Chapter 110: Touch the Rabbit Ears

“…That’s how it is.”

Xiu sat at the end of the long table, calmly looking at the current guild president: “Ms. Will, I haven’t committed any violations. The three people behind me can testify. Therefore, I am also curious where these rumors came from.”

In front of the long table was a woman who looked middle-aged. She listened gently to Xiu, then shifted her gaze to Alice and the other two: “Is what he said true?”

Alice originally came to watch the fun, but unexpectedly became a witness. She stared at Xiu resentfully: “It’s true.”

Everyone present was a god; anyone lying could be seen through at a glance. There was no need to lie at this time.

Minnie and James also nodded.

Will pondered for a moment, and was about to speak when a noisy sound came from outside the door.

She looked up: “What’s going on?”

An attendant hurried outside and returned after a while with five letters, looking grave: “President, the gods in the guild just received an anonymous report letter at the same time.”

He distributed the letters. Everyone present opened the envelopes and was stunned.

[Xiu Alfred abused his power. While recycling planets, he acted out of lust towards an artificial angel created by humans, falsified the identity of the artificial angel, and used his own power to help the other party temper. Here is the evidence I collected…]

Below was a stack of photos, showing him and Wen Chu standing in front of the castle getting engaged.

Xiu looked at the photos in the letter, frowning slightly.

Although Alice and the others were troublesome, they weren’t bad-hearted. Moreover, they were present right now, so it was impossible for them to send the report letter.

So, besides these three, someone else must have been following him.

Will looked at the engagement photos of Xiu and Wen Chu back and forth with interest, looked up, and asked him with a light smile: “You finally reached the step of engagement?”

“Yes.” Xiu answered subconsciously, then reacted, “Finally?”

Will smiled slightly, didn’t speak, just quietly looked at Xiu.

Xiu suddenly felt the other party’s calm eyes looked familiar.

“…Narwhal?” Xiu asked questioningly.

Will blinked, neither admitting nor denying: “The god in charge of new life has been vacant for so long. You suddenly said a dying artificial angel was him, so I had to go see the situation.”

“Don’t worry, I just took a look and left. I didn’t interfere with that whale’s thoughts, nor did I follow you further. I’m very busy with work.”

Xiu: …

Xiu kept a cold face, looking away somewhat awkwardly.

Will continued: “I’m clear about your situation. I remember you created a system record before accompanying Wen Chu for tempering? Please edit the recorded data briefly and send it to me. The guild will come forward to testify.”

She waved the photos in her hand: “Of course, it may not be effective. Wen Chu still needs to pass the test in four days himself, and find the person behind the scenes quickly—have you offended anyone before?”

Xiu frowned: “Haven’t paid attention.”

The hierarchy of gods was even more obvious than many human societies.

Gods with strong initial abilities would be assigned to busy and well-paid positions upon entering the Divine Realm, and their promotion speed was naturally much faster than gods with weak initial abilities.

Xiu was outstanding among them.

What he managed was all Ends, including the Ends of gods.

In these millions of years, there were gods who caused trouble, and many reached the step of capital punishment.

Before serving as president, Xiu existed as an enforcer for a longer time.

Therefore, many gods avoided him, and countless gods held grudges against him.

Only Alice and these few people, because of some work interactions and occasional conversations, had passable relationships.

Will obviously realized this too, frowning: “This is difficult to handle… no clues at all?”

Xiu thought for a while, looked at the photos in his hand, and recalled the last world.

The last world was too shameful for him, so he had been trying to ignore it deliberately.

But recalling it now, Xiu also noticed something wrong: “Some people were very strange. Is there a newly promoted god named Louis recently?”

Wen Chu was born in the Demon Race and was bullied and dismembered, but in the last world, most of the malice was directed at him. This was inherently unreasonable.

He was just an outsider, going to every world just to change Wen Chu’s fate.

The world line shouldn’t revolve around him.

