The MC and the villain are absolutely f*****g true love

Wild Grass of Love

Bai Xuejian had been slapped into a little flower-face and was kneeling on the ground looking aggrieved.

Xia Jingtian’s heart was full of guilt. He bent down to help him up.

The system’s voice appeared at the most inappropriate moment: [Warm reminder: OOC. Xia Jingtian would never humbly stoop to help Bai Xuejian up.]

Xia Jingtian’s hand brushed past the one Bai Xuejian had stretched out toward him, and instead he picked up a stone from the bottom of the pit.

Bai Xuejian’s entire face flushed crimson. That shy, bashful look was exactly like a little daughter-in-law’s.

Xia Jingtian cursed inwardly: “What era is this? You’re not even allowing transmigrators to OOC? How the hell am I supposed to OOC then?!”

The system’s icy tone: [Very simple.] The smug satisfaction of having successfully lured him into the trap was palpable.

Xia Jingtian’s intuition screamed that something was off.

System: [Confess your love to someone and you can unlock OOC.]

Xia Jingtian’s mind was already a tangled mess. When the system suddenly dropped that line, it both ruined the mood and far exceeded his psychological expectations, making him blurt out: “Just what kind of demon or monster are you?!”

This sudden outburst truly startled Bai Xuejian and the others.

Girl A was standing opposite Xia Jingtian. Thinking he was yelling at her, her face instantly turned pale. She stammered: “Senior Brother Xia, you… what are you saying? Did you lose your memory?”

The system fell silent.

Seeing Girl A so frightened, Xia Jingtian had no heart to comfort her. He had to maintain the cold, gloomy, ruthless character design, so he only shook his head heavily. Inwardly he said to the system: “Then I insist on OOCing. What can you do to me?”

[Detected host violation. System punishment triggered.]

Xia Jingtian: ?

Without even a chance to defend himself, Xia Jingtian only felt a bolt of lightning strike straight down on the crown of his head. A wave of tingling, painful shivers spread from the top of his skull through every limb and marrow.

Xia Jingtian’s vision went black. He toppled backward onto the ground.

The bottom of the pit erupted in uproar.

Young Master B: “Ah, Senior Brother Xia!!”

Girl A: “Wuwuwu, Senior Brother Xia…”

Even Bai Xuejian was startled and looked at the fallen Xia Jingtian in confusion.

The system’s voice echoed in Xia Jingtian’s mind.

[Respected Host, please allow this system to give you a brief introduction.]

[Destined Female-Channel Romance System, dedicated to crafting noble, luxurious, and profound romantic masterpieces for all readers.]

[Keyword triggered: World-Shaking True Love.]

[Host must abandon traditional xianxia power-fantasy tropes and seek out and bind your fated true-love person. Rest assured, with this system present, Host will never encounter difficulties.]

[Sugar Value: Initial 0, full score 100.]

[Peerless Good Man Value: Initial 0, full score 100.]

[Protagonist Aura: Initial 100, no upper limit.]

[True-Love Satisfaction: Initial 0, no upper limit. P.S. Fated person not yet bound.]

[More main-line values not yet unlocked. Other values: Domineering CEO Value, Devoted Boyfriend Value, Little Puppy Value, Big Wolf Dog Value, Loyal Dog Value, Yin-Damp Male Ghost Value, etc.]

[Accumulate values to unlock achievements and easter eggs. Any main-line value dropping below zero will immediately trigger repatriation. Host’s ending upon returning to the original world is only one—dagger, you understand.]

[Additionally, Aura –10. Current Protagonist Aura: 90. Wish you a pleasant time.]

What “noble, luxurious, and profound”! I’m still the wild, cool, explosive, and heaven-defying one here!

Even after being electrocuted unconscious, Xia Jingtian could still converse with the system in his subconscious: “Zapping people is one thing, but why deduct Aura as well? Deducting Aura is one thing, but ten points at a time?! Ten! A full ten, damn it!”

The system’s contrasting subway-broadcast voice rang coldly in Xia Jingtian’s mind: [Host, you have fainted twice in a row in front of the NPCs. It makes you appear fragile and has affected the image you hold in everyone’s hearts, meeting the standard for Aura deduction.]

“f**k! The first time I fainted was because I myself fell. The second time was because you electrocuted me. Why is it counted against me? Is there any justice left?!”

[The increase or decrease of Aura depends on your external performance and outsiders’ perceptions. The system only calculates the results.]

The system was completely inhuman. Xia Jingtian was just about to be speechless when his consciousness was suddenly forced back to reality.

Xia Jingtian abruptly woke up, jumped to his feet, and looked at everyone with a face full of indignation: “How long was I unconscious?”

