The Villain Loaded My System

Chapter 78

After last night’s incident, Wei Chiyan began to secretly pay more attention to Chen Wei.

Mostly because, when he thought back on Chen Wei’s attitude during this period, he noticed something wrong with the way he and Gu Xiyu got along. At first, he didn’t think much about it because he didn’t care about Gu Xiyu that much, but now that he thinks about it, he feels that Chen Wei’s attention to Gu Xiyu is too frequent.

In addition, the fire in the west courtyard last night would not have affected his courtyard at all, but Chen Wei entered Gu Xiyu’s room without permission in such a hurry. Even if he had instructed Chen Wei to look after Gu Xiyu, there was no reason for him to overstep his boundaries.

What’s more, Chen Wei still thought Gu Xiyu was a woman.

Wei Chiyan met Chen Wei when he (Wei Chiyan) was unwittingly targeted by Tianyun Zhai. It was a coincidence that Chen Wei also had a confrontation with Tianyun Zhai and had been stabbed. However, he still seemed to be in good spirits and said to him without much concern, “These people are hateful, it’s fine for them to bully and kill at will, but when I cut off one of their brothers’ arms, they chase me.”

He followed with a chorus, “Indeed, they robbed a man of his whole wagon of treasure, and I only took a bag of gold from them, and they chased me to the ends of the earth.”

Of course, he took some of the gold but it was a large sack that was a struggle to carry. In addition to this, he also sneaked into one of Tianyun Zhai’s sub-fortresses and sprinkled some medicine into the source of their drinking water. He took advantage of the fact that everyone was weak and poisoned, and exterminated the entire sub-fortress.

The fortress he has now taken over was not originally called Luohe. It was a small place, more like a small fortress hidden from the world. The fortress had been attacked by the Tianyun Zhai, and countless people had died at their hands, including the old, the weak, and the children. As for the women who did not escape from their clutches, they were abused and then killed with extreme cruelty.

When Wei Chiyan first left the palace to explore the world outside, he was not aware of the world outside and met a villain by mistake. Not only was he cheated out of his money, but he was also poisoned. The poison was deadly, and only a few people in the world knew how to cure it. He was truly unlucky, but just when his life was hanging on a thread, he met the master of the small fortress, who then saved his life.

Although he was not a decent person, he had suffered more cold than warmth in the palace, and while he held grudges in his heart, he didn’t return kindness with a knife. This meeting allowed him to get acquainted with the fortress master. Even when the other party found out who he was, he didn’t treat him with excessive detachment or ingratiation and even introduced him to several reliable people, helping him to find out many secrets that he couldn’t find out in the palace.

That’s why, when something happened to the small fortress later on, he secretly came to their aid, saving the last survivors and making arrangements for them to come to this place in Luohe. The complex terrain of Luohe made it very convenient for setting up barriers and traps so that the people in the fortress could live safely.

Bandits were rampant in the Yao Kingdom, and new fortresses would pop up from time to time, so no one knew they were the same group. Many people had been brutalized by the Tianyun Zhai, so they would not remember such a small fortress.

“I have been fatherless since I was young, and I followed my teacher in the mountains to train in martial arts. He passed away some days ago before I came down from the mountains, and I happened to meet people from Tianyun Zhai intercepting official carriages indiscriminately.” Chen Wei said back then, and mocked, “It’s ridiculous that the kingdom’s guards can’t even beat mountain bandits.”

“Master has always admonished me that this martial art should be used to save people, so I am very uncomfortable with those villains who use it to oppress the weak despite their abilities.”

It was only because Chen Wei spoke with a heroic air and was so direct and gregarious that he could not help but think of the fortress master he had first met, which is what made him accept him more quickly. He had also asked someone to check Chen Wei’s background afterward, and the name matched up with what happened to his teacher, and since Chen Wei had not done anything to harm the fortress over the years, he did not suspect him.

This time, because of Gu Xiyu, he was displeased with Chen Wei for the first time. And the reason he wanted to go down the mountain this time was that he wanted to investigate Chen Wei’s background more deeply.

He leaned against a wooden stake and rubbed his brow with a headache, laughing to himself and murmuring, “Is this the legendary beauty is a calamity?”

