The soft touch of lips was like a dragonfly touching the water lightly, separating immediately on contact. However, Jian Yi’s presence remained by the pillow side, loitering. Wen Xuan heard him say quietly: “How wonderful, shixiong. You’re just like how I imagined.”
These words were rather vague, but he said it exceptionally seriously.
Then, Jian Yi tucked Wen Xuan in, got up and left. The door opened with a quiet sound and was closed carefully.
Wen Xuan finally opened his eyes and let go of his tightened right hand, discovering it was covered by a faint layer of sweat. He felt like if there were a lit lamp in the room right now, maybe he’d find his face turned red, since his cheeks felt extremely warm right now.
He used his fingers to wipe away the dried sweat in his palm, and couldn’t resist asking himself: Why did he pretend to be asleep just now?
If he opened his eyes and told Jian Yi he was actually awake……
That kid would probably panic in shock and fear, right? Imagining the scene that could have happened, Wen Xuan couldn’t help but smile.
But after the initial panic and shock, how would things continue to develop? Wen Xuan unconsciously withdrew the smile. Brows furrowing, he began to seriously frustrate over this.
To suddenly learn that Jian Yi really did hold that kind of feelings towards himself, Wen Xuan felt it was hard not to feel hesitant and confused. If this feeling that Jian Yi carefully concealed was exposed, Wen Xuan really didn’t know how the other would react, or how their relationship would change.
What’s even more important was that he didn’t know what kind of response he should display either. Acceptance and rejection, both choices would create an irreversible result. Yet neither seemed quite right.
Despite being so conflicted and frustrated, Wen Xuan couldn’t resist the weariness from today’s fierce battle. Soon, his head tilted on the pillow and he fell back into deep sleep again.
The next day, the crying sound of the infant woke him up.
Wen Xuan opened both eyes and saw Jian Yi already rushing in from next door. Yet the other only knew to circle that wailing infant helplessly, clearly not knowing what to do with this little ancestor.
“He should be hungry?” Wen Xuan said as he sat up.
“I think so as well.” Jian Yi remained completely at a loss: “But…but…”
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Jian Yi let out a breath of relief. Then his eyebrows raised: “Just look at him, still displeased.”
“To feed spiritual energy directly as food doesn’t satisfy his oral fixation. He should be displeased.” Wen Xuan said: “This is only a temporary plan. If this wasn’t the last resort, no one would feed kids like this.”
“Do we need to find him a wet nurse?” Jian Yi asked, furrowing his brows heavily and grumbling lowly: “So troublesome…… Forget it. We’ll be throwing him to that Zhao guy soon anyways. Let him get a headache over this instead.”
Wen Xuan smiled, letting go of that chubby arm, then took a step back.
However, as he took this step backwards, he completely started staggering. Apparently, his spiritual energy was still dried up after forcibly elevating his strength yesterday with his secret skill. He knew he’d be somewhat inconvenienced momentarily, but he never imagined something as little as giving a tiny breath of spiritual energy was enough to make him feel weak and lose balance.
“Shixiong!” Jian Yi turned pale with fright and hastily held him up.
With this support, his entire arm looped around Wen Xuan’s back horizontally. One of Jian Yi’s palms was pressed against Wen Xuan’s shoulder, fingers grasping the frame of his shoulder securely. Jian Yi squeezed with strength, the warmth of his palm was enough to travel through Wen Xuan’s clothes.
Normally, this would have been a rather natural gesture. But at this time, Wen Xuan couldn’t help but feel somewhat strange all over, like it had some other meaning.
After that, Jian Yi reached out to take Wen Xuan’s wrist and check his pulse. A brief examination gave him the answer. For a moment, Jian Yi didn’t even know what to say: “Shixiong, you should know how reckless you were, right?”
He didn’t wait for Wen Xuan’s response, but discovered Wen Xuan staring unblinkingly at him.
“Shixiong?” Jian Yi returned the gaze with an odd look: “What is it?” This behavior felt so normal, it almost made Wen Xuan feel like he only imagined what had happened last night.
Wen Xuan shook his head and freed himself from Jian Yi’s arms: “Yesterday night, I did use up a lot of spiritual energy, but it’s not a big deal. A few days of rest and I’ll pretty much recover.”
“This isn’t a big deal?” Jian Yi yelled exaggeratedly, the sound of his voice rising high.
“Shixiong, you can’t be so unconcerned about your own health.” Then, he turned his face around and expressed extremely solemnly: “From now on, you’re not allowed to use spiritual energy for the next half a… no, for the next whole month. Not even one bit.”
“You make it sound like I can still use it if I wanted to.” Wen Xuan shook his head, not knowing if he should laugh or cry. Looking at Jian Yi’s expression that couldn’t be any more serious, in the end, he swallowed the rest of his teasing words back down and nodded his head in agreement: “I’ll be careful.”
Finally, Jian Yi let out a breath, as if relieved from a burden.
“Then if any issues arise in the next few days, I’ll be relying on you completely.” Wen Xuan continued to say.
