A shadow fell straight down over the maid's head, and the sunlight in front of one of the windows became a giant light bulb that was only used for illumination.
She stared at Lu Shizhen's profile reflected in the windowpane. Her slightly upturned eyes had a few drooping eyelashes, and her playful disdain was mixed with a chilling malice. A coldness instantly seeped from her scalp to her limbs, as if it wanted to devour her.
In fact, Lu Shizhen did not want to pull a servant so roughly.
But what could she do if she didn't rush up and grab him? This person was about to attack Xu Shiyue any second, and her already terrible score would be reduced by who knows how many more points.
Lu Shizhen looked at the maid beside her, feeling somewhat resentful.
She felt that the servants in this house were practically there to boost her score in the opposite direction. The original owner's score was deducted due to the bug, and these servants deserved a lot of credit!
The room, which had been noisy just moments before, fell silent instantly, and everyone was on edge.
The maid was so frightened that she dared not speak, and her arrogant and domineering demeanor from before vanished completely.
Only Xu Shiyue stood calmly in place.
Her slender arm still gripped the box tightly, her demeanor indifferent and quiet, as if she had nothing to do with the storm.
But she was the center of this storm.
Lu Shizhen knew that the maid wouldn't, and didn't dare to, repeat what she had just said to Xu Shiyue, so she turned to look at Xu Shiyue: "Are you alright?"
Xu Shiyue shook her head slightly.
It's not that I'm fine, it's just that I don't feel the need to tell this person where I'm in pain.
The maid walked very fast, and the edge of the box hit Xu Shiyue's calf directly, leaving a bruise.
A bluish-green smudge spread across her fair calves, making them look dirty and particularly unsightly.
Lu Shizhen was more observant than anyone else, and such a bruise could not be hidden from her eyes.
She frowned slightly and ordered another maid, "Go and get the medicine."
"Yes." The maid nodded immediately and ran out like lightning.
The room remained so quiet you could hear a pin drop. The moment Lu Shizhen's voice rang out, Xu Shiyue knew that Lu had seen the injury on her leg.
Avoidance was as ineffective as ever. The sound of a chair being dragged over echoed in the room like a solo performance, and the next second, Xu Shiyue's wrist was covered by a familiar palm warmth.
Lu Shizhen: "The chair is right behind you, sit down first."
Perhaps he sensed that the current situation posed no threat to him, or perhaps he felt a sense of restraint in the person holding his wrist.
Xu Shiyue didn't say anything, and just sat down, holding the box in her hand, as Lu Shizhen instructed.
The maid moved quickly, and in the time it took to speak, she brought over all sorts of medicines for bruises and sprains, piling them all over the table.
Lu Shizhen nodded to her with satisfaction, then pointed to the maid next to her and said, "Tell Aunt Sun that she doesn't need to come tomorrow."
The maid wanted to argue and beg for mercy, but unexpectedly, her own bad karma paid off. The maid who was already dissatisfied with her behavior answered very decisively, replying before she could even speak: "Yes, Miss."
Lu Shizhen was quite pleased with the maid's cleverness. She glanced at her again and then said to the people in the room, "Everyone, get out."
People left the room one after another, and the room became quiet and gentle the moment the door was completely closed.
After the commotion just now, Lu Shizhen was really worried about the servants in her house.
Besides, who knows more about "legs" than her?
The sound of the bottle cap being opened was particularly crisp. Lu Shizhen squatted down next to Xu Shiyue: "This is a blood-activating and stasis-removing ointment. It might hurt a little when you apply it, so please bear with it for a bit."
The shadow blocked the light from Xu Shiyue's face, and she stared at the figure beside her with a gloomy gaze.
She didn't respond to Lu Shizhen for a long time, and Lu Shizhen seemed to be just giving a notification. After speaking, she applied the milky white ointment to Xu Shiyue's legs.
The cotton swab, dipped in ointment, rubbed against the bruise on my calf. The cool sensation carried a seductive gentleness, and the pain subsided.
Xu Shiyue was somewhat surprised that this Miss Lu could control her strength like that, and then, as if she had figured something out, a sneer suddenly flashed through her mind.
