The moment it touched his skin, the mask felt like quicksand mixed with stardust, rapidly wrapping around Ji Yunzhao’s face.
In an instant, the shimmering quicksand vanished, having completely merged with his skin.
The young man’s physique and facial features changed silently. In the blink of an eye, the handsome youth who had been sitting on the spirit boat disappeared, replaced by a tall “young girl.”
The “young girl” raised her head blankly, the hair accessory swaying gently, flashing with a dazzling light in the sunlight.
She had beautiful features, pearly white teeth, and vermilion lips. Her hair was styled in an intricate and exquisite bun, with long, loose strands flowing down from her shoulders like ink. Her pale pink dress was embroidered with blooming peach blossoms, and goose-yellow gemstones were clustered together to form flower stamens. Rows of round, lustrous pearls edged the skirt, and the wide sleeves were adorned with jade tassels. Every movement brought a crisp, pleasant tinkling of jade ornaments.
The dress was dignified and luxurious. Though covered in pearls and jade, it did not appear overly cluttered; instead, it perfectly set off the “young girl’s” delicate beauty. When sitting still, she looked like a beautiful painting.
The “young girl” remained dazed for a long time, then suddenly startled. She raised a hand in disbelief to touch the hairpin in her hair, then quickly lowered her head to look at her chest.
The next second, she lunged at the youth sitting opposite her.
“Yan Fulang! You wicked disciple!” Ji Yunzhao reached out to grab the youth’s throat. “I will kill you!”
Not only had his physique and appearance changed, but even his voice had become a delicate and melodious female voice without a single flaw. No one looking at him would be able to tell that a man resided within.
Ji Yunzhao’s action of beating his good-for-nothing disciple stiffened for a moment.
This voice, Ahhh!!!
The “young girl’s” eyes turned fierce, like a small beast that had been provoked into a frenzy, baring its claws.
“You have betrayed your master and destroyed your ancestors!”
Ji Yunzhao punched the youth in the chest.
“You have committed an offense against your superior!”
Another punch swung toward him. Just as it was about to strike his face, it suddenly changed direction and smashed into the youth’s shoulder.
The enraged master did not hold back his strength. Yan Fulang felt a bit of pain, but it was still within the range of what he could endure. He even played along with Ji Yunzhao’s actions, letting out a muffled groan at the right moment.
It was just that sometimes he couldn’t help it, and a light chuckle accidentally spilled from his lips along with the forced groan, which was heard clearly by the “young girl.”
At the same time, Ji Yunzhao felt the vibration full of amusement coming from the solid pectoral muscles under his hand.
“You still dare to laugh?!”
Mingque was unsheathed, and a flash of bright, icy sword light flickered across the spirit boat. Yan Fulang immediately straightened his expression. Before the terrifying pressure could spread, he quickly grabbed Ji Yunzhao’s hand and forcibly pressed Mingque back into its scabbard.
Ji Yunzhao naturally did not want that. The two of them tangled together again, and the spirit boat rocked violently.
“You are sleeping on the floor tonight!”
“No! Sleep in the yard!”
“Forget it, just get lost together with Xiao Rang!”
Xiao Rang squeaked weakly: “This, this, I, I, it was all an accident. It has nothing to do with me.”
Ji Yunzhao shouted angrily: “Shut up!”
Yan Fulang coughed dryly. Facing the extremely gossiping gazes cast upon him, when Ji Yunzhao threw another punch, he grabbed his wrist.
“Senior,” Yan Fulang pulled the furious Ji Yunzhao into his arms and lowered his voice to coax him. “It is my fault. I was momentarily blinded. You can beat me when we get home, Senior. There are so many people watching.”
“After doing something like this, you are still afraid of losing face?”
Ji Yunzhao sneered, twisting around in his arms and struggling endlessly. “If I don’t beat you to death today, I will take your surname!”
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard Yan Fulang sigh helplessly. Then, the whispers he had ignored until now reached his ears.
“Tsk tsk, looks like he is really angry. What exactly did he do to make his wife so angry?”
“So miserable, he is going to be kicked out of the room.”
“Laughing to death, he deserves it. If I had such a beautiful wife, I wouldn’t dare to do a single jerk-like thing.”
“She is beautiful, but also too fierce. Son, in the future, you have to find a partner with a better temper.”
