Chapter 80:
Extra: The Test – Do you know what I’m thinking in my heart?
When the sky brightened, Yan Jingyu had not yet gotten up.
It was rare for him to have this kind of exhaustion. It wasn’t just his body that was tired, but more so his heart. He didn’t want to move at all.
The phoenix cub next door had already woken up. Liao Chen casually sent out a wisp of his divine sense to look after him, and continued to hold Yan Jingyu, patiently staying in bed.
It was also only after getting married that he had begun to try to learn from Yan Jingyu, to cultivate when he should be cultivating, and to live when he should be living.
Yan Jingyu’s consciousness was actually already clear, but he had been waiting for Liao Chen to get out of bed and leave first. Because although Liao Chen had learned to be tender after the fact after getting married, he was still a restless person. He guessed that at most, by si shi (the Chinese traditional time period roughly from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.), the other would have to go and cultivate his second cultivation body again.
The hour of Si passed in a flash. Liao Chen was already by his side, from time to time stroking his long hair with his fingers, or kissing his forehead, or slightly tightening his arms and rubbing his hair with his chin.
Yan Jingyu finally couldn’t resist. “You… are you awake?”
“Mm.” Liao Chen pressed against his forehead, his voice low and soft. “What do you want?”
Yan Jingyu was puzzled. He rubbed his eyes and took the opportunity to separate himself from him a little. “I still want to sleep a little longer. If you have something to do, you can go and do it first.”
“I’ll accompany you.”
“…” Yan Jingyu couldn’t help but look at him. The Liao Chen of last night was very different. It wasn’t just because he could hear the other’s inner thoughts. Even the other’s actions were exceptionally different from usual…
“Ahem.” He pulled the quilt, his eyes flickering a little. “I don’t need you to accompany me.”
“I want to accompany you.”
“…” How come you suddenly know how to talk so well? Just as Yan Jingyu was about to raise a question, he was held by him again. The two of them were pressed closely together. A voice came again in Yan Jingyu’s sea of consciousness: “Still shy? How cute.”
Yan Jingyu’s face flushed red again.
Where, where was I doing that!!!
Liao Chen’s gaze once again fell on his flushed face. He couldn’t help but come and peck his lips again. Yan Jingyu pursed his lips, let him peck a few times, then raised his hand and pushed his mouth away, saying with a straight face, “Are you learning from a little dog, being so clingy?”
“Just treat me as a little dog.” Liao Chen actually didn’t refute at all, directly held him and started to kiss again. This kiss was a little deep. Yan Jingyu was in a daze and heard the voice in his sea of consciousness: “His face is so red. He must be deliberately trying to start a fight with me to change the subject.”
Yan Jingyu was about to go crazy.
He felt that it was better not to listen to Liao Chen’s heart. After all, from last night, he had been in an extremely passive state…
His lips were still being held, but a thought suddenly flashed through his mind.
Last night, Liao Chen was so energetic. Could it be because…
This mind-reading curse is simply here to counter me!!
He had heard Liao Chen’s explicit expressions, and it was even eavesdropping. It was inevitable that he would feel a little embarrassed and at fault in his heart. But his various expressions, in Liao Chen’s eyes, seemed to have completely changed their flavor.
“Mmm, you wait…” Yan Jingyu used some effort to tear him off his own mouth, panting slightly. “Let me ask you, how on earth did you make Xiao Yu so obedient to you?”
“What’s the point of asking this?” Liao Chen was unhappy, and at the same time, he said in his heart, “What a buzzkill.”
Yan Jingyu was the one who was his buzzkill. It was impossible to expect Liao Chen to take the initiative to leave the bed. He quickly propped himself up and started to put on his clothes. As he put them on, he said, “I’m usually so good to him, but he doesn’t listen to a single word. How come he’s so well-behaved with you? What on earth did you do?”
Liao Chen was still half-leaning on the pillow, his expression a little contemptuous, and he sneered. “Naturally, it’s because this Lord has skills.”
But his heart betrayed the real information: “If I told you that this Lord used a technique to control that kid, you would definitely find trouble with me.”
Yan Jingyu stared at him intently.
