The morning sunlight slanted through the window, casting a warm and peaceful haze over the entire bedroom.
The people snuggling together were still asleep. The room was quiet. The pea green nightgown silently reflected a warm color under the light.
It would have been nicer if it hadn't been lying haphazardly on the carpet.
Clothes are thin in spring, let alone at night.
Every corner of the room illuminated by sunlight exudes cleanliness and tidiness, except for one or two subtle traces of decadence hidden in certain corners.
Her loose long hair was casually spread on the pillow, and her half-covered neck still hid a hint of red that had not faded until now.
The fan-like eyelashes moved slightly a few times, and Xu Shiyue opened his eyes under the influence of the biological clock.
She and Lu Shizhen had sex several times last night, and it was already late when they went to bed.
No one knew whether it was because his biological clock woke him up, or for some other reason, but Xu Shiyue was unusually lazy. He raised his head and then put it down again, simply resting his head on the pillow again.
The sunlight followed Xu Shiyue's line of sight, giving the picture in her vision a golden edge.
The girl's gentle breathing fell rhythmically on her face, hazy and warm, somewhat like a dream.
But Xu Shiyue knew that this was not a dream.
Lu Shizhen's arm was placed on her waist, and his slender wrist bone pressed against her skin, which was a little bit uncomfortable, but very real.
There was a slight sound of something rubbing against the bed sheets, and as if looking was not enough, Xu Shiyue raised his arm and reached out to Lu Shizhen's sleeping face.
The troublesome hair was carefully pushed aside, and the slender fingers slowly fell on Lu Shizhen's calm and peaceful eyebrows, and then like a paintbrush, they painted stroke by stroke.
Even though Xu Shiyue had touched Lu Shizhen countless times and even kissed her face last night.
But she still couldn't help but want to touch her.
It would be even better if I could turn into a little person and be carried around by her.
Xu Shiyue thought this secretly in her heart, and then she felt a disturbance in her fingertips.
Lu Shizhen seemed to have had a nightmare that she couldn't escape from, and her eyelashes suddenly began to flutter.
Seeing this, Xu Shiyue quickly raised her hand and hugged her, calling out: "Lu Shizhen, Sixteen, Sixteen..."
Because Xu Shiyue went to bed in a hurry after taking a shower last night, her pajamas were still falling on the floor.
The soft and unreserved embrace when she landed seemed to help dispel her uneasy nightmare.
She frowned slightly, and before she opened her eyes in a daze, she hummed a buzzing sound from her throat: "Hmm."
Xu Shiyue watched Lu Shizhen wake up and asked worriedly: "What's wrong? Did you have a nightmare?"
As if still feeling a lingering fear, Lu Shizhen still leaned in Xu Shiyue's arms and nodded, saying, "Fortunately, it was just a dream."
Xu Shiyue gently rubbed Lu Shizhen's forehead with her chin, trying to comfort her: "What did you dream about?"
"I dreamed of the Lord God. She said she wanted to have some fun with me..." This was not a dream worth remembering. Lu Shizhen said it briefly, "I was a little scared."
When Xu Shiyue heard Lu Shizhen’s retelling, his eyes paused.
This "dream" might not be a dream, but a challenge to them and the main system.
But so what
They have already cooperated with the main system and are going to kill the gods. Are they still afraid of her provocation
Xu Shiyue pulled Lu Shizhen into her arms again and comforted her, "Don't be afraid, I will always be by your side."
"Yeah." Lu Shizhen nodded.
She paused, raised her eyes slightly and looked at Xu Shiyue: "Are you going to the company later?"
"There are some things I need to deal with, and I also need to check on the progress of the main system. I'll try to be back before dinner." Xu Shiyue replied.
"Then I'll wait for you at home, ma'am." Lu Shizhen had a strange train of thought and spoke like a gigolo. He leaned unscrupulously in Xu Shiyue's arms, looking at Xu Shiyue with eyes that curved again and again.
Xu Shiyue didn't know what article this person had read to come up with such a sentence, but seeing that she was not as frightened as before, she also laughed with her.
The gentle breath, mixed with some warmth, brushed across Lu Shizhen's moist lips.
Xu Shiyue paused for a moment, raised his chin slightly, and placed the kiss that was originally intended to be placed on Lu Shizhen's lips on her forehead: "Wait for me obediently."
"Okay." Lu Shizhen answered obediently, not noticing that something was wrong with Xu Shiyue at that moment.
In the past five years, it can be said that almost all the companies under Xu Shiyue have experienced a bloody storm.
After the storm, the situation calmed down. Except for the technology company that was about to go public, none of Xu Shiyue's companies had any major problems. After quickly finishing the work at hand, Xu Shiyue went to the blocked area of the company.
One thing that makes artificial intelligence better than humans is that it can work at any time.
When Xu Shiyue arrived, the main system was already working. After all, it was a system one level higher than this world's, and its algorithm processing speed was astonishingly fast. It was a pity that the company's top equipment could not keep up with her speed. The main system was conservatively estimated to be completed in the evening. By then, she would directly input the program into the sports watch given to her by Lu Shien on Xu Shiyue's wrist, so there was no need to come here to bother.
