Pei Wugou’s mind was in complete disarray.
He had heard stories of the Prince of Love of Yunjing in his youth and had been utterly captivated by him, treating him as his idol and imitating him in every way.
Later, after laying down his arms and returning to civilian life, he sought true love in the guise of an ordinary man in a remote mountain village.
Heaven had taken pity on him and given him the chance!
He had met Wen He!
Wen He was merely an ordinary peasant girl who made a living selling tofu, but she was gentle, kind, and beautiful.
From the very first moment he laid eyes on her, he had fallen hopelessly in love. From then on, he disguised himself as a penniless scholar, buying tofu from Wen He every morning and evening until the two of them gradually grew familiar with each other.
The better he knew her, the more he felt that Wen He possessed a heart of gold.
Their relationship grew closer and closer.
Just as he was preparing to formally ask for her hand in marriage, he suddenly received an imperial edict from Yunjing ordering him to go to Pukou City, take control from the good-for-nothing Zhou Xiong, and defend the city.
An imperial command could not be disobeyed. He could only lie to Wen He, saying, “Until Ren Tianye is destroyed, how can I think of home?” Then he set off for Pukou City.
He had thought he could easily crush Ren Tianye and drive back his army, then hurry home to whisper sweet nothings with Wen He and live a life that would make everyone envious.
Who could have imagined…
That bastard Ren Tianye was insanely strong!
Not only had Pei Wugou failed to hold Pukou City, he had been beaten by Ren Tianye like a stray dog and forced to flee in disgrace!
Of course, none of that mattered.
Victory and defeat were commonplace in war.
He could simply win the next battle and reclaim what he had lost. But…
How was he supposed to explain seeing Wen He in the military camp?
Wasn’t Wen He supposed to be selling tofu back home?
What was she doing here?
And why were these people teasing and mocking her?
In an instant, Pei Wugou’s eyes turned bloodshot.
“M-My lord…” Seeing that something was wrong, the deputy general hurriedly asked, “What’s the matter? Have these men gone too far?”
“I’ll put a stop to it at once!”
“Yes, they have gone too far…” Pei Wugou forced the words through clenched teeth. His voice was icy as he said, “Put a stop to it? No. Drag every one of them out and execute them!”
“What?”
“My lord, isn’t that a little excessive?”
The deputy general was stunned.
It wasn’t wartime at the moment. The soldiers were merely chatting during their break. They hadn’t disrupted military discipline, so why… execute them?
They were going to be beheaded just like that?
Wasn’t this discipline a little too strict?
“Indeed, that would be inappropriate…”
Pei Wugou spoke those words, and the deputy general immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Then he heard Pei Wugou continue:
“After beheading them, hang their heads from the flagpole for all to see!”
“Let them understand the consequences of offending the woman I love!”
The deputy general’s entire body shook.
“What? That pretty young gentleman is the woman you love?”
“Has the influence of those high-ranking nobles finally rubbed off on you, my lord?”
“But…”
The deputy general dropped to his knees with a thud. “My lord, those soldiers didn’t know that young gentleman was your beloved. At most, they were a little foul-mouthed. Their crime hardly warrants death, especially since… we’ll soon be going into battle with Ren Tianye’s army.”
“At a time like this, dealing with those soldiers in such a manner is truly… inappropriate.”
“I humbly beg Your Lordship to show them mercy this once.”
The anger on Pei Wugou’s face had yet to fade. He said coldly, “Show them mercy? How could I show them mercy and still do justice to the love in my heart?”
“This marquis orders you to behead them publicly today. If you dare disobey a military order, I’ll have you beheaded publicly as well!”
The deputy general’s expression changed again and again. At last, it collapsed into helpless despair. He glanced at the soldiers, who still had no idea they had offended their marquis, and felt his heart bleed.
But Pei Wugou had issued the order with such resolve. What else could he do?
“Alas, my lord,” the deputy general sighed. “After this is over, why not bring that young gentleman to your side? That way, the soldiers won’t dare offend him so easily.”
“No!” Pei Wugou rejected the suggestion without hesitation. “Absolutely not. I can’t acknowledge Little He yet.”
“Absolutely not!”
It seemed to be a forbidden subject. The moment he said those words, Pei Wugou’s expression changed completely.
The deputy general, however, was on the verge of collapse.
What did he mean, he couldn’t acknowledge his beloved?
He was going to leave his beloved in the military camp?
No… with that young gentleman’s looks and figure, how could the soldiers not gossip about him?
