Doing Good by Bad Intentions

Thud!

Ye Shu shut his eyes and toppled straight backward, utterly despairing.

He never would have thought that, despite being clever all his life, he would actually be outplayed by Ao Xue, that ridiculous dragon, and forced to swallow a mouthful of saliva pills.

The most shameful part was…

He actually thought the things tasted damn good!

He had already lost all face. He might as well sleep until the system destroyed the world.

Ye Shu himself had come to terms with it, but Ao Xue was terrified. Thinking he had eaten something bad, she hurriedly crouched down and nudged his shoulder, her big eyes filled with worry.

“Hey! Hey! Are you all right?”

“It was just asking you to call me Master. Do you really have to be so petty? And now you’re pretending to be dead!”

“Stop pretending already!”

After pushing him for quite some time without getting a response, Ao Xue stood up, puffed out her cheeks, and angrily kicked him.

“You’re still pretending to be dead?”

Ye Shu kept both eyes tightly shut, his face serene.

Let the winds blow from east, west, north, and south. He would remain as immovable as a mountain.

This left Ao Xue in a panic. With a brain the size of an almond, she could never have imagined that Ye Shu would lie on the ground and throw a childish tantrum. She thought something had genuinely happened to him.

“No way…”

“He’s not really that fragile, is he?” Ao Xue murmured incredulously.

But it wasn’t impossible.

After all, dragons and humans had different constitutions. Not everyone could endure this sort of inhuman torment the way she could.

At that thought, Ao Xue was instantly at a loss.

She scratched her head anxiously, staring at Ye Shu, who lay motionless at her feet, completely unsure of what to do.

“D-damn it…”

She had indeed wanted to get revenge, but that didn’t mean she actually wanted to do anything serious to him.

She only wanted him to keep playing with her…

Not spend all day shouting about saving the world, taking revenge, and becoming stronger, constantly fixated on grand ambitions that had nothing to do with her.

And then disappearing at the drop of a hat.

Whenever he returned, there was often another woman beside him—one Ao Xue had never seen before.

One more every time.

Sometimes there would even be two.

Ao Xue hated those women. She hated them from the bottom of her heart, just like she hated the purple-haired girl at the election assembly. They stole the attention that should have belonged to her, drastically reducing the amount of time Ye Shu spent playing with her.

Eventually, there was no more playing.

There was only food delivered at fixed times every day, as though she really were some pet he had picked up off the street.

As she thought about it, Ao Xue suddenly felt terribly aggrieved.

She only wanted him to spend more time with her. Why had everything turned out like this?

At the same time…

Ye Shu, who was pretending to be dead, slightly lifted one eyelid.

Through the slit at the corner of his eye, he could see Ao Xue scratching her head and fidgeting anxiously.

He suddenly found the Ao Xue of this moment rather amusing.

It reminded him of how he used to tease the dog at home by lying on the floor and pretending to be dead, watching it leap about in a panic before suddenly sitting up and startling it.

A dragon girl… should be about the same, right?

Thinking this, Ye Shu decided to tease her properly.

Who told her to feed him her saliva?

As the saying went, a gentleman’s revenge never waited overnight!

Meanwhile, Ao Xue finally recovered from her initial panic, and her intelligence reclaimed the high ground. Stroking her chin, she looked down at Ye Shu, who was still sprawled on the ground, her eyes narrowing.

“He might be pretending to be dead to trick me.”

“W-what?!”

Ye Shu, still pretending to be dead, froze and nearly lost control of his expression.

This girl shouldn’t have that kind of intelligence!

Ao Xue knelt beside Ye Shu and extended two fingers toward the tip of his nose. Ye Shu immediately held his breath, every muscle in his body going rigid, like a zombie that had been dead for thirty years.

At a time like this, he absolutely could not let all his efforts go to waste.

Ao Xue tested him for a while, then withdrew her hand and muttered, “It really looks like he isn’t breathing…”

Just as Ye Shu let out a silent sigh of relief, she muttered again, “But that alone isn’t enough to be sure.”

She lowered her head and gently pressed her ear against Ye Shu’s chest.

Silence.

Ao Xue straightened up, her little head suddenly buzzing.

Only one thought remained.

Oh no!

She had really fed him into a critical condition!

Ao Xue instantly panicked. Kneeling beside Ye Shu, she raised her hands, then lowered them again. Her mind was a complete mess. She wanted to do something, but had no idea where to begin.

What should she do? What should she do?

Wait!

At this crucial moment, perhaps because her earlier memories had finally become useful, Ao Xue suddenly remembered that the man had once told her what to do in this situation.

It was called… something…

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

That was it!

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation!

