Reborn As A Villainous Cannon Fodder

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Mei slammed him down against the tree with a cold laugh. Yino blinked rapidly, his mouth opening and closing like a fish out of water.

What the hell just happened? He told himself he should have seen this coming, but the truth was he’d been blind to every warning sign and red flag.

He grasped once again what people meant by a chain reaction.

If he hadn’t gotten so carried away drinking dragon blood, he wouldn’t have stayed behind to trade blows with Elder Ming. If he hadn’t fought Ming, he could’ve escaped before Jinyue’s illusion shattered. If he’d run fast enough, Mei wouldn’t have gotten the chance to fight Ming. If Mei hadn’t battled Ming, she wouldn’t have triggered her blood rage, much less used that killing intent to break free from Yino’s control…

When it came down to it, Yino had miscalculated.

Elder Ming’s three devastating punches had left him severely injured. Every breath sent fire through his ribs. He couldn’t resist Mei in her red flower form, blood rage had boosted her from Divine Transformation to Emptiness Refining stage while killing intent consumed her thoughts.

Beyond that, Lily and Wangxue provided support but couldn’t protect him from Mei’s wrath. Jinyue needed cooldown time, and Ruoning had only peak Core Formation, the gap between her and Mei stretched like heaven and earth.

“D… didn’t you say you were Yino’s mistress before? What the hell do you want now?!”

Ruoning’s voice cracked. Her hands trembled as she pressed herself deeper into the thicket, trying to become invisible.

I’m so fucking useless. The thought hit her like a slap. Tonight had really shown her how small she stood in this world. Under Yino and Mei’s supernatural displays, Ruoning felt like a kitten that hadn’t grown its claws yet, nothing more than an object they tossed around, with no right to speak.

The situation brought back memories of Azure Forest. The difference struck her, back then she didn’t know how weak she stood and had acted blindly arrogant. At least then I had ignorance as an excuse. This time, she recognized the gap. Despite half a year of desperate cultivation, she still couldn’t keep up with Yino’s pace, much less help him in this dangerous situation.

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Something dark flickered across Mei’s face. Her jaw clenched tight enough to crack teeth. She suddenly raised her hand, sending out a plum blossom branch that grabbed Ruoning from the distance.

Though Ruoning tried to struggle, the cultivation gap spanned more than two major realms. If Yino couldn’t match Mei at her peak, Ruoning might as well have become a living doll in her grasp.

“Hey, calm down, just calm down!”

Cold sweat broke out across Yino’s forehead. “Take your revenge on me if you want, but she’s the Liu family’s young miss. If she loses so much as a finger tonight, neither of us will leave Jiangnan alive!”

But the more he spoke, the tighter the plum branch squeezed Ruoning’s throat. Mei’s cold smile gradually turned rigid, as if she silently demonstrated some kind of rebellion and revenge against Yino.

Fuck. If I say the wrong thing and Ruoning dies. Say nothing and she still might die. Yino’s throat felt dry as sandpaper.

He still had Nina’s dragon seal as a trump card, but even Elder Ming at Emptiness Refining stage had fled after their beating. Using it on Mei would be like swatting a fly with a sledgehammer. He couldn’t exactly waste the dragon seal at a time like this.

If Mei died, Yino would just lose a powerful ally.

“Heh~ Look how scared you’ve become.”

“Does this silly girl matter to you? Emotionally important, or just for profit?”

“All this time, I’ve never seen you look so terrified~”

Mei was enjoying this, he could hear it in her voice. She studied his face like she was memorizing every micro-expression. “Looks like you’re not as cold and heartless as I thought. Deep down, you’re no different from all those righteous cultivators who became fertilizer for my plum blossoms~”

At some point, something sick and twisted had crept into her smile. She casually tossed Ruoning into the nearby grass like garbage, then walked forward with her crimson twin-tails swaying, approaching the Yino suspended in mid-air.

Mei raised her finger, and Yino slowly descended from above.

He didn’t struggle.

He let Mei bring her palm to his face for some playful caressing until he finds a chance to turn the table.

“Though…”

“Your frightened expression looks much more adorable than those righteous cultivators I’ve seen.”

The flower demon girl suddenly smiled seductively, her eyes gleaming with predatory and excitement.

After that laugh, something snapped back into place. Her expression twisted into pure mania: “Yino, the more you show me that terrified look, the more you glare at me with those eyes, the more excited I get wanting to provoke you further…”

“You know why?”

Yino braced himself for whatever poison she’d been brewing.

“Because from the first moment I saw you in the demon abyss, you’ve looked down on me with those contemptuous eyes!”

Her voice rose with each word, years of resentment finally boiling over. “In your view, I- a holy maiden of the Full Moon Sect – am nothing but a foolish female, a chess piece for you to manipulate, a potted plant or pet for you to train and dominate at will…”

The flower demon girl’s resentment grew heavier as she spoke, her eyes bloodshot with rage. As Mei’s mood destabilized, her body radiated increasingly terrifying energy fluctuations.

The thought came unbidden, and Yino hated himself for it. This represented Mei’s special trait. In the game, she embodied the classic “low health, high damage” character. Now that Yino had experienced rebirth into this world, he witnessed firsthand how devastating her critical health rampage setting could become.

“You did scare me.”

His voice came out steady, controlled. “So you win. What kind of revenge do you want now?”

Even as the flower demon girl laughed maniacally, Yino kept his expression carved from stone.

His words hit her like ice water. The joy drained from her face instantly. She dropped her smile and stared coldly into his eyes:

“That expression again…”

Her hands curled into fists. “That arrogant look again… that dismissive, emotionless tone…”

Mei murmured her dissatisfaction like a prayer. Suddenly she shot out her hand to grab Yino’s throat while her other hand summoned that plum blossom sword, still warm with fresh blood, pressing it against his face.

“Yino, why haven’t you realized the situation you’re in?!”

Because showing fear will only make this worse. But he kept that thought locked away.

“When I became your prisoner, you came to humiliate me every night. You forced me to memorize your scent and taste, made me do obedience training like a dog… but you know what? I will never NEVER learn to love your smell or your bodily fluids! I never once felt pleasure from your attention!”

The words poured out like blood from a wound. “All of that came from just Liuli’s evil magic tampering with my consciousness! Every sound I made, every expression, it was all just acting! All just performance to please you!”

Is she trying to convince me or herself? But as Mei’s emotions cracked further, that stone-faced expression seemed to mock her even more.

“Right, you’re absolutely correct. I never tamed you. It was all just your acting…”

Before he could finish, Mei’s face flushed crimson. Her fist drove into his stomach like a sledgehammer.

Cough!

Copper filled his mouth. But when that blood and saliva splattered across Mei’s face, her brutal expression dominated by revenge suddenly froze.

The demon girl looked dazed, like she’d just woken from a trance. She unconsciously raised her hand to touch the corner of Yino’s mouth, wiping the blood onto her finger, then reflexively slipped that finger into her mouth for a gentle taste.

What am I doing?

“No! That’s not right!!”