Chapter 67
Lin Queli held the corner of the wall, and it took him a while to suppress the discomfort.
“Phew…”
He quickly wiped his mouth and cleaned up the “crime scene.”
“Young Master Lin?”
This voice…
Lin Queli turned his head and saw Jiang Li. The alley was empty, so the vendors would choose to walk here to deliver goods. At this moment, Jiang Li was pushing a small cart and passing by.
When Jiang Li saw Lin Queli, he was overjoyed. “What are you doing here? I was worried that we wouldn’t see each other tonight…”
Lin Queli quickly adjusted his state and stood up straight with a dry laugh. “H-hello…”
Although he didn’t know him, it was still polite to say hello…
Jiang Li said, “I have a stall in the south end left alley. You can come and find me when you have time!”
“But…” he said, handing a food box to Lin Queli and scratching his head with a smile, “cultivators and immortals are busy with many things. You probably don’t have time… It’s okay, you can just take these. It’s as good as seeing you!”
Lin Queli had wanted to refuse, but the next moment it was forced into his arms.
“Take it! I’ll be happy if you take it!”
Lin Queli stammered, “Oh, okay…!”
After he took it, he only felt a scorching gaze behind him. He turned his head and saw Helan Xue.
“…!”
Lin Queli’s body trembled. Helan Xue was dressed in white, holding a lantern with a gloomy gaze as he stood at the entrance of the alley. He almost scared him to death.
“Wen…”
The next moment, Helan Xue stepped forward and grabbed his wrist, pulling him away.
“Goodbye, Young Master Lin!!”
“Oh, oh, oh! Goodbye!”
After being dragged away, Lin Queli pouted and said softly, “It hurts! Can you pull a little lighter?”
Helan Xue paused in his steps. He took a deep breath and turned to look at Lin Queli.
Lin Queli blinked. “W-what’s wrong?”
Why is Wen Chen… a little angry? Is he angry that I ran away on my own? Um, it was indeed not kind of me to run away while Wen Chen was guessing the lantern riddle, but there was a reason for it…
Helan Xue stared at the innocent-looking Lin Queli, who was holding a food box, for a long time before he said in a hoarse voice, “I was getting a lantern for you, but you were having a secret meeting with that man?”
“…?!
“N-no, no, no!” Lin Queli’s eyes widened. “Misunderstanding! It’s a misunderstanding! I met him by chance…!”
“Then why did you run away?”
“Ah, ah…” Lin Queli’s eyes darted away.
Helan Xue lowered his eyes, his hands tightly clutching the lantern he had just won. The force was so great that his palm was trembling slightly.
He seemed to be trying his best to restrain himself to maintain his composure.
After a long while, he found his voice. “You… what do you see in that man?”
He could also learn.
“See… see what! I don’t!” Lin Queli’s eyes widened. “You’re overthinking it! And… why do you care so much about this?”
Could it be…
Lin Queli’s mind was in a mess. He cares if I’m interested in Jiang Li, but he’s not Jiang Li, nor is he Jiang Li’s family or friend.
If he cares about me as a friend, he shouldn’t be angry about this, right? Could it be that Jiang Li is some bad person? That doesn’t make sense…
There was another possibility.
Could it be that the person before him… liked him?
This thought was like a stone falling into water, creating ripples.
It was a little unbelievable, but there were also clues. But just the thought made one feel light-headed. His head was heavy, but his body was light.
Am I overthinking it?
Lin Queli swallowed hard. “Why do you care what I see in him?”
Helan Xue froze.
That’s right.
He was not Lin Queli’s Shizun now. To Lin Queli, he and he were just strangers who had met by chance.
He didn’t seem to have the right.
“Thump!”
Not far away, another firecracker went off, reminding the people that it was almost time to release the sky lanterns.
At this moment, the two were in an alley with not many people. The lanterns were arranged around them, making Lin Queli’s eyes sparkle.
Very beautiful.
But this pair of eyes did not belong to him, nor would they necessarily look at him.
Whether he had amnesia or not, he was always very far away from him.
Not allowed.
The high and mighty Taxue Xianzun, who cultivated his very being, had never thought that one day, after becoming an immortal, he would be trapped by love and his mind would be occupied by emotions.
