Chapter 79: Deep Kiss

Yuan Le quickly tossed this question to the back of his mind.

After all, the ball Xiu was holding just now looked like a magic tool no matter how you looked at it. Thinking about it, he knew Xiu must be joking.

So Yuan Le stopped dwelling on it. He took one last glance at the red-clothed fierce ghost sitting on the helicopter’s tail and started talking non-stop with Xiu: “Let me tell you, in the few days you were away, the Wen (different character, meaning news/smell) family was sealed up.”

Sealed up?

Outside the helicopter, Wen Chu leaned in curiously to listen.

As he leaned in, the fragrance from Xiu’s body wafted through the helicopter cabin wall to his nose tip. Faintly, Wen Chu zoned out for a moment again.

Yuan Le continued: “After Wen Yaozu woke up, he went crazy. In the police station, he kept shouting Anya’s name, saying he didn’t kill the person, it was all done by his parents. Coincidentally, the entire Wen family was paralyzed. Li Yi and Zhang Ming disliked Wen Yaozu, so the police followed the vine to find the melon, uncovering Anya’s family past and their relationship with the Wen family. Now the entire Wen family has been sealed up.”

Xiu gave a faint “Mn”, not surprised.

The Celestial Master Association could only be considered a relatively special action group. As long as they were still in the country and still citizens, they were still subject to the judgment of the law.

Even prestigious families were no exception.

Yuan Le hesitated: “There’s one more thing I heard from Zhang Ming and others…”

Xiu raised his eyes: “What is it?”

Yuan Le: “It’s about the Wen family… they said, the Wen family used to be surnamed Wen (Wen Chu’s surname), related to the original array eye. It seems they said…”

“They deliberately skinned and deboned the neglected youngest son of the family to make him a fierce ghost, and changed their surname because they were afraid of retaliation?”

Xiu looked sideways at Yuan Le, completing the second half of the sentence with a faint smile.

Yuan Le was startled: “Right, how did you know?”

Xiu looked at the gradually shrinking ruins of the Wen family outside the window and whispered: “Had a ten-year dream.”

His voice was too low, and Yuan Le didn’t hear it clearly at all, continuing: “I think this time they want you to capture the array eye, maybe it’s also a trap. During the meeting back then, no one mentioned to us that the process of making the array eye was like this. Also, the families involved back then were almost all wiped out; afraid it was retribution.”

Wen Chu felt guilty listening outside the helicopter.

He remembered his past life in the Wen family, but had no impression of what happened after becoming a fierce ghost, so he didn’t remember if he had retaliated against anyone.

If he had retaliated, then he was even more done for.

Just then, the person inside the helicopter spoke: “It’s fine, I know the situation.”

Yuan Le was stunned: “You’ve been staying in the manor eating, drinking, and having fun these days, even running out for a picnic. What can you know?”

Xiu closed his eyes, leaning back on the seat to fake sleep: “I know everything. I probably have a solution. Thanks for making this trip. I’ll settle the payment for you when we get back. Won’t keep you for dinner.”

Yuan Le: …

For the sake of money, Yuan Le swallowed his anger: “Okay.”

He didn’t want to stay and be a third wheel for Xiu and that fierce ghost anyway.

The helicopter soon landed on the manor’s apron. Xiu stuffed a card to Yuan Le, then put him into a sightseeing car to send him away.

Wen Chu buried himself in the ground the whole time, occasionally letting one or two white hairs sway out, quietly following Xiu.

Xiu didn’t mention him or look for him the entire time. After seeing Yuan Le off, he turned and left.

Wen Chu followed with a whimper: 【Xiu doesn’t want me anymore. He just said he loved me.】

System: 【Correction, you ran away first.】

Wen Chu choked.

System continued: 【If you go out now, there won’t be so much trouble.】

Wen Chu wanted to go out, but he dared not. He only continued to follow Xiu silently.

