Chapter 24. Leaping Off a Cliff
Hua Ji experienced not a small amount of fright.
However, he was a seasoned veteran, and his first reaction after being caught in the act was not to retaliate or defend himself, but rather to smile and retort with teasing.
"Why, does Lord Jellyfish not think that the girl looks tasty?" He smilingly said, "I remember Lord Jellyfish you like blood that has spiritual energy?"
Lord Jellyfish unconsciously looked towards He Bai and saw that the girl was currently backing away in alarm. Standing beside her, Li Shun Hua had an unpleasant expression on his face and a trace of coldness and hatred flickered in his pupils…… Hm? Hatred?
"He hates you. Why?"
Lord Jellyfish suddenly recalled their very first meeting, which was when Li Shun Hua hired a member of the foreign vampire race to assassinate Hua Ji. The little fox was running for his life towards the ocean, which was how they met.
"Speaking of which, is there enmity between the two of you?"
Hua Ji chuckled. He shook his head and then nodded his head, "I have enmity with his Master. After that…… there was enmity between Li Shun Hua and I."
This order of events was very meaningful. Lord Jellyfish could hear the underlying implications in those words. He said, "What did you do to Li Shun Hua?"
"I killed his parents," Hua Ji indifferently said, "so he wants to kill me."
Lord Jellyfish made a sound of understanding before falling silent.
Hua Ji's tense heart relaxed. The atmosphere just now was too dangerous, he had no wish to disclose his dark past. At last he managed to lie his way through it.
"Does this have anything to do with you looking at He Bai?" Lord Jellyfish said. "You were obviously in a daze just now."
Hua Ji: "……"
Lord Jellyfish continued, "Furthermore, you were dazing off while looking at a girl. Is this currently your mating season?
Hua Ji's tone was dry. "No, I am far from being able to mate…… that's not right, it's far from being able to find a mate."
At the very least he had to wait until he had six tails!
Hua Ji retorted unconsciously, "What about Lord Jellyfish, then? Your children and grandchildren probably fill the ocean, isn't that so?"
Lord Jellyfish said, "That's right. We jellyfish are a simple species. We only need to scatter our seed into the ocean. When it encounters a female jellyfish, it then becomes a fertilised egg. If it doesn't encounter any, then it becomes other ocean lifeforms' food. I don't need to worry about it at all."
Hua Ji's lips hooked up, but mysteriously, it felt as if a weight had been lifted off him. That's right, to Lord Jellyfish, this so-called love, this so-called together through thick and thin, to share a common interest and a common goal, this so-called 'til death do us part simply doesn't exist, does it?
A jellyfish has no heart, let alone Lord Jellyfish whose brain even underwent hibernation. Such things as feelings wouldn't exist within him, would it?
Thinking up to this point, Hua Ji revealed an extremely gentle smile. He echoed Lord Jellyfish's words, "Indeed, that's just too relaxed."
Lord Jellyfish said. "You are envious?"
Hua Ji unhesitatingly said, "No, I'm not envious at all."
Lord Jellyfish said regretfully, "I was about to say I could make you into a hermaphrodite, that way you can have as many children as you want."
Hua Ji: "……" No, being a male is pretty good, I don't want to change sex, thanks."
He laughed sardonically, "Ah, Director Yu is calling me, I will leave first to continue filming. Lord Jellyfish, please do as you like."
This scene was an intense one. First was the Great Elder's rebellion, following which was the Male Lead Yun Bie Shen bringing his men and rushing into the great hall, expressing……
"Qing Qing! Don't be afraid, I'm here to save you!!"
In the next second, Li Shun Hua sternly said, "Qing Qing! Kill that devil cultivator!!"
Ye Qing Qing unconsciously raised her sword and thrust forward. She was originally standing behind the Devil Sect Sect Leader, and the Sect Leader was also not guarded against her, so this strike was a seemingly unavoidable one. Watching as the Revered Sect Leader was about to be impaled, Feng Hui Xue rushed forward, blocked the Sect Leader's back and was pierced straight through the heart.
