What do you desire?
The wind seeped through the cracks in the window, and a loose tile on the roof shifted slightly. A little child running on the street accidentally kicked a stone, which lightly hit the side wall of the house.
Inside the house, a cloth bag in the corner was not properly placed and the objects underneath it were unstable. The opening of the bag was slowly sliding down. When a person was in a particularly awkward situation, their senses suddenly become ten times sharper than before, noticing everything happening around them, no matter how subtle.
If only something could divert attention! Then he would be saved!
Meng Qi didn’t want to escape; it was just that the Physician’s words made it difficult for him to respond. The cloth bag in the corner slowly tilted, and it was about to fall.
The bag was filled with rice, not light in weight. If it fell to the ground, it would definitely make a loud noise. If the bag wasn’t sturdy, it might even break open. Then they wouldn’t need to discuss the issue of Lantern Festival or Spring Night; they would have to pick up the scattered rice from the ground.
The bag leaned more and more, but at the last moment, it stopped! It miraculously maintained its balance in a precarious position, motionless.
Meng Qi: “…”
He wanted to check the almanac. Was today inauspicious for everything? Would even drinking cold water get stuck in his teeth?
Meng Qi could certainly use a burst of strong wind to knock the rice bag down, but Mo Li was watching. No matter how discreet his actions were, he couldn’t hide them from the Physician. In that case, he might end up picking up the rice alone while the Physician coldly observed, making it even more embarrassing to turn this page.
“Cough…”
Meng Qi thought of several reasons, and it was indeed the case—aside from treating his illness, he was genuinely interested in the Physician. They belonged to the same clan and shared a common secret, so they quickly became familiar with each other and dropped their guard without realizing it. They no longer seemed like patients and Physicians. They slept on the same bed, used the same utensils, and had no reservations in their conversations. They were nothing more than close friends.
The more he thought about it, the more peculiar Meng Qi’s expression became. What kind of close friend was so eager to provide personal clothing for the other? What kind of close friend suspected that the other dreamt of a tree and wanted to shake them awake? Shouldn’t such a close friend be punched?
Everything had signs, but he didn’t know why he had overlooked them in the past.
“I’m sorry, Physician.” Meng Qi spoke without hesitation. The Physician had been wholeheartedly treating him, while he had been preoccupied with these thoughts. How could he not apologize and let it pass?
“I plan to leave the wasteland tonight. Physician, we can meet at the Willow Path on the outskirts of Taijing City tomorrow morning.” Meng Qi regained his composure as if returning to his original position.
“No.” Mo Li blurted out. Meng Qi could have a seizure at any moment, so how could he let him leave on his own?
Meng Qi’s eyes narrowed, and then he saw Mo Li’s expression. The light in his eyes disappeared once again.
“You still owe the consultation fee.” Mo Li found a reason.
When it came to the consultation fee, Meng Qi thought of the money pouch they had robbed. Although they had been using General Liu’s money these days, not only the Physician used it, but he had used it as well.
“I am lacking the medicinal ingredients. I cannot prepare the Ning Shen Pill. Without this medicine, you cannot go anywhere.” Mo Li calmly said, his demeanor natural and his tone composed as if he hadn’t been affected by Meng Qi at all.
Teacher had said that a gentleman should remain calm even if Mount Tai were to crumble in front of them or a deer were to pass by their left without blinking.
Ears could turn red, but expressions must remain unchanged.
One must never reveal opportunities to the enemy.
Wait, why was he considering the other person as an enemy?
Mo Li fell into deep thought. Was it because of Meng Qi’s identity and martial prowess? Did he consider this person not only as a companion but also as a rare opponent? No, before he met Meng Qi, he did have a curiosity about the former state teacher and wanted to test his skills. However, after being forced to fight through the night, all that curiosity disappeared.
He was inferior in strength, slightly lacking compared to the others.
Hmm, it should be the bad impression left by the true form of the Golden Dragon in Taijing City. Transforming from a fat rat to a golden dragon and using his size to toy with other dragon veins, such behavior was childish!
