Soup

Hou Tian frantically waved his hand as he covered his face, his mother tried to take off his mask but Hou Tian almost cried as he stopped her.

"D-Don't look, no looking! I can't show my face like that" He said desperately

His words made Xiang Mei almost cry, how can she bear to watch her own son say such a thing about himself? It was heartbreaking. Her beautiful face seems to have lost a trace of the previous color as she gently touched his face.

"Tian'er..." She wiped her eyes and turned around

"I assigned some guards for you, be careful when you're outside" She said

Immediately, Hou Tian's face lit up

"Thank you mother, next time, let's go eat outside together" He waved and ran out the palace gates, in which caused the guards and maids to chase after him.

Her mother watched Hou Tian rub off with a bitter smile

"Tian'er..."

After leaving the palace ground, Hou Tian slowed down to let his guards and maids catch up, even if he's known as a lunatic prince by the public, his father still dotes on him, so kidnapping is still very possible. When they all gathered, Hou Tian ran around, observing the place under the pretense of 'playing'.

"Wah, boss, I want a tanghulu" Hou Tian smiled and called out childishly as he placed a gold coin on the table.

The man selling tanghulus began sweating profoundly as he stared at the gold coin.

"S-Sir, th-this is too much" He waved his hands and said

Hou Tian paused, he placed a finger in his mouth

"Too much? What's too much?" He looked so naive people wondered if he was just a kid who looks older than he is, but the maids caught up and gave the man the proper amount before giving Hou Tian the tanghulu.

"Your high-young master, you can't run around like this" She said helplessly

Hou Tian smiled brightly as he took a bite out of the tanghulu

"So sweet" He said childishly as he began looking around some more

'From the memory of the original body...there's more delicious things down this street' Hou Tian enjoyed himself as he traveled around, memorizing the streets and every possible turns he walked down.

After a few hours, he memorized almost every street in the city, and was panting at this point, sweat was rolling down his face.

'This body is seriously weak, I barely even did much and it's already tired' Hou Tian cursed as he wiped his sweat

"Young master, let's get back before it gets dark" A guard said worryingly

Hou Tian nodded

"Okay, okay, I'm tired, I wanna go back" He smiled and jumped around

'Are you really tired?' The guards and maids were all sweating beads of sweat at this moment, yet Hou Tian is still jumping around.

But this is all thanks to the endurance he built up in his acting career, after all, endurance is incredibly important for an actor.

On the way back, Hou Tian realised the guards and maids were all pale from following him around for hours.

'Are they really my guards?' He wondered and shook his head

By the time he got back to the palace, the sky was dark. The first thing he did when he got back was take a quick bath and dismissed all the maids. Inside his own room, he locked the door and removed his clothes.

"This body is too out of proportion, too thin actually, as if someone is intentionally starving him...but he's the emperor's son, who would dare to sta-...ah right, the three sh*ty brothers" He rubbed his chin as he observed hos body.

"Alright, I need to set a proper plan for this body, or it won't be able to last" He muttered and wrote down a long list of required exercises and dieting plans.

As an actor, maintaining a proper body is like a lifeline, so he had no problem coming up with on immediately after checking his own body's condition. So from this point of, for the next week, Hou Tian spent time in his room doing various exercises.

As for food, he would use the excuse of playing outside, to buy various snacks, but secretly, buys a few herbs and food that matches his requirements. Though he had to spend a good few days of that week looking through books in order to find the right herbs.

Otherwise, everything was going according to his plan.

"Is it because this is a different world?" Hou Tian muttered as he stared at his own body through the mirror, compared to the thin body from before, it was much more well proportioned.

Though he can't be considered masculine, it was much healthier looking.

He wore his golden robe and opened up his door. He decided to spend some time relaxing in the garden, but relaxation is the last thing he found there.

As he was walking by the flowers and peach trees, he heard an obnoxious voice from behind him

"If it isn't my dear fourth brother, I've been looking for you for the past few days" This voice may not be familiar to Hou Tian, but to the body's original owner, it was more than familiar.

Hou Tian turned around with a bright smile

"Third brother, did you come to play with me today?" Hou Tian asked with a wide smile

Seeing Hou Tian so excited, the young man that arrived smiled, however, it was one filled with malice and evil intent.

'This little fool, always so happy to meet me' He laughed in his heart

He lifted a small basket, in which exerted a foul smell.

