It’s spring outside the window, and peach blossoms are adorning the treetops.

“XiaoTranslator's Note:小，prefix used to indicate informality or affectionLinzi, stop reading. The weather is good today. Come out and have some fun in the sun.” Hearing Bai Xiaosheng calling him, Yu Lin slowly finished reading the text, picked up a peach flower that fell on the desk, and solemnly pressed it between the pages of the book.

It’s like reading is such a sacred thing.

When the book was completely closed, the large gold-plated characters on the cover were revealed – “Yunmeng Ze Nightmare Book”, which seemed to be a best-selling supernatural novel in Yunmeng Ze in recent times.

“Xiao Linzi, come here.” Seeing someone coming out, Bai Xiaosheng waved at him and introduced the child hiding behind him to him, “This is Chu Yi, your Shidi.”

Yu Lin stood on the steps, squinting his eyes as he looked at his new Shidi. He was standing closely behind Bai Xiaosheng, rubbing the corner of his robe with his hands, and the half of his face that was exposed was tense, with vigilance and anxiety written in his eyes.

Yu Lin jumped down the stairs, ran to Bai Xiaosheng in two steps, and raised his hand to touch the new kid’s head. However, Chu Yi stepped back in fear as if he was avoiding the plague god, and sat down on the ground unsteadily.

Yu Lin’s hand missed and he was stunned for a moment. Then he withdrew his hand as if nothing had happened, turned around and walked towards the bamboo house.

“Hey, Xiao Linzi.”

Bai Xiaosheng was just about to help Chu Yi explain a few words when he saw his eldest disciple turn a corner, walk to the flowers and plants planted under the windowsill, pick a peony bud that was about to bloom, pick it back again, lean over and put it in Chu Yi’s arm, clapping his hands with a smile, and his delicate face already revealed his future beauty that would captivate the whole country.

My Rouge-point Jade… Bai Xiaosheng watched helplessly as his eldest disciple suddenly “brutally destroyed the flower” and felt a pang of heartache.

Yu Lin vaguely discovered that Chu Yi didn’t seem to like interacting with people. He might have been too reckless and scared him, so he just squatted down to look at him at eye level. After a long time, he looked up at Bai Xiaosheng, who had a sad face, and asked crisply: “Master, my Shidi is so cute, why are you not happy?”

Bai Xiaosheng paused, and did not answer, but picked him up. So on Chu Yi’s first day in Yunmeng Ze, he watched his Shixiong being spanked.

2

“Shidi, are you hot?” After writing the last word, Yu Lin put down his pen, picked up the gold-sprinkled rice paper, blew on it, then pressed it with the inkstone and shouted to Chu Yi who was practicing sword outside the window.

Hearing this, Chu Yi sheathed his sword and wiped the sweat off his forehead with a handkerchief. “It’s not very hot.” He looked up at the sky, the sound of cicadas lingering in his ears. The humid weather easily made people restless, so he asked, “Shixiong, are you thirsty?”

“Not bad.”

Having said that, Chu Yi still put down the sword, trotted to the kitchen, and brought him a bowl of cold mung bean soup.

“Oh, my Shidi is so thoughtful.” Yu Lin dragged out the tone, grabbed the hand that wanted to be retracted, and hooked it frivolously in his palm.

Chu Yi has been in Yunmeng Ze for eight years and is no longer as withdrawn as before. He is willing to communicate with him, has less physical contact with him, and now he will hold him back when he falls asleep while watching the stars together.

Yu Lin also roughly understood why he had always been unwilling to get close to him. He didn’t know who took advantage of the death of his parents to instill in him the idea that “he was doomed to fail and anyone who got close to him would die“, making this good kid shrink into a corner all day long and isolate himself from the outside world.

Chu Yi was suddenly a little thirsty after being hooked by this. He pursed his lips and silently pulled his hand back, but saw Yu Lin pushing the mung bean soup in front of him and said to him in a pleasant voice: “Shidi, you have practiced sword for so long, you must be very thirsty, you drink first.”

Chu Yi has grown very fast in the past year, perhaps because of his diligent martial arts training, and he is about to surpass Bai Xiaosheng. He lowered his eyes to look at the bowl in front of him, and also looked down at Yu Lin, his eyes fell on the slender and fragile neck, then slid along the half-open collar to the collarbone, and his throat rolled secretly.

Yu Lin was rather lazy and would stay at home whenever possible, so he became increasingly bored and paler. When he teased Chu Yi, he would be held on the wrist by his hands, leaving red marks. If he accidentally fell, the bruises on his body would look even more horrible than the injuries on Chu Yi, a martial artist.

If he sucks it gently, he doesn’t know what kind of mark it will leave.

Chu Yi was startled by the thought that suddenly popped into his mind. He hurriedly picked up the bowl and gulped down a big gulp, trying to calm the evil fire that suddenly rose in his heart.

In the end, Chu Yi didn’t know whether Yu Lin did it on purpose or not, but he watched him take a sip from the place where he had just drunk, and then looked up and smiled at him.

Looking at that pair of moist thin lips, Chu Yi’s evil fire suddenly burned even more vigorously.

That night he had an extremely beautiful dream about Yu Lin. After waking up, he went to the lake with a wooden face to wash his soiled undergarments.

3

Not long after, the tall and handsome man that Bai Xiaosheng picked up woke up. He said he wanted to thank the man for saving his life and paying back the money he owed for medicine, and he stayed in Yunmeng Ze begging for mercy.

Bai Xiaosheng complained that he was in the way, but he actually took him in.

“Master is always like this, with a sharp tongue but a soft heart.” Yu Lin hooked his arms around Chu Yi’s neck and whispered in his ear. His breath fell on his cheek, making him feel itchy and a little distracted.

The most taboo thing in martial arts is a restless mind. Chu Yi silently recited the calming mantra he had just learned, feeling slightly better.

At the age of fifteen or sixteen, it’s easy to be impulsive. But what Chu Yi didn’t expect was not himself, but Yu Lin.

He actually went to visit a brothel!

At that time, Yu Lin was asking the courtesan how to woo the person he liked. As a result, Bai Xiaosheng descended from the sky and gave him a beating without saying a word. Yu Lin felt quite wronged.

Bai Xiaosheng didn’t expect to have such a prodigal under his roof, and he was so angry that he didn’t eat for several days, reflecting on whether there was a problem with his teaching methods.

Bai Xiaosheng didn’t have the heart to be heavy-handed, and the injuries on Yu Lin’s body just looked terrifying. He lay on the bed and whimpered at Chu Yi, almost in tears, “Shidi, can you help me apply some medicine? I can’t reach it.”

The anger that Chu Yi inexplicably felt was dissipated by his whimpering.

When the fingertips stained with ointment gently stroked Yu Lin’s smooth and delicate back, Chu Yi felt his body changing and thought he was completely trapped.

Yu Lin turned his head back intending to chat with him, but saw such an awkward scene. He was slightly stunned, and by the time he came back to his senses, Chu Yi had already put down the ointment and fled in a hurry.

4

Two years passed, and Yu Lin and Chu Yi were still ambiguous. Every time Yu Lin wanted to mention it, Chu Yi would talk around it, and sometimes he would simply play dumb.

Bai Xiaosheng was also unclear with Cheng Louzhu. Such a smart person couldn’t recognize his own feelings, let alone guide Yu Lin. Out of helplessness, Yu Lin had to go to the brothel several times to try to find someone to solve the problem. But in the end, he would be taken back by Chu Yi before Bai Xiaosheng found him.

Chu Yi’s handsome face was stern, and he was stingy enough to not even give Yu Lin a look no matter how he teased.

Is it over, is he being disliked? Before Yu Lin could figure out this problem, his royal brother sent a letter to Bai Xiaosheng, urgently wanting to take him back: eighteen years old, it’s time to leave the sect.

On the day Yu Lin was leaving, Chu Yi touched alcohol for the first time, but he couldn’t get drunk no matter how much he drank. He had to pretend to be drunk to see Yu Lin off, and then under the moonlight of Chu Tian, he forcibly kissed those lips that he had kissed countless times in his dreams, just as soft as he had imagined.

The body in his arms seemed to melt into a puddle of spring water.

He heard Yu Lin laugh lightly as he hugged his neck, “Shidi, you’re too young, do you really know what it means to like someone?”

He understood, he understood two years ago, but he couldn’t say it.

He had been fantasizing about his Shixiong for two whole years, and he felt that this affection was too salty. He didn’t even dare to look at Yu Lin’s expression, but before Yu Lin said something irreversible, he pushed him away and ran away stumblingly.

