Qing Zhu’s eyes were red with anger as he glared at Xiao Linfeng. “Whenever I see you, even killing you would be too light a punishment. When you see me in the future, take a detour and go around me. Don’t appear in my sight!”
Liu Mengchen didn’t know what to say. In this matter, he was the one who had the least right to speak.
Xiao Linfeng, however, stopped pretending and put his foot down. His knife-shaped eyebrows pinched together as he frowned at Qing Zhu, “Has this elder brother offended you before?”
Qing Zhu glared at him scathingly, “Who are you taking advantage of?”
Xiao Linfeng cocked his head and stared at Qing Zhu with a pair of slightly slanting phoenix eyes, trying to please him, “You misunderstood me. I swear I didn’t mean to take advantage of you at all. I can even call you ‘elder brother’, even though you look much younger than me. I wouldn’t want to be blamed for calling you old, right?”
Qing Zhu rolled his eyes. He knew about this Xiao Linfeng before but had only heard his name. He never knew this guy was such a character.
Liu Mengchen’s face was not looking very good. He hadn’t expected Xiao Linfeng to come over and dare to flirt with Qing Zhu, making Liu Mengchen feel strange. It felt like a territory of his was being invaded.
Thus Liu Mengchen came over and interrupted the two men’s war of words. He said to Xiao Linfeng, “Linfeng, why are you here?”
Xiao Fengfeng replied, “I haven’t seen my friend for several years. I miss you so much that I went to the Liu family to look for you. I just didn’t expect your brother to say that you went to the Myriad Beasts Demonic Forest with a group of people. I came here looking for you. Haha, it’s destiny that we met in this place.”
Qing Zhu laughed coldly, “Take your time chatting. I’ll leave first.”
With that, Qing Zhu left the room with a swing of his sleeves. Liu Mengchen followed closely behind him. After they left the room, Liu Mengchen said nervously, “Zhu’er, he’s a good friend of mine. It’s just like this between me and him, that’s all.”
“You don’t have to explain anything to me.” Qing Zhu airily replied, “I’m no longer the idiot who was tricked into falling in love by a few words. The person you worked so hard to please is now in front of you, and I’m of little value to you now. Just like this, you go your own way, and I go on my own single wooden plank. That’s it.”
“Zhu’er.” Liu Mengchen took hold of Qing Zhu’s wrist and urgently said, “I admit that I deceived you in those days, and it was my fault. But now I regretted it and I shouldn’t have done so. If only I told you everything…”
“But you won’t.” Qing Zhu stared at Liu Mengchen coldly, “You know that the most important thing for an Inquiring Immortals spiritual grass is its spiritual core. Even if you tell me everything and discuss with me, I will never easily give it — a spiritual core worth half my lifespan — to your old lover. Liu Mengchen, besides loving you, what else do I owe you?”
Liu Mengchen seemed to have been struck by lightning. His body was stiff. His lips trembled slightly and his face was pale. Obviously, he was thinking of how he had treated Qing Zhu at the beginning.
Qing Zhu shook off Liu Mengchen’s hand, then turned and strode away.
Liu Mengchen stood in place for a while, looking at his empty hand. He couldn’t help but feel a little uncomfortable inside.
“It turns out that the spiritual core of an Inquiring Immortals spiritual grass that you found for me back then was obtained from that little thing.” Xiao Linfeng’s expression was slightly complicated as he stood behind Liu Mengchen. He looked at Qing Zhu’s disappearing figure and touched his own abdomen.
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Xiao Linfeng touched his face, “Why did you need to lie to him?”
Liu Mengchen replied, “If I knew I would fall in love with him, how could I cheat him?”
Xiao Linfeng looked at Liu Mengchen, the two people falling silent.
Xiao Linfeng was a chivalrous man. He traveled around the world and fought with his sword, knowing that he’d never done anything wrong to others. However, he now had an innocent person’s spiritual core which made Xiao Linfeng feel wrong all over.
