Being the Wife of a Fluffy Creature [Quick Transmigration] - Chapter 24.1

Chapter 24.1: The First World (24)

“Does silence represent acceptance or rejection, Xiao Yao?”

Wu Shiyi stepped into the bedroom. The warm yellow light shone on his face, and his posture was languid, making it hard to feel guarded.

Only those eyes, which were usually bright and clear, were now filled with desire.

The gap between the Wu Shiyi faked by the Mayor and the real one was vast. He viewed human nature too simply and had never bothered to truly understand the person that was Wu Shiyi.

Wu Yao faintly felt that the Mayor was a bit weird, but he couldn’t pinpoint exactly where the weirdness lay.

He was definitely not a stupid person, so why did he sometimes make such low-level mistakes?

After a long silence, Wu Shiyi was the first to move.

He gave a bitter smile, “You’re rejecting me, Xiao Yao. I want to know why. I’m a person now, not a dog. What concerns do you still have?”

Wu Yao sighed, “Paradise Island is full of hidden dangers. The Mayor could strike at you or me at any time. In times like this, how could I have the leisure to fall in love?”

“These two things don’t affect each other.”

“Sorry, I’m the kind of scumbag who would push a policeman out to block a monster and steal bread from a child when the apocalypse hits. I’m not suited for dating.”

“Xiao Yao, you’re so gentle, even your rejection is so tactful. A scumbag never says they’re a scumbag; you’re very cute when you’re being stubborn but soft-hearted.”

Wu Shiyi picked up Wu Yao’s dripping long hair and bowed his head to take a deep breath, “The same scent as before, so fragrant…”

The system, which had been angry, burst out laughing, “Hahaha! Brother, you’re so fragrant! Is he going to say next: ‘Man, you’re playing with fire! Little cutie, hmph, don’t try to play hard to get with me, you’ll be mine sooner or later…'”

“Shut up.”

“Tch.”

One person disgusting Wu Yao was enough.

Those words were too inconsistent with Wu Shiyi’s character; the Mayor couldn’t say them. What he wanted to play was an overbearing puppy, not an overbearing CEO.

To make the forced plotline seem reasonable, the Mayor arranged a lot of literary scenes.

Life has no fast-forward button; one can’t jump straight to the action scenes, so Wu Yao could only cooperate with his performance.

Having worked for a long time, he had seen all kinds of idiotic bosses. Logically, he should be unperturbed right now. But looking at the man in front of him, he felt inexplicably nauseous.

Perhaps it was because the Mayor was wearing Wu Shiyi’s face.

The man took the hairdryer to help him dry his hair, his fingertips passing through the strands from time to time, ambiguously caressing his neck.

The long and stinking literary scenes made Wu Yao a bit distracted. If it were the real Wu Shiyi, how would he confess?

He would put on his best clothes, hold a large bouquet of flowers, and then cautiously tell him, “I like you.”

Or he would handwrite a love letter and place it by his bedside with breakfast. The letter would say, “If you accept, please knock on my bedroom door. If you don’t, I hope you pretend you didn’t see it; I want to continue being friends with you.”

There were probably other ways.

In any case, it would definitely not be like the Mayor, pressing him step by step and acting greasy all over him.

Wu Shiyi put down the hairdryer and tried to hug Wu Yao from behind. The other party moved as if he had eyes in the back of his head, dodging him.

For as long as he had been drying the hair, he had been verbally harassing him. Now, the long-haired man’s face had darkened.

“You’re drunk, Wu Shiyi. There’s no need for us to continue talking. I won’t keep you tonight. I want to rest; please leave.”

Wu Yao put on his glasses and issued an order for the guest to leave.

This was the result the Mayor wanted, but it was far from enough.

Only by having Wu Yao and Wu Shiyi completely break up would there be a chance to change Wu Yao’s stance.

Whether Wu Yao was smart or beautiful didn’t matter. The Mayor only knew he was special and that his value hadn’t been truly developed yet.

He wanted Wu Yao to join his plan and be used by him, before finally getting rid of him.

Wu Yao had already faintly touched upon the truth; he was a time bomb. Everyone on the island could live, but he must die.

Wu Yao’s tone grew colder, seemingly reaching his limit, “Don’t stand there in front of me. Get out!”

Wu Shiyi blocked the bathroom door, grabbed his shoulders, and pinned him against the wall.

Unable to control himself, he lowered his head to kiss him. Wu Yao turned his head to avoid it and kicked his knee hard, “I said stay away from me, get out!”

Failing the forced kiss, the man’s breathing became even more ragged, and his eyes began to turn red.

“Wu Yao, if you don’t like me, why did you save me and take me in! We are neither kith nor kin, yet you were so good to me. You always slept beside me defenselessly and even took off your clothes to let me smell you. You did so many things that cause misunderstandings, and now you want to dismiss me with a single sentence?”

