A few days passed, and Ye Qingyun realized that he could not sit idly by and wait for his death; he had to take the initiative.
He wanted to know where Gu Chenyuan's hair had gone.
That evening, Ye Qingyun deliberately acted as if she had something on her mind, stirring the soup in her bowl with a spoon with a troubled expression.
Here, all the meals were prepared by Gu Chenyuan, and Ye Qingyun witnessed Gu Chenyuan's cooking skills improve from mediocre to comparable to those of a master chef in just a few days.
Previously, Ye Qingyun had praised Gu Chenyuan for his rapid improvement in skill level and asked him how he did it. Gu Chenyuan replied, "Before, I ate by myself and didn't need to put in too much effort." Gu Chenyuan's expression was very calm. "If you were to eat, it would naturally be different."
Hearing this, Ye Qingyun felt complicated. From that day on, Ye Qingyun would try her best to appear to have a good appetite every time she ate. So now, Ye Qingyun's appearance of not being able to eat quickly caught Gu Chenyuan's attention.
"Unhappy?" Gu Chenyuan asked.
"Sigh." Ye Qingyun sighed, "...It's nothing."
Gu Chenyuan didn't believe it. He frowned and asked again.
After being pressed several times, Ye Qingyun finally answered reluctantly, "I've been researching the Stone of Love these past few days, and I've been thinking about it a lot. It seems like I'm losing more hair than before... I'm a little worried, will I go bald?"
Gu Chenyuan paused for a moment, then looked at Ye Qingyun's hair. After observing it, he said, "No, it's still the same as before."
"You're lying!" Ye Qingyun slumped onto the table, feigning sadness. Of course, he knew he was just making a fuss, nothing more. He had anticipated Gu Chenyuan's response, so he continued to probe Gu Chenyuan, "I've been observing these past few days to see exactly how much hair I'll lose. Almost all the hair falling out here is mine. You're just talking without understanding the situation!"
Ye Qingyun wiped away her tears feigning emotion, only to hear Gu Chenyuan's helpless reply: "...No."
Ye Qingyun raised her head, grabbed Gu Chenyuan's sleeve with one hand, and said fiercely, "Hurry up, how do you manage to not lose your hair? Tell me your secret!"
Gu Chenyuan's face showed a kind of indulgent helplessness. He reached out and plucked two strands of hair from his head, placing them in his palm. Then Ye Qingyun saw that the two strands of hair that had detached from Gu Chenyuan's body were enveloped by a thin layer of Gu Chenyuan's supernatural power, quickly melting and disappearing.
“As you can see,” Gu Chenyuan replied, “that’s how it is.”
Ye Qingyun: "...?"
Is this why Gu Chenyuan doesn't lose his hair?
Why use superpowers to destroy fallen hair? That's too much trouble.
Gu Chenyuan said calmly, "When I was a child, before I left the Gu family, I had a lot of contact with people with ulterior motives. Among them were people who believed in crooked ways, who secretly picked up my hair and tried to cast a spell on it to make me fall in love with them."
"Ah!" Ye Qingyun's heart skipped a beat. "And then, is there something you need?"
Gu Chenyuan looked at Ye Qingyun and smiled gently.
Ye Qingyun, relieved that she was the first person Gu Chenyuan had ever liked, speculated, "You discovered this, so to prevent something like this from happening again, you used your superpower to make the fallen hair disappear automatically?"
Gu Chenyuan nodded.
"That's still not safe!" Ye Qingyun said anxiously. "Besides hair, there are plenty of other things we can use!"
Just like when he wants to secretly do bad things, he can not only use hair, but also blood, saliva and so on.
“You’re right,” Gu Chenyuan replied. “So it’s not just hair, but also blood, saliva, sweat, and skin tissue that might fall off when injured. Just like hair, once it leaves my body, it will be destroyed by my superpower.”
Hearing that Gu Chenyuan's precautions were so comprehensive, Ye Qingyun subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.
Exactly! A treasure like Gu Chenyuan deserves to be protected properly—
Wait a minute, Gu Chenyuan is so well-prepared, how is he going to obtain these things?
Should he tell Gu Chenyuan that he needs to collect some things and ask Gu Chenyuan to cooperate?
Given Gu Chenyuan's wary nature, if he really said that, he might never see a hair on Gu Chenyuan's head again.
Ye Qingyun frowned in annoyance, just as Gu Chenyuan reached out and touched the hair by his ear, saying gently, "You still look good, and even if you really go bald, I'll still like you."
Ye Qingyun felt his ears getting hot. He adjusted his seat to stop Gu Chenyuan from touching him and buried his head in his soup.
So, what should he do to get what he wants?
A flash of inspiration struck Ye Qingyun.
There was one more thing that Gu Chenyuan didn't mention.
That thing that he thought was absolutely impossible to get his hands on from the very beginning, so he didn't even consider it.
Ye Qingyun felt embarrassed, but thinking that this might be his only hope, he gritted his teeth and decided to ask.
After finishing a bowl of soup, Ye Qingyun mentally prepared herself several times, put on an expression of barely suppressed curiosity, and asked Gu Chenyuan, "I don't mean anything by it, I'm just curious. All things that leave the body are destroyed, so what about your... Crystal Night? Will you add superpowers to it too?"
Gu Chenyuan's gaze darkened as he looked at him, but he did not answer.
Ye Qingyun braced herself and continued to ask, "Will it? I think so. When it leaves the body, you can just add your supernatural power to destroy it. It won't take much effort, hehe."
