FRIVOLOUS SNOW

20|Exterminate

Zi Xin's face went sour when he saw Yong Xian glaring at him. Ever since, Zi Xin believed that Yong Xian really hated him for no reason no matter Yong Yi says that it wasn't the case and that time, Yong Jie was starting to seclude himself from everyone, practicing cultivation and meditations that Yong Jie doesn't have time even just to see Zi Xin.

Yong Jie smiled at Zi Xin. No matter how he looked at Zi Xin, he really looked like a lady with those pink robes. Yong Xian agreed to come with them and celebrate their reunion and reminisce about their childhood memories that night.

They went out to a pub around the Yong market. They didn't want to catch attention from the people in the market so they choose to dress casually yet the most casual clothes they could produce from their wardrobes still screamed a cultivator aura.

People turned their eyes to them when they walked inside the pub almost full of people. The waiter found them a table for the four. Yong Jie was sitting opposite to Zi Xin and Yong Yi was sitting opposite to Yong Xian.

Yong Jie and Yong Yi enthusiastically ordered their wines and tea for Zi Xin because he never drinks wine. They chatted while waiting. It wasn't long when the waiter brought the wine and tea over their table and they started drinking.

"I remember this Xiao Xin used to be a cry baby." Yong Yi chuckled as he messed Zi Xin's hair.

Zi Xin smacked Yong Yi's hand that was ruining his hair. "That was before." Zi Xin glanced at Yong Xian who said nothing and silently drank his share of wine.

"You're still the same Xiao Xin. You still even don't drink wine!" Yong Jie said.

"A lady doesn't behave like that is what mom said." Zi Xin said.

"Are you even one?" Yong Xian said and their table seemed like a cold air suddenly blew making them fell silent from Yong Xian's comment.

Zi Xin glared at Yong Xian. Yong Jie silently raised and tipped the cups on his lips when Zi Xin reached for the cup and he gulped it down in one shot surprising the three brothers. Zi Xin doesn't drink at all. He always, always tells that to them. Zi Xin hasn't tasted even a drop of wine.

"Zi Xin!" Yong Yi pulled the empty cup from Zi Xin's hand.

"There." Zi Xin coughed then smiled with his radiant smile when in reality, he was fighting not to vomit from the painful taste of the wine.

"Are you okay?" Yong Jie asked, worried that Zi Xin would feel tipsy since it was his first cup of wine in his whole life.

Zi Xin nodded his head and chuckled. "Yes. Yes. Handsome big brother Jie." Zi Xin said and it was obvious that he was already drunk from that first cup.

Zi Xin's first cup turned to second and then third. They were laughing as they recalled their childhood memories and Yong Xian slowly loosened the tension between him and Zi Xin.

Zi Xin finally gave up and fell on Yong Xian's shoulder. Yong Xian wrapped his arm around Zi Xin when he slipped down on Yong Xian's back. Yong Xian could feel how curvy  Zi Xin's waist was. His cheeks warming up and he blamed it for the wine in his system.

Zi Xin was fast asleep on Yong Xian's arm when the three brothers finished their third jar of wine.

Yong Xian shook Zi Xin's shoulder, waking him. Zi Xin stirred and sat up groggily hearing laughter from Elder Jie and Elder Yi seeing him for the first time drunk.

Yong Jie paid and they were ready to leave the place. Yong Jie and Yong Yi walked ahead while Yong Xian guiding Zi Xin out passing the tables of the other costumers in the pub when Yong Xian felt Zi Xin shivered and he turned to one of the customers with a heavy beard and has a stomach of a drunkard.

"You f*****g groped me!" Zi Xin exclaimed and Yong Xian's blood boiled especially when the drunkard just smiled and he even dared to touch Zi Xin again on his butt and squeezed it like a huge pervert.

Yong Xian couldn't hold himself and kicked the drunkard causing their wine jars to break as the huge drunkard's body crashed on it and people turned to look at the commotion.

Yong Xian gave Zi Xin to Yong Jie and faced the drunkard who was already furious and his drink buddies too who stood also.

The pub became noisy and some even cheered for the upcoming fight between a drunkard looking like a bandit and the other one was a well mannered young man that looked like a cultivator that belonged to a respected sect.

The drunkard drew his sword and Yong Xian draws his fan that was tucked in his sash.

The drunkard attacked, slashing his sword to Yong Xian while Yong Xian just countered it with his fan like it was nothing and it even angered the drunkard. Zi Xin from his drunken stupor, woke up and saw the commotion.

Everyone was stunned when the drunkard suddenly convulsed in front of everyone and his skin changed color into dark brown and his face went from bearded bandit into a demon. A real demon!

Everyone started running out of the pub, screaming. Everything was in chaos and Zi Xin got pushed back from the startled drunkards, running towards the exit.

Zi Xin screamed when he saw the demon going after him and reached its claws towards him. Its claws slice into his front just when someone pulled Zi Xin.

"Xiao Zi Xin!" Yong Yi exclaimed.

It was Yong Jie who pulled Zi Xin.

Yong Xian drew his sword, Mei, which he rarely uses since Yong Xian only uses his fan. He exterminated the demon immediately cutting its head off. It was no use anyway if a body was completely possessed by a demon. They couldn't save the host and he didn't the intention to save him too.

People who witnessed got scared at the rolling bloody head of an ugly demon on the floor of the pub and the headless body. Yong Xian hurried to Zi Xin who in Yong Jie's arms and Ying Yi was calling Zi Xin repeatedly to wake up.

Zi Xin's robes were sliced by the demon's claws making his heartbeat went fast. Even a small cut of a demon claw would get the body infected.

Yong Xian tore Zi Xin's robe feeling his ears buzzing that he couldn't hear anything around, searching for signs of scratch but there was none. The claws just tore the robes and didn't reach the skin. Yong Xian felt relieved. Yong Xian checked Zi Xin's pulse. He didn't have wide knowledge about pulse reading but he knew the basics. He knew if the person were normal and gladly, Zi Xin was normal sleeping from all the wine he drunk and maybe from the shock too.

"Let me." Yong Xian said as he pulled Zi Xin from Yong Jie's arms and carried Zi Xin like a princess. They couldn't deliver Zi Xin home like that. Drunk and looking like some pervert harassed him with his torn garments which Yong Xian covered Zi Xin's chest with his outer robe.

Yong Xian carried Zi Xin to his room because he couldn't stand Zi Xin being with either of his younger brothers no matter how he adores them.

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