Chapter 52 Sleeping Together
Several osmanthus trees stand in front of the door, with cute golden flowers dotted among the green leaves. The fragrance is elegant and pleasant, filling the air and adding a touch of warmth to this small courtyard in the suburbs.
"Boom, boom, boom..."
A wooden stick was sweeping the ground. Looking up, the hand holding the stick had distinct joints and a beautiful shape. It should have been treated well, but now the gaps between the round nails were covered with dust and dried blood, which was shocking.
The owner of the hand was a young man. He closed his eyes tightly and took a step forward after sweeping the stick. He was so cautious that it had almost become an instinct.
Following his memory, asking for directions, and stumbling along the way, Ling Zheng finally smelled the fragrance of the sweet-scented osmanthus flowers. By this time, he was already starving, his movements were slow, and he felt like he would faint at any second.
The stick hit the fence with a loud knock. His eyelashes fluttered, and he paused for a moment before feeling the shape of the fence with his hands, finding the opening and closing to enter the yard.
Inside the house, Wen Ren Su was leisurely sipping hot tea. Suddenly, there was a knock on the door, intermittent, and one could hear hesitation in the sound.
Wen Rensu stood up and walked to the door leisurely, "Who is it?"
"...Ling Zheng." The voice was muffled and no emotion could be heard through the door.
After he finished speaking, Wen Rensu's eyes fixed, and then an unfathomable smile appeared on his face.
"Creaky——" the door opened.
Was the dirty little face before him the same Ling Zheng who had been so high-spirited just a few days ago? His tattered clothes were stained with blood, and his messy black hair was stained with sand and matted into clumps.
Wen Rensu was speechless and looked down at Ling Zheng. He felt uneasy because he couldn't see, so he lowered his head slightly, and his long eyelashes fluttered like butterfly wings.
"Have you heard someone tell you?" The silence was terrifying. Ling Zheng couldn't help but whisper, his thin eyelids and eyeballs moving slightly. He grabbed the hem of his clothes with one hand and tightened it little by little. This small action easily exposed his uneasiness.
A low voice sounded beside my ears, giving people a gentle illusion: "I haven't seen you for a while, how did you make yourself so embarrassed?"
Ling Zheng breathed a sigh of relief after receiving Wen Rensu's response. Then, a wave of shame washed over him, and his face felt as if it were burning. "I... can you lend me some money?"
Hearing this, Wen Rensu sneered and leaned against the door without any tact. "What? The arrogant Ling Zheng is now so poor that he has to beg?"
"Yes, it's borrowed!" he said indignantly. At the same time, his stomach growled loudly. He was so hungry that he was almost dying. His face turned visibly embarrassed. He said with difficulty, "Please..."
Seeing Ling Zheng's expression of weakness, Wen Rensu was in a trance for a moment. He seemed to see Ling Zheng's childhood appearance in the previous illusion. He blinked and his eyes became clear again.
"Hehehe..." Wen Rensu let out a meaningless laugh, raised his hand to touch Ling Zheng's face, and wiped away the dirt with his thumb, revealing a touch of white. After the dust covered her beauty, she was no longer aggressive, but instead exuded a delicate charm.
However, when Wen Rensu's other hand slid down her slender waist, penetrated into the pierced fabric, and pierced the scabbed wound with two fingers, warm blood flowed out again. Ling Zheng's dazed eyes opened wide, and he couldn't help but let out a muffled groan.
His expression instantly twisted, and he burst into a thrilling murderous intent. He then used up all his lifelong forbearance to endure this excruciating pain.
Every slight movement of his fingers caused great pain. In an instant, beads of sweat covered his forehead. He gasped for breath, looked up at the nothingness in front of him, and forced a smile: "You are really cruel."
"Even after paying you, you won't be able to hold on for much longer." Wen Rensu pressed Ling Zheng, whose legs were weak, into his arms, pressing his back against his chest. He leaned close to Ling Zheng's ear and whispered ambiguously:
"I can help you with your eyes and the injury to your dantian. I can find a way, but of course, there are conditions."
