He saw the slender, tall body of the youth in front of him, he seemed to be about eight chi[1] tall. If how well-proportioned his muscles were, wasn’t showing because of how skinny he was, then he probably would’ve made people feel that he had a strong built.
His face was very good-looking, the type of good-looking that wasn’t the extremely handsome and gorgeousness Zi Ju Shu Bai had, but a look where every part of him could settle one’s emotions. Like seeing every single inch, and watching him for every single minute, it was really comfortable…long words short, he was a man who was really pleasing to the eyes.
But no matter how pleasing the youth looked, he still didn’t have the appearance that Gu Bai had imagined.
The little person within Gu Bai’s heart, squatted down silently.
Such a thing as a cute shota who turned into a pretty boy in one second…
But right now, the skill of acting cool had already seeped into Gu Bai’s bones, so he wore an expression that had…no expressions, and slowly opened his mouth, “Xiao Shan?”
The youth smiled, his smile was literally like hundreds of flowers blooming, “Yes.” He said, “I’m Gu Shan, also Xiao Gege’s Xiao Shan.”
What, what a magnetic, tender, and great voice!
Gu Bai hadn’t clearly heard the “Xiao Gege” from the sentence before, due to still being in shock, but now that he realized it, he suddenly became a voice maniac!
With Gu Bai’s many years of experience within the 2D world, he hadn’t heard a voice better than the voice he had just heard. This made his moe point suddenly shift, and it transformed from the disappointment of “there is no cute shota” to the joy of “the best voice in the world” he couldn’t even stop himself from shaking once inside.
A smile hung on the pretty boy’s lips, and emotions were within his eyes. Then he reached out his palm, with bone joints that could be clearly seen, within his palm was a delicately crafted Yupei, “The item Xiao Gege gave me to remember you by, I will now return it to its owner.” His voice was very soft, “Xiao Gege didn’t lie to me, that’s good.”
Gu Bai nodded with his stone face, then waved his hand to dismiss Qin Xu Bo, once he was gone, he finally took the Yupei.
Pretty boy Gu Shan was still smiling slightly.
But Gu Bai walked over, “Lower your head.”
Gu Shan was a bit surprised, but he still put his head down obediently, it was just that as Gu Bai got close, his body became a bit stiff.
Gu Bai hadn’t noticed it, and just hung the Yupei on Gu Shan’s neck, “Since I gave it to you, then it’s yours, Xiao Shan.” In a rare moment, he had finally spoken a long sentence, but because he hadn’t spoken in a long time, it seemed a bit unnatural, “I’m very happy that you came.”
Gu Shan slowly relaxed his body, he looked at Gu Bai and smiled with unclear intentions, then he held onto Gu Bai’s hand.
Gu Bai was stunned for a bit.
Gu Shan pulled on it and walked to his side calmly, “When we were little, it was Xiao Gege who held my hand like this. Now, it’s my turn to hold Xiao Gege’s.”
Gu Bai wanted to smile, but he couldn’t even lift the corner of his mouth, because of how long he had maintained this iced face of his, “You still, remember?”
He was a bit touched inside.
Since he still remembered it himself, because Gu Shan was the first person he’d met after he’d transmigrated. Plus, during that time, he’d already had the mind of a grown adult and thought of Gu Shan as a rare warmth of his. But Gu Shan was only a few years old at that time, even after so many years, he actually hadn’t forgotten him.
Gu Shan smiled even more kindly then, “Of course I remember, Xiao Gege treated me the best, and was also the only person who didn’t lie to me.”
Gu Bai felt a bit guilty.
Gu Shan continued to talk, “But why was it Gu Shu Bai? Isn’t Xiao Gege named Zi Ju Shu Bai?”
Gu Bai felt even more guilty, “At that time, I wasn’t old enough yet, so it was more convenient to use an alias when I was out traveling, so I changed it to my mother’s surname.” Even though that wasn’t the real reason, but the dead mother he’d gained from transmigrating really had “Gu” as her surname. Using it then to fool this little friend of his, was because he’d had no other choice.
