The Housewife Is an Immortal Cultivator

by Catofdreams

  "Single what?"

  Yang Wei discreetly pointed towards Jane with his trembling finger. Jane was still deeply engrossed in her conversation with Xue Yan, so she didn't notice.

  "S-single woman…", Yang Wei managed to finally let out the cause of his fears.

  Lang Jie knew that Yang Wei was scared to approach women, but he was sure that it wasn't that bad. Yang Wei didn't become this scared when he met Xue Jin before, so Lang Jie was completely clueless as to why he became like this.

  "Don't ignore me… no… please! Don't reject me! I won't do it again! Please!", Yang Wei started mumbling as if he senile. Jane and Xue Yan finally noticed what was happening and looked at Yang Wei with a worried expression.

  "Are you okay?", Jane asked as she leaned closer to Yang Wei in order to examine him closely.

  "N-no! I'm sorry!", Yang Wei flinched as he saw Jane's face coming closer.

  "A-ah! His stomach is feeling a little upset! Let's go to the restroom!", Lang Jie immediately stood up and forcibly dragged Yang Wei with him and made his way towards the restroom.

  The moment they got there, Yang Wei took a deep breath as his pale face finally seemed to regain color.

  "Dude, what happened?", Lang Jie asked. He was extremely worried as he saw that his friend had a look on his face as if he saw death itself stand before him.

  "S-sorry… Fear just took over me and…", Yang Wei was still in a state of panic, but he slowly started to calm down as Lang Jie rubbed his back.

  "The past few days… while you and Xue Yan were together… I tried to pick up women in the city.", Yang Wei decided to reveal the cause of his trauma since he saw that his friend was deeply worried about him.

  Lang Jie nodded as he listened to him, urging him to continue.

  "I… I was ignored by everyone. I tried to look cool, but no one would approach me. I managed to gather all my courage to approach a woman, but she… she…", Yang Wei gripped his head tightly as the painful memory started to resurge.

  "She rejected me!", Yang Wei couldn't help but shake as he remembered the words that the woman said to her friend after she told him that she had a boyfriend. Her friend knew that the woman had no boyfriend, but the friend wondered why she rejected Yang Wei that way, and the words that came from her mouth would haunt Yang Wei in his sleep.

  "He's not my type."

  Those four words echoed in Yang Wei's mind as he felt his heart being pierced by a million needles.

  Lang Jie looked at him like he was crazy. Lang Jie couldn't believe that his extremely competent co-worker would act like this over a rejection, but he couldn't bear to leave his friend alone. He knew that he had to do something to help him get over the 'painful' memory he had.

  "Look… beauty is subjective! That woman might not think you're her type, but there are plenty of other women who think that you fit the bill…", Lang Jie tried to comfort Yang Wei, but he just couldn't find the right words to say. He felt like he was an old man teaching a youngster about love.

  "B-but… every time a single woman is close to me, I can see their expressions turning into the same one that the woman had when she told me she had a boyfriend!", Yang Wei expressed his fears.

  Lang Jie couldn't help but shake his head over the mere absurdity of the problem at hand. He was completely clueless as to how he should deal with the situation, but then he suddenly had a thought.

  Since he had no idea how to deal with it, he should just ask help from someone who has experience, or alternatively, someone powerful.

  "Yang Wei, stay here for a bit.", Lang Jie took out his phone and called Xue Yan.

  Xue Yan was still happily conversing with Jane when suddenly, her phone started ringing.

  "Excuse me for a moment.", Xue Yan picked up the phone right away as soon as she saw that it was Lang Jie.

  "Darling? What's wrong?", Xue Yan asked.

  "Honey, do you remember back at the hot spring resort when we played volleyball with Mister M?"

  "Yes, why?"

  "That surge of power and confidence that I felt, did that come from your powers?"

  "Umm… yes…", Xue Yan meekly responded as she felt guilty not telling her husband about it.

