Chapter Fifty Five.

General Fei arrives at their tent to check up on them. Duan Xinyue meets him right away. General Fei explains Feng Yi's symptoms which seem to coincide with Lei Qiang's. The two carry Lei Qiang to Military Bath House where Feng Yi is also taken. They flush them with several pails of cold water. Then they are taken back to their tents.

Lei Qiang seems to have sobered up. He immediately puts on clean warm clothes to get rid of the cold.

"You must be feeling cold. You inhaled aphrodisiac from those ladies' perfumes so we had no choice but to do that."

"It doesn't matter,"Lei Qiang replies coldly.

"You seem to be shivering."

"Don't worry I'm not that frail. If you had undertaken a different measure I wouldn't have ended up like this."

"What different measure? You mean let you take advantage of me?" Duan Xinyue asks not sure what Lei Qiang's response will be.

"I didn't say that."

"I have no other means to tackle that apart from flushing water on you and letting you take advantage of me because I didn't carry any antidotes. Besides if I let you take advantage of me,you will surely regret it the following day and I know you don't want that."

"How do you know what I want?"Lei Qiang asks unexpectedly raising his voice.

"I've never see such an ingrate like you."

"You gave me your quilt but still the two of them aren't satisfying me yet. How are you gonna spend the night?"

"Don't worry. I'm sure General Fei has extra quilts so I'm gonna borrow one from him."

"Don't bother him. He's already had enough trouble because of us. Could you do me a favour and let me borrow some heat from your body?"

"Seems like we didn't get rid of all the aphrodisiac from you. Let me get another pail of water."

"I'm very sober right now. Instead of flushing water on me why don't you use the second method?"

"I can't believe even without the aphrodisiac you can still spit such nonsense."

Duan Xinyue removes his outer robes and joins Lei Qiang in bed.

"Don't switch off the candles, I'm not sleepy yet,"Lei Qiang requests.

"Tell me if you feel warm enough so I can go back to my own bed otherwise it's inappropriate for two men to lie together intimately like this."

"How is it inappropriate? I would like to lie intimately with you like this."

Lei Qiang turns over to face Duan Xinyue his warm breath tingling over Duan Xinyue's face.

"Sect Master Lei you're too close."

"You always call me Sect Master Lei when you are drawing some kind of line. Do you think I don't know I'm a Sect Master?Do you think I haven't asked myself what people will say if they find out a sect Master like me would rather seek comfort from a man than a woman. I've always felt like I'm good at curbing my desires but the same case doesn't apply to you."

"Sect Master Lei,are you confessing me to me right?" Duan Xinyue teases.

"Look ,you are calling Sect Master Lei to draw the line. Qingfeng Master Duan,are you rejecting me right now?"Lei Qiang teases back.

"Cut the crap,"Duan Xinyue says laughing in embarrassment afterwards.

Duan Xinyue reaches out to one of Lei Qiang's hands and interlaces their fingers.

"That will facilitate faster heat transfer. I won't sleep before you sleep .I call myself a courtesan but I've never provided such services to anyone. You're like my first client."

"But why did I hear you massaged Du Yichen before?"

"A massage is different from what I'm doing right now. Let me prove myself to you then,"Duan Xinyue pulls him closer wrapping his hands around Lei Qiang's waist."You're so hard to please,"Duan Xinyue complains.

"How come the aphrodisiac didn't affect you?" Lei Qiang asks changing the subject.

"I'm the invincible master of poisons, "Duan Xinyue brags.

"If my disciples saw me being vulnerable like this,they wouldn't probably believe it."

"Everyone can be vulnerable sometimes."

"My Shifu hated people who rely on others the most so I grew up depending on myself."

"Maybe he was too proud and he wanted you to be the same."

After cuddling for a while, Duan Xinyue ends up falling asleep first.

'You said you wouldn't sleep before I sleep. Look at you breaking your promise as early as now.I thought you would kiss me if I keep mentioning you licking your lips. Seems like you're better at curbing your desires,'Lei Qiang smiles as he switches off all the candles using his inner energy.

The next morning Duan Xinyue wakes up and is flustered to find himself in Lei Qiang's arms. Lei Qiang is still asleep but when he hears some rustling from the other,he opens his eyes.

"Did we sleep like this the whole night?"Duan Xinyue asks still shocked.

"Of course,"Lei Qiang replies amused by Duan Xinyue's reaction.