"What pillar of strength? You two just keep talking and you want me to become a eunuch. Why don't you ask my eldest brother and fourth brother? They are the real pillars of strength."
Jiang Chengxiao wore an incredulous expression, his brows furrowed, clearly very unhappy.
“My elder brother will inherit the Marquis’s mansion and hold the highest official position, while I have only just been recognized as a relative. I have not had a good life outside for the past ten years. How can you bear to let him become a eunuch as soon as he comes back? Second brother, I never thought you were such a heartless person!”
Jiang Chengli spoke logically and persuasively, quickly turning the tide of the argument.
Jiang Chengxiao remained silent, shocked by this shameless act of turning the tables. His expression shifted from anger to helplessness, and finally, he gave up entirely.
"Come on, castrate him now! Anyone who doesn't is a coward!"
As he spoke, he put his hand on his waistband, as if he was about to unbuckle his belt so that Jiang Laosan could castrate him.
【Ahhh, host, please stop him! I'm begging you!】The system completely crashed and started pleading with Xu Wanying.
"Why are you begging me? Jiang Chengxiao is useless anyway, he's just a decoration. Let him get castrated!" Xu Wanying said irritably.
"That won't do. He loves Xiaoya so much, and the reason he's in love with her is because he can't perform with other women; only Xiaoya can make him a normal man. If he castrates himself, that specialness will be gone. Can he still love her so much? The appeal of this couple will completely disappear." The system began its long and detailed analysis.
"Heh, so you knew too. If it weren't for this special trait, Jiang Chengxiao most likely wouldn't have fallen in love with Xing Xiaoya." Xu Wanying sneered.
"Who told Xiaoya to be the most popular female lead? She just has that ability. Besides, are physical needs inferior to spiritual needs? Physical love and spiritual connection are both important. Xiaoya is indispensable to Jiang Chengxiao!" The system spoke with conviction and reason.
"Is that so? That's a pity. This special status is going to be ruined, because Jiang Lao Er is now determined to become a eunuch. I wonder if the two of them will still be entangled like in the book?" Xu Wanying chuckled, her tone full of schadenfreude.
【Ahhh, what's wrong with this world? One or two of them are obsessed with becoming eunuchs. Aren't men in ancient times supposed to look down on castrated dogs? Why don't they care at all?! The system was incredibly agitated.
"With them both so controlled, their entire focus on Xing Xiaoya, what difference does it make whether they have that thing or not?" Xu Wanying sighed.
[Nonsense, Jiang Laosan isn't only good with Xing Xiaoya!]
"Ha, so what if he's capable? You won't let him. Even when I, his respectable wife, hold his hand, you act like it's the end of the world, shouting that there will be retribution. How pointless!" Xu Wanying sneered, retorting without any politeness.
"Alright, you two brothers, stop fooling around. There's always a way out. If you could really protect the Jiang family by becoming eunuchs, we wouldn't be going through all this trouble," Cen Ying interrupted the farce, coldly reminding her.
"Wanying, you must be tired. Go back and rest first."
"Yes, daughter-in-law bids farewell to mother." Xu Wanying bowed respectfully, then turned and left.
The system was still screaming in her mind: "Host, don't go! Listen a little longer! What if they castrate themselves if you leave? Stay here and try to persuade them!"
The system clearly didn't want to leave, and even tried to persuade it with earnest words, which sounded absolutely ridiculous.
[If they really do castrate themselves, I'll immediately send someone to buy firecrackers to celebrate Xing Xiaoya gaining two more eunuch guardians. Ah, how awesome!]
[Host, you definitely have a disease, conjunctivitis...]
[System, you're sick, you're insane!]
With Xu Wanying's departure, the voice of this one person in charge gradually faded away.
"Third brother, if you want to be a castrated dog, don't drag me into it. I have no such intention." Jiang Chengxiao immediately took a few steps back, keeping a distance from his third brother, and stated his intentions in a serious tone.
"Second Brother, the dog system just said that keeping that thing is useless to you; it only reacts to Xing Xiaoya. You know how evil Xing Xiaoya is. Rather than keeping this thing to be bewitched by evil spirits, it's better to cut the weeds at the root and completely eliminate this thing to prevent future troubles!" Jiang Chengli's voice was very firm, and he was obviously very serious when he said these words.
"What's it to you? What if I get better later? If you make me castrate myself, I'll never need me again. Besides, castrate yourself first, then come talk to me about this—"
Jiang Chengxiao rolled his eyes in annoyance, but before he could finish speaking, Jiang Chengli pulled something out of his sleeve. This time it really was a dagger. He gripped the dagger and stabbed it towards his own groin. The direction and force of the dagger clearly indicated that he was about to castrate himself.
Jiang Chengxiao immediately shut his mouth, his eyes wide open. He instinctively reached out to stop him, but his reaction was too slow.
Just as the dagger was about to make contact, it suddenly broke in two, the sharp blade falling and embedding itself directly into the floor tile.
"You, you're crazy—" Jiang Chengxiao was so shocked that he started to stutter.
After saying this, he seemed to suddenly come to his senses. He rushed forward, pushed the other man aside, and tried to pull out the dagger blade. However, the blade was deeply embedded. He used his internal force to shake the brick, which shattered it, before he could finally pull the blade out.
"What on earth is going on?" Jiang Chengxiao examined the blade carefully. "It's made of refined iron; it shouldn't be able to cut at all. How could this be—"
The men of the Jiang family were very knowledgeable about illness. This dagger was forged from refined iron through tens of thousands of hammerings. It could cut through iron like mud and could cut through other sharp weapons. Yet it broke so easily just now, which was simply a miracle.
"Second Brother, do you think I don't want to castrate myself? I've tried many times, and this unexpected situation always occurs. It's not that I don't want to, but something is preventing me from becoming a eunuch. Ha—" Jiang Chengli sneered, his face full of mockery and exhaustion.
In that instant, Jiang Chengli dropped his pretense, and the heavy feeling that had persisted through countless lifetimes yet could not be reversed suddenly dissipated.
"Third brother, are you alright?" Jiang Chengxiao naturally noticed and was shocked by his third brother's condition.
In his memory, his third brother, who had always had a smooth life from childhood to adulthood, was always ambitious and enterprising; he had never seen him like this before.
"It's nothing."
"Chengli, Wanying told the artifact that you killed Xing Xiaoya twice. Is that true?"
Cen Ying, who had been silent the whole time, finally couldn't help but speak up, and her first words went straight to the point.
She had kept this question in her heart for a long time and wanted to ask it, but she hadn't had the chance to ask it until now because Xu Wanying was there.
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