Gu Jinzhi shook his head. “…It’s nothing. Just eat your food.”
Eat? Mo Yu glanced at the table.
Bull whip. Soft shelled turtle. Sea cucumber. Mutton.
Every single dish on the dining table was an aphrodisiac.
Mo Yu: No way… I’m still just a kid!
Seriously, give him a break.
Mo Yu didn’t even dare to check what the quest objective was anymore.
At this moment, Gu Jinzhi slowly sat down beside him.
His upper body was wearing practically nothing except a white apron trimmed with lace and a bow tie, while under the lower apron, he seemed to only be wearing a pair of black shorts. However, he wore a full set of maid accessories on his head and wrists, which inadvertently carried a sense of deliberate dress-up.
It was hard to tell whether it was from the intense heat in the kitchen earlier or because he was running a fever, but his face was noticeably flushed, and his expression looked slightly pained.
Holding his head with one hand, his breathing remained heavy as if he were struggling to gasp for air, and even his voice carried a faint tremor.
Sensing that Mo Yu was staring at him, Gu Jinzhi said.
“I’m sorry to make a fool of myself in front of you. I haven’t been feeling very well lately…”
After locking eyes with Mo Yu, Gu Jinzhi suddenly covered his nose, his face turning an even deeper shade of red. “I… I will take my leave first.”
With that, he stood up in a fluster and hurried away.
Mo Yu: ?
Just then, a man standing by the dining table who looked like a butler stepped forward like an NPC.
“Young Master Yu, there is no need to worry too much. Although the Master’s illness has worsened, his condition is relatively stable.
“Having gone through a severe illness, the Master has come to see things much more clearly. It hasn’t been easy for him to reach out and ease his relationship with you. Young Master should feel quite relieved.
“It is only that the Master is currently still hospitalized. He should be able to return in a few days. Therefore, we must trouble Young Master to stay here for the time being and get along well with the Madam.”
What… Ma… Madam?
Mo Yu’s pupils dilated in shock.
He kept talking with the butler and gradually pieced together the background of this instance.
He was apparently the illegitimate son of an old tycoon.
The old rich bastard had lived a wild lifestyle since his youth and never married, yet he scattered his affections everywhere. Mo Yu was likely the child of a low-tier mistress the old man looked down upon a child born in secret, denied any share of the inheritance, and despised by him all along.
Gu Jinzhi was a different story, he seemed to originate from a fallen noble family. Exceptionally talented himself, it was a mystery why he had ended up with Mo Yu’s cheap excuse for a father. Mo Yu felt there might be some underlying gender setting here that he didn’t fully grasp.
At any rate, despite a age gap of roughly thirty years with his father, Gu Jinzhi was currently equivalent to his stepmother.
Mo Yu didn’t get it, but he was profoundly shaken.
The instance setup was far too perverted. Mo Yu had no appetite whatsoever, forced down a few bites, and was then led to a bedroom by the butler.
Once the butler departed, Mo Yu pulled out his phone and hesitated for a long while, unable to summon the courage to check the current quest.
Forget it. I should go find Gu Jinzhi first and awaken his memories.
He needed someone else to share this burden with him!!
Setting his phone aside, Mo Yu listened to see if the butler had walked away. Suddenly, he felt a wave of dizziness.
The vision before his eyes blurred for a moment, accompanied by the ethereal ringing of chime music in his ears, while the clock on the wall spun rapidly.
When Mo Yu first arrived, it was around six in the evening, but now the sky instantly darkened, plunging the world into the middle of the night. The entire villa fell eerily quiet.
Mo Yu froze. It can fast-forward?
Then again, their total time limit to complete the quest, four hours, remained fixed, but the time span within the instance could be stretched much longer.
Mo Yu stepped out of the room anyway.
The villa was vast, luxurious, and equipped with advanced amenities. He had been assigned to a guest room on the first floor. However, after wandering around the second floor, he still couldn’t find Gu Jinzhi. All he felt was his growing resentment toward the rich…
It wasn’t until he went downstairs and passed by the laundry room that he heard strange noises coming from inside.
Mo Yu: No way, right?
He rarely read trashy erotic novels, please don’t do this to him.
Mo Yu covered his face, built up some mental preparation, and walked in. Sure enough, he saw Boss Gu kneeling inside, holding a men’s T-shirt against his face, inhaling its scent obsessively.
Mo Yu was stunned.
Boss Gu was already wearing a skimpy maid outfit. Seeing him secretly sniffing clothes in the laundry room like this was an indescribably suggestive sight…
The maid Gu Jinzhi caught sight of Mo Yu, and his face instantly flushed a deeper red as he stood up in panic.
“Y-You… why are you here?”
“I…” Mo Yu’s gaze slowly shifted to the shirt in his hands.
Gu Jinzhi bit his lip, covering his face in an emotional breakdown. “I’m sorry… but your pheromones are just too highly compatible with mine…”
“I was already in my heat cycle to begin with… I really… hit my limit.
“You clearly knew… yet you… still released your pheromones like that…”
“Damn it, you did it on purpose, didn’t you? You want to see me fall apart, to see me beg you.”
Mo Yu was taken aback. What does he mean? Is he sniffing my clothes?
“Fine, you win. You win, alright? Help me.”
Before Mo Yu could react, Boss Gu stood up, grabbed Mo Yu’s hand, and pulled it toward himself.
Mo Yu’s eyes widened in terror. He scrambled backward in a panic, only to be dragged back by Gu Jinzhi.
“Where are you going?”
