5: Chapter 5 You're using this to test your cadres?! The incompetent Huo Yuhao

"This is the place, three guests."

The intermediary leading the way stopped in front of a two-story small building with a professional smile on his face.

"Look, this villa is in the South District of our Heaven Dou City, and it is the quietest. It comes with a small courtyard, and the surrounding neighbors are well-off families, absolutely peaceful."

Huo Yuner looked at the clean and elegant small building in front of her, hesitated slightly, pulled the corner of Huo Yuhao's clothes, and whispered, "Yuhao, this... wouldn't it be too expensive?"

Huo Yuhao shook his head and said to the intermediary, "Let's go in and take a look."

"Alright!"

In three days, from the mountain paths to the capital of the Tianhun Empire, this journey became surprisingly smooth because Gu Yuena was there.

They didn't even feel much fatigue from the journey before they were already standing at the city gate of Heaven Dou City, one of the most prosperous cities on this continent.

Huo Yuhao used the money obtained from Dai Huabin's guards. After deducting the expenses for buying a carriage, the remaining gold coins were enough for them to settle down here.

He needed a stable and safe environment to plan his next step and also needed to let his mother recuperate well.

The villa was not large, but it was fully equipped with all necessary facilities.

The first floor was the living room and kitchen, plus a south-facing bedroom.

The second floor had two bedrooms of similar size and a small study.

Huo Yuhao was very satisfied.

He immediately made a decision and paid three months' rent and deposit.

After sending away the intermediary, Huo Yuhao began to arrange the rooms.

"Mom, you live in this bedroom on the first floor. The lighting is good, and it's convenient to go in and out." He pointed to the room on the first floor and said.

Huo Yuner nodded, with undisguised joy on her face.

From the gloomy side courtyard of the Dukes Mansion to this bright small building now, it felt like going from Hell to heaven for her.

"Then... where does Miss Xiaona live?" Huo Yuner looked at Gu Yuena, who had been silent and was just curiously looking around.

"There are two rooms on the second floor." Huo Yuhao said, "One room for each of us."

He felt this arrangement was reasonable and flawless.

However, as soon as his voice fell, a cold voice sounded.

"I disagree."

Gu Yuena withdrew her gaze from looking around, turned her head, and stared fixedly at Huo Yuhao with her purple eyes.

"I want to sleep with you."

"... Cough cough!" Huo Yuhao choked on his own saliva, looking at Gu Yuena in disbelief. "What did you say?"

Huo Yuner was also stunned, her mouth wide open, looking at Gu Yuena and then at her own son.

There was no shyness belonging to a human girl on Gu Yuena's face.

Without changing her expression, she repeated it as a matter of course: "I said, I want to sleep with you."

She walked up to Huo Yuhao, slightly leaned down, and added in a volume only the two of them could hear: "The aura on your body makes me feel comfortable, and I want to sleep next to you."

Huo Yuhao's face turned red. This had nothing to do with age; it must just be that he needed a good rest!

He took a deep breath, trying to reason with this Dragon King from the Divine Realm.

"No." He flatly refused, "Men and women should keep a distance, we are both so old now, we cannot sleep together."

"You are only six years old." Gu Yuena calmly pointed out a fact.

"I..." Huo Yuhao was momentarily at a loss for words. Could he possibly say that he wasn't actually this young?

He changed his perspective and continued to work hard: "Look, there are two rooms upstairs. Sleeping separately is more comfortable and we won't disturb each other."

Gu Yuena looked at him, a trace of impatience flashing through her purple eyes.

"I don't want to separate from you." She said.

"This is a matter of principle!" Huo Yuhao was still insisting.

Gu Yuena seemed to have lost patience.

She stood up straight, looked around the room, and then cast her gaze out the window.

A voice directly resounded in Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Sea.

[If you dare to refuse, I will freeze this city into an ice sculpture.]

Huo Yuhao: "..."

From this mental voice transmission, he couldn't feel any component of joking.

He completely believed that with her strength, doing this would be effortless.

He surrendered.

In the face of absolute strength, all principles can be flexibly adapted.

He squeezed out a smile uglier than crying to his mother who looked bewildered and a bit gossipy beside him: "Mom, Sister Xiaona... is just joking with me. She is scared of sleeping alone and wants me to accompany her. It's fine for us to live in the same room."

Huo Yuner looked at them half-doubtfully, and finally smiled and shook her head: "You young people..."

That night.

Huo Yuhao finished washing up, lay on the bed in the large bedroom on the second floor, his body stiff like a zombie.

The bathroom door opened, and Gu Yuena was wearing loose pajamas, faintly revealing that flash of spring scenery.