  "Well, can you do that again? But not to me…", Lang Jie told his wife as he looked at the trembling Yang Wei in the restroom.

  "Oh? Is it for Yang Wei? What happened to him?", Xue Yan felt confused. She had no idea why her husband suddenly asked her about it.

  "Well… he had a traumatic experience a few days ago, and now he's scared of women.", Lang Jie told Xue Yan.

  "So…?", Xue Yan responded, still unsure about where the conversation was headed.

  "We need to get him a woman. To do that, he needs confidence.", Lang Jie told her.

  "Shouldn't we do that when we land home? He can't just pick up women in the airport…", Xue Yan voiced out her opinion on the matter, but Lang Jie had already thought one step ahead.

  "I remember that there's a woman that's single and jealous of your love life.", Lang Jie told her.

  Xue Yan immediately realized what Lang Jie wanted to do. She looked at Jane who was in front of her, happily taking a sip of her coffee. Xue Yan remembered that she was jealous of her married life, so she also wanted to extend a hand to help her friend.

  "I understand…", Xue Yan told Lang Jie. She couldn't help but show a mischievous smile on her face.

  "I'll leave it to you, honey."

  Lang Jie dropped the call and silently prayed for Xue Yan's success. He went back to Yang Wei, who seemed to have calmed down.

  "Let's go back.", Lang Jie told him.

  "N-no! I can just wait for our plane here… You can go first!", Yang Wei really didn't want to go back. He felt that Jane was still talking with Xue Yan, so he didn't want to go back to that scary place.

  "Don't worry, Xue Yan and I will deal with your problem…", Lang Jie confidently told Yang Wei. Lang Jie's confidence was contagious. Yang Wei found his friend to feel completely trustworthy.

  "D-do you have anything in mind that could fix my trauma?", Yang Wei asked him.

  "Don't worry, I have a plan… and it's already ongoing as we speak.", Lang Jie couldn't help but wear a smug expression on his face as he realized his genius.

  Back at the coffee stall, Xue Yan wore the same smug expression as she initiated Lang Jie's plan.

  "Jane, weren't you looking for a good partner? I think I have the perfect man…"

  CHAPTER 19 – “THE MARRIED COUPLE’S FEELING OF DESPAIR DESPITE BEING IN THE FACE OF VICTORY”

  Lang Jie forcibly pushed out Yang Wei from the restroom, who was now feeling the fear that had left him earlier slowly come back.

  Lang Jie saw Xue Yan was still talking with Jane, but as Xue Yan noticed him, a glint appeared in Xue Yan's eyes. Lang Jie nodded as he realized that the plan was now underway. Every move done from here on out was important. The peaceful gatehouse in the airport now looked like a battlefield in Lang Jie's eyes.

  He tightly gripped Yang Wei and dragged him towards the table.

  "Ah, honey! You're back!", Xue Yan smiled as she got up and greeted her husband. As she approached her husband, her face quickly turned into a serious one. She looked at her husband to ask for confirmation on whether they were going to go through with the plan or not.

  Lang Jie nodded, which started the war that would be passed down for multiple generations to come.

  Xue Yan patted Yang Wei on his back and poured her qi into him.

  "Are you okay, Yang Wei?", Xue Yan asked.

  Yang Wei felt his body burn up. The fear that welled up inside him quickly disappeared and was now replaced with a newfound confidence.

  Lang Jie watched as color quickly returned to Yang Wei's face. It was then that he thought that his wife was amazing. Just a small touch from her made Yang Wei feel completely invigorated.

  Yang Wei had above-average looks, so he wasn't lacking in that department. Lang Jie and Xue Yan hoped that the confidence boost he go
t was enough for him to make a move.

  Inside Yang Wei, an uncontrollable urge started to well up in his heart.

  'I… I will find myself a girlfriend right now!', he thought to himself as Xue Yan's power circulated within him. Although he knew that the airport was no place to pick up women, he couldn't fight back against what his heart wanted to do.

