Chapter 43: The Villain Senior Brother Is About to Turn Dark, the Psychotic Junior Brother Pretends to Be Blind [43]

Chapter 43: The Villain Senior Brother Goes Dark, The Unhinged Junior Brother Fakes Being Blind [43]

Bai Yan didn't stop 717—after all, he also wanted to know what Ye Beiyu was currently up to.

Unfortunately, he was now locked here, and since he wanted Ye Beiyu's good fortune, he naturally didn't wish to leave.

With 717's help, it was much more convenient.

Bai Yan hooked the chain with his fingertip, a trace of darkness flashing through his eyes.

Ye Beiyu...

He thought that from the moment he entered the demon realm, they should have completely severed ties, and that when they met again in the future, it would be a life-and-death battle.

He never expected it to turn out like this.

For the following half month or so, Ye Beiyu would return every day to keep him company, and naturally, those intimate moments were a regular occurrence.

But now, Bai Yan wasn't so repulsed anymore.

He had originally thought it would be quite torturous, but Ye Beiyu was truly gentle in these matters, only going too far when he was annoyed that Bai Yan showed no reaction.

Bai Yan cooperated by playing along and acting docile, which allowed him to suffer less and also gain more good fortune.

And Ye Beiyu seemed to have a good read on what he liked, knowing exactly how to coax him.

After every intimate encounter, he would let his fox tail out and let Bai Yan hold it in his arms.

He would clean him up and gently kiss his shoulder.

"Senior Brother... I had a dream yesterday, dreaming that you didn't want me anymore, and I couldn't find you no matter what."

Ye Beiyu held Bai Yan as they soaked in the warm pool, pressing the fox tail into his hand.

He lowered his head, rubbing his fluffy fox ears against Bai Yan's neck.

"Senior Brother, touch it."

Ye Beiyu spoke softly, like a kid who nearly lost his favorite treat, both aggrieved and stubborn.

"Senior Brother, don't abandon me, don't leave me... It was you who said I could come find you, you said to let me come find you, but you couldn't recognize me."

Bai Yan frowned, raising his hand to push away the person leaning on his shoulder.

Ye Beiyu's current state was clearly drunk, talking nonsense.

When had he ever said he could come find him?

Was it when he pushed him into the abyss?

He was about to push him into the abyss, yet he still clung to that memory—was that really normal...

Just as Bai Yan was pondering this question and wondering if something was wrong with Ye Beiyu, the rejected Ye Beiyu discontentedly hugged him again, wrapping his arms and legs around him, trapping him tightly in his embrace, like he was scared Bai Yan would disappear in a blink.

Bai Yan barely suppressed the urge to just toss him out.

The next moment, he heard Ye Beiyu whisper in his ear:

"Senior Brother... Senior Brother, do you really not remember me?"

"You saved me before, and you even said, you said I could come find you... I joined the Spirit Mountain Sect because of you, Senior Brother... I really, really love you..."

Bai Yan felt something wet on his neck as he listened.

He frowned. It was Ye Beiyu's tears.

Ye Beiyu was crying?

This realization made Bai Yan's heart waver a little.

But thinking of how Ye Beiyu had once pretended to cry and act weak in front of him, that faint, strange feeling quickly faded.

Moreover, he didn't remember ever saving Ye Beiyu.

He hadn't been in this world for long; if anything had happened, it should have been the original host's doing.

But the original host hated and despised him, so there's no way he would have saved him.

Furthermore, before the Spirit Mountain Sect, they shouldn't have crossed paths at all.

Was Ye Beiyu confusing him with someone else?

[717, what's going on? Who saved Ye Beiyu?]

Bai Yan raised his hand to press down on Ye Beiyu's hand covering his lower abdomen, stopping him from going any lower.

717 stared at the pixelated scene in front of him, was quiet for a long moment, before finally dug up the records from when they first arrived in this mission world.

He pulled up the recording for Bai Yan to watch, then let out an involuntary sigh.

[You know what? You actually did save him!]

[It was right after we first got to this mission world.]