Thinking proudly, the Dragon Vein of Mount Qimao believed, “I am different. The path of a gentleman, as taught by Elder Qin, is demonstrated through words and actions.”
Mo Li’s mood improved slightly as he thought, How could I argue with a patient?
At the same time, Meng Qi also relaxed. He thought, the Physician is still young and lacked experience in dealing with people. If it were him, he would have probably already kicked the other person out. But it was indeed his own fault in this matter. He needed to tell the Physician, so he wouldn’t be deceived by others in the future.
Both of them considered themselves more mature and tried to accommodate the other. “…”
The awkward atmosphere disappeared, but the current atmosphere was also off. What had happened exactly?
Meng Qi felt that Mo Li’s gaze towards him was strange.
Mo Li felt that Meng Qi seemed to want to advise him, advise him about what? Advise him to kick him out?
“Have you experienced the symptoms you just had before?” Physician Mo Li asked seriously.
“No.” It must be a no. Even if there were, he couldn’t say it!
“What about before that?” Mo Li’s face tensed as he continued to ask, “Before you met me, before today.”
“…”
Meng Qi once again felt the feeling of standing on the edge of a dangerous precipice.
He felt that if he said the wrong thing, he would fall down and never be able to climb back up.
“Physician, such matters shouldn’t be asked directly…”
“You are the only one of our kind that I have seen.” Mo Li pondered, longing to find a companion. Would the dragon vein of Taijing City hope for a mate? Tan Lang and Xie Nü, a perfectly matched couple, were a beautiful thing in the world.
Meng Qi instinctively frowned and retorted, “I appreciate you not because you are of the same kind.”
After a while of not hearing the Physician’s voice, Meng Qi looked up and saw Mo Li’s complex gaze.
What did I just say?
Oh…
Meng Qi’s face remained unchanged, but he regretted it in his heart. How could he blurt it out like that? Although the window paper was pierced, speaking so directly was like forcing the Physician to drive him away!
“I guess I appreciate you too.”
Mountains cannot procreate offspring, but this complicates things.
Mo Li casually said this, and Meng Qi once again felt that he had made a mistake. Could it be that the Physician also liked…
“But I am of your kind. It’s highly likely that you haven’t seen any other of our kind… Perhaps you are older than me, and your need for companionship is more severe than mine. There was once a woodcutter who fell off a cliff and was trapped in a valley. It took several years before he was saved by a herbalist’s daughter, and he admired that herbalist ever since…”
“My illness hasn’t been cured.” Meng Qi decisively interrupted Mo Li’s words. He could play the “changing the subject” game too!
“I haven’t climbed out from the cliff yet, so there’s no question of gratitude turning into affection. And you still haven’t told me until now, what kind of clan are we? Is it impossible for our clan to intermarry with outsiders? Is it impossible to develop feelings for someone outside our clan? Is there such an absurd thing in the world?”
“…”
Mo Li was stunned, at a loss for words.
Can a mountain have a romantic relationship with a person?
It seems possible, as mountain spirits are also part of supernatural novels.
Strictly speaking, their dragon veins cannot be considered just a mountain; they encompass both mountains and rivers!
“Can we fall in love… with outsiders, I don’t know. But between our own clan, it seems that such relationships have not existed.” Mo Li pondered deeply, unable to think of any extraordinary stories about two dragon veins.
Meng Qi suspected that he had misheard.
No intermarriage with outsiders, and no intermarriage within the clan. What kind of clan was this? How did they reproduce?
Even if the lifespan of this clan was exceptionally long and they didn’t visibly age for a hundred years, they would still die eventually!
Pengzu, who lived for eight hundred years, still had a wife and children!
Meng Qi suddenly paused, thinking he had identified the crux of the problem—gender mismatch.
Due to the corrupt atmosphere of the Chen Dynasty and the open-mindedness of the Chu Dynasty, regardless of gender or same-gender relationships, it wasn’t a big deal. Meng Qi’s current memories were mainly influenced by the mainstream culture of these two dynasties.
If they were the only two remaining in their clan, it was only reasonable for the Physician to reject him.