"...What is it?" Ling Zheng felt extremely uncomfortable being wrapped in the fiery body temperature. He wanted to hide but didn't dare to. He felt that Wen Rensu's tone was strange, which gave him goose bumps and almost numbness in his lower abdomen.
"Before you are cured, help me with laundry and cooking, and... sleep with me." Wen Rensu's tone was flat, as if he had not said anything shocking.
When the last two words were spoken, Ling Zheng was shocked. He immediately turned around and pushed Wen Rensu away, staggering back two steps.
His mouth opened and closed, as if he was extremely shocked. For a long time, he couldn't make a sound. Finally, he stammered, "Are you crazy? I'm a man!"
Ling Zheng was stunned for a moment.
No wonder he accepted the love poison so naturally after it was applied. I had thought the poison was powerful, capable of twisting people's hearts to that extent. Little did I know that Wen Rensu had always held unethical tendencies, and the poison was simply playing along.
"Forget it, just go away and don't die at my doorstep." Wen Ren Su turned and walked into the house.
As he heard the footsteps fade away, a strong sense of humiliation enveloped Ling Zheng. Regardless of whether Wen Rensu liked women or men, what did he think of himself? A plaything for sexual gratification?
These words overturned Ling Zheng's perception of Wen Rensu, but also reinforced his impression of the righteous people as hypocritical.
Ling Zheng originally thought that Wen Rensu was special, a rare and truly good person in the world. Even if the effect of the love Gu was eliminated, they had conflicts and Wen Rensu resented him, which was understandable. After all, it was their personal grudge.
The only thing I didn't expect was that when I was at my wit's end, he would reveal his true nature and humiliate my personality like this... It's true, all crows are black, this world is so bad.
He decisively chose to leave, but he hadn't taken a few steps when he suddenly felt dizzy due to several days of hunger and excessive blood loss. The moment he fell, he fell deeply into a warm embrace and then his consciousness completely disappeared.
Wen Rensu picked up the unconscious Ling Zheng by the waist, strode into the house and put him on the couch.
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Ling Zheng slept for a long time until the delicious smell of food aroused his appetite, and he regained consciousness and woke up slowly.
Wen Rensu was sitting on a bamboo chair reading a book. He noticed that Ling Zheng's breathing was disordered for a moment, but soon returned to normal.
"Stop pretending when you wake up."
Ling Zheng closed his eyes and said indifferently: "I won't agree to it."
"Since you are so unwilling, then you don't need to sleep with me. How about just doing laundry and cooking?" Wen Rensu said casually.
Ling Zheng slowly opened his eyes, his dark pupils facing the direction of the voice: "Why?"
A faint sigh came from not far away: "Just think of it as me being kind for a moment."
After hearing this, Ling Zheng was silent for a long time. Washing clothes and cooking were not difficult problems. Even if he couldn't see, he could always solve them by groping. However, Wen Rensu's attitude suddenly made him feel uneasy.
However, whether it is the eyes or the dantian, the cost of recovery is not simple, and it would be best to rely on Wen Rensu's power.
Ling Zheng calmly touched his clothes. They were clean, soft cotton silk. The wound in his abdomen was bandaged and covered with herbal medicine. His long hair was dry and had a faint aroma of soapberry.
Ever since Ling Zheng knew that Wen Rensu might have a homosexual tendency, his heart sank when he found out that Wen Rensu had changed his clothes. But then he felt that there was nothing wrong with his body and he breathed a sigh of relief.
Apart from that, Ling Zheng could still tolerate the fact that Wenren Su had seen his body naked after he fell into a coma.
It was because Wen Ren Su had seen it five years ago. When he obtained the paralysis Gu, he was also unconscious, and his injuries were healed by the medicinal bath provided by Wen Ren Su.
