Chapter 47: Exposed
After that, none of the girls dared to come over again. Without the girl’s melodious chatter and laughter, Gu Bai’s surroundings seemed deserted and cold.
Qi Guan Rui acted as an attendant on one hand, and laughed breezily on the other. It didn’t even seem like he was doing the work of serving someone else at all.
From afar, girls would pass by from time to time and see the two. Their eyes would light up instantly, and they’d want to walk over.
But the next second, they would be stopped by another girl, and the following conversation would commence.
“What’s wrong, there’s some good stuff over there, why not go over?”
“That’s a pair of queer-bags.”
“……what a waste of two handsome faces.”
And then, and then there was no more “and then”.
Half an hour passed by just like that, and under the expectantly raised heads of the lustful guys, a few charming figures finally landed on the tall platform.
The girls had come on stage!
And so, the flower viewing convention… had officially begun.
These oiran[1] competition-like plots were well liked in novels, whether in Mary Sue[2] stories or harem texts. The difference was that the former always let themselves shine, particularly in performing their talents, and won the love of countless beautiful men. The latter involved a group of girls showcasing their beauty, and the protagonist got all their love at the end.
They’re completely different in their origins ╮(╯▽╰)╭
Gu Bai was writing a harem novel, so the talent stuff was most definitely not the focus of his composition. Even if there was talent, it was just to serve as a foil for beauty.
For instance, a girl just started to dance, but she wasn’t wearing many clothes, her body was top of the range sexy. Another girl was singing, and while she was singing, she had to be winking and moving her waist seductively… that’s an enchantment. Yet another girl was playing the flute, and when she blew it, she had to be playfully teasing… cloyingly flirtatious to the point people’s hearts itched in desire.
Even if there was a pure-looking girl, she needed to have voluptuous XX, round XX, and a trembling XX. A slightly less attractive girl would definitely have skin paler than snow and smooth to the touch, not to mention, something along the lines of fiery red lips and blue enchantress hydrangeas. No matter what, the description had to be blazingly spicy so people would become uncontrollably excited when they read it. Of course, there was also the exception to the rule, the cold, indifferent girl who refused on the surface, but actually welcomed it on the down low. They were self-confident and prideful, a typical goddess character whose masochistic personality was fulfilled by men submissively kneeling to their desires. To put it bluntly, it was all to service womanly charms.
Up above, a lot of Baihuamen’s female disciples were brilliantly talented, their performances were sharp and incisive.
Most of the spectators below had a（¯﹃¯）appearance, with eyes that showed they would kill to jump on stage right that second.
Gu Bai’s face was paralyzed, he watched very seriously.
He recalled several years later that the scene of the flower viewing convention was depicted after he’d browsed countless sex films in order to achieve such a lewd portrayal. But watching it now… it actually wasn’t all that bad in comparison.
……to be honest, it was even hotter than what he wrote, this was great material!
Too bad he’d transmigrated.
Otherwise, he would’ve received a frenzied wave of subscribers!
Gu Bai was in a trance, pitying his inability to start a new plot, while Qi Guan Rui kept looking at Gu Bai.
He looked up, down, outside, in…… he couldn’t see inside.
Qi Guan Rui also glanced around. A lot of the horny guys had already exposed their ugly side, even the ones with stronger persistence had flushed faces and hurried breathing.
Only Zi Che Shu Bai…… except for also watching without blinking…… had no reaction.
Say, this lack of reaction……. what exactly was this reaction?
Qi Guan Rui frowned slightly.
Speaking of which, he and Zi Che Shu Bai had shared the same bed, same pillow for so long, and he’s indeed never seen a reaction.
Logically speaking, Zi Che Shu Bai’s body had already matured, he should have reactions where reactions should be.
But contrary to expectations, he just didn’t…… this couldn’t help but make others wonder if he had a secret illness.
And if he did have a secret illness……
Qi Guan Rui laughed all of a sudden.
Maybe it was better to have a secret illness, then Zi Che Shu Bai would have no desire for women, and he’d naturally have to accept him.
As long as he had enough means, everything would come naturally.
He always had a way to make Zi Che Shu Bai live with him merrily.
……actually, Gu Bai, who didn’t know he’d been deemed to have erectile dysfunction by someone else, was just helplessly frigid.
The root cause lay in the martial arts that he practiced.
