40. Night 40: Shock
"Miss Lu Xi, do you want to go for a walk?"
"You go first." Lu Xi pushed him away, "I have something to say to Doctor Yuan Mu."
The mermaid glanced at Yuan Mu, who had a grim expression on his face. Yuan Mu also looked at him, and the mermaid chuckled provocatively.
Yuan Mu: “…” What should I do if I really want to beat someone up?
After the merman left, Yuan Mu finally couldn't hold it in any longer and pressed Lu Xi's shoulders, "Lu Xi, come back with me."
Lu Xi didn't expect him to bring up this matter even though she had already refused. "No." Lu Xi shook her head.
"He's dangerous." Yuan Mu practically shouted, "Don't believe his disguise. Do you know how many people he's killed?"
Lu Xi was silent. In fact, since the mermaid came back covered in blood again and again, she knew that he must have experienced a lot of killing. But even if he was carrying more lives, she would never leave.
"Yuan Mu, I don't want to talk about this with you." Lu Xi didn't want to argue with him. "I want to cure his illness, not only his eye problems, but also his dual personality."
"Impossible! I won't help him again." Yuan Mu said through gritted teeth, "Unless you come back with me."
Lu Xi didn't expect him to be so decisive. She sighed and said, "I've troubled you too much. I'll find a way myself."
"Lu Xi." Yuan Mu was furious.
It was half a month later that Lu Xi returned to school and resumed classes. Li Cancan and Xu Ting were worried to death about her, but fortunately Ji Qiuhu helped her take sick leave, so they didn't think she was missing.
After attending classes for a while, summer vacation arrived. At Ji Qiuhu's request, she took the mermaid to Ancheng.
When Lu Xi set foot on the land of Ancheng again, her situation was completely different. Thinking back to when the mermaid was still very young, she became the housekeeper of the five cubs and lived with them.
And now, he is the only one left by my side.
Forty years ago, Ancheng had developed rapidly. Now there are many high-rise buildings and overpasses, and it is almost unrecognizable. They were arranged to live in an apartment in Yuanshi.
Although it is Yuanshi's apartment, it is rented out to ordinary people. Yuanshi has always had good development in real estate.
Su Qiman is a migrant worker from another place. She came to Ancheng to work after graduating from junior high school. Ancheng's economy has always been developed, there are many rich people here, and the real estate industry is developing rapidly. She devoted herself to real estate sales. In addition, she has a good mouth since she was a child, and she has made a lot of money over the years. Otherwise, she would not be able to afford to rent an apartment in Yuanshi.
Lying in the comfortable apartment, counting the transactions she had completed and the balance in her card, she sometimes couldn't help but wonder why others were so rich that they could afford to buy a house, but she could only rent.
Recently, a brother and sister moved in next door to Su Qiman. She had never spoken to them, but she knew they were siblings only because she heard the boy call the girl "sister" when they were in the elevator.
I have to say that this pair of siblings are really good-looking. The girl is very beautiful, with skin as smooth as a porcelain doll, and her waist-length hair is neatly trimmed, and she has a clean temperament.
The boy was incredibly good-looking. He had very fair skin, finely sculpted facial features, a high nose bridge, beautiful lips, and a tall frame combined with an unprecedentedly outstanding appearance. If I hadn't seen him on TV, I would have thought he was some big star.
However, Su Qiman always felt that there was something strange about the brother and sister. It all started from the day when she came home from get off work and happened to meet the brother and sister in the elevator, and there were only three of them in the elevator.
"Sister, let me taste yours."
They both had an ice cream in their hands, and the boy came up to the girl and licked her ice cream.
"So sweet." He said excitedly.
Lu Xi was already used to him being like this and didn't think there was anything wrong with it, but Su Qiman felt uncomfortable with it. She also had two younger brothers. If one day her younger brother licked her ice cream, she would definitely smash his head off and not want to eat the rest.
But then she thought again, there are thousands of siblings in the world, and it's possible that some of them have been particularly close since childhood.
Yuan Sen followed Lu Xi back to the apartment. He leaned against Lu Xi and sat down. "Miss Lu Xi, can I not call you sister?"
After Lu Xi learned that the apartment was shared with ordinary people, she set up the identities of the two of them as siblings. After all, it would be inappropriate for a single man and a single woman to live together unless they were siblings.
In fact, she was more inclined to play his mother, but they looked very similar, so calling her mom seemed too weird.
"No." Lu Xi refused.
"Miss Lu Xi..." he begged.
The merman's face came close to her. Lu Xi was tempted by him and was a little distracted, but she turned her head away and did not agree to him.
Su Qiman discovered that there was indeed something wrong with the brother and sister late one night. She came home late from work and had a few drinks at a social event. She was planning to go to the balcony to get some fresh air. The apartment she rented had a large balcony with many exotic plants planted on it.
However, before she walked out of the balcony, the dark clouds above her head dispersed and the moonlight poured down. She noticed movement on the balcony next door. Her drunken eyes were a little blurry. She rubbed them and looked carefully. She was sobered up instantly because she saw a girl lying on the lounge chair on the balcony next door. Judging from her figure, she was the boy's sister.
And the handsome boy who made Su Qiman stare blankly every time they met was leaning over the girl, their heads were very close, Su Qiman saw their lips connected, the boy was biting the girl's lips, and she could even hear the ambiguous sound of water and the boy's low breathing. The girl was motionless and seemed to be asleep.
