Chapter 42: A Male Supporting Role’s Correct Treatment

Speaking of the original novel, Chen Yuanhao, and Chou Tu, these two underlings were actually pretty different. Even though they were both subdued by Qi Guan Rui’s dominating aura, Chou was still a Mo Ren after all. To finally be accepted, he definitely gave it his all… especially when he discovered his own master was cannibalism’s founder. His glass heart that had been kind of fragile was instantly restored to its original state.

As for how Chen Yuanhao was able to follow after Qi Guan Rui…it was most likely related to his nature.

As everyone knew, a man in the period of chuunibyou[1] would always think of himself as the only verity of this world. The male protagonist and male supporting characters of this website were mostly all in the chuunibyou period for a lifetime… within them, the intelligent ones also took the most spots. The smarter a person was, the longer their chuunibyou period lasted. Especially for those who’ve had a horrible past and such, then their chuunibyou period would be particularly long.

Without a doubt, Chen Yuanhao was one of them.

Chen Yuanhao felt he was already in despair towards that rotten family. Every person there was his and his mother’s enemy. So, the biggest wish within his heart was to be in authority of this family and dedicate the supreme honor to his beloved mother.

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He felt only a mother’s love was true love, all other emotions were vain and disloyal, unworthy of his attention as well. In order to let his mother get back what first belonged to her and more, in order to get revenge on that traitor who lied to his mother, he was willing to offer his own soul…

Long story short, he had an Oedipus Complex.

Now that he saw Qi Guan Rui, as everyone would expect, Chen Yuanhao was subdued. Of course, he didn’t forget to test him openly.

Qi Guan Rui smiled as he looked at him, then said, “How much your power is worth, will be how much I give you, you can give it all over to your mother.” He spoke slowly, “This world’s enormous, the Chen Family is just a tiny little corner.”

He was basically shining…

If we use a 2D world illustration to describe this, right now, Chen Yuanhao had a pair of sparkling starry eyes. Chou Tu was also very excited, they were only a step away from “fist saluting”.

Subduing the two core underlings was just that easy.

Next, Qi Guan Rui started to plan out a list of things.

During the time of Zi Ju Shu Bai was in secluded cultivation, Qi Guan Rui needed to keep an eye on those that he wanted to keep an eye on before again. He also wanted to order people to investigate all the suspicions he’d been hiding in his heart.

After that, when their influence gradually started to progress, it would be time for them to begin devouring some small families.

And the Wu Di heritage from the mountain cave will be the very first starting funds. They were all given to the counselor underling, Chen Yuanhao, to take care of.

Gu Bai, who’d entered the manual tower, was completely unaware that the plot-line he thought was only gonna happen after two years, was already taking general shape.

…Just like a hidden side-story that was supposed to only unlock after a long time, due to the protagonist’s early arrival, it was suddenly activated.

Currently, he had an elegant and cold face on as he bluntly threw three frozen beast heads on the register table.

Such a sharp, cool-ass acting style, it immediately had the registrar looking up to him.

After all, every master has a temper.

Especially, this new student in complete rich young master attire, who actually has extraordinary skills, one could tell from watching that he wasn’t easy.

The registrar’s attitude became a lot better, he quickly recorded it down then gave out a token for entering and exiting.

Yet, just as he finished recording and took out the token, two more frozen beast heads were thrown in front of him, looking hard, stiff, and ferocious as heck.

So, the registrar recorded it again.

And when he finished recording, two more were thrown in front.

He continued to record.

Then two more were thrown…

Recording over and over like this, the registrar was becoming a bit numbed.

He silently cursed inside, just what the fuck is wrong with you?! Why can’t you throw them out all at once? You playing with me?!

Though of course, the registrar was only an employee, as someone who watched the door of the manual tower’s first floor, he could not afford to offend these students that art confirmed to be in Qing Tian Academy.

Since the registrar was only an employee and as someone who watched the door of the manual tower’s first floor, he couldn’t afford to offend these students that are confirmed to be in Qing Tian Academy.

But everyone has a temper. The registrar’s smile disappeared since he thought he’d been played with. He spoke with a stoic face, “The enter and exit token for the first to the sixteenth floor, here.”

Once finished, he put a gold token on the table stoically as well.

Sadly, he couldn’t even dare to smack it over.

Gu Bai picked up the token, then finally realized how his earlier action could easily be misunderstood.

…In reality, he was also very wronged.

That registration table was too small, he had thirty-something beast heads in total. If he threw them out all at once, weren’t they gonna roll everywhere?

Since it was two heads per floor, Gu Bai thought that putting out two at a time was helping the other keep count as well.

In the end ╮(╯▽╰)╭

But due to his unapproachable image, Gu Bai couldn’t go beneath his dignity to apologize to the registrar either. So, he could only pretend not to see that constipated face and walk towards the second floor.

At the same time, the angered registrar very naturally expressed to his colleague when switching shift of how he met a True·Rude·Tall, Rich, Handsome·City Boy. The colleague who changed shift described the same gossip he’d heard to the next colleague who came in for their shift, then that colleague who changed shift continued to…

Thus, even though Gu Bai hadn’t come out for days after entering the Manual Tower, the story of him being arrogant, unsociable, bad-tempered and only his face was worth being seen, had already spread to many Manual Tower employees. So logically, he also wouldn’t encounter anything as awesome as “being introduced to the unrivaled manuals hidden within a pile of other manuals by an old Manual Tower supervisor who’s actually very powerful but hides his power.”

