“Master, pretending to faint won’t work ah.” Xiao Shen lowered his eyes and smiled, but he found that the person in his arms had his eyes closed and had actually fainted.
His expression suddenly changed. He picked his master up and stepped out of the bath from the other side of the jade steps.
“Master, Master wake up…” As if history was repeating itself, Xiao Shen was instantly enveloped by intense fear. “Someone! Call the imperial physician!”
The Emperor, all wet, carried the young master back to the bedchamber, his face full of fear that was difficult to conceal. Xiao Dezi was so anxious that he was about to cry, but he did not dare to ask more questions and could only follow the Emperor anxiously.
Xiao Shen leaned over and placed the master on the dragon bed, then turned around and shouted, “Imperial physician! Where is the imperial physician?”
Not long after, Imperial Physician Lu hurried into the inner hall and almost tripped over his own feet. “Your Majesty!”
“Master fainted. He was talking to me in the bathtub…” Xiao Shen explained incoherently, “He suddenly fainted. You should treat him quickly!”
“Don’t worry, Your Majesty. The humble minister will diagnose and treat his Lord right away.” Imperial Physician Lu knelt in front of the dragon bed, concentrating and holding his breath to the lord Shen’s pulse.
After a while, he withdrew his hand and breathed a sigh of relief. “The Lord’s pulse is stable, there is nothing serious.”
“Then why did Master faint for no reason?” Xiao Shen roared in a low voice, “Call your master! You can’t even diagnose that he has poison in his body!”
Imperial Physician Lu was startled, and the color on his face faded a little. He replied respectfully, “The humble minister is deeply ashamed of his poor medical skills. If Your Majesty is worried, Your Majesty can call my master to come and treat the lord.”
Xiao Shen tried his best to suppress the rage in his heart and sent someone to summon a more skilled Imperial Physician Zhang.
But after carefully feeling the patient’s pulse, Imperial Physician Zhang came to the same conclusion.
The emperor’s anxious heart was finally half relieved.
He drove everyone out of the bedchamber and squatted alone in front of the bed, holding those slender jade fingers, his handsome eyes revealing fatigue and fear.
“Master, please wake up when you are full of sleep.” Xiao Shen kept kissing the porcelain-white back of the hand, mumbling pleadingly, “Don’t scare me, I can’t stand it…”
At the same time, Shen Qingzhuo, who was in a coma, entered another scene.
He floated in the air, looking at himself hanging high on the dragon bed, with a black ribbon covering his eyes.
Then, the figure he was very familiar with appeared in the bedchamber…
“Xiao Qi?” Shen Qingzhuo called unconsciously, but then he was shocked and suddenly regained consciousness.
“System?” He tried to concentrate and called the system on strike, “System, come out.”
After calling it several times, the system finally responded: [Do you remember everything?]
The scene before his eyes disappeared rapidly like a phantom, and he came to an empty place. There was thick darkness lurking all around, and the only thing in front of him was a large glowing screen, which looked a bit like artificial intelligence.
System: [Hello, nice to meet you.]
Shen Qingzhuo took two steps towards the screen and said in a cold tone, “I think you need to explain to me clearly what happened just now?”
System: [As you can see.]
Shen Qingzhuo: “Is that the plot of the original book? That’s not right, there is no such plot in the original book.”
The original book only said that after the tyrant ascended the throne, he imprisoned the imperial preceptor in the Eastern Palace and tortured him with various tortures for three years, but it did not say that it was on the dragon bed…
System: [To be precise, that is the plot that happened after the second restart of the world line of this book.]
Shen Qingzhuo: “Speak human language.”
System: [I am not a human.]
Shen Qingzhuo: “……”
System: [I told you that two book transmigrators failed in their missions, and you are the third one. But I didn’t tell you you were originally from this world.]
Next, through the system’s graphic and text display, Shen Qingzhuo finally understood the whole story.
The first transmigrator was killed by the tyrant, and the world line was restarted, but his consciousness was awaked after being disturbed.
After waking up, he found out that he was cannon fodder among villain cannon fodders who was unloved by his parents and would be cut into pieces by the tyrant in the end, so he turned evil as expected.
He used his reputation as a foresight to kill the second transmigrator and all the stumbling blocks first and then used the little tyrant to reach the pinnacle of power and become a regent of a different surname above all others.
