Chapter 6

Butler x Young Master (6)

Half an hour later.

It was finally her turn.

[Ding. System 2933 at your service. Host, you only received a minor character collapse penalty of 10 points. If it were a severe character collapse, you would have been directly deducted 1000 points.]

[No more talk, another host is calling me. 2933 will serve you next time.]

The System’s voice disappeared.

Jiang You nearly choked on her breath.

If Worlds were so short on Systems, couldn’t the Chief God hire more Systems?

Oh, right. If even a minor character collapse could cost 10 points, this Chief God must be extremely stingy.

“Hey, you’re Butler Jiang, right?”

Jiang You’s thoughts were interrupted by a sudden voice. Two people approached her field of vision, both butlers of collateral heirs.

She remembered the one who spoke was named Liu, and the butler standing beside him was named Zhang.

“No need to look at us so warily.” Housekeeper Liu shrugged and smiled. “I’m here to bring you good news.”

Jiang You had grown tired of kneeling in this position. She straightened her back and shifted her kneeling posture, countless sharp thorns piercing into her other knee. A negligible amount of blood stained the fabric of her trousers red.

She remained expressionless and calmly asked, “What good news?”

Housekeeper Liu said, “Our young master said that as long as you place this contract in Huo Shu’s bedroom, our young master has ways to transfer you away and let you choose a more promising heir.”

Even if Jiang You were foolish, she could hear something wrong with these words and directly pointed out the loopholes.

“Leaving aside the Butler Organization’s rule that butlers can only follow one heir in their lifetime, how could any ‘promising heir’ you mention compare to Huo Shu’s prospects?”

Housekeeper Liu anxiously said, “He’s just illegitimate”

Already irritated by the point deduction, Jiang You impatiently interrupted them since they walked right into it: “Don’t talk about Huo Shu having no future. If he had no future, you wouldn’t have come to me.”

Even if Huo Shu was an illegitimate child, he was still the illegitimate son of Huo Yuan, the current head of the Huo family. At worst, he had better prospects than these collateral heirs.

Upon hearing this, their faces turned extremely ugly, clearly struck by her words. Not wasting any more time, they threw out a threatening “just wait” before hurriedly leaving.

Jiang You spat in the direction of their retreating backs, not losing out in the slightest.

Right after spitting, she caught sight of someone from the corner of her eye and her gaze suddenly froze.

The newcomer was none other than her employer, Huo Shu.

Compared to her, Huo Shu’s perception of her had undergone an earth-shattering shift, almost to the point of absurdity.

After returning to the old mansion, he too had received Huo Yuan’s ban, forbidding him from leaving his residence.

While treating his wounds, Huo Shu couldn’t stop thinking about how she had rushed over to save him.

Earlier, she had stood there without any intention of intervening.

Moreover, when Huo Shu made his choice, he never expected her to save him.

But surprisingly, she pushed Huo Ye away and pulled him up from the ground.

This completely exceeded Huo Shu’s expectations.

He couldn’t understand it, so he disregarded Huo Yuan’s prohibition and walked step by step to this place.

Huo Shu arrived before those two butlers came.

He listened to their entire conversation.

He heard them ask her to place a problematic contract in his bedroom, heard her say that butlers could only follow one heir in their lifetime, and heard her words about him having better prospects.

Finally, the vivid way she spat at their retreating figures made her appear even more remarkable.

In this decaying, intrigue-filled old mansion as dark as hell, she seemed to be the only one untouched by its corruption.

A misfit, full of dissonance.

The old mansion was never short of butlers, yet none he had ever encountered were like her.

“Young Master, you’re here.”

The woman’s voice was slightly hoarse. After kneeling for three to four hours, well into the deep night, her body was utterly exhausted.

Her expression remained as calm as still water, without a trace of panic, so serene it seemed as if everything that had just happened was merely his dream.

Huo Shu: “……”

Under the dim roadside lights, his cold, pale profile was now marked with a vivid red streak, adding a touch of eerie delicacy and fragility.

He asked bluntly, “Why did you save me?”

Beneath his half-dried hair, his pitch-black eyes fixed intently on her face, not missing the slightest change in her expression.

But he was destined to be disappointed. The woman kneeling on the thorns remained unaffected by his intense gaze, her face wooden as she answered with reason and logic:

“Young Master, you were on the verge of suffocation. The Butler Handbook explicitly states that a butler cannot stand by and watch an heir die.”

The handbook did indeed contain such a rule, but it was based on the premise of not offending other heirs.

She had yanked Huo Ye away with such force that he was pushed to the ground, which already constituted a violation of the Butler Handbook.

Given the circumstances, she had to muddle through with a fabricated excuse and must never let the male lead suspect her.

Otherwise, the penalty for breaking character would only worsen.

Huo Shu fell silent, his gaze never left her.

Jiang You’s heart trembled incessantly, terrified that he might detect something amiss. Pressing her knees firmly against the razor-sharp barbed wire, her mind remained exceptionally calm, racing through possibilities. Suddenly recalling something, she promptly said:

“Young Master, this is no place for you.”

From the conversations among the butlers, she had learned that Huo Shu should have been placed under house arrest by Huo Yuan at this time, unable to leave his residence.

The old mansion at two in the morning was utterly silent, not a sound to be heard.

The night was heavy, and a gust of wind rustled through the treetops.

Huo Shu finally shifted his gaze away from her. His abdomen, brutally kicked, throbbed with pain, causing his body to twitch slightly. His eyes swept over the bloodstained barbed wire beneath her knees before he turned and walked away without looking back.

His footsteps faded into the distance.

Jiang You breathed a sigh of relief, her tense spine relaxing.

Next time, she must be more cautious, ever so careful, and avoid making such foolish mistakes again.

A golden line split the horizon as the morning light spilled across the ground.

Having knelt for the required duration, Jiang You struggled to stand up, her steps unsteady and faltering. Limping, she made her way back to her quarters.

Though called quarters, it was a remote, dilapidated two-story villa where Huo Shu resided.

She lived next door to him, tasked with constantly attending to and protecting his safety.

Upon entering the living room, she spotted a first-aid kit placed on the coffee table.

Given Huo Shu’s obsessive-compulsive habits and cleanliness, this kit should not have been here but stored away in the utility room.

Stumbling over, Jiang You muttered under her breath.

“Could this be prepared for me?”

Utterly exhausted, she couldn’t be bothered to ponder it further. After tending to the wounds covering her legs, she retreated to her bedroom.

As her figure disappeared through the second-floor doorway, the adjacent door silently swung open.

The youth, who should have been asleep, stood with deep, clear eyes and walked at a measured pace to the coffee table on the first floor.

The first-aid kit was left half-open, with a small section of snow-white bandage slipping out. Huo Shu swiftly tidied it up and then carried it back to the storage room.

Meanwhile, Jiang You, who had returned to her room and fallen into a deep sleep on the bed, remained completely unaware of what had happened downstairs.

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