[Hua Cheng's POV]
Well, he really didn't want to break the atmosphere right now but he is really pissed.
If there's anything that annoys him the most, that'll be disturbing his moment with his Highness. They were sitting comfortably on his divan, kissing and leisurely idling around. His Highness visited after long days of taking care of Heavens as its temporary Monarch.
He was so pent up—very much that he immediately pressed down Xie Lian and adore him tenderly.
If not for the stupidest thing that happened when he's just on the roll.
Taking off all his stuff except for his pants, he was about to devour his cute wife. He reverently closed his eyes, slowly and slowly reaching for his lips—but instead of soft luscious lips, he ended up about to kiss a hard forehead and a squirming Uncle He.
Fuck! He immediately opened his eyes and sees the rope playing Binghe trying to run away his grasps while screaming a muffled, "mmh! M! M!" While desperately trying to kick him away. He even felt one disgusting lewd touch brushing his chest to his stomach that made him uncharacteristically panic. He pushes the two figures away even before Wei Wuxian could grab his head for a shitty inverted kiss!
Damn!!!!!! This ol'great Ghost King is afraid of these shits! His chastity that is by, of, and for His Highness is at stake!! He definitely didn't want to get tangled up with Uncle He's rope play nor getting kissed by Wei Wuxian's disgusting lips. He unconsciously and immediately covered himself with his hands and stared at his sworn brother's who are definitely pitiful to look at.
"Uncle He, what's with that rope play? At least take your clothes off."
If Lou Binghe looked so scandalized by now, they had this mental agreement that Wei Wuxian is worse.
Who the fuck comes in this kind of shitty situation with just his blanket?!
He carefully reached for the blanket and carefully as in carefully tried to wrap the shitty master with his small blanket. He felt like an old man peeping at a five-year-old. For goodness sake! He likes older men! Xie Lian as an older man! Curses to all gods except for Xie Lian that he's willing to burn the heavens and land than mess with the vinegar sulking whitey's shitty demonic master.
He gritted his teeth and contemplated whether to 'gently' or 'mercily' wake this boy. He grinned and turned toward Lou Binghe who gave him a meaningful look.
"Uncle He, don't give me that look." He warns.
Lou Binghe smirked and playfully raised his brows. This kinky man is currently teasing him.
With his brilliant mind, he walked to Lou Binghe's back and kicked him close to Wei Wuxian. The sleeping gremlin took a liking to Lou Binghe as a pillow and begun clinging on him. He watched Lou Binghe squirmed away from Wei Wuxian's grasps only to be hit on the stomach and crushed with a hug. He definitely saw Uncle He's soul coming out of his body before he was kicked away by Wei Wuxian who groaned about to wake.
He suppressed his laughter and watch Luo Binghe holding for life Pete's sake.
*Yawns!*
"Finally, you've woken up. I was planning to 'mercily' woke you up." he said, muffling all his laughter down. He watched Luo Binghe desperately compose himself in vain.
"Grandpa Cheng, are we in some sort of saving something again?" He grunted in annoyance.
Well, if there is something more disturbing—it's definitely Uncle He. Wei Wuxian's face says it all. Not that he remembered hitting and kicking the old man in his sleep.
"Uncle, I shouldn't point it out but somehow you look quite pitiful in your rope play." Oh goodness heavens Wei Wuxian! What a frank way to point out being tied pitifully in a rope play. Master Shen is definitely the dominant one between them.
Who wouldn't pity this Uncle He? He's tied up with all his clothes on and had clothes on his mouth. Ah... Memories... He remembered Rouye that one kinky okay they had.
Luo Binghe, "Hmmh! Mmm. mmm. mmm!"
Wei Wuxian, "Alrighty! Alright! I'll untie up. Man, Uncle he, I should ask Master Shen how to tie! This is definitely a masterpiece!"
Well, they didn't need to break this dimension. Their first failure was enough, a second would be unforgivable.
Wei Wuxian, "Okay? If this is a party for villains I definitely do not belong here."
