C139 — [6.5 — Strange Tales of Fengjia Town]

Bonus Chapter

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Gu Yin was confused.

 

 

He couldn’t figure out what he was really thinking, and in the end, he could only hiss and lie in the shadow of the church like a real poisonous snake, looking at the love bug in his hand and staring blankly.

 

Compared to other gu, the Love gu wasn’t very different; it was just an ugly long and thin worm.

 

At most, its color was crystal clear, like a transparent silk thread.

 

Its existence would probably be disgusting to all humans.

 

 

After all, in the ancient book obtained yesterday, the description of the love gu couldn’t be considered a good thing.

 

Although what attracted Gu Yin’s attention yesterday was the line about love until death do us part, in fact, in that book, the love gu was more like a compulsion that could perfectly manipulate the human body and mind.

 

According to the book, after being planted with a love gu, a human being would do whatever the compounder said.

 

And even the most ridiculous demands would be obeyed unconditionally.

 

Just like the example given in the annotations of the book, there was a case where a man compelled a beautiful woman who refused his love to be his lover.

 

He even asked her to cut open her beloved husband’s heart and liver to show her loyalty.

 

The woman, who had never dared to ki-ll a chicken in the past, did so without feeling the blo-odshed and was so changed that even her mind was manipulated.

 

As he thought of this, his snake tail, coiling in the corner, wiggled subconsciously.

 

It seemed to be agitated by the evil description or simply recalling the annotations.

 

There were many annotations in different handwriting on this ancient book, which seemed to have been left behind by the Feng family’s other ancestors’ books, and most of them were remarks with an incorrect outlook.

 

Due to the age of the Feng family’s heirloom, many of the materials used to refine the gu had gone extinct over the years, and these annotations were discussions about alternatives to those materials.

 

Most of them used human organs as substitutes.

 

The human body was regarded as a natural breeding ground for gu, and next to the ancient methods of making gu, there were notes on how to use things from living people to replace those old herbs and materials that had become extinct.

 

In the annotations about love gu, there were even more obscene words and colorful phrases. The words were all over the place.

 

One of the annotations even wrote about the love gu affair, citing various examples to illustrate that this love compulsion could even change human cognition; changing temperament was even a child’s play.

 

It could completely transform a person into a tool for fun.

 

The various words made Gu Yin, a monster who had never had knowledge in this area, blush.

 

Although he kept repeating in his mind that the priest was an enemy, an enemy he wanted to teach a lesson to, and that it was useless for him to use this love gu, he didn’t need to care about these annotations.

 

But Gu Yin didn’t know what was wrong with him; he still couldn’t help but imagine what the priest would look like if he changed his temperament.

 

In Gu Yin’s impression, the priest always stood on the stage, overlooking the believers below.

 

Although the expression on his face was gentle, Gu Yin inexplicably felt that the bottom of the priest’s eyes were indifferent, as if he had never put the many believers below the stage in his eyes.

 

He also never put other people in his eyes.

 

Always separated from others by a shallow, untouchable film.

 

Even those normal humans that Gu Yin aspired to were unable to touch a piece of the priest’s coat, let alone an ugly and hideous monster like Gu Yin.

 

In the past, Feng Qi had many times complained to Gu Yin about the priest’s viciousness, saying that the priest was a very condescending, unseemly person.

 

And after this period of time together, the only thing that Gu Yin felt deeply was that the priest was indeed condescending.

 

Like the beautiful woman in that story, she would never consent to the love of an ugly and humble person.

 

 

For a human as beautiful as the priest, if he knew that an ugly monster had a crush on him, he would only show a look of disgust and avoid him.

 

Just like the expression his best friend Feng Qi had shown him countless times, if not more so.

 

“……”

 

Seeming to see the priest glancing at himself in contemptuous disgust like the townspeople, Gu Yin looked down, covering the stitch marks on his face with shadows, and gripped the love gu in his hand.

 

Luckily, though, the priest didn’t know that.

 

Besides, he didn’t hold it against the priest.

 

He was Feng Qi’s good friend.

 

Feng Qi hated the priest so much, and naturally, so did he.

 

He only wanted to teach the priest a lesson from the beginning to the end.

