How To Polish A Pearl

Chapter 69 - Inviting

A/N: This chapter contains some mature content.

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"Zhuren!" Ah-Xiang voice is shrill as she barges in through the main door, not bothering to knock first. "Zhuren! Are you two still in bed?"

Both men sigh at the same time as they shifts their gaze towards the door opening out towards the main room. They had both clearly been hoping that they wouldn't be disturbed for a few days by anyone barging in calling for either 'Zhuren' or 'Nu Zhuren'.

Not able to decide if he is grateful or irritated that she hadn't barged in a few minutes later, Wen Ke Xing looks at his man and tilts his head, responding with a harsh and loud voice, "Ah-Xiang, you forgot to knock again. Why are you here?"

Her voice a little bit flat from the cold reception, forgetting why she came in the first place, "Zhuren, I forgot. I am not used to knocking."

Seeing that seductive milky skin, Wen Ke Xing lowers himself down on top of his man and leaves wet kisses down the neck and along the collar bone. His voice a bit muffled but still scolding, like he is speaking to a child and not someone who's eighteen, "Ah-Xiang, I have told you, you can't just do whatever you want anymore. Why are you still here? You should have left early this morning."

"Zhuren..." Her voice even lower, but with a higher grade anxiety in it.

Wen Ke Xing's lips have now reached one of the stiff nipples, his voice growing increasingly irritated because he can't fully focus on the taste of his man, "Ah-Xiang, didn't my Ah-Xu tell you that you and all the others were to leave first thing this morning?"

"Yes, but..."

"Why would you disobey him?" Taking the nipple between his teeth, he nibbles and bites, rewarded with a muffled moan escaping from those warm lips.

"... I wanted to confirm with you that you were staying by yourself. I also wanted to tell you that−"

Wanting to get back to the more interesting part of his morning, he cuts her off, "Ah‑Xiang, if an instruction comes from my husband you need to obey. I have told you before, I have told everyone, the only one above him is me." Looking up at Zhou Xu's face he winks and whispers, "Quite literally above him..."

"..." Zhou Xu shakes his head and buries his hands in Wen Ke Xing's raven black hair that is cascading around his chest.

Wen Ke Xing uses his tongue to leave the nipple completely soaked before searching for the other one, scolding in between nibbles, "If you don't obey him, why should the others? Ah-Xiang, you need to set an example."

"... so you are staying here?" Her eyes growing dark as she stares at her feet that are pointing slightly inwards, her hand in a firm grip around her whip.

Playing with the second nipple, he slowly exhales his cold breath through O-shaped puckered lips watching the skin around it prickle with goosebumps, "Yes, we are staying a few more days. You go back and start arranging the repairs."

They can hear her light steps, though not as bouncy as normally, move towards the door to leave. Stopping, her voice flat, "Oh, I forgot−Lecherous Ghost is on his way for that breakfast you wanted to have. His servant came to tell me that he will be here in five minutes. I have ordered breakfast for you all. It will be here any second so you might want to get ready."

Without anything else, they hear the door close and the pavilion is again silent. Wen Ke Xing looks so unhappy staring up at him from down his chest, like a child that has been robbed of his two toys, that Zhou Xu laughs out loud, "You are the one who invited him, not me. We better get dressed."

"Maybe we can cancel. It's not like he actually wants to sit here and eat with us. He was just being polite and trying to win favors." Taking hold of the luminous pearls, he pulls lightly and buries his face into the nape of the neck and takes a long deep breath.

"Lao Wen, one guest does not trouble two hosts. (1) Besides, if I am going to be the Nu Zhuren, I need to get to know the Devils at some point. Why wait? It's just breakfast."

Sulking, Wen Ke Xing rolls off his man and stares at the red fabric that is draped over and around the high bed frame, as if enclosing them in a red sea.

With a wide smile, Zhou Xu rolls over Wen Ke Xing and steals a kiss on his way to the edge of the bed. When his feet hits the cold floor, he mutters a curse under his breath, turning around whilst quickly putting on his boots, "And don't forget, we have our little project today and then we have a few days just you and me here, assuming Shanyuan doesn't kick us out." Laughing, he puts on the first of his inner robes, continuing with some excitement in his voice, "The sooner we get this breakfast over with, the sooner we can move on to the next bit of fun." Throwing on one of the more regal looking azure-blue outer robes, he grabs a belt and disappears into the main room.

Fun? You think this will be fun? Who are you? I never should have agreed to this.

When the first of the servants arrive with the banquet sized breakfast just moments later, Wen Ke Xing faces reality and grudgingly gets out of bed. Picking out one of the more formal robes that makes him look like the Guzhu, purely because it was closest to where he is standing. It has nothing to do with the irritation over having missed out on some really nice morning sex to instead having to spend an hour or so with Lecherous Ghost. And it most certainly has nothing to do with wanting to look intimidating in front of that perfectly sculpted Xiaotao.

Fully dressed, he steps into the main room to see Zhou Xu already nibbling on a steamed bun. Smiling at this man that is obsessed with food, or more precisely steamed buns, his eyes grows softer. "Don't you know it's rude to start eating before the guest arrives?"

Picking up a second steamed bun before he has even finished his first, Zhou Xu mumbles in between chewing, "Guests."

Distracted by this cute little squirrel with steamed bun stuffed in his cheeks, Wen Ke Xing struggles to hear the word that was spoken in the midst of all that food, "Hmm?"

"Guests." Starting to nibble on the second bun, almost purring with satisfaction, "There are two people joining us."

"Who is the second?"

('･_･')

Author's Mini Theater:

Approximately 8 hours earlier.

Author: "Are you sure about this?"

Zhou Xu: "I am sure."

Author: "What if you are wrong?"

Zhou Xu: "I'm not wrong. He is definitely one of them."

Author: "What are you going to tell Shanyuan?"

Zhou Xu: "Leave that to me, you just need to get me in to see him."

Author: "It is very late. You did have sex for THREE hours. Shanyuan is sleeping, like I should be doing."

Zhou Xu (whilst smiling really proudly): "So is Lao Wen after two rounds of me."

Author: "Are you gloating? You didn't even let me watch!"

Zhou Xu: "Not my fault. You are free to appeal to the Ghost Valley Complaints Review Board again."

Author: "..."

Zhou Xu: "Let's get going. I need to get some beauty sleep."

Author's Notes:

(1)'one guest does not trouble two hosts' - this is a Chinese proverb that I thinkoriginally refers to an uninvited guest. Technically, Lecherous Ghost wasinvited, but they still don't want him to come so I used it anyway.