—If you want to spy on me, then spy on me. If you want to lock me up, then just lock me up.
Yun Cuo whispered, “I want to.”
Xue Huai looked at him quietly, with a smile on his face. “And then?”
“But I can’t do this to you, you’ll be sad.” Yun Cuo reached out and gently stroked his face, his eyes still red. “I’m insane, my brain is not normal anymore, I get scared when you go out, I feel uncomfortable when you talk to others, Xue Huai, don’t think so well of me, I’m very scary.”
Xue Huai had calmed down by now and stopped scolding him and talking nonsense. He just listened carefully. After listening, he turned over and lay down, crawled into Yun Cuo’s arms, put his cheek against his chest, and whispered, “You are not scary. Our Young Immortal Lord Yun is the best in the world. If anyone dares to snatch you from me, I will beat them. I will risk my life to snatch a man. Even you can’t do that. Do you want to try?”
He raised his eyes to look at him. This expression made his eyes look particularly big, his eyelashes were long and dark. Since his eyes were full of water, it was seductive, with a hint of playfulness and ruthlessness.
Yun Cuo said nothing, put his arms around his waist, and held him tightly in his arms.
He didn’t say anything. Xue Huai thought that he was plotting something at first, but then he found that he was crying.
He had always thought that someone, who was usually indifferent and gloomy like Yun Cuo, would cry without leaving any trace. Just like what was written in the biography—two tears fell silently and disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.
But judging from Yun Cuo’s behavior outside the door just now and his current behavior—
Yun Cuo really cried loudly, sobbing so hard that his voice became hoarse.
Xue Huai found it a little funny, but he held it back and listened to him crying with a serious face.
He was afraid of being disturbed, so he secretly released a barrier to cover the small room where he was recuperating. He pressed himself against Yun Cuo’s chest, unable to see his expression, but just accompanied him and responded with a stronger hug.
Yun Cuo cried for a long time before he asked him in a hoarse voice, “Xue Huai, will you laugh at me?”
“Me?” Xue Huai thought for a moment and laughed, “I will. I’m not laughing at you, a grown man, for crying and being embarrassing. I’m laughing at my dear Yun Cuo, who is so lovable and affectionate, even when crying. I’m sorry, I didn’t think it through. My dear, please don’t be sad, alright?”
Yun Cuo sullenly said, “Then don’t apologize to me. You did nothing wrong.”
Xue Huai was full of patience and coaxed him, “Alright, alright, I won’t apologize, my dear Yun Cuo, don’t be sad, alright?”
As if he heard a hint of mockery in his coaxing words, Yun Cuo stopped crying after a while and asked him with a very depressed look, “I won’t break up with you, Xue Huai.”
Xue Huai glanced at him, “You’re the one who decided whether to break up or not?”
Yun Cuo quickly shook his head: “No, it’s up to you. Xue Huai, can we stay together forever?”
Xue Huai let out an “En.”
He felt Yun Cuo leaning over to kiss him, as if to confirm that he was really back. He turned his cheek to let him kiss him and sucked on his slightly red ears. His breathing was both rapid and heavy.
Who cries so loudly? Yun Cuo is very good at acting like a spoiled child, and Xue Huai indulges him every time, so he is allowed to do what he wants.
It was not until Yun Cuo took over, pressed on him, and began to untie his belt that Xue Huai realized something was wrong—
He moved a little and protested, “What are you doing? What are you doing?”
Yun Cuo cuo kissed the teardrop mole at the corner of his eye very pitifully and did not say what he wanted to do, but just called out again and again: “Xue Huai… Xue Huai ge.”
Xue Huai: “…En.”
“You said you were mine.”
“En, I’m yours, don’t—ah…” Half an inch of his breathing stopped halfway, and then it turned into a half-tone that made people blush and pant.
Xue Huai was tossed over and over in the end, and his eyes became red from the extreme stimulation, tears streaming down his face uncontrollably. He thought, How could he have believed Yun Cuo’s lies?
It’s always like this.
When Xue Huai woke up, he found himself lying alone in the medical center where Yun Cuo was recuperating.
The clothes and bedding were all ready. The sun was setting outside, and the dim light shone in, bringing peace and warmth.
He was a little unhappy—they had just made peace, but Yun Cuo left him alone in the room to sleep, and he didn’t know where he went. He was also sore all over.
Xue Huai rubbed his waist, abdomen, buttocks, and legs, slowly climbed up from the bed, wrapped himself in the quilt, and was about to get out of bed when he saw the door being pushed open.
Yun Cuo walked in with a storage ring. Seeing that he was about to move, he hurried over, pushed him back, wrapped him up, and stuffed him back into the bed.
“Xue Huai ge, you take a rest for a while. I’ll go to the food garden and get some food. I’ll prepare it. Here are some of the dishes you like. Do you want to eat anything else?”
Xue Huai watched Yun Cuo take out one, two, three, four, and five food boxes from his storage ring and put them neatly there. He buried his face in the quilt and smiled. “Anything is fine.”
Yun Cuo moved the table to the window, put away the dishes and chopsticks, and moved the food that Xue Huai liked to eat to his side.
