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Fu Yichen carefully untangled the hair from the dry branch, strand by strand. Obviously his hands were big, but he didn’t appear clumsy at all doing such delicate work. But instead he revealed indescribable patience and meticulousness in his actions. Su Zhan, who was initially annoyed, secretly glanced back and his heart couldn’t help but jump.
“Shall Zhen help you tie it up?” It’s what he had initially said, but Fu Yichen felt troubled when he held those silver strands. It was really long and smooth. It seemed silky and soft to the touch. It felt surprisingly good. But the problem was that he didn’t know how to tie hair.
With his back to Fu Yichen, Su Zhan’s waist was straight1 and his face was sullen. God knows that his mind had already burst into girlish thoughts. Just imagining the other person holding onto his hair, his fingers that were tucked into his sleeves trembled with excitement. He was almost certain that the emperor was flirting with him. It wasn’t so deliberate, but it was still there.
However, unlike Su Zhan’s imagined picture of ‘soft actions, pampering face and love-filled eyes’, Fu Yichen looked at the metre-long hair with an indescribable look on his face. When he finally figured out how to start, at this time, the sound of the increasing favorability of the Male Lead towards the Second Male continued to sound in his mind. After a while, the favorability had already risen to more than 60. For the purpose of being practical and for it to not get in the way, Fu Yichen clumsily held the hair that was longer than one metre and then tied it firmly with cloth strips torn from his clothes.
Truthfully, trying to implement his actions was a bit difficult as Leng Qianshang’s hair was not only long but also very slippery. So it kept slipping down more than once. Fu Yichen’s patience was also running out. But what he didn’t know was that the person who was sitting up straight and looked expressionless, actually enjoyed it.
Su Zhan couldn’t help but indulge in the illusion of his imagination several times. Of course, he was pulled back to reality multiple times by the sudden pain coming from his scalp.
“My apologies.” Fu Yichen expressed his shame for his clumsiness. If he was a stylist, he probably would have lost his job immediately.
However, Su Zhan’s heart moved from his words. He only felt that this emperor was definitely a gentle man. His gentleness was not only on the surface or in his warm words, but it came from his heart. A man that was willing to do the most inconspicuous things carefully and clumsily for the person that he cares about, this was what Su Zhan felt from the person behind him.
“Your majesty.” Su Zhan said suddenly.
“Hm?” Fu Yichen was still focused on tying up his hair.
“Has your majesty ever tied someone else’s hair?” As the most supreme being in the world, he shouldn’t have done this kind of thing often. So once he does something like this, that person must be extremely lucky.
“Someone else?” Fu Yichen tilted his head and looked at Leng Qianshang’s profile. His hands that were still fighting against the long hair didn’t loosen, but his face was full of doubts.
“For example, the empress.” Su Zhan was tentative in asking this question. But looking at his stiff method, it was basically impossible, “Or… Shen Tianyu?” When Su Zhan asked this sentence, his heart suddenly felt dull. He had some expectations and inexplicably resisted the answer that would come out of Fu Yichen’s mouth.
“Shen Tianyu?” Fu Yichen paused and blurted out in surprise. It was at this time that the system reported that the favorability of the Male Lead towards the Second Male was 72. Fu Yichen was suddenly surprised, Leng Qianshang seemed to be unexpectedly obsessed with Shen Tianyu.
From his private investigations of Shen Tianyu to the number of times he mentioned Shen Tianyu, Leng Qianshang seemed to be very concerned about the existence of Shen Tianyu. Or did he care about Shen Tianyu because that name came out of Xuanyuan Canye’s mouth?
In a flash, Fu Yichen finally realised something crucial. A subtle feeling rose from the bottom of his heart. If he was still surprised and unbelieving when he suspected that Shen Tianyu was bisexual and fell in love with the Second Male, now when faced with the same possibility of Leng Qianshang feeling the same, he felt very complicated.
However, in the ten seconds of Fu Yichen being stunned, a certain person’s heart sank again and again. So Fu Yichen could only hear the sound of the system’s prompts.
[The favorability of the Male Lead towards the Second Male -3.]
