Chapter 127

127 BAD PEOPLE, ANNOYING PEOPLE

Bai Renshu wasn’t even his real brother. Apart from that fact, he also knew that Bai Renshu hated him very much.

When the two of them met for the first time in the court meeting held in the Rongyao Imperial Palace, the man didn’t even bother to glance at him even if they were standing next to each other. Bai Renshu treated him like a pest, and his face was probably just a pain in the eye.

Even when he came to the man to borrow the keys to Wenxue Pavilion, the older man deliberately sang an unpleasant song in front of him using his terrible voice.

The white-haired man continued to look down on him, and Bai Chen shouldn’t feel any connection to the man. However, the moment he learned the death information brought by the Black Death, he suddenly felt a pinch in his heart.

Bai Renshu hated him for some reason, and somehow he couldn’t hate the man because he had no reason for that. That was why he felt sad when he heard the news of the death.

“You don’t like it when your brother dies?” Wu Jinhai calmly questioned the shorter man after hearing how the man blamed him.

Bai Chen had indeed blamed him after the two of them had seen the Black Death, and Bai Chen’s pair of blue eyes were filled with hostility when he condemned the taller man.

“Bai Renshu is my brother. Of course, I don’t like it if he dies!” Without hesitation, the Werewolf Prince answered the question.

It seemed Bai Chen was angrier after seeing how Wu Jinhai was able to stay calm in this situation, but the masked man only sneered when he heard the shorter man’s answer. “Are you sure you wouldn’t like it if your brother died?” He asked again. “Don’t you know that you will become the Crown Prince of Dong Lang if Bai Renshu dies? You don’t want to usurp the position?”

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“...” This time, Bai Chen fell silent after hearing the masked man’s questions.

Bai Chen had to admit that he was too emotional to the point that he had forgotten his ultimate goal after transmigrating into this world. He only remembered that Bai Renshu was the brother of the real Bai Chen in this world, and that was why he would feel sad if that man died in the forest.

He had a sister in his previous life, and he thought that it would be painful to lose a sibling, and that was why he was being controlled by his emotions just now.

Therefore, Wu Jinhai’s words were like a hard slap to him. Because of those words, he finally remembered his main goal in this world, and his goal was to become the Dong Lang Emperor.

On the other hand, Wu Jinhai was carefully observing Bai Chen’s expression from the two holes of the golden mask, and he knew that the man was troubled now.

Taking a deep breath, Wu Jinhai chose to tell the man the truth, “Your brother is still alive.”

Wu Jinhai suddenly spoke again, and Bai Chen turned his head towards the man after hearing the information. “What? Bai Renshu is still alive? How did you know about that?” He asked the man in red.

Nodding his head, Wu Jinhai gave a verbal reply, “I can still feel his aura, so I believe he is still alive now. You don’t have to worry about him.”

Bai Chen didn’t even know how Wu Jinhai could sense Bai Renshu’s aura, but he didn’t focus on the information because he was more interested in other matters.

“You said Bai Renshu was still alive, but the Black Death suddenly appeared from the trees and flew in the dark sky. So, someone was killed, right? Was... Shao Meihui killed?” Bai Chen asked again when he could draw another conclusion from the situation.

Bai Chen had just voiced his analysis, and when Wu Jinhai remained silent instead of giving him confirmation, he knew that he had made an accurate guess.

He suddenly couldn’t feel his legs as he nearly fell to the ground. He could see how Wu Jinhai was almost helping him, but he glared at the man to tell the man to stop.

Perhaps he was quite happy after learning that Bai Renshu was still alive, but he once again felt bad when he learned that Shao Meihui had died. It wasn’t that he had developed feelings for the girl from the Black Werewolf Clan, but he just felt bad for her.

He still remembered how the young girl had been so brave when she was fighting the snake beast earlier. To him who had no fighting ability, seeing the girl effortlessly jumping up and down while dancing with her sword was like watching an extraordinary show.

He knew that the girl had a great desire to get out of the forest alive, and that was why she fought the beast with all her might.

He knew that the girl didn’t like him, but he believed that it was only because of the marriage arranged by their parents. He still believed that the girl was not a bad person, but she was killed in the forest when she was with the person she loved the most.

“You said you didn’t want to steal the spotlight from Bai Renshu so you refused to help them earlier, right? But Bai Renshu couldn’t even save his lover, and he couldn’t be a hero either. Why didn’t you just help them earlier? I don’t care if you don’t want to be a hero, but you should have helped them earlier,” Bai Chen muttered as he continued to look down at the ground.

His grip on Wu Jiang tightened as if his life depended on it, and perhaps it was true that he could only rely on the sword because Wu Jinhai was not someone he could trust.

Wu Jinhai could easily abandon Bai Renshu and Shao Meihui when they were in danger, so the man could probably do the same to him. Bai Chen inwardly laughed at himself because he almost believed that Wu Jinhai wasn’t a bad person.

“I want to go back to check on Bai Renshu’s situation,” Bai Chen suddenly straightened up before looking back at the path he had walked with Wu Jinhai earlier.

“What?” Wu Jinhai looked taken aback by his decision. “You don’t need to do that because Bai Renshu can handle the situation well, Bai Chen! Don’t be stupid!”

Wu Jinhai dared to raise his voice while lecturing him, and he even called him stupid. It caused Bai Chen to sneer at the man, “You also said that Bai Renshu would have been able to handle the situation earlier, but Shao Meihui was eventually killed. I know that I’m just a weak werewolf, but at least I won’t regret it if I help him.”

It seemed that Wu Jinhai wouldn’t be able to change Bai Chen’s mind because the man was too stubborn, but before the man could take a step away from him, he gritted his teeth as he said, “You don’t even know whether those people have bad intentions for you or not, but you still want to help them?”

Bai Chen finally turned to Wu Jinhai after hearing the man’s question. “What do you mean?” He asked back. “I know Bai Renshu doesn’t like me, but he didn’t do anything to hurt me before, and what bad intentions does he have for me?”

Bai Chen tried to draw a line between bad people and annoying people. In his eyes, Bai Renshu was annoying, but that didn’t mean the man was a bad person who would try to harm him.

Now Wu Jinhai was indirectly telling him that Bai Renshu might have bad intentions for him, and he didn’t know whether to believe it or not.

“Bai Renshu didn’t hurt you now, but what if he hurt your mother all those years ago?”

Bai Chen was dumbfounded after hearing Wu Jinhai’s next question. He still remembered that he had a mission from the system to find the real culprit that had killed Bai Chen’s mother, but he had almost forgotten it because he had been busy trying to get out of the forest alive all day.

He didn’t try to find more clues about the woman’s death, and he didn’t make any progress on the mission the system had given him about three weeks ago.

Now Wu Jinhai suddenly brought up the topic of Bai Chen’s mother, and he couldn’t help but want to know more. “Do you know something about my mother’s death?” He asked the man as that conclusion crossed his mind.

Unfortunately, Wu Jinhai did not immediately answer his question, and instead, the man continued to stare at him through the two holes of the mask. Suddenly, the previously brown irises turned into golden irises that shone so brightly, and the light shifted to Bai Chen’s blue irises before Bai Chen fell unconscious in Wu Jinhai’s arms.