Yi Lihua was a beautiful woman who was known throughout Qiao City as one of the Seven Jade Beauties.
Her light blue hair, a feature common to the Yi clan, flowed like tranquil water and the curves of her body were emphasized by the clothes that she was wearing.
Thump. Thump.
Although he was trying to hide it, as a Late-stage Qi Condensation cultivator, she could sense that something was up with him.
There was turmoil and confusion in his eyes that was growing every second.
Normally, she would've kept the act up but he had never seen him make such an expression before so she couldn't help but ask, "Yi Tian, what's wrong?"
As she asked that, as if the world was playing around with Yi Tian, a gust of wind blew in a direction where the flowery scent of her body wafted through the air and into his nose.
'Did the system do this?'
Yi Tian fell to his knees.
"Oh my! Yi Tian, are you sick?" she asked.
[Inner Thoughts: If he's sick, maybe I'll have an excuse to stay in his bedroom as he sleeps. I could make an excuse that I'm trying to curry favor with Auntie. Please please please be sick.]
"...I don't know," he responded. "I think I am," he lied.
Looking up at the woman standing before him, his heart felt like it was about to burst out of his chest.
He knew that what he was feeling at the moment wasn't love.
It's just that knowing that someone who he believed was indifferent about him his whole life was actually in love with him, he was experiencing a level of lustful feelings towards someone that he had never experienced before.
"Yi Lihua," he called her name.
"What?"
"I think I like you," he confessed.
A part of him felt guilty about lying but he couldn't help it.
He wanted a taste of the gourmet meal in front of him. Both to satisfy his beastly desires and to test out his system.
[Inner Thoughts: What did he say!? What did he just fucking say!? Did he just say that he likes me!? Calm down! Calm down. You're probably misunderstanding this. If you react weirdly, he might get creeped out and start distancing himself from you.]
There was a brief moment of silence before Yi Lihua rolled her eyes and said, "You already know I'm only friendly with you because of your mother. Don't tell me you think we're friends just because of that. You're more foolish than I thought."
"No," he shook his head. "I don't like you as friends. I like you as a man to woman."
"W-w-what are you talking a-about?" she stuttered as she took a step back.
She didn't know what to say or how to react when she suddenly noticed something strange about Yi Tian.
In his pants, in between his legs, there was a tent poking upwards.
Her face began turning red like a tomato.
[Inner Thoughts: .....]
"You're clearly sick and I don't want to catch whatever it is so... so I'm going to head home for today," she said, running away.
As she began heading back, she didn't even realize that ten minutes had passed and when she looked up, she realized that she had headed in the wrong direction.
Entering an alleyway, she fell to her knees.
"He... he likes me?" she said while burying her scorching hot face in between her hands.
Then she suddenly remembered the boner he had and steam started coming out of her head.
"He said he likes me. He said he likes me."
She then shook her head.
"But I can't. He's a loser... right, he's a loser. A loser that mother said I shouldn't hang around. Our relationship wouldn't accepted because I'm a talented beauty and he's... he's... he's handsome," she started melting at the thought of them being together.
* * *
After Yi Lihua left, Yi Tian who was now alone in the garden sat down on the wooden foundation of his home.
He was aware of the fact that he could read people's inner thoughts but he didn't think that it would be this exposing.
Not only did it reveal the truth about how people felt about him but it would also help him determine who to trust in the future.
"With this... I'll know who to kill and who to leave alive," he whispered.
Nobody else was in the area to see as his face turned dark and his eyes looked like they were about to swallow everything.
For over a decade, he had been keeping these feelings of his hidden.
He simply held back because he couldn't do anything.
But now he did.
Now there was a path for him to follow. A path that led to the revenge he desperately desired.
Nothing they said hurt. Nothing they did to him mattered.
But those people didn't keep it to just him. The words they said about his mother, calling her useless for being unable to utilize the genes of the hero Yi Pengfei to produce a useful offspring.
Even though it wasn't official, his mother was practically disowned by her father and was isolated from her siblings who pretended as if she didn't exist.
Everything they did and said, all of that had stuck with him since his earliest memory.
"Enjoy your days people, because the number of them you have left is counting down," he said.
Then in an instant, he returned to normal as if he hadn't just resembled an oni earlier.
"I was going to refrain from indulging in anything naughty today but after what Yi Lihua caused to my little brother," he said as he looked down at his pants which was bulging a few minutes ago.
* * *
[Tang Mei]
[Inner Thoughts: Fuck! Why did I have to be so unlucky? I thought this bastard was going to not do anything perverted today. What did I expect from the clan's disgrace? I just hope he finishes fast today so I can leave and finish my chores. Does he think I'll receive my paycheck if I don't finish my work? Fuck! Fuck! I was going to give my first time to someone I love. Not a useless bum like him.]
[Love Points: 0 (Hatred)]
[Cultivation Level: None]
[Cultivation Method: None]
[etc.]
Compared to Yi Lihua, Tang Mei, one of Yi Tian's servants had inner thoughts and a love rating which was more accurate to how the general populace felt about him.
But even if he was a powerless young master who was held in a negative light, he was still a member of the Yi clan, the son of the hero and the grandson of the clan leader.
Not a single ordinary servant or worker would be able to refuse his order.
[Yin-Yang Method of Harmony (lvl. 1)]
[Master Method of Domination (lvl. 1)]
[Soul-Snatcher Method of Death (lvl. 1)]
[Leech Method of Drainage (lvl. 1)]
[Perverted Energy: 5]
Looking at his four different dual cultivation methods, he contemplated which one to pick.
The Yin-Yang Method was meant for two cultivators to share their yin and yang energy, allowing both to grow during sex.
The Master Method was intended to subjugate enemies and make it so they were unable to disobey his orders.
The Soul-Snatcher Method literally drained the life force of the partner which was the dual cultivation method that other cultivators used around the world.
She had negative feelings towards him but he didn't feel like killing her or turning her into a slave.
It wasn't like her thoughts affected him. If anything, it was more tame than he thought it would be.
So he went with the Leech Method. This method would drain the qi in her body and turn it into P.E. for him to use.
After awakening his system, Yi Tian now understood that no matter what, he'd never be able to use qi like other people.
Instead, he would have to rely on P.E. to activate skills and upgrade his cultivation level and martial arts.
Grabbing her by the arm, he tossed her to the bed.
"Ah," she sounded as she fell onto her back.
"Get undressed," he told her as he stared at her with eyes that she wasn't used to seeing.
Tang Mei had heard rumors about Yi Tian from her courtesan friends.
He was a wimp who just laid there and allowed them to do what they pleased with his body or when he was the one taking the initiative, he was very gentle to the point of annoying the women.
"At least he has a nice-looking face," said one of them.
"Too bad it belongs to a useless piece of trash," another one said.
"Imagine if someone like Yi Han had his face."
All the girls sighed at the thought of the most talented Yi youth member having Yi Tian's face.
[Inner Thoughts: I thought he was gentle with his partner. Why is he looking at me like I'm a piece of meat? *Gulp*]
Either they were lying to her — or something had changed about her young master.