249: 6.9 Jillian's Madness

6.9 Jillian's Madness

Lu Yizhou could only watch helplessly as Jillian fussed over him nonstop ever since the man entered his room. He started with adding firewood to make the temperature warmer, then pulling off his fluffy mattress and pillows to make a perfect throne for Lu Yizhou to sit on. Now it had been almost an hour and he still wasn't satisfied yet.2

"No." He assessed the pillow fort on his bed with a scowl. "This won't do. The arrangement is just too crude. How can I let you settle down like this?"

It's okay, Lu Yizhou wanted to say. Just you noticing my existence is already more than enough. 

These past few days, Lu Yizhou had truly learned the pain of being overlooked. It wasn't that he was being needy— okay, fine. He was, a bit. He might be just a tad unreconciled that he was stuck in his invisible form and could only see without being able to touch or speak. Lu Yizhou had always thought he was a fairly independent and reclusive person — no, spirit — but each day passed without any interaction with Jillian had driven him to the edge of insanity a few times more than he could count.

He had tried to get Jillian's attention by pulling childish pranks like waving the curtain, trailing him whenever he went, and he even helped Jillian to find the things he had misplaced — and as much as he didn't want to admit, he enjoyed the fear from the servants in the manor when he did them.

Alas, every single time, his effort went down the drain as Jillian remained oblivious. In the end, all those shenanigans only added to his fatigue and earned him another round of nagging from Cyrus, warning him that he would fall into slumber sooner or later if he kept this going. As a result, he grew more and more irritable and every time his mood turned a dip to the worse, the weather would follow along, adding on to the prolonged winter and fierce blizzard. 

Cyrus might have taken a pity on his pathetic pining that in the end, he suggested that Lu Yizhou use a doll as his vessel so he could stay by Jillian's side; his lover would no longer be able to deny his existence this way and he had also confirmed it with 666 that in the original plot, Jillian had built a gold statue for him. A fucking gold statue with diamonds under his feet. Lu Yizhou felt an oncoming headache just by imagining it. Either way, he was helping Jillian to choose a vessel and reached the goal in the end so it couldn't be considered as OOC.

And voilà, here he was. 

Jillian once again dismantled the pillow fort he had built and started again from its base with folding the blanket so it might serve as an elevated platform then arranged the pillows on either side of it. He adjusted the settings a few times before he was barely appeased. Then with a very careful movement, he lifted Lu Yizhou up from where he had been sitting atop of the nightstand so that he could finally claim the throne Jillian had made. 

"Sorry to keep you waiting." He smiled and leaned his head on the bed, peering up at Lu Yizhou shyly. "Please bear with this for a few hours, okay? Later on, I will ask the best craftsman to create something for you."

Lu Yizhou huffed out a quiet laughter. I still like your pillow fort the most, he replied inwardly.

"Uh-huh, don't say that." Jillian yawned and his eyelids started to droop. Still, he kept on stubbornly staring at Lu Yizhou as if he couldn't bear to look away. "You deserve the best, Regius. It's weird, somehow I can imagine your response in my mind. Am I really going crazy…?"

Lu Yizhou silently sighed as he witnessed Jillian falling asleep in the matter of seconds, half of his body hanging off the bed with his neck twisted uncomfortably. Surely, Jillian's body would suffer from soreness tomorrow. [Is there really nothing that can grant me a physical body? Even only for a minute?]

[666: Er… that—wait a moment, 666 seems to have found something similar before. A-ha! Here it is! Transformation Pill! Just with 50 points you will be able to change into any form you want for 1 minute! Don't miss it now!]

[...]

[Sounds suspicious.]

[666: No, Host, this is perfect! Just think about it, if you're a human, you can transform into any animal, plants or even another person. Then if you're a doll, you can definitely transform into a human!]

Hmm, nevertheless, 50 points for one minute of transformation… sounded like a scam to him. But when he looked at how soundly Jillian was sleeping and the furrow between his brows, the points were the last thing he had to worry about. [Fine. Then I want to transform into a human for ten minutes.]

[666: T—Ten?! Fifty times ten is equal to five hundred points! Host, you're such a spendthrift!]

[System notification: Ding! You have purchased ten (10) Transformation Pills. The remaining points you have is 1518. Thank you for your patronage! Do you wish to proceed with this item?]

[Yes.]

