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41. Ancient Times: System, Help!

Translator: Guy Gone Bad

Su Bei clenched his fists, palms sweating. He said with a calm smile, “Haven’t your already claimed your own justice? I don’t think I need to do anything.”

How would Mu Qinghan let go of Su Bei easily? He leaned close to Su Bei, pressed on Su Bei’s shoulder, his voice was like the devil’s whisper, “Your Majesty, you kill him, and you will bring justice to me.”

Su Bei tried to step back, but Mu Qinghan increased the strength, firmly pinning him in there.

The way the prisoner looked at Mu Qinghan was like he was gonna eat him alive, “Mu Qinghan, are you ordering His Majesty? This is great disrespect!”

Mu Qinghan turned to Su Bei, “Is it?”

Su Bei dare not move a bit, only afraid that if he moved a bit, he would die here.

He composed himself and said with a smile, “You must be kidding. How can the prince regent treat me with great disrespect? My life still relies on him.”

Mu Qinghan narrowed his eyes while staring at the expression of Su Bei. He was really enduring. “Well, Your Majesty, please uphold the justice for me.”

Speaking of which, he stuffed a sword into Su Bei’s hand.

Su Bei’s hand was shaking. As he was trying to throw it away, Mu Qinghan tightly held his hand, so he could not release it.

He could only resort to the system, “System dad, help me, just this once!”

748 was silent for a moment, then said. “Turn around, kiss him.”

Su Bei felt thunderstruck and then saw that the sword in his hand was about to pierce into the prisoner’s heart.

He gnashed his teeth, turned to face Mu Qinghan and bit his lips.

The whole world quieted down, making Su Bei a bit flustered.

He stared at Mu Qinghan. A long time had passed, he did not make any action.

But the look in his eyes was more and more horrifying, like a beast trying to break out of the cage.

Su Bei was so scared that he even couldn’t feel his legs. He dropped the sword and ran away.

He felt safer staying alone.

However, after a few steps, his wrist was grasped and the whole person was pulled back.

Mu Qinghan pressed Su Bei against the wall violently. Because the strength was too big, Su Bei’s head knocked on it.

Normal saline was filled in his eyes.

Mu Qinghan’s dense kisses fell on Su Bei’s neck, the smile already gone.

That pair of eyes were more like those of a beast than of a man.

Su Bei gasped in pain, feeling that his neck might be broken.

He gritted his teeth and asked the system, “What the hell did you do?”

“A new drug from the headquarters, apple of Eden,” 748 said in a strange mechanical voice.

He’s wrong. He shouldn’t have sought help from the system. Apple of Eden is not a good thing only judging by its name.

Su Bei tried to push Mu Qinghan away. He felt like he was the prey, soon to be swallowed into the predator’s stomach.

Mu Qinghan grasped Su Bei’s hand, smile back on his face, he said gently, “Be good. Behave.”

Su Bei only felt his hair stood on end.

The next moment, however, the scene before his eyes got reversed.

He was carried out by Mu Qinghan.

No matter how Su bei struggled, it was of no avail.

In fact, those subordinates in the prison also got question marks all over their faces. What just happened?

Were they hallucinating?

The prince regent did such a thing to the cowardly emperor…

Suddenly they felt that their lives were in danger because they saw something they were not supposed to see.

Su Bei was carried by Mu Qinghan all the way into the room, directly thrown onto the bed, with undisguised beast desire in his eyes.

Trying to escape, Su Bei was easily pulled back by Mu Qinghan. He did not have the chance at all.

42. Ancient Times: Apple of Eden

Translator: Guy Gone Bad

One ridiculous night

When Su Bei woke up, he only felt the whole body was in a huge pain.

Of course, this was still light, the most painful thing was from the back.

Mu Qinghan was already gone. He was really a big villain! An asshole! Son of a bitch!

748 thoughtfully updated the latest progress, “Captivating bar increased by 5%, current progress 11%.”

Su Bei gave the system his middle finger. He even sacrificed his own body, the system told him that it had only increased by 5%?!

Enough is enough!

Su Bei struggled to get up and decided to flee.

He felt that the captivating thing was very unsafe. It was possible that he might have been killed by a slight turn of Mu Qinghan.

Su Bei dragged his body to the door with difficulty. As he just opened the door, he looked right into Mu Qinghan’s face wearing a fake smile.

It feels really awful!

Although Mu Qinghan restored the appearance of a smiling tiger (this is a slang in Chinese which means a friendly-looking villain or something like that), Su Bei felt at the moment his smile was ever more terrifying.

