10. Night 10: Concealment
In the brightly lit room, the atmosphere was somewhat frozen.
The old woman sat at the desk, the document she had just finished reading next to her, her expression serious, "What's going on?"
Lu Xi looked at the document she placed on the table. The contents of the document caught her eye. It was about the little mermaid's repeated failed awakenings. She thought this matter would not be leaked.
"Why didn't you report this to me?"
Lu Xi remained silent. Seeing her silence, the old man's face darkened. "Tell me why you are hiding this."
"I just think that it's impossible for an SSS-level cub to fail in awakening. He needs some time now." Lu Xi said calmly, "I hope he can try to awaken again in a more stable state. Before that, I can't let him be sent back by the Lu family."
"I didn't ask you that." The old man said coldly, "I asked why you hid this from me."
Lu Xi looked at the stern old man in front of her. It seemed that the old man had never been kind to her. It seemed that only when Lu Yuan was around would he show some of the kindness of a grandmother, and that was all.
"It seems that Lu Yuan is right. You are not suitable to be a housekeeper."
The old woman's words made Lu Xi feel a little breathless. Her words were tantamount to denying the original body's efforts over the years.
"What makes you think we'd deny a cub with SSS-level talent just because of a few failed awakening attempts?" The old man's face was filled with disappointment. "What exactly do you think the Lu family is?"
What is Lu's? It's a place she doesn't want to stay at all. A voice in Lu Xi's heart told her so.
She is not happy here.
When Lu Xi left the old man, her feet felt weak and her mind was a little unclear, but she quickly calmed down, asked the servants, and found the room where the little mermaid was placed.
The first thing that caught my eye when I opened the door was the broken lamp next to the door and the messy objects scattered on the floor.
"Let me go find Miss Lu Xi and let me out."
The little mermaid was lying on the ground in a mess, with the wheelchair lying behind him. He thought it was someone else who came in, until his eyes fell on a pair of delicate and small high heels, and the growl in his throat stopped abruptly.
"Miss...Lu Xi..."
Lu Xi squatted down in front of him, helped the dirty little mermaid lying on the ground up, and wiped the dust off his face.
"It's okay, let's go home."
The word "home" made his heart tremble.
The car was very silent on the way back. Lu Xi looked out the window without saying a word. Arsenal noticed that she looked worried. This was the first time he saw her like this. In the past, Miss Lu Xi could always solve all the problems, as if nothing could stump her.
But today, she seemed to be preoccupied with something. When she arrived at the villa, she didn't talk to him much and asked someone to push him back to the room.
Assente looked at Lu Xi's departing back. He really wanted to ask her what happened, but in the end he just bit his lip and remained silent.
For the next few days, everything went as normal.
She didn't tell him what happened that night. After she came back, everything was normal. She still took care of him and the cubs as before, and occasionally dealt with some small quarrels between the cubs.
Arsenal was pushed by Lu Xi to bask in the sun. Since the unpleasant farce at breakfast that day, he had never seen the cubs again. He was very satisfied with this situation. Although he still smelled their scent from Miss Lu Xi, his life had never been disturbed again.
"Ms. Lu Xi, will I be sent away?" Assente suddenly looked up at the woman's beautiful face. Under the cover of the trees, the woman's face was imprinted with the shadows of some slightly swaying branches and leaves.
Lu Xi didn't expect Asent to ask this suddenly. She underestimated the intelligence of the little mermaid. He was present when Lu Yuan gave the information bag to the old man, and he also heard her words asking her to speed up the process. When Lu Xi was taken away that night, he felt that something big must have happened. He knew that Lu Xi had been hiding the fact that he had failed to awaken, so after thinking about it for a while, he realized that his affairs had been discovered.
"It doesn't matter even if I'm sent away..." He said slowly with his head down. In fact, he had been mentally prepared for such a long time. The failed awakenings in the past few times had kept him awake for many nights. But even if he was sent away, he didn't want to go to the orphanage. He wanted to go back to the sea. He didn't belong here in the first place. The sea was where he should be.
Even if there are no relatives there anymore...
He will find a way to take revenge on his own.
"No." Lu Xi said, "You won't be sent away."
She walked up to him and squatted down, ruffling his hair with her soft palms. Asent looked into her dark eyes, which were like water and held a gentle smile, and had a magic that made people feel at ease.
"But..." He bit his lip and couldn't continue.
"I said, this is Assente's new home, no one can kick you out of the house." Lu Xi smiled softly.
He looked at her intently, not believing her.
"Really, I promise."
Her words made the little mermaid feel relieved after days of worry. Although he said it didn't matter if he was sent away, the fear in his heart when he thought about being alone in the future was something no one could understand.
His hand trembled and slowly rose, covering the soft fingertips that were kneading his hair. The warm temperature coming from her body seemed to be able to be transmitted through the skin into his cold body.
Very warm, very warm...
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