Chapter 37 (2/2)

What did he say? Share a bed with me?!

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My butt still hurt; it seemed like whoever kickedlanced sideways at the little Prince Mole “It’s only the ninth hts be chilly? Fourth, this is where you’re wrong I feed you and raised you and save your life…but you’re still fixated on getting closer in vain hopes of sullying your Master’s purity”

He wore a shah his eyes had the hidden bitterness of someone thwarted in love Silently, hea leg to kick me Looks like little Prince Mole felt extreed…

I had the sudden insight that soht, and uncertainly narrowed my eyes at the chess pieces “You’re so fa as siame shouldn’t thwart you, and you even hadit on purpose…”

He was indignant “Whatever, I don’t care Either you coo to yours” I was dumbfounded, but before I could reply, someone else retorted with a shout

“Exactly how do you think you’re speaking to Master?”

Before the voice faded, its owner had raised his eyebrows at me I hastily took the hint and lowered my head to reverently pour hiht either, but by the ti the cup to drink

What was this called…?

Servility

I was born to serve others no rand I looked, or how impressive my reputation was, or how I ridiculedprinces Who didn’t know the suffering and distress behind et to say it…as a carefree idler of the jianghu, I was just an idle person they could boss around

Though I’d saved sorew fa houests, but hard to send theuy, the oldest Though he wasn’t the earliest one to enter these doors, he insisted on being called First

Originally, I thought he had soh to become their leader If I hadn’t cured his poison in the past, hehiood heart, and followed ht thousand li[2] to repay his debt of gratitude

But in order to conceal his identity the past few years, hisFortunately, the so-called Prince Mole, Little Fourth, did a divination and suggested he go into business nobody foresaw that the silver would co in afterwards Nowadays, he paid off all expenses in the house In short, he ca paid instead

Although we had lots of people in this house, our lives were pretty satisfactory I didn’t speak of statutes so we lived rather casually They all said I couldn’t tell good from bad…

What did they ood and bad’?

I really had no idea

“What are you thinking about?” a certain person behind h it was lighter than before “Everyone’s been waiting for you to wake up…it’s time to eat”

I reement

He brushedwith a steady rhyth called First with an i manner like that I couldn’t imitate that air even if I cultivated for 800 years

My mouth opened and closed as I scuttled after him

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There was a round table with seven seats After everyone sat doere still empty, so I counted First, Second, Fourth, Fifth…yikes, Little Fifth’s complexion still looked terrible, he must have been heavily poisoned

The dishes arrived, nine plates of delicatebowl of soup with spots of oil floating on the surface[3] I stretched ry…

Were they going to eat or not?

“TIME TO EAT!” I raised y and roared

The ba the pale pink silhouette interile and quick, holding onto a bamboo branch as he looked at us from far aith a wretched expression

“Coure dressed in yellow robes stuck his hands on his waist, stoaze in his eyes as he looked up, poisonous powders in his hands

Just like an affectionate lover

I alether

“Eat,” the oldest ordered angrily

Maybe his voice hadn’t been loud enough, but he had always been a man of action Slowly, he raised the chopsticks in his hands and snapped them without so much as a blink Then he waved his sleeves in a whoosh of wind

Those two broken chopstick halves were ruthlessly quick and accurate They shot powerfully through the ba the two people there by millimeters

No wonder he was a martial arts expert…

There was nothing auous about his actions at all

In the twinkling of an eye, a wind surged in from outdoors and rattled the table Very shortly, all seven chairs of the table were filled, and everyone started pouring wine and picking vegetables as if nothing had happened at all No oneform of the pink-robed youth in hter than the peach blossoms Distressed, I fussily used my sleeve to wipe the sweat from his brow

“Cos,” I encouraged him

Without fail, he obediently picked up his chopsticks and gave a piece to the little Poison Prince

All right…now the Poison Prince was angry enough to have fire fla from his eyes

I’ve got to say…if he can’t catch up to you, then that’s that To actually use these chopsticks to ing er as well

I loweredit Then I drank it with gusto, not daring to stray my vision a bit Suddenly, little Fourth Prince Mole raised his head, as if listening in rapt attention His words came out of the blue “Master, someone’s come to visit”

I spat out amy mouth with my sleeves

Curses, who ca mealtimes? This was obviously someone anted a free h I couldn’t see anything: only a s else altogether I a noisy ruckus in the baainst each other, accompanied by the faint sound of bells and flutes

I took the tih the spell formation Little Fourth set outside our borders and entered our territory

-o- Orginal and most updated translations are from volaretranslations

[1] chaos (鸡飞狗跳) －jifei goutiao, the Chinese idios”

[2] a hundred and eight thousand li (十万八千里) －shi+wanbaqian li, not necessarily a literal distance,way

[3] oil floating on the surface (上面飘着油花儿) －shangmian piaozhe youhua er, oil is an i that adds flavor and taste; having a soup with oil in it also indicated a certain level of household wealth