Chapter 73- Bathtub Encounter
The water was so deep, deeper than anything He Ruge had ever fallen into before. Luckily, being turned into a merman meant he could breathe underwater, or He Ruge suspected he might have drowned in the over three meters deep water.
And the smell of this water was strange, a strong medicinal scent.
He thrashed his fish tail, glimpsing through the misty water a white tiger body, its white fur swaying like seaweed in the current. But whether it was He Ruge’s illusion or not, he felt that the fur was of varying lengths.
He Ruge, almost choked by the smell of medicine, couldn’t care less. He thrashed his tail desperately and finally broke the surface. Just as he was about to take a breath, he saw a huge tiger head.
Look at this tiger head, so big and round.
It even looked exactly like the white tiger in the game.
When the tiger face saw him, it was first disbelief, then ecstatic joy, and finally seemed to remember something. Suddenly, it plunged its head into the water, as if to disappear in front of He Ruge.
“Plop!”
Water splashed everywhere.
He Ruge instinctively stepped back, his swaying fish tail seemed to touch the tiger’s paw underwater, causing the big white tiger to retreat in fear, like encountering a flood beast and backing away. He Ruge instinctively touched his face. Did he have a fish head now?
And where was this place? Did he just travel through time and space? Why did this thing look like a bathtub, but so big?!
More importantly, was the big white tiger hiding in the water Xi Guican?
With a size like that, you can’t hide no matter how hard you try, can you?! Please wake up a little bit!!!
At this moment, He Ruge remembered the ending he achieved in the game, “Lover Descends from Heaven,” and the ten-day countdown.
As a writer, his imagination had lost. He never expected the game to not only be holographic but also come with a time-traveling function! What kind of incredible conscience game was this?! And it even got stuck on the night he just finished the game?!
He Ruge bit his tongue, feeling a sharp pain. After confirming he wasn’t dreaming, his expression became blank.
I, traveled through time and space?
Facing the guide character from the game?
Wait, no, the big white tiger has dived into the water to hold its breath!
Just as He Ruge was about to dive underwater to investigate, it seemed like the bathtub was switched on, and all the water rapidly drained away. The white tiger suddenly disappeared, replaced by a wet man.
What caught the eye first were the undulating muscles, the body resembling a taut bowstring, exuding the intimidating and powerful aura of a wild beast. Water droplets slid down the steamy muscles, and droplets from the wet hair also fell downward.
As the man raised his head, instead of the handsome young face from the game, it was a more mature and profound appearance, with upturned eyes and slanting thick eyebrows, a heavy and fierce countenance. However, when those sapphire-like eyes looked at He Ruge, there was a condensed melancholy in them.
Perhaps it wasn’t He Ruge’s imagination; this expression was indeed melancholic, as if devoid of any joy in life.
“???”
As the last bit of water drained from the bathtub, He Ruge couldn’t stand upright without the support of water for his fish tail, so he sat in the huge bathtub and looked up to see the prickly thorns, wet and looking like a deadly weapon. He Ruge also noticed that the hair around the figure was white, curly white hair that was soft unlike the prickly appearance.
…Ah, this darn game is really rigorous, even considering the fact that Jiji doesn’t have fur during his youth.
Following He Ruge’s dazed gaze, Xie Guican looked down and also saw his thorny brother. Originally worried that his bald beast form would be exposed, Xie Guican was already quite distressed, but at this moment, he found that he could be even more distressed.
He didn’t have time for communication; he was ready to climb out of the bathtub bare-assed, and the two small wings on his back were immediately exposed to He Ruge’s eyes.
“…?!”
Wait a minute! Small wings! Fluffy little wings?!
He Ruge clearly remembered that Xie Guican’s back had cool silver bug wings, so how did it suddenly become… these adorable little wings!
The wet little wings trembled in the air, making He Ruge’s heart flutter. He couldn’t help but think of a song, two little bees flying in the flowers, flying, flying…
He Ruge gazed at the fluttering little wings in front of him, intoxicated. When Xie Guican climbed out of the bathtub and his figure was completely obscured by the high bathtub wall, He Ruge reluctantly withdrew his gaze and began to look around.
He looked at this bathroom, which was large enough to be a living room, with a sense of absurdity, as if he had mistakenly entered the adult world. But only such a large space could allow a white tiger over three meters tall to move freely.
He Ruge tried to think of all sorts of messy things to distract himself, not letting himself panic. The sudden crossing was frightening enough, but crossing to the front of the love game’s strategy target was like a deer crashing into chaos.
Although for a moment He Ruge couldn’t tell whether he was charmed by cuteness, by handsomeness, or by the prickly little hairball, he still had to maintain a calm appearance! Just as He Ruge tried to take deep breaths, Xie Guican’s head suddenly appeared outside the bathtub like a small wall.
With messy half-wet hair, presumably due to the rush when putting on clothes without paying attention to his hairstyle, not even buttoning up his collar properly, his Adam’s apple nervously bobbing.
