System, You Didn't Say the Villain Can Read Minds! - Chapter 46

Chapter 46

◎Master, I Love You.◎

Aphrodisiacs are usually given by people with ulterior motives to the targets they covet. Who would give it to themselves?

However, how could Yun Wenzhou possibly drug her own Master?

If she did that, she would fall into the trap of the Heart Devil and would never be able to return to the Righteous Path.

She had already prepared an excuse before taking the drug: “Lustrous Fruit, has pain-relieving effects. Dragon Saliva Incense, has the effect of promoting Qi and blood circulation. Using the neutral Red Moon Flower as a medicinal guide, refining them into a pill, taking it can sustain healing… Is Master criticizing me for taking shortcuts?”

Mo Jiu: “…”

It’s good to apply knowledge flexibly, but how dare she take a new drug with unverified actual effects directly!

Yun Wenzhou looked at her Master with blurred eyes. Hearing this inner voice, the smile on her lips held a hint of self-mockery.

Master didn’t even suspect my intentions.

Master, you are so kind. You could be tricked by a bad woman.

Mo Jiu “Tsk’d,” turned and went back to the room, intending to find an antidote for Yun Wenzhou.

However, the System spoke up mercilessly: OOC warning! A disciple so reckless deserves punishment. Are you going to keep her until the New Year without punishing her? Mission assigned: “How Can I Have Such an Unreasonable Disciple,” give her an unforgettable punishment! Time limit: one shichen. Mission failure will deduct 1,000 reward points.

Mo Jiu cursed a string of obscenities in her mind. Finally, for the sake of the reward points, she came out with the dragon tendon whip.

“It seems you are ready to be whipped a hundred times by me,” she said coldly. With a flick of her hand, Wood Element spiritual energy stimulated the ground. Several vines shot up, hoisting the disheveled Yun Wenzhou into the air.

Yun Wenzhou’s body struggled lightly. Her weak and sore legs instinctively clamped together, and her gasps were much heavier than before.

Mo Jiu forced herself to ignore this. She came behind her and whipped her, breaking the thin inner garment!

With a “slap,” the tough whip tore the light fabric, revealing the fair skin underneath, leaving a shocking red welt on it.

The sound Yun Wenzhou made was indescribable. In short, it made Mo Jiu want to cover her ears.

“You use medicine randomly without knowing its effects. Do you want to die? Then I’ll grant your wish!” Mo Jiu cursed as she struck the second whip.

This time it’s an aphrodisiac, next time it’s poison?

Just because you have high talent, you mess around. Amazing!

Mo Jiu was angry about two things at once.

One was Yun Wenzhou’s reckless use of medicine, joking with her own body.

The second was that Yun Wenzhou, who had only learned to refine Grade Two Bruise-Healing Pills yesterday, managed to refine a Grade Four Blood Lust Incense for herself today. Her talent was genuinely high, but talent had to be used in the right place. What kind of mess was it to take an aphrodisiac herself?

“If you take medicine recklessly again, I’ll break your legs!”

“Slap!”

Mo Jiu accidentally used too much force with this whip. Yun Wenzhou’s body clearly twitched, and her cry sounded somewhat miserable.

Although Mo Jiu felt distressed, she also felt a little better—Don’t use her appearance and her voice to make that sound.

The Vessel Forging Scripture requires twenty-five whips for the first round, thirty-six for the second, forty-nine for the third, sixty-four for the fourth, and eighty-one for the final round.

She was supposed to strike thirty-six times today.

But every whip was torture for both of them. By the tenth whip, Mo Jiu’s body also felt somewhat abnormal.

She needed an antidote too.

“Damn it!” She forcefully struck the eleventh whip.

“You truly deserve to die!” The twelfth whip.

“Why!” The thirteenth whip.

Why must you test me like this…

“I wish I could kill you!” The fourteenth whip.

Please, let me go…

The words she spoke contradicted her inner thoughts. On one side was gradually losing control anger, and on the other was humble pleading.

Yun Wenzhou’s consciousness cleared slightly because of this strange internal split. She could feel that Master’s whipping technique today lacked the precision of the previous day, both in position and force.

Almost every whip was heavier than the day before. It was genuine punishment.

It was also punishment for Master herself.

It seemed less like she was being seduced and more like she was being provoked.

