38. Night 38: Expulsion
He heard a cracking sound. The sound was not loud, but for some reason it seemed infinitely amplified in his ears, like a thunderclap exploding in his ears. His body suddenly froze.
In the moment he lost consciousness, the translucent light shield shattered, and a cold body fell towards him. He touched her split wrist, and a familiar scent seeped out from the crack. It was a scent he could only feel in his dreams, a scent he hadn't forgotten for forty years. It belonged to that person...
Deep down, his heart trembled violently, his pupils contracted violently, and his heartbeat almost stopped. "Miss...Lu...Xi..."
"It's me, I'm back." Lu Xi's consciousness suddenly became blurred, and her body became weak and powerless. It seemed that something was seeping out through her cracked wrist. Was it her soul?
Could it be that this is the end of her story?
Lu Xi fell limply on him. The merman shook her body, and when he saw that she didn't make any more sound, his face turned pale, and he picked her up and rushed out regardless of everything.
"Save her, save her."
It was the first time that Ji Qiuhu had seen such a mermaid. His lips were terribly pale, and he appeared in front of him holding an unconscious girl, with a panicked expression on his face. Even though he had killed people and was covered in blood, he had never experienced such a thing. He had never felt so alive like this before.
"Please, save her."
His body kept shaking as he held the girl tightly in his arms. It seemed that he already knew her identity.
"What happened?"
"She's broken, Miss Lu Xi is broken, save her, please save her, save Miss Lu Xi..."
Ji Qiuhu stared at the panicked merman, frowned, and called Yuan Mu, "Come here right away."
"What's wrong? I just got back from a business trip. Can you let me rest for a while? I've worked so hard, but I need to take a break."
"Something happened to Lu Xi."
Yuan Mu was speechless. "I'll be there right away."
Yuan Mu arrived quickly. When he saw the crack on Lu Xi's wrist, he was furious. He didn't expect Lu Xi to damage her body so quickly. She became weak because her soul had seeped out of her body. It seemed that he trusted her too much.
"It's all my fault." He shouldn't have let her get involved with the Yuan family. The demon clan was indeed a dangerous factor to her.
Yuan Mu took out a special clay to block the crack on her wrist. After fiddling with it for a while, he finally spread the clay along her skin and made it fit perfectly on her wrist. He dried it at high temperature and cooled it down. Finally, her wrist was restored to its smooth and flawless state.
"She's fine." Yuan Mu wiped the sweat off his forehead. Fortunately, it was just a crack and not broken, otherwise he would have no way to deal with it.
The mermaid immediately pounced over and sat down beside her bed with a stiff back, staring at her closely even though he couldn't see.
Yuan Mu really wanted to ask him what had happened, but he saw that the mermaid's silver-blue eyelashes were trembling, and his face was even paler than the ceramic girl lying on the bed.
He endured it and didn't press him now.
Lu Xi slept for two days and two nights. During these two days, the mermaid stayed by her bed without eating or drinking. So when she woke up and opened her eyes, she saw his silver-blue head lying on the head of the bed. But she didn't have time to appreciate his beautiful sleeping face because he woke up sharply.
"Ms. Lu Xi..." His voice was hoarse.
"Yeah." She replied softly.
"Ms. Lu Xi..."
"Um."
"Ms. Lu Xi..."
"Yeah." She said patiently.
"Does your hand... hurt?"
"It doesn't hurt." She wouldn't feel any pain now, she would just break into pieces.
"I'm sorry." He lowered his head, his bangs covering his beautiful eyes, and a depressed atmosphere lingered around him.
Lu Xi put her hand on his head and gently rubbed the furry head in her memory. His body trembled and he let her rub it, just like when he was a child, but it was no longer warm.
Lu Xi sighed, "I'm fine."
A pearl fell on the bed, followed by another, two, three, and finally it was like a pearl necklace with a broken string, unable to stop. Lu Xi was suddenly hugged by him, he buried his face in her shoulder and held her tightly in his arms.
The mermaid now is no longer as petite as he was when he was a child. His broad chest can easily embrace her, and his strong hands press on her back, making her unable to move.
Yuan Mu came to find Lu Xi quickly when he learned that she had woken up. He used the excuse of checking to send the mermaid away.
"Who hurt you? What happened?"
"It was my own carelessness."
Yuan Mu looked at her deeply, "It's that mermaid, right? I suspected it last time when you said you broke your neck."
“…He didn’t mean to do that.”
"What do you mean it wasn't intentional?" He suddenly became irritable and stood up and said, "When you've rested well, come back with me."
"No." Lu Xi shook his head.
"You can't put yourself in danger again." Yuan Mu gritted his teeth and said, "If there is a next time, even I can't save you."
Lu Xi didn't say anything. If she was the original Lu Xi, she could leave and live for herself, but the current Lu Xi couldn't do that. She came to this world just for a mission and to help the mermaid. Although she felt sorry for Yuan Mu, she had no choice.
"Yuan Mu, I can't go back."
"Why not? I'll go tell that woman that she can't use your life to achieve her goals."
"You know, I'm not afraid of her."
"I don't know, I don't know anything." Yuan Mu was furious, his eyes red. "I only know that I saved you. Your life is mine. I won't allow you to die."
Lu Xi was silent. She was not alive now, but seeing how excited he was, she couldn't hear anything he said.
Because part of Lu Xi's soul had leaked out, she was finally able to get out of bed after nearly a week of rest, but she clearly felt that it was more difficult for her to move her body than before.
But she didn't tell Yuan Mu.
"Ms. Lu Xi."
Lu Xi has lived in Ji Qiuhu's house for a week. She is now sitting in the elegant pavilion fishing. The mermaid walks towards her. The mermaid now seems to have turned back into his childhood and always follows her. Although he wonders why her body temperature is so cold, he never doubts that she is not Lu Xi. Lu Xi doesn't know why, she thought she would have to spend some effort to prove her identity.