 

There were no other thoughts at all.

 

Gu Yin continued to deceive himself and others by adding his own rhetoric full of loopholes, but at the same time, he couldn’t help but look at the love gu in a daze.

 

 

He wondered, if he was really infected with the love gu, would the priest also be like those annotations that said he would be gentle and show a smile full of love to the one who planted the gu?

 

Not one of those false smiles when facing a believer, but a more beautiful, gentler smile.

 

Not knowing what he had imagined, Gu Yin was in a trance for a long time, only to come back to his senses a moment later amidst the prayers of the believers in the church hall.

 

At this time in the church, only the believers in the hall who were still reciting the Bible devoutly and praying to God remained.

 

The priest, who was originally standing on the stage, had long since ended today’s mass and returned to his room.

 

 

Gu Yin stared at the direction of the priest’s room for a long time before finally moving his body slowly and hesitantly forward.

 

Hiss-

 

And the believers who were praying in the seats of the faithful at this time didn’t notice in the slightest that in the shadows beside the hall, there was a huge and hideous black shadow slowly wandering towards the room deep inside the church.

 

 

The speed at which Gu Yin was swimming wasn’t too slow, but it appeared to be very hesitant.

 

 

He was clearly moving while continuously explaining his behavior in his mind.

 

 

Although the use of love gu was mostly frowned upon, if it was only used as a tool to teach the priest a lesson, his practice of giving the priest a love gu should be considered normal, right?

 

After all, he didn’t have any other ideas and wouldn’t be full of evil thoughts like the annotations in the book.

 

 

He just wanted to teach the priest a lesson.

 

 

The love gu could change the priest’s arrogant character and make him less evil and greedy.

 

This shouldn’t count as betraying his best friend.

 

It shouldn’t count; he was still normal.

 

Gu Yin thought so, feeling that such a reason perfectly explained everything he did, and finally stopped obsessing about it.

 

He quickly moved to the vicinity of the priest’s room.

 

Then, like a small child doing something bad, he stopped a little uneasily in front of the door.

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In the room at that moment, Jiu Shu was leaning back in his chair with his cheeks, waiting for a long time.

 

His work for the day had all but finished.

 

If it was according to the original owner’s habits, now was the time to sleep.

 

But Jiu Shu didn’t feel sleepy and just looked at the Bible in his hands with his eyes downcast.

 

Quietly waiting for the arrival of the object of discipline.

 

Under the broken light spilling outside the room’s curtains, he flipped through the pages of the book, but his gaze rested on the system panel in front of him.

 

On it was displaying the original plot of this world, as well as the horror film that had spawned it.

 

Compared to the simple character of Gu Yin in the original, the Gu Yin in the film completely exposed his bloodthirsty nature, and his hatred for humans reached its peak.

 

Jiu Shu looked at the film screen, his gaze fixed on the terrified expressions of the college students.

 

Later in the film, although the college students were mostly innocent, Gu Yin still had no intention of letting them go.

 

Trapping them in a town filled with ghostly walls, they were plunged into a desperate situation of k-illing each other.

 

Obviously, Gu Yin, who had turned into a severe ghost, had already lost his mind and had completely fallen into madness, starting to ki-ll people with indiscriminate revenge.

 

[They were about to die.

 

A licked his dry lips and leaned weakly against the hall wall, looking around the empty and mottled walls, vaguely seeing the luxurious decoration of the past.

 

 

This was the town’s long-deserted church.

 

 

He and his companions had been lost in the town for a long time and had traveled in groups of two in search of food, which had brought them here.

 

But there wasn’t much food here, barely enough to fill their bellies.

 

 

A and his companions divided each portion equally, trying to survive each day in the hope that the other companions would find another portion of food elsewhere in the town.

 

 

But in the end, the other companions did not arrive at the appointed time, and they too found that they could not get out of the church.

 

They were completely trapped here.

 

Meanwhile, as time passed, the interior of this church became more and more terrifying.

 

Not only did the statue of the god in the hall become strangely shaped, there was also an additional corpse on the altar in the hall that was full of insect gnawing traces, and it could only be seen from the tattered fabric of the clothes that the corpse seemed to have originally belonged to a clergyman.

