Chapter 57: Trying
Screech, screech…
The sound of a canine animal pawing at the door came from outside the bedroom.
[What are they doing?]
[Wow, they closed the door.]
[So annoying, I can’t get in. Little Hui said I absolutely can’t enter the room today.]
[What? You said you can use your size advantage to slip in? Quick, quick, I’ve left the door crack open for you.]
[Awoo, awoo, awoo, woooo…]
Xu Xunyue released the doorknob and fiercely threatened his spiritual body in the spiritual world, saying that if they drilled in, he would directly recall them, and they could forget about seeing the little wolf tonight.
The shadows fell silent.
The scratching at the door stopped.
Turning his gaze back into the room, Zhu Hui had already changed from kneeling to a kneeling-upright position. It seemed that if he had opened the door instead of closing it, the other would have probably come down directly to pull him.
The scent of snow lingered at the tip of his nose, cool and fresh, on the verge of melting, with a faint sense of unease and doubt.
As he approached amidst Zhu Hui’s probing and bewildered gaze, Xu Xunyue pressed one knee onto the edge of the bed, hugged the Sentinel in his disheveled pajamas, and his fingertips traced the other’s arms, which were behind his back, touching the cool, silky texture at the wrist bone.
He leaned over slightly to take a look, and it was actually a red silk ribbon.
The Chief Sentinel had taken off the combat gloves he wore every day and had tied this around his wrist.
“Brother…”
Because of the different posture, Zhu Hui, who was kneeling upright in Xu Xunyue’s arms, was a little taller. Now that the “crisis” seemed to be over, he awkwardly shifted his legs, wanting to sit back on the quilt.
As soon as he was hugged, his heart settled down, and he returned to his normal state of normal performance—his voice became smaller, lighter, and softer. He rubbed his face and secretly tugged on the corner of the Guide’s clothes, completely mastering the essence of acting coquettishly toward Xu Xunyue.
However, this time, Xu Xunyue did not let him go lightly, or directly satisfy him. Instead, he opened his palm and stopped Zhu Hui’s tendency to sit down, so that he could only continue to kneel upright, trembling.
The heating was on in the house. The fabric under his palm was only a thin layer, and he could clearly feel the tensed texture of the muscles. The collar of his clothes was slightly open, revealing the reddish, pale skin.
The bedroom lights cast a warm glow on both their faces, also brewing an ambiguous undercurrent in the air. The real snow outside hit the window, making a rhythmic, muffled sound, making the room seem even quieter.
“Brother? You, what do you want to do with me? Or should I blow-dry your hair first? Although the heating is on in the room, it’s still easy to catch a cold, mmm…” Zhu Hui’s trembling voice came to an abrupt halt.
His waist felt cool. His loose long pants were pulled down to his knees by the elastic waistband, revealing two straight, long legs, with nothing on them, completely bare.
Zhu Hui’s breathing instantly became thick. He carefully lowered his head to observe Xu Xunyue’s expression.
Fresh water vapor swirled in the Guide’s hair, and his drenched long hair stuck to his cheeks. A few drops of water that hadn’t been wiped away slowly slid down… His lover was like a god from the ocean, his eyes deep and captivating.
Zhu Hui couldn’t help but clench up for a moment.
How can brother be so good-looking?
Brother must have discovered the preparations I made, right?
Ah, brother’s hair hasn’t been blow-dried yet, but I don’t want to let him go and do it anymore…
His thoughts were all over the place. Suddenly, the hand that had pulled down the fabric inserted into the crevice, his fingertips pointing upward, and touched the wet and muddy place.
Xu Xunyue commented, “You used too much.”
The Sentinel flinched with his eyes closed, his face and ears burning, yet like a lamb to the slaughter, he leaned a little closer into that warm embrace.
“Do you like me that much?” measuring the entrance that had clearly been widened by a circle, he asked in a calm voice. “Did you do it yourself?”
The drenched fingertip slid out and was smeared on the smooth lines of his thigh. The movement was unhurried, and the touch was gentle and light, like a kind of soothing method.
Zhu Hui thus relaxed his guard and said in a small voice, “I-I like it. I did it myself…”
Smack.
The most elastic part of his body was suddenly slapped. He stopped speaking in astonishment and looked at Xu Xunyue in a daze.
This, is this also flirting?
When they were intimate in the past, his brother would sometimes pat him, but the force this time was a little heavier.
If not… it didn’t look like he was angry either.
“Does it hurt?” Xu Xunyue asked.
Zhu Hui’s brain began to work rapidly.
Does it hurt or not? This question has been asked several times before.
To be honest, a little. After all, his sense of pain was not blocked. But in his heart, this was at the level of “feeling pain but not feeling pain,” not a big deal.
Besides the pain, he had other senses. The stimulation and pleasure from other aspects were far stronger than the pain.
Therefore, faced with a similar question, Zhu Hui hesitated for a long moment and chose the same answer as before.
“…It doesn’t hurt. I like it when brother is like this.”
Xu Xunyue’s inscrutable expression broke for half a second at this answer.
Suppressing the helpless smile on his lips, he rubbed the wetness on his hand, then simply sat on the edge of the bed, adjusted the Sentinel in his arms, and had him straddle him facing him.
Zhu Hui still didn’t dare to sink his full weight, as if he were afraid of crushing him. Xu Xunyue simply pressed him down.
“It’s not like my legs are really injured,” he paused, then asked the same question again. “You have a sense of pain and touch, yet you say it doesn’t hurt?”
The question was too leading. Zhu Hui now knew how he should answer. He said obediently, with a hint of not knowing what was good for him, “It hurts a little, but brother can hit me however he wants.” After saying this, he even rubbed his knees against Xu Xunyue’s waist in a pleasing way, using a little strength, as if he were clamping him.
