Bang, bang, bang—!
"What are you doing inside?!!"
A frantic pounding on the door, accompanied by furious roaring, revealed just how enraged the man outside was at that very moment!
Yet, separated by a mere door, the room within was a scene of springtime splendor.
Such a scenario, such a development...
Surely anyone who has perused certain adult apps, or is a loyal reader of a certain moderator's works, would offer a knowing smile after a brief moment of astonishment.
Was this not unmistakably that... that classic plot where the cuckolded man is locked outside the door?
"Good grief, why are we diving straight into the NTR plot, and getting caught by the cuckold—no, by the protagonist himself? This is too much to handle!"
Han Mo wailed in agony within his heart, while his brain frantically searched for relevant plots and character profiles.
The villain Han Mo: heir apparent of the Han Family in Yifeng City, Tianhai Prefecture, of the Dazhou Immortal Dynasty.
As the southernmost border prefecture of the Dazhou Immortal Dynasty, Tianhai Prefecture had an intricate web of internal factions, encompassing both the official forces representing the Immortal Dynasty and the six major cultivating sects standing in rivalry.
Of course, there was also the Yifeng Han Family, a presence neither side could afford to ignore.
The Han Family was a distinguished lineage through the generations. Han Mo's grandfather, Han Lin, had spent his life in armor, earning monumental military merits for the Dazhou Immortal Dynasty.
Because of his extraordinary achievements and widespread renown, the Immortal Dynasty bestowed upon him the title of Marquis Yifeng, garrisoning the borderlands across generations on behalf of the realm.
His father, Han Feiyu, was a supreme grand master at the Peak Golden Core Realm and the current head of the Han Family. His strength and methods were rare existences even across the entirety of Tianhai Prefecture.
As the saying goes, like father, like son.
Han Mo had inherited the talents of his forebears, emerging as a rare cultivation prodigy within the Han Family. He possessed a natural Sword Spirit Body and dual Spiritual Roots, second only to the supreme Heavenly Spiritual Root of the Eight Desolations World.
He began cultivating at age five, reached the Qi Condensation 5th Layer at ten, and the Qi Condensation 8th Layer at twenty. With Foundation Establishment not too far off, he was the second-fastest cultivating genius the Han Family had seen in a century.
With such talent, though slightly behind the true paragons of the age, he was nonetheless a hero of his generation.
This was the standard configuration for a routine villain. Trash-flow or otherworldly heaven-defying protagonists were reserved for the main characters.
A villain like Han Mo, whose cultivation talent was neither overwhelmingly strong nor terribly weak, was the only type who could keep pace with the players' leveling speed in the early stages and continuously court death!
After all, he had over six ruinous endings and remained relevant well into the mid-to-late game; calling him a "genius" was hardly an exaggeration.
Yet precisely because he bore the name of a genius, his actions were those of a dissolute scoundrel.
Everyone in Yifeng City knew that Han Mo was profoundly lustful, especially fond of playing Cao Cao... ahem, listening to tunes in brothels, dallying with courtesans, and even violating innocent women whenever the mood struck him!
Coupled with the fact that the head of the Han Family had been busy cultivating in his youth and only had this single son in his old age, he doted on him excessively, fostering his arrogant and unruly nature.
In the game's side quests, his very first ruinous ending involved drugging Murong Ying—a true disciple of the Star River Sword Sect, one of the six major sects who had come to Yifeng City to recruit new disciples—with the intent of committing nefarious deeds.
As a result, he was caught on the spot by the player, cleaved into seven or eight pieces by a single blade, with his most crucial part dragged away by a stray dog.
Tragic~!
The word "tragic" wasn't even enough to describe it; it was utterly miserable!
And the young matron before him was none else than Murong Ying, the very true disciple of the Star River Sword Sect who had come to Yifeng City for recruitment, and a Late Foundation Establishment cultivator who outranked Han Mo by an entire major realm!
No wonder he had felt a trace of incongruity earlier—how could a mere Qi Condensation villain like himself possibly merit the favor of a Late Foundation Establishment female cultivator?
So she had been drugged!
According to the game's settings, this drug was not a mere hallucinogen, but rather a charm-type substance that planted self-suggestions in the target and stimulated their latent desires.
Charm? Self-suggestion?
Damn, why did this sound so much like novel settings such as chaotic heart-seas or hypnotic mind-control by some moderator?
As expected of an adult cultivation game!
While Han Mo was mentally unleashing a barrage of complaints against the game mechanics, Murong Ying beside him threw her arms tightly around him, her delicate and pretty face rubbing back and forth against his chest.
"Lord Han, come discuss the Dao with me~"
Once he figured all this out, the young matron's current words and actions appeared completely logical in his eyes.
This Han Mo truly was a villain with the audacity of heaven and the lust of a beast, inviting her under the guise of the Han Family only to make a move on her—and not through mutual consent, but via the despicable means of drugging.
So that was it, everything fell into place... like hell it did!
Was this really the time to care about that?
This was a disastrous opening!
Judging by the progress of the game's plot, by this point the protagonist should have already entered the Star River Sword Sect and become Murong Ying's junior brother.
