Chapter 31 - His Majesty bites someone (1/2)

Fortunately, pants in the Great Heng period didn’t have an open crotch. Gu Yuanbai had also ordered the sides of the clothes underneath to be sewn together as well, so that, even if the robe was raised, the pants were one solid piece.

After riding the horse that time, Xue Yuan assessed that the skin was rubbed red, but it should not have burns.

Gu Yuanbai disliked being so delicate, but the skin on his body was tender nonetheless. The more pampered he got, the more painful and uncomfortable it’d feel. The palace attendants and doctors around him always kept all sorts of medicines around to prevent problems.

Xue Yuan took the medicine and stretched out a hand.

The medicine Tian Fusheng had given him felt very cold to the touch.

Xue Yuan, in the shade, faced the young Emperor’s white skin, which was as soft as tofu. It was the second time in his entire life that he was taking care of someone else, and his hands were reckless. After he pressed harder, the Emperor kicked him, sucked in a cold breath and said, “Lightly.”

After being kicked, Xue Yuan didn’t feel like taking care of him anymore. He brushed the dust off his clothes, with a layer of fine sweat covering his forehead. He didn’t know whether to sigh or act impatient. “Was I too rough?”

Gu Yuanbai laughed and said, “Guard Xue, your hands are so rough that they feel like Our skin is being scraped against a rock whenever you touch Us.”

The palm of Xue Yuan’s hands had many thick calluses and small scars. He had soldier hands, and naturally they couldn’t be called fine. Xue Yuan thought to himself, my entire body is this rough, perhaps the only soft spot is my tongue?

—But to use his tongue to apply medicine to Gu Yuanbai? Forget it, Xue Yuan didn’t have such a hobby yet.

Xue Yuan used the softest part of his little finger and the lightest strength he could to apply the ointment on the Emperor. Gu Yuanbai frowned, and he regretted having let him come.

After finally finishing the medicine, both of them breathed a sigh of relief. The skin on the inside of Gu Yuanbai’s thighs was hot and burning, and the medicine felt cold. Overwhelmed by the contrast, he couldn’t even exert enough force to stand up. Gu Yuanbai said, “You’re still not setting down Our robes?”

Xue Yuan smiled wryly and, seeing as the Emperor still had a bad expression, he said, “Emperor, could you smile at this official?”

Gu Yuanbai snorted, unable to hold back his amusement. “The audacity.”

He finally smiled, his eyebrows arching upwards, in an uncommon expression for a man that carried a heavy weight in his autumn-like hands. It wasn’t a faint or a polite smile that he usually wore, but a simple smile that had been caused by Xue Yuan.

Xue Yuan looked at his smile for a while, and felt itchy in his heart. He lowered his head and continued to tidy up Gu Yuanbai’s clothes in silence. Halfway through his hands holding the clothes, he discovered that the medicine was still drying, so he leaned forward and placed his head between the legs of the young Emperor, blowing on the spot where the ointment hadn’t dried yet.

The hot breath he blew over the cold ointment made Gu Yuanbai’s thigh shake. Gu Yuanbai didn’t like this position, held under his palm, so he supported himself up on the ground with one hand and grabbed Xue Yuan’s hair with the other, holding him firmly and he said in an indolent tone, “Hurry up.”

Xue Yuan’s scalp ached, and he smiled angrily. “I just opened my mouth to blow on the freshly applied ointment. After blowing on the left side, I still have to blow on the right side, there’s nothing I can do.”

There was no one around. Everything was quiet, the shadows of the trees and flowers blocked them from the view, and nobody would be able to see them. Gu Yuanbai sat up and looked down. “So it turns out it did get red.”

The skin had already been rubbed red, and afterwards, when Xue Yuan’s rough hands touched it, the redness became worse.

Xue Yuan touched the delicate skin, which felt soft and pleasant. He had no idea that the redness was also related to his rough hands. He asked calmly, “Does it still hurt?”

Gu Yuanbai frowned. “Go back and inform the servants.”

Once it was almost dry, Xue Yuan arranged Gu Yuanbai’s clothes again. Then he suddenly lowered his body over Gu Yuanbai, surrounded him with his arms, pulled him up, and stood up firmly.

Gu Yuanbai’s face turned dark and he was about to struggle to break free. Xue Yuan freed up a hand and patted him. Unexpectedly, he patted him on the butt. “Emperor, you can’t walk or ride a horse now. If you don’t want to suffer more pain, you have to obediently let this official carry you.”

Gu Yuanbai sneered, “See if you dare do that again!”

Xue Yuan raised his hand nonchalantly and patted him again, with a dark smile that showed his fangs. “I thought Your Highness liked to be patted.