“No.” Will’s answer was unexpected.

Minnie and James were also helpless—after watching the second world, they lost interest in rushing to eat dog food themselves.

Alice fell into deep thought: “Now that you mention it, they do look a bit familiar…”

For a moment, everyone’s gaze in the room gathered on her.

Feeling the pressure, Alice knocked her head hard: “Let me think.”

She walked back and forth in the room, recalling for a full five or six minutes, then stopped abruptly.

“…Right! Do you remember a god who ascended with his wife before!”

Hearing this, Xiu also tried hard to recall: “You mean the god who, because his wife didn’t have enough divine power, robbed and killed a milk tea shop owner under his wife’s instigation? That happened a long time ago. But his name isn’t Louis, seems to be…”

“Pearl.”

Xiu and Alice spoke in unison.

“Correct!” Alice’s eyes lit up, “I was wondering why I collected such information in the end. Pearl, it’s him. He came from Dragon Star, the one who pulled out all his scales to pursue his wife, finally became a god too, but was personally executed by you for killing and robbing.”

“His wife also disappeared then. I remember her name was Daisy.”

Hearing the familiar name, Xiu raised his eyebrows slightly.

There couldn’t be such a coincidence.

“Should be her.” Xiu said calmly.

He looked at Will: “Might trouble you to pay more attention. I’ll deal with the backlog of work as soon as possible these days, and handle it personally after finding clues.”

Will nodded, couldn’t help falling into memory: “Daisy…”

“I remember her. You don’t follow gossip, so you might not know well. The strength gap between her and Pearl was too big; most of the time Pearl was busy outside alone.”

“It was fine at first, but later, as Pearl got busier, Daisy became more and more extreme, forcing Pearl to rob for her, wanting to be with Pearl in life and death. Pearl was also confused; after all, he was willing to pull out all scales for Daisy back then. Truly…”

Will didn’t say more.

But everyone present understood what she wanted to say.

—A resentful couple resulting in a broken family.

Deep thought flashed in Xiu’s eyes.

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“Broken family?”

Late at night, inside the castle, Wen Chu ate the late-night snack brought back by Xiu, showing a surprised expression listening to the other’s words.

He had just finished bathing, hair barely blown dry. The fluffy rabbit ears couldn’t dry for a long time after soaking up water.

His rabbit ears weren’t decorations; there were real sensitive nerves inside, easily inflamed after getting water in.

So Wen Chu simply found a hair tie to tie the ears up to dry.

Xiu came home carrying barbecue and saw the white-haired boy in pajamas, transformed from a lop-eared rabbit to a manually erect-eared rabbit.

His expression softened unconsciously: “En, Daisy probably held a grudge against me, so she implicated you. Don’t go out these few days. I’ll solve it; don’t take these things to heart.”

Wen Chu stayed alone all afternoon and had recovered. Gnawing on the barbecue, he nodded obediently: “Okay.”

He lowered his eyes, a bit disappointed: “But I tried this afternoon. Even knowing it’s my power, I still can’t revive any flowers or plants.”

“It doesn’t matter.” Xiu didn’t think this was a big problem, “I can apply for postponement for you again. You won’t be driven away.”

“But, I don’t want to be the next Daisy either.” Wen Chu raised his head, looking at Xiu seriously.

He put down the skewer in his hand, stood up, walked closer, and came to Xiu’s side.

Xiu sat on the chair, so Wen Chu could look down at this handsome face from a condescending angle.

His gaze lingered on Xiu’s face, sweeping inch by inch, finally placing his hand gently on Xiu’s neck.

Transparent tentacles, usually with almost no presence, also quietly arrived at the other’s waist.

“You’ve seen the complete me, you know.” Wen Chu said softly, “If I reach that step with you, I will drag you to die.”

“I’m not that well-behaved. When I became a malicious ghost, I thought countless times to…”

“Even becoming a malicious ghost, you couldn’t bear to let me get hurt.” Xiu said calmly.