  As he made his decision, his eyes wandered towards Jane, who was sitting on the coffee chair. She seemed to be looking at him intently with a slightly flushed face.

  Xue Yan saw this and let out a mischievous smile. She had already laid out the groundwork for the battle. Earlier, when she asked Jane if she was looking for a man, Jane responded yes. She then recommended Yang Wei and described him the best way she could. In the short exchange they had about Yang Wei, Xue Yan felt like she was a hawker who was advertising a product in an infomercial.

  "My husband always tells me that Yang Wei is hard-working and kind towards his fellow workmates…"

  "Yang Wei doesn't have any experience with women at all, but he's also looking for a partner, just like you!"

  "Yang Wei looks quite decent, and I think he's around the same age as you too! He also has a decent career. He's the branch manager for their company after all! A man with a stable career makes him feel a bit sexier in a way, don't you think?"

  Those were some of the things that Xue Yan said in order to try to sell her product. It was difficult for her to praise someone other than her Lang Jie, so she just thought of the similar traits that Yang Wei had with her husband and used those words to advertise Yang Wei.

  After all that pushing, Jane finally seemed interested, which now leads us to the current situation.

  As Jane looked at the now-confident Yang Wei, there seemed to be sparkles around him. In Jane's eyes, Yang Wei's face seemed to be more handsome than before. She seemed to be able to see more detailed features on his face. His chiseled jawline seemed to be seducing her as she continued staring at him.

  'Was he this handsome before? What kind of sorcery did he pull to make me ogle him like this…'

  Jane thought that she was under a spell. She has never felt this way towards another man before, even on her past relationships. The flowers and sparkles that surrounded Yang Wei made her heartbeat incredibly fast, along with his seductive look. This was the first time she felt that she had fallen in love so hard that she started seeing hallucinations.

  Well, technically… she wasn't under a spell. Xue Yan just distorted the space in front of her to make Yang Wei even more attractive. The confidence that Yang Wei felt inside him also made him even more attractive, since confidence is sexy. So technically, Yang Wei was the one under a spell since the confidence he felt was artificially created by Xue Yan.

  As Yang Wei saw Jane intently staring at him, he felt his heartbeat rapidly rising. Xue Yan also wanted to make Jane look prettier in his eyes, but Jane already looked plenty gorgeous, so she didn't bother doing it.

  Yang Wei's body moved on its own. He slowly approached Jane, trying to keep a cool aura around him. In Jane's eyes, he did indeed become cooler, but for the bystanders, he looked like a fool.

  Yang Wei tried to walk just like how the cool men in the movies did. He thought that he looked incredibly cool, but in reality, the wide swinging of his arm and the unnecessarily large strides he took looked completely awkward. Xue Yan felt glad that she had made him look cooler for Jane, otherwise, the product might not have been sold.

  Jane felt her heart beat faster and faster the closer Yang Wei was. As Yang Wei took a seat beside her, she felt that her heart would explode at any moment.

  "Mind if I sit here?", Yang Wei tried to play it cool. The way he said it was good, but he just had to make a pose that made him look stupid. He placed his elbow on the table and leaned his head on his hand while raising an eyebrow.

  Jane felt an arrow shoot straight through her heart as he saw the man beside her.

  "I-it's okay…", Jane meekly responded as she started brushing through her hair. She felt really nervous about being beside Yang Wei. Xue Yan watched them and was immediately reminded about how she acts when Lang Jie is with her. Although Lang Jie didn't have the help of an all-powerful cultivator, Xue Yan remembered that when Lang Jie confessed his love for her, she also saw sparkles around him.

  Xue Yan sighed and wrapped her arms around Lang Jie's hand. The two of them looked at Jane and Yang Wei, who seemed to have a lovely atmosphere around them.

  "We did it darling…", Xue Yan smiled and felt sentimental watching the two. She thought that they might've looked the same way back when they first started dating. She started feeling sad as she thought about their vacation ending.

