After Xue Huai woke up from a night’s sleep, he felt that his injuries had healed.
This was the first time he had slept alone in the past few months, so he didn’t sleep well. However, what was abnormal was that Yun Cuo did not come back this morning. It was also a bit strange that he didn’t prepare breakfast for him as usual.
In the past, no matter how busy Yun Cuo was, he would always take time to make breakfast for him because he knew that he was prone to laziness, and if he slept in and no one urged him, he would simply skip breakfast. So after he got together with him, he would get up early every morning, quietly go to the small kitchen to prepare today’s meal, and then kiss him to wake him up.
Xue Huai’s spleen and stomach, which were damaged by taking the Soul-Calming Medicine, gradually recovered under Yun Cuo’s encouragement.
Yun Cuo was not here today and did not come back to prepare breakfast for him, so Xue Huai guessed that this person was probably still busy.
He lazily got out of bed, wanting to make something for himself to eat and also make something for Yun Cuo.
There weren’t many ingredients left in the small kitchen. Xue Huai took a look and saw that the pickled beast meat he had made for Yun Cuo last time was almost finished, there was only enough for two meals.
He cooked himself some snow vegetable dumplings and had a quick breakfast with a few slices of pickled beast meat and the non-spicy shredded grass jelly that Yun Cuo had brought him last time.
Then he washed the dishes, cooked, and packed the remaining dumplings. Xue Huai went to borrow some ingredients from next door, fried a few simple dishes, packed them in a lunch box, and then prepared to summon the green bird to send them to Yun Cuo.
The green bird heeded his call and came quickly. Coincidentally, at the same time, another green bird also arrived at the door of his room with a food box in its beak.
The green bird told him, “Young Lord Xue, this is the breakfast sent to you by Young Immortal Lord Yun. He said he is busy and won’t have time to come back to cook for you. Please make sure that you eat well. If you have any questions, you can contact him directly through me.”
The two of them thought of the same thing, and Xue Huai smiled, feeling a little sweet.
The other green bird stretched its neck and asked him, “Then, Young Lord Xue, do we still need to send it to him at this time?”
Xue Huai suppressed his smile and seriously said, “Send, of course. Even if he has already eaten, this is a token of my love for him. At least it can make him happy.”
The green bird flapped its wings and flew away.
Xue Huai turned around and asked the green bird sent by Yun Cuo: “Are your brothers and sisters with Yun Cuo? Can I talk to him now?”
The green bird cast a spell to investigate and then respectfully told him, “Sure, Young Lord Xue, if you don’t have any problems, I will help you contact that side.”
Xue Huai nodded and waited quietly.
In fact, he didn’t know what to say when he contacted Yun Cuo either. He just felt that he missed him a little after not seeing each other for a night.
Now they are officially lovers and have already been engaged. Yun Cuo is so attached to him, so he naturally has reasons to be attached to him as well. Xue Huai also doesn’t think it’s a shameful thing.
Soon, Yun Cuo’s voice came from the other side through the magic: “Xue Huai?”
Due to the influence of the spell, his voice sounded deeper than usual and had a more blushing and heart-pounding magnetism.
Xue Huai could hear the fatigue in his voice and couldn’t help asking him, “What’s wrong with you? You sound like you didn’t sleep well.”
Yun Cuo paused and replied, “It’s nothing. I just stayed up late to maintain the formation and haven’t had a chance to sleep yet. I’ll be back to keep you company when the Divine Weapon Manufacturing is done on my end.”
The two green birds on both sides were listening, and Xue Huai also felt a little uncomfortable. He awkwardly said, “I’m not in a hurry for you to come back to accompany me either, I just want to hear your voice.”
Yun Cuo softly smiled over there.
“Do you miss me, Xue Huai ge?”
Xue Huai quickly glanced around, and when he found that there was no one around, he lowered his voice and frankly told him, “Yes, I miss you already, Yun Shidi.”
At that moment, Xue Huai felt the person opposite the spell jump with joy in an instant. Even if he couldn’t see or hear, and Yun Cuo’s breathing was also as calm and powerful as usual. But he just knew that Yun Cuo, who was on the other side, must be the same as a happy child, with brilliant light in his eyes.
Both sides fell silent for a moment, as if there was nothing special to say, but neither was willing to end the conversation early. People in love are always so boring. They can see each other every day and talk about trivial daily things in life, but they just won’t get tired of listening to them, or, in other words, they never get tired and wish that they could share every breath with each other.
“What are you doing? Yun Shidi.” Xue Huai quickly found a new topic.
Yun Cuo said, “I am learning to forge a sword. Xue Huai, do you want me to make one for you?”