 

A, who had originally thought of finding props in the church that could restrain the ghosts, completely lost hope and became increasingly numb from the growing hunger.

 

Snap-snap-snap-

 

 

The sound of B’s footsteps came, and A looked over, only to find B chewing and swallowing something while walking in the church corridor next to the hall.

 

B actually had a food stash!

 

A stood up with a grimace as he held onto the wall, unable to believe that his teammate had been so selfish as to take food in private.

 

With the desire to survive before starvation, he snatched the food from B’s hand.

 

 

B’s voice immediately became incredibly mournful; this was the food he had struggled to find.

 

“You give it to me! It’s mine! It’s mine-” Before he could finish his words, B suddenly revealed an expression of utter horror after seeing A’s face, not daring to make a single sound again.

 

A didn’t care that much and only focused on shoving the unknown minced meat on the verge of rotting in his hand into his mouth.

 

The former pampered college students had never suffered from such hunger before and were now so hungry that they didn’t care.

 

“Do you have more! Give it to me!” He still felt hungry after eating this bit of minced meat.

 

With his bloo-dshot eyes wide, he grabbed B by the collar and wouldn’t let go, convinced that B must still have food in his stash.

 

But B just shivered with fear and denied it, saying he had no more food, but A didn’t believe him.

 

In the middle of the argument, B’s head knocked down the stone pillar next to the corridor, bloo-d splattered everywhere.

 

A touched his nose and found B dead through and through.

 

He had ki-lled his companion.

 

A was paralyzed, and he rolled and crawled away in terror, frantically trying to escape from the church.

 

But he still couldn’t get out, trapped in this church by a ghostly wall until he returned.

 

B’s body was still in the same place, already on the verge of decomposition.

 

In the eyes of A, who was physically exhausted at this point, the aroma of meat actually emanated.

 

Click-click-click-

 

After the sound of wolfish chewing, A suddenly heard footsteps coming from behind him, and the meat in his hand was even snatched away.

 

A subconsciously blocked it: “No, this is mine! Mine!”

 

Before he could finish his words, he looked up, but saw the long dead B greedily devouring the minced meat snatched from his hand.

 

“B? You… you what?”

 

A looked at B incredulously, and in the next moment he collapsed to the ground in the middle of the argument, just like B before him.

 

Collapsing on the aged floor of the church, in a vision blurred by bloo-d, A realized that this scene was exactly the same as when he had ki-lled his companion B before.

 

It was like an ever-repeating cycle in which those trapped in it could only repeat their destiny of k-illing and being ki-lled over and over again, devouring their own flesh and bloo-d and that of their companions.

 

But when did this cycle start?

 

He didn’t know; he just suddenly remembered the scene when Gu Yin died that he had experienced before.

 

Everything at hand seemed to overlap with that heinous agony.

 

 

A looked at the crumbling church that had become more horrific as they died over and over again and understood everything.

 

 

That was it.

 

 

It was its resentment repeating itself over and over again, making people experience the pain it had consumed before it died.

 

 

A suddenly realized something in the brief moment of lucidity before he died, and he raised his eyes to the oddly shaped idol in the hall.

 

 

Originally it was supposed to be a god bound to a cross, which was standard in the Church of God sect.

 

 

Now it had turned into a monster with a human body and a serpent’s tail.

 

 

The stitches that were originally all over the monster’s body had turned into even more gritty patchwork marks.

 

It was like a tall corpse cobbled together from broken pieces of varying skin colors.

 

 

Why hadn’t he noticed it all along?

 

 

It wasn’t the idol.

 

 

Rather, the ghost with a greenish-white face and a rouge expression had been hovering over the church hall.

 

 

Cocking its head, it watched their struggle for life and death.

 

 

It clearly could have ki-lled them outright, but instead, it was like a cat catching a mouse, letting them swirl around the town.

 

 

It was enjoying their deaths.

 

 

For it was saturated with intense hatred for all the living.

 

 

A’s eyes widened, and the last thing reflected in his pupils was the Ghost looking down at him with snake-like vertical pupils, the corners of his mouth an eerie curve that no human could even possibly reach.

 

 

Ho ho ho–

 

 

He heard the man’s familiar, pleasurable laughter.

