The wind lifted people's skirts, rippling them wantonly in the entire empty sea of flowers.
The not-so-gentle air just blew over Lu Shizhen's open collar, dissipated in the sea of flowers, and the warmth gradually created a subtle ambiguity.
Lu Shizhen just watched as Xu Shiyue unbuttoned her collar without saying a word. She panicked and blurted out a warning: "Xu Shiyue, don't mess around!"
Xu Shiyue's fingers on Lu Shizhen's collar paused for a moment, raised his eyes and asked: "Messing around?"
The bright sunlight fell into her pupils, and a smile appeared at the corners of her eyes that Lu Shizhen had never seen before.
It was as if he was laughing at what he had just said.
Lu Shizhen didn't know what he said wrong. Although his eyes were full of panic, he still maintained his righteousness.
When Xu Shiyue saw this, the smile at the corner of his eyes deepened.
The fingers that were resting on Lu Shizhen's collar just kept stroking it gently, moving slowly down as if helping her tidy up her clothes, until they stopped near her heart.
Lu Shizhen didn't know what Xu Shiyue was going to do, and his heart was beating wildly.
The fingers that rested on her chest seemed to penetrate the tightly buttoned edge of her clothes, and fell on her skin with incredible clarity, bringing with them the warmth of rushing blood and the coolness of the spring breeze.
The surging wind blew over again, blowing the rose leaves, swaying the two people's overlapping skirts together.
Xu Shiyue's eyes were still slightly raised, and her calm voice was somewhat casual. She asked in the wind: "I don't know if it's Teacher Sixteen who buttoned the wrong button, and it's messy to show such a piece of it everywhere, or if it's messy for me to help Teacher Sixteen button it again?"
Xu Shiyue's voice remained calm, but the corners of his lips raised up as if expressing a sound of interested doubt.
The voice sounded neither loud nor soft in Lu Shizhen's ears, but it suddenly made her head explode.
The warmth of the fingers on her skin was not an illusion. Lu Shizhen had always thought that the buttons of her clothes, which were buttoned tightly, betrayed her.
The buttons that were fastened upside down followed her all the way awkwardly. The gap, which was not very big, clearly showed the color of her skin underneath, which was so white that it made people blush.
Therefore, Xu Shiyue’s words and actions just now were not hints, but a straightforward statement of a fact.
—She buttoned her shirt wrong.
"… "
Lu Shizhen just lowered her head to look at the buttons she had buttoned incorrectly, and an overwhelming sense of embarrassment surged over her.
Fortunately, there was still wind blowing past this side, and the crowded roses collided with each other, making a slight sound.
The slightly red lips were bitten by Lu Shizhen until they turned a little white, and the righteous look in her eyes when she confronted Xu Shiyue just now was gone.
After a long pause, she lowered her head and said in an embarrassed and low voice: "I'm sorry, Miss Xu, I misunderstood you."
"Xu Shiyue." Xu Shiyue said.
Lu Shizhen was stunned for a moment.
He didn't understand Xu Shiyue's self-introduction which had nothing to do with his previous apology.
"Didn't you call me Xu Shiyue just now? Why did you change your words?" Xu Shiyue saw Lu Shizhen's confusion and asked as if to explain.
As he spoke, the finger that had just rested on Lu Shizhen's chest left the warm place where it had just left its mark.
Without the owner's panicked obstruction, the wrong buttons were being undone one by one by slender fingers, and the collar lost its restraining force and drooped down.
The wind swayed the roses, as if anxious to see the vague whiteness just now.
But just before it was about to blow in, it was blocked by the edge of the clothes that were clasped together.
The bone china button rested lightly on the soft fingertips and was fastened tightly with a deft push.
Xu Shiyue's fingers just climbed on Lu Shizhen's chest vaguely, without touching her skin from beginning to end. He was elegant and polite, with a kind of sanctimonious feeling.
It was also these hands that held Lu Shizhen's arms in the darkness last night and pressed against her waist and back.
The cool fingers pressed against her chin, telling her condescendingly that she should open her mouth when kissing.
Lu Shizhen subconsciously ran his tongue across his teeth, the blunt tip pressing against the tip of his tongue, as if there was still the taste of last night lingering on it.
Sometimes a smell that is too familiar is not so good. The warm breath fell on Lu Shizhen's nose. By the time she reacted, Xu Shiyue had moved closer to her when she was not paying attention.
The pair of dark eyes stared at her with a half smile, and continued to discuss the topic that had not been concluded just now: "Or will Teacher Sixteen only call my name when it is not controlled by your own consciousness?"
Not sure if it was because the sunlight was too dazzling or Xu Shiyue's gaze was too direct, Lu Shizhen lowered his eyes in fear of looking directly at her.
