(kiss alert! 17+ content ahead)
In the Eternal Sect, Huai was sitting in the garden of his courtyard, drinking tea, while Wuhe was practicing his blade techniques by himself in the field beside him. He felt warm all over his body during practice, so he removed his upper clothes and started practicing again.
Huai was drinking tea when he saw Wuhe remove his clothes without a second thought. But for Huai, it was a scene of absolute beauty. He looked at those perfect muscles and that divine body and gulped. He remembered that night and how he had davoured this male god without thinking.
He immediately looked away from Wuhe, trying to calm his mind. 'Stop! Stop beating so loud. What's so great about him that you have to react every time you see him?' he gritted his teeth, trying to coax his raging heart.
At this moment, Wuhe finished his training. He came toward Huai without putting his clothes back on and stood before him.
He said, "Huai! I don't think this blade can keep up with my blade techniques anymore. Do you have any suggestions on where I can get a new one for myself? I asked my system, and it said to ask you first."
Huai looked at Wuhe without thinking, but when he saw his shirtless body, he almost spat out the tea in his mouth. His composure shattered in an instant. He immediately looked elsewhere and said, "Please put your clothes on, Wuhe!" His face was red with shame, and his ears were as hot as iron.
Wuhe realized he hadn't put his clothes on after training. He immediately took out a new shirt and put it on. Then he started scratching his head and said apologetically, "Actually, I always practiced alone before. I forgot I wasn't wearing a shirt."
Huai hummed, then looked at Wuhe to see he was already wearing a black shirt. He sighed in his heart. He needed to talk with Wuhe about this. Huai couldn't keep getting this flustered over Wuhe walking half-naked around the courtyard.
After that night, Huai hadn't arranged a separate courtyard for Wuhe. He had made a room for Wuhe in his own, where Wuhe had slept for the last two days.
Then Huai remembered what Wuhe had just said, and he recalled the black blade his system had given him before to give to Wuhe.
He took out the black blade "Sui Zhong" from his system space. The blade hummed in response. Huai gave the blade to Wuhe and said, "I don't know why, but my system told me to give this to you. It said this blade was made for you."
Wuhe didn't react at first. He was looking at the dark blade in his hand. The blade turned warm and hummed as if it recognized him. Wuhe unsheathed the sword; the blade was also black in color, but so sharp it looked like it could cut just by looking at it.
Wuhe murmured, "Sui Zhong!"
Huai was confused. He had never said that name to Wuhe. "What did you just say?"
Wuhe looked at Huai and said again, "Sui Zhong! I want to name this blade Sui Zhong!"
Huai's eyes grew wide with surprise. He said to Wuhe, "Wuhe! I don't know what's happening here, but the name of this blade when the system gave it to me was also 'Sui Zhong'."
Wuhe looked at the blade again. He said without looking at Huai, "I don't know, Huai. But something inside me told me that this blade is very important to me and that it should be named 'Sui Zhong'."
Huai nodded and said, "Then it's okay. Don't think about it; just use it from now on."
Wuhe nodded. He was really happy to accept this blade. He looked at Huai with even more reverence and love from his heart.
Wuhe sheathed his blade and started brewing tea for Huai. Huai had already given him divine-grade enlightenment tea before, and after drinking it, he had gained many benefits. The techniques he used became more powerful, and his own cultivation speed became faster and more resolute.
Now, maybe in three or four days, his realm would advance again.
Wuhe poured tea for both of them. Huai asked, "Do you think they're okay inside the tower?"
Wuhe said without hesitation, "Don't worry, Huai. They won't blame you. They know that you mean well for them and that's why you put them in the tower for nearly twenty years."
Huai nodded. "It's already been three days. They'll leave the tower in another four."
Huai and Wuhe both enjoyed their tea and then discussed a few other matters.
***
At night, after a long day, Wuhe felt tired. Wearing a loose white shirt and pajama pants, he lay on the bed in the room Huai had prepared for him.
A smile appeared on his face. In his previous life, he had been an emperor; he had everything he could want except a person to love. In this life, too, he had tried many times, but neither his wolf form nor his human form had ever allowed him to love anyone.
Until he met Huai. The moment he thought about him, his heart started beating loudly. His wolf form even wanted to take control of his body and just sniff Huai constantly. He felt his member start to grow, so he immediately stopped thinking about him. After that night, he hadn't been able to face Huai the same way at all. Huai also hadn't allowed him to be close for more than a few minutes.
He was tired, so he suddenly fell asleep without realizing it.
***
He saw something in his dream.
He saw himself wearing completely different attire, looking majestic and far superior to his past life, standing before a person in a magnificent hall. He couldn't see this person's face because he was wearing a silver mask. His long black hair was loose, swaying in the wind. He wore a pure white robe with a white inner long dress.
This person standing before him carried an eerie black sword at their waist.
He wasn't wearing any jewelry, but his presence alone could shake the world. An aura of death lingered around him.
