Chapter 83: Act 25: Going Back on One's Word

The slowly blowing breeze seemed to have stopped at that moment, and the surrounding scenery slowly faded from sight. It seemed that only Ruan Chao was left in Chu Xinglan's world.

He lowered his head, staring at the boy in front of him in a daze.

Ruan Chao curled the corners of his lips and smiled happily, his light-colored eyes sparkled, as if hiding countless little stars... beautiful and charming.

Perhaps he was dissatisfied with Chu Xinglan's failure to respond in time and his distraction when he was talking to him. His smile faded a little. He stretched out his arms, grabbed his neck, and pushed his head down... He stared at him without blinking, and asked in a drawn-out tone with some displeasure.

"Did you hear me?"

Chu Xinglan paused for a moment and replied, "Yes."

Ruan Chao half-closed his eyes and looked at him suspiciously: "Then what did I say? Repeat it to me again."

"You said..." Chu Xinglan seemed to feel a little embarrassed under Ruan Chao's fixed gaze. He slightly turned his head to avoid Ruan Chao's sight. His tone did not change, but his ears quietly turned red, showing that he was not as calm as he looked on the surface. "If I like it... you will wear a skirt to show me."

"So do you like it?" Ruan Chao moved a little closer, as if he was whispering something, and deliberately made his tone light and airy, like a feather sliding softly past his ear, bringing a tingling sensation.

Chu Xinglan's eyelashes trembled slightly.

I don't know what he was thinking about, his eyes gradually darkened a little, and after a long while he whispered: "...I like it."

Ruan Chao was amused by Chu Xinglan's reaction.

I think his shy yet serious look is really funny.

They had hugged each other, kissed each other, and done a lot of intimate things, but Chu Xinglan was still very shy and couldn't help being teased.

Ruan Chao seemed to find pleasure in teasing people. He moved closer, this time almost sticking to Chu Xinglan's face, and his rosy lips placed a light kiss on the corner of the boy's lips.

He skillfully changed his voice, lengthening, raising, and softening his voice...the voice he produced was the clear and melodious voice of a girl.

"Since brother likes it, then on the day of our wedding, I will wear a beautiful bright red wedding dress to marry you, okay?" Ruan Chao tilted his head and said casually, "The wedding dress on the wedding must be a hundred times or a thousand times more beautiful than the skirts I wore before, right?"

Chu Xinglan's breathing stagnated slightly and his heartbeat quickened uncontrollably.

He raised his eyes and looked straight at Ruan Chao.

The young man had a cold complexion, a reserved temperament, and his slightly raised eyes revealed a kind of aloofness and detachment. He looked extremely difficult to approach. No matter how others tried to show their presence in front of him, he would not even glance at them.

Then, such a pure and innocent young monk lost his composure because of a few short words from Ruan Chao, and a raging fire ignited in his eyes, burning people.

Under such a stare, Ruan Chao keenly sensed the danger.

I realized belatedly that Chu Xinglan was far from being as harmless as he appeared.

He recalled the several times before when he was held in his arms forcefully and kissed recklessly. He still felt the burning sensation around his waist, penetrating through the thin fabric and into his skin...

He was kissed very hard.

Her lips were kissed until they were red and swollen, and the area around her lips was rubbed into a gorgeous pink color.

Even the slightest effort to breathe would cause a tingling, numb, and bloating pain.

Even though he was in such a miserable state, Chu Xinglan still didn't want to let him go. She kept kissing him non-stop, kissing all the tears that flowed to the corners of his lips into her mouth, pretending not to hear his words of begging for mercy... It was so mean and excessive.

And at that time... Chu Xinglan seemed to be staring at him with such eyes.

Ruan Chao blinked his eyes, thinking that he had gone too far and said something too exciting. The consequences might be something he couldn't bear.

He loosened his arms that were around the other's neck, crawled out of his arms, carefully distanced himself from Chu Xinglan, then pretended to be busy looking around, and finally found an empty bucket lying on the ground not far away.

"One bucket of water doesn't seem to be enough to water so many saplings. I'll go ..." and fetch another bucket from the mountain.

However, before Nguyen Chao could finish his words, someone grabbed his wrist and pulled him into his arms.

The other person's fingers are a little hot.

I don’t know if it’s because the weather is too hot or for some other reason.

Nguyen Dynasty tried to push back but failed.

He pretended to be calm and asked, "Why are you holding me? Didn't you hear me say I was going down the mountain to fetch water?"

"You can get water anytime." Chu Xinglan answered slowly, "If Chaochao wants to water the trees, I can bring up a mountain spring water now, so you don't have to run back and forth every day."

For cultivators in the Yuanying period, changing terrain is not a difficult task.

But the Nguyen Dynasty was not willing to accept his proposal.

He lived a life like a parasite in Ruyun Peak every day. He only ate and slept. Occasionally, when he felt like it, he would go to the back mountain to practice sword with Chu Xinglan. But after a few hours, he would start to complain about being tired, sore hands, and sore legs.

Chu Xinglan also tolerated him. He didn't have to practice if he didn't want to, and he could rest whenever he wanted. If it were other disciples of Guiyun Sect, who were like him, fishing for three days and drying the nets for two days, without any perseverance, they would have been severely punished by Suiying long ago.

Nguyen Chao neither liked to practice swordplay nor to go out. His only opportunity to exercise every day was to fetch water from the mountain. He would fetch a full bucket of water, then waste half of it on the way. He would then carefully distribute the remaining half to each peach sapling.

In fact, there was no shortage of saplings, let alone the spiritual energy contained in the water. Ruan Chao just wanted to find something to do. Otherwise, he felt that he would continue to live such a decadent life, eating and sleeping all day long, and he would gain five kilograms in a month.

