I, the transmigrated villain, please wait, gentle master.

Chapter 7 Master, Take Me Away

"Your appearance reflects your heart. Beauty or ugliness makes no difference to me. I'm not afraid of being frightened by you, much less scared to death."

Mei Shiyu chuckled, "How can you be comfortable with your head wrapped up like that? Take off all those tattered strips of cloth and come with me on my way."

"I...I don't want to pick them because they're ugly. My friends in the village laugh at me and bully me. They throw mud at me..."

Li Tingyun was spouting nonsense and flattery.

I'll smash him to death when the mud dries! I'll use his ashes to plant lotus flowers, nice.

Mei Shiyu wanted to pat the boy on the shoulder to comfort him, but as soon as he raised his hand, he remembered the scene just now and put it down.

Li Tingyun appeared unmoved, but inwardly she felt a little regretful.

Was he overreacting just now?

Perhaps it is his nature, but social distance is especially important to him. He dislikes others' inexplicable closeness and concern, both physically and emotionally.

Being a loner, having an aloof personality, being selfish and cold-hearted, and having low empathy... these are the reasons why his university counselor refused to approve his scholarship application.

Back then, he had barely left with his application materials when his idiot advisor started gossiping with his colleagues in the office:

"This kid works off-campus jobs like crazy every day, and he still got first place in his major? Who would believe he didn't cheat on the exam!"

"How dare he apply for scholarships with fake grades? I didn't check the exam surveillance footage to catch him cheating only because of his poor family background, to give him a break..."

"Hey, you guys don't know? This kid's family background is complicated. His mother died and his father is in jail. With his circumstances, he doesn't even know how to be polite when talking to people. He just has a sour face all day long. What's so great about him?"

"I think that people from bad families will have some psychological problems. They are disliked wherever they go. They are useless and can't do anything right."

"..."

Then Li Tingyun slapped a stack of A4 documents onto his large face.

They asked him if he had eaten shit to be able to say such foul things.

The entire office was completely silent.

All he heard was the sound of his fist breaking the instructor's nose.

Li Tingyun truly couldn't understand how words could be so damaging, how they could so easily break a person's defenses.

He wasn't sad.

Definitely not.

He just can't be happy... He's such a damn loser.

When his father was pinned to the ground and searched by the police who stormed into their home, and his mother held him, who was just over ten years old, and silently shed tears, he didn't feel scared or sad.

Just watching my pet dog have its bed overturned and its bowl smashed makes me want to laugh, but I don't dare.

Someone like him, who lacks empathy and compassion, shouldn't care so much about what others say behind his back, but he just thinks the counselor's words are unpleasant, harsh, and like a pig squealing—in short, not human language.

Every word and phrase was like a needle piercing the bone, like a shadow following you everywhere.

Memories don't fade away with time; instead, they become clearer with each passing day.

In the adult world, you can't survive even a day.

Li Tingyun took a deep breath and said to the system in his heart, "Sixth Brother, I have a decision to make. Do you want to hear it?"

【Detailed.】

"I want to make the best of a bad situation and steal the protagonist's chance to become an apprentice."

"I want to latch onto a powerful figure so I can avoid ten years of hard work."

In the original storyline, Mei Shiyu willingly went undercover to the villain's side in order to pave the way for the protagonist.

To be honest, it's truly remarkable that a master would act this way.

Teachers are those who impart knowledge, teach skills, and resolve doubts; it is rare to see one who would risk their life for them.

He had never met such a good teacher in his entire life.

"I want to see what life is like for someone with the protagonist's halo."

[Good heavens! I beg you, have some decency!]

[You killed the protagonist's entire family, and now you want to steal his opportunity?]

Do you still want to complete your merits?

"The protagonist's parents die at the beginning, and he has no burdens in the cultivation world. Isn't this the kind of background you came up with for the protagonist? Besides, it was the original owner of this body who killed his whole family. What does it have to do with me?"

He's not a scapegoat; the protagonist shouldn't seek revenge on him! If he's so capable, he can summon back the soul of 'Li Tingyun,' and the protagonist can whip his corpse as he pleases! He won't pay for other people's mistakes anyway.

