Why Aren’t You Cultivating Immortality? (GL) Chapter 77

Xue Shichu did not know that Bai Moqing knew Ye Gelan, so when she mentioned Ye Gelan, she did not hold anything back.
“Her name is Ye Gelan. She has been dating my brother for three months.” She held her forehead and smiled bitterly. “The first time I saw her, I felt like I had known her for a very long time. That feeling was like love, and also like guilt. It was very complicated.”
Xue Shichu turned to look at Bai Moqing. “Moqing, do you think this is love at first sight?”
Love at first sight.
Bai Moqing nodded. “Probably.”
After calming down from the shock, Bai Moqing thought of her own feelings for Xiao Xing, and her gaze became soft and lingering. Seeing Xiao Xing sitting on the sofa and looking at her, Bai Moqing walked over and sat beside her, taking her hand.
“But Doctor Xue, she already has someone she likes, and the person she likes is your brother. What else can you do?”
Xue Shichu understood what Bai Moqing meant.
Other than keeping these feelings in her heart, she could do nothing.
Even when she got drunk, she could only ask Bai Moqing for help. She could not ask her brother to pick her up, and she certainly could not ask Ye Gelan, the person she liked who carried the identity of her future sister-in-law.
Xue Shichu sighed again and again. She looked left and right at the sofa beneath her. “You do not mind if I spend the night on your sofa, do you?” When she said this, Xue Shichu looked at Xiao Xing.
Although this was Bai Moqing’s home, the one who made decisions was probably Xiao Xing.
Xiao Xing said, “There is a hotel not far outside the neighborhood. I can book you a room.”
There was a blanket on the sofa that was specially for the little orange cat. Xue Shichu saw it, grabbed it, and hugged it in her arms.
“I want to sleep here.”
Her body leaned forward slightly. A lock of long hair slipped down from her shoulder. Combined with the weary look left by her drunkenness, she looked especially helpless.
Xiao Xing frowned. “Do you not have a cleanliness obsession?”
“That is why I am not going to a hotel.”
Xue Shichu shook open the blanket. Several tufts of orange fur appeared right before her eyes. They floated up with the wind brought by the blanket, then landed on Xue Shichu’s legs.
The atmosphere froze for a moment.
Only after a long while did Xue Shichu move her gaze away from the cat fur. “You have a cat?”
Bai Moqing glanced toward the bedroom.
After Feiyue got together with Yun Su, she no longer turned into a cat and lay on the sofa from time to time like before. Even if she changed back into a cat, she only did it when there were no outsiders.
So Bai Moqing answered, “It ran away from home.”
Xue Shichu balled the blanket up and put it aside. “Forget it. I will go home.” Rubbing her faintly aching head, she braced herself on the sofa and stood.
She had not been standing for two seconds before she fell back onto the sofa. Her mind was already sober, but her body was still in a drunken state.
In the end, Xue Shichu still stayed overnight at Bai Moqing’s home. But before sleeping there, she cleaned the sofa carefully from top to bottom and spread clean sheets over it.
Night fell low, and lights shone in thousands of homes.
Xue Shichu rubbed her stomach. Gurgle, gurgle. Her stomach rang at just the right time.
Before she could say she was hungry, Bai Moqing spoke first. “I will make dinner.”
The moment Feiyue heard that Bai Moqing was going to cook, she rushed out of the room.
“Qingqing, do not cook. Let Xiao Xing do it!”
As her voice fell, a tall woman with fair skin and a graceful figure followed Feiyue out of the bedroom.
Seeing Xue Shichu on the sofa, Yun Su nodded and smiled in greeting, then entered the kitchen.
Xue Shichu was stunned. She stiffly turned toward Xiao Xing. “Your home… has this many women?”
Xiao Xing had already stood and was walking toward the kitchen. She answered lightly, “Mm.”
She picked up the apron on the shelf beside the door and tied it on, then said to the three people in the kitchen, “Go sit in the living room. I will cook.”
Bai Moqing smiled. “I will help you.”
It was rare to see Xiao Xing’s virtuous wife and good mother side. Xue Shichu stood and walked toward the kitchen.
She happened to meet Feiyue and Yun Su head-on. Seeing their faces and meeting their eyes, Xue Shichu’s heartbeat suddenly quickened.
Demons were naturally alluring and captivating, especially their eyes. Any mortal who saw them would be drawn in.
Xue Shichu pressed a hand to her chest and muttered to herself, “Has it been too long since I dated? Why does my heartbeat become abnormal whenever I see a woman…”
Xue Shichu began to suspect that her feelings for Ye Gelan were not love at first sight after all.
Feiyue looked Xue Shichu up and down suspiciously and called her, “Doctor Xue.”
