TBOUMTBDK Chapter 97

Chapter 97: Staying the Night

Chapter 97: Staying the Night

Yun Xia, however, frowned as he stared at Mo Jun Zhou, “Are you okay?”

Mo Jun Zhou: “What’s wrong?”

“I can tell you didn’t really like it. You frowned for a split second just now. It was too sweet for you, wasn’t it? Why are you being so contrary?” Yun Xia said, displeased.

Mo Jun Zhou was silent, then suddenly laughed. What exactly was he doing?

Why did he have to mix other random things into what they had?

Quickly chewing and swallowing the candy, Mo Jun Zhou said, “It is indeed too sweet. You can have it.”

“Okay.” Yun Xia licked the sugar off his fingers. Mo Jun Zhou’s gaze narrowed slightly, but he didn’t say anything as he continued walking with Yun Xia and the others towards Xiao Nanli.

Behind them, Zhu Wan’er saw Su Rou standing blankly in place and could only step forward and ask, “Su Rou, junior sister? Su Rou, junior sister?”

Su Rou suddenly snapped back to her senses. She stared intently at Yun Xia’s back. The thought she had suppressed earlier resurfaced once again.

No, how could it be? They…he was clearly…

Su Rou’s chest rose and fell rapidly. It shouldn’t be, it couldn’t be. Right, they were just close.

After the group reunited, they discussed their plans. Xiao Nanli decided not to stay in the city overnight and would return to the flying immortal artifact to rest. After all, the festival would be over after tonight, and there wasn’t much to see anymore.

But Su Rou objected.

She smiled and took Xiao Nanli’s arm, “Let’s stay one more night. Who knows when we’ll be able to come back after this trip. I want to stay one more night.”

Xiao Nanli pried her hand off his arm. “Aren’t you always free to go out whenever you want? Why are you suddenly worried about not knowing when you’ll be back?”

Su Rou gave an awkward smile. “Senior brother! Don’t expose me in front of outsiders! It makes it sound like I’m such a hedonist.”

The others thought: Isn’t that the truth?

“Besides, we’re not in a hurry to go back anyway. You can’t possibly be worried about Senior Brother Ji Yuan being alone, right? He’ll be fine on the ship. Waiting one more night is just the time it takes to sleep. Isn’t that right?”

Outside the city on the flying immortal artifact, Ji Yuan, who was sitting on the deck waiting for their return, sneezed.

Xiao Nanli thought for a moment and agreed, sending a message to Ji Yuan telling him they would return tomorrow.

Huai Ying: “It’s so late, I don’t know if the inn will have enough rooms. There are a lot of people who came from other places for the festival.”

Su Rou smiled. “It doesn’t matter. We can squeeze two people into one room. Zhu Wan’er and I can share a room, and then…”

She very naturally began assigning rooms to everyone: Yun Xia and Gong Qiu in one room, Mo Jun Zhou and Huai Ying in another.

After she finished assigning the rooms, everyone looked at those two pairs.

Xiao Nanli glanced at Yun Xia but didn’t say anything.

Gong Qiu scratched his head. “Yun Xia, junior brother, and I are in the same room?”

Su Rou: “Yes, weren’t you two playing together all day today? Laughing and chatting and enjoying your food so much. Aren’t you the closest?”

“Uh.” Even someone as oblivious as he was could sense that something was off.

Before he could say anything, Su Rou made a final decision. “That’s how it’s settled, then. Let’s go find an inn.”

She went up and took Zhu Wan’er’s hand, walking forward. The others had strange expressions. Junior sister, everyone can see your feelings for Mo Jun Zhou, but you’re barking up the wrong tree.

But no one dared to bring it up at this time.

Yun Xia raised an eyebrow, not saying anything, and followed along.

They searched several inns. The first few were either full or only had one or two rooms left, which was far from enough. Eventually, they found a more expensive inn that still had some rooms left, just enough to accommodate their group.

