There Will Always Be Protagonists With Delusions of Starting a Harem

After crying for a while, Yuan Hui calmed down. She lightly felt Ye Zhizhou’s face and then got up after wiping her tears. She quickly walked over to Tao Dong and slapped her fiercely, “Slut!”

With such a hard hit, Tao Dong’s cheeks quickly became red and swollen. Tao Dong's carefully maintained skin was cut by nails and rings, and several bloody scratches appeared. Tao Dong wanted to defend herself, but her mouth was gagged and she could only make vague whimpers. She didn’t expect that after 10 years, Zou Ming’s poisoned face had the possibility of recovery!

“Does it hurt?” Shen Tingwei waited for Yuan Hui to leave before he slightly twisted himself and extended his finger to gently touch Ye Zhizhou’s face. He quickly retracted his finger, took out a small, delicate bottle and poured out some ointment. Carefully, he helped Ye Zhizhou apply it on his face, “So your name is Zou Ming? Were you the one that was engaged to me back then?"

The ointment felt cool and comfortable on his face as Shen Tingwei applied it. Ye Zhizhou withdrew the hand that was searching around his space, nodded perfunctorily to him and turned his gaze back to the show, glancing meaningfully at Zou Qing. He laced his voice with some spiritual power and described the events of that year in a simple and concise manner.

The more Zou Qing heard, the more shocked he was. After hearing all the facts, his shock turned into anger. He strode towards Tao Dong and angrily said, “Trying to mix up the di and shu bloodlines, Tao Dong, to think you would actually go this far. You’re demented! Madam was right, I sure did take a good concubine!"

Tao Dong looked at him with tears in her eyes, shaking her head desperately, trying to arouse his pity. Seeing this action, Yuan Hui couldn’t help giving her another slap.

“Someone come! Drag Concubine Tao away and shut her up in the ancestral hall!” Zou Qing turned his head away in disgust, not wanting to look at her. He walked back to Ye Zhizhou’s side and hesitated for a moment before reaching out to gently pat him on the shoulder while saying, “Ming… Mingming, these years I have wronged you, rest assured father will take responsibility. In the future, there will be no Concubine Tao in this family."

Concubine Tao, who was currently being dragged out by a servant, whimpered in horror as she heard these words. She struggled wildly. Yuan Hui sneered and went over to help the servant. After she threw her out of the main hall, she closed the main hall door.

Seeing this, Ye Zhizhou deliberately paused for a moment before saying, “Thank you, father… Since Concubine Tao is… Then the real Zou Lan in the countryside… What is father going to do with him?"

Zou Qing frowned when he heard these words and a trace of embarrassment flashed across his face. What Concubine Tao did was indeed very evil, but Zou Lan was his son after all. The year when the children were swapped, Zou Lan was also young, he didn’t have any evil intentions…

“There’s no need to do anything. He wrote to me a while ago, saying that life in the countryside was more comfortable. Since that’s the case, just let him stay in the countryside,” Yuan Hui came over with a cold face. She sat on the other side of Ye Zhizhou and took his hand with a cold glint in her eyes, "Moreover, he's almost at a marriageable age. He can resume his status as a shu son and then get married into a similar family. The Zou family has been raising him as a di son all these years, we haven't treated him unfairly."

Zou Qing thought about it and then nodded in agreement to her proposal, “Then I’ll leave it to you. Today’s matter is too important, I need to inform my mother… This… Tingwei, as you can see…”

“Father-in-law doesn’t have to worry about me,” Shen Tingwei, who was eager to be alone with Ye Zhizhou, hastily said that he didn’t mind.

“I’ll go with you, husband.” Yuan Hui thought of Old Madam Zou’s favoritism towards Tao Dong and suspected that she was probably aware of the fact that the children were swapped. After listening to Zou Qing’s remarks, she quickly got up and walked to his side, “As the first wife, having this kind of situation in the residence is my fault. I should go and ask mother for forgiveness.”

