Don't pretend, everyone knows you're the villain!

Lu Tiannan spread his hands and said sincerely, "What exactly does 'brother's impoliteness' mean? I'm very curious~"

As soon as Xi Mingzhu raised her foot, Lu Tiannan dodged with a grin, saying quickly, "Haste makes waste. My brother and I have a long way to go."

"..." Xi Mingzhu really couldn't grasp Lu Tiannan's personality; this guy loved to act too much.

As 0561 mentioned, this person is very goal-oriented and mostly acts alone. Occasionally, when in a good mood, they might do good deeds, but most of the time they prefer to be a spectator.

To find pleasure in watching others suffer.

In the original storyline, Lu Tiannan liked to play the role of a weak and pitiful person. Obviously, after the second time you went to the dungeon with him, after that line "Not pretending anymore?", Lu Tiannan has been in a lazy and casual state.

Regardless of who he is, it's undeniable that Lu Tiannan has a silver tongue when it comes to deception.

Lu Tiannan took off his black hoodie without any hesitation, as he always got dirty after coming out of the dungeon.

Being men, Xi Mingzhu didn't mind Lu Tiannan's shirtless and exposed body. However, Lu Tiannan had a very noticeable scar on his chest, and other scars in various places as well.

It's really not easy for this person to have lived to this day.

Lu Tiannan noticed that Shen Yi had been watching him, so he grinned and moved closer.

"Brother, why are you staring at me like that... Let me touch you, okay?"

As he spoke, he reached out and grabbed Shen Yi's hand to touch his abs.

Xi Mingzhu silently slipped away to get a change of clothes to prepare for a shower.

Lu Tiannan sighed slightly in disappointment and withdrew his hand.

I originally intended to tease the other person and see what other expressions they would have, but now it seems they really have that unchanging, icy face.

Always so cold, I really want to see other expressions.

Just as Xi Mingzhu was about to go into the bathroom to take a shower, she heard Lu Tiannan's lazy voice halfway through turning the knob.

"Brother, let's talk about Shence after you take a shower."

Xi Mingzhu opened the door and replied in a low voice, "Hmm."

After Xi Mingzhu finished washing up, she went to blow-dry her hair. Seeing this, Lu Tiannan went straight in to take a shower.

After showering, I didn't change my clothes; I just came out wearing a bath towel.

Lu Tiannan casually grabbed a towel and dried his hair. "Why do you trust Gu Junbai so much? It was your first meeting, where did this trust come from?"

Upon hearing this, Xi Mingzhu lifted his eyelids, coldly trying to correct the other person's attitude.

"It's a chat, not a one-sided interrogation."

Lu Tiannan chuckled, his gaze turning to Shen Yi with a meaningful look.

"No questioning... Is it because my brother is being unfair to me? Am I not even allowed to be jealous?"

Xi Mingzhu didn't answer his pointless question, but instead addressed the previous one: "Gu Junbai is a good person, but you are not."

Upon hearing this, Lu Tiannan's tone was resentful.

"It really hurts me. I did so much for my brother, and in the end I'm still the bad guy."

"No, you are unclear about my morality. I am certain that you are not a good person, but I don't know why you are not bad to me."

In Xi Mingzhu's eyes, good and evil are multifaceted, and defining them purely is incorrect. In a sense, Lu Tiannan had never harmed his interests and had even helped him a lot.

Lu Tiannan was very interested in such comments.

This means that although he is not a good person in front of Shen Yi, he has never hurt him, so Shen Yi doesn't mind being with him.

"The reason is very simple: I like you, brother. I'm only willing to be used by you because I like you. If I didn't like you, I would do everything I could to destroy you."

After Lu Tiannan finished speaking, he smiled and draped the towel over the bathroom railing. When he came out, he casually tossed his hair.

Seeing that the man wasn't planning on drying his hair, and having no intention of helping him, Xi Mingzhu let him be.

"Your preferences are too casual and change easily."

Xi Mingzhu left Lu Tiannan some leeway and didn't say anything too harsh.

To put it bluntly, Lu Tiannan's whim was cheap. Nobody takes a casual mention of liking someone seriously.

Lu Tiannan wasn't annoyed at being exposed. "Brother, you're talking like you really understand what 'liking' means?"

"I don't understand. But I know that if you like something, you'll focus on it and stick to it to the end." Just like his love for alchemy, he would stick to this passion until his death.

"Oh? Brother hopes I will remain faithful to you forever... If brother lives a long life, I will try my best to do that."

If your interest doesn't diminish.

Lu Tiannan spoke as casually as ever, his tone suggesting he could simply ignore it.

Xi Mingzhu did not respond.

Lu Tiannan sat in the chair, leaned his head back, stared at the ceiling for a moment, and blinked slowly.

“Brother, I know I’ve made a fool of myself. I never intended to hold it against you and Gu Junbo for using me. If I really did, I wouldn’t have made a move.”

"I just don't understand how your trust was built. It's not something that can be established with just one reset. You believe him just because Gu Junbo told you his ability is reset..."

Lu Tiannan stopped there, unless this fake Shen Yi had also seen those seven talent boxes.

He clearly remembered that the fire attribute did not exist among those seven.

Upon hearing this, Xi Mingzhu understood what Lu Tiannan was struggling with. The other man wasn't actually jealous or envious of Gu Junbai being trusted by Shen Yi; it was just a pretext.

Lu Tiannan just couldn't understand how someone could completely trust a complete stranger so readily after being reset. What kind of magic was this? Lu Tiannan had never experienced this feeling before. If he was jealous, it was probably jealousy of the very existence of this trust.

"I was not reset."

Lu Tiannan leaned back halfway, causing two chair legs of the chair in front of him to stick up, which were then slowly pressed down again.

"why?"

"The reason you're keeping up with me is the reason I haven't been reset."

Lu Tiannan sat up straight and looked at Shen Yi.

"Ha...is brother admitting that he's not Shen Yi?"

0561 got anxious; you can't say things like that.

"Host!! You really can't tell!"

Xi Mingzhu had no intention of forcing this unfortunate system to its death.

"It is now, but it may not be in the future."

"Ha... It's hard not to like my brother, who's full of secrets."

Lu Tiannan hummed a tune, his favorite song.

After a short rest, the two did not enter the dungeon. Gu Junbai, representing Shence, invited them to team up and enter the third level of the dungeon together.

Xi Mingzhu said he couldn't represent Lu Tiannan, and that's the truth.

Another point is that in the original plot, Lu Tiannan was there to cause trouble for Gu Junbai and Zhai Mingxu, so it's hard to say whether bringing him in would have any impact.

Xi Mingzhu relayed the matter to Lu Tiannan.

Lu Tiannan wasn't very interested in what he heard; he was only interested in the person in front of him right now.

"If my brother goes, I'll go too."

After much deliberation, Xi Mingzhu politely declined.

First, he didn't have enough items to support him through the three levels of the dungeon; second, there were too many variables surrounding Lu Tiannan.

Afterwards, Xi Mingzhu and Lu Tiannan entered the second level of the dungeon. This time they were lucky and it was a simple story-driven dungeon.

What came into view was a haunted house.

They were the last two players to reach this instance.

There were eight players standing at the entrance of the haunted house, two of whom Lu Tiannan had met at the farm before: Yan Qing and Liu Ya.

Upon seeing Lu Tiannan, both of their expressions changed. Remembering their promise when they left the instance, neither of them spoke first, pretending not to know each other.

In contrast, Lu Tiannan lazily surveyed the haunted house, ignoring the other players and occasionally exchanging a few words with Shen Yi.