Let Me Tease You

Chapter 2 – Entering the Fray, Part 2

Edited by Pantherocker

In the blink of an eye, the dagger was s.n.a.t.c.hed up and tossed away by Ye Junchi.

The difference in their strength was too large. Ji Yuan’s hand had been emptied before he could react.

All he could do was maintain the cold expression on his face and watch Ye Junchi slowly approach.

In despair, Ji Yuan asked System, “System, what to do? How to tackle this problem?”

System was also distressed, asking, “Why are you so weak…..”

“Is the task considered a failure?”

“No, the instruction was to threaten him to leave, he doesn’t necessarily need to leave.”

“Then what should I do now?”

Thinking for a moment, System replied with encouragement, “You just have to bear with it, it will pa.s.s.”

With a stiff face, Ji Yuan secretly scolded out a profanity.

Ye Junchi was getting too close, the refreshing fragrance from his body floated over, flooding Ji Yuan"s sense of smell.

That handsome face was within Ji Yuan"s reach and Ye Junchi"s deep, dark eyes locked onto his face.
Even their warm breath was mixing together.

After a long while, Ye Junchi softly asked, “Are you Ji Yuan?”

Just that one sentence caused Ji Yuan to feel a chill down his spine.
Like being struck by a bolt of lightning, a numb feeling of horror pierced his scalp and he nearly shivered.

When he opened his mouth, he tried his hardest to maintain the icy tone, “What are you trying to do now?”

Ye Junchi blinked and the dangerous feeling shrouding Ji Yuan"s body immediately dispersed.
Ye Junchi gave a laugh and reached out to smooth the stray hair by Ji Yuan"s temple.
Retreating to stand by the bed, Ye Junchi said, “Your hair is messed up.”

As long as his "chest" was not messed up, it was fine.

Ji Yuan looked at Ye Junchi with an indifferent demeanor, “Why are you not leaving?”

Ye Junchi replied with a brilliant answer, “To watch you change your clothes, ah.”

In his mind, Ji Yuan complained, “System, this smelly rogue is attempting to take liberties with me!”

System replied, “Beat him.”

“I can’t beat him.”

“Then don’t get angry. The new task is to leave this room. The time limit is a stick of incense. Good luck.”

Ji Yuan was burning with tears, “What kind of joke is that? How long is a stick of incense?”

Ji Yuan lamented about how scary it was to have no cultural knowledge.
System sighed, “Half an hour.”

Half an hour was not much time.
Although System did not mention what would happen if he failed in his tasks, Ji Yuan didn’t want that experience, especially concerning the time-limited missions.
Seeing that Ye Junchi—so calm and unruffled in the midst of chaos—sat on a chair he brought over to watch Ji Yuan, there was a fierce struggle in Ji Yuan’s head.

After sleeping a whole night in his outer clothes, his robe was crumpled.

According his true personality, he would definitely not continue to wear it.

But someone was sitting beside him, watching, so it shouldn’t be considered OOC, right?

Once he OOC-ed, his soul would be destroyed. Ji Yuan was in a difficult situation with no room to advance or retreat.

Mentally poking System to ask for a hint, System only replied, “Confidential question, no authority to inquire.”
Feeling the time slowly creeping closer to the limit, Ji Yuan couldn’t help but throw an aggravated glance at the ever patient Ye Junchi.

Why is this person so free to loiter around?

He was totally different from the rumors in which he was busy committing murder and arson every day, plus r*p*ng and looting.

A devil lord who would make news all over the country with the carnage he caused once every three days, ah.

Sitting in a stalemate between the two of them for some time, Ji Yuan still could not gather up the courage to change in front of Ye Junchi. Two lumps of ‘breast’ falling down plus a big ‘brother’ down there, wouldn’t that shock Ye Junchi?

