These 6 days, Song Yao was extremely busy. During the day he developed his business vision and during the night he rehearsed. The mind reading skill expired and lost its effect, but it was rather good news for him. Right now, even without the skill, he could roughly guess Shen Muhan’s thoughts. He truly did not want to listen to the protagonist’s rowdy thoughts anymore.
Ever since the incident in the changing room, Shen Muhan also realized how odd he was behaving. He treated Song Yao more carefully. Even when they were performing, if there were slightly more intimate scenes, Shen Muhan doggedly opted for manipulating the camera angles instead.
The play wasn’t particularly long and Song Yao found it rather interesting.
Satan’s three temptations were inspired from the Gospel of Matthew. After Jesus was baptized, he went without eating in the wilderness for 40 days and nights and accepted Satan’s tests.
The first temptation, Satan said to Jesus: “If you are God’s son, command these stones to become bread.” He attempted to break Jesus’ fast. Jesus answered, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by God’s words.”
The second temptation, Satan said, “If you are God’s son, throw yourself down from here, for it is written in the scripture: He commands his angels concerning you, to guard you, and on their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.”
Jesus answered, “You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.”
The third temptation, Satan led Jesus to the mountaintop, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, and enticed him, “To you I will give all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whom I will. If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.”
Jesus dismissed, “You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.”
Song Yao once read “The Monk” by Matthew Lewis. The main protagonist was an abstinent and refined monk and because of Satan’s temptation, he ultimately became a criminal. The inspiration for this story was also taken from the temptation of Christ.
In the play, the vampire, the pure, pitiable youth, and the wealthy prince who tempted the Father, represented three key words: gluttony, trust, and glory.
*
Finally, it was the day of the performance and tension was high in the air. 5 in the afternoon, the auditorium was packed. The event was also open to the public and many people from other schools also came to watch. Of course, the majority was here for Shen Muhan. Most of them were only fans of Shen Muhan, but there were also a handful of CP fans who were fans of Shen Muhan and Yao Yao. They were originally pumped up for this play, but now they worried:
“Yao Yao’s preoccupied and can’t perform. The nun was changed to a Father, and a guy’s playing it…I don’t know, it feels a little hard to watch.”
“Although I’m pretty rotten and don’t mind gnawing on 2d ships, I cannot imagine the guy who’s going to act and be in a CP with Hanhan. I’m so scared, if it’s a sissy or a greasy guy, I can’t accept it…”
“He’s called Song Yao, it’s written on the flyer, but since they changed actors so suddenly, there’s no picture of him on it.”
“I didn’t even want to come today. Sisters, Song Yao is Hanhan’s classmate and he’s totally gloomy and gross. He used to stalk Hanhan and his perverted writing spreaded through the entire school. Can you guys believe it…”
“That bad? Then why was he asked to perform? And I feel like a Father is really difficult to play…first, good looks are nonnegotiable, at the very least he has to look decent after make-up. He also needs the air of a holy father…”
“That’s right, we all know how handsome Hanhan is, why should he tempt some ugly guy? It’s over, I’m too scared to even watch…I can only put my hopes on Yao Yao, maybe she’ll suddenly appear…”
“Guys, relax, we only need to focus on Hanhan, who cares what the rest looks like.”
*
There were 6 total performances tonight and it began at 7 sharp. “Depraved” was scheduled to be the third and as highly anticipated it was in the beginning, it was now the one that gave the most cause for concern.
At the very moment, backstage, in the simple make-up room, Song Yao was being scrutinized. He already used the R card to restore his original appearance, the duration lasting 3 hours. The staff stared at him in his holy father costume, red-eyed and tongue-tied.
“Y-you’re crazy Song, no, Song Yao?”
Song Yao nodded.
“Holy shit.”
“Oh my god.”
“Is this real?”
The group only had enough left mental capacity to say these types of phrases.
It took a long time for them to calm down.
They hugged the girl in charge of make-up, “Omg, Wen Wen, you’re too good. I thought a real holy father came to our school!”
The people on the sideline muttered, “I doubt there’s such a young and good-looking Father…”
Wen Wen was dazed, “I didn’t do his make-up…”
Song Yao: “It’s a make-up artist I found myself. It took a bit of time.”
“My god, make-up is truly one of Asia’s 4 great sorceries…”
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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Song Yao: “The quality of this wig really is nice.”
“Your contouring…”
Song Yao: “The make-up process took 2 hours and 30 minutes alone were spent fixing my face.”