Gu Shan released a breath, “I knew Xiao Gege didn’t hide it from me on purpose.”
Gu Bai also released a breath with him.
Then…wait, that wasn’t right! He and Xiao Gu Shan had just reunited after many years, how come they were so close, as if they’d never been separated? And the conversational topics seemed to always be controlled by Xiao Gu Shan, and he himself seemed to have been led by the nose?
No, he definitely couldn’t lose his pride of an elder brother!
Gu Bai coughed lightly, “…Xiao Shan.”
Gu Shan smiled slightly, “Mn?”
Gu Bai spoke in seriousness, “You don’t, have to call me, ‘Xiao’ Gege.”
Gu Shan’s eyes were like spring water, “Then…how about I call you ‘Gege’?” Then he leaned into him and spoke in a low voice, “I forgot to say this earlier…Gege, long time no see.”
The root of Gu Bai’s ears reddened.
This was such a foul, who did that next to someone else’s ear? That was a complete crime!
Good thing that your Gege, I, only love 2D and not 3D, otherwise I would’ve definitely been seduced, okay?!
After he’d quickly rambled on internally, Gu Bai looked over with his dead fish eyes, “Mn, long time no see.”
Gu Shan and Gu Bai stared at each other for three seconds and finally, he laughed with a “pfft” sound, “Gege is so serious.”
Later on, the conversation’s rhythm was still controlled by Gu Shan, and for once, Gu Bai didn’t push himself to train. Instead, he spent the whole afternoon chatting with Gu Shan.
Even though Gu Bai wasn’t very cautious of Gu Shan internally, but, maybe because Gu Shan knew how sensitive his position was, during their conversation, he started to slowly bring up his past. At the same time, Gu Bai also shared the experiences he had gone through in the past years with Gu Shan.
The more they talked, the closer they became. Those fifteen years of separation seemed as if they’d never even existed.
There actually weren’t any really crazy events the two had gone through in those years. Gu Bai had just trained hard, became the city governor, then continued to train hard. As for Gu Shan, he had trained hard, done labors, and trained hard. And as Gu Bai had expected, the Town of the Blue Goats was in a bit of unrest just then, and for people who did labors like Gu Shan, it was hard for them to survive there. Then Gu Shan remembered the promise he had received many years ago, and with the thought of “curing a dead horse as if it’s alive,” he came over for help.
Unexpectedly, he had received such hospitable treatment…Gu Shan wanted to say, he would follow Gege in the future and would definitely be a good fighter.
Gu Bai looked at Gu Shan and saw through Gu Shan’s current stage of martial skill in one look.
Beginner Low-Rank Wu Shi, he was completely eight levels below Gu Bai, and just a little better than a normal Wu Zhe.
One should know, those type of Wu Zhe were already pretty good, when compared to normal people. But when they were before the eyes of those who were at a bit of a higher level, then they were no different than canon fodders. Whatever stuff was the worst and most tiring, they were all pushed onto these low leveled martial artists to finish. And a Beginner Low-Rank Wu Shi was only slightly stronger, other than that, they weren’t too much. Usually, if one became a High Leveled Low-Rank Wu Shi or even up to a High-Rank Wu Shi, then they would have had a bit of authority and could enjoy being served.
He then looked at Gu Shan’s clothing, they were some very normal clothes, and they weren’t even as good as the ones the normal citizens of Tian Du Cheng wore…
Gu Bai felt hurt for him again, this kid, he must’ve suffered through much in the past.
And so, right at that moment, Gu Bai decided to make Gu Shan his personal guard, so that he could protect him, with him by his side.
As for his low martial power…what was there to be afraid of? Even though Gu Shan didn’t have the best body for training, but if he just taught him well, then he could still level up!