But he is different from when he was a child. He is not as easily irritable as when he was a child. Most of the time he stays quietly by her side and is closer to her than before in the villa.
Each personality has some similarities with the mermaid from that year, but none of them is the complete him.
He walked up to her and stood in front of her, taking out his hands from behind his back. In his palms lay an orange paper crane.
"For me?"
He nodded, and she picked up the orange paper crane he had folded. He gently pulled her sleeve as if he wanted to take her away.
Lu Xi followed him to the door of a room. When he pushed it open, she saw the room full of paper cranes.
No need to ask, you know it was him who folded it.
"Why are they all orange?" She walked into the room, careful not to step on any of them. How long had he been folding them?
"Do you like orange?" Lu Xi asked.
He shook his head. "Ms. Lu Xi likes orange."
Lu Xi didn't expect that this was the reason why he always folded orange paper cranes before. Was it because of her? She always thought it was because he liked orange, but it turned out that it was not the case.
This child...
"Does Miss Lu Xi like these paper cranes?"
"Well, as long as it's folded by Arsenal, I like it no matter what color it is." Feeling the uneasiness hidden in his voice, she smiled lightly and raised her hand to ruffle his soft silver-blue hair. Now that he has grown taller, she has to stand on tiptoe to touch his head.
The mermaid's eyes widened, and a faint pink appeared on her fair face. He took her hand away and rubbed it on his face. Her cold temperature just relieved the inexplicable heat.
"Can I touch Miss Lu Xi's face?"
"Um."
He raised his slender white fingertips. His fingers were really beautiful, so slender and long that they made girls jealous.
He seemed hesitant to touch her, and hesitant for a long time before placing his hand on her face, gently stroking and touching her with his fingertips, tracing the outline of her eyebrows and eyes, as if he was recalling her appearance.
Lu Xi looked at his dull eyes, and a sharp pain flashed through her heart. How could she cure his eyes?
"Are you afraid of not being able to see?" she asked.
The merman was stunned for a moment, pursed his lips and shook his head, "I was afraid before, afraid that I wouldn't be able to find Miss Lu Xi, but now I'm not afraid anymore."
Lu Xi felt complicated. She thought he had long forgotten about the time before. After all, they had been together for less than a year. It turned out that she was so important to him. She shouldn't have hesitated and kept her identity secret for fear of leaving him again.
"I will heal your eyes," she promised.
The mermaid's hand was still on her face. He listened carefully to whatever she said, just to hear her voice. He didn't care at all whether her eyes could be cured or not.
"Lu Xi." Yuan Mu appeared behind her. Lu Xi turned around, and the merman withdrew his hand in disappointment. Yuan Mu looked at the merman with dissatisfaction and said to Lu Xi, "Come here. I have something to talk to you about."
Lu Xi said hello to the mermaid and left.
After she left, the mermaid took two steps and suddenly felt dizzy and fell forward, kneeling on the ground with a pale face.
"I don't want to sleep, I want to accompany Miss Lu Xi, I don't want to go in, I don't want to..." His lips were bitten and bleeding, and he muttered to himself, "Don't force me, I don't want to go in, I won't leave..."
When Lu Xi came back to look for the mermaid, he was no longer in the room. Lu Xi strung together thousands of paper cranes with thread and hung them on the window. It took her half a day to make the paper crane curtains.
She stood up and watched for a while, and found a mermaid covered in blood outside the door. Was he training again? What kind of training would be so shocking?
Lu Xi looked at the corners of his eyes soaked with blood, and her dull eyes were stained with a cold-blooded murderous aura. She sighed, went over and pulled him into the bathroom, and helped him wash as before.
The mermaid turned back into her original form, her silver-blue tail taking up the entire bathtub. She picked up a towel and wiped the blood off him.
When she helped him wipe the first time, a murderous look flashed in the mermaid's eyes, and he grabbed her wrist.
"Dirty." said the hoarse voice.
“It’s not dirty.”
She pulled his hand away and continued to clean him, but what was different from before was that every time she cleaned him, she felt his body tremble slightly and his skin turned pink.
"Too hard?" she asked.
He shook his head and turned it away stiffly.
Lu Xi thought he didn't dare to admit it, so she scrubbed with much less force, but this made the scrubbing take longer.
After she wiped the body and tail clean, she found that the translucent fin next to his cheek, which was similar to an ear, was also stained with blood. She wiped it gently with a towel dipped in water. He trembled slightly and did not avoid it. When Lu Xi finished wiping, she saw that his cheeks were unnaturally flushed, his body was also red, and there was a trace of mist in the corners of his eyes.
"Don't like wiping here?"
He shook his head, bit his lower lip, and hesitated for a long time before saying, "Miss Lu Xi, will you also help others wash..."
"No." She took the towel and wrapped it around him, let him turn into a human form, and helped him blow dry his hair.
He silently enjoyed her care, hoping that time would pass more slowly, until he felt dizzy and his head ached.
No, give him some more time...
He doesn't want to leave yet, he doesn't want to sleep...
"Asent, what's wrong with you?"
Lu Xi noticed that something was wrong with him. He was fine just now and there was no sign of any wound, so why did his expression change now?
"Ms. Lu Xi, I don't want to leave..."
Go? Where is he going?
The mermaid covered his head in pain, his lower lip bleeding from being bitten. He had never felt expelled so forcefully before. Another personality was expelling him, even if it meant self-harm.
"Ms. Lu Xi..." He called her name. Under Lu Xi's worried gaze, the boy lost his strength and fell down.
"Asent." Lu Xi exclaimed.
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