Chapter 49 Chapter 49 Qin Sheng, who is proficient in the green tea skills...
The soft touch under his palm couldn't be more real, and even in the midst of his busy brain, Xu Zhaoyi took a moment to reflect on the obvious fact that Qin Sheng was actually a real, warm body of flesh and blood.
Only then did he realize that while he was uncontrollably attracted to Qin Sheng, he was also vaguely uneasy about the other person's perfection.
Although they have been living together and their relationship has become more familiar after the initial adjustment period, Xu Zhaoyi still feels that there is something between them. Before, he thought that the barrier would disappear after a confession of feelings, but now he found that this seemed not to be the case.
They lived together, Qin Sheng took care of him, cared about him, and enlightened him, and occasionally made jokes in some seemingly annoying ways to make him relax. Xu Zhaoyi couldn't help but like such a perfect and reachable person.
Of course, this kind of liking doesn't necessarily have to be in that aspect, it's entirely because he is moved.
And now he kind of understood why he wanted Qin Sheng to give him a hug. It was Qin Sheng who took the initiative to give it to him, not him just finding an excuse to rush over and hug her. He had done this long before he fell in love with Qin Sheng.
Because Qin Sheng is like the fairy tale book he placed under his pillow when he was a child. All he has is the book, not the fairy tale itself.
Liking someone will erode your self-confidence and make you anxious and worried.
Xu Zhaoyi could no longer use the simple and crude formula he used to: because Qin Sheng's kindness to him exceeded the boundaries of the transaction, and he could not find any reason to explain it, he concluded that Qin Sheng might like him.
This realization made him a little depressed.
The sudden distraction caused his hand to remain on Qin Sheng's waist, and his fingertips moved unconsciously with his changing mood. Qin Sheng's mouth twitched, and he wanted to ask him if he had touched enough, but then he remembered that it was him who held his hand and touched it, so he didn't want to put the blame on him.
Just when he was trying to call back Xu Zhaoyi's soul, there was movement on the system panel. Qin Sheng took a look and raised his eyebrows in surprise. Is this mission serious?
- For seven consecutive days, when both parties were awake, he took the initiative to give Xu Zhaoyi a hug that lasted for one minute.
He ignored the hand still playing the piano on his waist and called Noodles in his mind: [What's going on? Why did they suddenly issue this kind of mission, and the requirements are so strange!]
Noodles, who was playing checkers with the nurse, took the time to ask back: "What's so strange about this mission?"
[Don’t you think this is a bit unorthodox?]
Noodles shook his head and jumped the glass chess piece into the base camp of the student protection team. He asked a sharp question: "When the mission asked you to get engaged to him, why didn't you think it was improper? Was it because the engagement was what you wanted?"
[………]Okay, Qin Sheng skipped this: [Then why did they emphasize that it had to be done while both parties were sober? It's fine if it was seven consecutive days, but there's also a time limit. I held him for so long for no apparent reason, how could he not resist?]
[This is what we need to solve. The tasks are generated by the algorithm, and it doesn’t care about these things.]
"But there must be a purpose, right?" Qin Sheng said, feeling it was hard to put into words: "The engagement is for cooperation and the cheat contract, so why did you let me hug him?"
[I don’t know, host.]
[What do you know?]
[I know you can check out the rewards in advance. It's such a simple task, but we made a lot of money!]
Upon hearing this, Qin Sheng scrolled to the bottom, opened the reward interface, and found that it was indeed what they needed now. At least he gave up the idea of giving up this task.
Xu Zhaoyi has been practicing for so long, but he still doesn't have a suitable weapon that can unleash the full power of the Starfire Technique. Using needles is fine against ordinary enemies, but it's not enough against the Qin family.
The reward for this mission is a weapon suitable for the dual spiritual roots of gold and fire mutations - the Fiery Gold Fan.
The fan is made of the tail feathers of the Golden Crow, and the flaming gold from the earth's core fire veins is the fan bone. When closed, it becomes a dark golden short weapon. When opened, it can release a prairie fire for long-range attacks, which is very suitable for Xu Zhaoyi.
