My Arch-Nemesis Cried and Begged Me Not to Die 56

Chapter 56: One hundred little things that make a phoenix demon happy.

Yan Jingyu woke up to the rustling sound of snow being swept.

His body was clean and fresh, his skin feeling a slight friction against the cotton quilt. If it weren’t for the slight soreness in his waist and abdomen, he would have thought that he had made things clear with Liao Chen yesterday, and that the two of them were already as separate as well water and river water.

But the fact was… the two of them had gotten entangled again.

Yan Jingyu turned over and covered his face with his hands.

This feeling was very fragmented. Emotionally, he seemed to have already accepted the fact that he was once again in a muddle with Liao Chen, but his reason felt that something seemed to be missing in between…

“Awake?” A voice came from his ear. Yan Jingyu, with his back to the outside, did not move. Not until the other came to his side and gently turned him over by his shoulders.

Yan Jingyu’s eyes peeked out from between his fingers. Looking at his frank and smiling expression, he suddenly felt that he was being a little coy. So he directly put down his hands and also forced himself to face him frankly.

Liao Chen half-knelt at the head of the bed, his lips pressing towards him. Yan Jingyu’s head was supported by him, and he was forced… well, not completely forced, to accept this wet and ambiguous kiss.

Liao Chen’s breathing went from light to heavy. He let him go with some restraint and gently rubbed his nose against his. “I swept a path in the courtyard. I swept it myself, without using spiritual energy.”

His voice was a little hoarse, and his eyes still held the newly ignited heat. Yan Jingyu averted his gaze. “…Oh.”

Liao Chen kissed him again. His lips were wet, soft, and moist. Every time they touched, the sensation was soft, tender, and enjoyable, but his heart was uncontrollably burning and tormented. He just wanted to swallow him whole, to feel him slide down his throat and land in his stomach.

It was not to satisfy his stomach, but to feel the process of his freshness sliding in his mouth.

Yan Jingyu sensed something, raised his hand to push him away, and said, “Go get the clothes.”

Liao Chen’s eyes darkened slightly. He let out a slow breath, stood up, and went to get him clothes. He held him up with one hand. “What do you humans buy for the new year?”

He spread out the clothes. Yan Jingyu cooperatively put his arms in. “I haven’t celebrated the new year like a mortal. But back in Yaoguang Valley, the new year’s eve dinner was always eaten with many people. Father would set up a spatial formation in the front hall, so all the inner sect disciples could eat in one place. He would also give a lot of benefits to the outer sect disciples. The senior brothers and sisters could all get clothes made by mother herself. But mine were definitely the most beautiful, and the materials were also the most precious.”

Liao Chen looked at him, being dressed, his gaze falling on his collarbone and neck bone, which were revealed as he moved his arms. “Ice skin and jade bones, is that what it’s like?”

Yan Jingyu didn’t react. Liao Chen had already placed another kiss on his forehead.

Yan Jingyu subconsciously pushed him away, pulled up his inner clothes himself, and said, “The quilted jacket.”

“Have you put on your pants?” Liao Chen raised his hand, a pair of quilted underpants in his hand. Yan Jingyu immediately snatched them away. “Get out.”

“…” Liao Chen didn’t move. Not only did he not move, but he also looked at Yan Jingyu with a very hurt expression.

“…Out.” Yan Jingyu changed his tone. Liao Chen said slowly, “You weren’t like this to me last night.”

Yan Jingyu was a little dazed. As he placed the underpants in the quilt, he blushed with some confusion. “Then how was I to you?”

“You took the initiative to kiss me, hug me, and even sat on me yourself. You said we would forever and ever…”

“Nonsense!” Yan Jingyu directly interrupted him. He glared at Liao Chen. “Don’t you dare talk nonsense just because I don’t remember.”

Liao Chen’s eyebrows moved slightly. “Don’t you dare bully me just because you have no cultivation. I have a memory.”

Yan Jingyu slowly frowned and bit the soft flesh inside his lip, pouting slightly. “Since that’s the case, then you can just explain it to me again.”

“Even if I explain it to you, you won’t remember. I told you, your status is not high enough.”

“Then I’ll just treat it as you talking nonsense.”

Liao Chen looked at him. Yan Jingyu once again averted his gaze. This was the place where he felt very fragmented. He clearly didn’t remember anything, but he vaguely felt that Liao Chen seemed to have really told him something… Intuitively, he could no longer get to the bottom of the previous matter.

But his reason was still struggling… Did he say it? What did he say? Why don’t I know anything? Have I become so easy to deceive now???

A light sneer came from his ear. Liao Chen said, “Forget it. I’ll let you have this one.”

Yan Jingyu, while letting out a sigh of relief, retorted unconvincingly, “Who wants you to let me.”

Liao Chen, who had just turned around, returned again. Yan Jingyu, caught off guard, was pressed back onto the bed by him. Their four eyes met. Liao Chen raised an eyebrow. “You don’t want me to let you?”

