The rainstorm came rather unexpectedly. The two people had no choice but to find a cave to take shelter from the rain. Judging from the intensity of the rain, they’d probably have to spend the night together in this cave.
Ye ChenYan twisted and squeezed the water on his outer robe and looked up at the almost curtain of rain hanging over the entrance of the cave: “This rain really came down without any warning at all, truly worthy of the Yun Province.”
The Yun Province’s climate was special. The wind, rain and such natural phenomena cannot be blocked by cultivators using spiritual energy. Only high level cultivators intune with the Heaven and Earth seemed unaffected, capable of surpassing this restraint. Golden Cores like them could only accept the scorching sun and drenching rain obediently.
As Yu QingTang reached out his hands to warm himself over the fire, he secretly glanced at Ye ChenYan’s back— The 17-18 years old figure was between the physique of a boy and young man. Covered by a thin layer of muscle, his firm, slim waist concealed a hidden power.
Looking very capable.
Yu QingTang retracted his gaze numbly and turned his head to look at the rain.
As everyone knows, this kind of intentionally timed rain has its uses.
For example, this situation was a perfectly reasonable excuse for the male and female lead, who had just shouldered hardships together, to share time inside a cave in the wilderness to rapidly develop their feelings for each other.
It couldn’t be written explicitly, but it can be implied.
Looking at the pouring rain right now, Yu QingTang’s head was filled with thoughts of “fierce winds and violent showers”, “all night long without rest”, etc.
These innocent phrases took on not-so-innocent connotations.
Yu QingTang reached up and covered his eyes. After cultivating, this god-damn wretched photographic memory always seemed extremely unnecessary in this kind of circumstances.
Gaze carrying a slight hint of despair, he poked the fire with a tree branch.
Ye ChenYan turned around and saw the wet strands of hair dangling in front of Yu QingTang’s forehead. Water drops trailed down following the contours of his cheeks and rolled into his clothes collar. The warm light of the fire reflected on his cheeks, painting his cold and pristine countenance with some degrees of seduction.
Leaning against the entrance of the cave, Ye ChenYan swept his eyes slowly over him without much restraining. It wasn’t until Yu QingTang lifted his head that he finally withdrew his gaze and revealed his usual smile: “I will go and scout out the surroundings. You should change clothes, don’t catch a cold.”
It was raining so heavily outside. There wasn’t really any need for scouting. This was to give him space to change clothes.
Warmth and gentleness from the Proud Dragon Son of Heaven, this was a special treatment that’s only provided to the female lead.
Yu QingTang had no complaints here— At least most of the time, Ye ChenYan was relatively reliable.
Yu QingTang turned around, his back to the entrance of the cave, as he took out a set of clean clothes. Then he pulled his outer robe down his shoulders. Ye ChenYan, who left, suddenly returned: “Oh by the way, QingTang……Sorry!”
Yu QingTang expressionlessly pulled his clothes shut tightly.
He took back his previous words. He forgot that he was assuming MiaoYin Xian’s role right now. This kind of suggestive / relationship development incidences probably won’t be lacking.
Yu QingTang slowly clenched his fists tightly, practically wishing to drag out the author of this book and give him two punches— If you’re going to write a power up story, then just write power up. Why thirst traps! Why thirst traps!
Do you know how much harm these stupid story tropes you wrote can cause for a young man forced to participate in this farce!
Ye ChenYan turned around violently, ears flushed bright red: “Sorry!”
Yu QingTang pulled up his clothes slowly, practically grinding his back molars into pieces: “It’s! Fine!”
“I will come back later!” Back facing him, Ye ChenYan spoke hastily and then dove into the rain again.
After walking some distance, he gradually slowed his pace, the innocence and bashfulness a second ago vanishing completely. He looked rather calm and composed instead.
Ye ChenYan raised a hand and attempted to prop up a spirit energy barrier. Discovering that, sure enough, it could not block the heavy rain of the Yun Province, he gave up carelessly, not really bothered by the rain that fell on him.
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Turning his head around, he looked at the vaguely discernible cave, a hint of a smile flashing across his eyes: “It’s not that easy to be a liar.”
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—There was something weird with this zither.
He narrowed his eyes and touched the strings of the zither tentatively. He felt quite successful and comfortable, which was utterly different from his previous state.
The Dragon Heron Zither was now his soulbound weapon. Logically speaking, their thoughts and intentions should be connected. Yu QingTang looked down at this zither. For some reason, no matter how he examined it, he felt it seemed somewhat……fawning.