He retorts, "don't make me laugh. If I am already villainous trash, you're also trash."
Luo Binghe, "relax, Grandpa Cheng, no one is trying to make an enemy of you... You know, that you are trash, I am garbage... So definitely A-Xian knows he's the trashiest of trashes, probably." While glaring at him.
Wei Wuxian, "you know, if I... The most beautiful dastardly demonic master, am the trashiest of trash, wouldn't I get the title befitting of that. Well, who's the one who flirted with a big-breasted woman that his Highness felt bad for a year?" He challenged and turns to Lou Binghe, "who's the one who was forced to abstinence? Definitely, neither is me.. hm?"
Hua Cheng, "And who's the one who flirted mostly with girls?" Ugh! This little really!
"Okay, that's me. I can't believe it, I'm losing a battle." Wei Wuxian once again sat relaxedly, "so? Why are you two reduced to loins and ropes?"
"some bastard pulled me into a hole even before I scored."
Wei Wuxian turned to Luo Binghe.
His second brother looked about to be swallowed by the ground. "I..."
Wei Wuxian, "I?"
Fuck. He's also curious as to Luo's and Shen's kinky okay.
Luo Binghe coughs lightly and said, "I'm being punished to sleep outside of the bed."
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Pitiful! Pitiful Uncle He!
Luo Binghe, "STOP IT! OR I'LL MAKE YOU SHUT UP!"
Wei Wuxian, "Hah. Hihihihihi... Unc—pfft! Hahahahahha.... Hihihihihihi.... Ha... Ha... Ha... Pfft!"
"WEI WUXIAN! SHUT UP WILL YOU?!" Luo Binghe looked adorably cute with his ears and face beet red. He had to admit that Luo Binghe keeps the reigns between the three of them. Luo Binghe's mature brotherly demeanor reins his childish pettiness and Wei Wuxian's silly rambunctiousness.
"hahahahahhahahahahahahah.... Hihihihi! Hahh... Hahh..."
He couldn't help but laugh. There really is time that Luo Binghe's misfortune is a treat for a bad mood. Lucky, his bad mood has been finally lifted. Luo Binghe's unluckiness is the best!
Luo Binghe, "A, anyhow! Let's not talk about it anymore! What do you think of this meeting once again?"
"a drag."
Wei Wuxian, "another problem. Accept it, some higher being summoned us once again. By the looks of this divinity and freshness, it must be someone with a high relationship with mortals."
"As expected. So fast to assess everything with just a glance." He hums and pulls some clothes out of nowhere and gave him one. He thought it's just another simple shitty request but it turned out something deeper. He was lost in thoughts and tries to assess things the same way Wei Wuxian understand them. The last incident had this gremlin right off the bat, so it wouldn't hurt for him to take it the same way. That way, it could be much more convenient for them.
"Do you have liquor or something?" Luo Binghe asked. Now that he mentions it.
"Apparently, I was in the middle of doing it and grabbed the blanket only." Wei Wuxian replied and smiled back, "no snack either. Urgh... Somehow, I don't like this part again."
"I don't want to hear some miserable scream like the one from saving the world."
Someone, "Well, it's not saving the world but saving humankind."
All of them snapped turning towards the owner of the voice. A golden dragon hovering above them appeared out of nowhere. Wow, such a giant golden noodle.
"I am the dragon emperor... One who chooses kings... Oh, saviors of the world, I asked thee for assistance... I have chosen a king that will rise and represent the mortals, but darkness is once again creeping thy human hearts... He is thy only salvation, I ask thee to help and protect him while protecting the mortals... I implore thee..."
Dragon king? If he is correct, it's one of the ancient gods. Divine creatures who once ruled the land and seas and ascended to divinity. They were more powerful than the current Ranks of heavens. If this is the creature who chooses kings, he determines the rise and fall of a Kingdom.
To think this one would ask them to save humankind.
That would be unthinkable.
Because man calls for the evil in their hearts.
