Their breaths mingled, their hearts pressed together.
The sudden close contact made Si Jin feel suffocated for a moment.
Ah Yuan's body... feels so hot...
He turned his head slightly away, his voice still flat: "The first rule of the human puppeteer is: do not covet the puppeteer. Get up."
"I'm sorry, Jingjing." Lin Yuan propped himself up and sat up, then pulled Si Jing up as well.
Jinjin is like a wildcat with its fur standing on end; he has to gently soothe it.
Seeing Si Jin revert to her dazed state, Lin Yuan became worried again—
This is a slightly fantastical modern world where puppeteers must be people of a fixed bloodline.
The puppeteer's blood can mark people, turning them into his puppets, but at the same time, he must also be careful not to become a puppet himself.
A puppeteer whose emotions are suppressed for a long time is most likely to become a puppet and lose his life.
Just like... Jinjin now.
He simply reached out and tugged at Si Jin's sleeve: "Jin Jin? What do you want to eat? I'll make it for you."
"I want to..." Si Jin was still lost in thought when, unexpectedly, someone kissed her ear.
He shuddered, and the tips of his ears turned red involuntarily.
A different emotion, shyness, appeared in her eyes, and she instantly forgot what she had wanted to eat.
My mood has finally changed.
Lin Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, stood up and patted the man's shoulder: "I'll go out and cook. Don't move, just wait at the table."
After saying that, before Si Jin could react, she stepped out the door, as if afraid that the person would go hungry.
Si Jin sat alone on the edge of the bed, stunned for a long time.
She raised her hand and touched her earlobe.
She seemed to recall something for a moment, and her entire ear turned red.
It has been said that puppets should not covet the puppeteer, for it is a great act of arrogance and disrespect to be favored.
Just as she was about to get up, a knock sounded at the door, followed by a woman's affected voice: "Jinjin? Are you home? Your auntie's here to see you, open the door~"
Si Jin paused for a moment, then turned on all the miniature cameras and listening devices she had installed in the house.
Before Lin Yuan could open the door, she stopped him and walked to the door herself.
The newcomer was a woman dressed in a bright red dress. The moment she saw Si Jin, she instinctively trembled.
She wasn't Chen Yiwei, and had no leverage to threaten Chen Sijin. She had been beaten by him countless times and dared not be too arrogant in front of him.
Si Jin let Yu Lili in and asked, "What are you doing here?"
"Oh, isn't this the human-shaped puppet your dad found for you yesterday? I'm here to help him break the contract with the puppet." Yu Lili said, looking at Lin Yuan who was cooking in the kitchen.
He exclaimed excitedly, "It's that guy, you! We're not buying from you anymore, give us our money back!"
Si Jin stepped in front of the woman and stated, word by word, "I've already marked it. It's mine."
“Jingjing! If a puppeteer doesn’t like a puppet, he can burn the puppet he marked at any time. If you burn it, your aunt and dad will buy you a new one.”
Si Jin shook her head: "I want him. Please leave."
"Chen Sijin, do you have any filial piety at all?" Yu Lili became stern: "Yiwei is your father. Yesterday, that man broke more than a dozen bones in his body and severed his Achilles tendon. He was in critical condition all night and just recovered. You didn't go to the hospital to see him, and you even sided with that outsider?"
"Filial piety? Do you even have the right to talk about that?"
The word "filial piety" seemed to have touched a nerve with Si Jin, causing him to suddenly open up and speak with a voice full of anger.
“My mother and my maternal grandfather were both killed by Chen Yiwei.”
"You are my mother's sister and my maternal grandfather's daughter."
"After my mother died, you disregarded the hatred of killing your father and killing your sister, married Chen Yiwei, and willingly became his puppet to do his bidding. What right do you have to talk to me about filial piety?"
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