Yu QingTang: “……”
He couldn’t help but put it on the ground in disdain.
The Dragon Heron Zither floated into the air, hovering behind him as usual.
But he didn’t know if it’s his misperception— In the past, the zither would maintain a proper distance from him. Right now, however, it practically wanted to plaster against his back.
It’s been several years since his Shifu gave him this zither. Previously, the two of them had always just made do. His cultivation clearly didn’t improve much. The biggest change since then was only……
Yu QingTang looked down at the dress he was wearing, pensive.
He didn’t want to speculate a zither maliciously like this either, but reality made it very hard for him not to overthink it.
“QingTang, are you done changing?” Ye ChenYan’s voice came from the cave’s entrance.
Yu QingTang couldn’t help but recall the ‘accident’ a moment ago. Expressionlessly crumpling up this memory and stuffing it into the corner, he cleared his throat and replied: “Done.”
Ye ChenYan finally walked in.
He had picked two fruits from who knows where, looking as if his entire person had been fished out of the water, and still did not dare to look at Yu QingTang.
“Ahem.” With his head lowered, he handed over a red fruit: “It’s sweet, not sour in the slightest.”
Right now, Yu QingTang didn’t want to hear the word ‘sour’ at all. The corner of his mouth twitching, he still accepted the fruit.
Seeing him accept the fruit, Ye ChenYan finally let out a breath of relief and revealed a smile: “I went and looked around. There were no traces of any large beasts, so it’s probably safe. Tonight, I will keep watch.”
Saying this, he raised his hands and stripped his clothes, revealing his youthful body.
Yu QingTang: “!”
He had already seen it once before, why again!
He quietly shifted his butt away, detecting a minor predicament— there was no female lead here, so this brat’s hormones, which had no appropriate target, were more or less somewhat dangerous.
After Ye ChenYan finished changing clothes, he turned around. Yu QingTang was currently sitting upright and frozen, having pulled quite the distance between them.
He raised an eyebrow slightly and calmly closed the distance again, sitting down next to him to warm himself up by the fire. He asked the other: “How come you took out the zither?”
Speaking of the zither, Yu QingTang actually wanted to verify his hypothesis.
He suddenly handed the zither to Ye ChenYan: “Play it for a second.”
“Me?” Ye ChenYan was somewhat surprised: “It’s not like I’m a zither cultivator, I don’t know how to play it.”
Yu QingTang only wanted to conduct an experiment: “It’s fine if you don’t know, just pluck it, as long as it makes a sound.”
Ye ChenYan didn’t get what he’s planning. Raising his eyebrow slightly, he still reached out, pressed on the strings, and attempted to create a sound.
The strings of the zither trembled, actually releasing a clang that’s filled with a sense of stubborness, like it’d rather die than surrender.
Ye ChenYan’s expression changed as he snapped his hand back immediately: “Sss!”
With a swoosh, the Dragon Heron Zither flew from Ye ChenYan’s knees to press against Yu QingTang’s back.
Yu QingTang scooted over to look at him: “What’s the matter?”
Brows furrowing tightly, Ye ChenYan swung his hand with a somewhat strange expression on his face: “It’s rumored that top-tier spirit weapons all had their tempers. Sure enough, it’s weird. This zither…… seemed to have taken a bite of my spirit energy.”
Yu QingTang narrowed his eyes, sure enough.
Expressionlessly, he pulled off the Dragon Heron Zither that was clinging tightly against his back.
He pretty much had a good idea now.
Generally speaking, he wouldn’t use ‘vulgar’ to describe a zither, but this Dragon Heron Zither was just like his entire unreliable sect, equally ludicrous.
—It simply loved and lusted after beautiful women! The fact that it didn’t bind to Yu QingTang and flew into MiaoYin Xian’s embrace in the original novel wasn’t because it had anticipated the story plot and got enticed by Long AoTian, the son of Destiny and Fate, but rather because it simply loved and lusted after beautiful women!
Yu QingTang pressed down on the center of his brows, took a deep breath, and stuffed the zither back into his storage ring in disgust.
Hand propping up his chin, Ye ChenYan looked at him pensively, who knew what he was fantasizing during this time. He said: “This zither…… seems to have quite the history?”
Yu QingTang: “!”
“No, it’s just an inheritance from the sect.”
He attempted to use a sincere expression to convince the other: “Even though the sect is in dire straits right now, our ancestors were once extremely wealthy.”