During this process, Yun Xia talked to Mo Jun Zhou the entire way, and Mo Jun Zhou, uncharacteristically, didn’t complain about him being talkative. He even responded to him from time to time.

They walked until they reached their room, and the two of them were about to enter the same door very naturally.

Su Rou had been secretly watching them the whole time. Seeing this, she immediately stepped forward. “Wait, you’re not in the same room. You can’t sleep together.”

Her tone was very matter-of-fact, as if she were stating a rule.

The others stopped at their own doors, their gazes drifting over to them.

Yun Xia smiled and turned around. “Who says we can’t be in the same room?”

Su Rou was taken aback, then immediately said, “It’s already been decided. Changing things suddenly will easily disrupt other people’s arrangements.”

“Oh,” Yun Xia looked at Gong Qiu. “My prospective roommate, do you agree to me changing roommates?”

Of course, Gong Qiu didn’t dare to disagree, nodding repeatedly.

Yun Xia then asked Huai Ying, “Senior Brother Huai Ying, do you agree to switch roommates with me?”

Su Rou glared at him fiercely.

Huai Ying: “…”

He didn’t want to get involved in this matter and decided to trick the naive Gong Qiu. He turned and went back to his room, saying, “I’m fine with sleeping with anyone. Anyone who doesn’t have a room can come sleep here.”

Hearing this, Gong Qiu followed him into the room in a flash, and the door slammed shut.

Su Rou: “…”

Yun Xia spread his hands. “See? No one involved has any objections, so it hasn’t disturbed anyone, right?”

After saying that, he and Mo Jun Zhou went back to their room.

Su Rou stood there without moving, the closed door in front of her cold and silent.

Xiao Nanli spoke up. “What are you all standing around for? Go back to sleep. Su Rou, you too.”

Su Rou stomped heavily into her room and slammed the door shut.

The commotion was so loud that the innkeeper came up to ask what was going on.

Xiao Nanli sent the innkeeper away, looked at Zhu Wan’er, who was gently knocking on the door, and sighed. “Junior Sister Zhu, go downstairs and open another room.”

Zhu Wan’er nodded and went downstairs.

Yun Xia naturally heard the angry slamming of the door and said speechlessly, “It seems she’s really been spoiled rotten. She even insisted on staying one more night to confirm our relationship.”

He walked up to Mo Jun Zhou, pinched his face, and scrutinized it carefully. “As expected of someone even more mysterious than the Male Lead. Not only is he handsomer than him, but I think if you revealed your true face, you’d definitely be more popular than him.”

Mo Jun Zhou turned his head. “What nonsense are you spouting? Who?”

“What who?” Yun Xia feigned ignorance.

“You know who I’m talking about.”

“No one, no one. You’re the most handsome. Sigh, but they don’t even know that we haven’t even kissed.”

Mo Jun Zhou’s body stiffened. He stood by the bed like a log. After Yun Xia came over, he called him, “Move over a bit, I need to put this down.”

There was no small tea table in the room. Yun Xia very consciously found a long, decorative object about the height of a person’s arm, perfect for use as a barrier.

He put the object in the middle of the bed, clapping his hands in satisfaction. Suddenly, he heard Mo Jun Zhou say,

“You and I… I’m talking about before, we didn’t do that thing?”

Yun Xia slowly turned his head. “What thing are you talking about?”

“What you just said.”

Yun Xia tilted his head. “What did I just say? I forgot.”

Mo Jun Zhou: “…”

“Hahaha, I’m just teasing you, I’m just teasing you,” Yun Xia sat on the bed, supporting his body with his hands behind him, looking at him relaxed from below upwards. “Of course we’ve kissed. Kisses, touches, hugs, we’ve done it all.”

Mo Jun Zhou: “…”

He turned and went to the candlelight, personally extinguishing the flame. Then he came back and got into bed. “Get in. Let’s sleep.”

Yun Xia: “?”

Just that? What about the after math, weren’t they going to say something?

