Snake and Rabbit (2)

"So this is the Bai clan's heir?" A seductive voice entered Yin Mei's ears from beyond the curtains covering the bed, and Yin Mei quickly withdrew her gaze from her surroundings, kneeling down with her mother and father while making a sound of acknowledgement.

This voice all by itself was enough to make one's imagination go crazy! In the information, it described the demon king as having a devilish appearance that made men and women alike drool. Compared to the male lead, the demon king's appearance was slightly more effeminate. Although the demon king couldn't pass for a female, he could definitely pass for a bottom. Though, this was all in Yin Mei's imagination. For Yin Mei, who had some fujoshi tendencies, she couldn't help but think what a beautiful picture it would be if the demon king got together with the male lead, who was described as possessing an appearance that oozed male pheromones.

Although she hadn't seen the appearance of the demon king or the male lead yet, she couldn't help but have such thoughts in her head.

She inwardly shook her head in disappointment. It was too bad that both of them had been seduced by the female lead's Mary Sue aura.

A pale slender hand reached out from beyond the curtain, revealing the demon king as he stood up and approached the family of three. Yin Mei, hearing the rustling of fabric, couldn't help but take a peek, only to be shocked silly.

It really was a beauty that could destroy countries! Not only that, but he was wearing a loose crimson robe that revealed the pale and creamy skin of his chest... this fan service was too much! Yin Mei struggled to keep herself from loudly swallowing her saliva as she dragged her gaze away and focused her eyes on the ground. He was more beautiful than any person on the Earth she was on before. But, feeling those cold snake-like eyes on her, any thoughts she shouldn't have flew far, far away.

Yin Mei had never experienced the pressure that came from a person's aura before, and experiencing the demon king's aura now, she couldn't help but break out into a cold sweat. It felt as if the room's temperature had dropped by ten degrees, and it was all she could do to keep herself from shivering.

"You may rise." The demon king's beautiful voice once again entered Yin Mei's ears. It took her a moment to react before she was able to follow the lead of Bai Yu's parents in standing up. She kept her head and gaze lowered, not daring to take another peek at the demon king's appearance, lest she be seduced by that beautiful face. The outside is so beautiful, but the inside is completely rotten. She couldn't help but lament this world where all the beauties had some sort of personality problem.

The demon king's steps were silent, but Yin Mei could still hear the sound of his silk robe sliding across the floor as he walked around her, observing her, studying her. Her body was completely stiff, and a thousand grass mud horses were running across her heart at once. This was too much pressure for her little heart!

But, right as Yin Mei was about to reach a breaking point, she could finally feel the demon king's gaze leaving her body. She noticeably relaxed, but she stopped the sigh of relief that was about to exit her. After all, if the demon king heard her, it wouldn't be too good, right?

The beauty returned to his bed, allowing Yin Mei to finally dare to lift her head up. Only a hazy shadow of the demon king was left as he had retreated back behind his bed curtains. The curtains were red, just like his robes. Yin Mei felt that this sort of bright bloody red really suited the demon king. The contrast between the color and his skin was really...

"You can retreat now," the demon king said, interrupting Yin Mei's train of thought and bringing her back to attention.

Bai Yu's parents only let out a sound of agreement, bowing as they dragged her out of the room.

"Eh? That's it?" Yin Mei couldn't help but ask. Her voice was unnaturally quiet though, as she was still afraid that the demon king could hear her. Considering his high cultivation, he probably could, but she really couldn't help but ask this.

"It's not good to disturb His Majesty any longer. He had no complaints, so you will be able to start your servitude tomorrow." Bai Yu's father, Bai Mu said. "Your mother will teach you all the ropes, so don't worry about anything."

Yin Mei could only nod as she followed the two back to the Jade Bamboo Valley. She wasn't very keen on tomorrow, feeling that serving this demon king was way too stressful. She felt that by the end of the mission, she would have a head full of white hair! She paused, then thought that was slightly wrong. After all, her hair was already white...

When she returned to her little hut, Yin Mei immediately dived into her bed to sleep. At her level, cultivators didn't need to sleep at all, and many would instead spend the night meditating, but Yin Mei was still used to her human habits. Not only that, but she truly enjoyed sleeping. Feeling mentally tired, she quickly fell unconscious.

In her dream land, she was once again in that white room, accompanied with 097. She couldn't help but want to curse out loud. This thing didn't even let her rest when she was asleep!

"Host, this system has made adjustments to the first mission after taking in account the host's abilities," 097 said.

Yin Mei perked up, feeling her spirits lift a little. This was good! The system actually had taken into account her recommendations. Surely this mission would be easier now, right?

"The first mission is now to kill the male lead."

