Chapter 51
Bai Qingyu asked, “What’s wrong with a hundred kilograms? Why the weight limit?”
He Renyuan stammered, unable to explain, “Just… limiting the weight of adults, in case I coax Cha Bao into taking me inside, you don’t allow that, do you?”
Bai Qingyu looked at him. I don’t allow it, but since when were you so understanding?
He Renyuan said, “Where did you take Cha Bao just now? Is my memory not fully recovered?”
It was Bai Qingyu’s turn to stammer. Of course, he sided with his son, “Cha Bao was eager to help you recover your memory, he fell from the tree and broke it. There’s still a small fragment left in the divine realm.”
Bai Qingyu gestured with his thumb and forefinger, emphasizing a tiny gap, downplaying the matter, “Just a small fragment, doesn’t affect the big picture.”
The millennia-old pile of fallen leaves was too thick, no one cleaned it, and the other half had rolled somewhere unknown.
He Renyuan squatted down, hugged Cha Bao, and pinched his arm to check, “Thank you, Baby, did you hurt yourself?”
Bai Xiaocha, “It doesn’t hurt, Uncle.”
He Renyuan was touched by his son. His son had him in his heart, “Uncle will make you buns tonight.”
“Do you want to practice more?”
“No more practice, you’ve learned a lot today,” Bai Qingyu said dotingly, “Cha Bao only falls from trees when he’s hungry.”
Now He Renyuan had no reason to blame Cha Bao for breaking his memory, right?
He Renyuan hadn’t blamed him in the first place and hurriedly carried Cha Bao down the mountain.
Bai Qingyu followed behind, secretly glancing at the back of He Renyuan’s handsome head. So what did He Renyuan remember? Why was he silent? If anything had happened between them, He Renyuan would have already brought it up, right?
Then nothing happened, Cha Bao’s origin matched his guess.
Did he give up after questioning the tea deity’s judgment?
Bai Qingyu seized the opportunity when Cha Bao went for a bike ride with his grandpa and cornered He Renyuan, who was kneading dough in the kitchen, “What did you remember?”
He Renyuan kneaded the dough, a professional chef instructing him through his earphones. It was the chef who taught his father. He was shocked when he heard He Renyuan wanted to cook. Did the He family awaken some cooking talent at a certain age? Then he wouldn’t have to worry about unemployment.
“What did you say?” He Renyuan pointed at his earphones.
Bai Qingyu took them off, his beautiful eyes fixed on He Renyuan, “I asked what you remembered.”
He Renyuan, “No- nothing, just some fragments of my recovery.”
In his entire memory, there were almost no scenes of him walking upright, not just physically, but also mentally and financially.
If he had been completely dependent on Bai Qingyu, that would be terrible. Bai Qingyu saying that only a small fragment of his memory was missing made his vision darken.
Although he had tricked his wife, his dignity was gone.
Since reuniting with Bai Qingyu, he had been in the role of employer and boss, and it was difficult to switch for a while.
Bai Qingyu, “Anything else?” So there was no intimacy? Then why was He Renyuan so skilled at kissing? With whom?
He Renyuan, “Also… I owe you my life, you pulled me back from the brink of disability.”
Bai Qingyu tilted his head, watching He Renyuan avoid talking about intimacy, his gaze shifting, claiming a serious medical history, no sex in a month… He had seen the commercials, this meant the man’s gas tank was broken.
Bai Qingyu leaned closer and asked, “Did you remember something sad?”
He Renyuan: ?
Bai Qingyu, “Did you also injure ‘that area,’ and I didn’t heal it for you?”
He Renyuan: ???
His silence wasn’t a reason for Bai Qingyu’s wild guesses!
Bai Qingyu, “So Cha Bao is the baby born from the fusion of our blood? Okay, since it’s confirmed, I’ll tell Cha Bao tonight, and he’ll call you Dad tomorrow.”
He was too good to He Renyuan.
He Renyuan’s hands were covered in dough, he couldn’t even lift them to pin the tea deity against the wall, he could only rage, “We’ve already done everything we should have done!”
“Don’t tell Cha Bao yet, wait until you remember and are willing to say it.”
Bai Qingyu frowned, “What did we do?”
He Renyuan, “Made love.”
Bai Qingyu blushed, “Impossible.”
