64. Night 64 Try

This accident left Lu Xi at a loss. She began to keep a distance from the mermaid intentionally or unintentionally. When the mermaid was at home, she would hide in the room. Sometimes when she accidentally ran into her, she would just greet her distantly.

The two of them played hide-and-seek until once again, she was blocked at the stairs.

"Does Miss Lu Xi completely hate me?" There was hurt in his eyes.

"No, you're overthinking it."

"If not, why are you hiding from me?"

Lu Xi opened her mouth, she wanted to say no, but what she had done during this period was indeed too obvious.

"I just... don't want to hurt you anymore...

Lu Xi's heart was also complicated. Their relationship was so good originally, why did it have to change? She was really troubled now and didn't know how to deal with this matter. "Asent, can't we just stay like before?"

"No, why do you have to reject me?"

Why? Because she will soon be gone forever.

Lu Xi saw the remaining light in his eyes dimming little by little, and her heart felt like it was blocked by a stone.

"Asente, forget what happened that night..."

"impossible."

Lu Xi advised him, "You are still young, and you will meet someone you like more."

"No more, Miss Lu Xi." His face was ashen. "There will never be another Miss Lu Xi."

The mermaid let go of her wrist, looked at her sadly, and left without saying a word.

Lu Xi stood there, feeling extremely upset but unable to do anything.

"System, did I do something wrong?" She just didn't want to drag him down and leave him to suffer alone after she left, but her current actions seemed to have caused him pain.

"Host, I told you to have a love affair."

"With him? No."

"Host, do you like him?"

Lu Xi had never had close contact with other opposite sexes, but she didn't hate his touch. If she hadn't wanted to leave, she might have agreed to him. It was really hard to reject someone who liked her so much.

"Maybe I like it..."

"Host, think about it. Even if you're not together, he'll still be sad if you leave him. Why not take advantage of the last moments to fulfill his wish? How many first loves can finally be together? Sadness is inevitable."

"...What do you know about a system?"

"Host, are you doubting the analytical capabilities of this system?"

"You are so capable, now send me back."

"I'm sorry, this is a system malfunction. There's a saying in the human world: 'A doctor shouldn't treat himself.'"

Lu Xi: “…”

However, what the system said was not without reason. For example, her good friend and colleague Mu Nong had been in love several times, and every breakup was heartbreaking, but after a while, he was full of life again.

Maybe after being with her, the mermaid found that he didn't really like her that much, or maybe he just had never been in a relationship, and she was the woman he was closest to, so he was so obsessed with her.

After they date, he will understand that she is not irreplaceable.

In the evening, after taking a shower, Lu Xi curled up on the sofa and watched a movie while waiting for the mermaid to come back. It was almost twelve o'clock, and she thought he would never come back. A tall figure bathed in the night mist appeared at the door.

"Are you back?" Lu Xi took away the blanket and walked over.

She raised her head to look at the mermaid, and he lowered his eyes to look at her face, just like that, quietly without saying a word.

"Have you eaten outside? Are you hungry?"

"have eaten.

He turned around and walked to the sofa and sat down. He tugged at his tie with one hand and unbuttoned two buttons with his fingers, revealing half of his slender neck and half of his collarbone, revealing indescribable charm and sexiness.

"Aren't you going to bed?" He rubbed his eyebrows, without turning his face, only glancing at her with his eyes. The angle of his jaw was more distinct, revealing the mature charm that only adult men have.

Lu Xi said: "Go take a shower first, I have something to tell you later."

The mermaid had a blank expression on her face, as if she was thinking about what she could say to him. Soon her face became even colder than when she first entered the room. She stood up without saying a word and walked towards the stairs.

Lu Xi waited downstairs for half an hour, but he didn't come down. She waited for another fifteen minutes. It was almost one o'clock. Could he be asleep? That shouldn't be the case. She had just said that she had something to say to him.

The mermaid will never forget what she said in the past.

Lu Xi really didn't want to wait any longer, so she went upstairs and knocked on his door.

“Knock knock knock—”

After waiting for a moment, there was no response.

"Knock knock knock—" She knocked again.

With a "click", the door finally opened, and a mermaid in a bathrobe stood behind the door. His hair was a little messy, and there was a kind of laziness between his brows. His bathrobe was wrinkled and hung on his body.

Lu Xi was stunned. He looked like he had just woken up from a nap.

"Did you just fall asleep?"

"Um."

"Sorry, I don't know. I'll tell you tomorrow."

"What?" He looked at her. "Another rejection?"

"no……"

"Oh, what is that?"

Lu Xi could see that he was angry because of her previous rejection.

"...Maybe we can try to be together."

The air seemed to stagnate for a moment, and the mermaid in front of him stiffened his back. Lu Xi looked up at him and saw that his pupils shrank slightly, and his charming vertical pupils were torn into a black line.

"...What did you say?" His voice was dry and hoarse.

"We can try it together."

