Why Aren’t You Cultivating Immortality? (GL) Chapter 38

Tang Yue looked at Xiao Xing as if she were watching a good show.
She knew An Huaigu had a younger sister who went to university in this city. The two sisters lived together. But the explosive news that An Huaigu’s sister liked President Xiao? Tang Yue had only learned that today.
As President Xiao’s most capable assistant, Tang Yue had some idea of who President Xiao liked. The fact that President Xiao instinctively looked at Bai Moqing’s expression made Tang Yue even more certain of her guess.
President Xiao liked Bai Moqing.
Whether it was love at first sight or some stunning first meeting followed by reunion, that was not important. What mattered now was how to solve the crisis of being hugged by another woman right in front of the woman she liked.
Unlike An Huaijian’s excitement, Xiao Xing was extremely cold. She pushed An Huaijian away with one hand as if it took no effort at all.
“Why are you here?” Her displeased gaze flicked toward An Huaigu.
An Huaigu hid behind Bai Moqing like a bird burying its head in the sand. President Xiao’s eyes were terrifying. She looked like she wanted to kill someone.
“I heard from my sister that the company was hiring. I need an internship anyway, so I came.” An Huaijian had long since grown used to Xiao Xing’s coldness. She took half a step back. “A-Xing, I’m about to graduate. I’m not a student anymore.”
Only Xiao Xing understood the deeper meaning of that line. She had once rejected An Huaijian on the grounds that An Huaijian was still a student. By saying this now, An Huaijian was simply telling her that she still wanted to pursue her.
Bai Moqing’s face looked terrible. Her hands clenched into fists. She wanted to step forward, take Xiao Xing’s hand, and tell An Huaijian, tell everyone, This is my girlfriend. None of you are allowed to covet her.
But she had no standing.
Xiao Xing only had not refused her pursuit. She was not Bai Moqing’s girlfriend yet. And this was the company. Once Bai Moqing said such a thing, the consequences would be beyond what she could imagine.
If she stood in Xiao Xing’s position and thought for her, she could only swallow all that anger by force.
“Our company has no plans to hire interior design students.” Xiao Xing turned her gaze to Bai Moqing. “Come to my office.”
Her tone was still cold for the moment, but compared with the way she spoke to An Huaijian, her voice had warmed by who knew how many degrees.
Bai Moqing followed Xiao Xing out. Tang Yue stood sideways at the door. After the two of them entered the office next door, she turned and stepped into An Huaigu’s office.
An Huaijian’s young heart had been broken by Xiao Xing countless times. She sighed softly. Seeing her sister look hurt, An Huaigu walked over and patted her shoulder.
“Xiao Jian, don’t be sad.”
An Huaijian lifted her face with a smile. “I’m fine, Sis. I know what kind of person A-Xing is. Besides, she still remembers that I study interior design.”
She really knew how to find comfort for herself.
“I’m afraid you don’t actually know what kind of person President Xiao is.” Tang Yue’s gaze swept over An Huaijian’s face, then landed on An Huaigu.
An Huaigu had no mood to argue with Tang Yue right now. She touched An Huaijian’s head. “Xiao Jian, I’ll walk you out first.”
“Sis, about the job…” An Huaijian did not want to leave. She wanted to stay here. Even if she could not talk to Xiao Xing, just being closer to her would be enough.
An Huaigu raised her eyes and glanced at Tang Yue. “Don’t worry about the job. I’ll arrange it.”
Tang Yue frowned slightly.
Perhaps she should give An Huaigu a reminder. President Xiao’s reaction just now had already made her attitude very clear. She did not want An Huaijian to stay here. Otherwise, with President Xiao’s personality, even if she refused, she would have left some face for the other party instead of saying so directly that she did not want her.
Tang Yue did not know when this tacit understanding had begun, but An Huaigu could understand what she meant from a single frown. Maybe it had developed during their few business negotiations with Yesheng.