Noodles was right, they made money.
Qin Sheng almost immediately turned around and thought about what excuse he could find to hug Xu Zhaoyi for one minute every day for seven consecutive days without being considered as frequent sexual harassment.
If the condition of both parties being sober was not met, he could still play the role of a flower thief a few times at night. He had plenty of ways to prevent Xu Zhaoyi from being awakened by his actions, but with this condition, even the alternative plan of getting him drunk was no longer usable.
He was lost in thought for a moment, and Xu Zhaoyi beside him finally came back to his senses. He then realized that his hand had been touching Qin Sheng's waist for who knows how long. That small piece of skin had turned red from his unconscious rubbing. On Qin Sheng's already fair skin, the red mark was even more obvious.
He quickly withdrew his hand and subconsciously glanced at Qin Sheng's reaction with a guilty conscience.
But Qin Sheng didn't respond, he was in a daze.
When Xu Zhaoyi breathed a sigh of relief, he also felt an indescribable sense of loss. He had to close his eyes and drive away these messy feelings.
"Hey, it's almost time. Even if you're not feeling uncomfortable, you can't soak in the water for too long. Come on up!"
He stretched out his hand and waved it in front of Qin Sheng, who subconsciously grabbed his hand and said "hmm".
The two of them came ashore with their own thoughts. They were originally planning to take a nap, but after soaking in the hot spring for a while, they felt even more sleepy, so much so that the awkwardness of sleeping in the same bed disappeared for the most part. They each tidied themselves up and went to bed one after another.
After Xu Zhaoyi lay down next to Qin Sheng, he realized that as long as two people did not share a quilt, they were not too intimate even if they lay in the same bed.
When he went to Qin's house to get engaged, he was groggy and hot all over because he had eaten the little fish monster. It was Qin Sheng who coaxed him to sleep with the soul-soothing jade. He said they slept together, but in fact he didn't feel much of it at all. He didn't even remember whether they were covered with the same quilt.
As he was thinking, Qin Sheng beside him coughed twice, covering his mouth. He quickly came back to his senses and asked, "What's wrong? Did you catch a cold?"
You might catch a cold if you soak in a hot spring and experience sudden changes in temperature, not to mention that Qin Sheng is already weak.
"I don't know, I just feel a little cold." Qin Sheng's voice suddenly became weak.
Xu Zhaoyi wanted to scan his physical condition, but this required physical contact for a minute. It was difficult to find an excuse, but Qin Sheng said he was cold, which gave him a difficult way out.
After hesitating for a moment, he finally asked with difficulty: "How about we use the same blanket? You know my temperature is quite high."
After saying this, before Qin Sheng could react, Xu Zhaoyi's ears turned red with shame.
The air was silent for who knows how long because of his question, maybe a few minutes, or maybe just a few seconds, but Xu Zhaoyi felt it was very long.
In short, when he heard Qin Sheng's answer, it felt like he had endured a year. Fortunately, the answer was: "Okay."
Xu Zhaoyi took a deep breath quietly, moved the quilt off himself, pulled open the corner of Qin Sheng's quilt, and carefully crawled in. Suddenly, the distance between the two of them could not be any closer, and their body temperatures were intertwined vaguely.
Xu Zhaoyi's expression suddenly changed, and there was no trace of the distraction he had a moment ago - he clearly felt the temperature coming from Qin Sheng's body, which was as cold as ice.
"Is it just 'a little' cold?!" he asked gritting his teeth. To exaggerate a little, the temperature was probably no less than that of the corpses in the morgue freezer!
All his guilt and worries disappeared, and he almost forcefully pulled the cold person into his arms to warm him up, suppressing his anxiety as he scanned the other person's physical condition.
Qin Sheng was pressed into his arms. He was a little dissatisfied with this posture, but the mission required him to be so particular.
