Chapter 72: Truly Insane â “Will You Help Me Apply the Medicine?”
A sense of weightlessness, like falling rapidly from the peak of a cliff, tightly enveloped Lu Xunye.
His whole body was weak and limp. The discomfort of the ache in his shoulders and neck caused him to let out a muffled groan and roll over. His nose pressed against a hard, cold object.
He used every ounce of strength to open his eyelids. He tilted his head back and clearly saw a cold, glinting blade reflecting his own face.
!!!!!
The tip of the knife pierced through the bedding and went straight into the bedboard. It felt as if it had also pierced Lu Xunyeâs mental fortress. His heartbeat suddenly quickened, echoing in his ears.
He scanned the unfamiliar room. He tried to lift his arm, only to feel a sense of restraint opposing his strength.
He struggled to turn his neck and saw a pair of handcuffs around his wrist, flush against his skin with almost no gap. There were also shackles on his feet.
Lu Xunye took one look and closed his eyes again. I must still be asleep.
He waited for a long time, but no sleepiness returned.
Only then did he realize he might have been kidnapped.
He struggled to roll over, the silver chain of the handcuffs clinking with his small movements.
At the same time, a notification sound, as ethereal as a morning temple bell, echoed through his mind.
Ding.
[Main Story Conquest Mission Complete. Current Points: ???. Host will depart this world in seven days.]
“??!!!”
Lu Xunye froze in place, his eyes widening in disbelief.
This shock only intensified when he saw Shen Yunqian push the door open and enter.
He watched as Shen Yunqian walked over with a natural composure, sat on the edge of the bed, and pulled out the knife with dark patterns engraved on the blade.
Lu Xunyeâs breathing steadied. Surely it was just placed in the wrong spot.
Following the young manâs movements, Lu Xunyeâs gaze shifted downward to see a bowl and spoon in his hand.
In the blink of an eye, a warm spoon was pressed against Lu Xunyeâs lips.
The series of bizarre events made his head spin. He could only follow his primal instincts, opening his mouth slightly to take the spoon.
The soft, glutinous rice grains wrapped around sweet shrimp meat, spreading a savory flavor through his mouth.
Lu Xunye was deep in thought and swallowed without tasting the food, instantly choking for a moment.
Perhaps because he was being so cooperative, Shen Yunqian faltered slightly. However, he quickly regained his composure, pursing his lips as he scooped another spoonful.
“Waitâ”
Lu Xunye hurriedly called for a halt. He tried hard to recall what had happened earlier. Catching the dark, sunken gaze of the young man, he felt dazed.
The words of deep emotion the other man had spoken before he fainted echoed in his ears.
He felt uncertain. What kind of move is thisâhating me but still feeding me?
The handcuffs on Lu Xunyeâs wrists were particularly eye-catching. He moved slightly and asked tentatively, “Was I… drugged with an aphrodisiac again?”
One couldn’t blame him for thinking this way; given the track record, he couldn’t help but make the connection.
Shen Yunqianâs somber mood was shattered by the other man’s logic. Facing a face full of ignorant confusion, he still kept his expression stern: “No.”
Lu Xunye didn’t think too much of it, or perhaps he didn’t want to dig deeper.
His propped-up head lost strength and fell back onto the pillow. He lay flat, staring at the ceiling. “Do I have a fever? Why do I have no energy?”
Shen Yunqian placed the bowl on the nightstand and leaned over. One hand gripped Lu Xunyeâs wrist while the other was loosely cupped, the back of his fingers gently tracing Lu Xunyeâs facial features.
“It seems the effects of the muscle relaxants and sleeping pills haven’t worn off yet.”
As he said this, his expression was as calm as water, as if this was exactly how things should be. This attitude made Lu Xunyeâs skin crawl.
Lu Xunye was flustered. He could no longer brainwash himself into thinking everything was normal and calm. Unfortunately, he was currently like a limp shrimp, completely without the power to resist.
