Chapter 7: Brothers Smell Good? A Gradually Deteriorating Relationship

Li Chunsheng stood in the kitchen, gripping the kitchen knife, lost in thought.

“Do I really have to do this?” He stared at the blade’s edge, hesitating.

Though he had unexpectedly healed from his earlier injuries…

Whether he had truly gained the ability to heal wounds was still unknown.

If the ability didn’t come from himself but from an external source… like, perhaps, the investigator had secretly used a healing authority on him without his noticing.

“No, that doesn’t make sense. Instant healing like that is a miracle beyond ordinary people—at least Bronze rank. That investigator didn’t have that kind of power.”

It was a bit embarrassing to admit, but Li Chunsheng was actually afraid of pain. If he really cut himself and the wound didn’t heal, he’d be in pain for days—and have to spend money on bandages. What a waste.

So he just stood there, frozen.

Seeing her junior motionless for so long, Liuxia, who was cooking, called out with a girlish plea: “Chunsheng, help me chop the cabbage~”

“Please~” The girl made a cute pleading gesture from in front of the stove.

As a beautiful girl now, Liuxia was delicate and soft, with a pleasant voice. If she earnestly asked a man for help, few could refuse.

But as a former man, Liuxia had always been ashamed to ask for help from others—besides, most times it only led to humiliation.

So the girl was used to shouldering everything herself. Only with her childhood-friend junior could Liuxia dare to make requests without fear of being disliked.

That was the trust between these brothers.

“Ah, sure!” Li Chunsheng, preoccupied, habitually agreed to his senior’s request, completely missing how cute she looked.

“Whatever, let’s just cook and eat first…” Li Chunsheng thought as he began clumsily chopping the cabbage.

Clang, clang—his knife work was atrocious. The pieces came out uneven and ugly.

“Hiss…” Li Chunsheng sucked in a sharp breath. His finger had been nicked, blood dripping from the cut.

“Damn, I cut myself. Well, now I’ve got a cut whether I wanted one or not.”

“Come on, my infinite potential!” Li Chunsheng stared hard at the wound on his finger, hoping to see the earlier healing miracle again.

But nothing happened. No matter how wide he opened his eyes, the wound didn’t change at all—as if the previous healing had been a dream.

“Was it really just a dream? But Senior turning into a beautiful girl and staying at my place is undeniable fact. What’s really going on?” Li Chunsheng felt deeply disappointed.

At that moment, Liuxia, who had been simmering soup, noticed out of the corner of her eye that her junior hadn’t moved in a while. She glanced over curiously and saw his injured finger. Her heart skipped a beat.

That skip wasn’t from shock… but from another, unspeakable desire.

“Blood. It’s blood.”

Liuxia’s heart pounded. The tiny bead of blood on Li Chunsheng’s fingertip drew her gaze like the world’s most precious jewel.

Without doubt, what filled her mind now was “appetite” for Li Chunsheng.

Perhaps because she had already licked the bloodstains from his clothes earlier and gained some satisfaction, Liuxia still retained a sliver of rationality.

That rationality quickly brought intense guilt.

“How can I feel appetite toward the junior who trusts me so much?” Liuxia felt deep self-blame: “Have I really become a monster inside and out?”

Yet the guilt from rationality couldn’t suppress the growing appetite.

Soon, that appetite twisted her thinking, leading her to rationalize: “That’s right. Chunsheng trusts me so much… so it wouldn’t matter if I… took just a little blood, right?”

The next instant, her body moved according to that desire.

“Oh no—Chunsheng, how could you be so careless?” Liuxia gently walked over, lowered her eyes, and took his injured hand with a tone full of concern.

“Uh, it’s fine… I’ll handle it mys—” Li Chunsheng’s voice carried disappointment, but Liuxia no longer had the spare rationality to notice.

The girl only wanted to taste that sweet blood.

Her lowered eyes hid the chaos and madness in her pupils. She murmured: “No, it has to be treated right away…”

“This blood is mine,” she thought.

Without further hesitation, Liuxia opened her small crimson mouth and took the bleeding finger inside. The taste that made every cell in her body sing instantly flooded her mind.

“Eh… Senior, you don’t have to…” Li Chunsheng’s embarrassed voice no longer reached her.

The following actions required no thought—they were pure instinct.

Her tongue swept over the wound, taking away the sweet-salty blood and, along with it, all of Liuxia’s consciousness. At that moment, she was completely a blood-craving beast.

Yet Li Chunsheng noticed none of this. He only marveled that his senior, who had always doted on him since childhood, was being so serious over a tiny cut.

He would never suspect that Liuxia’s motives weren’t entirely pure…

That was the trust between these brothers.

Soon, the blood on the wound was licked clean, no fresh drops emerged, and Liuxia’s rationality began to return.

“What… what have I done?” Deep regret filled the girl’s heart. Even if everything appeared normal on the surface, her motives had already twisted. Could a monster like her really stay by her junior’s side?

But outwardly, Liuxia maintained her cheerful and gentle demeanor, smiling as she returned to finish cooking.

In truth, she was so dazed she didn’t notice Li Chunsheng staring at the hand she had just released, his pupils contracting sharply.

“It’s… healed?” Incredibly, the wound that had been bleeding moments ago was now completely closed—even the skin had returned to normal.

Moreover, he had vaguely sensed that when the wound healed, his 【Gold Content】 number had flickered slightly.

“Could it be…” Li Chunsheng turned a shocked gaze toward Liuxia, who was cooking.

If his guess was correct, then the source of the earlier healing miracle actually came from their close contact—both sides indispensable.

“If I get injured again, Senior will probably take care of me 【that way】 again, right?”

Looking at his senior in her beautiful-girl form and finding the earlier “care” rather intimate, Li Chunsheng swallowed hard and thought: “Sorry, Senior! To better protect you in the future… I have to make use of your trust in me right now.”

The door to a new world was opening for someone who had lived an ordinary life for over twenty years. What transmigrator could pass up this chance?

No matter the reason, he had to master the pattern of this miracle!

Soon, Liuxia heard another cry of pain from Li Chunsheng’s side.

“?” Liuxia turned doubtfully and saw all ten of his fingers cut.

“Why would chopping vegetables do that much damage!?” A brief spark of rationality surfaced.

Yet that rationality only held for a moment before collapsing again.

“Really… nothing I can do with you…” Her words carried suppressed madness.

The kitchen replayed the earlier scene—only this time, both brothers’ lowered eyes hid desires the other could never imagine.

Yet neither would believe it was real.

Because that was the trust between these brothers.

Only… from this moment on, their relationship was destined to change, wasn’t it?