It was not until he was carried up by Yun Cuo that Xue Huai understood the whole story of his fall from the cliff.
The first person to discover that he was in trouble was not his fellow disciples, but Yun Cuo.
Xue Huai’s fellow disciples knew that he always loved to play and was good at it, but he was also very careful when playing, so they did not pay attention to him. At that time, everyone had picked up all the flowers and plants on the hill and gone to the back of another hill, so they didn’t hear the sound of the cliff shaking and falling.
When everyone counted the number of people later, they found that Xue Huai was missing, and they all thought that he had gone out to play secretly.
But not long after everyone left, Yun Cuo suddenly sent a message saying that Xue Huai was in trouble and asked them to go over and take a look. It was very likely that he had fallen off the cliff. He arrived later.
Everyone was almost scared to death after hearing what he said, and they hurried to prepare things. Some girls who had a crush on Xue Huai even started crying anxiously.
When he rushed over, his whole person looked like he was going crazy.
Xue Huai’s junior sister chirped in his ear, “Xue Shixiong, you didn’t see what Yun Shidi looked like just now. He looked like he wanted to eat someone. But we were really scared just now. We thought you guys had fallen down again. It’s bottomless in there, and no one knows how high you guys fell from. Fortunately, you are alright.”
Xue Huai rubbed his junior sister’s head.
He thought for a moment, then asked the junior sister, “Whose green birds were those at the beginning? Also, who was the one who pulled the rope at the beginning?”
The little junior sister thought for a moment and said, “There’s no one on the green bird. The ones coming are the green birds guarding the Sect Master. They came over when we gave the signal. Everyone pulled the rope together. I’m the first one to pull. What’s wrong, Xue Shixiong?”
Xue Huai’s face darkened. “Did you feel anything stuck when you pulled it?”
The junior sister nodded quickly and said affirmatively, “There is! We guessed that there must be a lot of protruding rocks underneath. We felt stuck not long after we started pulling.”
“So you just… pull harder?” Xue Huai’s face darkened again.
The little junior sister looked at him with her clear eyes and blinked uncertainly: “Yes, we dropped down and pulled it.”
“……” Xue Huai decided not to discuss this topic anymore.
He was also a little scared and, at the same time, thought this matter was a little funny, so he turned around and asked Yun Cuo, “Speaking of which, how did you find out that I was in trouble?”
The crowd that had gathered anxiously had dispersed. Xue Huai thanked everyone one by one, then lay on Yun Cuo’s back and asked him to carry him back.
Yun Cuo was stunned for a moment, and there was some unspeakable emotion in his voice: “I was walking on the road and suddenly felt anxious, so I sent the faithful crow to take a look. As soon as I arrived, I saw that part of the mountain over there had collapsed.”
Xue Huai understood in his heart and reached out to touch his head, hugged his shoulders, and bent down to kiss him on the cheek.
Yun Cuo was obviously more scared than him.
He carried Xue Huai back to the room and bent down to bandage his injured ankle, his fingers trembling.
He kept whispering to Xue Huai, “Don’t go out anymore, alright? Just stay at home, I’ll help you with everything.”
Xue Huai hissed in pain while listening to his complaints.
Yun Cuo said, “You should have listened to me and stayed at home today.”
Xue Huai thought for a moment and answered seriously: “But this won’t work ah. I have to go out eventually, right?”
Yun Cuo pursed his lips and didn’t say anything. He moved his eyes away from his face, picked up a bottle of ointment from the table next to him, and applied it to him carefully.
Xue Huai’s feet are very beautiful, with smooth and delicate skin, his toes are slender, round, and cute. He did not hurt his bones and just sprained his ankle severely this time, so his ankle was swollen. Such injuries can be healed quickly with healing techniques and plasters. He will be back to normal tomorrow.
Yun Cuo applied the ointment for him without looking away, and as he was applying it, the smell began to be unpleasant.
In order to make it easier to apply the ointment, Xue Huai rolled up his trouser legs to his knees, exposing his beautiful calves to the light. In the warm yellow candlelight, his eyes sparkled like jumping stars. It makes people’s hearts burn.
The atmosphere suddenly became somewhat charming.
Xue Huai coughed lightly, as if trying to change the subject, and took out an icy arrow from his sleeve to show Yun Cuo.
“Yun Cuo, I found this thing under the cliff. Can you use your faithful crow to help me find out where it came from?”
