Who knew what new idea he had come up with, but the listless Yun Mingchen straightened his back once more.
His joyful mood was accurately transmitted to the little cat nestled on his shoulder through the Heart-to-Heart prop.
Infected by his happiness, Yu Tong couldn’t help but squint his eyes and let out a few comfortable purrs.
He found that the antagonist was not as emotionally stable as he appeared.
He could be aggrieved, proud, or desperate, with many hidden thoughts.
The female talisman cultivator was the first to recover. She jogged out of the cave and whispered to Yun Mingchen while holding her phone, “President Yun! President! My roommate just found out for me — the Wen family and the Yun family heard that you were trapped in the mist formation, so they specifically sent two senior formation masters to rescue us. In about two or three minutes, the formation masters will get us out.”
Yun Mingchen was stunned, his eyelids twitching involuntarily.
He quickly controlled his expression, took a deep breath, and exclaimed cheerfully, “Is that so? That’s really great!”
The female talisman cultivator shared the joy of surviving the disaster with him and thanked him earnestly.
Yun Mingchen smiled even more as his tone became gentler.
However, Yu Tong, who was leaning against his head, saw the antagonist clenching his fists silently as his neck veins bulged with anger.
He quickly figured out what the antagonist was angry about.
The Yun family and the Wen family were’t particularly close. Why would Lord Wen, the head of the Wen family, be in such a hurry when Young Master Yun was trapped in the mist formation?
The Yun family also had no shortage of formation masters, so why would they accept a favor from someone without reason?
Their real purpose was to send a hint to other families.
Lord Wen was very fond of Yun Mingchen and had the idea to unite the two families through marriage. Lord Yun also had the same idea, and the two agreed instantly.
Rescuing the trapped students by breaking the mist formation was just a minor issue.
The Yun and Wen families were about to form an alliance. They were weighing their options and deciding how to proceed as soon as possible.
This was akin to forcibly arranging a marriage for Yun Mingchen while indirectly notifying a bunch of people.
Forcing a gay man to marry a wife, forcing Miss Wen to be a co-wife.
No wonder Yun Mingchen’s character was almost about to collapse.
Yu Tong couldn’t help but shake his head.
The antagonist and Miss Wen were truly pitiful.
After sharing her joy, the female talisman cultivator returned to meditate in the cave. Yun Mingchen sat on the tree sulking, absentmindedly picking at the bark with his fingers.
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He was quite artistically talented and managed to carve out a small cat on the tree bark.
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Yun Mingchen didn’t fully understand what the little cat was saying, but he vaguely guessed that the cat could see the discord in his family and wanted to help him.
He raised his hand towards the kitten, and the tabby immediately raised its head, affectionately rubbing against his palm.
Yun Mingchen was silent for a moment before he quietly said, “Thank you, but don’t worry, I can handle it myself.”
Yu Tong realized the antagonist had misunderstood, so he didn’t bring it up again. He held Yun Mingchen’s hand and lightly nibbled on it, contemplating while increasing his affection.
The antagonist’s parents were pushing him into a corner. They were too overbearing, and their influence on Yun Mingchen was too significant.
They absolutely couldn’t stay; sooner or later, he would find an opportunity to deal with the antagonist’s family conflicts.
The system, who had been eavesdropping, ran out of the system space and tentatively asked, 【Little Yu, are you comforting Yun Mingchen? Do you also feel sorry for the antagonist and want to help him?】
Yu Tong wanted to say that he only felt that the presence of Yun’s parents seriously affected his task performance.
But seeing the cautious system in front of him, Yu Tong swallowed the words on the tip of his tongue and tilted his head, revealing a simple and obedient smile.
‘He has to deal with monsters hidden among the people while being repeatedly coerced into marriage by his parents. He’s really pitiful; my heart really aches for him now.’
Seeing a hint of warmth in the host’s eyes rather than just cold tasks and interests, the system felt that the host could actually be safe to interact with. It relaxed again and began bouncing around Yu Tong, asking, 【Did you also have a bad relationship with your parents?】
‘Yeah, we had some conflicts due to my parents’ work. After effective communication, they gave up that job and stayed at home with me every day. We got along very well, and it felt like our relationship had been elevated.’
【You said you lived with Brother Chen, right? What about your parents?】
‘They had an accident and were recuperating elsewhere. I really don’t want to bring it up again. Just thinking about my disabled parents makes me feel terrible. I don’t know who’s taking care of them after my death.’
Seeing him sadly covering his face, the system didn’t know what to say for a moment.
It lifted its matchstick-like hand and patted Yu Tong’s shoulder, saying, 【Little Yu, don’t be too sad. Your parents are definitely fine.】
Yu Tong lowered his head and responded with a muffled “mm.”
Meanwhile, Yun Mingchen, who was picking at the tree bark, suddenly heard a purring sound coming from his shoulder.
He turned his head and saw the kitten excitedly kneading the air, seemingly happy about something.
Watching the kitten intently for a while, Yun Mingchen’s mood improved slightly.