He looked unsteadily at the young man’s familiar face and called out, “Shen Yunqian?”
“It’s me.”
Shen Yunqian seemed to know what he was thinking, showing plenty of patience as he gave him a dose of reassurance.
His thumb slid all the way down, pressing against the scabbed bite mark on the side of Lu Xunyeâs neck. His look of heartache didn’t seem faked. “Does it hurt?”
Only then could Lu Xunye feel the fine stings of pain coming from where he was being pressed.
Iâve become less sensitive to pain, was his first thought.
Shen Yunqian is insane, was his second.
His mind was in a mess, and he didn’t answer immediately.
Fear and anxiety intertwined into a suffocating spiderweb that tightly wrapped around his heart, squeezing it until it felt as though it would stop beating. He only wanted to break free from these chains.
“Let me go!”
“Let you go?” Shen Yunqian found it amusing. His hand moved away from the bite mark. “So you can run away again?”
He used his hand to restrain Lu Xunyeâs moving neck and barked coldly, “Don’t move.”
The cold blade was once again pressed against his flesh. Lu Xunye stiffened his neck, a bead of cold sweat rolling down his temple. He stammered in persuasion: “D-don’t be impulsive.”
“If this is impulsive, then I truly regret not being impulsive sooner.”
Shen Yunqian gave a self-mocking smile.
“I was wrong this time. From the moment you received the notice and rushed to the hospital, from that dream woven of liesâit was all wrong.”
“My mistake was giving you the freedom of choice. I should have locked you up sooner. That way, would you have stopped thinking about leaving me?”
These words were strange. Lu Xunyeâs Adam’s apple bobbed. He looked down inconspicuously at the glinting weapon on his neck and said with certainty, “Let me go. You’re sick. I’ll take you to get treated!”
“I’m not sick!” Shen Yunqianâs voice rose, fury already filling his eyes.
Sshâ
Lu Xunye squeezed his eyes shut and held his breath. The short blade pierced the pillow less than three centimeters from the side of his face.
He swallowed in lingering fear, not daring to make another sound.
Shen Yunqian seemed entirely unaware of the psychological impact his actions had on the other man, continuing to speak to himself.
“You said you like the obedient type. I thought as long as I was obedient enough, you wouldn’t leave me. I tried to act obedient, but then you started to feel that I was different from before and began to distance yourself. I should have realized long ago that no matter what Iâm like, you wouldn’t like me.”
Lu Xunye, who had pieced together a few fragments of information from those ambiguous words, felt as though he had been struck by lightning.
The shock of realizing the other person had never lost his memory was impossible to calm.
“You don’t understand anything. Clearlyâ”
Shen Yunqianâs voice cut off. The corners of his eyes gradually turned crimson, and his voice grew softer, a clearly audible tremble.
“I had already planned to let you go. But you insisted on using your drunkenness to hug me, kiss me, and say you liked me. You gave me hope then snatched it away with your own hands.”
“You forced your way into my world, then suddenly disappeared. You repeatedly approached me, intentionally or not, then immediately pulled away once you regained your senses. Do you… also think Iâm pathetic? Easy to play with?”
Shen Yunqian pinched Lu Xunyeâs face, forcing him to look at him, yet he himself didn’t dare meet his gaze. He asked almost pleadingly, “Lu Xunye… who… who are you, really?”
Even though I hid for two days, it doesn’t count as disappearing, right? And to ask such a targeted questionâhas he found out I’m not the original owner?!!!
But the original owner was just an insignificant cannon fodder. In the original plot, he had no connection to the Protagonist Shou!
Before one shock could settle, another arose. Lu Xunye was uncertain, unable to tell what the other man knew. His anger at being restrained was replaced by guilt.
He could only be vague: “Iâve always been here. Why do you ask?”
Is it so severe that he’s hallucinating and his perception is affected? Lu Xunye wondered.
Shen Yunqian didn’t argue with him. “Will you stay here always?”
Lu Xunye went silent. He still hadn’t figured out what was going on with the notification that the mission was complete.