Wen Chu was stunned.

Then he felt a tightening around his waist.

He was circled by Xiu and sat on the other’s lap.

Xiu was still a bit shy, so his voice was very low: “You won’t, you’ve always been very good… baby.”

Wen Chu felt Xiu hadn’t realized the seriousness of the matter, deliberately perked up his ears again, raising his tentacles: “I am a very scary, very scary monster.”

Xiu was feeling a bit heavy-hearted, but seeing Wen Chu like this, he really couldn’t hold back and laughed out loud.

Wen Chu: 0^0#

Xiu chuckled, lowering his head to press against his forehead, chest vibrating: “Isn’t this very cute?”

Too close.

Close enough to see every platinum eyelash of Xiu, and the gentle love almost overflowing from the bottom of the other’s eyes.

Wen Chu’s heart began to beat unworthily again.

He whispered: “You only know how to coax me.”

Xiu shook his head, reiterating: “No, you won’t. You are different from her, and I am different from Pearl.”

He had enough ability to protect Wen Chu.

And Wen Chu… was also taught very well by him.

Thinking of this, Xiu’s expression softened a few degrees: “There will never be anyone more well-behaved, more liked by me than you.”

It was the first time Wen Chu heard such words, cheeks starting to heat up.

He couldn’t remember everything in the past clearly. Since he had memories, everyone treated him with impatience.

He was dangerous but useless.

No one would say such gentle words to a defective product needing a lot of time and money to maintain life but having no use.

Or rather, even when he died time and time again, he had never seen such gentleness.

“I…” Wen Chu didn’t know how to respond.

Finally, he hugged Xiu’s waist, burying himself in Xiu’s arms.

“I like you the most too.”

Wen Chu’s voice was muffled.

…

A good late-night snack turned into mutual confession, lasting until Wen Chu’s ears dried completely before finishing.

Xiu looked at Wen Chu who untied the rabbit ears to let them droop again, couldn’t help reaching out to pinch.

As expected, soft, fluffy, carrying Wen Chu’s warm body temperature.

Wen Chu raised his ears to look at him: “You’re taking advantage of me.”

Xiu said “En,” then moved his hand to Wen Chu’s ear feathers, touched again, looking like taking advantage to the end.

This was completely forgetting how awkwardly he ran away at noon.

Wen Chu puffed his cheeks, finally regretting why he didn’t pursue victory at noon.

The castle was still the original appearance. He and Xiu returned to the bedroom.

Seeing the large bed in the bedroom, Xiu finally had some retreat intention.

This retreat intention reached its peak when he saw clearly what the white gauze in the middle of the bed was.

It was a veil.

The veil that the system at the time, out of his aesthetic, very maliciously draped on Wen Chu’s head.

Wen Chu walked to the bed, picked up the veil, and said very resentfully: “I remember this is my veil? You scolded me a lot in the end, why still keep it?”

Xiu pursed his lips, walking forward almost with same hand and foot: “How did you find it?”

Wen Chu smiled: “You didn’t come home in the afternoon. I was alone in the empty room, so I had to rummage through the basement.”

Didn’t know without rummaging, startled once rummaging.

Xiu not only brought what he wanted, even the clothes he wore, the veil he wore, the cup he drank from, the towel he used were neatly stored.

Wen Chu once felt he was a pervert, now it seemed someone else was more perverted.

Wen Chu happily took the veil closer, knowingly asking while leaning into Xiu’s arms: “What for keeping this?”

Xiu’s earlobes were red, finally realizing Wen Chu was settling scores resentfully.

Just bringing up old scores, he had some to bring up too.

Xiu opened his thin lips lightly: “In memory of my late husband who only lived for over a month.”

Wen Chu: …

Wen Chu tried to leave Xiu’s embrace guiltily: “Am I not alive again? You were so fierce at that time, I thought you hated me especially…”

He couldn’t leave; instead, he was pulled onto the bed by Xiu.