Ao Xue’s eyes lit up as if she had found her salvation.

Ye Shu secretly lifted an eyelid. Looking at the dejected expression on Ao Xue’s face, his heart stirred.

Oh no. Had he taken the joke too far?

He was just about to open his eyes and end the farce when Ao Xue suddenly straightened up, as though she had thought of something. She interlocked both hands and placed them over his chest.

What the hell was this dragon girl thinking?

Ye Shu hesitated for a moment.

The next instant—

Thump!

Ao Xue suddenly exerted all her strength. Ye Shu’s chest was crushed downward like a balloon, and a series of crisp cracking sounds rang out. Her hands forcibly broke several of his ribs, driving them tightly against the ground beneath his back.

Ao Xue still remembered what he had told her before.

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation had to be done with plenty of force. Even if it broke a few bones, that was a sacrifice worth making.

In the blink of an eye, Ye Shu’s eyes bulged out. His entire body released an extremely brief, muffled sound before going limp on the ground, completely silent.

“It worked!”

Seeing this, Ao Xue’s eyes lit up, and she was overjoyed.

If Ye Shu had been barely alive just moments ago, then at least now his eyes were open and he was breathing!

“Come on, Ao Xue!”

“You’re one step closer to success!”

She secretly encouraged herself and was just about to continue performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation when she realized that, after she lifted her hands, Ye Shu’s chest did not rise back up.

“Huh? Did it just cave in after one compression?”

Ao Xue looked at Ye Shu’s chest, which resembled the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, and scratched her head in confusion.

“Forget it. He reacted, so I must have done it right.”

“Hmm… next should be…”

She tilted her head and tried to recall.

“After cardiopulmonary resuscitation, it’s supposed to be… supposed to be…”

Artificial respiration.

“Artificial respiration… artificial respiration…”

As Ao Xue murmured the words, she recalled the comic strip she had once read, and her face gradually reddened.

“I-I remember now. It seems like you have to kiss him…”

“But… but…”

Ao Xue lowered her head awkwardly and looked at Ye Shu, who was on the verge of death.

She had never kissed anyone before.

This was her first kiss!

Was she really going to give it away in such a muddled fashion? And while the other person was completely unconscious, no less?

There wasn’t even the slightest bit of ceremony.

But when Ao Xue saw Ye Shu lying there on the verge of death, she still gritted her teeth as if she had made some sort of decision. Muttering under her breath, she leaned down.

“J-just think of it as being bitten by a dog.”

“Yeah. That’s all this is.”

She closed her eyes as though psyching herself up, then slowly kissed him. After that, she pried open his mouth with her tongue, bit the tip of her own tongue with her teeth, and passed her pure dragon blood into Ye Shu’s mouth.

Nourished by the dragon blood, Ye Shu’s wounds rapidly healed. His sunken chest rose again, and his consciousness gradually returned.

“Where... is this? Hell?”

Ye Shu slowly opened his eyes. The first thing he saw was Ao Xue’s closed eyes and her faintly trembling eyelashes.

“Mmm...”

With her eyes still shut, Ao Xue continued sucking deeply, seemingly so immersed in her mission to save him that she had not realized he was already awake.

Before Ye Shu could react, he suddenly felt a wave of suffocation.

This airheaded girl was practically sucking all the air out of his lungs.

“Let go of me, you idiot!”

Ye Shu used the last bit of strength he had left to push her away.

If he didn’t struggle now, he was liable to go from merely pretending to be dead to actually dying!

“Huh?”

Only after Ao Xue was pushed did she sit up straight. She stared at him blankly, a glistening strand of saliva still hanging from the corner of her mouth.

“You... you—”

After finally catching his breath, Ye Shu widened his eyes and glared at the dazed Ao Xue, preparing to say something.

But then she suddenly burst into tears. With a loud sob, she lunged forward and threw herself into his arms. The force of the impact knocked Ye Shu off balance, sending him crashing flat onto his back. The pain made him grimace again.

“What are you doing?”

Ye Shu was genuinely getting a little annoyed now.

Ao Xue paid him no mind. Clinging to Ye Shu with her head pressed against his shoulder, she wailed like a child.

“You scared me half to death...”

“I-It’s such a relief...”

Sniffling with her little nose, she repeated the words over and over, filled with the joy of surviving a catastrophe.

“You’re not dead...”

“Ugh... Don’t ever scare me like that again.”

Hearing the girl’s despairing sobs, Ye Shu could no longer bring himself to feel angry, no matter how much resentment he had been harboring.

He put his arms around her and comforted her gently.

“Don’t cry, don’t cry. See? I’m perfectly fine.”