"Is he awake?"

"No, keep your voice down!"

"The master of the family is coming back soon, let's go!"

Before Xu Nuo opened his eyes, he heard whispers around him. As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw several little heads outside the open wooden window.

"Ah! Who are you?"

Those people seemed to have not expected him to wake up, and they were about to run away in a panic. The one at the edge looked only about fifteen or sixteen years old. Because his companion ran too hurriedly, he bumped into him, and his head rolled off his neck and fell into the house.

"Ah!!!" Xu Nuo screamed and pulled the quilt over his head.

As soon as Qiu Jingyu arrived in the yard, he heard his lover's scream and quickly teleported over.

Outside the window of the main house, He Xiaoliu, who had lost his head, was turning around anxiously, as if he wanted to go into the house but didn't dare. Seeing this, Qiu Jingyu had nothing to understand.

"Nono, baby, I'm back, don't be afraid anymore," the man patted the quilt covering him and waved his sleeves. He Xiaoliu's head on the ground flew out of the window again and fell back on He Xiaoliu's body.

Xu Nuo opened her eyes with tears and threw herself into his arms, "Woo...where have you been? There was a ghost just now."

He had apparently forgotten that the man he had spent the night with and who was now holding him was also a thousand-year-old ghost. Qiu Jingyu kissed his forehead soothingly.

"I went to buy porridge and shrimp dumplings for my baby. It was my negligence. Don't be afraid, baby."

The man's voice was low and gentle, and seemed to have the power to soothe people.

"I'm sorry, it's not that I don't like ghosts, I just woke up and got scared..." When Xu Nuo came back to his senses, he remembered that Qiu Jingyu was no longer human. He felt depressed and lay in his arms to apologize.

The man chuckled and said nothing, but he couldn't help but kissed the tip of his ear again. Neither of them spoke for a while, enjoying the tenderness of the moment.

"What you just saw were all children from my family. They were all bought from human traffickers. They didn't have the qualifications to join the army, so they simply stayed in the Qiu Mansion to do odd jobs... In the end, I was the one who harmed them."

A thousand years seemed to have washed away the memory, but the unforgettable feeling of powerlessness and sorrow when more than twenty people from the Qiu family died in front of him could not be erased. Qiu Jingyu hugged the person in his arms tightly and found that he could now calmly talk about the past.

"The man whose head was lost was called He Xiaoliu, the adopted son of my old housekeeper. He was beheaded by bandits while trying to get reinforcements from outside the city... He was only sixteen years old at the time."

Xu Nuo didn't know when tears started to well up in his eyes, but he bit his lower lip tightly to restrain himself from making a sound. It was not until Qiu Jingyu noticed that his chest was wet that he saw that he had been crying pitifully.

The man hurriedly wiped the tears from his face with his sleeve, "Blame me, I keep talking about the past. I am old now, Nuonuo, don't cry."

Xu Nuo could tell that he was teasing her, and she couldn't help but curl her eyes, then leaned over and kissed him on the lips.

"award."

Qiu Jingyu's eyes lit up. "Can I get a reward every day?"

Xu Nuo pretended to be embarrassed and thought for a while before he laughed cunningly, "Any time is available~"

His lover has suffered a lot for thousands of years. Although it was not caused by him, he always unconsciously wants to be better to him and make up for his pain. Perhaps love means that you always feel indebted.

Qiu Jingyu conjured up steaming shrimp dumplings and porridge out of thin air. The man picked up a shrimp dumpling with chopsticks in his slender hands and fed it into the boy's mouth. He watched the boy swallow it in one gulp and smiled with satisfaction.

There were many red marks on Xu Nuo's skin as white as mutton-fat jade. Although he repeatedly stressed that it was not allowed to be marked in obvious places because it would be inconvenient for her to be on camera, the scheming man still left a small kiss mark on the inconspicuous part of her neck, which could be seen as soon as she lowered her head.

Xu Nuo was completely unaware and was still thinking about He Xiaoliu. "Why can I see them now? It's He Xiaoliu and the others just now..."

Another spoonful of porridge was put into his mouth. The man blew the porridge to cool it down for him and answered naturally, "It's because Nuonuo and my husband... cough, absorbed my..."

Xu Nuo was furious, covered his mouth, swallowed the shrimp dumplings in three bites, jumped out of bed and ran out of the house. Qiu Jingyu looked at his flustered back, even his eyes were smiling.

Outside the room, He Xiaoliu was squatting in the corner drawing. When he saw Xu Nuo coming out, he timidly called out "Madam" and was about to run away, but was grabbed by Xu Nuo.

"You... your name is Xiaoliu, right?"

He Xiaoliu didn't expect that he knew her name. She held her head with one hand, as if afraid it would fall off again. "Yes, ma'am."

"My name is Xu Nuo, just call me by my name." Xu Nuo paused, "I didn't mean to yell at you just now... I'm sorry, Xiaoliu."

He Xiaoliu shook his head like a rattle. Xu Nuo was afraid that his head would fall off again. "No need to apologize, husband...Xu Nuo, you are a human being. You will definitely be scared if you see a ghost."

Xu Nuo smiled at him and took his hands out from behind his back, "Try this, consider it my apology." In his palm was a shrimp dumpling wrapped in a paper tray, still warm.

Although He Xiaoliu's cultivation was not enough, after all, he had lived for a thousand years, so eating food from living people was not a big deal. However, his cultivation was not enough to break out of the restriction, so he usually could only watch the outside from the locust tree. The head of the family, Qiu Jingyu, did not like to go out either, and would bring them candy once or twice. This was the first time they had seen such exquisite food.

He Xiaoliu didn't refuse, probably because he was so greedy that he thanked him hurriedly and swallowed it in one gulp, looking like he was enjoying the taste.

Xu Nuo was afraid that he would feel embarrassed, so he turned around and left quietly. Behind him, in front of the window of the main house, Qiu Jingyu was looking at him with a smile on his face.

Xu Nuo blushed a little, but still ran back into the house and threw herself into his arms.

He was so lovable that Qiu Jingyu felt so complicated that he didn't know how to describe it. He wished he could tie him to him all the time. After meeting him, perhaps the loneliness he had endured for thousands of years had a reason, and it was probably just a prelude to meeting him.

"Qiu Jingyu, how about... coming with me to meet my parents in a few days?"

The young man looked embarrassed and spoke uncomfortably. Qiu Jingyu's brain stopped working and his mouth spoke faster than his brain.

"want!"

Xu Nuo hummed twice, stood on tiptoe and kissed the small mole on his Adam's apple, "You got it right, here's a reward."

Qiu Jingyu smiled radiantly, and then he lowered his head and continued to ask for a kiss, "Sometimes you can't always give the same reward. It will be more motivating if you give it gradually."

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"Ding! Heart rate 90!"