Xiu raised his eyebrows looking at him, snatching the veil: “So you chose to die? Little Wen Chu, with just this guts, still thinking of dragging me to die?”

Wen Chu whimpered: “Look, you scold me again. If you scold me again, I’ll, I’ll…”

Xiu: “Die for me to see?”

Wen Chu: “That won’t do.”

He thought about it, then said: “If you scold me again, I’ll kiss you.”

The boy’s voice was soft, but it made the golden-haired man, who was aggressively settling accounts, suddenly stiffen.

Kiss…

Xiu’s gaze unconsciously looked at Wen Chu’s lips.

Wen Chu looked sickly slender, but happened to have soft pink-white flesh on his cheeks, and his lips were also soft.

He remembered the feeling of kissing Wen Chu.

The boy’s kissing skills all came from him.

Actually, he didn’t know much either. The two completely honed experience in actual combat. Wen Chu could always kiss him dizzy.

Seeing Xiu silent, Wen Chu curved his eyes and smiled.

He pulled the white gauze from Xiu’s hand, covering the other’s head.

The hazy white gauze was lifted, and he got up to kiss the golden-haired god.

Lips and tongues entangled. Amidst warm breaths, cold tentacles wrapped up.

Those transparent blue eyes were also dyed with watery light.

Wen Chu rubbed against Xiu intimately, proving himself: “I have very big guts.”

He dared to eat Xiu when he was a little jellyfish.

Now even more daring.

Xiu pretended to push him, but when reaching out, it strangely turned into holding Wen Chu’s beautiful face.

Incidentally rubbing the fluffy ears.

Stroking all the way down from the root of the ears, like smoothing a cat’s fur.

Wen Chu shivered all over from the touch, eyes looking at Xiu deepening slightly.

“Xiu.” He called softly, “Can we?”

Xiu turned his head away: “…Up to you.”

Really didn’t know where Wen Chu got the guts to approach him.

The golden-haired god, whom even gods were terrified of, was very puzzled, but could ask no more.

If he could ask, he would probably get Wen Chu’s serious response:

You raised it.

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Next morning.

Worried about Xiu being too busy with work, Wen Chu didn’t mess around too late with him last night. Even the tentacles only tasted lightly and quickly withdrew.

At this time, he ate breakfast groggily, preparing to go back to sleep. Xiu was organizing his attire, instructing uneasily before going out:

“If I don’t have time to come back at noon, Alice will bring you food. James will also bring you some new notes on using power later.”

“It’s safe here; no one can enter. So except for them, don’t open the door to strangers casually, understand?”

Wen Chu nodded: “Understood.”

“En.” Xiu said, walking closer to touch his head, “Practice well, but don’t feel pressured. I’m here.”

Wen Chu perked up his rabbit ears: “Not touching?”

Memories of last night swept over, and Xiu withdrew his hand like an electric shock: “…No.”

Wen Chu flapped his small wings, pulling back Xiu’s hand, pressing his cheek against Xiu’s palm, looking at him expectantly: “Then touch this.”

Xiu’s fingertips even started to tremble.

Before Wen Chu’s cold, wet, and sticky tentacles wrapped around his wrist, Xiu withdrew his hand and fled in panic: “Anyway, I’m going out first.”

Wen Chu watched Xiu leave resentfully. After a while, when Xiu’s figure completely disappeared, he couldn’t help laughing out loud.

He quickly finished breakfast. After taking the notes brought by James, he didn’t plan to go back to sleep. He simply went out and sat on the grass by the castle, thinking over the notes.

[The first step to mobilize power is to perceive the existence of power first. First, find a quiet place, sit in as comfortable a posture as possible, close your eyes, breathe deeply slowly, focus attention on yourself…]

Xiu couldn’t bring living things away; the field was quiet enough.

