Teenage Girl

Ring! Ring!

Lai Mingjie tore his eyes open again as soon as he heard his alarm. His eyes flickered as he was momentarily disoriented when he grew conscious once again. He flattened his palms on his face and barely recalled the events that happened last night. Right, he went out with Director Cheng to have a drink... then, he ditched him on his way home. He got into trouble.

"Xu..." Lai Mingjie murmured a name as he remembered the events that followed. He placed his hands back on the bed and tried to imagine the horrors of last night. That maniacal laughter that haunted him for more than a hundred thousand years sounded so fresh. He heard it again last night, but he wasn't his enemy. Xu Rouguang saved him from those goons.

"Fuck." He suddenly got up from his bed. How come he was home when he didn't make it back last night? Did Xu Rouguang take him here? How did he know where he lives? Better yet... why wasn't he sore? Well, of course, from getting beaten up...

Lai Mingjie got off of the bed and walked to see his body in the mirror. He wasn't wearing his clothes from last night anymore, and he couldn't even see the slightest bruises from what happened. He knocked his forehead against the mirror in haste to see his face closer. A cuss came from under his hiss as he checked his face again. Miraculously, he wasn't feeling shit from getting wasted last night... he wasn't even scarred from the fight. He glared at his reflection before his gaze landing on his mouth.

His eyes widened at a piece of memory. He then shook his head after pulling back. He wiped his hand down his face hard to forget that one bit.

"Hey, what's up with this stupid human body? It's gotten hot..." Lai Mingjie spied a look at the mirror, only to see how much his face had reddened. "What?" He looked away and took in a sharp breath through his teeth. "Why am I not calming down?"

At this point, his phone rang, and Lai Mingjie begrudgingly walked to the nightstand to pick up his phone. Seeing that it was Director Cheng calling him, he casually answered it. "Louyan, don't lie to me. Did you tell General Xu my address?"

"General Xu?" Director Cheng was originally going to say something else, but the hidden rage in Lai Mingjie's voice threw him off. "Ah, senior, what are you talking about? Did he turn up at your place?"

"Turn up? No. I didn't make it back home. He was the last person I saw."

"Oh." Lai Mingjie's eyes twitched at the relief in Director Cheng's voice. He then continued listening to the old man: "Worry not, senior. I took you home last night. I looked for you and saw you unconscious on a park bench on your way home. I'm sorry I couldn't stay."

Director Cheng then hummed. "While we're on that note, why were you so bloody, senior? I didn't see any wounds on your body, but you were covered in blood. Did you get in a fight?"

Lai Mingjie massaged his glabella before humming. "Yeah... Xu Rouguang came and helped out. Shucks, his laughter is still the most horrifying thing in the world."

The old man sighed. "I guess he left you on that park bench. I wonder why he didn't stay long enough to let me see him."

"Nah, he's probably hiding in the area." Lai Mingjie then opened his mouth before closing it again. His cheeks flared with warmth again before he decided not to ask. How was he supposed to phrase his question? Should he say Xu Rouguang kissed him, and was it why he was completely fine right now? Or should he ask if Xu Rouguang's body had some kind of magical thing in it? The latter would be so weird and misleading.

"I'll just talk to you again later." The demon king shook his head before ending the call. He stared at his phone and then back he walked to the mirror. He made a closer inspection of his body, and he was indeed left unscathed... when he was beaten into a pulp last night.

There was nothing else he could have thought about but that kiss. His face twitched again as he dared not to think about it some more. It was supposed to be humiliating for him to be kissed by the bastard general he loathed his entire life. It wasn't something he should be getting shy about, acting like a teenage girl receiving her first kiss.

He froze. To think about it—even as a demon king, women had never been his favorite toys. He loathed humans—especially princesses. Most demon kings would keep princesses as their playthings while the great Emodao would splatter them into blood mist at first notice. A lot of demon kings grew mad at him for killing the most beautiful maidens... even imperial princesses that were envoys of heaven. For the most he could remember, he never liked associating with women.

Emodao was a rebel, a thief, and even a lowly thug when he was living his earliest human lives. He had never paid any attention or time to women; not that they would be seducing him then. Right now, he had lived a life away from these poison incarnates even if he was sought by them a lot. It was daunting to realize that he had hundreds of lives with him dying as a virgin.

Technically, it was his first kiss after hundreds of reincarnations.

"You gotta be kidding me. Getting overly agitated over this? Stupid body." He only shook his head before starting his day.

It had been hours, but Lai Mingjie still hadn't forgotten what happened that night. However, his last memory didn't connect to the results the next day. He even talked to Director Cheng about the events. Director Cheng had to even scourge the streets to find him, and he was only found sleeping on a park bench.

Lai Mingjie was leaning on his chair, facing the glass walls overseeing the city. It didn't feel right. Xu Rouguang suddenly turned up in Crimson City, the most peaceful city where the once-demons lived. All of a sudden, he was unlike the other concealed immortals—no memories and all human. Only the grace and elegance they all had and rarely gave justice to.

"Senior, are you saying something is going on? And the city is getting dragged into it?" Director Cheng frowned his white eyebrows. He had been living in Crimson City for a thousand of years... even before it was known as Crimson City. For it to be ripped apart would be awful for them who had treated it as their haven.

"I'm not saying that. It's probably just about General Xu..." Lai Mingjie hummed and stared at the sun concealed by the clouds. "Aren't you getting excited, Louyan?" His serious face was suddenly tainted by a wicked grin. "It looks like our little bastard just pissed off Nuwa."

"Senior, are you saying General Xu... defied Heaven? That he... one of their most loyal soldiers—"

"I'll stop you right there." Lai Mingjie laughed out and moved his finger like a conductor's stick. "General Xu was never a loyal soldier. He was a maniac who would kill every demon he sees. He was a headhunter who cared too little about Heaven... I guess he flipped." He then continued chuckling. "This should be the part where I get really giddy."