Girl A wiped her tears and said hesitantly: “Just… just a little while.”

Young Master B: “You got up the moment you fell. Senior Brother Xia, are you alright?”

Xia Jingtian cursed the system under his breath and said: “Minor issue. No—completely fine.”

Bai Xuejian was still kneeling on the ground, head lowered like a student who had done something wrong.

Xia Jingtian’s face was icy, looking completely indifferent. He threw away the stone in his hand, then deliberately put on a casual air and grabbed Bai Xuejian’s arm, intending to yank him up in one pull. He used his full strength yet failed to move him.

Bai Xuejian knelt on the ground like a stone statue, wearing an expression that said he would rather die than be humiliated.

Xia Jingtian’s face turned ashen: I’m telling you, Old Ancestor! Spare people where you can, alright? I already admitted I was wrong—isn’t that enough?

“Get up,” Xia Jingtian said coldly.

Bai Xuejian said nothing.

Behind him, Girl A and Young Master B had somehow drawn close together and were whispering like ordinary commoners watching a street spectacle.

Xia Jingtian glanced at them awkwardly and instantly felt he couldn’t save face. He turned back to Bai Xuejian and said darkly: “I said get up.”

Bai Xuejian ignored him.

“Hurry up and get up! What kind of behavior is this?!” Xia Jingtian finally lost his temper.

Bai Xuejian innocently pursed his lips, his face lengthening, tears instantly welling in his eyes. He put dark force into his entire body, clearly demonstrating his determination that a scholar may be killed but not humiliated.

He couldn’t scold him, couldn’t hit him. Xia Jingtian’s head was about to explode. In an instant he was at a complete loss, not even knowing where to put his hands.

According to Xia Jingtian’s top-tier understanding of the characters in the book, if he picked Bai Xuejian up with both arms it would be OOC, if he comforted Bai Xuejian it would be OOC, if he coaxed Bai Xuejian it would be OOC—only beating, scolding, and humiliating would not be OOC.

What would the original Xia Jingtian do? Of course he would simply go all the way—at lightest leave Bai Xuejian alone, at heaviest give him another kick so that the pain would make him get up.

But wouldn’t that be a bit too inhumane? After all, he had been the one to strike first, right?

Xia Jingtian clicked his tongue and turned to look at Girl A, hesitating.

Confessing love was something that would most likely ruin a girl’s reputation; he absolutely could not do that. So he turned to Young Master B: “That… you. I like you…”

Girl A’s entire body trembled. She took a huge step back from Young Master B, her expression as if she had just learned some earth-shattering secret.

Young Master B shook his head so hard it became a rattle-drum. His level of dumbfoundedness surpassed even Girl A’s.

Bai Xuejian neither cried, nor made a scene, nor threatened to hang himself. He also stopped putting dark force into his body. His face was expressionless; he only lifted his two eyes, sparkling as they gazed at Xia Jingtian—but that gaze seemed to want to turn Xia Jingtian upside down and examine him.

System: [Congratulations. OOC function unlocked.]

Xia Jingtian turned to look at Bai Xuejian, squatted down, and looked straight at him: “Fine, you win, alright? Senior Brother really didn’t mean to slap you on purpose. Even if I wanted to hit someone, it wouldn’t be the current you.”

What Xia Jingtian wanted to hit was naturally the later Bai Xuejian who had constantly opposed the protagonist Xia Jingtian and stolen his popularity.

Popularity affected how much an author loved a character. Precisely because Bai Xuejian displayed far higher commercial value than Xia Jingtian, the author Satan Dances had written the protagonist into the ground. Xia Jingtian had always firmly believed this in his heart.

Seeing Bai Xuejian suddenly freeze, Xia Jingtian gave himself a mental slap across the mouth: “Said the wrong thing by accident. Stop dawdling and get up already.” As he spoke he reached out to pull him.

Seeing that Bai Xuejian still looked dazed, Xia Jingtian slipped both hands under Bai Xuejian’s armpits and heaved him up with force. This time Bai Xuejian did not resist and allowed Xia Jingtian to manhandle him.

“Don’t move.” Xia Jingtian patted the dust off the hems of the now-standing Bai Xuejian’s clothes.

Bai Xuejian stared fixedly at Xia Jingtian, who was bent over brushing the dust off him. Even after Xia Jingtian straightened up, those eyes never blinked once.

Out of the corner of his eye Xia Jingtian saw Young Master B behind him looking at him with restrained shyness, hesitating as if he wanted to say something. Xia Jingtian knew he still had one more hurdle to pass, so he faced Young Master B directly: “What is it?”