Yu Lin stood behind him, his frivolous smile faded, and he sighed deeply: They were originally two princes, and their two countries were always incompatible with each other. This farewell might become a permanent farewell. He couldn’t ruin Chu Yi’s future for his own selfishness.

That’s not really liking him.

5

Actually, Yu Lin still had selfish intentions. He had been looking forward to Chu Yi for eight years. Not to mention seeing him leading the cavalry to break through the royal city, even the towns on the border, but Chu Yi did not move.

All the fallen cities were handed out by his stupid royal brother.

He could see clearly that this Yu country would be ruined sooner or later by his royal brother.

Before the country was destroyed, King Yu even lost his face, trading his own younger brother as a commodity in order to save himself.

Yu Lin was so angry that he rushed to the palace and beat him up, but unfortunately, he still couldn’t wake him upTranslator's Note:put some sense into him.

After eight years of separation, he and Chu Yi met again. The two of them kept silent about the past, and Chu Yi was still the same, ambiguously flirting with him.

Yu Lin tried all the tricks he learned in the brothel, but he could only face that passionate love face to face, completely unable to guess what Chu Yi was thinking.

He obviously likes himself, and he obviously reacts to himself, but why doesn’t he want to touch him!

Yu Lin thought bitterly, completely unaware that Chu Yi just wanted to present the best to him.

6

Another year of lush grass and singing birds.

Yu Lin sat on a tree branch, raised his hand to break off a peach blossom, and smiled at the person standing under the tree.

Chu Yi was holding all kinds of flowers and plants in his arms, looking up at him, a peach blossom unexpectedly fell in front of his eyes.

Yu Lin’s eyebrows and eyes were curved, and he praised without stinginess: “My Shidi is really handsome.”

Chu Yi lightly tapped his toes, landed next to him, pinned the peach blossom to his temples, and bent down to kiss his brow.

The breeze was light and intoxicating, brushing against their clothes. The peach blossoms were smiling, and the spring scenery was just right.

Despite Bai Xiaosheng’s repeated warnings, Yu Lin still couldn’t help but send out several messages.

All the pigeons carrying the messages were intercepted by Bai Xiaosheng, who killed them, plucked their feathers, boiled them in water, and then gave them to Chu Yi.

Yu Lin looked at the extra bowl of pigeon soup on the table every day, his mouth twitching, and finally gave up muddling the waters. But he simply couldn’t sit still, and it was fine to tease chickens and dogs, but he also had to tease Chu Yi a couple of times, the kind that ran away after teasing.

Chu Yi seemed indifferent on the surface, like a piece of wood, but he silently kept a few notes in his heart, deciding to spare him for now and plan to slowly get back at him after they got married.

Cheng Louzhu returned to Yunmeng Ze after nearly ten days, and Yu Lin borrowed a card from a family and enthusiastically played Pai GowTranslator's Note:also called double-hand poker with them, taking turns as the dealer.

Yu Lin had been wanting to draw a turtle on his master’s face for a long time, and he was eager to try, but he was the only one among the four who was not familiar with the rules, and he lost to Chu Yi in the first round.

Chu Yi was not polite, took the pen and dipped it in a cinnabar, propped up Yu Lin’s chin and drew a few strokes on his brow seemingly casually.

“Is it finished so quickly?” Yu Lin was surprised: It doesn’t feel like a turtle…

He wanted to reach out and touch it, but Chu Yi held his wrist: “Don’t touch it, it won’t look good if you smudge it.”

Bai Xiaosheng looked at the face and took a light breath, somewhat dissatisfied: “Shaoze, where is this punishment, it is clearly rewarding him.”

With a few strokes, a red lotus-shaped flower was outlined on Yu Lin’s brow, making his already beautiful face even more stunning. It was like the mountain and forest spirits described in the storybooks who turned into human form to repay their kindness. They seemed beautiful and tempting, but their eyes were innocent and clear, contradictory yet fitting.

Yu Lin tilted his head in confusion: “Why are you all looking at me? You’ve known that I’m good-looking since the first day.”

Bai Xiaosheng couldn’t help but roll his eyes at his words, reached out to reshuffle the cards, and dealt them out one by one.

As a result, Yu Lin lost again, and still lost to Chu Yi.

Chu Yi was speechless after seeing his cards: “Ding-three, two-four… why did you split the supreme cards to play?”

“Eh? Combined it’s nine, I thought it was small.” Yu Lin didn’t know what Chu Yi had drawn on his brow and forehead just now, but looking at Bai Xiaosheng and Cheng Louzhu’s reactions, it should suit his face, and he looked at him expectantly.

Chu Yi picked up the cinnabar pen again and gently dotted the corner of Yu Lin’s eye.

Cheng Louzhu couldn’t help it: “Chu Shuai, isn’t your favoritism too obvious?”

Yu Lin glanced at him: “Since he won, he can naturally draw whatever he wants.” The teardrop just dotted at the corner of his slightly raised eye added a bit of wickedness to him.

Chu Yi’s throat rolled imperceptibly.

After losing two rounds, Yu Lin understood the rules. Although he couldn’t win against Chu Yi, who was so lucky that he didn’t know how to describe it, he wouldn’t lose anymore.

Yu Lin failed to draw a turtle on his master’s face, so he encouraged Chu Yi, who had been winning. Chu Yi shook his head and drew a “Zheng” character on Cheng Louzhu and Bai Xiaosheng’s arms in a proper manner.

A snow-colored falcon landed on Bai Xiaosheng’s shoulder, and he casually threw the cards in his hand: “It’s no fun playing with you two brats, I can’t win a single round.” He said, raising his hand to pull out a note from the bamboo tube tied to the hawk’s foot, unfolded it, “tsk”ed, and started to drive people away, “Prince Min successfully forced the palace and pushed his son to the throne, how long do you two plan to stay here?”

Yu Lin: ??? Wasn’t it you, Master, who forcibly kept us here?

Chu Yi pulled him up and bowed to the two elders: “Master, on the day when Qinglan and I get married, I hope you and Master Cheng will show up.”

Bai Xiaosheng waved his hand and said as a matter of course: “We will definitely go. If not, who will you two go to pay respect to?” He pointed in the direction of Shengmendu and said, “Someone is coming.”

The new King of Qi was much kinder than Qi Huan, and he specially sent people to Yunmeng Ze to invite Chu Yi and Yu Lin to go back.

Bai Xiaosheng watched the two of them leave, lowering his eyes to look at his palms. Rumor has it that Bai Xiaosheng is “a man of destiny, a man of life and death”. The whole world is under his control, but why can’t he feel at ease?

Cheng Louzhu stepped forward and held his hand, intertwining their fingers: “Don’t think about it anymore, this time it was the people invited by Prince Min who did it, it has nothing to do with you.”

So don’t carry the lives of those irrelevant people on yourself anymore, it’s not worth it.

Cheng Louzhu didn’t quite understand, the two juniors were here, Bai Xiaosheng was obviously much happier, why was he so impatient to drive people away?

Bai Xiaosheng saw what he was thinking, sighed, and said quietly: “The Jianghu and the government are all quite afraid of me. If they stay here for too long, I will implicate them.” He turned his head and smiled at Cheng Louzhu, “It’s actually quite good to stay in Yunmeng Ze. At least I won’t become a stumbling block for the two of them.”

After arriving in Luoyang, Chu Yi went to the palace to meet the new king, and the first thing Yu Lin did when he returned to the General’s mansion was to find Xiao Mianzhi and ask him to go to the Fusheng Pavilion.

Xiao Mianzhi looked pale: “The first article of the Zhenbei Army’s military law is that you cannot visit prostitutes. Prince Ning, aren’t you hurting me?”

Yu Lin looked puzzled: “I just asked you to buy a jar of Drunken spring Breeze. I have tasted wine from several restaurants and found that the one brewed by Fu Sheng Pavilion is the best.”

Xiao Mianzhi: “Why do you want to buy wine?”

Yu Lin smiled slyly and lowered his voice: “The new king has ascended the throne, and that idiot Qi Huan is dead. It’s natural to celebrate and have fun with your General.”

Xiao Mianzhi: … You can just ask a servant to buy wine, why did you call me back from the barracks? Just to show him that they are together?

Xiao Mianzhi thought he was mentally ill and left the General’s Mansion angrily, but in the end he still sent someone to give him a jar of Fusheng Pavilion’s Drunken Spring Breeze.

When Chu Yi came back, he saw Yu Lin sitting on a five-colored peach tree with a jar of wine in his arms. They had been gone for more than a month, and the peach blossoms had already withered, but now the whole peach tree was lush and green.