Why?

As the next whip landed, Yun Wenzhou clenched her teeth, not uttering a sound.

She realized her cries were provoking Master.

Master had heard a similar sound before, and that sound… hurt her?

Her intention was not to continue provoking Master, yet because she didn’t cry out, Master panicked instead.

Why is she silent? Did she pass out?

Mo Jiu rushed to Yun Wenzhou’s front.

Yun Wenzhou hurriedly lowered her gaze, not daring to meet her Master’s eyes.

The beauty, with her clothes in disarray, was firmly restrained by vines at her arms and ankles. Due to the aphrodisiac and the pain, she was sweating profusely. Her skin showed an abnormal redness. Strands of hair were stuck to her face with sweat. Her lips were slightly parted, and she was gasping constantly.

Although her condition wasn’t good, she was still conscious.

Suddenly, Yun Wenzhou tentatively spoke: “Master, is there something wrong with the medicine I took?”

Asking the obvious.

“Isn’t it a little late to realize that now?” Mo Jiu expressionlessly pinched her chin, forcing her to meet her eyes.

In fact, she was forcing herself to meet her eyes.

How is this cursed woman so much like her?

Everywhere…

Her eyes, in their lowering and raising, clearly showed she was scheming something, yet she was also genuinely pleading for something from her.

Mo Jiu felt as if she was seeing Yun Wenzhou again, holding a knife to her own chest, threatening her with her life, while pleading—Jiejie, quickly say you won’t abandon me! Promise me, you won’t abandon me! It’s just one sentence, say it for me! Please! Say it for me!

Yun Wenzhou was very possessive. What she couldn’t have, she wanted to destroy.

But she wouldn’t hurt her. She would only hurt herself.

She wanted to destroy herself.

Deliberately taking an aphrodisiac to seek abuse from her—this was indeed something Yun Wenzhou would do…

But this world’s Yun Wenzhou shouldn’t have the motivation to do so.

“You took the aphrodisiac on purpose,” Mo Jiu decided to test her.

“Yes, because it can relieve pain…” Yun Wenzhou gasped hard. “But I didn’t expect it to turn out like this… Master, I’m so uncomfortable now. I won’t die, will I…”

I’m so uncomfortable, so uncomfortable I feel like I’m dying… Will I really die if this isn’t resolved?

“Master, save me. I don’t want to die. Save me…”

I don’t want to die… Jiejie, please help me, okay?

“Ha.” Mo Jiu laughed out loud.

Mo Jiu: Different world’s Yun Wenzhou, sharing the same template?

The System remained silent. The System pretended to be missing.

“Hahahahaha…” Mo Jiu released Yun Wenzhou’s chin, laughing as she stepped back.

Is the Yun Wenzhou of a parallel world still Yun Wenzhou?

Why must I think about such a painful question?

If I don’t admit that a parallel world’s me is me, then a parallel world’s Yun Wenzhou is naturally not Yun Wenzhou.

But Yun Wenzhou is standing right in front of her, using Yun Wenzhou’s face, Yun Wenzhou’s expression, Yun Wenzhou’s tactics… How can I possibly deny it?

Even the location of the mole on her chest was exactly the same.

Mo Jiu approached Yun Wenzhou with a broken expression, raised her hand to touch her face, sliding down her beautiful cheek, her fingertip brushing past her throat and tracing her collarbone, causing a shiver.

She tried to find any single piece of evidence that the Yun Wenzhou in front of her was not Yun Wenzhou, any trace, just a tiny bit.

But there was none.

It didn’t exist.

Yun Wenzhou was Yun Wenzhou. Even her sensitive spots were exactly the same.

Yun Wenzhou arched her head and gasped under Mo Jiu’s touch, begging while panting: “Master… Master, save me. Please… I won’t dare to do it again… I promise, I won’t take medicine recklessly again…”

Mo Jiu stepped back again, waved her hand to remove the vines restraining Yun Wenzhou, turned around, and left.

She is my disciple. I cannot touch her.

No matter how much I want to… I can’t.

The Yun Wenzhou of the previous world genuinely loved her, and she had feelings for Yun Wenzhou too, so she went along with the situation created by the aphrodisiac.

But what right did the Yun Wenzhou of this world have to ask her to do such a thing?

