lower their heads, their expressions unpleasant. After all, what the system said was truly disgusting. They couldn't possibly think about it in that way; they felt like vomiting.
[System, you're disgusting!]
[It's not that I'm disgusting, it's that the Jiang brothers are disgusting. I'm not a man, and I'm not impotent.] The system argued logically.
Xu Wanying was speechless for a moment. She wasn't a man, so she couldn't possibly ask them directly if they could get an erection.
[Host, it seems you're quite dissatisfied. You and Jiang Laosan are husband and wife, so you can ask such private questions. Didn't you previously threaten to sleep with him to undermine Xiaoya's status as the female lead?]
The system clearly noticed her silence and instantly became even more smug, even starting to provoke her.
"Get lost! The burden of proof lies with the person making the claim. If you think he's not providing evidence, then you should provide your own!" Xu Wanying said directly.
They were indeed husband and wife, but she wasn't interested in whether Jiang Chengli was capable or not. She wasn't planning on being a real couple anyway, since she didn't need that kind of thing.
"Mother, wife, I have something very important to tell you," Jiang Chengli said earnestly.
When the group arrived at the front hall, not a single servant was left behind. Jiang Chengxiao followed them in. When he met his third brother's deep gaze, he raised his chin, pretending not to see it, clearly indicating that he intended to stay there.
"Chengli, what do you want to say?" Cen Ying asked proactively.
Jiang Chengli straightened up and bowed to them with his hands clasped in a gesture of respect.
“Mother, Madam, I went to Mingyi Temple to burn incense before. The abbot said that my fate in the second half of my life would be full of misfortune and I would be entangled in a karmic entanglement. In order to get rid of this karmic debt, I must castrate myself and become a eunuch.”
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