To Return To Where You Belong To - Chapter 3 The Fallen Deity And The Ghost Child 3

“I’m stuck with a dimwitted kind sugary kid.”

“Shut up, chicken.” Sighed the boy.

“Haha, what a pun.” Replied the god with a snarky tone

It had been nearly a week, and the voice in his head started to sound like a normal being talking to him, not a deity’s voice echoing in his mind.

The bad news? Yuan Ji couldn’t stop complaining. Whether was it food, his habits, or YueChen’s character; he could go on rambling about it.

YueChen ruffled his hair out of annoyance. He frowned upon the thought that Yuan Ji disagreed with him again. Truthfully, almost all of their conversations never ended good.

And what started their usual quarrel was that of YueChen, again. The teen was too pure-hearted to exist in this world. Too easy to manipulate.

Not so long ago, Yuan Ji complained again. He stated that he disliked YueChen’s kindness, and began to gave him an earful. In the god’s opinion, people shouldn’t be too kind. They should have a dark side to keep to themselves and lock their intentions inside their hearts.

Yuan Ji mused a little at the other’s slow seething. Since he was young, Yuan Ji had a good grasp on making people’s blood boil. And Yang YueChen wasn’t that hard. He just need to say, ‘I don’t like this’, ‘You’re weird’, or other thing along the lines besides those and YueChen will explode. Yuan Ji truly enjoyed teasing and rubbing salt onto YueChen’s wounds while acting amicable to him. He wondered how the boy looked like right now. Black lines might also had criss-crossed his face.

They both were aware from the start that they couldn’t see each other’s appearances. Thus the growing curiosity of how the other looked like. Although Yuan Ji thought that it was the best as he still had a chance to ascend back to the heaven. He didn’t need another stumbling block in his way.

“….”

“….”

No one was impatient enough to break the slightly overbearing silence. Both the males were stubborn and didn’t want to admit wrong. They waited for the other to start apologize. Although Yuan Ji had noted that the boy was too forgiving, this fight had a small chance to be unresolved.

Yuan Ji and YueChen almost always fight everyday. If Hu Nan was here, stuck with the insufferable Water Deity, he wouldn’t hesitate to throw some comments into their fights. Like saying that they both resembled a married couple quarrelling in the morning…. which wasn’t untrue.

Their contest of seeing who was the more headstrong person ended in a tie. Yuan Ji and YueChen both opened their mouths at the same time.

“Hey.”

“Alright, stop.”

The two looked at each other, amused, before breaking into laughter. Even though they were invisible to the other’s eyes, in that one second, they felt as if they saw their companion’s faces vaguely.

The Water Deity looked no older than seventeen, with a slightly warm smile. And the ghost boy whose eyes resembled dark night with a little amount of stars.

The sight lingered for a short moment before fading into darkness, leaving a sensation of waking up from a dream.

“You’re pretty good-looking, honestly.”

“Why. You yourself are pretty cute.”

“Stop calling me cute, will you?”

“I consider it as a praise. After all you’re still a young kid.”

“I’m thirteen!”

“And I’m still sixteen centuries older than you.”

YueChen pouted, not intending to continue the argument. Yuan Ji too dropped the conversation. A terrible relationship wasn’t necessary in his plans.

“Still, tell me something…”

“I don’t even remember why I am here. What do you expect from me?”

“I’m sure that you still have some memories from your earliest years of life, how about that?”

“Hmm… okay.” Yuan Ji smiled at the boy.

The unique ghost child that somehow managed to host a god. There might be something that connected both of them.

A red string, perhaps.