An Huaigu gently persuaded her younger sister to leave first. After she sent An Huaijian out of the building and returned, Tang Yue was still in their office, sitting in her seat. She seemed to have something to say.
“I’m not in the mood to fight with you.” Since her seat had been taken, An Huaigu sat on the sofa in the corner. She rubbed her forehead and leaned her head against the backrest.
The soft brown leather sofa let her whole body sink in as soon as she sat down. It was very comfortable.
Tang Yue walked to An Huaigu and held out a box. One look was enough to tell it was a gift prepared for An Huaigu.
She opened it. Inside, on a dark red velvet cushion, lay a silver bracelet. A small tiger charm hung from it. It looked bold, but also cute, and the work was fine and delicate.
“I saw it while shopping and thought it suited you.”
An Huaigu’s heart suddenly jumped. A warm feeling spread through her, the feeling of being kept in someone’s thoughts. But her face showed dislike.
“What, in your heart, am I a tigress?”
Tang Yue turned and sat beside An Huaigu. She took out the bracelet, pulled An Huaigu’s hand over, and put it on her. Wherever their fingers touched felt a little hot. An Huaigu did not refuse. She watched Tang Yue carefully fasten the bracelet for her.
“A cute little tigress.” Before An Huaigu could fire back, Tang Yue held her hand and smiled. “Now that you’re tied down, you’re mine.”
“What do you think I am, a dog?” An Huaigu pulled her hand back, but she did not take off the bracelet and return it. Instead, she threw a document at Tang Yue and said, “Just treat it as thanks for this.”
Inside the document were the approval materials for the hotel project. An Huaigu had personally gone from one bureau to another to help Tang Yue handle them. She had even used some private connections. If Tang Yue had handled it herself, the approvals probably would not have come through in less than half a month.
“Let’s have dinner together tonight,” Tang Yue said after flipping through the document.
An Huaigu glanced at her. “No time.” Then she lowered her head and got busy with her work.
Bai Moqing stood beside Xiao Xing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window. Neither of them spoke first.
An Huaijian appeared downstairs. Bai Moqing sighed softly. She had seen Xiao Xing’s attitude toward An Huaijian clearly. As Xiao Xing had said, she did not like An Huaijian.
Then why was Bai Moqing still so unhappy?
It felt as if the moment she left, Xiao Xing would be snatched away by another woman.
She could not leave.
She had to stay by Xiao Xing’s side and keep a firm eye on her.
After An Huaijian walked out of the company gates and disappeared from sight, Xiao Xing turned to look at Bai Moqing. Her hand silently moved closer and slipped into Bai Moqing’s, their fingers lacing together.
“Do you have something you want to tell me?”
She did. Bai Moqing had planned to tell Xiao Xing she wanted to resign. But now, she did not want to mention resignation for the time being.
After a clear moment of hesitation, Bai Moqing asked, “Are you very close with the An sisters?”
Sister An called her A-Xing, and Sister An’s younger sister also called her A-Xing. Such an intimate form of address had to mean their relationship was not ordinary.
“Why do you ask?” Xiao Xing could tell Bai Moqing was changing the subject, but she did not expose her.
“They both call you A-Xing.”
“Once, you also called me A-Xing.” Thinking of the past, Xiao Xing felt both sweetness and bitterness in her heart. She gently rubbed Bai Moqing’s cheek. “It’s only a name. Only when you call me A-Xing does that name mean closeness.”
A trace of sadness flashed through Bai Moqing’s eyes. She pressed Xiao Xing’s hand against her cheek and pleaded in a spoiled tone, “But I’ve forgotten all those past things. Can you give those memories back to me?”
A cultivator’s soul was stronger than an ordinary person’s and had the ability to remember anything after seeing it once. Even things that had happened tens of millions of years ago could be remembered. Bai Moqing remembered everything that had happened over the last few thousand years.
Only Xiao Xing was missing.
Those memories were all with Xiao Xing.
A smile appeared in Xiao Xing’s eyes and brows. She leaned close to Bai Moqing’s ear and said in a very suggestive tone, “Please me, and I’ll give them back to you.”