At this moment, he seemed to be unable to restrain himself any longer.
Ten years was enough to destroy him and leave him in that abyss.
Now, the thought that his lost and found lover might fall in love with someone else was like falling into that abyss again.
And what was even more desperate was that he realized that he had no right or qualification to stop it.
The moment he realized this, Helan Xue pinched Lin Queli’s chin and leaned down to kiss him with some impatience.
“…!”
“Thump! Thump!”
After the firecrackers ended, fireworks bloomed one after another, and the two figures flickered in this light. The gazes of the passers-by were now also attracted by the fireworks, and no one noticed the two kissing in the corner of the street.
Lin Queli was pressed against the wall by Helan Xue, his head against the mud bricks as Helan Xue deepened the kiss.
Helan Xue’s hands wrapped around Lin Queli, as if he had abandoned his reason in an instant, indulging in this exchange of breaths, contentedly licking his prey.
He didn’t want others to see Lin Queli, so he used his tall body to hide him in his arms, pressing him against the wall and trapping him tightly.
Lin Queli’s eyes widened.
—We-we kissed.
He felt a soft touch on his lips. His whole body froze, as if he were in a dream.
When his breathing became more and more difficult, he helplessly grabbed Helan Xue’s arm and patted it.
“Mmm…”
Helan Xue let go.
Lin Queli gasped for breath, only feeling a lingering numb pain on his lips.
You thick-browed Wen Chen, you usually look so gentle. How can you be so fierce when you kiss!
Lin Queli suspected that if they weren’t outside now, the other person would have kissed him even more fiercely.
But…
Lin Queli leaned against the wall, his legs a little weak.
—It-it was also very fierce.
For some reason, this kiss, although unexpected, felt somewhat familiar and… safe.
Lin Queli panted, adjusting his breathing.
Helan Xue looked at the water glistening on Lin Queli’s lips, his eyes darkening slightly. His fingers gently pressed on it. “Sorry.”
Although he was apologizing, his eyes and actions still carried a hint of aggression.
Lin Queli was stunned.
“You…”
“Aiya! I finally found you!”
Just then, A’Yu and A’Lin came with A’Xue.
“It’s almost time to release the lanterns! We have to hurry up to the bridge!”
“Oh, oh, oh…!”
Lin Queli frantically put away the pastries and Helan Xue’s lantern, turned his head, and quickly went to A’Xue’s side. “Let’s-let’s go!”
—He didn’t dare to look at Helan Xue at all.
Helan Xue lowered his eyes.
It was… expected.
A’Yu and A’Lin saw Lin Queli’s red lips and looked at each other.
Ah… did we interrupt them?
But it’s almost time to release the sky lanterns!
If you want to be intimate, be intimate at home!
The group went to a high place to prepare to release the sky lanterns. In another incense stick’s time, with three firecrackers, the people could all let their sky lanterns rise into the air with their wishes, seeking the blessing of the heavenly dao and the immortals. It was also a beautiful wish.
Lin Queli glanced at the pastries in his arms.
Since Helan Xue had a big opinion on this…
Lin Queli opened the food box and said to everyone, “A kind person I met gave them to me. Let’s eat them together?”
The pastries in the food box were all different. It could be seen that the person who prepared them had put a lot of thought into it. After everyone tried them, they couldn’t help but exclaim that they were delicious.
The whole box of pastries was quickly finished by the four mouths, excluding Helan Xue.
“Huh?”
A’Yu found a letter at the bottom of the box, picked it up, and handed it to Lin Queli. “Is this for you?”
Lin Queli took it guiltily and glanced at Helan Xue, who was standing on the side with a cold face and no expression. He only felt even more guilty.
—Although he didn’t know what he was guilty about.
But after meeting Helan Xue’s gaze, his eyes quickly retracted.
It’s over! Now every time I look at Helan Xue, my heart beats super fast!
Lin Queli patted his red cheeks to calm himself down, then opened the letter.
He was very curious. What would that person write to him?
[It has been a long time since we last met. I have been thinking of you. How have you been? I miss you.]
