Fall In Love If You Want To Ascend - Chap 18
Chapter 18 A Match Made in Heaven
After being tormented for half a day, how could Shen QingXian waste all his previous efforts at this point?
But seeing that arrogant appearance of his (GJS’s), he (SQX) was also discontented.
Gu JianShen still continued to pretend, “Young master, if I’m not there, can you take care of yourself?”
Shen QingXian gave a sarcastic smile.
It seemed as if Gu JianShen had locked* onto him (SQX). He (GJS) pretended to be pitiful yet the depths of his eyes were full of banter, just waiting for Shen QingXian to “throw himself into his (GJS’s) arms”.
*吃定了他 – literal meaning is ‘determined to eat him’. ‘Locked onto him’ as in GJS had made SQX into the target that he (GJS) will pursue and won’t stop pursuing until GJS gets SQX or, SQX is the person that GJS that GJS chose as his (GJS) partner and that it can’t be anyone else except SQX.
Soon it was Gu JianShen’s turn to draw lots. The person in charge was a female cultivator who was probably an outer sect disciple. She originally had on a high and mighty appearance, and turned up her nose on these newly entered [disciples].
But, when Gu JianShen stood in front of her, this female cultivator, all at once, became astonished.
Gu JianShen smiled at her, “Hello, senior disciple sister.”
Just these four words stole the female cultivator’s soul away!
Shen QingXian’s face turned even colder.
Finished drawing a lot, Gu JianShen looked at the number then turned around to say to Shen QingXian, “69.”
Shen QingXian gifted him (GJS) a big eye roll.
Gu JianShen’s smile deepened, and mouthed to him: I’ll wait for you.
Just you wait!
Next was Shen QingXian. He walked in front of the lot canister. That female cultivator’s face was still blushed and her heart was beating fast* as she had on an appearance of [a girl] yearning for love.
*小鹿乱撞 – deer caught in headlights, but decided go with meaning due to phrasing
Still want to cultivate the Great Dao with this kind of willpower? Dream on.
The female cultivator saw that before Gu JianShen left, he (GJS) called out to Shen QingXian and knew that they had come together. She was very polite to Shen QingXian, “Xiao di di, fighting*, draw a good place to stay.”
*小弟弟 – xiao di di, means little younger brother (not blood related, it’s a honorific of sort). 加油 – y’all familiar w/ this. The female is cheering for SQX not telling him to actually fight.
This ‘xiao di di’ of hers made Shen QingXian’s brows rise.
The female cultivator was still trying hard to brush* up favorable impressions, aiming to give Gu JianShen a big gift.
*think otome games, to increase the affection level of the person your trying to conquer, you need to increase your presence and improve your image in front of the person, the act of doing so is “brushing your face”.
All the people who had journeyed together usually wanted to live together. Number 60 also was a quite good small courtyard. If she could send these two to the same courtyard together, surely Gu JianShen would be grateful to her!
Thinking up to this point, the female cultivator’s heart wildly beated and became increasingly earnest, “Be at ease as you draw!”
To the newly entered disciples, it was very hard to cheat this kind of drawing lot. However, in anycase, this female cultivator was at the foundation stage so it wasn’t hard if she wanted to do a little trick.
Shen QingXian had just inserted his hand when he felt a stick pasting itself to his hand.
The female cultivator even winked at him.
The accumulated bad mood in Shen QingXian completely climbed to the peak!
Gu JiuYuan*, this bastard that attracts bees and butterflies**!
*GJS’s other name
**Attract the opposite sex. Not sure but I guess this also works with saying attracting the same sex, idk.
69?
He just won’t draw this number.
The Jade Scroll that still had a breath left looked on helplessly as his own master chose “96”!
When he took out his stick, the female cultivator stared blankly…….
What’s going on? She had even put the stick into his hand so why didn’t he draw [that #69 stick]?
Unfortunately, what was written on the stick was the customary Chinese characters. If it was Arabic numerals then the female cultivator could consider forcefully flipping it around and read 96 as 69.
Shen QingXian raised the stick in his hand, “96.”
The female cultivator stealthily peeped at Gu JianShen, and recorded this down with a face full of regret: Favorable impression was not brushed…….want to cry.
After taking the door tablet, Shen QingXian turned around to leave.
Gu JianShen was waiting in a place not far away. After seeing him (SQX) come closer, he (GJS) said, “ShiShu, where is the need to do so?”
Shen QingXian didn’t say a word.
After drawing lots the manager led them to their respective small courtyards.
At a glance, one could tell that 69 and 96 were far away from one another, so the directions the two went were naturally different.
The entire time, Shen QingXian didn’t even glance at Gu JianShen.
Gu JianShen shook his head and did not say anything.
The Jade Scroll was very anxious! Omg, DaLao are you not doing the tasks anymore? Not fixing the Heavenly Staircase anymore? Not moving bricks anymore? Why are you so willful! My heart is so tired, I just want to lie stiff like a corpse!
Shen QingXian would give up?
Naive.
The location of small courtyard #96 was quite remote and was even extremely simple and crude.
