A Smile From the Villain [BL]

ASV Chapter 19: Elder Brother in the Mask

Translator: Chrysanthemum Bud

Qin Kaiyi opened his eyes and found himself lying on the soft bed in his own bedroom. The bed had a familiar smell. He got up and went to the kitchen to pour himself a glass of water.

What was he doing just now? It seemed like he forgot something important? Rubbing his messy hair, Qin Kaiyi guzzled the water, then sat on the computer chair in his living room and began to get lost in thought.

The empty feeling in his heart made Qin Kaiyi feel anxious. He lit a cigarette and looked around at his surroundings. He was now at home, but what should he do at home? Qin Kaiyi licked his dry lips, and suddenly noticed the computer in front of him. A lightbulb went on in his head–he wrote novels at home!

That's right, he just wrote novels. It seemed he had grasped something important. Qin Kaiyi tremblingly pressed the power button, and after a few minutes he heard the familiar power-on music. He clicked on some novel-writing software with practiced ease, then scrolled all the way to the bottom of the page.

"Qin Shi, who was locked in the large array again, gave a painful □. A dark cloud hovered over his head, and from time to time golden lightning flashed through that black cloud. Qin Shi raised his head..." Reading these words, Qin Kaiyi felt as if his head had been hit by something. He looked around at the scenery which should be familiar with a shocked expression, but found that his surroundings seemed somehow indistinct. What he could see was blurred, as if covered with steam, and his head again felt that violent pain. Qin Kaiyi grabbed at his own hair and let out a pained □... fake, this was all fake!!! (T/N: not sure what the empty boxes are. That's what the author wrote in, instead of a word).

Along with the severe pain, Qin Kaiyi clearly saw the scene in front of him twist, like a mirage destroyed by sunlight. The entire space fragmented.

"Who are you?" Qin Kaiyi frowned as he looked at the person-shaped flame in front of him. Even if he were using his toes to think instead of his brain, he would understand that what he had just experienced was related to the strange thing in front of him.

"I am Yan Gu." Seeing that Qin Kaiyi's consciousness did not disappear after he had invaded, Yan Gu's mood was obviously not very good. The body made of flame glowed a dazzling red light in Qin Kaiyi's sea of ​​knowledge. Yan Gu's tone was a little unpleasant: "You actually didn't disappear?"

"Why should I disappear?" Qin Kaiyi expressed extreme bemusement towards this entire situation: "Why do you appear in my sea of ​​knowledge, what kind of thing are you?"

"You are a thing," the self-proclaimed Yan Gu sneered. "I didn't expect that you, a foundation-building cultivator, had this kind of willpower. The illusion didn't whittle away all your will..."

Hearing this, Qin Kaiyi finally understood his situation. Items in the secret realm really were not to be trifled with. Even a mask picked up by the roadside could lead someone astray. If not for the fact that he was not of this world, he would long have been trapped in the illusion. But those of this world would never be able to understand what Qin Kaiyi really wanted.

"Let me make a deal with you." Noticing Qin Kaiyi's uncertainty, Yan Gu's expression changed: "I can give you countless rare treasures, but you have to agree to help me do one thing."

"I don't want to." Qin Kaiyi directly refused.

"Don't want to?" Hearing Qin Kaiyi's merciless rejection, Yan was stunned for a moment, and then angrily said: "I didn't even tell you what I want you to do and you refused?"

"What can you give me?" Qin Kaiyi looked at this strange man in front of him with a smile.

"Top-level elixirs, the most precious rare books, talismans... I can give you anything you can think of," Yan Gu said.