The word creepy was already not enough to describe him. Anyway now Su Bei only felt his legs already turned into jelly.

He pretended to be calm and asked, “Is there any news from the palace?”

Mu Qinghan squinted, “I thought Your Majesty wouldn’t care about this.”

Silent murderous atmosphere was spreading.

See? Su Bei’s intuition was right. It was possible he would die in Mu Qinghan’s hands today.

Seeing Su Bei say nothing, Mu Qinghan’s eyes flashed a hint of brutality.

So, is this the purpose of Su Bei?

To humiliate him or what?

Mu Qinghan squeezed Su Bei’s neck, saying with an indifferent tone, “When did you drug me?”

Su Bei’s face reddened, yelling, “How would I know!?”

It was all because of the system.

Mu Qinghan stared into Su Bei’s eyes, which were totally aboveboard.

Then there were only two possibilities. One was that he was not lying, and the other was that he was too good at pretending.

Mu Qinghan had never had close physical contact with anyone, only knew that the moment Su Bei kissed on his lips, all his sense was gone, except the animal-like instinct.

The more ridiculous thing was he had sex with a man!

After he saw Su Bei yesterday, it seemed that everything had become kind of not right.

Mu Qinghan’s eyes became more terrible. He let go of his hand, Su Bei collapsed to the ground.

Then he jumped up due to the huge pain from the back door, face twisted.

Mu Qinghan stretched out a hand and stroked Su Bei’s cheek.

Long fingers rubbing Su Bei’s chin, increasing the strength, heavy enough to make Su Bei feel as if his skin had been rubbed off.

After determining something or what, Mu Qinghan withdrew his hand, eyes full of disgust, “What you did to me, I will find it out!”

Su Bei touched his own burning chin, feeling aggrieved.

He was the one who had been taken advantage of, OK? To him, it was good for nothing.

If he ever asked the system for help again, he’d give himself a hard slap!

The dark guard couldn’t bear to see this, and directly appeared in front of Su Bei, “Your Majesty, I have found the thing you wanted.”

Su Bei put on a stern face, asking while bearing the huge pain, “What is it?”

The dark guard said in a neither servile nor supercilious way, “The eunuch that cleans the royal study has a close relationship with Lu Jinyao’s handmaid.”

Eunuch? Maid? He blurted out.” How close?”

Dark guard gave Su Bei a strange look, “Very close.”

Su Bei coughed a bit, “I know. Go on investigating.”

After the dark guard left, Su Bei moved his body, letting his numb feet get back, “You also heard that. It’s quite possible that Lu Jinyao is related to the missing of your sister’s body.”

Mu Qinghan’s eyes lightly flashed. Lu Jinyao, the smug woman he met in the imperial garden?

43. Ancient Times: Misery

Translator: Guy Gone Bad

Unable to hold his body, Su Bei leaned against the door and handed over some of his weight to it. “I think you can find out more than I can,”

The under-language was that he now had found the suspect for him, and then he should go on investigating himself. He would not keep him company.

Anyway, he was not the murderer. He had a clear conscience.

The look of Mu Qinghan became uncanny, “Your Majesty, didn’t you say you will give me an explanation?”

Su Bei gave full play of his own thick-skinned feature, “I have health issues, so I’m afraid you have to do it yourself.”

Mu Qinghan said with a deep voice, “Your Majesty, do you need me to send you back?”

Su Bei, of course, followed his lead. “Of course. After all my pains have a great matter with you.”

Mu Qinghan sneered, so Su Bei finally revealed his true color?

He drugged him only wanting to blackmail him?

He turned around. “Then go.”

Su Bei felt very uncomfortable with every step he took. He asked shamelessly, “Could you help me find a sedan chair or something?”

Mu Qinghan looked back, wearing a fake smile at Su Bei, “Your Majesty should set an example, let the civilians know of being thrift. Don’t worry. I will walk you back.”

Su Bei felt like being struck by lightning. This is too ferocious! “748, can I make a complaint?”

He’s going to complain about this shitty system. This is all because of it!

“This system only meant to meet the requirements of the host.” 748’s mechanical voice was heard.

That was to say, Su Bei asked for it himself!

Mu Qinghan really walked Su Bei from his mansion back to the imperial palace.

Only a few steps Su bei’s face already turned ghastly pale.

It was really violent last night. He got a lot of scratches all over his body, not to mention that spot.

But he slowed down a little and kept walking, legs shaking.

Finally, Su Bei directly held against the wall and did not move a bit, the pain made the face lose the color red.

He suddenly felt a little sad, and kind of missing Feng Xinglang already.