I almost fell for her trick.
It's yet another drama where the instigator plays the role of a righteous hero.
It's such a shame that someone with such a great script isn't a screenwriter.
Lu Shizhen was very skilled at applying medicine to legs, and she finished applying the medicine to Xu Shiyue in no time.
As she packed up the medicine bottles, she said, "The bruises should be gone by tomorrow. If you're worried, I've put the medicine on your bedside table."
"Thank you." Xu Shiyue's voice was indifferent, her distant attitude suggesting she was about to be ushered out.
Lu Shizhen, however, didn't notice that her attention was focused on the large box that Xu Shiyue had been protecting earlier. Remembering how the maid had kicked it a few times, she offered, "Would you like me to open the box for you and check if anything is wrong inside?"
Xu Shiyue paused for a moment upon hearing this.
She wanted to refuse, but she knew she couldn't see clearly and wouldn't be able to examine it closely. After hesitating for a moment, she nodded: "Thank you for your trouble."
Lu Shizhen moved very carefully. Inside the box lay a beautiful cello.
A faint scent of pine wafted from inside, and light streamed through the window, flowing across the instrument and drawing a beautiful curve.
Lu Shizhen remembered that the original owner seemed to have seen Xu Shiyue playing the cello on stage during a school performance, and became interested in keeping this moonlight to herself.
The small ball, its brown color faded, floated leisurely beside Lu Shizhen and explained, "This is the cello that Xu Shiyue's mother gave her. It had been kept in the school's symphony orchestra. The original owner of this body specially retrieved it from the school to please her."
"This should be considered a keepsake, right?" Lu Shizhen carefully examined the beautiful and heavy cello, saying to Xiaoqiu in her mind.
"Yes," Little Ball nodded.
Both of them couldn't help but feel that the original owner had done something truly humane.
"How about it."
Just as the concept of "One Person, One Unification" was conversing in his mind, Xu Shiyue's voice rang out.
Lu Shizhen dared not be negligent. She carefully and awkwardly held the cello and said, "I see that there is nothing wrong with the body of the cello. You can touch it and try it out."
As Lu Shizhen spoke, she took the cello out of its case and placed it next to Xu Shiyue.
Their fingers intertwined for a fleeting moment, cool yet warm, before abruptly separating again in a second.
Often, a person's blindness does not mean that she cannot do anything well.
Just like now, Xu Shiyue took the cello from Lu Shizhen's hands and skillfully, without even hesitation, placed it precisely between her legs. With just one movement, she was much more professional than Lu Shizhen clumsily held it.
The bow strokes across the taut string, and the resonant vibrations produce a deep and melodious sound.
Xu Shiyue sat in the chair and began to play her cello as if testing it out.
In fact, Xu Shiyue didn't know what piece she was going to play to test if there was a problem with the violin. She just found that her wrist involuntarily started to pull the violin when the bow was on the string.
Fate was truly unfair to her.
The strings trembled slightly, lacking the innocence a girl of that age should have; the thick notes were filled with countless sorrows.
Like the wind, like the clouds.
Like a ribbon floating in mid-air, utterly alone and adrift, devoid of any will to live.
Lu Shizhen, who knew nothing about music theory, suddenly stopped all her movements.
The vibrations of the strings seemed to resonate with her heartbeat, and she seemed to hear Xu Shiyue's deep emotions, just like the music.
The last time Xu Shiyue played the violin, she was sitting under the large window of the music room.
But now things have changed. The small window frames the sunlight perfectly, not giving the girl even a fraction more.
The sunlight of yesteryear seems to overlap with the sun of today on the glass window, generously depicting the girl's upright figure.
Her long, slightly wavy, jet-black hair cascaded down her shoulders like a waterfall, revealing a small portion of her clean and aloof profile.
The girl's hand holding the strings was straight but not tense, elegant yet with a sense of ease and casualness. Her light movements unfolded slowly with the music, but without being lazy.
She felt even more strongly that the most foolish thing fate and the system had done was to trap Xu Shiyue in darkness.
Such a person should stand on a bigger stage and show everyone the music she plays, shining brightly.
She wanted her to get better.
