Chapter 63#

The Cross-dressing Wife#

The car was silent.

Time seemed to freeze at this moment, and Gu Xingzhai uncontrollably lowered his head, staring deeply into those beautiful phoenix eyes soaked in hazy watery light, his expression dazed for a moment.

The young man’s warm breath was wrapped around his ear. Outside, a sparse light rain began to fall at some unknown time. The warmth inside the car covered the glass window with a faint layer of fog, creating a wordless ambiguous atmosphere under the dim lights of the car.

Until a loud honk sounded.

Gu Xingzhai was startled, his expression like waking up from a dream.

But by the time he regained his senses, Lin Xiaodong had already sat back in his seat, his expression as calm as if nothing had happened just now.

The man’s fingers beside him trembled slightly.

He knew he had been teased again.

“Huang Jianshu is not a decent person,” he remained silent for a while, but still couldn’t help but speak to remind him. Although it was out of concern, his tone also unconsciously brought a faint mockery, “If you want to find someone to dance with, at least, choose a man with acceptable character.”

Lin Xiaodong turned his head and stared straight at him.

Gu Xingzhai only felt that the young man’s look was like seeing the most unbearable corner of his heart, but he was unwilling to show weakness, and only stared back expressionlessly, asking in a cold voice: “What are you looking at?”

“I was thinking,” Lin Xiaodong snorted, “where did such a strong sour smell come from.”

Gu Xingzhai: “……”

He finally obediently shut his mouth.

Only the roar of the diesel car engine could be heard by his ears. Gu Xingzhai quickly glanced at the young man leaning by the car window to fake sleep, his expression a bit complicated.

Halfway through the drive, a heavy rainstorm suddenly fell from the sky.

The power system of cars in this era was already prone to problems. Although Lin Xiaodong desperately prayed in his heart not to lose the chain at this time, it finally stalled halfway.

“Today is really unlucky,” he sighed, leaning out to ask the driver in front, “About when can it be repaired?”

“This…” The driver’s head was sweating with anxiety, and he couldn’t say for sure.

“Never mind,” Gu Xingzhai said, “There’s an umbrella in the car, I’ll carry you back.”

It wasn’t the first time anyway, and the man’s expression when he spoke was very calm. But unexpectedly, Lin Xiaodong flatly refused: “No, I can walk by myself. You’re tall, just hold the umbrella.”

But in such a heavy rain, the role of an umbrella is almost negligible. Even though Gu Xingzhai tightly held half of Lin Xiaodong’s body and gave him most of the umbrella, the two were still drenched like drowned rats in no time.

Lin Xiaodong looked at the two of them soaked through and suddenly couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

In the last world, they were chased by fire, and in this world, it turned into a flood. It’s really unlucky enough.

He broke free from Gu Xingzhai’s arm, quickened his pace, and ran to a position more than ten meters ahead, then squinted his eyes and waved his hand vigorously at the man holding the umbrella behind him: “Don’t bother with it! Just run!”

“What are you saying, I can’t hear you!”

Gu Xingzhai shouted at him from behind with a frown. But Lin Xiaodong had no intention of waiting for him. He turned around and ran into the heavy rain, running several hundred meters in one breath before stopping, leaning on his knees and panting for breath.

“It’s so cold and you’re still in the rain, do you want to catch a cold!?” Gu Xingzhai was angry to death, pulling him to take shelter from the rain under the eaves of a nearby house, “Wait until the rain gets lighter before going back, don’t run around blindly!”

Lin Xiaodong smiled and coughed twice, which earned a cold gaze from the man: “Still laughing?”

He couldn’t do anything about Lin Xiaodong. It was late autumn, and the temperature was already cool, not to mention the heavy rain. Gu Xingzhai had no choice but to take off his long gown and put it on the young man, but his face was frost-cold throughout the process.

“Really angry?”

Gu Xingzhai didn’t look up and focused on tying the buttons.

Lin Xiaodong sniffed. Because he had been drenched in the heavy rain just now, his large waves that were neatly managed under the one-click dress-up were now sticking to his scalp like wet seaweed. His posture was a bit messy, but he was still very beautiful.

The face washed by the heavy rain was free of makeup, but it appeared even more brilliant and white, as if it were shining.

He wiped his face and took out a pair of silver-framed glasses from the pocket on the side of his cheongsam, and regardless of the man’s frown, he placed them on the bridge of his nose.

After putting the glasses on Gu Xingzhai, Lin Xiaodong took a half step back and looked at the man’s current appearance without blinking.

“Sure enough, once you wear glasses, you have a bit of a refined scum flavor.”

Gu Xingzhai:?

“…What on earth do you want to do?” He pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose and said, unable to endure it any longer.

“I want to kiss you.” Lin Xiaodong said very frankly.

Hiding under this tiny roof, all the noise from the outside world seemed to have nothing to do with them.

The young man slowly exhaled a breath of hot air, closed his eyes, and proactively stood on tip-toe, regardless of Gu Xingzhai’s suddenly shrinking pupils, and kissed the man’s pale and cold thin lips very seriously.

The soft touch stimulated the nerve endings. Gu Xingzhai’s reason told him that he should immediately push the person in his arms away, but uncontrollable emotion instantly overwhelmed everything. The umbrella in his hand toppled into the pouring rain. The man’s strong arms tightly circled Lin Xiaodong’s warm body. He leaned down and kissed him deeply in the corner where no one was around.

