32. Night 32 Gift
"It looks fine." Yuan Mu finished checking Lu Xi's neck and frowned, "Did something happen?"
Yuan Mu hadn't seen Lu Xi for many days. Today, she suddenly ran over to him for examination, which scared him.
Lu Xi shook her head and said, "It was just a fall." She knew that Yuan Mu had no good feelings towards Asent, so she didn't intend to say more.
"Fall on your neck?" He raised his eyebrows.
Last night, the merman pinched her so hard that she felt like she was going to break. Worried about her health, she rushed over after class that morning. Luckily, this body wouldn't leave marks, so Yuan Mu didn't notice anything.
"Your body is made of a very special material. It won't break unless it's dealt a fatal blow. You're not afraid of bumps and bruises, but you're afraid of demons..."
The power of the demon race is terrifying. If anyone accidentally hurts her, her body will shatter in minutes. That's why Yuan Mu didn't want Lu Xi to take care of the mermaid and get involved in this mess.
It would be very troublesome for her now if she got injured.
Lu Xi remained silent. She knew that getting involved with the Yuan family would cause a lot of trouble, but it was something she had to do.
"This is a gift for you."
Lu Xi threw a bag in front of Yuan Mu. Yuan Mu opened it and exclaimed, "Wow, it's a cake from my favorite dessert shop. Orders from that shop are so hard to get."
"Consider it a thank you gift for this inspection."
After Lu Xi finished speaking, he stood up.
Seeing that she was about to leave, Yuan Mu's excitement subsided. He sighed and said, "Lu Xi, take care of yourself."
Lu Xi paused, "I understand."
Lu Xi returned to the villa and saw the mermaid sleeping on the sofa, with the faint sunlight shining on his fair skin.
When her eyes met his sleeping face, she remembered the farce of last night and the wet touch of her wrist, and her face froze.
“Hmm…”
Suddenly, the mermaid's handsome eyebrows frowned, and he slowly opened his closed eyes. When he opened his eyes, he was not fully awake. His silver-blue eyes were covered with moist mist, and he was as confused as a small animal. His hoarse voice was strangely tempting.
"Huh? You're back."
He propped himself up with his arms and looked over, licking the corner of his lips with his bright red tongue. Lu Xi's body stiffened again.
"I'm hungry."
"I understand. I'll go prepare food."
The mermaid was a little dazed after just waking up, but he seemed to have realized something and a playful smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"...That's really interesting."
Lu Xi felt a little strange and her face was burning hot, but she tried hard to suppress the strange feeling.
When I finished making and serving the sashimi, I suddenly saw a small bag on the corner cabinet that had been forgotten for many days.
Lu Xi picked up the bag, which contained the colorful origami she had bought to give to the mermaid. But now the mermaid had changed her personality, and she didn't know whether to give the gift to her or not.
"What are you doing?" A voice sounded behind him.
Lu Xi realized that the mermaid had walked behind her without her knowing when, so she put the bag back in its place.
"nothing."
"Oh... really?" He glanced at the place where the sound of plastic bags rubbing against each other came from. "You're hiding something."
If it was the previous personality, he would not ask what Lu Xi was doing at all. Sometimes it was difficult for Lu Xi to get the other party to pay attention to her, but this was a person who would not give in.
He walked over, picked up the bag that Lu Xi put down, and took out a stack of fruit-flavored colored paper.
Although he and that personality didn't share any memories, he knew that the other person liked to fold paper cranes. "Did you give it to him?"
Lu Xi knew who this "he" was referring to.
"Yeah." She admitted generously.
There was a pause in the air for a moment, and his silver-blue eyes fell on her face, and he said nonchalantly, "Really?"
"What about mine?"
He stretched out a slender hand. Lu Xi was confused for a moment. His? His what?
Lu Xi was slow to speak. The mermaid seemed to have noticed something, raised her eyebrows, and raised the corners of her mouth in a half-smile.
"You bought it for him, but not for me?"
Lu Xi frowned: "I bought this before, when you hadn't come out yet." She didn't know that he had a dual personality.
"You can't be partial, I want one too."
"What do you want?" Since he brought it up, Lu Xi felt that it was not good to be partial to him, but she didn't know what he wanted.
"I want..." He suddenly leaned over and put his head close to her ear, his cold breath blowing on the tip of her ear. Her body couldn't help but tremble slightly, as if she was bewitched by the legendary fairy, "You."
The soft voice echoed in her ears, and as her whole body tensed up and a thin layer of sweat oozed out, the boy smiled.
Lu Xi's face turned cold, knowing that she was being teased.
"Yuan Sen, that's enough." She was really angry.
"I'm just kidding." The merman suddenly distanced himself from her, and the alluring aura dissipated, no longer so hot.
"Then what do you want?" Lu Xi said angrily.
The mermaid looked at her delicate face. He had touched her face and had memorized her facial features. Although he couldn't see it, he could feel the hot temperature of her face. Her face must be very red now, just like the sunset deep in his memory.
A sharp pain shot through my head, and some old memories came flooding back like shattered fragments.
"I want... ice cream."
"Ice cream?" Lu Xi was stunned when he heard that.
Lu Xi thought that with his personality, he would definitely ask for a huge amount of money or think of some strange gift to tease her.
But no, he just wanted an ice cream.
This gift was so easy to achieve. After class that afternoon, Lu Xi went out to buy ice cream.
When she returned to the villa, she found that the mermaid had already returned, and she handed the ice cream to him.
"Here, the ice cream you asked for."
