Xi Yu had originally intended to say that he was going traveling, but the place probably had no signal. They wouldn’t be able to reach him then, and Shen Qing and Luo Yuan would likely worry, so he decided to tell them the truth.
Luo Cheng’an had been kidnapped before, and Xiaoman had mentioned it as well, so he naturally knew about that village. Grandpa Jiang had also come over two days ago and talked about that village.
Xi Yu wasn’t surprised that Luo Cheng’an had figured it out.
Xi Yu put down his chopsticks and looked at the worried people. “That place can’t do anything to me. I have something very important that I left there. I have to go.”
But Luo Cheng’an was so anxious that he practically jumped to his feet. He said to Shen Qing and Luo Yuan, “Dad! Mom! Say something!”
Luo Yuan and Shen Qing exchanged a glance, seeing helplessness in each other’s eyes.
As parents, they should interfere with Xi Yu’s decision. But even though they hadn’t been together for very long, they could already tell that their son was no ordinary person.
They couldn’t stop him. The two of them knew that, so they could only remain silent.
Seeing that neither of them would say anything, Luo Cheng’an went over and shook Xi Yu’s arm. “Bro, whatever you want, I can buy it for you. You’re not allowed to go! It’s way too dangerous there.”
Xi Yu brushed Luo Cheng’an’s hand away, saying each word firmly. “I’m going.”
“And I’m taking Lu Zhixing with me, too.”
Luo Yuan’s eyes widened.
“You two are eloping!”
Luo Yuan’s words rang out with such force that they seemed to echo throughout the enormous dining room.
Xi Yu was petrified. He stared at Luo Yuan in horror.
“Don’t talk nonsense!”
“Dad!” Luo Cheng’an was speechless. “I seriously don’t have time to mess around with you. Hurry up and tell Bro he’s not allowed to go!”
Of course Luo Yuan wanted to stop him. He wanted Xi Yu not to go even more than Luo Cheng’an did, but once Xi Yu had made up his mind, there was nothing they could do to interfere.
Shen Qing looked thoughtfully at Xi Yu. She wasn’t as agitated as Luo Yuan and Luo Cheng’an. She simply asked Xi Yu, “This morning’s news said Jiang Yunzheng woke up. Does that have something to do with you?”
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Xi Yu paused before nodding.
“Yes.”
“Then go,” Shen Qing said. “Protect yourself.”
Jiang Yunzheng had been unconscious for three years. Grandpa Jiang had said that so many doctors had been helpless, yet Xi Yu had been able to wake him up. And even in such dangerous situations on the variety show, Xi Yu had been able to deal with everything with ease.
She believed Xi Yu could protect himself.
Shen Qing didn’t know why Grandpa Jiang had come over that day saying that he had no way to save Jiang Yunzheng, only for Xi Yu to turn around and wake him up.
But she could sense that Xi Yu would never do something he wasn’t confident about.
Her son was that capable. Things other people couldn’t do, he could.
She believed her son had the ability to protect himself.
Xi Yu was different from them. He was destined for far greater things.
After receiving their permission, Xi Yu breathed a sigh of relief.
He was definitely going to Wutong Village. No one could stop him.
But if Shen Qing and Luo Yuan disagreed, he would feel somewhat guilty.
After all, he had survived by using the identity of “Xi Yu.” He couldn’t bring himself to do something that would make parents worried about their son feel even more distressed.
Although Xi Yu had obtained their agreement, he still repeatedly assured them that absolutely nothing would happen to him.
A sense of sorrow over the coming separation spread throughout the Luo family because Xi Yu couldn’t give them a date for his return.
But Xi Yu promised that he would come back.
One day in Heaven was a year on Earth. Even if he obtained Zhuohua and was able to return to Heaven, he would still stay with Shen Qing and Luo Yuan and live out an entire lifetime with them before leaving.
Shen Qing and Luo Yuan were somewhat downcast. Xi Yu couldn’t bear to look at them anymore, so after dinner, he hurried upstairs.
Luo Cheng’an followed right behind him, constantly pestering him. Xi Yu snapped his fingers and teleported Luo Cheng’an back onto his bed, where he fell into a deep sleep.
Xi Yu took a hot shower and lay in bed waiting for Lu Zhixing.
He estimated that things would go somewhat better for Lu Zhixing, because Lu Zhixing’s parents didn’t know what kind of place Wutong Village was.
With nothing better to do, Xi Yu picked up his phone to check what was happening online.
Lu Zhixing was still at the top of the trending searches, but the hashtags had undergone a complete transformation.
#SuixingSuoyuIsReal
#TwoHeartsInLove
#XiYuRunsIntoAFanAndShowersThemWithSugar
#EmperorLuSuccessfullyChasesHisLoveAndThrowsAroundTenMillionInRedEnvelopes
Xi Yu raised an eyebrow when he saw the ten-million-yuan red envelopes. He clicked into Lu Zhixing’s Weibo, only to notice that Lu Zhixing had reposted his “Two Hearts in Love” post.
The caption read:
“Everything in this world is you.”
He had even set up password red envelopes in the comments, totaling 13.14 million yuan.
Xi Yu snorted twice.
“Money with no humanity.”
He opened the comments section, and fireworks seemed to fill his screen.
[WHAT!!! WHAT!!!!]
[Mom! The CP I ship has become real!!!]
[Someone save me! They officially announced it!!!!]
[Brother Lu is awesome! Ten-million-yuan red envelopes!]
[If you knew that I happened to run into Yu Bao and got a handwritten ‘SuixingSuoyu is real’ from him before he and my Brother Lu officially announced their relationship, you’d think I had the best luck in the world too. (Photos) (Photos)]
Xi Yu noticed that the commenter’s ID was “A Bright Moon.” He knew it was Sheng Mingyue.
