Chapter 48: Very Good, Very Much in Love with This King
“I… am not cold.”
Wei Wanlan, burrowed in the quilt, his muffled voice slow and slightly distorted.
Su Jingzhi found his words and actions contradictory:
“Not cold, yet you’re wrapped up so tightly?”
Wei Wanlan burrowed even deeper into the bedding, this time, even his head was completely submerged, trying to find excuses to conceal the root of his actions.
“Because I’m afraid of having nightmares,” Wei Wanlan replied. “The Zichen Palace is too big. When I want to sleep, I always tightly draw the bed curtains and hide myself in the quilt…”
Su Jingzhi fell silent.
Speaking so pitifully, it suddenly reminded the Regent King of that night in the Prince’s Mansion, when he thought Wei Wanlan was too noisy, so he wrapped the young emperor from head to toe in the quilt, tightly, and then slept with the rolled-up quilt.
As a result, Wei Wanlan slept soundly that night. His small claws tightly clutching the inside of the quilt, like a small kitten.
Perhaps Wei Wanlan, having ascended to the throne in Chang’an from his fiefdom, was still not used to Chang’an. He lacked a sense of security.
Su Jingzhi’s heart trembled.
However, he still didn’t indulge him, saying, “Come out.”
It must be stuffy buried in the quilt.
Besides, now that he, the Great Wei Regent King, was acting as a night watchman, this little thing should be bold enough to sleep on his stomach, why did he look so timid? Shameful!
Could he feel more secure with a quilt over his face than with him?
Su Jingzhi forcefully exhaled, suddenly turning his back to Wei Wanlan:
“Get up at the fifth hour, go to sleep quickly.”
“Oh.”
The hateful five o’clock wake-up call.
The big villain didn’t even allow him to be an ostrich.
Wei Wanlan, yielding to the oppressive force, only poked his head out from under the covers. His eyes darted around in the darkness.
The last time he shared a bed with the Regent King, he at least wore an assassination ring. Regardless of whether it worked or not, he had some initiative. Now he had nothing.
If the big bad guy went crazy and killed people in the night, he had to think of a way to defend himself.
He could only rely on the latest version of the Sage Emperor Cultivation System to find something good.
Wei Wanlan muttered in what he thought was a very small and quiet voice:
“Regent King, big bad guy…”
【Login successful!】
The screen suddenly popped up inside the bed curtains of the dragon bed.
Then Wei Wanlan’s eyes suddenly brightened, a golden light appeared in his eyes. Others couldn’t see it.
His current position was advantageous. Wei Wanlan couldn’t help but nod.
Because the Regent King was facing away from him, Wei Wanlan had plenty of time to fiddle with this chaotic system, and his vision was immediately filled with colorful icons.
He clicked on this batch first:
“Jin Cuo Dao (Golden Wronged Knife)”
“Yu Chang Jian (Fish Intestine Sword)”
He gave up; he couldn’t pass knives to the Regent King before he was killed. He changed to the next batch:
“He Ding Hong (Crane Top Red)”
“Duan Chang San (Gut-Breaking Powder)”
Those weren’t feasible either; it was already bedtime, how could he administer medicine? He changed again.
“E Li Zhang Zhong Xiang (Goose Pear Tent Fragrance)”
It was quite fitting, and it was indeed in a tent, but it inexplicably reminded Wei Wanlan of the Jade Dew Spring that had made him soak in cold water all night, and he felt it was improper, so he didn’t dare to use it.
Wei Wanlan’s toes trembled, curling up.
He suddenly smelled the woody scent of Su Jingzhi.
Wei Wanlan took a few deep breaths and saw countless icons scrolling before his eyes. He continued to look up and down.
But he couldn’t find any props suitable for his current situation.
Even more annoyingly, this Sage Emperor Cultivation System didn’t even have a browsing history, nor could it add wish lists. The interface was fleeting, seen and gone.
Wei Wanlan had been slightly curious about a prop, but he had inadvertently been dazzled by the choices and couldn’t find it again. He was so angry that he gnashed his teeth on the bed, searching while continuing to swipe.
His thin dragon claws didn’t scratch quickly.
He slowly tapped, his fingertips touching the screen with little force, like lightly plucking and gently twisting.
But possibly because Wei Wanlan had opened too many pages, the Sage Emperor Cultivation System started to lag, and he suddenly disconnected.
His thin eyebrows tightened, and he quickly went online again.
【Please enter login password.】
“Regent King, big bad guy.”
