The Demon Lord Only Wants to Follow the Script

e a spring breeze causing ripples on the vast sea, like soft light scattering the darkness, like the warmth melting a glacier, as long as he took one step closer, as long as he approached a tiny bit, he could escape from this endless hell and obtain paradise and rebirth.

Xie Huai lowered his head exceedingly slowly, his eyes darkening even more.

All of this was within your expectations, wasn’t it?

Xie Huai’s hands slowly gripped tighter, and he saw the person before him reveal a hint of pain, but he didn’t intend to release his grip, nor did he have the least pit of pity.
Does it hurt? ……But this little pit of pain isn’t worth bringing up compared to everything I’ve been through.

This person always lived haughtily and extravagantly, always looking languid and carefree…… Sometimes, it made you forget that he was a ruthless, cold-blooded devil, and only made you see him as a spoiled, aristocratic young master.

He used precisely this kind of pretense to conceal his cruelest inner heart, naively cruel like a child……

Xie Huai’s fingers used so much force that they turned white, and the corners of his lips turned up in an ice-cold arc.
He wanted to see how long he would bear it.

You should be getting angry, right?

As soon as you move even a hair’s breadth, I’ll strike first and kill you.

In the dead silence and darkness, there was only the sound of feather-light breathing to indicate the passage of time.

Again, and again, and again……

The pale man furrowed his brow in pain, his expression surprised and perplexed, then returned from his daze after a moment and forcefully resisted the pain to use a pair of innocent, clear eyes…… to look at him……

He didn’t move at all, only lying there quietly.

Xie Huai could feel the emaciated bones of the wrist in his palm, faintly trembling as it slowly relaxed, very cautiously, as if in fear of provoking him.

Not only did this person not move at all, not resist at all, but instead used a kind of…… completely unguarded posture to present himself before him.

Like prey that had given up resistance and sat awaiting its fate, presenting itself up as an offering.

Letting him do whatever he desired.

This person remained completely still, looking up at him, those eyes utterly clean without any desires or requests…… Although he hadn’t said a single word, he was using his eyes to say that he didn’t have any ill intent.

But, I have ill intent.

His last string of rationality snapped.

The darkness in Xie Huai’s eyes grew deeper, and amidst the ice-cold bloodthirst and killing intent, it seemed like there was some other, more dangerous thing mixed in……

Do you know or not, that using this kind of posture to face the me of right now…… what that means?

Or is it that you already like me to the point that you’ll go to any means to manipulate everything, just for the sake of offering yourself to me?

Xie Huai didn’t have the attention to spare anymore to think about whether this thought was even more absurd, more ridiculous than before.

He only stared fixedly at the person before him.

Fang Li relaxed his breathing until it was very, very slow, very, very light.

When facing a wild beast that wanted to kill you, fleeing, hiding, or resisting…… were all extremely dangerous actions.

So he only tried hard to meet Xie Huai’s eyes, using all of his might to express with his eyes that this was a misunderstanding! Let’s talk peacefully!

But Xie Huai evidently wasn’t easy to dupe, and he was definitely suppressing a bellyful of anger.
Fang Li kept completely still with his eyes open, and because he’d kept his eyes open for too long, the corners of his eyes were sore enough that tears started to gather, but Xie Huai still gave no indication of being assuaged……

Fang Li thought, this time, he might’ve miscalculated.

It was all thanks to the fact that he’d had too much faith in Xie Huai that he hadn’t come to investigate on the second day, causing things to get to this point.

In Xie Huai’s shoes, he’d be equally angry.

Fang Li wholeheartedly accepted his failure.

The real world that had been patched whole was full of danger, with pitfalls everywhere, yet all he had in his hands was a brainless porn novel.
The difficulty was truly not low.
Only, he didn’t know whether, after he died, the System would be able to smoothly find a second host.
Hopefully, the System would be able to maintain its optimism……

Fang Li’s thoughts started to drift further and further, and his expression started to slacken……

Suddenly, a scorching hot kiss fell on his lips.

Fang Li abruptly widened his eyes.

For a moment, his brain crashed and went completely blank.