A soft glow of light enveloped Lu Yizhou's doll body and in the next second, a pair of slender arms stretched out, followed by long pale legs that were half covered by the white robe. The doll disappeared and on its spot was a man with a skin fairer than moonlight and the features that Gods adored, his jet black hair fanned across the mattress, each strand was silky soft. Lu Yizhou let out a quiet groan as he sat up and slowly got himself used to his body. His skin felt tight and his bones cracked loudly like a marionette whose joints lacked oils.

Lu Yizhou was unwilling to waste even one second so he forced himself to get up from the bed and bent down to carry Jillian up into his arms. His movement was stiff and disjointed but Lu Yizhou couldn't care less. A smile graced his lips as he found Jillian snuggling closer to his chest and he even smacked his lips in his sleep, mumbling something incoherent before he rolled away when Lu Yizhou lowered him into the bed. After pulling the blanket up to his neck, Lu Yizhou sat on the bedside and gazed at him like how he always did these past few days.

The only difference was before, he could only see but now, he could also touch his lover. His fingertips glided across the sharp lines of Jillian's features, silently engraving each curve to heart and relishing in the warmth he exuded. It had just been a few days but he was already aching to feel how smooth and warm Jillian's skin would be. It was honestly disconcerting. 

Subsequently, he tucked Jillian's hair behind his ear before his hand trailed down the line of the man's neck and arrived at the spot below his collarbone where the star shaped birthmark was peeking out through the loose collar. 

Lu Yizhou should have been satisfied that Jillian could see him and talk to him. It was already a thousand times better than being invisible. Yet he caught himself wishing that Jillian would open his eyes to look at him now. Lu Yizhou wanted to talk to him, to have Jillian's smile directed at him and more importantly he wanted to hug Jillian every night when he was asleep.

Lu Yizhou had thought a lot regarding the relationship between Regius and Jillian in the original plot. If Regius became an Evil God simply because he tasted the long lost power within him, then Lu Yizhou was going to prevent this subplot from coming true by not having Jillian worship him.

He wasn't a God right now. He was only a spirit doll. Perfect.

He just didn't expect Jillian to be this… attentive. But that's okay, they could still salvage this. As long as Jillian didn't pray to him, as long as Lu Yizhou wasn't getting stronger, they wouldn't arouse suspicion this way. 

***

The next day, a mini throne inlaid with black and silver gemstones arrived at the manor. It even had a mini cushion where Lu Yizhou's butt would be sitting on. If Lu Yizhou could move, his jaws would have dropped to the floor when Jillian presented the throne to him proudly. In the middle of the dining room and surrounded by at least ten servants, at that!

Fixing Lu Yizhou's crumpled robe, Jillian muttered under his breath. "Right, I have to order some new clothes for you. How about hair accessories as well? I know you're already beautiful this way but you will look more breathtaking with a ribbon in your hair. What do you think?" When his fingers brushed against the sash on Lu Yizhou's waist, his face suddenly turned red and he pulled away with a cough. "Okay, clothes, accessories and oh… do you, perhaps, need any undergarments too?"

The servants were staring at Jillian wide-eyed, gobsmacked. W—What was happening to their Young Master?! What was up with that creepy doll? And more importantly, why did Bassil act as if nothing was wrong and even gave suggestions as to which material they should use for the doll's new outfit?!

Holy—Their Young Master and head servant had gone insane!

Lu Yizhou facepalmed. Even without looking, he could already feel the consternation and doubt that emanated from the servants. It grew worse when Jillian gathered everyone in the dining room and started to make a formal introduction of Regius, and then demanded the servants to introduce themselves to him one by one!

If Lu Yizhou thought that Jillian's madness would stop there, he was sorely wrong. Jillian tucked him in his arms when he was working, eating and sleeping and in the end, he even brought Lu Yizhou to the training ground where hundreds of soldiers were sparring!

[666: H—H—Host, the male protagonist, Hayden, is here!]

Ugh, how could he still get a headache inside the doll's body who wasn't supposed to feel anything? Lu Yizhou closed his eyes exasperatedly and controlled his emotions so he wouldn't summon a blizzard again. The main plan to lay low and evade suspicion had gone down the drain just like that, courtesy to his lover's enthusiasm. 

Lu Yizhou heaved a long suffering sigh. [Plan B, then.]

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