Xie Ji leaned on the windowsill, enjoying the breeze.
Clearly, this dream was nowhere near over. He could only wait for Lu Xunji to wake up on his own.
He had wanted to take some normal clothes from the wardrobe and change, but he was afraid Ji Shi would wake up while he was changing.
He could let his guard down around Lu Xunji, who seemed to have designs on his ass all along, but he absolutely had to stay on guard around Ji Shi, whose favorability was maxed out.
The system had said so. How could it be wrong?!
Unfortunately, Little Black was already blocked at this point. With no one even to talk to, he really was getting a little bored.
Xie Ji sighed. Before he could react, he felt a source of warmth approach from behind.
Ji Shi pressed his head against Xie Ji's bare back and nuzzled him, his voice hoarse and aggrieved from just waking up. "Wife..."
Being called "wife" gave Xie Ji goosebumps all over, and he instinctively shoved Ji Shi away.
Perhaps he had used too much force, because Ji Shi landed on his ass on the floor.
They stared at each other. Ji Shi's eyes widened. "What are you doing?"
"Who gave you permission..." Xie Ji rubbed the goosebumps on his skin. "To call me that?"
"What's wrong with calling you that?" Ji Shi frowned. "You're my wife. What, I'm not even allowed to say it now?"
This setup left Xie Ji speechless, so he chose to shut up.
He pulled a long-sleeved shirt out of the wardrobe beside him, draped it over himself, and sat by the window, growing drowsy.
"If you're sleepy, why don't you sleep in bed?" Ji Shi crouched in front of him. "Are you disgusted with me?"
Xie Ji narrowed his bleary eyes. "Disgusted with what?"
Ji Shi fell silent for a long time before finally gritting his teeth and saying, "...That I can't get it up."
Xie Ji had yet to catch on. Slumped over the windowsill, he was half asleep. "Can't get what up?"
"You don't have to pretend you don't know to make me feel better. You know. You've always known," Ji Shi said. "Marrying me must have been such a hardship for you, so you can fool around however you want... as long as you stay by my side."
Xie Ji was no longer sleepy.
He stared blankly at Ji Shi, who stood by the window with clenched fists and an expression that said, "I'm impotent. I'm a useless man who can't make his wife happy."
Xie Ji: "..."
The thought of a certain utterly serious-looking person possibly crouching in some dark corner where no one could see him, secretly cursing Ji Shi with impotence...
Really made him want to laugh.
So damn cute.
Xie Ji patted Ji Shi. "You should've told me that was your setup. You scared me so badly I almost couldn't sleep."
With that, he slipped under the covers without a care, patted the spot beside him, and teased him with a sweet smile. "Come on, hubby. Time for bed."
Ji Shi: "..."
His wife really didn't like him! QAQ!
He actually spent very little time in the dream. In Lu Xunji's dream, the flow of time had been under Lu Xunji's control all along. Not long after Lu Xunji left Xie Ji, Xie Ji gradually drifted off to sleep as well.
When he woke again, it was already early the next morning.
When he woke in Lu Xunji's arms, Lu Xunji's arm was still draped across his waist, holding Xie Ji against him in an intensely possessive embrace.
He was bigger than Xie Ji and had practically sealed him inside his embrace without a gap.
Only by lifting his head with some difficulty did Xie Ji manage to struggle free of Lu Xunji's chest and take a breath of cool morning air.
Though it was a little suffocating, Xie Ji was surprised to find he didn't particularly dislike this position, sleeping in an embrace that felt so secure.
Xie Ji blinked, moved his fingers down, and poked Lu Xunji's stomach.
His previously relaxed abdomen instantly tensed, the muscles defining a perfect set of abs.
The arm around Xie Ji tightened, drawing him closer.
Lu Xunji opened his eyes a little, then quickly closed them again, a flash of deep purple passing through them.
He sniffed lightly at Xie Ji's neck before saying hoarsely, "Getting handsy with a respectable man first thing in the morning?"
Xie Ji clicked his tongue and shifted his body, which Lu Xunji had wrapped around like an octopus. "Classmate Lu, you've got things a little backward."
Lu Xunji was silent for a moment before saying, "That's only because you keep moving around in your sleep. This keeps you still."
Xie Ji huffed. "If I remember correctly, didn't Classmate Lu say something last night along the lines of 'As long as you stay, you can touch me all you want'?"
Lu Xunji gave two hoarse chuckles, as though he had thought of something that pleased him.
"So you stayed. Mm, and you even bit me."
[System notification: Target [Lu Xunji]'s favorability toward you has increased by 50. Current favorability: -149.]
Lu Xunji lifted his white tank top. A conspicuous bite mark sat low on his abdomen, with traces of blood around it. Clearly, the bite hadn't been gentle.
Instead, he seemed delighted as he rubbed the bite mark with the pad of his finger, looked up at Xie Ji, and tilted his head. "So, are you asking me to pay up now?"
Xie Ji raised a hand to cover his nose, his face expressionless.
He needed a term more severe than the collapse of all propriety to describe Lu Xunji right now.
This was practically debauchery in broad daylight!!
Xie Ji hurried into the bathroom to wash up, silently reciting, Form is emptiness, and emptiness is form.
Last night's dream suddenly surfaced in his mind.
He had to admit that Lu Xunji had been sexy like that. Whether it was his deep voice or his warm palms brushing over Xie Ji's body, both were enough to make Xie Ji's heart beat a little faster.
The body's subconscious never lied. He was gradually being seduced by Lu Xunji.
Xie Ji frowned and splashed cold water over his face.
What seduction? This punishment mechanism must have messed him up! He, Xie Ji, had traveled through so many worlds. What storms hadn't he weathered? Lu Xunji was just a mission target!
To him, he was even nothing more than a string of data he needed to conquer.
They had never belonged to the same world.
Xie Ji spat out the foam in his mouth. His skin, which had heated up from Lu Xunji's teasing, returned to its normal temperature.
Yet when he walked out of the bathroom, he saw Lu Xunji in a pair of black athletic shorts, bare-chested and ready to head out.
Half of that vivid red-purple bite mark peeked conspicuously above the waistband against his cool, pale skin.
Lu Xunji had practically tugged his waistband down below his ass, yet only half the bite mark showed. That said plenty about how indecent a spot Xie Ji had bitten.
Xie Ji choked a little. "What are you going out to do dressed like that?"
"Exercise." Lu Xunji opened the door nonchalantly. "Morning run. Coming?"
The corner of Xie Ji's mouth twitched. "No, go ahead."
What was this guy up to now? Going for a morning run shirtless... did he want everyone in the world to admire his great body?
So calculating.
Heh, what a scheming bottom.
Then Lu Xunji ran straight into Ji Shi, who had gotten up to eat.
Ji Shi had had a dream last night.
The good news: Xie Ji was his wife in the dream.
The bad news: he couldn't get it up.