Chapter 123 – The drunk little kitten got eaten!

Translator: ChuRen/ YuQiChen

Tang Qing was taken aback by Xie Qingzhi’s sudden move, feeling a bit flustered. He reached out, encircling Xie Qingzhi’s neck tightly, leaning against the man’s strong and broad chest, allowing him to do as he pleased.

“Your Grace… what are you doing?”

Tang Qing’s gaze was somewhat hazy, his voice muffled and drawn out due to the alcohol, with a hint of seduction.

Somewhat enticing.

“Taking you to our room.”

His voice was deep, husky, and carried a hint of suppressed indifference.

The high and sharp nose and thin lips under the silver mask looked as if they were sculpted from marble, giving him an especially stern and proud appearance.

The man’s tall and slender figure, with well-defined muscles hinted through his clothes, exuded a sense of sensuality and power.

As the top Alpha, his physical fitness was exceptionally strong, every muscle line being sexy and smooth, brimming with the masculine power.

“Oh, so Your Grace has come to fetch me.”

Tang Qing giggled foolishly, burying his head against the man, rubbing against him. His soft cheek pressed against the man’s firm chest, like a coquettish cat.

“Your Grace is so kind…” Tang Qing murmured, his voice like a cat, “Your Grace is really, really good.”

“Is that so? What’s good about me?”

Xie Qingzhi looked at the tipsy cat in his arms and couldn’t fathom what he had done to deserve such praise even in this drunken state.

“Your Grace, you’re very good to me…”

Tang Qing struggled to think, “Your Grace helped me get rid of Zheng Nian and Tang Shanshan, brought my brother over for recovery, and exposed Luo Xuanling, that poisonous woman.”

“Oh, and you even forced that ‘white lotus’ Tang Xiaobai to drop out of school, haha.” Thinking about the day’s events, Tang Qing couldn’t help but burst into laughter. “Today, that fool Shen Yanxia came to me for mercy, saying Tang Xiaobai got expelled from school and begged me to spare him.”

“I just ignored him. They all deserved it, haha.”

After speaking, Tang Qing cautiously lifted his eyes, glanced around, lowered his voice a bit, and looked somewhat guilty as he asked Xie Qingzhi, “Am I being too vicious?”

“Who dares say you’re vicious?” Xie Qingzhi looked at his chatty little wife in his arms, rarely expressing so much, but it wasn’t annoying.

“No, they dare not say…” Tang Qing reached out, grabbing Xie Qingzhi’s strong chest, looking smug. “I know they must be cursing me in their hearts, but it doesn’t matter. Who in the entire Empire Star would dare offend me now?”

“My husband is none other than the renowned Duke.”

Tang Qing looked very proud, like a little cat pretending to be powerful and domineering.

A slight smile tugged at the man’s lips.

“Does Shen Yanxia often come to see you?” The man recalled Tang Qing’s earlier words and a hint of displeasure crept into his tone.

“Ah, he occasionally comes to see me, either asking about Tang Xiaobai’s past or pleading for him. It’s so annoying, I really don’t want to see him at all.”

“From now on, don’t bother with him,” the man said expressionlessly, his eyes darkening slightly.

“Who wants to bother with him? He’s just a fool, a straight-A complex patient. I feel like throwing up whenever I talk to him…”

After saying that, Tang Qing vividly made a disgusted expression.

Xie Qingzhi looked at his wife, who was completely relying on him, and couldn’t help but ask, “Tangtang, are you really not afraid of me?”

Tang Qing blinked at Xie Qingzhi, looking puzzled. “Why would I be afraid of you?”

“You can’t eat me anyway.”

Xie Qingzhi remained silent, his throat rolling, his eyes clouded and unreadable.

He strode to the bedroom, closed the door with a kick, and placed the drunk cat in his arms on the bed.

Tang Qing wriggled restlessly in his arms, his hot breath spraying on Xie Qingzhi’s shoulder, almost scorching him through.

“Your Grace, I truly feel very lucky to have married you.”

Unaware of his own seductiveness, the tipsy little wife boldly revealed his inner thoughts, smiling warmly, “Since marrying you, I feel like everything has gotten better.”

“Your Grace, may I kiss you?”

Tang Qing tilted his fair neck, looking up at Xie Qingzhi, his amber eyes shining with anticipation.

Xie Qingzhi gazed down at Tang Qing’s moist lips, the fair face tinged with a blush, looking as cute as a flower petal.

The man didn’t respond, just gazing deeply at Tang Qing.

Tang Qing raised his hand, wanting to remove the silver mask from the man’s face.

But the man’s hand intercepted his.

Tang Qing knew the man was very sensitive about the scars on his face, so he pouted and withdrew his hand.

“Stingy.”

Tang Qing muttered softly.

Then he straightened his posture, tilted his head back, and through the cold silver mask, his soft red lips planted a kiss.

A brief touch.

It was an innocent and playful kiss, devoid of any suggestive undertones.

Like being affectionately licked by a little cat.

Yet it melted the man’s hardened heart into soft strands of sugar.

With a gentle kiss, like a spark landing on dry tinder, it instantly ignited all of Xie Qingzhi’s rationality.

