When Li Wei came to the candles in the room were already lit. He was woken by his rumbling stomach his body had yet to completely go back to normal, and he still needed to eat.
When he opens his drowsy eyes the first thing he saw were curtains of white colored gauze hanging from the top of a bed. The first thing he felt was the mattress beneath him. It was soft and on top of him were light cotton blankets. When he made a move to sit, he realized that his back didn't hurt. Peeking down at himself he realized he was only wearing his under pants. He had new bandages surrounding his upper body. The next thing he noticed was that he wasn't alone in the room. Swinging his head to the side he came face to face with his master.
"Li Wei, I was just about to wake you. Since you woke up then come and eat with me. There's food on the table."
Li Wei blinked, while he had been here for five years and ate food with others it had only ever been at the banquets. In his last life he had no family to eat with at a table, suddenly he felt nervous.
"That....thank you master..."
"Just call me Qiang, can i call you Meigui?"
Li Wei froze for a few seconds before tentatively nodding his head. He wasn't sure why he was calling his master by name now but after the initial shock he liked it when his master-no Qiang, called him that.
He was too busy sitting down and focused on eating the food to think too much about it. As he ate he watched his master out of the conner of his eye. His master was watching him with a smile in his eyes and on his face.
All of a sudden Li Wei remembered that before Qiang had been holding him on his lap, and he was now sitting without a shirt or shoes in front of him eating ferociously and looking like a half starved hobo.
Of course he had washed off most of the blood but that didn't mean he was actually clean.
Suddenly his face felt like it was burning, and had a strong itch to pull the blanket from the bed and wrap it around himself. He had never been in such an unguarded state before in this life or his last.
Meanwhile Qiang had been watching Meigui stuff his face with food like a hamster while sneakily looking at him before his whole face went red. It wasnt a bright red but a blush that spread from his cheek to the tops of his ears and his shoulders.
Qiang realized that the other was embarrassed, something that oddly made Qiang want to tease him more. Stopping his train of thought before it could develop more Qiang smiled and asked,
"Meigui, how's the food? I made it myself."
Li Wei almost choked right then and there, the food really was good though, after starving for 6 whole days it was simply a god-send.
"Mas- Qiang it's good, thank you, but my clothes.. and my back?"
Suddenly his masters face became serious,
"You have a spiritual marking on your back that binds you in a contract, it can't be affected by other spiritual power as it's carved on your body and mixed with your spiritual power. It's made after your ego-so rose's.
Unlike when you guide others spiritual power through your body this spiritual power is attached to your skin and spiritual power so there will be sever backlash.
When i sent my spiritual power out you reacted and i immediately knocked you out. After bringing you hear i rebadged you and made food. We are currently in my quarters, around 9 at night, i plan to move you to the room next to mine for the time being."
Li Wei sat still for the next few moments until he spoke softly,
"Thank you."
Qiang a face softened.
Li Wei spoke and his eyes drifting a bit,
"Then mas- Qiang, can i take a.. bath?"
Suddenly his master smiled, his eyes curving up, playful would be how Li Wei described him. He suffered another shock. He didn't know his master-Qiang- could be that handsome. His master had smiled before but never with such a carefree expression.
"Oh course, are you ready now? All done? No more need for food?"
After Li Wei nodded his head Qiang beckoned him to follow and walked out of the inner room they were in and brought him to a wide open bath. Steam was slowly rising and the water was spilling from a dragon in the center of the pool, the pillars in the room were painted gold and there was a changing screen on one side with cleans cloths and inner robes.
It was much wider than the simple wooden bathing tub he had in his room. As he walked over to the bathing pool and dipped his hand in he heard a rustling of cloths and a sudden splash, looking up in surprise he saw his master-Qiang had taken off his outer robes and was left with only his inside robe, cling tightly to the strong 8 pack and chiseled arms.
Li Wei unconsciously gulped, a action noticed by his master who suddenly felt his deciple was very cute, with his wide silver eyes and fluttering thick black eyelashes.
So why had such a horrible thing happened to him? Why was he in such a bad state?
Starved, a rose carving, heavily wounded, no spiritual power either.
Why didn't he know? Why couldn't he protect him? Wasn't he Meigui's master? Don't people call him the strongest genius cultivator?
"Meigui, come here. I will wash your hair, and your back. Don't look at me like that, it's not like you can do it yourself."
Li Wei froze at the edge of the pool. It was true he couldn't reach his back, it was also true that he couldn't do anything with his arms.
The medicine that his master had giving him to numb the pain had faded and every time he moved his back started hurting again. Raising his arms would not end well for him, perhaps he would even worsen it more.
"Thats..thank..you, again."
He finally squeezed out this sentence and walked into the pool. Still bare without a top and only a pair of white pants on.
The water only reached up a little above his waist and unless he sat or moved in further than it wouldn't touch the wounds on his back.
After making his way over his master took out a comb and towel. Right now it was important not to get his wounds wet, so he could only clean Li Weis hair like this.
As Qiang combed through his hair getting rid of whatever dried blood or dirt was left he heard Li Wei speak,
"Um, well, what did you think of my back?..."
Catching Li Weis hidden question about weather or not he had seen Li Weis back and had any thoughts Qiang Lu momentarily froze.
"Meigui, would you please explain to me in detail?"
This time it was Li Wei who caught Qiangs Lu's hidden question.