Xia Xi slept until the evening. The room was warm, the strong scent after sex has disappeared, but the traces on Xia Xi's body haven't disappeared yet. His lips were slightly swollen and he was bare, there were red marks on his neck, and there were more under his clothes. Most expectedly, the two flowers between his legs were still a little swollen.
After he woke up, Lan Duo'er brought in dinner made of easy to digest food. Xia Chun was sitting at the table practising calligraphy, after Xia Xi finished eating, Xia Chun quickly poured him a cup of tea. Xia Xi touched his head and said with a light smile: "Good." He drank the tea, but the child didn't leave, frowning and staring at his neck. Xia Xi covered it in embarrassment. The child suddenly ran to the table, wrote a few words on the wooden board with a brush, and held it in front of Xia Xi to show him.
The words on the wooden board were a bit crooked, Xia Xi recited the barely-recognisable characters: "Is he a bad guy..." Xia Xi was a little bit amused. Seeing the child's serious face, he became serious, and said warmly: "He's not a bad guy, Xia Chun, he's the king of the Barbarian state and my husband."
Xia Chun obviously didn't understand it and still felt that Xia Xi was being bullied¹, his fists were clenched tightly. Xia Xi stretched out his hand and hugged him into his lap, he said in a softer voice: "I haven't been bullied by him, this is what the matter between husband and wife is; it's normal. You're worried about me, did I scare you last night?" He said again: "The King is a very good person, he's the sender of the candy you eat every day."
The sentence was obviously much more useful. The tight look on the child's face slowly relaxed, and he looked at him with a pair of pure eyes that still had some doubt. Xia Xi smiled and nodded, "It's true, otherwise why would there be so many?" Although Lan Duo'er didn't say it, Xia Xi knew that these things must've been sent by Chu Lan. Other people rely on dried cow dung for heating, only his house had the finest charcoal. The food was also the most delicate, such as his favourite rice porridge and nutritious soups, sweets were also the best, he even had exotic fruits that ordinary people couldn't afford.
Xia Xi vaguely remembered Chu Lan saying that he would come again the next month, however, he didn't know the specific time so he just quietly looked forward to it every day. As spring started, the weather finally warmed up a bit, and Xia Xi opened up a few vegetable plots in the yard and began to plant seeds. Yue Ling'er gave him some seeds from a foreign land, there were many vegetables he hadn't seen before so he was careful planting them, when he saw the sprouts growing he felt happy.
Maybe it was because of sufficient nourishment, but Xia Chun had begun to grow taller, and his personality became more cheerful. He wasn't as afraid of the unfamiliar, Xia Xi taught him to understand some Barbarian words, and he slowly understood. One day, he was actually starting to converse with people, going to the outer courtyard and wanting to learn horseback riding and archery.
Xia Xi always felt that riding a horse was a dangerous thing. He wanted the child to not go, but Xia Chun insisted, so he finally let Lan Duo'er find a reliable expert to teach him.
Chu Lan said that he would come, but Xia Xi waited until the end of the month and he still didn't come. Xia Xi even wondered if what he heard before were only hallucinations. He couldn't help feeling a little lost, so when he saw Chu Lan appearing in his house at night, his heart that was too pleasantly surprised almost jumped out.
Chu Lan was dressed like a commoner, without his crown, he only had an outfit much like the guards outside, the only difference was the abundant dust on his face. Xia Xi was both surprised and delighted, he asked: "Why are you here at this hour?"
Chu Lan stretched out a hand and held his cheek, he said with a chuckle, "Isn't it more appropriate to have secret meetings at night? In your Xia folk novels, the poor son and the young lady elopes at night, right?"
Xia Xi was a little amused and corrected: "That's wrong, the Kingdom of Xia has imposed a curfew and you can't leave the city at night, how could one run away?" He quickly asked Lan Duo'er to bring in hot water and washed Chu Lan's face with his cloth towel. Chu Lan sat on the chair Xia Xi usually sat on and didn't move, he just raised his head and let Xia Xi wipe for himself, staring at him without blinking. He said: "If it's me and you, even if the capital's sealed shut, I'll get out of the city and take you far and nigh."
Xia Xi's heart jumped wildly and he said shyly: "You're talking nonsense again." Under the glow of the candlelight, Chu Lan's facial features looked even more beautiful, a beauty right out of the dust. Chu Lan couldn't bear it, he held his wrist and pulled him into his arms. Hugging him firmly, he turned him around and kissed his lips.
They didn't know how many times they rolled all over the sheets that night, Xia Xi's body was shot full of fluid, and Chu Lan licked him all over. He had to lie down for another day before managing to get out of bed. After that, Chu Lan began to visit once a month, every time he would come at night and then quietly leave when it was almost dawn. The two really seemed to be having a rendezvous affair.
In the spring of the next year, even though Xia Xi was in a far-flung temple, he still heard the news of General Mugelhan being imprisoned. The Barbarians had two left and right generals. the position belonging to the left general had been taken by Chu Lan's uncle, Mugelhan, and the right general was naturally his other uncle, Zaha. The two opposing forces controlled all of the Barbarian armies. Although Chu Lan was the great King, he had no real power to speak of, the government was mostly controlled by the two generals, he was at most a puppet.
And now, Mugelhan was in jail, his power has collapsed, and it was unknown whose hands it now belonged to.