A bad Master who whipped her and forced her to refine pills right after coming to this world had no right to touch her.

Yun Wenzhou collapsed onto the ground, watching Master’s robe move further away, and gave a self-mocking smile.

It really won’t work?

What won’t work? She clearly wanted to touch me! She’s just limited by the Master-disciple relationship! The Heart Devil refuted!

That’s why it won’t work…

What’s ‘won’t work’ at this point! Give your body to me, let me take over!

“Master!” Yun Wenzhou called out with all her strength.

Mo Jiu paused her steps but did not turn around.

Yun Wenzhou forcefully operated her Water Golden Core. Water vapor lifted her sword, releasing the blade from the scabbard and pointing it at herself.

“Wenzhou has no face to face Master again and can only atone with death!”

“You—” Mo Jiu turned and rushed over, kicking the sword away!

The sudden action stunned Yun Wenzhou on the spot.

Then, the next second, she was carried horizontally off the ground by Mo Jiu, still looking bewildered, and brought into the house.

There was no longer any confusion in Mo Jiu’s movements, because she knew very well that if she left Yun Wenzhou alone, this bastard would really “atone with death”! She was gambling on Mo Jiu’s soft heart!

“Have you had enough of your tantrum?” Mo Jiu tossed her onto her own bed, crooked a finger at the door, and the door closed by itself.

“Master?” Yun Wenzhou blinked in confusion, not understanding why Master suddenly changed her mind.

She tried to hear something in Master’s heart, but only heard reproaches.

If you don’t cherish yourself, how can anyone cherish you?

To put it nicely is being crazy, to put it harshly is being cheap!

Mo Jiu had long seen through Yun Wenzhou’s nature. What possessive villain? Just a humble lapdog.

She would disappear from the world if her beloved didn’t accept her, never leaving herself any room for retreat.

“You like me?” Mo Jiu asked directly.

Yun Wenzhou was momentarily stunned, then shyly looked away: “Master is noble and bright, warm and refined. Wenzhou naturally likes you.”

Noble and bright, warm and refined, me?

Mo Jiu suspected she had mistaken her for someone else: “I whipped you and forced you to refine pills.”

“That was Wenzhou being ignorant and disappointing Master. I deserved the punishment,” Yun Wenzhou replied.

“I also…” Mo Jiu tried to recall other instances of bullying Yun Wenzhou, but couldn’t think of any…

She knew nothing about what this body had done to Yun Wenzhou before. All she could remember were the things she had done to Yun Wenzhou in the previous world.

In the previous world, she was also very harsh to Yun Wenzhou, yet Yun Wenzhou still loved her desperately.

Why?

Did Yun Wenzhou really have a masochistic tendency, loving anyone who abused her?

No, that’s not it.

Deep down, Yun Wenzhou hoped someone would protect and spoil her.

She felt like she was ignoring something… something very crucial…

This information spanned both worlds.

Mo Jiu: Does Yun Wenzhou have a System too?

System: No.

Then why is she always able to find an excuse for the fact that I bullied her, as if she could hear my true deep thoughts?

“Master…” Yun Wenzhou’s voice was weak, and with her remaining consciousness, she lifted the last covering from her body.

“Master…” Yun Wenzhou reached out, grabbed Mo Jiu’s hand, and pressed it against her chest.

She still dared not let her hand touch her most sensitive spot directly.

She was pleading, but also nervous and afraid.

She was playing a high-stakes gamble.

If she won, her wish would be fulfilled.

If she lost, she would have nothing.

Future, dignity, self-respect, and even life—she put everything on the table.

Mo Jiu lowered her eyes. Her fingers moved along her skin, no longer struggling.

Just…

“What do you like about me?” she couldn’t help but ask.

“Master did not strike me with a sword but carried me in. Isn’t that reason enough for me to like you?” Yun Wenzhou suddenly sat up, wrapped her arms around Mo Jiu’s neck, and gently rubbed her ear with her lips. “Please, Master… punish Wenzhou, in any way… Master desires.”

Mo Jiu pushed Yun Wenzhou down.

In that moment, everything she should do and shouldn’t do was thrown out the window.

The only thing she could guarantee was that her own clothes were still properly worn.

And that she did not kiss Yun Wenzhou’s lips from beginning to end.

This was absolutely not a response to a confession.

