Jealousy (24) (Part 2)
Only Shui Lan and Qing Xiao know about Song Shu's existence. Whether to kill him or not depends entirely on Shui Lan's words.
It was unclear what the two brothers said outside the door. Song Shu was still confused when he was left in the hotel.
Shui Lan actually let him go?
555: [What good would it do to kill you?]
Although Bo Wen was in a cold war with Song Shu, based on Bo Wen's possessiveness of Song Shu, if anything happened to Song Shu, Shui Lian and his group would be buried with him. On the contrary, if Song Shu was not killed, he could still keep him here as a target to contain Bo Wen.
As for taking Song Shu away, that is even more unrealistic. Isn't that like carrying a human bomb with you?
555 analyzed the pros and cons of killing and not killing, and in the end, Song Shu complained: "Although Bo Wen in your words is a domineering boss, to me he is just a perverted monster."
555: [………]
Song Shu sat up, his wide hooded cloak slipped down, and his long black hair fell down. He moved his fingers and found that the magic restriction had not been lifted.
Shui Lian and his group were still on their way, walking in a hurry, but they also eliminated all the key traces, and Song Shu didn't know which direction they were going. And when they talked before, Shui Lian must have cast a magic, otherwise he couldn't have heard anything.
Song Shu briefly analyzed the situation and found that it would be better not to analyze it.
There was no point in analyzing it. Regardless of whether he was a person with poor sense of direction, he could not find his way back by himself because he relied entirely on the map to navigate the game.
555: [? Isn't that still a person with poor sense of direction?]
Song Shu smirked: "I can deny it myself, but it will be different if you say it out loud."
Song Shu lay down, staring blankly at the ceiling, "Where is this place? Can I just send a location and ask Bo Wen to send someone to pick me up?"
[It seems that you really want to see Bowen. ]
Song Shu turned over, with Mo Fa lying limply on his cheek. He emphasized, "Send someone, send someone! Not Bo Wen himself."
555 stopped talking, and Song Shu lay there for a while, feeling a little bored.
He could be bored for ten minutes and think about Alice.
He could still think about Alice after being bored for twenty minutes.
Thirty minutes of boredom allowed him to fall asleep thinking about Alice.
【……】
555 speechless.
Song Shu's sleep was not thriving in the unfamiliar environment. He only slept for less than an hour, but he woke up several times in a daze. Until he could no longer sleep, he sat up and stared into the air in a daze.
555: [Shui Lian only sealed your magic power, but did not lock you up here. ]
Song Shu punched his hand: "What you said makes sense."
555: [Hehe.]
Song Shu: "Haha."
One person and one group attacked each other with fake smiles. Song Shu was tired and felt that staying where he was was not a solution. He packed his belongings and opened the door of the hotel room.
Then I found out... I couldn't push it.
“…555!!”
Didn’t you say you didn’t lock him up?
Shui Lian used magic to lock all the doors and the entire room, and also set up a sound-silencing formation. No matter how much noise he made inside, no one outside would know.
Song Shu: “…”
"555, come out here!"
555 looked innocent: [Host, what's wrong? ]
Song Shu kicked the door hard, wanting to show 555 whether Shui Lan had locked him up or not. However, he kicked at the wrong angle and hurt his leg, causing his eyes to brimm with tears.
Song Shu condemned: "You lied to me, you have no conscience."
555 eyes moved.
【Didn’t you say it was boring? 】
"I'm bored, but I'm not going to entertain you like this!"
Song Shu's legs were really hurt by the kick, and his eyes were full of tears. "Damn it, this door even has anti-armor."
Song Shu was not someone who would be easily scarred, but he lost control of the strength he used in his anger, and the door with its own anti-armor slashed half of his health. He hugged the quilt and shut himself up in a state of half-death, and nothing 555 said could stop him.
Originally, he thought he would be locked up like this for only one day, but when the third day came, Song Shu was already unable to stop feeling anxious.
He is a nerd who doesn't like to go out, but that doesn't mean he can be locked in his room for three days without eating or drinking. Even if he stays at home, he still needs to play games, draw, slack off, eat fried chicken, drink milk tea and drink Coke.