Xiao Linfeng said in a complicated tone, “You were trying to save me so I have no complaints against you. I just don’t want things to be obtained through such means. I am not willing to take them either. In the future, you should stop doing these things.”
Liu Mengchen took a deep breath and said with a bitter smile, “One time is already an everlasting regret. Now I wish I could go back to that moment.”
Xiao Linfeng patted Liu Mengchen on the shoulder, then walked outside.
Yuan Tianwen and Duan Yuyang returned just in time. Duan Yuyang said to Lin Xuanzhi who followed him, “What’s wrong with Brother Qing Zhu? He ran away with an unhappy look. Do you know that little fellow who followed him?”
Yan Tianhen had deduced something from their dialogue earlier, “Master Liu’s former lover is chasing his present lover.”
Duan Yuyang, “….”
Liu Mengchen was also embarrassed. He glanced at Yan Tianhen, “That is my sworn brother, not my little lover.”
Yan Tianhen sighed, “Other people always endure having knives pierce their sides for the sake of their sworn brother, yet you could stab your own lover for a sworn brother. Master Liu really is unique.”
Liu Mengchen, “…”
Duan Yuyang, “….”
What’s all this messy male-to-male relationship?
Yan Tianhen waved his hand, “I’m done talking, I’m going to go comfort Brother Zhuzi. I don’t think your sworn brother is a bad person, but I can’t guarantee that he won’t covet Brother Zhuzi’s beauty. I can’t let him bully Brother Zhuzi for no reason.”
Lin Xuanzhi watched Yan Tianhen leave. While standing beside Liu Mengchen, he glanced at him and lightly commented, “Master Liu is an expert strategist. Disguised himself as a mortal, lured Qing Zhu to voluntarily give his life for you, then took his spiritual core and gave it to others. This humble one admires the fact that there was no flaw in the interlocking links.”
Liu Mengchen was hurt by Lin Xuanzhi’s words, but he was not angry. He really had nothing to be angry about. After all, the original incident was entirely his own fault.
Liu Mengchen replied, “At that time, I did not understand love and let Zhu’er pay for it wrongly. Now I will definitely change my mind and dare not hurt him anymore.”
Lin Xuanzhi sneered and also left.
Duan Yuyang looked thoughtful and patted Yuan Tianwen on the shoulder. “Brother Tianwen, compared to him, you are not too scummy.”
Yuan Tianwen, “…”
His knee hurt a little.
Qing Zhu ran to the streets and felt he had to vent his frustrations for a while and calm down. When he thought of the guy named Xiao Linfeng whose body had his precious spiritual core, he felt an impulse to harshly slit open Xiao Linfeng’s stomach.
Qing Zhu saw that there were tanghulu being sold on the roadside and wanted to eat them.
When he was with Lin Zhan before, Lin Zhan bought him a lot of delicious food every time. He took his hand and walked him from the beginning to the end of the street.
“This Daoist friend, why don’t you have a bite?” The old man selling sugar-coated fruits had a wrinkled face and a brilliant smile. “I am well known for the fruits used in my tanghulu. The fruit of the mulberry tree that I planted only ten years ago is delicious, absolutely free of impurities, mild and harmless to eat, and sweet and sour to taste.”
Qing Zhu’s saliva was about to flow out. Just as he was about to reach for them, a hand snatched a stick of round, big and red sugar-coated fruits from behind him.
“Old man, I’m buying this stick for him.” A man with a sincere smile that made people feel good at first sight threw a piece of silver to the vendor.
Smiling happily, the old man took the money and walked down the street.
Qing Zhu stared at the newcomer angrily, “Are you trying to make trouble with me?”
Xiao Linfeng waved the candied fruits in front of Qing Zhu, “How can I be against you? I am clearly trying to please you.”
Qing Zhu scoffed and angrily walked away, but Xiao Linfeng pulled at his sleeve and forced a candied fruit in his hand.
When Qing Zhu raised his hand to throw it on the ground, Xiao Linfeng reacted quickly, “Don’t be impulsive. When you enter the Myriad Beasts Demonic Forest, you won’t be able to eat it even if you want to!”