Lu Shizhen's gaze became exceptionally firm, and the music in her ears suddenly stopped.
Xu Shiyue didn't finish playing the piece she had randomly chosen. Like an irresponsible musician, she coldly told her audience, "Thank you, Miss Lu, the instrument is fine."
Lu Shizhen suddenly felt a bit uneasy, as if the novel she was engrossed in had suddenly disappeared.
However, she couldn't urge the lady in front of her, so she could only nod blankly and disappointedly: "Oh, okay."
"It's good that there's no problem. I won't bother you any longer." Lu Shizhen said, and before Xu Shiyue could shoo her away, she turned around and left tactfully.
And often, many things that have caused us a lot of worry suddenly take a turn for the better in such unexpected times.
Just as Lu Shizhen was becoming exceptionally determined to cure Xu Shiyue's eyes, she noticed something.
In the inconspicuous corner to the left of Xu Shiyue's room, there was a potted plant that looked rather listless.
An unusual dampness floated on the moist soil, as if it had been overwatered and was about to drown.
Lu Shizhen's eyes suddenly lit up. She hurriedly walked out of Xu Shiyue's room and eagerly told Xiaoqiu, "I know where Xu Shiyue put all her medicine!"
"Where! Where!" Little Ball was extremely excited and excitedly moved closer to Lu Shizhen's face.
“She poured it all into the potted plant in her room,” Lu Shizhen shared cautiously.
The little ball recalled the room it had just scanned of Xu Shiyue and had a vague recollection: "Is that the plant that's almost dead? I was wondering how it could be dying from waterlogging when the house doesn't leak."
Then, as if it had thought of something, it suddenly flashed its light at Lu Shizhen: "Host, are you planning to confiscate this plant? That way, Xu Shiyue won't be able to dispose of the medicine and will have no choice but to obediently accept the treatment!"
Lu Shizhen's eyes hurt from the flash of the little ball, and hearing its suggestion full of flaws, she couldn't help but complain, "Aren't you the original owner of this body?"
Feeling wronged, the little ball sat on Lu Shizhen's head: "Then what do you want to do, host?"
“I want to raise it back,” Lu Shizhen said earnestly.
From that day on, a plant that was about to drown appeared in the garden greenhouse.
The entire villa belongs to Lu Shizhen, so switching a plant without Xu Shiyue's knowledge is no problem.
The garden was exceptionally quiet, bathed in the bright morning sunlight and fresh scents, before it was time to start work.
Water droplets slowly dripped from the greenhouse glass, and the slender leaves of the plants slowly unfurled, creating a serene and lush green scene.
In the midst of this silence, a figure stirred the leaves.
The shovel turned over the damp soil in the flowerpot, and Lu Shizhen squatted in front of the flowerpot, muttering softly, "You're a little better today than yesterday. They'll take you out to bask in the sun later, so you can recover faster."
"But you still have to go to work after you recover, and your plant brother who took your place can't take it either. The medicine is indeed not poisonous, but it will still die from being watered like that."
At this point, Lu Shizhen touched the leaves in front of her with pity and sighed, "You can't blame your master, she doesn't trust me."
The corner of the shovel gently scraped at the surface soil. Lu Shizhen rested her small face on her arm, looking somewhat worried.
But this worry dissipated in no time, and she returned to her usual motivated self, full of energy for points: "Anyway, as long as you live well, in time, when she sees that you are not dead, she will be able to accept treatment with peace of mind."
"After all, who doesn't want to live a good life? You are too, right?" Lu Shizhen's eyebrows relaxed slightly as she looked at the leaves that were standing upright in front of her, as if she were asking the leaves, or perhaps she was asking herself.
The damp soil was gradually softened and gaps were created by the shovel, and Lu Shizhen stood up by supporting herself on her legs.
Having finished her work for the day, she said to the plant, "Alright, I'm leaving now. Take good care of yourself."
The old iron gate creaked shut as the girl closed it, and the next second, a dark face was revealed behind a shelf full of potted plants.
Xu Shiyue also followed and walked out from behind this person.
Luo Ji looked at him with disgust and disdain: "Miss, what is this madman muttering about to a plant?!"
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