If Gu Xingzhai’s current expression, a mix of fierceness and deep desire, were seen by the people at the ball who gossiped about Lin Xiaodong, they would surely be so shocked that they couldn’t move.

What happened to the unshakeable disdain?!

Surrounded by abundant yang energy, finally, Lin Xiaodong happily… fainted.

Succubi can also overeat.

Looking at the delicate “woman” who fell into his arms without consciousness and with a satisfied smile on her face, Gu Xingzhai sighed, but his dark eyes unconsciously carried a hint of doting.

He supported Lin Xiaodong’s body and was just about to carry him on his back when his gaze suddenly froze—

A semi-circular white object rolled out from under Lin Xiaodong’s cheongsam.

That’s… a mantou?

Before opening his eyes, Lin Xiaodong first smelled a faint sulfur smell.

His first reaction was: Finally back.

There is a natural hot spring in the backyard of the Gu family mansion, but it used to be a special convalescent place for Old Master Gu. After Old Master Gu passed away, the key to the backyard was taken by Gu Xingzhai.

“So comfortable.” Lin Xiaodong squinted his eyes, leaning against a rock by the hot spring and letting out a satisfied sigh.

The shape of this hot spring is a curved crescent moon. A Podocarpus tree shaped like a canopy is planted in the middle. Amidst the misty fog, the scenery on the other side is hazy and unclear, which has quite a sense of artistic conception.

The system couldn’t even bear to remind him: “Look at yourself.”

“Myself?” Lin Xiaodong looked down. His chest was bare, and the soaked cheongsam was neatly folded and placed to the side. “No problem.”

“…Are you serious?”

Lin Xiaodong frowned and pondered for a while, and the smile on his face gradually stiffened.

“My chest, oh no, my mantous?!” He covered his chest and showed a look of horror like “Come and protect me, someone is indecently assaulting me.”

System: “……”

“When I was unconscious, did you see who undressed me?” Lin Xiaodong asked nervously. He still had a trace of lucky hope, “Gu Xingzhai shouldn’t have the courage, right?”

“Didn’t see,” the system said coldly, “the two of you were already hugging and kissing so passionately, what else was I waiting for besides automatically hanging up? Waiting for ice-cold dog food to slap my face haphazardly?”

“Who was kissing passionately… that’s not the point,” Lin Xiaodong gave a dry cough, “Anyway, you don’t know either, do you?”

“Yes.” The system answered reluctantly, “But I advise you better not have any expectations. Assuming Gu Xingzhai undressed you himself, congratulations, you’re exposed; if he found a servant woman to undress you, then congratulations, you’ve been seen by an aunt. Just these two paths, choose one yourself.”

“……” Lin Xiaodong: “I choose death.”

He checked the skills with undying hope and found that because the time out today was too long, [One-Click Dress-Up] was also in cooldown, and it would take at least two more hours before it could be reused. And looking at the state of his skin turning red… although there is no reaction yet, if he soaks in this hot spring for another hour, Lin Xiaodong estimates he won’t be able to get ashore.

With no choice, he had to put on that soaked cheongsam again and shouted at the top of his voice in the water: “Young Master Gu! Young Master Gu, where are you? I’m starving to death, Young Master Gu—”

“What is it.”

The man’s deep voice came from behind like a ghost, scaring Lin Xiaodong into crouching into the water on the spot, only showing a pair of eyes to turn his head and glare at the other party: “Gurgle gurgle gurgle… you scared me to death!”

“I’ve been here all along.” Gu Xingzhai said calmly.

And his dress was indeed so: the man was bare-chested, wearing only a pair of white inner pants. With the action of his getting up, crystal clear water droplets slowly slid down from his firm and white abdominal muscles, and even the mermaid line was clearly visible. The azure dragon tattoo on his chest was even more like riding on clouds and mist, full of wildness.

Lin Xiaodong’s gaze unconsciously wandered, and his Adam’s apple rolled because of nervousness. But even at the brink of death, exclamation marks that were bolded and enlarged still played in a loop in his head—

Shit, so hot!

Gu Xingzhai walked slowly toward him from the other end of the crescent hot spring. He looked like his expression was as usual, but his gaze toward him inexplicably brought a trace of playfulness and a hint of a half-smile, which made Lin Xiaodong’s heart beat like a drum.

“You, what are you doing?” The delicate “woman” in front of him, with disheveled hair and covering her chest, pretended to be in a panic and took a few steps back, her heels hitting the shore, “Men and women should not touch each other, you, you rogue! Get away from me!”

Unexpectedly, after hearing his words, Gu Xingzhai really stopped in his tracks.

“You just said you were hungry?” he asked calmly.

“Yes, yes.” Lin Xiaodong said boldly, “I want to eat mantou.”

He desperately used his eyes to hint to the other party to quickly go ashore and steam mantou for him, don’t just stand here! If he stands any longer, he will really be exposed!

Gu Xingzhai glanced at him.

The man didn’t say anything, but as if by magic, he brought out a basket of large meat buns from behind that Podocarpus tree. Under Lin Xiaodong’s dumbfounded gaze, he hooked his lips and said: “Eat this, it’s more filling than mantou.”

Lin Xiaodong: “……”

Who the hell really wanted to eat mantou!