Qing Zhu, “…”
Qing Zhu thought about it and figured Xiao Linfeng made sense. Anyway, the sugar fruits did nothing wrong. Why did he need to take his anger out on the tanghulu?
Qing Zhu then opened his small mouth and took a bite at the top of the biggest fruit, feeling that the taste was really sour and delicious.
Xiao Fengfeng’s eyes curved when he smiled, “Little Zhuzi, when I see you, I feel drawn to you. Why don’t you stop paying any attention to that little bastard, Liu Mengchen, and stay with me, instead?”
Qing Zhu gnawed at the candied fruits while squinting at Xiao Linfeng, “You are as disgusting as he is. Unless you return my spiritual core to me, I won’t care about you.”
Xiao Linfeng went on smiling without changing his expression, “I can give it back to you, but it has to wait until we leave the Myriad Beasts Demonic Forest. That road is difficult and dangerous. My current cultivation has reached Primary Realm. I can still help you.”
“Liar.” Qing Zhu said firmly, “You human beings like deceiving people the most. My spiritual core is so good; of course you won’t give it back to me.”
“Your spiritual core is so good that I can’t bear for you to give it to me.” Xiao Linfeng blinked, “If Little Zhuzi really wants it now, then let’s find a place where you can directly take out the spiritual core from my Dantian sea. Is that okay?”
Qing Zhu’s eyes brightened, “Are you serious?”
Xiao Linfeng had a strong-willed temperament, his character as upright as bamboo. “In my life, I, Xiao Linfeng, have never told half a lie. If you want to do something, I will never stop it.”
Qing Zhu was stunned. He looked at Xiao Linfeng and felt that there was definitely a reason that Liu Mengchen thought of this man for so long and willingly took such a big risk to deceive him into surrendering his spiritual core.
Qing Zhu frowned, bit two pieces of the sugar fruits, and thought for a moment, “Keep it first. When I’m unhappy one day, then I’ll come to take out the spiritual core.”
Xiao Linfeng smiled, “Little Zhuzi, how could you be so kind? You believed whatever I said.”
Qing Zhu’s face turned cold, “Did you deceive me just now?”
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Sarah: this Xiao Linfeng… I dunno what to make of this guy lol also i dunno how LMC can redeem himself from his scummy move on QZ smh
NZRose: I think we need a poll on who’s the scummiest here
thanks
If it’s between those three ofcourse LMC win the title. If it’s between all the character introduced – excluding the bad guy that remain as the bad guy such as Xuanzhi’s ex-fiance etc – I’ll forever vote our mc as the scummiest.
He was just introduced but I kinda like Linfeng. And I do like that QZ didn’t accept LMC’s bullshit and just want to stay away from him. Thanks for the chapter!
Yeah, so far #1 scum is Xuanzhi, #2 scum is this Liu Mengchen, #3 scum is draw between Ji Yunwei and Xuan Wushe currently.
I somehow have the urge to kill/cripple LMC and then slit open XLF’s stomach☺️😘😘
Yes. This exactly. I want them both to die a really f***ing horrible death. I’d like YT to absorb what he can of course and then return the core.
Probably Liu Mengchen is the scummiest among this lot
Thanks for the chapter ❤❤
I really want YT to kill them both and return the core. Please can they know they were killed by a demonic cultivator? What a MF a**hole. Both of them. Sigh. I really hope the author rights this wrong sometime in the next 300 chapters. That’s the hope I’m clinging to. lol
It is, indeed, a dogblood drama!!!! Liu Mengchen, you super scummy eye candy!!! How dare you deceive and hurt another beauty! Now you want to abduct him into your family?! Shameless! Pei! Pei! Pei! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Thanks for the update! 🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈
Liu Mengchen is such a scummy man~ Well how he’s that good of a “friend” is just about how much of a sh*tty scum he was to Qing Zhu. If Lin Feng is really that good of a person as they made him sound, and if he and Qing Zhu hit it off well, I’d rather they end up together~
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Lalala~ Thanks for the update 💕
I think LXZ should win the title as the king of scum gongs (based on the previous life)
Don’t forget that out of all the gongs in the previous life, LXZ was the only one who pushed his wife into suicide. He was also the only one who deliberately mistreated his wife and held animosity toward him.
