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[JunEr] «Candle Snuffed Out, Chess Game About» 12 - Ye Jun: Master Fang Si the GOAT¹


Ye Jun sickly lay back down in bed again.

He closed his eyes, but his mind was not idle. This drug was especially put into the food he wasn’t going to eat, so it was clearly aimed at the Second Young Master deliberately.

Speaking of, there was a new maid today called Qi Luan. She could do a bit of wugong, and although her foundation was very weak, her movements were pure. This girl had bright eyes and white teeth, around 17 or 18 years old, her wrists were slender, her fingers as though carved out of scallion roots², and one could tell she had never done hard labour.

Ye Jun had a faint guess in his heart, and confidently went to sleep.


When Zhongli Zixi returned, the breathing of the person laying down on the sickbed was faint, still fast asleep without any intention of waking up. He silently sat down by Ye Jun’s side for a moment, thinking that Ye Jun had suddenly lost a lot of weight recently, and with his injuries and the fever and even being poisoned, it seemed like he could hardly rest.

Suddenly, he missed the days spent deep in the mountains.

He was still in a daze when a maid wearing aqua garments, Qi Luan, called out beside him: “Young Master Yan, you should eat first, or it will get cold.”

Zhongli Zixi went back in front of the table and ate absent-mindedly, then let the maid take away the dishes: “Take these away first, then prepare some meat congee and have it sent over.”

After Qi Luan answered and left, Zhongli Zixi calculated it was about time for the medicine, so he went to the bedside and lightly called out twice. But Ye Jun was too deeply asleep, so there was no response.

Just as he was thinking it strange, Qi Luan returned along with two men, smiling and saying: “Young Master Yan, it seems that Young Master Ye doesn’t look too good today, so our master especially called for a doctor and we’ll send Young Master Ye to be examined.”

The two men didn’t wait for Zhongli Zixi to approve, picking Ye Jun up and carrying him up of their own accord.

Zhongli Zixi’s eyes trembled, they wanted to move Ye Jun?

He immediately stopped one of the men, coldly asking: “Just ask the doctor to come here, why do you need to take him away?”

Unfortunately, his hand didn’t have any strength and he couldn’t stop the guard’s movements, and the other party answered: “The doctor is still busy with other things, he can’t come.”

He immediately said: “Then I’ll go too.”

The guard declined: “The doctor said there shouldn’t be others around when he’s seeing patients, just wait here, Young Master Yan, there’s no need to worry.”

Their words were polite, but their actions weren’t careless in the slightest, quickly dragging Ye Jun out of his sickbed and putting him on a stretcher, then turning around and leaving.

Zhongli Zixi boasted about being brilliant, but now he actually couldn’t think of a way to stop them from taking Ye Jun. He could only feel as his heart slowly froze, and coldly said: “Put him down. It’s not too late to let go of him now.”

“Young Master Yan is really worrying too much, you are a guest in our home, how could we dare——”

Qi Luan was still politely pacifying him, but the coldness from Zhongli Zixi’s eyes suddenly smashed into her heart, hostile and threatening, eerily terrifying her, so she choked on the second half of her words. Qi Luan’s heart began palpitating, and she could only feel like her life had already been taken away and delivered to the Yama King.

Zhongli Zixi looked at her coldly, pausing with each word: “Go tell Fang Si that if he dares try to use Ye Jun’s life against me, I will have your entire Fang family buried together.”

Qi Luan was frightened to the point of tears, trembling as she spoke: “Young, Young Master Yan, please rest assured….. we really don’t intend on harming anyone…..”

Zhongli Zixi was extremely irritated and didn’t want to hear her endless weeping: “Leave.” Zhongli Zixi knew he didn’t have the power to reverse the situation by himself, and didn’t feel like wasting any words, so he turned around and went back inside the room.


Zhongli Zixi went into the room and stood near the latticed window, the moon was clear and the breeze quiet, it was a serene and ordinary summer night. The night breeze brushed past and caused him to shiver, and it was only then that he realised his whole body was drenched in cold sweat.

