TBOUMTBDK Chapter 19

Chapter 19: So-called Heartbeat, Liking

Chapter 19: So-called Heartbeat, Liking

In that instant, Yun Xia forgot the taste of the meat, only remembering the clear breeze in his mouth and the Demon Lord’s slightly moving lips.

“Thank you, Esteemed Lord, I can do it myself.”

Yun Xia moved a little to the side, took out the small knife, sliced the leg of lamb, and neatly arranged it on the most beautiful plate.

“Esteemed Lord, please eat! Here’s the dipping sauce.”

After saying that, he placed the prepared small dish beside him, gestured slightly, and then hurriedly turned around to continue grilling, making himself look busy, in order to dispel the strange atmosphere just now.

However, the color of his earlobes betrayed him.

The Demon Lord didn’t move for a long time. Yun Xia inexplicably felt a little awkward and uncomfortable. He swallowed and looked over, “Esteemed Lord?”

The Demon Lord’s gaze shifted from his earlobes to Yun Xia.

Yun Xia met his gaze, his eyes dodging for some reason, but after dodging for a short while, he forcibly made himself look into the man’s eyes again.

He didn’t want to appear suddenly abnormal; he had never dodged before.

After staring at each other stubbornly for a while, Yun Xia suddenly realized that he hadn’t given him chopsticks and hurriedly turned back to get them and handed them to the Demon Lord.

The Demon Lord stared at him for a good while, until the pink on Yun Xia’s ears spread to his neck, before slowly retracting his gaze.

He smiled, with a deeper hint of pleasure: “Mm.”

When he raised his hand to take the chopsticks Yun Xia handed over, their fingers touched intentionally or unintentionally.

Yun Xia’s fingertips trembled, and he withdrew his hand as if nothing had happened.

When he turned around to continue grilling the eggplant, he rubbed his fingertips.

What’s going on? What’s wrong with him?

Yun Xia frowned slightly.

The Demon Lord was quite at ease, leisurely eating what Yun Xia had prepared for him, while using Yun Xia as a side dish. He watched Yun Xia go from being obviously uneasy at the beginning to pretending to be calm and shifting his attention, while busying himself and chatting nonsense with him about irrelevant things, to silently pondering.

The expressions displayed on that small face were very rich.

The Demon Lord liked to observe Yun Xia, to observe his expressions and movements, and to guess his thoughts.

This little demon servant, whose origins were unknown, was a very dutiful little thing, not letting him feel even a little bored.

And his actions, whether they brought the little thing shyness, panic, or fear, all made the Demon Lord very interested and eager to explore.

The wind on the cliff was very cool, and Yun Xia wasn’t too hot by the fire.

On the contrary, the beauty sitting beside him made him restless.

The man beside him was just sitting there leisurely eating very common barbecue, his posture still elegant and comfortable.

His light red lips were neither thin nor thick, just right, with a clear shape and beautiful contours.

Yun Xia was suddenly startled to find that he had suddenly been staring at the other party’s lips while talking, so he somewhat abruptly shifted his gaze to the air.

But it was too late; he heard the Demon Lord say, “What were you looking at just now?”

Yun Xia twitched the corner of his mouth: “…Nothing, I was wondering if you liked it.”

The man heard this, curved his lips, leaned closer, and carefully looked at Yun Xia’s face, his lips slightly parted, his voice lowered: “Naturally, I like it.”

A beauty attack…

At such a close distance, Yun Xia could clearly see each of his long eyelashes, his high and straight nose, and his red, eerie pupils.

Those eyes seemed to want to suck him in.

Yun Xia instantly felt his accelerated heartbeat and saw his slightly sluggish face in the other party’s pupils.

At this moment, as if suddenly realizing something, Yun Xia understood that he was moved by the Esteemed Lord, which was completely different from the kind of infatuation with beauty in the past.

His physiological state clearly told him that he liked this man at this moment!

After figuring it out, Yun Xia’s cheeks flushed red, and the physiological reaction combined with the psychological understanding made him feel lightheaded.

The drumming sound of his heart constantly echoed.

Thump, thump, thump…

The Demon Lord saw him staring straight at himself like a fool, his cheeks revealing an ambiguous pink, his full lips redder than usual, slightly parted, and his breathing a little deeper.

A bit cute.

The Demon Lord’s eyes deepened. Wanting to see an even more flustered expression on his face, he was about to reach out and touch this little idiot when Yun Xia suddenly came back to his senses, avoided his hand, and slid a big step to the side.

The Demon Lord raised an eyebrow and retracted his hand.

Yun Xia lowered his eyes, sighed deeply, and patted his chest.

“Esteemed Lord, I want to ask you something.”

The Demon Lord was very gentle: “Tell me.”

Yun Xia adjusted his breathing and said, “If, I mean, if someone told you they liked you, what would you do?”

The Demon Lord paused. His flesh and bones felt as if they had been stimulated, tingling and numb, an unspeakable comfort all over his body.

“No one dares to say such things to this Venerable.”

Yun Xia blinked: “I see, you don’t allow anyone to like you?”

The Demon Lord chuckled, his eyes glancing over Yun Xia: “This Venerable is not interested in how others are.”

