Chapter 607: Quite A Sight To Feast On
Qi Yongrui was speechless. He thought about it a little and soon realised that what Long Zhong said was indeed correct. Was Luo Huian someone who needed anyone to take care of her? She was the kind of person who could deal with even a Hollow and Gloom. How could she be beaten down by a mer?
Now that he thought about it carefully, his words sounded more and more like an excuse. His face turned red, and he looked like he wanted to speak but had no idea what to say. He could only open his mouth and close it without knowing what to say.
Seeing him like this, Long Zhong felt a bit sorry for his brother. After all, this was Qi Yongrui's first time liking a woman, and he had no idea how to deal with his emotions. Long Zhong sighed. He glanced at Qi Yongrui and said to him, "If you want to win her heart, then you better act shamelessly. I am telling you, Yongrui. Your wife is the kind of cow who wouldn't eat green grass even if she were brought over to a freshly mown lawn. You have to force her head down and make her eat the green grass."
"You think that you can just wait for her to start looking at you like her husband? Then you might as well wait! That dull woman—she wouldn't even look your way unless you took off that veil of shame and embarrassment and hurled it down on the floor."
After he finished speaking, Long Zhong ended the call without saying anything to Qi Yongrui. If his friend were smart, then he would understand what he was trying to say; if not, then he might as well finish his dinner.
"Hello!" Qi Yongrui called out to Long Zhong, wanting to understand what the mer meant by throwing his shame away, but before he could, the call ended up getting cancelled. Qi Yongrui looked at the screen of the phone with a dumbfounded look on his face. What was the point of saying all that nonsense if he was not going to help him in the first place!?
With an exasperated sigh, Qi Yongrui closed his phone shut and then turned to look at the bathing room where Luo Huian had disappeared. However, as soon as he turned around, he stiffened.
Because, for some reason, the automatic function of the glass door turning completely opaque had stopped working. Now, not only could he see the steam rising inside the bathing room, but also the figure of the woman who was taking a bath inside.
Qi Yongrui's mouth fell agape. He felt a sudden rush of heat in his nose and turned to look away. But his eyes just couldn't help but turn in the direction of the woman showering inside the bathing room. His gaze trailed up her long legs, well-toned waist and those perky mounds which were neither too big nor too small. The more he looked at Luo Huian's naked figure, the more Qi Yongrui felt his heartbeat escalate.
His gaze fiercely stared at Luo Huian, as if he were trying to burn her image into his mind; the desire in his body surged and thickened, causing a part of his body to awaken. Qi Yongrui sucked in a breath and looked down at his crotch.
He could feel his length pressing against the fabric of his pants that he was wearing, making him feel even troubled.
Parting his lips, he took in a few breaths before turning his wheelchair around and heading outside. Once he was safe from the tempting sight, he immediately called Uncle Feng.
"Hello, Master Qi?"
"Uncle Feng, what's the matter with the door of the bathing room? The opaque system is not working. You need to come upstairs and turn it on or call someone who could do it." Qi Yongrui raised his hand and pinched the bridge of his nose, wanting to stop the hot blood that was about to drip down.
There was silence on the other side of the phone, causing Qi Yongrui to arch his brow and say, "What's the matter, Uncle Feng? Why are you not saying anything?"
"Master Yongrui. The system is working just fine; it is I who shut it off because I—ahem—wanted to make things easy for you two. If you want to turn it on, you can just turn it on from the main panel of the room."
When Qi Yongrui heard the words of Uncle Feng, he was simply speechless. However, he knew that Uncle Feng was doing this for him. He sighed and ended the call before turning around and heading inside the room in his wheelchair.
He ignored the sight of the bathing room before turning on the system that would turn the door opaque. Only when the door turned opaque did he heave a sigh of relief. He then looked down at the noticeable bump between his legs and started singing all the heartbroken songs that he knew.
'I watched you fade through silver flame. Your voice now echoes in a broken name.
The stars we plucked have turned into stones, and I walk this skyless night alone.'
'So burn, love, burn—Like the twilight bloom, what we had lies in the ashes of our moon.
Time can't mend what fate has torn. My soul still bleeds where yours was sworn.'
"What's up with those sad verses? Did you get your heart broken?"
Qi Yongrui jumped in the air and turned to look at the woman; fortunately, his legs didn't work as well as they did in the past or else he would be on the floor by now. He looked up at the woman who was staring at him and patted his chest before saying to her, "Just what do you think you are doing?"
"This should be my line." Rubbing her hair with the towel in her hands, Luo Huian stared at the mer with a questioning look in her eyes. "Why are you singing sad songs? I don't think I did anything for you to sing such songs."
True, she teased him a little, but was it worth singing these songs?
Qi Yongrui sucked in a breath and then glanced down. Realising that he had calmed down, he sighed in relief and looked up at Luo Huian, only to stiffen again. The woman was actually wearing a red lace babydoll, which hugged her body quite well. Not to mention it made her look even more well-endowed than she already was.
He sucked in a breath and questioned, "What are you wearing?"
"Humm?" Luo Huian looked down at the clothes that she was wearing. Though they were a bit revealing after living in the human world, she no longer had any qualms about short and seductive dresses, especially if they made her look good. She shrugged and casually said, "This was the only thing left among the lingerie. It's the only decent one that I could wear because the rest of them were even shorter."
UNCLE FENG! Qi Yongrui gritted his teeth and cursed the old mer out loud. Why did he do such a foolish thing as putting such a provocative dress in the wardrobe? Did he think that Qi Yongrui wouldn't be able to get it up? With a woman like Luo Huian in front of him, even if she was dressed in a potato sack, he would be able to get the deed done! There was no need for such a seductive baby doll.
Qi Yongrui gritted his teeth and raised his hand to pinch his nose before saying to Luo Huian, "You can go back to the bathing room. I will look for something for you to wear—"
"No."
"No?" Qi Yongrui shrieked as he raised and looked at the woman in front of him. He raised his head and questioned, "What do you mean by 'no?'" Why did this woman suddenly refuse?
"I think it suits me well," said Luo Huian as she studied the red lace babydoll. Her eyes were fixated on the only mirror in the room before turning to look at the mer who was frowning so hard that he could squeeze a fly with his brows. "There is no need to look at me like that; I am wearing clothes. There is nothing wrong with them."
Qi Yongrui opened his mouth and snapped, "There is a lot wrong with them."
He couldn't believe that she could not see the problem with the clothes when he could clearly see it with his eyes. He breathed in and out of his nostrils before saying to her, "They cannot be considered as clothes if I can see half of your body with ease."
Luo Huian looked down at her bosom, and sure enough, it was spilling out of the fabric. However, instead of feeling embarrassed, she turned her head to one side and smiled at the mer. "What's the matter? Isn't it quite a sight for you to feast on?"