[The favorability of the Male Lead towards the Second Male +2.]
[The favorability of the Male Lead towards the Second Male -3.]
……
The favorability of the Male Lead towards the Second Male fluctuated between -3 to +3. How complicated is Leng Qianshang feeling right now? For his favorability to be going up and down like this.
Fu Yichen continued to indulge in tying up his hair, but he said calmly, “No, his hair didn’t need to be tied.” It was probably hard for ancient people to imagine that modern people would have short hair.
Su Zhan’s heart skipped a beat, ‘Didn’t need to? Could it be that that person became a monk?’ Thinking of this, Su Zhan’s mind immediately made up a love tragedy between a young prince and his reading companion. The young companion left the young prince after he succeeded and became a monk. The young prince changed his temperament and became cruel and cold-blooded. Doing everything possible to become the tyrannical emperor that everyone in the world feared. Only in the dead of the night did the emperor toss and turn, thinking of the boy that was buried deep in his heart.
The corners of Su Zhan’s mouth twitched. He felt that he might have been possessed by some sort of Mary Sue spirit while he was in a trance. But the sentence came out of his mouth uncontrollably, “Is he a monk?” If this was the case, no wonder he was unable to find the person. After all, this kind of thing would be classified as a top secret of the royal family.
The corners of Fu Yichen’s mouth twitched and he tilted his head to look at the man in front of him. He always felt that this man’s brain circuit was a bit strange. He didn’t know what was going on inside his head. And what’s with that tone of pity?
“He just has short hair.” Fu Yichen said, amused.
“Short hair?” Su Zhan’s heart jumped suddenly.
All his previous messy thoughts were crushed into dust. Short hair? Su Zhan suddenly thought of a possibility. The most popular novel genre in recent years was time travel. Time travel could be divided into soul transmigration and body transmigration. Although before he had transmigrated here, he didn’t believe in these things as there was no scientific basis to such things. But now, when a man with short hair appeared in ancient times. Could he boldly assume that Shen Tianyu was a transmigrator who transmigrated with his own body?
Thinking of this, Su Zhan was all excited. That must be the case. Shen Tianyu was clearly a modern name. Coupled with short hair, this was a reasonable guess.
If this was the case, then all of the changes in the plot could be explained. Especially the changes in Xuanyuan Canye. This is probably entirely due to Shen Tianyu’s influence. So, his appearance here was actually to correct the plot that was changed by Shen Tianyu?
When he realised this, Su Zhan had to admire his own analytical ability and the wide scope of his thoughts. But at the same time, he felt uncomfortable. If his speculation was correct, it means that Leng Qianshang, or himself currently, was actually just a sad substitute. Because he was so similar to Shen Tianyu, he became a substitute.
For a moment, something flashed in Su Zhan’s blue eyes. Unconsciously, his whole person became sluggish. The image that he had just imagined in his mind a moment ago because of a certain someone’s actions, instantly turned into bubbles, bursting one by one. Finally, he calmed down.
Fu Yichen, who was behind him, was still focused on his hair and finally managed to tie his hair and let out a long breath, “Okay.” Although it was ugly, it was clean and neat. At least it won’t get tangled on the branches again.
“Let’s go.” Fu Yichen didn’t seem to notice the changes with Leng Qianshang who had become silent. He walked directly in front of him and crouched down, “There’s no food nearby, I’m guessing we won’t be able to leave this ghostly place today. We have to find a place to rest first and then solve our food problems.”
Before Fu Yichen could finish speaking, Leng Qianshang had slumped on his back without delay. But he seemed unusually quiet. Fu Yichen didn’t doubt anything. After he steadied himself, they embarked on the road to survival in the wild.
Admittedly, the author’s brain circuit was quite unique. Fu Yichen entered what seemed like another world not long after he left the area with Leng Qianshang on his back. On one side was the humid, dark and cold fog forest that was covered in vines. On the other side was a paradise full of lustrous plants and rivers flowing.
There’s no need to even guess, this was the place where the Male and Female Lead in the original text lived for more than ten days2. Along the way, Fu Yichen didn’t forget to locate the position of the Female Lead from the system. Fu Yichen was especially worried now that they were here. He was afraid that the power of the plot would destroy all his efforts and pull the Female Lead here.
