Chapter 4: Sweet and New Life 4
Waking up from my sleep, I opened my eyes drowsily and glanced at the alarm clock on the bedside table. It was only half past six.
Why did I wake up so early? I was a little annoyed and covered my head with the quilt in an attempt to sleep for another fifty minutes.
"Gurgle..." My stomach growled at the right time, causing me to poke my head out of the quilt in pain. Damn, I've been waking up from hunger more and more frequently recently.
Rubbing my face, I reluctantly got up from the bed and looked around aimlessly for a long time before I realized, "Today, I didn't hear Hongze's voice in my head. I said something was missing... Ah, he escaped from the Soul Binding Cage the day before yesterday, and I don't know where he went. Could he be gone?"
Talking to myself, I dragged my slippers, pushed the door open, walked into the bathroom, and started brushing my teeth. In the mirror, I saw myself, who had barely slept during the two days of crazy translation of documents over the weekend. My hair was messy, and my dark circles were almost down to my chin. I looked very sick and listless.
Last night, when I had finally finished translating all the documents and was planning to have a good sleep, Hongze started singing excitedly until midnight. I didn’t know how I fell asleep…
Oh, right! Hongze!
I turned my head in horror to look at the bathtub. Hongze was curled up at the bottom of the bathtub. His short hair had turned into long black hair, like a huge feather wrapped around him. He closed his eyes tightly, and a string of tiny bubbles came out of his nose from time to time. Two koi fish swam on both sides of his head, their gills and fins flashing slowly.
"They said he didn't need to sleep, but he's sleeping soundly. He looks better when he's asleep. He orders others around when he's awake." I said softly, then tiptoed out of the bathroom holding a toothbrush and a towel in my mouth.
I washed my face in the kitchen sink. A furry thing passed by my feet, startling me. I looked down and saw Linglong was also startled by me and ran away with a meow.
I turned off the water, dug out the kitten milk, and brought it out to apologize to it.
Linglong licked my hand without holding a grudge, and lowered her head to drink milk. I touched the finger it had licked, and the feeling of the fleshy thorns on its tongue scratching my skin was so real. This time I didn't need to hide my finger anymore.
Thinking about it, I looked back at the bathroom. It was quiet and there was no sound. Hongze didn't seem to want to get up.
"Gurgle..." Watching Linglong drinking milk , my stomach growled. I opened the refrigerator, took out the toast I bought earlier and put it into the toaster.
"Ah, this kind of toast bought in the supermarket can't compare with the bread baked by Ling Jiao. Hongze also said that he wanted to eat the bread baked by Ling Jiao, but the only person who can eat it casually is Zhou Mian... " I took a bite of the toast and spread a layer of butter on it. "How about talking to Zhou Mian next time? Forget it, if Ling Jiao knew, she would kill me. It turned out that the toast was not fragrant enough, he didn't react at all."
After a while, I took my schoolbag, stood in front of the coffee table, and took off the soul-binding cage from my neck. At the same time, I called Linglong: "Be good at home. This is a very important thing. You can't touch it casually, even though you can't reach the coffee table."
Linglong seemed to understand. She meowed and lay lazily in the cat bed.
I lowered my head to change my shoes, looked down at the door lock, and whispered, "I'm going out."
"Where are you going?" As the low voice came, my body sank, and Hongze pressed on my back like a ghost behind me.
"Are you awake? I need to go to school. Get up, it's so heavy."
I put my hand on the door and tried to stand up straight, but Hongze was like a mountain, motionless.
"What do you mean by putting the Soul Binding Cage on the table?" His voice sounded emotionless, low and cold, and I couldn't tell what he was thinking. However, he pressed my waist down a little more.
Is he angry because I didn't take him out?
If that was the case, then I was really wronged. I couldn't help but defend myself: "I saw that you didn't wake up, and it was difficult to call you. You stayed in the Soul Binding Cage for a few more hours yesterday and were so reluctant. I thought you definitely didn't want to go in again, so I had to leave the Soul Binding Cage behind."
"That's easy for you to say!" As soon as Hongze finished speaking, my body couldn't hold on any longer and I fell to my knees on the ground.
The strange thing is that my knees felt like they fell on a thick quilt and it didn’t hurt at all?
I turned my head in surprise to look at Hongze, and he had short hair again. This guy actually sat cross-legged on my back, looking like he was going to crush me to death. In the end, I had to use magic to prevent me from kneeling on the floor, otherwise my knees would have been broken.
"What are you looking at? I'm still angry. You just left the Soul Binding Cage here. What if it gets stolen by a thief, eaten by a cat, or blown away by the wind? Don't you have a brain?"
Although the Nie Family Building is a safe neighborhood, what if there is a thief? Although Linglong can't climb up the coffee table, what if its motor nerves are super developed? Although the doors and windows are closed, what if a tornado blows? So, Hongze's worry is not unreasonable...
I knelt on all fours, complaining madly in my heart, but pretending to be good: "Yes, yes, I didn't think it through. Then why don't you let me stand up first, and we can discuss what to do?"
Hongze stood up from my back quickly. I hurriedly got up from the ground in a panic and looked at him helplessly: "Then what do you want to do?"
Hongze turned around and was wearing our school's black uniform again. He held his chin high and said arrogantly, "I want to go to school with you!"
"What? You want to go to school with me? But you..." Going to school together has always been something I resisted.
Although there were countless "elites" on this floor who went to the same school as me, I could not fit in with them since I was a child. After I started working as a translator for Nie, our relationship hit an all-time low and never recovered. Therefore, I always deliberately left home early to avoid meeting them. And they also maintained the same tacit understanding with me.
"Don't get me wrong! I just think it's novel and interesting, and I don't want to stay in the Soul Binding Cage, so I want to go to school." Hongze turned his head away from me, but secretly glanced at me, and finally couldn't help but pushed me, "What are you standing there for! Don't block the way, aren't you afraid of being late?"
I was caught off guard and was pushed against the door. I sighed heavily, "Can't you... be a little more gentle with me? I'll go get the soul-binding cage. Wait for me for a moment."
I didn't bother to change my shoes, I walked straight into the living room , took the soul-binding cage on the coffee table and turned around. Hongze stood in the corridor, leaning against the guardrail waiting for me, and walked forward when he saw me go out.
"Hey, please slow down."
I quickly locked the door, ran a few steps to catch up, and walked side by side with Hongze. I only ran a few steps, but my heart was beating wildly, as if it would jump out of my mouth at any time.
Hongze said mercilessly: "Human, stop laughing. Your laugh is too disgusting so early in the morning."
"Who... who laughed, I just... just a little, happy..." My voice became smaller and smaller, until I could hardly hear myself.
I also find it novel and interesting to go out together and go to school together.
