Chapter 6

Translated by boilpoil Edited by boilpoil

A peace tacitly maintained between the two over the last few days has been broken.

Though to be honest, only Wen Fu knows that beneath his actions showing his indignation, is his uncontrolled, moved emotion… He lied. Despite warning himself again and again, but when Bai Lianhua’s pretending to care about him is played out before him again, he will still fall for this front of hypocritical kindness uncontrollably.

An intense reaction like that is also perhaps a poor disguise of his. Since if he were to be absolutely unmoved by Bai Lianhua, how would he have felt anger?

Realising that deeply, Wen Fu feels more frustrated in his chest.

He narrows his eyes and kisses Bai Lianhua.

Bai Lianhua, single in the real world, who should have been quite experienced over the ages after transmigrating through mission worlds after mission worlds, but yet whose first kiss hasn’t even been ‘stolen,’ is shocked by this ‘kissing when the two fail to reach an agreement’ act the antagonist has put up.

What the hell!

Even if he would like to deceive both himself and others, but Bai Lianhua is not a true●Hopelessly naive silly little dummy, so Bai Lianhua has to admit in shock from the no longer concealed emotions in Wen Fu’s expression…

Wen Fu probably, perhaps, maybe… likes him?

No, it’s probably a like mixed with dislike.

Then, Wen Fu continues,

“I really want to pick this weak white lotus of yours, put it in a vase and look after it delicately. Only I can admire it, and only I can touch it.”

“Even if you were to wilt, you will only wilt in my grasp.”

Bai Lianhua can’t even make up his mind on which of the two is worse, the two sentences that make him feel cold from the inside, or that utterly unexpected kiss.

No, what’s worst is surely Wen Fu the person?

Bai Lianhua is actually suspecting if his memories are false. Did he really live with him in harmony over the hundred years? Did he remember wrong, and he was actually a fickle playboy who toyed with his emotions when he was in his first mission?

Bai Lianhua feels like retreating now, so he relinks himself with the system.

“System, I don’t want to do this mission anymore. I give up. I’ll accept whatever punishment.”

“Eh? Why? The mission is going well?”

“How is it well… Wen Fu is so tainted he’s completely black, can’t you see? If I continue staying, rather than virginity even my life would be in danger.”

“But that’s normal.”

“Ha?”

“Riiiiight, it’s like, to calm the host previously, I have only briefly introduced the mission of return of white moonlight. The host may not understand enough about the mission, so the system here will specifically provide you with an important piece of supplementary information here.”

“The reality of the mission of return of white moonlight, is the require the host to, under the solid foundation laid out in the preceding white lotus missions, return to solidify their position as that piece of white moonlight that the antagonists can’t wave away in their minds, and resave the world from the antagonist’s clutches.”

“The system has detected that the antagonist Wen Fu is 100% treating the host as the white moonlight in their minds, and the mission is progressing as normal. No abnormal situation requiring the intervention of the system has been found.”

“If the host would please continue working hard to eliminate the grudges antagonist Wen Fu feels in his heart to eliminate the risk factor for the world… Since you’ve done a mission here before perfectly, it is expected that you will do it even more smoothly the second time. The system believes in your swift success!”

“What do you mean? Did all the missions that I’ve completed fail and the antagonists all having went awry?” Bai Lianhua is scared of the ‘s’ in the word ‘antagonists’ the system said, so he says in disbelief.

“Yes, that is correct. Due to all sorts of factors, after the host has left the world, the antagonists have gone on to become a key factor in affecting the world’s order again… If the host would not give up and continue to act according to their white lotus instincts, to again shine a ray of white healing moonlight into the hearts of the antagonists and move them back to the path of righteousness.”

Well, bugger off!

Does the host have no rights? Does the host exist for you systems with blackened hearts to be deceived and utilised to the max?

The shitty system must be the loser among systems. If there were a report button I’ll report you until you call me dad!

Bai Lianhua wants to just quit firmly, let this mission world go wherever it’s headed, but looking at the devilishly charismatic Wen Fu in front of him, his enthusiasm burnt itself out in only a second.

He can’t help it. The situation is forcing his hand. He doesn’t even have the presence of mind to soothe his own mood, so he can only continue this embarrassing act.

Bai Lianhua’s shock faints away, and only a helplessness is left on his expression, pale as paper, “this is not right… Why would you think that?”

“How is it not right? I think it’s very right.” Wen Fu raises his eyebrows, “I like you, more than anyone else in this world. I want to keep you by my side at all times, never to leave again, how is that wrong?”

What kind of twisted reasoning is that?

“… But I don’t like you, at least not the kind of like you have.”

Wen Fu laughs indifferently, “then what? I said, I like you more than anyone else in the world. The like you lack I can help fill it up and still leave enough behind.”