Xiu seemed completely unaware of him. After returning to the bedroom to put away his heart, he took the little white ball to the reading room, moved several books, unknown what he was studying, and just read like that until evening.

Wen Chu waited and waited until he got sleepy, falling asleep directly amidst the fragrance on Xiu’s body.

Xiu looked up, glancing at the stupid ghost who accidentally floated to the ground in his sleep.

He didn’t intend to wake Wen Chu up. He now had an extremely bold guess to verify.

However, when he saw the phone hanging around Wen Chu’s neck, Xiu’s gaze paused.

He still remembered that after Wen Chu got the phone, there were always some fragmentary transfer expenditures.

59, 99, 198, all transferred to different people.

He wanted to ask at the time, but was soon distracted by messy things and didn’t have time to pursue it.

Now, Xiu’s fingers moved.

Peeking at someone else’s phone is immoral.

But he really wanted to know why Wen Chu always acted so afraid of him, even resorting to running away.

Clearly, it was Wen Chu who clung to him actively at the beginning.

But peeking at someone else’s phone is…

Wen Chu was his ghost. How could looking at his own little ghost’s phone count as peeking?

Xiu found a reason for himself, stood up, and quietly took Wen Chu’s phone away.

Wen Chu was still in dreamland.

There was no scent of yang energy in the illusion, and Wen Chu’s life points dropped below ten days again.

Beside him was Xiu, and the fragrance of yang energy lingered at his nose tip.

Amidst this long-lost fragrance, Wen Chu unsurprisingly dreamed.

In the dream, he was still in the old Wen residence. In front of him was the just-finished assignment. Xiu asked him softly what he wanted to eat.

Wen Chu was a bit troubled: “Anything is fine.”

Xiu clapped his hands.

So, the next moment, a group of maids filed in, carrying steamed lamb, steamed bear paw, steamed flower duck…

Wait, why is there really the smell of meat?

Wen Chu sniffed and woke up from the dream with a start.

Opening his eyes, he discovered he had left the reading room at some point and arrived at the banquet hall.

What met his eyes was the familiar chocolate waterfall. Beside the long table, a long chef’s table was added, and the head chef was preparing dishes.

And Xiu was sitting at the table.

While wondering confusedly how he followed Xiu to the restaurant, Wen Chu quietly hid behind the chocolate waterfall, gazing at it eagerly.

Without paper talismans, he couldn’t touch this food at all.

He only had two knees with substance.

Oh, as the life points dropped below ten days, he also lost his left knee painfully.

While Wen Chu was sighing about his lack of fate with the chocolate waterfall, the chef’s voice came from the front.

“Hello Sir, I am Jay, the head chef presenting the venison Omakase tonight. Tonight’s protagonist, our little deer, grew up in the pasture by the forest edge, fed by me personally.”

“The little deer ate seasonal pasture grass and coarse grains, drank mountain spring water. The meat naturally carries a sweet freshness, and the texture is naturally flexible. This is a gift from time and environment, and also a gift from nature.”

Wen Chu: ?

Didn’t understand, what messy descriptions.

But it sounded very delicious.

He poked his head out quietly, watching the chef serve a small white porcelain bowl to Xiu.

“This is tonight’s appetizer, farm seasonal vegetables with deer ear tips. Using farm-pickled gherkins and perilla leaves as base, paired with thinly sliced deer ear tips, drizzled with a little mountain pepper juice. Refreshing and sour, appetizing and palate-cleansing.”

Wen Chu stretched his head hard, almost poking his whole body out of the chocolate waterfall.

But he couldn’t eat it. He could only watch helplessly as Xiu picked up the fork and ate the appetizer in the small bowl in a few bites.

The system couldn’t help laughing: 【If you want to eat, just go eat.】

【It’s just cold dish.】 Wen Chu whispered.

He wasn’t craving it; he didn’t want to eat at all.

The next dish was still a cold dish, deer tenderloin sashimi. Wen Chu closed his eyes not to look.

