The Light of the Righteous Path 19

That was the craziest part of the dream, raw and beautiful, like a brilliantly blooming flower. Being their first time, both of them were at a loss for what to do; even the beginning was unusually unfamiliar and difficult.

How had they come to this step? From the beginning to the present, in past and present lives, Du Chengying's yearning for the person in front of him had long since seeped into his bones and become a demon. The lingering fixation in his heart made him tremble with excitement, yet he was also so very careful. This was his senior brother, his beloved whom he treasured like a jewel.

Lin Qi lowered his head and bit his lip, finally regaining his sense of shame. His trembling eyelashes clung tightly to his eyes as he took the initiative to shut off his vision, causing his senses of touch and hearing to become extremely prominent.

Du Chengying's voice was much deeper than his, and more restrained. The repressed rumbling in his throat beat against Lin Qi's eardrums. The sound drilled into his body through the thin eardrums, turning into an ambiguous call. The subtle trembling of muscles spread between the two of them. Lin Qi trembled, suddenly feeling a little afraid.

"Senior Brother," Du Chengying sensed Lin Qi's resistance and kissed his earlobe, "relax, don't be afraid."

Lin Qi lowered his head deeply, his teeth biting his lip harder and harder. It was a very strange and special feeling, much like his encounter with Du Chengying: he didn't hate it; rather, it was an unfamiliar fondness that grew more and more. Lin Qi couldn't help but cradle Du Chengying's face, his slightly bloodshot lips hooking onto Du Chengying's, sealing their breaths and tremors between their lips and teeth.

Something seemed to be wrong with his body. The heat slowly melted him from the inside out. He was like a fruit, gradually ripening, its juices bursting through the skin as its sweet fragrance gradually dispersed. His shyness and fear transformed into a yearning for unknown pleasure.

Wanting more, his brain turned blank, and his animalistic instincts regained the high ground. Lin Qi was no longer satisfied with just kissing Du Chengying. Following the corners of Du Chengying's lips, he gently bit towards the protruding Adam's apple on Du Chengying's neck, raising tear-filled eyes in a silent invitation.

A fire burned in Du Chengying's heart. He tried his utmost to restrain himself from letting that fire burn away his reason. His senior brother, his only treasure—he didn't want to hurt him.

Even though Du Chengying was already extremely gentle, Lin Qi still cried profusely. It wasn't because of pain; he didn't even know why he was crying so hard.

His first time was with a man from another world.

He wanted to hide, but it was a fateful ending that he ultimately couldn't escape.

Afterwards, two messy bodies tightly embraced each other. Du Chengying held Lin Qi from behind with one hand, using the other to brush aside his sweat-drenched long hair, gazing at his sleeping face.

Lin Qi's flushed face looked as if he had been drunk all night. The broken wounds on his lips were swollen, making him look as if he were pouting and feeling deeply wronged.

Du Chengying couldn't help but curl his lips into a smile. He lowered his head and gently placed a kiss on Lin Qi's cheek. The warm and smooth touch made Du Chengying unable to resist planting another kiss.

This kiss after kiss finally made the utterly exhausted Lin Qi raise his fingers in dissatisfaction. Du Chengying noticed his little movement and reached out to grasp Lin Qi's hand that rested on his waist dimple. He gently caressed the fingers one by one before finally locking them tightly together. With his other hand affectionately stroking Lin Qi's long hair, he let out a deep breath.

He... had taken his senior brother.

The complex scent at the tip of his nose, the person lying beside him covered in mottled marks, and the burning scratch marks on his own back all proclaimed this fact.

But Du Chengying still felt it was a little surreal.

What happened last night slowly surfaced in his mind bit by bit. His senior brother in the red wedding dress... Du Chengying raised a hand and pinched the bridge of his nose. Really, he didn't realize it while they were doing it, but looking back, the more he thought about it, the more alluring he found his senior brother to be.

It was truly as beautiful as a dream.

Upon waking up from his sleep, Lin Qi found that he couldn't move anything below his neck. He felt sore, achy, and limp, as if he had been soaking in wine. The feeling of pain was actually the mildest part; he just felt extremely weird, as if there were some foreign object inside his body. The moment this thought arose, Lin Qi couldn't help but blush and close his eyes to escape reality.

Ahhhh—what kind of curse had the Merfolk Tribe cast on him? How could he have been so... so wanton towards Du Chengying...