The words “please me” made a person’s imagination run wild. Bai Moqing’s first reaction was pleasing Xiao Xing in bed with her body.
“Yes. The kind of pleasing you’re thinking of.” Xiao Xing seemed able to see through Bai Moqing’s thoughts, and the smile on her face grew even brighter.
Satisfied to see Bai Moqing blush, Xiao Xing suddenly skipped back to the first topic. “Xiao Mo, before the meeting, what did you want to say to me?”
Thinking back now, Bai Moqing’s gaze had been hesitant and reluctant, as if she had wanted to say goodbye.
Bai Moqing turned and hugged Xiao Xing, resting her chin in the hollow of Xiao Xing’s shoulder.
“I hadn’t seen you for too long. When I saw you come back, I wanted to talk to you. Anything would have been fine.”
Xiao Xing raised her arms and hugged the gentle woman in her embrace. All at once, she no longer wanted to keep playing this game of pursuit and retreat. Stroking Bai Moqing’s back, she said, “Xiao Mo, let’s be together. Move in with me, starting today.”
Live… together?
It was too sudden. So sudden that Bai Moqing’s whole heart seemed to fly up. Thump, thump, thump. It beat like a drum, almost jumping out of her chest.
“O… okay.” Bai Moqing wanted to refuse once out of reserve, but the moment she opened her mouth, what came out was agreement.
She had failed to resign, and now she was going to move in with Xiao Xing. Before Bai Moqing could even finish telling her, the little orange cat was already hopping mad. She wished she could rush to Xiao Xing’s house and scratch Xiao Xing’s face hundreds of times.
Steal, steal, steal. Bai Moqing was hers. What right did Xiao Xing have to steal Bai Moqing away? Wasn’t it just that her face looked better and her cultivation was higher?
The little orange cat grabbed Bai Moqing’s calf. “Qingqing, you promised to take care of me for the rest of my life. You can’t seduce me and then abandon me.”
She even knew how to say “seduce and abandon” now. It seemed she had watched plenty of painful romance dramas. Bai Moqing pried the little orange cat’s paws away and picked her up.
The little orange cat stretched out her claws and hooked them into Bai Moqing’s clothes. “Qingqing, did you forget? During the day, you said you would cultivate with me. If you live with Xiao Xing, how will you cultivate with me?”
“You can cultivate with Yun Su.” Two demons cultivating together could even exchange cultivation experience. A person and a demon cultivating together might make one mistake and both fall to the demonic path.
At the mention of Yun Su, Bai Moqing finally realized Yun Su was not there. She was probably still studying the barrier under the spring eye.
“No!” The little orange cat held tightly to Bai Moqing and poured out one affectionate line after another.
As she spoke, wind and clouds surged. They covered the sky and hid the moon. The air pressure dropped sharply, pressing down until it was hard to breathe.
Bai Moqing looked outside, and her heart shook hard.
A tribulation cloud!
It carried a terrifying force that could destroy gods and immortals. One look was enough to know this thunder tribulation was above an ascension tribulation. Who else here had cultivation above hers?
A chill ran through Bai Moqing’s body. Without thinking, she immediately went to find Xiao Xing.
Xiao Xing was standing by the window, looking thoughtfully at the tribulation cloud that had suddenly appeared. An anxious voice sounded behind her.
“Xiao Xing!”
Xiao Xing turned back. Bai Moqing walked to her side and found that Xiao Xing did not carry the aura of being locked onto by the thunder tribulation. Only then did she let out a breath of relief.
“I saw the tribulation cloud.”
Xiao Xing knew Bai Moqing had been worried about her, and her heart filled with great emotion. If the thunder tribulation had really locked onto Xiao Xing, Bai Moqing running over like this could easily have gotten her struck by the lightning too.
She held Bai Moqing’s hand and lifted her head to look at the sky. Love passed silently between their palms.
“I saw it too. Its appearance is very strange.”