Night Talk (Part 1)

First update—same old rule, all three updates should be finished around one o'clock.

Several basins of Silver Frost Charcoal, set apart from one another, shut out the wind and snow beyond the door and created a cozy, warm space.

Sun Shaozong lay facedown against the rim of the U-shaped bath barrel, his chin resting on a soft, dry piece of thick satin. His eyes were half-closed as he enjoyed the attentive service of the two long-handled brushes behind him.

Only after quite a while, when his breathing had begun to lengthen, did You Erjie say in a sweet voice, "Second Master, it's time for the front."

"Mm."

Sun Shaozong expelled a breath of stale air through his nose, yet waited a long while before lazily turning over and facing his liquor-reeking face toward the ceiling beams.

The two brushes, neither too soft nor too stiff, were dipped again in scented bath powder and suds, then reached into the bath barrel to scrub his broad chest.

About another quarter of an hour passed. Only when he felt one of the brushes slowly moving downward did Sun Shaozong finally utter a clear word: "Switch."

Though she had served Sun Shaozong quite often lately, the knot in her heart had not entirely dissolved. In the end, she was not as uninhibited as You Erjie.

She was lowering her head, doing her best to keep up with the task at hand, when she suddenly saw Sun Shaozong lift an arm from the water and slowly grope toward her waist.

Cai Xia instinctively wanted to dodge, but You Erjie shot her a deeply reproachful glare. Her movements unconsciously slowed by half a beat, and by the time she tried to evade him again, how could she still have made it in time?

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