That night, with Mu Dishi turned facing the wall, Ma Jingguo held Mu Dishi in his arms. Whether or not Mu Dishi faces him, Ma Jingguo doesn't care. To be honest, even if Mu Dishi doesn't allow him to hold Mu Dishi, as long as the person next to him is Mu Dishi, he will be very satisfied.
In a way, Ma Jingguo felt he is like Mu Dishi's obediently little dog. If Mu Dishi told him to go right, he will not dare to go left. If Mu Dishi feeds him a bowl of poison rice congee, even if he knows the rice congee is poisonous, as long as Mu Dishi feeds him, he will be willing to eat it. He is a loyal dog and belongs to Mu Dishi both body and soul.
Ma Jingguo stroked Mu Dishi's hair and said softly, "Xiao shushu." He kissed the back of Mu Dishi's head. "Thank you for letting me pretend to be Wang Biming."
Mu Dishi, "You are you. Biming is Biming. You cannot be him nor can he be you."
Ma Jingguo was confused and annoyed then he asked, "Xiao shushu, how come you can't forget that guy?"
Mu Dishi, "He died to protect me. He knew I was hiding behind the wall with the map. He knew how to open the trapdoor, but he chose to die with a smile on his face."
Ma Jingguo hugged Mu Dishi tightly, "Xiao shushu, I will love you a hundred times more than him." He paused and kissed Mu Dishi's head. "Xiao shushu, since you say I can't be him, he can't be me. Does that mean a while ago when we...you are not pretending that I am him, right?"
Mu Dishi, "Mm."
Ma Jingguo felt his heart beating fast. He asked softly, "Xiao shushu, how is your first time?"
Mu Dishi, "It hurts a lot."
Ma Jingguo smiled and sighed, "I don't want to marry anyone else other than you."
Mu Dishi said coldly, "Nonsense. Go to sleep."
Ma Jingguo, "Xiao shushu, do you want to know when I start having feelings for you?"
Mu Dishi, "When?"
Ma Jingguo teased, "Since when xiao shushu told me to kill myself because my blood will dirty your hands."
Mu Dishi elbowed Ma Jingguo's abdomen.
Ma Jingguo grunted in pain, "Ouch!" He chuckled. "When I opened my eyes and saw xiao shushu passing internal energy to save me, that was when I started having feeling for xiao shushu. I thought it was strange at first, but as time passed, the feeling became clear. Before I know it, I already really really like you. I don't think of you as a friend or as a brother." He moved closer to Mu Dishi, and he whispered softly in Mu Dishi ears, "I like you and feel for you like what a husband feels for his wife."
Mu Dishi didn't respond.
Ma Jingguo, "Xiao shushu, do you know why I always combed your hair for you."
Mu Dishi said indifferently, "Who knows what you are thinking."
Ma Jingguo smiled and kissed the back of Mu Dishi's head, "My mother always tells me that when my father combed her hair, she is at her happiest."
Mu Dishi, "Stop talking."
Ma Jingguo flirted, "Xiao shushu, do you like it?"
Mu Dishi, "Like what?"
Ma Jingguo said softly, "Like what we did? Like us like this?"
Mu Dishi didn't answer.
Ma Jingguo knew that Mu Dishi's face was thin and could easily become embarrassed, so even if Mu Dishi didn't answer him, he knew that Mu Dishi felt the same for him like what he felt for Mu Dishi.
Ma Jingguo flirted, "Xiao shushu doesn't need to answer me. I believe I already know the answer." He kissed Mu Dishi on Mu Dishi's right temple and he whispered flirtatious in Mu Dishi's right ear. "Xiao shushu, I like it very much regard of what we did."
Mu Dishi said madly, "Pervert."
Ma Jingguo scoffed happily, "Goodnight."
Early the next morning, birds chirping across the bamboo forest, Mu Dishi opened his eyes, and he was in bed all by himself. He tried sitting up, but he felt pain on his bottom. He took his time to get up and dress himself. He wonders if last night was just a dream and if it's a dream, why did his bottom hurt? He was still thinking about last night event then the door swung open, Ma Jingguo walked in with two trays of food with a bright smile and innocent big eyes.