With such a beautiful senior sister, how could a player new to the game possibly restrain their loneliness? Who wouldn't want the relationship between senior sister and junior brother to take a romantic turn?
Today's banquet invitation was actually an in-game choice: if the player chose to remain indifferent when Murong Ying left, it would trigger the Cao Cao plot; whereas choosing to secretly follow her would trigger the good ending, catching Han Mo's illicit scheme in the act and eliminating the villain.
This was precisely why this villain had over six ruinous endings; dying early or late depended entirely on the player's choices.
And the person pounding on the door at this very moment was most likely the protagonist—Murong Ying's junior brother. In other words, he had chosen to follow her and triggered the good ending.
The problem, however, was that while this good ending favored the protagonist, for Han Mo the villain, it was an absolute and utter ruinous ending!
In fact, had the villain not deployed a barrier formation outside the door beforehand out of fear that someone would disturb his good time, the protagonist might have already broken right in.
Even so, with the protagonist possessing equivalent Foundation Establishment cultivation, this formation wouldn't hold him back for long.
In less than a quarter of an hour, the protagonist would shatter the formation, force his way through the door, and catch them in the act—ahem, see his senior sister being violated by another man.
Wearing a vibrant green hat on one's head was something no man could endure.
Furious at the sight before him, the protagonist would fly into a rage and attack Han Mo without a word of explanation.
With Han Mo's Qi Condensation 8th Layer cultivation, he had zero capacity to resist a Foundation Establishment cultivator and would instantly be hacked into seven or eight pieces.
Game over, roll the credits!
So now, the question arose.
"Sleeping with a female cultivator... ahem, discussing the Dao, and getting cornered at the door by her prospective partner—what do I do? Online, very urgent."
...
At the same time, in Yifeng City, Tianhai Prefecture, within the Han Family estate.
"Patriarch, this is terrible! This is terrible!"
In the main hall of the Han residence, Han Family Head Han Feiyu and a group of family elders had just bid farewell to the elders of the Star River Sword Sect and were preparing to hold a brief meeting to discuss matters concerning the Sword Sect's disciple recruitment. Suddenly, they heard the steward Han Cheng shouting frantically from outside the door.
"Han Cheng, running about in such a panic, what kind of behavior is this? Report what has happened calmly!"
Han Feiyu raised his eyes to see Han Cheng stumbling into the hall, his brows instantly knitting together in considerable displeasure.
The family had just finished entertaining esteemed guests and was in the middle of a discussion; for Han Cheng to barge in like this without a shred of decorum showed complete ignorance of rules.
However, Han Cheng paid no heed whatsoever to the reproachful gazes of the patriarch and the elders, not even sparing a moment to catch his breath as he gasped out:
"Pa... Patriarch, a... a great disaster has befallen us! The heir apparent used your name to host a banquet at the family restaurant for Fairy Murong of the Star River Sword Sect. He drugged her wine and food with Immortals-Trance Powder to incapacitate the fairy, with... with nefarious intent..."
"What?!!"
"The heir is up to his old tricks of victimizing women again?"
"And this time it's Fairy Murong? Heavens, how could he be so audacious?"
As soon as Han Cheng's words fell, Han Feiyu—who had just been completely calm and had told him to "report slowly"—instantly froze, his expression stiffening while the assembled elders let out cries of shock.
Shocked though they were, not a single member of the Han Family's higher echelons found it strange.
For such an absurd affair in the eyes of ordinary people was something they had seen all too often; or rather, they had long since grown numb to it.
The patriarch's son, Han Mo, simply had this personality: he was supremely lustful, especially fond of preying on virtuous matrons and maidens!
The patriarch had worried endlessly over this matter and disciplined him repeatedly, yet the boy refused to mend his ways.
As the saying goes, a lenient father ruins his son; coupled with the fact that Han Mo truly was a genius, the patriarch simply couldn't bear to punish him severely, which ultimately fostered his current unruly disposition.
The elders were likewise utterly helpless about this. But since even the patriarch couldn't control him, naturally they couldn't either.
Over time, everyone simply turned a blind eye to Han Mo's exploits.
Yet what they never imagined in their wildest dreams was that their habitual indulgence would result in this reckless brat becoming ever more daring, to the point where he now audaciously targeted a female elder of the Star River Sword Sect.
An ordinary woman would have been one thing; given the Han Family's transcendent status in Yifeng City, virtually no one dared to offend them.
The Star River Sword Sect was entirely different, however—a major sect in Tianhai Prefecture, boasting strength second to none alongside the Han Family!
This brat was simply...
"Rebellious wretch! That rebellious wretch!"
Amidst the whispering among the elders, Han Feiyu seemed to take a beat slower to react before his hair bristled in rage, his entire face turning a deep purple-red.
However, before he could hurl further curses, Han Cheng gasped for breath a couple more times and quickly added:
"Pa... Patriarch, what's even more fatal is that this Fairy Murong has a junior brother who has long adored her. The heir's drugging was discovered by that junior brother, and now the man has tracked them down!"
Just look at that—the brat had not only acted the fool, but had been caught in flagrante delicto!
"Outrageous! That rebellious wretch, see if I don't beat him to death!"