31. Night 31: Killing Intent

"Lu Xi? Is it really you? You're not dead?" The woman walked over excitedly in her pointed high heels. "Impossible... Impossible. She died a long time ago. I saw it with my own eyes."

The wavy-haired woman in front of him was probably in her thirties. She had a familiar tone and a familiar look. Even though she looked a little more haggard and had a few wrinkles under her eyes, Lu Xi still recognized her.

"Lu Yuan?" Lu Xi uttered her name.

When Lu Yuan heard Lu Xi's voice and looked at her face, which looked younger than before, her beautiful makeup instantly faded and her expression became ferocious. "It's really you! You're not dead! You're actually not dead."

"Are you surprised that I'm not dead?" Lu Xi actually didn't intend to hide it. If she hadn't been discovered by the Yuan family, she might have planned to hide her identity because she didn't want to cause trouble for Yuan Mu.

But now, it seems unnecessary.

Lu Yuan looked at the girl in front of her with resentment. After not seeing her for so many years, Lu Xi not only did not die, but also became younger.

And she, despite being a member of the Lu clan with a longer lifespan than the average human, still looked much more haggard after forty years.

"Why are you here?" Lu Yuan gritted her teeth, her expression suddenly changing. "Is it because of that monster?"

"Monster?" Lu Xi's face turned cold. "You mean Yuan Sen?"

When Lu Xi said this name, Lu Yuan's face turned pale and her whole body trembled violently. "That monster will get his comeuppance. He will not die a good death, a bad death..."

"Lu Yuan, shut up."

"He killed my cub, he will be punished. The Yuan family will not allow such a monster to become the head of the family..." She laughed crazily, "You will all be punished, hehe..."

Lu Xi frowned, wondering what she meant.

"Huh? Lu Xi, class has already started, what are you doing here?" At this time, Lu Xi's head teacher came over.

Lu Xi's homeroom teacher was a middle-aged man with a potbelly, a Mediterranean hairstyle, and thick glasses.

"Teacher Lu is here too."

Teacher? Lu Xi looked at Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan has now put away her previous craziness. She has big wavy hair and delicate makeup. Lu Xi found that she is holding a few books in her arms. It turns out that she is a teacher here.

Her face, covered in thick foundation, gave a stiff, ugly smile. "Yeah, is Teacher Qin coming here at this time too?"

"Lu Xi, are you feeling better?" The head teacher asked Lu Xi with concern. She had taken a week's sick leave to take care of the mermaid.

"Okay, thank you for your concern, teacher."

"That's good. Class has already started. Go now."

Lu Xi nodded and walked towards the stairs.

Lu Yuan watched her leave, her nails digging into her flesh.

Lu Xi's good mood for the whole morning was disrupted because of meeting Lu Yuan, and he was absent-minded during class.

It wasn't until the get out of class was over that Li Cancan ran over.

"Cancan, do you know Lu Yuan?"

"Teacher Lu Yuan? Of course I know." Li Cancan clasped her hands in front of her chest, her face full of longing. "She is the goddess of the whole school, beautiful and gentle. I really like her."

Gentle? That woman? Lu Xi found it hard to associate this word with the woman he met by chance this morning.

"Teacher Lu Yuan is very nice. I heard her family is very wealthy, but it seems...she's not married yet."

Li Cancan acted like she knew Lu Yuan very well and talked about it non-stop, "I forgot to bring a pen to the exam before, and it was Teacher Lu Yuan who lent it to me. She's such a nice person."

"Actually, having such a beautiful teacher can be annoying sometimes. It seems like a lot of boys like her."

"That's not right..." Li Cancan suddenly stopped, staring at Lu Xi, "Your last name is Lu too, you wouldn't..."

"We have no relationship."

"Really?" Li Cancan didn't quite believe it.

"Yeah." Lu Xi didn't want to have anything to do with Lu Yuan anymore, nor did she want to have anything to do with the Lu family. She was no longer the Lu Xi she used to be.

After class, Lu Xi said goodbye to Li Cancan and the others and walked towards the villa, but she was soon stopped by someone.

"Lu Xi." A boy's voice sounded.

Lu Xi turned around and saw a handsome boy standing not far away. When he saw Lu Xi turning around, he lowered his head helplessly.

"Who are you."

"I'm Rong Mingjie from Class 3." He spoke haltingly.

"What's up?"

"Can I... treat you to a meal?"

A gust of wind blew, messing up Lu Xi's long black hair. She raised her fingertips and gently hooked her hair behind her white ears. The boy looked at the girl's beautiful face and suddenly fell into a trance.

"Sorry, I'm busy."

"So...what about tomorrow? Are you free tomorrow?"

Lu Xi frowned. It was not difficult for her to guess what he was thinking, because this was not the first person who had a good look. It was troublesome to be good-looking.

"I'm not free tomorrow either."

After she finished speaking, she turned around.

The boy gritted his teeth and saw that Lu Xi was about to leave. He called her anxiously, "Lu Xi, wait a minute."

He ran to Lu Xi, his face flushed deeply, as if he had made up his mind, "...Lu Xi, I like you."

Lu Xi understood the adolescent boy's impulses, but she had no intention of dealing with their feelings. "I don't like you."

"It's okay...we can be friends first..." The boy clenched his fists, still unwilling to give up.

"No thanks." Lu Xi refused.

Lu Xi continued to walk forward. This time the boy did not catch up with her, probably because he was hurt.

After walking for a while, a harp-like voice suddenly came from above my head, but this beautiful voice was ironic.

"Your name is Lu Xi too?"

A slender figure jumped down from the tree and landed in front of Lu Xi. She looked up at the boy's fair face. He had a smile on his lips, but Lu Xi could see that there was displeasure in his eyes. Why was he unhappy? Was it because of her name?