Bai Lianhua really feels like pulling that classic motto of white lotuses out – can’t we just be friends?

How diligent I was those years to nurture you as a small sprout in my garden, to spare no effort in helping you not to grow awry, to become a righteous, appealing big bok choy , then in the end, you wanted to take me for yourself, deflowering me?

Bai Lianhua is already infuriated enough to start speaking nonsense, actually treating himself as a weak little flower.

To be honest, while it’s said he’s pretending to be a little pure white lotus, but Bai Lianhua feels as if he’s more acting as a saintly fellow, completely different from the norm, because besides kindness and gentleness that’s as common as characteristics go, he’s never actually engaged in the romantic love and emotional adventures of the classic white lotuses. Therefore he never thought he would end up in this embarrassing situation.

Even previously when he’s worked out Wen Fu might have seen through the abnormalities on him, he’s only worried Wen Fu will feel he has been deceived and is therefore angry.

Then immediately Wen Fu’s topic switches, talking about something that makes one feel goosebumps with a smile.

“When you died, I was sad… I even hated myself for only letting my emotions out when you’ve died, why I’ve not prolonged your life while you were alive. I’m an age complementation body. It was possible for me.”

“After I thought about that, even I was surprised… I’ve never thought, one selfish as me would have moments where I feel like voluntarily sacrificing myself.”

“Especially in regards to the age complementation body. You know this is part of my inner devil. I hate this physical attribute to the bone, and I have sworn not to become a material to anyone prolonging their life, but if it was you, I actually wouldn’t feel unwilling.”

“Bai Lianhua, you’ve changed me into a form I don’t even recognise myself.”

“You won’t understand my regret. It wasn’t that I didn’t have the ability to save you, but I only regretted so much after you died. Yet since you’ve died, I had no opportunity to even pick another option. I sometimes even thought it was my selfishness that killed you.”

“Is it laughable?” Wen Fu lengthens his voice, “I was so dumb to actually feel responsible for all these related and unrelated things, and then tortured myself again and again.”

Bai Lianhua’s lips were trembling several times, but nothing would come out. He can only shake his head continuously. He didn’t expect Bai Lianhua to feel that way because of his death.

“Until…” Wen Fu has an odd smile on him, “I had a dream afterwards. I’ve heard you and a person called Xi Tong talking in it.”

“After passing Jiedan, a cultivator never dreams about useless things anymore, unless the dream indicates a reality… Do you need me to repeat your conversation then?”

Xi Tong… System?

It can’t be, Wen Fu actually heard the conversation between he and the system?!

Bai Lianhua widens his eyes, trying to recall hard the conversation he had after leaving his body in this world, but he can’t remember the exact words.

The system appears kindly right now, pulling out the image from back then,

“Mm. I’ve actually died.” Bai Lianhua is shocked to see ‘himself’ who has stopped breathing, and laments.

“Right… Eh? Host, saying something like that, you can’t have not lived long enough have you?”

Bai Lianhua “…” Nobody is saying something like that. A hundred years is long enough.

“Hehe, even if you haven’t lived long enough, it’s alright. After you go back and reforge Wen Fu into a pill, you can still live more than a few hundred years.”

Bai Lianhua is speechless “…” And he rolls his eyes.

Is he stupid? To put the antagonist he nurtured so hard into an alchemical stove? The joke isn’t funny at all.

“Alright, host, please don’t ignore me, you’d be living again soon… Just, don’t act so softly next time.”

“Mm. I know. I won’t.” Bai Lianhua understands the system’s meaning, telling him not to stay so long and waste tie in the world because he doesn’t want the antagonist to be sad.

The system was willing to tolerate him for the first world, but not so for the following worlds. He had to learn to toughen his heart.

…

After watching the whole scene with his body temperature dropping, Bai Lianhua can’t help but scream in his mind – System!

His silence in not wanting to respond to the system, and the system’s brash unmitigated mockery, put them all in front of Wen Fu, audio only. What a great misunderstanding this would cause!

No wonder Wen Fu is unsurprised to see him live again. It’s probably because of system’s “you’d be living again soon.”

And the nail in the coffin is their conversation about being “soft,” if the context is taken into consideration, won’t Wen Fu feel that this so-called softness at heart being not having made him into a pill?

Author’s notes: Bai Lianhua: Between exposing the system and taking on the blame, it’s hard to decide… Wasn’t he to be a white moonlight? Why is he to take this big black wok ? The colour is wrong_(:з」∠)_

PS: Happy labour day my little angels, eat well play well=w=~

Too bad I have to work QAQ… Ah, standard salted fish lying posture_(:з」∠)_

Read only at Travis Translations