Xue Huai looked at Yun Cuo’s expression and swallowed back the words, ‘I feel like there’s someone who wants to kill me’.
He intuitively felt that this matter could not be told to Yun Cuo for the time being.
The last time he was cultivating his mind in the clouds and recalling things from his previous life, he thought that the arrow from behind him was just an illusion of his inner demons. Now that he thinks about it, it is very likely that he narrowly avoided an assassination attempt by accident.
Yun Cuo has been very neurotic these days. If he knew that he might have been in fatal danger a few months ago, he would probably really lock him in the house and not let him go out. But even doing so would not solve any problems.
Yun Cuo didn’t notice the hidden part of his words.
He took the broken arrow from Xue Huai’s hand, said “Alright,” and asked him, “What do you want to check this for?”
Xue Huai said, “This thing appeared at the bottom of the cliff. Someone must have illegally brought the arrow out. I’m afraid this is a hidden danger, and something will happen.”
Yun Cuo didn’t understand the rules and regulations of the manor, so after hearing what he said, he put it away carefully.
After Xue Huai saw him put it away, he suddenly seemed to have thought of something and asked him, “When you came here, did you see anything else in the sky at the mouth of the canyon?”
Yun Cuo raised his eyes and looked at him calmly. “Why do you say that?”
His voice was too calm, so calm that it was a little strange, as if he were not sitting here having an evening chat with his lover but having a serious conversation with some important person.
Xue Huai glanced at the gluttonous ghost sleeping next to him and whispered, “When Xiao Tao and I were down there, there seemed to be something in the sky that made Xiao Tao react violently, but I couldn’t see what was there. It was the same as last time. You reminded me that that woman was watching me, and then I saw that there were bats above my head watching me clearly. But this time we fell too deep, I don’t know if there was any, and I can’t confirm it. I asked Shimei, the green birds that came at that time were under my Grandfather’s command, and there was no one driving them. I think we should pay attention to my Grandfather’s side as well.”
Yun Cuo can see things that he cannot see, so Xue Huai finds him to verify them.
Yun Cuo looked at him deeply and softly said, “There’s nothing, I didn’t see anything. Don’t be afraid, and don’t think too much.”
After hearing what he said, Xue Huai also felt that he was worrying too much. The gluttonous ghost was always very noisy, but he didn’t always have a reason for being noisy either.
He saw Yun Cuo bandaging him carefully and then turning his head to pack up his things. Suddenly, a playful smile appeared in his eyes. He seriously used his toes to tease him and confidently put his foot on Yun Cuo’s knees.
Then he rubbed along the inside of his thigh very slowly.
Yun Cuo’s face flushed red. He stammered, “Xue Huai, stop causing trouble.”
Xue Huai tilted his head and looked at him. “I’m not making a fuss. Yun Cuo, Young Immortal Lord Yun, Little Gentleman Yun1The author uses the term ‘郎君’ here, and Lang Jun can be translated as gentleman as well as husband. I think husband Yun sounds weird, so I’ll go with ‘gentleman’ xD. Do you want it?”
He saw that Yun Cuo had already reacted.
He hasn’t taken the initiative much these days, it was because Yun Cuo kept pestering him for things without restraint, which made him want to avoid him for several days. When he saw the bed, he just wanted to bury himself in it. He wishes he were invisible in Yun Cuo’s eyes.
Xue Huai had only heard about how terrible it was for men who had just experienced s*x for the first time, but now he had experienced it directly himself.
Yun Cuo was too nervous today. Xue Huai wanted to tease him, but he saw that Yun Cuo’s face was a little pale, and there was something in his eyes that he couldn’t understand.
He knew that those things were not longings, desires, or anything like that, but faint fears and hesitations.
Xue Huai had seen the meaning of fear and knew that he was afraid that something might happen to him. But what was he hesitating about?
Xue Huai refused to give in and wanted him to feel at ease, so he leaned over to grab his collar and asked for his kiss.
But Yun Cuo picked him up and carried him sideways—stuffed him into the bed—and wrapped him tightly with a quilt.
He lay on his back on the bed watching Yun Cuo meticulously tuck in the quilt for him, and finally felt a little confused: “What’s wrong with you? Are you having an affair?”
He raised his eyelids again and teased him in a way that really deserved a beating: “Or am I just too good and you can’t stand it?”
