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Author's Note:

Everybody, do you still remember me? I've had a few free months lately, and the urge to write has struck, so I'm starting a new story. Hope you guys like it, Abstinence~~

Chapter 2

◎Brother Abstinence had long since taken refuge in Buddha!◎

"Hey, Long, I remember your grandma in the countryside raised livestock or something?"

"Why are you suddenly asking?" Seeing that nothing serious was wrong with his childhood friend, Sun Zhenglong casually opened himself a bottle of yogurt and slurped it down. "Yeah, she mainly raises rabbits. You know how people around here love eating them..."

"Heh heh, are rabbits easy to raise?"

"Take out the 'easy,' I'm telling you, rabbits are fucking ridiculously easy to raise! Didn't I spend over half a month at my grandma's place last summer? There was this male rabbit I fed every day. That old bastard had at least a dozen wives, and every day after eating his fill, he'd go indulge in debauchery. Damn, I was so jealous... My grandma said that, counting all his kids and grandkids, there were already over a thousand of them. Tsk tsk, that reproductive ability—compared to him, we're just trash!"

The more Li Zhikong listened, the more depressed he became. He stuck out a foot as if to kick him. "Is that how you visit a patient? Get me a bottle too!"

"Right away! Your Majesty, lie back. Your servant shall attend to you!"

Li Zhikong slurped his yogurt as well, lying in the hospital bed and giving himself a pep talk—

There was no need to use ordinary rabbits as a reference. He had merely awakened a trace of Rabbit Spirit bloodline. Compared with before, his heat period was only a little longer—once a year, lasting an entire year... So what? The greatest difference between humans and animals was that humans had freed their hands and knew how to use tools!

As for the inherited memories repeatedly stressing that he had to find someone to cultivate with in order to live a good life, he selectively ignored that.

Cultivate with what? It was all feudal dross! He would never bow his head to evil forces!

What a joke. All those techniques for seducing people and building a harem were completely unnecessary, okay? If he had really wanted to, he would have achieved the thousand-person milestone long ago. Why would he have waited until now?

Knock, knock, knock.

Just as he was lost in thought, someone suddenly knocked on the ward door.

The door opened, and a strikingly handsome young man swept in like a gust of wind. He gave Sun Zhenglong only a perfunctory nod before going straight to feel Li Zhikong's forehead. "What happened? Are the test results out? What did the doctor say?"

"I'm fine. It's probably just low blood sugar. You got here pretty fast, Brother..." The newcomer was Qin Mobei, the eldest young master of the Qin Family and Li Zhikong's older half-brother through their mother. Dressed in a formal suit, he had clearly come straight from the company after receiving the call.

"Low blood sugar? No wonder you look thinner again. Have you not been eating properly? You're such a worry, you little brat!" Qin Mobei breathed a sigh of relief, then sternly curled his fingers and knocked Li Zhikong twice on the head.

"That's slander!" Li Zhikong blinked pitifully, grabbed his brother's hand, and shook it. "Are you serious? You can even lay hands on a patient? Your conscience is utterly rotten!"

"Tsk. Looking closely at that little face of yours, if you weren't wearing a hospital gown, who would believe you were a patient? You're glowing with health..."

"Huh, you really are!" Sun Zhenglong crushed his empty yogurt bottle and came over to flatter Qin Mobei. "Brother Bei really has sharp eyes! Li Abstinence, you're going a little too far here! Why do I feel like you've leveled up in looks again? Just now, you were all wilted like a little cabbage. We both drank yogurt, so did they mix your bottle with an elixir or something?"

"Get lost. Elixir my ass. What nonsense are you spouting now..." Li Zhikong laughed and cursed.

"I don't think he's spouting nonsense. You don't look sick at all right now. Anyone who didn't know better would think you'd just had the full deluxe spa treatment." Qin Mobei chimed in from the side.

He had always known that his younger brother was good-looking—when he was little, Qin Mobei had been influenced by his father, Mr. Qin, being cuckolded by Bai Jinxiao, and for a time he had particularly disliked this illegitimate younger brother. After all, Li Zhikong's existence was the shame of the Qin Family.

Because of that, whenever Qin Mobei visited his maternal grandparents each year, he held his chin so high it was practically in the sky. He only ever looked at Li Zhikong from the corner of his eye, making it clear that he disdained him.

But... his illegitimate younger brother was just too beautiful.

And his personality was ridiculously adorable. He was not shy around strangers at all, and he had endless tricks up his sleeve. When he acted spoiled sometimes, even immortals couldn't fucking withstand it!

Qin Mobei was merely an ordinary mortal. After resisting for a few rounds, he had surrendered completely. From then on, he became obsessed with playing the big brother, and his bottom line where this younger brother was concerned sank lower and lower.

He had secretly muttered to himself before that this kid must have maxed out his [Beauty] stat at birth. If Bai Jinxiao had looked like this back then, then it was not entirely impossible to understand why his mother had failed to resist the temptation...

Of course, he would never dare let his father, Mr. Qin, know such a rebellious thought.

As a rich second-generation heir, Qin Mobei had seen beauties of every type around him, yet he still dared to guarantee that his younger brother was absolutely the best-looking person he had ever seen—the undisputed ceiling of attractiveness.

But as he looked at Li Zhikong on the hospital bed now, Qin Mobei could not come back to himself for a long while. Fuck, it really wasn't an illusion. This little brat had visibly become even better-looking!

His skin was smooth and delicate, so luminous it seemed about to glow with rosy radiance. The hospital gown was especially loose on him, inexplicably lending him a pitiful, lovable air. Yet he looked up without realizing it, his eyes shimmering, and for an instant he seemed like some great immortal from the mountains who had taken human form—so beautiful it was almost wicked.

Almost instinctively, Qin Mobei raised his right hand and covered Li Zhikong's eyes along with half his face.

"?!" Li Zhikong cried out and energetically pushed at him. "Why are you suddenly covering my face? What's wrong with you, Brother?"

Qin Mobei also felt that there was something seriously wrong with him. Letting Li Zhikong pull his hand away, he stared at him uncertainly for a while before saying, "My eyes might have been playing tricks on me just now..."

Thank heaven. His stupid younger brother was still unbelievably good-looking, but that unsettling wickedness was gone.

Li Zhikong only found it baffling. He scratched his head and said, "Forget it, I won't hold it against you. Oh, right, Brother, did you call Grandpa and Grandma? Don't let anything slip. I told them you felt sorry for me after my exams and insisted on taking me out to relax for a few days."