Let Me Explain, Fairy
Chapter 749 - 468 Sibling Chat

Chapter 749: Chapter 468 Sibling Chat

Compared to when he left, Xu Yuan found his room much messier, with various unidentified "junk" scattered about.

Desks, window sills, and the floor were nearly filled with these "junk" items, leaving almost no room to set foot.

Of course,

the most glaring of all was the girl in the sleeping robe lying on his bed.

The clear and warm sunlight penetrated through the window lattice, casting shadows on her fair and immaculate sleeping visage.

Watching his younger sister, who was sound asleep on his bed, Xu Yuan briefly paused in a daze before he gave a cursory glance at the "junk" cluttering the room. After a flicker of understanding in his eyes, he sighed softly, muted his breath and footsteps, and stealthily entered the room to tidy up the messy chamber...

Sunset leaned west.

As the first wisp of golden sunset light fell into the room, the girl’s long, dense eyelashes began to tremble, but the headache from sleep deprivation was so severe after a long deep sleep that Xu Xinyao subconsciously didn’t want to open her eyes.

After struggling for a while, she finally managed to get up, flipped over with the soft and delicate quilt in her arms on the bed, and fell back into a deep sleep.

Time tick-tocked, quietly passing by; with the last glimpse of sunlight sinking into the west, the entire room succumbed to darkness.

Smelling the familiar scent, the soft and warm touch of the quilt made Xu Xinyao want to keep sleeping like this.

Yet, amidst this warm tranquility, Xu Xinyao suddenly opened her eyes.

She stared at the outline of the bed canopy hidden in the darkness for a moment, then quickly sat up.

She... she’d just wanted to take a short nap, so how did she end up falling asleep until now?

Her befuddled mind blanked for an instant, and Xu Xinyao subconsciously grabbed the quilt covering her to get up, but her motion froze in the very next moment.

She remembered that before falling asleep, she hadn’t been covered by a quilt.

After a moment of silence, the girl looked stiffly around the dim room.

As her gaze shifted, Xu Xinyao spotted the silhouette of a man sitting quietly at the desk in the middle of the chamber.

"Awake?"

The man in the darkness seemed to have noticed her arousal and said with a light chuckle, admonishing, "How come you still sleep without covering yourself with a quilt, just like when you were little? It’s so cold, aren’t you afraid of catching a chill?"

Hearing this teasingly familiar voice, Xu Xinyao instinctively tightened her hold on the quilt, feeling her cheeks growing warm, but at the same time, she felt a sense of relief.

It’s so dark in the room, her third brother shouldn’t notice anything unusual...

"You’re still capable of blushing, I see. Even your sisters-in-law haven’t slept in my bed," he teased.

Before she could collect her thoughts, the teasing voice once again reached Xu Xinyao’s ears.

She felt somewhat annoyed.

She really was a bit dazed with sleep, nearly forgetting that her third brother had already become an Integration Body cultivator.

Marshalling her thoughts, Xu Xinyao’s long and slender legs emerged from the warm covers, and she sat on the edge of the bed, saying with a soft laugh:

"Third brother, don’t you remember? When Xinyao was little, I often spent the night in your room."

At her words, Xu Yuan was momentarily startled, then a softness flickered across his eyes:

"Ah... Alright then, if you want to sleep, sleep, but now that you’re awake, you should get up," he said.

As he spoke,

Xu Yuan slowly stood up from the desk, casually tossing Xu Xinyao a white fleece shawl:

"It’s easy to catch a cold sleeping in your clothes during the winter. The heating formation in my room has been dismantled by you. Put this on for now."

Xu Xinyao caught it reflexively, feeling the delicate texture of the shawl and her eyes dropped slightly with her lips curving into a smile:

"You really are thoughtful, third brother. No wonder you are so liked by the ladies but... why do you have women’s clothing?"

As they spoke, the girl’s bright eyes lifted, twinkle gleaming in the darkness.

Xu Yuan spread his hands and said with a light chuckle,

"It’s always best to be prepared for anything. If we buy them in advance, there will always be a time when they’ll be useful.

"But if you don’t like this one, I have several other styles. Why don’t you pick one you like?"

"...."

Seeing the unabashedly frivolous demeanor of the other, Xu Xinyao shot him a glance, found her white damask silk stockings that she had unconsciously taken off in her sleep on the bed, and as she slowly put them on in front of Xu Yuan with her crystal-clear bare feet, she heard his voice come again:

"You randomly throw stockings around without shame. I really wonder what those admiring Sect disciples would think if they knew."

"....." Xu Xinyao.

Looking up, she saw the man leaning against the desk with his arms crossed, watching her with great interest, amusement brimming in those narrow phoenix eyes:

"It stinks indeed. Looks like I’ll need to change the bedding tonight~"

Her hand hesitated while putting on the stockings. Xu Xinyao pursed her red lips, looked up sweetly, and said,

"Brother, I’ll go tell eldest brother in a moment that you bullied me in the room."

"....." Xu Yuan.

"I’m just kidding, third brother. Are you really that afraid of eldest brother?"

"Afraid of him?" Xu Yuan’s eyelid twitched, and he took a deep breath, "If I was afraid of him..."

"What about our uncle then?"

"......" Xu Yuan.

"Giggle~"

Xu Xinyao smiled sweetly, finished putting on her boots and stockings, and stood up to drape on a white velvet shawl, her slender index finger and thumb lightly brushing past each other.

"Snap."

With a snap of her fingers, the Inscription Lamp in the room lit up.

And when Xu Xinyao saw the empty room, she immediately looked at Xu Yuan.

She suspected that this third brother of hers was up to his old tricks again, trying to swindle her Formation Patterns materials to sell for money.

Xu Xinyao asked with a hint of vigilance in her voice,

"Brother, where are all the Formation Patterns materials in the room?"

"Tsk...."

Upon seeing her gaze, Xu Yuan clicked his tongue lightly and tossed the Sumeru Ring on his index finger to her:

"I’ve sorted them all for you. Usually, you’re so neat, but when it comes to forming Formations, you become messy. Aren’t you afraid of getting the materials mixed up when you’re engraving the Formation Patterns?"

As the Sumeru Ring flew towards her, Xu Xinyao’s eyes flickered twice, and she caught it somewhat clumsily.

She looked at the Sumeru Ring in her hand, then back at her third brother across from her, hesitating.

A Sumeru Ring is not something even family members can casually look through.

"Relax, my Sumeru Ring is cleaner than your face,"

Xu Yuan waved his hand and said with a soft laugh, "That old woman, Lou Ji, cleaned out all my money. Besides your Formation Patterns materials, there’s nothing more than some petty cash and daily necessities in it. After you retrieve them, just let your brother know about the Formation you’re engraving..."

At this point, Xu Yuan suddenly stopped speaking, glanced at Xu Xinyao’s lightly pale face due to fatigue, and knocked his head. As he walked toward the door, he said softly,

"No rush on the Formation. I just had Xu Changge prepare your favorite dishes. I’ll go to the dining hall and bring them for you. Wait here for me."