Chapter 90
So, once again, Fang Chaozhou went to Zhichun Island.
This was his fourth time visiting, and he thought this time he might still have to wait a while before seeing Xue Danrong. However, as soon as he broke through the barrier of Xue Danrong’s cave, he saw him inside changing clothes.
Xue Danrong heard the sound, glanced sideways, and upon seeing Fang Chaozhou, he didn’t say anything. He simply took off his snow-white robe and put it on the nearby chair.
Fang Chaozhou was feeling a bit awkward now. After all, he had previously agreed to only sleep with Xue Danrong once, and here he was again.
“Um…,” Fang Chaozhou stammered.
Xue Danrong turned around, his gaze calm, “Did you bring the antidote?”
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Fang Chaozhou seriously pondered for a moment and finally gave an ambiguous answer, “It depends on your performance.”
This performance was just too good.
The next day, Fang Chaozhou felt like his bones were completely shattered. He couldn’t even get up when he heard the sound of Xue Danrong getting out of bed. He couldn’t even open his eyes.
“When you wake up, will you give me the antidote?” Xue Danrong’s voice brought some of Fang Chaozhou’s consciousness back, but also gave him the confidence to continue sleeping in his bed.
“I will, but you can’t disturb me,” Fang Chaozhou replied.
Xue Danrong looked at the young man lying on the bed with his eyes closed but still threatening him. After a moment, he reached out and gently touched the youth’s face. With just one touch, the face returned to the false one Fang Chaozhou had used when he first arrived last night.
After the face returned to normal, Xue Danrong got up and left the cave. Before leaving, he set up a barrier around the cave, allowing no one in or out.
Fang Chaozhou had a very peaceful sleep, with no one talking or any strange smells around. It was as if he was surrounded by clouds, and a cold fragrance enveloped him. Of course, it would have been even better if his waist and legs weren’t so sore when he woke up.
When he finally woke up, he found himself alone in the cave.
He supported his waist and lifted the blanket, intending to put on his clothes from the previous day. However, when he picked up the old clothes from the ground, his face froze, and he threw them back down.
They were completely unwearable, tattered and covered in strange marks.
As he discarded the clothes, he noticed a set of clothes placed on the nearby stool. They seemed to belong to Xue Danrong.
Did Xue Danrong have this habit? Preparing tomorrow’s clothes in advance?
Truly deserving of the top spot on the Twelve Beauties Ranking, he cared about his dressing.
Fang Chaozhou stifled a yawn, then searched his storage ring and found a new set of clothes to wear. With his exhausted body, he left Xue Danrong’s cave.
As soon as he stepped outside, he was startled.
Was it not yet dawn, or had it already become night?
Standing there for a while, Fang Chaozhou quickly reached a conclusion—it was already nighttime.
Zhichun Island during the daytime wasn’t this cold.
He had actually slept until the evening. He needed to hurry back. Because he had spent the day on Zhichun Island, when Fang Chaozhou returned to his accommodation, he transformed back into a sparrow and slipped in through the window gap.
As soon as he entered, he saw brown chicken.
More accurately, he saw brown chicken wearing the face he had transformed into, and it seemed like they were drinking with their roommates. The brown chicken seemed a bit drunk, with a bright red face and making incomprehensible clucking noises.
The others were also quite drunk, clapping and praising, “You sound great!”
Brown chicken chuckled, “What’s this? Watch me really show off.” With that, it started singing.
Perhaps due to its racial advantage, even in this drunken state, brown chicken’s singing was very pleasant to listen to. The others praised it even more, and the previous incomprehensible clucking was now being acclaimed.
“It’s simply a divine voice!”
“The songstress in the music hall can’t sing as beautifully as Senior Fang! I never expected you to possess such talent!”
“Such music belongs only in heaven; it’s rare to hear it in the mortal realm!”
Fang Chaozhou watched as brown chicken enjoyed itself so much, and he didn’t try to stop it. However, things gradually spiraled out of control. Being praised to the skies, brown chicken not only sang but also started dancing. It spun in place, completing over a hundred rotations, leaving Fang Chaozhou feeling dizzy.
That night, Fang Zhuo, an outer disciple, became famous for his singing and dancing skills, so much so that even Yao Yucheng had heard about it.
“Brother Fang, why didn’t you tell me that you could dance?” Yao Yucheng complained, seemingly a bit upset. “I heard it from others; they said you spun around a hundred times that day.”
Fang Chaozhou: “…”
It wasn’t him; he couldn’t do that.
Fang Chaozhou cleared his throat. “No, that’s just a rumor. We were all drunk that day. I don’t know how to dance.”
Yao Yucheng’s expression instantly turned unhappy. “Brother Fang, don’t lie to me. I saw it with my own eyes, and some people even recorded it with a Mirage Ball, but they only recorded the second half of your dance.”
A Mirage Ball was a magical tool, divided into three grades: lower, middle, and upper. Lower-grade Mirage Balls could record scenes, but only one segment at a time. If you recorded another segment, the previous one would disappear. Middle-grade Mirage Balls could record multiple segments on top of what the lower-grade could do, while upper-grade Mirage Balls were even more formidable. When watching the recorded scenes, they could be mistaken for reality and real people if not touched.
Fang Chaozhou: “…”
Who had such little morality to secretly record a short video?
“Brother Fang, do you dislike me?” Yao Yucheng couldn’t help but speak when he saw Fang Chaozhou remaining silent.