Those words he had spoken were not just to scare them.

Aside from tampering with Master Fang Si’s gu poison medicine, he could just directly dump poison into the water well and the river, making it so that not even chickens and dogs were left alive in the whole of Nanling, he could do it.

This place neighboured Wushui Terrace, and he was very well acquainted with the Wushui Holy Maiden, so he could secretly get in contact with them to exterminate the entire Fang family, that would also be as easy as waving his hand.

He had thousands of ways to pay back the Fang family tenfold and make them regret today, it was just that he didn’t have a way to save Ye Jun now.

He had originally been completely certain, he was sure the Fang family wouldn’t dare move against his people.

But if Master Fang Si was really a brainless fool and impulsively eliminated Ye Jun, even killing him a hundred thousand times wouldn’t be able to make up for it.


When the Eldest Young Master first abandoned him, he felt indifferent, like his heart was made of cold ashes, and he also felt relief.

It was at this moment that he understood what despair really was.


Zhongli Zixi was in a complicated mood, and the more he thought, the more irritated he became. At first, he thought that his own concern was throwing him into disorder, but gradually he realised that this agitation had taken a wrong turn, and actually transformed into lust.

The Second Young Master blamed himself: Ye Jun’s life and death are hanging in the balance, how can I still be thinking about these kinds of things?

It wasn’t until the view in front of his eyes became fuzzier and fuzzier, and he couldn’t concentrate no matter what, that he gradually realised something was wrong. He was startled: What the hell, is it an aphrodisiac again?!

Zhongli Zixi was unbearably hot, so he stumbled out the door, wanting to dive head first into the cold pond. He was then greeted by a beautiful figure, as bright as moonlight, who gently supported him. The soft fragrance of jade in his arms, like a clear spring among pines, silently influenced him, making him feel more comfortable.

Zhongli Zixi braced his mind, and held her by the wrist, “You are….. that new maid that came today…..”

His footing was already unstable, and Qi Luan intentionally led him so that he fell on top of her. Qi Luan spoke quietly next to his ear: “I’m not really an ordinary maid, but rather Master Fang Si’s second daughter. The Fang family is very wealthy, marrying me won’t bring disgrace to Young Master Yan.”

She was clearly a little nervous, not looking at him, lowering her flushed face and trembling as she undid his belt.

“You….. don’t act like nothing happened, don’t let me down.”

Zhongli Zixi didn’t want to let her down, he only wanted her to get out of there, but his consciousness was already vague, and he didn’t know where he was putting his limbs.

After Qi Luan said this, he immediately tied everything together. A few days ago, Master Fang Si had proposed a marriage to him in order to win him over, offering his eldest daughter in betrothal, but he had absent-mindedly turned him down. He wouldn’t have anticipated that Master Fang Si’s evil intentions would not be deterred, and that he would actually be willing to sacrifice his own daughter’s chastity and make him force himself onto her.

The Second Young Master thought: It seems like yesterday’s aphrodisiac was also for this purpose, but unfortunately it was eaten by Ye Jun. Now they have tried again, and even specifically removed Ye Jun, and waited for me to take the bait.

He finally set aside the worry in his heart: Fortunately Master Fang Si wasn’t a fool, and he wasn’t really thinking about eliminating Ye Jun.

Although his current circumstances were not very hopeful, he was drugged after all, and he really didn’t have another way. He had no concept of chastity, so he didn’t think Ye Jun would blame him.

He wouldn’t….. right?


He had just abandoned hope and given up resisting, letting Qi Luan take off his unlined garment, when he was suddenly pulled out of the clear spring embrace.

Ye Jun held Qi Luan by the collar, the young woman hanging in the air, and he spoke with a gentle smile: “The plan was pretty good, but unfortunately my Young Master is already married, it’s best if you don’t waste your breath.”

Qi Luan cried out in surprise as she was thrown to the side.

Zhongli Zixi lay by the side of the pond, his thin garments fallen scattered along his skin among the fallen spring cherry blossoms, his silver pupils more captivating than the moonlight. Ye Jun looked at him for a moment, turning his head and clashing with Qi Luan with a laugh: “Is my Young Master good-looking?”

