Chapter 15
The scholar finally had his own name.
After a long time, the scholar sat by the stone, watching Xuan Si cook a whole pot of porridge and hand-shred roast chicken for him. The wild vegetables picked from the mountains also tasted good after being pickled. He ate slowly, noticing Xuan Si’s snake tail slapping the ground as he kept staring at him.
“What’s wrong?” he couldn’t help but ask.
“Shuye, my wife, is beautiful and delicious.”
“…How can you use words like this?”
“Shuye, Shuye my wife,” Xuan Si called him again. “My wife eats porridge; does it taste good?”
“Good,” he replied.
Xuan Si came over with his hands again, looking at him deeply with his eyes. “When my wife comes to eat me, I taste better.”
“…Xuan Si!”
“Hiss.” Xuan Si was in a good mood, and his snake tail slapped the ground again.
“I’ve finished eating,” the scholar said helplessly. “There’s still a lot left. Come and eat for me.”
“Wife, don’t you want to eat again?”
“I won’t eat anymore.”
Xuan Si picked up the pot with one hand, scraped the side of the pot with a spoon, and swallowed the porridge and half of the roasted chicken. As for the pickles, he had no interest in them and didn’t even want to swallow them. He flicked his tail and went to the side.
The scholar looked on with a bit of amusement as Xuan Si turned around to clean up the pots and dishes skilfully.
Within a few months, there were many more daily utensils in the cave. He had even gone to the town to find a craftsman to build a shelf specifically to hold these pots and pans.
He also bought a lot of mattresses, pillows, quilts, and clothes. He prepared candles and chamber pots for the night, so it felt a bit like a small home.
The afternoon sun was just right, and the scholar felt his full belly as he leaned against a stone to bask in the sun. Xuan Si called his name a few more times, pronouncing the word “shuye” in a deep voice, as if with a unique feeling.
“Shuye.”
“Um.”
“Shuye is my wife,” the snake’s tail slowly moved against his legs. Xuan Si called his name while wrapping the snake’s tail upwards. “My wife’s name is very good. It’s enough for me to call him by myself.”
There was a smile in the scholar’s eyes. “That’s just for you.”
“The same went for my wife. It’s enough for me to bind him.” Xuan Si lowered his head again and leaned close to his cheek, “Would you like to bind yourself, wife?”
“…Xuan Si, you are doing it again.”
The snake demon’s idea was very simple. If he liked his wife, he would do the things he liked with him. Xuan Si pressed his forehead against him again, kissed him gently for a while, and asked, “Wife, do you want to taste me?”
“…Xuan Si.”
“Wife.” Xuan Si called softly.
The scholar couldn’t help but narrow his eyes slightly and breathed softly. He felt the snake’s tail had reached the lower part of his waist. From the waist down, it felt cold and clammy. However, he had originally planned to satisfy Xuan Si after the meal. There was no reason to refuse.
So, he obeyed in front of Xuan Si, letting the snake’s tail test him back and forth, and he couldn’t help but lower his body slightly.
“Xuan Si…” he whispered.
“I’m here.”
“Come on.”
After a long time, he laid on the ground and let out a low cry, clenching his fingertips. He felt Xuan Si pressing him, and the snake’s tail hooked his ankle hard again.
The feeling of being squeezed away was not pleasant. He screamed and felt Xuan Si’s hand touch his face, comforting him.
“Xuan Si——” The scholar couldn’t help but tremble, “Don’t, don’t…”
“My wife, it doesn’t hurt,” Xuan Si comforted, “My wife endures, my wife, it doesn’t hurt.”
He couldn’t help but crawl out, but Xuan Si forcefully grabbed him back. He could feel the pebbles scratching on the ground. Even though the pebbles were soft, they were still painful.
He knew that Xuan Si was not so virtuous, it was quite painful, but Xuan Si hugged him tighter.
“Shuye, my wife, my wife has worked hard…”
“Xuan Si, could you let me go first?”
“My wife has mercy on me…”
Xuan Si pressed his face against his, his low voice sounding like begging. In fact, the scholar knew how hard Xuan Si had endured these days, but he was always afraid, so he had kept delaying until now.
“My wife has mercy on me,” Xuan Si whispered in his ear again, “Just this once, okay?”
“Okay…”
He was silent for a moment and could only use his hands to relax as much as possible, allowing Xuan Si to be completely entangled.
In the forest, intermittent sounds of people gradually came out.
The sun was gradually setting.
The clothes he had changed into were still hanging to dry outside the cave, and there was a vague intermittent crying sound inside. It was not until a few hours later that the scholar’s voice became hoarse, and the voices inside also grew quieter, but there was no intention of ending yet.
The initial discomfort and unease had faded away, replaced by an unspeakable feeling. The scholar could no longer scream and could only hug Xuan Si in embarrassment.
This feeling was indescribable and made him almost lose consciousness. He was tossed and turned by Xuan Si, entangled by Xuan Si’s transformed legs. His clothes were already open, and they were behaving like beasts in the dark cave. But from here, he could taste the indescribable pleasure.
He gave himself completely to Xuan Si, almost feeling as though he was about to grow a snake’s tail. He covered his abdomen and closed his eyes tightly. Then he felt Xuan Si coming closer and pressing his forehead again.
“Xuan Si… can you kiss me?” His voice was hoarse, almost begging.
“Kiss?” Xuan Si looked at him, puzzled.
He hugged Xuan Si’s neck, tilted his head, and kissed him.
Xuan Si’s lips were warm and cool, and he could feel the two canines being a bit harsh when he went deeper into the kiss. He kissed and bit them randomly, forcefully heating up Xuan Si’s kiss, and he felt Xuan Si kiss back immediately.
The wind passed by, and the leaves rustled. Later, the scholar fell asleep and woke up again. He was so groggy that he didn’t know what he had experienced. It seemed as if it was dawn. When he opened his eyes, Xuan Si was still there. He hugged him and hissed, whispering to him cheerfully.
“…”
It must have been more than five or six hours, and the scholar’s body was going numb, but in order to make Xuan Si comfortable this time, he could only endure it and could not say no.
After all, Xuan Si had said it was just this once.
In the cave, Xuan Si came to kiss him gently again. Xuan Si’s hand touched his cheek and whispered to him softly.
“My wife is in poor health,” he couldn’t understand. It was Xuan Si saying lovingly, “What should my wife do in the next thousand years?”