He will find a way to let the protagonist know the truth later.

At that point, if the protagonist still wants to kill him, then it's up to each of them to decide.

Let's see who can have the last laugh.

Li Tingyun has a cheap sense of morality. He said, "Given the protagonist's current situation, he's not much better off than me. We're both just teenagers and noobs. I'm not afraid of him seeking revenge."

"Since the protagonist ran away on his own and doesn't acknowledge Mei Shiyu as his master, then this opportunity to become his disciple is just something I was lucky to stumble upon."

"If it's a bargain you find, you might as well take advantage of it."

A treacherous and cunning villain.

[They don't look for reasons to do good deeds, but rather for excuses to do bad deeds.]

"Please leave my brain in a rounded manner."

Before Wang Laoliu could stop him, Li Tingyun raised his head, his gaze passing through the taut fabric strips in front of him, and looked directly into Mei Shiyu's eyes.

Mei Shiyu saw the boy's firm and pure eyes.

"Immortal Venerable, may I become your disciple?"

"I don't know which son of a bitch killed my whole family. I'm the only one left in the entire Lingxi Village."

"I want to cultivate immortality, I want revenge."

"I know to eat when I'm hungry, and I know to drink when I'm thirsty. I don't pick up litter, and I can even do a one-handed backflip!"

"So, Immortal Venerable, please accept me as your disciple and take me away!"

[Host, what you're saying sounds... like you have that serious illness.]

"is it?"

Li Tingyun felt there was no problem.

He played the victim and acted quite well.

"I don't want you to think that."

As long as Mei Shiyu doesn't think that way, that's enough.

"Do you really want to come with me and become my disciple?"

Mei Shiyu asked in return.

"Yes."

Li Tingyun's tone was very firm, affirmative, and certain.

"Master."

Eager to get verified, very perceptive.

Mei Shiyu shook his head and said, "Yuan Che, cultivating immortality is an extremely long path, long enough to forget time, forget the mortal world, forget everything."

"You can embark on the path of cultivation with me, determined to avenge your family, because the hatred of annihilating your clan is irreconcilable, and I have no right to advise you to let go of your hatred."

No one has the right to advise him to let go; to casually offer forgiveness on someone else's behalf is itself a sin.

but……

"On the long road of cultivating immortality, what can support a person to the end will not be hatred, but another kind of will—the indifference of heaven and earth, treating all things as straw dogs."

"The way of Heaven is constant, and this is called the 'Way of Heaven.' This is what cultivators pursue. Love or hate are not important. To cultivate the Way and become an immortal means to abandon all worldly emotions and grudges."

Li Tingyun firmly stated, "I will always remember Master's teachings."

He stepped forward and moved closer to Mei Shiyu.

Although he still felt a little awkward, he pretended to be a naive and ignorant boy, grabbed the immortal's sleeve, and shook it gently.

"Master, let's go, let's leave this place, we can go anywhere."

【Pretended. 】

[What a show-off!]

What a terrible thing to do.

Li Tingyun didn't take it to heart, thinking to himself, "Mei Shiyu... as expected of someone who cultivates the Path of Ruthlessness, he just spouts things like 'abandoning love, hate, and grudges'."

As everyone knows, there is no such thing as a ruthless path in the cultivation world. Isn't the very concept of the ruthless path meant to be broken?

In the original story, he was unable to complete the cultivation because the villain gave him the ending prematurely.

"This time, if I don't kill him, perhaps he can succeed in his cultivation?"

Alas, life and death are predestined, wealth and honor are determined by fate. The direction of this book's plot is no longer something I can decide alone.

[I didn't elaborate much on the supporting characters' life storylines in the original text and outline, but the transmigration system will automatically fill in these gaps. To maintain narrative logic, it might even go against the author's original intention and create new settings and plots.]

Therefore, host, the future is too uncertain; no one can say for sure.

"Yuan Che, before you decide to become my disciple, I have one more question I want you to answer."

Mei Shiyu looked at the vast sky and the rolling mountains in the distance and smiled slightly.

Li Tingyun was almost dazzled by that smile.

He was handsome and refined, with a clear and bright appearance.