And once the soldiers started gossiping, would Pei Wugou then swing his blade and bring it crashing down, leaving heads scattered across the ground?
How were they supposed to fight Ren Tianye then?
Would the two of them be expected to charge into battle against Ren Tianye’s army of hundreds of thousands?
The deputy general could not understand Pei Wugou’s train of thought. He was about to say more when he saw Pei Wugou flee like a stray dog.
Then he noticed the young gentleman’s gaze drifting over, and realized that was why Pei Wugou had run away.
He sighed inwardly once more.
After ordering someone to deal with the soldiers who had offended Pei Wugou, the deputy general hurried after him.
He found Pei Wugou in the central command tent.
Pei Wugou had picked up a mirror and was examining himself again and again. But unlike before, when he had been full of confidence and admiring his own reflection, his face was now filled with despair.
Clearly, the tuft of hair missing from the top of his head was a devastating blow to him!
“My lord…”
The deputy general, still refusing to give up, tried to persuade him once more. “Why don’t you acknowledge that young gentleman after all? It would… save everyone a great deal of trouble.”
“No, no…” Pei Wugou leaped to his feet. “I’ve said it countless times. No means no!”
“Why not?”
“Because she has never known my true identity!” Pei Wugou spoke with righteous conviction. “Little He has never known that I am Marquis Jingyi. In her eyes, I’m merely a down-and-out scholar—a penniless scholar who doesn’t even know martial arts.”
The deputy general’s eyes lit up. “My lord, that’s a good thing! Since that young gentleman doesn’t know you’re Marquis Jingyi, she’ll be astonished when you reveal yourself. Her admiration for you will surely rise by three levels.”
“After that, the two of you can be inseparable, passionately devoted, and unable to bear being apart. Wouldn’t that be wonderful?”
“No, no…” Pei Wugou cried out again. “It can’t be like that. Absolutely not!”
“If I reveal that I’m Marquis Jingyi, Little He will be angry that I hid my identity from her. I—I can’t make her angry.”
“I love her. I can’t hide a single thing from her, or I’ll deserve to be struck by lightning!”
“Besides…”
Pei Wugou picked up the bronze mirror again and gazed at his reflection. His face was full of anguish.
“My peerless looks have been ruined. They haven’t even healed yet. I can’t let her see me like this.”
“So…”
“I can’t acknowledge her!”
“Absolutely not!”
The deputy general fell silent.
He felt as though his brain had become hopelessly tangled, and the more he thought about it, the more his head hurt.
He was just about to speak when Pei Wugou suddenly cried out again.
This time, his face was full of delight.
“I’ve got it! I have a solution!”
“From now on, I’ll pretend to be one of your personal guards and go see Little He in your place. If she asks, I’ll tell her that I performed well in the military camp and earned your approval.”
“Hahaha! Wouldn’t that solve everything?”
e vast world of cultivation, where he becomes the master of the Heavenly Ruins Sacred Hall, a dying old man with barely a tenth of his former cultivation remaining. He is immediately confronted with a deadly crisis: his subordinates have rebelled, and his protectors are forcing him to abdicate. At the critical moment, the system descends from the heavens: [Ding! The host has been detected facing a life-or-death crisis. The system is now officially activated!] [As a gift, you have received the Supreme Beginner’s Pack and awakened the ultimate cheat: ten thousand years of pure cultivation essence every second!] Yin Tianjue: “Wait… ten thousand years of cultivation every second? That’s six hundred thousand years a minute, and in one day… I can’t even calculate it. Either way, I’m already invincible!” You’re a peerless prodigy rarely seen in ten thousand years? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re an undying ancestor who has guarded a sacred land for countless ages? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re the strongest chosen one, blessed with heaven-defying destiny? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. From this day forth, I have only one thing to say: “I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. Now, how exactly are you supposed to deal with that?”
ap a wealthy young lady? Or else I'll be eliminated by the system? Ye Feng, who awakened the Kidnapper System, originally wanted to live a peaceful life but never imagined he would become a kidnapper of young women. However, after some time, he discovered that all the girls the system ordered him to kidnap were far from ordinary. "Big brother Ye Feng~ You've kidnapped my heart, and now you're not allowed to leave me ever again~" "Ye Feng~ You kidnapped me back then, now it's my turn to capture you♡" "Little Feng, you're mine! You can only be mine!" "Ye Feng, none of them deserve you. Only I love you the most♡" ... This is madness, they've all gone mad! Wait, what? Why are all the girls I kidnapped yanderes?!
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