He Renyuan realized that Bai Qingyu was like a cat that insisted on knocking over a bowl of water and getting itself wet, asking and then refuting, just to annoy him.
Bai Qingyu, “If anything happened, why would you have such a troubled expression?”
He Renyuan: “…”
He closed his eyes, his inglorious past flashing through his mind.
Three years ago, in the divine realm.
He Renyuan was unconscious from blood loss. When he regained consciousness, he opened his eyes and saw a boundless sky. Had no one found him yet?
He immediately identified the culprit. This pro bono case was taken on by his law firm partner. When they came to investigate together, he saw his partner give the boy who pushed him off the cliff a candy.
He thought it was out of kindness, but it turned out that hidden beneath the candy wrapper was malice.
He should have realized earlier that their philosophies for running the law firm were different. His partner always thought he would inherit the family business, only caring about reputation, not prioritizing profits.
This law firm should have been dismantled long ago. When he learned that his partner was using the He family’s resources, telling his subordinates that the rich second-generation was just playing around, He Renyuan decided to sell the law firm.
He Renyuan thought the pro bono case was a good ending, but it turned out to be a trap for him.
His passion and professionalism for the legal profession were no match for his disgust for human nature.
He Renyuan couldn’t move his body at all. Strangely, his brain didn’t register any pain, but this often meant a worse outcome: paralysis.
At this moment, He Renyuan’s disgust for humans reached its peak.
“You’re awake?” A pleasant voice came.
He Renyuan forgot that this wasn’t a hospital ward and mistook the other party’s tone for a nurse’s cautiousness, “What happened to me?”
“You fell from the mountain, I saw no one wanted you, so I picked you up.”
An otherworldly beautiful face leaned over him and said with a smile. His long, dark green hair fell down, brushing against He Renyuan’s hand, tickling him. For a moment, his sense of touch returned to normal, telling him he could still function.
The other party wasn’t a nurse, and he wasn’t lying on a hospital bed, but on a hard stone slab.
Bai Qingyu held his wrist, a gentle force flowing into his veins, “You’re seriously injured, it will take a long time to recover.”
Bai Qingyu’s tone was troubled because it would consume a lot of his divine power. He was awakened from dormancy by He Renyuan’s blood seeping into his roots, which at least meant this mortal wasn’t bad, he had been wronged.
People in desperate situations would hope for a deity to descend. He Renyuan thought he was a materialist, until this moment, “Are you an immortal?”
Bai Qingyu pursed his lips, “Something like that, just rest and recover.”
He Renyuan didn’t know the weight of the word “rest” until he lay there alone for three days and nights, unable to move. Entering this realm seemed to automatically block the basic human needs of eating, drinking, and eliminating.
He didn’t eat or drink, didn’t have any strength, didn’t know how long he had to lie there. After staring at the starry sky for three days without even hearing a bird’s chirp, He Renyuan became a little twisted when he heard Bai Qingyu’s voice again.
Humans were really pathetic. Even though he was disgusted with human nature, he still needed social interaction.
Bai Qingyu gave him divine power this time, he didn’t know when the next time would be, he had to seize the opportunity and keep him here.
Humans would betray humans, would a deity betray his believer?
“Are you the tea deity?” He Renyuan reasonably deduced, based on the location of Wuyi Mountain and the tea trees all around.
Bai Qingyu thought he was very perceptive, “Yes.”
He Renyuan, “You just leave me here and don’t care?”
Bai Qingyu was puzzled, “What else should I do?”
He Renyuan made something up, “You’re keeping me here without any entertainment, it’s illegal confinement, the maximum sentence is three years.” He wasn’t afraid of Bai Qingyu scolding or punishing him, he was only afraid that Bai Qingyu would disappear, so he had to throw out a debatable point to make the deity stay.
Bai Qingyu was very afraid of unintentionally committing a crime. He was a law-abiding deity, “Entertainment?”
He Renyuan realized that Bai Qingyu seemed to fall for this, “At least I need to see you, I’ll go crazy if I don’t see you again.”
Bai Qingyu understood, saving his body and also his mind, otherwise, if a good person went crazy, it would be a waste of effort.
So Bai Qingyu stayed around He Renyuan, but the tea deity’s life was very simple, either transforming into a tree or sitting and recovering his divine power.
