Their information flashed by in Gu Bai’s head in an instant.
Chen Yuanhao, the second son of the Chen Family, had great talents but no rights of inheritance.
He had an elder brother from a different mother, basically, he was the child of his Dad’s second wife.
Logically, in this kind of situation, his mother should’ve been a pitiful white lotus and his father’s true love. His elder brother should be the poor child here.
But really, things were flipped around in their family.
The current head of the Chen Family’s martial skills weren’t too good, if not for the fact that he was the only one with the main bloodline, then he wouldn’t have been able to obtain this position either.
His low power could be overlooked, yet, he was also a romantic.
The Chen Family Head fell for a performer[1] at a brothel when he was young. He fell for her at first sight. He wanted to care for and love her at the second. And he wanted to take her home and make her his wife at the third.
Of course, such a big, famous family would definitely not want someone like that to be their head’s wife, so they rejected the idea through and through.
Since the Chen Family Head was restrained by the elders, he didn’t dare take the performer home. After finishing what he had to do, the performer was pregnant.
Sadly, the performer didn’t have good blessings, it wasn’t false that she’d had a son, but she died from labor.
So, the Chen Family Head was sad, in pain, he rolled around and cried out. This finally made the elders allow the dead performer’s name to be recorded in the family history scroll as his first wife, the child also became the official eldest son. In exchange for that, the Chen Family Head had to marry another wife, and so, along came Chen Yuanhao.
It was easy enough to guess though, the Chen Family Head kept enough caution up for that wife and the second son, while the rest of his dedication went towards delivering the family into the hands of the eldest son.
Based on the family rule, that was the right choice. But based on identity, there were still more people who supported Chen Yuanhao.
So logically, Chen Yuanhao became the biggest enemy of the Chen Family Head and his eldest brother’s, described as the “needle in their eyes, prick within their flesh.”
Later, Chen Yuanhao also got tired of fighting, so he came to the Qing Tian Academy to study. He was accepted very easily and got to meet Chou Tu and the protagonist.
Under the protagonist’s bitchass halo, he was successfully captured by him and became his loyal underling, he held the position of Adviser #1.
As for Chou Tu, his identity was a lot more complex than Chen Yuanhao’s.
The complexity wasn’t a reflection on his family but on himself.
He was a Mo Ren, he went into qi deviation around the age of ten. But he also had quite a bit of talent, so even though his martial energy flowed backward, he didn’t need to consume humans.
Though of course, that was also the reason for his low level of power.
But along with more and more barriers blocking him, Chou Tu slowly felt the excitement for blood. He was in a rush, then thought of coming to the Qing Tian Academy to find a solution.
After meeting the protagonist, he carried out missions for the protagonist and the protagonist helped cover for him.
After all, the protagonist was a being that had devoured a whole city before, to compare Chou Tu with him, wasn’t he super weak?
Because of that, after meeting the protagonist, Chou Tu no longer needed to experience the pain he had experienced before ╮(╯▽╰)╭
Chen Yuanhao and Chou Tu counted as the two most loyal underlings. From the beginning to the end of the novel, even though the protagonist didn’t trust anyone, towards the two of them, he……used them quite a bit. For example, after doing it with a woman and needing to clean up, he would find Chen Yuanhao. After doing it with a woman and causing consequences → like cannon fodder A, B, and C, he would find Chou Tu.
After obtaining underlings 1 and 2, the protagonist had a lot more conveniences in life.
Thinking about it, both were older than the protagonist by a few years, when the protagonist came to the Qing Tian Academy, they were already students of the inner academy. So, if they came to sign up now, then it seemed like quite a reasonable time too.
Especially this Chen Yuanhao, he was especially good at making connections. Even though he didn’t create any associations or whatever himself, but in almost all of the existing associations, there were always some people that he was on good terms with. What a slick, clever one.
According to that method of actions, for Chen Yuanhao to come see him, it would fit his character.
Gu Bai sighed.
Even though this world had a psycho, but transmigrating into this novel might’ve been better than other novels.
Since this novel was his first novel, it was the one that he was the most passionate about and had the most dedication for. He could read back many of the plot settings easily. If it were some novel he wrote in later times, with less seriousness……it would’ve been a problem for him to just remember some of the characters in there, hun.
Gu Bai liked to space off with no expression, and it didn’t corrupt his atmosphere either. Though he could fool other people, he couldn’t fool Qi Guan Rui.
Qi Guan Rui realized that since those two wild men came in, Gu Bai’s expression had been a bit absentminded, and he would occasionally lock his eyes on those two and space out……
Did these two have something special? Qi Guan Rui’s eyes suddenly became a bit dark.
Gu Bai definitely didn’t know what his Gu Xiao Shan was thinking about, at the moment, he was only thinking that after this first meeting with the psycho protagonist’s underlings, he would immediately make the decision to stay away from them.
Even though these two’s personalities weren’t bad, but……herher.
You think he’d keep those ticking bombs that could lure the protagonist over at any time?!
Even if it was a “relationship that runs as bland as water,” it wasn’t okay!
In the novel, no matter if they were the protagonist’s underling’s friend/family/subordinate/mistress/whatever relatives, anyone with any type of relation was completely used up by the protagonist. Why would he let the protagonist have a chance to meet him?
He definitely couldn’t let down his guard, okay?!
