Damn it! Let's smash the darkness together!

Suddenly, Gu Qian heard the sound of wheels rolling outside.

Listening closely, he realized it was Xu Shu humming a tune with a weird melody, coming his way.

"~Why don't you remember what you said~ Hey, what are you doing~"

"What the hell is that?"

"What's he singing, some kind of weird stuff?"

"No, that's not important. What's important is, why is he here? It couldn't be, he really wants to feed me... damn it."

Gu Qian hurriedly stood up, walked to the door, and peeked outside.

He saw Xu Shu pushing a small cart that he had gotten from who knows where, stacked with several tubs of instant noodles, a big pile of canned food, and also hot water boiled in an iron pot soaking chunks of meatballs, dried tofu, noodle skins, and so on, looking like a big pot of oden.

The soup was steaming hot, noodle skins were tumbling, and the aroma of meat filled the air.

There's no piss or shit, it's real food?!

Has he figured it out? Ha, I knew it, if I just held out a little, he would be the first to crack!

Ha ha ha ha! I win! I have the last laugh!

Gu Qian's nostrils flared a few times, unable to help swallowing saliva, but still with a straight face said:

"Heh, you've come to your senses? Wait until I've had my fill, then give me two skewers of those meatballs."

While speaking, he commanded as if he were a Little Emperor, but the longing in his eyes could not be concealed; he was obviously starving.

However, Xu Shu ignored him and started eating by himself, deliberately making loud smacking noises as he ate.

This threw Gu Qian for a loop.

Gu Qian: "You... what do you mean?"

Xu Shu glanced at him and said indifferently, "Nothing much, just got hungry before dawn and came out for breakfast."

"It's not for me?" Gu Qian opened his mouth.

"Don't be hasty, your share is coming up after I'm done. Once I feel like taking a dump, it'll be your turn."

"Can't find a toilet, so I'll make do with this later, you can make do with that."

As Xu Shu spoke matter-of-factly, he showed him a chamber pot.

"????"

Make do with your mother!

Gu Qian was really going insane.

Damn, this beast!

He's really doing it?

Gu Qian looked and relieved to see the iron window was quite narrow, just a bit wider than a fist, a small comfort.

If the other party tried to force feed him shit, he could block the window.

He would certainly never allow anything to be stuffed in!

Absolutely not!

The next moment, he heard Xu Shu while eating, say, "Hey, you must be hungry too, right? Why don't you just confess and avoid the suffering?"

"Heh, that trick won't work on me."

After Gu Qian said coldly, he sat down and covered his nose.

Damn, it smelled too good!

Then he heard Xu Shu outside, while eating, let out a soulful sigh, "Ah, this meatball, hey hey this dried tofu, ah and this rice cake~ Oh, delicious, really delicious!"

"...."

Gu Qian couldn't stand it, covered his ears, not wanting to listen anymore.

But after all, he only had two hands, now that they were covering his ears, his mouth and nose were left exposed without any cover.

So, his mouth and nose were completely filled with the smell of Xu Shu's food.

Tears uncontrollably streamed from the corners of his flushed mouth.

Ah, delicious, really delicious!

"Ah ah ah ah!"

"You, can't you, go somewhere else to eat?" Gu Qian gritted his teeth.

Xu Shu said, "What's it to you? You clear about your situation? In this jail, who has the say—you or me?

"Once I finish eating, I'll take good care of you, just you wait ha...."

"..."

Damn!

That devilish sound of eating, along with the devilish threats, entered his ears.

Devil! An absolute devil!

Gu Qian closed his eyes; he couldn't find words to describe the man outside anymore.

He could only keep reassuring himself in his mind to endure:

Gu Qian, you've got to hold on.

No matter how great the humiliation, you have to get through it!

You absolutely can't, can't, cannot submit to him!

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Xu Shu ate for at least an hour, and Gu Qian endured for a full hour.

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Finally, Xu Shu finished eating and stood up.

Gu Qian listened cautiously and heard a scuffling sound outside, as if someone was taking off their pants?

Damn it, is he really going to take a dump here in front of me?!