Then came the rich aroma of bone soup.

“Deer bone broth is ready, this is…”

Wen Chu swallowed his saliva, sourly: 【All soups and water, how can it be filling.】

As a result, the next moment, the sizzling sound of roasting meat came from the chef’s station.

Charcoal-grilled deer ribs.

Red wine slow-braised deer shoulder.

Venison rice bowl.

Plop—

It was Wen Chu’s saliva dripping down.

Xiu was already very fragrant, and the aroma of venison was even stronger. The chef also persevered in giving a long introduction for each dish.

The more Wen Chu listened, the hungrier he got; the more he listened, the more he craved. Finally, he said indignantly: 【Xiu never fed me this before.】

As soon as he left, Xiu ate good food behind his back.

Coincidentally, the chef finished cooking at this time. Wiping the counter, looking at the blond man eating alone in the empty banquet hall, obviously not in high spirits, he couldn’t help asking: “Why did Sir suddenly designate me to do Omakase tonight?”

Xiu ate slowly, saying indifferently: “Husband died. The deceased husband left me a child. Eating to celebrate.”

Chef: …

The deceased husband himself, Wen Chu: …

The chef laughed dryly: “Haha… Sir really knows how to joke.”

Wen Chu stared resentfully at Xiu, wishing to stare a hole in him. But obviously, Xiu didn’t notice him at all, finishing the meal quickly under his gaze.

“Thanks for your hard work, the dinner was delicious.” Xiu thanked politely and left the restaurant, not glancing at the chocolate waterfall once throughout.

He didn’t like sweets.

Wen Chu felt Xiu was simply wasting natural resources.

He reluctantly left the poor chocolate waterfall that was completely ignored, flew back unwillingly to take a look, and after confirming Xiu ate everything cleanly without leftovers, lost all strength and means.

Wen Chu floated listlessly behind Xiu, weak: 【If I knew earlier, I wouldn’t have run…】

A slash whether extending or retracting the head. If he didn’t run, maybe he could have eaten venison before dying.

His venison T^T

The system’s voice was cold: 【Then why did you run at that time.】

Wen Chu shrank his neck cowardly: 【Subconscious reaction.】

He already regretted until his intestines turned green.

Wen Chu started thinking: 【The Rebirth Reincarnation Grand Array should still need me? Xiu shouldn’t chop me now. I’ll apologize to him tonight. He, he won’t be angry for too long, right…】

System: 【Don’t know, after all, you are the deceased husband.】

System: 【Couldn’t upgrade in the illusion before; the favorability panel was delayed too long. I’ll concentrate on upgrading for the next few days. Talk to Xiu properly, don’t throw tantrums, he won’t hit you.】

Wen Chu: 【qwq】

While speaking, Wen Chu had already floated back to the bedroom following Xiu.

Their little white ball was put somewhere unknown; Wen Chu didn’t sense its fluctuation in the bedroom.

Xiu found pajamas, seemingly still unaware of Wen Chu, and went straight to the bathroom to shower.

Wen Chu hesitated for a while. Finally, thinking there was no place to hide in the empty bathroom, he didn’t follow.

After Xiu locked the bathroom door, Wen Chu drilled out from the ground, sat on the bed waiting for Xiu obediently, and started practicing apology words.

“I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have run away by myself. I was too afraid you would chop me. The child matter is also, is also…”

Wen Chu got stuck.

The child matter, half was his fear, and half was his bad taste at work.

Saying this out loud, he would really become a deceased husband, right?

Wen Chu thought for a while, finally looked down at the phone still hanging on his chest, picked it up, and started searching how to apologize.

A full hour later.

Wen Chu looked at the time on the phone, and the bathroom where the light was still on, no water sound for a long time, but no one came out. Finally, he realized belatedly something was wrong.

Does showering take this long?

Did something happen to Xiu?

Thinking of this possibility, Wen Chu couldn’t sit still anymore. He immediately put down the phone and went straight to the bathroom.