So came the conversation below.
Chen Yuanhao: “I’ve heard a thing or two about City Governor Zi Ju, and I’ve admired the City Governor, so I came forward like this, I hope the City Governor doesn’t see fault in it.”
Gu Bai: “Mn.”
Compliment, yeah, just keep complimenting, do you think I would fall for it?
Chen Yuanhao: “The City Governor must be here to study, I’m not a clever one, so I came here with thick skins to get closer to the City Governor. If there’s any problem when testing, I hope the City Governor will help out.”
Gu Bai: “Wu.”
Protect my ass, do you think I don’t know how the test goes? Any freaking Wu Jun below the age of twenty-five is accepted without a doubt, what is a Beginner Wu Jun like you scared of?
Chen Yuanhao: “But thinking about my power level again, it shouldn’t be too hard.”
Gu Bai: “Mn.”
Isn’t that obvious? Roundabout, even if you keep going at it, I still wouldn’t believe you!
Chen Yuanhao: “I don’t know if the City Governor knows, but, within the inner academy……it’s not too peaceful.”
Gu Bai: “I know.”
Aren’t you just trying to say that the water in there is deep and you want me to think of you as a friend and help each other out? I wouldn’t make such a carefree promise and let you catch my weakness, humph!
Chen Yuanhao: Blahblahblah……
Gu Bai: Mn.
After a whole shichen of negotiation, Chen Yuanhao had already gone through five cups of tea for his throat to relax.
Qi Guan Rui smiled, that tea was brewed by him.
Even though he couldn’t make any big actions, he had put a teeny bit of his natural poison in there.
That little bit of poison wouldn’t kill someone, and plus, almost no one could identify it, which also wouldn’t bring any harm to the person.
The only bad point of it was that for anyone who drank the poison, from then on, their location would be easily known to him.
No matter what, his instincts thought these two would be very useful.
Plus……
Qi Guan Rui looked at the back of the head of the person in front of him, his eyes suddenly turned very dark.
The scene of him talking to Zi Ju Shu Bai so casually, with all smiles, sure was annoying to him.
Gu Bai kept his stone face on while not losing his manner of replying with a “mn”, but as for any other words……they didn’t exist.
After a while, Chen Yuanhao felt like he couldn’t stay there any longer, so he took Chou Tu and they bid their goodbyes.
Gu Bai looked at how Chen Yuanhao grabbed onto Chou Tu’s arm with a very strange look, and a group of gays ran across his heart.
But he quickly shook his head, thinking that his own imagination was too dirty.
The relationship between these two, who could understand them better than the author himself?
No matter how gay-like he’d written them, they were all just pure bromance!
As expected, Chen Yuanhao let go after just a few steps, Chou Tu acted very natural as well.
Gu Bai nodded silently, good. Even if men from the Shi Dian website lie on one bed, that would be called “simply sleeping on the same bed”, it has nothing to do with being gay!
In the next moment, Gu Bai felt Qi Guan Rui’s hands that were still massaging him, then spoke, “Xiao Shan, help me send the guests off.”
Even though he hadn’t agreed to anything, he couldn’t exactly mess it up either. Or else, once they became the protagonist’s underlings and spilled some beans about him. What if the psycho suddenly thought that changing his taste wouldn’t be too bad either and came to find him? One needed to know that his Hun Yuan Wu Ti was pretty good as well
The taste might even be marvelous!
So, he couldn’t have just let them leave without a single reaction, that would’ve been too cold. He also couldn’t have sent them off himself, that would’ve seemed too friendly.
So, letting Gu Xiao Shan send them off in his place was obviously the best.
Since he was a personal guard……he believed that Xiao Shan would also be willing.
As expected, Qi Guan Rui wasn’t surprised.
Even though he didn’t know why Zi Ju Shu Bai would have refused the connection of those two with potentials, but he was very happy about this.
Without a doubt, he liked Zi Ju Shu Bai’s personality.
High above, wouldn’t let anyone be close to him……except him.
Except only Qi Guan Rui himself.
He sent the two out the door very calmly, then Qi Guan Rui smiled brightly, “The City Governor always has too little to say and is only passionate about martial arts, if there was any unintentional negligence, I hope the two would forgive it.”
Chen Yuanhao fanned his fan, he was very casual, “The City Governor has a great temper, he is a true man. We can’t even be grateful enough, how could we have any complaints? I should be the one hoping that the City Governor didn’t dislike my ramblings.”
Qi Guan Rui’s smile became even warmer, “The City Governor obviously……wouldn’t dislike it.”
With his hands behind his back, his ten fingers tightened together quietly.
Too bad, that pain didn’t seem to be enough either.
Or else, how was the anger that he’d suppressed in his heart boiling even harder?
After bidding their goodbyes, both went their separate ways.
Qi Guan Rui speed walked all the way back to the room, seeing Gu Bai with his cold face, it finally suppressed the screaming anger within him.
As for Chen Yuanhao and Chou Tu, they also quickly went to a faraway place.
Then, talking became a lot easier.
Chan Yuanhao’s expression went from a casual and joking one to a more serious one, “Chou Tu, what do you think?”
Strangely, Chou Tu didn’t retort back to him this time, instead, he answered straightforwardly, “Hard to see through.”
Xiao’s Comments: Jelly, so many vinegar jars spilling for no reason~