"Shit, you vile fiend, we are irreconcilable enemies!"

At that moment, Gu Qian could no longer restrain himself and clenched his fists.

He was determined that if Xu Shu dared to stick even a tiny bit of his filthy excrement in here, he would seize the opportunity to break one of his hands!

However, just as he was coiled like a tiger ready to pounce,

suddenly, he saw some food in a paper cup pushed through the window.

"Huh?"

What's this?

Gu Qian's expression froze, and for a moment, he even forgot to catch it.

Xu Shu's scoundrel-like voice rang out: "Just kidding, you didn't take it seriously, did you? Go ahead and eat, it's bad for the stomach to skip breakfast."

"?"

Just kidding, so it was... heh heh...

Fuck your grandpa!

A mixture of emotions flooded Gu Qian's heart.

He felt as though he had been in Hell and now arrived in Heaven.

Even though he was still in prison

Even though he was scared to death yesterday.

Even though...

After a long silence, Gu Qian said softly, "Thank you," and then accepted the oden.

Putting a meatball into his mouth, the juiciness burst from the casing with a chewy texture that lingered on his palate.

Ah, this is life.

What the hell was that canned stuff I was eating before!

Perhaps it was because the oden tasted exceptionally good to him.

Gu Qian slowly started to find Xu Shu more agreeable.

Despite how he had treated him, Xu Shu surprisingly held no grudge and was willing to reconcile and feed him.

Even his threatening words turned out to be just a joke—laughable that I actually took them seriously.

He's actually a pretty nice guy.

Sigh, I'm somewhat touched.

Tears couldn't help but flow.

"I'm sorry, what I did yesterday was wrong."

Gu Qian's nose turned sour as he cried, his eyes red, he turned away to wipe his tears.

Xu Shu watched his tears with a flicker of interest in his eyes.

He tossed aside something that looked like a can of pepper powder and observed Gu Qian's expression as he said:

"Come on, it's nothing. A big man sobbing like a woman, can't we just talk it out? Just like me, I only wanted to know how to become a Transcendent, right."

Gu Qian nodded with a choked voice: "Yeah, I was wrong yesterday, I'll tell you how to become a Transcendent later, as thanks for this meal."

"Fair enough," Xu Shu narrowed his eyes and leisurely pulled up a chair to sit down at his door.

Bizarre, quiet.

The two of them seemed to suddenly reconcile from their previous confrontation, living in harmony but with an underlying sense of discord.

At Xu Shu's feet were the props he had just used.

[Selflessness] (Common)!

[A type of invisible powder that, when used, makes your good deeds more likely to move those around you to tears involuntarily, even if the matter doesn't concern them.]

"He's crying now, looks like it worked, I've moved him."

"Heh, this guy's thoughts are meticulous. If I hadn't deliberately provoked him with my words and then gave a carrot after the stick, he probably wouldn't have been so easily fooled."

"It wasn't in vain that I tossed and turned last night, unable to sleep, until I finally thought of a way to pry open his mouth to make him tell the truth, instead of deliberately deceiving me."

"I must seize this opportunity to ask everything I want to know!"

Thinking this, Xu Shu felt more confident and asked, "So, what else is needed to become a Transcendent? How exactly is the Curse Seal used?"

Gu Qian swallowed hard a few times, gulped down the delicious meatball he had been chewing, wiped the corner of his mouth, and said, "Wait for me to finish eating, umm…"

"No hurry, take your time; I have all the time in the world," Xu Shu said generously.

After the 'Selflessness' took effect, the target would continuously feel moved.

As long as you stay by the target's side, and you don't intentionally spoil the good feelings, this effect can last for a long time, until the other person gradually forgets.

Even saying a few extra kind words can intensify and prolong this goodwill.

Gu Qian ate heartily, caressing his belly and savoring the long-missed feeling of warmth and fullness before he slowly began to speak:

"There are three necessary conditions to become a Transcendent. First, is the Curse Seal. The Curse Seal is the source of power, and by containing the Curse Seal, one can obtain power."

Xu Shu's heart stirred, asking:

"Contain?"

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