——-

[Does it taste good?] While the intelligent system was chatting with Gu Xiyu daily, he was sitting in his room eating something brought up from the kitchen, the color of which was no different from the usual medicinal soup.

From what Xia Qiu said, this was a

medicinal meal the fortress master had specially prepared for him and that it was different from the medicine prescribed by the physician for his treatment. This was meant to nourish his essence and was made by boiling many valuable and rare herbs, and fruits.

She said this deliberately, probably to boost Ah Wen’s goodwill with him, but Gu Xiyu was speechless after hearing it.

[The last time the fortress master went out, he bought this special medicinal meal for you and spent all the silver he had saved for a long time to buy these things.] The intelligent system replied and gave him a mouthful of gossip.

After stirring his spoon in the bowl a few times, Gu Xiyu suddenly asked, “I remember that in the previous mission world, you not only couldn’t detect my whereabouts and couldn’t see what was happening to me at the moment, but you even needed to rely on my updates to know what the people around you said.”

“Why is it that at this moment, you even know such intimate matters as the fortress master using all his money to buy his wife medicine?”

The system was silenced by his question for a few minutes before it replied distractedly, [Is that so?]

[I have no memories of previous worlds, I will only tell what I know now.]

Gu Xiyu’s eyes were slightly dazed as he looked at the soup in the bowl; a few red dates were floating on top and swaying gently, but the stirring of the soup had stopped at some point.

The intelligent system naturally could not see his expression at this moment, so it did not notice the slightest strangeness in his expression.

After a few moments of speechlessness, Gu Xiyu was the first to speak, “So what?”

“The more he treats me well, the more I feel guilty.” His tone sounded the same as usual, “After all, I only have Wei Chiyan in my heart, even if he gives me this whole fortress, it would not shake my determination.”

The system asked him leisurely, [Didn’t you tell me that the statement that you love Wei Chiyan was a lie?]

Gu Xiyu blinked for a moment and finally began to eat from his bowl while mentally answering the system, “Yes, it’s a lie.”

“But he is my mission target.”

The system’s voice came after another short interval, with only two short words.

[I see.]

Two familiar words.

Although Gu Xiyu had now moved to the main courtyard, there were no major changes in his daily life. Ah Wen had said that he would spend more time with him, but there were still many things outside that he needed to oversee personally before the sun went down, so he was still alone most of the time during the day.

What was better was that Ah Wen said that the study next door was open to him and had everything in it, there were even fictional books that he could read if he got tired of boring paperwork. He had looked through a few books on the shelves before and found them quite interesting, so he would pick them up when he was bored.

It seemed that the people from the fortress had brought in a new batch of books today for people like Ah Wen who liked to read, and they were stacked on the desk to be sorted.

Gu Xiyu happened to see them, so he walked over and picked up the book on top.

The title of the book was quite beautiful, it was called ‘Autumn Under the Moon’. He thought that it might be another good story made up by some author, but the further he turned down the pages, the greener his face became, and his hand trembled as he held the book.

The book ended up falling to the floor because he couldn’t get a good grip on it.

The other hand was stroking his chest to smooth his breath, and the whole person is red from ear to neck.

…He didn’t expect Ah Wen, who looked quite serious, to be reading such immodest books in private. The book was about love affairs, which also happened to be between two men. It was not just a love story, it also happened to be about two men. The book was quite up-to-date, with not only textual descriptions but also erotic pictures by the hand of an unknown talent.

Gu Xiyu was shocked.

He had come to a mission world in an ancient setting, but his eyes still couldn’t avoid the poison of this kind of small yellow book?

He had just calmed down and bent down to pick up the book when the door to the study was suddenly opened. The man who opened the door made a lot of noise, and the book he had picked up fell again as his hand shook.

The person who came in was undoubtedly Ah Wen, but he didn’t seem to be in a good mood. His usual light smile was missing from his face, and his eyes fell on him with an appalling gloom. He was not surprised to see him in the room, and after walking up to him, he picked up the book on the floor before him.

It was too late for Gu Xiyu to stop him.

Ah Wen casually flipped through it, his eyes paused for a moment when he saw certain images, and then his eyes gave him a cold glance, saying wickedly, “So wife likes to read books like this?”

For some reason, the tone of the word ‘wife’ in Ah Wen’s mouth seemed to be a little heavier than usual.