She was just helping out.

Just helping out, that’s all.

She hated that her room was too small and didn’t have a bathroom to hide in.

Fortunately, Yun Wenzhou fell asleep after the aphrodisiac’s effects wore off.

Mo Jiu left the room and walked to the cold pool behind the mountain. She stepped in, letting the chilling cold bite at her body and her desire.

Mo Jiu: System, tell me, Yun Wenzhou and Yun Wenzhou are the same person.

System: “…”

Mo Jiu: Then tell me, they are different people.

System: “…”

Mo Jiu: Do even you think I’m a scumbag? Too much of a scumbag to get an answer from you?

System: “…”

Mo Jiu: Scummy top and cheap bottom, a match made in heaven.

System: Successfully bullied the villain Yun Wenzhou, a dual humiliation of body and spirit, gained 20 reward points.

Mo Jiu: …I am an idiot for throwing these questions at an artificial intellectual disability.

What should I do next?

The first time she was intimate with Yun Wenzhou, she felt the same way, not knowing how to face her.

She didn’t expect to go through a similar experience a second time.

Mo Jiu: Can I replace her as the villain this time?

System: First, you must fall into the Demonic Path.

Mo Jiu: How can I fall into the Demonic Path?

System: Act improperly, feel guilt in your heart.

Mo Jiu: I acted quite improperly just now, and I feel extremely guilty now.

System: “…”

System: If no Heart Devil was born, it means you did not deliberately choose a path you shouldn’t take. You did not act against her for the purpose of self-satisfaction.

Mo Jiu: Is it really not because I am an NPC?

Although she refuted it in her mind, Mo Jiu indeed did not feel satisfied now. Instead, she felt an emptiness in her heart, as if a piece had been dug out.

She didn’t know how to handle her relationship with the two Yun Wenzhous and felt lost about the future.

Both Yun Wenzhous were equally beautiful, equally alluring, and equally attractive to her, blurring her memory of her.

The Yun Wenzhou in her memory was gradually being… possessed by the living Yun Wenzhou in front of her.

System: I’m not good at comforting people, but I must say, humans are easily attracted to people who are similar to their first love, even if their looks are vastly different, even if their personalities are different, even if the only thing similar is their zodiac sign. So, I’m not surprised that you would fall for the individual named Yun Wenzhou again. However, I am pleasantly surprised by your high moral standards.

System: In my opinion, it’s already a miracle that you didn’t pounce on her the first time you made her strip naked.

Mo Jiu: …I admit I’m a scumbag, but I’m not that bad… What kind of image do you have of me?

Mo Jiu: Wait, you can actually understand my feelings for her? Then why did you make me bully her! How could you be so heartless!

System: What’s so heartless about it? Did you forget? My name is Arrogance.

Mo Jiu: “…”

Yun Wenzhou didn’t sleep for too long. Although she felt soft and sore all over from the aphrodisiac, the whipping, and Master’s hands, she was not a mortal but a cultivator at Peak Golden Core, and she had a Water spiritual root. So, after lying down for a while, she recovered considerably.

She panicked slightly when she woke up and didn’t see Master, but she saw the front door closed and the back door open. She immediately realized something and tentatively followed the path out the back door.

She didn’t put on clothes, walking naked along the path leading to the back mountain to find her Master.

Master was soaking in the cold pool with her clothes on. It looked less like she was cultivating and more like she was harming herself…

“Master,” Yun Wenzhou called out with concern.

She regretted messing around like that, knowing it would make Master so uncomfortable.

But she was about to form her Nascent Soul and didn’t have much time to slowly seduce Master. She could only confirm two things through this reckless method.

One: Master definitely likes women. Seducing her has a chance.

Two: Master is indeed worthy of her love. Getting rid of the Heart Devil by severing the threads of love is impossible.

Mo Jiu, submerged up to her shoulders in the cold pool water, heard her voice and spoke without turning around: “Who allowed you to come here?”

“Wenzhou was worried about Master,” Yun Wenzhou replied.

“Don’t call yourself Wenzhou anymore. It’s disgusting.”

Stop emphasizing your name to me.

“Okay.” Yun Wenzhou lowered her eyes, hiding her disappointment. “Then, what are your orders, Master? What do you need… what do you need me to do? Just say it, whether it’s refining pills or kneeling in punishment.”