What kind of nonsense were these people spouting? He and Yan Fulang were not in that kind of relationship!
Ji Yunzhao forgot to break free from Yan Fulang’s arms for a moment and coldly raised his eyes to scan the surrounding spirit boats.
Still looking?!
The surrounding gazes were immediately withdrawn.
However, after a moment of quiet, Ji Yunzhao still heard many whispers that were deliberately kept very low.
“Oh, their cultivation is not low, that is tricky.”
“Looks like that brother is destined to sleep on the floor.”
“Son, did you see? You can’t find one with higher cultivation than you, you can’t beat her!”
The commotion was too loud, and the He family also cast suspicious glances toward them. But when they saw it was just a young couple having a lover’s spat, they simply ignored them.
Ji Yunzhao: “…”
Just let the world end.
[System, my schedule is wide open, let’s fast-track the faked death! I want to die today!]
The little black cat sitting on the spirit boat twitched its ears, but acted as if it heard nothing. It looked up at the sky and then down at the small flowers and grass on the ground.
The person in his arms finally went quiet. Yan Fulang exhaled in secret and let Ji Yunzhao go, very carefully avoiding the extra parts on his body.
Ji Yunzhao impatiently reached out, pushed Yan Fulang away, tightened his beautiful face, lay on the soft couch, and stared blankly into space.
To him, a small employee of the Transmigration Bureau who had entered countless book worlds and performed countless missions but had never cross-dressed or played a female role, this was still too stimulating.
“Xiao Rang,” Ji Yunzhao closed his eyes, “I will give you a chance to reform. Remove the disguise.”
When he was beating Yan Fulang earlier, he had already found an opportunity to try, but it turned out he couldn’t remove the disguise on his own, nor could he take the mask off his face.
Xiao Rang’s voice sounded even more cowardly. “I, this, that, it cannot be removed temporarily, it will take at least an hour.”
Ji Yunzhao: “…”
He actually felt a tinge of relief in his heart: Fortunately, it wasn’t a whole day.
Ji Yunzhao lay there with a straight face, as if he were rehearsing playing a corpse ahead of time. He didn’t want to move at all, and he ignored all of Yan Fulang’s overly attentive and deliberate pouring of tea and feeding of snacks, treating the handsome, smiling youth in front of him as if he were air.
The procession entering the city was neither fast nor slow. The He family’s security check was very efficient. Not long after Ji Yunzhao finished teaching Yan Fulang a lesson, their spirit boat reached the front of the line.
They had already become famous in the queue earlier. The He family guards swept a symbolic glance, seeing only the cold-faced “wife,” the “husband” who had made a mistake, and a little black cat licking its paws to sell cuteness, so they waved them through.
Before stepping off the spirit boat, Ji Yunzhao finally crawled up slowly from the soft couch.
With this movement, when he looked down, he inevitably saw the bulge he had deliberately avoided earlier.
He paused for a long time in the middle of getting up, before extending his hand as if he were heading to his doom.
His fair fingertips didn’t touch anything; they went straight through those two lumps.
Ji Yunzhao: “?”
How was it clipping through the model?
Xiao Rang immediately spoke up, explaining as if trying to claim credit: “Um, the situation was urgent, I didn’t have time to retract the pre-set disguise effect, but I hurried to adjust the appearance!”
Fortunately, the chest was fake.
Ji Yunzhao’s mood finally calmed down a little. He then turned his back, stealthily reached into his skirt, and felt around.
Very good, what should be there was still there.
He tidied his skirt, turned slightly to the side, and said expressionlessly: “Yan Fulang, you have saved your neck.”
A hint of amusement flashed through his peach blossom eyes, which the youth hid well before Ji Yunzhao could notice.
Yan Fulang: “Thank you for not killing me, Senior.”
Having done something wrong even if it was done on purpose, Yan Fulang was very honest. When getting off the spirit boat, he proactively offered to help Ji Yunzhao down, and was then severely slapped away.
The “young girl” looked cold and charming, lifting her long skirt in an unskilled manner, and stepped out cautiously.
The pearls and jade ornaments on the hem of the skirt knocked against the edge of the spirit boat, making a tinkling sound. The tassels hanging from her sleeves also got caught on something. Ji Yunzhao froze on the spot, not daring to move.
“Yan Fulang.”
The “young girl” turned her face away awkwardly, “Hurry up and come help.”
