Translator:- Max
Hii guys, A very happy late new year!! Sorry I was sick for the past week or so as my body said that I can not stay okay during holidays no matter what. But I hope you enjoy the chapter. Next chapter on Sunday~
Bai Xi gazed at the lantern in front of the door and was quiet for a long time. Slowly, he picked it up, letting the lantern ignite before him.
Ji Qingzhou returned to the room and saw Chu Cheng holding a dragon-shaped lantern. When he saw him entering the room, Chu Cheng lifted the lantern a bit and asked, “Do you like it?”
Ji Qingzhou naturally liked it, “I actually wanted to buy a dragon-shaped one, but they were all sold out. That’s why Bai Xi gave me a fox-shaped one.”
“That’s it.”
Ji Qingzhou said “En” and pointed to the lantern in Chu Cheng’s hand, asking, “Are you giving it to me?”
“Do you want it?”
Ji Qingzhou nodded, his eyes shining brightly.
Chu Cheng looked at him and slowly handed the lantern over.
Ji Qingzhou held the lantern, his eyes full of smiles. He looked at the lantern, and Chu Cheng looked at him. The lantern illuminated his face, and he adorned Chu Cheng’s heart.
It’s time, Chu Cheng thought. They had other places to go, and they shouldn’t linger here for too long. It was better to quickly help Bai Jing solve the trouble and leave as soon as possible.
The next morning, Chu Cheng and Ji Qingzhou had breakfast together before leaving with Bai Jing. Before leaving, Chu Cheng asked Ji Qingzhou, “Do you want to go somewhere else?”
“Want to.” Ji Qingzhou replied. He had already played in Luoshui with Bai Xi for a long time and was a bit bored of it.
“When I come back, we’ll leave.” Chu Cheng said.
“Okay.” Ji Qingzhou smiled with narrowed eyes.
Chu Cheng pinched his face and then turned to leave the room.
Ji Qingzhou rarely stayed indoors. He practised while waiting for Chu Cheng to return. However, he waited for a long time, and by the time the sun set, he still did not see Chu Cheng’s figure. He looked up at the moon not realising when it got so high in the sky, then he heard Bai Xi remind him that it was time to eat.
Ji Qingzhou waited for a whole day, but Chu Cheng didn’t return. Bai Xi comforted him, “He should be back tomorrow.”
Ji Qingzhou nodded and went back to his room to sleep.
He looked at the lantern hanging by the bedside, reached out to touch it, and silently said in his heart: You must come back soon.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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“He went home.” Bai Jing said. “That immortal who was possessed by a demon and, risking his own life, wanted to perish together with him. Chu Cheng, being a divine beast, wouldn’t die naturally, but he got injured and fell into a coma. His elder brother foresaw this event, so after he fell into a coma, he brought him back.”
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Bai Jing shook his head. “I don’t know where his home is, and even if I did, I wouldn’t go there. I’m a monster in the mortal realm, and he is a descendant of ancient divine beasts. We met in the mortal realm, and I only know that he is a dragon. I don’t know where his home is or how to get there.”
Ji Qingzhou was stunned for a moment. He blinked slightly but said nothing.
Bai Jing comforted him, “You don’t need to worry. When he wakes up, he will come to find you.”
“But when will he wake up?”
This Bai Jing didn’t know. The last time Chu Cheng slept was for a hundred years, so who knows when he will wake up this time.
“I will take care of you.” Bai Jing said, “He is my friend, and this time, he got injured helping me. I will take care of you.”
Upon hearing this, Ji Qingzhou looked up at him and suddenly recalled that day when he first entered the mortal realm and Chu Cheng had said to him, “I will protect you.” Now, however, he was nowhere to be seen.
“I don’t need your care.” Ji Qingzhou said softly.
Bai Jing was taken aback for a moment. He looked at Ji Qingzhou, who sat quietly and silently for a while. Then, he stood up and returned to his room to start cultivating. He always felt that he was cultivating too slowly, and his cultivation level was not high enough to help Chu Cheng eliminate demons or even grow a heart. He wanted to improve his cultivation faster, thinking that if Chu Cheng was so powerful, maybe he would wake up soon.
But he waited day after day, but Chu Cheng never showed up.
Ji Qingzhou, looking at the bamboo forest outside, and suddenly said to Bai Jing one day, “I’m leaving.”
Bai Jing was puzzled. “Where are you going?”
“I’m going back.” Ji Qingzhou said, “Back to where I grew up.”
He didn’t want to keep waiting here. He and Chu Cheng had agreed that when he returned, they would leave and go to other places. He didn’t want to stay here anymore. There was nothing here, just day after day of disappointment. He wanted to go back to where he grew up, back to that courtyard. At least, there was Chu Cheng’s aura there.
Bai Jing tried to persuade him with a few words, but Ji Qingzhou insisted. Bai Jing had no choice but to say, “Then I’ll take you back.”
Ji Qingzhou did not refute him and said, “Okay.”
Knowing that Ji Qingzhou was leaving, Bai Xi took him to the town to play for a day. Unfortunately, Ji Qingzhou was no longer in the mood to play. He wore a cold and indifferent expression no matter what they did. Bai Xi had no choice but to take him to watch a play, hoping it would cheer him up a bit. However, he did not choose this day well, and on stage, the drama was about the life and death parting of a scholar and a young lady.
Ji Qingzhou couldn’t help but feel a little uncomfortable as he looked at it.
Seeing this, Bai Xi quickly took him out, criticising in his heart why they chose to do this play today.
He took Ji Qingzhou on a boat ride along the river. Ji Qingzhou looked at the fish in the river but was too lazy to reach out and tease them.