The typical martial artist has always been masculine. After practicing martial arts, the body was filled with energy and essence, and they became even more vigorous in those matters.
But Gu Bai practiced ice characteristic techniques, and he also used attack methods with ice attributes.
Think about it, no matter how vivacious “it” was, dumping a whole bucket of ice-cold water down there……
Hiss~~~
Practicing that martial art was a process of being repeatedly doused with ice water. Even if a wolf came over late at night, the finale would still end up with it being withered away, okay.
It was better to just not have “it” from the start.
Being an otaku who only liked two-dimensional characters, Gu Bai showed no signs of pressure at all.
If there was nothing, then there was nothing, he wasn’t planning on approaching girls anyway.
Qi Guan Rui gazed gently at Gu Bai; his heart had already turned over lots of thoughts.
With greed in his gaze, he covertly raked his eyes all over Gu Bai’s body, and quickly retracted it before Gu Bai noticed.
Patience…… patience.
If Zi Che Shu Bai didn’t have “it”, then he wouldn’t be tainted by anyone else.
And he was still unsure if he could completely control Zi Che Shu Bai at the moment, he also didn’t have enough power to guard against Tian Du Cheng.
He truly didn’t want to see Zi Chu Shu Bai look at him with disgusted eyes, but…… if it really got to that point, even if was hated, he still wanted to have him in his hands.
Or, trapped in bed.
He mustn’t let him get away.
The two had vastly different thoughts on their minds, and their brain circuits had, once again, not aligned.
The girls on stage were exceedingly beautiful, and it looked as if they were about to set off a small round of……
Suddenly, dozens of figures leaped out from the nearby trees and flower bushes!
These figures moved extremely fast, each shadow was like a ghost, accompanied by fierce wind sounds.
Because they came out so fast, a lot of people were caught off guard. The princes and guys who’d come to “view flowers” were here for fun, so although they had bodyguards, they were pretty much entranced by beauty and reacted one or two seconds slower than normal.
Just those one or two degrees, posed a huge issue.
The figures flew past, taking down the bodyguards blocking the path in a couple seconds……… some even ducked right past the bodyguards, and devoured the pampered princes, one by one.
That’s right, they were devoured.
It was the ‘tearing out the flesh, holding the organs, ripping open the forehead, and chewing on the brains’ type of devouring.
This devouring turned the flower viewing convention into a battlefield, in an instant, the smell of blood permeated everywhere.
Broken limbs and the remnants of bodies were strewn across the floor and sounds of chewing were still present…… can it not be so scary!
Where would the Baihuamen girls have seen such a ruckus? They were performing happily, and then the audience suddenly turned into a horror film scene, they’d be mentally superb if they weren’t already scared to death.
But even so, they still bundled into a trembling clump, and then somebody screamed, and ran off the other way.
The corner of Gu Bai’s mouth twitched.
What fucking bad luck.
I’m not a nerd for death, why the fuck does shit always hit the fan wherever I go?!
At that moment, he finally remembered that the sadistic protagonist had indeed heard about the “tragic past” of this school when he came to the Baihuamen scene.
Yes, another tragic backstory.
It was said that when Baihuamen was once at their peak, they ran into a catastrophe at a flower viewing convention that nearly wiped out their entire school. And many of the participants who had passed away had powerful backgrounds, causing severe turmoil in many cities.
And this incident was caused by the Mo Ren!
It was also this incident that would kick off the prelude to large-scale conflicts between the Mo Ren and the martial practitioners from then on.
Undoubtedly, Gu Bai unluckily encountered this incident.
And watched a horror film live.
Gu Bai looked silently towards Qi Guan Rui.
Qi Guan Rui returned a gentle smile.
Gu Bai sighed, reached out to pull Qi Guan Rui, and hid him behind his back.
Sorry girls, while I want to save you guys too, it’s clear that I only have the means to take care of Gu Xiao Shan right now.
No wonder it was a tragedy, the Mo Ren here are all mid ranked Wu Jun and above, it’d be bizarre if it weren’t fucking tragic!
The Mo Ren’s eyes were crimson red, it was apparent they hadn’t eaten flesh in many days. Aside from just wreaking havoc, I’m afraid they also came here with the intention of instilling frightened shock.