Meng Qi felt inexplicably disheartened as he asked weakly, “So, what are your plans for the future? To preserve our lineage, will you marry an outsider?”
“I will not marry an outsider.” Mo Li furrowed his brow, unable to imagine falling in love with a human and watching them slowly die.
Suddenly, a worry arose in his heart, and Mo Li warned Meng Qi, “You should also not get involved with any women from outside our clan. The consequences would be severe.”
“…”
Even divine laws are not so strict, forbidding relationships between immortals and mortals.
“What kind of consequences?” Meng Qi couldn’t help but ask.
“We cannot conceive children with humans… or outsiders.” Mo Li earnestly advised him.
Meng Qi naturally didn’t miss the hesitation in Mo Li’s words.
Unable to conceive children with humans?
In the tales, fairies and humans have had more than just a dozen children together, and even celestial beings have given birth to many. Who is unable to conceive with humans? It’s ghosts!
Meng Qi subconsciously touched the back of his neck, feeling the heat rising.
“If you were a woman, would we be able to have children?” Meng Qi changed his question. If this path didn’t lead anywhere, he would try a different approach to dismantle the situation.
Mo Li was taken aback by the question. He blinked his eyes and took a while before saying, “I am not a woman.”
“So, only women can have children?”
“That’s not the case either,” Mo Li blurted out. He couldn’t imagine what a child between him and the Taijing Dragon Vein would look like. Would it be a small fish? A chubby mouse? A tree?
Meng Qi narrowed his eyes completely, his gaze dangerously fixed on Mo Li. “Physician, you’re joking.”
Unable to have children with outsiders and unable to have children within the clan? Was the Physician deceiving him? Which statement was a lie?
Mo Li also realized his slip of the tongue and felt wronged in his heart.
There was never such a possibility! How could there be?
At that moment, he suddenly remembered the sand rat that Meng Qi had mentioned, the one that Meng Qi kept at home. It was killed by members of the Qi Dynasty’s Jinyiwei, who were secretly under the Emperor’s command, while they were digging for spiritual herbs. If that sand rat was the incarnation of the Taijing Dragon Vein, it could have transformed back and killed those Jinyiwei at the time. So, what was the identity of that sand rat? Was it another Dragon Vein that happened to take the form of a rat?
Mo Li imagined himself in that situation, envisioning himself as a Dragon Vein who hadn’t found any others of his kind in years, his ideals of restoring order in the world shattered, and wondered what he would do after retiring to seclusion deep in the mountains.
“… Having children?!”
Meng Qi heard Mo Li’s vague words, but he didn’t catch them clearly.
“What children?”
Mo Li looked at Meng Qi with a complex expression. When he thought of a certain absurd description just now, a voice in his subconscious seemed to tell him that it was possible. Dragon Veins with sufficient spiritual energy could give birth to new Dragon Veins.
The boundaries of mountains can contain other Dragon Veins and the spiritual energy of the smaller Dragon Veins will be connected to the main Dragon Vein. It’s like, in ancient times when a tribe grew larger, a portion of the people would separate and go to live in another place. The distance wouldn’t be too close because the resources in that area would only be sufficient for one tribe, but it wouldn’t be too far either because they would still maintain a close connection. Newly formed tribes are always very fragile and require assistance.
Qimao Mountain doesn’t have these conditions, but the Taijing Dragon Vein does.
Taijing was the capital of various dynasties, and the Chu Dynasty ruled for thirty-nine years until Lu Zhang seized power, plunging Taijing into chaos.
The smaller Dragon Veins are not children, but they simultaneously serve as relatives and companions.
However, that sand rat died.
Mo Li felt a faint pain in his heart. He didn’t know if, as an incarnation of a Dragon Vein, he would die if the tree withered before it could develop sentience. Was the extended Dragon Vein that branched out from the Taijing Dragon Vein still intact? Thinking of Meng Qi’s illness, Mo Li’s heart sank heavily.
“Physician?”
Suddenly raising his head, Mo Li discovered that the person who had been saying “pleasing oneself” was already close by.
