FRIVOLOUS SNOW

63|Alive Again

Yao Xue frowned seeing Yong Jie on top of the roof in the middle of the night and sleeping too. Yao Xue knew that Yong Jie likes to watch the night sky. Yao Xue looked up and saw that there was no moon but only stars that night.

"Yao Xue." Yong Jie leaped down. "So, it was a dream demon. You felt—ahh! I mean, It felt so real." Yong Jie almost accidentally cried his dream out loud.

"A dream demon can create a real like illusion inside your subconsciousness that's why it sounds, feels, and looks real and it would be a huge problem if one doesn't realize he was living in that dream without waking up again."

Yong Jie nodded. Of course, he read about dream demons who feed to its host, so mostly, dream demons create a dream that could trigger the host's inner desires.

Yong Jie stopped and realized what was his dream all about.

"The dream stopped, does that mean someone...did Young master Yao Xue caught the demon?" Yong Jie asked.

Yao Xue looked at Yong Jie and hummed.

Yong Jie snapped his finger and shook his head. Of course! Yao Xue looked so innocent when it comes to those earthly desires. The dream demon might have been struggling. Yong Jie was hiding his mirth.

"So, how did you caught the demon?"

Yao Xue turned his back to Yong Jie and started walking back and Yong Jie followed. "The dream." Yong Jie muttered. "It was too good to be true."

"I wonder what was Young master Yao Xue's dream." Yong Jie felt curious.

A demon dream could be inside people's dreams with more than one host at the same time as long as the hosts are within its radius, so that means the demon was within the Yao Sect palace.

Yao Xue stopped walking then turned to Yong Jie who was walking behind him.

"It's late. You should go back to your bedchamber. The demon has been taken care of already." Yao Xue said.

Yong Jie tilted his head and thought. "Young master Yao Xue came looking for me after waking up because he's worried, right?" Yong Jie said. "I'm scared of sleeping alone."

Yao Xue knew what Yong Jie was doing. He didn't say anything and continued walking with Yong Jie happily walking behind him, tugging Yao Xue's white robes like a kid.

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Dashan

Yong Sect

Zi Xin stared into the ornamental garden of Yong Sect Palace. Zi Xin and Yong Xian were sitting on the tea table in the middle of the garden. Yong Xian just finished telling Zi Xin about what happened when the water demon, Fennu, took over his body. Zi Xin still couldn't believe such things happened but he was more than glad to be given a new life.

"My body. Did someone buried my body?" Zi Xin asked, worried about what happened with his real body. After all, he took good care of it.

Yong Xian reached for Zi Xin's cheek and stroked it gently. "Do you want to know where we laid your body?"

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Zi Xin and Yong Xian went out of the palace and traveled to the outskirts of Dashan where Yong Xian last held Zi Xin's original body. The filed of flowers in different shades were still blooming like that time.

Zi Xin was amazed at how the place was beautiful, he couldn't even wait to get off the horse and run to the field of wildflowers. Yong Xian watched Zi Xin happily running from here to there and touching the flowers.

"Xiao Xian buried my body here?" Zi Xin asked and Yong Xian nodded his head.

"Not buried, exactly, but you can say that." Yong Xian said. Of course, Zi Xin knows what would happen if a body were possessed by a demon. It would disappear.

Zi Xin walked to Yong Xian and hugged him.

"Thank you, Xiao Xian." Zi Xin said and leaned his ear on Yong Xian's chest, pressing himself inside the man's arms.

Zi Xin never felt safer inside someone else's arms.

Yong Xian wrapped his arms around Zi Xin and he wished never to let go and let the man stay inside his arms for always. Zi Xin let go and turned around, scanning the field again. Yong Xian reached for a purple flower and picked it.

"Xiao Xin." Yong Xian called and Zi Xin turned to look at Yong Xian.

Yong Xian placed the purple flower on Zi Xin's ear. Zi Xin smiled.

"Does it suits me?" Zi Xin asked.

"Very."

Zi Xin rolled his eyes and smacked Yong Xian on his arm. "What a smooth talker." Zi Xin muttered and Yong Xian laughed, cupping Zi Xin's face and kissed Zi Xin without warning.

It was just a brief kiss and it surprised Zi Xin that his feet couldn't move and only stared at Yong Xian who was smiling at him.

Yong Xian gently cupped Zi Xin's face making Zi Xin blushed.

"Zi Xin, I had a lot of words I said to you while you were laying down in my arms here and now that you could actually hear me, it seems like the words I wanted to say got stuck in my throat, but one thing is certain. That I love you, Zi Xin and I couldn't bear to lose you again."

Zi Xin never felt so happy hearing the one he likes reciprocated his feelings that he didn't know what to say.

Yong Xian smiled and brush his thumb on Zi Xin's cheek. "I said I love you." Yong Xian repeated to the dazed Zi Xin making his cheeks even redder.

"I-I heard." Zi Xin looked his eyes away from Yong Xian. "Zi Xin feels t-the same too."

Yong Xian smiled and pulled Zi Xin inside his arms. The last time Yong Xian stepped into that place, he was crying his heart out for losing Zi Xin but now, Yong Xian was so happy that his heart felt like bursting out from his chest.

"I know." Yong Xian whispered and Zi Xin rolled his eyes and hugged Yong Xian back.

Zi Xin forgot about everything and savor that wonderful moment, wishing that time would stop and stay like that forever. Zi Xin felt so glad to be alive again and swore to make the most out of it.

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