Chapter: 34. Gift?
During dinner, the moment Xiya placed the plate of the cabbage and mushroom stew she had painstakingly cooked for three hours onto the dining table…
Xue Fei’s eyes suddenly burst with the fierce hunger of a tiger pouncing on its prey!
That attitude of nearly starving to death at the sight of food truly left Xiya dumbfounded.
“Be careful, Xue Fei, don’t burn yourself. Eat slowly.”
“Um, it’s delicious, delicious… Huh?! Eat slowly? What are you saying, Xiya! Are you looking down on the aroma of the cabbage and mushrooms, or are you looking down on your own great cooking skills!”
“My great…?!”
“Is there any other way?”
Whoa!
Xue Fei, if you keep praising me like this, I really won’t be able to help but make you a late-night snack! That would be sinful!
Xue Fei gulped down the cabbage and mushroom soup until she was full.
Xiya could feel her heart warming as she watched Xue Fei happily enjoying her meal.
Only Xialet, sitting to Xue Fei’s left, wasn’t eating at all.
Xialet had her little mouth slightly open the whole time, looking up with a dreamy expression, raising her hands to her head, staring blankly at the ceiling.
—Actually, she wasn’t looking at the ceiling; she was simply zoning out while touching her own head.
Um… just now by the lakeside, Xue Fei patted my head.
I called her my hero.
Then suddenly, Lady Xue Fei lifted her hand, and I thought she was going to hit me again.
But… it turned out to be a pat on the head.
Ah…
I seem to have suddenly died without regrets.
Seeing her so dazed, and with the dishes on the table nearly cleared by Xue Fei like autumn leaves blown away by the wind, Xiya decided to ask.
“Xialet, aren’t you eating? I didn’t expect you to come out all of a sudden… Should I cook something else? There are still some mushrooms and meat left.”
“No need.” Xialet was busy touching her head, so her response was very brief, “I don’t need to eat like a human right now because my physical form is still unstable. I’ll probably have to return to the sword to recuperate soon.”
“Ah… then why are you always touching your head?”
“Hmph, that’s obviously because it’s Lady Xue Fei…”
“Ugh! Eat something!”
“Um?!”
Xialet, who just said she didn’t need to eat, suddenly had her mouth stuffed by Xue Fei’s bread delivered at an unbelievable speed.
Can she even say that?
Of course not!
This was Xue Fei’s emergency measure!
Well… you just called me a hero, and I am indeed a bit happy…
But that doesn’t mean you can go around saying it!
At the very least, don’t say it to Xiya!
Ah… just thinking about how I couldn’t help but want to pat this fellow’s head by the lakeside… Xue Fei found it ridiculous.
Damn… I’m starting to feel like this little holy sword might actually be a good child.
But that doesn’t change the fact that she is a total pervert! Xue Fei, wake up a little!
Seeing Xialet forced into silence, looking a bit excited, Xue Fei decided to take the initiative to prevent her from speaking further.
“Eat! What do you mean by whether you can eat or not? Look at you, this shorty, malnourished and so sad—like me. Don’t you have the potential to grow taller? No! That’s just because you don’t eat properly, always wasting mealtime to babble on. Hurry up and eat!”
“Um um um!” (Lady Xue Fei wants me to grow up; I will definitely eat properly and grow up!)
Are you actually obedient, huh…?
Xiya didn’t understand why Xue Fei was suddenly so excited.
Nor did she know how Xialet suddenly started nibbling on the bread.
But she noticed that the deep blue dress with golden trimmings on Xialet looked more and more familiar…
After all, it was Xiya who personally accompanied Xue Fei shopping for it.
So it didn’t take long for her to recognize it.
“Ah…! I remember, this dress isn’t Xue…! Um?!”
“You eat too!”
Today.
The bread took on a grand responsibility.
It saved everything.
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After dinner, the cabbage and mushroom stew was completely gone, and the plate, licked shiny clean by Xue Fei, remained on the table, glimmering.
Xialet could only be out of the holy sword for a limited time.
By the hazy moonlight late at night, she transformed back into her magic form to return to the sword to rest.
The holy sword hung on the wall, and the window sill beside it glowed with the warm light of the light magic stone.
Within the light magic stone’s illuminated area—there lay two stunning girls, hand in hand, side by side, reclining on a large soft bed.
The progress of their heart-to-heart talk before bed was remarkably harmonious, perfectly in sync.
Xiya held her breath, feeling the soft, small feedback in her palm… unable to resist, she slightly curled her fingers and gently tapped the tender palm.
Feeling the light touch at her fingertips, Xue Fei tilted her head and turned her bright purple eyes towards Xiya.
“What’s wrong?”
“Xue Fei still came to my side… Are you really afraid of the dark?”