According to the original body’s understanding of Ye Junchi, this devil lord was fickle, temperamental, brutal and vicious.
If he found out that the delicate beauty he captured was not what he thought but a la.s.s with a ‘bird’, he might just eliminate him on the spot.
He might even go to the original body’s house to eliminate the whole family.
Ji Yuan had already taken over other’s body, how could he give his ident.i.ty away and implicate other people’s families too?

Feeling extremely bitter, Ji Yuan carefully got out of the bed and casually smoothed his hair, intending to leave the room.
The antic.i.p.ated OOC warning didn’t come, so he felt relieved.
He was about to release a sigh but it was caught in the middle of his throat when Ye Junchi suddenly opened his mouth to say something, almost choking Ji Yuan with fright.

Ye Junchi said, “Come here.”

Ignoring his voice, Ji Yuan went to the door and pushed. It didn’t budge.

Ye Junchi snickered and said, “If you don’t come here, you won’t be able to leave this room today.”

Ji Yuan glanced at the time left for the task—less than 15 minutes.

…Big brother! What are you trying to do now?!

Under the pressure of the task, Ji Yuan could only calm himself and go to stand in front of Ye Junchi.

Ye Junchi stood up, seized the opportunity and said, “Sit down.”

Ji Yuan sat down with no expression.
He immediately felt that something was gently combing his hair. He froze before reacting and could not help but feel numb at his scalp.

The experience of the evil devil lord combing his hair did not give a fresh and warm feeling. Ji Yuan only worried if Ye Junchi would accidentally twist off his head.

Ye Junchi’s actions were slow and leisurely as he combed Ji Yuan’s messy hair until it became neat.

Ye Junchi even had the time to take a lock of Ji Yuan"s hair to sniff, then smiled and said, “Smells good, ah.”

Staying in the devil lord’s palace, Ji Yuan had not washed his hair for three days.
He could not help but deeply revere in the devil lord’s extraordinary sense of smell.
Fortunately, Ye Junchi did not intend to help him tie his hair, he just helped Ji Yuan comb it.
Ji Yuan quickly left the room, completing the task at the last minute.

The original body caught by Ye Junchi into his palace was basically allowed free range.
Ye Junchi only dropped by from time to time to hara.s.s him, propose and play around with him. His behaviour was unorganized and he did things on a whim.
As long as Ji Yuan didn’t leave the palace, he was not limited in his movements.

The third task for today was to wander around and look for ways to leave the palace.
The weather was blistering hot. Ji Yuan held back his impulse to dig out his fake chest to munch on it.
Walking around while wiping his sweat, he occasionally encountered patrol teams of demon soldiers and they would respectfully greet him, ‘Furen’.

Ji Yuan’s body shook when he heard that.

“2333, you still haven"t told me what I actually need to do, coming into this world.”

“To complete the mission.”

Ji Yuan pondered for a moment and found a loophole with his acute thinking.

“So you mean as long as the original body doesn"t collapse and the tasks are fulfilled, the rest will be up to me?”

“Can be considered as that.”

That was great.

Ji Yuan continued his questions, “I think this world is very incredible, is cultivation real? Why did the original owner of the body not know how to fly or travel across the land?”

System coldly replied, “Because the owner is a loser.”

“… Huh?”

“The owner of the body do not have any talent for cultivation.”

Thinking that the host was quite a stupid person, System revealed some additional small details after the previous, simple reply.

“Because of the body’s special const.i.tution and strange element in his life, it was all in vain no matter how much the owner tried to practice. Else with the owner’s name known to four corners of the world, why no one come to propose and no one come to save him when he was forced to marry?”

Pausing for a while, it continued, “Due to various reasons, the original owner of the body already lost his will to live. So when that young master from Zhao family forced his hand of marriage, the owner swallowed a slow acting xx. Ye Junchi didn’t notice that and the owner pa.s.sed away not long after he arrived to the palace. Fortunately your soul matched so you were brought over here.”