Originally he only meant it casually, but when these words left his mouth, Wen Xuan abruptly pressed his lips together. For some unknown reason, these words just felt very strange. However, moments later, he realized that this overly jumpy attitude of his was even more strange.
Good thing Jian Yi didn’t notice at all and very happily nodded his head in response.
“Jian shidi.” Wen Xuan couldn’t resist saying: “Last night……”
Hearing him mention last night, Jian Yi evidently became more nervous.
“Those words that you told me last night, were those the only things you wanted to say to me?” Wen Xuan continued to ask.
Jian Yi let out a breath of relief and thought Wen Xuan didn’t actually discover anything. He answered vaguely: “How can I tell you everything I want to say in one night. When it’s time to talk about it, then it’ll come naturally.”
In other words, right now wasn’t the time to say them yet.
Since he chose to secretly hide away those feelings, he clearly didn’t want Wen Xuan to jump forth and expose him ahead of time. Wen Xuan only shook his head. Although he was still rather conflicted internally, in the end, he still moved this matter temporarily to the back of his head.
Then Jian Yi continued to mess with the little ancestor to the side. Wen Xuan turned around to tidy up his bed. Next to the pillow, he saw Jian Yi’s storage bracelet. He was holding it last night and forgot to return it. Because he was half asleep, he had taken out many things and forgot to put them back. Right now, they were still placed to the side.
One of the items included the round jade magic tool that Jian Yi used to decipher the Will of Heaven. Yesterday Wen Xuan’s attention was drawn by other things, so he didn’t look at it carefully. At the moment, he also only glanced at it briefly. After all, it was Jian Yi’s magic tool. Even if Jian Yi was generous enough to let him look, he didn’t feel comfortable prying too deeply.
With this slight examination, he saw there was a strange pattern imprinted on the main side of the round jade tool. He called it strange because from a far, the pattern looked extremely clear. Yet when he tried to examine it more closely, the pattern suddenly felt so blurry that not even a single line was discernible.
He assumed this was because of some concealing spell and didn’t think too much of it. Putting it back into the storage bracelet, he returned everything back to Jian Yi.
Jian Yi even specifically asked him: “Shixiong, did you see clearly what was imprinted?”
Wen Xuan honestly shook his head and described it factually. Jian Yi didn’t seem too surprised, but looked somewhat disappointed, as if something rather regretful was confirmed.
At this time the sun has already risen high. The city was noisy and bustling with activity. The inn that they stayed in received several unexpected guests. Some City Lord or whatever, this rich merchant, that government official…… All because what happened in Qin niangzi’s house yesterday night caused too much commotion. Throwing in the matters with the Deity of Fortune, and Jian Yi coming back from the dead, the people of Jiufeng City were in full panic. They had to send people to investigate.
These visitors were naturally very courteous. However, Wen Xuan didn’t want to waste his breath with them. What’s more important was that these visitors often spent time bothering Jian Yi. Some even tried to claim friendly relations, saying something like, ‘when you were little, I even held you in my arms’, etc. There were some who really did have interactions with the Jian family back then, but chose to detach and watch like bystanders after the Jian family started having issues. Although the Jian Yi right now wasn’t the Jian Yi back then, Wen Xuan still didn’t want him to experience these encounters.
Therefore, after enduring two waves of visitors and before the third wave of visitors arrived, Wen Xuan and Jian Yi flashed out carrying the baby. In a blink of an eye, they left the gates of Jiufeng City.
After that, Jian Yi calculated on his fingers and the two headed directly off to another spiritual city nearby.
On the road, Jian Yi stuck Wen Xuan’s side all day as usual. Actually because Wen Xuan couldn’t use spiritual energy as conveniently, Jian Yi clung even more vigorously than usual. In the past, no matter how close Jian Yi acted towards him, Wen Xuan always felt it was natural. However, now, whenever their body touched at all, Wen Xuan could feel his thoughts turning circles.
After spinning around enough times, he really managed to notice plenty of clues.
For example, every time Jian Yi tugged on his hand, it looked normal, but Jian Yi’s fingertips always loved to squeeze the center of his palm a few more times. For example, when the two people leaned too close, Jian Yi’s line of sight would always drift away, carrying a not-knowing-where-to-look kind of helplessness. But every time Wen Xuan suddenly shifted his gaze onto Jian Yi, 8/10 times he could catch Jian Yi staring at him. Things like this were too numerous to count.
However, all of these actions were so innocent. The secret kiss that other night was probably Jian Yi’s most audacious behavior.
Since Wen Xuan already knew how Jian Yi felt, how should he face these actions? Wen Xuan discovered, even though he already decided not to consider this matter before Jian Yi came forth voluntarily, this was still an unavoidable issue. Remaining as they were before would only be deceiving oneself. Calmly accepting also didn’t feel quite right. Firmly rejecting? He can’t do it. To be honest, Wen Xuan didn’t really oppose this.
In the end, he still chose to be the same as before, pretending he didn’t know.
When he finally returned from his thoughts, he discovered that actually his attitude can only be described with two words.
—Silent approval.
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