“Seducing you?” Ruan Weibai laughed out of anger, “No, mister Ye, why on earth would you think I would sell my soul and body for something like this?!”
Ye Tang calmly swept his gaze over their current seating posture, “Oh?”
Ruan Weibai, who was originally sitting on the man’s lap, scooted a bit forward as he spoke, “What is it, your legs are so slender and bony that it felt uncomfortable against me, is there a problem with moving a bit forward?”
Ye Tang looked at someone’s hand instead, “Then what are Ah-Ruan’s hands doing?”
“It is getting a bit hot, is it not allowed to take off a piece of clothing?”
Ye Tang feigned deep thought, “That is not entirely out of the question.”
“It is just that what you took off appears to be my clothes?”
While unbuttoning Ye Tang’s outer garment, Ruan Weibai spoke smoothly and eloquently, “I am sitting on you, and since you are wearing so much, it naturally makes me hot, so not only am I helping you take it off.”
Leaning close to his ear, he lowered his voice into a bewitching whisper, “Wait a moment, I will have to take off my own as well.”
[System: Vocal, host, you are way too smooth!]
Tell me, is Ye Tang just too confident in himself, or is he simply underestimating me?
Asking me to seduce him, isn’t that practically a freebie question?
Can I not take this down easily?
Ye Tang’s eyebrows drooped, the blinking speed of his eyes resembling 0.2-speed playback, his enviable long eyelashes resembling the fluttering wings of a butterfly. Viewed from a downward angle, he possessed an ethereal, lonely elegance and a sense of sinking.
However, he suddenly pressed down on Ruan Weibai’s hand, which had reached inside his collar:
“My apologies, Ah-Ruan, the more you act like this, the less interested I become.”
Ruan Weibai was left speechless, his voice turning somewhat frantic, “Mister Ye, are you toying with me?”
“What I said naturally holds true,” Ye Tang smiled faintly, the angle of his tilted head handsome enough to make one forgive everything, “However, if Ah-Ruan only has this little skill, I am afraid you will not be able to go to the mortal realm.”
[System: Tsk, host, you ran into a master!! What happened to taking it down easily?!]
Ruan Weibai: I swear I will not share the same sky as mister Ye!
Snorting, he got off Ye Tang’s lap, “It is too stuffy in the room, I am going out alone to sit for a while.”
Ye Tang did not reply, and Ruan Weibai opened the door and walked out by himself.
The system looked at Ye Tang, then looked at its own host, and quickly chased after Ruan Weibai outside the door.
[System: No, host, why did you come out, why not try a little harder? What if it actually worked!]
Ruan Weibai paced around the courtyard twice, irritatedly kicking a pebble, “It would not work, Ye Tang simply does not have that kind of mindset.”
[System: Ah?]
Ruan Weibai crossed his arms and sighed, “I originally thought this matter was a sure thing, but now it seems it is not that simple.”
[System: I do not understand? It looked like the atmosphere was super good initially!]
“This matter is somewhat contradictory; the more eager I act, the more cold and distant he is toward me,” Ruan Weibai continued, “He dislikes motives that are not pure.”
[System: I do not quite get it, sounds very profound? Why not just touch him, kiss him, and do that thing to him?]
“That would only yield the opposite result,” Ruan Weibai supported his chin with his hand, “Knowing what I know about Ye Tang, if I actually did that, he would only push me away harshly, and getting close to him again would be even harder.”
[System: Then, could it be that the host is just giving up directly?]
“Giving up? How is that possible!” Ruan Weibai let out a brief, mocking snort, clenching his fist before extending his little pinky finger, “I naturally intend to play with him properly, if I cannot even take down little Ye Tang, then who am I?”
[System: As expected of the host, so what are your plans?]
Ruan Weibai: “Is there not a common saying that lovers’ quarrels end in reconciliation in the bedroom? I plan to pick a fight with him first.”
Pick- pick a fight?
[System: Sss, the host always comes up with unique approaches in this regard! But with the way the Heavenly Lord dotingly spoils you, are you certain the two of you can actually start a fight? Could it be that you are going to feud with him single-handedly?]
The corner of Ruan Weibai’s mouth curled up: “Who says you have to use words to quarrel?”
That same night, Ruan Weibai fell asleep remarkably early, sensing that Ye Tang was right beside him, seemingly staring at him for a long time as if wanting to say something but ultimately saying nothing.
Feeling hot during the night, he kicked the blanket around randomly, yet every time he kicked it away, someone would tirelessly reach out and tuck it back over him.
Refusing to appreciate the gesture, he turned over and pinned the blanket underneath him, whereupon the person behind him pulled him close into an embrace to sleep. He wriggled a few times to shake the person off, and then grabbed a corner of the blanket to cover himself once again.
Truly, looking precisely like a young married couple having a petty argument.
The next day, he intentionally dragged his feet until after Ye Tang had already left before getting up. Afterward, he went as usual to watch the little apprentice build blocks, chatted with Bai Ruogu as if nothing had happened, exchanged witty banter and petty arguments with Xie Xun, and coaxed Xie Shuxue into uttering more than four words. When evening came and Ye Tang arrived to fetch him back to Falling Moon and Crying Crow, he once again put on a cold, aloof attitude.
When Ye Tang reached out to hold his hand, he would stretch and walk ahead by himself; when Ye Tang stepped forward, he would step back; when Ye Tang stayed in place and waited for him, he would take a different route to stroll around, refusing under any circumstances to walk side by side with Ye Tang.