Xue Huai thought for a moment and said, “I already have many swords, but I will take them if you give them to me.”
Yun Cuo, who was on the other side, said alright.
Then the half-demon youth on the opposite side asked him again, in a somewhat anxious tone, “What about you, Xue Huai? What are you going to do today? You were just injured, so stay at home and wait for me today, alright? I’ll be back in the evening.”
Xue Huai was not happy. He said to Yun Cuo softly, “But I’m fine now. I’ll just go out for a walk. I won’t go far, is that alright? Is that alright, classmate Yun?”
Yun Cuo has never been able to resist his coquettish behavior. After a moment of silence, he seemed to be having a little conflict. He didn’t want him to go out, but he also couldn’t resist Xue Huai’s soft voice when he begged him.
He whispered, “Then, you… go out tomorrow, alright? Can I accompany you out?”
Xue Huai was thinking on the surface, but in his heart, he thought that if he really wanted to go out to play, it didn’t seem to be a big deal. In short, it was all to pamper Yun Cuo’s boring and jealous personality, so Xue Huai thought it would be better to keep it a secret.
Can he wait until tomorrow if he wants to go out and play today?
If he were caught by Yun Cuo, he can just coax him on bed.
Xue Huai’s little abacus has been set. After finishing this sentence, the two of them remained silent for a while and then coincidentally laughed at the same time.
None of them can bear to end this conversation.
It was still Xue Huai who smiled and said, “Alright, I’m going to take a shower. We will meet tonight, Classmate Yun.” Yun Cuo responded, and the green bird cut off the spell.
Xue Huai stood in the hallway, feeling a bit embarrassed when he saw the green bird’s inexplicable smile. The green bird saw his expression, smiled, and told him, “Young Lord Xue, your relationship is really good.”
Xue Huai felt a little happy after hearing it.
After seeing off the green bird, Xue Huai went back to his room to take a shower, tidy up, change clothes, and wash his face. He planned to go out and bask in the sun, take a walk, and also take the little gluttonous on the walk too.
Not long after he went out, he was stopped by people—a bunch of his worried senior and junior brothers came towards him and looked as if they had seen their savior when they saw him. “Aiya, Xue Shixiong, you are here! Do you have free time now? Master Xuanming, who is in charge of the registration of sword cultivators today, has asked for leave, and the reception area for new disciples is full of people. Are you free to go over and help?”
Xue Huai had nothing to do, so when he saw the huge crowds of people over there, he didn’t say much either and just went over with the gluttonous ghost.
There is not much to do except lead the new disciples to find the places, learn the way, and choose a dormitory. Ambitious disciples in Murong Mountain Sect often rush to do this in order to build a good relationship with the new disciples so that they will be able to use them in the future.
Xue Huai sent a few new disciples off, and the morning passed by unnoticed. The gluttonous ghost was bored, so it broke free from his arms and went to play on his own, and Xue Huai didn’t care either.
It was not until sunset that Xue Huai had some free time and had lunch with the other senior brothers and sisters.
At this time, he went to look for the gluttonous ghost again but found that this guy had disappeared.
Xue Huai was worried that one of the four evil creatures of the Immortal Realm he raised would be bullied and might even be beaten up, so he asked people if they had seen the little gluttonous he raised everywhere.
After asking like this all the way, a new disciple he had never seen came over to greet him and shyly told him, “I saw a small mythical beast that looked like a Pixiu in the Seven-Colored Lake before. I wonder if it is the one you raised.”
When Xue Huai heard this, even his head grew bigger.
The so-called Seven Color Lake contains the scenery of the four seasons of the Mortal Realm and the three seasons of the Demon Realm. There are rockeries, rocks, caves, and woods everywhere, and the terrain is rugged and complex. He didn’t know when he would be able to find it after the gluttonous run this time.
That shy new disciple looked at him concentrating on thinking, and his face slowly turned red. Then he mustered up the courage to ask him, “Shixiong, although I just entered the mountain sect today, but I still remember the places I have been to. How about I take you to look for it?”
Before he had even finished speaking, his face had already turned red.
Xue Huai saw his faintly expectant expression and wanted to politely decline him, so he smiled and said, “It’s alright, I’m familiar with that place. You just came here today, so go back and have a rest.”
But the other party was very persistent. “It’s already, Shixiong, don’t be polite to me, that place is more secluded, it would be safer for me to take you there.”
Xue Huai couldn’t persuade him, so he had to let him take him there.
He said that he would lead him, but in fact, Xue Huai was walking in front the whole time, and that new disciple followed behind him while looking around. It was obvious that he was not familiar with the terrain here and was just trying to be brave.
But he didn’t lie to him.