Just when he was about to get rid of the petty tyrant and change the dynasty in a natural way, the villain tyrant also woke up.
In the end, he was unfortunately killed by the tyrant and imprisoned in the magnificent emperor’s bedchamber, enduring humiliation day and night…
“Ah…” Strange fragments of memory rushed into his mind one after another. Shen Qingzhuo had a splitting headache and squatted down, holding his head.
System: [After you died, the world collapsed again, and the system had to restart for the third time. But I didn’t expect that after your death, your soul would break free from the constraints of the world’s rules and be reborn in another world.]
But Shen Qingzhuo couldn’t hear what he was saying. He covered his ears and muttered to himself, “No, Xiao Qi wouldn’t treat me like that…”
For three years, three whole years, he was imprisoned in a small space like a pet and was humiliated without any dignity.
How is it possible? How could his little disciple treat him like this?
The system secretly sighed. These two troublemakers had brought down the world time and time again. Now that the world had finally stabilized, it would not allow the world to collapse again.
Otherwise, it will enter the scrap system.
System: [Everything has its own cause. He treated you like that in your last life, and it can’t be said that it was all his fault either.]
That being said, the screen switched to the second world line.
Shen Qingzhuo loosened his hands and looked at the big screen.
In the picture, he whipped the young tyrant with a long whip and locked the young tyrant in a dark and damp cellar. When he took a nap, he punished the young tyrant by making him kneel in front of his bed with a book on his head…
Shen Qingzhuo fell to the ground, unable to believe that he would be so cruel to his little disciple.
System: [Every time the world restarts, it is a new beginning. You also don’t have to worry too much about the things in your previous life…]
The surroundings fell into dead silence.
After a long while, Shen Qingzhuo asked, “Will Xiao Qi… also remember his past life?”
The system is not sure: [It shouldn’t happen…]
“I can’t go back, right?” Shen Qingzhuo asked again, “You were lying to me from the beginning.”
The system was silent for a moment, then replied: [The you in that world has already been cremated. ]
Shen Qingzhuo sneered, “I already guessed it.”
His good uncle would certainly cremate his body first and naturally inherit his shares.
The system gritted its teeth and comforted him: [You have taught the tyrant well this time. As long as you don’t run away, he won’t—]
“He won’t imprison me?” Shen Qingzhuo took over the conversation, “Forget it, you don’t have to show up in the future, you are useless anyway.”
System: [……]
***
When Shen Qingzhuo opened his eyes again, what he saw was a head lying beside the bed.
His little disciple held his hand and slept beside him all night.
A hint of emotion appeared in his eyes, but it soon turned into another complicated expression.
“Master?” As if sensing his gaze, Xiao Shen suddenly woke up from his dream, his eyes red and bloodshot. “Master finally awake!”
The person in front of him coincided with the face in his fragmented memories. Shen Qingzhuo suddenly felt a little pain in his body, and his hand that was being held unconsciously shrank back.
Xiao Shen immediately noticed this subtle movement and became nervous: “Master, where else are you feeling uncomfortable? I’ll ask the imperial physician to take a look!”
“No problem.” Shen Qingzhuo glanced away. “Master was just a little tired and wanted to sleep for a while.”
Xiao Shen didn’t suspect anything, but when he stood up, he found his legs were numb and almost fell on the bed.
But he smiled nonchalantly, got up, and asked his master for a kiss.
Shen Qingzhuo’s body under the thin quilt was slightly stiff. When the hot breath blew against his face, he turned away as if by reflex.
“Don’t dodge.” Xiao Shen raised his hand and pinched the delicate jaw. He licked the dry lips with the tip of his tongue and smiled softly, “Moisten it for Master.”
Fortunately, it was just a light kiss, and he quickly let go. “Master, take a nap. I will have breakfast with you after court.”
Shen Qingzhuo lowered his eyelashes and nodded gently.
Xiao Shen stood up with satisfaction, put on the black and gold dragon robe, and looked from behind, looking almost the same as the man who tortured him in his previous life.
Shen Qingzhuo asked tentatively, “Xiao Qi, if Master wants to leave…”
The tall and majestic figure suddenly tensed up. Xiao Shen turned around with dark eyes. “Where does Master want to go now?”
