Why Aren’t You Cultivating Immortality? (GL) Chapter 78

When Bai Moqing was about to go out, rain suddenly began to fall.
The patter of rain drifted in from outside the window. Xiao Xing shuffled out of the bedroom in a pair of pink house slippers and said to Bai Moqing, who was changing shoes at the entryway, “It is raining outside. I will take you.”
“Are you not busy?” Bai Moqing remembered that when she had gone in earlier, Xiao Xing had been looking at data charts. She neatly put away the shoes she had changed out of, stood, and smiled. “I can go by myself.”
There was an outsider at home, so it was inconvenient to move directly by divine thought. Bai Moqing planned to go to the blind spot of the camera in the emergency stairwell outside and move from there.
“It just happens that I need to go out and buy something.”
As Xiao Xing spoke, she walked toward Bai Moqing. From the corner of her eye, she noticed Xue Shichu looking at her as if she wanted to say something but stopped herself. Xiao Xing laughed inwardly.
Although she had been handling company work in the bedroom, she had heard the conversation in the living room clearly. However, she did not want to lend a helping hand in the entanglement between Xue Shichu and Ye Gelan.
After changing her slippers, Xiao Xing left home together with Bai Moqing.
Standing in front of the elevator, Bai Moqing turned her head and looked at Xiao Xing thoughtfully.
Sensing her gaze, Xiao Xing turned back and met Bai Moqing’s eyes calmly. She lifted her lips in a faint smile. “I only want to send you there. I have no other thoughts.”
When Xiao Xing said this, Bai Moqing remembered the intimate, ambiguous scene in the bedroom. Her heartbeat, which had only just returned to normal, began speeding up again.
“I can go directly.”
“Directly?” Xiao Xing raised a brow. She leaned closer to Bai Moqing and hooked her finger around Bai Moqing’s, changing the topic. “How is your cultivation?”
Like rowing against the current, if one did not advance, one would fall back. Cultivation was the same. If a cultivator did not cultivate, their cultivation would slowly decline until they finally became an ordinary mortal.
Bai Moqing turned to look at the numbers on the elevator display and said, “Same as before.”
Her tone sounded light, but Xiao Xing sensed the sadness hidden deep inside it.
The elevator arrived.
Xiao Xing held Bai Moqing’s hand and walked into the elevator. There were only the two of them inside. Xiao Xing glanced at the surveillance camera in the corner. The camera could only capture images and would not record sound.
Xiao Xing turned back and placed her gaze on Bai Moqing, watching her side profile. “Xiao Mo, I have always been here.”
Yes. Xiao Xing had always been by her side.
Bai Moqing turned to look at Xiao Xing. Their eyes met, and both of them could see deep affection in the other’s gaze.
Bai Moqing smiled. “Then you have to always be here.”
She tilted her head and kissed Xiao Xing’s lips. When Xiao Xing wanted to go further, Bai Moqing pulled back.
“President Xiao, do you still remember something you once said?”
Calling her President Xiao at a time like this.
Xiao Xing narrowed her eyes slightly, unable to guess what Bai Moqing wanted to remind her of.
Bai Moqing pointed her chin at the elevator buttons. “I forgot to press the floor again.”
Xiao Xing: “…”
She had actually remembered that little thing until now.
Seeing Xiao Xing’s speechless expression, Bai Moqing smiled. After pressing the floor, she said, “Every move you make, every frown and smile, makes my heart stir.”
With such a sudden confession, it would be a waste of this beautiful moment not to do something.
Xiao Xing turned, wrapped an arm around Bai Moqing, and tilted her head to kiss her lips. Her soft, slightly cool lips were sucked gently. Xiao Xing pushed Bai Moqing back and pressed her against the elevator wall. With the continuous feeling of weightlessness, Bai Moqing’s heart floated up into the clouds.
Bai Moqing grabbed Xiao Xing’s clothes tightly.
This was not the first time they had kissed in an elevator. Before, in the company elevator, she had kissed Xiao Xing. But now was completely different from then.
Xiao Xing’s kiss was scorching and deep, as if she wanted to melt Bai Moqing right there. The oxygen in Bai Moqing’s lungs was plundered. In that suffocating lack of air, Bai Moqing could not restrain a soft moan.
“Mm…”
That alluring little sound made one’s blood heat.
The elevator reached the first floor. After a ding, the doors slowly opened.
Hearing the heavy breathing of the person in her arms, Xiao Xing reluctantly released Bai Moqing’s lips.
She stared at those bright red lips for a few seconds, still unsatisfied, and kissed them once more before walking out of the elevator.
The rain gradually grew lighter.
Xiao Xing’s car was parked in the open-air parking lot, some distance away. When they reached the building entrance, Xiao Xing opened the umbrella and said to Bai Moqing, “Wait here. I will drive the car over.”
Xue Shichu stood by the window and watched the white sedan drive through the rain curtain and out of the neighborhood. She sighed softly.
Why was her road of love so full of twists and turns?
She liked Bai Moqing, only to find that Bai Moqing had long been together with Xiao Xing. She liked Ye Gelan, but Ye Gelan was about to become her sister-in-law…
The weather was cold, so there were not many customers in the cafe.
After Ye Gelan arrived, she ordered an Americano and found a corner seat.
The server brought over the freshly ground and brewed coffee, said, “Careful, it is hot,” then left.