“If Your Majesty wants me to pat a bit more, wait until we return to the palace,” said Xue Yuan, patiently and slowly. “There’s no need to rush, I need both hands to hold you right now.”

Gu Yuanbai was angry.

There was nobody around at the time. The two hands Xue Yuan was holding him with felt as if they were made of iron. Gu Yuanbai couldn’t get out of Xue Yuan’s hold with just his strength, and he guessed that Xue Yuan had the same thought and that it was the reason he was acting so bold now.

Did he think he couldn’t be punished at that moment?

Gu Yuanbai reached out with his hand, grabbed Xue Yuan’s collar and abruptly pulled Xue Yuan’s neckline down. Xue Yuan bowed his head and looked at the young Emperor condescendingly.

With no strength in his hands, he wouldn’t be able to pinch Xue Yuan’s neck. Gu Yuanbai pulled Xue Yuan closer, leaned up, held Xue Yuan’s neck and bit down.

When the teeth bit onto the neck, blood flowed out in an instant. Xue Yuan’s browns twisted in pain, his veins pulsed, and he couldn’t avoid exerting some force with his hands.

That really fucking hurts.

Xue Yuan’s fingers dug into the Emperor’s skin. Feeling the pain, the Emperor’s mouth became more fierce, blood flowing from the corner of his mouth and dripping to the guard uniform’s collar, dying the white fabric red.

Gu Yuanbai, with his mouth full of the scent of iron, felt satisfied and released his hold, licking the blood that remained on his lips. The corner of his mouth lifted coldly. “Do you still dare?”

The blood on his upper lip was Xue Yuan’s, and it was Xue Yuan’s blood being licked by the tip of his tongue. Xue Yuan’s meridians1 felt like they were bursting from the pain and his eyelid twitched. When he heard the Emperor’s words, he smirked fakely and asked, “Your Highness, do you feel comfortable now?”

Gu Yuanbai bit him again.

Xue Yuan hissed.

Gu Yuanbai had taken over an entire country. He didn’t usually get irritated and displeased with stupid things or stupid people. However, sometimes he felt envious of Xue Yuan. Why was he healthier than him, and also dared to act more deranged than him?

He had taken a bite with all his strength, using all the irritation in his heart. The blood spilled into his mouth, coating it in carnivorous anger, but Gu Yuanbai felt the pressure in his heart suddenly ease up.

He could vent all the tension against Xue Yuan.

Because Xue Yuan could take it.

Gu Yuanbai wiped his mouth, grabbed Xue Yuan’s chin, and turned his face to the front. “Give Us a good walk, don’t be stubborn. We tell you to listen and you don’t listen, but instead now you’re more submissive than a dog.”

Xue Yuan laughed, pressing his hand against the two bloody bite marks on his neck. “This servant originally just wanted to hold Your Highness to go to the palace.”

Gu Yuanbai raised his eyebrows and reached out to poke at the wound on Xue Yuan’s neck, “It hurts, doesn’t it?”

Xue Yuan said honestly, “Yes.”

“If you know it hurts, behave a bit,” Gu Yuanbai said, “be smart.”

Xue Yuan stopped talking. After a while, he said, “Aren’t I good enough?”

Gu Yuanbai pressed his wound again, and Xue Yuan twisted his mouth and said, “I’ve already been very well behaved, Your Majesty.”

“Behave a little more.” Gu Yuanbai smiled. “We like well behaved people.”

Xue Yuan’s eyebrows were pressed together, and he looked very gloomy.

So you like Chu Wei?

Is that why you smile at him when you see him?

Don’t you know he has bad intentions?

Xue Yuan felt suffocated in his heart, and stubbornly carried Gu Yuanbai back to the bedroom. The servants who were waiting here were frightened to see the blood on Xue Yuan’s neck and their legs became weak. Tian Fusheng was about to rush to seek an imperial doctor, but Gu Yuanbai stopped him. “We are fine.”

Tian Fusheng turned to look at Xue Yuan, who had blood all over his neck. Xue Yuan, with an unpleasant expression on his face, replied stiffly, “No need.”

Seeing as Xue Yuan was injured, the guards wanted to go forward to take Gu Yuanbai from Xue Yuan. But Xue Yuan bypassed them directly and put Gu Yuanbai on the bed.

A pale beauty on the bright yellow, dragon-patterned bed sheets. Xue Yuan glanced at Gu Yuanbai, pulled back his robe and wiped the blood on his neck.

He wiped more and more, and his robe was stained with blood. Xue Yuan thought to himself, he still has sharp teeth.