AWDC Chapter 50

Chapter 50: He Escapes, He Pursues

Mu Chuang heard this and glanced behind him, seeing the three women still waiting there. Suddenly, he flared up again, “I think you’re all too idle these days, really thinking you came here to enjoy yourselves? There’s still a pile of firewood stacked in the woodshed, go and chop it all for me! Don’t even think about sleeping until you’re done.”

The three women immediately knelt down before him. Pampered since childhood, they had never done such rough work. Forget chopping a pile, they probably couldn’t even split one log. Mu Chuang’s words were practically a death sentence.

“Young Master, I’ve never done anything like this since I was little, and I can’t even lift an axe. How can I chop it?” The first to complain was still Liu Jingjing. Her large eyes and round face looked even greasier when she cried, making Mu Chuang unable to look directly at her.

The other two also begged for mercy, giving reasons similar to hers. However, how could Mu Chuang forgive them just because they hadn’t done it before? It was obvious that he was deliberately targeting them with the vengeful mindset of his previous life, especially Fu Xiaoling, for whom he had specifically increased the workload.

“Stop telling me this useless nonsense. You two, chop twenty logs each first,” he pointed at Liang Ting and Liu Jingjing, then at Fu Xiaoling, “You, chop forty logs for me! No sleeping tonight if you don’t finish, and no eating tomorrow if you don’t finish. If you dare to dawdle, I’ll punish you fifty strokes of the cane each.”

Twenty strokes of the cane could take half a life, and fifty strokes were definitely a death sentence for these women. The women were immediately stunned, unable to even cry.

Lin Xi looked at the man behind him with a face full of doubt, not understanding why he would punish Fu Xiaoling so harshly. Logically, they were newlyweds and should be affectionate, so why…?

He carefully looked at the three women behind him, feeling that they shouldn’t have transmigrated from that world and had no memory of it at all. In that case, Mu Chuang shouldn’t be taking his anger out on them.

In fact, Mu Chuang had already seen this. Although these three didn’t have any real hatred for him, who told them to have the same faces as those three, making him angry just by looking at them.

“Young Master, they are the new concubines you’ve taken in, meant to stay and produce offspring for your family. If they are overworked, I’m afraid it won’t be easy to explain to the master. Why don’t you reconsider?” Out of humanitarianism, Lin Xi tried to persuade Mu Chuang. What he said and did had nothing to do with him, he just didn’t want to see him so cruel.

“No need,” Mu Chuang directly refused, and subconsciously hugged Lin Xi tighter from behind. “Xiao Yu, don’t speak up for them, they’re not worth it.”

Then, he put his mouth close to Lin Xi’s ear and said in a low voice, “Don’t you feel disgusted by these three faces at all? Have you forgotten what they did to you in that world?”

As he said this, he didn’t notice Lin Xi’s expression at all, which was full of ridicule and contempt.

“How much better are you than them? In the end, you’re the one who hurt me the most, not them.” Lin Xi cursed in his heart, “If you could just look at the problem correctly, I wouldn’t have lost the courage to live.”

“Whatever you want,” he said, looking past Mu Chuang at the three women, “This is your family matter, it has nothing to do with me.”

“I’m just a male concubine for people to amuse themselves with, barely able to protect myself. How can I be qualified to think for others?” He said the last sentence in his heart, then forcefully pried off Mu Chuang’s hand on his waist, preparing to escape this person’s confinement.

Little did he know that this simple reply inadvertently and indirectly admitted that he was the transmigrated Lin Xi.

Mu Chuang smiled, still putting his mouth close to the other’s ear, and said in a low voice, “It seems that Xi Xi hasn’t forgotten what they did to you over there, otherwise why would you say ‘whatever I want’?”

“Since you’ve admitted it, let Chuang-ge take good care of you here. Let’s live well together here. I promise I won’t bully you again, and I won’t allow anyone else to bully you, okay?”

Behind him came the loud sobs of the three women. Besides the rough work Mu Chuang had punished them with, they should also be upset by his closeness with Lin Xi at this moment.

Before Lin Xi could respond, he heard Mu Chuang roar in a coarse voice, “What are you crying for? Hurry up and get to the woodshed and chop all the wood inside! Don’t even think about coming out until you’re done! I’ll count to three, and if you don’t move, it’s a caning.”

After he said that, he raised a finger and counted with gritted teeth, and then he saw the women quickly get up from the ground and flee as if they had seen a ghost.

“Fucking hell, running so fast, and you said you had no strength! Thinking I’d indulge you? Don’t even look at yourselves and see if you’re qualified!” After he cursed, he turned his face back around and said to Lin Xi, “Only Xi Xi is qualified to be indulged by Chuang-ge like this, isn’t that right?”

He thought he was speaking sincerely, but little did he know that all of his words sounded like sarcasm to Lin Xi.

Who was it that once said they would cherish him? And then, just because he developed those kinds of feelings for him, that person turned ruthless and didn’t even give him a chance to continue being brothers, even forcing him to drown himself. Now he’s saying these seductive words, thinking he would still foolishly believe them?

“I think Young Master’s illness is getting worse. Please release Xiao Yu for now, I’ll go and invite a doctor for you myself.” After Lin Xi said that, he began to pry at the large hand that was restraining his waist again, feeling that he would lose years of his life if he was held by him for another second.

Mu Chuang had a helpless expression on his face. After saying so much, the other person still refused to acknowledge him. No matter how capable he was, he felt powerless at this moment.

Reluctantly, he could only act according to his wishes. “Alright, since Xiao Yu insists on going, then I’ll go with you. If the doctor finds nothing wrong, I’ll sleep with you tonight. How about that?”

He also knew a little about ancient people’s language, and he had some talent for acting. Since the other party refused to admit it, he would interact with him as Mu Fang and see what countermeasures he had.

Lin Xi’s back stiffened when he heard this. He didn’t expect Mu Chuang to be so shameless when he became shameless. In this case, it wouldn’t be so easy for him to get away from this man.

“I suddenly feel unwell. Young Master, please go yourself. I want to go back to my room to rest. Please don’t come and disturb me.” After he finished speaking, he wanted to escape again, but Mu Chuang had already made up his mind, how could he let him leave so easily? In order to avoid the other party always saying he was sick, he had to make this trip to the doctor tonight.

“Since you feel unwell, then it’s just right to go together. While it’s not dark yet, treat the illness early, lest you need to seek medical attention urgently in the middle of the night and cause panic, especially for me. If something goes wrong with you, my heart will ache to death.”