Cold wind howled, whistling as it poured into the cave.
The boy inside the cave had uncoordinated hands, exposing his slender, fair chest.
His clothes were disheveled, and his masculine allure was captivating.
Throughout all this, the boy's gaze was as cold as a knife, bursting with chilling intensity the next second, and his hand dropped a sharp sword as he violently grabbed his chest,
That sound was like a siren singing, illusory and dreamlike, captivating souls.
In this time and place, anyone who looked would breed evil thoughts and lose all restraint.
Xiao Qinghe did not.
He could not.
Because the boy before him was the prospective male lead to the female lead in the original novel.
Yes, the original novel.
He was currently inside a dog-blood Mary Sue novel titled Every Handsome Man Spoils Me. This book was colorful and bizarre, filled with countless handsome men, every single one of them a loyal bootlicker to the female lead, including Xiao Qinghe, the head disciple who shared his exact name in the book.
In the book, the head disciple, originally of mediocre talent, refused to heed the warnings of his junior brother Xie Jun and practiced the Demonic Path against the heavens in order to be worthy of the female lead. He accidentally suffered a Cultivation Deviation and was executed under heaven's law by his Master Bai Yuqing, ultimately dying without a complete corpse and perishing into smoke and dust.
From the moment he was chosen by the system and transmigrated into the book, Xiao Qinghe knew he would die sooner or later.
Therefore, for three years after transmigrating, he conscientiously followed the plot according to the tasks issued by the system, while frantically farming favorability points in front of the protagonist group, all to avoid dying in the future and escape with his life.
The boy before him had not yet shed his childishness and was in tattered clothes, but his appearance was gorgeous, clearly possessing the demeanor of the future number one handsome man in the Demon Realm.
He was precisely one of the three main protagonists, Xie Jun!
In the original novel, Xie Jun, Master, and the female lead were entangled in love-hate disputes, lingering endlessly from "Xie Jun loves the female lead, but the female lead loves Master" to "countless cannon-fodder bootlickers love the female lead, but the female lead oscillates back and forth between Xie Jun and Master," spilling countless amounts of dog blood and dragging things out across millions of words.
Until one of the cannon-fodder bootlickers, the head disciple, kicked the bucket, and Xiao Qinghe transmigrated into the book, the love triangle still had no definitive result.
The Xie Jun before him was participating in the Sect Examination, intending to enter the sect.
As a result, he was plotted against by villains and bitten by an Enchanted Snake. If the venom was not neutralized, he would definitely burn with lust and die violently from bleeding out of his seven orifices.
"System, the rescue task you issued isn't to save the female lead, but to save Xie Jun?" Xiao Qinghe was in disarray in the wind.
According to the original plot, it should have been him playing the hero saving the damsel in distress. What on earth was the system trying to do by tricking him here?
Even if he wanted to farm Xie Jun's favorability, this wasn't how you did it!
Shouldn't this kind of thing be left to the female lead, making Xie Jun fall in love with her at first sight?
Only he could hear the mechanical voice of the system: [The tasks issued by this system are all determined by the readers. If the host is unable to complete them, one will be randomly selected from the punishment methods left in the reader comments to punish the host.]
Xiao Qinghe wanted to curse upon hearing this.
This system took orders entirely from the readers, and he was simply a tool used to complete the plot for the readers to watch.
It was hateful that the readers had bizarre and peculiar tastes, always making him do absurd things. He had rebelled a few times, and every time he was punished it was a social death scene, from which he learned that readers were gods who could only be revered, never defied.
Watching, Xiao Qinghe pressed a hand to his forehead, "Speak, what do the readers want me to do this time?"
[Please have the host complete the plot: strip off Xie Jun's clothing, suck out the snake venom for him, and use your body temperature to cool down his toxic fever.]
Xiao Qinghe: "..."
What kind of demonic plot was this?
Were readers all perverts?
A heaven-shaking and earth-shattering battle waged in Xiao Qinghe's mind, and he finally decided to latch onto a powerhouse after all. After all, the alluring little hunk before him was the future grand demon king he had his eyes on, the one who would achieve a Happy Ending with the female lead.
He hesitated for a moment, then finally took a step and walked toward the semi-nude boy, kneeling on one knee and reaching out his hand.
At the same time, on the electronic interface visible only to him, text automatically formed based on every move he made and presented itself within the system.
[Xiao Qinghe stared straight at the gorgeous boy, feeling his entire body grow hot.