“I made it very clear to you in the last cycle!”

“Clear? Are you like this with other men, too? I remember every time you blushed in front of me; do you dare say you don’t have the slightest feeling for me!”

Wu Yao froze and raised his hand to touch his face.

He thought he was the only one who knew about the “old deer” coming back to life. He didn’t expect his face to be so unhelpful as to blush secretly. The thick skin he had honed over years of work was truly useless.

The silly dog had handsome features and clean eyes; he even had little dimples when he smiled. Even the system’s old face turned red because of him, so wasn’t it normal for Wu Yao to be moved?

Liking someone and appreciating them are two different things. He was straight and couldn’t possibly like a gay dog.

Wu Shiyi gnashed his teeth, “Why are you silent again?”

“You’re very irrational right now; there’s nothing to say to you. This is the last chance. If you don’t let go, I’m really going to get angry.”

“I really like you, please give me a chance. Xiao Yao.”

“Don’t act like a crazy drunk. Get out!”

Before Wu Yao could finish his sentence, Wu Shiyi suddenly let out a low growl like a beast.

He grabbed Wu Yao’s wrist with one hand to hold him firmly and grabbed his collar with the other, ripping his silk pajamas to shreds.

The black fabric fluttered to the tiled floor, and his fair chest was exposed to the air.

The long-haired man seemed startled. When he spoke again, his voice was shaking with anger, “Wu Shiyi!”

This was exactly the reaction the Mayor wanted.

Every word he said and every action he took from now on would be blamed on Wu Shiyi by Wu Yao.

Sleeping is such a simple and harmless thing, yet people always take it so seriously, linking it to things like personality and dignity.

In this regard, Wu Yao had also fallen into the cliché, just like those ordinary people.

The Mayor never cared about these things. Tonight, it would be best if Wu Yao couldn’t beat him, allowing him to humiliate him thoroughly.

From struggling to pleading, unable to resist and unable to escape, suffering humiliation while being fully awake.

Only the deepest despair can trigger the strongest hatred. People whose self-esteem has been crushed and whose pride has been broken are easier to control.

Even if he could fight back, it didn’t matter; the seeds of hatred had been sown and would eventually sprout.

He lifted Wu Yao’s chin, admiring his shocked expression.

Wu Yao forcibly suppressed the corners of his mouth, his breathing trembling with anticipation.

His knee slammed into the man’s lower abdomen. At the moment he let go, Wu Yao backhandedly snatched the hairdryer and smashed it hard against the man’s face.

He had waited all day, and finally, the main course was served!

The competition for the Paradise Island Mayor election was fierce. On the surface, there were still twelve candidates, but in reality, only eight remained.

Candidate No. 1 drowned while snorkeling, No. 2 committed suicide due to an emotional dispute, and No. 3 and No. 4 were missing.

Insiders felt that the position of Mayor was “poisonous”—whoever competed for it would meet with an accident.

Perhaps in the end, all the candidates would die, and they would have to just push someone randomly into the position.

The two bodyguards standing outside the door looked at each other. Sounds of fighting and crashing had been coming from inside the room, and they hesitated over whether to go in.

One of them whispered, “That sounded like a vase breaking just now.”

“Mr. Wu said earlier that whatever noise we hear tonight, we should pretend to be deaf.”

Recalling the tenant he saw this afternoon, the man hissed, “The guy in this room looks like a celebrity. I thought the boss’s eyes were weird when he looked at him before; could he be…”

“You guessed right. He even has a condom in his pocket. That guy is better looking than average, but he’s still a man. Rich people can find any beauty they want; why are they into this?”

The bodyguard frowned, “Forced?”

“Definitely. If that pretty boy were willing, would they be fighting like this?”

“Should we call the police?”

“Tch. It’s a critical time for the election. If this kind of scandal breaks out, the boss is ruined. Do you think he’ll kill you? The water here is deep; when working for rich people, you have to learn to play dumb.”

A muffled groan of pain came from inside. The middle-aged bodyguard held down his new young colleague and advised him earnestly, “If you really feel sorry for him, wait until the boss leaves tomorrow morning and sneak over. See if this person is badly injured and if he can go to the hospital himself.”

He pressed his ear to the door to listen, “Hey, don’t say another word—this pretty boy can really put up a fight. They’ve been at it for over twenty minutes and he hasn’t given in yet.”

Wu Yao also felt the Mayor was quite resilient; after being held down and beaten for so long, he could still crawl back up.

He delivered a kick to the chest, sending Wu Shiyi staggering two steps back into the wall. Wu Yao followed up with a spinning sweep toward the man’s face.