Hearing Xu Zhaoyi's concerned question, he simply buried his face in the other's neck, deliberately exhaling cold air while saying weakly: "It's nothing serious, don't worry, I've been like this a lot recently, just bear with it for a few minutes."
"Why didn't you tell me? You always tell me to tell you if I feel uncomfortable. Don't you have any awareness of setting an example yourself?!"
Xu Zhaoyi felt instantly guilty when he heard him say that he had been feeling this way recently. He hadn't even noticed that there was anything wrong with Qin Sheng. He had fallen into a coma on the way back from Nanyang, and had let Qin Sheng take care of him all the way.
He suddenly thought of something, his heart tightened, and he asked, "Did you use any method that affected your body to take care of me when I was unconscious on the plane?"
When he just woke up, Noodles showed him the video of Qin Sheng carrying him off the plane. He was also wondering why Qin Sheng was so strong. After all, he was not light in weight. Even a healthy adult male would find it difficult to carry such a heavy object horizontally and walk such a long distance so easily.
But he was only confused for a moment and didn't think much about it. He always unconsciously rationalized all the unreasonable things that happened to Qin Sheng, as if the other party was really omnipotent.
Qin Sheng didn't expect that he had such a rich imagination. Of course, he couldn't admit it, otherwise Xu Zhaoyi would feel guilty to death.
"It's not what you think." He quickly found an excuse to shift the blame. "This is an old problem. I've guessed that every time it happens, it's probably because someone in the Qin family who's closely related to me has done something bad. You know, the consequences of karma are on me. The closer the blood relationship, the greater the impact. I won't die for now, but it won't be pleasant at all."
Xu Zhaoyi stopped talking. Qin Sheng couldn't see his expression from this posture. He must be feeling relieved, right?
After a long time, Qin Sheng counted the time and thought it should be one minute, so he slowly adjusted his body temperature back to normal. Coincidentally, the results of Xu Zhaoyi's body scan came out. Just as Qin Sheng said, everything was normal. It was not a critical illness and he just had to endure it.
Xu Zhaoyi waited for two minutes until Qin Sheng's body temperature returned to normal before letting him go. However, they did not sleep in separate beds anymore. The two of them still lay together with their bodies touching each other.
Qin Sheng was not surprised and thanked him with a smile.
Xu Zhaoyi just stared at him. Just when Qin Sheng thought he had overstimulated him and was about to say something to comfort him, he finally waited for Xu Zhaoyi to speak.
The other party asked calmly with a handsome face full of hatred and deep resentment: "Can I kill everyone in the Qin family who knows about your affairs?"
The people here include Qin Sheng’s biological parents, as well as all his elder relatives who are closely related by blood.
So if you want to kill someone, you should ask in advance.
Qin Sheng looked at him with a little surprise, rubbed the tip of his nose for a while, and whispered: "It's up to you, I don't care about this."
After a while, he added, "In fact, once the forbidden area's formation is broken, they won't survive for long unless you take action."
Xu Zhaoyi snorted softly: "Then I will try to move as quickly as possible and take action while they are still alive."
Qin Sheng said with a mixture of laughter and tears: "Then shouldn't they thank you for giving them a quick death? Waiting to die is not a good feeling."
The last half sentence made Xu Zhaoyi's heart hurt suddenly, but the person involved was completely unaware of it.
He sneered, "How could you possibly know how cowardly and fearful people like them are who cling to their loved ones and suck their blood for pleasure? They wouldn't waste even a minute of their life!"
"Okay, I'll thank you for the hard work then." Qin Sheng didn't care. If Xu Zhaoyi was willing to suffer, then he could just let him.
He closed his eyes silently and checked the task status on the system interface. Today's task should have been completed, but when he took a quick look, he saw that the progress bar had not moved at all, and the task progress showed that it was 0% completed.
Qin Sheng: ???
[Noodles, see what's going on.]
Could it be that he didn't hold her for a full minute? Impossible. Looking at Xu Zhaoyi's face turning gloomy from rainy to cloudy behind him, the body scan must have come back with results showing that he was indeed fine. That's why he stopped worrying. It didn't make sense that he wouldn't have enough time for his mission.
