22. Night 22: Angry
The autumn wind is gradually getting cooler. Several cubs who look like seven or eight years old are running after the wheelchair every day. They have become a scenic spot in recent days. Wherever Assente goes, the cubs will follow him, a string of little balls like a train.
They didn't dare to get too close to the little mermaid, but they couldn't be too far away from him. He remembered that one of the cubs accidentally touched the handle of the wheelchair, and a cold look shot over at him, and he was almost scared to death.
“I’m… sorry…”
Oh, little fish is so scary!
Lu Xi stood at the windowsill and looked outside. She saw the little mermaid walking in a wheelchair, followed by several cubs. These cubs were a very docile race. They had no power themselves and were not within the scope of competition for the leader of the demon clan. They were not as strong as the cubs in the villa who were fighting openly and secretly for power.
"Xiao Yuyu, please pay attention to me." The cub of the Spirit Rabbit Clan has snow-white hair and red eyes. When he feels wronged, his face wrinkles, like a fat white meat bun.
Suddenly, a young tree sheep tripped over a rock and fell to the ground, whimpering, "Wow, it hurts..."
He twisted his ankle and couldn't get up no matter how hard he struggled. His chin was also broken, and he lay on the ground crying in grievance.
Arsente saw the cub fall and just watched him lying on the ground crying miserably. Just as he was about to turn the wheelchair to continue walking, he saw Lu Xi, who had been staying in the house, come out, pick up the cub on the ground and say to him, "Did you twist your ankle?"
The tree sheep cub stared at her blankly, a faint fragrance filled his nose, and he stared at her pretty face.
Lu Xi picked him up and walked to the chair next to him, put him down, lifted up his trouser legs to check, "It's okay, it's not serious."
"Yeah." He nodded slightly with a red nose.
Arsenal, who was not far away, watched this scene, his thin lips pressed into a line, his nails tightly gripping the handle of the wheelchair.
"I'll give you a massage and it won't hurt."
Lu Xi had learned some methods to deal with it. She massaged the red and swollen ankle of the cub with appropriate strength. From the cub's gradually relaxed eyebrows, it was clear that her method worked.
It was not until she asked the maid to take the cub away and disperse the other few who were joining in the fun that she noticed that the little mermaid looked strange.
She walked up to him and asked, "What's wrong?"
His purple-blue eyes were unusually red, his face was very pale, his thin lips were trembling slightly, and veins on his hands were bulging.
Lu Xi wanted to reach out and touch his forehead, but he waved her hand away. With a "pop", the back of her hand quickly turned red.
Asent didn't seem to expect such force. Seeing the red back of her hand, he apologized in panic, "I'm sorry..."
Lu Xi was silent and stared at him for a long time.
He bit his lip and said, "Will Miss Lu Xi not want me?"
He always thought that as long as he awakened successfully, he would not be afraid of being abandoned. However, when he saw Lu Xi being nice to other cubs, he couldn't help but wonder if she hated that he couldn't walk, if she thought other cubs were cuter, and if she would abandon him again.
"Will Miss Lu Xi abandon me like she did before?"
Lu Xi didn't know why he suddenly asked this. To be honest, she was confused by the question now, "No."
"You're lying." He got the answer he wanted, but he didn't believe it. His eyes were wet. "You abandoned me before."
Last time, he thought she wouldn't abandon him, but she still handed him over to other people. She clearly said that she would teach him to become stronger and that she would tell him stories, but she lied.
Lu Xi didn't expect that he still cared about this matter. She had no choice but to leave him to the Lu family's care.
She didn't know what to say about this.
Arsente bit his lower lip and stared at her, his eyes red and bleeding like a little wild beast. He just wanted to hear Lu Xi say that she didn't lie again this time. He looked at her for a long time but she didn't say anything.
"Why doesn't Miss Lu Xi speak?"
"Asent, this matter is very complicated."
The little mermaid didn't understand her. Seeing that she refused to explain clearly, he gritted his teeth, turned the wheelchair and went into the house by himself.
The little mermaid was very angry and the consequences were serious.
For the next few days, he refused to talk to Lu Xi.
It rained a few more times. There was a lot of rain in the deep mountains. It always rained even in autumn. The pain in the wound on rainy days seemed to have become Lu Xi's daily life. Lu Xi suspected that he really had rheumatism, otherwise why would it keep recurring.
But it may also be because the wound has not healed completely.
"Do you want to go out for a walk?" The sky finally cleared up. Lu Xi looked at the blue sky outside and planned to push Arsenal out.
Her hands are now strong enough to push a wheelchair.
"I'm not going out." He turned his head and refused in a low voice.
