Chapter 72: Swallowed Whole by Another Person… “Still Insist on Not Seeing Each Other for Three Days?”
The linear distance was indeed not far, but the winding path…
Le Can, panting heavily, leaned against the handrail of the stone stairs, gazing at the back figure on the distant beach, too tired to want to speak.
Further away, on the endless sea level, a round red sun slowly set, its magnificent afterglow illuminating half the sky and the sea.
The sea breeze brushed over the water, shimmering with golden ripples. Above, vast expanses of sunset clouds looked as if someone had accidentally overturned a palette, the colors rich and varied.
Orange-red, golden yellow, and pink-purple dyed the white clouds and the azure sky, as beautiful as a painting…
In an instant, the heat in his heart and the anxiety of not finding the person suddenly turned into insignificant ripples upon seeing this vast sky.
With every breath, the cool evening breeze, carrying the pristine scent of the ocean, poured into Le Can’s lungs. The temperature of the thin sweat on his temples was carried away, leaving wisps of coolness.
Urging him,
It was time to meet the person he wanted to see.
Someone beside him handed over a thin blanket. Le Can mouthed a thank you to them, took the soft blanket that felt excellent to the touch, and walked slowly toward the sea.
Waves chased each other, beating against the long coast, surging with the crashing sound of water. Likewise, they masked the young man’s footsteps.
The closer he got, the stronger the presence of the sea breeze became. Not only was the chill more intense, but his bangs were blown askew, occasionally mischievously appearing in his line of sight.
Le Can narrowed his eyes slightly in the wind.
Short-sighted people could see distant things clearly by squinting. In that instant, he caught a flash of white fluttering in the evening breeze.
Originally, there was no such conspicuous white in Xi Yun’s backlit silhouette.
[When was that… added?]
Le Can raised his hand to cover his eyes and suddenly let out a light laugh. Without needing extra words, he realized he had been discovered.
After laughing, a soft sigh disappeared into the howling sea breeze.
Le Can thought he had hidden well and wanted to walk behind Xi Yun unknowingly to scare him.
Although given Xi Yun’s temperament, the possibility of being scared was slim, it didn’t stop him from wanting to try and taking action.
What if?
Le Can always had some mischievous tastes regarding Xi Yun, like a child who knew they could act unscrupulously.
However, since he was discovered, the young man changed his originally slow pace. He first strode out to walk briskly, and then the brisk walk turned into a run.
The sea breeze rolled up the corners of his clothes; his white shirt and the blanket were blown up by the inflowing wind. From a distance, the young man looked like he had grown pure white wings, a free bird about to fly to the distant horizon…
Standing on high ground, different emotions surged instantly in the different eyes watching this scene. But the night was too thick; apart from the owners of those eyes, no one knew what those emotions were.
Actually, Le Can opened the blanket just because he wanted to—ambush Xi Yun!
His arrival couldn’t be concealed, but that didn’t mean Le Can wouldn’t stir up trouble. He grabbed the corners of the blanket, shook open the neatly folded fabric, and covered Xi Yun’s head completely from behind!
Not only that, immediately after, he—a person of 1.8 meters and over 130 pounds—bear-hugged him, pressing down heavily.
Xi Yun probably hadn’t expected Le Can to operate this way either. He first cooperated by lowering his head slightly. But when the warm body pressed against him, the figure sitting on the bench remained as motionless as a stone pier.
Le Can wrapped his arms around the neck of the person in front of him through the blanket, slowly tightening his grip.
He beat Xi Yun to the punch, filing a complaint first: “You said it, we can’t meet for these three days.”
Using Xi Yun’s words to block him, and relying on the fact that he couldn’t see, Le Can’s curved eyes were full of cunning and superficial helplessness.
“We can’t meet, but I want to see you, so… I can only wrong you with this method for now.”
After finishing, feeling that the schadenfreude in his words was about to overflow, Le Can urgently pinched his throat and whined half-heartedly: “Don’t you agree, Husband~”
[Vomit vomit vomit, pui pui pui pui!]
Whatever damaging the enemy a thousand times while losing eight hundred oneself looked like, that was exactly what Le Can looked like right now.
Little did he know, the inner voice transmitted to Xi Yun’s ears had long ago exposed not just his whereabouts, but his true thoughts.
Under the cover of the blanket, the man’s pursed thin lips quietly hooked up into an arc.
However, he still waited in silence for a while before giving a simple answer: “You may.”
Le Can nodded, reasonably satisfied.
If the male lead had really said something to spoil the fun, even if the other party was incredibly handsome and increasingly suited his tastes, Le Can would still have slapped that pleasing-to-the-eye face.
Or, he wouldn’t mind having a mute groom.
After all, in bed, it was mostly Le Can who talked. Xi Yun? As long as he kept the function of breathing, that was enough. He only breathed anyway.
The blanket was not only soft but also silky. After leaning for a while, Le Can’s upper body couldn’t help sliding down.
Running wildly just now while thinking about doing bad things had exhausted the remaining stamina he had left after coming down the mountain…
Le Can kept his eyes wide open, staring at the large empty space on the bench beside Xi Yun, carefully considering the possibility of just diving down and flipping over the back of the seat.
Perhaps he was thinking too intently, so his mind was full of that image. Xi Yun, sensing the youth’s sudden silence, strangely had the same image stuffed into his brain.
Xi Yun also fell into a bizarre silence.