"Senior Brother is awake?" A gentle, deep voice came over. Lin Qi flushed entirely from his face down to his neck, keeping his eyes closed and resolutely playing dead. He wasn't ready to face Du Chengying yet.

Du Chengying brushed Lin Qi's trembling eyelashes. A smile played at the corners of his lips, but his tone was low and sorrowful, "Does Senior Brother regret it after all?"

Lin Qi hastily opened his eyes. Meeting Du Chengying's smiling eyes, he realized he had fallen for a trick again. With a bright red face, he mumbled, "I don't."

He had made his choice a long time ago. Since he had chosen to commit completely, he wouldn't regret it. He just hadn't expected it to happen so unexpectedly, and so thoroughly.

Even he himself hadn't expected it to be such a crazy night.

The moonlight casting down from the roof seemed to still be swaying before his eyes. He would probably never forget this night for the rest of his life.

"For our first time... I didn't take good care of Senior Brother," Du Chengying gently pressed his palm against Lin Qi's face and said in a low voice, "Next time, I will make it more comfortable for Senior Brother."

Lin Qi: "!!!" Ahhh, he was going to smoke and vaporize!

If he wasn't unable to move right now, he would definitely turn around and bury himself in his clothes.

He had really been topped by a man.

And for a whole night, at that.

Amidst his extreme shame, Lin Qi suddenly thought of a major problem. No longer caring about his thin skin, he anxiously asked, "Junior Brother, will I get pregnant?!"

Unexpectedly, Lin Qi would ask such a question. The tips of Du Chengying's ears instantly turned red as well. Leaning down close to Lin Qi's ear, he whispered, "Does Senior Brother want to give birth?"

Lin Qi's entire face wrote refusal. Giving up his body and losing his heart was enough; if he produced a cub, what if he died later? Wouldn't Du Chengying be left to raise the kid alone? He could almost picture it in his mind: Du Chengying walking far away alone with a child in his arms, accompanied by tragic BGM—an absolute miserable male protagonist of a cultivation novel.

Seeing Lin Qi looking like he was about to cry, Du Chengying kissed the corner of his eye and chuckled, "You won't."

The taut string suddenly relaxed. Lin Qi let out a breath of air, "You scared me to death."

Last night, it was Du Chengying who had truly been scared out of his wits. Hearing this, the smile on his lips faded a little, and he said softly, "Senior Brother, rest for a few days. I will take care of your daily living. If there is anything you want to do, just say it."

Lin Qi's face turned red again, "I... I... um..." His voice was muffled, still unable to speak it out. Du Chengying pressed his ear to his lips, and only then did Lin Qi reluctantly finish speaking. After speaking, his mouth shut tightly again, turning his face away, not daring to look at Du Chengying.

Strange. Even though they had already done the most intimate things, he actually felt even more shy now.

Hearing this, Du Chengying smiled, "Rest assured, Senior Brother. After you fell asleep, I carefully cleaned it for you. Nothing was left inside."

"Don't say it in such detail," Lin Qi said in a muffled voice.

"Oh," the corners of Du Chengying's mouth lifted again, "Then there's nothing."

Lin Qi shot him an annoyed glare, but the words of scolding died on his lips when he saw Du Chengying's smile. It seemed he had never realized that Du Chengying was so handsome he could captivate all living beings. As he looked, his eyes couldn't help but stare blankly.

Du Chengying was really good-looking. There were many handsome men in the cultivation world, but for someone to stand out so much among them, calling him a divine being would not be an exaggeration.

The more Lin Qi looked, the more fascinated he became. His Adam's apple bobbed gently, feeling like he was a little thirsty again.

Looking at Lin Qi, Du Chengying merely smiled. If possible, he could just watch Lin Qi like this until the end of time, doing nothing, thinking nothing. In this vast world, his eyes only wanted this one beloved person.

Lin Qi stared fixedly at Du Chengying, thinking despairingly in his heart: 'It's over, I've become a pervert.'

"Want to sleep a little longer, or are you hungry?" Du Chengying's voice was so gentle that water could practically be wrung from it.

Still unable to tear his gaze away from Du Chengying, Lin Qi whispered, "I don't want to sleep, and I'm not hungry." He just wanted to stay quietly with Du Chengying like this for a while.