The location was distant, the Spiritual Qi thin, and even more vexing was that the house and courtyard were both small. It was even a cogon grass house on the verge of collapsing.
To summarize…….His Excellency the Esteemed Lord’s luck was freaking bad. He basically drew the lowest quality two-person small house!
Shen QingXian lifted a leg to enter the house. His brows furrowed tightly just as he entered the house.
It was even more squalid than what he had imagined.
The house only had one room. The bedroom, living room, kitchen, dining room, and bathing room* were of one.
*浴室 means bathroom but for bathing only so it’s not also the place to clear out your digestive system hence bathing room. Also, in ancient China and those cultivation novels, idk if there a room that was exclusively used for bathing but, bathing consisted of a bucket with water (if you rich it’s a big bucket w/ hot water, and some essential oils or flower petals), I mean, if you’re rich then you might have a room exclusively for bathing. Here there is no room, the bucket is probably somewhere in the living room or dining room
The crucial point was that this house was supposed to be for two.
Of course, Shen QingXian could use a technique to greatly change the appearance of the house but the problem was, he had a roommate.
As he was thinking this, a person arrived outside.
A little chubby person unhurriedly swayed in, “My god, this luck of mine is so bad!
Shen QingXian turned around.
The little chubby person immediately became dumbfounded. “S…….So…….”
Shen QingXian’s brows rose.
The little chubby person forcibly swallowed back the word “pretty”.
Shen QingXian greeted him, “Hello, I’m Chao Yan.”
The little chubby person’s eyes couldn’t move away. He continued to look at Shen QingXian and swallowed a mouthful of saliva, “I’m Zhu ZiLin. I am 12 this year and I’m a homosexual…….”
朱子林 – Zhu ZiLin. 朱 – scarlet, vermillion, cinnabar, a surname. 子 – son, seed. 林 – woods, forest. 林 is also a Chinese surname but here it’s 朱 which is the surname.
Shen QingXian: “……”
Becoming aware that he had a slip of the tongue, the small chubby guy hurriedly corrected himself, “I meant…….hard…….harder than ascending to the heavens*…….”
*Word play here. The last word of homosexual and the first word of harder than ascending the heavens have the same pronunciation. Homosexual – 性取向男. 男 – means male, Nán. Harder than ascending the heavens – 难于上青天. 难 – means difficult/hard, Nán. These two phrases have nothing related to one another, it is kinda funny when you piece it together, see for yourself: my sexual orientation (性取向) is harder than ascending to the heavens.
The Esteemed Lord’s current gaze was probably…….showing concern for the intellectually disabled.
Zhu ZiLin’s chubby face turned crimson, not daring to look at him (SQX).
Shen QingXian, very much so, missed the little peach blossom Su Yu.
Yet the current Zhu ZiLin had already stopped disdaining this little cogon house. He felt that he had already arrived at his life’s summit and that if he were to waver, he would fall off the cliff and die!
Cherish…….cherish the present…….being able to reside together with this kind of beauty, what more could a man ask for!
Saliva almost dropped from the little chubby guy’s mouth from his imagination.
Shen QingXian was very melancholic, both were little children so why is it that the difference between this chubby kid and the peach blossom was this big?
Zhu ZiLin attempted to please Shen QingXian, “Chao Yan, you choose the bed first. Anyway…….I’m going to be sleeping by your side anyway.” Finished saying this, he became conscious of the fact that he had said what was in his heart.
The corner of Shen QingXian’s mouth twitched.
Zhu ZiLin said again, “Are you hungry? I have some delicious things here. I’m giving it all to you. Who told you…….who told you to be this beautiful.”
Shen QingXian: “……”
The little chubby guy, who once again accidentally said out loud his thoughts, smashed a cracked pot*: “Don’t be angry, I don’t tell lies. I say whatever comes to my head…especially…especially when I encounter someone I like, yeah, I like you.” Saying so, the small chubby guy twisted around left and right with a face full of shyness.
*破罐子破摔了 – smash a cracked pot. It means that you made a mistake, have a flaw, or have a setback and you just let them be and don’t try to change for the better. Another meaning is “crazy despair in the face of a blemish, defect, error or setback” which fits the context here more.
Shen QingXian: “……”
What can he do? He’s already this old so could he be bothered about with a 12 year old chubby child?
Stomach hurts.
Fortunately, a certain person’s actions were fast and he came right on time when Shen QingXian was at the end of his (SQX) patience.
Shen QingXian released a sigh, a really big sigh.
Zhu ZiLin was in the middle of excitedly making the bed and as he did, he said, “The bed really is small. If….if us two join our beds together then, it’ll be a bit more spacious.”
After saying so, he hurriedly said again, “It’s not that I want to sleep with you. I just….I just….want to bed you*.”
*和你睡一起 – sleep with you. 睡你 – bed you. Just a random note.
BANG. The wooden fell down in reply.
The small chubby guy jumped from the scare. He hurriedly turned around, “Who is it!”
Gu JianShen stood by the door with a backlight. The small chubby couldn’t see his appearance clearly and only felt that the surrounding atmosphere was eerily cold. It was as if there were countless knives pressed against the skin and that if one moved even a bit, one would be drenched in blood.