"I heard that the Lu family has a lake with beautiful scenery." Lu Xi walked behind his wheelchair.
"I won't go, I won't go..."
He struggled until he heard her moan.
Because Lu Xi had placed her hands on the wheelchair, her struggle caused the wheelchair to shake, which also affected her shoulder injury.
"Hmm..." Her wound hurt a little.
Arsenal saw her brows furrowed, her thin lips instantly pursed into a straight line, her fists clenched, and her expression frozen in gloom.
"It's okay." She could see his worry.
The little mermaid was immediately furious when he was seen through. He turned his head away and shouted angrily, "I said, I don't want to go out."
The sound was so loud that it made Lu Xi's eardrums tremble.
Lu Xi looked at the back of his head and asked, "Really not going?"
After not hearing a reply for a long time, Lu Xi turned around and left.
Seeing the door closed, Arsenal clenched his fists again, his nails digging into his flesh. He lowered his head in frustration and held his head. He didn't want this to happen. He didn't want to hurt her wound. He didn't want to see her serious expression. He didn't want this...
But……
Lu Xi went out this time and didn't come back until dinner time.
In fact, it was because Yuan Mu wanted to come over to find Lu Xi, but she wanted to go out for some fresh air, so she told him not to come and let her go out instead.
She also wanted to give the little mermaid some time and space to let him calm down, and she would not bother with a child.
In the restaurant, Lu Xi sat by the floor-to-ceiling glass window and had a barbecue meal that she hadn't had in a long time. She was tired of drinking porridge.
"I didn't expect that the grumpy little cub was actually SSSs-level. To be honest, I'm quite surprised." Yuan Mu raised an eyebrow and said, "But I also said at the beginning, how could a cub of his level of test level fail to awaken? It's normal now."
"Hmm." Lu Xi picked up a piece of meat and put it in his mouth.
"Why are you so focused on eating? Aren't you worried?" Yuan Mu saw Lu Xi eating barbecue all the time. "Don't you want that mermaid cub? Don't think I don't know you want to get it back."
Lu Xi: “…”
"What are you going to do next?"
"I have no idea."
"You don't know? Then why are you so calm?"
"Then what should I do?" She raised her eyebrows and looked at him.
In the past, I encountered difficulties when completing tasks, but it was usually not a dead end, there was always a way out.
So now, she needs to think carefully.
"The Yuan family takes that cub very seriously."
"Yeah." Lu Xi knew that the atmosphere around him had become much more complicated recently, and some uninvited guests had secretly visited.
"Do you want me to help you think of a solution?"
Lu Xi looked up at Yuan Mu's handsome face. The only thing missing from his expression was "ill-intentioned." Sure enough, she heard him say, "Call me Brother Yuan Mu, and I'll agree to your request."
"Heh." She laughed coldly.
"Really, I know a lot of things."
"Then how can you help me?" Lu Xi disagreed.
"Hmm...it seems not." He touched his chin.
Lu Xi: “…”
She made a move to get up and leave.
"No, I'm just kidding." He was afraid that Lu Xi would really leave. "I will definitely help you with your problem, okay?"
Lu Xi didn't expect him to help. Could a mere pediatric doctor help her get an SSSSS-level cub?
Even she herself didn't believe that he had this ability.
Lu Xi ate very full during the meal. She wiped her mouth with a tissue and rinsed her mouth with lemon water. Suddenly, she remembered something.
"You just said that you know a lot of things?"
"Of course, do you need my help?"
"Hmm." She thought about it and frowned, "It might be a bit troublesome."
Yuan Mu raised his chin and said, "Tell me about it."
"I suspect I have rheumatism."
Yuan Mu: "???"
When Lu Xi got out to take the bus, it was already getting dark. As night fell in the metropolis, the glow of neon lights overshadowed the stars, and the sky was reflected red by the lights, even redder than the sunset. However, when he thought about the pollution to nature, he suddenly felt that it was not beautiful.
Not long after she got in the car, the phone in her bag rang.
I took it out and saw that it was an unfamiliar number.
"Miss Lu Xi&×……%￥……" After the call was connected, the voice on the other end was very noisy, accompanied by the sound of things being thrown.
"Ms. Lu Xi, where are you now?"
The other party seemed to have changed his position, and this time he finally heard clearly. Lu Xi said, "I'm outside, what's wrong?"
Lu Xi remembered the voice, it was the maid Xiaomei.
"You haven't come back yet, and the mermaid cub got angry. He's very emotional and is throwing things around."
Lu Xi vaguely heard the roar of the little mermaid.
She took a deep breath and said, "Okay, I understand."
