Bringing My Rival Back to Life (Accidentally) - Chapter 33

“Zhu Xiao, why are we lying in the same bed?”

At eight in the morning, Wu Jiu asked this question with a stiff body. In fact, he had been awake for ten minutes already. The moment he opened his eyes and saw Zhu Xiao lying in his arms, he thought it was a dream. He bit his tongue hard, and because the pain was too intense, he bit it again, almost bringing tears to his eyes.

It wasn’t a dream—Zhu Xiao was really sleeping with him!

He moved his numb arm, trying to pull his hand out and hoping that Zhu Xiao would wake up right away to face the situation together. But this movement only made things worse. Zhu Xiao, seemingly annoyed that his pillow was moving, tilted his head back with his eyes still closed, kissed Wu Jiu’s lips lightly, and mumbled, “Don’t move, be quiet.”

Though this fleeting kiss was somewhat perfunctory, it was enough to shock Wu Jiu at the moment.

Wu Jiu indeed dared not move anymore. He lay there as still as a corpse, his eyes straining to glance at Zhu Xiao. The more he looked, the angrier he became—

Zhu Xiao was wearing only a thin nightgown, the collar slightly open. From Wu Jiu’s angle, he could see the pale skin marked with scattered, intimate traces, and there was even a faint bite mark on his collarbone.

…It was clear what kind of absurd night they had experienced.

Wu Jiu knew he shouldn’t look anymore, but his gaze uncontrollably lingered on those marks.

Why did Zhu Xiao have these marks on him!

He was certain it wasn’t him. He remembered very clearly that he had slept alone last night—he had logged into a secondary account before bed and debated fiercely with those who confessed their feelings for Zhu Xiao on the confession wall, single-handedly arguing against a crowd, using all his strength to barely win and hold on until the end, finally falling asleep out of exhaustion.

So who could it be?

Suppressing his anger, Wu Jiu couldn’t help but look more and more. Finally, he pulled out his arm, patted Zhu Xiao’s shoulder, and tried to wake him up to properly explain the situation.

Unexpectedly, as soon as his hand touched Zhu Xiao, it was grabbed and pushed back.

“I don’t want to, I’m very tired…” Zhu Xiao’s tone was complaining, yet it carried a hint of affection that was hard to detect. “Let me sleep first, okay?”

Wu Jiu had never heard Zhu Xiao speak like this, as if he were acting coquettish with someone.

He became even angrier. Who did Zhu Xiao think he was?

“Don’t sleep, Zhu Xiao,” Wu Jiu said through gritted teeth, “Explain to me whose dog bit you like this?”

As he wished, Zhu Xiao opened his eyes.

“What are you playing at now?” Zhu Xiao frowned.

Ever since Wu Jiu had opened the door to a new world, they had unlocked many new ways of playing, of course, many of which were the result of Wu Jiu’s eager learning and asking questions.

Last night was like that too. Wu Jiu, for some reason, had to ask some strange questions. Whether to answer or not, in the end, he would blush and fiercely torment Zhu Xiao.

“No, I’m serious,” Zhu Xiao’s reaction stunned Wu Jiu for a moment, then he became even more serious, “Zhu Xiao, didn’t you do this voluntarily?”

Could it be that Zhu Xiao had been taken advantage of last night! But he hadn’t even died yet— who would dare to scheme against Zhu Xiao!

Wu Jiu’s anger flared, but his voice was as cold as ice: “Zhu Xiao, who is that bastard?”

Although he and Zhu Xiao were archenemies, this didn’t mean he would stand idly by in the face of such a situation.

As long as Zhu Xiao told him the name, he would immediately go back and turn over the Book of Life and Death, dig up this person’s past, and without fail, his fist would be smashing into that bastard’s face by this afternoon—he would definitely avenge Zhu Xiao!!

Zhu Xiao narrowed his eyes and carefully examined the person beside him.

Wu Jiu’s expression looked too serious, not like an act at all.

At this moment, Zhu Xiao suddenly remembered that a few days ago, Wu Jiu had mentioned that the underworld had launched a new business called the “lantern slide show,” which was still in the internal testing phase. As the Yama, Wu Jiu had to lead by example, so he was one of the first to try it out.

At that time, Wu Jiu had also told him that he might be a bit off for a while, but not to worry, as he would return to normal after a while.

Now it seemed that the lantern slide show had taken effect.

