776 Immature Love (1/2)

Shangguan Fei spent a whole day disguising himself. He applied make up, washed it off, reapplied it again, and then washed it all off again – he did it so meticulously that he could've been the woman who cared about her appearance the most in the Retention Alley. Even so, the result of his hard work failed to satisfy him, and he dumped out a dozen basins of water which had been used to wash his face.

Tie Linglong dutifully executed the task Dragon King had assigned her and she watched over Shangguan Fei the whole time. At first she had stood at the door, at noon she changed positions and leaned against the wall, then two hours later she sat on a chair, and every little while after she would move the chair a little closer to Shangguan Fei.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click visiting.

It was getting dark. Finally, Tie Linglong arrived at the side of the small table on which Shangguan Fei's disguising materials were placed. With her head resting in her arms, she raised her head to look at him, and spoke to him for the first time this day. ”Are you disguising yourself as a woman?”

Shangguan Fei pushed the oil lamp slightly further away, stared at the image in the mirror, and finally believed that the make-up was satisfactory. ”I can't afford to be seen through. In Jade City, Shangguan Fei's face is even more of a target than the Dragon King's. By the way, don't call me by my real name. Hmm, I should find myself a more common name…”

Even Shangguan Fei's voice was different when he opened his mouth. Tie Linglong felt a chill quickly crawl down her body, from the top of her head to the soles of her feet, giving her goosebumps everywhere. Yet she only became even more curious and asked, ”Why does everybody keep saying that you like men?”

Shangguan Fei's hands instantly stopped moving and he looked seriously at the green-eyed little girl. ”I'm sorry, but do you think that you are close to me to ask a question this private? If you want to humiliate me, just go ahead. I got used to it a long time ago.”

Tie Linglong sat up, looking confused. ”Well, the point I'm trying to make is that – why can't a man like another man? I see that there are a lot of men who are friends with each other, but why do I feel that people's opinions about you are… kind of different?”

Shangguan Fei smiled. He hadn't expected that this little girl who had survived so many trials of the Dragon King and Waning Moon Hall would be so innocent. ”How old are you?”

”Sixteen.”

”That's not too young. I think I can explain it to you.”

”Of course I'm not young. The Dragon King was already a professional killer at sixteen.”

Shangguan Fei continued touching up his eye shadow. ”Let me think about how I should best put this… It's just like how you have feelings for Little Chu.”

”I have no feelings for him. He's a total jerk who went back on his word,” Tie Linglong immediately contradicted out of anger.

Shangguan Fei nodded repeatedly. ”That's exactly what I mean. The only explanation for why you would hate someone for no particular reason is that you love him.”

”I don't hate him for no reason… Eek, why are we talking about me now?”

”I like men in a different way. Kind of like the way you like – Chu Nanping.” Shangguan Fei plucked out an eyebrow with a suppressed grunt, grimacing as he was uttered the last two words.

Tie Linglong didn't fully understand. She had a faint notion that this hobby of Shangguan Fei's was somewhat related to the immoral things that the Waning Moon Hall had tried to make her do, so she replied, ”You are so weird.”

”Weirder than the Dragon King? Than Old Man Mu and Han Wuxian?” Shangguan Fei lowered his voice when he said the names of the last two devils.

”Those two are weird, but the Dragon King is not.”

”Aiii, I was just speaking without thinking. Don't take my word for it and please don't tell anyone else. Okay, it's finally perfect.”

Shangguan Fei turned his head to look at Tie Linglong, a self-satisfied smile on his face.

Tie Linglong couldn't help but smile back as she exclaimed, ”You look so much like Sister Ru.”

Shangguan Fei looked into the mirror and peered into it for a while, then frowned. ”You are right. This won't work. If by any chance the Dragon King sees me, I'll get in trouble.”

He once again started adjusting his make-up as Tie Linglong was still pondering his hobby. Suddenly, she asked, ”You like the Dragon King as well, don't you?”

Her sudden accusation startled Shangguan Fei. ”Stop speaking nonsense. Do you want the Dragon King to kill me? Besides… the Dragon King's not my type.”

Tie Linglong widened her eyes in surprise as she asked, ”You like men and yet you don't like the Dragon King? How's that possible?”

”You like men too, but it was Little Chu you fell in love with, not the Dragon King, right?” Shangguan Fei had found a rare opportunity to gossip about this particular topic with someone, and he felt his stress dissolve away measurably. ”I like tall and strong men, like…”

”Long Fanyun – everybody knows.” But Tie Linglong didn't actually ”know” what she ”knew.”

Shangguan Fei sighed as he lamented, ”This is divine retribution. I like him, but he will never like me back.”

”Why? As far as I know, Long Fanyun's a nice guy.”

”I can't explain, and you wouldn't be able to understand even if I could. Didn't you once leave the Dragon King out of anger? Give it some thought and you will get it then.” As he observed the beautiful woman in the mirror that shared his actions, a bitter taste suddenly surfaced in Shangguan Fei's throat. ” I don't resemble her anymore now, right?”

”What?” Tie Linglong was still thinking about Shangguan Ru's previous words, and she was surprised by his comment. ”Oh, you don't look like Sister Ru now. Now you're like…”

”I know who I look like. You should leave.”

”Why?” Tie Linglong became vigilant immediately.

”Because I'm changing my clothes.” Shangguan Fei's hair style and looks had become feminine, and yet he was still wearing men's clothes. ”If you don't care, I'm fine with it too.”

”Hmph,” Tie Linglong snorted as she turned around and started walking out. Suddenly a problem occurred to her. ”Did you prepare women's clothes in advance?”

Shangguan Fei felt that this little girl had too many questions, and he was no longer interested in them, so he thought that it was necessary to distract her. ”I find it very interesting that you're not willing to talk about Little Chu and yet you can't stop mentioning the Dragon King's name. Is it possible that deep down there, the man you really like is… the Dragon King?”

”Of course I like the Dragon King.”

”The same way as you 'like' Little Chu?”

Tie Linglong was surprised and for a moment she seemed as if she was about to say something, but in the end, she changed her mind. Then she turned around and walked out of the room, staying silent for quite a while.

Shangguan Fei exhaled deeply, took several women's clothes out of the basket, and tried them on one by one. It took him another hour to finally decide on an outfit.