Xi Yu glanced at the attached photos and suddenly felt a little embarrassed.
He had written it himself.
For some reason, it felt vaguely immoral.
Although Lu Zhixing didn’t know his true identity right now, he knew!!!
A master and disciple officially announcing their relationship—even though it was fake—still felt strange to Xi Yu.
Like a thief covering his ears and pretending nothing was happening, he quickly scrolled past it, pretending he hadn’t seen the comment, and continued looking to see whether anyone was insulting Lu Zhixing.
But the more he looked, the stranger things became.
There were more and more pictures.
[Wedding photo.jpg]
[Who understands this? As a CP fan, watching Brother Lu get attacked and being powerless to do anything, only to suddenly get showered with sugar!!! That feeling!!!]
[99]
[That person who said they got Yu Bao’s beloved autograph—who knows if they just dreamed it up and wrote it themselves. (Pure hate comment)]
[Kissing photo.jpg]
[The person above did a great job with the edit. Look at the bed photo I drew. (Attached picture)]
Before Xi Yu’s brain could even process the words “bed photo,” his hand had already clicked on the image.
The next second, his eyes suddenly widened.
It was obvious that the artist who had posted it had extraordinary skill. His and Lu Zhixing’s faces were clear and vivid.
But could someone please tell him what the hell the two of them were doing in this drawing!!!!
Xi Yu’s pupils trembled as he stared at the image.
In the drawing, he was sitting on a stool, wearing a red shirt with his chest exposed. Looking down arrogantly, he was using a red-soled patent-leather shoe to lift Lu Zhixing’s chin.
And Lu Zhixing was wearing silver clothes…
No, he couldn’t even call them clothes.
They were more like silver chain-like things hanging down from his back, while across his chest…
Pink… pink…
Half-covered by the chains, barely visible.
His hands were bound behind his back, and his black suit pants were pulled extremely tight by his kneeling position, making it possible to see…
This, this, this…
Was this really a proper drawing?!
Xi Yu jolted and flung his phone far away.
The phone hit the floor-to-ceiling window on the balcony before falling down.
Good heavens, what had he just seen?!
The phone slid underneath the bed. Xi Yu could no longer see the picture, but the image in his mind refused to disappear.
These netizens…
Was this something they could actually draw?!
Xi Yu closed his eyes and rapidly shook his head, trying to erase the image from his mind.
But he couldn’t help thinking about Lu Zhixing in that drawing.
That posture.
That face being lifted by the tip of a shoe—clearly at someone else’s mercy, yet still completely unruffled, still devastatingly handsome.
And those eyes.
Those narrow, elongated eyes filled with an obsession and excitement that could barely be suppressed.
Xi Yu was skilled at painting, so he could appreciate even more clearly just how extraordinary the artist’s technique was.
It was obviously an inanimate image floating on white paper, yet those eyes seemed to give it a soul.
Xi Yu’s heart beat extremely fast. His throat felt itchy, and his cheeks burned.
A secret emotion that he couldn’t explain or define crept into his heart.
Xi Yu wanted to examine that strange feeling more closely, to figure out what it was, but he couldn’t.
So hot, Xi Yu thought.
Early autumn in the mortal realm is really hot.
So hot that it feels like my blood is about to burn.
Xi Yu realized he could no longer control his own thoughts.
He pushed the image out of his mind and tried to think about something else, but instead, he thought of something even more suggestive.
Within the illusion, in the pool of water, there had been the scales at Zhi Yue’s waist and those purple pupils.
They were clearly two different faces, yet at this moment, they seemed to overlap.
Pale jade-white skin, light pink…
Xi Yu’s heart pounded like thunder. His cheeks grew hotter and hotter, and his expression became frightened as he stiffly looked downward.
Fuck!
“Don’t you dare! Calm down!”
Xi Yu immediately smacked himself, then grimaced in pain.
Don’t you dare.
The person in the drawing was Lu Zhixing.
The person inside the illusion was Zhi Yue.
They were both his disciples!!!
How could he have such a filthy reaction toward his own disciple?!
Xi Yu took a deep breath.
While reciting the Heart-Clearing Mantra, he kept comforting himself that a man’s body didn’t always obey his will, and that anyone would inevitably react somewhat after seeing something like that.
But soon, he discovered that the Heart-Clearing Mantra was completely useless!
Xi Yu stared at the thing that had just calmed down and was now starting to “greet” him again…
He was practically going insane.
He really regretted looking at Weibo for no reason.
He was going to uninstall Weibo.
Uninstall it!
Xi Yu shifted his body and prepared to get out of bed to uninstall Weibo. Suddenly, there was a noise from the balcony.
He raised his eyes and came face-to-face with Lu Zhixing, who had just opened the floor-to-ceiling window.
The person who had been in his mind suddenly appeared right in front of him.
Xi Yu instantly froze.
Lu Zhixing followed the direction of Xi Yu’s outstretched hand and looked over.
There was a phone lying face-down.
He bent over to pick it up.
Xi Yu’s expression changed dramatically.
“Don’t touch it!”
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Although Xi Yu had spoken very quickly, Lu Zhixing’s movements were even faster.
When he picked up the phone, he accidentally lit up the screen.
That picture suddenly appeared before both of their eyes.
For the first time, Xi Yu felt that setting a password on his phone was absolutely necessary.
It’s over, Xi Yu thought.
Lu Zhixing froze too.
He stared straight at the picture on the screen, his mind going blank for a moment.
His attention was drawn to the indifferent expression on Xi Yu’s face in the drawing.
But before he could take a closer look, Xi Yu snatched the phone away and shut it off.