He didn't seem to expect that Lu Xi would buy it so quickly. His distracted eyes fell on her face for a long time without moving.
"Eat it quickly, it's about to melt."
Lu Xi stuffed it directly into his hand. She also bought an ice cream for herself and ate it before it melted.
The mermaid held the ice cream in his hand and could feel a chill approaching his cheek. He stuck out his tongue and licked it gently. It was very cold and a little numbing.
"Is it delicious?" Lu Xi asked.
The boy didn't answer, but just continued to lick again and again with his eyes lowered, and Lu Xi ignored him.
He seems to like eating.
The mermaid ate in silence, he said nothing, because there was no taste, no taste at all, only a chill that penetrated into his heart. Didn't he know it a long time ago?
He couldn't taste anything at all.
"I really envy that fool..."
He was the only one who couldn't taste anything, and his other personality would never be like this, never...
"What did you say?" Lu Xi turned to look at him.
The mermaid didn't let her notice anything unusual. His translucent silver-blue eyelashes drooped slightly, and he suddenly moved closer to her.
"What flavor is yours?"
He stuck out his bright red tongue and licked Lu Xi's original ice cream, which scared Lu Xi.
Lu Xi's head was filled with black lines. Just as she was about to ask him why he suddenly came over, he sat back as if nothing had happened and raised his eyebrows, "It tastes better than mine."
"Isn't it the same flavor?" Lu Xi asked in confusion. She clearly bought the same thing, so how could there be a difference?
Hearing this, the mermaid's fingertips that were supporting her side paused.
"Really?" He glanced away nonchalantly.
…
Lu Xi doesn't want to have anything to do with the Lu family anymore, so the person she least wants to meet at school is Lu Yuan.
But Lu Yuan deliberately waited for her on the road.
"Lu Xi, let's talk."
"What do you think we should talk about?" Lu Xi looked at her with a half-smile. Lu Yuan thought of the last time they met, when she had scolded her and said she would suffer retribution, and her face felt a little awkward.
Seeing Lu Xi turning around to leave, thinking of what her grandmother had promised her, she gritted her teeth and chased after her: "After so many years, don't you miss your mother?"
Seeing her stunned for a moment, Lu Yuan thought there might be something going on, so she quickly said, "Your mother... is buried in the Lu family cemetery."
Lu Xi had known about this for a long time. Yuan Mu had told her on the day she was reborn. Her original mother was an ordinary person without spiritual power, so it was normal for her to die at this age.
On the contrary, the old woman who has always been the head of the Lu family is still holding on to the power of the Lu family as firmly as she did forty years ago.
"Lu Xi, you want to go see her, right?"
Lu Yuan learned about Lu Xi's current situation through Lu's investigation. She was indeed dead, but came back to life and now works for Yuan's family. She is really lucky. I don't know what means he used to charm a demon and bring her back to life.
Looking at this face that was younger than hers, she wanted to tear it into pieces. Why was she younger and more beautiful than herself?
"So what?" Lu Xi said expressionlessly.
"As long as you follow me back to Lu's family, I will ask grandma to let you go to your mother's grave to pay your respects." Lu Yuan continued.
"Back to Lu clan?" She raised her eyebrows.
"Of course, you have to take the mermaid back." Lu Yuan put forward the conditions, "You know, the Yuan family has stopped us from taking care of him. No, it is the Lu family's responsibility to train him."
"Lu Xi, as a descendant of the Lu family, you should also know your obligations. We must get that cub. Only the Lu family can train him into an excellent demon."
As long as Lu Xi is tricked into bringing the mermaid to the Lu family, grandma will naturally have a way to restrain him. Grandma promised her that she would arrange a new cub for her and restore her status as housekeeper.
When Lu Xi heard that she was planning to take advantage of Arsenal, his face darkened as if he was immersed in ice water. "You want me to hand him over to the Lu family?"
"No, it's impossible." It's just wishful thinking.
How could Lu Xi not know the Lu family's little thoughts? Asent is very likely to become the head of the Yuan family. He is still an SSSss-level cub. As long as he is restrained, he can be driven to do many things in the future, such as making the demon clan a puppet of the Lu family.
"Lu Xi, don't be ungrateful." Seeing that Lu Xi didn't fall into the trap, she became anxious. "Don't think I don't know what you are thinking. Do you think the Yuan family will let that cruel mermaid become the head of the family? Only the Lu family can help him clear his name."
"Wash?" Lu Xi seemed to have heard a joke. "Why does he need to be whitewashed? You take yourself too seriously."
"Lu Xi, I know you haven't been around for many years, and I don't know a lot of things. Do you know him..."
"Huh? It's really lively."
The young man's voice sounded behind the two of them. Hearing this voice, Lu Yuan's face turned pale.
"Yuan Sen." Lu Xi turned around.
"What are you talking about? Can I listen?"
The boy's casual tone made Lu Yuan's body tremble violently. She didn't even dare to turn her head. She was sweating all over and the pupils of her cosmetic contact lenses contracted violently.
"What... nothing... we didn't talk about anything..." Lu Yuan completely lost her previous arrogance and looked like a drowned dog.
"Really?" A cold gaze as if looking at a dead body swept over her, and Lu Yuan felt that the blood in her body froze at this moment.
He chuckled, "I thought you were talking about me."
Lu Yuan's body was shaking like a sieve, and she almost fell to the ground. "I... I'll go first." After saying that, she ran away. On the way, she tripped over a stone and almost fell flat on her face.
And Yuan Sen did not stop her from leaving.
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