QWTBWASIFOC Chapter 3
by VolareThe next day, evening.
Gu Changli, following the original owner’s routine, left work right on time, never working overtime. Having been busy for eighty thousand years before finally stepping down and then being burdened by his Scam goods disciple, he hated working as much as any wage slave.
This thing called work wasn’t just disliked by humans; even long-lived phoenixes didn’t like it.
Gu Changli’s true form was that of a Primordial Phoenix, though he was an anomaly in the Phoenix clan, born with Nine Heads, distinctly different from normal phoenixes.
His clansmen often referred to him as Nine Phoenixes, but Changli was the name he chose for himself.
Later, the world often called him the Ghost Car.
Nine Phoenixes represented auspiciousness and peace, a lucky divine bird, while the Ghost Car represented slaughter and darkness, an ominous fierce beast; the two were worlds apart.
The difference in names concealed endless killing intent.
But those old events were things of a long time ago; Gu Changli didn’t want to bring up the past or recall that heavy history.
He just wanted to find that old friend sooner.
He hoped that the furry System 143 could indeed help him find the reincarnated Golden Lion Demon Lord in another world.
The sunset’s glow shone on the car window, the reflected light illuminating Gu Changli’s face, his dark eyes lightly trembling beneath his eyelashes.
‘…Where have you been reborn?’
‘Why have my small paper figures searched for you for so long without any news or clues?’
A hint of sorrow touched the young man’s fair face, his slender, jade-like fingers gripping the steering wheel, his gaze fixed on the countdown of the traffic light ahead.
‘The road ahead still has an end, but you have no return date.’
When the red light turned green, Gu Changli released the brake and stepped on the accelerator, the emotions that had momentarily surfaced were once again retracted.
‘If I can’t find you in one world, I’ll go to the next. I’ll find you in the Greater Thousand Worlds, and then I’ll bring you back to Canglan World.’
‘…We’ll live in seclusion again on Yingzhou Island in the Eastern Sea, detached from the world, living peacefully.’
Gu Changli didn’t go straight home; instead, based on his memories, he went to the bar where the original owner often drank.
He didn’t go to the upstairs private room; he found a spot downstairs, watching the lively scene before him, the rhythm of the music filling his ears.
The extraordinarily handsome young master watched the young men and women dancing wildly in the center of the dance floor with a languid air, seeming to enjoy this unrestrained revelry.
A shallow smile touched the youth’s stunning eyes, quickly dispelling the coldness and severity around him, like a dazzling, blooming flower of wealth and splendor.
Bright and moving, filled with fatal temptation.
System 143, busy with its evidence gathering and investigation, was nothing like its beautiful host’s leisurely state.
It had already thrown the plot to the back of its mind.
The plot would collapse sooner or later when it met its beautiful host, so it might as well collapse sooner. Anyway, it didn’t like the male lead much.
Its data was almost crashed by the thunder!
Based on this alone, it wouldn’t let He Chixiu off!
Gu Changli lowered his eyes, swirling the wine in his glass, lifting it to drink it all in one gulp, the spicy, stimulating liquor causing a hint of red to appear in the corner of his eyes.
His full lips were dampened by the wine, like a rose touched by dew in the morning.
“This is too damn alluring!”
“Holy crap! Why didn’t Young Master Gu go to the private room?”
Many onlookers were eager to make a move, but they recognized the other party’s identity and didn’t dare to act rashly. Who could afford to offend the Gu family’s young master!
Among the four great families, the Gu family was the most protective.
Moreover, Gu Changli was the apple of the Gu family’s eye. Trying to hit on him was no different from seeking death; there was no need to offend the Gu family’s mad dogs for that.
Gu Changli continued to stare at the dance floor, drinking his wine cup after cup, the phone on the table ringing incessantly.
“Ring, ring, ring…”
He Chixiu’s call; he couldn’t be bothered to answer it!
It was already a great act of leniency that he hadn’t burned the other party. It was because he didn’t want to disrupt the rules of this world, but anyone who wanted to be a sucker was welcome to do so.
He wasn’t the one in love, so what did it have to do with him!
Just as Gu Changli was ignoring the bombardment of calls and focusing on admiring the graceful dances, Xie Chi, who had just finished a gathering with friends, came downstairs to leave the bar and inadvertently caught sight of Gu Changli drinking alone in the corner.
