"Holy crap! Mu Nancheng suddenly launched an attack!" Xiao Jin exclaimed in Yu Tang's mind, practically wanting to applaud Mu Nancheng.
Amid Xiao Jin's exclamation, Mu Nancheng, carrying pork in one hand and holding Yu Tang's hand with the other, walked steadily away from this place of trouble with the most aloof expression.
Yu Tang was completely bewildered the whole time.
A row of question marks appeared above his head. His gaze fell on Mu Nancheng's hand, which was holding his, and he asked, "Nancheng, why are you suddenly speaking up for me?"
"Don't you hate me?"
[Haha, host, aren't you just making things difficult for this proud and arrogant guy by asking that question?]
Sure enough, as soon as Yu Tang finished asking the question, Mu Nancheng reacted as if he had encountered some kind of virus, and abruptly shook off Yu Tang's hand.
His eyes looked at the sky and the earth, but never at Yutang.
Don't flatter yourself.
"I said those things just now because I couldn't stand those people's attitude, and the way they looked at you made me uncomfortable."
"You like men, but you like me, not them?"
"Someone like Brother Zhao doesn't deserve your affection. Are you blind?"
"A bunch of ignorant villagers blindly following the crowd, and you were so kind to them before..."
His rambling manner made Yu Tang laugh.
They've been so protective of me, yet they're still being stubborn.
Your 65% favorability rating doesn't lie.
Thinking this, Yu Tang took the initiative to pull Mu Nancheng's hand. When the other tried to break free, she used force to suppress him. After a few tugs, the two intertwined their fingers.
Mu Nancheng kept his head down, his long bangs obscuring his eyes, and kicked at the pebbles on the road, refusing to look at Yu Tang.
"Thank you..." Seeing that he softened, Yu Tang moved a little closer to the boy and said, "Thank you for speaking up for me."
"And you're right, I like men, and I like you."
"I won't like anyone, regardless of gender, except you."
Upon hearing this, Mu Nancheng froze.
He suddenly looked up at Yu Tang, then quickly looked down, a blush spreading across his ears.
"What...what are you saying..."
He muttered those words and then fell silent.
The boy pursed his lips, but couldn't stop the corners of his mouth from turning up.
He couldn't be bothered to think about where this joy came from, but he was just happy at the moment.
When he was at Brother Zhao's house, he heard those people slandering Yu Tang, but he didn't want to get involved.
But seeing Yu Tang's increasingly unpleasant expression, his anger inexplicably surged into his mind.
Without realizing it, he stood up and spoke up for Yu Tang.
Hearing Yu Tang define his affection for him in this way, his heart felt as if it had floated into the air and fallen into soft clouds.
The joy was impossible to hide.
"What did I say?" Yu Tang leaned closer to him and teased, "I said something like a confession."
"Don't you like listening to this?"
"You're blushing even though you don't like it?"
Mu Nancheng was forced to turn his head away, even more afraid to look at him: "How many times have I told you, don't get so close."
"Hey, I'm going to stay this close." Yu Tang squeezed Mu Nancheng's fingers. "Besides, didn't you hold my hand first at Brother Zhao's house? Now you can't just shake me off so easily..."
Mu Nancheng's face turned bright red, and he refused to speak any further.
And Yu Tang teased him all the way.
Once home, he released Mu Nancheng's hand and closed the door with a smile on his lips.
But as soon as he closed the door and turned around, he was caught off guard and had his breath taken away by the boy who pressed down on him.
Yu Tang: ?
"Hahaha! Serves you right for being so cocky!"
Xiao Jin gloated, "You've been provoking him the whole way; if he doesn't get his revenge, he's not a villain!"
As Xiao Jin said, this time Yu Tang was pinned against the door and kissed for half an hour.
Later, Mu Nancheng realized that he was about to lose control if he didn't stop, so he hurriedly let go and made an excuse to go to the toilet to leave.
Yu Tang stood alone by the stove near the door, breathing in the fresh air, regretting his past actions.
For a while afterward, the two tacitly agreed not to bring up the matter again.
They each occupied one side of the bed when they slept at night, and no one dared to cross the boundary.
Yu Tang was a little worried about her back, while Mu Nancheng was extremely conflicted.
My emotions were like a winding mountain road.
