Chapter 7
The room was so small, it didn’t took long for Ling Xia to finish cleaning up and organizing. There was only a small table at the center with barely few stuff neatly arranged inside the room.
Yu Zhi Jue’s eyes sweeped across the room. He can’t help but knit his brows: “Is this where you live?”
Ling Xia was under the impression that he was disgruntled with the small space. Therefore, he helped him arrange his stuff while explaining to him with a smile: “Yeah. There are a lot of people bunking in together, so if Ah Jue is bothered about it……Don’t worry, perhaps there’ll be some rooms that may be emptied soon.”
Yu Zhi Jue was spellbound in watching Ling Xia busied himself in taking care of him. When his gaze landed on that one spot in the room—- a single small bed, his complexion got a bit better.
In his heart, he naturally wanted to give Ling Xia all the best things in this world. But he knew that he shouldn’t rush things.
Yu Zhi Jue didn’t have much stuff, so Ling Xia was quickly finished with organizing his things. He then took Yu Zhi Jue with him to have dinner.
They rear a high level magic beasts so their rations are a slightly better, just a bit bigger portions of meat in their plates and two vegetable side dishes. After all, this world is not really particular with culinary arts.
The two of them took their food sets, and then sat on the dining table. As soon as they did, a lot of people inquisitively looked over their direction.
Some of them sat nearby and praised Yu Zhi Jue’s good looks. As they asks his identity, Ling Xia would give a simple reply. Yu Zhi Jue was not interested in them at all, and merely lowered his head while slowly eating his food beside Ling Xia.
As Ling Xia saw the way he speaks and acts, his heart felt inevitably baffled.
This boy seemed like he is not from a poor family, so why is he doing a life endangering manual labor?
However, he will not bother him with too much questions out of curiosity, since he had a feeling that Ling Jue is a reserved and shy boy.
Those people in the dining room were like rowdy university students, it was a chaotic mess. There are a lot of spits and ruckuses and such. Ling Xia watches Yu Zhi Jue eat very slowly. He found it rather amusing and said: “Is Ah Jue not used to the food here?”
Yu Zhi Jue looked back at him and replied:”No, only the loud noises.”
“They are forthright people, you’ll get used to them soon.” Ling Xia smiled and strokes his head, “After dinner, I’ll take you along for a bath.”
Ling Xia suddenly pulled his hand back after realizing it was inappropriate, since the boy seemed like he had the unapproachable impression. However, upon closer look, he saw Yu Zhi Jue’s face appeared to be somewhat blushing and didn’t have an irritated expression. Ling Xia’s heart relaxes, and his favorable impression on this boy slightly increased.
The Bai Shou Yuan’s small public bath are two to three hundred meters in distance from their residence. The two of them carried a set of clean clothes and washing articles and they went there. From afar, they could see people going in and out of that place, and there were plenty of naked men in there.
Yu Zhi Jue halted from his tracks. There was a trace of coldness in his voice while asking: “Did you bathe with them—-Do you usually bathe like this?”
Ling Xia thought the boy didn’t like washing in public baths, so he nodded and comfortingly replied: “Yeah. It’s crowded and there’s not much choice, so Ah Jue should bear with it.”
“….Big Brother, let’s just wash in the river side.” Yu Zhi Jue pulls on Ling Xia’s clothes and raises his head to look at him, “I don’t like it here.”
Honestly, he is unwilling to call Ling Xia something like “Big brother Xiao Dao”. Is there really a person who is called Xiao Dao? Why would Ling Xia use it as his name? Just thinking about it, made Yu Zhi Jue felt an unbearable bitterness in his chest.
Even though the moonlight was magnificent, the woods are filled with rocky hills and thorny undergrowth. And the scattered light on the mountain floor makes it difficult to see clearly. Ling Xia is worried that Yu Zhi Jue may have some difficulties trecking so he held his hand and slowly walks forward, while reminding him on his footing from time to time.
The boy was holding tightly on his hand and was not saying a word. Ling Xia felt a sudden strange feeling arising, yet his heart is calm. It was clear that the two of them were walking in a slow pace, but it didn’t took them too long to arrive at the river bank.
Ling Xia had been going here a lot of times already, so he knew that there aren’t dangerous magic beast in this area. He let go of Yu Zhi Jue’s hand and said with a smile: “Right now, the river is a bit cold. Ah Jue should come up as soon as you’ve washed.”
Yu Zhi Jue nodded. He took his outer robe off and untied his long hair.
Once Ling Xia was down to his underwear, he turned around and caught sight of a pubescent, firm, and fit body of that boy. It was fair as a jade, with no traces of blemishes. It was like a god’s perfect creation.
Ling Xia was struck speechless. When that boy let his hair down, he was honestly…….more lovely than a girl. When he realize what he was thinking, he found himself ridiculous. He smiles and said: “The water here is very clear, and it’s only waist deep. There’s no need for Ah Jue to be worried, I’ll be with you.”