“!!!” Xie Chi’s pupils shrank, and he froze on the spot.
In an instant, his eyes could only see the beautiful young man in the distance, his long-dormant heart thumping wildly.
The other party directly struck his heart.
Xie Chi blinked vigorously a few times, confirming that he wasn’t hallucinating.
…That bright beauty was real!
He quickly straightened his neat clothes, then straightened his back and walked forward.
The tall, broad-shouldered, long-legged man quickly appeared next to the deserted table, smiling as he looked at the charming young man drinking alone.
“…Hello.”
“May I buy you a drink?”
He held the vodka he had just asked the bartender to bring over, placing it in front of Gu Changli.
“The strongest of strong liquors, interested?”
Hearing this, Gu Changli lifted his eyelids, glancing at the uninvited, thick-skinned man. What met his eyes was an extremely outstanding, handsome face.
His features were firm and deep, his eyes bright as stars.
But what he noticed wasn’t the other party’s face, but the red tear mole at the corner of the other party’s left eye.
That tear mole was connected to his Phoenix Blood.
A surge of waves rose in his usually calm heart, and the fingers holding the wine glass trembled slightly.
He seemed to have found the old friend he had been searching for for so long.
The tear mole at the corner of the other party’s eye, connected to his blood, was the Phoenix Blood Tears he had shed during his seventh death, and thus it had accompanied the other party’s reincarnation.
–Jinni, I’ve finally found you!
Gu Changli suppressed the longing and worry in the depths of his heart, reached out and took the bottle of vodka. “Of course I’m interested. Today, I’ll drink to my heart’s content with you.”
Xie Chi sat down in the seat opposite the young man, took a wine glass and handed it to Gu Changli.
“Okay, how about we don’t go home until we’re drunk?”
Gu Changli raised his hand and poured wine into Xie Chi’s glass, his lips slightly raised, staring with a smile at Xie Chi, who was drinking with him as he had in the past.
“…Then let’s not go home until we’re drunk.”
These short six words, spoken in a low, luxurious voice, had a bewitching and alluring quality.
Xie Chi took the wine glass handed to him by the beauty, his disobedient heart starting to beat wildly again, so much so that his face turned red and his ears were tinged with a hint of red.
His eyes became extremely hot and blatant.
He sat there helplessly, like a young man who had just fallen in love.
“My name is Xie Chi, what’s your name?”
Hearing the other party’s straightforward question, Gu Changli couldn’t help but recall the scene when he first met Jinni.
The disheveled, homeless little phoenix had wandered to Yingzhou Island, a secluded place hidden overseas, and was brought home by the Nine-Headed Lion on the island.
‘I am the Golden Lion Demon Lord, what is your name?’
‘…My name is Changli, also called Nine Phoenixes.’
Familiar questions and answers surfaced in his mind again, causing Gu Changli’s eyes to gradually darken.
“…My name is Changli, my surname is Gu.”
Now he was Gu Changli, the young master of the Gu family, and also the Nine Phoenixes that the Golden Lion Demon Lord had once saved.
Xie Chi didn’t understand the beauty’s implication, but he deduced the other party’s identity based on the beauty’s name and began to think about how to pursue him.
Although the Xie and Gu families didn’t interact much, they understood each other.
If he took the initiative to pursue Gu Changli, presumably the elders of both families wouldn’t object too much, right?
Even if they objected, it wouldn’t matter. He had his eye on this person.
Anyway, his eldest brother and second sister had always felt that his choice to become an actor tarnished the Xie family’s reputation as a scholarly family, so they probably wouldn’t mind him marrying into the Gu family.
Xie Chi, who was thinking about marriage from the beginning of the relationship, looked at the charming young man in front of him with a smile, his eyes filled with indescribable emotions.
“So it’s Young Master Gu, I’ve long admired your name.”
Gu Changli’s lips curled slightly, watching with a smile that wasn’t quite a smile the man who intended to pull him into the sea of love.
“It is I who have long admired Movie Star Xie.”
He elegantly picked up his wine glass, lightly clinked it against Xie Chi’s glass, and boldly drank the liquor in the glass, as if he were drinking plain water.
Xie Chi, who had just finished a round of drinks with his friends, wasn’t willing to be outdone and drank the vodka in his glass, competing with Gu Changli, who had a great alcohol tolerance, cup after cup.
“Gulp, gulp…”
In front of his future boyfriend, he must not show weakness.