He disconnected again.
【Please enter password again.】
“Regent King, big bad guy!”
【Verifying the last two characters of the password.】
“Bad guy…”
The atmosphere in the dragon bed was becoming increasingly strange.
Inside the dragon bed, Su Jingzhi’s back gradually stiffened, his back feeling like a roaming fire.
The flames came from Wei Wanlan’s fingertips and accompanied Wei Wanlan’s fingers slowly moving across his back muscles; the fire burned more and more intensely, gradually becoming a prairie fire.
Su Jingzhi unconsciously licked his lips.
His senses suddenly became extremely sharp, magnified by the darkness. He needed willpower to suppress his hidden desires.
He silently changed the hot air in his lungs.
Wei Wanlan’s voice became clearer, seemingly with indescribable urgency.
“Regent King.”
“Bad guy.”
Wei, Wan, Lan.
If he had heard this downstairs, it would have been fine. He would have thought, as before, that this was Wei Wanlan cursing.
But if it was in bed, the tone changed completely. Wei Wanlan muttering that he was bad was very dangerous.
At this time, Wei Wanlan’s voice was even more anxious.
His body even twisted in the bedding.
This made Su Jingzhi completely puzzled; was Wei Wanlan simply complaining about his recent strictness, muttering that he was bad while thinking he was asleep, or was there another implication?
Or was it the same as before, he just wanted to suddenly annoy him, he liked to see him being led by the nose.
Su Jingzhi felt a little depressed again.
In short, because of Wei Wanlan, he couldn’t sleep at all. His calmed heart was suspended again, his furrowed brows throbbing.
He suddenly got a little angry at Wei Wanlan’s behavior:
—Do you think you’ll succeed?
—It’s intentional, isn’t it?
Fine, then this King will scare you, let’s see if you dare to casually tease this King again!
The Regent King was an unquestionable man of action.
There was a bang.
The dragon bed shook violently.
The bed curtains moved.
The interface screen of the Sage Emperor Cultivation System, following Wei Wanlan’s vision, moved from the side to the top—
Wei Wanlan was suddenly overturned, his actions abruptly interrupted.
He was startled, his chest pounding. He saw the Regent King’s majestic outline through the screen, but couldn’t see his face, breaking out in a cold sweat.
QAQQAQQAQ—
He’s pressing on me again! I haven’t even had time to do anything!! He’s really a big bad guy!!!
The clear awareness of being bullied by the Regent King filled his entire body in a moment.
Wei Wanlan desperately wanted to dodge.
He wanted to hide in the quilt again.
But the big villain had already cut off his escape route.
The quilt was pressed under them, and the Regent King used one leg to wedge between Wei Wanlan’s legs.
This made Wei Wanlan discover that he had become prey caught in a net without warning, his every direction blocked by the Regent King.
Then he heard the Regent King’s increasingly unstable breathing. The hardness and weight pressing down on his body made Wei Wanlan even more acutely aware of the instinctive danger.
“Regent King…”
He wanted to cry when he encountered danger.
His eyes were red, his voice trembling.
But Su Jingzhi remained unmoved.
He even deliberately exerted more invisible pressure on Wei Wanlan. Even though the environment within the bed curtains was already narrow enough, his arms were even more confining, intentionally reducing the distance between them, making Wei Wanlan feel as if he was being dragged into an abyss.
Su Jingzhi was like a beast looking down at its prey.
His calloused fingers parted the soft hair on Wei Wanlan’s forehead, hooking it behind his ear.
The rough scratching seemed to stimulate his tear ducts, and Wei Wanlan trembled and whimpered.
“Don’t touch, don’t touch me…”
“Your Majesty doesn’t allow touching, then is this King’s back okay to touch?”
—Oh…
Only then did Wei Wanlan realize his stupidity.
He had been so engrossed in touching the screen that he had forgotten that it was still the Regent King’s back; he had been swiping back and forth on his back.
You can’t touch a tiger’s back!!!
His brain was in a state of continuous shutdown.
The words of begging for mercy were suddenly stuck in his throat; Wei Wanlan didn’t dare to make a sound.
Wei Wanlan quickly clamped his mouth shut because, even though he was confused, he had a strong intuitive warning to be careful with his words.
Otherwise, if he said the wrong thing…
He might not see the morning sun tomorrow?
So Wei Wanlan didn’t dare to move, didn’t dare to cry, just lay flat on the bed, trembling slightly, docile like a little rabbit.