He was cautious, didn’t go through the main door, but passed through the wall to upstairs, poking his head out from the bathroom ceiling to check the situation inside.

The moment he poked his head out, Wen Chu was stunned.

In front of the bathroom mirror, the golden-haired man was completely naked, back facing the mirror, holding a pen, frowning, looking at his empty lower back with a cold expression.

Just at this moment when he poked his head out, the other party moved.

He put down the pen, wrote a “Wen” character on his lower back in such an awkward posture. Finally, because he really couldn’t reach to write the next character, he could only give up.

“Left, so the handwriting also disappeared…” Xiu’s cold voice carried some imperceptible loneliness.

Wen Chu watched with burning cheeks.

Steam rose in the bathroom. Wen Chu completely failed to notice that there wasn’t a trace of water on Xiu’s body, obviously not in a state of just finishing a bath.

Even more, no one should bring pen and ink into the bathroom.

But Wen Chu was too shocked by the sight to think deeply. He watched Xiu put down the pen and ink, lowering his eyes quietly to wipe off the character just written on his lower back.

He suddenly felt Xiu’s “deceased husband” phrase had a different meaning at this moment.

Xiu really looked like a widower who lost his husband painfully.

Not showing on the face, only able to look at the empty lower back after showering, missing him alone.

Just as Xiu put on the bathrobe, Wen Chu finally couldn’t help speaking out.

“Um…”

The teenager’s voice echoed in the bathroom.

“I’m not dead yet. I’ve been following you all along.”

Hearing the voice, Xiu paused for a moment, quickly turning red from neck to ear tips, looking like a pool of spring water in the misty bathroom.

He looked up, subconsciously shielding his bathrobe when seeing Wen Chu, pursing his lips: “How much did you see?”

Not the sword-wielding Xiu, but the ashamed and shy Xiu.

Although he liked the former too, he would still be a bit afraid. The latter was different.

He liked it, and while liking it, he wanted to…

Bully back.

Wen Chu fell from the ceiling, floating in front of Xiu, almost pressing his pretty little face onto Xiu’s.

“Saw everything.” Wen Chu’s face also couldn’t help blushing.

He reached out to hug Xiu’s waist, going down along the other’s back, arriving at the tailbone.

“Just you writing, and those words… let me help you, Xiu?”

The fragrance on Xiu’s body assaulted his face again.

Wen Chu, hungry all night, almost fainted from the scent.

Just as he hugged Xiu dizzily wanting to take a bite, Wen Chu suddenly felt his wrist heat up.

His mischievous hand was caught by Xiu.

Looking up, Wen Chu met Xiu’s faint smiling expression: “Finally willing to come out? I thought you really wanted me to be a widower.”

Only then did Wen Chu discover in astonishment that there wasn’t a hint of redness on Xiu’s face anymore.

“Listen to my explanation—eh?” Wen Chu was just about to break free when he suddenly discovered he actually had substance at this moment.

Right, he touched Xiu’s waist just now.

Seeming to see his confusion, Xiu explained: “Not that you have substance, it’s that I also tried turning myself into a spirit body.”

Looking at Wen Chu’s wrist restrained by himself, he raised an eyebrow: “Seems the effect is good.”

Wen Chu: ?!?

He just slept for an afternoon; what exactly happened.

“You you you listen to my explanation!”

Wen Chu started reciting the words he prepared halfway with a knotted tongue: “Sorry, I’ve deeply realized my mistake. I shouldn’t have run away by myself, I…”

“Shh—”

Xiu’s index finger touched his lips.

The teenager’s lips were soft, and because he was a fierce ghost, the finger brought a slightly cool touch.

Xiu’s eye color darkened a bit.

“Now isn’t the time to talk about these.”

Then what should be said?

Wen Chu blinked, looking at Xiu confusedly.

Xiu went through such trouble to fish him out; wasn’t it to catch him and torture him severely?

