"Brother Xu, why do you change your clothes just to eat?" Xu Haoming was puzzled and couldn't help asking. When

he said this, Song Zhe and Han Tianyu also looked at Lu Xu, and then they found that not only his clothes, but also his hair were wet.

Under what circumstances, do you have to take a shower after eating in someone else's room?

Xu Haoming felt a little regretful as soon as he asked this question. He always felt that there seemed to be some unspeakable secrets between Lu Xu and Ji Xiunian.

It's not that he is sensitive, but just now the two of them looked very close at the door, and they didn't look like simple friends at all.

He is also an adult, not a child who knows nothing. During the time he entered the circle, he saw a lot of people and even met people of the same sex who expressed their affection for him, so he was not surprised at all that Lu Xu and Ji Xiunian were really together.

But it's enough for you to know about this kind of thing. If you ask it now, wouldn't it be embarrassing for everyone?

Xu Haoming couldn't help but frown, thinking about how to end it.

But Han Tianyu was careless and added: "I also want to know, Brother Xu, how did you end up taking a shower while eating? Hahaha..."

Song Zhe couldn't help but poke him when he heard it, signaling him to say less.

Lu Xu looked calm as usual, and explained in a natural tone: "I just accidentally knocked over the takeaway, and then my clothes were ruined. Fortunately, Brother Nian was generous and took a shower at his place, so I didn't have to come back to queue."

"Hahaha, I knew it, it must be because of the takeaway, hahaha..." Xu Haoming relaxed at the moment, and he didn't know what he was laughing at.

Han Tianyu rolled his eyes at him and said casually, "It must be because of the takeout. Otherwise, what do you think it was? It can't be that something happened between Brother Xu and Brother Nian, haha."

The other party was just unintentional, but Xu Haoming and Song Zhe did change their faces and wanted to cover Han Tianyu's mouth.

Lu Xu pouted and joked naturally, "It's only been half an hour since I went to Brother Nian's room. Are you looking down on Brother Nian or me?"

???

The other three were stunned when they heard this. So is Lu Xu also a driver?

Although Lu Xu has been smiling since they met, he always gives people an indescribable sense of distance. Even if he is right in front of you, he still exudes a cold temperament.

Boys would tell jokes from time to time, but Lu Xu always just listened and didn't participate.

Now he suddenly said this, which caught his roommates off guard.

His attitude was so generous and natural that even Xu Haoming and Song Zhe, who had initially suspected the relationship between him and Ji Xiunian, were a little shaken.

Maybe it was just a simple brotherhood, and they were just overthinking it.

A few people talked and laughed, and the topic was not mentioned again.

At five or six in the morning, Lu Xu went out early to collect two orders.

After waiting for all the roommates to get up, they went out together to have breakfast and prepare for rehearsal.

"Good morning, senior sister." Lu Xu entered the dance studio and found that the guest singer Yu Manman had been waiting there for a long time, and was now wearing headphones and looking down at the video.

He touched the amulet in his pocket and greeted her unconsciously.

Yu Manman looked up at the voice and saw Lu Xu curling his lips: "Good morning, Junior Brother."

Ever since she met Eighth Sister last night, Yu Manman couldn't sleep well that night. It's not like she had seen cats before, but it was the first time that Eighth Sister gave her such a great fear.

Even when she returned to the room, Yu Manman could only think of Eighth Sister when she closed her eyes. Even in her dreams, she turned into a dried fish, and Eighth Sister became extremely huge, squatting beside her and drooling.

Yu Manman just felt weird in her heart. Seeing Lu Xu exchanged a few pleasantries first, she couldn't help asking him about Eighth Sister's situation: "Xuzai, how long have you raised Eighth Sister?"

"Quite a long time." Lu Xu didn't want to say thirty years directly, but he didn't think of lying.

Yu Manman asked again: "Does Eighth Sister like to eat fish particularly?"

Lu Xu raised his eyebrows upon hearing this, and looked Yu Manman up and down, with a half-smile on his face: "It's okay, she usually eats more snacks such as beef jerky and chicken jerky, and most of the canned food is poultry. As for fish, I don't feed her a lot."

"That's good, that's good." Yu Manman breathed a sigh of relief for some reason, and realized that her question was a bit strange, so she hurriedly explained, "I don't mean to ask this, I just think I like Eighth Sister very much and want to buy her some snacks or something." "Is that

so." Lu Xu shrugged, and didn't seem to think much about it. He just nodded and smiled, "It's better to feed her more. Eighth Sister likes people who feed her. This little guy is super greedy, basically he is a little cat that will touch you if you give him some food."

"Being able to eat well is a blessing." After Lu Xu said this, Yu Manman was relieved. No matter whether Eighth Sister has superpowers or not, as long as she is well fed, she should not have any ideas about her.

Thinking of this, Yu Manman opened Taobao to search for cat snack shops in the city and looked carefully.

When Lu Xu returned to the dormitory at night, he saw that the room seemed to be smaller.

