Chapter 164 - Stealing a Kiss
The halo of the talisman lamp gently enveloped a corner of the tower base, coating Chu Linyuan's cold and hard profile with a layer of warm gold.
The embers of the bonfire danced on his black robe like silent stars.
The night wind blew by, carrying with it the chill of the abyss, but it could not blow away the warmth that the talisman lamp constantly emitted.
Xie Zhao sat not far away, hugging his knees. He had already put away his Jinghong Talisman Brush. He looked at Chu Linyuan, his gaze sliding from his tightly pursed lips, across his high nose, and finally onto his tightly closed eyelids.
The long eyelashes cast a small shadow in the warm light, losing their usual sharpness and revealing a rare, almost fragile calmness.
The soul-guiding lamp symbol on his chest began to beat faster as his gaze lingered. Chu Linyuan's words, "Hide your feelings in the abyss, seal your heart in ice," burned like a brand on his soul.
It wasn't a choice, but a torture. It was the torture of sealing a scorching soul within a thousand-year-old black ice. And now, beside this heart lamp that he had lit, the ice seemed to...melt a little?
An impulse surged up without warning, faster and more unreasonable than any other time a talisman had suddenly appeared.
It drove Xie Zhao, as if being pulled by an invisible silk thread, to stand up silently, and like a cat preparing to steal food, he moved step by step to Chu Linyuan's side.
His heartbeat pounded like a drum in the silent night, causing pain in his eardrums. He held his breath and slowly crouched down in front of Chu Linyuan. They were so close that they could feel each other's unique, cold aura, a mixture of mysterious icy murderous energy and a hint of blood.
Chu Linyuan still had his eyes closed, his breathing was deep and even, as if he had sunk into the deepest level of breathing regulation.
Xie Zhao's gaze was glued to those thin lips. Under the warm glow of the talisman lamp, those cold lines exuded an indescribable... seduction?
His Adam's apple rolled, as if he was bewitched, or as if the emotions that had been pent up for too long had finally found a way to vent.
Slowly, ever so slowly, he leaned down.
Time seemed to freeze at that moment. The sound of the wind in the abyss, the swirling of distant clouds, even his own heartbeat, all vanished. All that remained in the world was the face before him, so close, and the coldness he was about to touch.
The warm lips fell on the corner of Chu Linyuan's lips extremely gently, like a feather.
So fast it's like an illusion.
Xie Zhao bounced back as if he'd been burned by a branding iron! Because his squatting position was unstable, he stumbled backwards, and the Jinghong Talisman Pen slipped from his sleeve pocket and fell to the cold black rock with a "clatter".
His heart was pounding, nearly bursting through his chest, his cheeks instantly burning hot, his peach blossom eyes filled with the panic of a guilty conscience and a hint of great panic after success. He didn't even dare to check if Chu Linyuan had woken up, and turned around and wanted to run!
However, at the moment he bounced away, the corner of his eye caught a clear sight——
Chu Linyuan still kept his eyes closed and breathing, even his eyelashes didn't tremble at all.
Under the warm light of the talisman lamp, his earlobes, which were originally as cold and white as ice jade, quickly became covered with a thin layer of red at a speed visible to the naked eye!
The blush was like the red plum blossoms blooming in the snow in early spring, spreading from the tip of the ear to the entire earlobe, and even had a tendency to spread towards the neck!
It formed an extreme and strange contrast with the ferocious and cold dark golden dragon pattern on his left cheek!
He wasn't awake! But he knew! He knew everything!
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