After Ye Qingyun finished speaking, he planned that if Gu Chenyuan continued not to answer, he would assume that Jingye would also be destroyed.
Gu Chenyuan remained silent.
Ye Qingyun was so embarrassed he wanted to disappear. He tidied up the dishes and was about to stand up and leave when Gu Chenyuan spoke.
"No, I won't add it," Gu Chenyuan said.
"Huh?" Ye Qingyun was stunned for a moment, then realized that Gu Chenyuan meant that he wouldn't add superpowers to that thing.
Ye Qingyun was genuinely curious this time: "Why?"
Gu Chenyuan stared at him with his dark eyes, remaining silent for a moment.
Just when Ye Qingyun thought Gu Chenyuan didn't want to answer such a private question, Gu Chenyuan finally spoke.
“No one else will have access to it.” Gu Chenyuan stared intently at Ye Qingyun and said slowly and seriously, “That belongs to you, there’s no need to destroy it.”
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Ye Qingyun stood under the showerhead in the bathroom, feeling the hot water washing over his body.
The thought of having to sleep in the same room as Gu Chenyuan after taking a shower made Ye Qingyun feel deeply awkward.
Gu Chenyuan's sweet talk is too smooth! How could he possibly beat him?!
"Perhaps it's not sweet talk, but just the honest truth from the heart," the system murmured.
Ye Qingyun's face flushed along with the hot water. He rinsed the foam off his body and head, and just as he was about to turn off the water and get dressed, he slipped and fell to the side.
Ye Qingyun's waist bumped into the corner of the bathtub next to him, and he groaned as he slipped and fell to the ground.
Ye Qingyun felt a sharp pain in his waist. He tried to stand up, but he couldn't move at all and could only lie on the ground like a dead fish.
He can't see clearly now; the pain makes his vision go black, and he can hear faint gasps of cold air in his ears.
...It's alright, you didn't hit your head, it'll be fine after a while. With today's advanced technology, you can just apply some medicine to this kind of wound.
There's no need to call Gu Chenyuan for such a minor injury. If they met under these circumstances, he would be so embarrassed that he would want to bang his head against a wall.
Ye Qingyun closed his eyes and waited for the pain to subside. Then he noticed that the water flowing from the showerhead and spraying on him had stopped, and a pair of hands gently touched the spot where he had bumped into something.
Ye Qingyun cried out in pain and opened his eyes to see Gu Chenyuan squatting beside him with a sullen face.
Ye Qingyun immediately shuddered in fright: "How...how could you come in without saying anything? I was taking a shower!"
Gu Chenyuan didn't speak. His brows were furrowed and his face was very pale. After checking Ye Qingyun's injuries, he got up and left the bathroom.
Gu Chenyuan quickly returned, holding a spray bottle. He dried Ye Qingyun's body with a towel, sprayed the bottle on her injured areas, and then massaged her hands to help the medicine penetrate.
The medicine worked very well. Ye Qingyun felt much less pain, while the heat in Gu Chenyuan's hand was amplified, taking over most of his senses.
Ye Qingyun struggled to stand up: "I'm fine, you can go out first..."
However, the next second, he was lifted into the air and picked up by Gu Chenyuan.
"Don't move." Gu Chenyuan stopped Ye Qingyun's struggles and carried him to the bed.
There was a hint of danger in Gu Chenyuan's eyes. Ye Qingyun covered herself with the blanket and said tremblingly, "I...I'm really fine. You can go back to your work."
That kind of injury can indeed be healed very quickly. Gu Chenyuan looked at Ye Qingyun for a long time before turning and leaving.
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Gu Chenyuan leaned against the bathroom wall, recalling everything he had just witnessed.
As the fear of Ye Qingyun's injury subsided, the feeling evoked by that scene became different.
...His tattoo, the complete version, looks like this.
Ye Qingyun has fair skin, a slender waist, and long arms and legs. A red tattoo on his back gives him a unique charm.
If Ye Qingyun usually gives people a sense of distance, then the Ye Qingyun just now was a bewitching enchantress who made people want to live a life of debauchery with him.
His tattoos suit Ye Qingyun very well.
Gu Chenyuan closed his eyes, his breathing becoming heavier.
He was a man too, and seeing his beloved like that, it would be a lie to say he had no thoughts whatsoever.
After a long while, Gu Chenyuan finally vented his unspeakable thoughts. Just as he was about to deal with it, he heard the sound of something falling to the ground in the room.
Gu Chenyuan didn't have time to think about anything else. He hurriedly opened the bathroom door and strode towards that direction.
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Ye Qingyun fell asleep and accidentally rolled off the bed, landing on the floor.
He looked at Gu Chenyuan who had rushed over, then looked at himself, and his face flushed red again.
Ye Qingyun wrapped herself in the blanket and urged Gu Chenyuan to leave: "You go out first, I'll put on some clothes."
Ye Qingyun stood up after Gu Chenyuan left.
His clothes were still in the bathroom; the situation was urgent, and he hadn't had time to put them on.
Ye Qingyun entered the bathroom and immediately smelled a certain odor.
A scent that every man has smelled.
Ye Qingyun's gaze swept around the bathroom, finally settling on a small puddle.
There were only him and Gu Chenyuan here. He was certain that this was not his, so it was already quite obvious whose it was.
Gu Chenyuan can actually masturbate!
Ye Qingyun was stunned. He moved closer and poked it with his fingertip.
It's true! It's not his hallucination!
Ye Qingyun hurriedly went back to her bedroom, found an empty bottle, put the thing inside, and then hid the bottle.
He actually managed to collect... the things that were supposedly the least likely to be obtained.
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