“No, it’s just that…” Fang Chaozhou hesitated for a moment before coming up with an excuse. “I can only dance after drinking. I can’t dance normally.”
Yao Yucheng was taken aback. “You can only dance after drinking?”
“Yes, didn’t you watch the Mirage Ball? Wasn’t it obvious that I was clearly drunk?” Fang Chaozhou explained.
After recalling the scene, Yao Yucheng smiled again. “Right, Senior Fang, your face was so red when you danced; you must have been drunk. I’m sorry; I shouldn’t have misunderstood you and thought you were avoiding dancing for me.”
Fang Chaozhou looked at Yao Yucheng’s innocent face and suddenly felt that he had been a bit too much. “You don’t need to apologize. It was just a misunderstanding.”
“No, I should apologize to you. My mother always said that if there’s a mistake, one should apologize, so that the relationship can last.” Yao Yucheng said, turning his face slightly away in shyness.
This sudden shyness caught Fang Chaozhou off guard. Before he could react, Yao Yucheng turned his face back, now wearing a familiar infatuated expression, even more intense than before.
“Brother Fang, when should we go and have some drinks?”
“Huh?” Fang Chaozhou was bewildered. “What do you mean, have some drinks?”
Yao Yucheng’s smile deepened at the corner of his lips. “Brother Fang just said that you can only dance after drinking, right? So, when should we go for drinks, and then you can dance for me?”
Fang Chaozhou opened his mouth but could only muster an excuse, “Let’s do it another day. You should hurry back and focus on your cultivation, don’t let it affect your studies.”
In other people’s eyes, “another day” meant never, but for Yao Yucheng, it meant just a few days later. Content with the response, he happily left.
On his way back, Yao Yucheng encountered another pleasant surprise.
“Junior Martial Uncle!” Seeing the figure from afar, he called out.
Xue Danrong looked at the approaching figure with cold eyes and was about to leave when he suddenly paused, taking another glance at Yao Yucheng. Then, he halted his steps.
Yao Yucheng walked up to Xue Danrong with joy, calling out again, “Junior Martial Uncle.”
“Where are you coming from?” Xue Danrong’s voice matched his cold gaze.
If someone else used this tone and expression with Yao Yucheng, he would feel hurt, but it was Xue Danrong. Being handsome and having a bad temper was to be expected.
“I’m coming from Senior Fang’s place,” Yao Yucheng chirped, “I forgot that Junior Martial Uncle doesn’t know who Senior Fang is.”
When Xue Danrong heard the words “Senior Fang,” his expression suddenly changed, but the dull-witted Yao Yucheng didn’t notice. In fact, he was so excited by Xue Danrong’s willingness to engage in conversation about his life and friends that his heart almost jumped out of his chest.
“You can tell me who he is.”
Goodness, Junior Martial Uncle actually wanted to know about his life and friends!
Yao Yucheng couldn’t contain his smile any longer, and he poured out all the details without reservation.
“Brother Fang is a friend I made when I first joined the sect. He’s really nice; the first time we met, he lent me a bug-repelling medicine. We hit it off instantly and even slept on the same bed that night. Even after I became an inner disciple and he remained an outer disciple, he never felt jealous of me. Instead, he encouraged me to cultivate. By the way, Brother Fang has become quite famous in the sect recently. He performed a dance, and oh my, I watched it, and no one can dance better than him. So, today, I went to him and asked him to dance for me.”
As Yao Yucheng kept talking, he didn’t notice the faint black aura that flickered across Xue Danrong’s brow upon hearing his words.
“Really?” Xue Danrong’s voice was soft. “He treats you so well, does he like you?”
Upon hearing this question, Yao Yucheng’s face blushed crimson. “I… I and Brother Fang… ” He recalled the times Fang Chaozhou had playfully scared him, tickled his palm, and pulled him up from the ground. “I don’t know. I just feel that Brother Fang is a good person.”
Xue Danrong’s hand beneath his sleeve moved slightly, and just then, another person’s voice came from afar.
“Junior Martial Uncle Xue, what are you doing here?”
Xue Danrong shifted his gaze away from Yao Yucheng’s neck and looked at the approaching person. He nodded slightly and turned to leave.
Yao Yucheng was momentarily stunned when he saw Xue Danrong suddenly leaving. Coincidentally, he ran into his emotional counselor on his way back to Sizhi Peak.
“Junior Martial Nephew, why do you have that expression again?”
Yao Yucheng immediately walked over and said with a puzzled expression, “Uncle, you have to help me analyze this.”
After listening to Yao Yucheng’s explanation, his uncle rubbed his chin and shook his head. “What’s so hard to understand about this? She was jealous, that’s why she asked if the other person likes you. And your response made her angry, so she just left in a huff. Junior Martial Nephew, you’re truly something. Two people fighting over you, have you decided whom to choose?”
Yao Yucheng felt both happy and conflicted.
His junior martial uncle was beautiful and had high cultivation, while Brother Fang, though not as handsome, had a good personality and was kind to him. Oh, why did they both have to fall for him? His mother was right; being too popular was not easy. He didn’t know whom to choose. Why did they both have to like him?
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Yao Yucheng in his delulu era (≧▽≦)
when he learns the truth, how deep is the pit he wants to bury himself in XD
The performance was too good lol.
Oh those two.