ISMW Chapter 85

It was hard to judge Gui Yan’s other abilities, but he was definitely first place at stirring up trouble.

 

“Brother Xi, go for it.” He cheered Fu Yanxi on. “I’ll always support you from behind.”

 

…This kind of encouragement was too life-threatening.

 

“Those who understand the times are wise.” Fu Yanxi could bend and stretch. He pressed his fist to his lips, coughed, and said calmly: “I think now isn’t the right time.”

 

“True, you couldn’t beat Yu Chen when he was 2S. Now that he’s 3S, we’ll probably have to wait until you’re also 3S for the best revenge opportunity.” Gui Yan’s unintentional truth stabbed Fu Yanxi in the back. “Fine then. Yu Chen, for Brother Xi’s sake, I’ll change my hair color tomorrow.”

 

Yu Chen smiled: “Fu Junjie’s face is like a shoe insole—is it necessary to consider?”

 

Fu Yanxi, forcibly renamed, dared to be angry but not speak.

 

Gui Yan also changed his tune: “Then for the Third Prince’s sake.”

 

“Alright.” Yu Chen didn’t do backstabbing—he always stabbed directly. “For my lover’s sake, I’ll wait for you to change your hair color tomorrow.”

 

The word “lover” once again tormented Fu Yanxi and Gui Yan’s hearts.

 

Gui Yan left harsh words: “You just wait!”

 

Let him wait—as long as Gui Yan stopped flaunting that silver hair in front of him, Yu Chen felt he could accept any hair color.

 

At the same moment, Yun Xunlan was in the hospital room bathroom, holding a strand of silver hair in front of the mirror. After examining it for a while, he asked the system: “Little Ju, do you think I should change my hair color?”

 

The system responded to Yun Xunlan: “If you want to change it, then change it. What color are you thinking?”

 

“I haven’t decided.” Yun Xunlan said. “I’ve never tried other hair colors.”

 

The system suggested: “Dye it Yu Chen’s signature blue-green?”

 

“That could work.” Yun Xunlan imagined himself with black hair and found it quite fresh. “I also think couple colors are nice.”

 

His hair, whether in his previous life or this one, had always been silver—not plain white, but silver with a silky luster and slightly gray undertones.

 

The other cultivators who had been trapped in the pot with him had asked why his hair was this color. Was it because something went wrong during cultivation, causing inner demons?

 

Yun Xunlan had told them: My clan relatives all have silver hair.

 

—Since the Yun clan obtained that secret treasure, the Boundary-Breaking Shuttle, a hundred years ago, all descendants born afterward had silver hair.

 

Yun Xunlan was used to his appearance with silver hair. When he was young, Yun Xunguang had worried he might feel sad about having different hair color from his relatives, so she dyed her hair silver too. She kept it that way for several years until she discovered Yun Xunlan didn’t care about this matter at all, then stopped dyeing it.

 

“Never mind. If I dye it black, the silver roots growing out would be very conspicuous.” Yun Xunlan released his hair. “I’ll dye it later.”

 

Perhaps in the future, he wouldn’t need to dye it black but could naturally grow black hair like Yun Xunguang after she stopped dyeing.

 

 

But the system was confused: “How is blue-green black?”

 

Yun Xunlan was also puzzled: “How is couple color not black?”

 

“Never mind, what hair color to dye isn’t important. What’s important is that you need to coax Yu Chen properly.” The system didn’t want any complications halfway through. “We only have half a year left before we can break out of the galaxy and dominate the entire universe. You can’t hold me back at such a critical moment.”

 

Yun Xunlan was confused: “Do you have legs?”

 

The system shamelessly said: “Yes, I have plenty of phantom limbs.”

 

Yun Xunlan: “…”

 

System: “Remember to coax him.”

 

“I will coax him, don’t worry.” Yun Xunlan had already thought of how to compensate Yu Chen. He left the bathroom and used his light brain to summon the medical team’s duty doctor today, asking for a small favor.

 

At nine o’clock in the evening, Yu Chen finished work and returned to Yun Xunlan’s hospital room, preparing to continue keeping him company. He didn’t know if Yun Xunlan was asleep, so he opened the door very gently. After entering and seeing the room wasn’t lit, he assumed Yun Xunlan was resting.

 

However, when he looked around, he saw the young man sitting properly against the headboard.

 

The space station’s porthole faced a vast starry sea, so even without lights, the room wasn’t pitch black.

 

Those brilliant starlight softly fell and reflected, outlining Yun Xunlan’s profile, making half of him bathed in light and the other half immersed in shadow.

 

“Why aren’t the lights on?” Yu Chen walked toward him. “Are your eyes still uncomfortable? Can’t handle bright light?”

 

The young man didn’t speak, only shook his head, then reached out to hold Yu Chen’s fingers.

 

Yu Chen was pulled by him to sit on the side of the hospital bed away from the light. After getting closer, Yu Chen discovered Yun Xunlan had changed out of his hospital gown and was wearing an ankle-length Klein blue silk robe.

 

This blue was praised as an absolute blue, giving particularly strong visual impact. But Yu Chen felt that Yun Xunlan’s snow-white skin exposed outside the robe was what could stir the most violent tremors in his heart.

 

While gazing, Yun Xunlan suddenly reached out to cover his eyes: “Baby, do you want to mark me?”

 

Having lost his sight, his other senses became more sensitive. Yu Chen heard rustling sounds and the subtle friction of fabric falling to the floor.

 

He answered Yun Xunlan: “I can’t mark you.”

 

At the same time, he felt Yun Xunlan changing position, that warm body moving from his side to in front of him.

 

Yun Xunlan was still asking him: “I’m asking if you ‘want to,’ not if you ‘can.'”