Meeting Wen Chu’s bewildered gaze, Xiu curled his lips and smiled.

With a high nose and deep eyes, plus thin lips, he had standard features of heartlessness. Yet when smiling at Wen Chu, he carried countless affections.

The bathrobe fell.

Xiu embraced Wen Chu’s neck, pulling him over for a kiss.

It was a deep kiss with intertwining lips and tongues.

Wen Chu was so shocked he even forgot to breathe.

But ghosts didn’t need to breathe anyway. Wen Chu was completely kissed dizzy, only vaguely feeling Xiu was so fragrant and delicious, dizzily letting Xiu kiss him all the way to the bedroom.

【Life Points +1h】

【Life Points +1h】

【Life Points +1h】

…

Each deep kiss added a jump in life points. By the time they kissed to the bedroom, Wen Chu’s life points had been pulled back to ten days.

He was still dizzy.

Xiu in spirit state was even more fragrant than normal state, now like fragrant bread actively feeding into his mouth.

And it was a gentle kiss.

Not a cold sword slashing at the head.

Xiu didn’t intend to kiss for so long either, but Wen Chu’s stunned look with wide eyes pleased him.

Little liar, deceived him for so long before, yet lost his bearings just from a kiss.

With such a subtle thought of revenge, Xiu pulled Wen Chu to kiss again and again.

Kissed out of the bathroom, kissed onto the bed.

Only when touching the soft bed did Wen Chu finally come back to his senses: “…Wait.”

Xiu’s platinum long eyelashes trembled, looking up at him: “What?”

Looking at the scene before him, and the place where Xiu and he already had reactions from kissing, Wen Chu swallowed, nervously saying: “We now…”

“Do it.” Xiu was concise.

??!!?

Wen Chu was completely confused, wanting to ask what exactly happened this afternoon, but Xiu already straddled him first.

Xiu’s finger tapped his lower abdomen: “Not only do it, but also need you to put ghost qi in, the more the better. Can you do it?”

Wen Chu’s face was beet red: “This will cause pregnancy…”

“Just want to get pregnant.” Xiu chuckled lightly, leaned down to kiss him again, pointedly asking, “Don’t you like it?”

Li, like…

But isn’t Xiu a bit too strange?

Clearly angry at him for lying in the morning, now suddenly pulling him to bed.

Didn’t even pursue his running away.

But Wen Chu didn’t have time to ask.

Because Xiu didn’t even wait for his answer before sitting down directly.

…

Wen Chu prepared a bellyful of apologies, but didn’t use a single sentence, all turned into actions.

He filled Xiu, who hadn’t been touched at all in reality, with ghost qi until his belly was big.

For a whole night, Wen Chu was stuffed with yang energy, and Xiu was stuffed with ghost qi.

Although stuffed in different ways, Wen Chu still felt he was dreaming when seeing his life points jump directly to one year.

Looking at Xiu leaning against the headboard, holding his slightly bulging lower abdomen, he asked tentatively: “Shall I help you get the ghost qi out?”

Xiu shook his head.

After a night of absurdity, he finally started feeling ashamed belatedly, earlobes slightly red: “No need.”

Wen Chu was a bit anxious: “Really will get pregnant. This isn’t an illusion. Others will see you pregnant…”

“Doesn’t matter.” Xiu looked at him quietly, “According to the experience in the illusion, doing it three times can form and give birth. I’ll stay in the manor for these three days, going nowhere.”

Wen Chu went crazy: “It’s not a question of staying where, it’s that you will get pregnant!”

What exactly was wrong with Xiu? Couldn’t be angered silly by him, right?

Xiu gave a “Mn”, answering irrelevantly: “Do you know the small ball I gave birth to is very special?”

Wen Chu was puzzled: “Where is it special?”

Just a white ball.

Truth be told, a bit more eyesore than ordinary balls.

“The power in that ball is more refined, and contains both our ghost qi and spiritual energy simultaneously. As a power storage, it completely obeys our commands.” Xiu explained slowly.