Xue Shichu came back to herself. In an instant, she became the gentle and warm female doctor again. She smiled and nodded. “Mm. I am Moqing’s friend, Xue Shichu. And you are?”
Remembering that Bai Moqing introduced her as her younger sister in front of outsiders, Feiyue smiled and said, “I am her younger sister, Feiyue.” She took Yun Su’s hand and pulled her closer. “This is my girlfriend, Yun Su.”
After becoming a dragon, Yun Su’s aura was strong and intimidating, and she could release or withdraw it at will. At this moment, even with all her presence restrained, Yun Su still made people feel timid.
Hearing the word girlfriend, Yun Su’s heart warmed like sunlight. She tightened her hold on Feiyue’s hand and followed her in addressing Xue Shichu. “Doctor Xue.”
The three of them sat side by side on the sofa, watching television while waiting for Xiao Xing to make dinner. Feiyue glanced toward the kitchen from time to time. Seeing this, Yun Su patted her hand, signaling her to settle down.
The family got along in such harmony that it made others envious.
Deaf to the sound of the television, Xue Shichu began to miss Ye Gelan.
She had clearly only met Ye Gelan a few times, but Ye Gelan seemed to have been branded into her heart like a hot iron. After hearing the news that her brother and Ye Gelan were engaged, Xue Shichu had suddenly wanted to get completely drunk.
She turned to look at the kitchen.
Behind the frosted glass door, two tall, slender bodies overlapped intimately.
Xiao Xing was kissing Bai Moqing.
Out of politeness, Xue Shichu should have turned away when she saw someone else being intimate. But she did not. She stared blankly at those two hazy figures. Even from their shadows alone, she could see how deep and tender their feelings were.
Hearing the sound of water boiling and rolling, Bai Moqing pushed Xiao Xing away. A flush of desire dyed her cheeks. Her eyes, perhaps blurred by the steam, looked misty and unfocused. Bai Moqing reminded her breathlessly, “The water is boiling.”
Xiao Xing smiled and licked the corner of her lips. She leaned down and whispered by Bai Moqing’s ear, “We will continue tonight.”
The breath brought by her low murmur brushed over Bai Moqing’s ear. Bai Moqing turned her head and looked outside. Seeing Xue Shichu’s gaze, the blush on her cheeks instantly deepened. She pushed Xiao Xing farther away.
“Be proper.”
“Mm?” Xiao Xing looked at Bai Moqing with interest. “Do you not like me this way?”
Bai Moqing really wanted to answer that she did not like it.
But what came out of her mouth was, “I like it.”
She wanted to be a woman who said one thing and meant another, but unfortunately, she could not do it. When facing Xiao Xing, her body was honest, and her mouth was honest too.
When dinner was ready, Xue Shichu sat in the guest seat. Looking at the dinner on the table, she felt something strange she could not quite describe.
In front of Feiyue and Yun Su was a plate of steamed fish.
In front of Bai Moqing was a plate of vegetable leaves. Xue Shichu looked carefully twice. It was purple cabbage.
And in front of Xiao Xing and herself were two bowls of vegetable noodles.
Xue Shichu looked at the vegetable noodles in front of her, then at the fish in front of Feiyue, and swallowed.
The sound of swallowing reached everyone’s ears clearly.
Feiyue saw all of Xue Shichu’s reaction and pushed the fish toward her. “Doctor Xue, do you want to eat fish?”
“She drank too much. Noodles are good for the stomach,” Xiao Xing said, making Feiyue pull the fish back.
Xue Shichu could only follow Xiao Xing’s words. “No need.” She picked up her chopsticks, lowered her head, and ate the noodles.
Coincidences always came one after another.
After dinner, Bai Moqing was washing dishes in the kitchen. As she washed, the phone on the coffee table in the living room rang.
Xue Shichu was sitting right in front of the phone and saw the caller ID at a glance.
When she saw the name clearly, her heart felt as if it had been stabbed hard. For an instant, her breathing stopped.
Ye Gelan.
Why would Ye Gelan call Bai Moqing?
Xiao Xing was in the bedroom using the computer to handle company work. Feiyue and Yun Su had returned to their bedroom after dinner. Xue Shichu calmed her breathing and glanced at the busy figure still in the kitchen. Her body reacted before her mind did, and she grabbed Bai Moqing’s phone.
Bai Moqing poked her head out and saw her phone in Xue Shichu’s hand. She asked in confusion, “Who is calling?”
Seeing Xue Shichu’s pale face, her heart startled. It could not be so coincidental that Ye Gelan was calling, could it?
Hearing Bai Moqing’s voice, Xue Shichu’s body trembled. She stood and asked, “You know Ye Gelan?”
Bai Moqing did not answer right away. She rinsed her hands clean, turned off the water, and walked out of the kitchen.
