I Heard That I'm An Affectionate Male Lead

Chapter 028

Cang Yu woke up at the fourth watch. It was still dark. He looked haggard and exhausted, his face looked like gold paper. The blood on his lips had been wiped clean. He walked like an old man in his seventies or eighties.

And Xuan Jie was following behind him, running very nimble and with a bit of the vitality that he should have at his age.

When they came back, Qian Niang was lying in the pile of fruits and hadn't woken up yet. Cang Yu breathed a sigh of relief, he opened the door and went in, carrying Xuan Jie into his den. He was probably too tired from playing in the Fire Spirit Earthline, Xuan Jie fell asleep quickly. He drank a cup of cold tea by himself, then undressed and went to sleep. After sleeping in a daze for about an hour, he heard Chi Shuishui calling outside the door. Cang Yu's body was alternating between cold and hot. When he couldn't get up, he felt like a soft warm thing attached to his body. It's neither cold nor hot anymore, just warm.

After a while, there was no more knocking on the door, and Cang Yu slept more peacefully.

When Cang Yu woke up, Chi Shuishui and Qian Niang were chatting outside the door. Ever since Xuan Jie joined the training, the two demons had been slandering each other almost every time they meet. This time, they were rarely chatting amiably. It was quite curious. Cang Yu stood by the window with his coat on and eavesdropped. When he heard Chi Shuishui chipping in some good words about Xuan Jie, Qian Niang smiled proudly, and praised Chi Shuishui for being a good teacher.

It looked very much like a parent and a class teacher having a commercial exchange of blows.

Cang Yu stayed by the window and watched them. For some unknown reason Xuan Jie was letting Qian Niang hold him today. The scene looked very harmonious. He couldn't help but smile and turned back to bed to rest.

Xuan Jie happened to raise his head and saw that scene through the moonlight. At this time, he didn't have much idea about beauty and ugliness. He just felt that everyone looked pleasing to the eye, and Cang Yu just happened to looked the most pleasing. There was nothing special about it.

However, for some reason he remembered this moment.

"Miss Qian, do you know the details?" Chi Shuishui wiped a piece of fruit and handed it to Qian Niang and asked, "How come Xuan Jie was so naive and silly yesterday, but today he seems to be a completely different person."

Qian Niang took the fruit, taking a big bite, she shook her head and said: "How could I know that Cang Yu took Xuan Jie out last night? I didn't even know when they came back. Anyway, after they came back, Cang Yu stopped talking, but he's had his tail out all day long. If this has anything to do with it, you need to ask Cang Yu."

Chi Shuishui laughed dryly, and wiped a piece of fruit for himself to eat. He heard Qian Niang say: "But Xuan Jie really is being well-behaved today, he's even willing to let me hold him, Chi Shuishui, am I dreaming?"

"Dreaming?" Chi Shuishui glanced at her, he pulled out a hard-shelled fruit and slapped it on her forehead. After smashing it, he asked calmly: "Does it hurt?"

"Oh—" Qian Niang touched the bump on her forehead and glared at Chi Shuishui, "Stinky fox! What are you doing?"

The two demons disagreed and immediately started to fight. Xuan Jie watched the excitement for a while and felt bored, so he jumped off Qian Niang's lap and ran into the house.

Chi Shuishui and Qian Niang didn't know the cause and effect of their actions. Maybe even Cang Yu have a partial understanding of it. Only Xuan Jie himself knew clearly. Ever since he swallowed the snake demon inner elixir, he felt like the fog in his mind was being lifted layer by layer, suddenly became extremely clear, no longer as confused as he was in the past when he acted purely by instinct.

The Zhuzhao are powerful and have a long gestation period. If the cubs stay in the egg and cannot come out, they're not lying in wait, but are meditating to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Therefore, after breaking out of the egg, the growth period is supposed to be very short. Xuan Jie took a different path. He only stayed for eighty years before he was forced to break out of his shell. He hasn't fully grown his body, let alone his spiritual intelligence. For half a year, he's been confused and only relying on Zhu Zhao's instinct to act, leading to the Qingqiu Fox's misunderstanding.

Now that Xuan Jie has eaten the snake elixir, he's gained five hundred years of Taoism in a span of a moment, this has naturally made up for all the defects in the egg. Fortunately, Cang Yu fed him the inner elixir. If he had fed it to another cub, they would've long exploded all over the place.

Usually Xuan Jie doesn't know what the foxes are saying or doing. He eats when he need to eat, sleeps when he need to eat, moves when he hears noises, and bites when he encounters an enemy. This is the innate instinct of the Zhuzhao beast. Now that he has opened his spiritual wisdom, many things are clearer to him. Those once hazy actions and words have clear directions. Therefore, he's become rarely docile today, letting Qian Niang hold her in his arms, because he knows her.

Xuan Jie opened the door and ran into the room. He could never climb onto the bed in the past because he didn't know how to use it. Now that his mind was clear, he looked around and used furniture to make some clever moves. With a slight jump, he walked to the bedside, walked into his little nest, curled himself up, and looked at Cang Yu intently.

Cang Yu took the book and saw him coming up. He greeted softly, "Hey", and then said: "You look smarter today," His face was still very white, not the whiteness of the past, but a white with no blood, even the color of his lips has become much lighter.

Xuan Jie looked at him quietly and climbed out of the nest again, cupping his hand on the quilt with his head, holding it up with his head, and raised it to absorb the fire wounds on Cang Yu's body.

Cang Yu didn't pay attention, he was focused on the books. He'd been practicing the exercises for a long time, and he thought he was prepared. But when he faced the snake demon yesterday, he realized that he had thought about the matter too simply. Not only was he not prepared to fight, he was miles away from facing the test of life and death. Fortunately, the snake demon wasn't very smart. If it was replaced by someone with more experience or deeper cultivation, he's afraid that both he and Xuan Jie would've long become someone else's meal.

How can he let himself show his true form at every little shadow?

Cang Yu unconsciously raised his hand to flip through the book, and his eyes suddenly fell on Xuan Jie. When he saw him squatting beside him, he couldn't help but laugh and say slowly: "You... you don't have to worry about anything, I feel very relaxed and at ease."

Today's Xuan Jie has only been born for half a year, he's just opened his spiritual wisdom. Although he doesn't know most of the beauty and happiness the world has to offer, pain and despair are far away from him, let alone worries and troubles. His life is just passing by like this day by day, neither good or bad. He's most satisfied when he eats, and gets the warmest spot to sleep in. It's like this day by day, but that's it.

"Forget it, you don't understand what I'm talking about."

Cang Yu sighed softly. He laid down and turned sideways. After thinking about it, he turned back to Xuan Jie.

After last night, Cang Yu felt that he had a somewhat close relationship with this little beast, and he couldn't help but feel closer to him. He put the little beast back into its nest and said to himself: "You should learn better, don't be fooled easily and become someone's meal."

Cang Yu was just laughed at himself casually, but Xuan Jie thought he was talking about what happened last night, so he nodded seriously.