Ma Jingguo smiled, "Good morning xiao shushu." He grabbed Mu Dishi's right arm and seated Mu Dishi at the bamboo stool. "Let's eat."
Ma Jingguo sat face to face in front of Mu Dishi. Then he realized that it didn't matter whether it was in the cave or here in this bamboo hut. As long as the person eating with him is Mu Dishi, he can eat anywhere.
Ma Jingguo picked up some vegetable and put it inside Mu Dishi's bowl. He smiled and said, "Xiao shushu, do you want to know why I volunteer to cook?"
Mu Dishi chews his food handsomely and said, "Why?"
Ma Jingguo, "Because the first meal xiao shushu made for me, tasted terrible. The vegetable with pork dish was very salty. The fish dish was badly burnt. I only tasted the burnt ashes."
Mu Dishi, "Then why eat it?"
Ma Jingguo chuckled, "Because xiao shushu made it. In honest truth..." He looked at Mu Dishi. "If xiao shushu feed me poison, I will still be willing to eat it without questioning xiao shushu."
Mu Dishi, "You will regret it."
Ma Jingguo smiled, "If I am with xiao shushu, I will never regret anything."
Mu Dishi looked at Ma Jingguo then asked, "When are you going to return for your wedding?"
Ma Jingguo then looked deeply inside Mu Dishi's eyes and asked, "Do you want me to marry someone else?"
Mu Dishi looked down and continued eating without answering Ma Jingguo.
After the two finished their meal, Yong Hao and Kuo Changchang showed up at the bamboo hut.
Yong Hao, "Mu gongzi, sorry to disturb you, but is Ah Chen inside?"
Mu Dishi looked at Ma Jingguo coldly, "I believe your wife is here for you. You can leave now."
Ma Jingguo smiled at Mu Dishi, "Xiao shushu, wait for me to clear up my problem."
Ma Jingguo opened the door and step outside.
Mu Dishi don't want to know about the conversation between Ma Jingguo and Kuo Changchang. He moved the bookcase aside then opened the back door of the bamboo hut and disappeared toward the stream.
Ma Jingguo, "Shijie, I wrote you a letter."
Kuo Changchang, "Senior Yong, I would like to talk with him alone."
Yong Hao, "I'll wait for you at Mu Village." Yong Hao then walked away.
Kuo Changchang stared at Ma Jingguo for a while until she finally said, "You did. The letter stated a few words 'I am leaving to save xiao shushu. Sorry'. Had you saved him?"
Ma Jingguo, "Yes."
Kuo Changchang, "Do you know that my father has to cancel the wedding because you are not there?"
Ma Jingguo, "I doubt it. Sorry."
Kuo Changchang, "If you saved your xiao shushu then let's go back."
Ma Jingguo, "I am going back home, but not with you."
Kuo Changchang, "What?"
Ma Jingguo, "I am going home with xiao shushu."
Kuo Changchang, "Then why do you agree to this marriage in the first place?"
Ma Jingguo, "Xiao shushu, once had told me that you and I are a perfect match. Later, I realized that I respect you only as my Shijie. I can't marry you when I am not in love with you."
Kuo Changchang, "Ah Chen, do you know that I liked you since the first day we met."
Ma Jingguo said sadly, "Shijie, before we met, I've already liked someone else deeply to the point of no return. I've given that person my entire heart and there is no more room left for anyone else. I'm sorry."
Kuo Changchang was very angry and sad at the same time. Her voices were shaken, "Who?"
Ma Jingguo smiled and replied, "Xiao shushu."
Kuo Changchang's eyes widen, "Mu Dishi?"
Ma Jingguo nodded, "Yes."
Kuo Changchang, "Mu Dishi is a man, you are a man. Are you crazy? This is the stupidest rejection excuse ever."
Ma Jingguo, "You can call me crazy if that makes you feel better."
Kuo Changchang, "You call him your shushu, but you liked him?"
Ma Jingguo, "I call him xiao shushu because he will not allow me to call him by name."
Kuo Changchang, "Ah Chen, people will talk."