Song Yao looked pretty much how he always did, saved for using some skincare products and a little bit of lipstick. He lied without batting an eye and wasn’t the slightest bit nervous even though it was almost his turn to go up on the stage. He even had the heart to flip through the magazine on the table, as if the competition had nothing to do with him.
In this world, only two people and one hamster knew that Song Yao was showing his real appearance.
Song Yao himself, the hamster system, and the owner of this world, Ren Ximing.
He eagerly drank in the image of his brother on the screen. He hadn’t seen him like this for many days; his eyes were completely unable to move away.
He saw his avatar, Shen Muhan, staring dumbly at Song Yao, and felt a twang of jealousy.
Being jealous of oneself was a strange thing. Teachinically, Shen Muhan was him, but perhaps it was because this avatar’s name was different from his own and he possessed none of his memory. He hardly meddled with the avatar’s choices, and the feeling grew stronger—that he and him were in fact two different people, or to say, split personalities. If it were compared to colors, he was black while Shen Muhan was white.
So he was jealous, why should Shen Muhan be able to stand beside Song Yao and why should he get the opportunity to act with Song Yao?
Including those intimate, fleeting moments.
Song Yao could only be intimate with him.
So he stood up and walked towards the complicated codes.
And at a certain moment, invaded Shen Muhan’s body—
Shen Muhan shuddered. He felt a little dizzy, like he was drunk.
However, he quickly became sober again and he looked at the person in front of him. Intense emotions surged in his brain, feeling both familiar and foreign. It scared him a little, but there was also excitement.
He arrived before Song Yao and pulled him up.
Song Yao: “Is it our turn?”
Shen Muhan nodded.
*
8:10 pm, “Ave Maria” played in the auditorium. When the red curtain was pulled apart, a stream of pure light fell on the stage from above. Standing in front of the praying mass, before the suffering Jesus, stood the holy father with his eyes closed in prayer.
His tea colored hair looked golden under the pure light, he had fine lashes, porcelain skin, a face full of mercy, and his hands were clasped together in silence. His figure was elegant, his back was straight, his long and loose robe meandered with gold embroideries, and on his chest was a gleaming cross.
The entire audience was collectively stunned.
Who was this actor?
Did the crew find a new actor? Was there a mixed-race student at our school?
The students in Song Yao’s class and his ex-bullies happened to recognize him.
They were speechless…
Before slowly accepting it.
They already knew Song Yao had a powerful aura from the last time they bullied him, plus he was tall and slim. With the sorcery of make-up, contact lenses, and a wig, anyone could probably look like that…
Can’t, too beautiful, screw thinking, they need to take out their phone…
The opening act was very simple, the main point was to show that the holy father was “Completely devoted to god and was untouched by mortal dust”.
Once the believers left, only the holy father and God remained in the church. The holy father sat on the bench and read the bible under the warm light of the candle.
At this moment, Shen Muhan made his debut as the cruel vampire.
Amidst the desperate bleat, the vampire slaughtered the newly born lamb and sucked dry the lamb’s blood. However, he detested the taste of livestock. He desired a more sublime, purer, and sweeter blood.
Catching onto a scent, he arrived at the window of the church, and saw the holy father illuminated by the candle light.
He realized that the delicious scent was coming from the holy father.
On one side was the vampire, dressed in black and face drenched with blood. On the other side was the utterly pure holy father.
The vampire, who never received a blessing since the day of his creation, eagerly eyed the holy father.
Act 1, end.
The theme of act 2 was “Gluttony”.
According to the script, the holy father aroused the vampire’s interest. The vampire not only wanted the holy father’s blood, but even a creature as evil as him wanted the holy father’s blessing. However, an aloof and revered holy father would never bless a cruel vampire. Thus, on a night with a full moon, the vampire attacked the holy father before God’s eyes and bit his neck.
That night, the holy father discovered something wasn’t right. The vampire told him, if he was unable to obtain a vampire’s blood and complete the embrace, he would die from being tormented by hunger. The vampire tempted the holy father to bite him, but the holy father refused to succumb. At dawn, he crawled to the sacred lake, washed himself with the holy water, and finally escaped the control of the vampire.
The Han fans in the audience couldn’t stop applauding. Shen Muhan’s performance left them utterly shocked. They thought Shen Muhan more suited for youthful, pure and righteous characters, but the vampire played by him was completely up to par.
Red eyes, pearly fangs; when he slaughtered he was cruel and callous, but when he prayed for the first time before the holy father, he was humble.
The vampire, in the faint and pure light, was on his knees, looking at the high-above holy father, “Father, can you bless me?”
