Chapter 19: Is it Soft?
While Lou Yunxiao ate, Ning Ke kept staring at him.
He found that compared to the time in the Demon Abyss, the current Lou Yunxiao had really become much more silent.
But it didn’t make people feel coldness.
Compared to that crazy person who choked his neck before the time regression, he looked much more pleasing to the eye.
And perhaps because of enduring loneliness for more than half a year, Lou Yunxiao shed his previous immaturity. His gestures became steady. With a silver-white ribbon tied behind his head, dressed in plain clothes, looking ethereal like an immortal, he looked just like a painting.
Lou Yunxiao couldn’t see, but he could feel that gaze fixed on him, getting hotter and hotter.
He curled his fingers, touched his side face, and asked apprehensively: “…Is there something on my face?”
He was afraid he got rice grains on his face, embarrassing himself in front of Junior Brother.
“No, no, hahaha.” Ning Ke quickly waved his hand.
“I just saw that Senior Brother is too good-looking, so I couldn’t control my eyes. I hope Senior Brother doesn’t think I’m abrupt.”
The second rule of the love-brain code Xiao Yuan taught him: Praise the beloved anytime, anywhere, regardless of whether he likes to hear it or not.
Ning Ke didn’t know if Lou Yunxiao liked to hear this, but he clearly saw the kid stiffen, seeming somewhat at a loss.
Looking… quite cute?
“I won’t think you are abrupt.” It was the first time Lou Yunxiao was praised like this by a same-sex peer. He took a moment to recover before saying to Ning Ke: “It’s just a pity I can’t see, so I can’t know Junior Brother’s appearance.”
He rarely smiled, carefully choosing his words: “But I think with Junior Brother’s personality being so good, you must be a handsome young man.”
Ning Ke took in his awkward appearance completely. That familiar itch came again.
Wanted to tease him.
He cleared the things on the table, leaned forward, and got close to Lou Yunxiao.
Looking up slightly, smiling at him:
“Appearance originates from bone structure. Senior Brother cannot see, but can use hands to feel.”
He followed the flow naturally and grabbed Lou Yunxiao’s hand, almost touching his own skin.
Yet didn’t touch completely.
But the more this kind of touch-and-go feeling, the more lethal it was.
He asked Lou Yunxiao softly.
“So, Senior Brother… do you want to touch my face?”
[Host, are you really not gay?] Xiao Yuan couldn’t help popping up.
[Do you know you are flirting with him?]
Ning Ke: Aren’t I stabilizing the persona? I love him to the point of digging out eyes and losing my life; isn’t it normal to be unable to restrain my feelings now?
[(ΩДΩ)???]
Xiao Yuan was shocked: [Host, didn’t you hate playing a bootlicker who likes men?]
Ning Ke: Getting into character is an actor’s self-cultivation and professional ethics.
[…]
Because they were too close, the somewhat familiar cold fragrance became richer.
Lou Yunxiao’s cold wrist held by Ning Ke also warmed up because of the other’s higher body temperature.
Lou Yunxiao’s Adam’s apple rolled slightly. As if possessed by a ghost, he moved his fingers and touched Ning Ke’s face.
Ning Ke let go following the momentum, closed his eyes, and guided patiently: “Senior Brother, you can use the other hand too. Touching with both hands, the feeling will be clearer…”
Even though it was transformed from a tail, Ning Ke’s main body was after all a fox spirit who practiced charm techniques. So when his voice softened, it became… very enchanting.
Lou Yunxiao unconsciously followed his words. Hands touching Ning Ke’s face, starting from the smooth forehead, downwards, stroking over the brow bone, eye sockets, fingertips lightly brushed by eyelashes, very itchy.
Then the shapely nose bridge, further down…
When touching the lips, Lou Yunxiao’s hand trembled, hurriedly retreating to the side, then heard Ning Ke ask him:
“Is it soft?”
Swish—
Lou Yunxiao stood up and took a big step back. Those hands panicked with nowhere to place, finally directly put behind his back.
“Good, done.”
He tried hard to control his voice, saying: “I roughly know your appearance, no need to continue.”
Ning Ke held back his laughter, his face flushing red from holding it in.
He asked Lou Yunxiao: “Then Senior Brother, what do you think of my face?”
After widening the distance, Lou Yunxiao’s emotions finally stabilized slightly. Remembering that suet jade-like delicate touch, he answered in a low voice: “…Good, very good.”
“Then do you like it?”
This sentence was a big pit.
Ning Ke waited happily for Lou Yunxiao to jump in.
But after waiting for a long time, he heard the handsome boy standing under the moon say to him very seriously: “Junior Brother, appearance is for the beloved to evaluate. I am not your beloved, my evaluation is not important, so don’t ask me this question again in the future.”
“…” Ning Ke’s wish fell through, his brow twitching.
This kid, sure enough, the stubbornness in his bones couldn’t be changed!
So calm at critical moments, boring as an old man!
“Fine, fine.” Ning Ke lost interest and didn’t make things difficult for him anymore. The two went back to their rooms to rest.
At this time outside the separate courtyard, in a corner, Ning Xiaoxiao covered her face, eyes still shining.
Oh my god! She saw it all!
Just now Eldest Senior Brother was touching her brother’s face!
They were so close too!
Ahhh!! So Brother sent her away tonight just to welcome this Eldest Senior Brother!
Didn’t he say Eldest Senior Brother was a Demon? Didn’t he say Eldest Senior Brother would eat people?
Turns out Brother was lying to her!
Hehehe, she seemed to know something incredible…
Ning Xiaoxiao giggled while leaving.
The next day when Ning Ke took Lou Yunxiao to class, he found Ning Xiaoxiao looking at him with very sneaky eyes.
“Xiaoxiao, this is your Eldest Senior Brother Lou Yunxiao, lives in the same courtyard as us, just came back yesterday.” Ning Ke finished saying this, then leaned into Ning Xiaoxiao’s ear, whispering bad things about Lou Yunxiao: “He is the one cultivating the Demon path. I tested yesterday, he is very dangerous, easy to go berserk. Don’t interact with him alone usually.”
In the novel, heroine Ning Xiaoxiao’s love-brain level was on par with the Junior Brother A-Ke played by Ning Ke.
This was also what worried Ning Ke the most.
So, prevention before it happens. In this second stage mission, as long as he was beside these two for a day, he wouldn’t let Ning Xiaoxiao become a love-brain!
But after he finished speaking with the tone of a worried old father, looking down, he saw Ning Xiaoxiao’s eyes curved, replying with a strange tone: “Oh~ You already tested him.”
“?” Ning Ke’s face was full of question marks.
But then, the little girl patted his shoulder and said: “It’s okay, Brother, I understand, I understand it all. Don’t worry, I will be obedient, absolutely won’t contact Eldest Senior Brother alone.”
After speaking, she sat obediently beside the female disciples, picking up the bamboo scroll: “Okay, Brother, take Eldest Senior Brother to sit over there. The Elder is coming soon, save getting scolded.”
“???” Ning Ke felt something wasn’t quite right, but seeing his cabbage seemed to have no interest in the pig, he felt quite gratified.
Afterward, he pulled Lou Yunxiao behind him and sat in the back row.
Little did he know, Ning Xiaoxiao secretly watched their joined hands across the bamboo scroll, trying hard not to ge ge ge laugh out loud.
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