In the past, Lu Xunye would have answered “yes” without hesitation, but he didn’t want to lie.
The moment the young man looked up, a hot tear landed on Lu Xunyeâs cheek and slid down.
All of Lu Xunyeâs senses were hijacked by that flowing tear. He looked at the tearful Shen Yunqian in bewilderment.
He truly rarely saw the other man cry. Before he could think of a perfect explanation, an apology had already slipped out: “I’m sorry.”
He tried to shift the subject: “I wasn’t calling you sick just now.”
Shen Yunqian swiped away Lu Xunyeâs half-raised hand and instead grabbed his collar. With an air of indignant refusal to lose, he said:
“What is so good about him? A greedy, snobbish villain is actually worth you risking your life for? Even to the point of… jumping off a building.”
!!!!!! Those words caused a massive wave to surge in Lu Xunyeâs heart.
He was terrified and uneasy now. His composed expression cracked slightly. He could conclude that this Shen Yunqian was absolutely not normalâis he from the original book’s timeline?
Even so, Lu Xunye had no other choice but to play dumb. “What are you talking about? Jumping off a building?! Would a person as protective of his life as me jump off a building?!”
He attempted to blur the truth. “Have you confused a dream with reality? Thatâs all fake!”
Lu Xunye softened his voice: “Be good. Let me go, and let’s have a proper talk.”
Unfortunately, these words didn’t soothe the man’s madness at all.
To the man, this was a signal that Lu Xunye wanted to escape.
“Sure.” Shen Yunqian agreed surprisingly quickly. Lu Xunye was taken aback.
Before he could breathe a sigh of relief, he heard the man say, “Kiss me once and promise you won’t leave. Then I’ll let you go.”
Lu Xunye was speechless.
“As I thought.” Shen Yunqian let out a soft sneer.
He tightened the chains on both sides of the bed. Gritting his teeth, he said, “I gave you a chance. You didn’t take it. Then you can stay by my side for the rest of your life.”
In an instant, Lu Xunyeâs arms were pulled up. Before his terrified eyes, a warm pressure landed on his lipsâthere was no tenderness, only bloodthirsty madness.
Lu Xunye thought of something, his face turning pale, and he bit down hard.
Taking advantage of the pain, he yanked on the chains with both hands, using the leverage to arch his body and headbutt the young man. “Shen Yunqian, wake up!”
After shouting this, he felt dizzy. The strength he had mustered dissipated along with the unresolved effects of the drugs. He let go of the chains, leaving a lingering clinking sound.
Shen Yunqian was knocked off the bed. He clutched his shoulder, his lips stinging. In a moment, he tasted blood.
He propped his elbow against the wall and bit his lip, his teeth marks landing on his already bitten lower lip. He stared silently at the person looking at him with defensive, rejecting eyes.
“Why do you refuse me? Why have you always been resisting me?”
Shen Yunqian clenched his palms. The madness deep in his eyes was suppressed to the point of being distorted.
“Is it because you love him? So it’s okay for him, but not for me?”
“You only have feelings for him, don’t you?”
His sudden interrogation gave Lu Xunye an ominous feeling. He began to struggle against the chains again.
In the next second, he watched as Shen Yunqian sat on his calves, pinning down his restless legs. He reached out and grabbed Lu Xunye in a vulnerable spot.
An electric shock went straight to his brain. The veins on Lu Xunyeâs forehead bulged. He panted heavily and roared: “Don’t touch me! Are you crazy?! Let me go!”
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“I told you I’m sick! I can’t get it up! It’s the same for everyone, do you understand!”
After an unknown amount of time, Lu Xunyeâs voice was hoarse from screaming. He lay limp on the bed, his pupils unfocused as he stared at the ceiling. He was in so much pain that physiological tears ran from the corners of his eyes. In his daze, he caught the scent of something burning.
The aggressor, not seeing the reaction he wanted, looked helplessly at Lu Xunyeâs wrists, which were bleeding from being rubbed by the handcuffs during the struggle. He climbed off the bed.