"Lu Xi, what a pity."

"Really?" He said casually, glancing sideways in the direction of Lu Xilai, "Aren't you going to accept the confession?"

"Yeah." Lu Xi continued to move forward. She was not used to the mermaid in this posture and always felt a little awkward.

Yuan Sen followed her back to the villa. This personality did not eat cooked meals, which made Lu Xi feel much more relaxed.

The sashimi is cut and even without adding any seasoning, the monotonous food is served to the table.

Lu Xi went to the room and knocked on the door. After knocking many times, there was no response. She turned the door open, but found that no one was inside.

Lu Xi closed her eyes slightly, listened carefully to the sounds in the air, then opened her eyes and walked downstairs.

In the large open-air swimming pool, the sun shone on the shimmering water. Lu Xi walked to the edge of the pool, but did not find the mermaid in the pool. "Strange, I clearly heard..."

Then, when Lu Xi was completely unprepared, a hand stretched out from the water and dragged her into the water.

There was a "splash" sound from the water surface.

Lu Xi sank into the water and she floated in the water. The first thing that caught her eye was his long silver-blue hair like a waterfall, and then his face moved closer to her, and his translucent eyelashes were close at hand.

Lu Xi was pressed tightly to the bottom of the swimming pool by him. If she didn't need to breathe, she would have died by now.

He seemed to have noticed this about Lu Xi, and when he was slightly distracted, Lu Xi broke free from him and swam towards the surface.

"It's so boring." He also swam up.

If Lu Xi was still in her previous identity, when she saw this face full of pity, she would definitely not be able to help but pinch and pull it to see what bad ideas were in his head.

"Yuan Sen, what were you doing just now?"

He jumped and sat on the edge of the swimming pool. The smile on his face had disappeared, leaving only a sense of alienation as deep as a ravine.

"It's just a joke." He said nonchalantly.

"I'm hungry, let's go eat." After saying that, he casually changed into a human form in front of her, put on a bathrobe and went out.

After he left, Lu Xi frowned.

I don’t know if it was an illusion, but the seemingly mischievous action just now made Lu Xi feel a hint of murderous intent.

Arsenal wanted to kill her? Why?

At night, the moon climbed up into the sky. The wind was a little noisy tonight, and dark clouds blocked the moonlight, which took a long time to disperse.

In the quiet room, the girl was sleeping uneasily with a frown on her face. Suddenly, the door opened silently a crack.

The young man who appeared at the door looked distracted, his hair was disheveled, his robe was wrinkled, and his breath was disordered. He walked into the room barefoot and staggered towards the big bed.

"Patta, patta..." Pearls fell to the ground and rolled all over the smooth floor.

If it were usual, Lu Xi would have noticed such a noise long ago, but today she was haunted by a nightmare and couldn't wake up.

However, no matter how troubled he was by nightmares, Lu Xi had to wake up when someone grabbed his neck.

“Hehe… hehe…”

The word "tearful madman" was the most appropriate to describe the young man in front of him. Tears flowed from his eyes, turned into pearls in the air and hit Lu Xi's face.

Lu Xi had never seen such a desperate look before. She could feel the suffocating sadness, but now she had no way to comfort him. A pair of hands were tightly clamped around Lu Xi's neck. Lu Xi struggled hard and she felt her neck was about to break.

"Why did you leave me...you liar..." Hatred flashed across his face, but it quickly disappeared.

Instead, there was boundless fear, tears kept falling, "Don't go, don't go..."

The mermaid in front of her was very abnormal. Although Lu Xi knew that his personality was like that of a madman, he would not be as bad as he is now. Even if he wanted to strangle her to death, he would not be so embarrassed.

"Ascent...let...go..."

"Arsen...te..."

Suddenly, Lu Xi seized the opportunity, broke free from the boy's grip, and pinned him down on the bed.

He groaned, all his strength disappeared, and he stopped trying to strangle Lu Xi's neck and just lay there.

Lu Xi knew that he had returned to normal.

He seemed to know that he had almost killed her, but she couldn't see any guilt on his face.

"What's wrong with you?" She found that he was motionless and suddenly became worried, even though she should be more worried about herself.

The boy covered his face with the back of his hand, a sarcastic smile on his lips. She was almost killed by him just now, but she pretended to care about him. Humans are really hypocritical.

Although Lu Xi did not have any human aura, since her last name was Lu, she was probably a lackey trained by the Lu family.

In his eyes she was just like any other human being.

"It was just a dream..." Whether he opened his eyes or closed them, all he saw was darkness. Sometimes he didn't even know whether he was in reality or a dream.

The merman took his hand down and looked at Lu Xi's face, as if he could see her. "Aren't you going to go down?"

Only then did Lu Xi realize that she was still riding on him, and the boy under her had wrinkled clothes exposed and scratches on his body from her struggle just now, which seemed very ambiguous.

Lu Xi's face froze, and then her body started spinning. She was pinned down by someone again, but this time, he wasn't choking her neck. Instead, he lifted her slender, white arms.

The mermaid was very beautiful, with messy hair and an open robe, which made her look indescribably tempting. As a woman, Lu Xi naturally liked good-looking people, and she was stunned for a moment.

His body was so close to hers that she could smell the scent of seawater on him. "Humans should really like my body. I hurt you just now, and I can make it up to you..."

The mermaid lowered his head in front of her, and then she felt a slippery and wet touch on her wrist. Realizing what he was doing, Lu Xi's face darkened instantly. If it was someone else who did this to her, she might really be tempted.

But when I think of him as the kid back then...

She punched him on the head and angrily turned over and got up, "Don't say such things, kid."

Lu Xi pushed him away and ran out of the room.

After she left, the mermaid who had just exuded a seductive aura got up and sat silently on the bed.