I'm a villain, not a devil

In the gloomy palace, the two brothers dressed as eunuchs took off their disguises and walked into the queen's bedroom.

After a while, the two brothers came out again.

Bai Youming, who has a more radical personality, wants to go directly to the emperor to ask where his mother has gone!

How could that robot-like old woman in the palace be their mother?!

Bai Wujiu stopped his brother and said in a deep voice: "Don't be impulsive."

Bai Youming stared with his eyes wide open: "My two brothers are fighting outside, and he is a foolish emperor who only knows how to enjoy himself. Now even his mother is in trouble. I want to ask him if he still wants to be the emperor!"

Bai Wujiu didn't hate his brother's extremism. On the contrary, he always liked to make fun of his brother. Now seeing his brother like this, Bai Wujiu laughed again.

"Our father has always been like this, but he is the emperor after all. What can you really get out of asking after your impulsiveness?"

Bai Youming said angrily: "Then he should not be the emperor anymore!"

He looked up at his eldest brother: "Brother, it's time for you to take the throne!"

Bai Wujiu was stunned for a moment, but didn't say anything.

That night, Bai Youming went to the emperor's bedroom and made a big fuss. The emperor was furious and stripped Bai Youming of his title and identity and threw him directly into prison.

When Bai Youming was released, he was greeted by his elder brother who had ascended the throne.

Father... No, that’s the late emperor.

I heard that after his outburst of rage that night, his health collapsed and he passed away soon after.

"Royal brother." Bai Youming smiled and bowed. He was not sad.

Bai Wujiu also smiled and helped him up: "From now on, you are Prince Bai Youming, in charge of the imperial military."

He leaned forward again and whispered, "I'll leave it to you to find out about the Queen Mother's affairs."

"Yes, Brother Huang!"

However, what Bai Youming didn’t expect was that not long after, his brother began to become... like his father.

He made a fuss, but his royal brother just indulged him without giving him an answer. Gradually, Bai Youming had to give up and became his free and easy prince.

Even...he later saw the last will left by the late emperor.

The next emperor of the empire: Bai Youming.

He pretended not to see it.

However, Bai Youming would occasionally think about some things, and in the end he would still feel that his brother was indeed more suitable to be the emperor than himself.

However, Bai Wujiu would think, occasionally, about the night when he became emperor.

"When I die, the throne will be occupied by the first one destined to be emperor." The old emperor lay on the bed, gasping for breath.

Bai Wujiu sat by the bed, covered his father with a blanket, and said softly, "You are the one who was ordered to go to prison, he can't sit."

"I gave the order for him to come back..."

Bai Wujiu just smiled and said, "I intercepted them all."

The old emperor pointed at him but was speechless.

Bai Wujiu laughed again: "Father, I was the one who poisoned you. Although your health is not as good as before, you could have held on for a while longer."

The old emperor was speechless and just pointed at Bai Wujiu, but for some reason, tears flowed from the corners of his eyes.

Bai Wujiu finally stopped laughing: "Obviously, I am better than fate in everything, but you still prefer fate the most - I was very surprised at first. Although you, the emperor, did not have many achievements during your reign and were a mediocre person, you would not be so partial to me."

"And, for some reason, you seem to be less and less like the father I looked up to when I was a child - so I went to look up some stuff."

He leaned forward and whispered, "I found out about the World Tree."

The old emperor's eyes suddenly widened.

Bai Wujiu sighed: "Are you my father now? Or are you the skinning messenger?"

The old emperor had a mouthful of bloody phlegm in his throat, but he couldn't spit it out, and even his face turned blue.

Bai Wujiu continued, "The actions of successive emperors were all very strange, and these behaviors all began after they ascended the throne. At that time, I was wondering, could it be that the supreme authority of my empire is a cursed position?"

"I have checked many things but still can't find out the answer. The World Tree is the last thing I can find out. Tsk, but I can see that the Emperor of the Empire has always been controlled by the Skinning Messenger, and this is the curse that my imperial bloodline cannot escape, the parasite that cannot be broken free of. Am I right, father?"

The old emperor's eyes almost bulged out.

Bai Wujiu slapped his outstretched hand away impatiently: "You make me sick... Father, as an emperor, you have to be the most conceited and the best. This is what you taught me. Why can't you do it yourself?"

"That's fine... I'm afraid that idiot Youming can't stand it, right? Except for his better talent, Youming is not as good as me in other aspects, but you still chose him. My mother is gone, and I only have this one brother, so you won't let him go?"

He placed his hand on the old emperor's neck and his eyes gradually became cold.

"Then let me give it a try. Let me see if the position of the emperor of the empire can be firmly held by a descendant of the royal family of the empire."

Looking at the old emperor rolling his eyes in his hands and the black nematodes crawling out of his body, Bai Wujiu smiled gently again.

"The talent of having destiny is always better, I admit that. If I fail, destiny can probably do it for me."

He strangled the old emperor to death and then allowed the black nematodes to burrow into his body.

……

"Huh...huh...huh..."

Having broken free from the distant memories, the voices of countless people in my mind continue to echo.

Bai Wujiu stared at his hands in a daze, then showed an expression that was both crying and laughing.

"I...seem to have lost..."

Endless black nematodes emerged from Bai Wujiu's body and rushed towards Bai Youming!

At this moment, in the huge cavity beneath the empire, on the world tree that was beginning to grow, a man slowly opened his eyes.

He looked at his new body and felt the tremendous power within him.

"Sure enough...Sure enough, it is countless times stronger...Using this body is much better than the old one..."

He somehow conjured up a mirror, looked at his face, and nodded with satisfaction.

"Sean, your body is really outstanding. I accept it with pleasure..."

He was halfway through his soliloquy when suddenly his head twitched.

After shaking it vigorously, he frowned and said, "Want to change it to Bai Youming?"

"Isn't it necessary?"

"If it's necessary, why not change it? Bai Youming is a real deep blue."

Two voices came out of his body at the same time.

He covered his head and suddenly showed a painful expression: "No, there is no need to change..."

"It has to be changed. Besides, if you don't, Bai Youming might ruin everything!"

"No, no one can ruin this--"

He suddenly stopped where he was, because he realized that the important sacrifice...had disappeared?!