Recap
Rong Yu slightly raised his chin, held Gu Minghuai’s face in his hands, lowered his long eyelashes, and leaned up to kiss his lips without hesitation.
As their lips connected, the vapor in the bathroom seemed to become boiling hot, and as the white mist rose, it appeared to be a romantic and ambiguous atmosphere.
In the long kiss, the spiritual energy value rose rapidly, and a pair of smooth and slender legs broke out of the water.
Gu Minghuai was stunned, and the shampoo bottle in his hand fell to the ground.
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Gu Minghuai’s eyelashes trembled, after he came to his senses, he immediately separated from Rong Yu. His face turned slightly red, and he thought it might be that the temperature of the bathroom heater was too high, making his whole body feel hot.
Why did he kiss me?
Why does he have legs?
Is there a necessary connection between him kissing me and him having legs?
Many questions flashed through Mr. Gu’s mind, but he couldn’t ask any of them.
He was frozen.
The perpetrator, Rong Yu, was very calm. He rested his head lazily on the bathtub and raised his eyelids: “Didn’t you want to wash your hair?”
Gu Minghuai stared at his legs and hesitated to speak.
Rong Yu followed his line of sight, straightened his legs and put them back into the water, pretending that nothing happened: “It must be that the time has come. I don’t know why I transformed.”
Gu Minghuai didn’t give him a chance to act as if nothing had happened: “What did you mean by that just now?”
Rong Yu asked in confusion: “What happened just now?”
Gu Minghuai stared at him: “Don’t act stupid with me.”
Rong Yu’s face and eyes were blank.
Gu Minghuai had no choice but to remind him further: “You. You kissed me.”
Rong Yu tilted his head: “What is a kiss?”
“That’s…,” Gu Minghuai didn’t know why he was explaining this, he looked like a retard, “Your mouth. Touched my mouth.”
“Ohh, that’s called kissing.” Rong Yuzuo suddenly realized, playing the role of an ignorant little fish seriously, “I’m just joking with you, so this part of a human being cannot be touched?”
“It’s not like you can’t touch it.” Gu Minghuai said subconsciously, but then he realized, “…No, you can’t touch it casually. Only those who are in love can do it, but we can’t.”
“Oh.” Rong Yu nodded in understanding, and then asked, “What is love?”
“That’s not important. What’s important is,” Gu Minghuai said what he cared about most, “Do you know how dirty saliva exchange is?”
Rong Yu: “…”
Rong Yu: “Huh?”
Gu Minghuai turned around and started squeezing out toothpaste: “You can wash yourself. I want to brush my teeth and rinse my mouth. I don’t care about you.”
Rong Yu: “???”
Rong Yu: Oh my god, how could such a person exist?
Blood Jade Bracelet: Give up, don’t try to cure severe mysophobia, he has no feelings for you at all.
How divine the Sun God is, shining brightly on the world and illuminating all things. He is the most loving and ruthless, and will never favor anyone.
Rong Yu: Wash myself? So be it.
He cleaned himself up neatly, drained the water from the tank, and wiped his body with a towel.
Gu Minghuai rinsed his mouth at least ten times before putting down the cup. When he turned around to see the scene in front of him, he trembled. He took a step back and held onto the sink behind him before he could stand steadily.
Rong Yu is sitting in the bathtub that has been filled with water. His face is pink like peach blossoms, his fair and slender legs are clearly visible, and are very smooth.
He was completely naked.
Gu Minghuai looked away as if he was being burned, walked out in a hurry, took out a pair of unworn underwear from the closet and threw it in: “Put it on yourself.”
Then he waited in the bedroom.
The heat on his face still hadn’t subsided.
Rong Yu tried to put it on, but it turned out to be one size too big and it hung loosely on his waist, as if he had some fun.
Blood Jade Bracelet: You lost.
Rong Yu didn’t take it seriously: This is Chi Yu’s physical data, what does it have to do with me?
He shouted loudly: “Mr. Gu!”
Gu Minghuai’s voice came from outside, low and suppressed: “Is something wrong?”
“Can you come in?” Rong Yu said in a worried tone, “I can’t stand up.”
Blood Jade Bracelet: Don’t you have legs? Can’t you walk on your own?
Rong Yu: No, I used to fly in the sky.
