Chapter 1375: Chapter 1353: To Please Oneself

As the alcohol took effect, Bai Shan truly felt the intoxication, and a wave of drowsiness washed over him. His eyes closed, his breathing became slow and steady, and the grip on Manbao’s hand loosened slightly.

Manbao rested her chin on her other hand and observed him carefully. She gently poked his face with a finger, confirming he was indeed asleep, and then smiled slightly. She carefully tried to withdraw her left hand from his grip, but he reflexively held onto it.

Manbao: …

She sat for a while longer, making sure he wasn’t fully asleep yet, and sat bored.

The room was just the two of them, one lying asleep, and Manbao, feeling bored, could only chat with Keke, “Speaking of which, humans are also living beings, right? Will the encyclopedia include humans?”

Keke was startled by her, not understanding why she would have such a dangerous thought.

It said, “No, not only humans, all intelligent beings cannot be included in the collection, it is illegal.”

Manbao nodded and continued to stare at Bai Shan, then asked another question, “Do you think Bai Shan is good-looking?”

Keke: “…Host, aesthetics are subjective judgments, I have no subjective consciousness.”

“What about objectively?”

“Based on existing data, people generally will think he is good-looking.” Keke paused and added, “The host is also considered good-looking based on the data.”

Manbao happily continued to rest her chin and stare at Bai Shan.

As she continued to observe, she stealthily glanced outside and found that Daji was no longer in the yard. So she took out a pen and an inkstone from the system, ground some ink and drew eyebrows on him.

After finishing, she asked Keke, “Do you think these are sword-shaped eyebrows?”

Keke looked at the two blackened eyebrows and remained silent.

Manbao, however, looked intently, “Seems like they’re drawn a bit thick.”

Keke: …Is that a little bit?

Manbao waited until Bai Shan was deeply asleep and completely relaxed his grip before withdrawing her hand and leaving.

Bai Shan slept soundly until evening before waking up. He rubbed his eyes, looked down at the faint ink on his fingers, and had a vague sense of something amiss, so he immediately got out of bed to look in the mirror.

Looking at himself in the mirror, Bai Shan was speechless for a long time.

He took a deep breath, opened the door, ignored the astonished looks of the servants outside, and directly said, “Bring a basin of warm water.”

The servant snapped back to reality, immediately turned and ran to the kitchen to fetch water.

Daji happened to pass by and was stunned.

Thinking back, since the young master was nine years old, he had stopped having his face drawn on, this is…

Bai Shan was also somewhat depressed. When he was young, he shared a desk with Manbao, and sometimes after lunch, he’d nap at the desk in the school. They couldn’t resist drawing things on each other’s faces.

Because of this, they even got into fights, causing their teacher to punish them several times.

But as they grew older, they no longer did that, who knew he’d be so old now and still have his face drawn by Manbao.

Bai Shan sat in front of the mirror with a heavy heart, and as he looked, he felt something was off. He leaned closer to examine, just as a servant brought in water, he asked, “What do you think is drawn on my face?”

The servant held back laughter and glanced, “Is it eyebrows, young master?”

Bai Shan pondered, “Eyebrows?”

The servant nodded, indeed it’s eyebrows; originally, the young master’s eyebrows were quite nice, but Miss Man drew two such thick eyebrows, and the ink accidentally ran together, making it look like a black strip straight across the eyebrows.

Bai Shan stopped the departing servant, sternly said, “Wait until I finish washing, then leave.”

Bai Shan washed the ink off his face, the water turned black, he wiped his face, looked in the mirror again, turned to ask the servant, “Are my eyebrows not good-looking?”

The servant directly nodded, “Good-looking, there’s no one in the nearby villages more good-looking than the young master, except Miss Man.”

Bai Shan: …Who wants to compare with these villages, there are counties outside of villages, states outside of counties, provinces outside of states, they’ve all gone to the capital now!

Lord Yang is so good-looking, if he doesn’t compare himself to him, that’s alright, he shouldn’t just compare with the people in these villages, right?

Bai Shan looked at his eyebrows in the mirror again, thoughtfully asking, “How are sword-shaped eyebrows drawn?”

Servant: …Do men draw eyebrows too?

Seeing the servant couldn’t answer, Bai Shan didn’t force him, waved him off.

Bai Shan changed clothes, stretched out and went out, Daji was waiting outside, seeing him come out, he followed.

Bai Shan turned and said to him, “You go home, I’m not going out tonight, just going next door to find Erlang and cousin.”

Daji nodded, said a word to the servants in the courtyard, and went to the back wing.

There lived Erji, he also lived there, his accommodation was much better than other servants’ homes because it used to be a guest wing, not servants’ quarters.

Bai Shan told the servant to inform Granny and Mother, then directly went next door to find Bai Erlang.

Bai Erlang and the others had already eaten dinner. Hearing him say he slept until now, they asked the kitchen to cook a bowl of noodles, then stared at his face, “Why are your eyes red? Were you scolded and cried because you got drunk?”

“No.” Bai Shan wanted to discuss the eyebrow drawing matter with them, so he signaled them to look at his eyebrows, “Do you think my eyebrows are ugly?”

Bai Dalang and Bai Erlang seriously stared at his eyebrows, “A bit red.”

“A bit scattered,” Bai Dalang asked, “Did you cut them?”

Bai Shan: “…No.”

He also stared at Bai Dalang’s eyebrows, as for Bai Erlang, he wasn’t even bothered to look, he looked and then disdainfully said, “Cousin, why don’t you draw eyebrows?”

Bai Dalang once thought he heard wrong, so he questioned, “What did you say?”

Bai Shan said, “Cousin, you’re not young anymore, why don’t you tidy yourself up?”

Bai Dalang was now sure he hadn’t heard wrong.

He looked at Bai Shan, then turned to look at his brother to ensure he wasn’t dreaming, and then reached out to touch Bai Shan’s forehead, “Is this the first time drinking that damaged your brain? Drawing eyebrows is a woman’s affair, why should I draw eyebrows?”

Bai Erlang nodded repeatedly, also feeling Bai Shan’s brain was damaged from drinking.

But he quickly reacted and asked with a mischievous smile, “Did Manbao find you unattractive?”

Bai Dalang asked him, “Why are you happy if Junior Sister finds the cousin unattractive? You’re not as good-looking as him.”

Bai Erlang, however, was confident, “Nonsense, everyone says I’m good-looking.”

Bai Dalang ignored him and directly told Bai Shan, “I’ve never seen men draw eyebrows, cousin, don’t mess around.”

“What eyebrow drawing?” Old Master Bai brought in a bowl of noodles, handed it to Bai Shan, smilingly said, “Shanbao is here just in time, I was about to discuss your cousin’s marriage with you.”

Bai Dalang: “…Dad, it’s me looking to get married, right?”

Old Master Bai glanced at him and said, “Don’t think I don’t know, it was Shanbao who reminded you, only then did you consider proposing to the aristocratic family’s lady.”

Bai Dalang: …