The demon master and the demon hunter are now both in Lang Xinya's bedroom, Yao Qiu is awkwardly standing in front of the door while the demon hunter is looking for some new clothes for the one he brought here.

The room is pretty big, fitting the vibe of the mansion Lang Xinya is living in with his family. It is filled with a big bed, a small table impeccably clean, a wardrobe in which Lang Xinya is looking for clothes. There are some shelves full of books and papers, it seems like the demon hunter likes to read.

The demon master, who is still close to the door, hesitates to talk but he asks, quietly, almost whispering so no one outside the room can hear that conversation :

-"Erm... Lang Xinya."

The concerned man turns his head to look at Yao Qiu, he wonders why his friend is almost whispering. Yao Qiu keeps talking :

-"Earlier, before coming here. You said you sensed a demon smell. But what did you mean by 'not the one coming from you' ?"

Yao Qiu lowers his eyes and plays with his hands, trying to relieve all the stress that is in him. He does not dare to look at the demon hunter's eyes again, scared to upset him but mostly scared for his own life he still doesn't want to die again.

Lang Xinya lets down the few clothes he found, then he gets closer to Yao Qiu to answer him :

-"I know what you are. But I won't hurt you. Don't worry."

As Lang Xinya is getting closer to him, the demon master's heart beat faster. Xia Zhi, the goddess of dark magic, told him that if anyone knows his identity he'll die for sure, so that's why he is panicking even more. But he also wonders why Lang Xinya wants to keep him alive. Yao Qiu is still looking at the floor :

-"Then.. Why don't you want to kill me ? We are basically enemies. And.. how did you find out about me being a demon master ?" He is still whispering and looking at his own hands.

Lang Xinya gets a bit more close, he simply puts a hand on one of Yao Qiu's shoulders, trying to make him understand that he'll never hurt him. Then he tries to answer every question the one in front of him asked in a discreet way because he knows his family isn’t that nice with anything or anyone linked to demonism :

-"Demon hunters and demon killers can sense, or smell, when a demon is around. At first I thought it was the monster I fought in the small house. Then, a few days later, I sensed a stronger demonic smell, so I ended up in front of your house, sorry for that. At that time I thought the demon smell was from the demonic creature that invaded your house. In fact it was the case. But after that, when we went back to the village... the smell was still there, so I concluded it was from you."

Yao Qiu cuts him out by softly exclaiming :

-"You knew for that long ?!"

-"Let me finish. What made me sure that you are a demon master is because, the first night we slept together I saw your hands glowing in the dark. But... erm... I never saw this kind of specific glowing on a demon related person. So that's why I'm not killing you for now, I want to know what's wrong with your hands."

-"You saw that too ?!"

Yao Qiu's eyes widen as he talks. Then he hides his hands behind his back but Lang Xinya reaches to them and take the demon master's hands to look at them, he says :

-"By the way you seem a bit lost about your own powers. I want to help you out with it as well." After a few really short seconds looking at his hands, Lang Xinya talks again :

-"Can you activate the glowing light by yourself ?"

The demon master slightly blushes because of this small physical contact with Lang Xinya but the only thing he can think about now is what will happen when the demon hunter will find out about Yao Qiu's weird powers.

Will he really kill him ?

Anyways, Yao Qiu tries to concentrate on his own hands, palms facing him, he stares at it but nothing happens. So he closes his eyes to concentrate even more and thinks really hard about the light coming out of it. But still nothing happens. The demon master opens his eyes again and looks at Lang Xinya to shake his head negatively.

After that really short moment, Lang Xinya lets Yao Qiu's warm hands down, seeing that there is nothing else but skin on them. Then he turns around and takes some steps to face his wardrobe, he talks, still facing the wooden furniture :

-"Take clothes you like."

So the demon master is now carefully choosing clothes he'll wear in front of a family of demon killers and demon hunters. He has to choose something a random person can usually wear. It is not that easy.

After a really short time looking at the pieces of fabric, his eyes stop on a dark red hanfu, it is not what a random person would wear but he feels like he'll be extremely comfortable wearing that. So he takes those clothes out of the wardrobe and unfolds them, he sees some golden threads forming drawings such as birds, bamboo trees and clouds. He likes it a lot.

Yao Qiu turns around and looks at Lang Xinya, holding the different parts of the hanfu, the demon master is waiting for Lang Xinya to go away in order to change clothes. But the demon hunter says :

-"It's fine, we're both men." He is obviously lying just to see Yao Qiu's naked torso one more time.

But Yao Qiu can't tell that the one in front of him is lying, so he just starts to take off his upper clothes, trying to hide his demonic tattoos but it is impossible, he is covered with red drawings on the entire body. He also has two huge burn stains and six healed wounds on his left side, right on the heart.

The demon master doesn't even know what it is about despite his past life as a demon hunter, so it must be a recent practice or a forbidden one. He tries to hide it as well.