When they got there, Xue Huai quickly found his stupid and lazy little gluttonous, sleeping comfortably under the rockery. As the sun was setting, this guy was sleeping there in the dark. It would really be hard to find it after nightfall.
He picked the gluttonous ghost up, turned around, and politely told his junior brother, “Thank you, I found my little gluttonous. I’ll treat you to a meal when I’m free.” He then handed over fifty golden melon seeds.
That new fellow junior brother was stunned, probably he had never seen such a heroic way of expressing gratitude before. He kept saying that it was just a small favor, and he dared not accept it.
Xue Huai had no intention of arguing with him any more. He was anxious to go back and wait for Yun Cuo to come home. He just raised his chin slightly and said, “Take it.”
“That… Shixiong, I—” Seeing that he was about to leave, that junior brother hurried over, his face as red as a monkey’s butt. “I-I am the new sword cultivator in this class. It’s getting late now, and the other Shixiong and Shijie can’t come to pick me up in time. I can’t find where I should stay. Could you take me with you, Shixiong?”
“……”
Xue Huai really didn’t expect that this batch of new disciples had quite a few tricks up their sleeves, and their tactics were so interconnected as well.
There, he was still looking at him eagerly. Xue Huai sighed in his heart and thought to himself that the sword cultivators’ Warm Pavilion was very close to the Murong couple’s residence, and he could visit them later, so he agreed.
Along the way, that young sword cultivator tried to talk to him, but Xue Huai acted very distant, with his usual smile on his face that kept people at a distance.
Seven points fake, two points cold—there was still one point left for people to peek into, but inside is a distracted shadow.
Xue Huai was distracted, he was thinking that after visiting the elderly, he could take a detour and launch a sneak attack on Yun Cuo.
He didn’t let him go out, but if he went out just to see him, this person shouldn’t be angry with him, right?
Yun Cuo said that he is maintaining the formation this morning, so he shouldn’t be too far away, he should be on the mountain where they usually practice.
By the time they arrived at the sword cultivators’ warm pavilion, the enthusiasm of the junior brother to talk was almost extinguished. Xue Huai didn’t remember what the other party said to him the whole time, but when he left, he was more concerned and sincerely said, “Happy enrollment. If there is nothing else, Shixiong will leave first.”
That junior disciple also said, “Thank you, Shixiong.”
Xue Huai showed his perfect signature smile, with his eyes curved and filled with warmth. This smile was still fake, it’s beautiful and sharp, but unfortunately, there was no special emotion.
He turned his head and said, “I’m leaving.”
That new junior brother looked annoyed, sighed, and reluctantly said, “Shixiong, take care.”
However, what Xue Huai did not expect was that when he turned around, he saw a familiar shadow on the side of the road.
In the dim afterglow of the setting sun, the other person’s silhouette became hazy, it was very strange. When Yun Cuo stood there, Xue Huai felt that this person seemed to have been clearly painted. He looked good no matter how he looked at him, and he could spot him in the crowd at a glance any way he looked.
Yun Cuo also saw him. He stood on the top of a hill with lush grass and flying birds, his whole body and the hazy world were painted in a dreamy glow. Behind him was a crimson sunset, and in front of him was a faint shadow.
He also saw Xue Huai, but he immediately walked back towards the sunset with his back to him, walking faster and faster.
When Xue Huai saw his reaction, he was stunned for a moment and then realized that Yun Cuo, the jealous man, might have seen what happened just now, so he chased after him, “Ai, wait for me, Yun Cuo.”
Yun Cuo ignored him and didn’t even turn his head.
Xue Huai’s smile just now hurt his eyes.
He loved the way Xue Huai smiled. It was as soft as spring, with a hazy light in his eyes, seducing people, intentionally or unintentionally. Xue Huai could turn people into a pool of water when he smiled at them.
Morbid thoughts filled his mind. Who was that person just now? What were they talking about? Why did Xue Huai smile at him?
He had clearly promised him that he would wait for him in the warm pavilion, so why did he run out again?
He clearly promised him that he would be with him tomorrow. Why did he lie to him?
He couldn’t control Xue Huai, just like he couldn’t imprison a flying bird.
But this idea is wrong.
Xue Huai seemed to have noticed something. He chased after him, grabbed his wrist fiercely, and angrily asked him, “What’s wrong with you?”
Yun Cuo looked up at him. His eyes were filled with a dangerous crimson, as if they were burning, almost crazy.
“I’m sick, I’m crazy.” Yun Cuo looked at him deeply, panting slightly. It was as if he had made up his mind after all the things he had accumulated had collapsed. There was a trace of imperceptible despair in his eyes.
“I’m not good, don’t be with me. Let’s break up, Xue Huai.”
