Five years old Lu Mingfei

Chapter 131 One Hundred and Twenty-Eight. One Day

Su Enxi stood in front of the door, adjusting her clothes over and over again. She was worrying about small details like whether the perfume she chose today was too strong and whether the light makeup was not good, while trying to calm her somewhat rapid breathing.

After staying in the store for several days, living a life like a female college student who never goes out, she almost forgot how to dress up.

Although she was not going to sleep with the emperor, if she was rejected for this reason, she would really want to die.

After getting permission to enter, she secretly stuck her head in and met the gaze of the man inside who was glancing at her with his chin supported.

She froze involuntarily, walked into the house, and laughed awkwardly: "Um...what do you want to talk to me about?"

Normally, she might make a joke or something, but when she saw the smile disappear from that face, she unconsciously became reserved.

He pretended not to hear Su Enxi's words. He picked up the mask at hand, turned it around in his hand twice, and then gave up the idea of ​​wearing it.

"..." Lu Mingfei's face showed no emotion. He asked calmly, "...Su Enxi, how long has it been since you started working for me?"

Su Enxi reacted quickly. She immediately replied, "Including the time you disappeared, it has been a total of 5210 days to date."

“…It’s been really long…” Lu Mingfei was silent.

He suddenly asked: "Do you know why I saved you at that time?"

Su Enxi hesitated for a moment and asked tentatively: "... because... you can't bear it? You are so kind, how could you watch me being bullied..."

Lu Mingfei had a blank expression on his face: "That's not me at all, right? I'll just close my eyes."

"…Maybe there's a little bit of biased cognition…" She muttered, and her hands behind her back twisted together unconsciously.

Although she exudes a capable and steady aura when she wears a white shirt and a black suit in the mall, she is actually a bit childish in private. She is a 100% stay-at-home girl who will blush and feel her heart beating fast when she sees a domineering president falling in love with her in a romance novel.

Lu Mingfei looked away from her: "...I saved you at that time, there was no special reason, just because your words were very useful to me. With you, I don't have to worry about money. The same goes for Jiude Mai. I need someone to do things for me..."

"Now it seems that the so-called favor is like putting a shackle on you. From now on, you have lost your freedom and can only revolve around me like a satellite. If you think about it carefully, everyone should have their own life..."

Su Enxi's heart sank. She said in panic, "...you...you are not planning to..."

Lu Mingfei said calmly: "Well, it's just as you thought. After this matter is over, I will have almost repaid my kindness to you. You can go wherever you want. I don't have anything else for you to do..."

Su Enxi's face lost all color, and she stammered, "But...but, there are also the King of Sky and Wind and the King of Ocean and Water. After they are resurrected, will you just...just ignore them?"

Lu Mingfei laughed coldly: "I don't care if they die. What does the extinction of mankind have to do with me? Isn't it just right if they all die?"

Su Enxi lowered her head, and said in a trance as if she was about to fall: "...Did we make you feel dissatisfied?"

Lu Mingfei was indifferent to her gloomy tone: "You have done a good job, I am very satisfied, so I said that it was me who imprisoned you..."

"...But, but...I have never felt that there is anything wrong with being around you! You have not restricted me, and everything I do is voluntary. Following your orders is the whole meaning of my life..." She was eager to defend Lu Mingfei's behavior.

She had never experienced the blood sorrow of a mixed-race person before, but when she heard that she would no longer have any connection with the person she had known for decades, her heart was suddenly overwhelmed by fear. She didn't even dare to think about whether she could live alone.

Lu Mingfei was a little annoyed: "Did I hypnotize you or something?"

"...I can be..." Su Enxi's cheeks were flushed unnaturally.

“Then just listen to me and get as far away as possible…” Lu Mingfei pretended not to see it.

She took a deep breath: "...Even if you are a loyal dog that comes and goes at your beck and call, there must be a reason...You keep saying these self-righteous things, do you think you are cool?"

"Just leave if you're angry." Lu Mingfei didn't want to say anything more, and didn't care that Su Enxi no longer spoke to him using honorifics.

He was about to stand up when a white hand grabbed his wrist tightly.

"...I'm not angry, really not. It's my fault. I shouldn't have spoken to you in that tone..." Su Enxi showed a smile that was uglier than crying.

She let go of Lu Mingfei's wrist, kicked off her high heels, hugged her knees and sat down on the sofa.

"...I started helping you that year..." Su Enxi said softly.

"The previous casino owner was a pervert. He kept a bunch of girls like me who were smart and beautiful, and used them to seduce those men..." She sneered.

Lu Mingfei listened quietly.

"Those girls were locked up in an unfamiliar environment, living in fear every day, and when their perverted boss occasionally cared for them, they couldn't recognize what he was. It is said that this symptom is called Stockholm syndrome. I thought it was too stupid..." Su Enxi said, holding her chin.

"Although I was locked up, I could have escaped if I wanted to. However, he was still thinking about cultivating me and didn't do anything to me, so I just waited for a while. I didn't expect that I would meet you not long after I was there."

Lu Mingfei’s fingers twitched.

