30. Night 30: Drowsiness
After buying colored paper, Lu Xi returned to the villa and saw a person lying on the grass in the yard. She walked over.
The mermaid lay under a tree, the swaying shadows of the trees blocking out the glaring sunset, but he seemed to be sleeping very uneasily, with his brows tightly furrowed and his breathing disordered, as if he was haunted by a nightmare.
Even when Lu Xi approached, he did not wake up.
"Yuan Sen, wake up." Lu Xi shook him awake.
It took many shakes for him to wake up. He opened his eyes and noticed Lu Xi approaching without him noticing any moment. His pupils narrowed and he raised his claws, almost about to land on her, but he braked in time.
Just half a second later, Lu Xi would be ripped open.
"Did you have a nightmare?" She saw him breathing heavily, and his face was paler than usual, like a piece of white paper.
He did not respond to Lu Xi's concern.
He got up and returned to the villa silently. Lu Xi followed him in, but she didn't see Asent, so she guessed he had gone upstairs.
Lu Xi didn't go up to find him, but took out the ingredients from the refrigerator and started preparing dinner for Arsenal.
Lu Xi's body is made of ceramic, so she doesn't actually need to eat, but eating is fine.
Because of this, I dared to go out to eat with my classmates.
Lu Xi made chicken stewed with mushrooms, sweet and sour pork ribs, a plate of scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and a pot of broth. She remembered that Arsenal used to like eating these dishes she made very much. She didn't know if he still liked them after all these years.
The rich aroma of food filled the entire kitchen. When Lu Xi knocked on the door and called Asent, his face still looked a little bad.
"Are you hungry? It's time for dinner."
The mermaid followed her downstairs expressionlessly. Lu Xi walked up to him and said, "This is chicken stewed with mushrooms, and this is..."
Lu Xi couldn't continue the introduction because the mermaid stopped and sniffed the air with the tip of its nose.
Suddenly his expression turned ugly, he hugged his head in pain, his body tilted to the ground, and his whole body began to tremble violently.
"Assente." Lu Xi called his original name anxiously.
Yuan Sen fell to the ground with a severe headache. There was a sharp buzzing in his ears, and the crackling noise made it impossible for him to think.
Faintly, his eyes, which had been blind for a long time, seemed to be able to see things again. He saw a woman with a smile on her face squatting in front of him. She was very beautiful and gentle. She put her hand on his head and said in a soft voice, "Ascent."
"Assente." The gentle woman called him.
"Lu..." A hoarse voice came out of his throat.
In a trance, his body seemed to shrink all of a sudden, and he was gently picked up by someone, and he leaned in her arms with contentment.
"Asante, let's go home."
The corners of his eyes felt slightly sore and his heart ached. He wanted to scream, but his throat was so dry that it was difficult to utter a word.
He was clearly being held in the arms of a warm person, and he was clearly very happy and content, but there felt like a hole in his heart.
It's so uncomfortable, so painful, I can't breathe...
Lu Xi shook him worriedly. Seeing him struggling with his head in pain, his mind went blank at that moment.
Suddenly, he raised his trembling hand, as if touching something in the air, "Go... home..."
Lu Xi quickly called Yuanshi. The waiting process was long, but fortunately, the doctor arrived not long after.
But the mermaid had already fallen into a coma at this time.
"He's fine." said a middle-aged male demon.
"It's okay, how could this happen?" Lu Xi didn't believe what he said, "Please take another look, doctor."
"It's useless." The middle-aged demon sighed.
Lu Xi looked at his helpless expression, as if this was not the first time she had faced this situation. She suddenly remembered that the previous few times she saw him, he seemed to have had headaches.
"Why is it useless? What happened to him?"
Could this also be a result of an injury? Lu Xi remembered what Ji Qiuhu said, that Assente had been injured before.
"Let him have some sleep, he'll be fine when he wakes up." The middle-aged male demon left without saying anything else.
He still didn't wake up the next day. Lu Xi was worried, so she asked for leave to stay and take care of him. After all, studying was just a cover. Her purpose of coming to school was to take care of this mermaid.
After that, Arsenal slept for a week straight.
That night, Lu Xi was still lying beside his bed, guarding him. She fell asleep unknowingly until she felt a little cold. She woke up and found that Arsenal was gone.
"Asent... Yuansen." Lu Xi breathed a sigh of relief when he found that the boy was just sitting on the windowsill.
"Why didn't you tell me you woke up? It's cold at night, don't sit on the windowsill..." Lu Xi's legs were numb from sleeping on the bed. She staggered to her feet and walked towards him, but she stopped halfway. It felt like her feet were stuck with glue and she couldn't move anymore.
The young man sitting on the windowsill turned his head to look at her, a faint smile on his lips, and glanced at her with his distracted eyes.
