Shock!Straight Man Long Aotian Secretly Hides The Villain’S Skirt Chapter 16

Lu Yi walked behind Xie Rong, his gaze lingering on Xie Rong’s slightly strange walking posture, and paused.

He currently slept on the ground in front of the Bamboo Hut, and not only had to eat Xie Rong’s leftovers and drink Xie Rong’s leftover cold tea, but also had to bathe in Xie Rong’s leftover scented bathwater. Therefore, he had to guard the door every night while Xie Rong bathed, only bathing after Xie Rong was finished.

Last night, as he leaned against the door, he happened to glance through the crack and saw Xie Rong, still damp from the water, lifting the hem of his bath robe and checking his body with his back to the bronze mirror.

He seemed not to understand why he felt uncomfortable. With a cold expression, he checked himself in the mirror while flipping through ancient texts. After a long time, he tossed both the texts and the bronze mirror onto the ground.

Lu Yi thought coldly, he would never tell Xie Rong the reason for his discomfort.

He practically hated Xie Rong to death! In the future, he would only harbor hatred while farming and washing clothes for this demon, and would never foolishly hold onto any illusions again.

It was laughable that night when he had even considered that since they had shared intimacy, they should become husband and wife, and he would bear Xie Rong’s sins, no matter how great.

A shrill cry of a hawk pierced the silent sky. Lu Yi’s thoughts snapped back, and he abruptly looked up.

“What are you dawdling for?” Xie Rong viciously yanked the iron chain around his neck.

Lu Yi lowered his gaze and quickened his pace without a word.

…

The scorching sun hung high in the sky, and waves of heat rolled over the Herb Field. The medicine slaves wiped the sweat from their faces during breaks from planting seedlings, occasionally glancing toward the orange tree.

There were two orange trees in Miedie Valley. The one in front of the Bamboo Hut was inscribed with the words ‘Xie Rong’s Little Orange,’ and the one by the field was inscribed with ‘Xie Rong’s Big Orange.’

The only things in Miedie Valley without names inscribed on them were the captured medicine slaves.

Under the Big Orange tree, Xie Rong was lounging in a rocking chair as usual, enjoying the cool air. The only difference was the addition of a man in chains beside him.

If any medicine slave slacked off, he no longer used a whip. Instead, he would drag Lu Yi over and have Lu Yi discipline the slave.

Xie Rong hadn’t expected himself to come up with such a brilliant method.

By making Lu Yi and these fools fight like dogs, even if he returned to Upper Cloud Capital later, the protagonist would be a universally despised accomplice—the accomplice of the villain!

Lu Yi, having personally beaten these poor medicine slaves, would no longer be a great hero. Wouldn’t he be left beating his chest in regret every day?

Xie Rong, halfway through peeling an orange, couldn’t help but laugh at the thought of the man’s comical look of regret.

Once he started laughing, he couldn’t stop. He clutched his stomach, his cheeks flushed with excitement.

[Host, why are you so happy?] The System puffed out its cheeks, using all its system energy to mimic a hand holding a small fan, fanning so fast it created afterimages.

“Someone is about to have bad luck, of course I’m happy,” Xie Rong broke off an orange segment and put it in his mouth. He didn’t chew, just narrowed his eyes, savoring the hint of orange fragrance.

[Host, autumn hasn’t arrived yet. Is this orange edible?]

“It’s delicious. Want to try?” Xie Rong broke off another segment and offered it to the System’s mouth.

[Host, I’m a System. I don’t have taste buds.]

“Just ask your Main System to grant you taste permission, couldn’t you?” Xie Rong said carelessly. “Isn’t he omnipotent?”

The System eyed the tempting orange segment near its mouth, hesitating for a moment.

[Host, wait for me.] The System vanished on the spot.

A moment later, the white slime jumped back onto his shoulder and opened its mouth wide: [Ah—]

Xie Rong tilted his head and blinked innocently, placing an orange segment into the System’s mouth.

After the white slime chewed a few times, the electronic display on its face changed to two large X’s.

[So sour, so sour, so sour! Host, you tricked me again!]

Xie Rong’s shoulders shook with laughter. “You’re a little fool too.”

A flower basket inscribed with Xie Rong’s name rested on the small table beside him. Xie Rong tossed all the orange peels into it.

