Chapter 12: Bathing Together and Sleeping Together

Gu Shan released his hand with a smile, then pulled Gu Bai to sit down at the table, “Gege’s had a soft heart since young, in the future, you can’t just trust anyone else so easily.” When he said that, he blinked, “But, Xiao Shan is an exception, right?”

Gu Bai pinched Gu Shan’s face with no expressions, “If I weren’t careful, I would’ve already died.”

Later, he’d obviously ordered people to find out about Gu Shan’s life events from the past few years. But he’d never doubted who he was, after all, he had stayed together with Gu Shan for a period of time and Gu Shan’s facial structure actually hadn’t changed too much…it was just that since it had matured, he’d become super good looking.

During that period of time, he had always kept Gu Shan by his side. After all, he had the highest skills there and would notice if there were any strange actions, and if there really wasn’t anything wrong with Gu Shan; then there was even more reason to keep him by his side. To have a brother who didn’t just interact with him because of his status wasn’t too bad.

Gu Shan squinted his eyes and let Gu Bai squeeze him all he wanted, once Gu Bai was satisfied, he squatted halfway down and put his face closer to his, “Does Gege also wanna give a little kiss?”

Gu Bai hit his head, “…Naughty.”

He passed by the problem of identity casually, and by then it was already dinner time.

Gu Bai opened the door, as usual, there was a servant who waited outside for orders, so he ordered for the other to bring in a table of fine dishes.

Then later…

“City governor, the cold dishes are here.”

Female servant A, B, C, D, and E all entered like a line of fish, then each placed down a plate of cold food.

“City governor, the hot dishes are here.”

Servant A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and H all entered like a line of fish, then each placed down a plate of hot food.

“City governor, the craft wine of Tian Du Cheng is here.”

The four great female servants all carried a white jade wine bottle within their hands, then walked in as if they were floating.

Child servant A, B, C, and D sent in different types of bowls, chopsticks, plates, and such…

Two children were sent in with tea for rinsing the mouth and such…

Xxx sent in xxx and such…

This went on for a while, until everything that was needed to be readied, and things that didn’t really need to be readied; were all ready, the Da Guan Jia who had been serving on the side walked up to the door and asked politely, “City governor, should this subordinate stay here to serve?”

Gu Bai, “…There is no need.”

He was dismissed and the door was closed,

Gu Shan, “Pfft.”

Gu Bai’s stone face looked at Gu Shan’s shoulders that shook, and was silent, with no words.

I wanted to see entertaining stuff, but I didn’t want to be seen as the entertainment, I literally just said the servants of the City Governor’s Palace were trained well to follow rules, what was with giving me a harsh slap in the face, right after that statement?!

Also, Gu Xiao Shan, don’t think I didn’t see you shaking from laughter, do you know this is disrespectful to your elder, hey!

Gu Shan turned around, and the corners of his eyes were slightly red, “Gege’s servants sure are interesting.”

Gu Bai looked at him quietly, “That was disorganized, and made you see a joke.”

Gu Shan shook his head, then sighed, “I’m very envious.” His eyes were also very soft, “Gege, don’t think of me as an outsider, even though we haven’t seen each other for a long time; but inside, Gege is still the same as before to me.”

Gu Bai wanted to be emotional for a bit, but…

My current stone face actually looks like there is no difference to you on the inside, Gu Xiao Shan, are you really not blind?

Maybe because Gu Bai’s eyes exposed his thoughts too much, Gu Shan couldn’t help but laugh out loud, “I understand you very well.” He tilted his head to think, then said, “Gege’s eyes didn’t change…no, it’s not that they didn’t change at all, but the original stuff is still the same as before.”

An example would have been, when he’d looked at him, even though he’d still had the cautiousness that he was used to having as a city governor, but his care was real. They were the same as the one within his memory.

Gu Bai obviously didn’t know what Gu Shan was thinking about, he just thought with a 囧 face inside; why could everyone else see something out of other people’s eyes, but he couldn’t? Okay, if he were to really stare at someone’s eyes, then it was definitely because that person had a booger in their eyes…ORZ1

After he swept away all the weird thoughts inside his head, Gu Bai spoke seriously, “Let’s eat.”

Gu Shan replied softly, “Okay.”

So, the two started to eat.

Gu Bai ate very relaxingly, it could be said that this was the first time he’d had such a relaxing meal while eating with someone else.

Usually, when he ate by himself, that would be the most relaxed time of the whole day for him. But if a person could only eat by themselves every day, then wasn’t that just too sad?

But Gu Shan was different.

People in the world were just like so, once your worst appearance had already been seen by another person, then in front of that person, naturally, you’d end up exposing yourself more and more.

Like Gu Bai, he’d once rolled on the ground, with his whole body covered in blood, in front of Gu Shan. Then hugged and kissed the other with a full body of mud, and had even had a water fight with the other, naked…he had done all those immature things with Gu Shan, so such a thing as a “not very elegant eating style”, what did that matter?

Gu Shan hadn’t thought too much of it either.

He watched as Gu Bai took in large bites of food, like a tornado swallowing in clouds, it made him not look as unapproachable and cold anymore. It made him smile more as he helped put food in the other’s bowl and poured wine as he chatted with him. He definitely hadn’t made the other out to be the high above city governor of Tian Du Cheng, instead, he thought of him as a normal person, a friend, an elder brother he hadn’t seen for many years.