“Have you figured out how to deceive me?” Meng Qi whispered close to Mo Li’s ear, smiling.
This time, he noticed that the Physician’s earlobes rapidly turned red.
Mo Li grabbed Meng Qi’s wrist, flipped his hand, and threw him onto the bed, expressionless.
“You can rest now.”
“What?”
Meng Qi never expected that the person who had demolished the house would rebuild a wall with bricks and try to avoid the topic. This couldn’t be allowed!
Before he could finish that thought, he saw Mo Li walking over as well, reaching out and pushing him to the side of the bed.
“It’s late at night, go to sleep.”
“… The sun has just set.”
Meng Qi looked at Mo Li with a complicated expression as he took off his outer robe and shoes, just like before, and calmly got into bed. However, he didn’t make any further moves, lying down and closing his eyes to sleep.
“Brother Meng, we cannot have children,” Mo Li sighed. If only he could save the small Dragon Vein.
Nonsense, two men can’t have children!
Meng Qi felt that the one who might be sick was not himself, but the Physician.
“To like someone is a kind of desire, a desire that cannot be fulfilled. Brother Meng, I hope you will reconsider,” Mo Li said without looking at Meng Qi because the sun had set, and the room was gradually growing dark.
Mo Li quietly listened to the distant noise for a while, then said, “If you truly want to be with me, I will also consider it. Our lifespans are much longer than humans. Whether it’s falling in love with someone or hating someone, it will become infinitely prolonged due to the passage of time. I need to think it over, and you should too.”
At that moment, there was a sudden knocking on the door.
The footsteps outside were chaotic, and the two of them hadn’t paid much attention to them before.
However, the door was not bolted, and the visitor didn’t expect them to be asleep so early.
Presumably, something urgent had happened, so they knocked and entered the room. There were no screens or barriers to obscure their view inside the room, and they saw Mo Li putting on his outer garment and shoes, while Meng Qi remained on the bed, looking perplexed.
Ning Changyuan: “…”
A certain speculation in his heart seemed to have been confirmed.
What do you desire?
The wind seeped through the cracks in the window, and a loose tile on the roof shifted slightly. A little child running on the street accidentally kicked a stone, which lightly hit the side wall of the house.
Inside the house, a cloth bag in the corner was not properly placed and the objects underneath it were unstable. The opening of the bag was slowly sliding down. When a person was in a particularly awkward situation, their senses suddenly become ten times sharper than before, noticing everything happening around them, no matter how subtle.
If only something could divert attention! Then he would be saved!
Meng Qi didn’t want to escape; it was just that the Physician’s words made it difficult for him to respond. The cloth bag in the corner slowly tilted, and it was about to fall.
The bag was filled with rice, not light in weight. If it fell to the ground, it would definitely make a loud noise. If the bag wasn’t sturdy, it might even break open. Then they wouldn’t need to discuss the issue of Lantern Festival or Spring Night; they would have to pick up the scattered rice from the ground.
The bag leaned more and more, but at the last moment, it stopped! It miraculously maintained its balance in a precarious position, motionless.
Meng Qi: “…”
He wanted to check the almanac. Was today inauspicious for everything? Would even drinking cold water get stuck in his teeth?
Meng Qi could certainly use a burst of strong wind to knock the rice bag down, but Mo Li was watching. No matter how discreet his actions were, he couldn’t hide them from the Physician. In that case, he might end up picking up the rice alone while the Physician coldly observed, making it even more embarrassing to turn this page.
“Cough…”
Meng Qi thought of several reasons, and it was indeed the case—aside from treating his illness, he was genuinely interested in the Physician. They belonged to the same clan and shared a common secret, so they quickly became familiar with each other and dropped their guard without realizing it. They no longer seemed like patients and Physicians. They slept on the same bed, used the same utensils, and had no reservations in their conversations. They were nothing more than close friends.
The more he thought about it, the more peculiar Meng Qi’s expression became. What kind of close friend was so eager to provide personal clothing for the other? What kind of close friend suspected that the other dreamt of a tree and wanted to shake them awake? Shouldn’t such a close friend be punched?