Fresh blood instantly erupted. He had originally been wearing a blood-red robe; when the blood blossomed on his chest, it quickly blended with the similarly red clothing and vanished without a trace. He collapsed powerlessly against the Sect Leader's back, and the Sect Leader cried with sorrow, "Hui Xue!"
He cradled Feng Hui Xue and stared at his face. His face had already gone pale, and when he parted his lips as if to say something, no words came out. Instead, fresh blood trickled from the side of his lips and down his chin. He only looked deeply at the Sect Leader before, finally, weakly closing his eyes.
The Devil Sect Sect Leader roared, "You all must die!"
Afterwards, he went berserk. That wild gaze, that expression of insanity, that deranged look and those cruel actions, he displayed all his moves with a kind of unsophisticated brutality, like an atom bomb that just exploded. Like a mad dog, he struck whoever he got his hands on.
One strike, one death. It was terribly straightforward.
Lord Jellyfish watched this blankly, unable to fully understand.
Why did the Devil Sect Sect Leader go crazy when Feng Hui Xue died?
Feng Hui Xue was only the Sect Leader's subordinate, wasn't he? When a subordinate died, he would indeed feel sorrow, but it shouldn't be to the point of madness?
Where was the logic in this?
Lord Jellyfish, at this point, had already transformed into a puddle of water on the ground. Beside him, two girls in charge of odd jobs were currently chattering.
"Ah ah ah, he finally exploded! My long-awaited big fight!"
"Feng Hui Xue's death was so pitiful, but he should also feel very blissful, to have died in his most-loved Sect Leader's arms."
"After this episode is broadcasted, the actor for Feng Hui Xue, Hua Ji - he's called Hua Ji, right? - his popularity will definitely explode."
"That's right, this is the favourite scene of those rotten women[1]. This is totally the trope of a sadomasochistic love!"
"Feng Hui Xue adored the Sect Leader but didn't know it, up until when the Female Lead showed up, only then did he become aware of his suppressed feelings. He used countless schemes to go against the Female Lead, yet got locked up in the dungeons by the Sect Leader and suffered torture. To return to the Sect Leader's side, Feng Hui Xue had no choice but to give himself in service of the Great Elder and in the process, found out about his plot. He forcefully endured the killing intent he felt towards the Great Elder and compromised by accompanying by the Great Elder's side before finally unearthing decisive evidence. He intended to hand it to the Sect Leader during the Mid-Autumn Banquet, but who would have thought the righteous cultivators would storm in at this time."
The other girl immediately took over her words as if their minds were linked.
"Sure enough, Ye Qing Qing did not harbour kind intentions towards the Sect Leader; Feng Hui Xue had always been paying close attention to the Sect Leader, so when he discovered Ye Qing Qing's oddness, he instantly rushed to the Sect Leader's back and blocked this fatal blow. And only now did the Sect Leader know who the person he truly cherished was. He actually deeply loved his Head General Manager, yet because Feng Hui Xue was always by his side, he had already grown used to his presence. When Ye Qing Qing appeared, although he liked Ye Qing Qing, his gaze would always unconsciously follow Feng Hui Xue. This was also how he could always discover Feng Hui Xue targeting Ye Qing Qing. He thought Feng Hui Xue was defying him, and was especially furious."
"And although Ye Qing Qing always pleaded for leniency on behalf of Feng Hui Xue, this let the Sect Leader have the sense that Feng Hui Xue was involved with Ye Qing Qing and had betrayed him. In a fit of anger, he had Feng Hui Xue detained in the dungeons. Only after Feng Hui Xue died for him during the banquet, did he finally see through to his inner heart; the one he loved, from the beginning to the end, had always been Feng Hui Xue. But it was all too late."
"Right, Feng Hui Xue had already died. How would he be able to continue living?"
Lord Jellyfish listened until his eyes swam.
Hold on, what did he just hear? Feng Hui Xue and the Devil Sect Sect Leader?
At this point, Lord Jellyfish's expression was especially sinister.