 

 

It seemed more and more eerie in this crumbling church.]

 

 

Jiu Shu looked at the vertical pupils of Gu Yin in the film that looked dead despite being full of laughter, revealing a thoughtful expression.

 

 

He had been busy dealing with the church’s relationship with the shrine’s side all this time, all in order to prevent the plot from repeating itself.
It had worked well so far; the whole town was under his control, and the shrine’s every move could not escape his eyes.

 

 

It basically ensured that Gu Yin wouldn’t die a tragic death at the hands of the townspeople like in the original.

 

 

However, the plot inertia of these recent worlds had also become stronger and stronger, and Jiu Shu always felt that things wouldn’t be that simple.

 

 

He just hoped that it wouldn’t be like before, where the objects of punishment from two different world lines overlapped and ki-lled each other or something.

 

 

Jiu Shu remembered the objects of discipline from the previous few worlds and couldn’t help but sigh.

 

Compared to Gu Yin in the film, the current Gu Yin Silver shouldn’t have such a strong hatred.

 

 

The things that he wanted to do now should also be less bloo-dy.

 

 

He guessed that it would probably be some rare and strange gu again, that’ll be used to retaliate for the female lead.

 

 

Would it be something learned from the male lead’s family heirloom?

 

 

Jiu Shu pondered; out of the corner of his eye caught a glimpse of the changing shadows in the doorway, knowing that it was the object of punishment that had come.

 

 

But after waiting for a while, he didn’t see Gu Yin release the gu to scare him.

 

Jiu Shu thought about it and put away the book in his hand.

 

 

He knew that Gu Yin should want to take advantage of him letting down his guard before releasing the gu.

 

So Jiu Shu simply stretched out, as if he didn’t notice the prying eyes outside the door, and lay down on the bed and closed his eyes.

 

As his breathing gradually calmed down and he fell into a deep sleep, a familiar rustling sound came from outside the room.

 

Hissing-

 

It was the icy spitting sound of snakes.

 

 

It seemed that some behemoth had silently entered the room, its breath as cold as a dead body, with the characteristic grim feeling of a cold-blo-oded animal.

 

On the soft bed, the priest’s fine, soft black hair was plastered to the side of his face, and his tightly closed eyes and heaving chest were showing the fact that he had fallen into a deep sleep.

 

Palms with dark nails tentatively approached the bed, but only dared to touch a strand of the priest’s hanging hair and put it aside.

 

The strand of hair was too much of a hindrance, blocking the priest’s cheek.

 

It was then that the monster in the room quieted down and said nothing, as he had done countless dark nights in the past, looking at the sleeping face of the priest.

 

He just thought that the priest’s face was really nice to look at.

 

It was only natural to look at it for a little while longer, and it had nothing to do with where he stood with his best friend.

 

After watching for an hour like this, Gu Yin took out the love gu in his hand as if he suddenly remembered something.

 

 

He hesitated for a moment, but the other people in his body were already so agitated that they were swimming under his skin.

 

Gu Yin didn’t know why these gu were so agitated; it was clear that he was just teaching a priest a lesson; he didn’t have any other thoughts at all.

 

There was no reason at all for the gu to be so agitated.

 

Having said that, under the influence of the gu, Gu Yin’s pale fingers still subconsciously stiffened, and for a moment he didn’t grip the love gu in his hand.

 

The slender gu worm wriggled and fell onto the bed.

 

 

It soon crawled onto the back of the priest’s white hand.

 

The priest’s skin was so thin that he could easily see the greenish-colored veins underneath the skin, and the gu’s slender, needle-like body pierced the skin.

 

It disappeared into the veins in an instant.

 

It must have been very painful.

 

Gu Yin immediately raised his head and stared somewhat nervously at Jiu Shu’s expression, afraid that Jiu Shu would feel pain.

 

Although the book described that the love gu would secrete an anesthetic ingredient so that the person who had been compelled would not be able to notice any abnormality, Gu Yin still couldn’t help but feel that this softly built priest in front of him would be injured as a result.

 

Luckily, the love gu really didn’t hurt, and the priest’s peaceful sleeping expression didn’t change.