Wen Chu breathed deeply according to the text in the notes, feeling inward.

Except for the taste of breakfast just eaten and the feeling of fullness, he felt nothing.

Wen Chu: …

Wen Chu flipped to the back unwillingly.

There were also listening to water language, natural meditation, resonating with fire… He experimented one by one. Except for getting covered in grass and water, there was no gain.

The sun was high. Wen Chu looked suspiciously at the notes in front of him.

Sharp-eyed, he saw there seemed to be a separate page on the cover of the notes. He tore it open to look.

There was actually another layer under the cover, prominently written “Introduction to Yoga”.

There was also a line of small print below:

“Xiu insisted on James writing experience notes. I saw he really had no moves, so I found this book for him. You calm your mind first; maybe it’s useful.

—Alice”

Wen Chu was silent.

Turns out it was Alice’s lousy idea. Then everything was normal.

He was wondering why James said yesterday he didn’t know where the power came from, yet brought notes today.

Seems forced by Xiu. Being forced to this step was tough for James.

Wen Chu sighed, threw away the book, propped his chin distressedly, looking at the flowers and grass on the ground.

Because of his series of actions just now, a patch of grass was crushed by him.

Wen Chu covered the broken grass with his hand, saying helplessly: “Sorry, I can’t help it either. I tried hard—Eh?”

Wen Chu looked at the grass under his hand in shock.

On the grass, with his hand as the center, the place originally pressed into a human shape actually began to recover at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Just like every time he transferred life value.

Grass and trees grew rapidly. Flower seeds originally buried in the soil also took root and sprouted one after another, then bloomed.

Seeing the flowers and grass were about to wither and seed, Wen Chu hurriedly withdrew his hand, looking at his hand in shock.

What happened? Yoga is really useful?

He pulled a patch of grass casually to experiment.

Yesterday he couldn’t use power no matter what, but now it was as if his Ren and Du meridians were suddenly opened. The black soil from which grass was pulled also successfully grew new grass.

Wen Chu flapped his wings happily, stood up, and was about to run to the door.

He learned it!! He wanted to tell Xiu this good news! He could take the test immediately! Xiu wouldn’t need to be busy outside for him!

However, walking to the door, Wen Chu suddenly remembered a more important thing.

—He couldn’t find Xiu.

The Divine Realm had communication tools similar to mobile phones, but because one would be defaulted into group chats, they were only distributed after officially starting work. Even Xiu couldn’t give it to him at this time.

That was why Alice and others were troubled to run back and forth to deliver things and messages.

And the Divine Realm was so big, roads so complicated. According to Xiu, countless gods had opinions about him.

Wen Chu was tantamount to having his phone confiscated and thrown into a barren mountain forest full of fierce beasts.

Just as Wen Chu was thinking whether it was feasible to cover his face and ask for directions all the way to the guild to find Xiu, a knock came from the door.

“Who?” Wen Chu asked subconsciously before looking at the image by the door.

At the door was a brown-haired girl carrying a food box, with iconic woolly curls on her head.

The girl said softly: “It’s me, Alice. I came to bring you food.”

Wen Chu’s hand opening the door paused, the joyful and excited expression on his face gradually fading.

“You are Alice?” Wen Chu asked again, “Did you bring the notes Xiu asked you to bring me?”

Alice at the door showed a surprised expression, then patted her head with a look of annoyance: “Oh my, look at my memory, I forgot. Open the door first. I’ll give you the food, don’t starve. While you eat, I’ll go back to get it.”

Wen Chu’s expression turned completely cold.

He wasn’t too familiar with Alice, but he knew the character of this seemingly quiet girl very well.

From the brief conversation yesterday, he could also roughly infer that the personalities of Alice and others were similar to those in the small worlds.

The word “soft-spoken” appearing on Alice was terrifying enough. What’s more, it was impossible for Alice not to know Xiu already had James bring him the notes.

This wasn’t Alice.