Everything had signs, but he didn’t know why he had overlooked them in the past.
“I’m sorry, Physician.” Meng Qi spoke without hesitation. The Physician had been wholeheartedly treating him, while he had been preoccupied with these thoughts. How could he not apologize and let it pass?
“I plan to leave the wasteland tonight. Physician, we can meet at the Willow Path on the outskirts of Taijing City tomorrow morning.” Meng Qi regained his composure as if returning to his original position.
“No.” Mo Li blurted out. Meng Qi could have a seizure at any moment, so how could he let him leave on his own?
Meng Qi’s eyes narrowed, and then he saw Mo Li’s expression. The light in his eyes disappeared once again.
“You still owe the consultation fee.” Mo Li found a reason.
When it came to the consultation fee, Meng Qi thought of the money pouch they had robbed. Although they had been using General Liu’s money these days, not only the Physician used it, but he had used it as well.
“I am lacking the medicinal ingredients. I cannot prepare the Ning Shen Pill. Without this medicine, you cannot go anywhere.” Mo Li calmly said, his demeanor natural and his tone composed as if he hadn’t been affected by Meng Qi at all.
Teacher had said that a gentleman should remain calm even if Mount Tai were to crumble in front of them or a deer were to pass by their left without blinking.
Ears could turn red, but expressions must remain unchanged.
One must never reveal opportunities to the enemy.
Wait, why was he considering the other person as an enemy?
Mo Li fell into deep thought. Was it because of Meng Qi’s identity and martial prowess? Did he consider this person not only as a companion but also as a rare opponent? No, before he met Meng Qi, he did have a curiosity about the former state teacher and wanted to test his skills. However, after being forced to fight through the night, all that curiosity disappeared.
He was inferior in strength, slightly lacking compared to the others.
Hmm, it should be the bad impression left by the true form of the Golden Dragon in Taijing City. Transforming from a fat rat to a golden dragon and using his size to toy with other dragon veins, such behavior was childish!
Thinking proudly, the Dragon Vein of Mount Qimao believed, “I am different. The path of a gentleman, as taught by Elder Qin, is demonstrated through words and actions.”
Mo Li’s mood improved slightly as he thought, How could I argue with a patient?
At the same time, Meng Qi also relaxed. He thought, the Physician is still young and lacked experience in dealing with people. If it were him, he would have probably already kicked the other person out. But it was indeed his own fault in this matter. He needed to tell the Physician, so he wouldn’t be deceived by others in the future.
Both of them considered themselves more mature and tried to accommodate the other. “…”
The awkward atmosphere disappeared, but the current atmosphere was also off. What had happened exactly?
Meng Qi felt that Mo Li’s gaze towards him was strange.
Mo Li felt that Meng Qi seemed to want to advise him, advise him about what? Advise him to kick him out?
“Have you experienced the symptoms you just had before?” Physician Mo Li asked seriously.
“No.” It must be a no. Even if there were, he couldn’t say it!
“What about before that?” Mo Li’s face tensed as he continued to ask, “Before you met me, before today.”
“…”
Meng Qi once again felt the feeling of standing on the edge of a dangerous precipice.
He felt that if he said the wrong thing, he would fall down and never be able to climb back up.
“Physician, such matters shouldn’t be asked directly…”
“You are the only one of our kind that I have seen.” Mo Li pondered, longing to find a companion. Would the dragon vein of Taijing City hope for a mate? Tan Lang and Xie Nü, a perfectly matched couple, were a beautiful thing in the world.
Meng Qi instinctively frowned and retorted, “I appreciate you not because you are of the same kind.”
After a while of not hearing the Physician’s voice, Meng Qi looked up and saw Mo Li’s complex gaze.
What did I just say?
Oh…
Meng Qi’s face remained unchanged, but he regretted it in his heart. How could he blurt it out like that? Although the window paper was pierced, speaking so directly was like forcing the Physician to drive him away!
“I guess I appreciate you too.”
Mountains cannot procreate offspring, but this complicates things.