Yin Mei blacked out.

She shot up on her bed, breathing heavily and her hair sticking to her forehead, as if she had awoken from a nightmare. "Phew, it was just a nightmare. Hahaha, there is no way that the system just asked me to kill a son of heaven, who possesses a powerful golden finger, not at all, it must have just been a horrible dream!"

"Host, do not worry, it was not just a bad dream. Host's new mission is to eliminate the male lead."

The system doused her hopes, turning the girl completely silent as a gloomy aura descended upon the room.

"Don't worry my foot! Why is it that the mission has gotten harder! It's the male lead, the male lead you know?" Yin Mei felt like she was going to go crazy. The male lead, not only was he the blessed son of heaven who had the protagonist's halo, but he also had the golden finger and was the man of the female lead. Seducing him had been hard enough of a challenge, but then it suddenly jumped to killing him? Wasn't that actually physically impossible? It practically went against the laws of the universe! To top it off, Yin Mei had lived in the peaceful modern world, where killing was far from her mind. She felt like the system hadn't taken in account her abilities at all!

"System, this took into account my abilities even less. Suddenly telling me to kill the male lead is too much. It's destined to fail. Please change the mission again," Yin Mei said.

"This mission has properly taken into account host's abilities." The system replied coldly.

"No, no, no, it definitely hasn't. No matter how I think about it, it hasn't?" Yin Mei answered.

"It has." It seems that the system wouldn't change its mind this time.

Yin Mei swore that she would no longer try to change the mission again, or else who knew how many levels of difficulty it would increase by next time?

"What will happen if I fail?" Yin Mei asked, already thinking that she should just forego this world's mission and hope the next one would be easier.

"If host fails, host will be sent to a penalty world with a higher difficulty."

Yin Mei couldn't imagine what a higher difficulty world would look like. She already felt that this world's difficulty was too high for her! Didn't other people get to have an easier world first, as a tutorial run? Why is it that only she got such a hard world and mission right off the bat?

But, although she was still cursing the system in her mind, she could only start to think of a way to defeat the male lead. Even though imagining killing a person made her sick to her stomach, for her own sake, she could only toughen up.

First of all, Yin Mei thought that she couldn't kill the male lead herself. She didn't have that sort of capability. The only one who could match up to the male lead was the demon king, but she wasn't sure how she would be able to get the demon king to kill the male lead. She decided to put that off until later. The most important thing was to cripple the male lead's golden finger first. The male lead's golden finger was that treasure from the upper realm. It was a good thing that the treasure was described in depth in the information given by the system, or Yin Mei really wouldn't be sure what to do.

The treasure that the male lead possessed was... well, it was also very cliche, like the rest of the storyline, but Yin Mei had to admit that it was still very powerful, worth the entire upper realm going mad for it. The treasure was a plain black ring. Because a storage ring couldn't contain it, the male lead could only wear it around his neck at all times. He didn't wear it on his finger, as he wanted to keep it hidden. The ring itself did not have any real significant abilities. It was simply a very powerful storage ring, containing a mustard seed dimension created by a godly expert from the upper realm. It was what was inside that mustard seed dimension that was important. Not only was the legacy of that godly expert left behind, but so was a vast collection of knowledge that he had obtained over his long years of life.

For the male lead, who possessed such knowledge at his fingertips, it was easy for him to appear like a god amongst humans. After all, he had obtained the greatest cultivation methods of the upper realm, the strongest martial skills... plus there were still the weapons and spiritual tools that the godly expert left.

Yin Mei couldn't deprive the male lead of what he had already learned, but it would still cripple him significantly if she took away the ring and the treasures in it. Not only that, but she would be able to use it for her own benefit. If the demon king could master just one of the martial skills documented inside the ring, Yin Mei believed that he would definitely be able to stand toe to toe with the male lead. She just needed to think of a way to steal the ring. The male lead himself was way too strong, so it would be impossible for her to take it away from him. Yin Mei also believed that it would be hard for the demon king to obtain the treasure, even if she was able to convince him to do so.

The only person viable for this would be the female lead. Once the ring was in the hands of the female lead, it would be much easier for Yin Mei or the demon king to get it. The only problem was working out the details of this plan. For example, how to have the ring fall into the hands of the female lead? How to convince the demon king to help her steal the ring? She also had to do it in a way where the female and male leads didn't figure out who had stolen the ring, else she face their wrath.

Sigh, she thought that she really wasn't cut out for this type of scheming and planning! Not only that, but this was just the stealing of the male lead's golden finger. She still had to come up with how to have the demon king help her eliminate him afterwards! She swore that if the next world was just as hard as this one, then she would definitely sue the system for abuse!