Blood Jade Bracelet: Do you think I will believe you?
Rong Yu: I’m a carp spirit who just transformed human legs. How can I possibly know how to walk immediately?
An unbreakable determination to adhere to his character settings.
Blood Jade Bracelet: Yes, you are truly very dedicated.
Rong Yu: And this way he can teach me how to walk step by step. Isn’t the spiritual energy worth it?
Blood Jade Bracelet: Very thoughtful.
After the kiss, the upper limit of spiritual energy bar is increased to the point where he can maintain the human form for a week, and the value decreases slower. Rong Yu planned to fill up his spiritual energy bar; having a full battery would give him a sense of security.
Gu Minghuai’s tall figure appeared at the door of the bathroom. He asked the same question as the Blood Jade Bracelet: “Don’t you have legs?”
Rong Yu said solemnly: “People have legs when they are born, but they don’t just walk when they are born.”
Gu Minghuai: “Pretend I didn’t say anything.”
He leaned over and picked up Rong Yu from the bathtub. The skin on his legs was soft and delicate, much better than that of a fish’s tail.
“I’ll have someone send over a few sets of clothes that fit your size.” Gu Minghuai said, “You better learn how to walk in the next few days.”
Gu Minghuai didn’t want to carry Rong Yu around like this anymore, but he couldn’t really ignore him.
After Rong Yu was placed on the bed by Gu Minghuai, he knelt down and raised his head: “Then, teach me.”
Gu Minghuai said in disbelief: “Does this still need teaching?”
Rong Yu said confidently: “You have to hold me up, it will hurt when I fall.”
Gu Minghuai poured chicken soup coldly: “Get up whenever you fall.”
Rong Yu was uninterested: “Then you should just carry me.”
Gu Minghuai is like a stern parent, educating his naive children about the dangers of society: “I will not spoil you. The world is very complicated, and you will not stay in my house forever. Don’t blindly trust anyone, and don’t rely on anyone unconditionally. Don’t casually place your future on another person. If one day that person doesn’t care about you anymore—wu…”
Another kiss followed without warning.
Rong Yu was too lazy to listen to his lecture, so he simply stood on his knees and blocked his mouth.
Gu Minghuai’s pupils shrank, and all his words were instantly silenced.
Rong Yu raised his eyes: “What if I say, I want to do it?”
“You will take care of me, right?”
Gu Minghuai didn’t answer. After three seconds of silence, he turned around and ran into the bathroom to rinse his mouth.
Rong Yu lay down with his lips curled up in a smile, looking in a good mood.
Blood Jade Bracelet: …Is this very funny?
Rong Yu: You don’t understand.
Blood Jade Bracelet: I don’t understand, why don’t we talk about the mission first?
When he transformed his legs out, Rong Yu had already received the plot of this world.
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World No. 4082, Chi Yu, the Child of Luck, is a thousand-year-old carp spirit.
Thousands of years ago, Chi Yu was just a red carp that had just developed spiritual awareness and had not yet transformed into a human form. It was fished out of the river by a villager and was taken back to be cooked.
A fisherman in the same village saw that the carp was big and beautiful, and felt that it had attained spiritual awareness and that it was inappropriate to eat it. He used a day’s money from selling fish to buy the carp from the villagers and took it to the river to release it.
“Little fish, swim quickly, don’t get caught again this time.” The young fisherman said to it gently.
The red carp lingered in the river, trying to remember the appearance of its benefactor.
The fisherman looked at it with a smile: “You can’t find your way home? Then I will play a tune for you. The little guys who hear this tune will go home.”
As he spoke, the fisherman picked off a leaf, put it in his mouth and played it, and blew out a nice little tune.*
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, source: Genshin Impact (2020))
The red carp listened to the music, swam around slowly in place for a few times, swung its tail, and swam away.
By the time the red carp worked hard to cultivate into a human form, hundreds of years had passed in a flash. The original small fishing village had long been turned into ruins, and there was no trace of the fishermen’s grave. Chi Yu named himself “Yu”* to remember the identity of his benefactor, he wanted to find his benefactor’s reincarnation to repay his kindness.
*(refresher: Yu for to fish/fishermen)
Chi Yu has been searching for many years. From the ancient dynasty to the new century, a prosperous coastal city was built on the ruins of the small fishing village. There was a time he finally saved a drowning man by chance. The man looked exactly like his benefactor.