“Ah-Ruan?”
Cannot hear him, refusing to engage.
When Ye Tang walked over and drew closer, he would furrow his brow and put on an unhappy expression.
“Why are you angry, is it because of yesterday?”
Closing his ears, continuing to ignore him.
In short, to put it succinctly, the current phase involved keeping Ye Tang at a safe distance. Even under the same roof, he would busy himself reading storybooks and completely ignore Ye Tang.
Thus, two days passed.
Yet within those two days, all the immortals in Lanquique Heaven deeply felt that the atmospheric pressure around Heavenly Lord Yaoguang was exceptionally low, so low that it was practically terrifying!
The immortals could not help but whisper among themselves, discussing why the usually detached and cold Heavenly Lord was acting this way.
“Did something go wrong recently, why is the Heavenly Lord in such a terrible mood?”
“Who knows, clearly everything was fine just a couple of days ago.”
“Did you guys not know? Of course it still has to do with that demon!”
“Oh? What did that demon do to anger the Heavenly Lord?”
“I heard he has not spoken a single word to the Heavenly Lord for two days.”
“Just because of this? Ah, this, this, this, could it be that our Heavenly Lord is afraid of his wife?”
“What afraid of his wife, that is called cherishing his wife!”
The few of them spoke while preparing to leave the council hall, and before stepping out, they caught sight of Commander Xie Shuxue walking over, prompting them to hastily pay their respects.
Xie Shuxue nodded slightly and said coldly, “Refrain from idle chatter.”
After offering their apologies, the group scurried away in a panic.
Xie Shuxue watched them leave before stepping into the hall, approaching Heavenly Lord Yaoguang, who was busy reviewing official documents, and called out, “Lord.”
Lifting his head, Ye Tang glanced at Xie Shuxue and asked, “Why are you here, is something wrong with Ah-Ruan?”
Perhaps due to days of handling an overloaded workload of documents, Xie Shuxue felt that the Heavenly Lord appeared extraordinarily exhausted, with an unprecedented level of fatigue: “The Lord requests your presence.”
Ye Tang was momentarily stunned, “You say, Ah-Ruan wants to see me?”
“Indeed.”
Ye Tang abruptly stood up, nearly knocking away the documents on the desk, and asked in mild disbelief, “Is he truly willing to see me now?”
Xie Shuxue nodded, “In the small kitchen.”
Looking as though a burden had been lifted from his shoulders, Ye Tang proceeded to neatly adjust his garments before hurriedly walking out.
The moment he brushed past Xie Shuxue, Xie Shuxue seemed to catch a faint, lingering trace of alcohol.
Although the scent was so subtle it was almost negligible, having served beside the Heavenly Lord for hundreds of years, this was the first time he had ever smelled alcohol on the Heavenly Lord!
The Heavenly Lord had actually consumed alcohol?
Because of Ruan Weibai?
Sunlight poured through the lattice windows into the private small kitchen of Lanquique Heaven, landing squarely on Ruan Weibai.
Today, he had uncharacteristically tied his hair into a high ponytail, with a few wisps of short hair resting against the back of his neck, appearing to emit a warm glow under the illumination of the sunlight.
Beside him sat a bowl of piping hot noodles that had just been scooped up, with rising wisps of steam accentuating his delicate and captivating features.
[System: Host, you usually prefer wearing your hair down, why did you change your hairstyle today? Of course, it looks great too, possessing a rare, pleasing efficiency and youthful charm.]
Picking up two eggs, Ruan Weibai cracked them into a bowl one by one, poured oil into a hot pan, and once the temperature felt right, poured the raw eggs from the bowl directly in.
The eggs sizzled loudly in the pan, and the aroma instantly rose up.
[System: Ah, I understand now, after holding back for two days, you are preparing a loving lunch for the Heavenly Lord, which is why you dressed so neatly, am I right?!]
“Of course not,” Ruan Weibai smiled with the corner of his lips, “I previously noticed that this fellow Ye Tang particularly likes biting my neck, constantly leaving bite marks there… Since I have been giving him the cold shoulder for two days, today I am going to pull out all the stops to heavily seduce him, which naturally means catering to his preferences.”
He tossed his head slightly, letting the high ponytail brush against the back of his neck: “I deliberately exposed it for him to see, will this not hook him and make him drool?”
His neck was fair and slender, and a firm grip of the hand would easily leave red marks, paired with those scattered, fine wisps of hair, the sense of vulnerability was simply absolute!
[System: Now that you mention it, viewed from this rear angle, combined with this lighting, it is practically like adding a divine-tier filter, super sexy!]
[System: But you are dressed so strictly proper, aside from your neck, every other part is wrapped up tightly, do you want to change into a more alluring outfit?]
“That is precisely the difference between a low tier and a high tier.”
“This clothing of mine looks conservative, but it actually accentuates the figure exceptionally well, this slim waist is something even I cannot resist touching!” Ruan Weibai grabbed a handful of fresh scallions and fried them briefly in the hot oil, instantly filling the entire kitchen with a rich scallion fragrance.
[System: You are making my mouth water a bit too, though will the Heavenly Lord really fall for you because of a bowl of noodles.]
Ruan Weibai picked up his chopsticks: “Ever heard of kitchen play?”