Seeing him coming, Yu Lin smiled and waved, then patted the branches beside him, motioning Chu Yi to sit next to him.

“You can’t drink alcohol, right?”

“Just drink one glass, the rest is yours.” As he said that, Yu Lin broke the seal of the wine jar, raised his head and took a sip, then put his arm around Chu Yi’s neck and kissed him. The wine that he hadn’t swallowed in time flowed down the corners of his lips, slid over his graceful neck, and sank into his clothes, and a slight moan escaped from his teeth.

Chu Yi, who should have been able to drink a thousand cups without getting drunk, seemed a little tipsy. He ran her fingers through his untied black hair, clasped the back of his head, and deepened the kiss.

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“Master, what are you playing…” Before Yu Lin could finish his sentence, he was pushed aside by Chu Yi, avoiding Bai Xiaosheng’s sword. However, the long hair hanging down his neck was cut off by the sword’s aura.

Bai Xiaosheng was serious.

Yunmeng Ze, as a paradise, does not belong to any country and is entirely protected by Bai Xiaosheng. Anyone who intrudes, no matter who they are, must compete with Bai Xiaosheng, either in literature or martial arts.

Yu Lin had broken through the Qimen Dunjia test and was classified by Bai Xiaosheng as literary. Chu Yi naturally fell into the category of martial arts.

Thinking of this, Chu Yi’s face became slightly tense, and he immediately drew his sword and fought with him. The clanging sound of swords and knives was endless. Bai Xiaosheng twirled a sword flower, and even the most basic swordsmanship was danced by him with great elegance, which was unique to the chivalry of the rivers and lakes, Chu Yi, on the other hand, was open and close, with the decisive and fierce determination of life and death on the battlefield, forcing Bai Xiaosheng to retreat again and again.

Yu Lin watched the two of them fight as if they were not related, and didn’t know what was wrong with them.

Bai Xiaosheng turned around, used his sword to block Chu Yi’s downward slash, and kicked him in the shoulder. The sword flew out of his hand, and Chu Yi staggered a few steps, and was quickly helped by Yu Lin who had rushed up.

Bai Xiaosheng sheathed his sword, walked up to the two with a stern face, and raised his hand to hit Yu Lin with the scabbard, “I made you a bad boy, I made you go to brothels, I made you leave and never come back for eight years…”

Chu Yi firmly protected him in his arms, was hit hard, and groaned a few times without daring to resist. As a result, after Bai Xiaosheng finished beating Yu Lin, he turned to teach him, “You just know how to protect him, except for his good brain, everything else has been spoiled by you.”

The two of them, both in their twenties, stood pitifully by the lake in Yunmeng Ze, being beaten, and not far away were the people living in Yunmeng Ze, all curiously poking their heads out.

After venting his frustration, Bai Xiaosheng stepped on the clear waves and led the two to his residence.

“Master.” Chu Yi called him helplessly.

“What are you doing?” Bai Xiaosheng turned his head and asked with a feigned harsh voice.

Yu Lin wanted to laugh but didn’t dare to, and pointed to the other side, “You went the wrong way, it’s that direction.”

Bai Xiaosheng, who was known as a road idiot in Yunmeng Ze, said with a profound face, “I am testing whether your light work has been abandoned.”

Bai Xiaosheng, who is well known for his poor sense of direction in Yunmeng Ze, said with a profound look on his face: “Master is testing whether your QinggongTranslator's Note:The use of qinggong has been exaggerated in wuxia fiction, in which martial artists have the ability to move swiftly and lightly at superhuman speed, and perform gravity-defying moves such as running on water surfaces, traversing across rooftops, and even balancing on a stalk of grass.has been neglected.”

When Yu Lin saw Bai Xiaosheng’s messy house, he couldn’t help but pull Chu Yi to lower his voice and whisper in his ear: “You’re still talking about me. Since Master Cheng is not here, no one is following Master to clean up.”

Being so close, even if the voice was suppressed very low, Bai Xiaosheng could still hear it clearly with his hearing. He pretended to hit again, but the slap didn’t fall, and he walked into the room while muttering to himself, “Why mention him, he hasn’t come back for three days after dealing with the affairs of the sect… Eh? How come this broken house doesn’t even have a place to stay?” He looked back at the two who didn’t know which foot to step on first, “And you two, why do you have to learn from me and him to be homosexual?”

Yu Lin couldn’t help but retort, “When I liked Shaoze, you hadn’t even figured things out with Master Cheng.” Seeing Bai Xiaosheng start to roll up his sleeves, he quickly covered his face and retreated, “Master, don’t hit the face.” He was still hoping to use this face to sleep with Chu Yi, although he was a bit scared when he thought about that person’s size now.

Bai Xiaosheng rolled his eyes, thinking that the eldest disciple’s brain might have been protected by Chu Yi. He found two hair bands to tie up his wide sleeves, and ordered the two juniors to clean up the room for him, while he went out.

Yu Lin saw his posture and had a bad feeling, “Master, what are you going to do?”

Bai Xiaosheng looked puzzled, “Cook dinner, or what are we going to eat?”

Yu Lin, Chu Yi:……It’s over.

Chu Yi said with difficulty, “Master, you rest, I’ll do it.”

Bai Xiaosheng: “It doesn’t make sense to let guests cook.”

Yu Lin came to his senses and also persuaded, “Master, you are being estranged. It is my duty as a disciple to cook for you.”

When Cheng Louzhu and Chu Yi hadn’t come to Yunmeng Ze, Bai Xiaosheng had cooked a few times. The color was bright and the taste was okay. But Yu Lin ate it and doubted his life, once thinking that he was too poisoned and would die.

The people of Yunmeng Ze saw him as a poor little boy, so they took him to their homes for meals. So Yu Lin just kept eating at other people’s homes until Chu Yi came.

Chu Yi was two years younger than him. When he saw Chu Yi stepping on a small stool and struggling to climb onto the stove, he felt a little sorry for him, so he wanted to overcome his laziness and tiptoe to the edge of the stove to learn how to cook.

But the final result was that he was half a catty with Bai Xiaosheng, so he gave up decisively and let Chu Yi do it. Although Chu Yi was young at that time, the things he made could barely be eaten, and he wouldn’t vomit or have diarrhea after eating. The three of them just made do until Bai Xiaosheng picked up Cheng Louzhu.

After dinner, Bai Xiaosheng praised Chu Yi’s cooking skills, and then led the two to the small shrine in Yunmeng Ze. He took their birth papers from the front of the statue, “I know why you came to Yunmeng Ze, I have already calculated your birth eight characters for you, and also asked for fortune.” He paused, “May 9th and October 26th are both good days, you can choose any day to get married, it depends on whether you are in a hurry or not.”

The purpose of coming to Yunmeng Ze has been achieved, and Bai Xiaosheng did not rush the two away, “After you left Luoyang, Prince Min began to plot to usurp the throne. If you don’t want to wade into this muddy water, just stay in Yunmeng Ze for a while, the room you used to sleep in is still there.” His expression was a bit vicissitudes of life, and he sighed long, “You two also don’t just have each other in your eyes, come back and see me more often when you have time.” He will not marry and have children in his life, and he regards Chu Yi and Yu Lin as his own. Now that the children have grown up and their wings have hardened, and they have found a place to live, this makes him very relieved.

In the eyes of Chu Yi and Yu Lin, Yunmeng Ze is their hometown, and Bai Xiaosheng, who nurtured them and taught them literacy and martial arts, is their closest family.

Looking at the room that was as clean and tidy as when they left, it was out of place with the other rooms in Bai Xiaosheng’s house that were full of junk, and both of them had slightly moist eyes.

So Bai Xiaosheng kept everything, fearing that they would not find their way home.

“Knowing that you were coming, I didn’t dare to enter this room when Cheng Feng was away. If I messed it up, I wouldn’t be able to clean it up.” Bai Xiaosheng’s words made the two feel as if all their emotions had been fed to the dogs.

“Alright, don’t be melancholic, I’m not really a lonely old man.” Bai Xiaosheng laughed heartily, patting their heads, “Just stay in Yunmeng Ze peacefully these days, don’t worry about things outside.”

After thinking about it, he added: “Especially you, Qing Lan, don’t meddle.”

Yu Lin’s eager heart was pressed back: …Oh.

As soon as Chu Yi came out, he saw the General’s carriage parked at the palace gate. Seeing Yu Lin in the carriage, his expression softened, “Didn’t you say you were going to see Prince Min? Why did you come here?”

