Transmigrated As A Beautiful Cannon Fodder Omega To Marry An Evil God Alpha In Place of Another - Chapter 31.1

At such close range, Bai Rui could clearly see A-Wu’s lashes were long and dense, his features sharp and three dimensional, his nose bridge high, he was dazzlingly handsome with an aggressive edge.

Bai Rui stared for a long time, while A-Wu patiently kept his eyes closed, waiting quietly.

Finally, Bai Rui lifted both hands out of the water and circled them around A-Wu’s neck. With a splash of water, Bai Rui hugged A-Wu’s neck, pressing his face into the hollow of A-Wu’s collarbone draped with ink-black hair.

“Don’t… don’t open your eyes.”

Bai Rui whispered into A-Wu’s ear: “No peeking.”

That smooth, moist skin, still carrying water droplets, pressed against A-Wu’s body. A-Wu’s hand landed on the wet skin, his arm circling around to easily grasp that slender waist.

At the same time, his other large hand reached under Bai Rui’s knees, hoisting up his thin, pale body.

Suddenly suspended in the air out of the wooden tub, his white body still dripping with crystalline water, Bai Rui’s toes shed clusters of droplets. Having escaped the cooling water, the cramp in his leg eased slightly, but it was still very painful.

He furrowed his brows and instinctively tightened his grip around A-Wu’s neck.

In a daze, he seemed to hear A-Wu’s breath hitch. Subsequently, unable to bear the pain, Bai Rui let out a muffled groan.

“Mmm…”

This sound of pain brought the ambiguous atmosphere in the room to its peak. But the more it was like this, the more awkward it felt. For a time, Bai Rui frowned, a trace of a tear in the corner of his eye, clinging tightly to A-Wu’s neck, not daring to let go.

Drip, drop. Water droplets hit the floor, splashing into small blooms.

A-Wu still had his eyes closed. His long lashes fluttered. Finally, using every ounce of his willpower, he suppressed the urge to open his eyes. By now, the front of his robe was soaked through.

Enduring the pain, Bai Rui gritted his teeth and said with a trembling voice, “Go straight… five steps.”

The room was very quiet. A-Wu stood there, pausing for a few seconds, before carrying Bai Rui to the large European style bed. Beside the bed was a long brown blanket that Bai Rui had prepared earlier to dry himself. It came in handy now.

There were pillars at the foot of the bed, but A-Wu, with his eyes closed, bypassed them with precision.

Bai Rui was placed on the blanket. In the next second, a broad embrace followed, wrapping him, blanket and all into a hug.

Bai Rui was slender and pale, bundled up like a lump in the blanket. Those large hands began rubbing him with a towel to dry the water. His skin was rubbed a bit red, not to mention his hair being tousled as if someone were drying a cat after a bath.

In this moment, Bai Rui had the illusion that A-Wu wasn’t drying him like a person.

“You… be gentler.”

“Am I using too much force?”

“Mm… a little. Sss…”

“Ah, did it hurt? I’ll be gentler then.”

“No, no, don’t touch that part!”

These lines of dialogue, at this moment, delivered a massive shock to the dragon and the cat crouching by the crystal ball, unable to see the picture, only hearing the “audiobook.”

“Aaaaah! What are they doing???”

“The Prince said it hurts!! Did the Demon Emperor not hear? Aaaaah!!”

Watching the Black Dragon tear at its own hair, the Black Cat sneered. “Our Emperor is truly something. Even in a dump like Gambler’s Town, he can favor his little bride.”

“What little bride! Our Prince Bai Rui is clearly a sacred and elegant ‘Flower of the High Peaks’!” After the Black Dragon retorted, tears started pitter-pattering down again. “No, what on earth are they doing? I really want to see!”

“What else could it be! Who doesn’t want to see!! Isn’t it because this cloth won’t come off?!”

“Wooo, how can it be like this? Shouldn’t these things be saved for the wedding night?”

“Black Dragon…” The Black Cat covered its face with its paws. “I didn’t realize you were so pure hearted before.”

“They’re a couple, sneaking out before the wedding to have a ‘childhood sweetheart’ style romance. This is just an early honeymoon. What are you crying for?”

“Wooo, I just feel like I’ve had a heartbreak,” the Black Dragon pulled out a handkerchief to wipe its eyes. “Does that mean the wedding tomorrow won’t happen?”

“Of course not! Both protagonists are gone, who would it be for? We can only claim Prince Bai Rui is unwell and postpone the wedding to send those idiots from the Holy Light Empire back… Oh, alright, stop crying!! You got snot on my fur!”

Bai Rui was being dried by A-Wu like a kitten, the cramp in his leg still coming in waves. Wrapped in the warm blanket now, the blood in his body seemed to warm back up.

Leaning into A-Wu’s solid embrace, Bai Rui felt a bit lazy and instinctively leaned his full body weight against him. They had clearly only known each other for a short time, yet there was a natural sense of closeness. This was likely… “friends at first sight”?