What kind of development was this?

Xie Huai was willing to touch him? What was he doing? Didn’t it disgust him?!

Because he was overly shocked, the tears that had been gathering in his eyes for a while finally fell.
Although it was only an unavoidable biological reaction from having his eyes open for too long, shedding tears was still a little bit disgraceful, and it didn’t fit his character profile, so Fang Li awkwardly closed his eyes.

But the man fettering him didn’t want to let him evade, and the taste of blood pervaded between their lips and teeth.
Fang Li shuddered from pain for a moment, and the fingers that fell onto his neck slowly tightened, gripping his throat, making it hard for him to breath.

Was Xie Huai not actually kissing him, but had decided to kill him with this kind of method?

Devouring his flesh and blood, in the literal sense?

Wait a minute, with his blood, Xie Huai should be fine, right? Fang Li immediately calmed down.
It looked like there really was always a way if you didn’t give up hope.
Even without needing him to speak, Xie Huai had drank his blood, unexpectedly passing the flare-up period.

Fang Li only needed to bear with it for a bit longer, and it would be fine……

Xie Huai’s thoroughly red eyes looked at the person in front of him.
The ashen pale man didn’t have the usual languid willfulness, but looked aggrieved and pitiful.
Tears had fallen from the corner of his eyes, trailing past his exquisite, fragile face, disappearing along his temples…… He  seemed unwilling to open his eyes again because of humiliation and fury, only faintly trembling……

As if enticing him to take what he pleased.

Xie Huai’s throat bobbed.

An unprecedented thought arose without his control.

Fang Li was already almost unable to breathe, but his mind was completely calm, waiting patiently for an opportunity.

Quietly letting time pass……

Finally, Xie Huai seemed to relax slightly, like a wild beast that was certain that its prey wouldn’t resist anymore and slowly held back some of its killing intent, relaxing its guard somewhat and instead taking its pleasure……

That’s right, this was the moment—

Fang Li’s hand stealthily shifted to his side, and he suddenly struck Xie Huai aside with one hand.

As long as he got out, he wasn’t afraid Xie Huai would pursue him.
This place was filled with his people!

Xie Huai was suddenly pushed aside, and his eyes darkened, but he didn’t pursue.
After swaying slightly, he didn’t move any further, and only the bluish veins pulsing on the back of his hand, half-hidden under his sleeves, exposed his restraint.

Fang Li was long gone without a trace.

A chill spilled in from the open doors, blowing away the heavy scent in the room.
He could clearly sense that everything that shouldn’t have existed was washing away like the tide, and that frightening, unfamiliar self was gradually disappearing.
He had finally awakened from that nightmare, and everything was slowly returning to normal…… Only the sweetness of that kiss just now seemed to linger on his teeth and lips, refusing to disappear for a long while……

It was a taste he had never experienced before.

Rather than that seven days and nights that were like an endless hell, what made him feel more conflicted right now was—

He didn’t regret it, and even……

Wanted it to last longer.

Xie Huai raised his hand to cover his eyes.
The corners of his lips lifted slightly in an odd arc as he gave a low laugh.

It’s good that you left.

If you hadn’t left, you might not even know of the things that I would do.

That was the first time that he’d felt such filthy, unbearable thoughts arise toward someone……

Was it only because he’d been affected by some foreign thing?

It probably wasn’t…

His rationality told him that this was a ruthless, cold-blooded devil, and they stood on irreconcilable sides; but his feelings told him that this person wasn’t as he appeared on the surface, and they didn’t need to be like this.

That moment of emotion won out over his reason.

There was nothing in this world that could control someone’s heart, and the body was merely a hollow vehicle.
No matter how many reasons and excuses there were…… When all external influences were gone, he no longer had any way to deceive himself.

He didn’t actually loathe that person……

Xie Huai knew that he shouldn’t be like this, but the reality was, he felt something for that devil.

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Fang Li: It’s all because my rose-tinted lenses for a certain someone were too thick : )

Xie Huai:: He loves me…… he loves me not…… he loves me…… he loves me not…… he loves me…… he loves me not……

Xie Huai: He might really love me.