Zou Qing didn’t expect her to be so reasonable. He felt a bit moved and showed a rare bit of tenderness as he took her hand and patted it. After giving a brief farewell to Shen Tingwei, Zou Qing took Yuan Hui to Old Madam Zou’s courtyard.

Soon, only Ye Zhizhou and Shen Tingwei were left in the main hall. After everyone left, Shen Tingwei immediately went forward to bring Ye Zhizhou into his arms. He lowered his head and moved close to Ye Zhizhou, kissing him, “You were originally this good-looking.”

The satisfaction and pleasure he felt in his heart from exposing the conspiracy shattered into pieces. He raised his hand and grabbed at Shen Tingwei’s face, pushing it away while grinding his teeth, “So you thought my face before was ugly?”

Knowing that he had touched a mine, Shen Tingwei paused for a moment and then said with a straight face, “Mingming is good-looking, no matter how you dress.”

“Those words sound familiar.” The way Shen Tingwei addressed him also changed fast. Ye Zhizhou broke away from his embrace and put on a fake smile, “Young General Shen, your value has already disappeared. Once we leave the Zou mansion, we can each go our way. Stop taking advantage of me, embracing me and kissing me. I still want to marry someone in the future.” He still held a grudge from the previous random groping incident. He thinks he can eat meat, dream on!

Shen Tingwei's face became dark, “Who would you want to marry?”

“It's none of your business,” Ye Zhizhou looked at him with empty eyes, “There are a lot of talented young people outside. I will marry whomever I want.”

Shen Tingwei looked at him deeply, his eyes lost their warmth and turned cold like before. He used his hands to slowly touch his face, “Mingming…You can only marry me.”

Ye Zhizhou wasn’t afraid of the reappearance of his lover’s old illness at all. He rolled his eyes, wanting to continue to provoke him a bit more, but suddenly felt a pain on the back of his neck and fainted.

His neck was a bit sore and his body was warm. He awoke in a daze and was startled greatly by the naked man in front of him.

“Woke up?” Shen Tingwei lowered his head, kissed his eyes, and then continued stripping him.

The bed beneath him was very soft. His outer robe had disappeared and his inner robe was about to disappear. Moving his legs, he found that he could directly feel the sheets with his skin. Immediately, he became angry and started grinding his teeth, “Young General Shen, are you going to force me?”

“You're originally my wife," Shen Tingwei untied his inner clothes, leaned over and pressed him down while looking at him deeply, “Mingming, you can only be mine. You can only marry me.”

His body felt soft and powerless, it was obvious that he was given a drug. He became angrier and he furiously said, “Are you going to use force? Do you want to rape me?

“No, I’ll wait until you’re willing,” Shen Tingwei was still laying on him, but it was only that, “Now, you can only marry me.”

What is this? Is this the ‘whoever sees your naked body has to marry you’ kind of feudal logic? Ye Zhizhou could only powerlessly ridicule it, wildly shouting for the system in his heart while angrily saying, “Wait until I am willing? That’s not what your body's saying!”

Shen Tingwei's breathing suspiciously stopped, “I really want you.”

The skin-to-skin contact felt very comfortable but at the same time also torturous, not to mention the hot thing poking his thigh! Ye Zhizhou took advantage of when Shen Tingwei lowered his head with closed eyes to kiss him and swallowed a pill from the small mirror. He tried to move his finger and found there was some strength. Immediately, he sent out his spiritual power and wrapped it around Shen Tingwei. Then, in the split second that Shen Tingwei was unable to move, he flipped them over, hugged him, pushed him down and stuffed a pill into his mouth. He sneered, “Want me? First, cure your brain!” Teasing him and not doing it again, simply inhumane!

The pill instantly melted when it entered Shen Tingwei’s mouth, he couldn’t move his body at all. His body relaxed quickly after a tense moment and his eyes fell on Ye Zhizhou’s lower body. His expression was honest but his eyes were filled with wicked emotions, “Mingming, you had a reaction.”

Ye Zhizhou was angry! He was a man with his lover stripped naked and pressed down under him. If he didn’t have a reaction, that would be scary! He gave a strong flick to his lover’s forehead, pulled the pillow cover over his sneaky eyes and hatefully said, “I'll go and have a reaction to other men right now! You can just lie here by yourself!”

