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Arc 4 – Slag that Prince Regent
Chapter 96

Although the sudden appearance of the full score rating from the last world didn’t make the system happy, its effect on Chi Zhao was still very powerful.

Chi Zhao regained his confidence in an instant and completely abandoned his goal of following the plot.

Following the plot was useless because the protagonist never plays his cards according to the usual routine but making the protagonist suffer was too easy, especially when the protagonist already likes him.

Humans would die for money and birds would die for food. Chi Zhao could now deeply understand this line. No wonder people always say that having money can even make ghosts work. If you give money and the ghosts don’t work, it wasn’t a problem with the work but the amount paid. The amount was just not large enough!

The magnanimous little ghost Chi Zhao thought this.

………

He was still looking at Shen Wumian. The latter then dejectedly lowered his head, not daring to look at him. After a long period of silence, he slowly raised his head. It seemed that he was able to gather up his emotions during this time and Chi Zhao couldn’t see the emotions he wanted to see in his eyes.

As expected of a pro.

Chi Zhao continued to maintain a simple and cowardly appearance. At the same time, he thought blankly inside, ‘With those skills of his, debuting as an actor wouldn’t be problem’.

“……..Hong Lei will return after a while.” Shen Wumian finally spoke while Chi Zhao’s mind was in the clouds. His voice was calm, with no sense of strangeness to it. It was as if the person who had just had his heart pierced wasn’t him, “The tonic……someone will soon bring it over.”

Shen Wumian didn’t lie. After about the time it took to burn half a stick of incense, an eunuch walked in with a bowl of black concoction. Chinese medicine are all the same colour so Chi Zhao couldn’t tell whether or not it was the same was the one from before. He could only call out to the system, “System, stop singing. Come and scan this for me. Is this still poison?”

The system who was called out quickly gave it a scan. It was silent for a moment and didn’t speak.

Chi Zhao was puzzled, “Why aren’t you speaking? It can’t be scanned?”

【I don’t want to live anymore.】

Chi Zhao: “………..” Seems like it’s not poison.

The system was in so much despair, it would often say nonsense like this. Chi Zhao was used to it so he ignored it. He stretched out his hand to pick up the bowl of medicine, but Shen Wumian did it for him. He picked it up and stirred it with a spoon for a while to cool it down. Chi Zhao waited patiently as he did this. When Shen Wumian felt that the temperature was just right, he scooped some of it using the spoon and brought it to his own lips.

Once he made sure it wasn’t hot anymore, he brought it over to Chi Zhao’s lips.

Chi Zhao almost couldn’t hold back his true emotions.

He looked at that small porcelain spoon speechlessly and hesitated for a moment before obediently opening his mouth and drinking the medicine. Shen Wumian soon brought another spoonful over and Chi Zhao again obediently drank it. After doing this a few times, there were still two thirds of the medicine left.

…..Chi Zhao couldn’t stand it anymore.

This medicine was originally difficult to drink and being fed one spoonful at a time like this was simply torture for him. At first, Chi Zhao could bear with it but that bitterness in his mouth later grew stronger and stronger to the point that Chi Zhao felt like he was about to vomit. Finally, he spoke up with an aggrieved look, “Im-Imperial Uncle, let Zhen do it. It’ll be faster that way.”

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Shen Wumian was stunned for a moment. For a moment he didn’t understand what he meant but he soon reacted. He couldn’t help but let out a soft laugh. He was originally very good looking so laughing lowly like that was foul play. Chi Zhao’s ears turned red. In order to hide it, he no longer cared about whether Shen Wumian agreed and snatched over the bowl of medicine. With the attitude of a brave warrior, gulp, gulp, gulp, he drank it all down.

Seeing him drink it so hastily, both the eunuch and Shen Wuman were shocked. The former was afraid of Shen Wumian’s wrath. After all, the prince regent had been moody these days and no one dared to provoke him. The latter on the other hand was purely just afraid of the young Emperor choking.

The eunuch received the empty bowl and then reached over to pick up the handkerchief, but the prince regent was one step ahead of him. In a blink of an eye, the handkerchief was in the prince regent’s hand and used to wipe away the residual medicine by Chi Zhao’s lips. Once done, that handkerchief wasn’t thrown back onto the tray and instead folded up and stored away in the prince regent’s clothes.

The young Emperor was too busy enduring the bitter aftertaste in his mouth, so he didn’t notice this, but the eunuch witnessed it all. Shen Wumian had done it so skilfully and naturally; as if it was a matter of course for him to hide things used by the Emperor. The eunuch stared wide eyed for a moment and even temporarily forgot about his own identity. Shen Wumian gave him a faint look, the coldness in his eyes making the eunuch tremble and quickly lower his head. The eunuch then proceeded to quickly retreat out of the room.

During the implicit and conservative ancient times, many things carry very special meanings and it wouldn’t be given to others thoughtlessly. This included things like jade pendants, folding fans and the likes as well as items that should only be given between couples like brocades and hairpins.

Shen Wumian also knew that his behaviour wasn’t very gentlemanly, but he had done it out of impulse. The young Emperor’s ‘unintentional words’ just now left his heart heavy and despite reassuring himself that it would take time, he still felt very uneasy and wanted to secretly take away something belonging to the young Emperor to calm himself a little.

Chi Zhao raised his eyes and was immediately met with Shen Wumian’s gaze. Looking into the dark eyes that seemed like it could almost suck him in. Chi Zhao blinked a few times and let out a faint smile.

He shouldn’t speak hurtfully too often. If he did, Shen Wumian would notice that something wasn’t right. It didn’t matter, there was still plenty of time. Chi Zhao may not have anything else, but he had a lot of time.

