At that moment, Xue Huai thought he had heard it wrong.
His aura slowly calmed down, almost to the point of coldness.
“Say it again, Yuncuo, the two words break up are not to be taken as a joke. If you are angry, then just be mad at me, don’t bring up these two words casually.”
Yun Cuo stared at him in a daze and remained silent.
Xue Huai stared at him quietly. “If you are mad because I came here with someone else, then I can explain to you. Today I came out to help the new fellow disciples find their places, and I have been outside all day. The reason why I agreed to come this way was because I wanted to see my grandparents and then look for you on the way.
“Yun Cuo, I know you are a very insecure person, and I am also trying my best to give it to you. It doesn’t matter if you are angry, jealous, or really mad at me. But when you say these two words, it makes me feel cold.”
Yun Cuo whispered, “It has nothing to do with this matter, I just suddenly don’t want to be with you anymore.”
Xue Huai was so angry at his look that he laughed: “You don’t want to? If you don’t want to, why do you look like you’re about to cry?”
As soon as he finished speaking, Yun Cuo raised his blood-red eyes, with a hint of red in the corners. Anyone else who saw him would be shocked by his fierce look. There’s only Xue Huai who’d dare say that he was about to cry.
He said, “I’m serious, Xue Huai.”
At that moment, a strange tranquility emerged in his eyes. It was as if a prisoner was no longer afraid before being beheaded because they knew that their final fate was death.
Xue Huai became even angrier: “I don’t know what you’ve been thinking about lately, but I only have one thing to tell you. If someone else says these two words to me, I have no reason to want the person who doesn’t want me either. So from now on, we’ll go our separate ways—”
But what about him?
Yun Cuo stared at him closely.
It was a reflex-like expectation. He looked at Xue Huai’s rosy lips and found that the two soft lips were becoming brightly colored because of anger, and the same desire as before grew in his heart.
He wanted to kiss him.
He often thought about this and did it before. Sometimes, it was when Xue Huai was sleeping; sometimes, it was when Xue Huai was concentrating on drawing weapon diagrams. Sometimes, when there were people around, he would steal a kiss and catch them off guard.
Xue Huai would often scold him, saying that he did not know the time, occasion, or place and was inappropriate.
But today is really inappropriate, he thought quietly.
Xue Huai continued, “But because it’s you, I’ll just assume that you’re out of your mind, and that’s why you said that.”
Yun Cuo opened his eyes slightly and saw Xue Huai take a step forward and stand close in front of him.
The breath was soft, flowing slowly against his cheek.
Xue Huai was not as tall as him, so he stood on tiptoe and held his chin with his hand. There was a flame dancing in his usually cold and indifferent eyes, like a cat with its fur standing on end, staring at him beautifully and keenly.
“Let me not talk about the fact that we are engaged. If you want to break up with me, go to my grandfather first, and then go to my father to make things clear. If you have the guts, return the arms to me in person, and I will return the betrothal gifts to you as they are.”
Before he could even finish speaking, Yun Cuo nodded. “Alright.”
Xue Huai was almost pissed off to death by him, and the hand that was holding his chin got tighter and tighter, as if he wanted to pinch his throat instead of his chin. “And even if we take a step back, you and I have already dual-cultivated. What a coincidence! I am a person who values chastity as much as any mortal. If you want me, I will cling to you for the rest of my life, and if you slept with me and want to leave… There is no such good thing, Yun Cuo.”
After hearing his words, the expression on his face became a little strange, and he seemed unable to think of anything else to respond to him.
Xue Huai learned this set of ideas from the stories in the Mortal Realm.
Yun Cuo was a man who was so serious that he was almost rigid. Although he often bought some books for Xue Huai to relieve his boredom, he never read them himself, so naturally he didn’t know these routines of one: crying, two: making a fuss, and three: threatening to commit s*icide.
Xue Huai smiled maliciously and narrowed his eyes, and they were lively.