They ate quickly, finishing off the princes and bodyguards within moments. Some of the Mo Ren simply ran after the girls that hadn’t gotten far yet.
……of course, some girls did escape, otherwise, who would’ve spread the word of the Mo Ren’s terrors?
But the girls that were slow, they could only be captured and eaten alive.
The place was a complete mess, only Gu Bai protecting Qi Guan Rui allowed them to be spick and span.
Gu Bai helplessly punched through a Mo Ren’s stomach, tossed him to the side, and turned to start on yet another Mo Ren.
There was nothing he could do. He was now surrounded by seven to eight Mo Ren. Even if he were overwhelmed with strength, he still wouldn’t be able to solve the problem quickly.
What’s more, he had to protect Gu Xiao Shan. Unknowingly, he fell into a heavy encirclement.
Being securely protected by Gu Bai, Qi Guan Rui’s state of mind was complicated.
Zi Che Shu Bai really was something, even when their lives were in danger, he didn’t abandon him……
But precisely so, it made him want to have him all for himself…… no matter what.
No one else could look at him, touch him, or even think of having him.
Gu Bai concentrated on his attacks, a thin layer of ice had gathered around the palms of his hands, there was also a layer of frost on his hair and eyebrows.
This was the sign that his force has been coruscating to an extreme, he was gradually using all his power, as he wanted to create a path to get away.
His movements were still so elegant, so crisp and beautiful, yet also so high above the masses…… perfectly flawless. He didn’t seem like he was desperately fighting others, but like he was strolling through flowers. He appeared to be calm and leisurely, without a hint of uncertainty.
But in Gu Bai’s heart, he was seriously at a loss, okay!
Who knew he’d run into such a major event just by coming out to watch a fucking flower convention? Now that he was surrounded…… how did he escape? Ahhhh!
It would’ve been fine if it were just him, but there was still a weakling behind him waiting to be protected!
If it were someone else, he’d have left them without feeling much burden, but Gu Xiao Shan was his only family/brother/friend/housemaid in this world, he couldn’t leave him behind! Am I going to die here today…… hey, let me find a way out, ahh!
And behind him, Qi Guan Rui also finally made up his mind.
If Zi Che Shu Bai was willing to do this for him…… then maybe, some things will be okay to tell Zi Che Shu Bai.
He couldn’t let himself and Zi Che Shu Bai die here, there were still a lot of things he wanted to do with Zi Che Shu Bai.
Thinking of this, Qi Guan Rui swung his body, and immediately came to Gu Bai’s side.
Gu Bai was stunned, that was fast!
Qi Guan Rui said softly: “Gege, I have a way.”
Gu Bai overthrew a Mo Ren, and turned his head: “What way?”
Qi Guan Rui smiled slightly, opened his palms, and released more than a dozen dark shadows.
The shadows were thin, like venomous snakes, shooting straight out.
Gu Bai looked at the thing, then looked at Qi Guan Rui, then looked at the thing, and back at Qi Guan Rui.
Wasn’t！ That！ The！ Snake！ Voodoo！
I！ Wouldn’t！ Forget！ Even！ If！ I！ Died！
There was a “buzz” sound in his brain.
The crazy protagonist equals Gu Xiao Shan the crazy protagonist equals Gu Xiao Shan the crazy protagonist equals Gu Xiao Shan!
What the fuck?!
Gu Bai felt as if he had just been smacked with a screen of blood by the malicious universe!
Translator: Tuna
Proofreader: Grumpykit
QC: Xiao
Proofreader’s comments: Oh lord this part made me laugh, “……actually, Gu Bai, who didn’t know he’d been deemed to have erectile dysfunction by someone else, was just helplessly frigid.
The root cause, lies in the martial arts that he practices.”
I don’t know if it was deliberate on the author’s part, but root can also be used instead of the word dick.
Xiao’s Comments: Ahahaha…run!
Translator’s Notes:
[1] The term “oiran” refers to a category of high ranking courtesans in Japanese history. They were considered to be of higher rank than common prostitutes, and were distinguished by their skills in the traditional arts of singing, dance, and music.
[2] A Mary Sue girl refers to an unrealistically perfect female protagonist (good looks, good background, skilled in everything, etc.) lacking in flaws, who makes many other characters fall in love with her. This is directly opposite to a harem male, who is fought over by many girls and drowned in their affection.
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