I'm a male god in Liyue

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Floating in place, she felt her mood turn as cold as the bowl in her hand. After a while, she put the bowl back in its place and, unwilling to give up, went to the room where Qiqi had rested the night before on the second floor.

There was no food inside.

The female ghost looked disappointed, fell against the wall, and passed through it, returning to Xia Zhi's room.

Sigh, in this cold world, only incense can bring me a little warmth... Wait, where is my incense?

The female ghost looked up at the empty table. She had just floated over and hadn't even had time to check the incense burner when she heard a voice suddenly ring out in the room.

"girl."

???

The female ghost's spirit froze abruptly, and her hand, which had been reaching for the incense burner, stopped in mid-air.

She slowly turned her head and saw Xia Zhi sitting on the edge of the bed with a gentle expression.

"Young lady, are you looking for incense?"

The female ghost remained silent.

She suspected he was bluffing her.

"I put the incense in the second compartment of the wardrobe. You can go and get it."

The female ghost glanced at the wardrobe not far away, but remained silent.

“Young lady, why are you silent? ... I suppose I have been unhospitable. When guests come, I should serve them tea.”

Xia Zhi looked apologetic as he stood up from the bedside and walked towards her.

He walked to the table, picked up the teapot on it, and then took a small teacup.

The female ghost watched him pour tea in silence.

She remembered that he didn't have the habit of drinking tea in the evening, and she had never seen this teapot in the room before when she came over, which meant that he had specially prepared this tea for tonight.

In the darkness, steam rose from the teacup.

This is clearly a pot of tea that has been brewed recently.

This means he had already calculated the time she would arrive.

Xia Zhi put down the teapot, picked up the teacup, and offered it to her with both hands, following the etiquette of Liyue.

"Please excuse the poor quality of the tea."

As his voice faded, in her world, the previously odorless steam suddenly became refreshing and pleasant, with a faint, unfamiliar yet familiar aroma of tea wafting towards her.

The female ghost stared intently at the cup of hot tea in front of her, swallowed hard, and finally broke the silence.

"Thank you."

She spoke softly and accepted the cup of tea with both hands.

Their fingers touched during the process.

One side is warm...

One side is icy cold...

The female ghost's body stiffened again, and she suddenly raised her head to look at Xia Zhi in front of her, her face full of disbelief.

"You...you actually managed to touch me?!"

"I can touch it. The girl's fingers are very cold. Is that strange?"

"Of course, how could an ordinary person possibly touch a ghost? Ghosts aren't zombies; they don't have a physical form... Are you really surnamed Xia?"

"Yes, my surname is Xia and my given name is Zhi."

Do you have any relatives with the surname Hu?

"……No."

The female ghost was bewildered, muttering to herself, "Impossible... Could it be that there's some other special constitution that allows one to interact with ghosts? Could it be some bloodline of a clan that has been lost to the outside world..."

Xia Zhi didn't understand, so he shook his head, turned around and walked to the wardrobe. He took out the incense he had put in the second compartment, put it in the incense burner and lit it.

A strange fragrance, soothing even to the soul, wafted out.

The female ghost calmed down as she smelled the fragrance, picked up her teacup, and took a sip.

The hot, fragrant tea glides smoothly over the throat and tongue.

The female ghost sighed wistfully, "The new tea from Qiaoying Manor..."

Xia Zhi smiled and said, "Indeed, I didn't expect you to be a tea lover as well?"

Miss Ghost shook her head: "I don't like drinking tea. I just drank Qiaoyingzhuang's new tea a few times and thought it tasted better than ordinary tea, so I have a deep memory of it. I didn't expect that after so many years, its taste has not changed."

Xia Zhi nodded: "I see. May I ask your name, young lady..."

The female ghost hesitated for a moment and said, "My surname is Hu. As for my original name, I'd rather not mention it. Mr. Xia, you can call me Chiyu."

"Your surname is Hu... I wonder what the relationship is between Miss Chiyu and Master Hu Tao?"

"I have a deep connection with her..."

She was unwilling to say more, and Xia Zhi didn't press her for details.

After chatting for a while, he noticed that her teacup was empty, so he picked up the teapot and refilled it for her.

Akabane watched as he filled his cup to the brim with tea without spilling a drop, and couldn't help but ask, "Mr. Xia, are you really blind?"

"I can't see anything for now, but I can sense a little bit."

"Mr. Xia must have noticed me a long time ago, right?"

"I noticed something after I moved in, but since Miss Akabane didn't kick me out as rumored, I didn't pay much attention to it."

"That's it..."

"Later, I noticed that Qiqi really liked the smell of incense, and I realized that it might be because of this, so I would light some every night."

“Mr. Xia, you’re so kind. I really love the scent of this incense. Thanks to it, I regained my lost memories and senses. As for those ghost stories… I was confused and disoriented back then, and I thought their shop was disturbing my daytime naps, so I threw a tantrum and scared them away. Hu Tao is also quite helpless about this. She originally planned to buy the house as soon as she had enough money, but she didn’t expect Mr. Xia to suddenly appear…”

"It's so..."

Xia Zhi chuckled, finding the world truly wondrous.

"The tea is a bit bland, so how about I add some refreshments for Miss Akabane?"

"refreshments?"

"Yes, I just made some osmanthus cake this afternoon."

Xia Zhi bent down, picked up a food box from the ground beside the table, opened it, and took out a plate of neatly arranged osmanthus cakes.

"Please use."

As his voice faded, the originally tasteless osmanthus cake suddenly became fragrant and tempting.

Akabane stared intently at the osmanthus cake, swallowed hard, and asked, "How did Mr. Xia manage to do that?"

"I don't know how it works, but I can do it as long as I think about it."

"I've never heard of anything like this in all my years of life..."

"Miss Akabane, don't worry about it. If you want to eat, just come over here next time. I'll make more."

"This……"

Chi Yu paused for a moment, looking at Xia Zhi, somewhat puzzled as to why he was being so kind to her. She was different from other ghosts and they were not old acquaintances.

"Mr. Xia, why?... Those incense sticks must be very precious, right?"

"You ask why? It's simple, because you're my first reader, and I'm very happy about that, so I want to be kind to you."

"what?"

Chapter 154 Hu Tao is not young anymore

The first reader...

That's a very reasonable reason.

Mr. Xia is blind, yet he still insists on writing books, which shows how much he loves writing and how much he longs for his books to be liked and recognized by others.

She suddenly appeared under these circumstances, becoming the first reader to see his book, and she came every night to quietly follow the updates. He must have been very moved by this, which is why he lit such precious incense for her every night...

That makes perfect sense.

The problem is that the beginning of the book was fine, but then... then...

Akabane was stunned for a moment, and then her soul began to slowly turn red.

The atmosphere in the room suddenly became a little ambiguous.

Xia Zhi smiled and said, "I've already sent that book to Liyue Publishing House to sign a contract. The editor said it will be printed by the end of next month, and I'll send you a signed copy of the new book then."

Akabane lowered his head and whispered, "Okay, thank you, Mr. Xia."

She thought that she had to hide the book well so that Hu Tao wouldn't accidentally find it, otherwise her image as a senior would definitely be ruined.