He was just about to raise his hands to show his strength. “What? You didn’t expect that I would be such a persistent person? I’ve already told you that I, Xue Huai, am not someone who is pure and untainted by the world. You dare to leave me? I’ll accompany you to the end.”
He hoped that these words would shock Yun Cuo to some extent. It’s best if it could scare and wake him up immediately, so he never dares to mention the two words “breakup” to him again.
As a result, his hands suddenly felt empty, and the person in front of him suddenly disappeared in the wind.
The wind was silent. The setting sun had sunk below the cliffs, and the golden afterglow of the setting sun was fading away. The clouds seemed to be chasing the fleeting light, slipping away like the tide.
It took Xue Huai a long time to react and realize that Yun Cuo had run away.
He left him alone in the dark of the warm pavilion and ran away alone!
He was so angry that he could hardly speak. He had never been this angry whenever he quarreled with Yun Cuo in his previous life.
He was a mature left protector, so if the monarch behaves foolishly, he can perfectly and maturely help him clean up the mess.
But when it comes to love and romance, this is also his first time. Although he has long known that Yun Chu is a taciturn person and often thinks in a rut, it is also impossible for him to not be angry and not care about him.
Xue Huai then decided that he would first gamble with Yun Cuo for eight hours before going to coax him.
These eight hours were also carefully considered by Xue Huai: enough time for him to return to the warm pavilion to feed the gluttonous and the little gray cat, take a bath and sleep, and calm down. The rest of the time was for him to feel the desolation and helplessness of “losing his dual cultivation partner.”
Then he would descend from the sky, catch and coax the person. If kissing and hugging didn’t work, he would just coax him on bed.
As a result, when he returned to the warm pavilion, before Xue Huai could carry out the first step of his plan, which was feeding the gluttonous, he was once again angered by Yun Cuo and could not walk anymore.
Yun Cuo really returned the batch of weapons that he had ordered from his house before to him in the same condition.
The green bird brought him eighty neatly arranged storage rings, specially made by the Shenhua Terrace, with flower and leaf logos on the ring bands.
At that time, this batch of military supplies was handed over by Xue Huai. Xue Zong was away, so he personally checked each item and put them into the storage ring.
He felt a little embarrassed at that time. Although he had not yet accepted Yun Chu’s marriage proposal, he knew that if Xue Zong accepted it, it also meant that he had accepted it in the eyes of outsiders.
The Xue family accepted the betrothal gift, and he couldn’t take advantage of them for nothing, so he was particularly careful when handling Yun Cuo’s orders.
Xue Huai’s face turned pale, and he looked at these things gloomily.
The green bird was trembling beside him, not daring to even make a sound.
This green bird was the one that helped them get in touch with each other in the morning. It doesn’t know what happened between them yet. It only knew that the handsome young man in front of it suddenly seemed to be in a bad mood.
It originally thought that this boy’s fiancé sent him something to make him happy, but it turned out that this was not the case at all!
How come, even after receiving his lover’s gift, this young master of the Xue family felt even worse?
The green bird folded its wings and tried to escape timidly, but was stopped by Xue Huai.
“Hey, wait a minute, I’m talking to you.” Xue Huai said calmly.
At that moment, two thoughts intertwined in Xue Huai’s mind. One was to tell him to calm down and not fall into Yun Cuo’s trap. Yun Cuo was obviously deliberately trying to make him angry so that he would agree to break up. The more this happened, the more he had to treat him like a three-year-old child and not bother with him.
The other has a laissez-faire attitude: he is very angry now, and Yun Cuo deliberately makes him angry, so he might as well be angry with him to the end.
Xue Huai thought for a long time, and finally the first idea prevailed in his mind. He called the green bird and asked, “Did he give me a message?”
The green bird recalled tremblingly and suddenly flapped its wings: “There is! Before the Young Immortal Lord asked me to deliver the gift, he said… ‘Ask him what else he needs me to do. If so, tell me; otherwise, I will go into seclusion.’”
“……”
When people’s anger is at its peak, they tend to calm down and behave very calmly.