Agree
Giving QZ false hopes like that was just…low
I thought XLF was likable, but the way he taunted QZ (who was already deeply hurt) really turned me off. He’s a douche bag 🤬🖕
Uhm…. Touche querido Ah Hen, mejor dicho imposible
” “Other people always endure having knives pierce their sides for the sake of their sworn brother, yet you could stab your own lover for a sworn brother. Master Liu really is unique.”
Ahora…. LXZ… etooo mejor no digas nada…
Este Xiao… uhm… es peor que la otra parte, pero ¿por qué está persiguiedo a nuestra linda planta?
Alright. I don’t f*cking care wtf is gonna happen to LMC and XLF, but don’t YOU dare hurting QZ any longer.
TH my dear, take his core away from XLF and roast that guy with your flame
Quite frankly…surnamed Liu has some intense atonement to do.
Thanks for the great translation ♥️
I truly admire how YTH totally burned him.
I would probably kill LMC for real. He is really a scum. No wonder QZ hate him so much. Btw, thanks gor translating this
LMC better repents before he is worthy of my cute little adorable bamboo!!
Ugh poor QZ, I hope Liu Mengchen would never win him back, he doesn’t deserve him. He made his bed so he has to lie on it. I feel no pity at all towards Liu Mengchen, this scum 🤬
I was thinking that LiuFeng was actually a really good guy but he was just joking? what an ahole
This novel is full of scums who first hurt their lovers and then try to win them back🤦😂
If we start scummiest poll our MC wins hands down.
I have mixed feelings about XLF.
YTH seriously roasted LMC😂😂
Thank you so much for the chapter!(๑´>᎑<)~❤
Who’s scummiest?? I vote for Lxz’s other dad. He makes me want to beat him up so bad! Scum that cheats on a pregnant person and the holds them captive and rapes them. Ofcourse Lxz is close by but the one thing he did not do was deceive YTH because he wanted to take something from him. YTH knew that he didn’t love him. So I believe LMC is scummier than LZW. That xuan sth scum!!! Let me beat him up a few hundred times!!
I dont like XL or LMC, they are both horrible people. who the hell parades themselves like this and acts so familiarly with someone they have fucked over so badly!!!! how shameless!!😲
Another name added to my kill list….
…make that two
A healthy Person A meeting a Patient B.
B pursuing A.
Gradually, A falls in love with B to the extent that he is willing to leave his family to follow B & willing to do anything to save his love B, which he learns is an organ-transplant, with potential risk to his own life. A goes forward with it, & then he learns B never needed A’s help for himself. B was always coercing A (through emotional coercion) for a third-party C…
I fucking don’t care if B realised in the middle of this (after the deed was done) that B has truly fallen for A, & shouldn’t have hurt A for the sake someone else.
Reason: coz B DOESN’T realise it that he just regrets hurting A coz he now loves A, and not coz he realises it was fundamentally wrong to deceive another human to begin with, not just someone whom you conveniently come to love/have an emotional connection with.
It’s just pure crap! To think LMC can go to such an extent of exploiting someone for his sworn-brother!
Question is:
Will LMC feel remorse for emotional & psychological trauma as well as physical injury-cultivation injury of QZ if he didn’t realise he has fallen in so-called love with QZ?!
He still isn’t really repenting by being remorseful & letting QZ be the boss, instead he is still dictating QZ, making him feel suffocated.
Qing Zhu is still kind to the man currently using his core( half of his life span), a plant would forever be a plant I guess😔. Got won over by a candy stick.