Therefore, Ruan Chao decisively rejected Chu Xinglan's proposal to bring the spring water to the mountain, and did not allow him to deprive himself of the only opportunity to exercise his body.

Chu Xinglan just said it casually and didn't care too much about the topic. Since Ruan Chao disagreed, there was no reason for him to force others to accept it.

Besides, his real purpose is not here.

Chu Xinglan didn't want anything else to attract Ruan Chao's attention again, so he snatched the wooden barrel that Ruan Chao was carrying and threw it aside. He gently pinched the other's slightly pointed chin with two knuckles and turned his head towards himself, wanting him to only see himself.

Perhaps it was because Chu Xinglan's gaze was too scorching, Ruan Chao was the first to give in, hastily looking away, and his breathing became unstable.

"Don't hide from me, raise your head and look at me."

The young man's clear voice, with a hint of hoarseness, floated softly into Ruan Chao's ears.

"...I want to know if you are serious about what you just said?"

Ruan Chao looked confused: "What do you mean serious or not?"

"Don't be stupid, you know what I'm talking about."

Ruan Chao: “………”Okay.

Nguyen Chao wanted to say no.

I thought that I was just kidding him and was deliberately trying to trick him. I didn't have such thoughts at all, and I never thought about wearing a wedding dress.

But he couldn't quite bring himself to say it.

I could only droop my eyelashes and pretend that I didn't understand, hoping to get away with it.

But Chu Xinglan was unwilling to let him go so easily.

He whispered, "The storage ring I gave you contains a very beautiful wedding dress. It is placed in the cabinet in the corner and has been hidden in the innermost part. I... I bought it on my eighteenth birthday, thinking that I could give it to you one day."

He paused, with a hint of expectation in his tone, "...Chao Chao, can you wear it now and show it to me?"

Ruan Chao couldn't help but widen his eyes and looked at Chu Xinglan in shock, finding it hard to believe that these words came out of his mouth.

He raised his head and glanced at the sky.

The clear sky was as blue as the ocean, and the sun was hanging high overhead, hot and dazzling.

It's not even dark yet, why are you talking in your sleep?

And you want me to wear it and show it to you right now... What a crazy wishful thinking!

Ruan Chao raised his hand to cover Chu Xinglan's eyes and said calmly, "Go to sleep. Dreams can contain anything."

Chu Xinglan blinked her eyelashes: "...Is it not possible?"

Ruan Chao was a little surprised at his persistence, but he still crushed his fantasy without hesitation, "Of course not."

Chu Xinglan seemed very disappointed, with the corners of his lips pulled down, and he made a sound of grievance.

"But I really want to see it." He pulled down Ruan Chao's hand, raised his eyes and stared at him steadily, "Chao Chao just said that as long as I want to see it, I can wear it anytime... So it turns out that he was lying to me?"

Ruan Chao: “…”

Chu Xinglan's gaze is so penetrating.

There was a hint of disappointment in his lacquered eyes, and his long eyelashes slowly pressed down, hiding the rippling light in his eyes. He seemed very sad, and even the beautiful light gold between his pupils had dimmed a lot.

If there was a tail behind it, it would have been drooping down in disappointment at this moment.

Ruan Chaoming knew that he was pretending to be like this on purpose, wanting him to pity him and make him feel guilty, so that he would immediately give in and agree.

Is the Nguyen Dynasty someone who can be easily fooled? Of course not.

He had seen through Chu Xinglan's tricks long ago, so he naturally wouldn't fall into his trap.

So he said firmly in a tone that would not brook rejection: "You can wear anything else, but not a wedding dress."

"Please, Chao Chao."

Chu Xinglan lowered his voice, his tone revealing a hint of obvious seduction.

"…It's just me, no one else will know."

"Chao Chao is beautiful, and every part of you is beautiful. When you wear your wedding dress, you will definitely be the only one in the world. No one will be prettier than you."

"Do you think I will agree if you praise me like this?" Ruan Chao had an unmoved expression on his face and glanced at Chu Xinglan coldly from the side, as if to say that such low-level tricks like yours can't impress me at all.

"We're not getting married today, so I won't wear it."

…

Ruan Chao couldn't resist Chu Xinglan's attack and finally gave in.

After some bargaining, he drove Chu Xinglan out of the door and promised to wear the clothes for only an incense stick of time. When the time was up, he would take them off immediately.

The woman's wedding dress was heavy and elaborate, with lifelike phoenix patterns embroidered with gold thread. The hem of the dress was two or three meters long, and it took Nguyen Chao a long time to put it on successfully.

He adjusted the dangling golden crown on his head. The pearl hairpins and tassels were shaking constantly. It was so heavy that after wearing it for only a short while, his head and neck ached.

Nguyen Chao took it off with disgust and threw it aside.

Then she simply tied her waist-length hair with a red headband.

He sat down next to the mirror and looked at himself carefully.

The "girl" in the mirror was wearing a bright red wedding dress. The bright red color made her skin look as white as solidified milk. Her light eyes seemed to contain a pool of water, making her look beautiful and alluring.

Ruan Chao said to himself: "It doesn't look any different."

It's no different from when I dressed up as a girl before.

It was just that the color of the dress was a little too bright... He touched the hem of the dress embroidered with gold thread, his slender white fingertips brushed over the phoenix that was about to spread its wings and fly, and thought to himself, he had never worn such a gorgeous dress before.

"It seems like something is missing."

Nguyen Chao took out the lip balm from the storage ring and began to put on makeup skillfully.

The already rosy lips become even more rosy and thicker after applying lip balm.

The tightly closed door was pushed open at this moment.

Ruan Chao's fingers paused slightly and he accidentally painted a little off.