Despite his many troubles, at least he had his cat.
A cat that could understand human speech and kill male servants, a mysterious cat-like creature.
For a moment, Yun Mingchen thought about how nice it would be if Xixi were a person.
Then someone could help him.
He had grown up with medicine baths and had poor health since his childhood. His parents used it as an excuse to prevent him from touching the family business while monitoring all his social activities.
Yun Mingchen wanted to develop his own power, but his parents never gave him any time alone.
There were surveillance cameras everywhere on campus, and all the footage was sent to his parents in real-time. Whenever he wanted to leave school, there would be a bunch of meditation-stage bodyguards accompanying him.
When he was still a child, Yun Mingchen tried to defy his parents and make friends at school.
Later, those two boys were accidentally killed by a large truck on the way home.
Little Yun Mingchen, carried to the scene by his parents, stared blankly at his friends’ crushed and mangled bodies with their insides bursting out.
It was a memory from when he was seven or eight years old, and Yun Mingchen still remembered the words his parents whispered in his ear.
“These two kids died because of you, because you didn’t listen to Mommy and Daddy. You’re the young master of the Yun family, you can’t play with those kinds of people, got it?”
“Your good friends took responsibility for your mistake, so this time we won’t punish you. Mingchen, remember, from now on, you can only play with the friends that Mommy and Daddy find for you, okay?”
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Five minutes later, the dense fog shrouding the mountains finally dissipated. The two formation masters sent by the Yun and Wen families handled the scene then directly left.
The Student Union led by the vice president and the search and rescue team, composed of school security personnel, entered the restricted area and brought back all the trapped members of the Student Union, as well as several incomplete bodies.
There were too many people gathered outside the restricted area, and the school teachers were also returning one by one.
The monsters, despite their low intelligence, instinctively sensed danger and were all fleeing deeper into the restricted area.
The female vice president organized people to record a list of the deceased based on the identification cards found on the Student Union uniforms.
Yun Mingchen’s phone vibrated a few times.
He glanced at it before his face suddenly turned very grim.
Yu Tong wanted to sneak a peek, but Yun Mingchen covered the kitten’s face with his hand.
It seemed that his ability to read was indeed impossible to hide.
Perhaps it was Yu Tong’s imagination, but he always felt that when Yun Mingchen looked at his phone, there was a hidden killing intent in his eyes.
After a while, Yun Mingchen put away his phone and crouched down to close the eyes of a corpse that couldn’t rest in peace.
As people looked over, he lowered his head, letting his long hair slightly cover his cheeks. At the perfect angle, he performed a beautiful act of shedding tears.
Yu Tong, tucked into his clothes, peeked out his little head to watch.
The antagonist portrayed himself as a gentle and refined young man in public. Whenever he shed tears, it would always garner a lot of sympathy.
Yu Tong was no exception.
Even though he knew those tears were fake, his breath still subconsciously paused for a moment.
Yun Mingchen was adept at using his advantages and quickly drew all the attention of the onlookers to himself.
He took a deep breath, steadied his breathing, and began to speak on behalf of the Student Union.
Yu Tong listened attentively for a few seconds before realizing that although Yun Mingchen’s words were very moving, they were all bullshit.
When he saw Yun Mingchen casually tapping the hilt of his sword rhythmically with his fingers, Yu Tong suddenly reacted.
Damn! It’s a diversion tactic!
He quickly looked around.
The formation masters from the Yun family, who had left earlier, had somehow slipped back unnoticed by the formation masters from the Wen family.
They were currently lurking behind a large tree in the restricted area.
One of them held a bamboo blow dart and gestured toward the crowd.
Meanwhile, Su Feng and the others who had been deliberately placed on the outside of the crowd were in a confrontation.
Susu covered her stomach and wiped away tears, while the female talisman cultivator and the 0 male cultivator wanted to seize the opportunity to expose the true face of this false gentleman.
Su Feng stared at them and made a gesture of slitting their throats.
Seizing the opportunity, the formation master from the Yun family blew a few times at them, and the four immediately lost consciousness, collapsing to the ground.
Then, before the students could react, several people wearing security uniforms immediately lifted the four onto stretchers and sent them away in several ambulances that had just arrived.
Yun Mingchen once again diverted the students’ attention, not giving them any time to think.
Yu Tong peeked out his little head, watching as the ambulances grew smaller in the distance and eventually disappeared from sight.
He tilted his head in confusion.
What were the Yun family doing?
Why did they take these four people away?
Thank you for the chapter! ❤
Thank you for the chapter 😍
With parents like that, how could he not be seriously messed up in the head??? Thanks for the chapter!
Thanks for the chapter
Ngl when I read the synopsis I was like, “nice a cute qt novel!” Now here’s me putting in 100% brain power trying to figure out the damn plot (kinda prefer it this way though 🤭). Thanks for the chapter~
With those parents I am surprised that he is still a moderately functional human being…
a psychopathic protagonist (under analysis) and a traumatized ml 😁😁