Chapter 22 Chapter 22 I like it now.

After the creature finished the blackmail, he left satisfied.

The ice pack in Lu Xun's hand had turned into water, and he walked to the side to throw it away.

Gu Chen saw the table that was partially blocked by him. On the table sat the baby he had been staying with for more than a month, with an exercise book spread out in front of the baby.

It has only been a few days since his accident, but Lu Xun has already written the fourth volume. He remembered that the last time they calculated, it would take at least half a month to finish the third volume.

"It gets harder and harder later on." Lu Xun walked to the table, raised his hand, and slowly turned a page in the notebook.

There was nothing obviously wrong with my wrist, but it was shaking violently.

The creature had already told him some of this before he came to find Lu Xun. And even if he didn't ask anything, just by looking at what was happening in front of him, Gu Chen could guess what Lu Xun had done in the past few days.

Worry, guilt, gratitude, all kinds of emotions mixed together and appeared on his face.

Gu Chen: “Does your hand hurt?”

After applying ice, Lu Xun’s wrist actually didn’t feel anything anymore. He looked at Gu Chen. His handsome face was full of anxiety, which made people feel a little distressed, but for some reason, Lu Xun wanted to see him being more worried.

"It hurts a little." Lu Xun said, and gently pinched his wrist with his other hand.

Gu Chen frowned: "There's a massager at Zhengxu. I'll go borrow it from him."

"How about you help me?"

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Gu Chen looked at his translucent hands and hesitated a little: "This isn't a good way for me."

Lu Xun seemed not to hear him and stretched out his hand to him.

Gu Chen stared at the fair and strong wrist in front of him, hesitated for a moment, and gently covered it.

There was no sense of reality, and the fingers went straight through Lu Xun's wrist.

“How about…”

“It’s much more comfortable.”

“?”

Lu Xun looked at the hand that was pinching his wrist. It was white and slender, with distinct joints. Although there is no real feeling, the warm temperature is real.

Lu Xun: "Your fingers look nice."

Gu Chen was stunned for a moment, then lowered his eyes, a little embarrassed: "Maybe it's because of the soul, my fingers are naturally thicker."

He was half a head shorter than Lu Xun. When he lowered his eyes to speak, Lu Xun could see his eyelashes trembling, like the wings of a butterfly.

Lu Xun stared for a moment: "I'll compare then."

Gu Chen didn't quite understand why Lu Xun was interested in his hand. He symbolically pressed Lu Xun for a while. Just as he was about to ask him if he felt uncomfortable anywhere else, his soul was suddenly pulled back by a huge force.

Lu Xun looked at Gu Chen who suddenly disappeared from his sight, and his originally relaxed expression suddenly became tense again.

"...Gu Chen?"

The room was silent.

With the warmth still on his wrist, Lu Xun clenched his fist and turned around to look for the creature.

"Lu Xun."

A voice came from behind. Lu Xun turned around and found that the doll that had been placed on the table for several days started moving again.

Gu Chen looked at his hands and feet that were like lotus root nodes, feeling a little helpless: "I seem to be back again."

Lu Xun's tense body slowly relaxed, but at the same time, he felt an indescribable regret in his heart.

Lu Xun: "How do you feel?"

"Pretty good." Gu Chen noticed that in addition to the original progress bar above his head, there was another progress bar below. The progress bar above shows that it has reached 80%, while the one below shows 0%.

Gu Chen thought for a while: "I guess I can come out again when the one below becomes 100."

Lu Xun said, raising his hand to rub Gu Chen's soft blue fur.

Before, he would just touch it once and then let go, but this time he rubbed it again and again. Gu Chen looked at his inner wrist stained with ink and subconsciously grabbed it with his two small hands.

Lu Xun: “Is it annoying?”

Gu Chen shook his head. He grabbed Lu Xun’s wrist. It was said to be a grab, but because of his height, it looked a bit like a hug.

Gu Chen: "Do you want to eat something? I'll make it."

As he said that, he took out the invisibility cloak from his pocket and put it on with ease.

To be honest, he didn't expect Lu Xun to fight so hard for his own cause. It was obvious that even if he finished his homework, he might not be able to come back.

Lu Xun watched Gu Chen put on the invisibility cloak, and without waiting for him to stand up, he stretched out his arms and hugged him in his arms.

Lu Xun: "Or are you making flower cakes?"

After being down to earth for a while in the soul state, Gu Chen was suddenly picked up again. He felt a little uncomfortable: "I can walk by myself."

"Don't move. My hands hurt."

Gu Chen stopped moving immediately.

After a while, he still felt uncomfortable: "Let me massage you again."

Lu Xun raised the corners of his lips: "How to massage?"

Gu Chen put his two cotton hands on Lu Xun's outer wrists and tapped them again and again: "Is this okay? I don't have fingers..." "

Let's do this first." Lu Xun stared at the blue head in his arms and lowered his voice, "Wait until you change back, then help me massage again."

Gu Chen was about to say that you won't feel pain then, when his peripheral vision suddenly caught a glimpse of dust.

Lu Xun paused and looked at Lu Zeyu who walked out from the side.

Lu Zeyu saw Lu Xun standing in the air with his arms horizontally, looking like he had just escaped from the orthopedic department of the hospital, except that he was not wrapped in bandages.

“It’s almost time to stop your live game broadcast.”

Lu Xun treated him as air and walked around him.

"I'll ask the doctor to come over later."