Xu Xunyue looked at those amber eyes, which were shining with a fine mist, and completely gave up his plan to discipline his Sentinel.
He’s just trying to be tough, right? He’s just talking big, right? When it really happens, he’ll cry until his eyes are swollen and won’t even know how to beg for mercy, and he’ll tell me with a messy expression, “Brother, it’s okay, you can keep playing with me.”
He couldn’t possibly really bully his Sentinel until he broke. In the end, wouldn’t he have to kiss, coax, and hug him to comfort him?
“It hurts even when you’re hit like this. Isn’t it even more painful to expand yourself? Your pain nerves are so sensitive.” Taking a big detour, the long-haired Guide finally issued the prohibitive command he had long thought of.
“In the future, without my permission, you are not allowed to touch yourself there.”
Before, when he had used his fingers, he had blocked Zhu Hui’s sense of pain. Zhu Hui had secretly messed around behind his back, but had to bear all the feedback from his sensitive senses.
He was completely asking for it.
“Brother! It’s not like that…” The young Sentinel sitting on his lap seemed to panic all of a sudden and explained hurriedly, “That’s really nothing. And I was thinking of you when I did it. I was very excited…”
“Then you can tell me. You can do it in front of me,” Xu Xunyue’s retort was well-founded, and his gaze was so normal that it was hard to suspect that he was deliberately saying this. “Isn’t it more comfortable in front of me? You can also eliminate the pain. There’s nothing wrong with that.”
“I, no… brother…”
Zhu Hui wanted to say that it was different, but he didn’t know how to say it. He didn’t even know how the topic had strayed to such a place. Xu Xunyue was both mischievous and despotic in this aspect. He really only had the part of being played with until he rolled his eyes.
It felt like he had pre-booked a performance in front of his brother in the future…
“That’s it. No room for discussion,” Xu Xunyue said with finality. “I’ll check next time. As for now—”
He stopped halfway through his sentence, instantly diverting Zhu Hui’s attention.
Zhu Hui began to wait with bated breath for the verdict on this incident.
The cause of the incident was very simple. Now that things were getting more and more, he always felt that time was getting tighter and tighter. Before the trouble was completely resolved, the opportunities to be sticky would probably become fewer and fewer.
Especially the kind of opportunity to be sticky together for a long time.
Although a compatibility of over 80% was more than enough, wouldn’t it be better if the number was higher?
In fact, the data of compatibility was a more serious-sounding excuse. Zhu Hui actually just wanted to be closer to his partner. When his feelings reached their peak, he would uncontrollably want to achieve the most intimate physical bond, to let the other completely control him, and to let himself completely belong to the other.
Zhu Hui had tried it rather implicitly several times before, but the results were all easily solved by Xu Xunyue with his fingers.
Although he admitted that being easily solved by his fingers was also his own problem, he was still not convinced in his heart.
And so there was this “ready-to-eat” version.
I don’t believe…
“Do you really want to?”
As he spoke, Xu Xunyue’s undried long hair brushed against Zhu Hui’s face. The touch was itchy, making him want to get even closer.
“I can foresee that after a Level Three Bonding, my state will seriously affect your state. Your life will end at the moment my life comes to an end.”
“It’s okay. I will protect brother. There’s an old saying from the ancient war era that a Sentinel’s most romantic end is the battlefield, and the most romantic battlefield is the battlefield where you protect your beloved. If anyone wants to kill you, they have to kill me first.”
Zhu Hui rubbed his face against him coquettishly, but what he said was all unlucky.
“Even if the situation you mentioned happens, and I have to leave with you, that would be the easiest ending. I wouldn’t have to walk alone when the fire has just started, nor would I have to choose between death and living alone when the ice and snow melt,” he said in a low voice. “Before I met brother, I could accept all of this. The feeling of losing a companion in a cataclysm zone is also painful, but I can accept remembering them alone and continuing to walk on. I just can’t accept being without you, so it doesn’t matter at all…”
“It’s not that it’s okay just because you think so. You have your perspective and thoughts, and I have mine,” Xu Xunyue held his restless face, kissed him, then raised his hand and covered his forehead. “I can’t bear this risk. I can’t bear to. I can’t accept it just thinking about it.”
Zhu Hui fell silent.
How could he refuse such words? He couldn’t refuse at all.
So could it really not be…
If that was the case, he could only listen to his brother.
His body was still soft and hot, and the water vapor in the room had not yet dissipated. He pursed his lips, and was about to say okay with some disappointment, that he would do as his brother thought, when his mind suddenly swayed, his vision blurred, and he was pulled into another world.
It was a boundless deep sea, with no end in sight, up or down. It could easily arouse the negative emotions in the hearts of intruders, making them feel that they would be trapped here forever and would never be able to get out.
Zhu Hui felt that the scene before him was extremely familiar.
Not only was it familiar, but it also had a myriad of spiritual links with his brain. There were not many messy things in the deep sea where he couldn’t see the bottom, but the shape of every wave and the direction of every current were extremely familiar to him.
He quickly reacted. It was Xu Xunyue who had pulled him into the spiritual world.
Zhu Hui looked at his own body and found that it was indeed very different from his state in the real world. All the “abnormal” reactions had been reset, and even his pajamas were on properly.
Zhu Hui: “…”
He had been tossing and turning for so long, had made so many preparations, and had even been swatted by his brother, but now all the atmosphere and traces that had been brewing had been cleared away?
So unfair.
However, before the newborn disappointment could last for a second, he heard Xu Xunyue’s voice.
“It’s not possible in the real world, because a physical bond will form a complete link, achieving a complete Level Three Bonding.”
The water current gently brushed past, and the complete set of clothes on Zhu Hui’s body suddenly disappeared.
“But we can try it in the spiritual world first.”
