"I laughed because something funny happened to me."
He looked up and stared directly into Shen Yu's dark eyes, shaking the chains on his hands: "The dignified Master Shen is actually afraid of a nobody like me who can't even kill a chicken, and you've gone to such lengths to tie me up. If word gets out, who wouldn't find it laughable?"
"How dare you speak to Master Shen like that! You're asking for death!"
Before Shen Yu could speak, Yu Tang's bodyguard kicked him, making the iron chains clang.
Yu Tang was stunned for a moment.
[Host, you've activated the pain relief function, remember to fake pain! Fake pain!]
Oh right.
Yu Tang then realized what was happening and belatedly cried out in pain.
The system bluntly replied: [Host, you didn't buy your Best Actor title, did you?]
Yu Tang: I just didn't realize it yet.
Yu Tang: Look, if he hit me again, I definitely wouldn't behave like this.
As Yu Tang was speaking, he saw Shen Yu lift his leg and walk towards him.
He quickly told the system in his mind: System, I think he's going to beat me up. I'm ready. Just wait and see my acting skills.
He watched with great anticipation as Shen Yu raised his silver cane.
Instead of hitting himself, the blow struck the bodyguard's leg hard.
"ah--"
The crisp sound of bones breaking and the man's screams echoed in the room, leaving Yu Tang somewhat stunned.
"Master Shen, Master Shen, spare me, spare me!" The bodyguard, despite his broken leg, struggled to his feet and kowtowed to Shen Yu, begging for mercy: "I know I was wrong, please, Master Shen, have mercy on me..."
"You know you were wrong?" Shen Yu took out a clean handkerchief from his pocket and wiped his cane. "Then tell me, what did you do wrong?"
"I... I shouldn't have acted so presumptuously without asking your opinion!"
“Not bad…” Shen Yu frowned and threw the handkerchief, which looked perfectly clean, on the ground: “Be careful next time.”
"Go out and receive your punishment."
"Yes, yes!" The man felt as if he had been granted a pardon and hurriedly scrambled out the door.
Yu Tang was dumbfounded.
It wasn't until Shen Yu pressed the bottom of his cane against the wound on his abdomen that he realized he had to pretend to be in pain.
The handsome man frowned, water droplets dripped down his cheeks, and his lips were as pale as frost, trembling slightly from the pain.
Yu Tang's expression seemed to please Shen Yu.
He increased the pressure, and only chuckled when he saw Yu Tang's legs trembling from the pain.
“You know what?” he said, “you’re the first person who’s ever dared to talk to me like that.”
"So I decided..." When the young man smiled, his face revealed a stunning beauty that was inconsistent with his cold-blooded personality, like a bewitching fairy, unbelievably beautiful.
"I'll give you a chance to live."
Chapter 2
Died a second time for the villain (02)
"What Master Shen said is... interesting..." Yu Tang pretended to be in pain while secretly sighing in his heart that this kid was really a pervert, what a waste of such a handsome face.
"If I hadn't saved you, you wouldn't be standing here unharmed. And now you repay kindness with enmity, arbitrarily taking my life. Don't you think that's beneath you?"
"Then let me put it another way." Shen Yu placed his cane against Yu Tang's neck, pressed the button beside him, and the blade automatically popped out, cutting a thin wound on the man's neck.
If it had been just a few minutes closer, it would have severed Yu Tang's artery, and there would have been no way to save him.
He laughed: "If you stay in this room for five days without eating or drinking, I will keep you by my side as you wish, how about it?"
Yu Tang's heart skipped a beat: "What do you mean by 'as I wish'?"
"Still pretending..." Shen Yu revealed a knowing look and asked him, "Aren't you an undercover agent sent by Han Zichen?"
Yu Tang: ? Damn! How did he know all this now?!
[Oh my god! I...I don't know either! It wasn't mentioned in the plot!]
The system was even more panicked than him: [This is it, we're doomed. Knowing his temper, he might kill you in a heartbeat!]
And if you die prematurely, the mission will fail, and all your previous efforts will be wasted!
Yu Tang tried to calm himself down: It's okay, we still have a chance. As long as we fulfill his request, we can survive.
But asking you to go without food or water for five days while you're injured is practically sending you to your death...
