Defeat the system! Kiss my little monster!

Wen Yu immediately opened his eyes alertly. He saw Shen Yu wiping his hands as he walked out of the cubicle and asked, "Is everything ready?"

Shen Yu smiled: "Not yet, we'll continue tomorrow."

He was still standing in front of Wen Yu as he spoke. Wen Yu quietly shifted her gaze a little to the back. The door to the cubicle was wide open, and the room was empty. All the medicinal herbs had been hidden away in another place by Shen Yu.

They really know how to hide it.

Wen Yu withdrew his gaze, seemingly unconcerned: "How long will this take?"

"At most three days." Shen Yu went outside the beaded curtain, took off his outer garment, and estimated the time. "Your Majesty will need to bear with it then. I don't have much anesthetic left in my hand, so it might still hurt a bit when I cut the wound."

Wen Yu looked at Shen Yu through a beaded curtain. Shen Yu sat on the edge of the bed and casually cut the wick of the red candle.

The surroundings were pitch black and thick. Seeing this, Wen Yu also fell asleep: "It's nothing, just do what you need to do."

"it is good."

Shen Yu fell silent after speaking. He was tired after being busy for several hours, and soon fell into a light sleep after lying down on the bed.

The room was completely silent, except for the occasional sound of palace maids moving around outside; the only sounds inside were their soft breathing.

Clinging to life, it continued working by the window. The coal ball gave it one million yang energy points, and it had to work overtime to store all of these yang energy points into its system library.

About half an hour later, a faint rustling sound came from inside the inner hall.

"Shen Yu?"

The program, which was just trying to survive and was loading data, paused. It then cautiously floated to Shen Yu's side, watching the surrounding movements.

Shen Yu remained unresponsive with his eyes closed. The voice tentatively called out twice more, followed by an increased rustling sound.

In the dim light, he saw another figure get out of bed from behind the beaded curtain. He looked at Shen Yu's bed through the curtain for a while, and then tiptoed into the room where Shen Yu used to process medicinal herbs.

A few minutes later, Wen Yu came out of the room again. He closed the door, pulled the covers up again, and lay back down on the bed.

To live a life of ignominy: "..."

Clinging to life, it couldn't understand human thought and continued loading its data page. It lowered its spherical body, and just as it adjusted the program, it met another pair of open black eyes.

"!!!" The data jumps wildly in fright at the cowardly survivor's predicament. "You're still awake?!"

Shen Yu pinched the bridge of his nose and said, "She's asleep, but not asleep."

Clinging to life: "...Could it be that my light is too bright?"

“No.” Shen Yu turned to the side, closed his eyes again, and said, “It’s just that some people are restless at night and like to disturb people’s sleep.”

The man, barely surviving, peeked behind the beaded curtain, a hint of curiosity in his eyes: "Where did you hide the thing?"

Shen Yu remained silent.

The man, barely clinging to life, guessed, "Under your bed?"

Shen Yu hummed in agreement: "Under his bed."

To live a life of ignominy: "..."

*

Wen Yu spent the next few days reading medical books in the room. He walked past Shen Yu's bedside several times as if it were nothing special, but found nothing of value.

Only once did he see a book with a strange cover on Shen Yu's bed. It was hidden under the covers, with only a pure red corner showing.

While Shen Yu was away, Wen Yu picked it up and flipped through a few pages. She thought it was some kind of medical book, but when she opened it, there were only a few lines of text.

[Slim waist, perky hips, and prominent shoulder blades—quite a looker; keeping her would be pleasing to the eye. Oh well… I'll keep her for now, just to pass the time.]

[Dead thing.]

It's so annoying to look at.

What are you pretending for? Dare to take your pants off?

"Ouch, that hurts!"

Wen Yu: "..."

The book's content is disorganized and chaotic, with no connection between the contexts, let alone any so-called underlying logic.

Wen Yu only read a few lines, but inexplicably felt a little strange and... ashamed?

The voice of a palace maid came from outside the door. Wen Yu quickly gathered his thoughts, put the red book back in its original place, and walked back to sit behind the beaded curtain.

Shen Yu walked in a few minutes later. He usually spent an hour or two in the afternoon observing the situation around Kunning Palace, and this time he brought back a bunch of herbs.

"Your Majesty, I went to the backyard today, but there was no one there." Shen Yu laid out his things on the table as usual. He glanced outside as he spoke, "The palace maids and eunuchs don't go there to fetch water; they all take a detour to the pond."

Wen Yu was already used to this. He said, "Pythons often appear in the backyard. Now that it's almost summer, there are even more poisonous creatures, so of course they don't dare to go that way."

After Wen Yu finished speaking, she lifted her eyelids and looked at Shen Yu: "What are you doing over there? The herbs I planted are not there."

"Let's go take a look out of curiosity," Shen Yu said. "Besides, there's no one watching us there, so it's easy to move around."

Wen Yu snorted: "If you get bitten by a poisonous snake, no one will come to save you."

Shen Yu: "Your Majesty, aren't you going to save me?"

"Life and death are predestined," Wen Yu said calmly. "At most, I can suck out the poison for you."

Shen Yu nodded: "How do you inhale?"

Wen Yu: "..."

He frowned and glanced at Shen Yu, then suddenly thought of the contents of the red book again. The words floated into his mind, and Wen Yu's face immediately showed some unease: "...suck with your mouth."

"Alright." Shen Yu smiled. "Since Your Majesty is willing to help me, I'll let you suck the poison off when you're poisoned someday."

Wen Yu twitched the corner of his lips. He turned his head and saw Shen Yu carrying the pile of herbs into the cubicle again.

Shen Yu had been following this routine for the past few days. After digging up herbs in the afternoon, he would go into his private room and stay inside. Wen Yu couldn't see what was going on inside, but he would just flip through medical books as usual.

Shen Yu's time inside this time was shorter than before. Around midnight, he came out of the cubicle again with his things.

Wen Yu had made preparations long ago. He kept an eye on the palace maids in the outer hall, extinguished the red candles early on under the pretext of feeling unwell, and dismissed several eunuchs near the door.

"Can you see like this?" After the curtain was drawn, the entire room was pitch black. Wen Yu sat on the bed, barely able to see Shen Yu's face.

Putting aside the prospect of survival, Shen Yu said, "Your Majesty, my eyesight is good, you don't need to worry."

As he spoke, he gestured to Gouqietousheng, signaling him to turn up the brightness. Gouqietousheng remained silent for a moment, then modified the program to emit white light.

Shen Yu's origins were unknown, and he knew many things Wen Yu had never heard of. Wen Yu stared silently at the blurry black figure in front of her for a long while before stretching out her right leg.

"Your Majesty, relax. Tell me if it hurts." Shen Yu held Wen Yu's right ankle with one hand, his thumb rubbing the indented skin on her heel, feeling the slight trembling of Wen Yu's body.