But even with all of this, he felt his dream-self looking at this person with genuine longing. He could feel that his heart, his body, his soul ,everything belonged to this person.
He could guess who this person was, but just thinking about it made him shudder.
The person spoke. "Wuhe! I need to go..."
The face of his dream-self changed. He didn't know why, but he felt a pain in his heart, a pain he couldn't even imagine... the pain of separation.
The person spoke again. "He came back! I need to go and fight him. You're not strong enough yet."
The person took out a blade from the void. It was the blade "Sui Zhong." He placed the blade in Wuhe's hand and said, "Take care of it. It is named 'Sui Zhong.' I made it for you, and you only. This blade will be your companion from now on..."
"Until the day we meet again..."
The figure disappeared, and Wuhe woke up with cold sweat on his face and body. His whole body was drenched. He could clearly hear his heart, which was pounding like a drum.
He got up from his bed, left the room, and went toward Huai's.
But he didn't go directly to the room. Instead, he started pacing back and forth in front of it.
***
Huai was sleeping soundly when he suddenly opened his eyes. He felt a presence outside his room.
He sighed and was about to coax Wuhe to go back, but when he opened the door and saw Wuhe's devastated state, he immediately grew alert, grabbing Wuhe to stop him.
He could see that Wuhe's entire body and head were covered in cold sweat. It meant he had gone through something terrible.
He asked with concern, "What happened, Wuhe?"
Wuhe stammered, "I... I saw something in my dreams, and... and..."
Before he could continue, his system rang in his mind.
[Ding! Host, don't tell him right now what you saw in your dreams. When the time comes, he'll know it himself.]
Wuhe stopped and said, "I saw something terrible that made me feel scared and lonely... and I thought about you at that moment." He lowered his head in shame and desperation.
Huai sighed and said, "Come inside."
Wuhe went inside with Huai.
Huai said to him, "Go and take a shower. It'll help you a little bit."
Wuhe became obedient and went to take a warm shower. Afterward, he wore a similar white shirt and pajama pants and came out of the washroom.
Huai looked at him, his loose shirt and everything, then sighed and said, "You don't need to go back to your room tonight. Just sleep in my bed with me."
Wuhe's face turned red. Huai also felt his heart start to pound again, but he controlled it and got into his bed with Wuhe. He could still see that Wuhe couldn't sleep at all; something was disturbing him.
He hugged Wuhe without saying anything. Wuhe's big body became stiff at Huai's action. He asked, stammering, "Huai! What are you doing?"
Huai pulled Wuhe to his side and hugged him tightly with both hands. His face was now on Wuhe's chest. He said without looking at him, "I'm comforting you, dummy. Don't think about anything weird."
Then he looked up, removing his head from Wuhe's chest. He pecked Wuhe on the lips, then hid his face in Wuhe's chest again.
Wuhe's heart started beating loudly again. He felt dumbfounded. He had thought that Huai had no feelings for him for the last two days, but now he knew why Huai had been avoiding him.
Huai said without lifting his head, "You can sleep here from now on, if you want to."
Wuhe felt amused. He asked, "But for these last two days, why were you avoiding me?"
Huai said, still not lifting his head, "I was afraid, Wuhe! I was afraid of losing you, too. Whenever I've loved someone with everything in my heart, they've left me alone."
Wuhe now realized what was happening. He also hugged Huai tightly, embracing him with both of his sturdy hands, then lifted Huai's face with one of them.
He looked into Huai's eyes, then started kissing him tenderly. Huai let him. They kissed tenderly for nearly ten minutes. Then Wuhe hugged Huai again and said in his ear, "I'm never going to leave you, Huai. Just don't leave me."
Huai said, still hugging Wuhe in his embrace, "I'd never leave you."
They slept like that until morning, still in each other's arms.
The next day, Huai woke up first, finding himself still in the embrace of Wuhe's arms. He looked at his immortal wolf and felt his heart warm. Gazing at the sleeping Wuhe, he moved on impulse, pecking him on the lips before settling back into his position.
Wuhe, who had only been pretending to be asleep, opened his eyes. "Did you just steal a kiss from me?" His face was brimming with joy, and his lips held a smile that Huai couldn't resist.
Wuhe moved in and locked his lips with Huai's. They started kissing each other passionately, Huai taking Wuhe's lower lip into his mouth while Wuhe savored Huai's upper one.
They continued their fiery kiss for nearly fifteen minutes. When Huai felt his own erection pressing against Wuhe's, he realized that if they continued, it would turn into a repeat of the other night. He suddenly bit Wuhe's lip.
Startled, Wuhe stopped and looked into Huai's light-brown eyes.
Huai took this chance and gave Wuhe a light push. With a teasing smile on his face, he got out of bed and ran toward the washroom.
Frustrated by his partner, Wuhe murmured to himself, "Ah, my boyfriend is so naughty in private. He even teased me like this." He looked down at the prominent bulge in his pants.
He grabbed a pillow, rolled onto his stomach, and buried his face in it.