Ch. 12

Ye Xuan groaned opening his eyes in dazed. He felt light headed with his mind muddled and blurry. He attempted to sit up when he felt a sting in his lower body down between his thighs, he sucked in his breath sharply making him lie back down obediently and honestly. Flashes of memories rain through his mind as he remembered the scenes of the previous night, he blushed shyly feeling very happy and inexplicable. He felt his body ached as if he was run over by a truck, he raised himself up groaning and feeling uncomfortable as he searched for Jiang Rong's presence in the room.

But Jiang Rong wasn't found, after listening carefully he heard some movements in the bathroom, he breathed a sigh and laid back down. He would have felt hurt if Jiang Rong was to leave after they did that, he himself wasn't sure of his thoughts when he searched for Jiang Rong. Because in all honesty he still hadn't come into terms of being with Jiang Rong, he sometimes felt like it was all part of his dreams and when he woke up this morning with the memories of last night. If not for the pain and discomfort he was feeling he would've thought it to be another dream, he giggled belatedly feeling idiotic and lost in his own thoughts.

Jiang Rong walked back to the room after taking care of his morning needs to find the youth giggling like a fool on the bed, he approached the youth who was lost in thought and didn't notice him as he sat beside the youth at the end of the bed. Ye Xuan felt the bed sank which startled him, he turned to find Jiang Rong staring at him tenderly with a satisfied smirk. Ye Xuan blushed being stared at by Jiang Rong, he duck his head under the covers hiding his blushing face away from Jiang Rong shyly.

Such careless and excessive action caused his wound to sting making him groaned. Jiang Rong was startled hearing him groaning "Axuan how are you feeling? Does it hurt a lot? It's my fault i shouldn't have pushed you over your limits being your first time, come out let me see okay" he said trying to alleviate the youth. Ye Xuan nodded hearing his calming voice, he peeked from under the cover taking notice of Jiang Rong's worrying expression. He slowly pulled down the covers to reveal himself to Jiang Rong. "How do you feel? Is there any discomfort?" Jiang Rong asked again with concern and depressed look when he saw him come out from the covers. "slightly uncomfortable and a bit painful" Ye Xuan blushed and answered honestly.

"Let's go into the space so you soak in the hotspring okay, i was waiting for you to wake up before i carry you in... is that okay?" he nodded to Jiang Rong's words. Jiang Rong got up from the bed and carried him along with the bed covers before going into the space, he walked with Ye Xuan who was blushing in his arms into the hotspring. Jiang Rong gently and carefully put him down in the hotspring with his body resting against the hotspring board, Ye Xuan sighed comfortably as soon as he was put into the hotspring. He let himself relaxed as he felt cooling down there easing his pain in seconds and his body no longer felt discomfort. He rather felt refreshed as if his earlier state was just an illusion.

Jiang Rong sighed in relief seeing his relaxed looking self and his completion better, Jiang Rong knew how effective the hotspring which contained spiritual energy was. He also relaxed his body sighing comfortably beside Ye Xuan. "how do you feel now? Is there still any discomfort?" he turned to Ye Xuan and asked. Ye Xuan shook his head "senior I'm fine now, there's no more discomfort" Ye Xuan answered shyly with his skin reddened due to the haze making him look more rudy and alluring.

Jiang Rong felt his rod bulge and twitching, but he ignored it frowning at Ye Xuan's words. "Senior? Why do you still use such a distant address, is that how my wife wants to address me, like a distant stranger?" Jiang Rong asked looking unhappy. Ye Xuan looked at him embarrassed and feeling at loss, he knew he had to address Jiang Rong in an intimate way now but he was at loss not knowing what address to use. He felt that calling 'Arong' like Jiang Rong does would be disrespectful and embarrassing, he just couldn't do that. He glanced into the water as his feet rub against each other. "....b... brother.....Rong" he whispered shyly but Jiang Rong heard him loud and clear.

Although the new address wasn't what he wanted he still felt warm hearing it, he thought to take it slow with Ye Xuan for now and not push him too much, Ye Xuan was thinned skin. "okay from now on Axuan will address me that way ..." he sighed "although i wanted it to be more intimate but Axuan is too thinned skin to address his husband in an even more intimate way" he teased. Jiang Rong smirked satisfied seeing Ye Xuan blushed more from just his teasing, he snaked his hand around Ye Xuan's waist and pulled him to stand in front. "Axuan I'm going to have to wrong you again, my little brother is up and standing. How do you plan on calming both of us down since it's clearly your fault" he whispered hoarsely into Ye Xuan's ear making him jumpy and his ear red.

Jiang Rong pinched his ear and he moaned. "Can we?" he requested and Ye Xuan nodded shyly giving him his approval. They kissed and then series of tossing moaning sounds could be heard coming from the house, Mao Qui who was busily guarding the bladderwort had a disgusted and resentful look thinking his master this time around was a dog in heat as it lament spring and autumn.

Jiang Rong carried Ye Xuan who was soft in his arms and dozing off into the bedroom, he dried him up gently before laying him down on the bed. He placed a gentle kiss on Ye Xuan's forehead "sleep now Axuan, i won't go anywhere. I'll be outside doing some farm work" he whispered into Ye Xuan's ear. Ye Xuan nodded to his words whether he heard Jiang Rong's words or not, Jiang Rong couldn't tell, Jiang Rong just chuckled lightly and went on to get dressed before leaving the tired Ye Xuan in the bamboo house.

