Translator-Rhapsodite
Editor- Koneko, Proofreader-Ghostie
Saturday, July 31st, 2:40 am.
Bei Quan sneaked back to “Sāntúchuān” and carefully opened the door. When he saw that there was no one in the room, he let out a sigh of relief and closed the door behind him.
“You’re back.”
A crisp, childish voice rang out behind him.
Bei Quan was so startled that he almost threw his umbrella towards the voice in reflex. He turned back around and saw that the source was Tian Jia Xin. He scooped up the Tian Qi doll and reached out to cover his mouth.
“Shhh!”
He lowered his voice, viciously threatening him.
“If Zhu Ling comes out, I‐-”
Tian Jia Xin looked up at Bei Quan, his small eyes fluttering with a face that appeared harmless to any living being.
He reached up and pointed towards the ceiling.
Bei Quan understood and lowered Tian Jia Xin gently to the floor.
The two crept stealthily up the stairs like thieves, and headed all the way up to the building’s rooftop.
This was Tian Jia Xin’s territory.
His main body was a Tian Qi which needed wind and dew, as well as the essence of the sun and moon to continue his cultivation, so Bei Quan specifically gave him the balcony.
The childlike Tian Qi did not consider himself as an outsider, and made himself at home on this rooftop space. In fact, he built a greenhouse which was filled with a variety of medicinal plants. Usually, he spent all of his time in the greenhouse except for doing little favors for Bei Quan every once in a while.
Today was the 23rd day in the sixth month of the lunar calendar, and the moonlight was dim.
However, Tian Jia Xin still sat cross-legged in the dark, raising his head to breathe.
Bei Quan tilted his head slightly at Tian Jia Xin, and secretly felt a lot of admiration.
God knows how this stumpy kid with short legs and arms could easily put himself in such a difficult cross-legged position like the “Lotus Position”.
“Hoo!”
Tian Jia Xin took a long breath, unclasped his hands, and rested them on his knees before raising his head and spoke to Bei Quan in a very old-fashioned tone.
“Bei Quan, did you just go out to see Xiao Wei?”
“How did you find out that I went out?” Bei Quan replied with another question instead of answering directly.
As he said this, he narrowed his eyes and a glimmer of light flashed across his pupils, “Did Zhu Ling instruct you?”
Tian Jia Xin grinned, revealing two rows of small white teeth as neat as rice grains.
“That’s right.”
He answered very frankly.
“Zhu Ling asked me to help keep an eye on things, so I hung a little something on the door.”
Bei Quan instantly understood how.
Tian Jia Xin was most likely instructing one of his plant branches to operate as a spy for him, so that no matter who it was, as long as someone came in and out of “Sāntúchuān”, he would immediately be aware of it. Even if Bei Quan was holding a black umbrella, he would not be concealed from the monitoring.
“But, you found out that I did go out, and haven’t called Zhu Ling up to see me, instead, you’re sitting here and chatting with me…”
Bei Quan also smiled, “In that case, am I to assume that you are not going to report me?”
Tian Jia Xin relaxed his short legs that were in a cross-legged position and changed to a knee-tucked posture.
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“That fool stayed up well into the night and wandered around the area for such a long time. All I did was send him out of the area.”
“Oh~”
Tian Jia Xin became silent.
Neither of them spoke for some time and the silence lasted for a full minute.
“Bei Quan, Xiao Wei… he likes you.”
Tian Jia Xin suddenly spoke up and stated bluntly.
“What about you? Do you like him?”
This question was honestly too straightforward, especially coming from a child who looked to be about only three years old. It was not only jarring but also strangely comical.
“It doesn’t matter if I like him or not.”
Bei Quan replied.
“What is important is that he only likes this skin of mine……”
“As you know, this body of mine is a fake, not mine at all.”
Bei Quan hooked his lips and smiled to himself.
“If I were to let Xiao Wei know what ‘thing’ I really am, I might scare him to death ……”
“Wait!”
Tian Jia Xin raised his little chubby hand, signalling Bei Quan to stop talking.
“I say, Bei Quan. Did you find this body in a ditch?”
His narrow brows furrowed, and his chubby bun face bulged.
“You’re not like us wild spirits, your body is not created through transformation.”
Tian Jia Xin narrowed his eyes and took advantage of the hazy moonlight to survey Bei Quan’s cold white jade-like face.
“And, although your flesh is not the original, you didn’t steal the body, so it wouldn’t affect you ……”
He wanted to say the words “being in love”, but was cut off by Bei Quan.
“No ……”
“That fool Wei Fuyuan… What he needs is a normal, ordinary love that can last a long time.”
Bei Quan simply picked up Tian Jia Xin, who was only 90 centimetres tall and held him in his arms like a big baby.
The little spirit did not have a human’s body temperature, and did not feel hot to hug. It had a plump and soft texture and felt pretty comforting to touch and hold.
“I can’t give him this kind of love.”
Bei Quan sighed softly.
“He doesn’t know anything right now, that’s why he’s attracted to me.”
“Later …… I mean, if ……”
“If, one day… he knows everything, I’m afraid ……”
Bei Quan’s Adam’s apple rolled for a moment, swallowing back the second half of the sentence that refused to come out.
“I’m afraid he’ll be disgusted”, Such words were too weak and too unlike him.