A little play fighting is fine but raising a wall is absolutely out of the question! Shen Tingwei’s face became dark and his body became tense again. He tried to move his weak body without success. His tone became dangerous, “Mingming, you should behave.”

You behave, you show-off!

Ye Zhizhou was going to make a few more sarcastic remarks when his eyes inadvertently swept to the other’s waist and he saw the fierce wound there. He frowned and swallowed down the sarcastic remarks, patting Shen Tingwei on the chest in a bad mood, “Relax a bit, the wound will burst open! What’s the matter with you? It's been almost a year, why does your wound still look so new?"

Shen Tingwei didn’t speak but used his actions to show his indifference about his wound.

This stupid idiot!

He took out a top-quality Jin Chuang ointment from his space and poured it out, rubbed it between his hands and then smeared it onto Shen Tingwei’s wound. He patted Shen Tingwei’s thighs as he did this, saying, “Relax for me, I’m giving you medicine!”

His body was touched and patted by his wife. Shen Tingwei let out a low groan, a thin layer of sweat streaked from his forehead and his Adam's apple bobbed up and down. The already lively place down there became even more lively.

Ye Zhizhou, who just finished smearing the medicine, was stimulated by this image full of male sex appeal. Blushing, he pulled a blanket over Shen Tingwei and got dressed messily, restraining his impulses to rush to the bed to jump him. He looked away and said, “Your wound should be fine after you wake up. I’ll leave first. Goodbye!” After saying this, he immediately turned and left.

Shen Tingwei’s eyes were covered, he couldn’t move his body and could only listen to the sound of Ye Zhizhou’s footsteps as he walked away. A dark light flashed through his covered eyes. This little wife that he fancied seemed a little too vivacious.

Using his spiritual power as a scanner, Ye Zhizhou smoothly slipped out of the Shen Mansion. The Ruanjin pill he had given Shen Tingwei only lasted two hours. After he left the mansion, he immediately went out to buy a brush, paper, and inkstone, then squatted on the roadside and wrote a letter. He found his way to Yang Dexuan’s residence and snuck in through the side door. He threw the letter into Yang Dexuan’s study. After doing all of this, he rushed out of the city and found Yang Qi, who was still a beggar, in a broken temple outside the city.

When he found Yang Qi at this time, the old beggar who took care of him hadn't died yet. Ye Zhizhou used a Yirong pill and prepared some meals for them. He stuffed a nourishing body pill into the steamed bun for the old beggar and then left. The dirty Yang Qi who ran out to thank him was fooled by a name he randomly replied with.

That night, Yang Dexuan arrived at the broken temple with a team of bodyguards and took away the old beggar and Yang Qi.

[The probability of Yang Qi and the protagonist falling in love has dropped to 30%, may the host persist in his efforts. ]

Ye Zhizhou climbed up from behind the dirt slope where he was hiding and wiped his face, “It went down a lot. I didn’t waste my time tossing about…."

"When did you toss about?"

An arm tightened around his waist, his body was lifted into the air and then his back fell into a warm body. His acupoints were tapped a few times and he couldn’t move again.

"Shen Tingwei!"

“Be good,” Shen Tingwei carried him back to the carriage and stretched out a hand to unfasten his clothes.

Ye Zhizhou felt desperate, Shen Tingwei was like a ghost that lingers after death! “What do you want to do this time? How did you find me!” He had planned to go meet Kang Run after finishing up with Yang Qi!

Shen Tingwei refused to answer and simply stripped of his clothes, holding him tightly in his arms while saying with a straight face, “This way, you can’t run away. The weather’s hot right now, it’s the perfect time to not wear clothes.”

“You dirty bas-mhm!”

Their breaths intertwined, their lips and tongues touched and his bare, exposed skin was ambiguously caressed by the other man. His body trembled sensitively and he responded very quickly.

Shen Tingwei’s breathing became heavy, and he pulled Ye Zhizhou closer, stroking and kissing him more vigorously.