[But you probably didn't notice, since you were doing a bunch of sect missions during that time and rescued a ton of people. No wonder you don't remember.]

Bai Yan went quiet.

He remembered now. When he first arrived in this world, Ye Beiyu wasn't due to come up the mountain for a while.

To keep up his image as the senior brother and to get better resources, he had done quite a few missions.

He'd even used missions as an excuse to head down the mountain, sneaking into a few secret realms and grabbing plenty of treasures to cultivate with.

That was exactly why he was confident he could beat Ye Beiyu in the storyline once he became the Demon Sovereign.

He'd been planning to humiliate Ye Beiyu from way back then.

Everyone saw him as a talented, kind senior brother.

But he never expected Ye Beiyu to be among the people he'd saved.

He had zero memory of that...

So their fates had been tied together from back then?

That explained why later, no matter how much he tormented and degraded him, he could still end up falling for him.

So that was why—there was this life-saving favor between them after all.

[Yeah, earlier I was wondering why the Divine Sword Sect was so special—it seemed like a world bug. But later I realized that was also just because of Ye Beiyu.]

[Ye Beiyu must have joined the Spirit Mountain Sect in disguise because of what you said.]

Bai Yan shut his eyes, his feelings a complicated mess.

So Ye Beiyu wasn't blind at all—in fact, he was far more powerful than Bai Yan had ever imagined.

And yet, despite all that, he still willingly stayed by Bai Yan's side, letting himself be humiliated.

Is liking someone really worth going this far?

Bai Yan didn't know.

He simply looked at the person beside him, pressing his lips together, and reached up to gently touch his face.

If it weren't for the roles of protagonist and antagonist, he probably wouldn't have been so repelled by Ye Beiyu.

But as the villain, he'd never had any liking for the protagonist, and on top of that, he needed the protagonist's fortune.

So when he found out everything Ye Beiyu showed him was an act, he actually felt relieved.

If Ye Beiyu had fully opposed him, then he wouldn't have had to hesitate when the time came to strike.

But things had come to this—he'd prepared himself thoroughly, yet Ye Beiyu never gave him the chance.

Bai Yan's eyelashes fluttered. He didn't really like Ye Beiyu—even now, he was just using him.

But now that he knew they'd met much earlier, and understood why Ye Beiyu had done all this—

His feelings were unavoidably tangled and confused.

He'd always seen Ye Beiyu as his archenemy—a foe to the bitter end. Now he was being told this person liked him—and had liked him for a long time.

Playing the villain, he was bound to end up with everyone turning their backs on him. After so many missions, there were few who'd ever treated him sincerely.

Bai Yan couldn't help but soften toward people who genuinely liked him.

Even if that person was the protagonist he'd once hated the most.

Bai Yan stood up, carrying Ye Beiyu, who had fallen asleep leaning against his shoulder. With a slight flick of his fingers, he used spiritual energy to dry them both off, then laid him down on the bed.

The chain on his wrist was linked to Ye Beiyu's at the other end.

Bai Yan clicked his tongue softly. Ye Beiyu really had some nerve.

Though he couldn't unlock the Soul-locking Chain, if he wanted to, he could simply kill him, cut off his wrist, and leave.

That way, the Soul-locking Chain couldn't hold him, and the Twin Gu Worm wouldn't work.

Or was it because Ye Beiyu had been so well-behaved lately that he thought Bai Yan couldn't be that ruthless?

Bai Yan reached out and poked Ye Beiyu's cheek, then leaned into his arms and hugged his tail.

But right now, he truly had no intention of doing such a thing.

What Bai Yan didn't know was that after he fell asleep, the person beside him suddenly opened his eyes—there wasn't a trace of drunkenness in them, he was perfectly clear-headed.

A faint smile curved at the corner of Ye Beiyu's lips as he gazed at the person nestled in his arms, his eyes brimming with barely concealed joy.

He tugged at the blanket and carefully tucked it around Bai Yan, but didn't dare move the arm that was being pressed.

"I bet right."

Ye Beiyu kissed Bai Yan's brow and whispered softly,

"Senior Brother, you must like me at least a little bit too... right?"