Yun Xia nodded. That’s right, no one would dare to confess to the Demon Lord, but he was quite surprised. He thought that if someone really dared to say that, they would be beaten to death on the spot by the Demon Lord.

“Then… Esteemed Lord, you are more merciful than I imagined.”

Demon Lord: “Is that so?”

“Yes, haha.” He laughed foolishly. He liked the way his eyebrows were slightly raised when he asked back, and the way his voice rose at the end of his sentence, which was very pleasing to his ears.

The Demon Lord’s eyes flashed, and the next moment he appeared in front of Yun Xia, pinching his chin and saying softly, “If this Venerable weren’t merciful enough, you would have died in the Forbidden Little World already.”

Yun Xia’s eyes suddenly widened. He was first dazed by the suddenly enlarged face and wanted to dodge but had nowhere to go, so he had to say, “Really…?”

“Didn’t you say long ago that you liked this Venerable?”

“Ah?”

Yun Xia was really surprised this time. He had said that? When?

In the Forbidden Little World… Oh!

He remembered. Beside the hot spring in the Forbidden Little World, he had really said it, but that was just something he said offhandedly. The Esteemed Lord actually remembered it so clearly!

“What, what you said last time was a lie?”

The pain from his chin made Yun Xia’s body stiffen: “Uh, no, that was…”

The Demon Lord gently interrupted him: “It doesn’t matter. Do you think this Venerable can’t tell?”

Yun Xia: “…”

What else could he say? He could only twitch the corner of his mouth and smile flatteringly.

Unexpectedly, the Demon Lord still didn’t let him go. The hand pinching Yun Xia’s chin loosened, and his thumb rubbed the red mark, rubbing it so much that Yun Xia couldn’t help but swallow.

Then he heard the Demon Lord say, “That last time was fake, but this time, it’s real, right?”

Yun Xia: “…………?!”

He froze in place.

The posture of the two at this time was very ambiguous. The man leaned slightly, his slender body enveloping Yun Xia, and a strand of black hair fell smoothly, curving on the Demon Lord’s arm, and then drooping down.

Yun Xia had only one thought in his mind: The Esteemed Lord actually noticed?

Perhaps his eyes had betrayed him. The Demon Lord chuckled, “Otherwise, why would you suddenly ask that question?”

Yun Xia suddenly understood. The Esteemed Lord was too perceptive!

Or maybe he had been a little too obvious. After all, it was the first time he had been moved by someone, and he couldn’t control himself.

“That, Esteemed Lord, aren’t you angry?”

The Demon Lord’s hand slowly fell from his chin, his fingertips brushing across his neck, pressing on the throbbing side of his neck, and he chuckled: “What if this Venerable is angry?”

Half of Yun Xia’s body was softened and numb. He instinctively felt that the Esteemed Lord was not angry, but his instinct suddenly sounded a warning.

If he admitted it, or let this little bit of liking go, what would happen in the future?

After all, the Demon Lord was the Demon Lord, and they couldn’t possibly be together. He couldn’t stay in the Demon Palace forever. He had thought about this long ago.

Therefore, he couldn’t keep liking him. He had to snuff out this little bit of liking while it was still early.

After making his decision, Yun Xia raised his hand and grasped the Demon Lord’s wrist, not noticing that his little finger was hooked on that strand of hair.

“Esteemed Lord, you’re joking. You are the Esteemed Lord, and there are countless demons in the Demon Realm who are extremely fanatic about you. Their feelings are more passionate than mine, and you have never taken them to heart. How could you care about a small demon servant like me?”

He had to tilt his head slightly to look into the Demon Lord’s eyes. This posture made him look slightly weak, but the faint entanglement between the two, like the strand of black hair hooked by Yun Xia, revealed an not-so-subtle ambiguity.

He said: “Rest assured, my liking for you, to put it bluntly, is actually fake.”

The Demon Lord’s eyelids trembled slightly: “…Fake?”

Yun Xia hadn’t noticed the other party’s subtle emotional changes and said, “Well… to be precise, it’s not completely fake. My… being moved by you is real, but that’s because the flight practice just now put me in a state of constant tension and fear. At that time, the Esteemed Lord was my only hope, so I mistakenly took that moment of being moved as liking you.”

The smile on the Demon Lord’s face disappeared little by little.

“Your meaning is, this Venerable only let you like for less than half a day?”

The hairs on Yun Xia’s body suddenly stood on end, as if he had suddenly been blown by cold air.

He instinctively shook his head: “No, no, it won’t disappear so quickly. It might take some time to recover to normal. Don’t worry, it’s just a little bit of being moved, it’ll be fine soon.”

Seeing the Demon Lord’s cold expression, Yun Xia’s scalp tingled. This time, it seemed like he was really angry. Did he think I was playing him?

Yun Xia carefully grasped the Demon Lord’s wrist and rubbed it soothingly and flatteringly: “Didn’t you say that you don’t care about this kind of thing?”

The Demon Lord stared at him fixedly, secretly repeating: Just a little bit of being moved?

He sneered in his heart: Is the little thing’s liking so perfunctory?