33. Night 33 Guilt
After getting rid of Lu Yuan's plaster, Lu Xi secretly breathed a sigh of relief. She followed Yuan Sen to the villa, silently staring at the tall boy in front of her, but seemed a little absent-minded.
In the conversation with Lu Yuan just now, she was speaking as "Lu Xi", and it was unknown how much the boy heard.
Could it be that he already knew that she was Lu Xi, or that he had actually forgotten that when he was very young, a housekeeper named "Lu Xi" had taken care of him for a period of time.
After all, compared to these forty years, that period of time was too short to be worth mentioning. Even if the little mermaid was very dependent on her at the time, he was just a child, so it was normal for him not to remember it.
Before they knew it, they returned to the villa.
"What's wrong?" He suddenly stopped, and Lu Xi almost bumped into his back. The boy stood there without saying a word.
"Nothing." He continued walking upstairs.
The mermaid went to and from school as usual every day, and Lu Xi took good care of him, raising him to be very smooth and healthy.
Occasionally, when he was in a good mood, he would swim in the open-air swimming pool. Lu Xi stared at the fishtail that was becoming more and more dazzling and smooth like a diamond. It was really beautiful, like a work of art carved by God.
Unconsciously, a long time had passed since the previous personality fell asleep. Lu Xi couldn't say whether he missed it or not, but he would occasionally wonder where he would go after disappearing.
Is it to feel the outside world deep in the mind, or to fall into a long sleep until the body is regained control.
No matter which one it is, it's too lonely, but if he comes back, what will happen to his current personality...
"Hey, what are you thinking about?"
Lu Xi came back to her senses and saw the mermaid's beautiful face close to her. He had just jumped out of the swimming pool, with water droplets still on his face and his long hair hanging on the floor like a waterfall.
Lu Xi was sitting by the swimming pool in a daze, just like usual, but she didn't expect the mermaid to suddenly jump up.
She was a little scared, "Nothing."
Lu Xi looked at the face so close to her and the pair of empty eyes. She clearly remembered how beautiful these eyes used to be, but it was a pity that he could not see anything now.
"Yuan Sen..." Lu Xi hesitated for a long time and said, "...How did you go blind?"
Even though she knew it was a taboo, Lu Xi still asked. She really wanted to know why he was injured so seriously.
The air suddenly became much colder, and the merman's face turned pale. He said with a gloomy expression, "It has nothing to do with you."
"Who hurt him?" She ignored the mermaid's angry expression and continued to ask, "Under what circumstances..."
"Shut up." He turned and jumped into the pool.
That night, Yuan Sen went out and did not come back. Lu Xi waited until dawn until she received an invitation from Mrs. Yuan.
It was still the same building exuding an ancient atmosphere. A woman was sitting by the window, with wind chimes swaying above her head.
"Do you like tea?" the woman asked. "This is a special tea of the Yuan family, grown by a local demon tribe."
The maid poured Lu Xi a cup of tea and asked her to sit down, but Lu Xi refused to drink it. "You invited me here not just for tea, did you?"
The woman chuckled softly, her tone seductive. "I can't just start talking right away. That's not how I treat guests."
She glanced at Lu Xi and asked, "Do you have something to say to me?"
Lu Xi did have something to ask her. The doubts that had been suppressed for a long time began to pile up more and more. "Why didn't you tell me that Arsenal had developed a split personality." This woman didn't tell her about such a big thing. Who could have known how angry she would be later.
Ji Qiuhu raised his eyebrows, "You know?"
Lu Xi sneered. How could she not know that he suddenly changed in front of her? "If it were you, how could you not know after spending so much time together day and night?"
Ji Qiuhu's expression didn't change. After all, she didn't think that this matter could be kept secret from Lu Xi forever.
"So what's going on?"
"I don't know either." Ji Qiuhu shrugged. She glanced at Lu Xi and said, "Maybe... I was stimulated."
"What excitement." Lu Xi frowned.
"You don't know?" She seemed to have heard a joke and looked at Lu Xi with a half-smile. "He went crazy forty years ago."
Forty years ago...
"Think about what happened forty years ago."
Forty years ago, when she died... Lu Xi's eyes suddenly widened, and a vague unrealistic doubt arose in his heart.
The barefoot woman approached her, gently lifted her chin, and said with her face close to her: "Yes, it's just what you think."
Ji Qiuhu stared at Lu Xi's wide-open eyes.
"He became like this because of you."
"Didn't you say... He said it was because of his injury..."
"I lied to you before because I was afraid you would overindulge him due to guilt. But I've changed my mind now." Ji Qiuhu chuckled, "I want to use your guilt to help him."
"Do you know how much the Yuan family values this cub? Even if he goes crazy, they're unwilling to give him up because he's an unprecedented SSSs-level..." Ji Qiuhu's face was filled with obsession and fanaticism, like a homeless person seeing money and delicious food. "Although there are some opposing voices, I will eliminate them sooner or later."
"But before that..." The enthusiasm on Ji Qiuhu's face gradually faded, "We have to cure his eyes first."
"Who blinded his eyes?" Lu Xi asked. Since Asent refused to say, she could only ask the woman in front of her.
"He was tricked," Ji Qiuhu said. "The poachers tricked him into drinking the potion. If he did, they would give him the antidote for QT-Z07, but there wasn't any antidote."
It hurts, it hurts, it hurts.
She originally thought that he became blind and developed a split personality due to injury, but it turned out to be all because of her.
It's all her fault, all her fault...
