Why Aren’t You Cultivating Immortality? (GL) Chapter 24

For the next few days, Xiao Xing only stayed at the company for half an hour. She arrived at nine, signed the approval documents sent over by each department, then left with Assistant Tang at nine-thirty.
She came in a hurry and left in a hurry, leaving Bai Moqing with only a cold side profile.
Bai Moqing’s state was a little off. Today, she looked even more absent-minded, as if she had lost some great treasure. An Huaigu finally could not hold back her curiosity and asked, “Little Bai, what has been wrong with you these past few days? Did something happen at home?”
Bai Moqing lifted her head and glanced at An Huaigu. “No.”
“Then why do you look as if your soul has left your body?” An Huaigu walked up to Bai Moqing, bent down, and pointed at her own eyes. “Little Bai, these eyes of mine are as sharp as an eagle’s. Nothing escapes them.”
“If Assistant An’s eyes are that good, why not become a sniper?” Tang Yue appeared at the doorway with documents in her arms, smiling as she teased her.
After not seeing her for a few days, Tang Yue was still just as annoying. An Huaigu turned and slanted a glare at her. Following Tang Yue’s words, she said, “I am afraid that once I held an AK, I would not be able to stop myself from blowing your head off.”
“Looks like I should thank Assistant An for not becoming a sniper.” Tang Yue walked into the office, pulled out a document, and handed it to An Huaigu. “President Xiao asked me to give you this.”
The moment Bai Moqing heard the words President Xiao, her heart immediately rose.
An Huaigu accepted the document with a look of disgust and opened it to browse. Seeing Tang Yue still standing in front of her, she tilted her head and said, “Does Great Assistant Tang have anything else to instruct me on?”
Facing Tang Yue, An Huaigu was like a cat with its fur standing on end. The root of it was still that Tang Yue had suddenly touched her butt.
Tang Yue smiled. “Nothing else.” She glanced at Bai Moqing, then turned and left.
“Fake serious.” An Huaigu took the materials back to her station and slowly read them.
Time passed minute by minute. Only five minutes remained before the end of work.
After Tang Yue appeared, Bai Moqing kept looking toward the doorway. But even when it was almost time to leave, she still did not see Xiao Xing.
These past few days, Assistant Tang had been with President Xiao the whole time. Assistant Tang was back, so why had President Xiao not come back too?
Bai Moqing closed her eyes and released her divine sense.
One wall away, the president’s office was empty. Her divine sense spread from the top floor downward, covering floor after floor. President Xiao was not in the company.
The dream of forcefully kissing Xiao Xing was carved into Bai Moqing’s mind and would not go away. Bai Moqing felt as if her heart had been tangled by vines and crushed under wheels. It was hollow and empty. Only seeing President Xiao would make it better.
But at this hour, President Xiao probably would not come to the company.
The next two days were the weekend. She still would not see her.
Bai Moqing rubbed her forehead. Feelings truly rose before one knew it.
With only one minute left before work ended, the whole building began to stir. Sister An had already shut down her computer and packed up, ready to leave.
Right on time, An Huaigu told Bai Moqing, “I am off work,” then hurried away first.
By the time Bai Moqing locked the office door and walked out, there was no one left on this floor. Even hardworking Assistant Tang had already left.
Bai Moqing looked at Xiao Xing’s private president’s elevator. After hesitating, she walked over.
Since she could not see President Xiao, then she would ride her elevator once.
The red numbers kept jumping. Ding. It arrived.
The elevator doors slowly opened, and a black figure appeared in front of Bai Moqing.
A black coat, black trousers, and the posture of a queenly older-sister type. One step, then two. Xiao Xing walked to Bai Moqing and stopped before her.
The powerful pressure made Bai Moqing’s heart nearly stop. She had not expected Xiao Xing to be inside. When she came back to herself, she quickly turned sideways to make way for Xiao Xing. “President Xiao, work is over. Why are you still coming to the company?”
Xiao Xing looked steadily at Bai Moqing and said, “There are still some matters to handle.” Her voice was cool and gentle. She spoke a little slower than usual, sounding especially alluring.
“Then I will not disturb President Xiao.” Now that Bai Moqing had truly seen Xiao Xing, she wanted to run again. She stepped into the elevator in two strides and raised her hand to press the close-door button.
Xiao Xing turned around. Their eyes met. As the elevator doors slowly closed, the space in their sight grew smaller and smaller until it was completely cut off.
Before Bai Moqing could breathe in relief, the elevator doors suddenly opened again.
Xiao Xing’s hand was on the button and had not yet withdrawn. Bai Moqing looked at Xiao Xing, not knowing what she wanted to do.
“Have you been well these past few days?” Xiao Xing stepped into the elevator. Her eyes focused on Bai Moqing as her body leaned toward her.
Why was she suddenly asking whether she had been well? Bai Moqing stared at Xiao Xing in a daze.
Had she been well? No.
She had dreamed of Xiao Xing. In the dream, she and Xiao Xing kissed until they were tangled together. When she woke the next day, the feeling of lips and teeth touching was still there.