Not only because of the suspected evolution of the mind-reading ability without notice but more because of his partner’s overly rich and unpredictable psychological activities.
Xi Yun often suspected… was the age gap between him and Le Can really only three years?
The second the person behind him took action, he reached out to intercept the half-body that suddenly lunged forward. His powerful arm strength allowed him to easily toss the youth into mid-air and quickly flip him over.
Le Can, originally facing down, suddenly felt his body lighten and his vision blur. When he “landed” steadily, he suddenly saw the sky above turning dark.
The moon quietly appeared behind the clouds. The sun in the distance, half sunken below the sea level, seemed to have taken away all the colors.
Night gradually fell, and the residual temperature of the sun by the sea disappeared at an extremely fast speed.
Looking at Xi Yun, whose head was still covered by the blanket, Le Can blinked slowly.
He turned his face sideways, resting his head on the shoulder of the arm supporting him, raised both hands to pinch a corner of the blanket, and slowly lifted it upward…
The blanket had only risen halfway when a hand suddenly grasped his.
“Didn’t you say this was a method to prevent meeting?”
Le Can, who had said those words just a few minutes ago, opened his clear peach-blossom eyes and said with an innocent tone, “Right, that was the method prepared before I knew you were wearing the white silk ribbon.”
Specifically emphasizing certain words made Xi Yun silent for a moment.
Le Can brought his legs together and bent them, curling his whole body up. Then, leaning against the warm human cushion beneath him, he said one word faintly.
“Cold.”
The hand wrapping around Le Can’s wrist let go.
The arc at the corner of Le Can’s mouth deepened silently, and the freed hand continued to lift upward.
While suppressing the excitement that felt like lifting a bridal veil, he nestled deeper into Xi Yun’s embrace. After all, he said he was cold, so he had to make some small movements consistent with being cold.
The man’s smooth jawline was slowly revealed, followed by pale lips… Recalling the kisses from the previous times that went from bumping into each other to gradually tasting the flavor, Le Can raised his chin and leaned in to plant a shallow kiss.
Just as the blanket continued to lift, the silent Xi Yun abruptly reached out and pulled down the blanket above his head, completely enveloping himself and the youth!
Starlight and moonlight were completely blocked out; sudden darkness fell before his eyes. In the small, dark space, Le Can blinked slowly.
Under the small blanket, the breathing of the two people, completely different at first, slowly synchronized. As oxygen became thin, the surrounding temperature seemed to gradually rise.
The cold night warmed up.
Le Can didn’t lower the hand held in mid-air. Instead, relying on his impression from just now, he felt his way up in the dark and accurately placed his hand on the other person’s side profile.
With a slight exertion of his limp waist, Le Can raised his face and kissed in the direction of his hand.
In the darkness, the man sitting on the bench silently holding the person in his arms slowly lowered his head.
The smiling red lips missed the thin lips close at hand and landed on the corner of the other’s mouth.
A short laugh of pfft sounded under the white blanket. Immediately after, the laughter disappeared between the intertwined lips and teeth, swallowed whole by another person…
Le Can’s hand, pressed against the side of Xi Yun’s face, slowly wandered over the smooth jawline, the ear and earlobe that felt excellent to the touch.
Gradually, it lost strength and slid down, but was caught halfway by a hand, which took it to climb up the man’s broad back…
At first, that hand obediently circled there. But amidst the chaos, it quietly raised two fingers, silently probing toward the high place.
When his fingers touched the silky, soft texture of the ribbon, Le Can felt the movement of the person in front of him pause. Unhurriedly, he extended the tip of his tongue, licking across the other’s upper palate like a dragonfly touching water.
When a more airtight kiss fell, the peach-blossom eyes that had been open in the darkness finally closed with a smile.
At the same time, the hand that grabbed the white silk ribbon pulled hard.
Because his eyes were closed, Le Can didn’t see that after the white silk fell, a pair of eyes shimmering with a strange silver-gray flashed with silver light in the same darkness.
This kiss didn’t last long.
Le Can, severely lacking oxygen, was too useless and raised the white flag first. Half-closing his eyes, he leaned diagonally against Xi Yun, his whole body soft as he began to calm the various sensations scurrying excitedly in his body.
“Still insist on not seeing each other for three days?”
Xi Yun, having had the blindfold removed, wrapped the youth in front of him with the blanket, leaving half his head exposed for air.
“…No need.”
Le Can didn’t pick and choose where he turned his head; he opened his mouth and bit: “Oh.”
After a while, Le Can, tired of biting, let go. “Why come to the seaside?”
Knowing from Xie Jun that Xi Yun was at the foot of the mountain, Le Can searched many places. He didn’t expect the person he searched for so long was actually sitting by the sea, at the very bottom of the mountain.
Xi Yun was silent for a moment, raising his hand to tuck in the blanket the youth had struggled out of. “I am marrying you.”
“For this matter, I should find an opportunity to tell her…”
“She filed for divorce from that person and only took me. On the day she left due to the accident, the recording left on her phone was still muttering about me and Grandfather.”
Le Can looked back at the vast, boundless sea and didn’t ask who ‘she’ was.
He thought, although it wasn’t the same ocean, if the ocean described by the original author came from the ocean of his original world… in a sense, how could it not be the same sea?
“She will know.”
Just like his parents sleeping in the deep sea.
They would all know that they were living well…
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