Mao Qui who saw Jiang Rong come out of the bamboo house sneered resentfully and turned away sharply. Jiang Rong felt funny seeing that, Mao Qui had stayed angry with him ever since the incident when he scolded it for biting Ye Xuan. And now it had a resentful look towards him again looking like he wronged it, Jiang Rong wrecked his brains out but he couldn't tell where exactly where he went wrong with it now. "Mao Qui..." it dash faraway from him as soon as he called it's name with a disgusted look, Jiang Rong watched it go feeling inexplicable thinking he really must have a good talk with it.

He somehow understood it's behavior from what he had learnt from the space, Mao Qui was just a fox with spiritual sense who was lucky enough to be taken in by the original owner of the space, cultivating it into a fox spirit to be the guardian of the space. It had been thousands of years and in that era petting of animals wasn't introduced and it didn't know how to be close with humans. It distance itself from people just doing its job as the space's guardian and all the masters of the space before him didn't show it love or closeness, probably thinking of it as a spirit which didn't need those. Mao Qui was like a child who needed to be taught with patience.

Jiang Rong let it be for now and went to the lush greenery cultivated fields, with Ye Xuan's help a lot more lands were able to be planted on. Actually more like Ye Xuan did most of the planting, Jiang Rong felt that he wasn't worthy of Ye Xuan. He was hardworking and was efficient in housework not like that lazy white eyed wolf whom he thought he loved, he was sure that if it was Pang Shao who was rather here with him then the space would stay bare without anything planted on the fields. But thankfully he had come to know the real face of the white eyed wolf and broke up with him early. He took a basket and starting plucking the riped fruits and vegetables. Jiang Rong spent hours working as he organized, planted and harvested.

A couple of hours later Ye Xuan walked out of the bamboo house fully clothed, when he woke up and found himself in the space without Jiang Rong he was about to exit the space to go search for him. But then he remembered that he had a dream where Jiang Rong informed him of going to work in the fields, he got up from the bed and got dressed coming out to see whether his dream was true. "Brother Rong!" he called excited seeing Jiang Rong who also saw him and ran towards him.

"Axuan you're awake" Jiang Rong asked "en" he answered in his nasal. "Brother Rong let's go in so you wipe off your sweat. You've worked hard" Ye Xuan blushed and said seeing sweat slide down his manly face to his chest. Jiang Rong accepted his good will and went back into the house together "I'll just take a quick shower" he informed and made his way to the bathroom. Ye Xuan went into the kitchen and prepared a simple lunch, when Jiang Rong came back from showering lunch was ready and they sat to eat. They spent the rest of the day in the space leisurely.

Two days to the apocalypse Jiang Rong left the hotel earlier to the auto repair shop. He had bought an off road and taken it to the repair to modify it, and today was the day of his appointment to retrieve it. He drove the off road from the repair shop to a place without people before putting it away into the space, he called for a cab back to the hotel.

"Brother Rong you're back" Ye Xuan called anxiously when he walked into the room. "What's wrong?" he asked with worry seeing how anxious Ye Xuan was looking. "brother Rong come see this, there's a report of a meteorshower tomorrow night." Ye Xuan informed turning the laptop screen to him. "a meteorshower?" he asked in doubt. Jiang Rong didn't remember any reports of meteorshower in his past life.

There was no such reports, if he remembered clearly a day before the apocalypse started there was a change in the weather. The weather was very hot and the first batches of zombies were all people reported to have suffered from heatstroke, the hot weather continued for about three to four months in the apocalypse before there was a change in the weather. And even that change wasn't a good change either. 'a change in the timeline? Is it because of me?' Jiang Rong thought, but he had no answer to this change so he decided to put it behind his head and focus on what's present.

He scrolled through the reports on the laptop, he closed the laptop after he had read some few reports. He didn't like seeing Ye Xuan troubled so he took the laptop from him and kept it aside, he sat on the bed and brought Ye Xuan to his sit on his lap. "Axuan don't worry okay, brother Rong, I'm here. I'll protect you and keep you save so don't think too much." he said soothingly whilst rubbing Ye Xuan's back. "You trust me right?" he asked and Ye Xuan nodded. "I trust brother Rong" he answered. "Then believe in brother Rong and stop worrying, i feel depressed whenever i see you this way" Jiang Rong said with a pained expression as he soothed Ye Xuan more talking to him in calm soothing voice.

On the night of the following day, a lot of people waited in anticipation of the meteorshower. Jiang Rong and Ye Xuan stood in front of the glassdoor to the balcony slightly opened, Ye Xuan continuously checked his phone time waiting anxiously for when the meteorshower starts. Jiang Rong felt funny and depressed at the sametime because no matter how or what he said to calm Ye Xuan down, Ye Xuan would calm down first and then start getting anxious again in no time. "Brother Rong it's time" Ye Xuan announced. Jiang Rong nodded and held Ye Xuan closer to him looking into the night sky. He hoped that the meteorshower would just be like every other meteorshower which had been sighted in years, but he knew that wasn't the case as it was just his wishful thinking since he could feel the fluctuations in the atmosphere. In the last life the beginning of the apocalypse with just a weather change was bad enough, he was fearful of what would happen with meteorites falling from the sky, he was fearfully for humankind. "Brother Rong look it's started" Ye Xuan brought him out of his thoughts and pointed to the sky anxiously. He looked to where Ye Xuan pointed seeing the beautiful sight of the meteorshower. There was a sudden flash and he blackout.

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