[At that time, in Yangjing Village, Young Master, as the youngest disciple of Taxue Xianzun, cultivated by his side. Now, seeing you and the Immortal Venerable so intimate, I think you must have happily tied the knot. Although my heart is sad, I am also happy for you.]
[I am well aware of the gap between an immortal and a mortal, so I do not ask for any result. It is enough for me to see Young Master from a distance when we are fated to meet and to give Young Master some pastries.]
[I wish Young Master a happy and blissful life.]
Lin Queli: “??”
A’Yu looked at Lin Queli’s dumbfounded and shocked expression and asked curiously, “What’s wrong?”
Helan Xue was also secretly watching him from the corner of his eye.
“N-nothing…”
Lin Queli silently put away the letter, his expression unchanged. “Just a normal greeting.”
And in his heart…
Ah, ah, ah, ah—
What’s going on?!
What’s going on!!!
Lin Queli looked at Helan Xue and only felt that the sky was falling.
Taxue Xianzun?!
Isn’t Taxue Xianzun his seduction target??
Wen Chen is Taxue Xianzun?
So Wen Chen is his seduction target?
Huh??
It can’t be?!
It can’t be that he also mistook him…
No…!
Lin Queli remembered. In the original novel, the description of Taxue Xianzun’s appearance was white hair, golden eyes, and a red mark between his eyebrows!
He hadn’t remembered it at first because Taxue Xianzun didn’t have much screen time in the original novel, and the Immortal Venerable in the original novel was a debauchee, while Wen Chen’s temperament and appearance were that of a proper person. The two’s personalities were really too different.
But now with the “accusation,” Lin Queli suddenly understood. He felt that he understood what was going on.
The Taxue Xianzun of this world was an OOC version. Taxue Xianzun, Helan Xue, was Wen Chen. Jiang Li had not mistaken him.
The one Jiang Li had mistaken… was actually him!
Jiang Li had mistaken him, who had just arrived, for Taxue Xianzun’s little disciple!
Lin Queli’s heart sank to the bottom.
No wonder!!
He was wondering why Wen Chen was suddenly so good to him… it turned out it was because he looked similar to the little disciple, so not only did Jiang Li mistake him, but Taxue Xianzun had also… used him as a substitute?
After all, it was said that the Immortal Venerable had never forgotten his little disciple and loved him deeply.
Lin Queli dejectedly touched his lips.
Liar…
It’s okay, it’s okay… this is a good thing!
After all, his mission was to seduce the Immortal Venerable. Now he has a natural advantage! Could it be that the System had asked him to do this mission because he looked like Taxue Xianzun’s white moonlight?
He had to get a firm grip on the white moonlight substitute script!
Hahaha, I’m such a Sherlock Holmes…
…Sob, sob, sob, sob.
Lin Queli pouted.
Sure enough, Taxue Xianzun is a big scumbag!
And a big liar!
To get him, this substitute, he even disguised his identity to get close to him!
No wonder. He was wondering why a random cultivator on the street had such a high cultivation…
Lin Queli stomped his foot hard.
Stupid Wen Chen!
“We’re here!”
A’Yu looked around. “This spot is good.”
They had successfully squeezed onto one of the arch bridges, and the surroundings were already crowded.
A’Yu picked up A’Xue and prepared the sky lantern with A’Lin.
Helan Xue walked up to Lin Queli.
Then he saw Lin Queli looking at him with a resentful gaze.
Helan Xue: “…?”
Still angry?
Helan Xue said warmly, “Shall we release the lantern together?”
After a hundred turns in his heart, Lin Queli’s mouth twitched, and his tone was strange. “…Release.”
This is his seduction target!
He has to cooperate with him in his act!
It’s best to seduce him quickly, then do it a lot, eat him clean, complete the mission, and run away!
Lin Queli glanced at Helan Xue, suppressed the disappointment in his heart, and comforted himself, if the Immortal Venerable is this exquisite, handsome man, then it’s not-not impossible.
Lin Queli lowered his eyes with a lack of interest.
Helan Xue frowned slightly.
Thump! Thump! Thump!
At the same time, firecrackers went off in the sky, and the sound of the explosions was deafening.
Lin Queli and Helan Xue stood face to face, with a beautiful sky lantern between them.
—It was time to release the sky lanterns.