In this moment, the scene had already played out to the point where the Devil Sect Sect Leader was being surrounded by the righteous cultivators and was about to forfeit his life. Ye Qing Qing stood out to plead for mercy on the Sect Leader's behalf and the Male Lead Yun Bie Shen agreed on the surface, but secretly shared a look with Li Shun Hua. On the account that Ye Qing Qing had stayed at the Devil Sect for a period of time and was familiar with the terrain, which would make chasing down Devil Cultivators much easier, Li Shun Hua led her away.
The moment Ye Qing Qing left, Male Lead Yun Bie Shen revealed a wild expression. He led people to surround the Sect Leader. As the Sect Leader ran, he attacked and ended up in front of the cliff at the Devil Sect's back mountain.
A cliff, it is a cliff again.
The two girls continued spouting nonsense, "I daresay at the very end the Sect Leader will hug Feng Hui Xue's corpse and jump off the cliff to his death."
"If there was a second season, then the question of if the Sect Leader died or not would be another matter entirely. Maybe he swears he would take revenge for Feng Hui Xue and learns a peerless art?"
The other girl smiled. "Wait until a second season comes out first."
Jumping off a cliff to his death? Lord Jellyfish didn't realise that he had unconsciously risen up, a water spike[2] forming on the water's surface that was flickering with dots of light. It looked strange no matter how you looked at it.
Behind him stood the Sect Bro who had played the role of the Great Elder. After the Great Elder died, this Sect Bro exited the set to rest. At this moment, he was wordlessly staring at the puddle of water in front of him and its water pillar. His expression was incredibly warped.
For no reason at all, he thought of the monsters in Dungeons and Dragons. Wasn't this thing a slime?
The Sect Bro looked around; thankfully everyone's attention was focused on the set. The Sect Bro pulled out his phone from his clothes and took a picture as memory.
Lord Jellyfish was completely oblivious to the fact that he had once again appeared on the Flowery Inhuman・Ancient Dynasties forum topic leaderboard. As he continued watching the show, the two girls continued to debate beside him.
"Oh oh oh, look! The Sect Leader is about to hug Feng Hui Xue's corpse and leap off the cliff!"
The other girl was also extremely excited. "Jump, jump! This scene is too similar to that one from long ago with Dongfang Bubai in The Smiling, Proud Wanderer! It's just a pity that in that one, the Sect Leader and Linghu Chong[3] were separated by death and this one they are together in death[4]!"
"He's jumping… jumping… jump—damn!!"
The two girls suddenly burst out with foul language.
It turned out that the Sect Leader hugged Feng Hui Xue and looked as if he were about to jump off the cliff, but had actually pivoted and grabbed the Male Lead. He wanted to drag Yun Bie Shen with him!!!
At this climatic moment, Fei Ka said, "Brother Su (the Male Lead's name), you have to treat Qing Qing well in the future."
The Male Lead and the Sect Leader were both stunned. Fei Ka shot out like a cannon ball. On impact, Fei Ka, the Sect Leader, Yun Bie Shen and Hua Ji were all sent flying!
The next second, Fei Ka grabbed the Male Lead and threw him back. He hugged the Sect Leader and together…… en, they jumped off the cliff.
The two girls instantly raged, "What kind of nonsensical plot development is this!?"
Jellyfish: Ah ah ah ah the little fox fell down too!
[1] – Rotten women, AKA fujoshi
[2] – We had a debate in the BL discord over whether this referred to Lord Jellyfish getting a boner or simply just lifting himself up. We couldn’t reach a conclusion.
[3] – All characters from the famous wuxia novel The Smiling, Proud Wanderer. Dongfang Bubai is unoffically known as the icon of homosexuality because he castrated himself in order to learn a powerful martial arts manual known as the Sunflower Manual.
[4] – This comes from 生同衾，死同穴 which translates to ‘Sleeping under the same cover in life, lying in the same grave in death’. Which is used to refer to couples whose feelings for each other are extremely deep. The part used here is the second part, 死同穴, or lying in the same grave in death.