Yan Fulang agreed with a smirk. When he walked to Ji Yunzhao’s side, he returned to a submissive appearance. His slender fingers carefully removed the part of the dress that had snagged, and he even held Ji Yunzhao’s hand on the way.
Through the sleeves, without touching him directly, he appeared both polite and restrained.
Ji Yunzhao glanced at him, but in the end, he didn’t say anything, tacitly allowing the youth’s presumptuous actions.
An hour, a full two hours of disguise time. Only about twenty minutes had passed while waiting in line.
Ji Yunzhao asked the system to set up a countdown, which floated in the upper left corner of his field of vision without being too obstructive.
[Ahem, Host, don’t be angry. Actually, Xiao Rang’s craftsmanship is quite good. The little dress is so pretty, and the makeup isn’t too thick.]
After getting off the spirit boat, the system didn’t dare to crouch on Ji Yunzhao’s shoulder, so it crawled onto Yan Fulang’s shoulder. [Do you want me to take a photo for you to see? It’s really quite beautiful.]
Ji Yunzhao naturally knew that he looked very beautiful in women’s clothes now; he could tell from the amazed gazes the passers-by cast upon him from time to time.
He wasn’t unhappy because he was cross-dressing and appearing as a woman. There was nothing wrong with cross-dressing, and he had no opinion on it, he was just a bit depressed.
—It should have been Yan Fulang wearing the women’s clothing!
Who on earth had crashed into their spirit boat!
Damn it!!!
The “young girl’s” beautiful face became savage again, her eyes like knives, gouging fiercely at Yan Fulang.
Yan Fulang waited until he was done throwing glares before handing over the snacks he had just bought.
“Senior, eat some shaved ice balls to cool your anger.”
Ji Yunzhao glared at him again before taking the icy, sweet snack. He chewed hard, imagining the soft, glutinous balls were Yan Fulang, and soon polished off the whole bowl.
He didn’t leave a single ball for Yan Fulang!
There were many snack stalls on both sides of the main road in Yuncang City. Yan Fulang took Ji Yunzhao and bought many snacks, stuffing them into his hands while walking towards the Treasure Pavilion.
Under the dual effect of the youth’s considerate actions and delicious food, Ji Yunzhao slowly stopped being angry.
In any case, the chest was fake, and nothing was missing below; at most, the feeling of the hair accessory swaying on his head was a bit strange, and the skirt was a bit long, dragging on the ground. As for the rest, it didn’t actually affect him much.
Ji Yunzhao thought it through, decided to pretend nothing had happened, and stepped into the main gate of the Treasure Pavilion under Yan Fulang’s service of helping him walk and lifting his skirt.
He was good-looking to begin with, and with the added effect of the cross-dressing disguise, he looked even more beautiful. With his body covered in pearls and jade, he looked exactly like an extremely wealthy young lady from a noble family.
The manager of the Treasure Pavilion greeted them with a beaming smile. Upon hearing that they wanted to buy storage artifacts, his smile became even more sincere, and he quickly recommended several items.
The items the manager brought out were all top-tier artifacts, each one more flamboyant than the last. Their designs were indeed quite beautiful, and their practicality was not bad either.
Ji Yunzhao excluded the styles that were too girly, such as butterflies or little pink flowers, and chose a few that were more grand.
Seeing that he had no objections to the price, and noting their intimate behavior, the manager brought out a pair of storage rings.
“How about this pair? The style is generous and elegant. It is the treasure of our Treasure Pavilion, very suitable for you and your husband.”
A couple’s set? It was indeed quite beautiful, and the design was very unique. One was made into a divine bird spreading its wings to fly, and the other was made into intertwined branches. It suited Ji Yunzhao’s aesthetic.
If it were normal times, Ji Yunzhao might have ignored the “couple’s set” mentioned by the manager, as well as the design philosophy of “wishing to be lovebirds in the sky, and intertwined branches on the ground,” and simply bought them to reward Yan Fulang.
But today… unfortunately.
Ji Yunzhao curled his lips, picked up the couple’s storage rings, took one look, and put them down with a lack of interest.
“Husband? The manager is joking.” Fair, slender fingertips caressed Yan Fulang’s chin, tapping casually on the handsome face. “He is nothing more than a kept man.”
Yan Fulang: “…”