The water in his hair was mostly dried, and A-Wu had finished drying the rest of him as well. A-Wu circled his arms around Bai Rui’s body, his hand finding his leg. “Does it still hurt?”

“Mm…” Bai Rui’s voice was low. “A little bit.”

A cramp in water wasn’t something that went away instantly. He remembered back in PE class, if his leg cramped while swimming, he could only jump on his toes after getting out. But Bai Rui clearly wasn’t in a condition to jump on his toes or rather, he didn’t want to. Being held, being circled by such a sturdy and reliable arm, he felt completely relaxed after the hot bath. He just wanted to keep going like this; it seemed quite nice.

To be lazy for once, not having to be constantly on guard, to trust just one person, could he do that?

That large hand followed the lines of Bai Rui’s calf, kneading all the way. Finally, with a forceful rub and back and forth friction, the cramp was effectively relieved without him doing any work.

Indeed, being served felt quite good. For the first time, Bai Rui developed a sense of “premature enjoyment” that transcended class.

Held by the embrace and the blanket, Bai Rui’s eyes half-closed as drowsiness washed over him. His mind suddenly recalled the scene before he transmigrated, when he met Senior Brother Qi in the hallway.

Senior Brother Qi’s height of 1.88 meters was the real deal. With a high nose and deep eyes, and a cold white complexion, he was the recognized “school hunk” of the department. When he smiled warmly and walked toward Bai Rui, it seemed the sunlight in the long corridor became even brighter.

“Student Bai Rui, please wait a moment.”

Bai Rui stood there quietly, stopping his steps. The window on one side of the corridor let in sunlight, wrapping him in a warm light source.

Senior Brother Qi walked over with a smile. Some classmates poked their heads out from the studio doors, covering their mouths and teasing, “Oh, Senior Brother Qi, you’re here for our ‘White-white’ again?” “Senior Brother Qi, you come so often!” “Are you here to help our White-white with the group project today? Oh, why don’t you help me?”

Amidst the laughter, Senior Brother Qi waved them away. His long, clean hand pulled out two colorful slips of paper from his pocket and held them out to Bai Rui. “Are you interested in seeing a Western Fantasy Oil Painting Exhibition? It mostly features the struggle between light and dark races in an ancient mysterious Western continent, along with Cthulhu themed works by various artists.”

“These tickets are hard to find. Do you want to go with me?”

What did he say back then? Oh, he said he had already made plans with Senior Brother Lai. Bai Rui clearly saw the disappointment in Senior Brother Qi’s eyes.

Bai Rui closed his eyes and sighed softly. “Do you know? A-Wu, you resemble an old acquaintance of mine.”

“Who?” The hand kneading Bai Rui’s leg paused.

Bai Rui was quite sleepy now. Leaning into the warm blanket with his shoulder blades against that solid chest, a sudden sourness welled up in his heart.

“Someone who isn’t from this world.”

“And that person, strictly speaking, has a thousand ties to you.”

After all, Senior Brother Qi was the main illustrator for Qi Li. Although the Demon Emperor Qi Li drawn by Senior Brother Qi was a villainous boss in the original story, every time he appeared, the comments section would be filled with screams. Readers loved the cold-eyed, tall, slender man with eight pack abs and beautiful chest muscles that Senior Brother Qi depicted.

He remembered the most sensational scene that day, the villain boss walked out of his bedroom in Ice Badger Castle, his robe draped open, revealing a stretch of lean, toned muscle, not overly bulky, but a very elegant physique. His cold-white skin made the whole image striking. On his well-defined muscles, he even wore decorations made of fine chains, one around his neck, with several others branching out from it, extending all the way to his waist. With silver hair cascading over his shoulders and a gloomy gaze, he stood on the high platform, looking down with cold indifference at the protagonist’s army and the challenging Second Prince.

When that scene was released, readers went crazy, saying the anatomy was drawn too beautifully, especially those thin metal chains hanging on the muscles, it was simply breathtaking. Many readers defected on the spot, declaring themselves fans of Evil God Qi Li’s physique.

In reality, Bai Rui had once seen Senior Brother Qi come out of the shower wearing only a towel, and he looked just as stunning as the Evil God in the drawings.

Probably too sleepy, Bai Rui closed his eyes and whispered words like a dream: “Actually, I think you look a lot like him. Sometimes, I mistake you for him…”

“When I see you, I sometimes can’t help but think of him.”

“He is a very good person…”

The large hand stopped on the pale skin of the calf. There was silence, no movement.

But the audience outside was not calm. This time, the Black Cat and the Black Dragon tore at their hair frantically together.

“Holy crap, is he treating the Evil God as a substitute??”

“They should be doing that thing right now! My god, he just said it directly??”

“It’s over, I’m starting to worry for Prince Bai Rui.”