"No need." Lu Xun's voice was flat, "I can't afford Mr. Lu's private doctor."

"Lu Xun." Lu Zeyu looked at Lu Xun who was walking farther and farther away, and said in a deep voice, "If you don't make it into the top ten in the grade at the end of this semester, come back to Hong Kong with me."

Lu Xun stopped.

The sound of a door closing behind me was particularly harsh in the empty living room.

Gu Chen turned his head carefully and found that Lu Zeyu had left. Looking at Lu Xun again, there was no expression on his face, but there seemed to be flames dancing in his dark pupils.

Gu Chen wanted to say something, but didn't know how to put it.

Lu Xun held him and continued walking. A breeze blew by, and Gu Chen moved his nose: "What a nice smell."

The sweet fragrance flowed into his nostrils, and his brain and body seemed to become lighter. Gu Chen looked at the closed window in front of him and wondered, "Where does the fragrance of flowers come from?"

Lu Xun walked deeper into the living room, turned a corner, and took a few steps, and a half-open wooden door appeared in front of him.

A few dark purple petals fell under the door. Lu Xun looked for a while, then opened the wooden door and walked in.

Inside the door is a long staircase, about a dozen steps. The higher you go, the stronger the sunlight becomes, until you reach the top, where a sea of ​​flowers suddenly appears before your eyes.

Gu Chen opened his eyes wide.

The rooftop is very large and can be divided into four areas at a glance: an open air terrace and a small greenhouse. Pink crabapples, white lilacs, camellias... flowers of various colors are clustered together naturally, like a watercolor painting drawn by God himself.

Gu Chen remembered what Zheng Xue said before, that all these things on the rooftop were raised by Lu Xun’s mother. But now that she has passed away.

"So beautiful." Gu Chen was stunned, "So you are so good at growing flowers."

Lu Xun's tense expression melted a little: "What kind of flowers do you like?"

Gu Chen thought for a while: "Flowers are okay, I like cedars."

Although he said that, the scene in front of him was so beautiful. Gu Chen's eyes couldn't help but wander among the sea of ​​flowers: "Can I take a walk?"

Lu Xun paused and put Gu Chen on the ground.

Gu Chen walked in front and Lu Xun followed behind.

There are many types of flowers, and the number of cultivated quantities of each type is similar. Gu Chen walked and admired the area of ​​the rooftop. The area was about the same as the small garden outside. Gu Chen walked from beginning to end and found that there was a corner. As soon as he turned around, his steps suddenly stopped.

The sunlight at the corner is more abundant than anywhere else outside. Under the light, patches of deep purple tulips sway in the wind. There are several times more of them than any other kind of flower outside, forming a small sea of ​​flowers.

The fresh and mysterious fragrance filled people's nostrils, and for a moment, Gu Chen thought he had walked into the secret world in a fairy tale book.

Gu Chen: "Does your mother like black turmeric very much?"

Lu Xun drooped his eyelids slightly, staring at the empty space under his feet, where the flowers that were originally planted there had been picked by someone.

"Lu Zeyu likes it."

Gu Chen turned his head. Lu Xun was standing in the shadow, so he couldn't see the other person's expression.

Gu Chen hesitated and asked, "If you don't rank in the top ten in your grade at the end of the semester, do you really want to go to Hong Kong?"

"No."

"Then what about your father..."

Lu Xun squatted down and stared at Gu Chen intently: "Is he worried about me?"

Gu Chen paused and nodded.

Although he didn't know what had happened between Lu Xun and his father, he could sense the tense atmosphere between them just now. And he just heard something about forcing someone to death...

There are no irreconcilable conflicts between parents and children. Gu Chen didn't believe words like this.

Seeing that Gu Chen seemed to be hesitant to talk, Lu Xun raised the corners of his lips slightly: "Then when you go back, can you help me with my lessons?"

Gu Chen thought of Lu Xun's usual grades and his incredible accuracy when he just opened his Chinese homework, and said tactfully: "If it is the end of next year, I should be able to help you get into the top ten in the grade."

"..."

Lu Xun raised his hand.

Gu Chen stepped back subconsciously.

The next second, the other party's broad palm pressed down on his head with strong force, but it was not the force that a school bully would use to beat someone.

Lu Xun ruffled Gu Chen's hair until it looked like a puppy's hair messed up by the wind. He felt relieved: "Rough it up as much as you can."

Gu Chen wanted to stroke his hair but didn't dare to, letting his hair flutter in the wind: "Then during the big break and evening self-study, shall we go to the library together?"

Lu Xun suddenly felt a little itchy in his heart: "That's only a short time. My foundation is so poor, must I put in more effort?"

Gu Chen thought about it and was a little embarrassed: "But there is no other time..."

"Do you want to be my deskmate?"

Gu Chen was stunned.

"Don't want to?"

"...Not really." Gu Chen said, "Don't you dislike sitting next to someone?"

Lu Xun raised his eyebrows slightly; "How do you know?"

"I happened to hear it in Teacher Gao's office before."

He remembered that when the classes were just divided last semester, he went to Gao Yu's office to hand in something and heard Gao Yu talking to Lu Xun. Gao Yu mentioned that there was a girl in the class with very good grades who took the initiative to ask to sit next to Lu Xun, and asked Lu Xun what he thought.

He remembered that Lu Xun said at the time that he didn't like sitting at the same table with others.

"That was before." Lu Xun raised his hand, brushed Gu Chen's hair, and picked up the petals that had fallen in there at some point. "I like it now."