During these three days, the system was the only thing that could talk to him, and Song Shu had evolved from howling like a madman to crawling in the dark.
555: [Say something.]
Song Shu: "Haha."
555: [I am afraid when you speak.]
Song Shu sat on the edge of the bed, hugging the quilt, staring at the air with a dull look.
I'm very hungry, my brain is too tired to say anything, and my mood is like the rainy season.
Even though he is sitting now, he has actually been walking for a while.
Song Shu didn't say anything, rolled up his quilt and lay down to sleep again. The hunger in his stomach woke him up again.
He swallowed and said to himself: "…Is the fried system delicious?"
Song Shu's breath was already very weak and his voice was not loud, but the room was very quiet and any movement he made would be amplified, so 555 naturally heard what he said.
555: […Hold on a little longer.]
Song Shu wanted to curse, but he didn't have the energy. He hadn't eaten for three days, and there were only two glasses of water in the room. This was a magical world, not a world of immortal cultivation. He didn't fast, so did he really think he was an immortal?
He was heartbroken. He treated Shui Lan as a brother, but Shui Lan locked him in the room.
Song Shu's eyelids gradually drooped, and when his vision went dark and he passed out, he had only one thought in mind: I want to eat a fried system!!
555: [Why? Is it because it is not tasty after being roasted?]
Song Shu would get up even if he died, "Get lost!"
…
It was already the fourth morning when Song Shu woke up again. He was found when he was almost starving to death.
It is said that when a person is about to die, a revolving lantern will appear, and the last thing to disappear is hearing.
The door creaked open, fresh sunlight and air rushed in, and the sound of footsteps on the floor seemed so unreal.
Song Shu blinked sleepily. Shouldn't the god of death be floating?
He was so hungry that he was a little confused. His perception of sound, smell and pain was slower than that of normal people.
When the shadow of the man who opened the door completely enveloped him, bringing a hint of the breath and warmth of a living person, he realized that he seemed to have been discovered.
So this was the scene that Ellis saw.
The messy bed, the quilt and the cloak were all in a mess, trying to cover the disheveled young man on the bed.
A large area of pale skin was exposed on the waist, covered by a thin blanket that was not very heavy. The light and shadow cut by the shadow fell on the young man. His long black hair was tangled around his neck, and his eyes looked over absentmindedly.
Song Shu's eyes are very beautiful. They can't be called peach blossom eyes, but whether he is focused on looking at people or smiling, he will give people the illusion of being valued. But he is always indifferent, even reluctant to smile or look at people, and after a long time, he becomes indifferent and distant.
This kind of alienation is very annoying because the person being watched feels ignored.
There are always people who think that it would be nice to see him smile.
The unfocused and lifeless pupils now have a sense of decadent beauty.
Ellis lowered his eyes. The young man on the bed seemed to breathe faster. His lips moved and a sound like a faint cat's meow came out.
There were faint gasps and incoherent words, and a slender white wrist grabbed the corner of Ellis's clothes.
Despite the negligible force, Ellis still leaned over.
As he got closer, the young man's breathing became more rapid, and his dilated pupils were faintly watery. "Ai, Liz...?"
For some unknown reason, Ellis grasped the cold and pale wrist.
Logically speaking, Song Shu shouldn't know that the person coming was Ellis, but it's possible that he was hallucinating because he had been thinking about her for too long. It was like the warm scene that the little match girl saw when she lit the match at the last moment, which was both false and real.
Being locked up here for the past few days was really suffocating. Song Shu thought this was probably an illusion before death. He leaned close to Ellis and sniffed, "Why did you come just now?"
Ellist paused at the overly intimate complaints. Soon his fingers were held back by Song Shu, as if holding the last straw, and their ten fingers were tightly entangled together.
It was too intimate, this action and distance, but once Ellis began to struggle, Song Shu would look at him accusingly and start to cry.
"I've been waiting for you here for a long time, why don't you come? I'm almost dying."
555 should have issued a warning regarding the overly ooc words and expressions, but the main system did not give any response, so 555 could only give up.
It just hopes that Song Shu won't go back to his old ways too quickly.
His unfocused eyes became misty when he cried, and Song Shu felt even more that the Ellis in front of him was an illusion. He clenched the illusion's hand, and tears flowed on the pale back of the hand.