Seeing Ling Xia’s bare legs as he soaks in, Yu Zhi Jue’s gaze shifted to his back down to that pair of perfectly round hills. He looked back at Ling Xia’s slender legs, his breath unconsciously hitching.
He knows the feeling of that place, it’s temperature, and that part in between with its scalding warmth and the addicting pleasure it gives……As he thought about it, Yu Zhi Jue’s lower part twitches. He inhaled sharply and breaths out, then slowly went over to Ling Xia’s side and stood opposite of him.
The river still contained some of the warmth during the day, so it was actually quite a comfortable bath.
Ling Xia scoops water and pour it into his upper body. He had gotten slightly tanned after some time, but his body is still as white as a featherless chicken upon closer look. He can’t help himself from lightly groping his chest, and thought that, he seemed to have developed a bit of pectoral muscles.
As he raises his head, he caught a set of good looking eyes staring at him in daze, making him suddenly feel uneasy.
Yu Zhi Jue nonchalantly turned the other way and said: “Big brother, how about washing each other’s back?”
The scene just now was so perfect, he was itching to reach his hands out. It was really hard to hold himself back.
Ling Xia nodded with a smile, then he went closer to him. He carefully placed Yu Zhi Jue’s already half soaked hair from his back to the front.
Seeing it much closer, he felt somehow mesmerized. The shape and texture of the boy’s back was so perfect and smooth, it’s kinda indistinguishable from those of a beautiful lady. Ling Xia secretly held his breath as he pours water and gently scrubs the boy’s back.
Beneath his palm is a silky smooth and beautiful skin that was great to touch, it left Ling Xia in awe.
Why is this boy’s skin so great?
But because he haven’t touch any girls, he really don’t have anyone to compare.
Once his hand reaches Yu Zhi Jue’s lower back, he noticed that the skin under his palm seemed like it trembled for a moment, so he smiled and said: “Are you ticklish, Ah Jue?”
When the other person hummed ‘yes’, he couldn’t resist laughing. He then gathered his wits, and then turned around so that Yu Zhi Jue can wash his back.
The force applied on his back was not too light nor too heavy, it’s just right. Ling Xia notice just now that even though Ling Jue’s hands looked exceptionally slender and pretty, and his slim fingers were attractive, there was actually a slight amount of callouses on his fingertips. At first, he was closing his eyes from feeling comfortable. But when those hands reaches down on his lower waist, it created a numbing feeling that was difficult to describe. He turned around in rush with his face blushing and said: “En, that’s should be good enough, Ah Jue.”
He had never been touched by someone else in the back before, so he didn’t know that he was actually rather sensitive there.
Yu Zhi Jue was reluctant in taking his hands off Ling Xia’s waist. Even so, he withdraws with a grin on his lips: “……You’re ticklish as well, big brother?”
This is the first time Ling Xia saw this boy’s gentle smile, his heart unexplicably pounding. He had always been partial with looks, and this boy’s appearance is really extraordinary. When he smile, it makes someone unable to take their eyes off him. He can’t help but blurt out: “Ah Jue, is there a girl that you think is pretty?”
Yu Zhi Jue couldn’t care less about his own looks. And he hated how other people stares at him with infatuated look. But when it was Ling Xia looking at him, it makes his face slighly heats up. In the past, when Ling Xia was frequently watching him with admiration, it made him glad that this appearance that he loathed could attract Ling Xia’s gaze.
His pair of pheonix eyes tilted towards the other person, his head hanging to the side with a confused look on his face: “Eh? There’s no one in mind…..I think big brother is much more good-looking—-I have never seen a person more attractive and kind than big brother.”
Ling Xia’s heart pounded loudly, his ears is also slightly burning hot.
He lightly coughed. The boy’s expression was honest and innocent, so he’s certainly speaking sincerely, giving Ling Xia a sudden shock.
This child had some aesthetics. I suppose he’s being polite to me, even saying that I’m good looking.
He can say with determination, that this child is easy to describe as naturally sensitive and well-disposed.
With such thoughts, Ling Xia feigned his cool and said to Yu Zhi Jue: “Let’s wash faster Ah Jue, it’s getting late. Its a much harder task feeding the Bald Eagles, so we should go back early and take a rest.”
After washing, they went up to the shore and wiped their body and hair dry. Once they changed clothes, they went back with slow steps.
The time was already late, so Ling Xia just soaked their dirty laundry into a wooden tub, setting it aside to wash the next day. There are women staff in charge of the laundry of the beast keepers in the establishment. But Ling Xia is not used to having other people wash his own personal clothes, so he always do it himself.
He urges Yu Zhi Jue to go to bed first, then he took his outer robe off, and turned off the fire of the lamp and went to bed as well. The bed was really too small, and with the two of them lying in it, it suddenly became crowded. Just by slightly raising an arm, it would bump into the other.