After sorting out the whole story, Zhu Xiao spoke: “No, I did it voluntarily.”

Wu Jiu looked at him in disbelief, gritting his teeth and angrily saying, “Then who did it?”

In an instant, an emotion that was both anger and panic overwhelmed him.

Could it be that Zhu Xiao had started dating someone and confessed to one of those people who claimed to be “Zhu Xiao’s number one boyfriend” on the confession wall?

Zhu Xiao curled his lips and looked at him leisurely: “You did it.”

“What?”

Wu Jiu was stunned.

“I said, you did it,” Zhu Xiao repeated clearly, then added, “Did you hear me? If you didn’t, go clean up the living room and bedroom, and take out the trash.”

“You… you said…” Wu Jiu’s eyes widened in shock, “Me?”

Five seconds later, Wu Jiu exclaimed in amazement, “How could I! Why!”

“Because we’re married,” Zhu Xiao said.

“Who got married? Me and you?” Wu Jiu looked at him in astonishment, stammering, “But I, we were still debating in the Marxism class yesterday…”

Yesterday, it was Zhu Xiao’s group’s turn to give a presentation, and he had rather impolitely raised several questions.

As soon as Wu Jiu mentioned it, Zhu Xiao remembered.

It was indeed rare that after all these years, Zhu Xiao still remembered that unforgettable Marxism class.

He smiled and told Wu Jiu, “That was ten years ago.”

Zhu Xiao quickly realized that the person in front of him now was Wu Jiu from college.

Unexpectedly, after all these years, he could still meet Wu Jiu from ten years ago.

“You mean,” Wu Jiu tried hard to understand the information he was given, “it’s ten years later, and I’m married to you.”

Zhu Xiao nodded.

“Impossible——”

Wu Jiu shouted in shock, only to have his mouth covered by Zhu Xiao.

“Listen, I know you have a lot of questions right now,” Zhu Xiao said, “but I’m not going to divorce you because that Wu Jiu will come back.”

It was indeed a bit of a shock for the current Wu Jiu to face the current situation, and Zhu Xiao didn’t plan to force him to deal with the aftermath of last night.

He directly issued an ultimatum to Wu Jiu: “You wore me out last night, and now I want to sleep. You can either shut up and lie down or get out.”

“……”

The great, resolute, and unyielding King of Hell, Mr. Wu Jiu, resolutely chose—to get out.

No way, he wasn’t going to sleep with Zhu Xiao!

As he went out, he remembered what Zhu Xiao had just said and bent down to pick up the clothes scattered on the ground.

To show that he wasn’t following Zhu Xiao’s orders but simply couldn’t stand seeing the mess, he specifically added, “I’m amazed you left the clothes on the floor.”

When he threw the clothes into the washing machine, Wu Jiu found one that was already torn to shreds and couldn’t be worn anymore.

…What was this?

Wu Jiu’s face turned hot, and he picked out that piece of clothing, throwing it into the trash can without a second glance.

But that torn piece of clothing wasn’t the most shocking thing.

After starting the washing machine, Wu Jiu went to take out the trash.

When he picked up the trash bag, he glanced into the trash can and saw several rubber items that were beyond his comprehension.

He was taken aback, thinking he hadn’t seen clearly, and looked again carefully.

After seeing what was inside, Wu Jiu’s face turned bright red in an instant—Heaven, did he really do all of these?

After a daze, Wu Jiu still couldn’t accept this fact.

Zhu Xiao must be lying to him. He was a person of high moral standards and extremely disciplined. How could he possibly live such a shameless and unrestrained life?

Wu Jiu angrily tied up the trash bag and threw it into the trash can in the stairwell as if destroying evidence.

Still not satisfied, he went back, took a stick stealthily, and pushed the embarrassing trash bag deep into the can.

After cleaning everything up, Wu Jiu felt a bit subtly annoyed.

He had come at the wrong time. If he had really done something with Zhu Xiao, it would be one thing, but the key was that he hadn’t done anything. In his memory, he had even argued with someone yesterday, saying, “Do you like Zhu Xiao? Are you blind?”… Why should he be the one to clean up?

Never mind, he told himself—it wasn’t that he was following Zhu Xiao’s orders; he just couldn’t stand seeing all these messy traces!

Zhu Xiao was extremely sleepy. He went back to sleep for another half an hour. In his drowsiness, he reached for the pillow and found no one there.