Her long silver hair was draped behind her, making her whole person look a little less majestic as a divinity and a bit more domestic and soft.

She walked straight to the bedside, lifted the quilt, and lay down beside Huo Yuhao.

Then, before Huo Yuhao could react, she hugged him from behind.

Huo Yuhao's entire body trembled violently.

"Wait... this... not ho... so soft..."

Gu Yuena's body carried a trace of coolness, but it was not icy.

She gently rested her chin on his shoulder, her warm breath carrying a faint mint-like fragrance, puffing against his neck time and time again.

Huo Yuhao felt that the goosebumps on his neck all stood up, and he didn't dare to move at all.

"Your body is so warm..."

Gu Yuena whispered in his ear, her voice carrying a trace of a satisfied sigh, "Like a little stove."

Huo Yuhao shouted frantically in his heart: I am not a little stove! I am not young! In my past life, I lived for hundreds of years! I am the God of Emotions!

But he didn't dare to say it.

He could only close his eyes, trying to calm his heartbeat that was about to jump out of his chest, feeling the faint coolness and pressure coming from that perfect body behind him.

Amidst humiliation and helplessness, he spent his very first sleepless night.

...

Half a month later.

Life, in a peculiar balance, stepped onto the right track.

In these half a month, Huo Yuhao gained a more comprehensive understanding of Gu Yuena's personality.

For example, her cold exterior and warm interior.

Any outsider, even the neighbor's aunt who came over to deliver local specialties next door, would feel that keep-others-at-a-thousand-li-away icy aura in front of her.

But towards Huo Yuhao, she showed a domineering reliance.

"Huo Yuhao, I'm thirsty."

"Huo Yuhao, I'm hungry."

"Huo Yuhao, come here."

These words became what she said the most every day.

Whenever she wanted something, she never beat around the bush and would only directly issue orders.

If Huo Yuhao ignored her, she would quietly look at you with those purple eyes until you gave in.

Although she never threatened him with "freezing the whole city" again, that invisible pressure was equally unbearable.

For another example, her extreme double standards.

Huo Yuner felt sorry for her son and made delicious food in different ways every day.

But no matter how delicious the food she made was, Gu Yuena couldn't even be bothered to take a look at it on the dining table.

She would only eat what Huo Yuhao picked into her bowl, or simply only eat things personally made by Huo Yuhao.

"Miss Xiaona, try this soup made by Auntie, it's good for a girl's health." Huo Yuner enthusiastically scooped her a bowl.

Gu Yuena glanced at it and didn't move.

Huo Yuhao silently moved that bowl of soup over, took a sip himself, and then pushed it in front of Gu Yuena: "Drink it, my mom has simmered it for a long time."

Only then did Gu Yuena pick up the spoon and drink it in small sips.

Leaving Huo Yuner petrified on the side, muttering in her heart: "This girl..."

What Huo Yuhao couldn't tolerate the most was a new habit she had developed.

Every night, when Huo Yuhao sat by the bed reading a book, Gu Yuena would lie on the bed and stretch a pair of feet into his arms.

"Massage my feet for me." She ordered concisely.

When Huo Yuhao heard this command for the first time, his whole person was dumbfounded.

He looked at those feet.

That was a pair of perfect feet that could not be described in words, with graceful lines and skin as delicate as mutton-fat white jade.

Every single toe was like a meticulously carved piece of art, plump and cute.

"Hurry up." Seeing him not move, Gu Yuena urged.

Huo Yuhao sighed, resignedly reached out, and grasped that warm and cool little foot.

Utilizing some massage techniques learned from his past life, he kneaded it with moderate force.

Feeling the softness and smoothness in his palms, Huo Yuhao's inner self was collapsing.

You test cadres with this?

I, a dignified God King of a generation, living a new life, actually reduced to the point of massaging people's feet?

Still massaging the feet of an unfathomable and moody Dragon King?

But strangely enough, every time he finished the massage, Gu Yuena's mood seemed to become very good.

She would curl up in the quilt like a satisfied kitten and fall asleep quickly.

During their time together, Huo Yuhao also discovered a "weakness" of Gu Yuena.

She seemed to have zero resistance to grilled fish.

That was an accidental afternoon when Huo Yuhao was processing a freshly bought fish in the courtyard.

He recalled the days of grilling fish with Wang Dong by the Sea God Lake in his past life. On a sudden whim, he set up a campfire in the courtyard and grilled a few fish using the most primitive method.

The fish skin was roasted to a golden and crispy state, the grease sizzled, and sprinkled with his special spices, a domineering fragrance instantly permeated the entire courtyard.

