Chapter 235

235 LAP OR ROBE?

It was quite strange when the masked man could even flirt in front of Bai Chen. At a glance, it seemed that the one who had just spoken was Wu Jinhai and not Zhu Ge, but the two of them were actually the same person.

It looked strange because Wu Jinhai didn’t look like someone who would use his mouth to flirt with someone, but Bai Chen knew that the man standing in front of him wasn’t completely Wu Jinhai, but the man had the character of Zhu Ge as well.

Therefore, Bai Chen tried to calm himself when he heard those words coming from the masked man. The man was half Zhu Ge, and that was why he didn’t need to be surprised by his words.

Bai Chen didn’t want to be surprised, but he still felt embarrassed when he heard the man’s words. It sounded like a confession to Bai Chen’s ears, and that was why he even took his eyes off the taller man.

He also couldn’t help but be silent as the man used the comb to brush his brown hair, and he felt a little sleepy when he felt how the man was so gentle while touching his head.

“I know your identity, and that’s why you no longer need to wear the golden mask to cover your face,” Bai Chen finally broke the silence between them.

There was indeed an uncomfortable pause between them as Wu Jinhai softly said that the comb was like his heart. It seemed that the masked man was unwilling to take back the comb even though it was in his hand now, and that was why the man used the comb to brush Bai Chen’s hair.

When Bai Chen finished his statement, Wu Jinhai also stopped combing Bai Chen’s hair, but he didn’t hand the comb to the shorter man and just continued to hold it.

“You still don’t know everything about me, and that’s why I can’t take off my mask right now,” Wu Jinhai replied, and Bai Chen frowned in confusion after hearing that.

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“It’s true that I still don’t know everything about you, but I already know your face, and that’s why you don’t need to hide it from me anymore,” Bai Chen confidently argued with the man.

He did feel curious about what was hiding behind the golden mask when he was with Wu Jinhai in the Forbidden Forest. The masked man insisted that he didn’t want to take off the golden mask no matter what happened then, and the man just said that he was too ugly and that he wanted to cover his face all the time.

Even when the two of them were so intimate with each other, Wu Jinhai even covered Bai Chen’s eyes with a piece of clothing, and that was why Bai Chen was certain that something was indeed hiding behind that mask.

However, after learning the truth that Wu Jinhai was actually Zhu Ge’s true identity, Bai Chen didn’t feel curious anymore, and he believed that the only thing hiding behind the golden mask was Zhu Ge’s face.

“Let me tell you the full story first before I can take off my mask,” Wu Jinhai said, and without waiting for the Werewolf Prince’s response, he suddenly turned his body before bringing his body to sit on the gravel-covered ground.

It seemed that the man was comfortable sitting cross-legged on a pile of pebbles, and Bai Chen strangely looked at the man in red.

“Just sit here, and I’ll tell you everything,” getting no response from Bai Chen, Wu Jinhai turned to the Werewolf Prince again while patting the empty spot next to him, gesturing for the man in white to sit next to him.

Bai Chen heard Wu Jinhai’s order, and he also brought his feet to approach the man in red, but instead of sitting next to the man, he just stared at him blankly. “I don’t want to sit on the ground,” he replied.

Suddenly, Wu Jinhai chuckled after hearing Bai Chen’s answer. “You’re still the same, ah? When we were in the Wenxue Pavilion, you didn’t want to sit on the dirty floor either, and I needed to lend you my lap to sit on then. And when we were in the Forbidden Forest, you didn’t want to sit on the ground either, and I needed to lend you my robe so you could sit down. Now you decide. Do you need to borrow my lap or my robe?”

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“...” Bai Chen fell silent.

Of course, he still remembered the two moments that Wu Jinhai had mentioned. The first moment was when Wu Jinhai pretended to be Zhu Ge, and the second moment was when Wu Jinhai used his real identity. The two moments were different, but Bai Chen felt embarrassed in both.

He didn’t want to humiliate himself in front of the red-robed man once again, and that was why he only stomped his feet before bringing his body to sit next to Wu Jinhai. The two of them did sit side by side, but there was a safe distance between them, and that was why Bai Chen was able to let his guard down a bit.

Wu Jinhai glanced at the man in white, and behind the golden mask, he smiled as he watched how the man acted adorable even if the man probably didn’t even realize it.

However, Wu Jinhai did not look at Bai Chen for a long time as the man suddenly shifted his gaze and was now looking at the clear river in front of them.

“You want to know why I’m not the Crown Prince of Wu Li even though I’m the Emperor’s eldest son, right?” Without looking at Bai Chen, Wu Jinhai asked. He didn’t look at the man sitting next to him, nor did he wait for the man’s response as he continued, “Back then, I said that I was too ugly to be the Crown Prince, and that wasn’t entirely a lie. Actually, my face is kind of ugly because someone poisoned me when I was little.”