Turning the tables, Xie Qingzhi pressed a hand against the back of Tang Qing’s head, caressing his soft hair, and kissed his soft lips forcefully and passionately, as if he wanted to swallow him whole¹honestly at this point I’m still wondering, did he move away the mask or just press it against Tangtang’s face and smooshing it.

The man’s tongue, like an aggressive little snake, forcefully invaded Tang Qing’s mouth, recklessly entwining and stirring inside, making wet sounds.

The slightly painful pleasure threatened to consume Tang Qing entirely.

Kissed nearly breathless, Tang Qing could only helplessly shake his head along with the man’s movements, forced to engage in the intertwining of their lips and tongues.

Xie Qingzhi’s kiss, much like himself, was domineering and forceful, wild yet obsessive.

Dominating like devouring a person, rendering them powerless to resist.

This frenzied kiss was on the verge of completely overwhelming Tang Qing.

“W-wait… I can’t breathe… can’t breathe…”

In a daze, Tang Qing pushed away from the man’s scorching chest, panting heavily, and a hint of ambiguous silver threads lingered between their lips.

“Your Grace, you…”

Tang Qing was left speechless by the kiss, unable to utter a complete sentence, intermittently trying to scold, “How could you… be so fierce…”

With flushed cheeks and swollen lips, he raised his gaze to glare at the man, his amber eyes shimmering with a watery light, sparkling.

Even in the Empire Star where the average lifespan was two hundred years, the thirty-six-year-old Xie Qingzhi naturally appeared mature, young, and tall.

But Tang Qing might have forgotten that his husband was twice his age.

The Duke, who hadn’t gotten a lover for over thirty years, was like dry tinder untouched by water.

Once ignited, he would only burn more intensely.

Xie Qingzhi released Tang Qing’s ravaged lips, only to redirect his attention to that delicate and fair neck.

He fiercely nibbled on Tang Qing’s throat and collarbone, leaving behind one ambiguous red mark after another.

Each bite seemed to want to devour Tang Qing whole, making him feel weak at the knees, his whole body trembling slightly.

The man slowly stripped away each piece of clothing from his little wife, his large hands caressing every inch of skin, causing Tang Qing to shiver uncontrollably.

His long and powerful fingers grasped the furry silver cat ears on Tang Qing’s head, kneading them vigorously.

The sensitive ears were played with by those well-defined fingers, the slight pain transmitting through the earlobes to his brain, causing Tang Qing to involuntarily moan.

“Ah… don’t…”

The cat-eared youth cried out between kisses, his soft voice filled with passion and desire, driving the man to want to tease him even more.

Xie Qingzhi’s hand moved up from his ankle, then suddenly pressed down on the sole of his foot, kneading firmly.

The tender flesh there was manipulated by the man’s fingers, making Tang Qing feel like melting into water.

The broken moans were tinged with a hint of tears.

Lowering his head, the man fiercely bit Tang Qing’s lips again, while his fingers caught hold of the fluffy silver cat tail, never ceasing to play with it.

The tail, never touched by anyone before, was now being toyed with by the man’s fingers.

Tang Qing suddenly felt a tingling sensation all over his body, wave after wave, as if all the blood in his body was on fire.

“Don’t be afraid.”

The man’s voice was low and sexy, but his actions carried a hint of roughness.

In the room, the rich fragrance of orchids intertwined with the sharp scent of cedar.

Entwined until death, blending together, unable to separate.

…

The night was deep,

Shen Yanxia walked back to the General’s residence. He had a handsome face, sharp features, and his facial expressions were as cold as ice.

Thinking about Tang Xiaobai, he couldn’t help but furrow his brows.

He acknowledged that Tang Xiaobai’s plagiarism of others’ designs was illegal and unethical.

But he couldn’t bring himself to watch his beloved white moonlight, to see Tang Xiaobai cry until his eyes were swollen like walnuts every day after being expelled. He couldn’t do it.

These days, he had approached several powerful figures, only to be told:

There was no room for compromise in this matter.

Tang Qing truly had a cold heart.

“Meow!”

Suddenly, a cat meowed.

A chubby little cat emerged from the bushes.

It had a typical flat cat face, looking a bit squashed in. Its eyes were round like two black beans, with mostly white fur all over its body, except for a few clusters of light orange colored fur on its face and tail.

Its fur was extremely long and very fluffy, giving it a somewhat clumsy appearance. As it walked, the exaggerated fur swayed with every movement in the air.

Just like the old dog inside Howl’s Moving Castle in the anime.

Shen Yanxia glanced at it indifferently, preparing to bypass the cat.

After all, this cat didn’t seem very smart.

Little did he know, the cat was not afraid of people at all. With agility that didn’t match its appearance, it pounced towards him like a fierce tiger, grabbing onto the hem of Shen Yanxia’s pants.

And it held on tightly.

Shen Yanxia had no interest in keeping a cat and didn’t have any extra emotions towards these furry creatures.

He squatted down expressionlessly, reaching out to pull the cat away.

[Ding—]

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  honestly at this point I’m still wondering, did he move away the mask or just press it against Tangtang’s face and smooshing it