"I like you so much, please have pity on me, okay?"
Song Shu said these words completely instinctively. He had played this game for too long, and he knew Alice's personality and how to capture her.
Who doesn’t want the person they like to like them?
If it wasn't for the character setting that couldn't be OOC, he would have started licking her a long time ago. Now that he was dying, he couldn't think of any shitty character setting, he just wanted to lick his wife and make her like him more.
Song Shu fainted after he finished speaking.
Ellis stared at the crystal tears at the corners of his eyes and pinched off the wet drops of water with her fingers.
Do you like it?
Song Shu likes him?
Anthony's curse-like words sounded again. Ellis had no idea how many times he had been dragged down by such words and fell into the trap of Song Shu.
This word "like" was like a light shining into the abyss, and Ellis was stunned.
There are some things that have different effects when spoken out loud and when kept in mind. The former is frank, the latter ambiguous. All those thoughts that had been pulling and annoying him in the past seemed to have dispersed, and for the first time, Ellis faced his inner thoughts - did he like Song Shu too?
Frankly speaking, Ellis was not a dark person. On the contrary, before he traveled through time, he was a sunny boy in high school, and his personality was roughly the same as Alice in Song Shu's imaginary game.
Kind, sunny, brave, and clear about what you love and hate.
It's just that Ellis hates troubles more. Whether it's time travel or Song Shu's sudden concern, they are all variables he hates.
Since the time he traveled through, Ellis's personality has always been gloomy and indifferent. He tried to ignore everything around him because he didn't want to change anything, until Song Shu appeared.
The young man rubbed his cheek against his palm affectionately, and Ellis watched.
Song Shu will die miserably in the end. Does he... want Song Shu to die?
The touch of the warm skin was so real, and Ellis lowered his eyes. The answer was clear enough.
He doesn't want to.
…
The cold hotel walls turned into a warm and comfortable bedroom. The direct sunlight from the window was a bit dazzling. Song Shu opened his eyes, his expression and mood were dull.
He didn't want to think about the messy current situation for the time being, he just wanted to sneer at 555, "I not only want to eat the fried system, I also want to eat the roasted system, the sweet and sour system, the spicy system... with cola and milk tea, I can't eat you to death!"
555: […Ahem.]
Song Shu finished cursing in one breath, and finally felt relieved from the anger in his heart. He lay down and closed his eyes.
"Tell me, who took me away this time."
Song Shu didn't want to recall the past few days. He only vaguely remembered that he seemed to see someone before he passed out, and that person was probably the one who took him away.
【Why don't you open your eyes and take a look. 】
555 must be opening his mouth for no good reason. Song Shu said unhappily, "Don't open your eyes."
[Really? The person standing next to you is Alice. ]
Song Shu opened his eyes in an instant.
The young man's tall figure partially blocked the sunlight outside the window, and Song Shu stared at his face in a daze.
The long light golden hair was dancing, and the deep, beautiful eyes were looking at him intently.
Song Shu was stunned, his brain still not working properly, and he murmured: "Alice?"
Ellis, appearing against the light, is like an angel of salvation, and the halo formed by the sunlight on her hair looks like an angel's halo.
Perfect and beautiful.
If we have to point out a shortcoming, it would probably be that Ellis was standing with the light behind him, and Song Shu couldn't see his expression clearly.
Song Shu was very weak, so his voice was naturally not very loud. Ellis didn't know if he heard those words, but just said, "Since you are awake, eat first."
The door opened and a group of servants rushed in. Song Shu was helped to sit up and was fed another bowl of porridge.
My stomach was feeling sick before I ate anything, but after eating it started to growl even more happily like a child who had gotten something sweet.
After a bowl of porridge, Song Shu ate a lot of buns and side dishes.
Fearing that Song Shu's stomach couldn't take it, Ellis chose dishes that were relatively light and mostly small and exquisite, so there was no need to worry about Song Shu choking if she ate too fast.
Song Shu ate very quickly. He put down his chopsticks only when he felt full. He looked hesitantly at Ellis who was sitting next to him reading a book.
"Alice, why are you here?"
