“Baobao!”
The voice of Meng Yixuan echoed around Huli Bao like a message from God, and he paused in shock.
Had he really gone delusional? Was he really this averse to the idea of being separated from Xiao Xuanxuan?
He made a note to confess his thoughts to the other when they eventually reunited. If he was lucky, then they both felt the same and could be tied to each other for eternity.
“Baobao! Can you hear me?”
There it was again, louder and more urgent this time. He held himself back from reaching out a pitiful hand to grasp at nothingness.
“Roll the bead on your sword tassel about!”
What a message for a messenger that was, but Huli Bao the whipped fox didn’t have it in him to even refute let alone refuse to carry out the task.
His hand even automatically went down the second he’d heard the command, like an obedient little cutie.
He raised the sword, still sheathed, to be at chest level, bringing the tassel up with it, which he rubbed about religiously, sending shivers up Tan Huanxiong’s spine.
Imagine a stoic sect master, poker faced as usual, petting a (beautifully and intricately made, to be fair) threaded tassel, just like that!
Tan Huanxiong’s had to live the lie of being the obedient little elder, and couldn’t say anything.
That is, if he actually were that!
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As such, imagine his surprised pikachu face when it happened.
He knew that Huli Bao was slightly intimate with the other, but to the point where it became an issue, now that was just hindrance to all his plans!
The racoon made a note to speak to the sect master’s subject of admiration.
Then, out of nowhere, he too heard Meng Yixuan’s voice, loud and anxious.
“Baobao, are you there?”
Hey! That wasn’t nice at all!
“Xuan Di! Is the sect master all you care about? What about poor little me!!” His voice and expression were simply dripping his grievance as he hopped about beside Huli Bao, not even the slightest curious how they were able to communicate.
It was this comment that revealed to Huli Bao that he hadn’t gone mad.
“Xiao Xuanxuan.”
Now that he was speaking to this Meng Yixuan, Tan Huanxiong saw the way his sect master’s, as well as close friend’s, eyes lit up.
His tone warmed ever so slightly and there was a subtle, incredibly subtle, quirk of his lips. These almost unnoticeable signs were clearly evident to him, who’d known and followes Huli Bao since he was a foetus.
And since they’d known each other so long, he also almost cried in shock upon seeing that smile.
This was the same Huli Bao who didn’t even even flinch at horror stories when they were younger, not even when they came to life!
The same one who’d been so poker faced growing up, the one time he showed emotion was when the chefs at home slipped some laughing poison (a completely harmless one provided by Mama Huli) all those years ago. And even still all he did was smirk!!
Tan Huanxiong grasped onto this straw and instantly teased, rather loudly mind you, that “It seems that Xuan Di is a thief~”
Meng Yixuan, who wished to paint himself a Saint before his crush, quickly retaliated, “Xiong Ge, you’re accusing me! I did nothing of the sort! I’m a good boy!!”
Huli Bao nodded at the final statement, “yes you are, my Xiao Xuanxuan’s the best.”
His, eh? Tan Huanxiong was urged to finish his statement by the sickeningly sweetness of Huli Bao, “you stole Baobao’s heart~”
And then he swung into the next tree. Then the next and the next, running away before his slightly slow (meaning emotionally inept, with the lowest EQ in the universe) sect master could realise what he was saying.
By the time Huli Bao registered what the other was saying, he was long gone, into the smokey abyss.
“I– he’s wrong! I don’t! You didn’t! We–”
The heartbroken Meng Yixuan looked into the bleak nothingness with a frown, “oh.”
The supposed emotionally deficit Huli Bao could hear the hurt in his voice as bleak as night and day.
“No!” His voice came quickly, tone urgent.
“I do!” He couldn’t help but want to panic when he heard the dejection in the others voice.
“Like, I do! I like you, Xiao Xuanxuan!” His confession came as a surprise to both of them, neither expecting it, neither regretful.
Meng Yixuan who’d been seconds away from tears seemed to be a still from a film, unmoving and unchanged.
Shejin Huiling, who had lengthened her tail to comfort him, also froze. It all made sense now! Who’d have thought that her little sect master was simply blinded by love!
Just kidding, of course she knew! Even a blind person could see that Huli Bao held Meng Yixuan above all others. Or, well, her and her Huli Jie would know best, for this was the son she’d helped her best friend raise!
Huli Bao then grew anxious, why was Xiao Xuanxuan so quiet??
“Xia-xiao Xuanxuan, are you there? What’s– do you–” He had no idea what to say.
Did Meng Yixuan not like him? Would he have to stop seeing the other? But his– this was his first true friend! And he’d never felt like this before, why was the world so cruel to him?
“Baobao,” Meng Yixuan’s voice cracked as he spoke, tears evident in his tone, “when I see you. When we’re together, I’ll tell you.”
Huli Bao’s chest tightened, what was going to happen?
“It’s good, I promise. I just want to say it to your face.”
Then, the pair was giddy, both anticipating the moment they’d reunite.
AYO- a confession ☕ (<- that’s a tea- not a coffee, I couldn’t find the tea emoji from my laptop)
finally!! the confessionnn!!!
Thank you for the chapter!