Yu Xiaogang: You Can't Bully People Like This

[Yu Xiaogang's resentment +8888]

Yu Xiaogang froze. His fists clenched tightly, his pupils contracted at once, and he gritted his teeth until his eyes nearly split with rage.

Humiliation—unprecedented humiliation.

This bastard before him had insulted him time and time again. That was one thing.

But he had even dared to provoke his dignity as a man.

[Yu Xiaogang's resentment +18888]

These emotion points!

As expected, it had to be you, Xiaogang!

"Not bad. Just as you thought." Qin Xuan smiled, releasing Yu Xiaogang's shoulder. "What, not convinced? Want to fight?"

Yu Xiaogang did not answer. His eyes were bloodshot as he glared fixedly at Qin Xuan.

"Fight, then. Use that Farting Pig of yours to blow me to death."

With a sharp smack, Qin Xuan gave Yu Xiaogang a neither-light-nor-heavy slap across the face.

Yu Xiaogang did not react. He continued staring fixedly at Qin Xuan, his eyes rimmed red.

Qin Xuan found it amusing. He had seen cowards before, but never one this cowardly.

Even when someone had climbed onto his head to shit and piss, he could still endure it like this.

[Yu Xiaogang's resentment +28888]

Smack! Smack! Smack!

Qin Xuan slapped him several more times in succession.

His hand simply would not stop.

After only a few strikes, blood seeped from the corner of Yu Xiaogang's mouth. The entire left side of his face had swollen, covered in palm prints like a meat bun.

Qin Xuan stopped only when slow footsteps sounded from the forest.

"Pah. What a coward."

Qin Xuan spat on Yu Xiaogang's face, mixing with the blood at the corner of his mouth.

Then he grabbed Yu Xiaogang's hand and posed it as though he were slapping himself.

Yu Xiaogang looked past Qin Xuan and saw Bibi Dong returning. As if he had found a savior, he somehow found the courage to resist.

But then Qin Xuan said, "Yu Xiaogang, you wouldn't want His Holiness the Pope to execute you for peeking at Spirit Hall's top-secret information, would you? Then you'd never be able to prove yourself again. You'd only be a useless waste for the rest of your life."

His weak spot had been struck. Yu Xiaogang's eyes reddened, and he could no longer hold on. Tears burst from his eyes and streamed down his face.

Qin Xuan lowered his voice. "What's with that 'you'? You're so wishy-washy, always sniveling and crying, just like a woman."

"I'm telling you, if you don't want to die, cooperate with me."

"Otherwise, even if that old dragon from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect came, he couldn't save you. You should already know how powerful Spirit Hall is. I don't need to explain it, do I?"

"The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect may call itself one of the Upper Three Sects, but without that old dragon, it's nothing."

"With just my two teachers, we could wipe out your entire Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan."

"And besides... hehehehe, Yu Xiaogang, you wouldn't want Her Highness the Saintess to know what a coward you are—how you don't fight back when I hit you and don't talk back when I curse you, right? If she knew, your image in her heart would be completely ruined."

"Without Her Highness the Saintess's protection, could you still remain in Spirit Hall?"

"If you didn't stay in Spirit Hall and lacked sufficient materials and supporting information, could you still become a theory master?"

Qin Xuan's repeated questions gradually shattered Yu Xiaogang's psychological defenses.

Emotion points were good, but they had to be harvested steadily. If Bibi Dong found out he was bullying Yu Xiaogang, it would be difficult for him to emulate Chancellor Cao again.

At that moment, Bibi Dong finally walked over.

Pretending not to notice Bibi Dong, Qin Xuan held Yu Xiaogang's hand, the one posed to slap himself, and earnestly tried to dissuade him. "Oh, Senior Yu Xiaogang, how could you do this? I already promised Her Highness the Saintess that I wouldn't report you. Why hurt yourself like this?"

Bibi Dong was puzzled when she heard that. As she approached and saw Yu Xiaogang's face swollen into a pig's head, pain and fury erupted within her. "Xiaogang, what happened to you? What exactly happened?"

"I..." Yu Xiaogang saw the threatening glare Qin Xuan sent him and was immediately at a loss for words.

Qin Xuan smiled inwardly and turned around, explaining in an affectedly innocent tone, "It was like this, Your Highness. When I came out of the woods just now, I saw Mentor Xiaogang slapping himself."

"Only after asking did I learn that he felt guilty for dragging you into this, so he blamed himself and slapped himself."

Yu Xiaogang was Bibi Dong's theory mentor. In a sense, there was nothing wrong with Qin Xuan calling him Mentor Xiaogang, though this was the first time anyone had ever addressed Yu Xiaogang that way.

Yet Yu Xiaogang could not feel happy in the slightest.

"Xiaogang, is that true?" Bibi Dong asked suspiciously.

Bibi Dong neither wholly believed nor wholly disbelieved Qin Xuan's words. Though love made her see Xiaogang in a favorable light, she also knew his character. He might be somewhat insecure, but having come from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect, he was proud to the bone.

Something like slapping himself was absolutely not something he would do.

"I..." Yu Xiaogang dearly wanted to say no. He dearly wanted to say that Qin Xuan had done it.

But remembering Qin Xuan's threat and unwilling to be a useless waste for the rest of his life, he drew a deep breath. As if he had given up, he said in a stifled voice, "That's right. I'm the one who wronged you..."

Qin Xuan stood to the side, looking heartbroken as he said:

"Mentor Xiaogang, look at you. What am I supposed to say? I already told you I wouldn't inform His Holiness the Pope, wouldn't inform His Holiness the Pope. As long as you don't touch Spirit Hall's secrets again, you can read whatever other theoretical materials you like. Why won't you believe me?"

"Look at yourself. You've done this to yourself. Don't you know Her Highness the Saintess would worry about you?"

"You..." How could you be so shameless?

Yu Xiaogang's face instantly flushed crimson. He held it in for a long while, yet could not force out a complete sentence.

He had seen shameless people before, but never anyone this shameless. Qin Xuan's ability to lie through his teeth was even stronger than his own.

Today, he had truly learned something.

With a weakness in the other man's hands, he could only swallow his broken teeth with blood.

Bibi Dong did not know what had happened. Hearing the two of them speak, the suspicions in her heart were finally dispelled.

Xiaogang wouldn't lie to me. It seems Qin Xuan wasn't the one who did it.

"That's right, Xiaogang. You can't hurt yourself like this again in the future. And..." Bibi Dong looked toward Qin Xuan. Recalling the moment she had been ambushed not long ago, a blush suddenly appeared on her beautiful, flawless face.

"Thank you, Qin Xuan. Whether or not you can leave that place, you will always be my friend." As Bibi Dong spoke shyly, another trace of guilt rose in her heart toward Qin Xuan.

She thought to herself.

Although the one I like is Xiaogang, Qin Xuan is willing to brave Slaughter City for me. How could I suspect him for no reason? That was truly wrong of me.

[Bibi Dong's favorability +1]

"Ding. Congratulations, Host. Bibi Dong's favorability has reached 71. You have achieved the 'Friends Above, Lovers Not Yet' achievement. Please keep up the good work."

That was quite the pleasant surprise. It seemed he was one step closer to cuckolding Yu Xiaogang. Qin Xuan rejoiced inwardly and smiled. "You too. With those words from you, no matter how many hardships and obstacles lie ahead, I will make it out."