 

As a matter of fact, as a friend who was united with his best friend Feng Qi, he didn’t care at all about the pain or lack of pain of a mere priest.

 

He just wanted to teach the priest a lesson.

 

Gu Yin withdrew his fingers that were so tense that they were stiff and thought so.

 

He began to think about how to use the love gu to teach the priest a lesson in a while.

 

 

Feng Qi had once said that the priest’s uncaring character was the most unbearable, so why not let the priest become a bit more amiable to others later on?

 

As for the other vicious personalities that Feng Qi had mentioned, Gu Yin felt that the priest did not seem to have any of them.

 

Although it was true that the church was advocating the purchase of atonement tributes, that was all a few months ago.

 

During this recent period of time, the priest would rarely mention the tributes and had even replaced them with pulling people into the church.

 

It was far less excessive than what Feng Qi had said.

 

He treated the believers well too.

 

 

It was just a little too good.

 

It would be nice for him to stay away from the believers who were always giving strange looks.

 

They must all be up to no good to the priest.

 

He was the only one who…

“……”

 

No, nothing.

 

 

He felt nothing for the priest.

 

Gu Yin frowned tightly, wondering what was wrong with his brain; it was always thinking about random things today.

 

It wasn’t up to the standards of what made him a normal human being.

 

Shaking his head and unintentionally straightening up, Gu Yin bumped into the chandelier on the ceiling of the room and hastily stopped his movements, fearing the rattling sound produced by the chandelier’s shaking.

 

But this seemed to have been too late.

 

He had already awakened the sleeping priest on the bed.

 

Before Gu Yin could hide, he met the eyes of the priest on the bed.

 

On the silk-paved bed, the priest with black hair draped over his shoulders looked at Gu Yin with open eyes and a calm expression.

 

This was the first time Gu Yin had met the priest’s eyes at such a close distance, and compared to the sleeping priest, he appeared even more handsome when he was awake, his eyes so exquisite that they were mesmerizing.

 

Looking at the priest’s beautifully clear peach blossom-like eyes, Gu Yin froze in place.

 

In the priest’s spacious room, Gu Yin’s tall body could be said to be extremely present, especially the coiled snaketail, which took up almost one half of the room.

 

This gave Gu Yin nowhere to hide.

 

Gu Yin’s unnatural vertical pupils dilated, and he subconsciously used his arms to cover his ugly face.

 

He didn’t dare to look at the priest again, afraid to see the priest reveal a look of contempt and disgust.

 

But after waiting for a long time and not seeing any other movement coming from the priest, Gu Yin could not help but look at the priest.

 

Only then did he realize that the priest was sitting on the bed in a trance and didn’t seem to find him—a tall monster, frightening.

 

It was only then that Gu Yin remembered that he had been put under a love gu.

 

The effect of the love gu was such that the person who was under the compulsion would be in a trance after seeing the person who planted the gu and would be obedient to the person who planted it.

 

So whatever he said now, the priest would obey?

 

“……” Gu Yin opened his lips and didn’t make a sound for a long time.

 

In fact, he should have asked the priest to give up the church’s power now and turn into a truly kind human being, just like what his best friend Feng Qi had been expecting.

 

After all, for the priest who had been planted with the love gu, now was exactly the best time to deal with him, and if he gave the order now, every word would be listened to carefully by the priest.

 

Thinking this way, Gu Yin finally attempted to give the order, but before he could make a sound, he heard Jiu Shu on the bed speak first.

 

“It’s the first time we’ve met; may I know your name?”

 

Name?

 

Being interrupted in his thoughts, Gu Yin was a bit caught off guard, and he looked at Jiu Shu in a bit of a daze, his gaze stopping at the corners of Jiu Shu’s clear eyes.

 

The smile on Jiu Shu’s face was like nothing he had ever seen before.

 

Although it was still the usual mildness, and at first glance it was no different from the usual, it was obvious that the detachment in this smile was gone when facing a believer.

 

It was as if he was facing an object of extreme affection.

 

This was a side effect of the love gu, falling in love at first sight with the person who planted the gu.

 

Even if he was just an ugly and hideous monster.

 

Gu Yin realized this.

 

He should have ignored it and just given the order and left, which was what a normal person should do.