"I remember you were very arrogant at the time, calling that boss ④ Feizhu as soon as you opened your mouth. I was trying hard to hold back my laughter, and I saw that his face was livid and he was reluctant to give you the money in your box..." Su Enxi couldn't help laughing. "At that time, I thought I was already a poisonous tongue. I had never given anyone a good evaluation since I was a child. I didn't expect that there would be someone even more excessive. That pig talked to you three times and was scolded four times, saying things like pig's trotter rice and pig's head meat. He was so angry that he just shut up and didn't even want to ask you questions."

Lu Mingfei still didn't smile. He asked impatiently, "So, what do you want to say?"

"...I want to say that you really don't look like a conspirator or a mastermind. If it weren't for the three of us helping you deal with those troubles, you would probably be very troubled by the current situation..." She laughed softly.

Su Enxi said seriously: "Besides, I really think you are very good. I even think you are a good person. Even if you control the power that can subvert the world, you can still restrain the desires in your heart. Unlike Mai Sanwu and the others, I am willing to make money for you. There is no other reason, I just like it..."

She scratched her hot cheek with her nails: "... People are curious. The more you hide, the more I want to know what you are thinking. Even if you speak coldly to me, I gradually get used to it. When those men outside see me, they only think with their lower body. Isn't it obvious which one to choose?"

Lu Mingfei lowered his head and was silent for a while. He whispered, "I'm not as powerful as you say, but... without power, he is useless. Even if he has power, what can you expect him to do?"

He clenched his fists, raised them high in front of him, and sighed deeply: "Power and authority are indeed good things. With them, people who used to have to look up to me can be easily brought to their knees. The things I dream of can be obtained in the blink of an eye. No matter how willful I am, no one dares to blame me..."

“But,” his voice dropped, and he smiled bitterly as if exhausted: “…that damned cowardly and incompetent Lu Mingfei will always linger in my mind, as if he was the one who survived and I was the one who died…”

"I really can't become the person that everyone, including myself, expects me to be. As long as I live, I will always live under his shadow."

Su Enxi turned her head and stared at his tired face. Only then did she realize that he had not worn the mask from the beginning.

That face that was always filled with mockery and ridicule no longer had the calmness of a cold-eyed bystander in the past. For a moment, it was really hard to tell whether the Lu Mingfei he was referring to was referring to himself or someone with the same name.

At this moment, the distinct and strong emotion was stripped away from him, leaving only a lonely soul with no one to rely on.

She suddenly understood why Lu Mingfei always had to hold onto something before he could fall asleep peacefully, as if if he didn't do so, he would be abandoned by the whole world.

He finally stood up, his pure black windbreaker swaying slowly as he moved, and his voice returned to its cold tone: "...Just pretend I never said anything before..."

He changed the subject and said mockingly, "However, there is one thing in your words that really makes me a little uncomfortable. You, a dead otaku who reads pornographic books and gets horny, have the nerve to scold others for thinking with their lower body? Haven't you spent enough time curled up in the quilt and humming softly?"

Su Enxi's face flushed: "How... How is it possible! How could I watch that kind of thing!"

Lu Mingfei said calmly: "Under the bed, and under the third layer of the cabinet on the right, under No Longer Human..."

The feeling of having her secret revealed made Su Enxi feel weak all over. Her voice trembled a little: "...What book? I don't know..."

Lu Mingfei leaned close to her cheek and said lightly, "The hand you often use is your right hand, right? One day when you got up in the middle of the night, I saw you suddenly use your left hand to turn on the light... Why didn't you use your right hand?"

"Impossible! I clearly use paper to wipe it every time..." Su Enxi retorted subconsciously.

She stopped talking halfway and buried her shameful expression in her knees like an ostrich.

Lu Mingfei smiled brightly: "Why deny it? It's not a big deal..."

He grabbed Su Enxi's hand: "Which finger is it? Index finger or middle finger? You never do manicures because you're afraid it's inconvenient..."

Su Enxi closed her slightly trembling legs, covered her face and pretended to be dead without saying a word.

She bit her lips tightly, afraid that she would leak out a moan.

Lu Mingfei let her go and said with satisfaction: "It's still comfortable this way. I really gave you too much face to dare to talk to me like this."

“…Yes, I’m sorry…I won’t dare to do it again next time…” Su Enxi said pitifully in a low voice.

“Then recognize your position and be my money-making tool,” Lu Mingfei snorted playfully and patted her cheek: “After all, this is the only use you can make…”

Even though she knew he said that on purpose, she couldn't help feeling humiliated, but it soon turned into pleasure. If someone else belittled her like that, Su Enxi would just be disdainful, but when it came to him, she would hope that Lu Mingfei would scold her a few more times instead of being cold and indifferent.

"...I am yours, always..." Su Enxi swore with her eyes wide open.

Lu Mingfei grinned: "...I'm just being funny. I can't help it. I have a disease that makes me want to laugh when I hear the words forever and a lifetime."

"Ah, forever, ah, a lifetime..."

"Who can fill in the gap of clown that I'm missing?"

"Did I tell you not to make me laugh at you, Erlong?"

He seemed to want to say something, but his voice gradually became lower until he closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep on the sofa.

Su Enxi breathed a sigh of relief.

She deeply understood the saying "living with a king is like living with a tiger".

She didn't understand why Lu Mingfei changed his mind, and what he said was somewhat meaningless, but Su Enxi knew clearly that the mask was definitely not made to cover his face.

(End of this chapter)