I thought Fucang's behavior was adorable. I looked at him fondly. A-Xu finally pushed him away and looked at me with a stern look. He raised his hand and showed me his five fingers, trying to avoid Fucang's tongue, which looked rough from where I was standing!

"A-Xu! No, it's not my fault this time!

"Who put his nose where it didn't belong when I told him not to?

"Yes but ....il was sleeping me, when I left him in the library.." I began to think fast. I couldn't let my soul mate have the upper hand in our verbal jousting too!

"A-Xu, it seems to me that it was you who said his name earlier! He must have thought you were calling him! "

"Lao Wen don't try to shift the blame to me, if you hadn't hatched him we'd still have a bed and we'd still be ..... having fun!"

A lick came to stop her from continuing. A-Xu closed his eyes and took a deep breath, his jaw clenched. I grabbed Fucang by the neck and pulled him out of the bed, what was left of it!

I held him with one hand while I grabbed my dress from the floor with the other. I passed it as well as possible while trying to control my friend on all fours then I pulled him towards the first floor and then towards the secret room.

"Fucang, you stay there, you do not have the right to come in the room" I said to him by caressing the head.

He looked at me with his big bulging eyes and came to rub against my legs. I wondered if he understood me.

"Be good, A-Xu is upset, I'd better calm him down before you meet again!"

I gave him a final pat on the head. He went to bed at the entrance of the treasure room and fell asleep. Fucang dragons were supposed to be the guardians of treasures buried in the bowels of the earth, he belonged with us. After a last look, I went back to the room to find A-Xu.

The ascent was laborious, it had not been of dead hand with me! But I must admit that he had made me discover pleasures of which I was unaware. I arrived at the threshold of our room. He had put on his housecoat and was looking at our devastated bed... What was he thinking? I approached him gently and wrapped my arms around his waist, holding him close to me. I saw his dark face but he let himself go against my chest. He was still staring at the bed. I couldn't help but whisper a few words in his ear.

"A-Xu, don't worry, it's just a bed, we can ask ChengLing to help us buy one..."

"Have you thought about how to get it here quietly?" he retorted to me ironically.

"We're going to have to trust other people and bring them into the loop in addition to ChengLing."

"Who do you have in mind?"

"QingMing and ChenZichen who are loyal to you and who ,I am sure, are helping ChengLing in his task of rebuilding your sect."

"Our sect..." I smiled.

His head tilted on my shoulder and he sighed. I continued to whisper in his ear.

"You know, we can put the mattress on the floor, wait and finish our night... by the way, I've been thinking about this... You lied to me too, and didn't tell me that you had taken the nails out..."

"Whose fault do you think it was? I thought I had lost you, my only goal was to regain enough power to complete your revenge..."

"I know, but when you saw that I was alive, you could have told me, but you didn't... so for the lie that you think I am guilty of, namely my false death, you owe me one too! "

I saw the outline of a smile raise the corner of his lips.

"What are you implying? "He asked me in all seriousness.

"That you could let me take charge of things for the second half of the night..."

I nibbled his ear and spread his hair to place a kiss on it. He pressed himself even closer to me. His body reacted to each of my caresses. Something told me that tonight's events were in fact a kind of test. It remained to know which of us, he had tested ... him or me? One thing was certain, he liked me to take care of him ... I moved aside and slid the mattress on the floor. I installed it in the center of the room, folded the blanket that I put at the foot and put the 2 pillows at the head.

I turned to A-Xu, he had his arms crossed over his chest and was looking at me with a wry look. I approached him with my enticing gaze.

"Who told you that I agree?"

"A lie for a lie" I took him in my arms and began to kiss him as I pulled him towards our makeshift bed. He put his arms around my neck and the rest of the night was a real treat for me .

Pdv ZZS:

I didn't know if Lao Wen understood what I had tried to do tonight! What I had tried to make him understand! He was always making decisions that seemed to have no consequences but invariably did not see all the repercussions they could have, or too late! Like with the 4 wise men of Angi or with his decision to hide me... his false death which almost caused mine by the way! He thought he was protecting me by hiding his plan but he didn't take into account my feelings for him and the importance he had in my life

He had promised not to lie to me again, but this morning I had suspected that he had seen something that had caught his attention. When I started reading some of the books, I knew that not all the treasures in this room were safe. That's why I asked her not to touch anything while I was away.

But I had my share of responsibility. Preoccupied by his treatment, I had not taken the time to explain the dangers in question, I intended to do it later ... Lao Wen was right, we were alike! I knew that he had seen something that had aroused his curiosity, but I had not told him about the dangers that it could represent ..... I had not foreseen all the repercussions either!

I looked at our bed devastated by this "baby" as he had called it. He had interrupted a pleasant moment between us. I must admit that I had taken great pleasure in making him mine. It had calmed my anger against him. But ....

I felt 2 arms encircle my waist. He had come back and was holding me close to him telling me that the destruction of the bed was not serious that we could buy another one ....

"Have you thought about how to get it here discreetly?" I asked him ironically. Wasn't he the one who had insisted that ChengLing not tell anyone about our presence as the guard of the armory?

He told me that we would have to trust... I had a vague idea of the few people who would keep our secret. Three names came to mind...and it was two of them that Lao Wen said!

The negotiations for the rest of the night began to my great pleasure! He had a lot of spirit !!!! He set up a makeshift bed in the center of the room. I was watching him. I really wanted him to take me in his arms. When I saw him approaching me with a bright look and a naughty smile, I had no doubt about what he had in mind, but even if I wasn't really angry with him anymore, I wanted to tease him some more ....

"Who told you that I agree?"

"A lie for a lie! "

Then he took me in his arms and kissed me making me forget everything. It was there that I felt the best: in the hollow of his arms, I was protected and loved. Then it is with delight that I gave myself up to his caresses, his kisses and his love... for the rest of the night. 

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