If Fu Yanxi had mind-reading abilities and could hear Yu Chen’s thoughts, he would definitely hear: What’s the use of being able to meet the Third Highness alone frequently? The Third Highness has never called him “big brother.”
—What a “big brother,” it sounds much more intimate than “Teacher Yu.”
Therefore, when Yu Chen arrived at Yun Xunlan’s bedroom and saw the silver-haired alpha sitting at the table, a gentle smile forming in his eyes the moment he entered the room, softly calling his name, Yu Chen didn’t address the youth by name in return. Instead, he deliberately called out: “Third Highness.”
Thinking: Would Yun Xunlan continue to call him “Teacher Yu” this way?
“Teacher Yu Chen?”
Sure enough, the prince fell into the trap. He slightly raised his eyebrow, but the title he used had one more word than Yu Chen had expected. The silver-haired alpha also asked him: “Why are you calling me ‘Highness’ again?”
While Yu Chen got his wish of hearing Yun Xunlan call him “teacher,” it didn’t seem to fill the void in his heart. Or rather, he was greedy—wanting to hear a title other than his name or honorific from Yun Xunlan’s mouth.
Preferably more intimate than “big brother.”
But Yu Chen couldn’t express these thoughts directly. He looked at the silver-haired alpha, into those golden eyes, and without answering the youth’s question, he asked in return: “Besides ‘Highness’ and ‘Yun Xunlan,’ can I use any other title to address you?”
Yun Xunlan was willing to accommodate Yu Chen in everything. It was just a title after all, so however Yu Chen wanted to call him, Yun Xunlan would certainly comply: “Sure, what do you want to call me?”
But Yu Chen said: “I haven’t thought of one yet.”
“Then take your time thinking,” Yun Xunlan didn’t seem to mind much, his lips curving slightly. “You can call me whatever you want.”
Yu Chen averted his gaze from Yun Xunlan’s eyes, lowering his eyelashes to look at the “War Psychology” textbook on the table, awkwardly changing the subject: “Let’s start the tutoring, we won’t do practical exercises today. I want to understand how you’re doing with the theoretical courses.”
At the mention of theoretical courses, Yun Xunlan finally regained some confidence and decisively agreed: “Alright.”
Because if the exam only tested this, without practical exercises, Yun Xunlan could guarantee his score would definitely be perfect.
After giving Yun Xunlan a few questions, Yu Chen indeed found this to be true—for all theoretical exam questions, Yun Xunlan could provide the most perfect battle strategies and military plans. His answers could be considered model answers, and he could even recite all the original text from the textbook without a single mistake or missing word, like a walking encyclopedia of “War Psychology” theory.
Even Yu Chen himself couldn’t achieve this level.
It was the first time he had seen such a huge disparity between someone’s theoretical knowledge and practical skills. At the same time, he felt that the military academy’s regulation requiring students to pass practical assessments in this course to graduate was very correct. Otherwise, what would happen if someone like Yun Xunlan, a theoretical giant but practical dwarf, appeared on the battlefield?
Originally, Yu Chen had planned to deliberately prolong the tutoring session tonight, dragging it out until very late to see if Yun Xunlan would invite him to sleep in the same bed again. However, because Yun Xunlan could recite the “War Psychology” theoretical textbook backwards and forwards, performing exceptionally well, Yu Chen himself lost track of time as the tutoring progressed.
By the time he came to his senses, it was already early morning.
Outside, the stars and moon hung high, everything was silent except for the repeated sound of waves crashing on the beach.
“See, the bedroom is so suitable for tutoring, Yu Chen even tutored you to the point of forgetting himself,” the system sighed with emotion. “Only your second brother would think the bedroom is unsuitable for tutoring. Without your second brother’s interruption tonight, Yu Chen didn’t say a word of objection. Listen to me, from now on, you should tutor in the bedroom every day, and sleep right after.”
Yun Xunlan strongly agreed: “Mm, I’ll listen to you.”
After finishing his conversation with the system in his mind, he immediately looked up at Yu Chen.
Coincidentally, Yu Chen was also looking at him, his beautiful deep blue eyes unblinking like a still ice lake, somehow giving a sense of expectation.
But the scene of Yu Chen rejecting him last time was still vivid in his mind. Yun Xunlan thought his eyes were playing tricks on him. He also stared at Yu Chen without blinking, somewhat nervously, carefully hinting: “Yu Chen, you’ve worked hard tonight too. My bedroom bed is quite large, why don’t…”
Yun Xunlan didn’t finish the “why don’t” because he noticed that Yu Chen seemed… not to be breathing???
Yun Xunlan couldn’t see any movement in his chest, like a powered-off robot, not blinking or breathing, making one want to check his pulse to see if his heart was still beating.
But before Yun Xunlan could figure it out, Yu Chen spoke: “Why don’t what?”
—Ah, he can speak, so he must have seen wrong.
Yun Xunlan continued his sentence: “Why don’t you just stay here and make do with resting with me for the night?”
As soon as he finished speaking, Yu Chen nodded: “Okay.”
He added at the end: “Not making do.”
Yu Chen agreed so quickly this time that Yun Xunlan was stunned for two seconds at first. Then, as his thoughts returned, fearing Yu Chen might change his mind, he hurriedly stood up from his chair and walked towards the dressing room: “I have brand new pajamas and towels, I’ll get them for you.”
Yun Xunlan found a set of Klein blue long-sleeved and long-legged pajamas and a towel, handing them to Yu Chen.
Yu Chen didn’t refuse.