“The palace is too stuffy. I want to go out and relax occasionally.” Shen Qingzhuo said casually.
Xiao Shen suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, walked quickly back to the bed, kissed the tip of his nose, and patiently coaxed him, “After this busy period, wherever Master wants to go to relax, I will accompany Master.”
“You are the emperor, how can you run around?” Shen Qingzhuo smiled, “Master can just go by myself.”
“No.” Xiao Shen rested his forehead against him. “I will go crazy if I can’t see Master.”
Shen Qingzhuo’s heart trembling slightly, “Do you… want to look at Master like this for the rest of your life?”
After a brief silence, Xiao Shen stared into his eyes and replied calmly, “Master knows it, as long as Master doesn’t leave me, Master can do anything.”
“Otherwise?” Shen Qingzhuo looked back at him, “Are you going to lock Master up?”
A strange light flashed in his dark eyes.
Without a direct answer, Shen Qingzhuo got the answer.
He closed his eyes and waved his hand, “You go to court.”
Xiao Shen realized that something was wrong with his master after he woke up, but he couldn’t tell what it was, so he had to go to court first.
But when he returned to Chengqian Palace, he found that the dragon bed was empty.
The young emperor’s face suddenly became gloomy. “Someone!”
Xiao Guizi hurriedly ran in, holding a piece of letter in his hand. “Your Majesty, Lord Shen has returned home and left a letter before leaving the palace.”
Xiao Shen snatched the letter and unfolded it. After quickly reading the contents, his expression eased a little.
“Your Majesty, what did Lord Shen say?” Xiao Guizi asked cautiously.
“He has returned to the Shen Mansion to recuperate. He told Zhen to focus on government affairs and not to think about those improper things.” The Emperor folded the letter again and put it neatly in his arms. “Xiao Guizi, do you think Zhen is dishonest?”
Xiao Guizi shook his head like a rattle. “Serious! How can Your Majesty be so dishonest!”
“Wrong.” Xiao Shen suddenly laughed, “Master said that Zhen is not serious, then Zhen is definitely not serious.”
Xiao Guizi: “?”
***
Ever since his master left the palace after leaving the letter, Xiao Shen endured it again and again. But on the fifth day, he couldn’t bear it any longer and sneaked into the Shen Mansion in the dead of night.
But as soon as he entered the mansion, he was keenly aware of something unusual. Usually Xiang Chen was always the first to jump out to stop him, but today he was nowhere to be seen.
Xiao Shen frowned and soon found that the doors and windows were locked. He could only knock on the door gently and call in a low voice, “Master, it’s me.”
However, after knocking for a while, there was still no movement in the bedroom.
Xiao Shen’s face darkened slightly, he took a step back and then kicked the door open heavily. “Master?”
The room was dark and silent. Where is the shadow of his master?
At this time, the servants of the Shen Mansion were also alarmed and rushed over with torches, surrounding Lord Shen’s bedroom.
The steward shouted loudly, “Who are you, little thief? You dare to break into the Shen Mansion at night?”
A handsome and sinister face slowly emerged from the shadows. “Where is your Lord Shen?”
The steward was startled and immediately knelt down to pay his respects: “Greetings, Your Highness!”
“Zhen ask you—” Xiao Shen walked up to the steward, grabbed his collar with one hand, and lifted him up into the air, gnashing his teeth and asking, “Where is the person?”
There were people kneeling on the ground in the courtyard. The housekeeper replied with difficulty, “My, My Lord is out for something…”
Xiao Shen’s chest rose and fell violently, and he threw the steward to the ground. “When did he leave? Which direction did he go? Who did he take with him? Tell Zhen everything clearly!”
He regretted it, he shouldn’t have let his master out of his sight!
The author has something to say:
The Wolf Cub: Master doesn’t want me anymore, I’m going to use the small dark room…
The Master: I’m just going to relax. If you dare to use the small dark room, you’re dead!
No torture, no torture. There won’t be more than two chapters apart. Wives, rest assured!
There is no forced dark room or anything like that in this life. If you want to see it, I will satisfy you in the extra chapters. Hehehe~
T/N: Damn it, I messed up the schedule time again :3 sorry to those who already saw it and had your reading experience messed up lol, and that useless system made our wolf cub seem so bad :3 in fact, he’s not that bad in their second timeline…
