Chapter 43
Died for the fifth time for the villain (43)
Lu Qingyuan gradually calmed down his sobs in Yu Tang's arms.
She nuzzled the man's neck affectionately and whispered, "Tangtang, you're about to see the real me."
"Or perhaps madman would be a more accurate description."
"If you can't accept me like that, then you'd better run away quickly."
The boy's voice was hoarse, tinged with dejection: "And don't worry, even if you run away, you'll still win this game."
"I will never make things difficult for you."
Yu Tang never expected Lu Qingyuan to say such a thing.
He instinctively asked, "How do you intend to determine if I win? By breaking the contract?"
"right……"
"Then what will you do?"
After choking out a few laughs, Lu Qingyuan replied, "Nothing will happen."
“Lu Qingyuan…” Yu Tang let go of him and looked at him seriously: “I will believe whatever you say.”
"So, honestly, what would you do if I gave up on you?"
Lu Qingyuan met his gaze, and in his dark eyes, only Yu Tang remained.
With his thin lips pressed tightly together, the young man gave a bitter smile and said, "I will be trapped in this game, endlessly repeating the cycle."
Yu Tang was slightly taken aback, then anger surged up, and he said coldly, "You had this plan from the very beginning, didn't you?"
This time, Lu Qingyuan did not answer.
But his expression said it all.
Deep-seated inferiority complex made Lu Qingyuan insecure and prone to self-doubt and self-denial after he truly fell in love with Yu Tang.
He was afraid that if Yu Tang knew about everything he had been through and what he was going to do, she would think he was hopeless.
Therefore, this game is not just about his confession to Yu Tang.
It was also a punishment he gave himself.
Once a man abandons her, he breaks the contract and falls into an endless cycle until the backlash is incurable and his soul is scattered.
"You're really something."
To Lu Qingyuan's surprise, Yu Tang simply smiled.
Then she reached out and rubbed his face with both hands, saying, "If that counts as a threat."
"Then congratulations, little devil."
"You have successfully threatened me."
Faced with Lu Qingyuan's stunned gaze, Yu Tang's eyes reddened slightly. She pinched Lu Qingyuan's face as if she was still angry and said to him, "And I think you just took what I said before as bullshit."
"Then I'll be more direct with you this time."
"I would give up on anyone but you."
"Because I..."
It is your master.
The thought flashed through Yu Tang's mind, and he paused for a moment.
Time and space seem to intertwine.
He had said the same thing to Wei Yuan some time ago.
Even if everyone else abandons you, I will never abandon you.
Because I... am your master.
But now...
Yu Tang smiled, and instead of mentioning Master again, leaned forward and placed a kiss on Lu Qingyuan's forehead.
Tell him: "Because I am your... lover..."
Yu Tang felt the moisture on his fingers.
Lu Qingyuan, who had just stopped crying, started shedding tears again.
Lu Qingyuan brushed Yu Tang's hand away, covered his eyes as if he were ashamed, shifted his buttocks, turned around, and wiped away his tears with his back to the man.
Before Yu Tang could coax him, the surrounding scene changed again.
Lu Qingyuan, who was not saved by Yu Tang, was strangled to death by the boys and then dismembered by more than a dozen people present.
Chop it into small pieces and bury it in several piles on the back hill.
Because winter vacation started the next day, Lu Qingyuan's disappearance went unnoticed by anyone.
The snow fell heavily that day, accumulating a thick layer at the burial site of Lu Qingyuan.
It was blindingly white.
The body was not discovered until after the start of the school term. It was already decomposed and infested with maggots, so much so that the criminal police officers who came to investigate vomited while leaning against the tree trunk.
However, because the boys were wearing gloves and had wiped away the fingerprints remaining on the body parts.
Furthermore, since there were no surveillance cameras around, the dozen or so people conspired together and were ultimately released without charge.
Fearing that the matter would escalate and damage its reputation, the school did everything in its power to suppress the incident, silently erasing Lu Qingyuan's student status. This left the already helpless boy without fair treatment even after his death, and he completely disappeared from public view.
Lu Qingyuan, after his death, coldly watched all that had happened.
Ultimately, due to its deep resentment, it transformed into a powerful and vengeful ghost.
He made a pact with the God of Darkness and gained the right to interfere in the human world.
In exchange, he needs to offer 20,000 living human lives to the God of Darkness.
So, the next memory projection.
All of these were unilateral massacres by Lu Qingyuan.
First and foremost, it's about revenge.
He not only killed the murderer who dismembered him, but also killed everyone who had ever bullied him.
Next came the school leaders and teachers who had initially stood by indifferently.
Later, he began to roam the human world, using violence to kill people.
The wronged souls use their own spirits as bargaining chips to ask him to seek justice for them.
Lu Qingyuan accepted everything without question.
Over the course of twenty years, he has amassed 20,000 lives.
These people committed crimes of varying degrees, but in Lu Qingyuan's eyes, they all deserved to die.
Later, Lu Qingyuan became accustomed to killing.
After sacrificing 20,000 lives to the God of Darkness, his soul was baptized in blood and turned into extreme evil.
From the moment of its birth, it became the most powerful demon in the demon realm.
Over the long years, he devised an escape game to expose the evils of human nature.
Watching those humans struggle to survive or kill each other in the game, and finding pleasure in it.
During this period, the heavens sent hundreds or even thousands of angels to try to reform him or destroy him directly.
But it was all in vain.
Lu Qingyuan has always been a free spirit, living a carefree life, and he doesn't care about or trust anyone.
Because he knows his own physical condition best.
This world will not allow extremely evil souls to exist.
As time goes by, he will eventually be completely consumed by the backlash of the God of Darkness.
Thus, they lost their reason and became tools of slaughter for the God of Darkness.
It's just a matter of time.
Therefore, from the moment he made the pact with the God of Darkness, his tragic end was sealed.
There is no way out; this is his future.
Yu Tang quietly watched these projections of memories.
His expression became somewhat serious.
Through these memories, he saw the changes in Lu Qingyuan over the years.
What I felt was heartache and sadness.
He didn't stand in Lu Qingyuan's shoes, nor did he experience the tragedy Lu Qingyuan went through, so he has no right to judge the right or wrong of what the other party did.
Moreover, for those wronged souls who were willing to offer their souls to Lu Qingyuan, only asking Lu Qingyuan to help them avenge their deaths, Lu Qingyuan at that time was their savior.
He is the only one who can save them.
In their eyes, Lu Qingyuan was not wrong.
However, the little devil also paid a heavy price for his actions.
Those patterns of backlash were something that even Yu Tang's holy healing spell, cast at the cost of his angelic body, could not cure.
That is a backlash from the soul, and it can only be healed with the soul.
Thinking of this, Yu Tang couldn't help but smile bitterly.
As expected, the plot has progressed to its inevitable conclusion.
To save the little devil, you must offer your soul to him.
This is his last mission in the fifth world.