“Even Yuan Le, at first glance of that ball, discovered something wrong even without sensing deliberately.”

“So?” Wen Chu still didn’t understand, “Doesn’t this make it harder to deal with? Such powerful force.”

“No, quite the opposite, very easy to deal with.” Xiu chuckled, “Yesterday afternoon, based on the information learned in the illusion, I searched all materials about the Rebirth Reincarnation Grand Array.”

“The principle of the Rebirth Reincarnation Grand Array is to convert energy between yin and yang worlds. Back then, all notable Celestial Master families contributed spiritual power together, using you as the conversion vessel. While imprisoning you, they also connected yin and yang to open the reincarnation channel for dead souls.”

“And that small ball happens to possess both powers simultaneously.”

“Meaning…” Wen Chu widened his eyes.

Xiu nodded: “Yes, as long as there are enough small balls, neither you nor the Celestial Master Association need to pay with life for the Reincarnation Grand Array anymore.”

“How many needed?” Wen Chu’s first reaction was worry, “Too many and your body can’t bear it.”

Xiu thought for a moment: “If every ball is calculated according to that first one, one should be able to maintain for ten years, but that was a special case.”

Xiu didn’t continue, but Wen Chu knew what Xiu meant by “special case”.

That ball was carried by Xiu for ten years in the illusion.

Wen Chu, who just had a glimmer of hope, wilted again: “Like that… then seems still impossible.”

He couldn’t let Xiu carry a big belly for ten years just for him to live.

Maybe he should go back to be the array eye. This wasn’t an illusion; Xiu had to go out to work. Being pregnant would be seen as a monster by others… Wait, illusion?

Wen Chu paused: “Can I still create illusions?”

“You are a fierce ghost.” Xiu looked at him with a smile, “Normally speaking, as long as you are still a ghost, you can.”

Wen Chu excitedly sat up directly: “Then teach me quickly. I can speed up time flow in the illusion. That way you don’t have to be pregnant for long…”

“Let’s not talk about this first. That one small ball is enough for ten years. Let’s give birth to this white ball normally first to see the situation.” Xiu stopped his lips with an index finger.

“You also hit the mark by mistake. Before this, I didn’t expect the small ball to have such use. Originally I prepared to… forget it, not saying it.”

Xiu muttered a few sentences to himself, then looked down at Wen Chu.

He raised an eyebrow and smiled.

“Deceased husband, can you help me block it? Your ghost qi is going to flow out.”

“Eh? Ah? Okay!”

Wen Chu was flustered, his face red.

After helping Xiu block it, he realized and said seriously: “No, can’t call me that. It makes you sound like your husband died.”

Xiu: …

Xiu sighed, leaned closer, cupped his face, and called again: “Wen Chu.”

Hearing Xiu call this name again, Wen Chu still couldn’t help his pupils constricting slightly.

Xiu kissed him gently: “Chuchu, Baby, Little Husband? How do you want me to call you?”

What are these messy forms of address…

Wen Chu looked at Xiu tremblingly with a blushing face. The young blond Celestial Master raised an eyebrow at him with interest, revealing a meaningful smile.

Next moment.

“Click—”

A crisp locking sound rang out.

Wen Chu only felt his wrist turn cold.

Looking towards the source of the sound, he discovered a silver handcuff cuffing his wrist.

The other end was cuffed to Xiu’s wrist.

Xiu stroked his palm soothingly: “Don’t be afraid, this handcuff won’t hurt you.”

Wen Chu: …

Wait, the point doesn’t seem to be this.

Xiu curled his lips looking at him: “To prevent you from running away again, leaving me and the child behind, have to trouble you to be wronged for a few days.”

Wen Chu: …

He only ran for half a day; why did he feel something broke in Xiu.

But—

Looking at the handcuff on his hand, Wen Chu actually felt a long-lost peace of mind.

Cuffed together with Xiu.

So good.