After a careful look, he found that the snacks on the balcony had increased a lot.

Before Lu Xu opened his mouth to ask, Xu Haoming had already spoken: "Brother Xu, Director Tang seems to like Eighth Sister very much. He just moved a few boxes of canned food and snacks in by himself, and left after feeding her..."

Before he finished speaking, there was a knock on the door outside.

Han Tianyu was close by, and was a little dumbfounded after he opened the door: "Manman?"

"Huh?" Hearing the name of his goddess, Xu Haoming immediately jumped up from his seat, and did not forget to glance at the mirror on the desk while walking, "Manman is here?"

"Good evening, everyone." Yu Manman smiled at them with her head tilted. There was a pile of canned food and snacks, as well as a pile of cat toys under her feet. No one knew how she carried them up.

"Meow..." Eighth Sister followed the smell and walked forward, squatting next to Lu Xu and looking out. Seeing the canned food, she couldn't help licking her nose, and she looked in a good mood.

"Xuzi, these are the canned food and snacks I bought for Eighth Sister. I don't know if I bought the right ones. Feed them and try. If they don't suit your taste, I'll place an order for something else."

Yu Manman bought all the top brands, and it was obvious that she had carefully selected them.

Lu Xu thanked Eighth Sister and asked her politely if she wanted to come in and feed the cat.

"No, I have something else to do so I'll leave first, you guys have a good rest." Yu Manman didn't mean to come in, she put down her things and left.

Xu Haoming looked at Eighth Sister thoughtfully, then realized it belatedly and said with emotion: "It turns out that Manman likes cats, I wish I had a cat too!"

Lu Xu almost laughed out loud when he heard this, thinking that Yu Manman was not feeding him because she liked Eighth Sister. It was

just that he couldn't explain it clearly at the moment, so he didn't say much.

In order to prepare for the three performances, the 36 trainees were busy practicing.

Two days passed in a blink of an eye. Lu Xu just had a break and saw Ji Xiunian at the door of the practice room.

Yao Yulong was the first to see Ji Xiunian. Seeing this, he whispered to Lu Xu: "Brother Nian was walking around outside just now. It seems that he wants to talk to you about something."

"Yeah." Lu Xu nodded to show that he knew, thanked Yao Yulong, and got up and walked towards the door.

"Brother Nian, looking for me?"

In response to Lu Xu's question, Ji Xiunian immediately pulled him aside and took out his mobile phone to show him.

On the screen was a Weibo page. I clicked on it and saw a missing person notice issued by the news media -

[Li Beibei, male, 18 years old...]

According to the information given above, Li Beibei disappeared two days ago. His family couldn't contact him and his father rushed over in a hurry. After checking, Li Beibei's money, clothes, and ID card were all in the hotel dormitory. There was no possibility that he ran away from home. Moreover, Li Beibei had a lively personality and had just started working in Dongcheng not long ago. He had no romantic partner and no enemies.

After inquiries, it was found that Li Beibei had a party with friends on the night of his disappearance, and then he took a taxi and left. There has been no news since then, and no one knows where he went...

After all, this was the first client he took over, and Ji Xiunian still cared about Li Beibei.

"You said they can find him, right?"

Lu Xu looked up at Ji Xiunian, then returned the phone to him: "Yes, but whether they can find him or not, it has nothing to do with us."

Ji Xiunian was slightly stunned, and understood what Lu Xu meant. Suddenly, he felt a little uneasy: "Lu Xu, do you think I am too soft-hearted?"

Lu Xu shook his head: "No, it's normal for a new job. As long as it doesn't affect the work and remember the Death Code, I don't care about anything else."

Speaking of which, Ji Xiunian still took too few orders.

When he gets used to life and death, he probably won't be so soft-hearted.

Human death is strange and tragic.

Death is common. If the soul is gone, the skin, flesh and bones are meaningless.

But Lu Xu didn't say any of this, after all, many things can only be understood by personal experience.

The years passed by and he and Ji Xiunian had been forgotten by time. Ji Xiunian had plenty of time to understand this world and death, and he just had to remain silent and stay by his side.

"Lu Xu..."

"Hmm?"

Ji Xiunian only felt that at a certain moment, Lu Xu's eyes were deep, as if countless surging waves had been suppressed. He couldn't see through Lu Xu's heart through the darkness, and was a little at a loss for a moment.

Ji Xiunian subconsciously called Lu Xu's name, but didn't know what to say for a moment.

Lu Xu looked at Ji Xiunian and blinked, as if asking him what he wanted to say.

Ji Xiunian came back to his senses and smiled at Lu Xu: "Nothing, I will definitely be a qualified Grim Reaper."

Ji Xiunian had heard Lu Xu mention Xie An's matter, so Ji Xiunian had memorized the Grim Reaper's Code of Conduct early on.

He looked at Lu Xu's gentle smile and secretly decided not to let his emotions get the better of him. The more he liked Lu Xu, the better he should do his job. Only in this way could he stay by his side for a long time.