Yun Cuo leaned over and kissed him on the forehead, his face flushed. “Don’t mess around if you’re hurt. Be obedient, Xue Huai.”
His attitude was very firm.
“Alright.” Xue Huai softened his voice and replied lazily.
His eyes were still fixed on the erect little Yun Cuo, but Yun Cuo grabbed his chin with one hand and turned his head back.
Yun Cuo finally appeared at a loss again and said, “You should be a bit obedient.”
Xue Huai smiled and covered his head with the quilt. “Alright, I won’t bother you anymore, go and get busy.”
Yun Cuo was still worried, so he grabbed the gluttonous ghost and stuffed it into his arms.
“How about letting Xiao Tao accompany you tonight?” Yun Cuo said, “I still have some things to do, you don’t have to wait for me, go to sleep first. If there is anything, send me a thousands of miles away message, I will go to Shizun’s place to get something.”
Xue Huai nodded, his eyes curving, and praised him: “My man is really virtuous, right?”
Yun Cuo also curled up the corners of his mouth and smiled back at him.
Outside the sword cultivator’s warm pavilion.
The little gray cat meowed, it seemed that it was not familiar with this place after not coming here for ten days or half a month. It raised its claws to scratch its owner’s legs, not understanding why he came back to this place.
Yun Cuo hasn’t been back for several days already.
He hardly even recognized his current neighbors. The few times he occasionally came back, it was always because he brought the new cultivators here.
Ever since he moved to Xue Huai’s place, this place has only been used to store some of his sundries, and even the bed has been completely cleaned up.
The little gray cat didn’t like this place. It liked Xue Huai, it liked to sleep on the gluttonous ghost’s bald head. But Yun Cuo didn’t care about its coquetry. He picked it up, put it in his arms, and pushed open the room door.
As soon as he entered, he heard the sound of flapping wings coming from the dark corner.
Such a dense and complex area makes people feel chilly.
The little gray cat’s fur stood up, and it jumped out of Yun Cuo’s arms and ran away quickly.
Yun Cuo lit the fire and walked to the corner by the window with the lantern.
The light flickered, illuminating a large mass of black mist-like things—it had wings, was flat and smooth, had sharp teeth and fangs, and its eyes were flashing red.
The bats in the cage were breathing hard at him and making wild, sharp cries, but unfortunately, these cries could not be heard by people, and no one knew what were they celebrating.
The traces of the bats from the Demon Realm disappear in the Immortal Realm. If used to monitor others, they can come and go without a trace, and no one will notice them, unless that person has a pair of demon eyes.
This is a dirty secret that must not be seen by the world.
He, Yun Cuo, is a nasty and despicable villain who uses the despicable methods that his loved one hates the most to monitor and control him in an attempt to make him his own property.
Xue Huai hated Mrs. Liu, this was how that woman had treated him.
He knew Xue Huai wouldn’t like it, but he couldn’t control it.
He knew how bad he was.
The flame danced at his fingertips. It was a spell that could burn everything. The firelight illuminated his uncertain face, and he made up his mind after a long time. He stretched out his hand and sent the spark into the bat cage, watching these sinful creatures turn into ashes.
Some moths and insects passed by outside the window and were attracted by the flames. They jumped in with a crash and were burned to death.
Then he slumped down to the ground, the feeling of emptiness and powerlessness like an invading winter night, making him feel cold and terrified all over.
He had never experienced this feeling of worrying about gains and losses. He thought that in his previous life, having to accept the fact that Xue Huai was dead was the ultimate pain he could endure in his life, but he didn’t expect that what would be even more painful was what happened after he accepted it.
His baby was not dead and was even with him.
His baby ran away from home without hesitation, saying that he wanted to build another home with him, just the two of them and the two little animals. No one else could interfere.
But he clearly knew that Xue Huai was lying to him. Xue Huai had no intention of completely cutting off contact with his family, nor did he intend to start a family with him so quickly.
Xue Huai doesn’t hate that much, but he does. Xue Huai isn’t that extreme, but he is.
He took it seriously, but Xue Huai could abandon him at any time and never look back.
It seemed that ever since he hid Xue Zong’s letter from Xue Zong, everything had uncontrollably slid towards the wrong extreme. He began to do wrong things constantly, but Xue Huai was so stupid, he believed in him completely.
He is going crazy.
The author has something to say: Yun Cuo: quq I have corrected my mistakes now, but I don’t know if my wife will forgive me or not quq quq quq