Gu Bai was half full really fast, then realized that Gu Shan hadn’t eaten too much since he kept on serving him, he thought about it, then started to put food in Gu Shan’s bowl as well.

So the two people acted as good brothers and friends, then…finished all the food on the table.

The portion size of a Wu Zhe was always very shocking.

No matter how perfect Zi Ju Shu Bai’s body was, he could’ve probably still eat as much as a whole cow in one meal.

After the meal, everything was cleaned up by the servants. In the room on the side, the four gorgeous female servants had already readied hot water and all the toiletries.

Gu Bai took Xiao Shan over, the room was filled with steam and very warm.

In the side room, there was a five to six square meter water pond already dug out, the water inside flowed from a natural spring. The water was a creamy white color, it was the result of having had some medicine soaked within it.

For normal families, this may have been too luxurious. But for it to have appeared within the Tian Du Cheng’s city governor’s room, it suddenly looked very normal.

After all, he was a High Leveled Wu Jun, for martial artists at that kind of level, they’d always have privileges.

Gu Shan saw it and also showed a surprised expression, “This place is pretty good.”

Gu Bai had finally met his goal of showing off, then nodded, “Wanna bathe in it?”

Gu Shan exposed eight teeth of his, “Gege wants to bathe with me?”

Gu Bai kept silent.

…No, actually, I wanted to say that, man and man also shouldn’t have so much physical interaction.

But obviously, within this kind of stallion novel world, only man and woman couldn’t have had too much over-intimate contact. If two men bathed together, then it wasn’t gay, it was just bromance.

On one hand, Gu Bai spat on himself for being influenced by the poisonous, rotten mindset of the 2D world, then on the other hand, he nodded his head again, “Let’s go in together, we can also chat.”

Gu Shan seemed to be very happy and he quickly started to take off his belt, his smile also became a lot brighter. “Then I won’t hold back, and will also enjoy Gege’s medicinal spring.” (PR: Is it just me, or are there double entendres?)

Gu Bai stilled for a bit, then he turned around and undressed himself slowly, “If you like it, you can be in it for a longer time.”

Once Gu Bai had only his undergarment left, Gu Shan was already down in the water, and had raised his head up to look at his half-naked body.

Gu Bai felt a bit uncomfortable. Then after he heard Gu Shan say “Gege’s body looks so nice,” he became even more uncomfortable.

But he didn’t say anything, and quickly entered the water with a serious face.

…Boy, even though I know you’re complimenting the fact that my muscles are well-trained, and my body proportions are nice too, but do you have to say it so much like you’re teasing?

Within the bathing pond, the two were about a meter away from each other as they bathed.

Gu Bai was actually concerned that Gu Shan might suddenly come at him with the “Gege, let me scrub your back” kind of stuff at that time. That’s right, Gu Shan had a pretty important spot in his heart, but still, they hadn’t seen each other for many years. He had only seen the small Gu Shan before, but to be bathing with the big Gu Shan in front of him now has already very much tested his limit of interacting with humans. One needed to know that while he was a shut-in otaku in the last life, he had never been that intimate with anyone else, if he had to get any more intimate then…he would’ve definitely lost it.

Gu Shan seemed to have also thought it was enough and didn’t do anything that could’ve unsettled Gu Bai. The two finished bathing together peacefully, went to bed together, after undressing themselves peacefully, slept on the same bed peacefully.

To suddenly have a person beside him, made Gu Bai uncomfortable all over, especially when he didn’t know what Gu Shan ate to have been able to grow like that. Gu Bai had thought that he, himself, was already pretty tall, yet Gu Shan was actually taller than him by half a head. This made him have a really high presence.

Gu Shan’s voice within the night seemed to be even warmer and magnetic. As the light chuckles of his passed by his ears while he was speaking, Gu Bai couldn’t have helped but felt envious and jealous.

Zi Ju Shu Bai’s voice was the cold type that didn’t have any emotions in it, so sometimes, when Gu Bai spoke, he would also freeze and made himself entirely stiff. Now meeting the grown-up Gu Shan who grew to be pretty good looking and could fully express his feelings…

Gu Bai silently became, even more silent.

Gu Shan was really good at picking up topics, and it made Gu Bai quickly forget about other things, as he sank into the joy of chatting. But the said candlelight night talk didn’t last long, Gu Bai continued to talk with Gu Shan, and unknowingly, he fell asleep.

At that time, it seemed to be midnight already.

Gu Shan lifted his hand and hit the last bit of bead-like candle fire on the table out.

Then he turned his head, opened his mouth and lightly blew out a cloud of black mist.

Gu Bai sucked in the black mist, and a slight blue-green color appeared between his brows, then his head slightly turned towards the left, he fell into an even deeper sleep.

Gu Shan smiled and squeezed Gu Bai’s face lightly, “The city governor of Tian Du Cheng has great martial skills, so naturally, wouldn’t think that a Beginner Low-Rank Wu Shi like me, would have poison that could affect a High Leveled Wu Jun in my hands.” He went closer and looked at the “perfect to the extreme” face beneath the moonlight, “Even though you seem to be a lot more cautious than before, yet, you’re still as soft-hearted as before…but since you didn’t lie to me, I wouldn’t harm you either.”

When he finished, he raised his hand for a black light to appear.

In a short while, the “ssss” sounds of a snake’s tongue flicking could be heard by the window, a pitch-black snake head nodded slightly towards Gu Shan, then with a twist of its body, it disappeared into the night.