Xue Huai was very calm, and the first thought that was circling in his mind at that moment was completely killed.
Coax Yun Cuo?
He hasn’t coaxed him yet!
He said, “Oh, then you wait, I also have something to give him too.”
He returned to the room and began to search.
The mat that Yun Cuo slept on, the toiletries prepared for him by his grandmother, the dried flowers that Yun Cuo gave him, and the painting that he would beg Yun Cuo for.
In the end, he was almost about to tear down the entire room—because Xue Huai gradually realized that Yun Cuo’s shadow was everywhere in this room, and they had done whatever they wanted and made love wantonly here.
The scent of the locust flowers outside the window would remind him of the time when Yun Cuo pressed him against the window, thrusting deep and hard. The only support point for his whole body was Yun Cuo, and his back was the high ground in the courtyard, where people were always coming and going.
Things can be taken away, but smells cannot.
He couldn’t get rid of the smell of the locust flowers, just like he couldn’t get rid of the smell of the small kitchen. The ingredients and seasonings that had been soaked in for years had a taste that was a mixture of caramel and spicy flavors.
Xue Huai tidied up for a while and then began to daydream.
The green bird was watching from the side and suddenly realized something: “Young Lord Xue, did you have a quarrel with Young Immortal Lord?”
Xue Huai didn’t say anything.
The green bird’s voice became increasingly quiet. “Then, are you still… still packing up and sending the things back?”
Xue Huai sullenly said, “Send. But if you can’t send it, forget about it. Just put it here first.”
The green bird began to try to reconcile them: “Aiya, it’s normal for young people to quarrel. There’s no need to make such a big fuss, Young Lord Xue.”
Xue Huai rubbed his hair in annoyance. “I don’t even know why he is so angry with me. His problem is exactly the same as previous… the same as before. He says nothing and is self-righteous. He… This incompetent ruler!”
At the same time, the window opened, and a dark shadow swayed from behind the window.
Xue Huai was stunned for a moment, then suddenly came to life, stood up, rushed to the window, stretched out his hands, and opened it—
The gluttonous ghost rolled and crawled into the room.
It seemed that it had not expected the consequences of climbing the window to be so serious, Xue Huai actually rushed over and pulled it in. The gluttonous ghost didn’t know what it had done wrong, but it just admitted its mistake first.
It curtly jumped into Xue Huai’s arms and rubbed against him very flatteringly.
When it saw the messy room, the gluttonous ghost was so shocked that its whole body froze, and it even stopped wagging its tail.
Xue Huai sighed and stroked its bald head. “Xiao Tao, go back to the cave with Father. Your mother doesn’t want us anymore. I broke up with him already.”
When the gluttonous ghost suddenly heard about this, it was shocked at first, then started crying loudly and struggled to get into Xue Huai’s arms.
It seems that it was also questioning him and couldn’t believe it. Why? Why?
Xue Huai was originally in a bad mood, but he was made to laugh by this little gluttonous.
He suppressed his laughter and seriously said, “From now on, the two of us will live on the streets, but don’t worry, if I have a mouthful of food, you will have a bowl of food.”
“As for your mother.” Xue Huai sighed depressedly, “Let him regret it. If he admits his mistakes with a good attitude, then I can consider forgiving him.”
The author has something to say: Having written this far, I feel it is necessary to reiterate my clearance.
[Mutual favoritism] [Deep Attack and Control, Controlled with Caution] [Dog Blood, Vulgar, No Logic, Simple Writing]
Mutual favoritism refers to doting on both parties in any way they do. If four-year-old commits a crime, three-year-old will bear the responsibility; if three-year-old is being petty, then four-year-old will coax.
You can scold my protagonist, but please treat everyone equally. In this story, both the top and bottom are little drama queens. There is no reason why the bottom can make mistakes and the top cannot, right? Please actively avoid spoilers. For several books already, there are always people who jump out halfway to say why the author is like this or that and why the protagonist is like this or that. In fact, it was written in the copy when the novel was first published.