Whenever he approached, Mo Yu dodged. The two of them pulled and tugged back and forth for a while.
Gu Jinzhi even grew angry, pressing Mo Yu directly onto the floor and pinning him down under his weight. “Are you even a man?!”
How could he not be a man?!
Hadn’t he just summoned unprecedented strength in the face of a life or death crisis?!
Seeing that Boss Gu was about to do something that would surely get Mo Yu silenced and murdered in the future, Mo Yu gasped, cold sweat breaking out on his forehead. He screamed at the top of his lungs:
“Boss Gu!!”
Gu Jinzhi’s eyes clouded over in confusion for a fraction of a second.
“What did you call me?”
Mo Yu frantically tried to pull up the sparse pieces of fabric on Boss Gu’s body.
“Hurry and get up! Think carefully about who you are and who I am! How did that scratch on your hand get there? And most importantly…”
Mo Yu was on the verge of tears. “You must, must stay calm. I really didn’t see anything.”
Gu Jinzhi stared at him blankly, and then, suddenly, his entire face flushed deep crimson.
Mo Yu could clearly see Boss Gu’s pupils trembling. As his memories flooded back, everything he had just done surged into his mind at once. In the next second, overwhelmed by sheer humiliation, Gu Jinzhi threw a punch downward.
Fortunately, Mo Yu had anticipated it and dodged out of the way with a quick roll.
“Ahhh!”
“Calm down!”
“You didn’t see anything!”
Mo Yu shouted even louder than him. “I didn’t see anything!”
Gu Jinzhi tried to pull off the apron he was wearing, but froze halfway through, likely realizing that the underwear underneath was equally problematic.
“What on earth… is all this?”
Boss Gu had probably never encountered such a messy erotic novel trope in his entire life, just wearing a skimpy maid outfit made his whole body burn red as if he were about to emit smoke.
Mo Yu didn’t know where to look or whether he should leave, so he could only attempt to offer comfort:
“I-It’s fine. I cross-dressed too, didn’t I?”
Gu Jinzhi lost his temper in a rare moment of emotional instability. “How is that the same?! You looked good in yours!”
Mo Yu: “…Huh?”
Then Gu Jinzhi looking like this was also… Mo Yu’s gaze paused for a moment. Okay, rather than calling it “looking good,” it was more accurate to describe it as erotically provocative.
However, he would never dare utter those words aloud.
The two happened to be in the laundry room. Mo Yu hastily rummaged through the dryer and storage bags, somehow managing to dig out a pair of men’s pajama pants for Gu Jinzhi.
“It’s fine, it’s fine… change your clothes first.”
Boss Gu slipped them on directly. He then saw Mo Yu squatting there, gazing at him attentively, looking ready to offer more comfort at any moment.
Gu Jinzhi felt his face grow increasingly warm.
Was his reaction a bit too extreme?
Even though they were completing the quest together, Mo Yu had adapted to this bizarre script so quickly…
Was this what a real man was like?
He couldn’t hold them back either.
Gu Jinzhi made a conscious effort to compose himself.
“What is the quest?”
Mo Yu let out a sigh of relief before pulling out his phone.
“Let me check.”
[Player is required to roleplay as the identity within this plane and complete the following key plotline.]
The attachment below appeared to be a letter from a private detective. It was a record detailing how Mo Yu had checked into the villa today and engaged in intimate behavior with the Madam.
Attached were several photos.
In one photo, Gu Jinzhi could be clearly seen exiting Mo Yu’s room alone in the middle of the night.
His face was flushed, his expression dazed, his apron torn, his hair disheveled, and his chest covered in love bites.
At a single glance, it was obvious how intense the encounter had been.
The two stared at the photo, falling into a ten minutes silence together.
“This… uh.” Mo Yu wiped away his cold sweat. Boss Gu’s oppressive aura was chilling him to the bone!
He knew it, this instance was actually trying to claim his life.
“It’s okay, it’s okay… love bites… maybe, maybe they can be pinched out?”
Gu Jinzhi raised his eyes to look at him, appearing as though he had caught a glimmer of hope. “Really?”
“Do you want to try?”
Gu Jinzhi reached out and tore off the hideous apron. But once it was off, his expression became somewhat unnatural again.
Normally, changing clothes in front of someone of the same gender was something he wouldn’t think twice about, it was perfectly normal. But after looking at that photo…
Mo Yu actually didn’t quite dare to look at his chest either.
“In short… try pinching yourself hard.”
Gu Jinzhi pinched himself, his brow furrowing in pain, but no mark was left behind.
“S-Should I try?”
Mo Yu extended his hand, then drew it back.
Wait…
Gu Jinzhi had scolded him last time. No touching the chest.
However, Gu Jinzhi seemed to have forgotten about that. Unaware of Mo Yu’s inner turmoil, he turned toward him. “Mm.”
Mo Yu glanced at Gu Jinzhi’s serious, deep eyes and decided to give it a shot.
Gu Jinzhi’s chest was actually quite soft.
Ah, wait, no!
Mo Yu hurriedly shook off that strange thought and pinched a small patch of skin instead.
Gu Jinzhi’s brow furrowed even tighter, but he didn’t pull away.
No good. Boss Gu wasn’t the type whose skin bruised or marked easily upon touch. Although it left a faint red mark, it was far from enough to match the photo.
Besides, pinching like this hurt way too much!
Mo Yu pulled his hand back after all.
The two fell into silence once again.
In the end, left with no alternative, Gu Jinzhi looked up at Mo Yu. The tips of his ears turned red as he grit his teeth.
“You do it.”