“I came to find your big soft bed, not you.”
“Um, um, then I’ll take it that way.”
She tightened her grip on Xue Fei’s hand.
Xue Fei’s body, which had been tense due to the dark environment, clearly relaxed a lot.
Meanwhile, Xiya Light, in a quite natural and cheerful tone, looked at the ceiling and suddenly said something.
“Xue Fei, I like you, okay?”
“Yes, yes, yes, you like me, right? I like Xiya too, the most! Hehe, I understand, I understand, is this your way of flaunting your sisterly authority? What a pity, I’ve already said that I’m older in this life!”
“……”
That’s not what I meant…
Xiya smiled bitterly in the dark night, choosing not to express the deeper feelings behind her words for the moment.
Not because she didn’t want to speak.
But hoping to wait for a moment that was special to her.
And that moment was already close at hand.
“Xue Fei, this weekend is my birthday, there will be a birthday party at the Light Family’s ancestral home.”
“Really?!” Xue Fei immediately sat up when she heard this, “Doesn’t that mean there will be endless… cough, that’s not important, what matters is that I want to wish you a happy birthday in advance! How coincidental! I’ve just come and you’re having a birthday?”
“Thank you, Xue Fei~”
After Xue Fei finished speaking, she began to count her fingers and mutter about the arrangements for afterwards.
“Just right, we now have money… with gold coins in hand, we have gifts. A birthday gift must be… must be something amazing! What should I choose…”
“Xue Fei, don’t prepare a birthday gift for me.”
“What the hell, are you trying to save me money? I’m telling you, I’m a rich person now! I can even buy you donuts, very generous!”
“That’s not what I mean… I’m saying that on my birthday, I don’t want Xue Fei to gift me something. On the contrary, I want to give Xue Fei a gift.”
“Huh…? I mean, who has a birthday and not only doesn’t receive gifts but also gives gifts instead…”
Xiya only smiled and held Xue Fei’s arm, gently pulling her back down onto the bed.
Xue Fei’s petite body fell back onto the bed without even causing the springs to respond.
They were face to face, so close that they could feel each other’s breaths.
Xiya’s light and melodious voice sounded even more pleasant.
“Just don’t worry about it; anyway, just say yes or no to your sister.”
“What is it… yet again flaunting your sister’s authority.”
Xue Fei pouted for a few seconds.
But soon she relaxed and shrugged, pulling the blanket over her.
“Fine then, since it’s your birthday, it’s definitely your decision.”
“Um, that’s right, Xue Fei is really obedient.”
“Tsk…! So don’t talk like that! Oh, right.”
“What’s wrong?”
“It’s just… if possible, I hope the gift Xiya gives me is something edible. You know, I’m an honest person! I really love food; I have a big appetite.”
“Then it depends on whether Xue Fei is willing to taste it at that time. Alright, alright, we have important things to do in the morning when we wake up; aren’t we supposed to go to the palace to deal with the Church State affairs? So hurry and sleep! No more talking about this.”
“Huh? Clearly, you brought it up first… Wow! Wow, you really are going to sleep now! How sly!”
Xue Fei tried to call back Xiya, who suddenly turned her back to sleep.
But it seemed that she was determined to sleep early, stammering a few times and still insisted that Xue Fei should sleep too; staying up late was bad for her growth.
There was nothing else to be done.
Xue Fei was most afraid of this saying,
In such a situation, she felt very passive, with the moral high ground not on her side, and could only let her curiosity drift into dreams and settle for sleep.
Xiya’s hand that she extended behind her back was tightly held by Xue Fei.
The ticking clock lightly chimed, the lake outside the window rippling.
Xiya estimated that Xue Fei was probably asleep before she turned back to lie flat.
Only the moonlight illuminating her current expression… seemed subtly different from when she had turned her back to coax Xue Fei to sleep before, right?
Her lips trembled.
Her face was flushed.
Her dark blue eyes were filled with emotion, casting a tender and affectionate gaze at Xue Fei’s sleeping profile.
She felt that if her hand were to touch her face right now… it would definitely feel hot.
Her heartbeat was also loud, so loud that she couldn’t fall asleep, even though everything was silent.
Ah…
Xue Fei… I’m sorry.
Because if I hadn’t coaxed you to sleep earlier, and we continued discussing this topic…
I’m afraid I wouldn’t be able to resist giving you the gift I want to give you… until the birthday party day…
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(This book will be launched on July 29! There will be an explosive update on the launch day; for now, I will continue to maintain two updates daily until launch! And also… I feel like there are very few chapter comments every time I update; I don’t know how the reading performance of this book is, so I’m a bit worried. Sob, if you’re reading this, why not leave a comment here so that I can see you all~)