He Renyuan, “Respected deity, even a vegetative person needs regular massages and feeding, otherwise they’ll die.”
“Being a vegetative person is great, I’m a vegetative person.”
He Renyuan, “I’ll die, and then you’ll have to compensate my family according to the average human salary… about one million yuan.”
“One million?”
Bai Qingyu seemed to be very afraid of him dying here and extorting money, so he started to help him turn over and sit up.
He Renyuan had never missed food so much, “I’m hungry, is there any food here?”
Bai Qingyu, “You automatically fast when you’re here.”
He Renyuan looked at him, “The criteria for humane fasting should be that I’ve eaten and don’t feel the need to eat anymore, not that I haven’t eaten and won’t starve to death.”
Bai Qingyu let him lean against a rock, supporting him with his shoulder. This was the time he talked the most with a human. This human was handsome, his hairstyle was also handsome. Before his last dormancy, many humans still had braids, very ugly.
Seeing He Renyuan, it wasn’t an exaggeration to say that the tea deity felt refreshed, both moved by He Renyuan’s appearance and happy about the progress of human life.
In short, He Renyuan was a progressive human, and the tea deity was very willing to talk to him.
Bai Qingyu, “What is humane?”
He Renyuan found an opportunity to educate the tea deity about humanity, seeking benefits for himself.
Bai Qingyu was a tea deity willing to accept progressive ideas and was so excited that he went to get a bowl of porridge.
This was the worst porridge He Renyuan had ever had, but what was there to complain about with liquid food?
After eating, as he expected, he had no strength because he hadn’t eaten in a long time.
The divine realm only guaranteed that he wouldn’t starve to death, but humans only gained strength by eating. This might also be the divine realm’s restriction on humans, to prevent him from offending the tea deity.
He Renyuan occasionally coaxed Bai Qingyu into giving him some food with sweet words.
There was just one problem. Bai Qingyu insisted that he needed to eat humane liquid food, so every time he brought back offerings and wild fruits, he mashed them into a paste in a stone groove and fed him.
He Renyuan negotiated many times, even gently biting Bai Qingyu’s finger when he was being fed, to prove that he had the ability to chew, but he couldn’t resist the tea deity’s authority.
“I may not have eaten pork, but I’ve seen pigs being fed.” The tea deity specifically went to the human world to observe, they all had to be fed this way to grow big and strong.
He Renyuan: “…” Treated like a pet, fine.
The suffering of each meal was always compensated by a pot of tea afterwards.
He Renyuan didn’t want to be a pet, he wanted to offend the deity.
Anyway, he had nothing to do, so he spent all day thinking about how to seduce the tea deity.
Gradually, his hands could move, and he could wash and dress himself.
He noticed that Bai Qingyu particularly liked his thick, black hair. He Renyuan coaxed Bai Qingyu into bringing back scissors and a mirror and taught himself the skills of a professional hairstylist.
The tea deity had no resistance to modern, celebrity-like hairstyles, his eyes curving as he looked at him. This was the most handsome human he had ever seen.
He Renyuan smiled and continued exploring his crafting skills. He took apart the scissors, used them as a knife, and carved a hairpin for Bai Qingyu.
He Renyuan had good taste and even tied Bai Qingyu’s hair, washed his hair, trying his best to use his hands.
Before he even confessed, he unintentionally gave Bai Qingyu what he considered a token of love.
“Do you like me?” Bai Qingyu touched the hairpin and put it in his dark green hair.
The tea deity was really guileless, stating his conditions early on, “If you’re with me, I can grant you the same lifespan as mine.”
Although He Renyuan was the one pursuing Bai Qingyu, Bai Qingyu was the one who first offered the tempting condition, as if he was in the dominant position.
He Renyuan was stunned for a moment, he never pursued Bai Qingyu with this intention.
Bai Qingyu even urged, “What do you mean by hesitating?”
He Renyuan, “You should threaten me, saying that those who love deities will become spirits, living in summer and dying in winter.”
Bai Qingyu, “And then?”
He Renyuan, “I’m willing.”
Bai Qingyu, “But that’s not humane, you don’t like that.”
He Renyuan’s eyes heated up, feeling apprehensive because Bai Qingyu was easy to pursue. What if it wasn’t him?