She was stunned for a moment, and the bright sun in her peripheral vision seemed to remind her how obscure the image that just flashed through her mind was in broad daylight.
In a panic, Lu Shizhen replied: "I, I don't know you at all. I called you Miss Xu out of courtesy, and I called you by your full name because I was in a hurry, so I didn't care about courtesy."
The milk in the glass was creating a faint white mist in the wind. Lu Shizhen seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw and then changed the subject: "Ms. Xu, have breakfast. It's not good for your stomach if it gets cold."
After saying that, Lu Shizhen hurriedly sat down in his seat and lowered his head to eat his somewhat cold breakfast.
The roses swayed in the wind, and their swaying shadows overlapped the way she had pretended to be calm here before.
Xu Shiyue said nothing and just watched Lu Shizhen eat breakfast.
About two seconds later, she retracted her gaze, lowered her head and took a bite of the sandwich made by Aunt Sun.
.
Xu Shiyue was not as leisurely as when she woke up in the morning. After breakfast, she received a phone call and left.
Lu Shizhen didn't quite understand why Xu Shiyue would take so much effort to have breakfast with her in the rose garden early in the morning. She just returned to the living room and met eyes with Aunt Sun, who was a complete stranger to her.
"Hello." Lu Shizhen didn't know what to say, so he just greeted politely.
Aunt Sun didn't like the person Miss Xu brought at first, but after looking at her behavior, she didn't hate her at all, so she took the initiative to put the prepared fruit plate in front of her: "Miss Sixteen, enjoy your meal, you can call me if you need anything. Miss Xu said this is your cell phone, please keep it."
"Okay." Lu Shizhen was a little uncomfortable, nodded, and took the phone that Aunt Sun handed to her.
"Something happened suddenly in the company just now. Miss Shen came to pick up Miss Xu. She will probably be back in the afternoon." Aunt Sun said again.
Lu Shizhen paused, wondering why Aunt Sun told her all this.
She is now polite and distant to herself, and it is possible to see some of her thoughts.
Is this simply to comfort myself? Xu Shiyue will be back soon
Or is he hinting and reminding himself that Xu Shiyue is already taken and shouldn't have any more fantasies
The sound of a car passing by could be heard faintly from a distance. The car that Lu Shizhen thought had already left just turned around.
The sunlight could not penetrate the privacy glass, and only roughly reflected Xu Shiyue's figure on the glass.
She sat upright in the back row, her body as straight as before, but with more imposing manner than before.
A lot can happen in five years.
When people leave, they think that time will pause because of their departure, but nothing is immortal.
Water is always flowing. Perhaps the pause button you think is just a decoration, and those people have actually left you long ago.
No one will stop and wait for you.
Lu Shizhen picked up a small fork and took a bite of the apple. It was in the shape of a rabbit, which was quite cute.
"Meow—(Host...)"
As he thought of this, the cat's long, resentful cry entered Lu Shizhen's ears.
Qiuqiu's fur was wet, and he quickly pounced towards her in two steps.
"Qiuqiu, what's wrong with you?" Lu Shizhen's face was full of surprise, and he was somewhat reluctant to touch this cat with its fur all messed up.
"Meow, meow (Yuanzi recognized me and slept with me in his arms all night)." Qiuqiu stroked her own fur with a distressed look on her face.
With the intimate scene of Yuanzi and Qiuqiu last night, Lu Shizhen could probably imagine what Qiuqiu went through last night, and couldn't help but feel a little pity for this poor little system.
"Host, how are you? What happened after you and Xu Shiyue returned to the room last night?" Qiuqiu asked while licking her fur in pain, "We are two rooms apart, and I can't detect your signal."
"I..." Lu Shizhen didn't know how to describe her experience last night, so she simply summarized it: "Xu Shiyue and I slept in bed."
"Just took a nap?" Qiuqiu was a little unconvinced, "I think Xu Shiyue's feelings for the host are not ordinary."
Lu Shizhen was stunned for a moment.
It was as if something had poked her heart, causing her heart to beat wildly.
But then Qiuqiu said to her: "Even if this is the case, Xu Shiyue will not get any results. The main system will guide and correct her behavior, so that the host will simply be a dead madman in her heart."
It was as if a hand reached into Lu Shizhen's body and grabbed her pounding heart.
She just listened to Qiuqiu's calm but cruel words and asked: "Why?"
"Because Xu Shiyue is the core of this world." Qiuqiu said, "If the established trajectory is changed and the world collapses, Xu Shiyue will not have any relationship with the host. Instead, he will be annihilated in the universe along with the world, like dust. The host will also be sent to be destroyed, and everything will cease to exist."
