Sitting in the taxi, still some distance from the manor, and having not slept much the night before, Shi Xi was feeling quite sleepy... and drifted off to sleep.
Not long after I fell asleep, I suddenly felt a chill on my neck.
Childish ghost.
Shi Xi ignored this pointless prank.
A soft laugh rang in his ears, followed by something being placed between Shi Xi's legs. Then, he felt a cold sensation on his face; it must have been the other person's fingers tracing his eyebrows and eyes. Shi Xi struggled for a moment, but the other person held his waist firmly.
"Let go," Shi Xi said in a low voice with her eyes closed, "Don't force me to slap you."
"That guy is so fierce."
As soon as he finished speaking, Sui Sui appeared in front of Shi Xi, looking at him with a wronged expression.
"My boyfriend bought gifts for other men behind my back, and I didn't say anything, but he actually yelled at me..."
"What's it to you?"
Shi Xi frowned, crossed her arms, and looked at him with a puzzled expression.
She wondered where he got his resentful, palace-woman look from.
"..."
Sui Sui seemed very angry when she heard this, and bit down on Shi Xi's neck, but in the end she only bit down lightly, not willing to use any force.
Then, as if apologizing, he lightly licked it again.
"I don't care, I want a present too!" Sui Sui said stubbornly.
Shi Xi pushed him away. Sui Sui was a ghost, and her tongue was cold and sticky. Even though she knew there was no saliva or anything like that, Shi Xi still felt a little uncomfortable.
It felt weird, so I couldn't help but wipe it with my hand.
Sui Sui watched from the side, her expression growing increasingly gloomy, black mist emanating from her body, and the temperature inside the car plummeted in an instant.
The driver suddenly felt goosebumps and swallowed hard, almost crying out, "Young man, don't you feel cold in the car?"
It's summer now, and the weather is very hot, with the outside temperature reaching over 30 degrees Celsius, but the car is as cold as an icebox.
Something's clearly not right.
What frightened him even more was that he knew perfectly well that there was no air conditioning in the car!
His taxi was provided by the company, but the company was really stingy and only provided him with an old-fashioned fan, which broke down a couple of days ago.
Thinking of this, the driver mustered his courage and secretly glanced at Shi Xi through the rearview mirror—
Could he have... pulled a ghost?!
Shi Xi: "..."
Shi Xi narrowed her eyes as she looked at Sui Sui, who was emitting yin energy. Sui Sui's expression changed, and she immediately and obediently withdrew her yin energy.
"I don't think so," Shi Xi said to the driver. "Could you please stop at the old-fashioned fruit shop up ahead?"
Sui Sui's eyes opened slightly, and she became happy again.
The little brother wants to buy him some fruit!
It's back to normal now...
The driver blinked in confusion, feeling a little bewildered. Was it just his imagination?
"Okay," he said.
Shi Xi entered the shop, which sold old-fashioned pastries and fruits. He picked out a few items: honey horn cakes, honey three-cut pastries, glutinous rice strips, sesame strips, and crispy pastries... Thinking that there were other people in the manor, he bought more.
Sui Sui stared longingly at the bag of fruit, then smiled shyly.
"Is this for me alone?"
“This bag is yours.” Shi Xi pointed to one of the bags.
"Others got a share too?" Sui Sui looked at Shi Xi in disbelief, as if she couldn't believe what she had just heard. "Isn't this my gift?!"
"Why should it be distributed to other people?!"
"Yours is different."
Shi Xi glanced at Sui Sui, who had suddenly gone mad again, and closed the car door.
The shop uses yellow straw paper for packaging, and to avoid confusion, there is a fruit label on the red paper placed on top.
The other packs each contained only one type of fruit, but the pack containing Sui Sui contained several different kinds of fruit; they were a mix.
When Sui Sui heard him say that, she immediately stopped being angry.
"Thank you, sir!"
Shi Xi heard this and felt something was off. If he remembered correctly, Sui Sui used to call him "big brother".
It seems that he changed his form of address after we helped him escape the dream last time.
Shi Xi was curious, so she asked.
“…Calling him ‘little brother’ sounds more intimate.” Sui Sui hesitated for a moment.
An excited aura suddenly emerged.
Shi Xi: "..." She's gone crazy again.
...
When Ji Ruwen came downstairs, she saw her assistant eating in the kitchen.
He glanced at it and saw that it was a few plates of pastries and fruits.
He thought it was a dessert prepared by the maid, so he didn't pay any attention.
"Mr. Ji, wouldn't you like to try some?" The assistant asked Ji Ruwen, taking a bite of honeydew horn. "It tastes quite good."
"No," Ji Ruwen said. "I'm not interested."
He doesn't like sweets, especially these fruits, which look cloyingly sweet.
"Really? That's such a pity. Mr. Xu bought it especially for this."
The assistant picked up a rice noodle from the plate, stuffed it into his mouth, and mumbled:
"I just gave it to Mr. Qin, and he said it was quite good."
Ji Ruwen stopped, adjusted her glasses, and looked at her assistant. "Did Xu Youchu buy it?"
"Yes," the assistant said. "Mr. Xu bought it specially."
Upon hearing this, Ji Ru went over, took a honey-glazed pastry from the plate, and slowly savored it.
"Oh dear, didn't Mr. Ji say he wasn't going to eat?"
"Just trying it once in a while," Ji Ruwen said with a smile, looking down at the honey-glazed pastry sprinkled with sesame seeds in her hand.
"It tastes good."
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