This bastard… As his body temperature rose, he compromised and closed eyes, letting his body soften into Shen Tingwei's arms. He vented and ran away already since the other wants to…let's just do it.

The next day, Ye Zhizhou naturally got up late. He rolled over and found that he did not feel any discomfort, but he felt lazy and did not want to move. A ger’s body… Feels pretty good.

The smell of vegetable porridge wafted in the air, and he could hear the faint noise of Shen Tingwei’s deliberately lowered voice. He rolled over again and the relaxed expression on his face turned emotionless as he thought for a moment. He raised his hand and poked at the little mirror under the pillow, “Tongtian, the Juesi pill, give it to me." In the end, this was only a temporary task world. If he left behind any descendants, he's afraid that he would fall apart when he had to leave.

The small mirror shook and sent the pill out with a ray of light. He reached out to catch it with his hand, closed his eyes and swallowed the pill.

The room door was gently pushed open, footsteps sounded, and then the bed sank and his forehead was gently touched. Ye Zhizhou turned around to hugged his lover’s waist, buried his face in it and gently nuzzled him, “I’m sorry…” My willfulness deprived you of your ability to be a father in this world.

The smile on Shen Tingwei’s face disappeared. With a serious expression, he pulled Ye Zhizhou up to a sitting position and carefully looked him over. He frowned and asked, “Why did you suddenly tell me sorry? Do you want to run again? Or do you want to marry someone else?" When he asked the last question, his tone was already gloomy.

… He really can't express his feelings to this bastard! Ye Zhizhou pounded him hard, rolled up the sleeves of his robe and stretched out his arms to show him, “Look here! I’m totally infertile now!”

The originally red dot that represented his fertility had turned pitch black. Against his white skin, it looked like an ugly scar.

“What happened?” Shen Tingwei grabbed his arm and rubbed his finger on the mark. He wrinkled his brows tightly, a trace of tension and worry on his face, and pulled Ye Zhizhou’s wrist to check his pulse while asking, “Did I hurt you yesterday? Or could it be that there are other poisons in your body?"

“No,” He retracted his wrist, and his tone became somewhat dull, “It’s just that I can’t have a child anymore… Do you really want to have a child? I…” The more he spoke, the more the guilt in his heart grew and his voice gradually became weaker. Damn, why can men have children in this world? What if his lover really wanted a child?

The result of his pulse was very normal and Shen Tingwei finally let out a relieved sigh. It was only after this that he realized Ye Zhizhou’s mood wasn’t right. He glanced across his arm and he took Ye Zhizhou into his embrace, patting him comfortably. After thinking about it, he said earnestly, “It’s better to not have children.”

Ye Zhizhou raised his head to look up at him suspiciously, “Are you trying to trick me?” What man that grew up in a feudal society would think that not having children was better?

“If you had a child, you will give him more attention. You’ll sleep with him, feed him, accompany him to read…” They were originally supposed to be comforting words but the more Shen Tingwei said, the more he thought it would really be like that. His expression became more serious, his eyes became colder, and the hands holding onto Ye Zhizhou unconsciously tightened. The spiritual power that had been quiet this entire time suddenly emerged with murderous intent as he said, “And then you would give me the cold shoulder and ignore me…Mingming, I forbid you to have children!”

Sure enough, his lover's brain is never normal! He raised his hand and slapped his head, glaring at him, “Calm down!”

Shen Tingwei’s answer was to lift his hand and untie his clothes.

“What are you trying to do in broad daylight!”

Shen Tingwei stripped off Ye Zhizhou’s inner clothes, revealing the skin underneath that still had ambiguous marks from their previous activities. Raising his hand, Shen Tingwei pulled off his own clothes and laid on top of him. His tone was sinister as he said, “Your fertility only disappeared after we did it. Just in case, let’s do it a few more times!”

Ye Zhizhou powerlessly roasted him, but his body began to heat up from the foreplay. He couldn’t stop himself from extending his leg to kick him, "You beast!”

Shen Tingwei grabbed his leg and rubbed it. He bent down, kissed it and said vaguely, “I'm only a beast to you.”

