Zhou Zi Shu woke up with a feeling of imminent danger. He sat up abruptly in the bed, waking up Lao Wen who was sleeping peacefully with a smile on his face. This one made disappear his joyful air at the same time as he swallowed the question that he was going to ask to his soul mate on the tone of the joke. His partner was panting with the face deformed by the apprehension and the concern. He took him in his arms and raised his face to look him straight in the eyes.

"A-Xu what's going on? Did you have a nightmare? ...Or did I cause this pain by asking too much of you?"

"Idiot" was the only answer he managed to get.

Zi Shu's breathing began to calm down. He laid his forehead on Lao Wen's neck with a sigh. He put his two arms around him. The latter tried to joke to return the smile to his lover.

"It is not in this way that I had imagined that you wake me up!" He kissed his temples. A crispness appeared on the beautiful face buried in his neck. A doubt seized his mind anyway.

"You grimace because I did not know how to hold me and that I went there a little hard?" he asked him with an embarrassed air. There was no answer in his neck. He insisted.

"It's a little your fault, we have no idea to have a body to make an immortal damn! And you know that in terms of demon, I was their master for many years ... ".

"Stupid !"

"You're changing your vocabulary, that's good! What's the matter? Tell me, you've been troubled since the middle of the afternoon!".

"I don't know, it's just..."

Zi Shu stepped aside from Lao Wen and looked him straight in the eye.

"If I told you that we should go out, now... what would you do?".

His partner looked at him for a long time without saying a word. He seemed to be trying to read him.

"If I understand correctly, I have to get dressed... and we're going for a little walk in the snow... in the middle of the night? And you don't know why!"

"Mnn... you've got it all figured out".

"Well, let's get dressed and go!" he said casually.

Lao Wen passed over Zi Shu, kissed him on the way and stood up. Zi Shu sat down on the edge of the bed. He watched his lover come and go in the room. His long white hair fell freely on his back. Each of his steps made them undulate. He had never really paid attention to Lao Wen's body, but he found it muscular and well-proportioned. He had what it took where it took! He knew firm and ... powerful. He could still feel between his thighs the percussive assaults of Lao Wen's pelvis against his! He knew for some time that her skin was soft and had the color of alabaster. But unlike this stone, it was hot and even burning! To summarize, the one who was since this night his carnal lover, had a body pleasant to the eye and to the touch. This last raised its thick hair to rest it on the fabric of its green dress. He turned over.

"So, what's the verdict?" he asked. Lao Wen noticed that Zhou Zi Shu was watching him. The latter looked doubtful and seemed to hesitate...

"I don't know... can we do better?

Lao Wen pounced on him like a bird of prey!

"What did you just say?" he tipped him over onto the bed and nibbled on the two dark points of his chest.

"I'm just kidding, grace!!!" said Zi Shu, groaning between laughs.

"Lao Wen, we have to go, it's an emergency!".

"Emergency?" his partner raised his head reluctantly.

"Yes, let me get dressed..."

"You think you'll manage to get up?" teased his lover.

"Who do you think you are? Chou Wang? (1)

"A-Xu !!!! "

"Move over!" Lao Wen rolled onto the bed and watched his soul mate get up.

He pretended not to see her frown or the tightening of her jaws. It was clear that he'd had trouble holding back after those long months or years of abstinence. His gaze shifted to Zi Shu's back. There were two huge scars like burns as well as two smaller ones on her shoulders left by the hooks of her torture session inflicted by Peng Ju. A-Xu had never told him about the burns and he had not asked about them.

Apart from that, he had a beautiful body, a slim and well-marked waist and legs like those of the dancers of the pleasure houses! He remembered a conversation between A-Xu, Ah Xiang and himself about the person they found most attractive; he had said that for him it was the one with a slim waist, long legs and a warm heart despite a rough exterior and A-Xu matched this vision in every way.

He frowned. He was walking a bit strangely! He was going to have to make it up to him!

With this hunch, this urge to go out in the snow and cold in the middle of the night, they hadn't even been able to discuss what had happened between them that night! He needed to know and also to reassure himself.

Had A-Xu been satisfied with his qualities as a lover? Would he let him love him again? And... when? Because he had to admit it, his soul mate was a real delight, he was endowed with an instinct in bed that allowed him to be passive and submissive when necessary, enterprising and at least active when necessary. There was also a certain innocence in him that enchanted him. He never thought he would ever find a partner who was so much like him!

A-Xu was fully dressed now. He was wearing his white and blue-gray robe. Lao Wen resigned himself to get up from the bed and join him. They left their room and went down the large winding staircase connecting all floors of the armory. At the bottom, they went to the entrance hall. Lao Wen turned the lock and the large steel door opened, letting in the wind, the snow and the freezing cold.

Zhou Zi Shu had brought two lanterns and a blanket, which surprised Lao Wen! It seemed as if he was expecting to find someone outside! But who could be in the snow, in the middle of the night and in a place as lost as the Celestial Mountain? No matter, A-Xu seemed to know where he was going and Lao Wen followed him.

How long did they walk in the cold? He couldn't say, but one thing was certain, they were getting further and further away. His soul mate stopped for a moment and went in another direction than the one they were going in. He suddenly knelt down and began to scrape the snow. I raised my lantern as high as I could to shine it. I saw a hand appear! There was someone under there! I put my light on the ground and started digging too; eventually a full body emerged from under the snow cover.

I was just finishing freeing the stranger's legs when Zi Shu unfolded the blanket he had taken and wrapped it around him. He picked him up and headed back to the armory. I picked up the two lanterns and followed him. Once the big door was closed, I joined him. He was taking the stranger to our room. Knowing A-Xu, he was going to have the right to our bed! Goodbye to any hope of ending the night in the passionate arms of my soul mate!

When he arrived in our room, he placed the stranger on the bed.

He said, "Turn on the braziers so that it's warmer and get me a dry blanket."

 I complied without flinching but cursing this intruder who had disturbed my first night of love with A-Xu!

I returned to the bed with a soft, thick blanket. A-Xu had taken off the cloak of our surprise guest. I finally found out why he had been so worried all day! Lying in our bed was Cheng Ling.

* (1) god of sodomy 

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