The Right Way to Offer a Sacrifice to The River God

I'm Bringing You Up Into The Sky? (我带你上天呀？)

Translator: Kyo576
Editor: Mimishijie

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While Liu Qi was still in turmoil, he suddenly heard chaotic sounds coming from outside.

He rubbed his eyes and ran out to see what was happening.

The villagers, too, had all come out just to join the hype. From afar, Bai Chuan was carrying a maiden dressed in bridal clothes as he walked over. The maiden was soaked, her face pale, and her eyes tightly shut.

The maiden's family members started crying in anguish.

"She's fine, she just fainted," Bai Chuan comforted.

People then started asking him why he had saved and brought back the River God's sacrifice.

Bai Chuan coldly swept his gaze towards the people surrounding him and said, "I am the River God. I bestowed the dream because I had wanted a bride, not a dead person. Who let you guys throw her into the river?"

The villagers all had expressions of doubt. "Che, a tiny thing like you can still be a River God? Who gave you the ability?"

Bai Chuan passed the unconscious maiden back to her family, before he once again transformed into his dragon form, accompanied by the distinct roar of a dragon. Charging up into the sky, the body of silvery-white scales reflected the moonlight and looked fluorescent against the night sky.

A rainshower suddenly started to fall, but it also stopped in an instant. Without waiting for the villagers to react, the great dragon in the horizon had already transformed back into the form of the refined and elegant young man from before.

Bai Chuan's gaze was searching for Liu Qi's within the crowd as he solemnly declared, "I will not bestow any more dreams to scare everyone from now on, and I also hope that everyone will stop sending me brides. I've already married one, and I really like them a lot. Plus, if you were to continue, they would get angry. If they got angry, they would carry me and throw me onto the ground, barring me from entering our home and not giving me anything to eat." (that's your main priority lol)

Within the crowd, Liu Qi held his forehead half in sweetness, but the other half wanting to collapse: ...

Bai Chuan wove through the part panicking, part shocked, part dazed crowd, directly walking towards Liu Qi. Standing in front of him, he carefully tugged onto Liu Qi's sleeve and tried to curry favour with him, "It's already been a shichen, let me go home." (add on a kicked puppy look and we're gonna die from cuteness yes)

(T/N: A shichen is a unit of time used in the past, two hours current time)

Poor Liu Qi's face was so red that it was about to explode. Lightly reproaching him with a quick 'Shut up!', following which he grabbed onto Bai Chuan's wrist and swiftly dashed back in the direction of his home.

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Bringing Bai Chuan back into the house, Liu Qi leaned onto a wall as he tried to catch his breath. His heart was beating violently in his chest.

If he wasn't mistaken, what Bai Chuan did just now could be considered...a public confession?

Bai Chuan blinked dazedly, his long and thick eyelashes fanning with the movement. "Xiao Qi, you only ran such a short distance, why are you panting so heavily? And your face is so red."

Liu Qi looked askance at him, "What do you know?"

"Are your kidneys weak?" Bai Chuan asked, concerned.

Liu Qi's heart full of tender feelings instantly vanished with that question. "Weak my foot. Talk again and I'll beat you up," he threatened.

Bai Chuan didn't dare speak anymore.