[Please rest assured, host. I’m unable to sense her nearby.] The uncontrollable excitement of the released system naturally found the Male Lead with Male God Su’s face who was laying on Fu Yichen’s back. But the system obviously learnt how to restrain itself.
“I didn’t expect that there would be paradise at the bottom of this cliff.” Su Zhan held back the twitching corners of his mouth and sighed in surprise.
After Fu Yichen had put the other person down, he nodded in agreement, “Indeed, now we just need to find a way out.”
Looking around, they could see that they were surrounded by mountains. The valley was lush and the fragrance of flowers overflowed around them. There was a lake with clear water reflecting the blue skies and white clouds. The whole area looked like a land of fae folk. It’s just that the surrounding mountain peaks all disappeared into the clouds, telling them that they were still trapped at the bottom of the cliff.
The author’s description of this place wasn’t clear, only that it was ‘gorgeous, very beautiful… there’s mountains, there’s rivers, but they were unable to get out’. Fu Yichen couldn’t help but praise the author over how simple the descriptions were.
“Stay here first and wait, Zhen will go find a more suitable place for us.” Fu Yichen remembered that there was a cave nearby that the Male and Female Leads stayed in during their time here. Since there was a naturally formed shelter, there was no need for Fu Yichen to build a thatched hut with his bare hands.
“Hm.” Su Zhan nodded. In fact, he also needed some time to adjust his mentality.
Sure enough, it didn’t take long for Fu Yichen to discover the entrance of the natural cave that looked similar to an artificially carved door. The entire cave had an area of 20 to 30 square metres and a height of 3 to 4 metres. In addition, there was only one exit, so there won’t be a problem in keeping warm at night.
Fu Yichen just laughed out loud at this. Wasn’t this just a customised shelter suite in the wilderness? For this, he really had to thank the author for being so illogical. He didn’t want to wrong himself and refuse such kindness.
When Fu Yichen came back, Leng Qianshang was still sitting on the grass by the lake, motionless. When he got closer, he found that Leng Qianshang was staring at the reflection of the area on the lake in a daze. So Fu Yichen’s sudden footsteps made him turn back in a panic. He was relieved after seeing that it was only Fu Yichen.
“Is Qian Wang worried?” Leng Qianshang was an ambitious person. Although Fu Yichen suspects that he is interested in Xuanyuan Canye, this doesn’t hinder his goal at all. After all, in the original text, the Male Lead really wanted to kill the Second Male and become the Emperor.
Su Zhan was stunned. After a quick turn of his mind, he understood the meaning of the emperor and smiled calmly, “Your Majesty the Emperor of the whole world is not worried, what should I be scared of?”
Fu Yichen raised his eyebrows. Leng Qianshang’s attitude and melancholic eyes just now were probably his hallucinations. Fu Yichen felt unexpectedly happy. He then suddenly leaned over and hugged the other person horizontally without warning.
“Your Majesty!” Su Zhan was completely taken aback by this. The sudden action made his previous calmness disappear into the clouds. He was at a loss on where to put his hands. The corners of Su Zhan’s mouth rose a bit and he took a deep breath.
“What is Your Majesty trying to do!” His soul was frightened out of his body. Sure enough, his mentality that he had just adjusted previously, now returned to zero. Su Zhan stiffened with a sullen face and he could only pretend to be dead as usual at a critical moment. His stiff face could only cover his cowardice.
Fu Yichen glanced down at Leng Qianshang who had shrunk into a ball and the corners of his mouth hooked up, “Zhen’s back feels a bit sore.” What a pleasant reaction.
Translator Notes:
Not very happy right now. To the person that tried to hack into my Discord, whoever you are, damn you.
I hope that you trip on air and land in moose excrements.
I hope a skunk sneaks into your room and sprays all over your clothes.
I also hope that your maple syrup is moldy and that your pancakes stick to your skillet.
1
straighter than he will ever be
2
My apologies, it’s 10 days and not 10 years. Mistranslation on my part. I’ve corrected it on Chp 38.