Chapter 61: I Just Like You

Ye Chen Yuan smiled.

“I don’t like men, I only like you.”

Yuan Chu was at a loss for words. “Why do you like me? We only met a few days ago…Aren’t you rushing this a bit too much?”

“Rushing?”

He leaned toward Yuan Chu once again with a bewildering smile, yet there was a hint of sadness in his eyes.

“The moment you enter my line of sight, you’re the only thing that exists. When you are happy, I feel as if I’m walking on air.”1

He leaned in more closely, so close that Yuan Chu couldn’t help but shift back a little.

“…when I saw you for the first time, I wanted to feel your skin against my hands. When we met, I wanted to feel your lips against mine. If I didn’t like you, then the feelings I have now would not be so fervent.”

His voice was alluring, mesmerizing, and his tone was profound and bona fide. He stared with an earnest gaze. Being watched so intently, Yuan Chu raised her head to look up at him. His face reflexively reddened, and the next second, he stroked her cheek with his hand.

Her face was so soft and warm, he just wanted to nuzzle and pinch her delicate cheeks.

“Especially when you look at me like this, it’s really hard for me to restrain myself.”

His tone was strained and withheld his longing and desire. When he said this, he spontaneously moved his face closer and closer.

His face, like that of an immortal, was more captivating than ever in Yuan Chu’s eyes. Her breath caught in her throat, as she realized that their lips will soon meet!

Yuan Chu abruptly pushed Ye Chen Yuan, and frantically jumped up in horror!

“I…I suddenly remembered that my wife back home is about to give birth! I’ll leave first then, bye-bye!”

With her soft and smooth jade-like face flushed crimson, she narrowly escaped by the skin of her teeth!2

Now that Ye Chen Yuan was left alone by the lake, his surroundings were silent in the dead of night.

At long last, Elder Li spoke, “Why did you want to force him away just now?”

Ye Chen Yuan is generally an austere sort of person, yet his behavior today was irregular. That can only mean that he wanted to scare off that man, but why? Is it because that person is similar to Yuan Chu?

It was a while before Ye Chen Yuan averted his eyes from the direction Yuan Chu headed off in. “No reason…”

He said rather vaguely, “Since that man has a higher cultivation than me, it won’t benefit his cultivation to tag along with me. Nothing more.”

Elder Li certainly found it difficult to believe his words. However, if Ye Chen Yuan does not wish to speak further on the matter, he will not force him. After all, Ye Chen Yuan is old enough to handle his own problems.

In fact, since Ye Chen Yuan is heading back to his hometown, he does not wish for Yuan Chu to meet the people of his Ye family. He doesn’t want her to know the kind of life he used to live. She doesn’t need to see that darkness. As long as she continues to be a ray of sunshine, always cheerful and happy, then that’s enough.

Of course, he must restrain himself. Presently, he is not strong enough to stand by her side. But when she’s near him, restraint becomes an almost foreign notion. That’s why he must inhibit his desires until he is competent to protect her. Then he can attain all the treasures she wants!

His eyes sparkled with a glimmer of light. Ye Chen Yuan gathered his wits, taking deep breaths, bowed his head, and downed the snake meat in his hand, but his lone figure looked somehow melancholy.

Not far away, Yuan Chu gasped for air as she leaned against a tree. It took a long while before her heart rate began to slow down.

I’m gobsmacked! The male lead likes men! Has Heaven and Earth turned upside down?3 Is it possible!?

Yuan Chu felt abashed. When Ye Chen Yuan kissed her just now, why did her heart race?!

1: When you are happy, I feel as if I’m walking on air : Phrase used to describe when a person is so happy that they feel like they’re floating.

2: She narrowly escaped by the skin of her teeth : Phrase meaning to just barely escape.

3: Has Heaven and Earth turned upside down? : Idiom meaning complete confusion.