Everything seems to be going in order.
The warm and bright afternoon sun painted the azure sky, and Xu Shiyue was embraced by the light as he came out of the company building.
But this time it was a little strange. Yuanzi did not rush over to welcome Xu Shiyue.
Even at the time when Yuanzi usually comes out, it didn't come out.
Qiuqiu was still sleeping, and the quilt covering her was not very good.
When Xu Shiyue pushed the door open, she saw Yuanzi standing beside the sleeping Qiuqiu, holding her favorite toy in her mouth.
"Has Yuanzi been like this all day?" Xu Shiyue couldn't help but feel a little worried.
"No." Aunt Sun assured Xu Shiyue, "She just went out with Miss Sixteen, and it seems they went to the rose garden. Yuanzi probably doesn't like the thorns there, so she followed Miss Sixteen out, and soon she came back in disappointment.
"That's it." Xu Shiyue breathed a sigh of relief and instructed: "Take it out for a walk later in the evening. It can't stay in the room all the time."
"Okay." Aunt Sun nodded.
Having just learned from Aunt Sun where Lu Shizhen was, Xu Shiyue did not go to the room upstairs, but took the shuttle bus to the rose garden.
It is the season when roses are in full bloom. From afar, the bright red roses sway in the wind, looking a sea of bright red, very beautiful.
In the first spring after Lu Shizhen left, Xu Shiyue once wanted to burn down the sea of roses.
She looked across the room and the continuous patches of red burned in her eyes like fire, so dazzling that it was indescribable.
But it was in this "sea of fire" that Lu Shizhen caught her.
When she had lost all hope in the world, Lu Shizhen appeared.
She couldn't do it.
She couldn't use one fire to extinguish another fire, so she kept this fire well maintained.
The golden sun hangs in the sky, shining brightly on the sea of flowers.
Lu Shizhen stood in the center of the sea of flowers, layers of red blowing across her skirt, as if the boring and monotonous landscape painting was finally decorated with a soul.
Xu Shiyue walked over along the path, stood beside Lu Shizhen and said, "You were just admiring the flowers, and Yuanzi got angry."
"Because it's really beautiful." Lu Shizhen said as he handed the flowers he had just picked to Xu Shiyue.
The rich scent of roses blew across Xu Shiyue's nose with the wind. She held the bouquet carefully wrapped with a ribbon and echoed, "Yes, it's her blooming season. Roses at this time are more beautiful than at any other time."
Summer has not yet arrived, but there is already a warm feeling in the wind.
Xu Shiyue felt the gentle breeze blowing past her, and heard Lu Shizhen say beside her: "Shiyue, don't you think we are actually doing well now?"
Lu Shizhen's words sounded like an exclamation, but it also seemed like there was something he hadn't finished saying.
Xu Shiyue's hand holding the bouquet of roses paused for a moment, and a pair of hands appeared below her sight.
Lu Shizhen put his arm around Xu Shiyue's waist from behind, gently placed his chin on her shoulder, and said lazily: "What should I do? I suddenly don't want to take risks. I just want to hide in a place like this with you, without seeing anyone, just the two of us."
Lu Shizhen's voice was soft and playful, with a hint of scoundrel and coquettishness.
Xu Shiyue smiled and patted Lu Shizhen's hand, also thinking it was just a joke: "What nonsense is Teacher Shiliu talking about again."
The wind blew through the sea of roses, and the sky-high red surrounded the two people hugging each other.
As if it were covered by sunlight, the entire picture was filled with a clear yet hazy light.
"It's a really beautiful painting, what do you think, sister?" The Lord God looked at the projection of the world floating in front of him, and looked with interest at Lu Shizhen who was trapped in a floating transparent cube beside her.
With a "bang", Lu Shizhen kicked the square wall in front of him fiercely and shouted at the Lord God without any courtesy: "I told you not to call me sister!"
"Why are you so stingy? It's just a sister. Calling you sister won't cost you a piece of meat." The Lord God looked at the toy that she had to imprison with some distress, "It's not fun at all if you do this."
"Bah." Lu Shizhen spat fiercely upon hearing that, and kicked Fangkuai several times, "Let me out now!"
The Lord God was indifferent to this. In her hand was hanging a piece of clean gauze, which was slowly wrapped around the wound on her wrist.
Although it can be said to be a wound, there is no blood on the gauze as would flow out when a human is injured. Under the damaged skin is just a cluster of crystal blue electronic circuits, slowly converging towards the center.
"It's really a bug. It hurts so much when it bites me." The Lord God looked at the wound on his wrist, and the childish and innocent eyes turned sinister in an instant.
If she hadn't reacted quickly yesterday, Lu Shizhen would have succeeded.
What a disobedient toy.
This way I won't be able to accompany her for the long and endless time that will follow.
Slowly, the sinister look in the Lord's eyes faded away, and the childish innocence surged up again.
She lifted her chin and looked back at the scene from Xu Shiyue's world, and said to Lu Shizhen thoughtfully: "When do you think she will start to slowly forget you?"
"Shall we make a bet?"
(End of this chapter)