  Lang Jie also felt the same. He was also reminded of how he felt when he saw Xue Yan the first time. It felt incredibly good, and he felt glad that his friend was now experiencing the same feeling.

  Lang Jie hugged Xue Yan with one arm, which caught her in surprise. Xue Yan blushed as she looked at her husband happily watching his friend's relationship advance from a distance.

  "When we get back, what do you say we go out and have some fun? I feel like the vacation we had wasn't enough.", Lang Jie told his wife, who immediately blushed as she thought about going on another date with her husband.

  "S-sure! I'd love it! I also feel like we should extend our vacation…", Xue Yan responded as she leaned her head on her husband's shoulders. She continued watching the couple that was about to be formed with the help of her 'guidance'.

  The atmosphere in the gatehouse was mellow, but suddenly, a familiar old man's voice came from behind Lang Jie and Xue Yan.

  "Then, I will extend your vacation!"

  The married couple couldn't help but jump out of surprise. They turned around and saw Wen Cheng, who was happily stroking his beard while watching Yang Wei successfully flirting.

  "B-brother Cheng?! What are you doing here?", Lang Jie asked Wen Cheng with a shocked expression. Xue Yan simply shook her head and rubbed her eyebrows out of frustration. The mood she had with her husband was going great, so she wanted to keep it going for a bit longer, but the old man just had to be insensitive enough to break it.

  "Well… I was quite worried about Yang Wei finding out about the secret, so I couldn't sit still.", Wen Cheng responded. He knew that he had done something wrong when he saw Xue Yan's reaction, so he turned it down a notch.

  "Ehem… seeing as Brother Wei was able to find a woman for him, I'd like to give you all an extension on your vacation.", he cleared his throat and told the married couple.

  "A-are you sure Brother Cheng? Giving us another vacation so soon after the first one?", Lang Jie asked for confirmation.

  "Yes, of course! Besides, you came here for a business trip, so it's only natural that I should reward your hard work! It's also my gift towards Brother Wei, who, after failing to attract a woman during his entire trip, has finally managed to snag the heart of a beautiful one!", Yang Wei explained why he did his act of kindness.

  Xue Yan was going to smack him for ruining the atmosphere between her and her husband, but since he granted her husband a vacation, she let it go.

  "Thank you, Brother Cheng!", Lang Jie happily expressed his gratitude towards his boss.

  "No problem. Since everything seems to be settled, can you pass the news to Yang Wei? I'll take my leave now since there is still something I have to do.", Wen Cheng wore his trademark smile and waved his hand as he made his way out the gatehouse.

  "Ah! I almost forgot!", Wen Cheng stopped for a while and looked at Lang Jie.

  "You should ask your wife for more favors. She seems to like it a lot when you depend on her.", Wen Cheng told him. He was watching the entire thing unfold, so he knew of everything that happened in the gatehouse. When Lang Jie asked for Xue Yan's help, she looked incredibly glad, and she also seemed to be having a lot of fun knowing that she was doing her husband a favor.

  "Y-you! Don't say any unnecessary things!", Xue Yan felt flustered and lashed ou
t towards Wen Cheng, who hurriedly made his exit.

  Lang Jie smiled at his wife.

  "Is that true, honey?", he asked her with a playful voice. Seeing his wife's funny reaction made him want to tease her.

  "W-well… I guess so...", Xue Yan answered in a quiet manner. She averted her husband's gaze since she didn't want him to see her blushing face.

  Before Lang Jie could continue teasing his wife, the speakers around the gatehouse started playing a short tune, which was then followed by an announcement.

  "Passengers of Flight CCA09, the plane is now ready for boarding. Please proceed to the second gate."

  "Ah, that's our flight.", Lang Jie hurriedly took his baggage, as well as his wife's. He wanted to head over towards Jane and Yang Wei, but as he was about to approach them, they seemed to have a solemn expression on their faces.