Then once the protagonist’s events were over, he could take Gu Shan to travel all over the world and try to find some treasures the protagonist didn’t care about…
He thought of it and decided to do it, seeing that the sky was about to turn dark, Gu Bai turned his head to look at Gu Shan, “Where do you want to live?”
Gu Shan blinked his eyes, “I wanna live together with Gege…and sleep on the same bed, can we?”
…Boy, could you not say it in such a misleading way?!
Gu Bai had no expression, “Yeah.”
Gu Shan looked at Gu Bai’s face and laughed with a light sound.
Gu Bai felt like he, himself, had some problems, or else, why had he kept on jumping upon hearing Xiao Shan’s laugh every time? It definitely didn’t make any sense logically. As a good elder brother, he thought he needed to stop himself from having those fantasies and settle his heart down, as calm as stilled water.
He thought for a while, then stood up, “Follow me.”
Eh, why did he feel like he was being dragged by something? Gu Bai lowered his head to look, then realized that his hand was still being held by Gu Xiao Shan’s hand.
God, did this have to be so natural?!
Gu Shan also stood up, he seemed a bit confused, he asked, “Gege, what is it?”
Gu Bai kept his stone face, “…Nothing.”
The two held hands and walked out the door.
Upon exiting the door, the first thing that met their eyes, was the Da Guan Jia, Qin Xu Bo.
Qin Xu Bo was usually the most accountable one, he bowed first to greet them and then, unintentionally, saw the two’s intersected hands.
So he turned into a stone.
Was this still the high peaked flower city governor that never let anyone get close to him?
Gu Bai hadn’t noticed the stiffness of his trustworthy underling, and just tossed down the sentence of “Xiao Shan’s gonna live with me”, then walked towards his living space.
Gu Shan had really good manners too, he even remembered to turn his head back to smile and said, “Thank you for your hard work, Da Guan Jia.” But the hand that held onto Gu Bai’s, he also, definitely, hadn’t loosened.
The Da Guan Jia, Qin Xu Bo who was left behind, had a complex look in his eyes as he watched the two leave, his emotions inside were also very complex.
He just felt that…something didn’t seem right.
The city governor, that had never even held a girl’s hand, was suddenly holding a man’s, was that really okay?
The two walked, and on their way, they met many servants doing their work. Every time they finished walking down a part of the passageway, they left behind rows of “stone statues.”
Gu Bai was in a great mood.
To be honest, even though he was an otaku who stayed inside 24/7, but he was still an otaku who liked to have fun by seeing others being rowdy. Plus, for so many years, he’d done nothing other than pushed himself to train harder, there hadn’t been a single bit of entertainment! And people within the City Governor Palace, all just had to think Gu Bai was literally an unattainable moon from high above, so they hadn’t even dared to talk too loudly inside the palace, wasn’t that just way too unreasonable?! The Gu Bai who had already been enduring it for too long was already empty, lonely, and cold. But to keep up his appearance, he just hadn’t been able to… say…any…thing!
Now, he felt a lot better, no matter how boring the people within the City Governor’s Palace were, the many different, surprised expressions after they were shocked, were enough to entertain Gu Bai.
It was healthy to be shocked.
On one hand, Gu Bai secretly felt good inside, while on the other, he kept up his lone-wolf, cold, and unapproachable appearance.
At that time, Gu Shan suddenly turned his head, and spoke in a low voice beside his ear, “Gege seems to be really happy?” Then a hand grabbed Gu Bai’s neck lightly, “Gege trusts me this much, aren’t you afraid I would do harm to you?”
Gu Bai raised his head, his bedroom was right in front. He turned slightly and slipped into it with Gu Shan.
Then he opened his mouth, “Mn, very happy.” Then grabbed onto Gu Shan’s wrist with his own hand and dragged it off of his neck, “Your power is too weak.”
Boy, even if I removed my hand and let you choke me, you still wouldn’t be able to kill me!