[Wait a minute, let me check!] Noodles glanced at the task completion screen of its host.
[Uh, host, before you use your green tea skills to trick your little dad into holding you, could you please review the question?]
[Hmm?] Qin Sheng frowned.
Noodles reminded him: [The mission requires you to take the initiative to give him a hug, not to seduce him into giving you a hug! The key is 'you take the initiative'!]
Qin Sheng was speechless. He argued speciously: [Isn't this hug something I deliberately created and offered on my own initiative?] Otherwise, how could Xu Zhaoyi hug him for no reason?
Noodles, Customer Service, Sigh: [Not really, dear.]
Qin Sheng: […]
Very good, it was a play in vain. Apart from making Xu Zhaoyi want to kill all the people in the Qin family who knew about it, including his parents, and want to kill his entire family with his own hands, there was no gain.
Qin Sheng, who hadn't suffered such a setback for a long time, was so angry that he fell asleep. He didn't know how long Xu Zhaoyi stared at him with heartache after he fell asleep.
When he woke up again, it was already dark. Xu Zhaoyi went to bed much later than Qin Sheng, so Qin Sheng woke up first. He looked at him with regret. If the word "awake" was not in the task conditions, he would have taken the opportunity to carry him up.
"Wake up." He reached out and pinched Xu Zhaoyi's nose to wake him up, "If you don't wake up, you won't be able to sleep tonight."
Xu Zhaoyi has reached the eighth level of Qi training. He can be fine even if he doesn't breathe for half an hour. He won't feel anything at all. Under Qin Sheng's subtle care, he has an almost instinctive trust in him. When he feels Qin Sheng's breath, he doesn't even open his eyes to look.
Qin Sheng found that this trick was useless, so he simply pulled him out of the bed and forced Xu Zhaoyi to sit up.
"Wake up, what do you want to eat tonight?"
Xu Zhaoyi's eyelids twitched when he heard this, and he slowly opened his eyes. After a moment's reaction, he said, "It's some warming medicinal food. I happen to know the relevant recipe. Ask them to make it and send it over."
Qin Sheng forced a smile. "I don't mind, but we're inviting others out to play, and we can't let them eat this kind of thing with us. Let's switch to hot pot. Let's have a four-square grid. I'll have the herbal soup base, and you guys can order your favorite flavors."
"Okay." Xu Zhaoyi nodded and got out of bed to prepare a suitable medicinal recipe.
Because Qin Sheng never asked him why he suddenly had so many things about medicinal supplements in his mind, Xu Zhaoyi became less and less pretentious and gave perfunctory excuses.
Qin Sheng watched his back disappear from his sight, then lowered his eyes and sighed.
He was also shooting himself in the foot, and guessed that Xu Zhaoyi's behavior of giving him medicinal food would get worse again, but he scared the person for the sake of the mission, and he really couldn't bring himself to refuse the other party from finding comfort in this action that was better than nothing.
He thought, forget it, the medicinal food he made wasn’t bad, he could just bear with it.
After all, there was the task of giving a hug, so he had to pretend to be cold at least seven more times.
Noodles wandered in at this moment, looking horrified and saying, "Little Daddy, why is he writing a list of herbs again?"
"Don't worry, I'll eat it myself this time." Qin Sheng rubbed his solar plexus and told him that this was the price of pretending to be sick.
[Oh, you are the only one, that’s okay.]
Qin Sheng: [………]You are such a heartless brat.
Noodles rarely saw its host get humiliated, so he gloated and suggested, "Don't use any fancy tricks. Just hug him like that. He won't push you away!"
[Why do you think so?] Qin Sheng humbly sought advice.
[He's so heartbroken just because you're cold that he wants to kill you. You must be a very important friend, or even a family member, to him. What's wrong with a hug?]
Qin Sheng's heart moved slightly, and he rejected it reflexively: [Blind confidence or...]
How about... give it a try?
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