Young Master B lowered his head timidly: “Senior Brother Xia… could it be that you are… cut-sleeve…”

“No!” Xia Jingtian declared righteously. “I merely saw Young Master and felt as if I were seeing pure lotus in a clear pond, and further saw that Young Master’s physique was refined like sturdy bamboo, sleeves rising with a thin wind. For a moment admiration arose in my heart. It is only mutual appreciation between those of the same s*x. Do not misunderstand.”

As he spoke he put on an air of worldly maturity and patted Young Master B’s shoulder.

Young Master B instantly achieved great enlightenment. He looked at Xia Jingtian as if he had met a kindred spirit and even cupped his hands in a bow.

Xia Jingtian let out a breath of relief and continued: “To be honest with you all, I do have a slight case of amnesia—most likely from the fall. So what is our current situation? Whoever studies well, come explain it clearly to me. Don’t leave out any details.”

Girl A and Young Master B both looked toward Bai Xuejian.

With a hint this obvious, Xia Jingtian could no longer play dumb. So he looked at Bai Xuejian: “You say it…”

Bai Xuejian said solemnly: “Senior Brother, do you still remember the name of our group?”

Xia Jingtian: “Not very clearly…”

“We are the White Snake Group. This month’s mission is to gather a certain medicinal herb. The higher the quality of the herbs collected, the better the rewards naturally will be. Therefore, at Senior Brother’s suggestion…”

“Wait, wait, wait!” Xia Jingtian interrupted Bai Xuejian in disbelief. “My suggestion? Are you saying that us being here right now is entirely because of me?”

Bai Xuejian smiled faintly: “Of course not. Senior Brother bringing us to this remote place was also for the good of the group members. Everyone wants good rewards. Encountering a strange beast was after all an accident—how could we blame Senior Brother?”

‘Senior Brother bringing us to this remote place was also for the good of the group members… Encountering a strange beast—how could we blame Senior Brother~’

Xia Jingtian felt that no matter how he listened to that sentence, it was grating. Moreover, in novels, the act of harming fellow disciples—whether conscious or unconscious—was eighty percent cannon-fodder behavior, wasn’t it?

Night began to fall. The light at the mouth of the pit seemed to withdraw like a white snake’s tail. Strangely, the surroundings were growing more and more unfamiliar—especially Bai Xuejian.

Through Bai Xuejian’s narration, Xia Jingtian had already roughly understood the current situation.

The White Snake Group had encountered a giant venomous spider. Presumably afterward the four members of the group had fled in all directions. Xia Jingtian had unfortunately (?) fallen into the pit, and Bai Xuejian, Girl A, and Young Master B had also jumped in to avoid the venomous spider.

This kind of large artificial pit was generally used by aristocratic clans specifically to capture cultivation resources—strange beasts. Although the pit Xia Jingtian and the others were in had clearly been abandoned for a long time, strange beasts would still avoid such pits from a distance when they saw them.

In other words, that venomous spider might still be waiting at the mouth of the pit like a hunter waiting for a rabbit.

The more Xia Jingtian thought about it, the angrier he became: “Then what herb did we manage to collect? I want to see what broken grass is worth us risking our lives for!”

Young Master B quickly took down the coarse cloth bundle hanging from his shoulder. The bundle that had been quiet just a moment ago suddenly began to wriggle, the amplitude of the movements growing larger and larger.

Xia Jingtian watched until goosebumps rose all over his skin.

Young Master B placed the bundle on the ground and skillfully untied the knot. Astonishing red light burst forth, illuminating the darkness at the bottom of the pit. Young Master B thrust his right hand into the bundle and quickly withdrew it, holding one end of three red cords. The other ends of the red cords were clearly tied to some kind of living creatures inside the bundle.

When the bundle was fully opened, three red creatures unexpectedly shot out. Young Master B held them firmly; they struggled, trying to escape from the center of his palm.

They were Love Eggplants! Also known as “the wild grass of love.”

A magical plant in the Gu world that closely resembled ginseng and walked with root-legs like a pair of feet. Its most famous effect was not raising cultivation, but aphrodisiac.

People in the Gu world often lost passion for their partners because they were busy with cultivation and survival. Love Eggplants were undoubtedly a magical aphrodisiac that any man would want to obtain! Unfortunately, Love Eggplants were plants that lived only in legends; people knew extremely little about them.

Xia Jingtian looked with disgust at the three Love Eggplants on the ground that were as red as if they had been set on fire. A woman adorns herself for the one who delights her; a gentleman dies for the one who understands him. If he died for such a broken aphrodisiac, it would simply be an insult to his great reputation.

No—of course he wouldn’t die, because he was the protagonist! The protagonist had the protagonist’s halo! The protagonist’s halo could display domineering power.