They started to eat heartily, eating as if they hadn't eaten in years.
All that aloofness, arrogance, and shyness has vanished.
His eyes were gleaming green, like a starving wolf, with only one thought on his mind: to eat.
When he had almost finished eating, Wei Yuan slowed down and looked up again.
Then she saw the handsome man opposite her who had been staring at her.
Her smile was both doting and gentle.
She resembles her mother in some ways, yet there are significant differences.
Wei Yuan stared in disbelief, his chopsticks hovering over a piece of pastry, untouched for a long time.
"Look at what you're eating, it's all smeared on your mouth." Yu Tang said helplessly, reaching out to wipe the rice grains from Wei Yuan's mouth.
Warm fingers pressed against the skin and then slowly withdrew.
Wei Yuan suddenly tensed up, a strange heat rising in his heart, causing him to want to say something, but all he could manage was a sound.
"belch--"
Chapter 9
Died for the villain for the tenth time (09)
"Cough..." Yu Tang was stunned for a moment, then covered his mouth and couldn't help but laugh out loud, his shoulders shaking.
He was laughing so hard he almost died laughing. How could this kid be so cute?
If he were Wei Yuan, he'd probably be so embarrassed he'd dig his toes into the ground!
Upon hearing his suppressed laughter, Wei Yuan's face flushed rapidly.
His neck and face turned bright red. He quickly grabbed a cup and gulped down a mouthful of water, then lowered his head, as if he wanted to bury it under the table.
"You must have eaten too fast." To save Wei Yuan's face, Yu Tang made an excuse for him: "But, the burping means you're really full this time. Don't feel embarrassed."
Wei Yuan's head was still buzzing.
His hand holding the chopsticks froze there, and it took him a while to remember what he was about to say.
“Before…” He looked up at Yu Tang, “I’m sorry…”
After apologizing, he quickly lowered his head, poked at the pastry, and said, "I was the one who lost my temper."
"When I was a child, all I could rely on was my mother and the gods she spoke of."
And imagining that the gods would one day come to save me was the driving force that kept me going for a long time.
“I’ve never met a good person. You’re the first…”
Wei Yuan's voice was a little hoarse as he repeated, "You are the first person to be so good to me."
"I don't know what I can do for you as your disciple, but still..."
He rose from the table, knelt before Yu Tang, and bowed deeply.
He placed both hands under his forehead, close to the ground.
A deep but earnest voice echoed in the private room of the restaurant.
"Thank you for bringing me to the realm of the gods."
"Thank you for being so kind to me."
"Thank you……"
“You are willing to accept me as your apprentice.”
Yu Tang was slightly taken aback.
He hadn't expected Wei Yuan to suddenly become so sensible.
He thought the kid was going to throw a tantrum for a while longer.
But things aren't so bad as they are now.
Thinking of Wei Yuan's rebellious behavior in Qinghuai Valley, Yu Tang didn't help him up. Instead, he propped his chin up, sat in his seat, looked at the kneeling boy below, and teased, "Didn't you say you'd walk your own path? Now you're regretting it?"
Wei Yuan stiffened and whispered, "I'm sorry..."
“It was my mistake to speak to my benefactor in that tone…”
But the next moment, he heard footsteps in front of him and could feel the man walk up to him and squat down.
He read aloud, "Raise your head."
Wei Yuan obediently looked up, and just as his gaze met Yu Tang's, the man flicked him on the forehead with a light tap.
"I don't want you to admit your mistakes," Yu Tang smiled at him. "I just want to ask you, in the future, if you want to take that path, would it be okay to include me?"
Outside the private room, the street was bustling with activity, but inside, time seemed to stand still for a moment.
Wei Yuan unconsciously widened his eyes, staring blankly at the man with the warm smile.
After a long while, he finally nodded and gave a heavy "Mmm".
Yu Tang patted his hair with satisfaction and urged, "Now that we've reached a consensus, call me 'Master' again so I can hear it."
"Master..."
"Hmm, good girl."
After praising Wei Yuan, Yu Tang helped him up, paid the bill, and left the restaurant.
Once on the street, he handed Wei Yuan a straw stick with candied hawthorns stuck in it, which he had preserved well using magic, and had someone hold it.
I bought a lot more candy and stuffed it into my personal space.
