Love from the Male Protagonist's Harem

LFTMPH Chapter 74-Wanting To Return Home Part 2

Translated by Snowfall77

Then Gu Peijiu caught the sweetish, metallic scent of fresh blood.  Slowly stretching out a hand, Gu Peijiu poked at the pretty face beneath her, eyes narrowed.

Sarcastically laughing, Gu Peijiu pinched a rouged cheek: “A girl disguising herself in men’s clothing?”

Gu Peijiu recalled her dream where the barefoot girl had grinned at her from Yundu’s city walls.

And Gu Peijiu’s grip on Xia Wuyin suddenly tightened.

Lost in a haze and feeling herself utterly wronged, Xia Ge’s cheeks were flushed as she blinked at Gu Peijiu: “Hot.”

Twisting her body some more, she added helpfully: “Uncomfortable, uncomfortable.”

Gu Peijiu: “……endure it.”

Xia Ge was unwilling.  “No, I can’t.”

Xia Ge pulled at Gu Peijiu’s clothes: “Cool, cool.”

Gu Peijiu’s face darkened as her ayara moved, tying Xia Ge’s hands tightly together: “You want to be cold, take off your own clothes.”

The girl in the red dress stopped talking, face framed with messy black hair, hands bound with red silk.  Though her gaze was a little bashful, her black eyes seemed to be trying to communicate something.

Throwing Gu Peijiu’s thoughts into chaos yet again——

No, this wasn’t……that person.

No……it wasn’t her.

Clearing her mind, Gu Peijiu reached under the blankets, ignoring a certain person with watery bright eyes who was incessantly rubbing their body on Gu Peijiu’s, going: “Comfortable.”

Gu Peijiu: “……calm down, please.”

After saying those words, Gu Peijiu onehandedly pulled out from under the blanket a very large, shiny black sickle.

Its blade sharp and strong.

Gu Peijiu: “……”

She held the sickle and lowered her head, about to speak.  However she was taken by surprise when, like a carp jumping out of water, the other person thrust their body up.  Something warm was touching Gu Peijiu’s lips, and Gu Peijiu’s eyes were staring at a cheekbone——

There was the luscious smell of lipstick like sweet roses, delicate eyelashes, and black eyes that were confused.

The other had given Gu Peijiu a dazed kiss, and then rubbed Gu Peijiu’s face with her cheek, leaving Gu Peijiu frozen in shock, the sickle slipping from her hand to quietly fall onto the blanket.

Then, having left powder all over Gu Peijiu’s face, the other finally appeared to be tired out, nestling her head of messy black hair into Gu Peijiu’s shoulder.

Gu Peijiu’s heart couldn’t stop pounding away.  Feeling like she was going to die, in the same instant she also had the staunch conviction that she must stay alive in this world.

——No matter how painful, she had to live in this world.

——I can be your sharpest sword.

Slowly reaching out an arm, Gu Peijiu wrapped it around the girl.  Xia Ge, with flushed face and blurred vision, very obediently leaned against Gu Peijiu.

——You are my life.

——My everything.

The girl whispered in Gu Peijiu’s ear: “I want……”

Gu Peijiu did not respond.  Wearing a dark cloak that strongly contrasted against her pale hands, Gu Peijiu simply brushed back Xia Wuyin’s messy black hair, watching the girl’s eyelashes flutter.  A movement of Gu Peijiu’s finger and the red ayara loosened just a little around the girl’s hands, the red ribbon revealed.  Reluctantly, the red ribbon unraveled itself from around the girl’s left hand and wound itself around Gu Peijiu’s fingertips.

Embracing the girl leaning against her shoulder, Gu Peijiu kept stroking the other’s black hair with her white fingers now covered in red, asking in a low voice: “……what do you want?”

——Whatever it is you want, even if it’s for me to walk the whole land, I will accept and do it.

But the girl seemed bewildered, looking at Gu Peijiu for a long time, apparently not knowing what she wanted.

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Eventually Gu Peijiu tied back the other’s loose hair back with the red ribbon.  Now the other’s appearance was neater, her smallish delicate ears and pale neck exposed.

Heart still wildly thumping away, Gu Peijiu closed her eyes and repeated her question: “……what do you want?”

However, it seemed the girl was hopelessly confused, for she was completely quiet for ages.

Her silence went on for so long that Gu Peijiu gave up on receiving an answer.

“……go home.”

The girl’s voice was small and filled with anxious hope: “I want to go home……”

It took a moment before Gu Peijiu responded: “Where is your home?”

“……”

“I can’t go back……”

Gu Peijiu’s shoulder was a little damp, and the girl sounded like she was crying as she started twisting her body around again, trying to free her hands from the red ayara still binding them: “Uncomfortable, uncomfortable!”

The effects of that incense hadn’t worn off yet!

Pressing the girl back onto the bed, Gu Peijiu’s tone was cold: “Sober up!”

“But I feel uncomfortable……”  The girl struggled, Gu Peijiu taking deep breathes as she restrained her, when suddenly a loud racket came from out in the corridor.

“How did this happen?!!”

“Why——”

“Get someone!”

People had come for the goods being auctioned!

Lost in her thoughts, Gu Peijiu was surprised once more by warm lips kissing her cheek, leaving behind a red imprint.  The culprit managed to act both confused and contrite: “Sorry, it’s cool.”

Gu Peijiu: “……”

“Someone had to have come through here!  Check for anything missing!”

“……”

More bustling out in the corridor, and the sound of voices getting closer.  The kisser’s misbehavior had resumed.  She was twisting around like a little demon caterpillar, not knowing exactly what she wanted, only knowing that she felt empty and uncomfortable.

“Wuwuwu, I want, I want——”

Unfortunately, Xia Ge’s brain was too much of a blank space.  She didn’t understand, she just knew she ‘wanted’ and that she’d been ‘wanting’ for far too long, and now she was left choking back sobs——

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“I want to……go home.”

The incense had made Xia Ge’s body heat rise to unbearable levels, and the most refreshing thing she could think of would be standing in front of the air conditioner at home.

Just as the room’s door was being broken open, Gu Peijiu nimbly grabbed the sickle and the person on the bed, then crushed a Danfeng teleportation stone. Accompanied by the fierce ayara and a cold wind, Gu Peijiu’s eyelashes were slightly trembling: “Very well, I’ll take you home.”