"Well, you now..." She was very anxious.
"I'm going back now."
…
Assente regretted his anger towards Lu Xi, especially since Lu Xi didn't say a word and just closed the door and left.
He wondered if she was angry, but he didn't mean to yell at her. He was just angry that he accidentally hurt her, that she always left him, that she hugged other cubs...
Assente sat in the room with mixed feelings, wondering whether he should apologize during lunch.
She would forgive him as long as he apologized.
Yes, that's it, just apologize...
But he waited and waited, until the maid brought the food, until the food was cold, but she still didn't come back.
She didn't come back until dark.
The maid came in several times and wanted to take away the cold food, but Arsenal refused because Miss Lu Xi hadn't eaten yet. Seeing his cold expression, the maid had no choice but to let him do what he wanted.
When it was time for dinner, the maid came again.
"I'll take these away, it's time for you to have dinner."
He then realized that it was already dark. Seeing the maid coming over, he protected the food and said, "No, Miss Lu Xi hasn't eaten yet."
"Is Miss Lu Xi not back yet?" The maid Xiaomei had a headache. The mermaid cub's eyes were red and its mood was getting more and more abnormal. When Lu Xi was around, why didn't she find this little mermaid difficult to take care of? "Come to think of it, I didn't see her today."
This sentence seemed to irritate the little mermaid's nerves.
"Didn't you see her?" He raised his head stiffly, his dry voice hoarse. "Didn't you see her outside?"
"Yeah, I just thought she was back."
The mermaid's eyes suddenly widened.
"Then where did she go..." His voice trembled faintly, "Oh, by the lake. She said she was going to the lake..."
The maid saw him angrily turning his wheelchair and quickly pulled it from behind, "Stay here, I'll ask someone to look for it."
"No, I want to go find Miss Lu Xi."
The little mermaid tried to turn his wheelchair, but it was being held tightly. Xiaomei tried to calm him down, "Wait here. If Miss Luxi comes back, I'll send someone over quickly."
Xiaomei didn't dare to delay and immediately asked someone to help find it.
Not long after, the servant who went to look for Lu Xi came back and did not find her. Xiao Mei had a headache about what to do. Suddenly she remembered that she could ask the steward to see if he had Lu Xi's number.
Arsenal was overwhelmed by fear. Miss Lu Xi wasn't at the lake, so where had she gone? Was she really angry? He had clearly intended to apologize, he wanted to apologize to her...
"Miss Lu Xi... is she gone..."
"Is she angry? She doesn't want me anymore..."
"But I didn't mean to. I didn't mean to hurt her. I was just a little angry. I didn't mean to..."
"Where is Miss Lu Xi? I want to go find her..."
"Calm down, Miss Lu Xi must have gone out for something." Xiaomei calmed him down and asked someone to report to the manager.
The manager acted quickly and immediately sent someone to stop the mermaid. Assente couldn't get out and could only smash things in the house.
"Get out of here, let me out—"
When Lu Xi arrived, he saw a row of people guarding the door. There were crackling sounds and the maids' screams coming from inside. Because they were afraid that the little mermaid would hurt himself, the maids had to stay in the house to comfort him and clean up the debris.
When Lu Xi passed by, the steward hurriedly and politely greeted her, "Ms. Lu Xi, you are finally back."
"Yeah." Lu Xi didn't have time to care about him and went straight into the house.
The elegant room where he usually lived was now in a mess. The little mermaid with red eyes looked like a monster, sitting in a tattered wheelchair, glaring at the people who trapped him.
"Let me out, let me out--" He roared hoarsely, and the unique tremor of the mermaid's voice made people's eardrums hurt.
Assente wanted to go out, but he couldn't. As soon as he thought that if he stayed here for one more second, Miss Lu Xi would go further away, he was swallowed up by fear. No, he wanted to go find her.
The overwhelming anger and fear obscured his consciousness, and some power surged around him, quickly generating a terrible hurricane.
"Asente, what are you doing?"
The cold female voice instantly wiped out the terrifying power that surged out of his body, and he looked at the person at the door in shock.
"Miss Lu Xi...?"
The originally arrogant and violent little mermaid, the moment she saw Lu Xi, was like a raging fire immersed in ice water, which was instantly extinguished.
He tried hard to turn the wheelchair over, but the wheelchair had been broken by him and the wheels were flattened, so no matter how hard he tried to turn it, he wouldn't move. He anxiously supported himself on the handle, wishing he could stand up.
The steward outside the door looked at this scene, his restrained eyes flashed slightly. Sure enough, it was just as the head of the family said.
This little mermaid can't live without Lu Xi.
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