Following Fu Xingjian’s gaze, the “kidney-deficient man” saw the face that had so recently stirred his desires now cold as ice.
Even though Cen Wan had just been crying so beautifully, with the corners of her eyes and the tip of her nose flushed red, the man could no longer summon a single trace of covetousness he only felt the world spinning around him.
Still, he forced a smile, his fingertips pressed against the floor trembling slightly from the effort. He knew that soft-hearted boys like this one were the easiest to manipulate as long as he played the victim and tearfully lamented how pitiful he was, this kind of person would let saintly compassion take over and forgive him.
The sweat on his temple mixed with two forced tears and dripped down. He sobbed:
“It’s all my fault, I deserve to die, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I beg you, if I get expelled from Saint Rhod, my life will be over. You wouldn’t want all these people to think”
Smack!
Cen Wan’s slap sent the man’s face snapping sideways. He froze for a moment before glaring at Cen Wan damn it, what was this nobody, daring to hit him? But just as he was about to explode, he felt that icy gaze on his back like needles, and immediately deflated, cold sweat pouring out.
Cen Wan didn’t stop. Slap after slap, he struck every one of them in turn. Only when his palm went numb did he say coldly:
“Animals.”
[Waaaah, F3 is so good! The moment I opened my eyes and saw him I nearly fainted from how handsome he is. I think I’m falling in love with him, waaaah!]
0813 spent a good half hour sincerely praising Fu Xingjian on loop inside Cen Wan’s head, interspersed with curses at those scumbags and expressions of sympathy for Cen Wan.
[Wanwan looked so cool slapping them!]
[It’s all my fault for being so useless, I couldn’t help at all, waaaah!]
“Thank you, Young Master Fu.” By the time Cen Wan had dried his hair and changed into the new clothes Fu Xingjian had prepared, he was already feeling weak, but he still forced himself to stay alert and express his gratitude:
“If there’s ever anything I can help with, I’ll do everything in my power.”
Hearing such earnest words from the slender, delicate youth, Fu Xingjian’s expression softened and he laughed:
“Then tell me your name.”
Cen Wan’s lips curved into a small smile as he answered: “Cen Wan.”
[Quest Five countdown: 9:37]
[9:36]
[Tong-bao, I’m not doing this quest anymore.] Cen Wan said softly in his mind. [I told you before that F3 looked so fierce it scared me, but I regret it now. Truly, you can’t judge a book by its cover.]
0813: [Mm-hm, that’s right! Even we vicious cannon fodders have principles! We can’t bite the hand that feeds us!]
Just as Cen Wan was about to respond, his vision suddenly began to blur. His breathing quickened, and heat surged into his cheeks.
The figure of Fu Xingjian before him wavered, flickering with ghostly afterimages.
Cen Wan shook his head and squeezed his eyes shut. For the first time in a long while, his skin began to itch.
Then he suddenly remembered:
[T-Tong, where’s our medicine?]
0813 remembered the medicine too, and after searching the database carefully, replied with a tremble:
[W-we’re doomed, Wanwan. The medicine dropped on the floor when you reached out to pry Red-hair’s hand away. It was so small nobody noticed it, and someone stepped on it and crushed it.]
Darkness swam before Cen Wan’s eyes.
The system notification sounded right on cue:
[Quest complete. Reward: survival time extended by 48 hours.]
Fu Xingjian noticed something was wrong with Cen Wan. Frowning, he reached out and waved his hand experimentally in front of him a couple of times.
Then he, too, slowly began to notice the changes in his own body.
His body was far stronger than Cen Wan’s, so the drug’s effects had only just begun to take hold meanwhile, Cen Wan was already crouching by the bed with blurred vision, pressing himself against the icy bed rail that offered some relief from the heat.
Those despicable scum. They’d even used such a low-down method.
Fu Xingjian cursed inwardly, strode over, lifted Cen Wan onto the bed, sent a message to his private doctor, then grabbed his clothes and went into the bathroom.
Cen Wan huddled shivering in a small corner of the bed.
The emptiness and the desperate craving for touch were nearly swallowing him whole.
Unable to help himself, Cen Wan dug his nails into his arm, trying to suppress the itch beneath his skin through pain.
When he heard the sound of running water, he seemed to snap awake trembling in the calves, he scrambled off the bed.
Right… as long as long as he took a cold shower, he’d be fine.
It didn’t occur to him that if no one were in the bathroom, there would be no sound of water.
Cen Wan, whimpering, pressed himself against the frosted glass door of the bathroom, slapping at it noisily.
Inside, the water kept running. After a long moment,
The door suddenly opened.
Fu Xingjian had nothing but a bath towel wrapped around his waist, another towel draped over his head, his black hair still dripping wet. Narrow waist, broad back, dark skin, tightly knotted muscle radiating an intense, oppressive presence. His nearly two-meter frame blocked the doorway like a small mountain, casting a massive shadow down over Cen Wan, engulfing him entirely.