“I’ve already seen him.” Yu Lin pulled him into the carriage with a smile, finding a comfortable position in his arms, “Qi Huan has no heirs, how could he tolerate the prince of Prince Min’s family. Prince Min has been physically deteriorating in recent years, fearing that no one would protect his prince after he’s gone, he plans to take action against Qi Hui.”

“He told you this directly?”

“Of course not. He just doesn’t want me to get you involved in the grudges between Prince Min’s mansion and Prince Qi.” Yu Lin picked a crystal clear grape, peeled it completely, and handed it to Chu Yi’s lips, “He has always been at odds with Qi Huan, and dares not protect you openly. He brought a bunch of physicians to check your body back then, just wanting to unify the diagnosis, fearing that Qi Huan would discover your impotence and harm you. But when the results came out, you really were impotent, which made him very anxious.”

He seemed a bit tired explaining the past events he had discovered, stretching lazily and casually hugging Chu Yi’s neck, teasingly said, “Shidi, let your Shixiong see if you are really impotent.”

Chu Yi let him tease, “How do you want to check?”

“Those quack physicians can’t even take a pulse correctly, I see from your pulse, you can do it seven times a night without a problem.” His fingertips slowly slid down from Chu Yi’s lips, over his solid and broad chest, all the way down teasingly, just when they were about to cover that place, his wrist was suddenly grabbed.

Chu Yi liked him so much that he wanted to satisfy all his requests, including that little bit of lust, but he still resisted the urge to press him down, and pulled him back into his arms, hugged him tightly, and tilted his head to kiss his temple.

Chu Yi’s voice was very hoarse: “Wait a little longer…”

His Shixiong deserved the best treatment, not to be so careless in the carriage, trying to please him like a pet and relieve himself.

Yu Lin encountered this situation every time he flirted with him. He resigned himself to his fate and rested his forehead against Chu Yi’s shoulder. He sighed deeply: “There are so many people who like my appearance and want to sleep with me. Why are you the only one who remains indifferent?”

This made Yu Lin constantly reflect on whether there was something wrong with his attraction to him. He thought about going to Fusheng Pavilion again when he had time and asking the girls there how to seduce a man.

Chu Yi was silent for a while, and after calming down his disordered breath, he slowly spoke: “I’m not Liu Xiahui[], how could I really be indifferent? I just think now is not the right time.”

“I think the atmosphere just now was quite good.” Yu Lin’s tone was filled with unspeakable resentment, “Shidi, being too restrained is not good for your health.” Chu Yi didn’t know how long he had been restraining himself, but he knew that he had been restraining himself for eight years. He couldn’t help but beat his chest in his heart: Eight years! How many eight years can there be in a lifetime? If you are not already sick, you will get sick.

Chu Yi couldn’t persuade him, and reluctantly released his hand: “Then don’t regret it.”

“Whoever goes back on his word is a puppy.” Yu Lin immediately sat up straight, curled his lips, and put his hand on Chu Yi’s thing, “Let Shixiong take good care of you…” Before he finished speaking, Yu Lin felt the changes under his palm, and the smile slowly froze on his face.

Why is it so big!

If this really goes in, will it split me in half?

Chu Yi suddenly pressed down his hand that was about to retreat, and the voice seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth: “You said you won’t regret it, Shixiong.”

Let alone calling him Shixiong, even calling him Gege[] is useless now. Yu Lin was determined to take his hand back, but he couldn’t get it free.

“Gege…” Chu Yi knew he would fall for it, so he called out again, “You said you would love me, whoever goes back on his word is a puppy.”

Yu Lin blinked, looked at him innocently, and gently uttered a word: “Woof.”

Chu Yi: …

Chu Yi was almost laughing out of anger. He was the one who provoked, but he was also the one who backed off when it came to doing something.

If you start a fire yourself, you have to put it out yourself even if you have to kneel down.

When Yu Lin finally got out of the carriage with a red face, his hands and mouth were sore. Chu Yi, who came out later, could not hide his satisfaction.

Xiao Mianzhi showed an expression that he couldn’t bear to look directly at, but he couldn’t help but gossiping: “Is it done?”

Chu Yi shook his head, straightened his loose belt, and talked to him about business: “The capital may not be peaceful for a while, I plan to take Qinglan out for a walk. You should go back to the barracks. No matter who asks you to borrow soldiers, as long as they don’t have my tiger talisman, ignore them.”

He didn’t like to take sides, and he didn’t care what happened between Prince Min and Prince Qi. As long as he left Luoyang, no matter what happened, it had nothing to do with him or the General’s Office. Even if Yu Lin got involved on a whim, as long as he didn’t leave any evidence, he could use leaving Beijing as an excuse.

“Where are you going?”

“Yunmeng Ze.” Chu Yi said solemnly.

The King of Yu Country traded Yu Lin to Qi Huan as an item to ensure his own safety. According to Yu Lin’s clear character of gratitude and grudges, beating him up was considered a light punishment. If Chu Yi guessed correctly, Yu Lin should have broken up with his brother Yu Pei, who was almost a traitor to his country.

Marriage requires three letters and six ceremonies. Without Yu Pei, the only relative and elder on Yu Lin’s side who can be considered as a relative is their master, Bai Xiaosheng. Chu Yi strives to do everything perfect for Yu Lin, so he wants to take this opportunity to go to Yunmeng Ze and ask Bai Xiaosheng to go through the engagement ceremony.

A few days later, Chu Yi submitted a petition stating that he needed to recuperate due to illness. Qi Huan was unhappy with him and felt annoyed when he saw him, so he readily approved the petition.

Ten days had passed by when the two of them arrived at Yunmeng Lake at an unhurried pace. It was dusk, and the mist rising from the water made everything around the water unclear. Yu Lin was too lazy to look for the exit, so he walked in through the Du Gate with Chu Yi, intending to break the formation directly.

Suddenly, there was a sound of breaking the air. Chu Yi, holding Yu Lin, jumped to the side. When he turned his head, he found a sword stuck in the place where the two of them had been standing, and the sword was humming incessantly.

From the mist came a clear but authoritative voice, “Who dares to intrude into Yunmeng Ze?” Before the words fell, the speaker was already close at hand, dressed in linen and wooden clogs, looking to be in his thirties.

“Master!”

Bai Xiaosheng pulled out the sword from the ground and looked at the two in surprise, “Qinglan? Shaoze?”

Without any excitement or joy of seeing his disciples, Bai Xiaosheng didn’t hesitate and pointed his sword at Chu Yi, “Even if you are my disciple, if you want to break into Yunmeng Ze, you have to rely on your own strength.”

Yu Lin just quietly held the wine glass, and after Chu Yi finished speaking, he drained the cup of Drunken Spring Breeze.

“No need for you to repay.” He threw the empty wine glass aside, saying softly, “What we owe each other has long been unclear, and I don’t want to calculate it so clearly with you, it seems very estranged.”

“Why can’t you be more bold?” He glanced at Chu Yi, but there was no blame in his eyes, “Eight years ago, the night before I left Yunmeng Ze, you kissed me under the influence of alcohol, but you pushed me away and ran without saying a word. What could admitting that you like me do?”

“I…”

“Don’t talk yet.” Yu Lin raised his hand to cover his mouth, he was already not good with alcohol, and now he was somewhat drunk, “The Qi Country God of War I know should not be as timid as you are now, what are you worried about?” He leaned into Chu Yi’s face and asked again, “Shaoze, what are you afraid of?”

Chu Yi took his hand off his mouth, lowered his head and kissed his palm, his voice without any unusual emotion: “When I was a child, I only remembered one relative. Although he was not close to me, I still plucked up the courage to ask him who my parents were and where they went. But he told me that my parents had died a long time ago, and they were killed by me, the disaster. He said that people like me don’t deserve to have anything, because in the end, everything will be lost.”

He was right, even you, in the end, also left.

“Bullshit, the death of the Princess and the Prince Consort has nothing to do with you! Don’t listen to Qi Huan’s nonsense, he wishes you were dead sooner, so he can sit more comfortably in that position.” The drunk Yu Lin was so angry that he started cursing the King of Qi, “Which normal elder would instill such thoughts in a child from a young age? He just wants to ruin you.”

Chu Yi was extremely surprised in his heart, he had been investigating for many years and only found out a rough idea, but Yu Lin knew everything.

Seeing that he didn’t speak, Yu Lin pounced into his arms and hooked his neck, snorted coldly, and said with a big tongue: “Although Shixiong’s martial arts are not as good as yours, the others are passable, with Shixiong covering you, if he Qi Huan dares to find your fault again, Shixiong will make him suffer.”