“I want you to stay away from me. Don’t appear before me again until you form your Nascent Soul. You’re an eyesore,” Mo Jiu replied coldly.

Give me some time to organize my thoughts.

“Is that so…” Yun Wenzhou pursed her lips. Then, instead of leaving, she approached the person in the cold pool.

She also wanted to give Master some time, but she herself had run out of time.

Yun Wenzhou knelt down behind Mo Jiu, less than two meters away from her: “Master, I love you.”

She chose to confess directly.

“I admire you, am grateful to you, rely on you, and love you. This feeling arose without my knowing and has deepened ever since. I don’t know how to deal with this emotion. I hope Master can point me in the right direction.”

At least this time she didn’t demand responsibility from me.

Mo Jiu finally found one difference between the two Yun Wenzhous.

If it were the Yun Wenzhou of the previous world, after Mo Jiu did such a thing to her, she would certainly bind her with a chain called “responsibility,” leaving her nowhere to run.

But the Yun Wenzhou of this world, though equally frantic in her pursuit of love, still left her a direction for retreat.

Then again, that time was an accident, and this time was premeditated on her part.

Although Yun Wenzhou’s actions were eccentric, she was willing to take responsibility for them. She was willing to accept all the consequences and costs of the trouble she caused.

Mo Jiu was silent for a long time.

When she finally spoke, she neither pointed Yun Wenzhou in a direction nor punished her. Instead, she asked a question seemingly unrelated to the events of today: “Who are your parents?”

“I don’t have parents,” Yun Wenzhou gave the same answer as the Yun Wenzhou of the previous world. Then her next sentence was, “Has Master forgotten? My parents treated me poorly. You were the one who saved me from that hell, brought me to this Water Moon Peak, and took me in as an inner disciple.”

The System supplemented the setting: When Yun Wenzhou was born, her eyes were yellow. Her parents thought she was a monster and abandoned her in the mountains. Unexpectedly, she survived on her own a year later. Her parents found that she was much stronger than ordinary people and could self-heal, so they dumped all the dirty and exhausting work on her, treating her like livestock.

System: Until she was 13 years old, you passed through the village, discovered she had a Heavenly Spiritual Root, and wanted to take her as your disciple. You exchanged her from her parents with a priceless jade pendant.

“Do you prefer dusk or night?” Mo Jiu asked.

“Why choose between dusk and night?” Yun Wenzhou found it strange. “Of the twelve shichen, my favorite is mao shi (5-7 am), because that’s when you took me up the mountain. If I must choose between dusk and night, then night.”

Mao shi? Dawn?

Mo Jiu knew the Yun Wenzhou of the previous world didn’t like dusk and preferred night, but dusk was clearly so beautiful… It had a gentle and cozy feeling.

Even in a different world, she still liked dusk the most.

“Why do you like the night?” Mo Jiu was curious.

This was something the Yun Wenzhou of the previous world had never answered her.

The Yun Wenzhou of this world replied: “Because I don’t have to work at night.”

A very simple and unpretentious answer.

Mo Jiu gave a wry smile.

Right. For Yun Wenzhou, the daytime was full of bad memories.

Mo Jiu was getting stiff from the cold pool water. She stood up, letting her thoroughly soaked clothes cling to her body, outlining her contours.

She didn’t dare turn around to face the Yun Wenzhou she had just mistreated, but she still earnestly gave her answer to the question: “I’m sorry. Regardless, accepting your feelings when my understanding of you is not deep enough is asking too much… It’s not impossible, but I need time. Are you willing to give me some time?”

“Time…” Yun Wenzhou pursed her lips.

She didn’t want to form her Nascent Soul later than Ye Lan, but she also didn’t want to force Master.

What should I do?

Before she could make a decision, Mo Jiu suddenly received a mission.

System: Emergency Mission! “The Will of the Heavens Wants You Dead, You Must Live For Me!” Ye Lan’s Nascent Soul formation has attracted a Tribulation of the Spirit Transformation level! Although surviving this tribulation would mean no one below the Spirit Transformation stage would be her match, she can’t even withstand the first strike and is about to die! Go save her quickly!

Mo Jiu: A Spirit Transformation level Tribulation… I’m only at Nascent Soul, come on!