Chapter 58: Blessing
Seeing the eager, ready-to-try look on An Yi’s face, Huo Beixing nearly ground his back teeth to powder.
What do you think?
Huo Beixing took a deep breath, maintaining his fool persona, and forcibly squeezed out a sentence through clenched teeth. “Wife, what do you think?”
An Yi parted his little lips and let out a long “Oh~~,” smiling with his lips pressed together, approval in his eyes. “Still asking for my opinion? Dabao, that’s kind of thoughtful of you.”
As he spoke, he nudged Huo Beixing with his butt.
Huo Beixing, who got nudged in the backside: ……
Since the other man had said it like that, it would be hard for him to refuse now.
Still, he’d just look, not touch.
An Yi turned his head, but his gaze did not settle on the man who had just tried to chat him up. After all, there were plenty of people confidently showing skin, and plenty of them had good bodies.
His target was the stars and the sea.
No, scratch that.
His target was the entire swimming hall.
Even just thinking about it made An Yi feel a bit embarrassed. Looking at other people’s bodies so openly like this—he turned to Huo Beixing and said, “Wouldn’t this be a little inappropriate? After all, I came out of the mountains.”
Huo Beixing: ?
An Yi lowered his head shyly. “I’m… relatively conservative.”
Huo Beixing: ……
Conservative enough to sit here and count people’s abs?
For a moment, Huo Beixing was about to laugh from sheer anger.
But since he was still pretending to be stupid, he couldn’t even get mad. All he could do was swallow his broken teeth back into his stomach.
He knew he could throw a bit of a scene about it, but Huo Beixing didn’t know where to start.
A miscalculation.
He had originally planned to bring An Yi to the swimming hall to deepen their feelings for each other. Instead, looking at An Yi beside him, all excited while watching other people—
Huo Beixing: ……
Fuck. If they stayed here two more days, they’d be getting divorced.
The next husband could probably be selected in real time.
At the moment, Huo Beixing wore nothing but a pair of shorts reaching mid-thigh. The muscles on his body were powerful and full, his proportions perfect, that inverted triangle nine-head figure flawless. Even in a crowd, his physique ranked at the very top—extremely outstanding.
Watching An Yi’s eyes drift all over the place, Huo Beixing angrily stepped in front of him, blocking his line of sight. Though he was usually flirtatious outside, he had never been this showy in front of An Yi. In this whole place, not one body could compare to his.
He reached out, twisted An Yi’s little head back toward him, and said, “Why don’t you look at mine? Everything they have, I have too.”
The whole person was like a peacock, opening his feathers endlessly in front of An Yi.
An Yi looked at him, then looked back at his stars and sea.
Then he said innocently, “How could flowers from home ever smell as sweet as wildflowers?”
Huo Beixing: ……
Little Frog automatically turned his head back again.
Roadside wildflowers must not be picked—
If not picked, then truly wasted~~~~
Actually, it wasn’t that An Yi didn’t want to look. It was just that every summer, Huo Beixing turned into a little yellow person and wandered around the house shirtless. He’d been doing that for two whole summers now.
It was only fair that he looked at some other things too.
People who achieved great things had to spread the dew evenly.
Standing behind him with a cold face, Huo Beixing said darkly, “What’s so good about those wild men?”
An Yi replied, “It’s fine. I’m not losing out.”
Huo Beixing: ……
Is this a question of whether you lose out?!
Suddenly An Yi’s eyes lit up at one person. He nudged Huo Beixing with his butt again. “Look at that one. Pretty good body, right?”
Huo Beixing got nudged half a meter away and unwillingly glanced over.
String bean.
Then the man turned around, revealing a familiar face.
It was him.
Huo Dabao’s number-one-best-friend-in-the-world—
Zhao Ningzhuo.
An Yi: ……
Huo Beixing: ……
Zhao Ningzhuo saw them too and waved in surprise. This bastard—how had he been discharged so fast?
Sure enough, Heaven never accepted fools.
Then he shouted that he’d go change first and come find them afterward.
An Yi’s features made him look young, and his skin was snowy white, like a high schooler who had just graduated. He also dressed obediently—a white T-shirt and big shorts down to the knee. Even inside the changing room, quite a few people were wiggling their brows at him.
One man deliberately passed by near them.
Huo Beixing snapped, “Do your eyes have a cramp? If you keep looking, I’ll dig them out!”
The man saw Huo Beixing and fled at once.
So rude………
Watching the person flee in panic, An Yi said, “Hey, that’s not good. People should have manners.”
Huo Beixing couldn’t care less. He was furious.
His brows had never been so tightly furrowed before. He practically wanted to take An Yi home right now.
But Little Frog wasn’t leaving.
Please. Did you think he had come to a swimming hall?
No. He had come to heaven as a newly minted designer.
Huo Beixing stood there with folded arms, helpless, and began silently protesting beside him.
When An Yi turned back, he saw Huo Beixing wearing that long face.
But truly, Nüwa’s graduation project was Nüwa’s graduation project—even with a bad expression, he was still handsome.
Usually, that sort of face was just the prelude to an incoming storm. It meant the dog temper was about to make its entrance—and once it started, it would not calm down for a while.
But Little Frog would absolutely never let such a thing happen.
After living together for a year and a half, how could An Yi not understand him? Everything was already within his froggy grasp.
For Huo Beixing’s dog temper, An Yi naturally had a corresponding strategy.
Magic defeated magic.
An Yi reached out and poked his arm. “Huo Beixing.”
With a cold face, Huo Beixing deliberately refused to look at him. “What?”
Just from that one word, his unhappiness level had already reached ninety-nine point ninety-nine percent.
