The villain has been playing badly for ten years

The night was as dark as ink, and the lights in the palace gradually went out. Only in the library in the east wing, a soft halo of light shone through the window lattices, reflecting the elegant figure.

Looking up at the night sky, he saw only twinkling stars and the Milky Way stretching across it. The whole night was deserted until midnight.

Ning Xiusu then put down the work in his hands and returned to the bedroom.

The evening breeze blows gently, blowing the bamboo curtains by the window.

He yawned and was about to lie down on the couch when he suddenly realized something was wrong. The objects on the table were not arranged in the right order.

Someone came...

Ning Xiusu casually opened the rosewood drawer, but found nothing inside.

Lost your key?

A few days ago, the poisoning attempt failed, and today someone tried to steal. However, apart from the key, nothing else was lost from the bedroom.

Ning Xiusu pondered in his mind, who would be interested in a broken key? Moreover, the palace had been robbed, which meant that this person entered the bedroom as if no one was there.

What if someone kills you in the middle of the night? You won’t even know about it!

This, this, this... is too outrageous.

For personal safety, he quickly called the guard standing outside the door to ask.

"Who came here today?"

The guard's name was Du Gui. He had a long, thin face with high cheekbones, but his eyes were bright and lively.

He said respectfully, "Your Majesty, this is the new maid."

Ning Xiu was furious: "How long have you been on this mission? How can you let anyone in without me?"

Du Gui said tremblingly: "But she said she was ordered to come and clean."

Ning Xiusu never gave the order at all, so he asked Du Gui to find the maid, but sure enough, the maid was nowhere to be found.

Wu Er came over after hearing the news, and upon seeing Ning Xiusu, he immediately knelt on the ground and began to wail:

"Your Highness, I am shortsighted and did not want to invite the thief. I hope Your Highness will forgive me. If Your Highness is really angry, please do not abandon me..."

Ning Xiusu's head ached from hearing his howling. He waved his hand and said, "Alright, go catch the thief."

As soon as the order to catch the thief was given, the mansion was in chaos.

On the second day, when a ray of morning light between the bamboo leaves shone through the window lattice and fell on the bluestone floor of the library, Hua Jianbai and Pu Boyu returned home.

Both of them changed their outfits. Pu Boyu tied up his hair into a crown, braided his short hair, and shaved his beard, looking a bit more youthful.

Hua Jianbai was wearing a red shirt embroidered with gold flowers, and it was really hard to tell whether she was a man or a woman.

When they heard about the theft, they came to inquire about the cause of the key.

Ning Xiusu was in the library, flipping through a thick file. When he saw the two of them, he told them about Dan Yulang's appointment to meet him at Wuzipo.

"Guimao day, isn't that the Water Lantern Festival the day after tomorrow?" Hua Jianbai sat down on the official hat chair and counted the days with his fingers.

Pu Boyu stared with wide eyes, a look of surprise on his face: "No way, villain uncle, you want to go to the mass grave during the Water Lantern Festival? I heard it's very scary there at night."

"The Water Lantern Festival is the Qingming Festival in my novel. He chose this date. Aren't you afraid that guy is cheating?"

Hua Jianbai said this, holding his cheek and looking at Ning Xiusu. He saw the warm sunlight pouring down on his white clothes, making them sparkle.

Ning Xiusu put down the file and picked up the brush, seemingly organizing and compiling something.

"Of course I'm afraid, so I decided not to go."

Pu Boyu was wearing a light fur coat and looked like a rock musician, shaking his head like a rattle.

"That won't work."

"why?"

Ning Xiusu was startled, and asked in unison with Hua Jianbai.

Pu Boyu said: "The system says that at a specific time and place, a key can be used to enter the secluded area."

"Tongyou?" Hua Jianbai didn't understand. "That's not seeing a ghost. Aren't you afraid of scaring people to death?"

Pu Boyu said firmly, "No, auntie, it's to go to the shielded space inside the domain. There should be a lot of tricks in there, maybe I can go home."

Hanamibai slapped his thigh and began to analyze randomly: "So the key was stolen because someone was trying to stop us from returning to the real world?"

Ning Xiusu had his doubts in his heart, but just responded casually.

"It shouldn't be that simple."

Pu Boyu said, "Uncle Villain, you'll know when you go and see it."

Having said that, however...

Ning Xiusu's gaze fell on Hua Jianbai and happened to meet his eyes.

Seeing this, Hua Jianbai raised the corner of his mouth and raised his arms again: "Why, you want me to be your bodyguard again?"

He arched his eyebrows and said calmly, "It doesn't matter. I'm not interested anyway."

"Yeah, you don't have to go to Wuzipo, but it's hard to guard against killers like the imposters!"

Hanamibai said, flicking his hair and boasting, "After all, it's hard to find someone with my skills."

That's right. Considering the level of his guards...

Ning Xiusu was controlled by him and sighed.

"How about this? You go with me, and I'll give you five thousand taels of Huanghuali wood as collateral."

"Tsk, you think you can bribe me with just five thousand taels?" Hua Jianbai put his hands behind his back, a look of disdain on his face.

Pu Boyu touched the back of his head and said, "Aunt, do you have money?"

Hua Jianbai rolled his eyes: "No."

"..."

Ning Xiusu dipped his hand in his ink and said lazily, "Alright, since I'm gone and there's no one to support me, you can just continue to idle away your time and eat up all the money you have."

"Who are you calling idle?"

Hua Jianbai got mad when he heard that, and slammed the table and raised his eyebrows in anger.

"Isn't it?"

Ning Xiusu began to count on his fingers:

"Ignore the lodging, the food, the beauty treatments, the rouge and powder, and how many new clothes you've bought. Yet, you took two advances on your salary. Do you think my palace is an ATM?"

Hanamibai knew he was in the wrong, and grumbled angrily, "Ah!"

"Yes, yes, I did spend that much, but as the God of Creation, you must compensate me! After all, as a villain, don't you see how you've ruined the character I worked so hard to create?"

Pu Boyu licked his face and said after a while: "Then aunt, I won't go..."

Hua Jianbai's face darkened and he grabbed Pu Boyu's shoulders.

"Backing off in the face of adversity is unmanly. You're a tough guy now. You can't be like some people who can't lift anything, are useless and worthless!"

Ning Xiusu couldn't help but choke on the pen when he heard this. "The flowers are failing, and you're blaming me, aren't you?"

"Isn't it true? You're a grown man, but you still need a little woman like me to protect you!"

Although Hua Jianbai looks feminine, he has a tall and strong figure. Although he is not as big and strong as Pu Boyu, his back is as straight as a pine tree, and he is not at all timid.

"Hey, do you know that you can kill a cow with one punch now?"

"Yeah, so what!"

He folded his hands and acted extremely arrogantly: "You damn villain, you have no ambition to make progress, you have abandoned the Dao, and now you are even worse than a woman like me."

Ning Xiusu was choked for a moment.

"Nothing to say?"

Without looking up, he was about to put the compiled file into the bookcase.

"You don't look like a woman at all..."

A light word came to my ears, but it made me angry.

Hua Jianbai frowned, snatched the file from his hand, and angrily said, "Who defines a woman? Are you just like a man?"

"you……"

Ning Xiusu took a deep breath. When it came to quarreling, he was not good at it.

"file."

He just reached out his hand towards Hua Jianbai, but Hua Jianbai looked like a rogue and deliberately raised his voice.

"What can you do to me if I don't return it?"

"Oh, alright, alright," Pu Boyu couldn't stand the bickering any longer and quickly stopped them, saying, "At worst, we can all go together and come back together. Harmony brings wealth, harmony brings wealth..."