As Bai Xiaosheng’s disciple, his power is also not to be underestimated. After Yu Lin left Yunmeng Ze, the first thing he thought of was to wait for Chu Yi to return to Qi country after his apprenticeship and live a peaceful and worry-free life, so he started to insert eyes in Qi country and by the way, he checked out the things of that year clearly.

The death of the Princess and the Prince Consort was just an accident, it had nothing to do with anyone, but Yu Lin didn’t expect that the shameless King of Qi would push all the faults onto a child. No wonder when Bai Xiaosheng brought Chu Yi back to Yunmeng Ze, he was always timid, no matter how he teased him, he was always quiet and shrinking in the corner, as if he was afraid that he would infect someone with malaria.

Chu Yi hugged the indignant drunk into his arms, his heart was ironed and hot, he couldn’t help but gently kiss his temples, and a rare smile appeared on his face. After eight years, he finally called out that title again: “Then… thank you, Shixiong.”

Yu Lin rubbed his chest somewhat restlessly, mumbling and asking: “Shaoze, what did you just call me? I didn’t hear clearly.”

Chu Yi smiled and touched his hair, repeating: “Shixiong.”

“Ah.” Yu Lin responded cheerfully, his speech was a bit floating, “Shidi, say it a few more times, I haven’t heard you call me like this for a long time.”

Chu Yi: …

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Chu Yi later went to the palace to see Qi Huan.

Qi Huan was slumped on the couch, holding a long, thin pipe, with smoke swirling around him. His eyebrows were drooping, and he didn’t ask Chu Yi’s intentions, just asked: “Have you thought about it?”

Chu Yi didn’t beat around the bush with him: “I want to marry him.”

Qi Huan sneered at the news, slowly sat up, and knocked the pipe on a small porcelain plate on the side: “Your family property is all on the auction, what are you going to use to marry him?”

“This is not for the king to worry about, I have my own arrangements.”

“Do you deserve it?” Qi Huan flipped his eyelids, still not looking at him, and asked strangely.

Chu Yi was not as gentle and easy to talk to others as he was to Yu Lin. Hearing these familiar words, his face sank: “If I don’t deserve it, who else does? You?”

“Presumptuous!”

The pipe was thrown at him, Chu Yi just slightly dodged and avoided it.

“Don’t think that helping me fight will make me dare not move you.” Qi Huan was somewhat irritable, pacing back and forth in front of him, “Chu Yi, you’d better respect me.”

In fact, Chu Yi is already a war god in the hearts of the people of Qi country, if he acts rashly, it is very likely to cause instability in the people’s hearts, Qi Huan really dare not do anything to him for a while.

Qi Huan suddenly thought of something, stopped, and showed him a strange smile: “Since you want to marry him, does it mean that your impotence is cured? How does the most beautiful man taste?”

When Qi Huan proposed marriage to him, he just wanted to insert a spy next to him. Chu Yi was not stupid, naturally understood Qi Huan’s intentions, the sentence “I am impotent” just strangled the possibility of stuffing men and women into his room. However, this conversation was only between the two of them at the time, so why was it spread to everyone in the end, even without using his brain, he knew it was Qi Huan’s doing.

After the Prince Min learned about this, he specially called several imperial physicians to take his pulse for him, and the conclusion was that he was really impotent.

Thanks to Xiao Mianzhi for preparing the medicine in advance, it would have been difficult to deal with this lie if it had been exposed.

But Qi Huan’s words were too naked, with a hint of insult to Yu Lin, and contempt for Chu Yi.

“Your Majesty, the one who bid for him is me, according to the rules of the auction, he already belongs to me, no matter what, it has nothing to do with you. I came to the palace today just to inform you, not to seek your opinion.”

Qi Huan was so angry that his hands were trembling, and his voice couldn’t help but rise a lot: “Chu Shaoze! Look at what you are like now! Dare to threaten me? Really think that Bai Xiaosheng will still protect you after you left the sect?”

“Whether the Master protects me or not, it’s his choice. I will always respect him, love him, and be grateful to him for saving me from the fire and water,” Chu Yi suddenly raised his head, looking at him coldly, his gaze sharp as a newly unsheathed blade, “But the reason I have become what I am now, isn’t it all thanks to you… my good uncle.”

Yu Lin thought about it for several days and felt that he needed to find someone to answer his questions.

He left in such a hurry that he left all the important things in Yu Country, and it was only recently that a shadow guard sent them to him. He stroked the jade flute around his waist a few times, finally pulled it out, placed the transverse flute in front of his lips, and played a light and cheerful tune. As soon as the music fell, a shadow guard dressed in night clothes was already kneeling in front of him.

Yu Lin was silent for a moment, “You guys are shadow guards, don’t you think it’s silly to wear night clothes during the day?”

Shadow Guard:……

Yu Lin casually tapped his palm with the jade flute, “Hey, what do you think I should do to sleep with Chu Shuai? Isn’t it enough to make it clear?”

Shadow Guard:……I feel like you are making things difficult for me.

The shadow guard struggled to say, “Maybe Chu Shuai likes it a bit more subtle?”

Yu Lin grew up in Yunmeng Ze, where most people are straightforward and honest, he had some difficulty understanding the roundabout thinking of people in the south, “I just like him, I want to kiss and hug him, and be passionately entwined with him. Why should I hide my feelings?”

Shadow Guard:……

Seeing that he couldn’t get a fart out of three blows, Yu Lin didn’t hold any hope for him, and instead asked, “What is the most famous brothel in Luoyang?”

Finally, there was a question that the shadow guard could answer: “Fusheng Pavilion.”

“Life is like a dream, how can we enjoy it? The one who named it must be a person of elegance.” Yu Lin praised, untying the jade pendant from his waist and handing it to him, “Take this to the bank to withdraw twenty taels of broken silver, I want to go to the Fusheng Pavilion.”

The shadow guard breathed a sigh of relief and went on his mission.

As soon as Yu Lin left the house, the family steward went to the training grounds to report to Chu Yi. Chu Yi would never agree to someone going to a brothel under his nose, so he immediately led a horse and rushed to Fusheng Pavilion.

“Young….Sir.” Yun Ji, the top courtesan of the Fusheng Pavilion, cradled the pipa and gently pushed the door open. When she saw his face, she paused slightly, thinking it was a lady from a family dressing up as a man to satisfy her curiosity at the brothel. Upon closer inspection, she found it was actually a man.

She had been a top courtesan for so long, and she had seen all kinds of big winds and waves. She laughed and covered up her previous loss of composure.

“Miss, please sit.” Yu Lin raised his eyes, seemingly uninterested in her, and peeled the grapes in the fruit plate by himself.

Yun Ji didn’t know what kind of service he liked for a while, so she had to sit quietly across from him, stretching out her soft fingers to pour Yu Lin a cup of famous Luoyang wine – Drunken Spring Breeze.

“What kind of song does the sir want to hear?” Yun Ji picked up the pipa again, gently plucked the strings, and asked softly.

Yu Lin held the wine glass and shook it, but didn’t drink it. He propped his head with a lack of interest: “I don’t want to listen to songs, I just have a few questions to ask Miss.”

So there are also patrons who come to the brothel not to seek pleasure but to ask questions, which was a bit strange.

Yun Ji did not show her emotions, and still held the pipa with a knowledgeable and dignified demeanor: “Sir, please feel free to speak.”

“Does Miss know how to get someone’s true heart?”

Yun Ji: … She was just a courtesan who played the field, and as long as the silver was in place, she didn’t care whether anyone had feelings for her or not. But since Yu Lin asked, she had to live up to the silver he paid, so she answered seriously: “Beauty, talent, caring nature, and equal sincerity.”

It was similar to what the girls in Yu Country and Yunmeng Ze said. Yu Lin felt that he was decent looking, he was a disciple of Bai Xiaosheng, and his talent was barely passable, as for caring and true heart, he asked himself, and he was not less than Chu Yi’s to him.

“Then why doesn’t he want to sleep with me!” Yu Lin slammed the table in anger, “Is it because I’m old and ugly?”

Yun Ji: … She barely held a smile on her face: “The suggestion here is, please go out and turn left, go to the next door clinic to find a physician to check your eyes.” Yu Lin was only in his early twenties, and his face was the most exquisite and beautiful Yun Ji had ever seen in her life. She was ashamed of herself, but he said he was old and ugly? If it weren’t for Yun Ji’s good upbringing and soft temper, she would have greeted his face with the pipa long ago.

“That’s not right, I’m only twenty-six, and I’m not old, am I?” Yu Lin sat back down and talked to himself, “Since he won’t sleep with me, I’ll go sleep with him. Tell me how to sleep with someone.”