Ma Jingguo smiled, "I don't care. Xiao shushu and I are not in the Martial Arts World to gain fame like everyone else. We will go back home and live peaceful."
Kuo Changchang, "Ah Chen...Do you know you've shattered my heart?"
Ma Jingguo, "I'm so sorry Shijie."
Kuo Changchang, "Since we've known each other, you had always call me Shijie, and never by my first name."
Ma Jingguo, "Because for me, you are my Shijie, nothing more."
Kuo Changchang shouted madly, "Ma Jingguo!" She unsheathed her sword and went straight to Ma Jingguo.
Ma Jingguo decided not to resist the attack as a repayment for lying to Kuo Changchang. Kuo Changchang's sword pierced right through Ma Jingguo's right shoulder.
Kuo Changchang was in shock, "Why don't you doge? You could've easily doge it?"
Ma Jingguo, "Take it as a repayment."
Kuo Changchang pulled her sword away. Ma Jingguo groaned in pain, blood gushing out from the front, and the back of Ma Jingguo's right shoulder.
Kuo Changchang, "Ma Jingguo, have you ever loved me?"
Ma Jingguo grunted in pain, "No, Shijie."
Kuo Changchang, "Very good." She sheathed her sword. "I never want to see you again."
Ma Jingguo, "Shijie, I'm sorry."
Kuo Changchang turned around and ran toward Mu Village.
In pain, Ma Jingguo opened the bamboo door, and he went inside, but when he looked inside the small bamboo hut, he could not find Mu Dishi. Ma Jingguo worried. He questions himself, had Mu Dishi left him again because Kuo Changchang shows up? His worry and panic made him forget the pain in his abdomen and right shoulder. He stepped out and quickly searched around the bamboo hut, but Mu Dishi was not there.
Ma Jingguo shouted out in pain, "Xiao shushu!"
Ma Jingguo knew Mu Dishi did not go to Mu Village, so where did he go. Ma Jingguo felt dizzy maybe because of the blood lose, but he still walked toward the back of the bamboo forest looking for Mu Dishi. When he walked further out, he heard running water. He walked toward the stream he saw Mu Dishi sat handsomely on a rock.
Ma Jingguo called out in excitement, "Xiao shushu."
Mu Dishi stood up and turned around. He saw blood gushing out from Ma Jingguo's right shoulder.
Mu Dishi asked, "What happens?"
Ma Jingguo walked quickly to Mu Dishi and hugged Mu Dishi inside his embrace tightly, "Xiao shushu, I'm so afraid that you've left me again. I was worries and panicking when I didn't see you inside the bamboo hut."
Mu Dishi, "What happens?"
Ma Jingguo, "Xiao shushu, promise me you will never leave me behind. I won't be able to take it if you leave me."
Mu Dishi, "Answer my question. What happens?" Mu Dishi pulled away from Ma Jingguo's embrace.
Ma Jingguo smiled, "Shijie came for a debt I owe her."
Mu Dishi, "Let's go back. I'll take a look at it." Mu Dishi walked ahead of Ma Jingguo.
Ma Jingguo quickly chased after Mu Dishi and held his left hand.
Mu Dishi tried pulling his hand away, "What are you doing?"
Ma Jingguo flirted, "I just want to hold xiao shushu's hand to ease my pain."
Mu Dishi stopped walking then he looked up at Ma Jingguo and asked coldly, "When do you become this perverted?"
Ma Jingguo chuckled in pains, "Since I am in love with you." He lowered down his head and kissed Mu Dishi's lips.
In anger, Mu Dishi used his right hand and pressed hard onto Ma Jingguo's right shoulder wound. Ma Jingguo quickly pulled away.
Ma Jingguo groaned in pain, "It hurt."
Mu Dishi said coldly, "Very good, the more it hurt the more clearly your mind become."
Ma Jingguo smiled with his big puppy eyes, "Xiao shushu, my mind is very clear about you. Is your mind as clear as mine?"
In anger, Mu Dishi walked faster toward the bamboo hut. Ma Jingguo chuckled and quickly followed Mu Dishi.