After Being Transformed Into Cannon Fodder For Death, The Heartthrob Chapter 32

Although he felt quite embarrassed, Ye Qingyun still brazenly took enough research samples to allow the study to continue.

After finishing the experiments for the day, Ye Qingyun wanted to go out for a walk and get some fresh air, and Gu Shenyuan accompanied him.

The planet where Gu Shenyuan lived had a very small population and was sparsely inhabited, so they walked for a while without encountering a single person.

Ye Qingyun walked quietly. He didn’t know if it was his imagination, but he always felt that Gu Shenyuan looked a little strange when walking beside him.

It didn’t seem to have started just today. Ever since Gu Shenyuan personally handed over that thing for his research, Gu Shenyuan had been acting somewhat oddly around him.

Ye Qingyun pondered for a moment and understood.

Gu Shenyuan was an introverted and quiet person who valued his personal privacy greatly. Handing that item over to him must have made him feel extremely shy and uneasy.

Ye Qingyun imagined how awkward and anxious Gu Shenyuan must have felt, yet because he liked Ye Qingyun and didn’t want him to touch anyone else’s things, he forced himself to endure the embarrassment and hand over that shameful item. Ye Qingyun felt his heart soften.

He often encountered strange things during his experiments, so as long as he was in the lab, he could treat anything with a normal mindset.

But Gu Shenyuan didn’t do experiments often; he was just an ordinary, introverted young man. Ye Qingyun couldn’t hold Gu Shenyuan to the same standard.

Ye Qingyun unconsciously softened his tone and tried to reassure Gu Shenyuan, “I won’t use your things to do anything bad, you don’t need to worry.”

At most, he would formulate an Antidote to lift the Bloodline restriction, which was for Gu Shenyuan’s own good. He definitely wouldn’t use it for any wicked schemes to make Gu Shenyuan fall in love with him!

…Wait, didn’t Gu Shenyuan give him the item precisely so he could use it for wicked schemes?

Ye Qingyun selectively skipped over that question and continued to comfort him, “You don’t need to be embarrassed. They are just experimental materials. It’s nothing. Just consider it a contribution to scientific development.”

Gu Shenyuan lowered his dark eyelashes, concealing the thoughts in his eyes, and responded softly, “…Mhm.”

Gu Shenyuan could tell that Ye Qingyun thought he was shy and uneasy, which was why he offered comfort.

But what did he have to be uneasy about? Since he dared to give it, no matter what Ye Qingyun intended to do with it, he could handle it.

Moreover, he had absolute trust in Ye Qingyun; Ye Qingyun was not the type of person who would do bad things.

As for shyness… this was such an exciting matter; it only made his blood boil.

His emotional instability recently was due to two reasons.

First, because Ye Qingyun truly had a certain level of physical contact with him.

Even telling himself it was only for the sake of the experiment, Gu Shenyuan found it hard to control his thoughts. Whenever he had free time, he would unconsciously fantasize, causing him to occasionally zone out.

The other reason was related to what Ye Qingyun had said about the effects of the Stone of Love.

If Ye Qingyun’s hypothesis was correct, and a certain Element in the Stone of Love could truly make two people who provided the material fall in love, would Ye Qingyun fall in love with him?

Gu Shenyuan had always scoffed at such things. He didn’t believe anything could truly manipulate human emotions; it was just brainwashing, and anyone who believed it was foolish.

But now, Gu Shenyuan desperately wished in his heart that this theory was true, that such a magical item truly existed in the world.

He wanted to hold Ye Qingyun’s hand when they walked, and he wanted to embrace Ye Qingyun and give him warmth when the weather turned cold.

He wanted to do so many things, but given his current identity, he couldn’t.

…He wanted a chance. He just needed one chance.

Ye Qingyun walked a large loop along the road. Just as he was about to take Gu Shenyuan back, a hovercar descended from the sky and landed in front of a villa not far away.

The car door opened, and two men jumped out first.

One of the men wore black clothes and black pants and had a stern expression. The other was smoking a cigarette, his eyes full of calculation.

After they got out, they reached back into the car and dragged out a beautiful young man whose eyes were filled with tears, looking pitifully distressed.

“No, please let me go, let me go! I can do other things for you!” the beautiful youth cried out. “I can work like a horse or an ox for you, work for you for free!”

“Work like a horse or an ox?” The man smoking the cigarette smiled as if he had heard a joke. He patted the youth’s face and blew a smoke ring. “You don’t need to work like a horse or an ox. Just serve us well.”

After the smoking man finished speaking, the other man in black clothes and black pants grabbed the beautiful youth and started dragging him toward the villa.

Ye Qingyun felt that this scene was somewhat familiar, as if he had seen this exact plot point somewhere before.

Ye Qingyun frowned and thought hard, finally remembering.

No wonder it felt so familiar! Wasn’t this a plot point from the original novel!

At the time, the author wanted to write a love rivalry scene and see which type of person would create the most tension with Gu Shenyuan, so they forcibly arranged this scenario.

The crying youth was one of the most beautiful people in the galaxy, the man smoking the cigarette was one of the top five wealthiest people in the galaxy, and the stern man in black clothes and black pants was a famous assassin.

The rich man and the assassin were friends. They were captivated by the youth’s beauty, so they conspired, bought the youth from his parents, and forcibly took the bewildered young man away.

The subsequent plot was that the beautiful youth saw Gu Shenyuan, his eyes lit up, and he thought Gu Shenyuan could save him. So, while the two men holding him weren’t paying attention, he broke free, ran to Gu Shenyuan, and tearfully begged Gu Shenyuan to save him.