He took the pajamas and towel and walked towards the bathroom, but unexpectedly, Yun Xunlan followed behind him towards the bathroom.
So Yu Chen held his breath again—what was Yun Xunlan going to do?
Take a bath together?
However, the distance from the dressing room to the bathroom was very short, not enough time for Yu Chen to continue his wild imagination. Yun Xunlan had already explained the truth: “The toiletries in this left bathroom are all brand new, I haven’t used them.”
Yu Chen: “…”
Alright, the prince’s bathroom had two shower stalls, a large bathtub with massage function, and a hot spring pool that could accommodate ten people at once. There were plenty of places to bathe, he didn’t need to worry about Yun Xunlan bathing with him.
Yu Chen took a simple shower and grooming in the left shower stall. All the bathing products there were unscented, so he came out without any other smell on his body, which was very friendly for alphas sensitive to scents.
The only unfriendly thing was that when Yu Chen came out of the left shower stall, he found Yun Xunlan was taking a shower in the right shower stall.
Although the shower stall door was tightly sealed, not letting out any steam, as he listened to the pitter-patter of water drops, he seemed to smell a moist scent mixed with lychee rose. It wasn’t as romantic and rich as other rose scents, but it was equally ambiguous, easily leading to flights of fancy.
Yu Chen’s Adam’s apple bobbed, and he didn’t linger in the bathroom, quickly returning to the bedroom.
Ten minutes later, Yun Xunlan also came out of the bathroom.
Klein blue was eye-catching; he could easily find where Yu Chen was with just a glance.
The black-haired, blue-eyed alpha sat on the sofa by the window with lowered lashes. His body, stripped of the uniform, was lightly covered by a soft, skin-friendly fabric, revealing his broad, muscular shoulders and back. He still exuded that cold, irritable aura of world-weariness, his handsome face etched with asceticism and aloofness. Yet paradoxically, his primitively attractive physique emanated a kind of sexual allure that was difficult to describe in words, full of contradictions and contrasts.
So Yun Xunlan gazed at him, momentarily lost in thought.
Only when their eyes met did he snap back to reality, walking to the bedside and patting the pillow: “Yu Chen, why didn’t you lie down on the bed first?”
Yun Xunlan had never slept in the same bed with anyone else. He didn’t know what process to follow when sleeping with someone, he just thought if there was a bed to lie on, why sit? So he asked this way.
Yu Chen replied hoarsely: “I was waiting for you.”
Yun Xunlan lay down on the bed, turning his head towards Yu Chen’s direction, smiling: “Then you can come over now.”
Yu Chen didn’t speak again. He silently lifted the blanket, crossed his hands over his abdomen, lying properly without daring to overstep by even a hair’s breadth, sleeping an arm’s length away from the prince.
The system reminded Yun Xunlan: “Sleep foot-to-foot, foot-to-foot, the key is foot-to-foot. You two have enough space between you to fit another person. You won’t become brothers even if you sleep for ten years like this.”
Yun Xunlan humbly accepted the advice: “Okay, I’ll do it right away.”
He turned over, facing Yu Chen, then extended his left foot, quietly sliding under the cover of the blanket, soon touching… Yu Chen’s calf.
System: “Your Highness, you’ve touched the wrong place.”
“He’s a bit taller than me and sleeping further away, so it’s hard for me to find the right spot,” Yun Xunlan explained, actively correcting his mistake. “I’ll try again.”
Saying he’d try again, Yun Xunlan didn’t actually move his toes away, but continued to press against Yu Chen’s calf, then slowly slid down—he didn’t dare move his foot away, what if he found the wrong spot again?
The ceiling light had automatically turned off after sensing both of them lying down, making the night even quieter. It was so quiet that Yun Xunlan could barely hear Yu Chen’s breathing again, but the rustling of pajamas and bed sheets was particularly clear.
Yu Chen could clearly hear the sound of Yun Xunlan moving closer to him.
And what he clearly perceived, besides hearing, was also touch—Yun Xunlan gently pressed his toes against his calf.
With the barrier of pajama pants, they weren’t actually in skin-to-skin contact, but that soft and tiny touch still made Yu Chen’s heart skip a beat, then pound like a drum, as intense as if he’d just gone through an overloaded physical training session.
“Thump thump, thump thump…”
So fast it made one slightly breathless.
Following this, Yu Chen indeed held his breath for the fourth time tonight—because Yun Xunlan was rubbing his calf.
From calf all the way down to ankle, from separation by thin fabric to actual skin-to-skin contact, the coolness of the youth’s toes was gradually warmed by his high body temperature.
Yu Chen was a man who had slept with a group of alphas before. He knew what normal sleep with alphas was like, so he understood that this sleep with Yun Xunlan was not normal!
The prince’s neither light nor heavy, neither here nor there rubbing against him was a blatant sexual hint.
Yu Chen held his breath for the fifth time, with one thought repeating in his mind: I didn’t misunderstand, he really wants to date me, seduce me, sleep with me.
But he hadn’t decided yet whether to accept Yun Xunlan or not.
This was progressing too fast. Yu Chen couldn’t handle Yun Xunlan’s blatant seduction. He adjusted his sleeping position, moving a bit to the left to avoid the touch of Yun Xunlan’s toes.
Unexpectedly, the next second, the silver-haired alpha also adjusted his position, snuggling close again, and once more pressing his toes against Yu Chen’s ankle, lightly stepping on it in a ticklish manner.
Lmao, did they not teach yun xunlan common sense
Thx for the translation!!