As a result of the past two days, Chi Zhao’s biological clock seemed to have turned upside down. After staying up until midnight, Chi Zhao finally felt sleepy. Shen Wumian who had been staying there the entire time finally said that he would leave when he noticed this. Lying on the bed, Chi Zhao closed his eyes and could sense that the lights outside had been extinguished. He rolled over lazily and continued to brew in sleepiness.

The system who had lost its will to live had been watching his and Shen Wumian’s interactions all this time. At this moment, it couldn’t help but ask a question.

【Why are you able to do it this time?】

Chi Zhao was quiet for a moment and then he rubbed his eyes, “What?”

【Weren’t you too soft-hearted to abuse to the protagonist before? Why are you able to do it this time?】

Although Chi Zhao didn’t speak, the system understood what he was thinking. He was wondering why the system was asking such an obvious question.

System: “…….” Although I live in your mind, I am not an actual roundworm. Unless you actually form that thought properly in your mind, I wouldn’t know what you are thinking!

Letting out a yawn, Chi Zhao softly replied, “Because, he is not a good person.”

To return grievance with grievance and take revenge on those who have wronged him, there was nothing wrong with that. Shen Wumian however didn’t do that and instead took his anger out on many people indiscriminately. Based on his actions, he clearly didn’t care much about human lives.

In his eyes, it didn’t matter if the person obstructing his goals was dead.

But that was also very normal. Shen Wumian was a politician and military strategist. With such a status, if he cared about a few the lives, he would long be dead.

Chi Zhao didn’t think that he was wrong because of this so he didn’t give him the label of a bad person. After all, people go down different roads, experience different lives and make different decisions. Chi Zhao wouldn’t criticise him for that, but he also wouldn’t sympathise with him.

He just felt that they were of different values.

The system didn’t speak for a while. It felt that the protagonist this time was probably the most unfortunate one out of all the worlds. Chi Zhao’s character was one that disliked tyrants but things like getting rid of dissidents and murdering indiscriminately had already been done by Shen Wumian and it had reached Chi Zhao’s ears through Hong Lei. If he wanted to make Chi Zhao fall in love with him, it was likely a very difficult endeavour.

What an unfortunate protagonist.

The more the system thought about it, the more emotional it felt. It even let out a emotional laugh.

……..

【Oh right, I will soon be participating in the preliminary rounds. At that time, I will be away for about half a month——–】

Before it could finish speaking, Chi Zhao had already casually waved his head, “Okay, I understand. Go on, I can handle everything myself.”

【You won’t be alone. There will be a substitute system coming to replace me.】

Chi Zhao who was originally not paying too much attention to the conversation suddenly became interested. He asked curiously, “Who? One your brothers or sisters? Are they also a slag shou system?”

【That I do not know. It has not been arranged yet. In any case, it will definitely be a reliable system so don’t worry.】

Chi Zhao heard this and nodded in agreement, “I believe that. There cannot be a system more unreliable than you.”

System: “………..”

Just a small concussion actually made Chi Zhao rest in bed for a whole month. It couldn’t be helped, the medical skills in this world was just too poor. Furthermore, Chi Zhao’s physique also wasn’t good, so it took all kinds of top-quality medicine to allow him to recover after a month. If he was born into an ordinary family, he would have probably had to be bedridden for three or five years.

Of course, if he was born into an ordinary family, he wouldn’t have been poisoned.

After a two-month absence, Chi Zhao finally returned to court wearing his golden robe. Having not seen the officials for two months, Chi Zhao scanned through the crowd and noticed that there were many new faces while the familiar faces seemed to be wordlessly taking him in. They couldn’t help but have scheming thoughts when they saw the Emperor’s visibly thinner figure and pale face.

It was estimated that it wouldn’t be long for the Emperor to pass away. They didn’t know if the prince regent was planning on taking over the throne himself or supporting another puppet Emperor.

The court began. All the officials quickly stored away those thoughts and knelt down to greet the Emperor. Chi Zhao who had not been out for a month felt that everything was interesting, but he really didn’t have much energy in him. After just walking that short distance, he was already short of breath.

He didn’t know how the original owner managed to persist like this for three years.

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Noting that the young Emperor didn’t seem to be in good spirits, a look of chagrin flashed through Shen Wumian’s eyes.

He should’ve made him rest a little longer. It was probably too much coming to court again so soon.

At the same time, his heart was also anxious and depressed. Poisoning was easy but detoxifying that was hard. In his previous life, he had hired countless top doctors but, in the end, he wasn’t able to save himself. In this life the young Emperor hadn’t taken much of the poison and he still remembered the same statements those doctors gave so it shouldn’t be too difficult to treat it this time.

He used his memory to find the doctors who gave the same responses and finally discovered that their knowledge all came from the same source. With further investigation, it just coincidentally happened that these top doctors were taught by the same doctor while they were on duty in the hospital and that doctor just happened to be an imperial doctor.

Seeing the name of the imperial doctor, Shen Wumian remembered that he was the old doctor with strong personality who was even indifferent to him.

In his previous life, that imperial doctor happened to have returned to his hometown and after he left for who knows what countryside, no one could find him. Shen Wumian had no intention to let him leave in this lifetime.

Shen Wumian detained that person and also gave him a lot of benefits with the request that he get rid of the toxins in the young Emperor’s body. The old doctor however just listened with lowered eyes while he drank his tea as Shen Wumian told him what poison the Emperor was given and how much. He didn’t speak for a long time. Shen Wumian waited patiently thinking that the case was probably very difficult even for the old imperial doctor but after finishing his cup of tea, the old imperial doctor looked up again and appeared to be surprised.

That look of his seemed to say: Why are you still here?

Shen Wumian: “……..”

After some thought the old imperial doctor seemed to remember what he had forgotten to say. He nodded, “My lord, take care leaving.”

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System: 【I don’t want to live anymore.】
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