….Yun Ji felt that the questions this Sir asked were really strange, as if he was deliberately making things difficult for her. The guests who came to the Fusheng Pavilion to find her either listened to songs or wanted to sleep with her. She really had never taken the initiative to sleep with anyone.

Seeing that Yun Ji couldn’t answer, Yu Lin waved his hand. Yun Ji understood, bowed with the pipa, and left.

When she opened the door, she saw Chu Yi standing at the door with a blank expression. She didn’t know how long he had been standing there, or how much he had heard, but looking at his “catching adultery” look, the strange Sir in the room seemed to be his sweetheart.

Yu Lin didn’t feel like he was “caught in adultery” at all, and gave him a slight smile: “I didn’t expect that Shidi would come to this place of fireworks.”

“I came to find you.” 

Just like before in Yunmeng Ze, when he took him back before Master Bai Xiaosheng arrived. But every time he saw the women coming out of the room, they were all neatly dressed, and he didn’t know what Yu Lin had done with people in the room. But today, after listening to the whole process, Chu Yi roughly understood, and the originally gloomy face softened, “You go to the brothel every time to ask these?”

“Otherwise?” Yu Lin looked at him inexplicably, and suddenly laughed out loud, “Hahahaha… Shidi, you wouldn’t really think that I’m like the rumors, and I’ve slept with all the women in the brothel, would you?”

Chu Yi reached out to wipe away the tears of laughter from his eyes, and gently responded.

Yu Lin seemed to think of something, and his face changed slightly: “Shidi, did you think I was ‘sleeping’ with so many women and was dirty, so you didn’t want to touch me?”

Chu Yi shook his head.

No.

Yu Lin was the god in his heart, the dream he had been chasing for half his life, a drop of fresh blood on the tip of his heart, and the existence he dared to touch only when he was drunk.

Whether he was pure and innocent or fell into the mortal world, whether he was self-disciplined and dignified or romantic and dissolute. As long as he is Yu Lin, he likes him.

He was taught by the King of Qi from a young age that he was not worthy of anything. Later, he went to Yunmeng Ze and carefully explored what he deserved. Yu Lin’s liking for him made him panic. He didn’t know if he was qualified to accept this joy, and he didn’t dare to test it, for fear that it was a big dream that would be shattered at the touch of a button.Translator's Note:You deserve so much and everything the world has to offer

He hoped that Yu Lin would stand still and wait for him, and give him all the good things he had, including the heart that was beating faster because of him. He just needs to stand still, and he will work hard to catch up, stand by his side, love him, protect him, and not annoy him, that’s enough.

Chu Yi’s expression was a bit helpless and sad. His lips moved twice, and then he slowly said, “No matter what you look like, you are the best in my heart. It was my fault that I didn’t go to find you for eight years. This is what I owe. The auction is a new beginning, please let me repay you slowly.”

He closed his eyes, and the figure of Yu Lin leaving that year appeared in his mind, and he swallowed the last sentence –

Just begging you, please don’t leave me alone again.

In fact, Chu Yi hadn’t gone far, but had been standing at the corner to calm his inner turmoil. Only after seeing Yu Lin step into the gate of the General’s Mansion with his own eyes did he show up.

God knows how much determination he had to make to resist not rubbing the person he cared about into his arms.

Chu Yi had just jumped down from the wall when a faint voice sounded from his side. Xiao Mianzhi came out from somewhere and said, “Your own residence, why are you climbing over the wall instead of going through the main gate?

Chu Yi looked behind him, didn’t see Yu Lin’s figure, chose to refuse to answer this embarrassing question, and instead asked, “Where is Qinglan?”

“I told him there were no guest rooms in the General’s Mansion, so I arranged for him to stay in your room.”

“…” Chu Yi pinched his brow, prepared to sleep in the study, “He is a prince, and also my Shixiong, what do you mean by arranging him in my room?”

Xiao Mianzhi wondered, “Didn’t you keep saying before that you wanted to persuade the king to propose marriage to Yu Country? Anyway, you said you were impotent just to get rid of the king’s arranged marriage, and it’s not like you really have a physical problem. Now that he’s in the General’s Mansion, you might as well wash the rice and cook the meal.”

“That’s too disrespectful to him.” Chu Yi decisively refused his friend’s suggestion without thinking, “If he’s down and out, I’ll protect him, if he’s sad, I’ll accompany him, if he wants to mess around, I can go along with him, but I can’t just have a moment of lust.” Chu Yi paused, his expression extremely serious, “He deserves to have the best things brought to him, not to be treated as a high-priced pet that I bought.”

Xiao Mianzhi was a little confused about what he wanted to do. After all, this kind of thing is a matter of mutual consent. Since you have feelings for him and he is interested, why do you have to wait until you get married?

The two of them walked through the cloister and saw Yu Lin standing in the garden looking up at a five-colored peach tree. According to Chu Yi’s instructions, Yu Lin was also the master of the General’s Mansion, and no one in the mansion dared to stop him, so it was natural that he could run into him anywhere.

Xiao Mianzhi elbowed Chu Yi, “I suddenly thought of a phrase that has been overused by those sour scholars.”

“What?”

“The face of a man and the peach blossoms complement each other like red.”

The branches of the peach tree were twisted and intertwined. Yu Lin heard the conversation and turned his head to look in their direction. A branch was slanted to the side of his face, and two or three peach blossoms were squeezed together on the branch, as if they were pinned to his temples. He smiled at Chu Yi, his smile even more brighter than the spring peach.

Chu Yi was dazzled by his smile and strode towards him.

Xiao Mianzhi wisely slipped away.

Yu Lin raised his hand to break off a peach blossom and stuffed it into his arm. He patted his hands and took two steps back, carefully sizing him up. His eyes curved into a smile, “My Shidi is still so handsome.”

It was the same in Yunmeng Ze before, whether it was flowers and willows, or autumn moon and red maple, Yu Lin always liked to give him some small things related to the season, and then praised him for his good looks.

You’re clearly more handsome. Both the young Chu Shaoze and the now General Chu Yi thought so.

Yu Lin pulled him up to the roof, sat on the eaves, swinging his legs, and asked with his chin propped up, “Shidi, there are many people at the auction who coveted my looks, what would you say, if I were…”

Chu Yi interrupted him and sat next to him, “No, even if I have to bankrupt myself, I will save you.”

Yu Lin “hmm”ed, letting him tie his wind-blown hair behind his ears, leaned on his shoulder, and said casually, “Only you, Shidi, have no improper thoughts about me.” As soon as he said this, Yu Lin clearly felt the hand around his shoulder slowly clench into a fist, and then loosen again.

When they were in Yunmeng Ze, Yu Lin often took Chu Yi to the roof, saying that they wanted to see the night view. But he was lazy, and would never stand if he could sit, and would never sit if he could lie down. In the end, he would lie on Chu Yi’s legs, looking at the boy’s soft chin, and fall asleep in his arms. When he woke up, he would have been sent back to his room.

Turning his head to look at Chu Yi’s profile, the boy from his memories had already grown into a man. At the auction, Yu Lin had glanced at him: the corners of his mouth were cold and tight, his sword-like eyebrows and star-like eyes could not hide the hostility in them, and the aura around him was extremely terrifying. This version of Chu Yi was unfamiliar to him, but the moment he was gently held in his arms, Yu Lin realized that the boy he liked was still as gentle as ever at his core.

After dinner, Yu Lin asked him if he wanted to be served personally. Seeing Chu Yi’s defensive posture, he raised the corner of his lips and said with a smile that was not quite a smile, “Since my Shidi has bought me and put me in his own room, I won’t shirk any of the duties that a person in the room should do.”

“You know that’s not why I did it.”

Yu Lin stirred the soup in the bowl with some regret, “If it were anyone else, I would never agree. But if my Shidi wants it, I would be very willing to oblige, given our relationship.”

Chu Yi put down his jade chopsticks and looked at him with a complex expression, “I won’t force you to do anything you don’t want to do. You don’t have to demean yourself like this.”

Yu Lin sighed softly, “But Shidi, I have nothing but this body now. I really can’t think of any other way to repay you.”

Chu Yi seemed a bit of a headache, even though he thought Yu Lin’s idea of repaying him was problematic, he couldn’t bear to scold him, “……You don’t have to repay me.”

Yu Lin keenly sensed the slight displeasure in his voice, closed his mouth with a sullen expression, and got up to return to his room.

Chu Yi looked at the bowl of soup that had not been finished, reflecting on whether his tone was too harsh.

In this way, Yu Lin quieted down for several days and stopped saying strange things.

