Please note: Content from this chapter onward includes male x male sexual intercourse.
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After that day, everything gradually returned to normal. However, Yan Si only bothered RongCheng for one single day, and then continuously confined himself to his room, researching and concocting medicinal herbs day and night... He wanted something that could draw the two of them even closer.
Ultimately, Yan Si could no longer restrain his heart. The yearning grew so immense that he nearly lost himself, only wishing for one night sharing a bed with RongCheng but without any lasting consequences.
And the previous trip to the pleasure house was not entirely bad; it was thanks to the thick, suffocating smell of rouge and powder that made his head spin that Yan Si suddenly thought of a way...
After five days without seeing Yan Si appear, RongCheng was naturally a little worried. Before going to sleep that evening, he took the initiative to visit him and see how things were.
The moment the door opened, RongCheng immediately froze. A strange scent of sandalwood pervaded the room, which also caused a peculiar, stimulating excitement in the mind.
RongCheng stood silently, contemplating for a long time before deciding to close the door and step gently inside.
Yan Si was currently lying soundly asleep on the bed. Though he knew RongCheng was sitting beside him, he remained silent. After a long while, sensing that RongCheng intended to leave, he quietly reached out and tugged at his robe.
RongCheng looked at him and asked with a smile, "What? Weren't you asleep already?"
Yan Si shook his head, "Don't go. Stay with me for a bit."
This request was not at all excessive, and RongCheng naturally agreed, except...
"This sandalwood scent..." RongCheng suddenly felt incredibly sleepy... Every night at this hour, he couldn't sleep because he missed his wife (A'Yuan, inferred from context), so could this scent be the cause?
Knowing that RongCheng was suspicious, Yan Si murmured, "Lately I've found it very difficult to sleep, so I use this to help me drift off a little easier."
Easier to sleep? Why? Surely he hadn't been sleeping for the past five days? Thinking this, RongCheng slightly furrowed his brow and asked, "Are you having trouble again?"
"No, I'm... fine..." Yan Si spoke softer and softer, then fell silent... his breathing became steady, making him look as if he had truly fallen asleep.
Seeing him like this, RongCheng didn't want to disturb him further and was about to leave. However, just as he stood up, he suddenly felt dizzy and lightheaded and sat back down on the bed.
Whatever kind of sandalwood this was, it truly made him sleepy. He figured he should rest here for a while before he could return... Thinking this, RongCheng leaned against the bed frame and soon drifted into a stupor.
By the time RongCheng awoke, it was nearly midnight. At this moment, he felt more awake than ever, and even the object between his legs suddenly rose up in strange excitement.
Sensing something was amiss, he inwardly scolded, "A'Yuan isn't here, why are you getting hard?"
Thinking that things were not good, RongCheng immediately jumped up and ran back to the Zi Xuan Palace...
The moment they saw RongCheng running as if pursued by a ghost, the patrolling guards were all startled. They even thought he was an assassin and caused a commotion.
After resolving the unexpected commotion, RongCheng finally returned to the Zi Xuan Palace... By this time, the object between his legs was uncomfortably hard.
He immediately slammed the door shut, rushing towards the bed intending to relieve himself, but unexpectedly saw Shan Yuan lying asleep on the bed...
"Huh!?" The moment he saw the person, RongCheng thought he had seen wrong and quickly rubbed his eyes a few times, but the person was still lying neatly right there.
RongCheng's heart pounded continuously in his chest. He rushed onto the bed and tightly embraced Shan Yuan, calling out, "A'Yuan... A'Yuan... wake up quickly... wake up..."
The person presumed to be Shan Yuan heard the call and vaguely opened his eyes to look. When he saw RongCheng, he smiled and asked, "You finally decided to come back?"
"That's what I should be asking you! When did A'Yuan return? Why didn't you send someone to call me?" After so many days of separation, RongCheng was truly missing his wife almost to the point of madness. Now that he had met the person, his heart was undeniably filled with boundless joy.
Without even waiting for an answer, RongCheng immediately kissed Shan Yuan's lips, his mind racing with the thought that his arousal earlier must have been a premonition that his beloved had returned.
However, RongCheng had no idea that he had just run a circuit around the palace and returned to the same old place, right in Yan Si's room.
And the Shan Yuan he thought he was seeing—was precisely Yan Si!
Ultimately, what Yan Si had long wished for had become reality. RongCheng lay pressed on top of him, passionately kissing down...
The kiss made Yan Si's head spin. He could feel RongCheng's tongue relentlessly swirling inside his mouth, and then he began to respond. Their tongues continuously tangled together, lingering without end...
"So this is what kissing is like..." His heart pounded wildly in his chest—If only, if only he would only give this to me alone, how wonderful it would be... This moment... I wish it could last forever, and that there would be no tomorrow...
Their lips and tongues intertwined for a long time. Only when the craving had subsided did RongCheng finally pull away. He quickly stripped off both their clothes, his hands caressing and stroking Yan Si's entire body, murmuring, "A'Yuan... A'Yuan, these past few days, your husband truly missed you to death."
Hearing these words, Yan Si's heart suddenly constricted, and his mind seemed to clear abruptly: "What... what exactly am I doing?"
"The person Elder Brother loves is not me?" And the person he wanted to make love to was absolutely not Yan Si. He would rather run back to the Zi Xuan Palace to pleasure himself alone than touch him...