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The Right Way to Offer a Sacrifice to the River God - Chapter 4 - I'm Bringing You Up Into The Sky? (我带你上天呀？)
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While Liu Qi was still in turmoil, he suddenly heard chaotic sounds coming from outside.
He rubbed his eyes and ran out to find out what was happening.
The villagers, too, had all come out just to join the hype. From afar, Bai Chuan was carrying a maiden dressed in bridal clothes as he walked over. The maiden was soaked, her face pale, and her eyes tightly shut.
The maiden's family members started crying in anguish.
"She's fine, she just fainted," Bai Chuan comforted.
People then started asking him why he had saved and brought back the River God's sacrifice.
Bai Chuan coldly swept his gaze towards the people surrounding him and said, "I am the River God. I bestowed the dream because I had wanted a bride, not a dead person. Who let you guys throw her into the river?"
The villagers all had an expression of doubt. "Che, a tiny thing like you can still be a River God? Who gave you the ability?"
Bai Chuan passed the unconscious maiden back to her family, before he once again transformed into his dragon form, accompanied by the distinct roar of a dragon. Charging up into the sky, the body of silvery-white scales reflected the moonlight and looked fluorescent against the night sky.
A rainshower suddenly started to fall, but it also stopped in an instant. Without waiting for the villagers to react, the great dragon in the horizon had already transformed back into the form of the refined and elegant young man of before.
Bai Chuan's gaze was searching for Liu Qi's within the crowd as he solemnly declared, "I will not bestow any more dreams to scare everyone from now on, and I also hope that everyone will stop sending me brides. I've already married one, and I really like them a lot. Plus, if you were to continue sending, they would get angry. If they got angry, they would carry me and throw me onto the ground, barring me from entering our home and not giving me anything to eat." (that's your main priority lol)
Within the crowd, Liu Qi held his forehead half in sweetness, but the other half wanting to collapse: …
Bai Chuan wove through the part panicking, part shocked, part dazed crowd, directly walking towards Liu Qi. Standing in front of him, he carefully tugged onto Liu Qi's sleeve and tried to curry favour with him, "It's already been a shichen, let me go home." (add on a kicked puppy look and we're gonna die from cuteness yes)
(T/N: A shichen is a unit of time used in the past, two hours current time)
Poor Liu Qi's face was so red that it was about to explode. Lightly reproaching him with a quick 'Shut up!', following which he grabbed onto Bai Chuan's wrist and swiftly dashed back in the direction of his home.
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Bringing Bai Chuan back into the house, Liu Qi leaned onto a wall as he tried to catch his breath. His heart was beating violently in his chest.
If he wasn't mistaken, what Bai Chuan did just now could be considered… A public confession?
Bai Chuan blinked dazedly, his long and thick eyelashes fanning with the movement. "Xiao Qi, you only ran such a short distance, why are you panting so heavily? Your face is also red."
Liu Qi looked asquint at him, "What do you know?"
"Is your kidney weak?" Bai Chuan asked, concerned.
Liu Qi's heart full of tender feelings instantly vanished with that question. "Weak my foot. Talk again and I'll beat you up," he threatened.
Bai Chuan didn't dare speak anymore.
After Liu Qi tried to calm himself down, he asked Bai Chuan in an acidic tone, "And you really went to see the new bride?"
Bai Chuan frantically shook his head and waved his hands, trying to justify himself, "It's not like that! After you threw me out, I sat outside the door waiting for you. After that, two people walked by. I overheard that this time, those people wanted to just tie up the maiden's hands and feet, before throwing her into the river to drown her to death, just so to let her not run away. Then, I quickly went to save her. It really wasn't because I wanted to see the new bride."
After hearing what had happened, Liu Qi was stumped for words, and only let out a 'Oh'. Several moments passed before he spoke again, "Thank goodness she's fine."
Seeing that Liu Qi's face was still lipid and expressionless, Bai Chuan stuck himself onto him to win some favour, "But I still took a look at the bride passingly. She's not as good-looking as you."
