"How did you get up here?"
Her voice was a few notes lower than usual, with a barely perceptible tremor.
The door was only opened a narrow gap, and the dim candlelight flowed out from the room and reflected on Li Lingge's face.
Through the gap, he could clearly see Wei Xiang's face.
Her cheeks were flushed unnaturally, as if they had been smudged with rouge, and even the tips of her ears were stained with a thin layer of powder.
The strands of hair on her forehead were slightly wet and stuck to her skin, as if she had sweated a lot.
Li Lingge's eyes fixed and his tone suddenly became serious.
"Why is your face so red? Are you possessed?"
Wei Xiang was stunned, then embarrassedly touched her hot cheek with the back of her hand. The moment her fingertips touched her skin, even she was startled.
But she couldn't help but roll her eyes, a hint of annoyance in her voice.
"How can I still be practicing at this late hour?"
It was not until this moment that Li Lingge noticed her attire.
She was wearing only a light gauze dress loosely draped over her body, with the belt tied casually around her waist, as if it had been put on in a hurry.
The candlelight shines through the gauze dress, outlining her slender waist and undulating curves. Her skin is faintly visible as if covered by a layer of mist, and the mountains and rivers are vaguely visible.
Her legs were long and straight, and her honey-colored skin glowed delicately in the candlelight, as if it had been soaked in honey.
Perhaps she got up too quickly, and she didn't even have time to put on her shoes, so her delicate feet stepped directly on the cold floor.
The arch of the foot is slender and the toes are round like jade, leaving a line of shallow wet marks on the floor.
Li Lingge explained immediately.
"I was just refining the elixir downstairs and noticed water dripping from the second floor, so I came up to take a look."
Upon hearing this, Wei Xiang's heart suddenly tightened, and her slender fingers unconsciously tightened the corners of her clothes.
She felt a layer of fine beads of sweat oozing from her back, making her thin inner garment stick to her skin.
"I, I was a little thirsty..." Her voice was as thin as a mosquito's, and her eyes were erratic. "I accidentally knocked over the teacup..."
As she spoke, she unconsciously blocked the crack in the door with her body to prevent Li Lingge from noticing the scene inside the room.
Little did they know that this action would attract even more attention.
Li Lingge's gaze passed over the tips of her red ears and fell on the bed behind her.
In the flickering candlelight, he could clearly see several wet footprints beside the bed.
The corners of his lips lifted slightly, and a hint of understanding flashed in his eyes, but he considerately did not expose it.
"Then you should rest early. I will go back after refining the last batch of pills."
Wei Xiang looked at Li Lingge's departing back, and first let out a long sigh, and the tightness in his chest eased slightly.
But when she heard that he was leaving, her eyes dimmed again.
She bit her lower lip unconsciously until she tasted a hint of rust and then let go.
Just as Li Lingge was about to go downstairs, he suddenly stopped and looked back.
The candlelight cast shadows of varying depths on his well-defined profile, making his phoenix eyes look particularly deep.
"Remember to drink plenty of water," he said calmly, but with a hint of meaning, "Replenish your fluids."
boom--
Wei Xiang felt a surge of heat rushing to his head, and his cheeks were so hot that they could almost fry an egg.
She lowered her head in panic, and her ears turned red.
It seemed as if wisps of hot air were really coming out from above my head, forming a small ball of white mist in the cool autumn night.
The sound of the wooden door closing was particularly clear in the silent night, like a light hammer hitting Wei Xiang's heart.
…
The flame in the furnace gradually died down, and the last batch of pills finally took shape.
Li Lingge put the twelve lustrous pills into the jade bottle, and the collision between the bottle wall and the pills made a crisp ding-dong sound.
As he straightened his stiff back, his spine made several crisp sounds as if he could not bear the weight.
call--
He stretched his arms and let out a long breath.
Maintaining the same posture for a long time made his muscles feel like they were filled with lead, and every joint was protesting.
At this moment, a faint orchid fragrance quietly drifted into the nose.
Before Li Lingge could turn around, a pair of slightly cool hands had already gently placed on his shoulders.
"Are you too tired?"
Wei Xiang suddenly appeared behind him at some point, her voice three times softer than usual, and as moist as night dew.
Light blue divine power condensed at her fingertips, seeping into Li Lingge's tense muscles like a spring stream.
Wherever the divine power passed, the stiff muscle fibers stretched out like seedlings after a long drought that finally received a downpour.
Li Lingge's back tensed up reflexively at first, but as the divine power flowed, his shoulder blades gradually relaxed, as if he had taken off an invisible heavy armor.
"I'm fine, just take a night's rest—"
Before he could finish his words, Wei Xiang's thumb suddenly pressed on a sore acupuncture point on the back of his neck. The force was so precise that he gasped, and the unfinished words turned into a muffled groan and were swallowed back into his throat.
"Don't talk, just relax."
Wei Xiang's voice was close to his ear, and his warm breath brushed against his earlobe.
Her fingers moved along the meridians on both sides of his spine, pausing briefly at each joint to massage the blocked qi and blood bit by bit.
Li Lingge leaned back unconsciously, with the back of his head almost touching her collarbone.
This angle allowed him to see Wei Xiang's drooping eyelashes casting a small shadow under her eyes, and the watery gleam on her slightly pursed lips.
The moment their eyes met, the tips of Wei Xiang's ears turned crimson at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The divine power at her fingertips fluctuated for a moment, like disturbed pool water.
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