Yun Xia was a little unsatisfied. In the faint light that was cast from the window, he pounced on him, saying in his ear, “Do you want to try? Just one kiss.”

At that moment, both of them remembered that unfinished kiss from a few days ago.

That thrilling feeling surged into each of their minds.

Quite a while passed, but Mo Jun Zhou didn’t move. He didn’t speak, nor did he push him away.

Yun Xia thought with regret in his heart, It’s not time yet. Mo Jun Zhou, are you struggling?

Don’t tell me, it’s kind of cute.

Forget it, let’s not have him play hide-and-seek with me for a few more days.

He proactively released Mo Jun Zhou and crawled to the other side. “Never mind, never mind. I’m not a horny person. You can rest assured. Have I ever raided you in these past few days? Sleep soundly, sleep soundly.”

After lying down, a while later, Mo Jun Zhou also lay down.

Yun Xia had already brewed up his sleepiness, and murmured, “But you can raid me, oh. I’d be very welcome…”

Mo Jun Zhou stared at the roof beam with his eyes open, not sleeping a wink all night.

That night, some people slept soundly, some barely closed their eyes, and some kicked off their blankets and tossed and turned all night.

Yun Xia was the one who slept the best.

The next morning when Su Rou came out with dark circles under her eyes, Yun Xia really wanted to be kind and say to her: Junior Sister Su Rou, if you can’t sleep at night, you can meditate and cultivate. That way, you won’t have dark circles under your eyes.

But doing that would seem too snide. He’d probably get beaten up if he said that. Forget it, forget it.

The group left the city. It was still the same road, and they had to walk a distance first.

As yesterday, their rate of heads turning was quite high. Everyone was already used to it.

But what was different was that today there was a girl in their group. The girl was as beautiful as a flower, but her expression wasn’t very good, making people afraid to approach and talk to them.

Yun Xia didn’t pay attention to all that, nor could he care about it, because Xiao Nanli kept talking to him about things.

If you had to say what they were talking about, it was just daily trivialities, such as what he liked to eat, fearing the food in the Demon Realm wouldn’t suit his taste, and it would be better once he returned to the Immortal Realm. He also talked about the things Yun Xia had bought back yesterday, chatting about various topics with him.

Yun Xia hadn’t ever fallen out with him, and had always done this – getting along well on the surface, having a decent relationship, but not being intimate or close, and sometimes even drawing a clear line.

Xiao Nanli hadn’t sought him out to chat about anything during these few days on the ship. Today, it was as if a floodgate had been opened.

Plus, Xiao Nanli wasn’t just talking to him, but also to the other disciples, even including Mo Jun Zhou, except that Mo Jun Zhou’s replies were very… short and flat. Most of the time, he only made a single syllable.

Yun Xia could only exchange polite greetings with him, thinking in his heart, Is he planning to chat all the way to the ship? He can’t even find a place to slip away while walking on this road.

At this moment, he felt his sleeve being tugged.

Turning his head, he saw Mo Jun Zhou’s face. “You don’t like to eat snacks? They’re for sale over there.”

He pointed to the side of the road.

Yun Xia immediately stopped talking to Xiao Nanli and looked in the direction Mo Jun Zhou was pointing. In front of them, there was a village woman selling homemade snacks. A pretty little sign next to her said “Handmade Snacks”.

The snacks were packed in wooden boxes, covered with a bamboo-woven lid that allowed people to see inside while also blocking some of the dust. The boxes also had beautiful patterns carved on them. It was clear that they were handmade.

Although the village woman was wearing coarse cloth clothes, and the skin that was exposed was rough from doing farm work, her face and hands, as well as her clothes, were very clean. It was clear that she was a meticulous person.

Yun Xia: “Your eyes are really sharp. Homemade food like that must taste good.”

He was about to go over when someone stopped him. The strength grabbing his arm was so familiar. Turning his head to look, sure enough, it was Su Rou.