He Ruge couldn’t see Xie Guican’s lower body, let alone know that Xie Guican was now standing on a one-meter-tall heavy sub-nucleus gas explosion bomb. His hands stubbornly clung to the edge of the bathtub, his face hot enough to fry eggs as he spoke to He Ruge.
Because the bathtub was three meters high and Xie Guican’s human form was two meters, after encountering the suddenly-fallen He Ruge, Xie Guican’s brain began to crash on-site, and his IQ might be lower than that of Miaomiao’s now. He could think of taking out a large weapon from the spatial button to use as a chair, not wasting a single moment of time with He Ruge, which was already quite clever.
He Ruge could hear Xie Guican’s breathlessness, his voice trembling with nervousness as he said, “H-hello.”
So pathetic, even the roar of a tiger came out.
Fortunately, this pathetic big white tiger was facing an equally pathetic koi fish. He Ruge’s heart had never beaten so fast, almost jumping out of his chest. Facing Xie Guican’s rosy handsome face, He Ruge clenched his fists, summoned his courage, and stuttered out, “H-hello.”
It was utterly embarrassing. As an experienced writer, seeing someone he liked, he could only repeat such a meaningless conversation stutteringly.
The melodious voice of the mermaid echoed in the spacious bathroom, instantly conquering Xie Guican’s eardrums.
With a “plink”, a pair of tiger ears emerged from Xie Guican’s wet hair, as if he couldn’t get enough air through his nose, he slightly gasped for breath. The misty bathroom was filled with He Ruge’s scent, enticing to the point of melting.
More enticing than the scent was He Ruge before him, who seemed unaware that he was shirtless. With Xie Guican’s excellent vision, he could clearly see the waterlogged collarbones of He Ruge, the two pink petals on his chest, and that fish tail that looked so delicious.
In every sense of the word, delicious. Xie Guican’s nerves were stretched tight; he used all his self-control not to jump into the bathtub and lick the unsuspecting mermaid from head to tail until he cried pearls that filled the bathtub, and then he would put those round pearls into another moist and tight place…
Countless images that made his blood boil flashed through his mind, stimulating Xie Guican to the point where he almost couldn’t stand steady, about to fall off the heavy sub-nucleus gas explosion bomb.
Yes, don’t get excited, don’t step on the gas explosion bomb.
Although he was clearly standing on a gas explosion bomb, Xie Guican felt like he was stepping on soft clouds. Was he dreaming? Why did the He Ruge from the game come out?
Xie Guican recalled the mysterious “Heavenly Lover” gift package, and then stared at the He Ruge who fell into the bathtub. Even with his plummeting IQ, Xie Guican could only come to one conclusion—
He Ruge was the mysterious gift package sent by the game!!!
This was the best gift he had ever received in his life!
Xie Guican clung to the edge of the bathtub, so happy that he almost passed out. He didn’t want to dwell on why the game could turn into real people, didn’t want to ask why the spiritual vortex that appeared only after ascension existed. Xie Guican didn’t want to think about anything, his mind only had room for He Ruge, so much so that to accommodate the mermaid He Ruge, he even poured an extra liter of water into his mind, becoming so foolish that he could bubble.
Every bubble that popped was a burst of joy.
After taking a deep breath, Xie Guican trembled and asked, “Do you want to take a bath?”
Actually, Xie Guican was worried about the hair tonic affecting He Ruge’s scales. Whether the scales grew hair or not wasn’t the point. After all, the hair tonic wasn’t some instant solution. If it really could make hair grow on the scales in less than two minutes of contact, Xie Guican wouldn’t have to bathe for three hours every day, soaking for half a month and still be semi-bald.
Thinking about the fact that he was still semi-bald when he met He Ruge, Xie Guican’s mood began to plummet again. Right now, all he could do was fervently pray that He Ruge hadn’t noticed his hair, and that embarrassing little wings.
Xie Guican suppressed the flames of humiliation and anger burning in his heart. He proposed to bathe He Ruge now because he was worried that the hair tonic might make He Ruge uncomfortable, just like his previous weak state. Even though He Ruge only soaked for less than two minutes, Xie Guican felt like he was facing a major enemy, fearing that the hair tonic might make He Ruge feel unwell.
He Ruge nodded in agreement. After transforming into his mermaid form, he did indeed prefer to stay in the water a little longer.
The bathtub was quickly filled with water at a comfortable temperature, and He Ruge nervously yet comfortably soaked in the bathtub, tilting his head to look at Xie Guican, who was only showing his neck and above.
Actually, just looking at Xie Guican like this, even though he was sporting a more mature and handsome face, there would still be a feeling of “your little cutie secretly observing” especially when those two tiger ears involuntarily twitched, melting He Ruge’s paternal heart.
“I-I’m not peeking at you bathing.”
Under He Ruge’s scorching gaze, Xie Guican suddenly retracted his head, disappearing from He Ruge’s sight.
He Ruge was stunned for a moment, then laughed when he realized what happened.
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