"Right now the main system has not noticed that the host has returned to the core of the story. If it knew, you, the host, would face extremely severe punishment."
"Host, you will meet many people and experience many things in the future." Qiuqiu lay on Lu Shizhen's legs and comforted her master in a cat's way. "Twenty years of dimension is a very important part of human life, but for the host living in the system, it is just a drop in the ocean. You will meet someone better than Xu Shiyue."
It seemed as if there was a long blueprint full of hope spread out in Lu Shizhen's sight, and bright flowers piled up to cover the entire world.
When the wind blows, the mountains and fields are filled with brilliant colors that surge like the sea.
Lu Shizhen looked at all this, as if she was attracted to it, but she did not really walk into the painting.
Mumbling, she lowered her eyes and said to the cat lying on her lap: "But they are not Xu Shiyue."
Even though the flowers are in full bloom, there is always only a hint of red in Lu Shizhen's eyes.
She had seen enough seas of roses before, so even if she saw more miracles of colors created by the overlapping flowers later, they would not be as dazzling as this touch of red.
Paranoia is like a sharp fork with barbs sticking out from the bones, sticking out hideously and stubbornly.
Even its owner herself couldn't figure out why she suddenly said such a thing and suddenly showed such resistance.
Cats are always very sensitive. Qiuqiu curled up on Lu Shizhen's lap and said, "Host..."
"Buzz buzz buzz..."
At this moment, Lu Shizhen's phone, which had been successfully restarted, received several messages. When he looked down, he saw that they were all from people in the studio.
Xiaoning and her friends arrived in City S this morning, but they couldn't find anyone when they got to the hotel. No one returned their phone messages, and they were almost going crazy.
As if he was finally pulled back to the real world, Lu Shizhen immediately remembered his book signing event which was going to start tomorrow. Without giving it any more thoughts, he stood up and was about to slip away while Xu Shiyue was not around.
But Lu Shizhen had forgotten what Xu Shiyue had said to her last night, and she had not expected that these words would have such a long-lasting effect.
As soon as she secretly opened the door of the villa, she saw Li, whom she had not seen for a long time, standing straight in front of her, or to be precise, in front of the gate.
—Xu Shiyue stationed all her most capable people in this villa where no accidents would happen.
Lu Shizhen frowned, feeling that it was really unnecessary.
Xu Shiyue overestimated her too much.
The heavy door of the villa held the girl's hand, which she was reluctant to let go of. Lu Shizhen stood face to face with Li, staring at each other.
Just as she was hesitating whether to try to force her way in, she saw from afar the car that had carried Xu Shiyue away not long ago coming back.
Xu Shiyue found Lu Shizhen standing at the door when he came back. He was in a good mood. He got out of the car and walked up to Lu Shizhen: "Welcome me?"
But Lu Shizhen's answer disappointed her: "Ms. Xu, my book signing event will start tomorrow, I really have to go back."
Xu Shiyue narrowed her eyes slightly and repeated: "Go back?"
Lu Shizhen didn't know why, but she suddenly felt a chill in her heart.
After struggling for a while, she gritted her teeth and said, "I haven't replied to their messages for a whole day. If they can't find me, they will definitely call the police, Miss Xu..."
But before Lu Shizhen could finish her words, Xu Shiyue interrupted her: "I can erase all traces of you."
The wind suddenly surged up from an unknown source, passing through the open door of the villa and causing a turbulence in the living room.
The rose at the entrance was swaying in the wind, and a pair of fair white fingers reached out and casually broke off a rose and held it in her hand.
Xu Shiyue raised her eyes and looked straight into Lu Shizhen's eyes: "You know, I can do it."
When Lu Shizhen heard Xu Shiyue's words, he suddenly remembered Qiuqiu's reminder just now.
These words and these things are things that Xu Shiyue in the original text never did.
Lu Shizhen clenched her hands and asked in a suppressed voice: "Ms. Xu, do you want to imprison me?"
"I don't think you are that kind of person."
Lu Shizhen's words were a bit blunt, and Xu Shiyue's brows slightly changed as he listened.
Xu Shiyue was playing with the monotonous rose carelessly in his hands. With just a pinch of her fingernails, her white fingers were stained crimson.
"Kiss me." Xu Shiyue said.
Lu Shizhen was stunned for a moment.
However, Xu Shiyue had already left her and sat on the single sofa in front of the floor-to-ceiling window.
The slender legs were exposed from the narrow slit of the skirt, overlapping each other at an angle.
Xu Shiyue propped up her chin with one hand, and the rose on the side made her face bright and swaying. She said to Lu Shizhen with a half-smile: "Kiss me, and I'll let you go to your book signing event."
(End of this chapter)