Encounters and whatever, as expected, they were the protagonist’s treatment only.

Gu Bai was very pleased with the current situation. Even though he didn’t know his social image had gotten worse, his social image wasn’t very good to begin with, so he couldn’t see much difference either.

He was now focused on swimming freely through the sea of martial art manuals, sucking in thousands of the Manual Tower’s knowledge continuously like a sponge.

He read from the second floor to the third, from the third to the fourth. And without realizing, a month had already passed.

Gu Bai sat crossed legged in a corner of the fourth floor, in front of him lay a wide-open manual, a type of ice martial skill was written on it. It had some similarities to the skills he trained with. Which had only been passed down in his family, and just happened to be good for reference.

He’d been studying this for quite a while, now he’d just happened to understand some of it, so he lifted his head, readied to stretch a little or something.

And coincidentally again, just as Gu Bai lifted his head, he saw a white figure flowing past in front of him.

…A ghost!

If this was a supernatural novel, then that should’ve been what Gu Bai screamed, yet this was a stallion novel after all; hence the person with flowing white clothes was definitely not a female ghost, instead, she was a peerless beauty.

But Gu Bai didn’t see the beauty’s face, he only saw snow-white clothing flowing by in front of him.

It had him blinking a bit, and he suddenly felt very relaxed inside.

Great! This should be the normal situation!

Usually, in stallion novels, no matter if it was the female lead, female support, or female extras, they were all the protagonist’s. And any good-looking women were always reserved.

Cannon fodders, male supports, and whatever could only ever hear the beauty’s fairy-like voices or see the beauty’s side profile/veil/mask/clothing corner/graceful back/bare hand. As for anything like those snow-white xx/the xx in front of their chest/the quivering xx/the nice curvy xx, those were all patented for the protagonist.

As a protagonist, even if they accidentally bumped into a tree while walking, a soft chick would fall out of the tree. But if it was a supporting character, even if he’d already broken into a chick’s room, ripped apart the chick’s clothing and he was naked as heck too, a protagonist would still be outside and could suddenly break in through the window glass[2] to take the chick away.

How truly sorrowful…

Over the past few days, Gu Bai kept continuously worrying about meeting chicks from the protagonist’s harem. He’d finally stopped encountering them during his time in the Manual Tower, it soothed his heart to the extreme. Especially now, not only did the chick who walked right in front of him not realize he was there, even he, himself, could see only a little bit of shadow. This was a True·Extra’s standard-setting!

Gu Bai, who had finally weakened his presence, carried on hiding and studying in the corner. Even his clean freak side that was born from being spoiled by Qi Guan Rui and the loyal dogs of Tian Du Cheng had lessened a lot.

Harsh secluded cultivation, harsh secluded cultivation, if it wasn’t a bit harsh, then how could it be cultivation?

He could endure it in the meantime, he’d just take a bath after he finished training…the Manual Tower was way cleaner than the wilderness anyway.

Time flowed like water, in the blink of an eye, another month passed.

In that month, Gu Bai unleashed his skill as an extra character to its full extent…… he was able to view much gossip.

Maybe it was because his hiding corner was really too ‘corner’ at those times, many large and small events kept happening near this place.

For example, during that time, Gu Bai saw five cases of people bullying others with power and stealing their manuals. Three of the weaklings counterattacking. Two of people having an affair. One case of a rich young master teasing a beauty, but the beauty ended up getting saved by a hero. Two of a tall, rich, and handsome guy getting slapped in the face[3]. Two of someone pretending to be weak to overpower a strong opponent… this could be compared to the best play of the year, it literally went on every day with unceasing drama.

It immensely satisfied Gu Bai’s dense curiosity that was deeply hidden.

At the same time, Gu Bai realized that after he’d read piles of manuals, there was also a slight sign of him being able to break through the barrier from a High-Level Wu Jun to a Low-Level Wu Wang.

Quality changes when the quantity changes, and when the quantity is increased, naturally, the quality will change.

At this time, he needed to go out and fight with someone to break through, to create a cart behind closed doors won’t do now.

So, Gu Bai planned to go out.

Just as he came out the door, Gu Bai immediately used his martial skills to speed straight towards the dorms.

He could still endure it when reading manuals during his secluded cultivation in the Manual Tower, once he got out, his whole body felt fucking dusty.

He was at his fastest speed, looking just like a trail of light smoke, and got back in just minutes.

But Gu Bai realized that Qi Guan Rui wasn’t in the dorm.

…He was probably out to patrol his business for him?

How dedicated, it was worth a like.

Yet thinking of it in a new light, Gu Bai was also a bit worried.

It’d be fine if he really went to patrol on the business, but if he was out to date a soft chick…

Fuck! Definitely, do not be interested in the psycho protagonist’s chick again!

With such a complicated and conflicted mind, Gu Bai made a bright snap with his fingers.

Instantly, the four perfect beauties appeared delicately.

Gu Bai: “I want to bath.”

The perfect beauties: “…Roger, city governor.”

As for Qi Guan Rui at this time, he was actually busy.

What he was being busy for also happened to be the two things that Gu Bai thought of, except there was a slight difference.

First, he really was with a chick, but it wasn’t him who went to find the chick of his own will, it was a coincidence.

So, why was there a coincidence? That was because he was also indeed patrolling a business.

Except, this business wasn’t Gu Bai’s little restaurant that just started and was barely standing steadily on its feet, but Qi Guan Rui’s own business.

……He used Chen Yuanhao’s power to build a new business as well, a business to service women.