Seeming to see through Lin Qi's thoughts, Du Chengying said gently, "Then, shall I stay with Senior Brother for a while?"

Lin Qi remained silent, but his eyes lit up. Du Chengying lifted his robes, got onto the bed, and gently embraced Lin Qi from behind.

The solid touch from his back and the warm breath on his neck gave Lin Qi a true sense of reality regarding their so-called 'marriage'. He had a lover. Someone like him, who never had any friends, actually had a veritable lover. Lin Qi's smile was intoxicated. Sleepiness suddenly struck, probably because he felt very safe—so safe that one couldn't help but relax.

After resting for three days, Lin Qi finally managed to put the bones all over his body back together again. He still had to say that cultivation techniques were great. Although he usually didn't like abstaining from food, it was quite useful at critical moments. Otherwise, if he had to let Du Chengying carry him to eat, drink, and relieve himself, he would die of shame on the spot.

When his feet touched the ground, Lin Qi felt the joy of someone who had been paralyzed for years and successfully rehabilitated. Du Chengying watched him with a face full of doting indulgence, like an accompanying family member. Lin Qi, his face a little red, avoided Du Chengying's gaze. This feeling of being discharged from the hospital became even more pronounced when the Water Qilin came bouncing over with a bunch of mountain flowers in its mouth to present to him.

With mixed feelings, Lin Qi took the mountain flowers from the Water Qilin's mouth, lowered his head to sniff them, and said, still somewhat shy, "Smells good."

The Water Qilin happily 'meowed' twice, lowered its head, shook its head, and nudged Lin Qi until he walked over to Du Chengying's side. Lin Qi naturally bumped right into Du Chengying's arms. Du Chengying hugged him right on cue. Lin Qi tilted his head back, meeting Du Chengying's focused gaze. "Senior Brother, happy new marriage."

Lin Qi's face instantly turned completely red. He wanted to look away, but his eyes were firmly drawn in by Du Chengying's deep gaze and couldn't move. He opened his mouth and quickly mumbled, "Happy mm marriage." He was still a bit too embarrassed to say the words 'new marriage' clearly.

Du Chengying curled his lips into a smile, his nose crinkling slightly. The corners of his eyes and tips of his brows were filled with a gentle smile, a pure happiness. Lin Qi had never seen such an expression on Du Chengying's face before. What surprised him even more was that the smile reflected in Du Chengying's eyes—his own smile—was almost exactly the same as Du Chengying's.

It turned out that he was just as happy.

For some reason, Lin Qi's nose tingled. He hooked his arms around Du Chengying's neck and rested his face on his broad shoulder to hide his slightly emotional expression at the moment.

Du Chengying gently patted his waist. "Although it spoils the mood, I must seek your opinion, Senior Brother. What should we do with that school of fish?"

"Huh?" Immersed in the shyness of their 'new marriage', Lin Qi had almost forgotten the Merfolk who indirectly caused him to be paralyzed for three days.

The surface of the sea had been frozen into a sheet of ice crystals. Schools of large fish and Merfolk were frozen in the seawater, forming a bizarre frozen circle. With their pitch-black, lifeless eyes wide open, they stared faintly at Lin Qi, who was sitting on the back of the Water Qilin.

Actually, Lin Qi also roughly understood what was going on from the ballads sung by the Merfolk. It wasn't entirely without reason that the Merfolk had captured him. When Du Chengying casually snatched that item, he probably hadn't expected it to cause all this trouble either.

"After all, we were the ones who snatched their things first." Lin Qi tugged at Du Chengying's robe and whispered to Du Chengying standing beside him.

Du Chengying turned his face and leaned in close to his ear, saying, "If I had come a step later, you would have at least thousands of Merfolk eggs in your stomach by now."

Lin Qi: "..." Stop talking, he already pictured it in his mind. It was simply too terrifying.

Lin Qi's face turned red and then pale. "Well, I didn't get pregnant with them."

Du Chengying smiled faintly, "Is Senior Brother feeling regretful?"

Lin Qi: "..." He wanted to give Du Chengying a kick right now to knock him back to his senses.

The Merfolk inside the frozen layer watched this shameless pair of men whispering affectionately to each other, getting so angry that their black eyeballs were about to pop out. After receiving a cold glance from the Water Qilin, which had a gratified expression on its face, they decisively rolled their eyes away.