It was obviously the same person, but Lu Xi couldn't move his legs. The breeze blew the boy's silver-blue hair, and the moonlight penetrated his invisible eyes, leaving a faint luster on his cold white cheeks. The boy's beautiful chin was slightly raised, and there was a smile on the corner of his mouth, but there was a hint of blood in the smile.
"Huh? Wake up." He raised his eyebrows.
The young man jumped down from the windowsill, his silk nightgown was blown up by the wind, and his toes tapped lightly when he landed without making any sound.
His light figure was like a cheetah walking at night. He walked towards Lu Xi and put his face in front of her.
"You've been taking care of him?"
He? Lu Xi frowned.
The young man raised his slender wrist, and his cold hand touched her equally cold face. His unfocused eyes reflected her beautiful face in the moonlight. His hand slowly slid across her face, depicting her forehead, eyebrows, and nose bit by bit.
"That's really strange..."
"No body temperature, no human scent..."
"No breath, no demonic aura..."
"What the hell are you?"
The boy was a head taller than Lu Xi. He held her face in his hands and touched her face with playful curiosity.
Lu Xi frowned. She felt that something was wrong with the boy. What was going on? He was completely different from the previous Yuan Sen.
"But, they're so similar..."
His cold hands slid across her eyes. "So similar, this forehead, nose, eyes, lips..."
With every word he spoke, the expression on his face became more and more crazy, like a madman going crazy.
Lu Xi took a step back and slapped his hand away, "Yuan Sen, what's wrong with you?" She looked at the boy who was completely different from usual, and suddenly a guess came to her mind. Could it be...
After Lu Xi distanced himself from him, the boy quickly put down his hand that had been slapped away, and the smile on his lips gradually deepened.
"Did you get scared?" He seemed innocent, his smile tinged with sarcasm. "But, it really wasn't her..."
That person will not be scared by him.
She was the most gentle person in the world to him.
She is the warmest person in the world.
"Yuan Sen, what's wrong with you?" He was really confused.
"I'm fine, I just woke up." He stretched lazily, "I slept for a long, long time..."
Lu Xi felt that the boy in front of her was very strange. If it wasn’t for the same face, she would not believe it was that boy.
What is going on? Could it be true...
"Dual personality?" Her face changed.
No one would change so much all of a sudden. She also didn't believe that the boy would become so strange after sleeping. This was not a disguise, even his aura had changed.
The only explanation is dual personality.
"Are you Yuan Sen's secondary personality?"
And he didn't seem surprised that Lu Xi could guess it, because the two of them were so different, completely two different people.
"Hush, guess." He put his finger to his lips.
Lu Xi felt very complicated. He actually had a dual personality. What happened to Arsenal over the years? In addition to losing his memory and becoming blind, he even developed another personality.
Both of these personalities are different from the little mermaid in her memory, and she herself cannot tell them apart.
"Can't you tell me?" Now no matter what you tell her, she won't be surprised, but will only feel distressed.
Is the original one the dominant personality, or is the current one the dominant personality, or is it neither of them...
This personality is much more cunning than the previous one. The more you want to know something, the less he will tell you.
Until the end, Lu Xi had no answer.
…
Lu Xi didn’t know how to describe her current feelings. It was still the same mermaid, but her personality was completely different.
Lu Xi brought a plate of uncooked sashimi and placed it in front of the mermaid. He picked up the knife and fork and began to eat slowly.
"You really don't need me to cook?"
Wouldn't it be boring to eat only sashimi? She could have cooked something more delicious, so why didn't she eat it?
He glanced at Lu Xi sideways. Although he couldn't see, he felt a chill. Was he rejecting other foods?
Why? She remembered that he used to like it very much.
It was the first time Lu Xi saw the mermaid wearing Xiecheng’s school uniform: a snow-white shirt with trousers. The top two buttons of the shirt were unbuttoned, revealing her slender neck and half of her collarbone.
He turned the dazzling silver-blue hair into black so as not to attract unnecessary attention.
Lu Xi looked at him in a daze. She wondered how many young girls would be charmed by this young man if he walked out.
"Are you going to class?" Lu Xi asked.
"I'm a student." He said with a half-smile.
Lu Xi had never seen him go to class and almost forgot that he was a student of Xiecheng High School. But to be honest, she had taken many days off and the teacher had called her many times to say hello.
Lu Xi followed the boy out. Although demons and humans attended the same school, they were usually not assigned to the same classes. The demon class was in another teaching building.
When they came out, the bell for class had already rung, so naturally they didn't meet any other students. Lu Xi watched him walk into the teaching building before walking towards the teaching building where her class was.
But before Lu Xi entered the classroom, he met someone downstairs, a woman who looked very familiar.
"Lu...Xi?"
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