Still being held in Bei Quan’s arms, Tian Jia Xin half-turned to the side and looked up at Bei Quan.
“Then, why didn’t you tell him?”
Bei Quan froze.
“Me, although I’m a little fairy with little knowledge of things, I do know a certain truth.That is, don’t make decisions or assumptions about others.”
Tian Jia Xin nestled comfortably into Bei Quan’s arms and continued.
“If you don’t tell Xiao Wei anything, how would you know if he would accept it?”
Tian Jia Xin paused and pointed out some key points,
“To put it bluntly, Bei Quan, as a matter of fact, you are just afraid, right?”
Bei Quan did not open his mouth to retort.
He just silently hugged the child and rested his chin against the other party’s fluffy head.
“Well ……”
After a while, Bei Quan answered softly, “I do …… get scared, sometimes.”
He was afraid that Wei Fuyuan would know that he was an old demon who had borrowed a corpse to return to life and that he had committed many sins and killed numerous people during his lifetime.
What he feared the most was that Wei Fuyuan’s admiration would turn into disgust when he found that his beautiful skin was just a painted picture.
Bei Quan did not dare to imagine his little assistant’s face looking back at him with fear, disgust, and hatred.
If the price of confession was so painful, Bei Quan would rather not see Wei Fuyuan from now on.
At least, they could still be a white moonlight in each other’s memory.
“Tsk tsk tsk!”
Tian Jia Xin clicked his tongue.
“Bei Quan! You have lived for more years than I have so you should have an idea about what to do, I won’t advise you.”
As he said, he looked up at the waning moon and sighed in a milky voice.
“Ask the world what love is, and directly teach the difference between life and death!”
Bei Quan narrowed his eyes and tightened his arms as he held the chubby doll.
“Tian Jia Xin…”
He asked softly.
“Have you been secretly watching dramas again?”
The child realised that he had slipped up and immediately shook his head desperately, “No! No! I’ve been practising hard!”
“Oh?”
Bei Quan raised his hand and pointed to a vent opening in the southwest corner of the greenhouse.
“I was going to ask you just now, what’s that?”
A dangling laurel branch sneaked inside the vent, and the branches grew gratifyingly, reaching straight across to the second-floor window of the rented bookstore.
Tian Jia Xin gave a dry laugh, and a drop of cold sweat slipped down from the corner of his forehead.
He muttered to himself internally, “What are you looking at, Beizumi?!”
He had secretly hidden a small router within the laurel branch and used the extending branches to connect to the WiFi of the bookstore next door.
How did this get discovered?!
“Anyway, don’t mind my business.”
Bei Quan did not expose the fishiness of the laurel tree branches, but stretched out his hand and pinched Tian Jia Xin’s chubby cheek.
Tian Jia Xin covered his face and didn’t dare to mention anything about the situation.
“Today, you will not tell Zhu Ling about me going out, you will keep it a secret.”
Bei Quan smiled to himself, the subtext meaning that since Tian Jia Xin had covered for him for a while, he will pretend not to have seen the Tian Qi doll secretly tampering with the WiFi of next door to watch dramas on the Internet.
Tian Jia Xin nodded like pounding garlic, and his fluffy hair kept knocking against Bei Quan’s chin.
The two stopped talking and maintained a sitting and hugging position, looking up towards the moonlight together.
In fact, Bei Quan understood why Tian Jia Xin, a little spirit who had been cultivating for a hundred years, had been captivated by the colorful and prosperous world in less than two years after he had emerged from the mountains. Even his cultivation had unconsciously slowed down.
After all, this world was too beautiful.
As long as we are in it, how could our foolish heart not be moved?
Thinking of this, Bei Quan pressed a hand over his left chest.
Under the thin chest wall, a heart was beating at a regular rhythm of sixty-eight times per minute.
Even though this was not his real physical body.
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“Hey, you, wake up, wake up!”
Wei Fuyuan felt someone tapping his shoulder.
He opened his eyes and saw a civilian police officer in uniform.
“It’s dawn, don’t sleep here. Are you drunk? Can you stand up?”
Wei Fuyuan instantly woke up from his nap and jumped up with a flip.
A coat slipped off from him and fell to the ground.
Wei Fuyuan: “!!!”
He quickly lowered his head and picked up the item that fell onto the ground.
It was a pure black coat.
It was not thick, but it was a long-sleeved style that was rarely seen in the midsummer of July.
Wei Fuyuan: “……”
This clothing, he had seen it before. This was because the person wearing it was Bei Quan, who looked very impressive in it.
The police officer beside him was still rambling.
“No injuries, right? Is there anywhere that feels uncomfortable? Quickly check yourself to see whether any belongings on your person are missing.”
Wei Fuyuan grabbed the coat in his hand, and nodded towards the police officer.
“I’m fine.”
The police officer patted Wei Fuyuan’s shoulder and then admonished him.
“If there is nothing wrong, then hurry up and go home.”
Wei Fuyuan still did not say anything back to the officer and just nodded his head in understanding.
Waiting for the police officer to leave, he tightly clasped the thin black coat in his arms and said aloud ruthlessly, “Bei Quan, you bastard!”
I feel so bad for Wei Fuyuan
Thanks for the chapter ❤️❤️
I felt a pang in my heart the whole time😢
Fu— ohmahghad. I just wanna kidnap them and lock them up in a room!