Just as the tension between the two was about to explode, the dorm door was suddenly pushed open from outside.
“Uh…” Mi Xiaobao’s small face instantly froze. He stood stuck in the doorway, staring blankly at the two people locked in confrontation inside. “What… is going on?”
“I think we came back at a pretty bad time.” Feng Qingyang dropped the hand behind his head, looking at the situation inside with a smacking of his lips. “Judging by how intact the room still is, they probably haven’t had time to start fighting yet?”
“Feng Qingyang!” Mi Xiaobao glared at him, then quickly ran forward and stood between the two. “What’s wrong? If there’s something, talk it out properly. You’re living in the same dorm, don’t start fighting.”
“There can’t be two kings in one territory.” Feng Qingyang shut the door behind him and walked inside, sitting down on the sofa with exaggerated dramatics.
“Feng Qingyang, you—”
Lian Qiguang withdrew Qianming, turned around expressionlessly, and walked toward his room.
“On departure day, I’ll wait for you.” Qiu Limò coldly threw down those words, then turned and cleanly returned to his own room as well.
“What did they mean?” Mi Xiaobao scratched his head in confusion at Qiu Limò’s sudden statement and looked at Feng Qingyang.
Feng Qingyang shrugged, lips curling as he signaled he had no clue.
Inside his room, Lian Qiguang lay on the bed with both hands behind his head, staring expressionlessly at the ceiling while filtering through Qiu Limò’s ability fluctuations in his mind.
Very familiar, yet also very strange. Completely impossible to grasp.
He clearly had never met him before, yet somehow it felt as though he had seen him somewhere long ago.
Beep! Beep!
His optical brain received a message. Lian Qiguang raised his hand, glanced at it expressionlessly, and casually opened it.
“Wife.”
Xiahou Shaoxuan appeared on the virtual screen.
“You’re injured?” Lian Qiguang sat up immediately, expressionless, having sharply caught the slight abnormality in Xiahou Shaoxuan’s face.
“No.” Seeing that Lian Qiguang was fine, Xiahou Shaoxuan loosened his collar and relaxed back into his chair. “I cleaned up some trash. They weren’t much of a threat, just too many of them, so it took some time.”
“Wife, your complexion doesn’t look too good.” Xiahou Shaoxuan frowned tightly as he stared at Lian Qiguang’s pale face.
“Training.” Lian Qiguang leaned against the bed and answered woodenly.
“Just training?” Xiahou Shaoxuan stared into Lian Qiguang’s eyes, voice low.
“…Dreams.” After a moment of silence, Lian Qiguang lowered his eyes expressionlessly. “I remembered some things… things I’d rather not remember.”
Lian Qiguang didn’t want to tell Xiahou Shaoxuan about his injuries.
“Wife, take care of yourself.” Looking at Lian Qiguang’s face hidden in shadow, Xiahou Shaoxuan didn’t ask what those memories were.
“I am taking care of myself.” Lian Qiguang raised his head and looked seriously at Xiahou Shaoxuan. “My ability has gotten stronger. A lot of people can’t beat me now. One day, I’ll be as strong as you.”
“Mm.” Looking at Lian Qiguang’s serious expression, Xiahou Shaoxuan couldn’t help smiling. A trace of amusement spread in his eyes. “My wife is fierce.”
“Oh right, wife.” As if remembering something, Xiahou Shaoxuan tapped a few times on the virtual screen. “The thing you asked me to investigate is done. I’m sending it to you now.”
“Wife.” After transmitting the information to Lian Qiguang, Xiahou Shaoxuan looked up again, now with a much more serious expression. “This boy called Qiu Limò isn’t simple. Be careful around him.”
“I know.” Lian Qiguang nodded expressionlessly. He naturally knew Qiu Limò wasn’t simple, otherwise he wouldn’t have asked Xiahou Shaoxuan to investigate him.
“There’s one more person whose information I want.”
“Whose?”
“Ji Renlin.”
“……”
Xiahou Shaoxuan’s face darkened.
“Shaoxuan, help me.” Sensing someone’s bad mood, Lian Qiguang thought for a moment, then forced a stiff smile, still looking wooden and dull.
“Wife, why do you want his information?” Xiahou Shaoxuan’s tone had turned unpleasant.
“Our academy is holding a training exercise. Free team formation, ten people per group. The location is at the border of District Four and District Five.”
“And then?” Xiahou Shaoxuan’s face grew darker and darker. He already had an idea.
“He wants to team up with me. He said he wants me to give him a chance. He wants to stay by my side, protect me, and watch over me.”
Lian Qiguang repeated Ji Renlin’s exact words expressionlessly.
“Wife.” Xiahou Shaoxuan looked at Lian Qiguang with a dark expression, faint bloodlust flickering in his eyes. He was now on the verge of exploding.
“Look!”
Seeing the violence gathering around him, Lian Qiguang suddenly raised his hand and revealed his optical brain.
“……”
“This is you.” Lian Qiguang expressionlessly tapped one of the contact entries.
The four words My Man shone brightly at the top.
Looking at Lian Qiguang’s expressionless but slightly blank little face, Xiahou Shaoxuan was silent for a long while. Then one hand moved to his forehead.
“Wife, let’s make it official.”
“What official procedure?” Lian Qiguang asked expressionlessly.
“Let’s get married. Make certain bastards give up.”
That last sentence was spoken through gritted teeth.
“Okay.” Looking at Xiahou Shaoxuan’s cold, rigid face, Lian Qiguang nodded expressionlessly.
“Wife…” Xiahou Shaoxuan froze slightly.
“When you come back someday, we’ll get married.”
Xiahou Shaoxuan was a very powerful man.
Lian Qiguang had never experienced love, nor did he understand the so-called love spoken of in the TV dramas he had seen.
He only knew that he didn’t dislike this man in front of him.
He didn’t dislike his touch, nor the intimate things he said.
He was different from the Crown Prince.
The Crown Prince’s existence was like an inescapable shackle, binding him tightly, restricting his freedom and his destination. What the Crown Prince brought him was endless responsibility—responsibilities that had never belonged to him.
But this man’s existence made him feel comfortable.
And safe.
That comfort came without guard, without restraint, without imprisonment.
That sense of security was something he had never imagined himself relying on.
There was no earth-shattering passion like in television dramas, no vows of eternal love like in books.
For Lian Qiguang, what Xiahou Shaoxuan gave him was simply a feeling.
No source.
No reason.
As though it had appeared out of nowhere.
A feeling impossible to explain, impossible to understand.
Something he had never experienced before.
“I want to follow you.” Lian Qiguang looked at Xiahou Shaoxuan seriously.
Just like how he once followed the Crown Prince.
But… it was different.
Before, with the Crown Prince, it was loyalty.
With Xiahou Shaoxuan, he simply wanted to follow him.
“……”
Xiahou Shaoxuan fell silent.
“Wife, let’s have a child.”
After a long silence, Xiahou Shaoxuan spoke in a low voice.
…………
Night had grown deep.
After saying goodnight to Xiahou Shaoxuan, Lian Qiguang lay in bed, staring expressionlessly at the now-dark optical brain, completely unable to sleep.
After an unknown amount of time, Lian Qiguang sat up and lazily leaned against the headboard. From his space, he took out a book he had accidentally stored away during a town-clearing mission.
He opened to where he had left off and continued flipping through it expressionlessly.
Book title:
101 Ways to Win Over Your Wife
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