Ling Zheng just couldn't figure it out. He used to think Wen Rensu was kind and gentle, like a deity in a storybook who saved all living things.
It wasn't until their recent meetings that Wen Rensu revealed the sinister side of his character, which made him realize belatedly that his role as the guardian of Cliff Valley wasn't entirely a disguise. But in the end, Wen Rensu still saved him...
Will he bring salvation to himself, or will he sink into a deeper swamp? Thinking of this, Ling Zheng felt unprecedented confusion.
"Your injury cannot be cured overnight. I believe you know this. Let's eat first. I won't treat a patient harshly." Wen Ren Su said lightly.
Who caused the new wound on his Dantian... Ling Zheng thought to himself. He stood up from the couch, not changing his expression even though his abdomen was injured, and took small steps to move forward.
"Tsk." Wen Ren Su walked quickly forward, took Ling Zheng's hand, and guided him to the backrest of the bamboo chair. After he sat down smoothly, Wen Ren Su walked around to the other end.
"Eat." Wenren Suqu tapped his fingers on the dishes and introduced them one by one: "Braised pork ribs with radish, steamed sea bass, and cabbage and tofu soup."
The crisp ceramic sounds rang out one after another. Ling Zheng tilted his ears slightly. Even though he had lost all his martial arts skills, this basic ability to locate the position by sound was still no problem for him.
He traced the edge of the bowl and touched the handle of the spoon. His lips twitched, "Thank you."
Ling Zheng scooped the dishes very accurately, as if nothing had happened. He just wasn't sure about the arrangement of the dishes, so he needed to scoop a few more times to feel the weight in his hand before slowly transferring the food to his bowl.
Wen Rensu secretly watched Ling Zheng. Seeing that he was eating without any hindrance, he smiled silently, picked up the chopsticks and focused on his own bowl of rice.
The bright moon hangs high in the sky, and clouds are swirling around.
A gentle moonlight streamed through the window, casting a shadow onto one side of the bedroom. Wen Rensu lay flat on the couch. Not far from the couch, a pile of hay lay on the ground. Ling Zheng covered himself with a thin quilt, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep.
"Sizzle, sizzle."
The sound of hay was particularly harsh in the quiet night. Even though Ling Zheng's turning over was quite gentle, a slight friction sound still leaked out.
Wen Rensu was furious. He took a deep breath, suddenly got up, picked up Ling Zheng and put him on the couch, clinging to him like an octopus. "Quiet, sleep!"
From the moment Wen Rensu picked him up, Ling Zheng was stunned and suddenly forgot to resist. Only after he finished speaking did he find his voice again. With a panic that could not be concealed, he pushed hard and said, "I said I didn't want to sleep with you!"
The hot breath hit Ling Zheng's neck. Wen Rensu closed his eyes and sneered, "How can this be considered sleeping with me? You're being too noisy. I promised not to move you, so I won't move you. Just sleep quietly."
Ling Zheng bit his lower lip and tried to push Wen Rensu again with a resentful look, but Wen Rensu remained unmoved, as if he had already fallen asleep.
It was really too awkward for two grown men to lie on the same couch, and the damn Wen Ren Su seemed to have no awareness of this at all.
"you……"
Wen Rensu stretched out his index finger and made a "hush" sound, but he still held himself tightly against him. The strong feeling of discomfort gave Ling Zheng goosebumps.
Living under someone else's roof, Ling Zheng had no choice but to swallow his anger and lie there awkwardly, his whole body stiff, not knowing where to put his hands and feet.
However, it seemed like a long time had passed, but it also seemed like only a moment, Ling Zheng began to have a strange sense of security, and he even felt crazy.
The warm atmosphere, the long breathing, and the regular heartbeat formed a reassuring haven. Although it was unbelievable, my tense nerves relaxed little by little.
Gradually, Ling Zheng figured out the right position in this airtight embrace. A wave of sleepiness came over him and he fell asleep.
People are always adaptable.
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