One side was being lovey-dovey and living happily but Zou Lan in the countryside was having a hard time.

His servants were fired, his three daily meals had become coarse and at his courtyard gate were a few strange momos that kept him from leaving. In just three short days, his life changed completely.

“How dare you evil servants do this to me! I'll tell my mother about this and have you punished!”

One of the momos guarding the courtyard door sneered, her eyes holding a bit of disdain, “He actually thinks he's the beloved di son. Bah, a concubine's son dared to pretend to be our madam's child. No shame!”

The mansion’s head momo coincidentally came over and glared at her when she heard this. She shouted, “Stop gossiping and concentrate on your job!”

The momo who was guarding the gate quieted down and dared not talk anymore.

The head momo nodded with satisfaction. Holding a message, she pushed open the courtyard door and walked in.

When Zou Lan heard the door open, he directly threw a teacup and said angrily, “Get out! Daring to humiliate me. When I return to the capital, I will definitely…”

“Second Young Master,” The head momo frowned and avoided the thrown teacup. She put the message on the table and said softly, “This is the husband that madam chose for you. Please look, the marriage is scheduled for half a month later. Please calm down during this time."

Zou Lan’s complexion changed greatly, “What did you call me?!”

“Second Young Master,” The momo patted her sleeve that had been splashed with tea and revealed a fake smile, “Oh another thing, Concubine Tao, your birth mother, caught a sickness yesterday and unexpectedly died. Madam was kind enough to spare you the trouble of returning to the capital to pay your respects. You just need to relax and wait to get married."

“Impossible!” Zou Lan screamed, “Mother, her body was always healthy. How could she catch a deadly sickness… No! That's wrong I am the Third Young Master! I am Zou Ming! Don’t call me Second Young Master, I don't allow it!” The harsh treatment these days was finally explained, and he couldn't help screaming and throwing everything on the table to the ground.

The head momo moved sideways to avoid the fragments of porcelain on the ground and frowned in dislike, “The Third Young Master is now living well in the Shen mansion. Young General Shen is preparing to give the Third Young Master a title. Now, all the marriageable young girls and gers in the capital envy their love. One was determined to marry when the other side was seriously injured and dying, and one swears to only marry the other side only after their injury is healed… As for you, a shu son is a shu son. Even if you take the identity of others temporarily, you will not have that happy life. In the end, taking other people’s things still won't change your life."

It was as if Zou Lan was struck by lightning, his eyes were full of incredulity, “What did you say? That the slut is living well in the Shen mansion? The Shen family also wants to give him a title? No! Doesn't the Shen family hate him very much? Isn’t Shen Tingwei dying soon?"

The momo slapped him hard the moment she heard his words and shouted, “Take care of what you say! Is the Third Young Master someone you can insult like that? Young General Shen's health has already been well for a while and he has already begun to go to court after his period of absence. Stop saying such irresponsible things!"

“How could this be…” Zou Lan was completely muddled. He buried his face into his hands and collapsed onto the chair. Suddenly he screamed again, “No! I am Zou Ming. It should be me who married into the Shen mansion, and it should be me who gets the title. It should be me. These things are all mine!”

“Lunatic!” The momo looked at him with disgust. She shook her head and flicked her sleeve before walking away.

The door was once again closed and locked. Zou Lan screamed a few times and then fell on the table. The face of mania gradually disappeared and he tightly grabbed the message on the table with a heavy expression and a terrible look in his eyes, “Zou Ming, Yuan Hui, just you wait! I, Zou Lan, won't admit defeat so easily!”

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PS: Why is it in this world I can't resist wanting to drive? No, no, can't drive in JJ. I need to be reserved!

Ironically, I checked JJWXC as I was getting this chapter ready to be posted and there’s 26 chapters locked for editing and about half of the chapters for this arc, including this chapter, and the next 2 chapters LOL. Hope nothing gets permanently locked.

Reminder that starting next update, it’ll only be 1 chapter a week, so next update will be on Saturday, September 7th and not Wednesday the 4th