After all the Insects, the first spring thunder arrived as expected, and the rain fell on the banana leaves outside the window, making a rustling sound, covering up the faint footsteps.

The door of the study was pushed open, and Yu Lin stood at the door in a single garment. Another thunderbolt exploded in his ears, and the lightning illuminated the night sky as bright as day, also illuminating Yu Lin’s pale face. He seemed to shrink a little, hesitating to stand at the door, looking a bit pitiful, “Shidi, it’s thundering……”

Chu Yi hadn’t slept yet, he was sitting at the desk reading a military book. Hearing the sound, he looked up and saw, but his gaze fell on his delicate and clean feet. He quickly got up, walked quickly to Yu Lin, and picked him up horizontally, “Why aren’t you wearing shoes? Aren’t you cold?”

Chu Yi clearly remembered that every time it thundered, Yu Lin would come to him with his quilt, as if having someone with him would make him less afraid of the thunder that shattered the sky.

He put him on the bed, his large, dry hands wrapped around Yu Lin’s cold feet and rubbed them gently, helplessly saying, “The floor is so cold, aren’t you afraid of getting sick?”

Yu Lin took a moment to recover, his face looking a little better. He pulled his feet back and asked softly with his eyes downcast, “I saw King of Qi send someone to find you today, it seems to be because of me. Did I…cause you trouble?”

Chu Yi tucked him in, turned off the light, and lay down beside him without a care, “It’s no trouble, I just don’t trust anyone else with you.”

With the thunder, Yu Lin turned over and burrowed into his arms, “King of Qi has been wary of you for a long time, he might make a move on this matter.”

Chu Yi sneered, “That won’t happen, he doesn’t dare to touch me.”

Yu Lin reminded him with some worry, “Prince Min might make some small moves recently, you should be a little more careful.”

The unreserved trust softened Chu Yi’s heart, “You don’t really need to hint at me, your power has already infiltrated the Qi Kingdom. Aren’t you afraid that I will investigate and then root them out one by one?”

Yu Lin wrapped his arms around his waist and smiled, “It was prepared to protect you in the first place.” He gently placed his hand on Chu Yi’s wrist, secretly checked his pulse, found no problems, squinted his eyes, and changed the subject, “But Shidi, why do you say you are impotent?”

Chu Yi grabbed his wandering hand, his voice carrying a hint of restraint, “Prince Ning…please don’t move around.”

Yu Lin smiled with a raised eyebrow, and rubbed his knee against his legs, “Shidi, you clearly have feelings, why don’t you want to touch me?”

Chu Yi turned over, vaguely pressing him down, his expression indistinguishable in the dark, avoiding the question, “Aren’t you afraid of thunder?”

Yu Lin kissed his chin a little frivolously, “I’m not a child, what’s there to be afraid of thunder? I just want to take the opportunity to get close to you, Shidi.”

Chu Yi:……

His body suddenly felt light, and Yu Lin fumbled to light the lamp. Then he found that Chu Yi had left.

Yu Lin sat at the table and sighed. He really couldn’t understand why Chu Yi, who obviously liked him very much, refused to touch him.

Xiao Mianzhi resignedly sighed, planning to really walk back, but as soon as he lifted a foot, he was called back by Chu Yi, turned his head with a disgruntled face: “What else does the General have to order?”

“You drive the carriage, Yu Lin doesn’t look very good, I’ll take care of him.”

… Xiao Mianzhi took a deep breath, trying to make his tone sound calm and composed: “General, do you still remember who I am, and what I do?”

“Xiao Mianzhi, courtesy name Zi Xu, a man from Moling, an army physician who later served as a vanguard officer for the Zhenbei Army.” Chu Yi leaned against the door of the carriage, looking him up and down, somewhat puzzledly raising his eyebrows, “It is said that those who heal others do not heal themselves. Did you hit your head and lose your memory just now?”

“You’re the one with a problem in your head.” Xiao Mianzhi was somewhat frantic, “Nowadays the world is peaceful, it’s fine for me to run around helping you manage the General’s Mansion, but why are you making me a coachman!”

Facing his friend, Chu Yi’s eyes were not as gloomy as before, there was a hint of a smile in his eyes: “The more capable, the more work.”

Xiao Mianzhi had nothing to say, angrily pushed him into the carriage, laughed and scolded: “Go see your Qing Lan.”

This person hasn’t even arrived in Luoyang yet and he’s been nagging in his ear every day. Now that the person is here, what will happen? Xiao Mianzhi shook the long whip in his hand, feeling that his future life would not be beautiful at all.

Chu Yi closed the carriage door with the back of his hand, hesitated for a while, and then slowly sat next to Yu Lin.

After only a few words with Xiao Mianzhi, Yu Lin had already looked like he had emerged from the water. He gently rubbed the robe that Chu Yi had taken off and covered him. The familiar scent lingered at his nose, making him almost collapse.

He still held that piece of porcelain in his hand, and the dripping blood had already gathered a small puddle on the blanket.

Chu Yi hugged the person into his arms, pinched his chin to feed the antidote, but Yu Lin clenched his teeth.

“Qing Lan…”

Yu Lin’s eyelashes trembled lightly, and he didn’t respond, just turned his head, looked at him with wet eyes for a while, then lifted his chin and kissed Chu Yi’s lips.

Chu Yi suddenly remembered the night Yu Lin left Yunmeng Ze, under the long sky and moonlight, he was also drunk and kissed Yu Lin like this, to be precise, he took advantage of him.

Yu Lin’s physique is not very suitable for martial arts, but he still has the ability to protect himself. After being held by Chu Yi, he didn’t struggle, just hugged his neck in return, and laughed softly.

Did he also go to the brothel like this? Chu Yi bit his chin in punishment, his heart was jealous and he raised his hand and ripped open his robes.

The cold moonlight flowed on Yu Lin’s thin and white chest, Chu Yi greedily looked at him, his breathing became hot and heavy.

The mere entanglement of lips and teeth made him weaken, just like he was now in his arms.

Chu Yi closed his eyes, gently pushed him away: No… it’s not the time yet.

While Yu Lin was lying on the blanket and panting lightly, Chu Yi fed the antidote, then leaned over, reached out and caught that slender porcelain-white wrist, his voice restrained and half coaxed: “Let go of your hand.” Seeing that Yu Lin’s eyes were still scattered, he held his hand and gently kissed his fingers.

Yu Lin only felt that the part kissed by him was slightly numb, his drooping eyelashes trembled, and finally loosened the tightly held porcelain piece, murmured somewhat aggrieved: “…ShidiTranslator's Note:shī dì, young disciple (of the same master) younger or junior male schoolmate.… if I don’t see you, will you not take the initiative to look for me?”

Chu Yi was a little stunned, for a while he didn’t know whether Yu Lin was awake or still in shock, but the coldness between his eyebrows was completely melted by this sentence, and he quietly thought: No matter how unruly he was before, he didn’t need to find out. Since he entered the General’s Mansion, he was his own person.

In fact, Yu Lin’s consciousness has always been clear, originally wanting to take advantage of the effect of the drug to solve the regret of the year when he was eighteen, but did not expect Chu Yi to push him away.

Seeing him only tending to his own wounds and not speaking, Yu Lin couldn’t help but feel stifled. He slowly sat up, half-leaning against Chu Yi’s leg, resting his chin on his knee. It was a dangerous posture, but Yu Lin didn’t care, and drawled, “Shidi, you’re still as boring as you were back then.”

Chu Yi looked down at the person lying between his legs, his eyes swirling with ink.

Yu Lin’s eyes curved slightly, making his beautiful face indescribably seductive. Just as he was about to stoke the fire, the carriage failed to avoid a stone on the road and jolted violently. He fell backward, unstable, and in the moment of falling, he wondered: why didn’t I lean forward?

Although the carriage was thickly carpeted, Chu Yi was still afraid that he would hit his head. He pounced on him, cushioning his head with his hand. But this made their positions even more dangerous than before.

Chu Yi was extremely aroused by him, but when he thought about doing this and that to someone as bright as the moon when they just met, he felt that he was defiling him just thinking about it, so he quickly stood up and sat up straight.

Yu Lin: …I haven’t seen you for eight years. How come you have become even more stupid than before?

The two of them sat and lay there, looking at each other in silence.

The carriage finally stopped, and Xiao Mianzhi knocked on the door, “General, we’re here.”

Chu Yi then asked him again, “Can you walk?”

Yu Lin shook his head, thinking: If I can’t walk, can I be carried?

But Chu Yi sat still, saying through the carriage door to Xiao Mianzhi, “Wait a little longer.”