After all, he was now certain that he did indeed have extraordinary feelings for Yu Tang, and that longing terrified him.
But he also felt that he and this man had no future.
He thought he must be bewitched to be so easily seduced by this man.
He must keep himself clear-headed and not end up like his mother did, losing his heart and everything would be over.
On New Year's Eve, Yu Tang pulled a fat hen out of the henhouse, thought for a moment, and then asked Mu Nancheng for his opinion: "Nancheng, can I kill this chicken?"
Mu Nancheng frowned: "If you want to kill, then kill. Why are you asking me?"
"Didn't you regain your memory?" Yu Tang said, suppressing a laugh. "Back then, you loved those five chicks so much that you sang to them and caught bugs for them every day, didn't you?"
"How come you don't even blink when I'm about to kill your soulmate?"
Upon hearing Yu Tang's words, Mu Nancheng's face turned red with anger.
"I've told you so many times, don't bring up what happened before again!"
But Yu Tang insisted on teasing him, deliberately holding the chicken up in front of Mu Nancheng: "Chirp chirp chirp, chirp chirp chirp, Brother Nancheng doesn't want me anymore, Brother Nancheng is so cold, it turns out that all my feelings for so long were misplaced, it turns out that you raised me just to eat me, chirp chirp chirp... Brother Nancheng is a big bad guy!"
[Holy crap, hahaha! Host, you're being reckless again!]
Amid Xiao Jin's burst of laughter, Mu Nancheng's face turned as red as a purplish hue.
The two people were separated by a chicken; one had a smiling face, and the other had a flushed face. The scene was as comical as could be.
After a long while, Mu Nancheng finally turned around and muttered, "He's so much older than me, yet he calls me 'brother,' what's with the act of being so young..."
Yu Tang raised an eyebrow, put down the chicken she was holding, leaned closer to Mu Nancheng, and asked him, "Don't you like me calling you 'brother'? Then why are you blushing?"
Mu Nancheng retorted, "It's windy outside, and I'm freezing."
Yu Tang was laughing so hard, and just as he was about to say something more, he suddenly felt a slight coolness on the tip of his nose.
Looking up, I noticed that pure white snowflakes had begun to fall from the sky.
"Huh? It's snowing..."
He said this, and then he saw Mu Nancheng's expression change slightly.
When those eyes looked at him again, it was as if they belonged to a different person.
Yet it is filled with an overwhelming sense of emotion and sorrow.
He called out to Yu Tang, "General, I've finally found you."
Chapter 21
Died for the villain for the eighth time (21)
Yu Tang stood there, stunned.
She looked at the boy in front of her with some helplessness.
He had considered that the world of the three souls would be different, and that the villain might recall his past.
But he didn't expect that the first villain to appear would be Xiao Lin.
This was the first boy he truly fell in love with.
The snow started falling in flakes, then gradually fell heavier and heavier, covering the heads and shoulders of the two people.
Yu Tang's eyes welled up with tears, and she softly called out, "Mu Nancheng, Your Highness? Is that you?"
The next moment, everything went dark, and he was pulled into the boy's arms.
It was a very tight pressure, but not so tight that it made you feel suffocated.
I only felt warmth and a longing etched into my soul.
The boy's emotions were fully conveyed to Yu Tang through this hug, which made Yu Tang even more certain that the person in front of him must be Xiao Lin.
Although Mu Nancheng has a high level of favorability, it is completely impossible to express it in this way at this stage.
"General..." Tears streamed down Xiao Lin's face. He didn't know what to say, so he could only sob and call out Yu Tang's name.
He didn't know why he was there.
All I remember is the pain of being burned by the flames, and the intense obsession I had with finding Yu Tang in the netherworld until the very end.
Tears soaked the man's shoulders and neck. Yu Tang heard Xiao Lin say to him, "General, the jade is broken. Xiao Si broke it... I couldn't find you, so I came to be with you..."
"You lied to me so badly..."
The boy choked back tears as he repeated, "General, you've deceived me so cruelly..."
Yu Tang's body stiffened, and his heart ached terribly.
It is said that if two people in love have to go through life and death, the one who dies first will have an easier time.
Those who are left behind suffer the most.
Before the seventh world, all he thought was that if he left, the villains might forget him and live out their lives peacefully in the smaller world.