Shen Yunqian knelt by the bedside in disbelief, rumpling the diagnostic report he had just received a few hours ago into a ball. “The doctor clearly said you weren’t sick… how can this be?”
Lu Xunye closed his eyes. “…Let me go.”
“But… you’ll leave me.” Shen Yunqian shook his head stubbornly. “You’ll go with someone else.”
After a long while, Lu Xunye calmed his heart. He vaguely understood something from the man’s words and decided to take a gamble.
Silently, he used his wrist to press his flesh against the edge of the handcuffs, cutting a bloody gash into the broken skin.
His entire hand became swollen and purple from the blood flow. When it was enough, Lu Xunye stopped and let out a cry of pain: “It hurts.”
Shen Yunqian panicked, scrambling to the head of the bed. Meeting Lu Xunyeâs watery eyes, he opened his mouth, his voice dry: “Where does it hurt?”
“My hands hurt.”
Lu Xunye buried his head, his voice softening and sounding a bit pitiful. He said intermittently:
“It hurts so much. I’m bleeding. Will you unlock them for me?”
Shen Yunqian hesitated, afraid he would run, yet worried he was truly in pain.
“I won’t run. If you just unlock my hands, I still can’t run, can I?” Lu Xunye coaxed in a low voice. “I only like you now. Really.”
“And I definitely won’t jump off a building for someone else. I won’t leave you. I swear.”
Shen Yunqianâs gaze flickered. “Really?”
Lu Xunye nodded. “Come closer.”
Shen Yunqian frowned. There was suspicion in his eyes, but he chose to believe him and leaned in as told.
“Shen Yunqian.”
Lu Xunye suddenly called his name. When the man turned his head, Lu Xunye tilted his chin up and kissed the corner of the man’s mouth.
Shen Yunqianâs pupils constricted.
The touch was brief. Lu Xunye slowly pulled away. “Will you help me apply the medicine?”
“Okay.”
Lu Xunye waited for him to take out the key. He narrowed his eyes, acting exceptionally obedient when the man turned to look at him.
As soon as the handcuffs were loosened, while the man went to open the first-aid kit, Lu Xunye chopped the back of the man’s neck with one hand and caught his slumped body. “I’m sorry.”
Lu Xunye hadn’t expected the other man to truly be so defenseless against him. He hooked his arm around Shen Yunqianâs waist and laid him on the bed.
He wiped his mouth with the back of his hand. Looking at the young man’s blood-stained lips, he murmured to himself: “How are you so easy to fool? You should have continued… to hate me.”
[System, how does Shen Yunqian know about the original plot?]
Lu Xunye then remembered that the System had gone for an upgrade.
He cursed under his breath and resignedly reached for the keys. The moment he sat up, he felt a wave of dizziness.
The effects of the drugs hadn’t worn off; his limbs were still as weak as cotton.
He sat at the foot of the bed and used the key to unlock the shackles on his feet. The burnt smell in the air seemed to have grown stronger. He vaguely heard someone shouting downstairs.
He threw the chains aside and sat by the bed, propping his head up. He composed himself and distinguished the shouting from downstairs.
It was… a fire!
Translatorâs Note:
- Muscle relaxants (čćžĺ – JÄŤ sĹng jĂŹ): Drugs used to reduce muscle tone and cause temporary weakness or paralysis.
- Handcuffs and Shackles (ćéĺčé – ShÇukĂ o hĂŠ jiÇokĂ o): Standard yandere equipment in web novels!
- Jump off a building (衳漟 – TiĂ olĂłu): This refers to the original Lu Xunye’s fate in the book’s initial plotline. It seems Shen Yunqian has memories of the “original story.”
- “Destruction before construction” (ä¸ç ´ä¸çŤ – BĂš pò bĂš lĂŹ): Lu Xunye’s strategy from the previous chapter. He broke the status quo to try and fix the situation, but it led to a kidnapping!
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