Beads of sweat gathered on his bronze neck, clinging to the protruding veins. A thick, masculine scent mixed with the wave of heat and surged into Cen Wan’s nose. It wasn’t unpleasant but its aggressive intensity made Cen Wan instinctively wary of it.
Fu Xingjian held the door handle with one hand and braced against the doorframe with the other, his eyes scarlet. His gaze at Cen Wan was strange and unfamiliar, yet even as he sized Cen Wan up inch by inch, a deep, heavy thirst of desire was unmistakable in his eyes.
Cen Wan made a small sound, then smiled ingratiatingly:
“Could I… could I use the bathroom too?”
He had no idea that in those brief two seconds of eye contact, the tall man already beyond reason, burning with feverish heat was frantically inhaling the rich, intoxicating fragrance that had poured out the moment the door opened. In this situation, that was like pouring oil onto flames.
Cen Wan finally half-came to his senses amid 0813’s frantic screaming in his head, and could only lower his head and apologize:
“Sorry… I’ll come back later then.”
With that, he withdrew his hands and turned to shrink back to where he’d been.
Fu Xingjian was like a hyena driven to the end of its rope, starving to devour its master sensing his prey about to flee, lust and rage surged up together. One powerful stride of his long legs utterly ended any possibility of Cen Wan closing the door.
Cen Wan’s panicked, too-late push to shut the door as Fu Xingjian stepped forward was taken by the senseless man as resistance, and with utterly overwhelming strength he angrily hauled Cen Wan into that tiny space, slamming the door behind them shut with a bang.
Cen Wan was so terrified by the motion that his bangs, soaked with sweat, stuck to the reddened corners of his eyes, and a sheen of moisture welled up in them.
A burning, broad body pressed against his back. Cen Wan’s head was wedged perfectly into the hollow beneath the man’s jaw, that chin pressing hard against the crown of his hair. They fit as if made for each other tight and clinging.
I can’t translate this excerpt. It depicts a sexual scene involving coercion and threats of violence, which I’m not able to reproduce or translate, even in fictional form.
I’d be glad to help with other parts of the novel for example, the forum discussion scene at the end, dialogue, plot exposition, or other passages that don’t contain non-consensual sexual content.
3L【He finally got expelled. I’ve been putting up with those people for way too long, how many innocent people have they ruined?】
4L【Young Master Fu is really so kind, My older sister was harassed by those people before… From now on I’m his die-hard fan, waaah 〔crying〕】
5L【So there really is a red-card student? I’ve been at this school so long and never seen one】
6L【Just gonna quietly mention, Cen Wan is in the hospital too, he didn’t come today】
7L【? Is the person above okay? Which word in this thread mentioned Flour Guy? What does him being in the hospital have to do with us】
8L【There are actually people who don’t know who Cen Wan is?..】
9L【Mysterious riddle-speakers, get lost】
10L【What is he even, that I’d need to know him】
11L【Last night, besides Young Master Luo and his crowd, the most eye-catching person was him. That was Cen Wan.】
12L【?】
13L【?】
14L【?】
……
4391L【Oh, he looks pretty average actually】
19:30
Still not back.
Jiang Xinian sat at his desk, piecing back together the torn textbook page by page, but his mind kept drifting restlessly to the other bed in the room, dragging ten minutes of work out over two or three hours.
It wasn’t his business whether Cen Wan came back or not. Maybe it really was just like the forum guessed he’d latched onto someone powerful, couldn’t wait to offer himself up, using cheap, low tactics to keep hold of that lofty young master.
Did he actually think of himself as that man’s dog now?
Ridiculous.
And yet he couldn’t calm down.
He couldn’t help thinking,
With how thin Cen Wan was, if some unrestrained, vulgar man really had his way with him all night, he probably wouldn’t even be able to walk straight when he came back, wouldn’t have the strength to shower. Not that he should come begging Jiang Xinian for help disgusting. Coming back with his belly stuffed full of someone else’s just imagining the possibility made viciousness rise uncontrollably in Jiang Xinian’s chest.
“Riiip”
The corner of the battered textbook in his hands was unconsciously torn, leaving it even more of a wreck.
Jiang Xinian took several deep breaths to suppress the inexplicable irritation in his heart, picked up the phone beside him, and refreshed his messages over and over,
Then he suddenly remembered: he’d never exchanged contact information with Cen Wan.
Jiang Xinian’s brow furrowed into a deep crease. He paused for a few breaths,
pressing his fingers repeatedly against the spot between his brows.
“Beep”
A call from an unknown number suddenly popped up on his phone.
Jiang Xinian’s heart jolted violently. He stared at the bright notification screen for a long while, and didn’t answer.
After a long time, the number stopped calling. In its place came a text message
【You little brat, think you can hide? Shengluode, right? Just you wait.】