The phone was still ringing.
Bai Moqing took the phone from Xue Shichu and said, “I know one Ye Gelan, but I do not know whether she is the one you mean.”
Just before the call was about to hang up, Bai Moqing answered.
Xue Shichu turned off the television. The living room quieted. As long as she moved a little closer, she could hear the voice coming from the other end of the call.
It really was Ye Gelan.
The Ye Gelan she liked.
Only, her voice sounded much heavier than usual.
Ye Gelan said, “Moqing, I dreamed of you.”
Ye Gelan rarely napped, but this afternoon, she had suddenly grown sleepy. After drinking two cups of coffee and still failing to lift her spirits, Ye Gelan could only sleep and rest.
With that sleep, she slept until the sky was dark.
“The dream was very long. In the dream, I was the daughter of a general. I carried a long sword and wore an apricot-white fitted martial outfit, practicing swordsmanship with you day and night. You wore a moon-white Daoist robe and were an immortal cultivator. Later, war broke out at the border. I said goodbye to you and went to the frontier…”
Bai Moqing lowered her brows and listened.
She knew this was not a dream. All of this had truly happened.
When Ye Gelan spoke of the frontier, she fell silent.
Bai Moqing waited for a while, then asked, “And after that?”
A sigh came from the other side of the phone.
Ye Gelan stayed silent for a long time again. Bai Moqing waited patiently. Xue Shichu, standing beside her, was already almost unable to bear it. Her hands clenched tightly into fists as she waited for Ye Gelan to continue.
“After that, I died in battle.”
Xue Shichu: “…”
She had waited so long only to hear that one sentence, after that, I died in battle?
Bai Moqing glanced at Xue Shichu. “Whose hands did you die by? Is that person someone you know in real life too?”
Xue Shichu abruptly lifted her head. She kept feeling that Bai Moqing knew many things ordinary people did not.
“From going to the frontier to dying in battle, many things happened in between. It was as long as an entire lifetime.”
Ye Gelan took a cigarette from the box, lit it, and held it between her fingers, but she did not smoke.
“Moqing, do you not think I am strange? Calling you because of one dream.”
Xue Shichu did not dare make a sound. She took out her phone and wrote a few words in her notes app.
Ask Ye Gelan what happened later in the dream.
Bai Moqing glanced at the words on the phone and said, “I do not think it is strange. Who else did you dream of after that?”
Watching the choking smoke curl upward, Ye Gelan snuffed out the cigarette and said, “Let us talk at a cafe.”
After agreeing on a place, Ye Gelan hung up.
Seeing that Bai Moqing was about to enter the bedroom, Xue Shichu quickly grabbed her wrist. “Moqing, can you take me with you?”
Then she thought that if she appeared in front of Ye Gelan like this, she might scare her, so Xue Shichu added, “Or keep your phone connected the whole time and let me listen to what you talk about.”
She had a feeling that Ye Gelan’s later dream would be connected to her.
“I will tell you when I come back.”
Bai Moqing pulled her hand free and walked into the bedroom, leaving Xue Shichu standing alone in the living room, lost in thought, her thin lips pressed into a tight line.
Several documents were open on the computer screen. The latest data analysis made with SPSS by the market advancement department was laid out in front of Xiao Xing. Xiao Xing’s brows were slightly furrowed.
Hearing footsteps behind her, she instantly relaxed her brows and called with a smile, “Xiao Mo.”
Bai Moqing walked to the wardrobe and stood sideways as she opened it. While taking off her clothes, she said, “I need to go out.”
Her outerwear slipped off. Bai Moqing took a step behind the wardrobe door, using it to shield her body. Although she and Xiao Xing had already seen each other bare countless times, she was always restrained whenever she changed clothes.
“Wearing a black bra?”
The voice sounded right beside her.
A hot breath followed the voice and sprayed over the back of her neck. At some point, Xiao Xing had arrived behind her.
Bai Moqing was reaching back to fasten her bra. Her hand trembled, and she turned her head slightly. “You… what are you doing?”
Xiao Xing’s hand had already touched Bai Moqing’s back. Her fingertips slid over the spine as tender as white jade and pinched the clasp.
“Helping you fasten your bra.”
There was a teasing smile on her face as she deliberately fastened the hooks one by one, slowly.
Had Bai Moqing known it would be like this, she would not have used her hands.
Her heart stirred. Her throat grew drier and drier.
When Xiao Xing’s hand touched her waist and showed a tendency to move downward, Bai Moqing flashed away. A beige down jacket appeared on her body with a faint glow.
“Someone is waiting for me.” Bai Moqing explained with a red face.
Before Xiao Xing could catch her hand, Bai Moqing opened the door and walked out.