Seeing that he was in a bad mood and did not want to talk to him, Gu Xiyu silently pushed back his sarcasm and reached out to take away the book he had cupped in his hand and put it back in its original place.

He also did not want to probe into the meaning of Ah Wen’s intention to have these books collected.

Wei Chiyan stared at the man who was tidying and organizing the table for him, and the depression in his heart grew a little heavier.

He felt that he was probably sick, he actually came to Gu Xiyu to seek his own torture. Knowing full well that he had come to this place with a purpose, knowing full well that it was something that had been revealed to him from the start –

When Gu Xiyu looked down, Wei Chiyan could see the top of his hair, even in a woman’s bun. There was no fancy headdress on his head, just a mediocre wooden hairpin.

It was something more appropriate for a man dressed as him.

Wei Chiyan’s Adam’s apple twitched slightly, and his eyes became obscure and inexplicable.

…… So what if his words were fake? Anyway, he had already gotten used to his flattery and contradictory words.

Anyway, the words that were spoken were witnessed by heaven and earth, it was Gu Xiyu himself who said that he loves him and that he only wanted to be with him for a long time.

He will let him know what it is like to have a hard time getting away.

With this in mind, Wei Chiyan extended his hand to gently tickle the hair that fell on his shoulder and said calmly, “Rest well tonight, we will leave tomorrow.”

———

Gu Xiyu could not believe that he had really left the fortress that had trapped him for so many days without incident and had seen the daylight outside the mountains again – albeit in the company of the fortress master.

Luohe was quite a distance from Ningan Town, where he and Murong Qing Wan had separated. Ah Wen, who presumably had important business to attend to on this trip, took him straight to the small town, which was about a two-day journey away.

Ah Wen was quite cautious, probably worried that someone might recognize his face outside, and when they left the carriage to walk around outside, he put on a white veil hat for him. The other man had also changed his face a little, disguising his handsome face as something ordinary, trying not to attract the attention of others.

Gu Xiyu’s mood was now much more subdued than his initial excitement, it was impossible to meet Murong Qingwan by chance after so many days. He had wanted to rely on Chen Wei to leave the fortress and find out what he was up to, but then he remembered that he hadn’t seen him for a long time.

It seems that Ah Wen had started to get suspicious of Chen Wei, and with his skills, he could easily find out what happened if he was so inclined.

He had thought about simply taking advantage of this time to go out and escape; with his natural instincts, there was still a way to slip away as long as he let go of Ah Wen’s hand and dashed into the crowd.

Only, for some reason, he was a little unsure.

Gu Xiyu looked at Ah Wen, who had carefully supported him since he had gotten off the carriage and shielded him from being bumped into bystanders. He thought for a moment, and while he was still surveying the road ahead, he raised his head and gave him a light kiss on the cheek through the thin veil.

Ah Wen stiffened in his movements and gazed back at him, asking coolly, “What are you doing?”

Gu Xiyu: “Kissing you?”

The man didn’t look happy; instead, it seemed like there was a bit of unspoken anger: “…… Didn’t you say that you only liked Wei Chiyan and would only get intimate with him?”

Gu Xiyu’s expression could not be seen through the veil: “You still have unfinished business, won’t you go finish it? Anyway, I have stayed in the fortress for a long time, and now I suddenly feel that it’s not so bad ending up with you like this.”

Wei Chiyan：”……”

Gu Xiyu: “What? You don’t look happy.”

Wei Chiyan: “…… No, I’m, very, happy, extremely, happy.”

Sure enough, this man’s mouth just deceives people; he lied that he loves me to death.

The automatic notification popped up at almost the same time.

[Target’s risk value is +10; the current risk value is 60.’]

Gu Xiyu was still in a teasing state of mind, so he pretended to inquire from the system, which was probably unaware or deliberately exploiting a loophole to conceal things: “Hmm? Why did the target’s risk value move without me being there?”

[I don’t know.]

The person beside him was still undeterred and asked him again, “You really don’t like Wei Chiyan anymore?”

Gu Xiyu thought about what had happened in the past few days and was more or less displeased. He turned his head and stopped facing him, saying indifferently, “We’ll see, maybe I’ll be in a good mood one day and like him again.”

Wei Chiyan: “?”