The boy was like a seductive demon of the dark night, peerlessly gorgeous and soul-stirring, making it impossible for him to look away.
His legs seemed unresponsive to commands, and Xiao Qinghe involuntarily walked toward the boy.
Amidst the boy's half-open garments and supreme beauty, he practically worshiped him, kneeling on one knee before him, and then, extending his sinful hands toward the unconscious boy...]
What the hell kind of whole body growing hot!
What the hell kind of sinful hands!
He only wanted to save someone, why did the text generated turn out like this again!
Beside the text was the reader comment section; comments left by readers upon seeing the updated content would refresh in real time in the comment section.
A sea of "ahhhhh," the readers seemed excited to the point of madness.
Xiao Qinghe had a splitting headache and waved his hand, closing the electronic screen to avoid seeing it and sparing himself the annoyance.
Yet suddenly he raised his head, his eyes bloodred, pronouncing each word distinctly, chillingly to the extreme, "Don't touch me! Scram!"
Xiao Qinghe was startled.
He saw that on the boy's gorgeous, angry face, streaks of black Demon Marks were creeping upward.
Having read the original novel, Xiao Qinghe knew the boy was originally a child of the Demon Realm. Under extreme conditions, his Demon Blood would awaken, causing him to fall into the Demonic Path and become an indiscriminate killing machine.
Killing whoever he saw, defying all taboos.
Cutting off Xiao Qinghe's head with a sword would be easier than chopping cabbages.
Xiao Qinghe only felt a chill on his neck and quickly said, "Brother, calm down! I just want to help you suck out the poisonous blood, I have no malicious intent!"
"You and I are strangers, why should I believe you?" The boy grasped his longsword tightly, his slightly arched spine resembling a hedgehog with all its quills spread, ready to leap up at any moment to take an enemy's life.
"You're the little brother participating in the Sect Trial who wants to enter our Demon-Slaying Sect, right?" Xiao Qinghe softened his tone, taking the jade pendant from his waist to show him, "I am Xiao Qinghe, the closing disciple seated under Master Bai Yuqing of the Thirteenth Sect of the Demon-Slaying Sect. Let the jade pendant be proof; I have not spoken a single false word."
That was a specially crafted jade pendant that only disciples of the Demon-Slaying Sect were qualified to wear; it could not be faked.
The vigilance in the boy's body relaxed slightly, and following that,
"Ngh..."
The sound spilling from his lips was seductive and captivating, yet he gritted his teeth as if it were a humiliation, enduring it forcefully.
"Do you know what poison I've contracted, and how to save me? If you dare..." His wrist flipped, and a cold sword pressed against Xiao Qinghe's neck.
He was truly worthy of being the future King of the Demon Realm; even though his Demon Blood had yet to awaken, he was still like a sharp sword-cold, razor-sharp, and extremely dangerous.
Yet Xiao Qinghe detected a trace of trembling in his cruel tone.
The boy had been viewed as an ominous entity since birth, drifting from place to place during his childhood, and was once tricked, adopted, and sold into a brothel. Because of his top-tier beauty, he attracted countless lecherous scoundrels and narrowly escaped a tragic fate.
Therefore, he loathed men to the core; a man's touch was to him like maggots on rotting bones, utterly sickening and unbearable.
If Xiao Qinghe harbored even a sliver of malicious intent toward him, he would risk his life to send Xiao Qinghe down to the Yellow Springs with a single slash!
Xiao Qinghe knew this very well, cursing the Hellish System inwardly in his heart-
Knowing full well that Xie Jun suffered fromandriaophobia yet giving him such a bizarre task was no different from sending him to his death!
"I just won't look at you, alright?" Xiao Qinghe yanked hard, tearing a scrap of cloth from his hem to blindfold his own eyes, "This way I can't see, but you have to tell me where the wound is."
He fumbled as he reached out toward the boy, stripped off the boy's upper garment, and then froze, waiting for the boy to tell him the location of the wound.
The boy was slightly taken aback, watching as Xiao Qinghe knelt on one knee before him without the slightest overstepping in his behavior. He did not act like the shameless wretch who had initially intended to toy with him and ultimately had his dirty hands sliced off by a single stroke of his sword.
He truly seemed to just want to save him.
Enduring the surging turmoil, the boy held the stalemate for several seconds before finally relenting, "The Enchanted Snake bit me on the chest."
Xiao Qinghe: "..."
Did that not mean he had to suck on the boy's chest?
This plot was far too dissolute and unconstrained!
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