Chapter 62
Translated by: Redolens
Edited by: playerprophet
Bai Yang all but swore to the heavens, “Really! I couldn’t be more serious!”
The Demon King asked again, “You ordered people to your bed, but didn’t do anything?”
“Nothing, nothing! I really didn’t do anything!” Bai Yang hurriedly denied.
“You expect me to believe you?” The Demon King laughed coldly. “Qing He said you didn’t sleep with them, but it seems like you did other things.”
There was a pause. Then he said, darkly, “Could you tell me what you did?”
Qing He!
That spy!
The Demon King subjected Bai Yang to a vicious interrogation, leaving Bai Yang to helplessly follow his rhythm. He’d forgotten to point out that, as things stood, the Demon King didn’t have the right to be questioning him about it. Instead, he shakily explained, “I only let them… let them….”
Seeing that Bai Yang was too embarra.s.sed to say more, the Demon King waved his hand, exploding a big hole in the garden beside them. “Speak!”
After seeing such a shocking action, Bai Yang was terrified and, hoping for leniency, confessed, “I only let them touch me a bit….”
“Touch you where?” The Demon King’s eyes were filled with anger.
“The chest…” Bai Yang felt infinitely small.
“Did you take off your clothes?” The Demon King seemed to grow infinitely larger.
“… we, we took off our clothes…,” Bai Yang seemed to shrink even further into himself. He was like a small animal curled up and cowering before a raging dragon.
The Demon King’s anger continued to rise, and he drew back the corners of his mouth, exposing white teeth. “Tell me, in detail, how everything happened. Come and give me a demonstration.”
Bai Yang’s eyes widened. “Demonstration? What demonstration?”
“You’ll be the concubine. I’ll be you. Now demonstrate exactly how he seduced you.”
Bai Yang: “…I don’t want to, Your Highness.”
“Hurry up!” the Demon King said, gathering power in his hand.
Bai Yang, scared and worthless slag said, “Right, I’ll start right away!”
He started to fumble with his clothes, but by the time he was half naked he started to feel embarra.s.sed again, and his movements slowed.
The Demon King, whose pitch-black eyes bore into him, saw him pause, and started to gather power in his hand.
Bai Yang began to undress again, exposing his fair-skinned upper body.
“And your pants?”
Bai Yang’s head shook like a rattle-drum, and said, “I never took off my pants.”
Actually, he’d been naked at the time, but he was embarra.s.sed about stripping naked in such an open s.p.a.ce, so he lied.
The Demon King seemed satisfied. He made a sound of a.s.sent, and said imperiously, “and then what did he do? Continue.”
The Demon King hadn’t caught his lie. Bai Yang quietly let out a breath.
He hesitated for a moment and saw that the Demon King was still staring at him. He walked over very slowly and reached out a hand to undo the Demon King’s outer robe.
The Demon King stood up and stared at Bai Yang wordlessly.
Under such a substantial gaze, Bai Yang felt even more pressure. He steeled himself and undid the Demon King’s outer robe, his fingers trembling slightly. They seemed like tiny, terrified snakes sliding over the Demon King’s chest.
The Demon King sucked in a breath.
“Your Highness?” Bai Yang stopped and looked up, regarding him with concern.
“What are you looking at me for? Continue,” the Demon King said.
Bai Yang had no choice and continued undressing him. When he saw the Demon King’s white middle robe, he was afraid of disrespecting him, and paused again.
“Don’t stop.” The Demon King’s voice was cold and deep.
The garden was peaceful and quiet. With all the attendants sent away, it was only the two of them.
In the Demon Realm, the wind was cold enough to cause gooseb.u.mps to appear on Bai Yang’s skin.
“Your Highness,” he summoned the courage to say, “We shouldn’t continue. It’s inappropriatek2026;.”
The Demon King stared at him and said, “Continue.”
His gaze made Bai Yang uneasy.
Helpless, he could only gingerly take off the Demon King’s middle robe.
The strong and robust chest that was revealed wasn’t at all like Bai Yang had imagined. In fact, every inch of skin was solid and muscular, as though forged through hard work.