He would later crush the peels and mix them with the medicine slaves’ blood to feed the Gu worms, thereby obtaining a batch of orange-flavored Gu worms.

As for the remaining oranges…

Xie Rong’s gaze swept diagonally across the man beside him, who was motionless like a stone pillar. “Come here.”

When the man approached with a strained face, Xie Rong shoved the remaining orange segments into his mouth, smiling with curved eyes. “Dare to spit it out, and everyone in the valley will starve for three days along with you.”

“…” Lu Yi chewed silently a few times, his eyebrows twitching above his eyes, and veins bulging on his forehead. He forcibly swallowed the orange.

The violent sourness, mixed with the bitterness of a young fruit forcibly plucked, spread from his tongue, seeping into his blood and heart.

“What a great person you are. Don’t worry, during dinner later, I’ll kindly tell all the medicine slaves that it was your sacrifice that allowed them to eat. They’ll surely be very grateful to you, won’t they?” Xie Rong lightly patted his face, then casually glanced away. “Now, sever the Achilles tendon of that medicine slave.”

As if knowing Lu Yi would rather die than comply, Xie Rong curled his lips maliciously and whispered, “Sever one person’s tendon, or have me sever all of theirs? It’s not a hard choice, is it?”

“Does seeing me play the villain make you this happy?” Lu Yi asked hoarsely.

The man’s breath carried the scent of oranges. Xie Rong leaned in and sniffed. “Seeing you suffer makes me this happy.”

“When you suffer, you will empathize. You will know how much pain I felt when you destroyed eighteen years of my hard work.”

Lu Yi closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, his dark pupils were murky, especially when looking at Xie Rong—devoid of any light.

“Fine, I’ll go.”

Xie Rong watched him walk away.

[Host, aren’t we being too wicked? I’m almost afraid to watch.]

Xie Rong broke open another orange, lowering his eyes without speaking.

A scream suddenly echoed from a distance, startling the white egrets resting in the field, causing them to scatter and fly away.

Xie Rong walked over and glanced at the medicine slave, who had fainted from the pain, his face pale.

“Why isn’t he bleeding?” he turned and asked curiously.

“I used a needle to pierce the pressure points in his leg, allowing him to experience the same pain as a severed tendon,” Lu Yi’s voice was hoarse. He paused. “Besides, if his tendon was severed, he might not be able to work for you well in the future.”

Xie Rong chuckled and turned to leave, but Lu Yi quickly grabbed his sleeve.

“Xie Rong! Everything has cause and effect. Don’t accumulate any more blood karma. If you are unhappy, torment me. Lock me up and do whatever you want to me! I volunteer, and I will never blame anyone.” Lu Yi said tremblingly.

There was silence for a few breaths.

Xie Rong smiled. “Alright.”

[Ding dong! Congratulations to the Host for unlocking a hidden plot from the original novel!]

[In the Miedie Valley map, the protagonist, in search of a cure for the Gu poison, voluntarily allows the villain to lock him in a secret chamber to endure endless torment. He survives the dark, painful days while maneuvering against the villain, eventually secretly learning a flute tune in the chamber to control the Gu worms, causing the Gu worms inside everyone in the valley to fall completely dormant. Protected by the Gu worms, he survives the poisonous miasma, burns down Miedie Forest, and exacts his revenge.]

“System, in the future, you don’t need to tell me about things that don’t come with rewards,” Xie Rong said, pulling the iron chain and leading the man back to the Bamboo Hut.

Indeed, there was a secret chamber beneath the Bamboo Hut, which he usually used for focused Gu refinement to avoid disturbances.

“Lu Yi, you seem to know a lot about Gu poison. Why don’t you tell me, besides the Mother Gu and Child Gu that obey it, what else does the Gu King have?”

Lu Yi was tied to the couch in the secret chamber. He shook his head as a spider crawled onto his face. “I don’t know.”

Xie Rong didn’t get angry. He took a silver needle, heated it over a candle flame, and slowly inserted it into Lu Yi’s firm abdomen. “It also has food used to absorb Yang energy anytime, anywhere.”

With that, he sat on the edge of the bed, opened a newly acquired text on the use of Yang energy, and following the methods described, sat down on top of Lu Yi.