Huo the Second, who had been flirtatious and smooth outside, was now feeling jealousy for the very first time.
An Yi stepped a little closer to him. “I think you’re simply too outstanding.”
Hearing that, confusion appeared in Huo Beixing’s eyes, and he lowered his head to look at An Yi.
All he saw was An Yi lifting up that obedient little face, bright eyes sparkling, and saying right away, “Being able to marry you has made me incredibly happy.”
The shift came so abruptly it caught him off guard.
Huo Beixing swallowed, his ears heating up, but he didn’t forgive him so easily.
Just a few sweet words, that’s all.
When one’s partner was right there, and yet the other person openly looked at other men, then today he’d just look, tomorrow he’d be touching other men, and the day after that he’d be divorcing him for some other man.
Society these days was terrifying. There were far too many promiscuous people. Some men had no shame at all and specialized in seducing married wives and married husbands, then still put on that innocent expression.
He despised those sorts of people the most.
And yet while Huo Beixing was mentally criticizing them, he completely forgot all the flowers and grasses in his own flirtatious past.
Keeping a deliberately stern face, Huo Beixing said, “What’s there to be so happy about?”
An Yi pretended to be shocked. “How is this not happiness? Being able to marry you is practically the blessing of eight lifetimes of cultivation for me. If people back in our village knew, they’d line up one by one to praise how blessed I am, sayin’ I’ve got fortune, findin’ such a good husband, such a good man of the house.”
Suddenly, the way he spoke took on this earthy, rustic village flavor, and Huo Beixing abruptly pictured his little wife waiting for him out in the fields.
But it sounded oddly cute.
When An Yi said being with him was his blessing, did that mean he was now willing to continue their married life and wouldn’t divorce him?
Huo Beixing asked, “Really?”
An Yi nodded. “Of course. If I’d married someone else and looked at someone else’s body, maybe I’d be getting beaten for it. But not you. Not only do you not get angry, you even support me.”
Huo Beixing: ……
I do not.
Just as he was about to deny it, An Yi cut him off halfway. “Don’t say any humble nonsense. No one would believe it, because that’s just the kind of person you are.”
Huo Beixing: ……
An Yi took his hand and gave it a little shake, then continued, “You’re just too outstanding. What kind of family could have raised a man as generous and excellent as you? Other men would quietly strike their wives down for anything they wanted to do—either objecting to this or saying that can’t be done. But you’re different. You support me. That means I can do whatever I want. You’re simply too outstanding. You surpass half the men in China. It makes me like you even more.”
At first, Huo Beixing had still looked unhappy. But little by little, he lost himself amidst all the praise and all the repeated words about liking him.
He licked his lips. “Really?”
An Yi nodded. “Of course. I’m just saying, I really married the right person back then, don’t you think?”
A foolish curve gradually formed at the corner of Huo Beixing’s mouth.
“You don’t regret marrying me.”
“How could I regret it? In the next life I’ll still marry you, and the life after that too. Even an old yellow ox couldn’t drag me back.”
Completely coaxed into blooming with joy, Huo Beixing’s heart practically melted at the little shake An Yi had just given his hand.
An Yi continued, “You’re so good. No matter what I want to do, you’ll support me, right?”
Looking at the anticipation in his eyes, Huo Beixing said, “Of course.”
An Yi said, “Then I’m going over there to look around a bit. Is there anything you want to say?”
Huo Beixing paused.
An Yi froze. “Hm? What’s wrong? I just praised you, and now suddenly you’re not the generous good husband anymore?”
Huo Beixing immediately answered, “Go ahead.”
Satisfied, An Yi nodded and walked off toward the shallow-water side, ready to begin his stars-and-sea mission.
Generous good husband.
Generous good husband.
A strange feeling welled up inside Huo Beixing for a moment.
He was now someone else’s good husband.
With every other sentence calling him “good husband,” Huo Beixing found himself reflecting on his past. All those fake flings and casual relationships from before really should be cut off now.
Back then, all that flirtatious bastard behavior had been just to dodge the power struggle. Now, however, the image he presented to the outside world was that of a fool. Naturally, no one would keep talking about having him seize power anymore.
But only after taking a swim did Huo Beixing finally wake up to something.
He had been completely CPU’d.
Huo Beixing sat nearby with a dark expression, staring at An Yi in the distance as he stood on the diving platform watching other people’s bodies.
“……”
When Zhao Ningzhuo came out, he immediately saw Huo Beixing’s dissatisfied face.
As the number-one-best-friend in the world, of course he had to go over and… mock him a little.
“Heh, what’s wrong with you?”
Huo Beixing didn’t answer.
Following his line of sight, Zhao Ningzhuo saw An Yi on the diving platform watching two muscular men strike poses in front of him.
Zhao Ningzhuo paused, then lowered his head to glance at Huo Beixing.
This cheap shot—he absolutely had to take it.
Leaning in beside him, Zhao Ningzhuo said in a low voice, “Looks like your wife’s about to get a new man.”
Huo Beixing: ……
He turned to look at him.
Zhao Ningzhuo kept grinning away, but Huo Beixing’s peach blossom eyes narrowed dangerously.
“Do you still remember Ruru?”
Zhao Ningzhuo froze.
Damn it, that had been his first love at age five. Ever since then, every person he loved resembled her.
Resembled her in that she was a girl.
“Yeah, I remember. Why?”
Huo Beixing said, “Back then, when you were playing the groom, she was the very first one to oppose it.”
Zhao Ningzhuo: ……
Huo Beixing continued, “She said if she ever had to marry you, she’d drink Sprite and commit suicide.”
Zhao Ningzhuo: ……
Dog bastard……
Did you hear that?
Dog bastard!!!