Seeing that he looked like he had figured something out, Lu Xu nodded immediately: "Yeah, let's work hard together."

When Lu Xu returned to the practice room, Ji Xiunian also went to do his own thing. Before

going to bed at night, I thought that Li Beibei was worried after all, so I clicked on the media that had previously issued the missing person notice to see the follow-up.

At this time, two days and two nights had passed since Li Beibei went missing, and the local media had just announced the latest news -

@东城寻人啓事發出地: At 9 o'clock this evening, search and rescue personnel recovered Li Beibei's body from a well not far from the bus stop. Click on the video for details... The body of

the Weibo post was accompanied by a two-minute video in which the captain of the local search and rescue team narrated the entire search process.

"After we received the police's request for cooperation, we began to issue a missing person notice, and then gathered volunteers from all over the city to search for Li Beibei's whereabouts. It is understood that there has been no news since Li Beibei got off the bus, so we focused our search on the surrounding areas. When I looked at the map, I found a well nearby. My heart skipped a beat, thinking, oh no, someone might have fallen into the well..."

"The pipes under the well are interconnected, and the cleaning scene is very complicated..."

"We first found a box of 22-piece Taishan cigarettes by the wall below, and then asked Li Beibei if he had a history of smoking and what kind of cigarettes he smoked. Later, the friend who had dinner with him that night confirmed that he bought him two boxes of Taishan cigarettes, so we thought that this person was likely to have fallen in..."

"The situation in the waterway was complicated. The first team went down for three hours but to no avail. They were about to go up, but just when they were about to collect the hook and send someone else down, they ended up hooking someone up..."

"The person must have died after being soaked for two days, and then the body was pulled up. It's a pity, the child is gone, and the phone was left in the well and can't be found..."

The more Ji Xiunian looked at it, the more he felt something was wrong. In his memory, he clearly pulled the person up and left the cigarette at the mouth of the well. Why was the scene different?

He thought about it and couldn't understand it, and suddenly thought of another possibility. After hesitating for a moment, Ji Xiunian took out his phone and sent a message to Lu Xu——

[ss-Ji Xiunian: Have you been back to the well again? 】

Lu Xu replied after five minutes——

【ss-Lu Xu: I was practicing dancing, just checking my phone. Are you asking about Li Beibei's body? I was the one who put it back into the water. 】

Ji Xiunian was a little confused, not understanding why Lu Xu pushed the body back.

Before he could open his mouth, Lu Xu on the other side had already explained——

【ss-Lu Xu: Brother Nian died in an accident, and his body should have been waiting to be found in the water. If others find him when they find that he was dragged ashore, then wouldn't it be a waste of police force to conduct unnecessary investigations? 】

Ji Xiunian was stunned when he saw this reply, and then he realized that he was only thinking about doing something for Li Beibei at the time, but he didn't think about the series of chain reactions that might be triggered later.

Lu Xu had taken into account everything he didn't expect.

[ss-Ji Xiunian: I'm sorry, I didn't think enough. But since you had already thought of this, why didn't you remind me at that time? ]

As long as Lu Xu said so, he would definitely not insist on doing this.

In the end, he would have to trouble Lu Xu again. Ji Xiunian couldn't tell how she felt right now.

Lu Xu didn't give her time to think about it, but just replied again——

[ss-Lu Xu: Brother Nian, I said that as long as it doesn't violate the Death Code, you can do whatever you want. I know you sympathize with Li Beibei, if that can make you feel better, I don't mind accompanying you. ]

Ji Xiunian looked at Lu Xu's reply and felt a little absent-minded. It was obviously the most natural tone, but Ji Xiunian actually tasted a hint of sweetness in it.

No matter what kind of feelings Lu Xu will have towards her in the future, at least now he cares about her feelings.

It is a very happy thing to be cared for and cherished by others, especially when that person is someone you like.

Ji Xiunian stared at the reply for a long time, and he felt that the four words "accompany you" were so beautiful no matter how he read them.

He first saved the message, and then couldn't help but take a screenshot to save it.

He wove his likes together with Lu Xu's reply, and his originally empty heart was instantly filled with something. The more he thought about it, the happier he felt, and the corners of his mouth rose unconsciously.

After finally calming down, Ji Xiunian hurriedly replied to Lu Xu's message -

[ss-Ji Xiunian: Where are you? ]

Lu Xu didn't understand, but still replied -

[ss-Lu Xu: Still in the practice room, what's wrong with Brother Nian? ]

This time Lu Xu didn't wait for Ji Xiunian's reply, but not long after, he saw Ji Xiunian's figure at the door of the practice room.

He briefly said a few words to his teammates and went out. He came to Ji Xiunian and asked him why he came here suddenly.

Ji Xiunian looked at Lu Xu standing in front of him, and felt his heart beating as if something was about to break out of the ground. He covered his chest, then smiled at Lu Xu with crooked eyes: "Nothing, just came to take a look." I

suddenly want to see you...

I especially want to see you...