Xiao Mianzhi: …Why wait? What on earth are you two doing in the carriage?

About the time it takes to brew a cup of tea later, Chu Yi finally opened the carriage door. After helping Yu Lin out, he dryly dropped a sentence “I’m going to deal with some military affairs” and hurried away.

Xiao Mianzhi’s expression blanked for a moment: Is he not planning to take responsibility? Where did the General who used to be so infatuated go?

Yu Lin watched his figure leave his line of sight, then raised his hand to adjust the robe Chu Yi had draped over him, glanced at Xiao Mianzhi, and said lazily, “Does your General have some hidden illness?” Otherwise, why would he be indifferent to me who has been hit by **?

Xiao Mianzhi wanted to say something but stopped, “Doesn’t the prince know that the General is impotent?” Everyone in the country knows!

A hint of surprise floated in Yu Lin’s eyes: Wasn’t he fine eight years ago? How come he suddenly became impotent?

“Didn’t you seek famous physicians for treatment?”

Xiao Mianzhi shook his head, lamenting, “How could such a thing be widely publicized.” But there was an imperceptible schadenfreude in his tone.

Yu Lin smiled lightly, “No harm, I’ve studied medicine with Bai Xiaosheng for a few years, I’ll help him cure it.”

That’s a genius who dared to visit the brothel when he was studying under Bai Xiaosheng at the age of sixteen.

However, some people also raised their doubts. A man who is seven points more beautiful than a courtesan, would he really go to a courtesan? However, it is well known that he has visited all the brothels in Yu Country and Yunmeng Ze.

This young prince, who was famous for his looks and flirting, was actually Bai Xiaosheng’s proud student.

Bai Xiaosheng once said when he left the sect: “Those who get Shaoze and Qing Lan can get the world.”

Among them, Shaoze is the current War of God of Qi Country, Chu Yi, and Qing Lan is the young prince of Yu Country, Yu Lin.

However, Yu Pei, the ruler of Yu Country, had always been at odds with his younger brother, never listening to advice, and even believing in slander and leading to a disastrous defeat. He was also extremely greedy for life and afraid of death, so he gave Qi Country money and beauties when Qi asked for them, and even gave away his own brother.

Yu Lin went to the palace overnight to argue with Yu Pei, but to no avail, so he broke relationship with him on the spot. As for what the two argued about, it is unknown. As for the content of the dispute between the two, there is no way to know, but it is known that Yu Lin beat up his useless brother and left the palace with an ugly face. The next day, Yu Lin took off the dragon robe representing the prince, and was forced to board a carriage with gold, silver and treasures to be transported to Qi Country in a single piece of clothing.

Qi Huan, the king of Qi Country, is not a stingy person. If there are treasures in the tribute from Yu Country, he will take them all out and hold an auction. All the money earned from the auction will be put into the national treasury for military use.

Whetherin terms of his own value or that peach blossom jade face, Yu Lin is a treasure among treasures.

There is no precedent for auctioning beauties at auctions. Even if Qi Huan wants to recruit Yu Lin, he has to follow the rules. If the king exercises privileges in this matter, the scholar-official class will not agree.

If you want it, you have to pay for it.

Qi Huan had to abide by the auction rules he had set. All withdrawals from the treasury went through the Ministry of Revenue, so they had to be used properly. Things like auctioning beauties sounded very lewd and immoral, and the Ministry of Revenue would never approve it, so Qi Huan had to pay out of his own pocket.

“…Next is the last item of this auction – Prince of Yu Country.” As the auctioneer’s voice fell, a huge cage was lifted up. Yu Lin’s hands were hung, and the whole person was half suspended in the air. His long hair fell down, covering that beautiful face, making it difficult to distinguish whether he was a man or a woman.

Once they enter the auction house, they become items for trading, and the noble princes of neighboring countries are no exception.

“The starting price is ten thousand taels, and each increase must be at least one thousand taels. Gentlemen, please.” The crowd, who were eager to move after seeing that unparalleled seductive face, suddenly quieted down: ten thousand taels, without a certain amount of family wealth, it is impossible to take it out.

“Eleven thousand taels.” A wealthy businessman who was fond of homosexuality immediately started to quote the price.

Once someone took the lead, others would follow, and the price gradually rose to 30,000 taels.

“I took the liberty of feeding him some medicine.” Seeing that no one was bidding any more, the auctioneer used an abacus to gently lift up Yu Lin’s hair, revealing his rosy face, and smiled ambiguously, “Prince of Yu Country is famous for his erotic reputation. There should be many gentlemen present who do not mind eating meat or vegetables. Just imagine, such a high and mighty person would obediently lie down under me. What a wonderful feeling that would be.”

He could have been a talented strategist, but he was dragged down by his appearance.

“Thirty-five thousand taels.” The original businessman gritted his teeth and pressed out the silver he brought this time.

Thirty-five thousand taels is something an ordinary family could not spend in several lifetimes. Just thinking about using it to buy a man is a waste of money.

“Forty thousand taels.” Qi Huan finally quoted his price. Forty thousand taels to buy a strategist who could conquer the world was not a loss at all.

Qi Huan has been subsidizing the deficit of the national treasury from time to time over the years, and has accumulated more than 40,000 taels. He estimated that it should be enough, after all, no one would be so ignorant to grab people from a king.

But there just happened to be such a person.

Xiao Mianzhi, the chief steward and strategist of the General’s Mansion, finally failed to hold back his General.He watched helplessly as the rumored impotent God of War of the Great Qi suddenly stood up and stepped aside with a headache.

“What’s wrong with General Chu?” Qi Huan heard the movement and looked in his direction, concerned.

Chu Yi ignored him, staring at Yu Lin’s eyes that were reddened by the medicine, and spit out five words with a green face: “I pay fifty thousand taels.”

The people in the entire building were silent for about half an incense stick, and began to whisper-

“What is General Chu doing buying a beauty back when he can’t get it up? As a vase?”

“I heard that Young Prince Yu has seen all the women in the brothels, maybe he can cure General Chu’s impotence?”

“Chu Shuai looks so gloomy, maybe he has some strange fetish?”

“Didn’t General Chu and Young Prince Yu both become Bai Xiaosheng’s disciples? Perhaps it was to save him?”

“Save? Would you bankrupt yourself to save someone who has no relation to you, and could even be considered an enemy?”

Regardless of how others maliciously speculated, Chu Yi remained indifferent. Once he was sure that no one would bid against him, he lightly tapped his toes and leaped onto the high platform.

With one stroke, he cut open the lock of the cage and let the person out.

Without support, Yu Lin slid down and was caught in a full embrace by Chu Yi. The warm breath fell on Chu Yi’s neck, making him somewhat stiff. His wide robe isolated the slightly trembling person in his arms from the many prying eyes below the stage, and only then did Chu Yi coldly give a rough check.

That pair of porcelain-white wrists had been worn out, revealing flesh and blood. The most serious was the palm of his hand. In order to avoid losing his composure, Yu Lin tightly held a small piece of porcelain. Now he was in a very chaotic state, Chu Yi couldn’t pry open his hand, and he didn’t dare to force it.

Chu Yi felt the body against him move uncomfortably. The porcelain piece in Yu Lin’s palm was gripped tighter, and two beads of blood rolled down onto Chu Yi’s robe. He slightly raised his eyes, and in those affectionate peach blossom eyes was an unresolved fog. His thin lips slightly opened, and he weakly spat out a word: “Scram…”

Chu Yi lifted his chin and patiently asked several times: “Take a good look at who I am?”

Hearing the familiar voice, Yu Lin’s expression slightly settled, slowly blinked, and after seeing the handsome face close at hand, he suddenly lost all his strength and slumped in his arms, his voice somewhat choked: “…Shaoze.”

Chu Yi turned his head back, his eyes gloomily looking at the auctioneer: “Where is the antidote?”

The auctioneer shakily brought out the antidote.

Regardless of Qi Huan, whose face was equally bad, Chu Yi picked up Yu Lin and strode towards the door. Xiao Mianzhi resignedly took his saber and the antidote, instructed the auction house’s people to go back to the General’s Mansion for money, and then left with Chu Yi.

Just as Xiao Mianzhi was preparing to get on the carriage, he was stopped by Chu Yi: “What are you doing?”

Xiao Mianzhi looked puzzled and handed him the antidote and the knife: “Going back to the General’s Mansion.”

Chu Yi decisively refused without thinking: “Yu Lin is inside, there’s no room, you should just walk back by yourself.”

Xiao Mianzhi: ??? This carriage can accommodate four people without a problem, you’re telling me there’s no room?!