He almost said bluntly— I really am just a salted fish Golden Core, who fishes for three days and dries the nets for two days, with no special features, please don’t think nonsense.
If he had to report anything special, it’s probably his current situation.
“Oh—” Ye ChenYan dragged his syllable, who knew if he believed it or not. In any case, he changed the topic cooperatively and pointed outside the cave: “We probably won’t be able to leave today. Let’s get some rest.”
“However, since QingTang has always remained in the sect this entire time, you probably do not have any experience sleeping in the wild. If you don’t feel accustomed to sleeping……”
Yu QingTang shook his head and then suddenly realized: “What did you call me?”
At first, it was “XianZi”, then it was “Miss Yu”, “Miss QingTang”, now it’s “QingTang” directly. This brat was quite skillful slithering up the rope.
The light in Ye ChenYan’s eyes twinkled faintly: “Just… your name.”
He shifted his gaze and lowered his head to poke at the bonfire: “If you don’t like it, I will go back and continue to call you XianZi.”
Yu QingTang: “…….”
A manly man like him naturally didn’t have any special interests in having others call him XianZi.
Yu QingTang touched his nose: “Now there’s no need to back up that much. You can just call me Miss Yu.”
If you can call me Yu-Gongzi, that would be even better.
Ye ChenYan tilted his head and looked at him, attempting to bargain: “Miss QingTang.”
Yu QingTang looked at him expressionlessly for a while, then sighed and withdrew his gaze: “……Alright.”
This could grudgingly count as each taking a step back.
Yu QingTang yawned: “Ai, time to sleep.”
Today was enough to make him mentally exhausted.
“You sleep.” Ye ChenYan has already crossed his legs: “I don’t sleep normally, just cultivate. It’s perfect for keeping watch at night.”
Yu QingTang’s resting posture stiffened. This setting did seem to exist. The Proud Dragon Son of Heaven never slept. He always meditated and cultivated at night.
Despicable, got beaten by this studiousness.
Yu QingTang suddenly sat up straight again: “Then I will also cultivate.”
Ye ChenYan raised an eyebrow: “Miss QingTang is not tired?”
“It’s fine! Perfect timing for me to practice the mental cultivation technique that MiaoYin Xian gave me.” Suddenly inspired to strive for improvements, Yu QingTang attempted to follow Long AoTian’s steps. He also sat cross legged and started to cultivate.
Narrowing his eyes, Ye ChenYan shot him a vigilant glance— The cultivation state was the easiest time to launch a sneak attack on a cultivator. Could it be……
As he maintained vigilance, he entered the meditative cultivation state.
Two hours later, an inconspicuous rustling sound reached Ye ChenYan’s ears. He raised his eyebrows slightly, convinced internally— Sure enough, Yu QingTang was attempting something.
He quietly opened his eyes and looked over calmly— Yu QingTang had fallen over on the ground, currently hammering his leg with a grimace.
Their eyes met. Yu QingTang rolled on the spot and switched to a disheveled, yet relatively elegant pose. He laughed dryly and hugged his leg: “……My leg is numb.”
Ye ChenYan fell silent for a moment: “……It’s only been two hours.”
Two hours! It’s normal for legs to get numb alright! Don’t you cultivators get compressed blood vessels?
Ye ChenYan even asked: “Do you not…… cultivate this long normally?”
Yu QingTang fell silent.
He turned himself over, back facing Ye ChenYan: “I’m going to sleep, good night.”
Why did he even try to match strength with the Proud Dragon Son of Heaven, it was completely pointless!
Yu QingTang: What are you looking at! Never seen a weak noob before? _(:з」∠)_
LOL🤣..this novel is endlessly entertaining…thank you for the update🌺
Pffft hahahahah 🤣 numb leg? Qingtang did you completely forget your persona? I am dying of laughter 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thanku you for the chapter!
His persona was heartlessly abandoned long ago lmao 🤣
Oh my 😂
Thank You for the new chapter (੭ु ›ω‹ )੭ु⁾⁾♡
THAT PERVERTED ZITHER IM LAUGHING NO WONDERRR! I love this novel so much, every chapter is so entertaining ahhaha
I am entirely curious if this is a extravagant revenge plot™, or if our ML has feelings and this is a ridiculous seduction attempt in earnest!
The Proud Dragon Son of Heaven was eating tofu with his eyes!
Poor mc.
But it’s hilarious for us.
I wonder when he is going to realize that the hero knows he is a man and has been deliberately playing with him to see what he is up to.
Test
… Yu QinTang, how did you cultivate????