Yan Jingyu pursed his lips in a fit of pique. Liao Chen’s hand slid down, and he lowered his head to kiss him. As he kissed, he was restless. Yan Jingyu was rubbed by his body for a while, his breathing and voice a little broken. He finally managed to speak in the gap between his lips leaving. “Let, let you let me have this one!”

Liao Chen paused his movements slightly, looked at him, suddenly smiled, and then touched his lips again. “Then I will let you let me let you have this one.”

“…” Yan Jingyu waited until he had walked out again before he muttered, “Let you let me let you let me have this one…”

He stumbled as he put on his clothes and slowly got out of bed.

He raised his hand and wiped his mouth, still feeling that his emotions and reason were very fragmented. It seemed as if there was no longer anything between him and Liao Chen… but it also seemed as if there was clearly something in between. This feeling of being unable to touch or see made his heart itch, but he could not violate the rules and could not explore that part.

Liao Chen must be doing this on purpose!

Maybe he didn’t say anything at all, just fooled him with a few words, making him think that the rules had actually blocked his own perception…

He reluctantly came to the table. He really wanted to be unreasonable for once, but emotionally, he felt that Liao Chen should have already explained it to him very clearly… What if he forced him to say it again and was punished by heaven?

A stool was pulled out. Yan Jingyu sat down at the table, took the flower dew handed to him, and rinsed his mouth. As the other was wiping the table, his gaze was suddenly drawn to the turned-up cuffs of his sleeves.

Liao Chen was now a Demon Lord and no longer fought and killed with his own hands. He rarely wore arrow-sleeves anymore. And the design of this arrow-sleeve was very familiar, very much like the one Yan Jingyu had picked out for Yin Shi at the clothing store a few days ago…

He slowly looked up and met a face that was incomparably familiar yet incomparably strange.

Yin Shi diligently wiped the table clean, turned his head to look at him, his eyes carrying a good-natured gentleness and honesty.

Yan Jingyu stared at him in a daze, then saw another Liao Chen quickly come up with a meal, a faint smile on his lips, and a mischievous, ill-intentioned look. “Come on, breakfast, vegetable and rice stew.”

He placed it directly in front of Yan Jingyu, pulled up a stool, and sat beside him with Yin Shi on his left and right. One was sitting upright, the other was resting his forehead on one hand. Yan Jingyu, under the gaze of the two identical Liao Chens, clearly felt his breathing become a little unsteady. “This, this is, Guardian Yin’s, original appearance?”

“This Lord does not like to use other people’s appearances.” Liao Chen said at ease, “But his body has Chi Yuan’s flesh and blood, and also the original Yin Shi’s flesh and blood. Back then, I tore off my own half-demon body, one in the light and one in the dark, to avoid disaster, and also because it was more convenient for two physical bodies to collect items. But later, in the battle with Chi Yuan, the original physical body was torn apart by Chi Yuan. I had no choice but to recast it… Fortunately, this Lord is very skilled with true fire, so it was not difficult to refine my own appearance.”

He explained briefly, then looked at Yan Jingyu. “Do you like him more, or do you like me more?”

“…” Yan Jingyu directly swallowed the flower dew in his mouth. For some reason, being looked at by two identical Liao Chens, he inexplicably felt a sense of crisis.

“What like or no like?” Yan Jingyu picked up his chopsticks. As he placed his hands on the table, he felt two gazes on him again. These two were of equal height and had the same appearance. Sitting on his left and right was like a slowly approaching city wall, squeezing him until he couldn’t breathe. He immediately turned his face to look at Yin Shi. “Go, go, go do your thing.”

Yin Shi smiled, his expression gentle, his words tolerant and soft, yet they clearly carried a hint of hidden aggression. “You were hugging me the other day. Why are you so cold today?”

“When did I ever… to you?” Yan Jingyu glanced at Liao Chen. Liao Chen’s smile was much more open than Yin Shi’s, his eyes full of contempt, and also a hint of displeasure. Yan Jingyu reacted for a moment, then slammed the bowl down. “Who cooked this vegetable and rice soup?”

“I did.” Liao Chen said, “What, it’s not good?”

“Are you feeding a chicken?” Yan Jingyu said, “What is this stuff?”

As he spoke, he directly threw the bowl down and walked away from the table with big steps. A hand suddenly grabbed his wrist. Yin Shi gently pulled, and Liao Chen lifted his foot to hook a chair. Then he moved forward, and Yan Jingyu was directly forced to sit back down on the chair.

“This meal was cooked specifically for you.” Yin Shi said softly, “The Demon Lord is not good at this. Please bear with him.”

“…Are you done playing?”

Yin Shi smiled. “The Immortal Lord is as beautiful as an immortal jade, his color like the dawn of spring. This subordinate does indeed have feelings for the Immortal Lord.”

Yan Jingyu glared at him and forcefully pulled his wrist out. Yin Shi lowered his eyes and withdrew his hand, his fingertips gently brushing against his palm. Yan Jingyu impatiently picked up a spoon and began to eat the vegetable and rice soup, frowning as he took two mouthfuls. He still couldn’t help it. “You’re not allowed to look at me!”

