And Goodnight

Lin Ke's heart was beating so damn fast he felt as if he was going to have a heart attack any moment. He furiously shook his head, trying to clear his mind of all the dirty and unnecessary thoughts running through his head.

"I-... You're disgusting." Suddenly, Lily's voice interrupts. This time, she was talking out loud and not in Lin Ke's head. She sounded slightly embarrassed and thrown off... "Thankfully I can pretty much mute your thoughts, otherwise I would be stuck here listening to your fantasies."

"Wh-I… I wasn't! It's not my- I can't help it!" Lin Ke helplessly says.

"Ahhh! I… You've polluted my mind with your dirty, perverted, disgusting thoughts!!!" Lily cries out.

Trying his hardest to ignore Lily's pained cries,Lin Ke strips down bare and steps into the showers and lets the waters run over him. To be honest, Lin Ke wasn't really that surprised when he found out these places had pipes and proper sewers. There were so many things that were similar between the two worlds that it would be a little odd if there wasn't a proper sewage system.

What's even more convenient was that there was even heating… Quite interesting…

After a few minutes, Lin Ke turned the handle, stopping the spray of water. Lin Ke steps out of the shower and pulls out a dry towel from his spatial storage space.

Meanwhile, Lily had finally stopped talking about earlier. However, Lin Ke could still sense a little bit of… a bad atmosphere currently.

"Ahhh… Errr… So Lily, when will we go to the Spirit Skylakes?" Lin Ke asks, trying to clear up the mood.

If Lily was currently in her cat for she would have given Lin Ke an annoyed glare. "I think you asked before." She said crossly.

"Aha, aha? Did I? I can't remember." Lin Ke scratches his head sheepishly.

"Well, whatever." Lily sighs. "We'll go once I'm able to manifest myself again in my physical form."

"Aaand when is that?"

"About two days should be enough for me to recover." Lily replies. "For these next two days, try to rest up. You'll need the break now because trust me, when I'm back up and running… ohoho will you be begging for a break."

Lin Ke frowns, not liking the sound of that. "Can I… ahhhh, say no?"

"No."

"Dang it. Well it was worth a try." Lin Ke says in disappointment as he begins to dress himself.

After putting on some light cotton clothes and quickly brushing his teeth, Lin Ke steps out of the shower feeling insanely refreshed. Of course, the first thing Lin Ke's eyes were drawn to was Lia's new outfit. It seemed like each night, she wore a new type of pajama. Tonight, it was a red fluffy pajama with a hoodie that covered her head, leaving her hair flowing out over the sides. The sleeves were long and so were the pants. Lin Ke would say that she looked amazing in those pajamas, but the thing was, Lin Ke thought she looked amazing in anything, so his opinion is clearly biased.

Looking at Lia's face, Lin Ke felt his mind flash back to the scene about 10 minutes earlier… Which immediately caused his face to turn red from the thought.

And Lin Ke's expression caused Lia, who had been trying her hardest to keep it together, to also begin blushing bright red.

Lin Ke tears his eyes away. With a slightly uneven voice, he awkwardly says. "I, err… I'm done…"

Lia nods, clearly not knowing how to respond to that. "Okay." She says in a small voice.

Lin Ke wants to smack himself atop the head. What the hell did he mean, 'I'm done?' CLEARLY he was done! Why did he still have to say that?

"Err… I- I'm going to go to bed." Lin Ke stutters out, not sure what else to say in this situation.

Lia nods shyly. "Okay, me too I guess."

"I stand by my claim. You are clearly speech impaired in some way…" Lily comments in Lin Ke's head. Lin Ke ignores her.

Just like that, without exchanging another word, the two of them laid down in their respective beds.

���I'm turning off the lights…" Lin Ke half asks, half says.

"Okay." Is the only reply he gets.

With a wave of his hand, the room suddenly descends into darkness. The only light is a small ray of moonlight peeking through the curtains of the room. However, in the pitch darkness, it didn't take long before Lin Ke's eyes were able to adjust enough to see without issue.

Instinctively, Lin Ke rolls around in the bed, tossing and turning on the bed. Finally, he finds a comfortable position facing the right side of the bed.

Suddenly, Lin Ke felt a pair of eyes watching him. It wasn't an ominous glare, nor was it filled with murderous intent. No, it was just a pair of curious eyes, a pair of conflicting beautiful large eyes.

Lin Ke opens his eyes.

For a moment, their eyes met. Their faces were only separated by a single wooden nightstand. If Lin Ke reached his hand over, he would be able to touch Lia was how close it was.

In this utter darkness, if it was two normal humans, they would probably just pass this off as a coincidence. Perhaps they wouldn't even realize they were looking at each other. However, these were two cultivators, both of whom have already completed the Eye Tempering Sub-realm.

In that brief instant, many unspoken thoughts were exchanged. In that moment, it was as if something had become distinctly clear to the two of them… Before the two of them broke their eye contact at the same time. Embarrassed, they both looked down and away, avoiding each other's eyes.

Countless thoughts flew through their heads in that moment, some of which included: 'Oh my god, am I stupid? Why did I look away?' and 'Is he going to think I hate him because I looked away? Maybe he thinks that I think that he looks ugly?'

However, in the end, these thoughts wouldn't be expressed out loud. After a few more minutes of silence, both Lin Ke and Lia were about to fall asleep.

As Lia drifted off into the dreamlands, she distinctly heard a soothing voice next to her say, "Goodnight Lia."

Tiredly and automatically, she whispers back. "Goodnight, Lin Ke." Before finally falling asleep.

At the same time, Lin Ke also fell asleep, barely making out the words coming out of Lia's mouth. He didn't even have time to process what she said…

"And goodnight, Lily." Were his last thoughts, before this tiring and long day… finally came to a close.