He seemed to still feel ashamed of crying in front of Xue Huai, and he dared not look him in the eye. When Xue Huai lowered his head to eat, he would secretly glance at him with eager eyes. It was fine once or twice, but after too many times, Xue Huai found out.
When his eyes met Xue Huai’s, Yun Cuo immediately looked away and started eating his half-jar of new Suanni meat.
After eating for a while, he reached out his hand again and placed the jar in front of Xue Huai.
Xue Huai looked at him.
Yun Cuo looked at him cautiously and was a little aggrieved. “You didn’t carve any words. The one you gave me last time had three of your names on it.”
Xue Huai’s face turned red all of a sudden—he didn’t blush when Yun Cuo forced him to do weird things or when Yun Cuo confessed his feelings to him, but he blushed at this moment.
He evaded the question: “There’s none, because you want to break up so casually this time, so this is a punishment for you.”
Yun Cuo suddenly became depressed. He took the jar back silently, looked at it thoughtfully for a while, and said in a low voice, “I know.”
Xue Huai continued to eat and drink the soup gracefully. Yun Cuo continued to eat the rice with Suanni meat.
After a while, Xue Huai always felt that Yun Cuo was feeling aggrieved and looked quite sad—which made him feel like he was being scratched by a cat.
He coughed.
Yun Cuo stopped alertly and looked at him.
Xue Huai lowered his head and picked up the bowl of soup, drinking it slowly, using the bowl to cover half of his face, and stammered, “We-When are we going to get married ah?”
He felt it was safer to bring up this topic, and Yun Cuo would be happy.
The immortals do not have a marriage registration system like mortals do. They only rely on word of mouth and the records of green birds during wedding ceremonies. If a family decides to find a Daoist partner, they will announce it to the world and invite relatives and friends to gather. After the wedding night, the newlyweds will write each other’s names on the Sansheng Stone in Wangchuan.
The underworld has therefore thoughtfully launched a name search and entry function so that everyone can find out who the Daoist partner is and if they’re formally married.
If they can’t get along in the future and decide to divorce, then they can go to that place again and erase the engraved names.
Yun Cuo was stunned for a moment.
He asked cautiously, “Xue… Xue Huai ge, what do you think?”
Xue Huai blinked, his face already red as if it were about to burn: “Of course, the sooner the better, are you free tonight? A round trip to Wangchuan only takes four or five hours.”
Yun Cuo panicked, his chopsticks fell to the ground with a clatter, and he even forgot to pick them up. He also stammered and rejected it: “No, not today.”
Xue Huai saw that he was panicking, so he calmed down and asked him, “Why not today?”
Yun Cuo took out a piece of paper from somewhere and showed it to him: “Look, today is auspicious.”
It was a copied almanac, the paper was crumpled, and it was not sure how long it had been written.
Xue Huai knew at a glance that Yun Cuo had been planning this since the day he ran away from home.
He asked, “Then when is the auspicious time you decided?”
When Yun Cuo heard his question, he immediately became happy, dragged a chair over and sat down, and said to him excitedly, “I have chosen three days, all of which are good… Look at this day, when the stars in the sky shine, the phoenix will come out of the deep forest to look for food, and the Purple Star will be at its peak in the year…”
Xue Huai listened to him babble for a long time but decided not to waste words with him: “But Yun Cuo, I still think that it is better to do it today than to wait for a better day.”
Yun Cuo stopped and looked at him.
Xue Huai said, “I’m afraid you’ll run away, so let’s go to the Sansheng Stone tonight, and then we’ll have the wedding on the day you choose, alright?”
Yun Cuo was a little hesitant and reluctant. He always felt that his wedding with Xue Huai must be solemn and formal, not so casual.
He said, “Xue Huai ge, I won’t run away.”
Xue Huai’s eyes curved and teased him: “Then aren’t you afraid that I will run away?”
Yun Cuo was stunned for a moment, and this time he was a little lacking in confidence: “…I’m not afraid.”
After a moment, he obediently said, “Then, Xue Huai ge, let’s go tonight.”
Once he made the decision to go, Yun Cuo seemed even more impatient than Xue Huai. He kept urging Xue Huai and even wanted to come over to help him dress and comb his hair, but was always blocked by Xue Huai.
Xue Huai said, “I need to go back and dress myself up first. You too, Young Master Yun, I will find you a beautiful red robe and style your hair in a heroic and handsome way. You can come directly when the time comes. Wait for me to get ready for about half an hour, and then you can find me in the cave where I am practicing.”
After he moved out, he really lived in the cave. It was as if he had finally gotten what he wanted. He could even fall asleep to the sound of gurgling water and the wind.
Yun Cuo looked at him nervously, “Then what about me? What do I need to prepare?”
Xue Huai took out a storage ring from his sleeve.
Yun Cuo didn’t know what it was, he just saw Xue Huai’s fingertips lightly tap, and it opened with a click—
Then he took out a black thing from it.
The gluttonous ghost started crying as soon as he saw Xue Huai and tried to hug his thighs while howling, but was pulled away by Xue Huai and stuffed into Yun Cuo’s arms.
Suddenly, the person in front of him changed. The gluttonous ghost was stunned for a moment, then cried even harder, almost out of breath. The whole ghost was in a state of collapse.
Xue Huai said, “You coax our son.”
