Returning to the story, Wu Hua helped Yan Liang back to his room. As soon as they entered, Yan Liang broke free and knelt on the floor in a disheveled state, breathing rapidly and speaking in a suppressed voice.
Wu Hua watched coldly from the sidelines.
He hadn't actually expected Yuan Suiyun to poison Yan Liang. Besides the sleeping potion, Yuan Suiyun had also added poison to Yan Liang's food. The mechanism of that poison was unknown; when it took effect, it caused excruciating pain, making death unbearable, with only regular doses of the antidote providing relief.
Two nights ago, although Yan Liang escaped from the coffin, he lost his way on the ship. The drug took effect suddenly, and he immediately knelt down in a sorry state. Before he could react, he was captured by the sailors.
Wu Hua had initially wondered why Yuan Suiyun seemed so confident and unhurried, but upon seeing the disheveled Yan Liang, he instantly understood. At that moment, Yan Liang, enduring the pain spreading throughout his limbs and internal organs, knelt at Yuan Suiyun's feet, his forehead covered in sweat. Even so, he did not utter a sound of pain, nor did he beg for mercy from Yuan Suiyun.
Yuan Suiyun looked down at him, his face still bearing his usual gentle smile. Yan Liang, in his pain, caught a glimpse of that smiling face and a strange expression appeared on his face.
Yuan Suiyun was blind, but Wuhua, who was standing to the side, noticed Yan Liang's expression.
Back in the restaurant, Wu Hua had been observing coldly from the sidelines. When the young man realized that Yuan Suiyun was the one who had drugged him, he looked at Yuan Suiyun with a bewildered and incredulous expression.
At this moment, Yan Liang, who was lying prostrate at Yuan Suiyun's feet, was drenched in cold sweat, yet he still stubbornly gritted his teeth and glared at Yuan Suiyun. His eyes concealed a clear understanding of everything and...sadness.
When the poison took effect, the pain was unbearable, as if a thousand insects were gnawing at his heart. Yuan Suiyun was surprised by Yan Liang's endurance—the other party had not begged him even before he fainted from the pain.
When the poison flared up again, Yan Liang started drinking. He couldn't hold his liquor and got drunk quickly. He preferred to drink to force himself to endure the pain rather than submit to Yuan Suiyun.
Wu Hua didn't know whether to laugh at his stubbornness or admire his tenacity. At the same time, Wu Hua also found it strange.
—Inorganic people are never like that.
Yuan Suiyun kindly provided all sorts of wines, but Yan Liang no longer wanted to talk to him and would always give Yuan Suiyun a cold look whenever they met.
In just two days, Yan Liang was severely weakened by the poison. Drinking could temporarily relieve the pain, but sometimes when he got drunk, he would shout incoherently—it was because of his drunken ramblings that the sailors on the ship were surprised when Chu Liuxiang and the others boarded the ship.
Before Chu Liuxiang boarded the ship, Yan Liang had promised Yuan Suiyun that he would not say anything. Exhausted from drifting at sea for a long time, Chu Liuxiang and his companions no longer had the ability to fight back against Yuan Suiyun. Even if Chu Liuxiang could put up a fight against Yuan Suiyun, he would still be at his last gasp.
Yuan Suiyun was very satisfied with Yan Liang's sensibility, especially since the other party spoke to him for the first time in two days because of the safety of Chu Liuxiang and the others.
Now, Wuhua coldly watched Yan Liang's pained state, showing no intention of helping him up. Wuhua was never a kind-hearted person; his willingness to kill his own brother for his schemes and his attempt to silence Master Tianfeng, who knew about Yan Liang's background, already proved his ruthlessness.
Therefore, even though Wu Hua had spent many days with his junior brother "Wu Ji," with whom he already had a rather ordinary relationship, he did not believe that Wu Ji and Yan Liang had developed a particularly deep bond.
Not going up to make sarcastic remarks is already a great act of kindness.
Yan Liang knelt on the ground, and after a while, he managed to stand up by clinging to a stool next to him. He then stumbled to the bedside and sat down.
"Thank you..."
Yan Liangchao gave Wuhua a dizzy smile. Wuhua couldn't discern the emotions contained within it, nor did he understand why the other person would smile at him in this situation, let alone express gratitude. Even drunk, could someone like him, a cold and indifferent bystander, express gratitude?
Could he have been driven mad by torture?
Wu Hua thought about it casually and indifferently.
Yan Liang kicked off his shoes, struggled to climb onto the bed, trembled as he covered himself with the quilt, and curled up under the covers, as if he no longer intended to speak to Wu Hua.
The strangest reaction would be if the other party could still chat and laugh as usual under such circumstances.
These past two days, whenever Yan Liang drank alcohol, he would curl up in his blankets and tremble—not out of fear, but because the pain from the poison taking effect was unbearable.
Wu Hua, used to this, closed the door and left without saying a word.
Once it was confirmed that the person had gone far away, the blanket on the bed, which had been shaking as if it had an electric motor, stopped.
Yan Liang let out a long sigh of relief, buried in the blankets.
If this shaking continues, I might really develop Parkinson's disease.
He only experienced two episodes of poisoning; the rest, including the one just now, were all faked.
After the second poisoning, Yan Liang took advantage of being in bed with his head covered to exchange for a universal antidote from the system shop. The pills he had exchanged when he was dealing with Wu Hua's poison had all been confiscated, so just in case, he only took the antidote after confirming the symptoms and time of the poisoning.
Yan Liang touched his chin in the darkness, feeling a little proud of his acting skills.