The holy father saw through his identity right away and turned his back on him, “I will not bless the descendant of Cain, please leave.”
The vampire snarled. He hid in the darkness and did not truly leave.
Later, when the full moon rose, everything became dyed in red.
The holy father knelt before God and began the nighttime prayer. The background music became gloomy and dark.
Even the Han fans became nervous and felt afraid.
The holy father heard a strange sound so he stood up and investigated the surroundings.
Discovering nothing, he sighed in relief.
However, when he returned before God once again, a crimson light blinded him.
The vampire rejected by him now stood before his eyes.
The holy father reacted immediately. He took off his cross, muttered a prayer and attempted to suppress the vampire.
The vampire merely tilted his head and smiled savagely.
In the next second, he carried the holy father onto the altar.
Right beneath the crucifixion of Christ, he deeply inhaled the holy father’s scent and was seconds away from biting his neck!
“AAAAahhhhhh—”
The audience screamed, they were going crazy—
Are they manipulating the angle? Or are they doing it for real?
It was too realistic. So damn erotic that their imaginary man parts got hard, okay?
According to the script, they were supposed to fake it here and Shen Muhan’s lips wouldn’t even graze Song Yao’s neck.
That was the plan.
However, a soft, moist pair of lips brushed past Song Yao’s jaw!
Song Yao was extremely averse to touch and even the slightest contact would make him erupt in goosebumps!
Frowning, he lifted his head to avoid it, not knowing he was revealing his beautiful neck.
He had no clue how his aloof and absitent appearance contrasted with his action just now and what sort of reaction it would draw from the predator who saw him.
Shen Muhan’s breathing became heavier.
All the screams and noises sounded far away from him, like the muffled playing of a cello.
His breathing seemed to have a mind of its own, tracing Song Yao’s jawline and stopping right above his Adam’s apple.
And at last, he saw the unforgettable mole. It seemed to have come alive, moving up and down with the cute Adam’s apple.
That mole—
Why did it grew on his Adam’s apple of all places?
Why was he always thinking about it?
Why was it always innocently and clueless seducing him?
Thinking this, he opened his mouth and bit Song Yao’s Adam’s apple.
Pain, numbness.
Song Yao didn’t think Shen Muhan would actually bite him.
While Shen Muah was distracted, Song Yao pushed him away and grabbed his throat.
The audience thought it was part of the show, not knowing things have long spiraled out of the script’s control.
Song Yao’s face was blocked by Shen Muhan and the audience couldn’t see it.
His face was dark, veins were popping, and his expression was full of aversion and fury.
He tightened his fingers, but Shen Muhan, or more accurately, Ren Ximing, didn’t resist at all, and even stared at him with even deeper obsession.
Because Song Yao’s rage, in Ren Ximing’s mind, was sexy as hell.
He was so fucking pissed, so pissed that his eyes were red, so pissed that his breathing was fast and heavy, so pissed that he was only looking at him…
Song Yao’s appearance, it was as if right now…
In front of the all-mighty god, in front of the hundreds and thousands of spectators, painfully, angrily, humiliatingly, he had to bear his younger brother’s violation.
Every word of this delusion and every part of his imagination made Ren Ximing completely addicted.
With wide eyes, using a pair of pupils resembling venomous snakes, he stared unblinkingly at his older brother.
He looked at his expression, from anger, to shock, to confusion.
If, in the beginning, Song Yao thought Shen Muhan resembled Ren Ximing, they were still two unrelated people.
Later, he discovered that the two people have many things in common, whether it was their habits or preferences.
And now, being stared at by such a familiar and obsessive look, he realized who the person before him was.
The highlights of the scene of sucking blood under the moonlight was the holy father losing strength to resist and the vampire’s escape.
The audience were nuts.
“Fuck, fuck, fuckkk…he was biting him for a whole minute?”
“I was watching through my binoculars, there are teeth marks on the holy father’s neck!”
“Please, you can see it on the broadcasting screen. Omg,omg, omg, there really is, it’s really obvious…”
“Holy shit, are you sure he was just sucking blood? He was totally doing him!”
“I think I heard the holy father moan…”
“I’m gone, I’m really gone, I’m going home to write bl tonight. Younger, crazy vampire fucks the beautiful and abstinent holy father senselessly in front of Jesus Christ…”
“The vampire’s about to tempt the holy father to drink blood. Sisters, commence recording, this is material…”
Oh my… >:3c
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Thanks for the beautiful chapter~
Mawg 😫 tht was hott
I felt like I did something bad reading this ch
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