 

“…… Gu Yin.”

 

 

“Gu Yin? It’s a very nice name, just like you yourself, very cute.”

 

Gu Yin looked at this priest, who used to be so high and mighty that he could only hide in the shadows and quietly spy on him, his gaze hovering over the priest’s eyes that seemed to be full of love for a long time, unable to move away.

 

At this moment, he felt that he was really deeply loved.

 

Though it was an illusion from a love gu, the supposedly lovely words were still incredibly heartwarming.

 

The priest now seemed to have lost that haughty character and became approachable.

 

Although he hadn’t had the time to give the order yet, this would be considered to have accomplished the purpose of teaching the priest a lesson.

 

Therefore, it was time for him to leave.

 

The purpose of the lesson was achieved, so he shouldn’t continue to stay here.

 

Snap-

 

The priest stepped off the bed; the sound of his feet on the carpet seemed soft and harmless.

 

He seemed to think that sitting on the bed and conversing with Gu Yin seemed rude, which was why he stood up straight and tried to look directly at Gu Yin.

 

But now that he had just woken up, the fabric of his robe slid obediently along the lines of his body, and from Gu Yin’s point of view, he could even see his well-defined collarbone under his wide-open neckline.

 

The pale skin was more delicate than even the finest porcelain.

 

The priest had a more beautiful skin than anyone else in this town, and by all rights was more suitable for skinning as well.

 

But Gu Yin didn’t have any desire to change his skin at this point; he just wanted to touch it.

 

He wanted to know if the priest’s body was really as soft as it seemed to be, so soft that it would break at the slightest touch.

 

Compared to Gu Yin’s tall, snake-tailed body, the priest was too soft and slender for Gu Yin’s eyes, even though he always liked to stand on the stage and look down on the crowd.

 

“Want to touch it? It won’t break.”

 

The priest had walked up to Gu Yin at some point, and his voice was like the softest cotton, causing Gu Yin’s cheeks to turn red and he was at a loss for words.

 

He seemed to have inadvertently said what was on his mind.

 

And the priest who had been bewitched by the love gu didn’t feel offended by such thoughts but instead approached very actively.

 

Fingers rested on the collar, gently tugging down his own collar.

 

He was so active that it made Gu Yin’s heart beat like thunder as he blushed.

 

Looking at the priest’s beautiful to the extreme face, Gu Yin’s throat knot subconsciously rolled a few times, and the snake’s tail that hovered on the ground had already circled the priest, who had come closer at some point.

 

Like a large python that was hunting.

 

If another person had been caught in the circle, they would have immediately been scared to death by the oppressive feeling of a predator from the top of the food chain on Gu Yin’s body.

 

The priest, on the other hand, looked at Gu Yin as if nothing had happened, still looking at him with a natural expression.

 

In the eyes of the priest who had been poisoned by the love gu, no matter how horrible Gu Yin was, he seemed no different from a normal person.

 

So those so-called ugly or not, normal or not, those reasons that prevented him from approaching the priest all disappeared.

 

At least for this moment, all of them disappeared.

 

Gu Yin looked at the priest, who was encircled in his tail, and subconsciously reached out his hand, moving so slowly that the tip of his ear was already red before he even touched Jiu Shu.

 

Seeing this, Jiu Shu arched his eyebrows, took hold of Gu Yin’s pale palm, and pressed his cheek against his palm.

 

Gu Yin’s palm was wide and slender and could completely cover Jiu Shu’s cheek inside.

 

The touch under his fingers was smooth and creamy, Gu Yin subconsciously rubbed it and saw that the marks of the stitches on his fingers had rubbed some redness into Jiu Shu’s cheek.

 

The corners of Jiu Shu’s eyes also gained a more colorful tone.

 

His palms were too rough compared to the priest’s pampered body.

 

Gu Yin somewhat timidly tried to withdraw his hand, not wanting to hurt the priest.

 

However, Jiu Shu still didn’t let go of Gu Yin’s hand but instead moved his hand slowly downwards, as if he really wanted to realize Gu Yin’s idea just now, touching the neck or even the skin further down.

 

“!!!”

 

Gu Yin stiffened.