As it got dark, Bai Xi took him back. When they approached the bamboo forest, Bai Xi asked, “Do you really have to go?”
Ji Qingzhou said “En”.
“Staying here can also mean waiting for him.”
“No need.” Ji Qingzhou said.
Bai Xi looked at him, his mouth opening and closing, opening and closing again, and finally said, “I like you.”
Ji QingZhou looked up at him, under the moonlight, his eyes were clean and pure, without any impurities. He asked, “What is liking?”
He remembered asking this question before, and at that time, Chu Cheng said that when he had a heart, he would naturally understand. However, up until now, he still didn’t have a heart.
Bai Xi looked into his calm and emotionless eyes, felt his own emotions, and answered him, “To like someone means wanting to be with them all the time, wanting to do everything with them, wanting to make them happy, and not wanting them to leave. The thought of them leaving feels uncomfortable, the thought that you may never see them again brings sadness, fearing they will leave, and even more afraid of being forgotten by them.”
Ji Qingzhou listened quietly. In his mind, an image of a person appeared. To his surprise, he found that he seemed to know what it felt like to be uncomfortable and sad. He reached out and pressed his chest, faintly sensing something throbbing. He whispered, “Then I should like him.”
He felt like he had a heart now.
Bai Xi didn’t say anything after listening to his words, but just lowered his eyes silently.
That day, Ji Qingzhou fell asleep feeling his heartbeat. He dreamed of Chu Cheng. He ran towards him and told him in surprise, “I have a heart now.”
He saw Chu Cheng smile and say, “Then wait for me. I’ll come find you soon.”
Ji Qingzhou nodded, and then he felt the sunlight shining in his eyes, and it was dawn.
Ji Qingzhou and Bai Jing left. They went back along the path they had come from, returning to the city where Ji Qingzhou had first entered the world. Bai Jing asked him, “Can you find the place where you grew up? Chu Cheng must have cast a spell; I can’t see it.”
“I can.” Ji Qingzhou said.
His real body was there, even if he couldn’t see it, he could feel it. He walked forward until he stood in front of a wall.
Ji Qingzhou looked at Bai Jing and said to him, “See you next time.”
“I’ll be in this city. If you need anything, just shout out my name, and I’ll appear.”
“Okay, thank you.”
He looked at the wall in front of him, took a leap, and jumped inside. The scenery within the wall remained the same, no different from when he left. Ji Qingzhou sensed the same aura as that on his own body, the aura belonging to Chu Cheng. He approached his real body, reached out to touch the tree trunk in front of him, and slowly returned to the tree.
Bai Jing looked at the wall in front of him, wanting to reach out and touch it, but found that he couldn’t. He thought about trying to see if he could enter as well, but no matter how he jumped, he remained outside the wall. He finally felt relieved. This must be a protective barrier set up by Chu Cheng. The little apricot tree belonged to the beings inside the wall, so Ji Qingzhou could return, but he couldn’t. This way, no other demons could harm Ji Qingzhou.
Bai Jing chose a street not far from there to settle down, thinking that this way, he could better take care of Ji Qingzhou. However, Ji Qingzhou never came out again. One day, two days, one month, two months, and then one year, two years went by without his reappearance.
When Chu Cheng woke up from his coma, he found himself lying on the bed at home. He sat up, the door opened, and his second brother walked in. Seeing that he was awake, he asked, “How do you feel?”
“Not bad.” Chu Cheng looked at him, “Why am I here?”
“You were injured and fell into a coma. I foresaw a calamity for you, so I brought you back here to recuperate. Otherwise, if you continued to stay in the mortal realm, you wouldn’t have recovered so quickly.”
Chu Cheng nodded, but suddenly thought of something and asked him, “How many days have I been in coma?”
“Not many, just seven days.”
“Seven days!” Chu Cheng was shocked. One day in the heavens was one year on the earth. In other words, he and Ji Qingzhou have been separated for seven years.
“I have something to go to the mortal world.” Chu Cheng lifted the quilt and got out of bed.
Chu Che watched his movements and asked him, “Are you going to see that little apricot tree?”
“You know?”
“More than just knowing, I’ve seen him myself.” Chu Zhe calmly sat down and poured himself a cup of tea.
“You’ve seen him?” Chu Cheng sat down across from him. “When?”
“Of course, it was when you were unconscious. You left with so many treasures, but now you’re here, and those treasures are not. I naturally had to take care of them for you.”
As Chu Zhe spoke, he recalled that night. At that time, he looked for Chu Cheng’s aura, and discovered the place where he hid his treasures. Chu Cheng’s concealment techniques were ineffective against him, and the barrier he set up naturally couldn’t stop him. However, when he entered the wall, he was confronted by a little apricot tree, which defensively asked him, “Who are you?”
The apricot tree carried Chu Cheng’s aura, and as Chu Zhe looked at it, he glimpsed its past and understood why it was here. Three years have passed, and the cultivation level of this apricot tree has increased a lot, already forming its immortal bones. Becoming an immortal was only a matter of time.
“I am Chu Cheng’s brother.” He said.
Ji Qingzhou saw that his appearance was somewhat similar to that of Chu Cheng’s, and his aura was also somewhat similar, so he asked, “Is he okay now?”
Translator’s note:- Yes guys yes Chu Zhe not Xin, I double checked, I told you guys before author certainly had some grudge with Chu Xin that not only is he single but in the AU, the author made a new second brother for Chu Cheng but didn’t wanted to include Chu Xin hahahaha my dude is miserable ahhh, no girls and now no scenes either ahahahahaha.