Neither Wuhua nor Yuan Suiyun seemed to realize he was acting. Yan Liang attributed this to the fact that neither of them had personally experienced that deep-seated pain or his innate acting talent.
Now Yan Liang can only find a moment of peace in bed. He couldn't help but calculate Yuan Suiyun's identity, and the result was very frustrating.
It's another case of misjudging people.
When the two first met, Yan Liang jokingly offered to tell Yuan Suiyun's fortune. Yuan Suiyun politely declined, saying that he was not currently experiencing any troubles and that it was better to face things openly than to avoid knowing what would happen in the future.
Yan Liang was deeply moved by the other party's words, and he remembered them when they met again, never mentioning the fortune-telling again.
Having suffered a silent loss this time, Yan Liang would be a fool not to tell the fortune. Besides fortune telling, he also sent out his long-dormant, respectable and lovable listening device.
The 360-degree, no-blind-spot eavesdropping, no noise, and uninterrupted power supply—because it's a battery-powered device—provided significant assistance to Yan Liang.
After much painful reflection, Yan Liang decided to change the bad habit that had led him astray.
His life in the previous world was too smooth sailing. Apart from the two people, the Eastern Cult Leader and the Thousand-Faced Prince, who connected him with the martial arts world, he didn't have much involvement with it in other aspects. Later, he settled down to be a dutiful older brother and a good son.
This almost made him forget that he was a pay-to-win player with a natural cheat code. It also made him forget that not everyone in the world is a good person... He had met too many interesting people, and after meeting Yuan Suiyun and gaining favor from Hua Manlou, he viewed him with a filter.
Yan Liang: Feeling melancholy, I want to kill myself.
Shi Guanyin was indeed ruthless. Yan Liang was angry and even confused, but he would never change his opinion of people because of her alone.
He believes there are still more good people than bad in this world.
Yan Liang was frustrated by the fact that Yuan Suiyun was the Bat Prince, but he quickly rallied and began to explore the secrets of the ship with the help of a cheat device.
When he was first admitted to the hospital, he thought he could finally go home and have some fun, but then he was diagnosed with a new illness, which really tested Yan Liang's mental strength.
Two days was enough for Yan Liang to figure out the ship's structure. The surveillance cameras, along with the sailors, had taken pictures of every corner of the ship and sent them to Yan Liang, so he could see every corner of the ship clearly.
He also knew how many people were on the ship: for example, Ding Feng, Yuan Suiyun's subordinate, was currently hiding on the ship from Chu Liuxiang and others, and the Huashan Sect leader and her disciples were in the cabin, etc.
Now, he could clearly hear the nonsense that Yuan Suiyun was spouting to Chu Liuxiang at the table.
Yuan Suiyun's acting skills were no less than Yan Liang's; at least Yan Liang admired him greatly for saying that he was worried about Wuhua without changing his expression.
Chu Liuxiang's voice was flawless, and Yan Liang couldn't discern his thoughts. However, in his own opinion, given Chu Liuxiang's intelligence, he might be able to guess his meaning, or at least sense that something was amiss.
After they finished eating, Yuan Suiyun and Chu Liuxiang leaned against the railing and talked. As they talked, Yan Liang listened, marveling at Yuan Suiyun's shamelessness and superb acting skills.
He could be a contender for the Oscar.
With Wuhua added, it becomes a three-way balance of power.
"It seems I need to talk to him tomorrow..."
Chu Liuxiang uttered such a sigh.
Yan Liang: Come, come, come! Quickly come and talk to him!
The poisoning would last for half an hour. Yan Liang calculated the time, and after confirming that half an hour had passed, he sat up in bed, got out of bed, poured himself a cup of tea, and drank it all in one gulp.
The night was deep, and the sea breeze seeped in through the cracks in the window. Yan Liang walked to the window and opened it a crack. The sea breeze was icy cold, and Yan Liang, who was covered in sweat under the covers, shivered as the wind blew in. He then closed the window, still trembling.
The sea at night is completely different from the sea during the day. The sea that Yuan Suiyun saw on his ship was also different from the sea that he had seen on the shore of Feixian Island. This was probably related to his state of mind.
Yan Liang closed his eyes through a window and once again imagined what Bat Island would look like.
Bat Island must be as dark and gloomy as its name suggests.
He had thought about it many times.
Ever since he deduced that Yuan Suiyun was the Bat Prince, Yan Liang had connected the reason why he called himself a bat with his eyes.
Yuan Suiyun, the young master of Wuzheng Manor, is gentle and refined, with a kind and honest character. Such a person should not be the Bat Prince, but Yuan Suiyun is exactly that.
The similarities between Hua Manlou and Yuan Suiyun lie in their eyes, and their differences also lie in their eyes.
Hua Manlou's eyes held stars, a symbol of his love for life; Yuan Suiyun's eyes held loneliness and desolation, a reflection of his unwillingness to love the world due to his blindness.
Yan Liang noticed that Yuan Suiyun never mentioned his blindness, so he naturally assumed that the other person was as carefree as Hua Manlou... But the burdens they carried were not equal, so how could the two be the same person?
Yan Liang sighed and drank another cup of water—he had been so focused on drinking that he hadn't filled his stomach. Yuan Suiyun wouldn't arrange any special meals for him, so he could only quench his hunger with water.
Yan Liang: ...I'm hungry, I want to eat.
Author's Note: I've arrived in Liaoning.
Not a single chapter was missed _(:з」∠)
My writing skills are too poor, I didn't write well OTZ
I'll probably be a bit busy after the 16th... If I don't update before midnight, then I'm skipping it, because the school will be doing live-streamed classes... I filled up all my course selections, sob sob.
I'll try my best to keep going, that's all!
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