Yu Zhi Jue turned towards him and said with a remorseful voice while looking up to him: “I’m sorry, big brother. Is it crowded for you?”
When he spoke, his breath softly brushes against Ling Xia’s face, carrying along a fresh and clean smell. Ling Xia didn’t mind it and smiled back: “It’s all right. At night I always go straight to sleep and I don’t have much to do during the day anyway, so its a pleasure having a chat with Ah Jue.”
“My sleeping habit is bad…….” Yu Zhi Jue droops his eyes and said, “Do big brother dislike it?”
Ling Xia turned to his side. Their distance was so near, he could clearly see the drooping eyelashes of the youngster. It was thick and curled, and was slightly trembling as if he was restless.
He can’t help but endearingly pat the boy’s shoulder and squint his eyes in a smiling expression as he replied: “It’s okay. When I first came here, I was sleeping in a hall with thirty people squeezed in together. At night there were snoring and sleeptalking, I just got used to it.”
As he recount, he suddenly felt the muscles under his palm went stiff, but he didn’t paid too much attention into it. And Yu Zhi Jue changes the topic to other matters like raising the Bald Eagles and such until he fell asleep.
Yu Zhi Jue looked up, intently watching Ling Xia who was peacefully sleeping. He really wanted to lean forward and ruthlessly kiss him, lock him up so no one could lay their eyes on him.
He clenched his fist and calmed his mind with great difficulty. He licks his lips with great tolerance as he stares at Ling Xia’s enticingly revealing collar area.
He really wanted to take those clothes off, firmly press him down beneath him, and take him……..but right now, he must suppress those desires.
He moved closer and greedily inhaled Ling Xia’s scent, disregarding his other senses. After that, he takes out his already unbearable erection.
He never masturbated ever since he lost Ling Xia. But now that he is lying by his side while watching his face, he thought of doing it though it was is unsatisfactory. Yu Zhi Jue imagined the feeling of intimacy between them in the past. He gritted his teeth as he moved his hand faster.
That midnight, something heavy was pressing on Ling Xia he couldn’t breath properly. He opened his eyes with a vacant expression and discovered that Ling Jue’s upper body besides him was closely leaning on his chest, with the boy’s legs wrapping on his thighs. The youngster’s warm breath blowing on the crook of his neck was slightly tickling him.
Ling Xia stared blanky but immediately rouses up. He didn’t know when their clothes and belts got loosed and was shrugged off, but their bare chest was practically glued together. The person opposite to him was hugging his waist tightly with both hands like he was a body pillow.
This sleeping posture is really nothing but uncomfortable. Ling Xia wanted to softly push him away, but he was afraid that he’ll wake the boy up. Without any other options, he just smiled and closes his eyes to go back to sleep.
At that moment, Ling Xia realized that what he meant by bad sleeping posture was in that no good way!
The boy soon changes his sleeping position, but his tight hold on Ling Xia still remained. Ling Xia silently looks down at the youngster’s uncovered fair skin, and it made him extremely troubled.
He thought that he is on his way on becoming a pedophile. Why is he suddenly aching to touch it?
Later on when he fell asleep in bewilderment, he dreamed about an encounter with an octopus monster giving him a bear hug. He shove it off with great difficulty and he backs off, but it still catches him and pulls him back from behind.
That morning when Ling Xia woke up, he found himself squeezed into the wall, with the boy tightly hugging him from behind. The boy’s hands were coiled on his waist, while he was pulled back on the boy’s embrace.
He turned around with much difficulty and almost bumped into Ling Jue’s face. He was startled that he slightly pulls back in panic.
Despite his movements, Ling Jue remained sound asleep. His breathing was evenly, and his lips were slightly parted that it showed a bit of his snowy teeth and the tip of his pink tongue. Ling Xia shakes him with stiff hands: “Wake up, Ah Jue. Time to get up.”
Ling Xia watches those pair of beautiful eyes opened in daze. His limpid black eyes was clearly reflecting Ling Xia’s uncomposed expression.
“Ah, morning big brother.” The boy’s eyes was drowsy, and his soft and quiet voice with a hint of nasal sound was mumbling to him.
Ling Xia thought that he’s gonna have a nosebleed.
Fuck! Whose family’s little brother that is moe as him?
Bonbon wanted to say:
This chapter isn’t spicy as usual, I guess the author is letting us recover from nosebleeds X-D
This volume is really dishing out the ML’s moe side or is it part of his ‘make Ling Xia fall in love’ tactics? That’s what we will have to find out in the next updates!
I’ll be working right away on the next one so it’ll be out by sunday or early monday~
I know you guys our constantly hungry to read more progress of our star-crossed lovers Ling Xia and Ling Jue(haha YZJ shipped the two of them himself), so I’d like to thank you guys again for being patient and not posting a recipe of bunny stew or barbecue x’D
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