He put his two fingers together and the page of the book closed. Ellis looked up and said, "I came to the old city to investigate. I passed by and found a room that looked a little strange. I didn't expect that the person locked up inside was a teacher."
Song Shu looked like a canary with broken wings, trapped in a cage forever.
If he hadn't come, would Song Shu have been imprisoned forever? Or, would the people who imprisoned Song Shu be willing to let him die like this?
I can't bear to do that.
So the so-called imprisonment may just be a means of punishment, or more like... the pleasure of punishment.
Four days ago, Ellis had received news that the old house had caught fire and Duke Orpheus was missing. As the butler, Bowen was furious. He not only purged a group of ineffective secret guards and servants, but also directly mobilized the secret guards around the king, hoping to find the missing Duke Orpheus within a day.
As to why a butler could directly use the king's secret guards, the secret is worth exploring.
The scope of spread of the news was actually very small. If Ellis was not a prince, he would probably not be able to know these royal secrets.
Ellis looked at the Duke who was at the center of the incident, trying to get some details from Song Shu's face, but Song Shu's expression was as innocent as it could be.
Long periods of staring at each other always create a strange atmosphere. Ellis turned his eyes away, his Adam's apple rolling: "Teacher, how do you feel?"
After a satisfying full stomach, Song Shu's body finally felt less tired. He grabbed the quilt and felt a little embarrassed. "I'm fine."
It seems like he has changed his clothes. Did Alice change them for him?
Ellis nodded and stood up at the same time, "Then have a good rest, teacher."
Song Shu subconsciously wanted to get up as well, but he felt dizzy after lying down for too long, and even more dizzy when he stood up too quickly, and he almost fell on the bed. He had no choice but to support his head with his hands, and his breath was a little short.
Ellis paused as he was about to leave. "No need to see me off. Just focus on recuperating. Also, I need to pass on the teacher's message..."
Song Shu hastily rejected the proposal before he finished speaking: "No need."
Ellis looked over, and Song Shu said affirmatively, "Absolutely not."
He didn't want to be taken back to the old house by that pervert Bowen, and he didn't want to get along with Bowen. And now Ellis was beside him, so he went back when he was dizzy.
Song Shu thought about it again, fearing that it would cause trouble for Ellis later, and added: "You can tell them that I am safe, but I don't want to go back yet."
Ellis's eyes moved slightly, "You don't want to go back, do you mean?"
"Can I follow you first?"
Song Shu blinked, and added cautiously, fearing that he might be rejected, "Just think of it as a teacher examining a student."
After saying that, Song Shu froze for a moment.
No, what kind of ridiculous excuse did he come up with? What kind of nonsense is it for a teacher to examine a student? As a student, who would want to be examined by a teacher? ? Is this an excuse he came up with out of his mind?
I'm going to be rejected by my wife.
Song Shu was shedding tears in her heart, her palms were sweating, and she stammered to make amends, "Of course, it can also be not an inspection, but a short trip between friends..."
Whatever he said sounded like bullshit.
“…”
Song Shu closed his eyes in self-abandonment, "Forget it, whatever you think is fine."
Please, my wife promised me QAQ
Song Shu has a lot of little expressions, and you can easily know what he is thinking just by paying a little attention.
Ellist paused, "Well, the teacher thinks, let's do this."
After saying that, he seemed to remember something, and said with some regret and apology: "I'm sorry, I misunderstood the teacher before..."
His misunderstanding of Song Shu was too deep, which indeed stemmed from his previous one-sided prejudice.
Alice apologized to him?
Song Shu was stunned for a moment, not knowing what to say. Because he could understand, after all, the characters in his game were annoying no matter where they were, and Alice did nothing wrong, so which game's protagonist liked the villain?
Ellis didn't seem to think much of it. He wanted to apologize, but his way of apologizing was a little clumsy. He was silent for a moment, his earlobes slightly red, and whispered, "Teacher, have a good rest."
…
After Ellis left, Song Shu sat quietly for a while, and his expression immediately changed from the initial brainstorming to a silly smile.
He always felt that the distance between him and Alice was getting closer and closer. Alice seemed to treat him better and even said sorry to him.
555: [Tsk.]
Song Shu immediately began to settle accounts, "What are you saying, you are a piece of trash with no conscience."