Although Xia Xi chose to avoid politics, he wasn't naive enough to think that the right general Zaha was the safe courtier. The Barbarians were brave and warlike, how could such a person be willing to live under others? It's just that if Zaha wanted to win the throne, his reputation would rot and the chance of failure was very high. That's why he hibernated and tried his best to push his nephew to the throne. Until today, that is. Mugelhan was defeated, presumably because of his ambitions, it seems like Zaha's ambition was going to be exposed as well.²
If that's the case, the situation that Chu Lan was about to face had just become even more dangerous.
After Mugelhan's defeat, Zaha's power must've reached its apex. If Chu Lan wasn't careful...
Xia Xi dare not think about it in panic.
Mugelhan died in prison not long after being imprisoned. It was said that he died of illness, but in fact, everyone knew the true cause of his death. Ten days after his death, the King's favourite consort Hu Ji also died violently in the harem.
When Xia Xi heard the news, he felt a bit confused.
Hu Ji was given to Chu Lan by Mugelhan, it was conceivable that Chu Lan borrowed this as a reason to send Xia Xi to the temple. It was probably because he was worried that she would harm Xia Xi. When Mugelhan died, she suddenly died as well, was it Chu Lan's work?
Xia Xi knew that he shouldn't sympathize with a "spy", but when he thought of the beautiful woman, he still felt a little uncomfortable. Compared to his somewhat quiet sorrow, the other maids' emotions were obviously much intense. Even Xia Xi heard them talking quietly, saying that it might not be long before they could return to the Palace. However, Xia Xi knew that it was still too early for him to return to the Palace. Zaha was still watching him from not far away, and if Chu Lan was determined to solve him as well, then he could only put his "soft underbelly" away from him.
Sure enough, two months after Mugelhan's death, Chu Lan neither intended to take him back to the Palace nor even came to him secretly. It wasn't until the third month that Xia Xi saw him again at night.
At that time, Xia Xi was asleep, the temperature slowly rose. The room felt warm even without the charcoal basin, and his quilt was replaced with a thinner one, Xia Xi was had given it to the children of the An 'Eryuan during the day. He was tired from making summer clothes, so he slept very soundly at night. He didn't notice it when someone touched him.
Chu Lan didn't light the lamp either but settled on the side of Xia Xi's bed. He first removed all the clothes on his body, and then lifted the quilt from the corner of the bed and got inside.
Xia Xi's body had always been very fragrant, although he hardly wore any powder for fragrance, this smell was like his own. When he slept, he wore thin clothes, his upper body only had a bellyband, and his lower body had loose trousers. His socks were taken off, and his feet were bare. Chu Lan first touched his feet. Xia Xi's feet looked very nice, white and tender, with round and plump toes, dusted with a little pink, which made Chu Lan really like it. When he licked these feet for the first time, Xia Xi was so embarrassed that he sobbed and refused profusely, but he couldn't escape in the end because he was being held tightly. He could only watch Chu Lan lick with shame and finally handed his feet over to the enemy.
Chu Lan became even more excited when he thought of the appearance of his feet being coated with semen. After months of not having sex, he was a bit unrestrained. He grabbed Xia Xi's feet and opened his mouth. Even Xia Xi's toes had no odour at all, they were clean. Chu Lan licked the soles of his feet hungrily. Hearing Xia Xi groaning in his sleep, he went to lick his joints and pulled his trousers off.
Even though he had licked one foot wet, Xia Xi still slept too heavily, and when he did wake up, his body was already twisting unbearably. Chu Lan continued to lick up along the soles of Xia Xi's feet, sucking on his calf, licking his knees, and thighs. He split his legs apart forcibly, a familiar smell permeated and Chu Lan licked his inner thigh almost uncontrollably, sucking at his pussy in the dark.
With this lick, he knew that Xia Xi was already flowing with lewd water. His entrance was always tender, there was sparsely any hair around and the fluids always smelled of fishy sweetness. Chu Lan put a hot tongue over it and flicked his clitoris. Gradually, the fleshy bean came out of its hiding place. He circled it with his tongue to play with and then sucked on purpose.
"Ah... ah..." Xia Xi felt like he was having a spring dream again. In the dream, he was being licked by Chu Lan. He was very itchy there. After being played with for a while, a lot of juice came out, and his husband opened him up again. His mouth sucked all the water clean, and the sound of licking echoed loudly in the room. In the increasingly intense pleasure, he couldn't help spreading his legs wider and raising his butt higher, catering to the opponent's licking one after another. The delightful pleasure made him want to moan, with the increasingly fierce feeling, his mind finally broke through the darkness and returned to reality, only then did he realize that it wasn't a dream, but that someone was actually licking his cunt.
Xia Xi reached out between his crotch and touched a hairy head. He lifted the quilt and tentatively cried out: "Chu Lan?" The voice he made sounded like the sweet and greasy voice of one in the middle of fornication, Xia Xi blushed at himself.
The tongue squeezed into the fleshy passage once again, squeezing out a love juice. After swallowing it contentedly, Chu Lan said, "It's me, who else is there beside me?"
He quickly asked in jealously: "Could it be you're expecting others to come?"
Xia Xi breathed a sigh of relief when he heard it was him.
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<b>Notes:</b>
1- Hickeys look like a bruise more often than not, and are a kind of bruise in itself. So it may have looked like Xia Xi was covered in bruises, to be fair to Xia Chun\n2- Added a few things
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<b>PastTimer: No excuse today... I overslept 🙈</b>
<b>I know this is obvious but Chu Lan is really failing this whole 'overbearing emperor' thing</b>