Liao Chen raised an eyebrow, completely unaware of what was wrong.
“…” This dead thing. A wisp of anger really did surge up in Yan Jingyu’s heart. He had always thought that Feng Guiyu was well-behaved because he was obedient. It turned out that this fiend had even used coercive means on a child.
He kicked towards the other. This kick was not light, but Liao Chen just smiled. “What, are you jealous?”
“You didn’t use a technique on him, did you?” Yan Jingyu said deliberately. Liao Chen paused slightly, and said with slight contempt, “Even if I did, what can you do?”
“Liao Qi—mmm—”
A kiss directly blocked him up. Liao Chen moved away slightly and turned his head to look at him. Yan Jingyu was still angry, but his words were a little stuck.
Not until a sentence popped up in his sea of consciousness: “So cute.”
“…” You bastard!
Yan Jingyu twisted his body and jumped off the bed.
He finally began to understand the other’s heart. He found that from last night, Liao Chen had been praising him with an incredible language, either praising him for being cute, or praising him for being soft, and would even let out a long sigh when they were doing that… thing: “So tight—”
The more Yan Jingyu thought about it, the more tormented he became. As he was looking at the phoenix egg with a twisted face, he suddenly sensed something unusual in his spiritual abode.
Yan Jingyu immediately probed with his divine sense and found that the movement seemed to be caused by the phoenix egg in his spiritual abode. His heart was filled with joy, and he couldn’t help but say, “It seems that Jiuyi Mountain will be having another addition in the next few days.”
“Why don’t this Lord also help you carry it for two days?” Liao Chen spoke again. The reason he said “again” was because ever since Yan Jingyu had taken this phoenix egg into his spiritual abode, he had casually mentioned it once. Yan Jingyu thought that the trouble was caused by Feng Guiyu, and that Feng Guiyu’s trouble was clearly because he had not been watching him strictly, so in the end, he had chosen to nurture it alone.
At this moment, he couldn’t help but be a little curious. “If you also want to carry an egg, then go and pick one from under the divine wood.”
“If you don’t want to, then forget it.” Liao Chen took out a food box, preparing for breakfast and lunch. Yan Jingyu deliberately followed him, and as expected, he heard his inner voice: “What’s the point of carrying other eggs?”
Yan Jingyu was even more curious. As he sat down at the table, he sent a sound transmission to Feng Guiyu to come back, and at the same time, he spoke again. “This egg in my spiritual abode, is it very special?”
“An egg that was almost played to death, this Lord is seeing it for the first time.” Liao Chen took out the chopsticks, but had no intention of handing them to Yan Jingyu. He still used that cold and contemptuous tone. “To think that the phoenix clan has such a disappointing thing. Of course I want to have a good look.”
Yan Jingyu tilted his head. “Just this?”
“What else?”
Yan Jingyu did not pursue the matter. He just looked at Liao Chen. The latter had already picked up his chopsticks and started to serve himself food.
But an unhappy voice jumped out in his sea of consciousness: “I can’t possibly say it’s because I can’t stand it staying in your spiritual abode all the time… anyone who doesn’t know would think this Lord is jealous of an egg, tsk.”
Yan Jingyu rolled his eyes and reached out his hand.
Liao Chen glanced at him.
Yan Jingyu gestured to the chopsticks by his hand. Liao Chen said coldly, “Don’t you have hands?”
“My legs are weak.”
“…” Liao Chen was silent for two moments, then picked up his chopsticks and handed them over.
Yan Jingyu then sent a sound transmission to urge Feng Guiyu, who was playing wildly with Xiao Guai by the lotus pond, to come back. “You don’t like me being close to others?”
Liao Chen’s expression was cold. “You think too highly of yourself.”
But his heart was suddenly alert: “On what grounds does he think so?!”
Yan Jingyu moved his stool and sat beside him, pointed to a plate of stir-fried spring bamboo shoots on the table, and opened his mouth. “Ah.”
“…” Liao Chen frowned, and asked, knowing the answer, “What are you doing?”
—”He doesn’t want me to feed him, does he?”