Bai Yang felt jealous for a split second and was tempted to reach out and touch the skin to find out whether it was soft or hard.
Of course, he only dared to think that in his heart.
“And then?”
The hoa.r.s.e voice brought Bai Yang back to the situation at hand. “You still want to continue?”
What had followed was unsuitable for children.
“Of course,” the Demon King said.
Bai Yang internally made a 囧 face, feeling caught between a rock and a hard place. In the end, he thought, you made me touch you. I wasn’t willing. You asked for this indignity.
Heart in chaos, he reached out and felt the Demon King’s ****. Then he imitated his concubine’s tone and said, “Master, you’re so impressive~.”
Bai Yang retreated a step, raised his hands, and said, “It was like that. That was all there was. After that, I chased them out. We really didn’t do anything else.”
The Demon King didn’t move.
“Your Highness?” Bai Yang tilted his head in surprise.
The Demon King’s chest rose and fell violently a few times, like he was taking deep breaths. Soon after, he endured and said calmly, “It seems you were sensible.”
Bai Yang: “You believe me?”
The Demon King didn’t start, only made a noise of a.s.sent. It was then that Bai Yang noticed his ears were red.
Could he be feeling shy?
Bai Yang opened his mouth wide in shock.
“I believe you.”
Bai Yang barely had time to sigh in relief when the Demon King darkly added, “If you dare to sleep around, no matter who it is, I’ll hack him to pieces!”
Bai Yang rea.s.sured him, “Your Highness, this servant wouldn’t do such things….”
The Demon King felt a bit satisfied. He gathered his clothes and said, “Lou Jianfeng already killed the one who raised the gu. You don’t need to worry.”
Bai Yang was taken aback. The Demon King had been thinking of him this whole time?
The Demon King said, “I’ve already sent men all over to search for a cure. I believe I’ll receive a reply soon, so you can rest easy.”
Bai Yang’s expression became complicated. He hadn’t expected the Demon King to care so much about the gu inside him. He was even more concerned than Bai Yang himself.
“Thank you, your Highness,” he said sincerely.
“Since I used up some of my cultivation, I have no way of refining a pill right now. I’ll refine one for you later…” the Demon King said.
Bai Yang felt anxious and blurted, “Your Highness, you mustn’t!”
His protest was like a roar, loud enough to be ear-splitting. The attendants standing outside the garden were startled and looked in their direction.
The Demon King probably hadn’t antic.i.p.ated such a big reaction from Bai Yang, either, and his expression darkened a bit. “Put on your clothes!”
Bai Yang, who had already thought about putting his clothes back on, draped his outer robe over his shoulders.
“You dare be unreasonable with me?”
Was Bai Yang the first person to shout at him in several thousand years?
Bai Yang: “….”
Did I really just yell at the Demon King? The biggest villain at the start of the book?
Bai Yang backtracked, “Your Highness, please forgive me. Your Highness, please don’t waste your cultivation refining a pill for me. I already asked some pill masters to help me refine one!”
In that moment of desperation, the wheels in Bai Yang’s head whirled and he came up with that excuse.
“Pill masters?” The Demon King snorted. “How could their pills compare to mine?”
“I found ten of them!” Bai Yang continued, finding it easier to lie with each lie he told. “Of course they cannot refine a pill of the same caliber as your Highness, but their pills can’t be called common, either. If your Highness still isn’t convinced… then if worse comes to worst, your Highness can grant me some spiritual plants and items. That way, the pill will be high-quality.”
The Demon King was about to say something when Bai Yang hurried to interrupt him. He spoke quickly, his tone admonishing. “Your Highness, you are the king of this realm. Your health is a concern for the whole Demon Realm. How can you extract your own cultivation so casually? I won’t die immediately from this gu inside me. My cultivation is enough that I’ll live for eight or ten years more. Add to that the pill masters’ cultivation, and I should be just fine. Why should you extract your own cultivation? It can’t be that you look down on mine?”