This world advocates power, so weakness would not be pitied nor get one accepted into other families.
Talent in cultivation or excellent family background were the main concerns.
Unfortunately, not only the did the owner lack the talent to cultivate, the family he came from was just a middle-sized family in this vast community of cultivation.

Ji Yuan sighed, he pitied the original owner of the body.
Casting aside all his random ideas, he wandered around the palace the whole afternoon.
Finally, he found a back door without any demon race soldiers guarding it.
A mountain could be seen beyond the door and it was full of monsters and creatures; the miasma was faintly visible even during the day.

According to System, the mountain was the boundary between the human world and devil world.
An ominous premonition suddenly appeared in Ji Yuan’s heart.
This premonition was verified a few days later when the tasks refreshed.

“Escape from the devil palace tonight into the mountain (0/1)”

Ji Yuan said, “I have one f-word, not sure if I can say it or not.”

Then he started to argue with System, “Into the mountain? I don’t have the strength to truss a chicken and you want me to go into the mountain?”

With a gentle tone, System replied, “The consequences of not completing the task, baby do you want to try?”

System’s voice was very cold, causing Ji Yuan to shiver then surrender.

The maid who delivered dinner that night looked at the pale-faced Ji Yuan, then shook her head sympathetically.
After hesitating, she said softly, “Miss Ji you don’t have to worry, Master is actually not like the rumors say he is. You can be a.s.sured that if you marry Master, he will be very nice to you.”

According to the original body’s personality, whether if it"s a man or a woman, old or young, pretty or ugly, he would disregard all people from demon race.
Inside, Ji Yuan apologized to the la.s.s and started to think how he would survive his escape into the mountain later that night with a cold expression.
If you can see miasma during the day, how much more during the night when all the monsters come out for food?
He was not meaty enough to even fill the gaps between the monster’s teeth.
Besides, he had come to this world a very short time ago.
Although he was a bit more courageous than previous owner, all the members of the demon race he had encountered so far appeared in a normal human form. Who knew what kind of strange and grotesque forms the creatures living in the mountains held?

Ji Yuan thought and thought, sighing here and there.

A cold beauty with a few worries is still a beauty, and the little maid felt a bit of heartache looking at him so she whispered to him again.

“Miss, don’t worry too much. On the outside, Master kills in a decisive and stern manner. It is only in front of Miss that he becomes gentle and patient so you have to cherish Master’s feelings and definitely don’t provoke his anger.”

Ji Yuan did not pay attention to her words because he was focused on that night"s escape plan.
Escaping the palace was not strenuous.
Ji Yuan was not sure if Ye Junchi was too confident, because he did not send any guards for Ji Yuan, which gave him moments of peace.

The little maid saw that he was distracted, shook her head and refrained from saying anything further.
She waited until he finished dinner and cleared the table, then bent at her waist and left the room.
Only after she left, did Ji Yuan dare to stretch his back.
He grabbed the warm peach from his chest and took a bite.

“System, I want to apply for a cheat/hint. Otherwise I will die the moment I step into the mountain, and you won’t let me ‘save progress’.”

With an indifferent voice, System said, “Application rejected.”

Ji Yuan was itching for a fight, so he asked, “So if I die, you won’t be affected?”

System went silent for a moment, then lightly coughed, “After you entered the mountain, run towards west, less monsters. Don’t worry, you won’t die…” probably.

Fortunately he managed to get a bit of a.s.surance, Ji Yuan unhappily took out another peach to munch on.
After he finished snacking on the peaches, he found out that the fruit in the fruit bowl today was pomegranate.
They were bigger than the peaches and if they were stuffed down his front then the effect would certainly be magnificent.
Ji Yuan’s face darkened for a moment, then he scolded himself for running his mouth.
Helplessly shoving two pomegranates down his robes, he started to feel scared.
He looked down to see that he suddenly gained a bra cup size bigger for his fake chest, “…”

Ai, really worrying.

Not sure when he can finally discard the word ‘beautiful lady’ from himself and be a dignified man with ‘bird’.

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