"I brought you some soup, it's very good for your body, so you should drink it before it gets cold" He said with a smile.

Hou Tian's eyes shone brightly, but his nose felt as if it was going to fall.

'F**k\, how is he still smiling with such a disgusting smell lingering from that basket\, is he not scared that people mistaken it for sh*t?' He thought to himself

"Really? Third brother treats me the best" Despite what he was thinking at the moment, Hou Tian replied with a cheerful smile.

The third prince smiled

"Of course, I, Hou Qing, am very generous" He said with a condescending smile s he took out the bowl of soup.

When he held it towards Hou Tian, Hou Tian walked over, reaching both his hands out, however, before he reached out, his legs tripped over one another as he fell forward. His hands flailing as he fell forward and...

*crash*

The bowl in Hou Qing's hand went flying back, landing cleanly on his head as the disgusting, pungent smell covered him completely.

"Ah! Third brother! I'm sorry, I tripped, let me clean you up" Hou Tian cried, his face filled with panic and grief as he pulled out a handkerchief and wiped Hou Qing's face with it.

However, instead of cleaning it, the handkerchief started to spread the 'soup' over Hou Qing's face and clothes.

"Get off me!" Hou Qing roared as he pushed Hou Tian away

The disgusting smell lingering on him reached his own nose, making him want to puke, but he held it in as he glared at Hou Tian. Meeting his gaze, Hou Tian trembled.

"I-I'm sorry third brother, I-I'll go get water for you" He said as he turned, but Hou Qing grabbed him.

"How dare a filthy b*stard like you dirty me!" He roared as he pushed Hou Tian to the ground and kicked him, he stomped on Hou Tian's body ruthlessly.

"Wah, third brother, I'm sorry, stop hitting me, I'm sorry" Hou Tian covered his head and cried

'F**k, when are they coming' Hou Tian cursed in his head

Just as he was wondering this, sounds of footsteps resounded across the garden, but it was covered by Hou Tian's cries for forgiveness.

"Tian'er! You b*stard of a son, how dare you hit your own brother!" A stern roar came from the garden's entrance.

When this voice rang out, Hou Qing froze completely

"F-Father" He turned around, but what he received was a heavy smack on his cheeks, which sent him flying almost a dozen meters away.

'Holy f**k\, even Br*ce L*e and J*acky Ch*n will be beaten to death by Hou Dan Di' Hou Tian gasped at the strength shown.

'This cultivation world is insane' He thought deeply, as his desire to cultivate suddenly increased.

[Ding]

[Ding]

[Ding]

[Requirements met]

[Initializing system]

'Huh?'

Hou Tian heard a sweet voice ring in his head

[System starting in 1 hour]

Hou Tian was left perplexed, but now wasn't the time to think of such things.

"Tian'er, are you alright?" Hou Dan Di held Hou Tian in his arms as he asked

Hou Tian looked over

"F-Father? F-Father...th-third brother hates me, I-I committed a sin, I dirtied third brother with the soup he wanted to give me" Hou Tian's eyes watered as he cried

Hou Dan Di was stunned, he turned to Hou Qing who was crawling up

'Soup? You call that soup? That thing can't even be called sh*t!' Hou Dan Di's angry voice roared in his own heart, he pitied his fourth son who can't even differentiate between malice and good will.

"Tian'er, you don't need to be sad about that" He said

"B-But third brother did it for my own good! Yet I did such a thing to him, I deserved to be punished" Hou Tian cried even more

Hou Qing who walked over glanced at Hou Tian angrily, then at his father, with a fearful glint in his eyes.

"F-Father, I-"

"Th-Third brother, please forgive me, I shouldn't have wasted your good will, I'm sorry" Hou Tian cried out

Hou Qing fell silent at this remark as an idea appeared in his head

"Father, I truly only wanted to do it for fourth brother's health, but I let the anger get to my head and did such an unforgivable thing" Hou Qing said bitterly

Hou Tian stared at him dumbfounded, not because of his acting, but...

'Is his mind in the right place? This dumba*s is getting himself killed! He should have just admitted that he wanted to feed me that crap\, yet he's saying it's for my own good? Even a blind man can tell that thing is worse than sh*t\, and you're telling father you're doing it for me?'

'Acting wise, I give you eight out of ten, but your reasoning...no need to ask, you're failing it harder than my previous boss'

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