The Demon King said, “Of course not.”
Bai Yang took the initiative to smooth-talk, “Exactly. Since you trust me, you should also trust that I can take care of my own affairs. Is it possible for me to treat my own life like a joke?”
After he finished speaking, Bai Yang watched the Demon King closely.
From inside his mind, Xiao Ling said, “Wow! Sir, you have a way with words. What you said was both reasonable and persuasive.”
Bai Yang mentally replied, “I’ve said so much, he has to listen to me. I’m really scared that he’s refined another thousand years of cultivation into a pill. I couldn’t handle that.”
Xiao Ling thought a bit, and said, “Originally, I hoped you would accept his kindness and grow stronger that way. But after all the time you’ve spent together, I’ve realized that the Demon King is a good person. You gave him a green hat to wear, gave away his pill, and you’ve been saved by him time and time again. How pitiful. If he gave you another cultivation pill, I wouldn’t be able to stomach it, either.”
Bai Yang: “… true, ah.”
Hearing Xiao Ling summarize all his past actions, he felt like sc.u.m.
Bai Yang looked at the Demon King, “Your Highness?”
The Demon King thought for a moment, and smiled. “Alright, I agree with you.”
Bai Yang was baffled. He wasn’t sure why the Demon King was smiling. Although it didn’t really matter. As long as he agreed, it was fine.
“Oh right, those five men…,” the Demon King mentioned.
“I won’t order them to serve in bed again,” Bai Yang said.
The Demon King coughed, the tips of his ears starting to redden, “If your desires aren’t satisfied, then…”
Bai Yang interrupted him, “Your Highness, it wasn’t like that! I found those five men in order to confirm something! It’s not because my desires were unsatisfied, and it also wasn’t to show them any favor!”
Better explain it clearly first.
The Demon King was stunned for a moment before saying, “… what did you want to confirm?”
Bai Yang: “….”
That would be too awkward. If I say I wanted to confirm whether I’m gay or not, would he hit me?
He stalled for a moment before saying, “That’s a personal matter… a personal matter.”
Bai Yang couldn’t discern the meaning of the Demon King’s gaze.
Bai Yang’s own eyes were evasive.
“Fine, if you don’t want to say it, then don’t. Continue to cultivate. Protect your body. Don’t sleep around.” To Bai Yang’s surprise, Demon King didn’t press him. His next order was, “If you continue to flirt….”
As he spoke, he slammed his hand down. This time, even the remaining four legs of the stone table were broken down to slag.
If such a blow hit his head, it would resemble a crushed melon.
Bai Yang swallowed, and trembling, swore, “I won’t.”
The Demon King made a noise, satisfied. “I still have some things to do. You may go.”
Bai Yang left in a hurry.
Gazing at his retreating figure, the Demon King’s grim affect showed a hint of a smile. The corners of his mouth quirked up, expressing his pleasure.
“Still saying he doesn’t like me, when he’s clearly worried about me. What a duplicitous little thing.” The Demon King hummed softly.
Under normal circ.u.mstances, an ordinary person poisoned by a gu would search high and low for a way to cure themselves. A pill that could clear out the poison and strengthen one’s cultivation was exactly what he needed. However, Xie Ze Tian refused it at all costs. Why?
He was worried about my health and refused, the Demon King thought happily.
Since Bai Yang asked how he did, it would be best to give him what he wanted. Yes, the Demon King could give him all the medicinal herbs and spiritual items in the treasury.
The Demon King also didn’t know which pill masters he’d chosen. Just in case the ones Bai Yang had found were lacking, the Demon King had better send him two more pill masters.
Bai Yang, the duplicitous little thing, exited the garden, and found that his legs felt weak.
The Demon King had been furious. Bai Yang was caught off-guard, and his head was a mess. Now that he’d left, he could think clearly, and he realized something was off.
Although he hadn’t actually slept with those five men, if he had, it would be normal! What was wrong with showing favor to his own concubines?
The Demon King even went so far as to summon and threaten him?
Xiao Ling spoke up, “Sir….”