 

He stared blankly at the priest underneath him. The priest, who was a head shorter than him, had a lean figure, the most perfect line proportion for a young man, and even the feeling of caressing was incomparably soft.

 

Warmer and silkier than silk.

 

Gulp-

 

Gu Yin heard the knot in his throat roll.

 

“See, it’s not broken.”

 

The priest spoke in a gentle tone.

 

 

After this action, the priest’s clothes were loosely draped over his bare shoulders, and his soft, semi-long hair was messy, completely unlike the priest who used to stand on the stage in a dignified manner to say mass.

 

Looking at such a priest, Gu Yin suddenly understood the contents of the annotations in the book.

 

The description of the so-called love compulsion that could change human cognition and human temperament was vividly displayed in front of him at this moment.

 

The priest now would agree to any excessive request.

 

This also meant that as a monster hostile to the priest, he had countless ways to humiliate the priest and avenge his best friend Feng Qi.

 

So–

 

“Can you hug me?”

 

Hugging a monster was a shameful thing for a human, right?

 

 

“Sure.”

 

The priest’s eyes were extremely gentle as he reached out and entered his embrace.

 

Gu Yin’s head pressed into the nest of the priest’s neck, and muscular arms wrapped around Jiu Shu’s slender waist.

 

A warm palm stroked Gu Yin’s furry head, like he was soothing a frightened little animal.

 

Although compared to Gu Yin’s tall height, Jiu Shu was the one who looked like a small animal; he was being held so tightly by Gu Yin that his toes left the ground.

 

However, Jiu Shu still hooked up the corners of his mouth, gently soothing Gu Yin in his arms.

 

In a place where Gu Yin couldn’t see, Jiu Shu glanced at the system panel on his side.

 

It was displaying the taskmaster’s body status.

 

[Status: Compulsion]

 

 

[Category of Compulsion: Love Compulsion.]

 

The object of discipline who had yet to experience all the suffering in the original was a very simple person, and even if he had been placed under a love compulsion, he would only give commands that were incomparably pure.

 

Like a child who hadn’t grown up yet.

 

Gu Yin was also really childlike and naive all the time, which was one of the reasons why he ended up as pathetic as he did in the original.

 

He was overly trusting of others, like a child who never learned from his mistakes, and only clung to obsessions that seemed childish and incomprehensible to ordinary people.

 

Like now, perhaps he was still struggling with the conflict between him and the female lead.

 

After all, he and the heroine were now two opposing forces; who would Gu Yin choose now?

 

Jiu Shu collected the thoughts in his eyes and looked at Gu Yin in his arms.

 

 

Gu Yin’s body temperature had the unique coldness of snakes, and the head that was attached to the nape of his neck had the breath of a human, so anyone who looked at it would find it very bizarre.

 

But in reality, he was only a teenager who had just reached adulthood, more naive than the human teenagers who were still receiving education in high school at the same time, and also more easily deceived and fooled.

 

The resentment after turning into a severe ghost was also deeper as a result.

 

“Want to sleep for a while?”

 

Jiu Shu pointed to the bed next to him.

 

After hugging for a good ten minutes, his arms were slightly stiff.

 

 

Gu Yin thought that it was because Jiu Shu was sleepy, so he sent Jiu Shu to the bed with some fondness, and just as he was about to leave, Jiu Shu pulled on his palm.

 

“You can also sleep for a while,”

 

Gu Yin listened to these suggestive words, and that combined with his delicate touch made his ears redden.

 

He should have left a long time ago; that was just to humiliate the priest just now; there was no way he would agree to rest with the priest now.

 

After all, he didn’t have a crush on the priest at all.

 

Hiss-

 

In the next moment, Gu Yin laid on the bed, looking at the priest who was snuggled in his arms and resting with his eyes closed, carefully hissing and sniffing the air for information.

 

The priest smelled good.

 

But he wasn’t going to have any ill intentions towards the priest, like the book said; he just wanted to humiliate the priest.

 

After all, according to the TV, sharing a bed was a very intimate act, and only people with a very close relationship could do so.

 

For the priest, sleeping with a monster like him should be an even more humiliating thing.

 

Gu Yin’s vertical pupils subconsciously dimmed as he looked at the priest in his arms, staring unblinkingly for a long time.