“Ah.” Yan Jingyu deliberately leaned towards him. Liao Chen put on a straight face. A voice jumped out in Yan Jingyu’s sea of consciousness: “Does he really want me to feed him? No, I’ll observe a little more to see what he wants to do. If I misunderstand, he will definitely think this Lord is very cheap.”
Yan Jingyu blinked.
“…Really.” Liao Chen paused for a moment, then finally raised his hand to get the chopsticks. But Yan Jingyu suddenly closed his mouth, directly moved his chair back to his original position, picked up a bowl of rice porridge, and ate by himself.
Liao Chen’s expression was calm, even cold.
There was no sound at the dining table for a while.
But in Yan Jingyu’s sea of consciousness, a sentence would occasionally pop up: “Is he angry?”
Yan Jingyu looked at him. Liao Chen did not show any intention of caring about him throughout the whole process. He just slowly and methodically picked at the rice in his bowl, neither looking absent-minded nor struggling.
“…Not talking.”
“Should I actively find something to talk about?”
“Wait a little longer.”
“Why don’t I test him…?”
“Ahem.” A sound finally came from the dining table. Yan Jingyu didn’t look at him, just ate with an expressionless face, his movements a little fast. A voice appeared in his sea of consciousness again: “It seems he’s really angry… is it still in time to satisfy him now?”
Liao Chen’s chopsticks lightly and gracefully moved towards the stir-fried bamboo shoots. The next instant, Yan Jingyu directly put down his bowl and chopsticks and strode out.
“…”
He walked all the way to the side of the lotus pond. As expected, he saw Feng Guiyu, soaked, swimming in it with a splash. Xiao Guai would from time to time look up and shake its head. The two of them were “aowu” and “jiujiu,” having a great time.
“Yu Daidai!”
“Hurry up and go back to eat!” Yan Jingyu raised his hand and pulled the two guys out. At the same time, before Feng Guiyu could pounce on him, he used a spell to dry his clothes. He was directly hugged by the leg, his expression helpless. “Have you had enough fun?”
When he carried the child back, Liao Chen had also left the table. Seeing him suddenly, he took the initiative to say, “Just now, I probed with my divine sense. It seems a little phoenix has hatched.”
Yan Jingyu ignored him, picked up a bowl, and began to feed Feng Guiyu. Liao Chen stood to the side with his arms crossed, quiet as usual.
But in Yan Jingyu’s sea of consciousness, voices kept popping up—
“Is it called being good just because you can eat? This Lord even ate people when I was a child.”
“He’s not without hands. Does he have to be fed personally?”
“Whether eating more can make you grow taller is still unknown, but at least you’ll get fat first.”
“…So impatient with this Lord, but so patient with this kid.”
“Damn thing…”
Yan Jingyu suddenly shot him a sideways glance. The danger in Liao Chen’s eyes slightly receded, and the corners of his lips subconsciously curved slightly, a smile that could be called well-behaved.
After finishing the meal, Yan Jingyu began to teach Feng Guiyu his lessons again. Liao Chen waited for a long time, and gradually became a little impatient. He spoke again with slight forbearance. “Are you going to go and see together or not?”
—”I’ll count to three. One, two, two, two…”
In his increasingly ashen face, Yan Jingyu suddenly couldn’t help but lift his lips. Liao Chen’s face became even uglier. He suddenly turned and walked out.
Yan Jingyu turned his head to look and suddenly found a new tributary of fate beside him. This was clearly an idea he had just had.
The Nanming Li Fire burned through time and space. Yan Jingyu immediately left a wisp of his primordial spirit and took a step to follow. “Where are you going?”
Liao Chen snorted coldly and directly escaped into time and space—
“This Yan Jingyu is not to be had. This Lord is going to find another well-behaved one.”
Yan Jingyu: “?”
He reflexively followed. “Who are you going to find?!”
Liao Chen was suddenly moved and looked at him with slight confusion. “You know what I’m thinking in my heart?”
“…” Just now, I accidentally took the voice in my sea of consciousness as him speaking. Yan Jingyu’s expression was calm. “Of course.”
“As soon as you flap your wings, I know where you’re flying!”
There was a moment of silence in his sea of consciousness. Liao Chen looked at him quietly for a while, then smiled slightly and walked straight ahead.