“You have something to say?”
Xiao Ling seemed to be considering its words, “Just now… you were like those wives caught cheating by their husbands.”
“Don’t talk nonsense!”
“I’m not talking nonsense. You just asked me why the Demon King was angry. Now I know. He thought you’d cheated on him. Of course, he was mad. Considering his vicious and merciless manner of dealing with things, him not killing you on the spot is already amazing.”
Bai Yang: “….”
Bai Yang felt betrayed, “When did I become his wife? No, what I mean is nothing ever happened between us! We’re not even lovers, so why did he act like that?”
“But he thinks you like him, and he decided to accept your feelings. To him, you’re his wife-to-be.”
“Why are you always calling me the wife? Can’t I be the husband?” Bai Yang was at the end of his rope.
“If you two got together, you could only be the wife,” Xiao Ling said, cruelly pointing out the facts.
Bai Yang, feeling helpless and frustrated, refused to accept that. “I don’t like him!”
Bai Yang had been living in a fantasy about his and the Demon King’s relationship. His body had responded to the Demon King’s touch, after all. After the latest events, the ambiguity was fading fast.
It was frightening.
What good is it to grow up handsome? What use is high status? You can’t eat good looks.
Marrying someone like that and making them your spouse would be facing death every day. Not to mention, Bai Yang might not even get to be the husband! He would be suppressed and controlled to death.
He couldn’t! He absolutely could not marry that kind of person!
In his heart, Bai Yang categorized the Demon King as someone he couldn’t fall in love with.
“Master, I don’t think you can change this kind of thing with your will alone. The Demon King is convinced that you like him, and he seems to like you, too. You can’t get away from him.”
Bai Yang had the impulse to off himself.
“Moreover, there are some things I’m not sure I should say,” Xiao Ling said.
“Say them,” Bai Yang said.
“In light of this, I think the Demon King will propose some special requirements.”
“What requirements?” Bai Yang’s brows furrowed.
“For example….”
“For example?”
“For example, something like kissing and making love….”
Bai Yang: “….”
Bai Yang felt like he’d been hit by a bolt from the blue, and he froze.
WTF!
WTF! WTF! WTF!
If Xiao Ling hadn’t said it, he would have forgotten. Before, he thought misleading the Demon King about some things would be no big deal. He could take the opportunity to help the male lead under the guise of helping the Demon King. Now, after being reminded by Xiao Ling, he couldn’t help but think wonder how he would handle demands like that from the Demon King.
No, he’d have to clear up some things with the Demon King later.
But in the end, he was a little scared. Right in front of him, the Demon King had smashed the table’s four legs, scaring him into not saying anything. He feared that if he spoke, he’d be the one smashed to bits.
First, he returned to his residence. He was still worrying about how to tactfully refuse the Demon King without provoking him when a housekeeper informed him that a reward from the Demon King had arrived.
“A reward?” Bai Yang’s face blanched, “what reward?”
Didn’t he already receive a reward after the Western Demonic War? He still had all those gold and silver valuables lying piled up in a storeroom, and that woman the Demon King sent over, Qing He, remained in his inner court. Now there was another reward?
Filled with hesitation, he arrived at the front courtyard to find that several boxes had been placed there. Standing behind the boxes were two people wearing brown robes. When they saw Bai Yang, they respectfully said, “Lord Xie.”
“You are….” Demon King, what is going on? Always stuffing my mansion full of people!
The two men in brown robes appeared rather old, with mild temperaments. One of them said, “We are the pill masters that his Highness sent you. My name is Zhu Mi.”
The other one said, “My name is Zhu Xin.”
Zhu Mi raised a hand and motioned towards the boxes surrounding them. “These are the spiritual plants and items granted to you, Lord Xie, by his Highness. We are here to refine cultivation pills for you.”
Zhu Xin said, “Please rest a.s.sured, Lord Xie. We fellow students have studied under Master Tian Jue for many years. We have a lot of experience in refining cultivation pills together. We will definitely spare no effort to refine pills for you.”