 

Only after a long time did he follow suit and fall asleep.

 

Although the bed was small for the tall Gu Yin, so much so that while his upper body lay on the bed, his long serpentine tail was only able to coil around the room several times, far less comfortable than his own lair.

 

However, Gu Yin unexpectedly slept very well, as if the soft human in his arms had filled the most disturbing hole in his heart, causing him to cling to the human in his arms even in his sleep.

 

For his part, Jiu Shu gently opened his eyes and looked at the gu that had been wrapped around his body at some point, feeling somewhat helpless.

 

The orders given by the main body were all very innocent, yes, but these gu that ran out from Gu Yin’s body seemed to be overly enthusiastic.

 

Jiu Shu frowned bitterly, looking at his skin that was gradually streaked with red marks outside his exposed sleeves; his breathing also involuntarily increased a lot.

 

The most helpless thing was that Gu Yin was hugging him too tightly, so tightly that there was no way for him to move his body to get rid of these gu that kept burrowing into his clothes.

 

In the end, he could only relax.

 

Only from time to time would the muffled grunts of the youth helplessly echo in the room.

 

He didn’t know how long it took, but when the sky was all dark, Gu Yin finally woke up from his sleep.

 

Meow-Meow—The room echoed with the sound of a cat’s purr.

 

In the midst of this annoying cat’s purr, Gu Yin opened his eyes.

 

This sleep was a long one, somewhat unusual for Gu Yin. He looked at the unfamiliar room in front of him and froze for a moment before coming back to his senses. His first reaction was to feel that his embrace was empty.

 

The priest who had been cradled in his arms before bed was gone.

 

Did the love gu fail?

 

Obviously he shouldn’t care whether the love compulsion failed or not, but Gu Yin still couldn’t help but blanch, and the cold-bl-ooded vertical pupils were filled with a rare hint of helplessness.

 

Although he had been deceiving himself and others, he actually subconsciously knew very well that once the love gu failed, the priest who was out of reach for him would completely leave him.

 

He would never be able to get as close to the priest as he was before he went to sleep because he was nothing more than a monster.

 

Ugly and vile.

 

Gu Yin’s serpentine tail swung restlessly, knocking over the chair next to the bed and drawing the attention of another person in the room.

 

Gu Yin finally caught sight of the figure sitting by the window; he was wearing a freshly changed robe with wet hair, his hair was draped over it, and there was a gentle frown on his face.

 

 

“You’re awake; sorry for waking you.” Jiu Shu smiled, stroking a stray cat under his hand.

 

The cat had run under the window out of nowhere, so he found something for it to eat.

 

“…… No.” Gu Yin looked at Jiu Shu for a long time before his nervous expression gradually dissipated, but he still stared at him.

 

After noticing Jiu Shu’s gentle petting of the kitten, he paused and icily looked at the kitten in Jiu Shu’s arms.

 

When Jiu Shu treated animals, he seemed to be even more gentle than he was with humans.

 

“What’s wrong? You have such a serious expression, are you jealous?” Jiu Shu’s voice with a smile interrupted Gu Yin’s gaze.

 

 

Gu Yin immediately averted his gaze, his tone somewhat unnatural: “Of course not.”

 

How could he be jealous?

 

Jealousy was only for people who were deeply in love; it was impossible for him to be deeply in love with a priest.

 

“I’m a bit hungry; I’ll go get some food; wait here for a moment.” Jiu Shu looked at the time and got up, ready to go get something from the kitchen next to him.

 

Gu Yin nodded obediently, and after watching Jiu Shu leave, he returned his gaze to the kitten.

 

Hiss—many gu appeared out of nowhere, staring at the kitten just as eerily as Gu Yin, and only when the kitten was so frightened that its hair stood on end and fled in a haste did the gu quiet down.

 

It was the gu that hated the kitten, not him.

 

This shouldn’t count as jealousy.

 

Gu Yin thought this way but still sheepishly took advantage of Jiu Shu’s absence to put the gu back before he returned, even forgetting to explore why all these gu ran out.

 

He touched his burning cheeks; he felt that the gu he had just withdrawn were overly excited, as if they had done something unsavoury.

 

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