Mo Li casually said this, and Meng Qi once again felt that he had made a mistake. Could it be that the Physician also liked…
“But I am of your kind. It’s highly likely that you haven’t seen any other of our kind… Perhaps you are older than me, and your need for companionship is more severe than mine. There was once a woodcutter who fell off a cliff and was trapped in a valley. It took several years before he was saved by a herbalist’s daughter, and he admired that herbalist ever since…”
“My illness hasn’t been cured.” Meng Qi decisively interrupted Mo Li’s words. He could play the “changing the subject” game too!
“I haven’t climbed out from the cliff yet, so there’s no question of gratitude turning into affection. And you still haven’t told me until now, what kind of clan are we? Is it impossible for our clan to intermarry with outsiders? Is it impossible to develop feelings for someone outside our clan? Is there such an absurd thing in the world?”
“…”
Mo Li was stunned, at a loss for words.
Can a mountain have a romantic relationship with a person?
It seems possible, as mountain spirits are also part of supernatural novels.
Strictly speaking, their dragon veins cannot be considered just a mountain; they encompass both mountains and rivers!
“Can we fall in love… with outsiders, I don’t know. But between our own clan, it seems that such relationships have not existed.” Mo Li pondered deeply, unable to think of any extraordinary stories about two dragon veins.
Meng Qi suspected that he had misheard.
No intermarriage with outsiders, and no intermarriage within the clan. What kind of clan was this? How did they reproduce?
Even if the lifespan of this clan was exceptionally long and they didn’t visibly age for a hundred years, they would still die eventually!
Pengzu, who lived for eight hundred years, still had a wife and children!
Meng Qi suddenly paused, thinking he had identified the crux of the problem—gender mismatch.
Due to the corrupt atmosphere of the Chen Dynasty and the open-mindedness of the Chu Dynasty, regardless of gender or same-gender relationships, it wasn’t a big deal. Meng Qi’s current memories were mainly influenced by the mainstream culture of these two dynasties.
If they were the only two remaining in their clan, it was only reasonable for the Physician to reject him.
Meng Qi felt inexplicably disheartened as he asked weakly, “So, what are your plans for the future? To preserve our lineage, will you marry an outsider?”
“I will not marry an outsider.” Mo Li furrowed his brow, unable to imagine falling in love with a human and watching them slowly die.
Suddenly, a worry arose in his heart, and Mo Li warned Meng Qi, “You should also not get involved with any women from outside our clan. The consequences would be severe.”
“…”
Even divine laws are not so strict, forbidding relationships between immortals and mortals.
“What kind of consequences?” Meng Qi couldn’t help but ask.
“We cannot conceive children with humans… or outsiders.” Mo Li earnestly advised him.
Meng Qi naturally didn’t miss the hesitation in Mo Li’s words.
Unable to conceive children with humans?
In the tales, fairies and humans have had more than just a dozen children together, and even celestial beings have given birth to many. Who is unable to conceive with humans? It’s ghosts!
Meng Qi subconsciously touched the back of his neck, feeling the heat rising.
“If you were a woman, would we be able to have children?” Meng Qi changed his question. If this path didn’t lead anywhere, he would try a different approach to dismantle the situation.
Mo Li was taken aback by the question. He blinked his eyes and took a while before saying, “I am not a woman.”
“So, only women can have children?”
“That’s not the case either,” Mo Li blurted out. He couldn’t imagine what a child between him and the Taijing Dragon Vein would look like. Would it be a small fish? A chubby mouse? A tree?
Meng Qi narrowed his eyes completely, his gaze dangerously fixed on Mo Li. “Physician, you’re joking.”
Unable to have children with outsiders and unable to have children within the clan? Was the Physician deceiving him? Which statement was a lie?
Mo Li also realized his slip of the tongue and felt wronged in his heart.
There was never such a possibility! How could there be?