Su Qiman covered her mouth tightly for fear of making any sound. She couldn't believe what she saw. What did she see?
It is a scene of taboo sin.
Su Qiman thought she had not been discovered, but she didn't know that the boy who was immersed in kissing glanced at her with his distracted eyes. However, he did not expose her. Instead, he hooked his charming lips and whispered in Lu Xi's ear when she pricked up her ears to eavesdrop.
"Sister, I love you..."
With a loud "bang", Su Qiman's worldview was shattered. She could no longer peek and fled with unsteady steps.
In the following days, Su Qiman didn't want to meet the brother and sister. The scene she secretly watched that night made her uncomfortable.
Even when I was dreaming, I dreamed that the brother and sister were kissing in front of me, and the boy kept telling the sister that he loved her in her ear.
The mental torture made Su Qiman fall ill. She fainted in the corridor and it was Lu Xi who passed by who took her to the hospital.
"Why am I here?" She opened her eyes blankly, surrounded by a snow-white room filled with the smell of disinfectant.
"Are you awake? You had a fever and fainted in the corridor. My brother and I took you to the hospital." Lu Xi said.
Su Qiman's back stiffened when she saw the protagonist of her recent nightmare. However, she had just been sick and she had been saved by her. She felt embarrassed to send her away and could only say stiffly, "Thank you."
"Are you hungry?" Lu Xi asked.
Su Qiman's stomach happened to growl, and her face flushed with embarrassment. She was too embarrassed to say that she wasn't hungry, "A little..."
"I'll go get you some porridge."
As soon as Lu Xi stood up, she was pushed back to her seat. The mermaid said above her head, "I'll go buy it, sister."
I don’t know if it was an illusion, but he called out “sister” particularly loudly today, without any reluctance as usual.
Su Qiman's body stiffened again, but she managed to hold back so they wouldn't notice anything unusual. After the boy left the ward, she said with a forced smile, "Your brother is really obedient."
Yuan Sen quickly came back with the porridge. He casually placed the bowl of porridge in front of Su Qiman and opened another takeaway.
A few fragrant stir-fries and two bowls of white rice. Lu Xi saw that he bought so much and said a few words to him.
Su Qiman smelled the aroma of food in the air, and the meat porridge in her mouth felt so bland. She couldn't help but pay attention to the brother and sister. She saw the girl eating quietly with her head down, and the boy kept picking up food for her, but he didn't touch the rice in his own bowl.
How could a normal brother dote on his sister so much? He must be treating her as his girlfriend. She recalled the scene of that night. Was this feeling one-sided on the part of her brother, or was it mutual? She remembered that the girl didn't move at that time, maybe she was asleep.
Could it be that the younger brother took advantage of his sister's sleep...
Su Qiman began to secretly observe their interactions. She felt that the girl was sensible and her eyes were pure. However, her brother always leaned on her. He was more than a head taller than his sister. He must be a high school student, so why was he so unrestrained?
"Have you...always been this close?" Su Qiman asked tentatively when the boy went out to throw away the trash.
Lu Xi has no brothers or sisters, so she doesn’t know that most siblings tend to keep their distance from each other as they grow up.
"Hmm." Lu Xi took a sip of water and rinsed his mouth.
"Your brother is so handsome, he must have a girlfriend."
"High school students shouldn't fall in love too early." Lu Xi said.
"Yeah, I also think high school students shouldn't fall in love too early, but my brother doesn't listen to me. He has a girl he likes." Su Qiman glanced at her, "What kind of girl do you like? Is your brother like this?"
Lu Xi frowned, "He's still a child."
Su Qiman works in real estate sales and has the basic ability to read people's faces. From Lu Xi's frank eyes, she knew that Lu Xi did not have that kind of feeling for her brother, so the whole thing was one-sided on his brother's side, and she was innocent.
Su Qiman wanted to tell her that her brother was no longer a child, that he had improper thoughts about her and had even taken action to achieve them, but before she could open her mouth, she saw a figure standing at the door.
He didn't know how long he had been standing there, and whether he had heard their conversation just now, but his face didn't seem to be in a good state.
The handsome and tall boy walked into the ward. When he passed by Su Qiman's bed, she felt a sense of hostility and a chill on her neck. She thought it was an illusion at first, but soon realized it was not, because the boy who sat down leaning on his sister deliberately leaned his body lazily on the girl, with a provocative and warning look in his eyes.
He knew it, knew that she had seen through his dirty heart. Su Qiman frowned and looked back at her without showing any weakness.
A stubborn spirit emerged in her heart, and she wanted to help the girl who kindly sent her to the hospital and help her get rid of her brother.
Su Qiman just had a fever due to excessive fatigue, so she went back that night. Lu Xi took her home.
"Can you come and stay with me for one night?" Su Qiman grabbed Lu Xi's hand while standing in front of the apartment gate. "I'm still a little dizzy. I'm alone at home. Is that okay?"
Lu Xi and her friends lived next door, so she could ask her to come and stay with them for a night. She could tell that Su Qiman was not a bad person, but Asent was a mermaid after all, and she didn't want outsiders to enter their house, for fear that she might accidentally discover something.
There's nothing wrong with living in each other's house.
She looked at Su Qiman's still pale face. Seeing the pleading expression on her face, it was hard to refuse. "Okay."
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