The King's Mate - Part 2: Yaoshi

Chapter 15

CONTENT WARNING

Just 2 things you need to know before you start reading.

There's gonna be some slight... body horror (?) in this chapter, I think. Not as bad as the multiple face shit mxtx put us through but it's also not very pretty. I'm not going into too much detail with it tho

There will be mention of HC/others in this chapter, but in a flashback sort of way, from before he developed that sort of physical attraction to his gege. There won't be any cheating in this fic and I'm not going into any detail, either. It's just some background info on how HC used to deal with his rut before the harem and why he ended up with a harem to begin with. Again, there won't be anything graphic and it's only a few paragraphs but I feel like it's only fair to give you a head's up in case you have trouble dealing with that sort of thing

Alright, without further ado, I hope you still enjoy this chapter ^-^;

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The effects of Hua Cheng's poisonous spit on the scumbag's back took a few minutes to become visible, but eventually his back turned red. However, even after Hua Cheng had waited for most of the day, the red spot neither faded, nor expanded. The only thing that changed was its shade; going from pale red to crimson. The scumbag had started complaining about his itching back some time in the late afternoon.

Unfortunately for Hua Cheng, those complaints had only gotten more frequent during the evening hours, and by the time the moon was high up in the sky again, the complaints had turned into screams of pain. From then on, the scumbag's state deteriorated very quickly; he'd started twitching uncontrollably, before the twitching turned into convulsions.

At that point, his skin had developed a greenish tint, and dried up to the point that it almost looked like scales. It looked truly disgusting. Imagining that this would happen to his gege after a kiss from Hua Cheng was such a horrendous thought that he suppressed it before it could even manifest itself properly.

Finally, the scumbag left out one last, very loud exhale that almost sounded like a screech, before he went limp on the floor and stopped moving altogether.

Hua Cheng waited a few more moments, before he used his foot, which was thankfully clad in sturdy leather boots, to kick the body's shoulder until it flipped onto its back. The sight wasn't pretty, but it told Hua Cheng that it was truly nothing more than a corpse now. One of the eyes had fallen out for some reason, and the skin had flaked off entirely in parts, leaving some raw flesh and bones exposed.

Hua Cheng decided he'd seen enough of what his spit could do to humans, and thus returned back to his current house, calling it a day.

At first he had tried to go there by using his portal, but while it did open on his side, it didn't show him his bathroom on the other side; only a black void. Figuring that, if the barriers were truly as strong as YanLi had explained to him, it should come as no surprise to him that a portal couldn't breach those barriers either. Thus, he walked through the entrance gate like he'd done before, only to once again realise that the excruciating pain he'd experienced on his first try was missing entirely from the experience. Not that he was complaining.

Once he was inside the barrier, he used the portal to walk straight into his bathroom, and proceeded to take the longest, most thorough bath he'd taken in a long time, just to get the feeling of disgust off of him.

After he eventually scrubbed himself so clean that his skin had reddened, Hua Cheng went to bed, hoping that sleep would help him come to terms with what he'd just witnessed. After all, it wasn't every day that he got to see a human's attempt to try on a dragon's skin, and it was certainly something he never wanted to see again.