LMC is the biggest scum ever, I don’t know what excuse he could come up with to steal an innocent man lifespan.
little thing??? shut up ur younger by a thousand years stop tryna act like an adult ur a fricking child( or u could also be older, around lmc age but u should be mortal since the immortal inquiring is supposed to allow a mortal to cultivate, which would be even scarier, lmc taking his little plant lovers core for someone he hasnt known for more than 5 decades but he also didnt know qz for a long time so FRICKING UPPER REALM MINDSET .) also is this the arrogance of someone who has attained the qualifications to pursue the Dao path through the behest of someone else’s pain?!?! ABOLISH UR CULTIVATION!!!
The author really like to make the gongs being a scum. I hate how they don’t deserve the person but still gets it
I have a principle of believing everyone can change, and I think LMC feels genuine regret and remorse for how he treated QZ and would never do it again if he, like LXZ, was able to turn back the clock. I still think that LXZ, when using the same logic used by most commentors on judging scumminess, is the scummiest of all the main cast so far. If the audience can forgive LXZ for how he treated YTH in the past, which you could say is much worse than how LMC treated QZ, then as long as LMC is able to make it up to QZ I think he can redeem himself.
In the future, you should stop doing these things.”
Yeah right. This sentence should never went out of your mouth you know. It is like you are bragging instead. Why is the gong is more scummy than the previous one in each reveal? I am now dreading Yan Zhonghua turn to appear 😅.
SMH I have no words
What LMC did was scummy but I think that both the readers and our MC are being a bit hypocritical. LXZ treated YTH terribly in the past life and yet he is given a second chance to make things right. Why can LXZ be given a second chance and not LMC? Just a thought..
Kill him. Kill him with fire.
(If anything, I’d ship QZ with XLF.)
Thank you. I wholeheartedly agree. I also support the fire idea to cleanse the very air he pollutes just by existing.
For the scummiest Gong number 1 is def Xuanzhi(His past self was def someone thatd make my blood boil, even now I have mixed feelings for him) but I’ve forgiven him (only half tho) cuz he went through so much to go back and correct his mistakes and bad deed to my baby A-hen
Only scumbag in here is LMC we all know that
I love u XLF (I mean for now)
Liu Mengchen absolutely does not deserve to be forgiven. It’s better if he can regret to death.
Now that was a really scummy move. YTW was just stupid at most.
This type of thing is maddening to me. Even more maddening is that Liu Mengchen isn’t remorseful about cheating someone, pretending to be in love under false pretenses to dig out his spiritual core- he’s literally only remorseful for doing this to Qing Zhu…and even then only because NOW he loves him.” Liu Mengchen replied, “At that time, I did not understand love and let Zhu’er pay for it wrongly. Now I will definitely change my mind and dare not hurt him anymore.” Ridiculous. And gross. Listen, I’m the type to rather easily forgive. I forgave Yuan Tianwen pretty easily and even felt bad for him despite my rational brain saying he deserved it. I already feel bad for Xuanzhi’s little shixiong Wan even though his family literally massacred Bei Shitian (and I also think Bei Shitian is completely justified in wanting nothing to do with him.) I forgave Ji Yunwei for trapping the fox, and so on…but I just can’t forgive this a$$hole Liu Mengchen. Not to mention that even after he wronged Qing Zhu like that, he insisted on finding Qing Zhu using such despicable means as destroying all his shops. And, without caring about it, he continued to use such despicable means because he ‘forgot to instruct his subordinates to stop suppressing LZ’s shops????’ …WTF??! And now, as if it couldn’t get any worse, he’s shamelessly sticking to Qing Zhu wanting to ‘be forgiven’ ONCE AGAIN TAKING ADVANTAGE of Qing Zhu’s simple nature. No, you flucking jerk, if you were really remorseful, you would falk right off and leave him alone for the rest of your life. No one needs this kind of selfish ‘love.’Honestly, he is getting his absolute just desserts right now. I hope he has to dig out his own spiritual core and cripple his cultivation to give it to Qing Zhu (or make some other actual sacrifice). Only then will I forgive him. Qing Zhu, don’t you forgive him easily, either!