Ji Qiuhu had been paying attention to her expression, and of course he did not miss the guilt on her face. This was the effect she wanted.
"Yuan Mu said... my body is in the Yuan family."
"That's right. Although you are dead, your body still retains some activity and has not decayed, so we might as well keep it." The most important reason was that the cub refused to bury her.
"So, what do you want me to do?"
…
The Yuanshi Building was heavily guarded. A figure went straight to the upper floors without being stopped and entered a room after passing the iris test.
The large room was dim, empty, and quiet, only filled with various devices and flashing indicator lights.
He walked over silently and stopped in front of a transparent petri dish that covered an entire wall. The boy's face was completely devoid of his usual frivolous smile, and he stood silently in front of the petri dish.
In the huge petri dish, a beautiful woman was floating. She had various tubes inserted into her body, her soft black hair was hanging behind her, and her eyes were closed, looking very peaceful as if she was sleeping.
"Ms. Lu Xi..."
An overly white hand was pressed against the transparent glass. The boy seemed to be caressing her through the petri dish. His unfocused silver-blue eyes trembled constantly, and his eyes were full of obsession.
"Miss Lu Xi..." He called her name in a very soft voice, as if he was worried about disturbing her.
The woman inside was clearly no longer breathing.
His fingertips rubbed against the glass, leaving faint fingerprints. His face was pressed against it, and his shallow breath fell on the glass, leaving a vague mist.
If possible, he wanted to hold her tightly in his arms, or she wanted to hold him in her arms. It didn't matter if she had no body temperature, he could use his body temperature to warm her.
When the mermaid was a child, he had no body temperature at all, but when he grew up, he did have some body temperature.
Although it is still very cold compared to humans.
The white fingertips trembled and twitched slightly. As he tried hard to restrain the urge to smash the petri dish, his body also trembled violently, and his legs slid weakly to his knees on the ground.
"Miss Lu Xi, when will you wake up..." His eyes were bloodshot, "I can't wait any longer."
The crazy and trembling voice revealed deep sadness and despair, like a trapped animal in a cage.
If someone came in now, they would be frightened by the boy's eyes, which were a kind of madness that could destroy everything.
…
When Lu Xi returned to the villa, the mermaid had not come back yet. Today happened to be the weekend, so she simply waited for him while reading a book.
After a few hours, I finally saw him come in.
"Yuan Sen, come back..." Here comes.
The boy's eyes were colder than ever before. Even Lu Xi, who was used to seeing such eyes, felt that the cold wind was like a knife.
He went upstairs without even saying a word.
Lu Xi raised her hand to say hello, then put it down silently, wondering if he was still angry about what she said yesterday.
In the dim room, the young man collapsed onto the bed, exhausted, letting his body sink into the soft bed.
He raised his hands to cover his face and the fatigue on his face. He was very tired, very tired. He was really tired of these forty years.
In fact, as long as he gave up and stopped thinking about her, he could live a very different life. But as soon as this thought arose, it was like a knife cutting into his flesh and piercing his heart. She had spread into his bones like poison.
He lay there exhausted, sleepiness gradually coming over him.
A picture gradually emerged in his mind: a villa that he once knew very well, and a woman who came home at night carrying him back to the room.
He opened his eyes and looked at her stupidly. The moonlight fell softly on her, and she was like a beautiful goddess of the night.
Just looking at her quietly makes me feel satisfied.
"Ms. Lu Xi..." After she put him on the bed, he suddenly grabbed her wrist as she was about to stand up.
"Hmm?" She looked at him with a faint smile, tenderness written in her gentle eyes, which turned into a warm current flowing into his heart.
"Do you want to... go see other cubs..."
"No." She raised her hand and touched his head.
Hearing this, the little mermaid breathed a sigh of relief.
Lu Xi stood up, and her graceful back caught his eye. The moonlight enveloped her, giving her a faint glow.
"I'm leaving. Get out of here."
His eyes suddenly widened.
"Leave...where are you going?" He suddenly panicked and jumped up from the bed.
"Go somewhere far away and never come back."
Never coming back...
She's not coming back, she's going to leave him behind...
"Don't... don't..." Fear swallowed him like a flood. "Don't go. Don't leave me."
Is she going to abandon him again...
Abandon him...
Ah, why "again", has he been abandoned by her before...
Oh, she left him...
"Ms. Lu Xi, don't leave... At least take me with you. I will be very good and obedient. Don't leave me..."
The woman seemed not to hear his pleading. She opened the door and the mermaid desperately crawled forward, but he had no legs and eventually fell heavily to the ground. He ignored the pain and continued to crawl forward awkwardly, "Don't go... Don't go..."
Pearls fell to the ground one by one without any cost, and he watched her disappear before his eyes. Suddenly, his body seemed to be put into a furnace, and his tender hands and feet were stretched and elongated little by little, and his skin was torn because of the stretching. Bloodstains covered his whole body, and even his beautiful face was covered with blood.
His body kept twitching, and the blood spreading from under his body was like a blooming flower.
Until finally, the pain was so severe that I lost consciousness.
"Ms. Lu Xi."
The deep and hoarse voice belonged to the young man. His fish tail was torn apart and turned into a pair of slender legs. He stood up shakily, but every step he took felt like being pricked by a needle. It was very painful, but not as painful as the pain of a torn heart.
The blood-soaked boy left bloody footprints on the ground with every step he took. "I'm going to... find you..."
On the big bed in the room, the sleeping mermaid had her brows tightly furrowed, and tears flowed from the corners of her moist eyes. Before the tears fell onto the pillow, they solidified into round pearls.
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