For a moment.
Tang San and the others were also dumbfounded.
This scumbag Liam is clearly not a good person, what good idea could he possibly come up with?
Hu Liena and the others stood to the side, their expressions also showing some confusion, beginning to recall the previous diary entries in their minds. It seemed Liam had said something like this before, right?
So Liam genuinely wants to help Yu Xiaogang!
Six.
Xiao Wu and the other two were also recalling the diary entries.
Indeed!
Everything Liam said was true.
If they really did as Liam had written before, Yu Xiaogang could indeed be with Liu Erlong, and it would be open and aboveboard, the kind where they wouldn't fear others gossiping.
Liu Erlong: Hmph!
Liam looked at Yu Xiaogang, nodding with a serious expression:
"That's right!"
"I'm a person who loves to speak the truth. I sincerely want to help you two be together. What I love seeing the most is lovers becoming siblings... oh no, lovers becoming a married couple!"
"Ask the world, what is love, that it makes one vow life and death?"
"A pair of birds flying from north to south, how many times have their old wings endured the cold and heat."
"The joy of union, the pain of separation, and among them, even more infatuated sons and daughters."
Huh?
Liam suddenly pulled out a poem, leaving everyone utterly astonished.
Has the bar for villains become this high now?
Hu Liena, Xiao Wu, and the others blinked and looked at Liam, thinking: Transmigrators are indeed powerful. Even if they are just ordinary people, they can definitely become a literary Master on the Continent!
Yu Xiaogang and Flander were both immersed in Liam's poem. In their minds, they both recalled Liu Erlong's appearance simultaneously.
Yu Xiaogang looked at Liam with a solemn expression and said:
"What exactly do you want?"
Liam chuckled:
"A good question!"
Swish~
Liam raised his hand and pulled the dagger from Hu Liena's hand into his own, then looked at Yu Xiaogang and said:
"I said I would help you, and I definitely will."
"Here's the dagger. Take it and cut yourself directly. From now on, you can be with Liu Erlong openly and honestly."
"You can get married. Even if someone knows you two are blood-related cousins in the future, after knowing you cut yourself for love, they will absolutely not gossip behind your backs. Furthermore, they will feel respect for you and sincerely bless you!"
What the f*ck!
Yu Xiaogang was utterly enraged.
"Your Excellency, a scholar would rather die than be humiliated!"
"Do not humiliate me like this! Even if I, Yu Xiaogang, die today, I will absolutely not endure such a great humiliation!"
Flander and Tang San's group were also completely stunned.
Cut himself?
If he cuts that off, what use is a woman?
Hu Liena and the others were speechless in their hearts. It really was exactly as Liam had written in his diary before: genuinely and sincerely helping Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong become a spiritual couple, with self-cutting as proof?
In that case!
Even if someone knew they were cousins in the future, they wouldn't be able to say a single word of gossip. Furthermore, they would admire Yu Xiaogang as a true man, even though he would no longer be a man at that time.
But everyone would treat him as a true man!
Alright, alright, alright!
As expected of you, Liam—always happy to help others.
Liam, however, looked at Yu Xiaogang with a bewildered expression and asked:
"What do you mean by this?"
"When did I humiliate you? Think about how that woman has waited for you for so many years. You abandoned her back then. Think about how she's lived all these years?"
"Yu Xiaogang, if you're a man, cut yourself, go find Liu Erlong, and give Liu Erlong an explanation."
"I..."
Yu Xiaogang was truly on the verge of being angered to death.
Cut himself?
After cutting myself, would I still be a man?
You really deserve to die!
It's not like I don't want anyone but Liu Erlong. Why would I become a eunuch?
Flander said with an ugly expression:
"Your Excellency, this is truly too much bullying."
"That is a man's foundation. If that's gone, what kind of man is he?"
Tang San, however, was greatly shocked in his heart.
Damn!
This scumbag Liam, how could he be so outrageous?
This is going too far!
You are courting death... Wait a minute, this major villain Liam already has a way to 'take the rooster'?
Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun felt a chill in their crotches.
It's over, it's over.
I don't know if we've offended Liam to death today. I hope not! Otherwise, with his strength, wouldn't cutting someone be just a single move?
Liam retorted angrily:
"Yu Xiaogang!"
"Liu Erlong loves you so much, are you unwilling to even do this much for her?"
"She has waited for you for so many years, she has endured the contempt of her family and the world for so many years. Can't you be brave just once and let her hold her head up high again?"
"Flander!"
"You like Liu Erlong so much, don't you want to see Yu Xiaogang return to her side? Don't you want to see Liu Erlong live a happy life from now on?"
Holy crap!
Yu Xiaogang and Flander were both boiling with hatred in their hearts.
You really damn well deserve to die!
Do you even hear what you're saying? How can you be this outrageous?
The key is, you're actually morally blackmailing us?
Tang San couldn't help but say:
"Liam!"
"My Teacher's matter didn't ask for your help. Is it appropriate for you to treat him like this?"
"Even without cutting himself, Teacher can still go find her and be a spiritual couple with her."
"Huh?"
Liam looked at Tang San and said:
"That's not right."
"If you don't cut yourself as proof, how can you avoid the world's gaze? A spiritual couple will only make everyone laugh even more."
"You can imagine, if your Teacher cuts himself and then is with Liu Erlong, would the world still say they are morally corrupt?"
"No!"
"The world will only sincerely admire Yu Xiaogang as a true man. For love, to give the woman he loves a home, he gave up his right to be a man. Not a man, yet even more like a man."
"I..."
Tang San was speechless.
Everyone else was also silent.
That is the logic!
And it's very right!
But cutting oneself, that's a bit too difficult.
Which man doesn't have some attachment [to that]?
To cut off the source of happiness directly for a woman, that's hard to do! Likewise, if someone can do it, everyone will sincerely bless them—that's what love is!
Yu Xiaogang also hated Liam to death in his heart.
He was silent for a long time, then said with a serious expression:
"So many years have passed, and I have long since forgotten this relationship in my heart, completely treating Liu Erlong as a sister. Your Excellency, if you're talking about helping, there's really no need."
"I have already let go."
Flander's expression froze. He looked at Yu Xiaogang with a complicated gaze, feeling a strange taste in his heart!
"This?"
Liam looked at Yu Xiaogang strangely and said:
"Liu Erlong has waited for you for so many years, and you hurt her so deeply back then. Now that there's a chance to help make up for all of it, you're unwilling to do it?"
"Liu Erlong suffered so much for you, waiting painstakingly for you for so many years. Now you say you don't love her and you just don't love her? Do you think this is okay?"
Yu Xiaogang replied:
"There's nothing wrong with it. This relationship itself was a mistake, so it should have ended long ago. I won't trouble Your Excellency."
Hu Liena, Xiao Wu, and the others looked at Yu Xiaogang with a hint of disdain in their eyes.
If Yu Xiaogang were to take the knife and cut himself at this moment after hearing Liam's suggestion, they would absolutely never again say a single word like 'Yu Xiaogang is a scumbag, a piece of trash'.
In fact.
If Yu Xiaogang had that kind of courage, he wouldn't be a piece of trash either.