Evil spirits and demons are born from the human heart. They dwell in the darkest and deepest part of humans. When a human finally succumbs to temptations, they'll eventually emerge and swallow humans whole. This has always been a special case. While ghosts, monsters, and evil creatures existed after a living flesh dies with lingering emotions—those creatures are born from human greed.
Hua Cheng understands this the most. The records from Mt. Tonglu had every single piece of information. To be born and be reborn as an evil existence seemed natural to him now. Destruction, Rebirth, Time, Fate, and Devastation were famous records at the mountain. Coupled with the knowledge they acquired during their fifteen years' absence, the three of them fully know what the world will come to be. There are always ending. A future the three of them saw at that garden where it's peaceful and quiet.
Building a new civilization has now come.
And the enemies are born from man's wicked heart.
Well, he'll just leave this transaction with their talkative veteran.
Wei Wuxian, "surely you're not asking us to save humankind?"
As usual. This deja vú is taking on once again.
"I am asking thee to save humankind."
Luo Binghe, "should I scream instead?"
Wei Wuxian, "do you want to??"
Hua Cheng, "that would be fascinating."
Luo Binghe, "Nah. You take it... I'm not suited for dramatization."
Wei Wuxian, "I got it." Inhales, "WHAT?! YOU WANT US TO WHAT????"
"Save the shitty humankind." He repeated through gritted teeth.
Wei Wuxian whined, "save humankind?! Oh, great ferocious ancient beast!!! But SERIOUSLY???? You want to save humankind?"
Hua Cheng and Luo Binghe nodded and agreed. Though, this dramatization was somehow sub prof than 'saving the world' ordeal. Man, that one was stupidly monumental. One of the best cracks he ever heard!
"I'll be rude to you okay, ancient god. Do you want us? The three of us? To save the world? Us????" Wei Wuxian whined pointing to him and Luo Binghe and himself, "Where the hell did you get such idea we could save humankind? At first, it was saving the world from crumbling and now saving lives? Lives?! Did the preferences for a hero really turn to shitty personality enemy number one like us? There are heroic personalities that are better than us!
"hm." He assent, "you want a bastard demon sprawl, a shady nasty demon king and a shitty whining demonic master save lives? Humankind.?"
What kind of king would be raised for someone as shitty and demonic as them? If this noddle wants another villain they can give him one.
"We might as well commit massacre right now."
Might as well commit all killings now?
He said, "That'll be a piece of cake."
It's faster to destroy a kingdom than built it.
Much less take one life than save.
He couldn't help but ask, "just what do you all see from irredeemable trashes like us? First saving the world from destruction and now you want us to raise new a era?"
He just couldn't understand why.
He's sure that Luo Binghe and Wei Wuxian shared the same sentiment. The first time there was no real answer to this question. They were chosen for no reason. A second time couldn't be a mistake, there has to be an answer.
When the ancients could appoint someone better, someone powerful and respectable, why them? Why them—the defectors—traitors of the world? He'll refuse this new role if this noodle couldn't give him an answer.
"You know it better than anyone else." The dragon spoke.
Luo Binghe, "what? Are we chosen for no reason? We're trashing anyway, so no one would care even if we die."
Wei Wuxian remained silent that was very unlike him. He's supposed to lead the conversation but it seems like he's also contemplating whether to accept or not.
He spoke, "for cultivators, our existence is stained of their pride. To men, we are demons condemned and damned for all centuries. If you can't give us the answer, none of us will agree. What's worth risking our lives for this world of utter damnation?"
The dragon floated and coiled around them.
"It is because fate has chosen you."
It's the same as being chosen for no reason!
Wei Wuxian, "Hah. Just like as always... Everything's the same. Chosen for no reason right?"
The dragon sighed and said, "you really want to know the answer? It is simple..."
How simple?
"Because you know what real pain is."
Is he fucking kidding with them?
He hopes not.
Because.....
Pain is not something to be proud of.
...to be continued...