Liu Qi pushed him aside in embarrassment, "Why did you use me to compare with the maiden?"
Bai Chuan was very serious as he replied, "It's not just the maiden, everyone else is not as good-looking as you."
"Ah that's enough, don't speak anymore," Liu Qi waved.
"But I like you a lot," Bai Chuan diligently confessed in a concentrated effort.
Liu Qi's face turned so red that it emitted smoke. He did not know what to say, as he had never liked anyone before. While his personality might be boorish, but towards this kind of matters, he was extremely shy. Thus, he decided to just turn around so his back faced Bai Chuan, before acknowledging in a low voice, "I got it."
With a rustle of his robes, Bai Chuan turned to face him and acted like he had discovered a new continent, "Aya! Your face is really red!"
Liu Qi's mind was collapsing as he turned back around to hide himself.
Bai Chuan continued to follow him around, "You like me too, right?"
Liu Qi spun again, "Shut up!"
(Like an endearing idiot) Bai Chuan spun around as well, "Don't spin anymore, I'm dizzy."
"Like I care," (you do) Liu Qi continued to turn around again, unheeding.
Once again, Bai Chuan turned to face him, but this time he hugged onto Liu Qi tightly and lowered his head to kiss him roughly with the skills of an amateur. For these two, it was both their first time kissing. Their teeth rubbed against each other, extremely clumsy. After kissing for a while, Bai Chuan's face turned red too.
Liu Qi rubbed his mouth, forcing himself to act angry. "You- Are you… asking for a beating?"
Bai Chuan quickly let go in a panic and raised his hands in surrender, "Don't hit."
Their eyes met for a moment, and Liu Qi's heart started beating like drums. He started getting nervous whenever he saw the childishness and honesty that could not be glossed over on Bai Chuan's charming face. Thus, with courage that he didn't know came from where, he grabbed onto Bai Chuan's collar and pulled him over towards himself, violently crushing his lips onto Bai Chuan's thin ones. When the kissed ended, Liu Qi announced, full of domineering aggressiveness, "From now onwards, Laozi will really become your wife. You're only allowed to like this Laozi alone. If you dare look at anyone else, I'll break your legs!"
"Not looking, not looking! I won't look even if I die!" Bai Chuan vigorously shook his head in denial.
With a satisfied hum, he wiped his boiling hot face and headed towards the kitchen, "your Buddha Jumps Over The Wall is ready, I'll serve up some for you."
Bai Chuan was silent for a moment before he hurriedly chased after Liu Qi and hugged him from behind, "Wait for a while."
Liu Qi was frightened, "Am I looking at a ghost? You actually said 'wait' to food."
Bai Chuan looked at him forlornly: …
"What do you want to do?" Liu Qi asked.
Bai Chuan rubbed his neck, "I'm bringing you up to the sky?"
"Not going. You go up yourself."
"I'm speaking for real," Bai Chuan whined. "I'll transform into a dragon, you can ride on top of me, and I'll fly you up… This one just made you angry, so I want to coax you." (legit that's what he said with absolutely no sense of shame)
Liu Qi tactfully expressed his refusal, "No need. With your ability to stay in that dragon form, I'll fall off within ten counts, and you still want to bring me up into the skies? Up into Heaven maybe."
(T/N: So heaven and sky has the same word, y'know those chinese words with multiple meanings? yeah…)
"I can stay in that form for a long time now!" Bai Chuan anxiously appealed.
"Are you sure? You cultivated for a few hundred years and you can only transform for around 10 counts. But now that only a few days have passed, yet you can already stay in that form for so long?" Liu Qi asked in suspicion.
"Right? I also think it's strange, maybe it's because you fed me well?" Bai Chuan nodded happily.
Liu Qi who suddenly realized that he had been raising a large pet all along: …
Bai Chuan pulled Liu Qi outside in excitement. "Come come come~ Wifey, I'll bring you up into the skies."
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