Wu Shiyi immediately dodged, rolled on the floor, and grabbed a glass shard to slash at Wu Yao’s ankle. Taking advantage of the moment Wu Yao dodged, he quickly scrambled up and stabbed the glass shard toward Wu Yao’s right eye.

Wu Yao turned sideways to avoid it and used his palm to chop at the man’s neck, a small blade appearing between his fingers at some point.

This was something he had snatched at the beginning of the fight. Wu Shiyi had been kicked away by him and definitely couldn’t see his movements.

Now he was stuck in the other party’s blind spot and intentionally covered it with his fingers. Logically, Wu Shiyi didn’t know he had a blade and should have raised his hand to block this strike, yet he chose to dodge instead.

How did he see it?

Did he have eyes in the back of his head?

Thinking didn’t affect Wu Yao’s fighting. Wu Yao saw the opportunity, grabbed the man’s wrist, and twisted it hard. With a “crack,” the joint dislocated, and the man was forced to drop the glass shard.

A scream of pain never came; Wu Shiyi only let out a heavy breath.

The system winced as it watched, “You both are ruthless—one can fight, and the other can take a beating.”

“He and I are not the same. You’re thinking too highly of me by putting us together.”

Dodging the swung fist, Wu Yao raised his leg to block the man’s attack. Using the exchange of blows, he moved behind the other party and strangled his neck forcefully, while the other hand held the blade and stabbed hard toward the eye.

Wu Shiyi used an elbow strike to break free from Wu Yao’s restraint. Before he could act, he was knocked down by Wu Yao again.

He wanted to raise his hand to block, but his movement was a step too slow. Wu Yao smashed a full-force punch into his face. Blood splattered, and he instantly lost his ability to move.

A flurry of punches fell on his abdomen, enough to beat a person to death. The man’s body convulsed as he kept spitting out blood.

Wu Yao touched the strangulation marks on his neck and gave a cold sneer.

Twenty minutes ago, the Mayor, wanting to throw dirt on Wu Shiyi, strangled his neck and tore his clothes, trying to play at rape. Now, the Mayor was beaten paralyzed on the ground, unable to say another disgusting word.

Moderate exercise truly makes one feel pleasant. It was just a pity about the silly dog’s handsome face, which now looked like a pig’s head from the beating.

The play had to continue. Wu Yao grabbed the man’s collar and pulled him up.

“Can you listen to my words now? I said I don’t like you! Wu Shiyi, how could you do such a thing? I treated you as a friend, yet you look at me with those eyes. It’s truly disgusting.”

“Glaring at me? You still have the face to glare at me? I saved your life, gave you a place to stay, and provided you with food and drink. It turns out my helping you was my mistake; I should have just watched you die back then!”

Wu Yao’s face was grim. He gritted his teeth and remained silent for a long while. “You were more likeable when you were a dog; at least a dog wouldn’t say those filthy things. You’ve really disappointed me, Wu Shiyi. I regret saving you.”

The man’s face was covered in blood. He gritted his teeth and didn’t make a sound.

Wu Yao thought for a moment, asked the system for a piece of large intestine, pulled it out from his pants pocket, and strangled it around the man’s neck.

The man didn’t resist, staring blankly at his pants pocket.

The system was confused, “Are you going to kill him?”

Wu Yao shook his head and was about to answer when the security door was suddenly kicked open. The voices of the two bodyguards arguing in low tones rang out from outside.

“Brother, don’t stop me. There’s no noise inside anymore; I can’t just watch him harm someone!”

“You’re crazy! You’re neither kith nor kin with that tourist, why are you getting involved!”

“But he just came here for a vacation. What did he do wrong to suffer such… a… thing…”

Seeing the scene inside the room, both of them froze at the same time.

After a full half-minute, the young bodyguard murmured, “In… intestines?”

The middle-aged bodyguard, his face pale, pushed him, “We’re finished, we’re finished. This pretty boy fights so ruthlessly, he even pulled out someone’s intestines. Why are you still standing there! The boss has run into a tough nut, hurry up and save him!”

District B specifically catered to tourists, so its basic facilities were inadequate. The small in-house clinic could only treat simple illnesses for tourists and couldn’t handle the injuries of the two of them.

Two ambulances arrived and took Wu Yao and the Mayor to the best hospital in District C.

Wu Yao’s appearance looked tragic, but in reality, he only suffered superficial injuries. Unlike the Mayor, whose internal organs were damaged and several bones were broken—and that face was definitely ruined.

Anyone with clear eyes could see that Wu Yao had the upper hand, but every doctor and nurse who passed by looked at him with eyes full of sympathy and admiration.

The system asked hesitantly, “So weird. Did the story of you strangling someone with an intestine spread to the hospital?”