The two men chased after him, initially intending to snatch the youth back home, but when they saw Gu Shenyuan’s face, they were stunned by his beauty and instead tried to take Gu Shenyuan away.

Gu Shenyuan completely ignored them, walked away on his own, and casually knocked down the assassin who tried to attack him.

The rich man and the assassin wouldn’t give up so easily. They continued to pester Gu Shenyuan in the following days, annoying him endlessly.

Meanwhile, the youth believed Gu Shenyuan had saved him and was captivated by Gu Shenyuan’s fighting skills. He developed a deep obsession with Gu Shenyuan and began to pursue him madly.

There was a scene in the original book where the youth stripped to seduce Gu Shenyuan, but Gu Shenyuan acted as if he hadn’t seen anything and walked away without looking.

At the time, readers joked about this scene, saying that Shou wouldn’t be attracted to Shou, and that Gu Shenyuan and this youth had conflicting attributes, which was why he didn’t even glance at him. If it had been a muscular man with an eight-pack, perhaps the plot would have been different.

Ye Qingyun remembered this joke clearly, which helped him recall the plot details.

But there was one thing that was wrong.

When Gu Shenyuan encountered this plot point back then, he wasn’t at his home base but on another, more bustling planet.

The location had changed, yet the plot was still activating? Was the plot’s adaptability that strong?

Ye Qingyun was puzzled. Then, he saw the beautiful youth look over, suddenly exert force to push away the man in black, and stumble as he ran toward them.

Here it comes, the plot is starting exactly as it did before!

Ye Qingyun’s spirit lifted, and he subconsciously looked at Gu Shenyuan.

In the original plot, the youth initially wanted to throw himself into Gu Shenyuan’s arms for protection, but Gu Shenyuan took a step back, causing the youth to miss.

Would the Gu Shenyuan he knew, who was a Gong, still act according to the plot?

The Gu Shenyuan in the story was a Shou; this Gu Shenyuan was a Gong. What changes would occur in the plot?

Gu Shenyuan was uninterested in the scene unfolding before them. He only said to Ye Qingyun, who had stopped walking, “Tired? I’ll carry you.”

Ye Qingyun: “Ah? Not tired. Look at that person ahead…”

Gu Shenyuan then lazily glanced over. He looked at the running youth and frowned.

Ye Qingyun watched as the youth ran closer and lunged toward him—

The next second, Ye Qingyun was pulled into a firm embrace. Gu Shenyuan’s breath brushed against his face, and his lips grazed Ye Qingyun’s earlobe.

The youth missed and fell to the ground.

Gu Shenyuan: “Tsk.”

The youth scrambled up, trying to grab Ye Qingyun’s sleeve, crying and pleading, “Kind person, please help me…”

Ye Qingyun shifted uneasily in Gu Shenyuan’s arms: “…”

Wait, what good would it do for this person to lunge at him? Did he look like he had any fighting ability?

Gu Shenyuan naturally had a handsome face that didn’t immediately suggest he was a master fighter, but standing next to him, even Gu Shenyuan was made to look profound and unfathomable. It seemed much more effective to ask Gu Shenyuan for help.

Gu Shenyuan took another step back with Ye Qingyun, preventing the youth from touching Ye Qingyun’s sleeve.

Gu Shenyuan watched the youth with cold eyes, a sneer playing on his lips.

The youth’s tearful, distressed appearance failed to elicit any pity from him; instead, it raised his guard. Perhaps he was overthinking it, but seeing this person rush toward Ye Qingyun, his first reaction was that this person wanted to shift the trouble onto someone else, dragging the more outwardly attractive Ye Qingyun into the mess so he could escape smoothly.

The two men who were chasing the youth also caught up. When they saw Ye Qingyun, their eyes immediately lit up.

“Sir, may I have the honor of inviting you home for a cup of tea?” the man smoking the cigarette politely asked Ye Qingyun, winking at him in a flirtatious manner.

Ye Qingyun stared at the man, his eyes wide with shock.

He hadn’t noticed it from afar, but looking closely now, this wealthy Cannon Fodder actually bore a five or six-tenths resemblance to Pu Tian!

Oh my god, fortunately, he no longer had to adhere to the Vicious Cannon Fodder persona. Otherwise, having to pretend affection for this person would truly make him want to vomit for miles.

Gu Shenyuan also noticed. The veins on the back of the hand he had resting on Ye Qingyun’s body bulged, trembling imperceptibly.

Ye Qingyun liked Pu Tian—this was a fact Gu Shenyuan had always known, and it was a thorn constantly stuck in his throat.

He thought that time would slowly fade Ye Qingyun’s feelings for Pu Tian, and by staying by Ye Qingyun’s side, he would eventually leave a mark on Ye Qingyun’s life, and Ye Qingyun would think of him more often.

But now this person had appeared.

If Ye Qingyun treated this man as Pu Tian’s substitute and decided to throw himself into this man’s arms, what should he do?

He couldn’t think about it, he didn’t dare to think about it.

Gu Shenyuan felt his head begin to ache. Their Bloodline restriction demanded that they absolutely must not harm the person they loved. If they tried to inflict harm, the backlash they suffered would be even greater. Even just thinking about it caused intense headaches.

But he couldn’t accept it… If Ye Qingyun truly left with this person, even if the pain felt like he was being slowly sliced apart, he would forcibly bring Ye Qingyun back.

Bring him back, lock him in the house, forbid him from liking anyone else, forbid him from looking at other men, forbid him from leaving.

Gu Shenyuan was shaken slightly. He endured the pain, opened his eyes, and met Ye Qingyun’s bright gaze.

Ye Qingyun urged in a low voice, “What are you waiting for? This person is disgusting. Hit him!”