[If I hadn't said that, how could you have insisted on getting Alice to come over? ]
"hehe."
Song Shu said angrily: "Don't even think about pua me, I will definitely blow up my system."
Song Shu thought 555 would continue to be a bitch, but he didn't expect 555 to apologize to him seriously. The apology included but was not limited to saying that he shouldn't laugh at Song Shu and shouldn't joke in that situation.
Song Shu still tried to fool 555 with "Haha." If someone showed kindness to him for no reason, he must be a traitor or a thief. 555 must have done something to let him down to be so honest.
Song Shu's guess was correct. 555's sudden weakness was probably because the shocking news of "Alice's gender" had not yet exploded. Now that Song Shu and Alice were living so close, the secret was at risk, and 555 had to find a way out for himself.
Song Shu has reservations about 555's apology.
Besides, with Alice so big in front of him, he was too lazy to care about 555's messy words. He happily began to imagine how he would spend the next few days with Alice.
Alice went to the old city to investigate, and after experiencing the suffering of the people, she decided to participate in the fight for the throne. This plot was a sad and painful one for Alice herself.
Song Shu thought that his wife was sad, so he had to stay with her.
Clapping her hands, Song Shu happily arranged her schedule for the rest of her time.
He had just finished his meal and couldn't help feeling a little sleepy after the blood circulation. When he was about to lie down and continue sleeping for a while, the door of the room was pushed open again.
"Alice?"
The bed that Song Shu slept on was covered with bed gauze. The white gauze was layered, which had a soft and high-end feel, but also had a hazy feel that made it impossible to see the outside world clearly.
Song Shu could vaguely see that the person who came in was wearing white clothes. Because he had only seen Ellis before, he couldn't help but presuppose that this was Ellis.
"Alice?"
However, the person who approached was a girl in a white lolita skirt.
With playful flaxen curly hair, Lilith wore a white cake skirt with a white suspender underneath, a thin lace choker neck ornament, an elegant white cake hat, and lace gloves encircling her slender white fingers, making her look like the inorganic holiness of a fairyland flower.
Lilith stood beside the bed and looked down at him: "You look almost well."
Recalling some of the unpleasant experiences with Lilith, Song Shu felt like he was about to break out in a cold sweat. He wasn't sure what attitude he should adopt to deal with Lilith, and felt that whatever he did would be awkward.
After all, he liked Alice, but Lilith did that to him.
Song Shu could only reply dryly: "It feels okay."
Lilith nodded: "Take care of yourself."
Lilith's eyes are very strange. Her pupils are almost completely white, with an inorganic texture like snow, and it is easy to make people feel uncomfortable when she looks directly at people.
When facing Song Shu, he didn't seem to intend to restrain such oppression and discomfort. It was as if he was teasing a small animal, observing and admiring Song Shu's embarrassment.
Song Shu let out a cry of bewilderment. Lilith seemed attracted by his dazed expression and leaned over to get closer to him.
The sudden shortened distance made Song Shu step back abruptly. His head hit the bedside and he felt dizzy for a moment. He felt angry that Lilith didn't seem to be going to let him go. Just when he was about to get closer -
"Mother."
Ellis stood at the door, looking at them with a dark gaze, "It's time to eat."
Lilith's curly hair was almost falling on her face. Song Shu's head was buzzing. Only after Lilith stepped back did he feel he could breathe again.
However, Lilith stopped and locked her eyes with him again, "Would you like to eat together?"
Song Shu didn't want to deal with Lilith. To him, Lilith was a real troublemaker.
As if receiving his pleading gaze, Ellis came in to help him out: "He's eaten."
Lilith then let Song Shu go, "Okay. Song Shu, see you next time."
As if it was a sign, Lilith never expected a response from Song Shu.
Lilith turned and left. Ellis at the door nodded to Song Shu and followed Lilith.
When the bedroom door closed, Song Shu breathed a sigh of relief.
Lilith is really scary, especially as Alice's mother, which makes her even scarier QAQ
But from now on, she can live with Alice, so Song Shu lay down happily.
555: [I have to remind you that when you were unconscious, your jealousy value increased to 30%.]
"? Why did it increase?"
【Qing Xiao has disappeared.】
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