The mermaid lowered her head, her bangs covering her eyes, making them unfathomable.

Before Lu Xi was about to say something, she was pulled into the room. The room was dark, her lips were blocked, and the mermaid crushed her lips. The strong presence of the breath swallowed her sweet breath.

"With me?" he asked breathlessly.

"Yeah." Her chest also heaved violently, trying to digest the sudden kiss.

"That's not what you said during the day."

Lu Xi hadn't figured it out yet. She had rejected him many times, not just this morning.

"I changed my mind."

"Really?" His voice couldn't hide the trembling.

"Well, I want to try to be together..."

"How can you prove that you didn't lie to me?"

Lu Xi was stunned by his question. How could she prove this? He said this as if she had lied to him.

"How does Asent want me to prove it?"

"Try again." He pressed his lips against hers, his voice hoarse, "Try again, Miss Lu Xi."

Lu Xi's body froze. She had no chance to refuse because he quickly carried her to the bed. His heavy body covered her and he showered her with kisses. Lu Xi clutched the nightgown on his chest tightly.

"Ascent..." Even though she had done it once before, she was still nervous.

"Relax, Miss Lu Xi." He lowered his head and kissed her again.

This time he was very gentle, and seemed to have more skills than the recklessness that night. Lu Xi even suspected that he had learned it secretly, but she couldn't imagine him learning these things.

It was a wonderful experience from beginning to end.

"Ms. Lu Xi, I love you..."

The voice was low and repeated in my ear, but only this sentence was spoken without any skill.

The next day, Lu Xi woke up and opened his eyes. What he saw was a chest covered with red marks. The memories of last night came flooding back like a tide. His body stiffened, and then the mermaid's eyelashes trembled, and he slowly woke up.

He opened his eyes and looked at her, "Good morning, Miss Lu Xi."

"...Well, good morning."

The mermaid kissed the tip of her nose, his movements as natural as a couple who had been married for many years.

"I'll get up first." Lu Xi struggled to get up, quickly got out of bed and ran into the bathroom.

Only after hiding in the bathroom did I feel like breathing became a little easier.

After washing up, I finally felt much more awake. I suppressed the slight tension in my heart and saw the mermaid sitting at the computer desk browsing emails. I noticed that she raised her head and a faint smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.

"Are you hungry? I'll ask them to bring in breakfast."

"Yeah, okay..." Since we're planning to be together, it doesn't matter if others see us.

When the maid brought in breakfast, the mermaid finished washing up and ate with Lu Xi. The breakfast was a sandwich and milk, two identical ones. After breakfast, he went back to work at the computer.

Lu Xi sat on the sofa not far away, secretly watching him.

He was very focused when he was working, scanning the text at a glance, occasionally adjusting his posture, holding the mouse in one hand and tapping a few keys with the other.

"Miss Lu Xi, you can go down and take a walk. You don't have to accompany me." Perhaps noticing her gaze, he turned his head slightly and crossed his legs over the other, his posture as lazy as a resting leopard.

This simple big action made Lu Xi suddenly stiffen.

Lu Xi frowned and continued to observe his movements. The more she watched, the more panicked she became. No matter how hard a person tried to disguise their temperament, or how hard they tried to hide it, it would always be exposed. A look, a movement, could not be completely replicated. Moreover, the mermaid in front of her was different from the mermaid she had been with some time ago.

A kind of uneasy speculation came to my mind.

She stood up and walked in front of him, holding her breath and looking at him quietly.

"Asent, have you...changed your personality?"

Her question seemed to surprise him. He was silent for a moment and said, "Yeah."

"When was it switched?"

"Last night," he added, "before I came back."

Lu Xi's body shook and her face turned pale. At that time, they had already switched, which meant that it was him who rolled into the same bed with her last night. This realization made Lu Xi's heart sink.

"Why didn't you tell me?" She clenched her fists at her sides.

"Let me tell you, will you reject me?" He pulled out the chair and stood up, staring at her with his silver-blue eyes, the laziness on his face disappeared without a trace, "Will you reject me, Miss Lu Xi?"

"I..." Will she refuse? Of course she will.

Even though it's the same person, there's still a weird feeling of having two sides.

The mermaid didn't miss any of the expressions on her face. He chuckled and stroked her pale cheek with one hand. "Since you decided to be with me, shouldn't you have been mentally prepared for this?"

"...But he was the one who confessed to me."

"Ms. Lu Xi, he is so cunning. It was obviously me who fell in love with you first."

Lu Xi didn't understand what he said, "What are you talking about?"

"Forty years ago, when you were asleep, I expressed my love to you over and over again by your bedside, but Miss Lu Xi didn't know because you were asleep..."

No one knew how desperate he felt when he returned to this body and inherited the memories of this period, and knew that Miss Lu Xi rejected him again and again, saying that they could not be together.

For the first time, he felt that it would be better to have no memory of the other person as before.

"That's not fair to me."