They Are Archenemies, But They Have A Child - Chapter 67

Chapter 67: Collateral Damage

Yun Qingwu looked at Liu Yu suspiciously. Liu Yu gestured for them to follow him: “I know a place that’s guaranteed to relieve your worries and make you feel refreshed and relaxed!”

Liu Yu led the two of them to a place called Qingyue Tower. At first, Yun Qingwu thought it was just another restaurant, but once the three of them were seated, he immediately sensed something unusual.

Based on his past experience traveling in the mortal realm, the heavier fragrance of cosmetics here proved that even if it wasn’t a brothel, it had to be a pleasure house primarily for entertainment.

His first instinct was to drag Leng Lici out of there.

Leng Lici was puzzled by Yun Qingwu’s sudden change of expression and didn’t immediately get up. He frowned: “Leaving again?”

Liu Yu noticed their movement and forcefully pressed them back down: “Leaving for what? Don’t be shy. I guarantee you’ll feast your eyes tonight!”

As soon as he finished speaking, three scantily clad and beautifully dressed women, carrying a pipa, a guzheng, and a flute respectively, entered their private room. They stood up and bowed to them: “Three young gentlemen, we offer our greetings.”

Yun Qingwu averted his gaze, focusing instead on Liu Yu.

If this memory fragment truly represented the person’s real experience, wouldn’t that mean his Father God was once a philandering young master who frequented flower houses?

Was this really a memory fragment of his Father God?

Even now, he found it hard to believe, but a sense of relief arose in him. Thankfully, this was just a pleasure house mainly for listening to music. If it were a brothel…

Then this memory is better left unrestored.

“Young gentleman, what are you thinking about?” While he was preoccupied, the girl holding the flute had approached him unnoticed. A cup of poured wine was already offered to him.

He wanted to refuse, but his peripheral vision caught sight of a girl holding a pipa sitting beside Leng Lici, also offering him a cup of wine.

Liu Yu patted his fan: “Take good care of my brothers today, and you won’t be short on money!”

Yun Qingwu had no time to think. He quickly took the cup of wine offered to him and drank it in one gulp. Then he immediately moved to Leng Lici’s side, took the wine cup in front of him, and also drank it down.

“I’ll drink it for him.”

If Leng Lici got drunk here tonight, things would truly become unmanageable.

Leng Lici, however, didn’t see it that way. Seeing Yun Qingwu accept and drink the wine offered by the two girls, his expression immediately turned cold.

“Young gentleman has a good capacity for wine!”

The ill-timed praise from the pipa girl and the flute girl caused Leng Lici’s internal discomfort to quickly twist into a knot, which then condensed into a surge of anger.

“I don’t need him to drink it for me.”

Seeing this, the pipa girl immediately poured another cup of wine and offered it to Leng Lici: “Then, young gentleman, this cup is for you.”

Yun Qingwu looked at Leng Lici in disbelief, subconsciously blocking the cup again: “A’Ci, you want to drink her wine?”

“If you can drink, can I not?”

Leng Lici pushed Yun Qingwu’s hand away, snatched the wine cup, and drank it in one gulp.

The pipa girl gave another round of applause: “This young gentleman is also impressive!”

With things escalating this far, Yun Qingwu’s own jealousy also began to churn. He simply returned to his seat: “Fine, you drink.”

The flute girl saw her chance and offered a cup of wine. Yun Qingwu, fueled by his own anger, took it and drank. The two of them began a non-stop back-and-forth drinking battle, cup after cup.

Liu Yu looked at Yun Qingwu, then at Leng Lici. Sensing the atmosphere had suddenly become tense, he tried to lighten the mood with a joke, laughing: “Why do you two brothers look like you’re competing out of jealousy? Could it be…”

He exclaimed in surprise: “Did you both fall for the same girl?”

The two of them simultaneously shot him a cold look, then immediately resumed their drinking war. The pipa girl and the flute girl exchanged glances, their hands getting numb from pouring the wine.

The girl playing the guzheng breathed a sigh of relief. Seizing the opportunity, she immediately switched to another tune, determined to keep herself firmly glued to the instrument.

…

However, this deadlock did not last long. Things quickly took a turn.

Leng Lici’s pace of accepting wine visibly slowed. A faint flush crept up his neck. Yun Qingwu’s peripheral vision caught this sight. His competitive zeal immediately dissipated, leaving only one thought in his mind—he had to get Leng Lici out of here right away.

Yun Qingwu abruptly stood up, without a word, grabbed Leng Lici by the arm, and was about to leave the restaurant. Liu Yu was still trying to figure out which girl the two men had fallen for. The sudden commotion startled him. By the time the two were almost out of the building, he snapped back to reality and chased after them: “Hey, why are you leaving?!”

The three remaining girls looked at each other, sighed in unison, and said in stereo: “What a shame. They are so handsome, yet they turned out to be a pair of homosexuals.”

Liu Yu chased them all the way but consistently lagged behind the two in front. When he finally caught up to the inn, just as he was about to follow them into the room, a plump, deeply sleeping little girl was shoved into his arms.

Yun Qingwu: “I’ll trouble you, Brother Liu, to look after her. Xiao Dao doesn’t fuss when she sleeps.”

Liu Yu gave a puzzled “Eh,” and the door was slammed shut with a bang. Unable to make sense of the situation, he could only take Xiao Dao back to his room, place her on the bed, and sit by to watch her.

…

Meanwhile, in the other room, the drunk Leng Lici was completely out of control. He had already transformed into a giant, furry fox, swaying his body and trying to burrow into Yun Qingwu’s embrace.

Yun Qingwu was jostled by the impact. He formed a hand seal to place a barrier around the room to prevent anyone from suddenly barging in.

In that brief moment of distraction, the fox on him bit down. He hissed. The force was completely unreserved. The earlier annoyance hadn’t fully dissipated, and he pushed the fox’s head away: “I told you not to drink, but you insisted. Now what are you doing with this drunken fit?”

The fox shook its head, pushing Yun Qingwu’s hand away, and lunged its body, attempting to press down on him. Yun Qingwu angrily retorted: “Fine, you’re not the only one with brute strength.”

With that, he transformed into his true form. The White Marsh pressed his horns against the fox, moving to pin him down.

The fox was forced onto the bed, breathing heavily, but still completely unyielding internally: “Why… why did you drink her wine?”

The fox’s tail forcefully wrapped around the White Marsh’s horns. The White Marsh shivered, allowing the fox to find an opening, and it instantly flipped, pinning the White Marsh down.

Leng Lici’s eyes were hazy, but still showed anger: “And you kept drinking endlessly. What? Did the Sovereign fall for them?”

“How can you twist this around? You insisted on drinking that girl’s wine, did you fall for her?” Yun Qingwu waved his white claws, hitting the fox’s back, trying to escape the restraint.

“You’re the one who fell for her!”

With the help of the alcohol, the more Leng Lici spoke, the more fiercely his internal rage burned. Finally, as if desperate to find an outlet for his frustration, the red fox aggressively mounted the White Marsh, and its black tail swept down.

The White Marsh’s body trembled, and he let out a low growl.