Ye Jun was as handsome and elegant as a crane, and his bearing was graceful, Qi Luan was stunned by his smile, and suddenly that smile turned cold: “Forget about it.”

He approached her in an instant, bending his finger and flicking it against her forehead so hard that Qi Luan lost consciousness.

Ye Jun withdrew his hand and sighed: “I actually hit a woman, I’m not human.”

He turned around and gathered his Young Master into his embrace, he was about to carry him up, but Zhongli Zixi pulled him down from his position and Ye Jun, who was caught unprepared, fell into his arms.

He had been burning up for a long time, and even though he had given up struggling, he still found it difficult in his heart. Now that he saw Ye Jun, he simply felt like he’d been granted amnesty. What sense of propriety? He’d long since stop feeling apprehensive.

Ye Jun helplessly got up from his arms: “Young Master, the night is long, we don’t need to hurry.”


Zhongli Zixi woke up in a gently-flowing stream.

The moonlight had already disappeared for the most part, it was almost dawn, and the orioles’ mellow cries sounded endlessly. The clear water reached halfway up his body, and Ye Jun had his arms circled around him, holding him and wiping his body clean.

Ye Jun’s efficiency had always been excellent, so he leaned against Ye Jun’s flexible and sturdy chest and snugly rubbed against him.

He had just imagined them being separated forever today, but now that he saw Ye Jun, he just felt endless happiness.

Ye Jun spoke softly: “Young Master, are you uncomfortable anywhere?”

Not just uncomfortable, his whole body felt like it was about to break.

Zhongli Zixi tried to clench his fists, saying: “I feel exhausted all over. What did we do yesterday?”

Ye Jun guiltily said: “Just….. a very ordinary affair, that’s all.” He whispered and added, “Very ordinary.”

He had taken advantage of the Young Master’s delirium to curiously try all kinds of ways of doing it, but he would surely be silenced if he said that out loud.

After all, the Second Young Master was really enthusiastic last night, so he wasn’t careful and played a little too excessively.

Zhongli Zixi didn’t answer, and Ye Jun became increasingly anxious, but then he heard the Young Master say: “I want to apologise to you.”

Ye Jun was surprised: “Huh?”

Zhongli Zixi lowered his head and spoke sadly: “When I was drugged, I actually thought it would be fine to just sleep with Qi Luan. I wasn’t strong-willed yesterday, and I only realise that now.”

Ye Jun paused. The situation yesterday hadn’t been too different from his guess, so he had wanted to let Zhongli Zixi find out for himself while simultaneously reinforcing the misunderstanding of aphrodisiac being added in the food, only secretly hiding and observing later on, acting until the very last moment.

When he had pretended to be unconscious and was carried away by the guards, the Young Master had seemed calm but his words contained enormous despair, he could earnestly sense it.

Ye Jun had been with the Second Young Master for ten years, and he had never known him to be so panicked.

“When you were drugged, you still prioritised me over everything. When I was drugged, I could only think of myself. In spite of everything, I still relied on your affection for me and tried to do something shameful towards you.” Zhongli Zixi dragged his weak body and struggled to turn around, then hugged him and apologised, “Ye Jun, I’m not as good as you.”

“Don’t….. praise me anymore….. please…..” Ye Jun didn’t dare look at the Young Master’s crystal clear eyes, shamefully moving his gaze away.

Zhongli Zixi leaned against his shoulders and lifted his eyes to look at him, lightly smiling: “Turns out you can also get embarrassed ah. You look much cuter like that.”


The Second Young Master thought his own extreme selfishness was simply inhuman.

Ye Jun, who constantly manipulated his Young Master while the other party treated him more openly instead, also felt he was inhuman.


The two people cursed their own inhumanity while making a firm resolution in their hearts to treat the other party even better in the future to make up for it.


The Second Young Master hated Master Fang Si, hated him to the bone.

While Ye Jun was thankful for Master Fang Si, even looking forward to gifting him a silk banner.