Ways to handle this little demon

Sitting on the floor and leaning against the youth's bed, Zhang Long Wei flicked pages of the old book. Though he had no idea why Li Zian's book was in Wang Li Jie's room, it's not like he could ask him either. Flicking and turning pages after pages, Zhang Long Wei read every single page with full attention. 

If there were a modern wall clock here, it might be showing 2a.m. already. It was indeed already too late. But due to this unexpected incident and Zhang Long Wei getting a patient to take care, he found himself not getting sleepy at all. If the youth's condition didn't get any better till dawn, he was going to get a physician and inform immortal Wang. 

But right now, it'd be the best just to let the youth rest for a while. Wang Li Jie was still trembling just a moment ago. But now, he had calmed down somewhat. 

Taking a quick glance at the youth who seemed to be in a deep sleep, Zhang Long Wei smiled before focusing his eyes back onto the current page he was reading. A book about deadly ice blade... most parts of the book were covered with topics about various techniques to use the sword according to one's cultivation level.

There were also stories about Li family ancestors who wielded this deadly ice blade and how they made great achievements with the power of this sword. 

At first, Zhang Long Wei was planning on reading it page after page without skipping. But now, it seemed like he had to skim through a bit. This was not some leisure time to enjoy reading a book. His little disciple was facing a crucial situation. And Zhang Long Wei didn't have any time to waste reading unrealated information. 

Right now, he was at a chapter written about consequences of getting attacked by deadly ice blade. According to what technique had been used to attack the enemy, the consequences were different as well. When he and Wang Li Jie exchanged attacks that day, how did Zhang Long Wei injure the youth? Did he use some powerful technique? 

And the answer was.... yeah, he did. Since the youth was fighting using power, Zhang Long Wei did as well. At that time, he used a technique called " ten thousand sea waves". And that was a bit intense. Even so, his move had been expelled successfully by lightning fury's counterattack. And when he accidentally stabbed Wang Li Jie's chest, there's no power flowing in the sword anymore. 

So it seemed like Zhang Long Wei had to search information about what would happen if someone got stabbed by deadly ice blade with no power? But everything written in here was all about consequences of getting attacked by super intense moves of the sword. It seemed like he was not going to get the answer for the youth's condition in volume one. 

Now, Zhang Long Wei felt even more helpless. This volume one was all about things related to cultivators with water spiritual roots who used deadly ice blade. Li Zian was a water spiritual root cultivator, so If there's nothing written about such an incident in here, there's even a lower chance of finding it in volume two or three. Rubbing his somewhat sleepy eyes, Zhang Long Wei closed the book. 

Now he terribly wanted to sleep. Even if it was not a deep sleep, just a short nap would do too. That was how Zhang Long Wei and books got along so well. When he was young, there was no one to teach him how to read or write. 

Zhang Long Wei could start to learn them only after becoming a demon Lord. And his teachers were the most esteemed scholars from the imperial city. Of course, it's not like those scholars came by themselves and order the demon lord around like...read this, write this. 

If it were not for his super intelligent puppet general kidnapping those scholars on his own accord, Zhang Long Wei would have never studied how to read and write. In his old days, there were various horrible nick names cultivators from righteous sects given to him and one of those was "illiterate idiot. "

Even so, it was just some little cowards disgracing him behind his back. Zhang Long Wei had not that much time to spare for some cowards. But if they dared to call him like that right in the face, he didn't hesitate to give them a head torn out from their body. 

Yeah.... they were right. He was an illiterate. And he didn't feel angered that much when get called like that. Even so, he still cut their throat because they were just too noisy.

Learning to read and write... this was the last thing Zhang Long Wei wanted to do, so when his puppet general brought dozens of scholars to serve as his lord's teachers, Zhang Long Wei was like "WTF."

Even so, he was someone with exceptional memory who could memorize or learn anything very quickly. That was how he memorized each and every single technique of his opponent, learn their weak point and beat them up. 