On the way back, he peeled one and put it in his own mouth, then peeled another and stuffed it into Wei Yuan's mouth.
Seeing the kid's eyes light up again filled me with a great sense of accomplishment.
Back in Qinghuai Valley, Yu Tang used magic to create a partition in his wooden house, placing a bed and a table inside, to serve as Wei Yuan's room.
Then he began a deep conversation with Wei Yuan.
"I found you on the battlefield of demon slaying..." Yu Tang did not hide anything from Wei Yuan, but told him what had happened in the past few days.
This includes the fact that when he picked up Wei Yuan, Wei Yuan was possessed by demonic energy and wanted to kill him.
So he devised a plan and told Wei Yuan everything about how Wei Yuan's demonic energy was sealed behind his back.
“The divine realm cannot tolerate demons, so we must keep your identity a secret from everyone who sees you.” Yu Tang assured Wei Yuan, “But don’t worry, I will eventually find a way to extract all the demonic energy from your body.”
Wei Yuan clutched his clothes tightly, his heart filled with gratitude.
No wonder he no longer felt that bone-corroding pain; it was indeed this man who saved him.
"Thank you... Master..."
"There's nothing to thank me for." Yu Tang tentatively asked Wei Yuan, "Now, can you tell me what you've been through before?"
When asked about this, Wei Yuan's pupils trembled slightly.
Yu Tang noticed and patted him on the shoulder: "If you feel uncomfortable, just forget about it."
“It’s alright…” Wei Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, interlaced his fingers, clenched them, and told Yu Tang about his experiences over the past ten years.
“I don’t have a very clear memory of what I had before I was five years old,” Wei Yuan said. “I only remember that my mother and I were thrown into the rain, and there were people around us who were watching coldly.”
Not long after, we were captured by masked monks and taken to a place called Ten Thousand Caves Mountain.
"Mount Wanku is located right in the center of the rift between the Demon Realm and the Human Realm. It is so high that the top of the mountain cannot be seen. I have also heard those cultivators joke that Mount Wanku is the culprit that cut the rift between the two realms."
"There were many women and children who were captured and taken to Wanku Mountain with me."
"At first, the masked monks will lead us to the cave at the bottom of Wanku Mountain, where women are defiled by demons and children are injected with demons."
At this point, Wei Yuan clenched his fists, calmed himself down for a moment, and then continued, "Women who are defiled by demons have only two fates: either they die during the process of being defiled, or they give birth to a half-human, half-demon monster and then die."
Children whose bodies are infused with monsters also have two possible endings.
One was eaten by a monster, the other's body spontaneously fought for dominance with the monster, ultimately devouring it.
"My mother struggled to live for six months, but went insane while pregnant with the demonic fetus. She cut open her own stomach and died in the night."
Even though these things happened a long time ago, Wei Yuan still felt a suffocating pain in his heart when he said them.
"And I... survived."
He continued, recalling, "Wanku Mountain has tens of thousands of caves."
"The monsters in each cave are of different levels. The higher you go, the higher the level of the monsters and the more dangerous they become."
"The first time, one of my legs was eaten. But I successfully devoured the monster, so the leg regenerated."
"Both arms were eaten the second time..."
"The third time, the fourth time..."
Wei Yuan struggled to breathe, his voice tinged with extreme pain: "In ten years, I was eaten by demons tens of thousands of times, and finally, at the age of fifteen, I reached the top of Ten Thousand Caves Mountain."
He told Yu Tang, "Then, on that occasion, I lost consciousness."
"I thought I was dead, but when I opened my eyes again, I met you."
Chapter 10
Died for the villain for the tenth time (10)
As Yu Tang listened to his account, a chill ran down his spine.
Having experienced the previous worlds, he thought he was mentally prepared for the villain's tragic past.
But now he realizes that what the real Wei Yuan experienced was clearly the sum of all those world villains.
It's already quite remarkable that Wei Yuan can still maintain such a lovely youthful spirit and get along normally with him after all this pain.
“Actually…” Wei Yuan lowered his eyes, a cold glint flashing in them, and interrupted Yu Tang’s thoughts, “I want revenge…”
"Now that I've survived by sheer luck, I must find those masked cultivators and kill them all without leaving a single one alive!"