He was just about to take one to send to his mother when a silver figure appeared beside him.

Gu Yuena's nose twitched, her purple eyes staring fixedly at the grilled fish in his hand, a look that could eat Huo Yuhao alive.

"What is this?" She asked.

"Grilled fish." Huo Yuhao replied.

"Give it to me."

Huo Yuhao handed one to her.

Gu Yuena took the grilled fish, imitated his appearance, and took a cautious bite.

The next second, her eyes widened even more.

She stopped talking and just ate quickly, not caring at all that the corners of her mouth were stained with sauce.

That eating manner completely lost its usual high-and-cold demeanor.

Out of three grilled fish, Huo Yuhao only ate half of one, and the rest all went into Gu Yuena's belly.

After eating, she still licked her fingers with unfulfilled enjoyment, looked at Huo Yuhao, and solemnly announced: "From now on every night, I want to eat this."

Huo Yuhao: "..."

From then on, his life gained an unshakable task: making midnight snack grilled fish for Gu Yuena.

If he forgot one day or wanted to be lazy, she would throw a tantrum.

Either pulling a long face without speaking, or looking at him with resentful eyes all night, making him feel even worse than being beaten up.

"I, Huo Yuhao, now am the dedicated grilled fish chef for the Silver Dragon King..."

He lamented like this in his heart more than once.

Gu Yuena's abilities also gradually revealed themselves during this period of time.

She seemed to grasp the power of space, often suddenly disappearing during the day, and no one knew where she went.

But when it came to dinner time at night, she would appear punctually again.

Moreover, every time she came back, she would bring back some weird things.

Once, when she came back, she casually threw a crystal-clear, chill-radiating lotus flower to Huo Yuhao.

"What is this?" Huo Yuhao looked at the lotus flower, feeling the majestic energy within it, shocked in his heart.

"Saw it on the way, plucked it by the way." Gu Yuena said calmly, "Seeing that it grows not bad, take it to nourish your and that auntie's bodies."

Huo Yuhao later recognized that it was a Snow Jade Ice Lotus of at least the ten-thousand-year level, a supreme treasure for healing injuries and consolidating one's Foundation.

Another time, when she came back, she unexpectedly dragged a struggling Spirit Beast behind her.

That was a huge wild boar with a single horn.

"I'm hungry." She pointed at the thousand-year Spirit Beast imprisoned by her with an unknown power and said to Huo Yuhao, "Roast it, we'll eat it."

Huo Yuhao: "..."

So that night, the entire courtyard wafted with the aroma of roasted whole pig.

Nourished by these Heaven And Earth Treasure and the flesh and blood of high-year-attribute Spirit Beasts, Huo Yuner's body, which was originally deficient due to years of exhaustion, improved at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Her complexion became rosy, her hair gained luster, and her whole person looked a dozen years younger.

Huo Yuhao's own body also became sturdier, and his Foundation, which was slightly floating because his Innate Soul Power was only level 3, was tamped extremely solidly.

Looking at all these changes, Huo Yuner's attitude towards Gu Yuena also slowly changed from initial tension and awe to gratification.

Finally, it even developed into... snickering?!

She often held a cup of tea, quietly stood at the kitchen door, watching Gu Yuena clinging to Huo Yuhao who was cooking like a little tail.

"Yuhao, you put too much salt."

"Yuhao, this vegetable needs to be cut into shreds, not blocks."

"Yuhao, hand that to me."

Huo Yuhao was ordered around by her in circles, his face full of helplessness.

Huo Yuner watched happily from the door, muttering in her heart: "Is my Yuhao so popular? This Miss Xiaona looks like a fairy from heaven, it's just that her temperament is a bit domineering. However, she genuinely treats Yuhao well from the looks of it."

Finally one day, she couldn't help pulling Huo Yuhao over and asking him quietly.

"Yuhao ah, tell mom the truth, does Xiaona have feelings for you?"

Huo Yuhao's hand cutting vegetables paused, almost cutting himself.

"Mom, don't talk nonsense!"

His face instantly turned red, "We... we have nothing going on."

Huo Yuner looked at her son's appearance and revealed a meaningful "mother-in-law smile".

"Hee hee hee, look, look, my little Yuhao is even shy."

She poked Huo Yuhao's forehead with her finger, "Alright alright alright, mom won't say anymore, mom understands everything. You young people's matters, solve them yourselves, mom won't meddle~"

After saying that, she hummed an out-of-tune little ditty, turned around and left the kitchen, leaving Huo Yuhao alone, utterly bewildered in the wind.