Chi Yu was overjoyed to find his benefactor. He learned that his benefactor’s name was Zhang Wenfan in this life, and he lived in poverty. After failing in his business and investment, he was forced to commit suicide by jumping into a river.
Mortals have a saying that the kindness likened to a drop of water should be repaid by a spring, and the kindness of saving a life should be repaid with one’s body. Chi Yu didn’t understand the distinction between genders and simply told Zhang Wenfan that he was willing to follow him.
Zhang Wenfan was homophobic and was disgusted to death when he heard these words. He didn’t care that the other person had just rescued him from the river, he just wanted this gay man to get away from him.
But when Chi Yu took out large blocks of gold and silver, Zhang Wenfan stared blankly. He urgently needed a sum of money to make a comeback. If the other party really gave him money because he wanted his body, it doesn’t matter if he agrees to this deal temporarily.
So Zhang Wenfan agreed to become Chi Yu’s boyfriend, pretending that he was more traditional and would not get married until his career was stable, and he would not have sex before he got married. In fact, he was really disgusted by the sight of gay men.
Chi Yu doesn’t know anything about this kind of thing between humans, so he just listens to Zhang Wenfan. Carp is a symbol of wealth, and that wealth was accumulated by Chi Yu over hundreds of years. He lied and said that it was an inheritance sum left by his parents, and all that money was used as start-up capital for Zhang Wenfan.
Zhang Wenfan accepted Chi Yu’s contribution with peace of mind. He felt that living with a man was already unfair enough. It was Chi Yu who begged him to be with him, so Chi Yu deserved to give him all he had to give.
The thousand-year-old carp spirit can bring good fortune. With Chi Yu as a mascot for wealth, Zhang Wenfan’s career flourished and he made a lot of money, he soon became a glorious and respectable big boss.
At this time, the wealth that Chi Yu originally brought had been used up, and Zhang Wenfan’s company was generating profit every day. He kicked Chi Yu away and drove the penniless Chi Yu out of the house. Zhang Wenfan feels that he is a decent person and does not want to be involved in a homosexual scandal.
Chi Yu was not very sad. He and Zhang Wenfan were not together because of love, but to repay a favor. He still doesn’t understand what love is. Now that the favor has been repaid, he just wants to find a place to continue cultivating.
Zhang Wenfan is successful in his career and feels proud. Until one day, he met a Taoist priest on the road. The Taoist priest said that he had yao energy on his body, and he should have been in contact with supernatural yokais for a long time.
Zhang Wenfan didn’t believe it at first, but that Taoist priest was really amazing, he unveiled many of his secrets casually. Zhang Wenfan gradually became interested when he first heard about it, and suddenly his expression changed, thinking of Chi Yu.
All kinds of things from the past came to mind. Chi Yu takes a long bath every day, he had once laughed at the man who loved cleanliness so much. Chi Yu never eats carp, and just looking at it at the dinner table makes him vomit… He also found a fish scale on the bed before.
Everything has an answer.
Zhang Wenfan was horrified. He panicked at the thought of living with a yokai for so long. He was also afraid that Chi Yu, who had been driven away by him, will come for revenge, so he quickly informed the Taoist priest of Chi Yu’s whereabouts. The two chose a day to go to Chi Yu’s residence and Zhang Wenfan came forward to talk to Chi Yu.
Chi Yu was unprepared for Zhang Wenfan and accidentally fell into his trap and lost his magic power. The Taoist priest took the opportunity to jump out and subdue him, took out his inner dan, and Chi Yu was beaten back into his original shape.
The Taoist priest took the inner dan and left. Zhang Wenfan still wanted to kill Chi Yu but did not dare to do it himself, so he sold the big carp to the fishmonger in the wet market, and then it was bought by the customers and turned into a dish on the table that night.
Killing fish with a borrowed knife is very cunning.
Some yokais repay kindness with kindness while some people repay kindness with hatred.
When the carp is a thousand years old, it is expected to leap over the dragon gate, transform into a dragon, and travel around the world.
Chi Yu died at the age of nine hundred and ninety-nine. He was killed by a knife and buried by the hearts of the people.
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T/N: Happy Lunar New Year Eve!
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