Although Feng Xinglang was a big villain, but at least way better that Mu Qinghan!

He could only try to soothe himself because the captivating progress was too low.

Mu Qinghan looked back, seeing Su Bei leaning against the wall, wearing a pained expression, legs slightly shaking.

Last night everything flashed in his mind clearly. He silently stared at Su Bei for a while, squeezed out a word through the teeth, “Carriage.”

Mu Qinghan’s subordinate had served him for a long time, of course he could read Mu Qinghan’s face. He immediately went to get a carriage for them.

The smile on his face all disappeared and he walked up to him and carried him up.

748’s mechanical voice sounded again, “Captivating bar increased by 5% and current progress 16%.”

Su Bei was not at all pleased with the captivating stuff. He clenched his teeth to endure the pain, not let himself cry out.

The carriage soon was found, Mu Qinghan then carried Su Bei onto the carriage.

After getting in, Su Bei pushed Mu Qinghan away, and found a cushion and slipped it under his bottom.

The carriage was on a smooth ride, but it was also a torment for Su Bei.

Beads of sweat were oozing over his forehead.

In fact, Mu Qinghan was also crystal clear how much pains Su Bei was suffering.

But Su Bei still could bear with it, which really kind of impressed him.

748 spoke again. “Captivating bar increased by 3%, current progress 19%.”

In order to divert his own attention, Su Bei asked the system, “So, what is the apple of Eden?”

748 may also feel a little guilty, so he answered Su Bei, “Desire. The host should have heard the story.”

Su Bei thought for a while and realized that 748 told the story of Adam and Eve.

He smiled a little. It was really vivid.

44. Ancient Times: Getting Sick

Translator: Guy Gone Bad

All of a sudden, the carriage went through a bumpy road, Su Bei’s face immediately turned all white.

Without a reason, Mu Qinghan directly pulled Su Bei into his arms.

It felt much better to sit on a meat mat. So Su Bei didn’t struggle.

Mu Qinghan’s expression looked a bit complicated, but still he didn’t say a word.

But the bumpy road always made Su Bei lean toward Mu Qinghan, so Mu Qinghan could feel Su Bei’s skin now and then.

Last night’s thing flashed in Mu Qinghan’s mind again, the familiar touch let him have some inexplicable impulse.

Mu Qinghan finally started to look at this young emperor in a whole new way.

A pair of peach eyes seemed to be sentimental, but in fact ruthless.

His figure was long, far from the gentleness of a woman, but unluckily, last night he was crazy for his body.

Mu Qinghan hang his eyebrows, covering the mood swing in the eyes.

Soon they arrived at the imperial palace. Su Bei got up, but suddenly the huge pains made his whole body stiffened.

Mu Qinghan’s mocking sounded again, “Now that Your Majesty is sick, don’t try to play tough.”

Su Bei wore a wooden face, “Then you carry me down.”

Don’t mention face before Su Bei. The huge pain let him become shameless.

Mu Qinghan was dumbfounded, but still held Su Bei up and got off the carriage.

This scene shocked everyone in the imperial palace, but also let them have new gossip to chew.

It seemed that the relationship between the regent and the emperor was not so bad. They had to go back to report to their own masters.

Yes, a lot of people in the palace were planted in by people with their own selfish motives, and no one was really loyal.

Su Bei secretly thought to himself. Maybe he could use Mu Qinghan to establish his own credibility. Nice choice!

Mu Qinghan was looking at the calculating Su Bei, suddenly understood something.

It was true that this throne was being coveted by many wolves and leopards, and those people already couldn’t wait.

So in order to secure his position, Su Bei even sacrificed his own body?

That was a big heart!

Su Bei did not go to Lu Jinyao’s place, because he felt awful.

Perhaps because Mu Qinghan did not know about how to have coitus with a man, and last night he was also too violent, directly making Su Bei fall ill.

Yaoyao sat before Su Bei’s bed, looking at him with worries, “I will call the imperial physician for you, Your Majesty, don’t hang in there.”

Burning dazed, Su Bei shook his head, “Don’t.”

If the imperial physician saw the wound on his body, it would be disastrous.

But Yaoyao couldn’t just wait, doing nothing. She directly got up, ready to go to call in the imperial physician.

Su Bei hurriedly pulled Yaoyao. Because the movement was too dramatic, his whole chest got exposed.

Yaoyao looked at Su Bei’s ‘messy’ chest, jaws dropped.

Although she and Su Bei had never had sex, but some things, she still knew.

