A year?
He Yunxiao was dumbfounded.
No wonder the injury healed so quickly!
How can a lifespan be shortened by dozens of times and not heal quickly?
With Chu Xiaoxiao's cooperation in implementing the strategy of reducing Du Yinyun's favorability towards Chu Fan, He Yunxiao, who was initially quite happy, is now completely unable to feel joy.
The crux of the problem is that there was once a sincere antidote placed in front of me, but I did not cherish it. Only when I lost it did I regret it deeply. Nothing in this world is more painful than this. If God could give me another chance, I would take the antidote without hesitation and bite Chu Xiaoxiao to death again.
He Yunxiao regretted it intensely for a moment, then stood up as if nothing had happened.
His mental fortitude is unparalleled.
On the bright side, even setting aside the question of whether another antidote can be found, I still have Sister Jiang's reward of "increased poison resistance," which means I can at least live a little longer than an ordinary person.
At worst, I can live for at least another year.
There's a saying: You laugh at Cheng Ge for dying young, but Cheng Ge laughs at you for not playing enough.
Anyway, there's still a year left, so let's play for ten months first.
Brushing the dust off his clothes, He Yunxiao didn't waste any time and went around two streets to buy a candied hawthorn.
Fortunately, the vendor selling candied hawthorns saw that He Yunxiao was there to buy them and very politely gave him all the candied hawthorns.
This made He Yunxiao feel quite embarrassed.
As the son of a marquis, a well-known figure in the entire capital of Yin, buying things without spending money is... just too awesome!
Unfortunately, the luxurious treatment the transmigrator received did not corrupt He Yunxiao's upright values; he still insisted on paying, mainly because it wasn't much.
If the amount is huge, then one's values need to be more flexible.
As a result, He Yunxiao's earnest payment made the uncle who bought the gourd burst into tears.
The man frankly stated that he was a soldier of General He, who had been discharged due to injury and was now doing small business. He had long heard that the general's son was unruly and mischievous, but he never expected to see him now. Not only was he handsome, but he would even pay for things. He was so pleased that he burst into tears.
He Yunxiao's lips twitched as he watched, wondering what kind of image he had in other people's minds before.
However, for him now, a bad image is actually a powerful weapon.
First, the expectations for a bad character are very low. This means the female protagonists often assume they are incompetent in every way, so even a slight improvement in their own character can drastically change the female protagonist's impression. Furthermore, a bad character doing good deeds creates a greater moral impact than a good character doing good deeds.
Therefore, based on rational analysis, a bad reputation is more beneficial than harmful to He Yunxiao at present.
What's even more terrifying is that when the female leads have roughly the same level of affection for him as for Chu Fan, all he needs to do is use a bad image to provoke the protagonist, causing Chu Fan to attack him, thus creating an atmosphere in front of the female leads that the protagonist is "bullying the weak."
In that case, it would be incredibly easy to lower Chu Fan's favorability rating in the female lead's eyes.
The villains were fantastic!
Carrying a pole of candied hawthorns back to Chunfeng Tower, He Yunxiao suddenly realized that the atmosphere in the tower was a bit strange.
The once arrogant and domineering playboys were now trembling with fear, and the lively atmosphere inside the building subsided, leaving only a few scattered cheers from the martial arts competition.
What's even stranger is that Chu Fan, who was originally quite quiet, was surrounded by a group of people, and then a burly man stood like a door god at the entrance of the second-floor viewing platform.
He Yunxiao understood the former, after all, being the protagonist meant that receiving attention was a basic requirement.
He Yunxiao was even more familiar with the latter. This person was named Ya Hu, a retainer of Chunfeng Tower, or in other words, a bodyguard. He was an eighth-rank cultivator and earned a considerable salary while guarding the Chunfeng Tower.
Under normal circumstances, Ya Hu would not show his face, and few people knew of his existence. After all, what kind of man would spend his life in a brothel?
With Ya Hu's martial arts skills at the eighth rank, he could usually handle most people. If it was a serious matter, there would be martial arts gangs that collected protection money to deal with it. If they still couldn't handle it, they would report it to the authorities. Brothels generally wouldn't easily report it to the authorities, as government intervention would greatly affect their business.
He swaggered past Ya Hu, carried the candied hawthorns up to the second-floor viewing platform, and distributed the hawthorns to the girls. Then he suddenly noticed that Du Yinyun's favorability towards Chu Fan had changed from 70 when he left to 75.
Du Yinyun's favorability rating towards Chu Fan is 75.
After distributing candied hawthorns to Du Huakui and several top courtesans, He Yunxiao plopped down next to Jiang Wuyou.
Holding a large handful, He Yunxiao asked boastfully, "Sister, do you want one or all of them?"
He planned to subtly inquire about what had happened after he left.
Jiang Wuyou had no time for jokes with him. With a worried expression, she said, "Yunxiao, tell me, did you touch that girl during the 'banquet'?"
He Yunxiao looked completely bewildered.
Which one?
Jiang Wuyou retorted angrily, "Which ones? You little rascal, how many have you touched?"
"I look down on everyone except my sister!"
Jiang Wuyou laughed in exasperation, "You still have time to talk nonsense when things are at their most pressing? Chu Xiaoxiao, did you speak rudely to her?"
What does what He Yunxiao did have to do with me, He Yunxiao?
But there was no one to explain this to, so he could only nod.
"After you left, do you know what Chu Fan did?"
"What did he do?"
"With one sword strike, he cleaved Liu Kaixiong's longsword in two from the middle. Ya Hu said that this required at least a ninth-grade cultivation level. With such strength at the age of twenty, it's almost a certainty that he will reach the Grandmaster realm in the future."
He Yunxiao was not surprised at all. Chu Fan was the protagonist of the novel. Isn't it reasonable for the protagonist of the novel to have some talent?
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