Of course, when it came to learning literature, his exceptional memory was still very exceptional. Just read or study a word once and he would remember it forever. There was only one little problem. And it was every single time he finished learning a word, he fell asleep. Such was how addicted Zhang Long Wei was to learning literature. 

When reading, Zhang Long Wei also had this habit but it was not that bad like when he learnt and studied in earlier days. And just like that, this very lord of demons became a decent literate man in the end. Right now, He could read properly and write.....um...no....he still couldn't write properly though.

Yeah... Zhang Long Wei could write and his calligraphy was extremely beautiful and mesmerizing.....just like bean sprouts.... There's only one person in this world who could read his writing and it was himself.

Right now, Zhang Long Wei still couldn't fall asleep. He needed to finish this book first. Wang Li Jie was injured and had to go through such a tough time because of himself. Without finding any practical solution for the youth, he still couldn't fall sleep... not even taking a nap. 

Shaking his head and stretching his arms and shoulders, Zhang Long Wei rose to his feet. And just like that, the demon contined to read volume two whilst pacing back and forth in the little room. Sometimes Zhang Long Wei found himself walking and reading the book attentively but with closed eyes. 

At this rate, no content in the book are going to get into his head. Why not change his position and continue? By changing position, it meant lying down on the bed. Wang Li Jie was sleeping soundly like a very good kid, so the youth wouldn't mind if his master wanted to take a little space of his bed, right? 

Not to disturb the sleeping youth and to keep himself awake, Zhang Long Wei chose to lie down only on the edge of the bed, his head barely on the bed and his legs.....Zhang Long Wei only put one of his legs on the bed and left the other dangling from the mattress. 

Only after lying down, Zhang Long Wei exhaled a breath he didn't know he was holding. And also, why was he getting this kind of feeling as if he was some naughty boyfriend sneaking into the bed of his sleeping girlfriend? 

No, this position won't do.... 

Just as Zhang Long Wei was about to sit up and get out of the bed, the youth next to him made a small move. His right hand which was originally resting on the side moved to his inner robe around his chest before holding his lapel in a tight grip, a small area of his snowy skin was exposed by this little movement, the youth's originally relaxed brows creased a bit and his body started trembling again as well. 

"Li Jie... How are you feeling?.... are you okay?..... 

sigh... what am I gonna do with you?....you make me worried like crazy..... "

I'm sorry... I apologize for making you suffer like this.....

In his heart, Zhang Long Wei was repeating this line again and again as he ran his finger through Wang Li Jie's hair very gently. To look at this youth's face whilst lying side to side with him..... this had Zhang Long Wei's heart felt itchy for some unknown reason. 

In his entire life, Zhang Long Wei had crushed lives of mortals and cultivators under his feet as if it was nothing. In his twenty nine years of life, Zhang Long Wei had killed thousands and thousands of lives. But never once.... not even once he felt sorry.... he wasn't guilty.....he didn't feel the need to apologize. Only with Wang Li Jie, he became such a gentleman. 

"Zian..... it's so cold....

ughh.... Zian... "

Getting stared at by those half-closing, captivating green eyes, Zhang Long Wei found himself swallowing his own saliva. Earlier, though he did ask the youth how he's feeling, Zhang Long Wei didn't really expect an answer. This showed Wang Li Jie got part of his consciousness already. But he was no where near getting recovered. 

Even before Zhang Long Wei himself realized, his body moved on his own, shifting closer and drawing the youth into his arms. Embracing the trembling youth really tightly so that Wang Li Jie was snuggling his face into his chest, Zhang Long Wei rubbed the back of Li Jie's head in a slow yet loving manner.

"I'm here.... "

Biting his lower lip, Zhang Long Wei paused for a while, not knowing how to continue saying proper coaxing words. But then, when he saw the youth stopped trembling somewhat in his arms, Zhang Long Wei gave a faint smile as natural heart-warming words came out from his lips. 

I'm here.....

I'm here.....Li Jie... 

You're going to get better.

I won't let anything happen to you..... I.....definitely....won't let anything happen to you......