“Not sure, doesn’t matter. But the news of me brutally beating a rapist has definitely spread. In their eyes, Wu Shiyi is a tall and strong scumbag, while I am a thin and fragile poor thing who must have fought to the death to luckily win.”

Whether the two bodyguards finally barged in or not, the scandal of the 12th candidate’s attempted rape of a tourist would spread.

Most likely by tomorrow morning, everyone on Paradise Island would know that Wu Shiyi was a rapist with a human face but a beast’s heart.

Wu Yao’s name would also be in the news. He estimated that the media would come to the hospital for interviews, repeatedly tearing open his wounds and forcing him to recall what happened last night.

In this way, the Mayor’s goal of completely splitting Wu Yao and Wu Shiyi was achieved.

Right now, the real Wu Shiyi hadn’t appeared yet, and the Mayor hadn’t made the next move. Acting rashly would only reveal flaws.

Wu Yao lowered his eyes and thought for a long while, feeling that he should take a good rest for a while.

The little ball of light wanted to make more money and had been working hard to assist Wu Yao. It was currently holding colorful notes and recording information seriously.

“I still don’t understand why the Mayor must split you up.”

“Shiyi is a candidate and can move freely throughout Paradise Island. My memory won’t disappear with the cycle. If Shiyi and I join forces, sooner or later we will uncover the secrets the Mayor is trying his best to hide.”

In previous cycles, Wu Yao hadn’t transmigrated here, so naturally, he wouldn’t have come into contact with Wu Shiyi. The Mayor had the leisure to turn Wu Shiyi into a dog and slowly torture him.

Having suffered a loss in the last cycle, the Mayor caught the confused Wu Shiyi at the very beginning of this one. He hid and controlled him, then disguised himself as him to come and rape Wu Yao.

Even if Wu Shiyi were to escape one day, his life would be ruined. Everyone would take him for a rapist, and the only person who would have believed him, Wu Yao, also hated him to death.

Even dogs have a chance to roam, but he would be reviled everywhere he went.

The system didn’t understand why the Mayor targeted Wu Shiyi so much—was there some grudge between the two?

Wu Yao suddenly realized its thoughts were very simple.

After a few clashes, one could see that the Mayor was a person who prioritized profit. Every action he took and every word he said was for his own plan.

He didn’t think the Mayor hated or disliked Wu Shiyi, nor did he believe the Mayor had the slightest special feeling for himself. Even though an hour ago, the Mayor was still saying he loved him while forcibly pulling at his pajama pants.

Wu Yao felt a bit sentimental, “He’s truly a qualified villain. If I hadn’t changed jobs, I’d probably be working as a lackey for the Mayor right now.”

The system asked curiously, “What did you usually do at your previous job?”

“Theoretically, it was helping villains with murder, arson, robbery, and rape. But my system at the time was a black-hearted one and didn’t pay me. I never work for free; if there’s no money, don’t expect me to work.”

Bored, Wu Yao casually picked up a black pen and drew a small dog head on the bandage.

“Oh… but I remember you said you often worked as an undercover agent, secretly passing messages to the good guys. Why?”

“That was doing charity—accumulating hidden merit for myself, striving for prosperity and wealth in my next life.”

“Company employees can freely choose the world they reincarnate into before they die; there’s no need to accumulate hidden merit.”

Wu Yao snorted, “Why are you so talkative?”

Just as Wu Yao had anticipated, the news of the 12th candidate’s attempted rape soon spread throughout Paradise Island.

By noon, more news claimed that Wu Shiyi, who was originally being treated at the District C hospital, had been transferred to District A due to the severity of his injuries. Midway, they encountered a car hijacking by the “Truth Society,” who killed the driver and medical staff and rescued Wu Shiyi.

Unlike the previous round, the Truth Society was recognized as an evil cult from the very beginning. Since Wu Shiyi could mix with them, he must be a lunatic as well.

Inside a deserted sewer in District C, a woman lifted a manhole cover and jumped down, her face holding a bit of sympathy, “Brother Yi, you’d better wear a mask when you go out. Everyone is saying you’re a rapist now.”

In a nearby corner, a man wearing a black trench coat was treating a companion’s wound.

He turned his head in confusion, “Rape? Me?”

“Yeah. One doesn’t even need to think to know Adam did it. To think he could dump such a ridiculous pot of filth on your head—the person who cooperated with him to frame you is truly disgusting.”

The woman pulled a stolen newspaper from her clothes, spread it out, and handed it to him.

Wu Shiyi narrowed his eyes and looked, “That tourist is hospitalized? Are his injuries serious?”

“My dear big brother, is that the point! The two of them are clearly in league; why do you care if he lives or dies!”

“The other party is a tourist; there’s no reason to harm me. He might have just been deceived by Adam.”

“Maybe Adam gave him money. Money makes the world go round.”