At that moment, he suddenly remembered the sand rat that Meng Qi had mentioned, the one that Meng Qi kept at home. It was killed by members of the Qi Dynasty’s Jinyiwei, who were secretly under the Emperor’s command, while they were digging for spiritual herbs. If that sand rat was the incarnation of the Taijing Dragon Vein, it could have transformed back and killed those Jinyiwei at the time. So, what was the identity of that sand rat? Was it another Dragon Vein that happened to take the form of a rat?
Mo Li imagined himself in that situation, envisioning himself as a Dragon Vein who hadn’t found any others of his kind in years, his ideals of restoring order in the world shattered, and wondered what he would do after retiring to seclusion deep in the mountains.
“… Having children?!”
Meng Qi heard Mo Li’s vague words, but he didn’t catch them clearly.
“What children?”
Mo Li looked at Meng Qi with a complex expression. When he thought of a certain absurd description just now, a voice in his subconscious seemed to tell him that it was possible. Dragon Veins with sufficient spiritual energy could give birth to new Dragon Veins.
The boundaries of mountains can contain other Dragon Veins and the spiritual energy of the smaller Dragon Veins will be connected to the main Dragon Vein. It’s like, in ancient times when a tribe grew larger, a portion of the people would separate and go to live in another place. The distance wouldn’t be too close because the resources in that area would only be sufficient for one tribe, but it wouldn’t be too far either because they would still maintain a close connection. Newly formed tribes are always very fragile and require assistance.
Qimao Mountain doesn’t have these conditions, but the Taijing Dragon Vein does.
Taijing was the capital of various dynasties, and the Chu Dynasty ruled for thirty-nine years until Lu Zhang seized power, plunging Taijing into chaos.
The smaller Dragon Veins are not children, but they simultaneously serve as relatives and companions.
However, that sand rat died.
Mo Li felt a faint pain in his heart. He didn’t know if, as an incarnation of a Dragon Vein, he would die if the tree withered before it could develop sentience. Was the extended Dragon Vein that branched out from the Taijing Dragon Vein still intact? Thinking of Meng Qi’s illness, Mo Li’s heart sank heavily.
“Physician?”
Suddenly raising his head, Mo Li discovered that the person who had been saying “pleasing oneself” was already close by.
“Have you figured out how to deceive me?” Meng Qi whispered close to Mo Li’s ear, smiling.
This time, he noticed that the Physician’s earlobes rapidly turned red.
Mo Li grabbed Meng Qi’s wrist, flipped his hand, and threw him onto the bed, expressionless.
“You can rest now.”
“What?”
Meng Qi never expected that the person who had demolished the house would rebuild a wall with bricks and try to avoid the topic. This couldn’t be allowed!
Before he could finish that thought, he saw Mo Li walking over as well, reaching out and pushing him to the side of the bed.
“It’s late at night, go to sleep.”
“… The sun has just set.”
Meng Qi looked at Mo Li with a complicated expression as he took off his outer robe and shoes, just like before, and calmly got into bed. However, he didn’t make any further moves, lying down and closing his eyes to sleep.
“Brother Meng, we cannot have children,” Mo Li sighed. If only he could save the small Dragon Vein.
Nonsense, two men can’t have children!
Meng Qi felt that the one who might be sick was not himself, but the Physician.
“To like someone is a kind of desire, a desire that cannot be fulfilled. Brother Meng, I hope you will reconsider,” Mo Li said without looking at Meng Qi because the sun had set, and the room was gradually growing dark.
Mo Li quietly listened to the distant noise for a while, then said, “If you truly want to be with me, I will also consider it. Our lifespans are much longer than humans. Whether it’s falling in love with someone or hating someone, it will become infinitely prolonged due to the passage of time. I need to think it over, and you should too.”
At that moment, there was a sudden knocking on the door.
The footsteps outside were chaotic, and the two of them hadn’t paid much attention to them before.
However, the door was not bolted, and the visitor didn’t expect them to be asleep so early.
Presumably, something urgent had happened, so they knocked and entered the room. There were no screens or barriers to obscure their view inside the room, and they saw Mo Li putting on his outer garment and shoes, while Meng Qi remained on the bed, looking perplexed.
Ning Changyuan: “…”
A certain speculation in his heart seemed to have been confirmed.