Ye Gelan picked up the coffee and took a small sip. The bitter taste and heat instantly cleared her mind. She carefully took another sip, then set down the cup. Taking her phone from her handbag, she checked the time and estimated that Bai Moqing should be arriving soon.
Cold wind poured in through the gap of the pushed-open glass door. As soon as Ye Gelan lifted her head, she saw Bai Moqing in a beige down jacket, looking a little bulky.
Bai Moqing walked over and sat across from Ye Gelan.
Ye Gelan smiled and exchanged greetings with her. “I am truly sorry for asking you to come out in such cold weather.”
The server came over with the ordering device. Bai Moqing ordered a cappuccino, then looked Ye Gelan over. “You look very unwell. Is it because of the dream?”
Ye Gelan did not deny it. She nodded. “Mm.” Then she began talking about the dream she had.
“War at the border never stopped. Enemy troops invaded again and again. Relying on my strong martial arts, I requested to become the vanguard and led soldiers out to fight the enemy.”
Ye Gelan looked forward, her gaze gradually becoming unfocused.
Bai Moqing held the coffee cup handle and watched Ye Gelan recall the dream.
“After several battles, I came to know the enemy vanguard. I unexpectedly discovered that their vanguard was also a woman. Later, we became friends.”
Ye Gelan returned to herself and took a sip of coffee, skipping over a long section that followed and speaking directly of the ending.
“In the end, I died by her hand.”
Ye Gelan did not say who “she” was, but Bai Moqing somehow thought of Xue Shichu.
She remembered when Su Xiao said goodbye to her. Su Xiao had told her that she was the daughter of a Northern Yan general. Yan and Chu had gone to war, and she had to return to her father’s side and resist the Chu army with him.
Thinking of how Xue Shichu secretly liked Ye Gelan, Bai Moqing comforted her. “It was only a dream. Do not think too much.”
The past was like a dream. After reincarnation, what had happened in the previous life no longer had anything to do with her. A dream was only a dream.
The sound of rain was quiet and clear.
Ye Gelan glanced at the rainy scenery outside, then looked into Bai Moqing’s eyes and said, “That dream was very real. You were in the dream, and so was she.”
Ye Gelan pondered for a few seconds. “She looks exactly like my boyfriend’s younger sister.”
It was Xue Shichu, after all.
Perhaps because she had spoken the words that had been pent up in her heart, Ye Gelan let out a long breath.
“The first time I saw her, a strange feeling rose in my heart. Just like when I first saw you and felt the warmth of a long-awaited reunion, I had that same feeling when I saw her.”
Bai Moqing said, “You do not still have that feeling now, do you?”
Her joking tone made Ye Gelan pause. After she reacted, Ye Gelan smiled and nodded. “No. But it is still a little troubling. Barring accidents, I will marry her brother. In the future, we will become family. When I think of how she killed me in the dream, I am afraid it will be hard to face her.”
Xue Shichu’s face would not leave her mind.
The scene of a cold-glinting long spear piercing through her chest kept replaying.
Ye Gelan did not tell the truth. What made it hard for her to face Xue Shichu was not that she had died by Xue Shichu’s hand, but that the two of them had once shared a hazy, illusory relationship.
Ye Gelan changed the topic and chatted with Bai Moqing about other things. When they had almost finished their coffee, the two parted.
Xiao Xing had been waiting for Bai Moqing in the car the whole time.
While waiting, Xiao Xing browsed news on her phone. She went from financial news to current affairs and politics, and finally began reading entertainment news.
As a film queen, Sikou Yan could casually post on Weibo and shoot into the top few spots on the trending list. However, no matter how much attention her recent news had, it could not reach the headline. Its ranking was always pressed firmly behind others.
Xiao Xing opened Weibo and tapped into Sikou Yan’s profile.
The latest post had been made an hour ago. It had only a few words:
I am waiting for you.
Who was she waiting for? Fans made all kinds of guesses under the post.
Xiao Xing sneered. She knew better than anyone who Sikou Yan was waiting for.
Sensing a figure approaching the car, Xiao Xing lifted her eyes and glanced over.
Bai Moqing was walking toward her with an umbrella.
Xiao Xing closed Weibo, set down her phone, and waited for Bai Moqing to get into the car.
“You finished talking so quickly? I thought you two would talk for several hours.”
She backed the car out of the parking space and glanced at Bai Moqing.
Bai Moqing had closed the umbrella and was using a towel to wipe the raindrops from her clothes.
“What did you talk about?”
The heat had been on in the car the whole time. Bai Moqing wiped herself off casually and put down the towel. “Ye Gelan dreamed of Doctor Xue.”
Xiao Xing had only asked casually at first, but when she heard that Ye Gelan had dreamed of Xue Shichu, her interest immediately rose.
The car drove onto the main road, and Xiao Xing asked, “What did she dream about her?”
“Probably their previous life.”
Looking at the congested traffic ahead and the brake lights lighting up from time to time, Bai Moqing reminded her, “Drive carefully.”
Xiao Xing glanced sideways at Bai Moqing. Seeing that Bai Moqing’s eyes clearly said I do not want to tell you, she asked curiously, “You cannot tell me?”
Bai Moqing smiled brightly. “I will tell you when we get home.”
However, after they returned home, Doctor Xue latched onto her.
Ignoring Xiao Xing’s gaze, which was so cold it was about to freeze over, Xue Shichu shamelessly grabbed Bai Moqing’s arm.
“Moqing, can I sleep with you tonight? I want to have a long midnight talk with you about Ye Gelan…”