This finally gave Su Jingzhi a sense of regaining control:
—The little thing who usually likes to provoke him was subdued.
He was only good with words.
He was skilled in sweet talk, but he immediately cowered when it came to the real thing.
He immediately changed from a mischievous little brat waving his claws around on the dragon bed into a pitiful little thing who only dared to tremble on the spot.
Didn’t he also know how to restrain himself?
Su Jingzhi chuckled inwardly, his teasing even greater. He originally wanted to examine Wei Wanlan’s cute and innocent expression in the darkness more carefully.
—!!!
But at the moment of close contact, he realized that Wei Wanlan suddenly twitched like a fish, instantly rising with an irresistible desire.
He clenched his hand into a fist.
“Don’t move, don’t twist around.” he warned.
How could he control himself?
Wei Wanlan didn’t listen at all; he originally used his soft hands to cling to the Regent King’s upper arm sadly. But seeing that the Regent King wouldn’t let him go, he began to fiddle with the Regent King’s body. He was surrounded by Su Jingzhi’s woody scent and strong aura, and Wei Wanlan’s body was burning hot.
He was actually in the Sage Emperor Cultivation System, trying to drag out an icon whose name seemed useful, a prop: My Emperor’s Reassurance Pill.
His fingertips struggled to tap the “Use” option.
And Su Jingzhi grabbed Wei Wanlan’s restless hand, a tingling current rising up his spine. He realized that things were about to become uncontrollable.
He had only wanted to tease and warn Wei Wanlan a little while ago, but now he truly felt how fragrant and soft Wei Wanlan was pressed close against him. He was aroused.
He had always condemned Wei Wanlan for playing with fire, feeling it was unfair, but once he, himself, was playing with fire, he found that he wasn’t so at ease, the fire in his heart couldn’t be easily extinguished.
At that moment, he almost succumbed to instinct and almost forgot that he wanted mutual affection with Wei Wanlan, not just a moment of lust.
Su Jingzhi’s chest was about to burst.
But unexpectedly—
The dragon bed suddenly fell silent at this moment.
“Huu… huu…”
Wei Wanlan, who had been trembling and fidgeting, only panicked and flustered for a short while, now let out a gentle and even breath in the bed curtains.
He—actually—fell—asleep.
Who would have thought that the My Emperor’s Reassurance Pill, such a domineering name, was actually a strong sleeping pill for treating the emperor’s neurasthenia?
Wei Wanlan didn’t have neurasthenia, so he slept incredibly soundly.
He changed from trembling under the Regent King to clutching the Regent King’s sleeve, then rubbing his head against the Regent King’s palm, letting out a few ambiguous murmurs in his sleep.
His palm directly received Wei Wanlan’s light breath. Su Jingzhi, from arousal, became almost furious.
The Great Wei Regent King’s brow twitched violently.
“Wei, Wan, Lan.”
—The excitement was his, and the quietness was also his.
And the carefree little emperor didn’t even watch his performance, didn’t cooperate, and simply fell asleep.
What could he do?
Wake Wei Wanlan up angrily?
He really couldn’t do that; after all, he liked Wei Wanlan.
Su Jingzhi was filled with helplessness and frustration, feeling that he had never suffered such a grievance in his life!
He also felt that Wei Wanlan was lying; he had just said that he could only sleep when he curled up, but now, without curling up, he was sleeping soundly lying flat! He was almost sleeping on his stomach!
Hmm…
With this King watching over him at night, this little thing should be able to sleep soundly on his stomach.
—Could it be because I’m here, that’s why he sleeps soundly?
Therefore, the Regent King’s depression turned into clear skies again, the corners of his mouth slowly curving upwards, stroking the sleeping Wei Wanlan’s head in the dark, successfully performing self-brainwashing and comforting himself.
He was originally angry that Wei Wanlan didn’t cooperate with his acting, but now he felt that Wei Wanlan was very sincere and so dependent on him.
The Regent King nodded in satisfaction:
Very good, very much in love with this King. He’s just a little clueless, a little slow, it’s okay, he can be slowly cultivated.
Then he half-hugged Wei Wanlan, his heart filled with indescribable comfort and joy.
Worried about waking Wei Wanlan, Su Jingzhi gently rearranged the quilt that was pressed down on them. He tucked the quilt around Wei Wanlan and put his hand down. He also adjusted his posture to sleep.
They both slept until five o’clock in the morning at the Zichen Palace.
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Translator’s note: The lamb was almost eaten by the big bad wolf, and he remains clueless. Hahahaha.