Zhu ZiLin didn’t dare move an inch.
Despite being wrapped by this powerful killing intent, Shen QingXian was perfectly composed as if he was in the middle of a refined and quiet garden.
Gu JianShen looked at him. After quite a while, his thin lips slightly rose: “How can the young master sit in this filthy and vile kind of place.”
After the last syllable fell, he walked over and with one hand, hugged Shen QingXian up.
Shen QingXian also did not refuse and automatically embraced his (GJS’s) neck.
This action of his (SQX’s) immensely pleased Gu JianShen. He (GJS) withdrew the surrounding imposing manner, restoring the air in the cogon house back to normal.
The small chubby guy could move now. He took big gasps of air, cold sweat had erupted on his forehead, “Scared me to death, oh geez, that scared me to death*…….”
*吓死宝宝了，吓死了吓死了. I changed it up a bit, as you can tell. 吓死宝宝了 – 宝宝 (baby, darling) is Zhu ZiLin referring to himself so if we replace 宝宝 with 我 it becomes 吓死我了 which is ‘scared me to death’. 吓死了 is just the same but repeating it three times is repetitive, so I changed it up.
After saying so, he could finally clearly see Gu JianShen(’s face/appearance) and afterwards…….he just stared blankly!
He was even more blank, silly, and foolish* than earlier.
*还呆还傻还二. 呆 – stare blankly. 傻 – silly, foolish. 二 – means 傻 and a person who does weird things. 还 – even more, also, still.
Shen QingXian turned his eyes away. The small chubby guy had already courted death with his utmost, “ Really….really good looking!”
Gu JianShen narrowed his eyes dangerously.
The small chubby guy who was on the edge of death was totally unaware. He shook his head and said with a face full of admiration and appreciation, “A match made in heaven. You two….you two really are a match made in heaven golden couple*!”
*璧人 – 璧 means jade and 人 means people. I used golden instead of jade because golden couple is a phrase in English and 璧人 = golden couple.
Gu JianShen: “……”
Shen QingXian: “……”
Zhu ZiLin lowered his head to look at himself and then raised his head to look at them. With an aggrieved and helpless face, he said, “I withdraw. I’m unworthy of the two of you. The two of you belong to one another. I….I….I won’t bless you two, wuwuwu*!”
*Bless you two – as in wish you guys will be a couple and be harmonious etc. Wuwuwu – crying sfx.
Finished saying so, the “broken-hearted” small chubby guy covered his eyes and ran out….
So full of drama. Young man, the hell are you cultivating for. Go and write literary works, you’ll have better prospects!
The small chubby guy had run out. Gu JianShen and Shen QingXian who were still in the house stared at one another.
Gu JianShen was silent for a bit. “As expected, Heavenly Dao cultivators are out of the ordinary.” Such a moronic person had really never been seen before in Heart Domain.
Shen QingXian: “……” He was unexpectedly unable to retort, his heart felt blocked up.
The small chubby guy who had just ran out ran back in again. He said to Gu JianShen, “Why don’t we switch rooms. I won’t break up the two of you.”
Gu JianShen had come over because he wanted to switch rooms with him. To do this, he (GJS) had even prepared a pile of good things and moreover, cleaned up small house #69 immaculately with the fear that Shen QingXian’s roommate would not switch with him (GJS).
As a result, he had just entered when he heard this person say that he (ZZL, chubby guy) wanted to sleep together with Shen QingXian.
Under anger, he had wanted to use force (to switch rooms). The result….this chubby guy voluntarily withdrew and even said those pleasant to hear great truths.
The Esteemed Emperor decided to leave him his life.
The small chubby guy ran off. For a long time, the two people in the room didn’t say anything.
Shen QingXian was the first to come back to his senses. “Put me down.” Gu JianShen was still holding him.
Gu JianShen said, “Wait a moment.”
Saying so, he waved his hand and the squalid cogon grass house turned into a dazzling and gorgeous palace in the blink of an eye.
The pupils of Shen QingXian’s eyes constricted.
*Your pupils reflect your emotion. It is said that fear and anger constricts the pupil and adrenaline dilates the pupil. I’m not sure what other emotions correspond to constricted pupils but SQX is not scared or angry rn.
Gu JianShen carefully set him down on a crimson embedded with golden veined patterns soft imperial consort couch:
Shen QingXian raised his head to look at him (GJS): “Eyes.”
Gu JianShen: “En?”
Shen QingXian reached out a hand and with a tug, pulled him (GJS) over: “…….eye color.”
Gu JianShen’s smile was full of indulgence. The azure eyes immediately turned into a brilliant swirling bright-red.
Shen QingXian looked on fixedly. In the next second, he stood up. His figure slowly lengthed, his young and tender countenance shedded away, and what replaced them was a peerless talent who could make everyone greatly admire him.
He looked straight at Gu JianShen. His pale lips softly opened, “I really would like to see a real Heart Domain and the genuine you.”
The author has something to say: The Esteemed Lord, if you are this seductive…….you will be f*cked!
Thanks for your support everyone.