The demon hunter is faking looking at some of his books but in truth, his eyes get attracted by all the red ink on Yao Qiu's body. He is quite amazed by all those tattoos and those two mysterious burn marks.

Seeing the other one decorated body, the demon hunter naturally turns around and approaches the demon master. The latter is a bit frightened so he slowly walks backwards until hitting the bed and falling on it. Yao Qiu ends up sitting on the bed. Lang Xinya says :

-"Stop going away. I just want to see closely."

This time, he is not lying, he became really curious about those demonic tattoos. He, in fact, never saw some from that close. So he automatically sits next to Yao Qiu, his eyes stuck on the demon master's muscled body. More precisely on his tattoos.

The demon master finally takes his hands off from his own chest, showing that he can trust the demon hunter and because that's the only thing to do right now. After examining for some seconds, the demon hunter finally notices the six red dots on Yao Qiu's chest. He knows the meaning of three dots, but not six dots. For the tattoos, he doesn't understand at all what those symbols mean. He even wonders if there's any meaning to that.

Three dots means the death of a demon master by torture, by putting three long nails inside the demon linked person's heart. But six, he doesn't know yet, since he isn't the one killing demon masters in normal time. For the two huge burn stains, it means torture as well, the demon master has been burned alive by boiling celestial oil.

If the demon master has been tortured, then he should be dead right now, that's what the demon hunter quickly thinks. His mind is busy wanting to know what the red tattoos mean and most of all, it has been busy by the beautiful naked chest in front of him.

After a few seconds simply looking at the muscled torso in front of him, Lang Xinya softly approaches one of his hands to the other one's body part, he wants to touch it to experience the feeling of that red ink, to know if it is made with a special ink or not. It actually might help to know if there are meanings to it.

Lang Xinya finally touches Yao Qiu's skin, the latter is just looking at the demon hunter curiously examining his body, as if he never saw someone with tattoos. After letting his hands sliding on Yao Qiu's body for a few seconds, the demon hunter gets an idea, so he almost exclaims :

-"I know ! I have some demonism books from when I was still studying it. I need to get it."

But he sees that the demon master keeps staring at his face, so he wonders :

-"What's wrong ? Are you going to faint again ?"

Yao Qiu says nothing, he just lowers his eyes to Lang Xinya's hand, which is still touching one of the tattoos. The demon master ends up taking his friend's hand to look at it. Lang Xinya just "uh ?", wondering why Yao Qiu is doing that.

They were initially trying to know why the demon master's hands are weirdly glowing, so that's normal for Lang Xinya to wonder what's going on.

Yao Qiu slowly moves his eyes to end up looking at the face of the one sitting right in front of him. He moves his hand to Lang Xinya's side of the head, then hesitates a few seconds before approaching his own face to end up surprisingly kiss the demon hunter's lips, without asking for his consent.

The demon master is doing that because it is the first time a man ever touches him this way, he likes it in this new life. The demon master never thought about doing such things with men when he was still Hong Zihan, but this time it is different, he only felt attraction toward men since he reincarnated.

They are still kissing. Lang Xinya is at first surprised that a demon related person can actually passionately kiss someone who is against demons. But he really doesn't dislike that long kiss at all, so he accompanies Yao Qiu doing it. Lang Xinya even puts his hands on Yao Qiu's naked waist.

At this exact moment, Yao Qiu is thinking :

-:"It is not really my life, so I can try whatever I want. If someone judges me, they will think about Yao Qiu, not Hong Zihan. And he seems to be accepting that so..."

After a few more seconds mixing their saliva, Lang Xinya stops that exchange to first catch his breath, then he asks :

-"Why would you do that ?"

-"I don't know. I just felt like it. I know I shouldn't have done that but erm... it was tempting."

Lang Xinya instantly silently thinks :

-"Tempting ? Does that mean we can keep doing it ? Let's give it a try then."

So the demon hunter approaches Yao Qiu's warm lips, they are both ready for a second round of kisses. By the way they are still sitting the same way as before, it means Lang Xinya with both of his hands holding the demon master's naked waist and Yao Qiu with one hand on the demon hunter's back of the neck.

They are really close to kissing again when someone suddenly opens the door, the person at the door slightly yells then apologises :

-"AAH ! Woah.. erm... I'm sorry. I just uh.. Dinner's ready." Then the person, with a masculine voice, slams the door.

It all felt like a dream, suddenly cut by someone. Lang Xinya jumps out of the bed, surprised, then he internally thinks :

-"Oh no... it's the end for me." He walks in circles in the huge bedroom.

The demon hunter is panicking, what if the one who interrupted them saw the demon master's demonic tattoos ? How would his family react if they knew he was simply kissing a demon related person ? Then Lang Xinya gets out of the room, leaving some time for Yao Qiu to put on the hanfu he chose a bit earlier.

The demon master is finally alone in that huge room, he sighs loudly then whispers :

-"Well, it wasn't that bad. Even pretty hot..." He talks while slightly touching his lips with the tip on his fingers.