These past few days, her mind felt broken. Her head was full of thoughts of kissing Xiao Xing. She wanted to know whether Xiao Xing’s lips were the same as in the dream, cool, but soft, fragrant, and sweet.
Her gaze moved from Xiao Xing’s eyes to her lips. Those soft pink thin lips tempted her closer.
A voice in her heart urged her, Kiss her. Kiss her. Once you kiss her, you will know whether her lips are the same as in the dream.
Bai Moqing swallowed and moved closer in a daze.
Just like in the dream, President Xiao’s lips were very soft. They seemed to carry a faint orchid scent.
Just as Bai Moqing wanted to feel it more deeply, Xiao Xing stepped back half a step and put distance between them.
As if waking from a dream, Bai Moqing realized what she had just done. Her face flushed red.
“Bai Moqing…” Hearing Xiao Xing’s cool voice call her name, Bai Moqing panicked and did not know what to do. She pushed Xiao Xing away, ran out of the elevator, and fled down the stairs.
Night slowly fell. People left the building one after another. Xiao Xing stood before the floor-to-ceiling window in her office and saw Bai Moqing in the crowd at once. Watching Bai Moqing leave the company with flustered steps, Xiao Xing touched her lips and smiled.
The little orange cat lay on the sofa, bored as she watched television. When she saw Bai Moqing return, she instantly brightened. She jumped off the sofa and changed into human form. “Qingqing, I found another place with spiritual energy!”
After seeing how good Bai Moqing was at absorbing spiritual energy, Feiyue no longer dared use the word abundant to describe the amount of spiritual energy anywhere.
Hooking her arm around Bai Moqing’s, Feiyue smiled like a child. “Do you want to go cultivate together tonight?”
Bai Moqing pulled out her hand and said, “Are you not afraid I will absorb that little bit of spiritual energy too?”
Feiyue froze. “That is true. Then how about you watch me cultivate?”
“Go by yourself.” Bai Moqing’s expression was a little heavy, as if she had something on her mind. She turned and entered the kitchen.
Feiyue followed with a shocked face. “Qingqing, are you going to make dinner?” Since she had started living here, she had never seen the kitchen stove turned on.
“Feiyue, if I do not cultivate, how long do you think I can live?” Bai Moqing opened the refrigerator and looked inside. It was empty. There was nothing at all.
Feiyue counted on her fingers. “One, two, three… probably a few hundred years? I am not sure either.” She leaned over and looked at Bai Moqing’s face. “Why are you asking this?”
“I want to be an ordinary mortal and slowly grow old with the person I like.”
Thinking back to what had happened in the elevator, Bai Moqing felt that she had fallen for Xiao Xing. It should have been love at first sight. The first time she saw Xiao Xing drinking coffee, she had developed feelings for her.
“You should like me instead! We can be together, cultivate forever, and live forever!”
Feiyue was so excited that she hugged Bai Moqing from behind. “Qingqing, Qingqing, you are the first person I have dated after cultivating into human form. My first love!”
Bai Moqing wordlessly pried Feiyue’s hands away, turned, pressed a hand to Feiyue’s forehead, and pushed her off. “I have not agreed to like you yet. How am I already your first love?”
Such a simple little cat demon had now turned into a cat in heat who could not go three sentences without talking about love.
“No matter when you agree, you are still my first love.” Feiyue placed her left hand on the wall and her right hand on her waist, looking exactly like a lecher.
Bai Moqing looked her up and down without speaking. Feiyue put both hands on her waist. “Bai Moqing, what is that look? Are you disgusted with me?”
“How could I be disgusted with you?” Bai Moqing smiled and patted Feiyue’s head, then walked around her and returned to the bedroom.
She sat cross-legged on the bed. Just as she was about to unfold her divine sense to secretly check on Xiao Xing, Xiao Xing’s message suddenly arrived.
Are you not going to give me an explanation for what happened in the elevator?
Xiao Xing’s divine sense had been watching Bai Moqing the whole time. Hearing the little cat demon confess to Bai Moqing, even if it was only a joke, she still could not help sending Bai Moqing a message, reminding her of the improper thing she had done in the elevator.
Bai Moqing held her phone and looked at Xiao Xing’s message. Savoring the memory, she licked her lips. President Xiao’s lips were cool and soft. How should she explain why she had suddenly kissed her?
Tell Xiao Xing she liked her? Too sudden. They had known each other for less than a month.
Pretend nothing had happened? That would be lying to herself and others.
Bai Moqing closed her eyes in a tangle and thought for a long time. In the end, she replied: President Xiao, where are you now?
She made up her mind. If Xiao Xing told her where she was, Bai Moqing would tell Xiao Xing that she would come find her.
Bai Moqing waited until the knot in her heart twisted into a fried dough twist, but Xiao Xing still did not reply. The message she sent seemed to sink like a stone into the sea.
Her heart panicked. President Xiao could not be angry, right?
Looking again at the message she had sent, no matter how she looked at it, it seemed like she was deliberately changing the subject and acting as if nothing had happened.