 

Marking was an instinctive reaction written in alpha genes. As long as someone’s secondary sexual characteristic was alpha, this desire wouldn’t disappear.

 

But honestly, Yu Chen didn’t really want to mark Yun Xunlan, not only because marking behavior between alphas would only bring pain, like torture, but also because once he marked Yun Xunlan, it would mean the young man’s life had completely entered countdown mode.

 

If possible, Yu Chen only wanted to be marked by Yun Xunlan.

 

Even without a permanent mark, even without 100% pheromone compatibility, they could still be destined partners.

 

However, just as Yu Chen was about to say “don’t want,” Yun Xunlan moved his palm away—Yu Chen saw him standing on the side facing the light, stepping on the Klein blue, with nothing but sincere white covering his entire body.

 

The hospital room temperature was constant at 26 degrees Celsius. Though not cold, Yu Chen’s first reaction was still to help Yun Xunlan put his clothes back on.

 

But the young man pressed his shoulder: “Sit still, don’t move.”

 

Given Yun Xunlan’s current physical condition, if Yu Chen didn’t want to be held down, breaking free would be easy as turning his hand.

 

Yet Yu Chen was actually pressed back down by Yun Xunlan’s light downward pressure.

 

Because he discovered there was still a trace of blue on the young man’s body—in his mouth, appearing and disappearing with his lip movements as he spoke.

 

And the young man seemed to have no intention of hiding this trace of blue anymore. He reached out to remove Yu Chen’s bite guard, then bent down, bringing them close enough before sticking out part of his tongue.

 

At the tip of that soft red appendage was a blue gemstone, constantly refracting indescribable brilliant fire using the starlight behind Yu Chen.

 

“I had a doctor give me a tongue piercing.” Yun Xunlan cupped Yu Chen’s face with both hands and gently licked his blue eyeball through his eyelid. “It’s also blue—can this count as being marked by you?”

 

The tongue piercing had been warmed by the young man’s body temperature, so it didn’t feel cold when it made contact. However, its texture was hard, so no matter how careful Yun Xunlan was, it still left a subtle painful sensation on Yu Chen’s eyelid, like a low-pain marking.

 

Once again, without waiting for Yu Chen’s answer, he made his next move.

 

But before Yun Xunlan’s knees could touch the ground, Yu Chen grabbed the young man and dragged him back onto the hospital bed, followed by the Klein blue robe floating down to cover Yun Xunlan’s body.

 

Yu Chen’s heart was beating fast, his breathing rapid. He could barely organize language to speak with the young man.

 

His thinking was rational, his mind clear. Years of high-intensity training meant that no matter how excited he became, he would almost never lose control. But his ocean-scented pheromones had unknowingly filled the entire hospital room, like a sea floating in space, more honestly expressing the alpha’s hidden secrets than Yu Chen himself.

 

If Yu Chen were to speak, he would only ask hoarsely: “…What are you trying to do?”

 

Yun Xunlan’s face was covered by the robe as he said in a muffled voice: “Kiss you.”

 

Yu Chen lifted the robe and lowered his head to kiss him.

 

Yun Xunlan tilted his face to the side: “Not there.”

 

Yu Chen kissed empty air, his lips only landing on the young man’s mouth corner. He said helplessly: “You can’t kiss other places.”

 

“You praised my tongue for being skillful during the day.” Yun Xunlan smiled at him. “Don’t you want to try?”

 

Yu Chen closed his eyes: “Was I praising you?”

 

Yun Xunlan said: “You weren’t scolding me, were you?”

 

The blue-eyed alpha opened his eyes and said mysteriously: “You’d be happy if I was, right?”

 

Being able to complete tasks would definitely make Yun Xunlan happy, but he couldn’t expose the system’s existence. Besides, shouldn’t this be something that made both of them happy? How come from Yu Chen’s tone, it didn’t seem to be the case?

 

Yun Xunlan asked him: “Aren’t you happy, baby?”

 

“What should I be happy about?” Yu Chen snorted coldly. “I don’t have your perverted little fetish.”

 

Yun Xunlan’s golden eyes were filled with confusion: “What perverted little fetish?”

 

Yu Chen: “Dirty talk.”

 

Yun Xunlan: “Isn’t that your fetish?”

 

Yu Chen: “?”

 

“How could I have such a fetish?!” Concerning his reputation and innocence, Yu Chen couldn’t maintain his composure and nearly broke his voice.

 

Yun Xunlan hit the nail on the head: “You like to curse at people.”

 

Yu Chen: “…”

 

Yu Chen was speechless.

 

He was silent for a few seconds: “I don’t curse because I like cursing. It’s purely because I have no class.”

 

Yun Xunlan had already seen the lack of class, but he couldn’t see the other aspect: “But when we’re doing it, I can’t tell that you don’t like it.”

 

“Well, I can’t say I don’t like it. I don’t dislike it anyway.” Yu Chen confessed honestly. “But overall I was trying to satisfy your special fetish. In bed we can play like that, but once we’re out of bed, I’ve always been unwilling to curse at you even once.”

 

Yun Xunlan hesitated, but finally decided to be honest with his lover: “But baby, I don’t have any special fetishes.”

 

“…You don’t?”

 

“I don’t.”

 

Yu Chen looked into Yun Xunlan’s eyes, and he became confused too.

 

“Ahhhhhhhhhhh! What are you talking about! Our grand ambitions for domination!” The system screamed shrilly. “He’s going to make a fuss, quick—coax—him—!”

 

Yun Xunlan: “!”

 

“I do.” Having just told the truth, Yun Xunlan now began lying. “Baby, I do.”

 

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