He suddenly opened his eyes and stared blankly at the ceiling.

After a moment, as he became more awake, the morning’s memories came flooding back, and he remembered that the fool had left.

Zhu Xiao dragged his sore body out of bed, got ready, and walked into the living room, only to find that Wu Jiu was still not there.

Where could he have gone?

He looked around and noticed that the kitchen door was tightly closed, with wisps of white smoke escaping from the gaps.

Zhu Xiao’s expression changed slightly. Wu Jiu hadn’t smoked for a long time. Could it be that the underworld’s lantern slide show had such side effects?

He decisively pushed open the kitchen door and called out in a deep voice, “Wu Jiu!”

The kitchen was filled with white smoke, but it wasn’t coming from Wu Jiu’s head; it was from the iron pan on the stove.

Wu Jiu said guiltily, “I’m just making breakfast. Zhu Xiao, your pan isn’t very good.”

Seeing that Zhu Xiao looked exhausted and on the verge of collapsing, he was afraid that if Zhu Xiao woke up and finally felt less tired, he would starve to death.

—Although he was not the Wu Jiu who was married to Zhu Xiao, and he didn’t know when he would return to his original timeline, he had come this far. He couldn’t just give Zhu Xiao, who might starve to death, back to his future self, could he?

So he followed the recipe and showed off his skills.

Unfortunately, Zhu Xiao’s kitchen was too small to accommodate him, the top chef.

Zhu Xiao: “……”

He almost forgot that Wu Jiu hadn’t learned to cook human food yet.

“Let me do it.”

Zhu Xiao took a bag of toast from the small refrigerator specifically for food, toasted it slightly, and sat down at the dining table facing Wu Jiu.

Wu Jiu had never sat so calmly with Zhu Xiao, eating breakfast face to face, harmoniously like a real couple.

In his memory… Zhu Xiao always had breakfast with someone surnamed Zhao.

While Zhu Xiao was taking a nap, Wu Jiu had repeatedly checked the date and recent news on his phone and computer, and even contacted Butler Bai through the Yin-Yang Communicator. He finally concluded that he had indeed come to his body ten years in the future.

Although he couldn’t understand how his future self could end up marrying Zhu Xiao, after verifying from multiple sources, he knew Zhu Xiao hadn’t lied to him.

As Zhu Xiao spread jam on the toast, he had already noticed that Wu Jiu had been偷看着他 many times.

No wonder it was Wu Jiu from ten years ago; his偷窥技巧 was as unskilled as ever.

Zhu Xiao calmly finished spreading the jam, lifted his eyelids, and directly caught Wu Jiu, who was偷看着 him for what seemed like the umpteenth time: “If you want to say something, just say it.”

Wu Jiu held back for a while but still asked, “How did we end up together?”

An expected question, probably something he had been thinking about while he was asleep.

Zhu Xiao looked at him meaningfully and smiled gently.

Wu Jiu was momentarily dazzled by that smile. His heart rate quickened a bit, but he intuitively felt that Zhu Xiao was about to say something sarcastic.

It had to be said that Wu Jiu’s intuition about Zhu Xiao was always spot on. It was the same ten years later and ten years ago.

The corners of Zhu Xiao’s lips curled up with a teasing expression as he told Wu Jiu, “Of course, it’s because you pursued me relentlessly for many years. You said that if you didn’t end up with me, you would be a lonely ghost for the rest of your life, so I agreed.”

“Ha, no way!” Wu Jiu immediately retorted, “I didn’t like you that much. Don’t exaggerate.”

Zhu Xiao neither confirmed nor denied it. He took out his phone.

He placed the phone between them and showed Wu Jiu their chat history.

Showing him wasn’t enough; Zhu Xiao even read out loud what Wu Jiu had said: “Zhu Xiao, I miss you so much. I want to be with you every day…”

Wu Jiu was mortified and immediately interrupted him: “Stop! Stop! Don’t read anymore!”

He was truly amazed at his future self. How could he have said something so sappy?

“Delete this right now!!”

Zhu Xiao, of course, didn’t listen to him. Right in front of Wu Jiu, he opened their voice messages.

Wu Jiu’s voice came out of the phone.

While the chat history could be faked, this voice was unmistakably his own.

“Honey, darling, I really like you. You’re my best baby…”

Wu Jiu simply fled in embarrassment.

Bringing My Rival Back to Life (Accidentally) - Chapter 33

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