Yin Shi obediently moved his gaze away. Yan Jingyu kicked Liao Chen again. “And you!”

“You say I can’t look, so I can’t look?” Liao Chen said, “Didn’t you want him to kill me so you could inherit this beautiful Immortal Lord?”

“I said that other tribes could supposedly inherit their partners. You don’t have that!”

“Isn’t my partner you?”

“Then do you listen to what your partner says or not?”

“…” This turn of events was caught off guard. Liao Chen reacted for a moment and said slowly, “I can listen.”

“Put him away.”

“He also has a soul…”

“I still prefer the complete you.”

Yan Jingyu looked at him with encouraging eyes. Liao Chen looked at him again slowly, then finally withdrew all his consciousness, instructed Yin Shi to put on his mask again, and left the room.

Yan Jingyu let out a sigh of relief and finally relaxed completely, slowly eating the meal in front of him. Liao Chen dragged a stool and moved closer to him. “So afraid?”

“I can’t beat you now. How can I not be afraid?”

Liao Chen almost sat on the corner of the table. He stared at Yan Jingyu’s lips without blinking. His hand held a spoon, stirring it in the soup, scooping up the rice that had been soaked open. His lips opened, and he ate everything in the spoon, closed them, and chewed slowly and methodically.

“Is it good?”

Yan Jingyu nodded, his expression not very good. “It’s alright.”

He couldn’t understand why Liao Chen would think of making this kind of thing for him. It didn’t seem like food a human would eat at all.

But considering he was a demonic beast, he suddenly felt relieved. It was already very good that he knew how to start a fire.

“Your lips also look very delicious…”

“Ahem…” Yan Jingyu covered his mouth with his sleeve, glanced at him sluggishly, then immediately moved his gaze away, then glanced at him again. Liao Chen was still looking at him quietly, his gaze not very explicit, but rather a little serious, as if he were really thinking about the possibility of eating him.

Yan Jingyu moved his gaze away. As he ate, he changed the subject. “Later, are we going to the market, or to Lingyun City?”

“Lingyun City.”

Yan Jingyu quickly finished his food. After rinsing his mouth and cleaning his hands, he left the small house with him.

The snow did indeed look as if it had been swept with a broom. Both sides had traces of being swept. But unlike the outside, the ground Liao Chen had swept was already dry. Even if you stepped on it, there would be no mud at all.

People in various parts of the village had also swept the snow from their courtyards. Yan Jingyu turned and closed the courtyard gate, his feet stepping on the soft snow. “Why did you suddenly think of sweeping the snow?”

“The books say that humans feel happy when they hear the sound of snow being swept.” Liao Chen took the opportunity to look at him. “Did you feel it?”

“…” Yan Jingyu’s eyes curved very slightly. “What book says that?”

“A miscellaneous book.” Liao Chen casually took it out of his Qiankun Pouch, glanced at the title, and said, “One hundred little things that make humans feel happy.”

“It’s really quite miscellaneous…” Yan Jingyu laughed. Liao Chen looked at him again. “Did you feel happy?”

Yan Jingyu talked about other things to avoid the question. “Actually, I don’t know what to buy for the new year. Have you ever celebrated the new year with someone?”

“Many, many years ago, I did celebrate with an unreliable person.” Liao Chen pouted. “I heard you have to buy firecrackers, right?”

“You have a human with a good relationship?” Yan Jingyu couldn’t help but be curious. “Who is it?”

“An old ugly freak.” Liao Chen answered casually, then said again, “Did you feel happy?”

“…What are they doing up ahead? So many people.”

Liao Chen swept over with his divine sense. “Buying chickens. Why do you always have to buy chickens for the new year?”

“Are you afraid when you see a chicken being killed?”

Liao Chen glanced at him. “I’m not a chicken. I’m a demonic beast. Don’t always confuse me with that kind of thing.”

“Alright, alright.” Yan Jingyu nodded repeatedly. “Let’s go buy one too…”

“You’re not allowed to buy.”

“Why?”

“Did you feel happy or not?!”

Yan Jingyu looked at his grave and somewhat impatient expression, held back his laughter, moved his gaze away, and slowly nodded.

Liao Chen nodded. “Then do you know how to make your demon partner feel happy?”

“Hmm?”

Liao Chen took out another book. Yan Jingyu looked at the flamboyant characters on it, his eyebrows moving slightly.

“One hundred little things that make a phoenix demon happy…” Yan Jingyu took it and glanced at him. “The phoenix clan is already extinct. There’s still this kind of book?”

“Naturally.” Liao Chen said, “Hurry up and take a look.”

Yan Jingyu had no choice but to open it. On a thin page, there were only a few lines of small characters—

Being kissed by you.

Being hugged by you.

Being thrown into your arms by you.

Being called ‘husband’ by you like a human.

Yan Jingyu immediately closed it. “In your dreams!”

He directly threw the book into his storage ring. The book was thrown into a new space and flipped open with a rustle.

On the back were densely written one after another line of small characters—

Being remembered by you.

Being remembered by you.

Being remembered by you.

Being remembered by you.

Being remembered by you.

…

Never forget.