This was clearly…

Associating with the scene today Mu Qinghan carrying Su Bei off the carriage, Yaoyao suddenly had a bad feeling.

She asked in a trembling voice. “Your Majesty, are you and that Mu Qinghan…”

The last few words, Yaoyao really couldn’t speak them out, tears already trickling down her cheeks

Su Bei pulled his clothes calmly, saying with a hoarse voice, “No, you overthink things. Don’t cry. I am fine.”

Yaoyao clenched her fists and her hatred toward Mu Qinghan grew denser.

She turned her head sideways, not to let Su Bei see her tears.

In fact, Su Bei was a bit touched. It seemed this Yaoyoa had always been caring about this emperor.

Unfortunately, the emperor could no longer feel it.

Su Bei suddenly did not want to let such a good girl to end up so miserably as in the plot.

His condition was getting more serious and his consciousness turned a little clouded.

45. Ancient Times: Threatening from the Regent

Translator: Guy Gone Bad

Yaoyao was at a loss and didn’t know what to do.

In the regent’s mansion, Mu Qinghan was quietly listening to the report of a subordinate, slightly frowning, “You mean His Majesty is seriously ill?”

His subordinate answered, “Yes, my lord, and His Majesty also does not allow Yaoyao to call in the imperial physician.”

Mu Qinghan clenched his fists, the smile at the corner of his mouth slightly froze.

What the hell is going on with Su Beo? He is already so ill. Why not ask for an imperial physician?

Suddenly he thought of something, and his smile grew fainter.

Su Bei seemed not to let the imperial physician find something.

Mu Qinghan hang his eyebrows, the smile on the face grew a bit cold. Since he didn’t need a doctor, then let him bear with it.

Su Bei was suffering, feeling hot and cold, and some part of his body was severely painful.

He asked the system in a trance, “748, does it mean the mission fails if I die?”

748’s characteristic mechanical sound was heard, “Hmm.”

Su Bei asked, “Is it the mission more important or the emperor’s dignity?”

This time the system did not answer him. He did not know whether he heard it or not.

In a trance, Su Bei heard that Mu Qinghan was threatening someone, “If you can’t cure His Majesty, I’m gonna skin you!”

Su Bei quipped, “Still so villainous.”

As Mu Qinghan who brought the imperial physician here heard those words, his face grew horrible.

He glanced at the jittering imperial physician, saying with a smile, “And everything you see today, remember keeping it to yourself.”

The imperial physician nodded again and again.

He wiped off the cold sweat from his forehead, put down his medicine chest and began to make a diagnosis for His Majesty.

His hands trembled with Mu Qinghan around.

When seeing those injuries on Su Bei’s body, he was more shaken than ever.

The imperial physician was shocked. So it turned out His Majesty and the regent were in such kind of relationship?

He just made the diagnosis briefly, and then, trembling, said to Mu Qinghan, “His Majesty is suffering from a cold. I will give a prescription.”

After saying those words, the imperial physician made a stop and continued, “A man’s body is not supposed to be the bearing side, so don’t be so…violent.”

“It’s better to clean it up after doing it.”

The physician looked at the cold expression on Mu Qinghan’s face and was relieved to make sure that he did not mean to be hard on him.

He pulled out a medicine jar from the medicine chest and handed it to Mu Qinghan. “Apply this on the wound. It will get better soon.”

Mu Qinghan took the jar, waved his hand, “Go and make the prescription.”

The imperial physician hurried away like he was given amnesty.

Mu Qinghan sat to the bedside, looking a bit complicated.

The mechanical sound of 748 sounded in the chaotic mind of Su Bei, “Captivating bar increased by 10%, current progress 29%.”

Su Bei murmured, “Mu Qinghan is really a stingy man.”

Mu Qinghan closed his eyes, little by little to untie the clothes of Su Bei, the injury in the chest was really kind of serious.

He applied the ointment for Su Bei without saying a word. Su Bei’s smooth and delicate skin burst into bloom at the tip of Mu Qinghan’s finger.

The cold temperature of the ointment made Su Bei shrink.

Mu Qinghan tucked him in the quilt.

Little by little he helped Su Bei apply the ointment, but when it came to the last place, he stopped.

It was a cool night, and the yellow light of the candle shone on Mu Qinghan’s cold side face.

A long time had passed before he went on applying it for Su Bei.

Su Bei who already fell asleep had a nightmare. In it, Mu Qinghan was like a fierce beast, devouring him into the abdomen.

When he woke up, it was already the next morning.

Yaoyao happened to walk in with the medicine.

Su Hei’s heart had a jolt, “You called the imperial physician?”