Yu Tang: Let's try anything, even if it's a dead end.
Composing himself, Yu Tang gave an awkward laugh: "So Master Shen knew."
He had no intention of hiding it any longer.
After all, it's better to be honest with someone like Shen Yu.
"With my abilities, what can't I find out?"
"Do you still stand by what you just said?"
“You’re quite adaptable and not stubborn.” Shen Yu smiled and moved his cane away. “I’m starting to like you a little.”
[Ding—Shen Yu's favorability +0.001, current favorability 0.001, please, pfft, please keep up the good work, host! Hahaha!]
The system couldn't help but laugh.
Yu Tang was also completely bewildered.
Good grief, you really only like it a little?
“I always keep my word.” Shen Yu pointed to the wall clock: “From now until 5:10 pm five days from now, I will come to find you.”
"I hope you'll still be alive by then."
After saying that, he turned and left.
Yu Tang exhaled a breath of stale air and sighed inwardly, "It's really tiring to be around a pervert."
"Host, can you hold on?"
The system felt sorry for them: "They'll have to go hungry for five days."
Yu Tang: What's there to worry about?
He's suffered a lot more in the past; this little difficulty won't defeat him.
Shen Yu still had some conscience; he had the bodyguards untie the chains binding him and free his hands.
Water getting into the wound can cause inflammation and infection, leading to a high fever.
If he wasn't given food and water, Yu Tang felt hot and cold all over, and could only curl up and endure it with difficulty.
But thanks to the high fever, he didn't feel too hungry, and he even fainted in the last three days.
Shen Yu looked at the man curled up in a ball on the monitor, his eyes slightly glazed over, then he curled his lips in a mocking smile: "Han Zichen really has raised a good, obedient dog."
When the five days were up, Shen Yu went to the interrogation room in person. He used his cane to turn Yu Tang over and poked the bottom of the cane into the man's chest. Feeling the slight throbbing, he inexplicably breathed a sigh of relief.
The bodyguards followed and cautiously asked, "Mr. Shen, what do you think we should do with him?"
Shen Yu raised his cane: "Take him there..."
“Ah Sheng… Ah, Sheng…”
Shen Yu was interrupted. He turned to look at Yu Tang and frowned: "Asheng?"
Even while unconscious, he kept calling out someone's name; it must have been someone very important to him.
It seems we need to send someone to investigate.
"Mr. Shen?"
Shen Yu snapped out of his daze: "Take him to our family home and have Song Cheng come to treat him."
When Yu Tang woke up again, she found that she was no longer lying on the cold floor.
Instead, they were put on a clean and comfortable bed, which was a relief.
It seems he's pulled through this time.
Still somewhat disoriented, Yu Tang recalled a dream he had after falling unconscious. In the dream, a young man with a blurred face was crying bitterly in front of a tombstone, and he seemed to have called out the person's name. But upon waking, he remembered nothing.
It might have happened in the previous world, but the memory has been erased, and he doesn't need to know anymore.
"Is he awake?" Thinking this, Shen Yu pushed open the door and walked step by step to him, leaning on his cane.
In the dimly lit interrogation room, Yu Tang thought Shen Yu was just putting on an act, trying to look good.
But now that the light is bright, he realizes that Shen Yu has a slight limp.
Although it's not obvious, it becomes especially jarring when it appears on someone who looks perfect from head to toe.
What might this person have experienced in the past?
The thought flashed through his mind, and Yu Tang replied, "Then I must thank Master Shen for sparing my life."
His voice was so hoarse, like fingernails scraping sandpaper, it was extremely unpleasant to hear.
Shen Yu frowned and gestured to the woman who followed behind him: "Go get him a glass of water."
The woman nodded, took a glass of water from Yu Tang's glass, and handed it to him.
Yu Tang only felt a little better after drinking it.
Shen Yu sat down on a chair to the side and said softly, "Pour it again..."
Upon hearing this, the woman went to pour herself another glass.
Yu Tang was surprised that Shen Yu could notice that he hadn't had enough drinks; he was quite observant.
He finished drinking, handed it to the woman, and then heard Shen Yu say, "Pour another one..."
After finishing his third glass of water, Yu Tang felt a bit nauseous in his stomach, and he looked at Shen Yu.